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E-Vision enters exclusive 5-year deal with STARZ PLAY
From Power to Vikings, all your favorite shows and movies now available to E-Vision & Etisalat home and mobile customers
Dubai, UAE, January 29, 2018: E-Vision, a fully-owned subsidiary of Etisalat, and STARZ PLAY, the fastest growing streaming video on-demand service in the MENA region, today announced a first-of-its kind, five-year content deal with Etisalat.
Etisalat eLife customers can enjoy more than 10,000 hours of the best blockbuster Hollywood and Bollywood movies, same-time-as-the-US TV shows, documentaries, kids entertainment and dedicated Arabic content all ad-free and in HD or 4K quality on TV and mobile devices.
Humaid Sahoo, CEO of E-Vision, said: “Enhancing the already existing partnership with STARZ PLAY is the natural evolution to the efforts and partnership that started three years ago. STARZ PLAY’s content and service has proven to be an attractive and differentiating service. E-Vision’s strategic objective to secure premium and exclusive content to differentiate its offering is the driving force to enter into a long-term partnership with STARZ PLAY. E-Vision is very excited to disseminate STARZ PLAY’s offering across Etisalat Group territories.”
The partnership will enable Etisalat UAE customers to enjoy STARZ PLAY exclusively across its IPTV and mobile services. Etisalat International operations will also be able to offer the STARZ PLAY service, accessing and differentiating its content offering in their respective territories under special terms. E-Vision and STARZ PLAY will work closely to expand its relationship to enhance the offering through exclusive and different synergy opportunities across content and technology areas.
Maaz Sheikh, CEO of STARZ PLAY, said: “Our research has shown that more and more consumers in the UAE are watching TV through the eLife TV service. With this strategic partnership, we are bringing together STARZ PLAY with Etisalat’s Elife service. Etisalat customers can now access their favorite TV shows and the biggest movies on STARZ PLAY with one simple click of a button on their E-life remote control.”
From award-winning series such as Vikings, which is available on STARZ PLAY at the same time as the US, to the hotly-anticipated, premiering soonBritannia, which details the Roman invasion of Great Britain in 43AD, eLife TV subscribers can also get on-board with perennial favourites and classics such as Power and Grey’s Anatomy.
STARZ PLAY streams thousands of hours of blockbuster Hollywood and Bollywood movies, documentaries, children’s entertainment, ‘same-day-as-the-US’ series, and dedicated Arabic content to subscribers in 19 countries. The platform features English, Arabic and French audio options and user interfaces, plus one-click Arabic subtitling.
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Ren Hang exhibition shines new light on the late photographer
Updated 5th September 2017
Written by Oscar Holland
When Ren Hang took his own life in February of this year, media reports were quick to depict him as a figure of controversy. The celebrated Chinese photographer was viewed not only through his work, but through the context in which it was created.
Obituaries addressed Ren's encounters with the police, his well-documented battle with depression and the sometimes uncomfortable contrast between the topics he explored -- sexuality, gender and the human body -- and socially conservative Chinese values.
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But the organizers of the first major posthumous exhibition of Ren's work are hoping to present a more nuanced account. The collection is on display from Friday as part of the annual Photofairs Shanghai. It is intended to demonstrate the photographer's technical and artistic prowess, according to co-curator Tim Crowley.
"When you see what people have written about him since his death, it's very focused on him taking some kind of political stance through rebellion or (by photographing) nudes," Crowley said in a phone interview. "But when you look at his photographs as a whole -- and through conversations with him -- it becomes very apparent that he was non-political.
"That angle has been pushed upon him, probably as a sales ploy more than anything else. Like a lot of (Ren's) generation, politics didn't really play a big role in his day-to-day art and images."
A new perspective
Composed largely of male nudes taken between 2010 and 2016, the new exhibition "19 Photographs" features some of the last Ren prints to be authenticated. The images were chosen from a larger show by the same organizers, "Beauty Without Beards," which had opened at Beijing's KWM Art Center two weeks before the photographer's death.
The exhibition's curators say they turned to a range of new sources to better understand Ren's work. This included speaking with his mother and studying a barely-read film script that had been completed just before his death, according to co-curator and director of KWM Art Center, Zhang Yuling.
Ren had been arrested multiple times in China and his photos have been defaced at exhibitions, or confiscated by officials. Credit: Courtesy KWM Art Center
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"(Ren) told me that he takes himself more seriously as a writer than a photographer," Zhang said in a phone interview. "He'd just finished writing a film script, so he sent it to me and asked for my suggestions. Like every young writer, this (early output) is basically an autobiography, so the story told me more about him."
The images selected for "19 Photographs" feature tropes associated with the late photographer, including outdoor portraits and the use of living animals. But they also present a subtlety often overlooked in his output, according to Crowley.
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"If people are expecting to see very controversial works, then they'll probably be quite disappointed," he said. "The show's not really about that. It's a conscious attempt to give the audience a better idea of his process of making a photograph."
For Zhang, this process is characterized by the way Ren interacted with his subjects.
"We wanted to choose photos that emphasize how Ren Hang used human body as a compositional element," she said in a phone interview. "We wanted (to offer) a perspective that shows his very special aesthetic."
More than legacy
Instead of using professional models, Ren usually picked subjects from among his friends, family and Beijing's creative community. This included 30-year-old Hannie Yang, a "friend-of-a-friend" who modeled for him in 2010.
While the photos featured in the exhibition contain tropes often associated with Ren's work, like the use of animals, the curators hope to shine a new light on the late photographer's work. Credit: Courtesy KWM Art Center
Far from the provocative figure pictured in the media, Yang remembers a friendly, unpretentious photographer who made her feel at ease. While suggesting that Ren's work walked the fine line between art and pornography, she suggests that upsetting social norms was, if anything, an inconvenience.
"We were doing one part of the shoot in front of the window," she recalled, "and (Ren) said, 'while you're posing, look around, because I've been in trouble so many times from neighbors seeing nude people and reporting me.'"
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Our posthumous understanding of Ren's work is not simply about his legacy, according to the director and CEO of the Australian Centre for Photography, Cherie McNair. Death has introduced the photographer's work to new audiences, with McNair claiming that the photographer was "largely unknown" in Australia before his suicide.
"The (media coverage) following his death became more about the censorship debate in China than about his commitment to making his art, regardless of which political system he was in," McNair said in a phone interview.
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"I think a much more interesting discussion is about where his photography was going. His work was becoming more sophisticated -- like the locations, which moved from indoor images to these amazing outdoor shoots.
"The posthumous positioning of his work and subsequent interrogation is interesting, particularly as the artist is no longer present to provide context."
"19 Photographs" is part of Photofairs Shanghai, which runs from Sept. 8-10, 2017.
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Thompson 'Planned Suicide'
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Hunter S Thompson had planned his suicide for some time, according to his lawyer and close friend.
GEORGE TOBIA JR insists he wasn't surprised to hear of the maverick journalist's death on Sunday (20FEB05), although Thompson never mentioned his plans during their regular telephone conversations.
Tobia spoke to the Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas author at least five times a week, and for the last time on Saturday, just a day before his shot himself in the mouth with his .45 caliber handgun at his secure ranch in Woody Creek, Colorado.
He says, "This was definitely not spur of the moment. He arranged to have things dealt with, and he wanted his family close by, but he didn't want anyone to know - he didn't want anyone to try to stop him. In a weird way, he wanted it to be, I think, a celebration."
Tobia says 67-year-old Thompson had discussed taking his own life with him the past, and suggests severe pain caused by recent back surgery and an artificial hip may have prompted his suicide.
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Rakuten is to launch a new live streaming and VOD sports entertainment platform designed to deliver sports content to a global audience.
Its centrepiece is Japan’s J.League, popular within the target audience of Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and other countries in Southeast Asia.
Feature programming includes Iniesta TV, which follows the international soccer star Andrés Iniesta, who plays for the Rakuten Group’s own J.League soccer club, Vissel Kobe.
“Rakuten believes in the power of sport to transcend language and cultural barriers – a power that connects people and creates communities,” said Makoto Arima, Rakuten Group Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer and President of Rakuten’s Media and Sports Company. “We are delighted to deliver the joy of sports to people around the world, which is why Rakuten has worked alongside our partners to bring a diverse lineup of sports initiatives to life. Rakuten Sports represents an important part of this mission. We hope to contribute to the continued growth of the J.League by sharing what the league has to offer with soccer fans around the world.”
In addition to soccer, Rakuten Sports plans to add to its offerings by introducing basketball, table tennis and other sports.
Visit https://sports.rakuten.com
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Incirli cave
Incirli Cave is named after the fig trees which grow at the cave entrance. Their fruit is locally said to have healing powers. But the cave was named so because of the following legend.
According to legend the cave has been discovered by goat theives, which hid their goats inside the cave. When the villagers tried to follow the goats they simply disappeared at the fig tree. So the police set up an ambush at this place, but the thieves arrived at midnight and vanished again at the fig tree. In the morning the police and the villagers searched the area and discovered the cave entrance, but when they entered the cave to arrest the thieves and get back the goats, the cave was empty. There is a rumour, that the thieves escaped using a second entrance close to the village of Altinova. But this entrance has never been found.
Cyprus has numerous areas with gypsum, and several gypsum caves. This one is said to be the longest of them. It is more or less a single passage, some five to ten meters wide and up to seven meters high. The cave has selenite crystals and other gypsum related speleothems, but also stalactites and stalagmites.
The cave was used in the 1950s and 1960s by EOKA terrorists as a hideout.
As a result of the efforts of the village head, the cave was tidied up and lit, and was opened to the public in 1995.
The cave is opened daily except Wednesday. There is a small entrance fee.
Incirli cave is found by taking the road north from Gecitkale towards the coast. You will see the signs for the cave and Cinarli village shortly after leaving Gecitkale.
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© Photo courtesy of Visit Charlotte
Great golf, fine food and laidback attractions make this North Carolina city perfect for a long weekend
by DAVID ELKINS August 2012
Charlotte, NC is perhaps not the destination that first jumps to mind in a state that’s home to the fabled Blue Mountains and 450 kilometres of coastline including the Barrier Islands and some of the best beaches on the Atlantic seaboard.
But wait: it’s the largest city in North Carolina, it’s the second-largest financial centre in the US after New York, and the food and accommodations are first class. With a population of less than 750,000 and a heralded new rapid transit system, it’s easy to get around. There are more than 100 golf courses in the area and the weather’s pleasant. These must be some of the reasons the Democrats chose Charlotte for their national convention in this election year. The session to select the candidates for president and vice-president will be held on September 6 at the Bank of America Stadium.
The city is the headquarters to America’s biggest bank’s and was also home to Wachovia which was acquired by Wells Fargo, as a result of the financial meltdown. The merged bank, now the nation’s second largest, maintains a strong presence in the city. The irony of the Democrats meeting in a location with such close ties to the bailouts that continue to dog the administration says a lot about the city’s attractiveness.
Small is beautiful
Good hotels abound — all the major chains have properties here — but for something with more enduring local roots, try the Dunhill Hotel (237 North Tryon Street; tel: 704-332-4141; dunhillhotel.com; doubles from US$169) on uptown Tryon Street (downtown elsewhere is uptown here). Built as a hotel 80 years ago, it has the seductive character of an elegant place that has lived through turbulent times and thrives anew. The rooms are tastefully decorated; the marble showers, commodious; the dinning room, intimate; the lobby bar, a snug spot perfect for a glass of wine of a late afternoon. Discerning visitors familiar with small hotels like Toronto’s Windsor Arms will feel right at home. Another pleasant surprise, the rates are remarkably reasonable.
You'll find out more about Charlotte in a happy hour at the Levine Museum of the New South (200 East Seventh Street; museumofthenewsouth.org; US$6 includes parking) than almost anywhere else. Funded by Leon Levine, the founder of the 7000-store Family Dollar chain, the museum's main exhibit is Cottonfields to Skyscrapers, a series of rooms that recreate periods in the city's history.
Visitors meander from farm to mill, city shop to segregated bus and lunch counter and are encouraged to touch, hold, listen, photograph, video and discuss. What you hear most often is: “I didn’t know that!” As popular with locals as it is with visitors, it’s a delight, the kids will love it, don’t miss it. Until September 9, the museum will host a special exhibit titled Down home: Jewish life in North Carolina. You’ll find the museum right at the start of Charlotte’s much-lauded new rapid transit system, also worth a look.
Here’s a concept: build an artificial river in a 400-metre loop with lots of challenging rapids to shoot, fill it with 45-million litres of water and invite the Canadian and US Olympic kayak teams to stage their trials there. And another thing, open it to the public.
The 160 wooded hectares of the US National Whitewater Center (5000 Whitewater Parkway; usnwc.org; adults US$54, kids under 10 US$44) offer visitors much more than challenging kayak and canoe runs. There’s mountain biking and running on nearly 22 kilometres of trails as well as zipline adventures across valleys and through the tree tops, rock climbing on two outstanding walls and stand-up paddle boarding on a natural lake.
Just 24 kilometres out of town, the $38-million project is a non-profit partnership, but the vibe is much like what you might find at an upscale wilderness camp: it’s all a whole lot of outdoor exercise and fun. All equipment from watercraft and paddles, to mountain bikes and helmets are provided as part of the entrance fee.
Or you can merely sit and watch. Sit at a café table on the big deck overlooking the river, eat, quaff draft beer and watch others exercise themselves into delirium. Picnics welcome anywhere. Rock bands regularly stage concerts on the property and there’s one of the best fireworks displays in the state to celebrate July 4th. Southern Living magazine calls the centre, “the best deal in the state.”
The Dunhill Hotel is a short walk from the EpiCentre (East Trade Street; epicentrenc.com), an uptown mall which is home to restaurants, bars, pubs and nightlife including the Enso Asian Bistro and Sushi Bar (210 East Trade Street; ensocharlotte.com). It’s a good choice when you’re feeling upbeat and hip. Plush banquettes, surround low tables and cosy sofas, there’s an elegant sushi bar and a new separate dinning room that can be divided into smaller spaces for private parties. The ceilings are high, the room dark, the music cool and loud. The voluminous Asian menu offers hot entrees in addition to full sushi offerings. Servings are generous and tasty, if a shade pricey. A terrific place to unwind, it’ll be jumpin’ during the Democratic convention.
Other nearby choices include Aria Tuscan Grill (100 North Tryon Street; ariacharlotte.com) which has good Italian food, moderately priced and popular with locals, as well as Blue Restaurant and Bar (206 North College Street; bluecharlotte.com) which offers dishes from all around the Mediterranean. It's popular so reservations are recommended.
Hop on down
The major US airlines all service Charlotte's Douglas International airport with connecting flights from their main hubs. Flights in mid-July were US$550 return from Toronto on United, and US$500 return from Montreal on American Airlines, both with stopovers in New York City. Check Kayak.com for the best prices for your dates.
Every September, the city hosts the Festival in the Park (festivalinthepark.org), highlighting regional talent in the visual arts, dance, theatre and live music.
For more on travel to the region, consult Visit Charlotte (charlottesgotalot.com).
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2015 Year In Sci-Tech
2015 Technology
Explore the latest science behind the headlines and the coolest scientific developments that impact our lives. Technology catapults to new heights in 2015, going faster and further than ever before. We have canvassed the world in search of the best and most fascinating science and tech stories of the year for 2015 YEAR IN SCI-TECH". This action-packed hour of fun and intrigue revisits the world’s first glimpse of Pluto and images of water on Mars while exploring what this all could mean for intelligent life in the universe – all while earthling’s inch closer to becoming actual space tourists. Throughout the hour, we revisit the year’s most amazing techological feats and scientific discoveries, including new and elusive animal species discovered deep under the ocean, as well as the hottest tech trends – from hover boards to driverless cars and trucks, and the newest advances in mind-blowing virtual reality.
A Winning Design
A Winning Design clarifies what makes a mammal different from reptiles and birds. No, it isn't egg-laying: both the platypus and the echidna are egg-laying mammals; it's their ability to adapt. And it's this adaptability that becomes the crux of the remainder of the series. From the tiniest bat to the massive blue whale, all mammals share the ability to nurture their young on milk and regulate their own temperatures.
Series: The Life of Mammals
An epic true story set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places on Earth, African Cats captures the real-life love, humour and determination of the majestic kings of the savannah. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a rival lion and his sons.
Alien Faces
They soar through the heavens, fly through the oceans and glide along land. But these are not creatures found on a wildlife safari. These are life forms from another planet. Armed with scientific fact and a little imagination, experts come together to take you on an unprecedented journey to the edges of our imagination.
Series: The Universe
Alien Moons
Travel from the inner solar system to the Kuiper Belt and explore the moons surrounding the planets of the solar system. Many of these moons that were once unknown are now on the cutting edge of astronomical study. Some burst with volcanic fury another spews icy geysers and others offer the possibility of alien life. Are these strange worlds simply hostile environments unfit for humans or do other possibilities exist? Cutting-edge computer graphics are used to bring the universe down to earth and to imagine what kind of life forms might evolve in alien atmospheres.
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Alain M. Azencott, M.D. ,Cardio Vascular Surgeon, specialized in Vascular surgery,pursued his medical education at the University of Nice School of Medicine (France). He quickly obtained a scholarship and Internship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York(USA).
After training in general surgery, he was board-certified in general surgery.Then,he completed his residency and specialized in Cardiovascular Surgery. He was appointed Chief Resident at the University of Tours School of Medicine , where he was honored for his teaching and leadership skills.Dr.Azencott went on to receive fellowship training in cardiac surgery and gets his board certified in cardio vascular surgery.
He succeeded the exam of the French College of Vascular Surgery in Paris and obtained his specialty of Vascular Surgery as well as competence in Angiology.
He had numerous stay in the best hospitals in Europe and abroad including the USA.
Back on the Cote d'Azur, he returned to the Institute Arnault Tzanck of St Laurent du Var, where he had worked for several years in Cardiac Surgery.
He then opts for a private practice in Vascular Surgery in Cannes
Member of several scientific societies, including the SCV (Societe de Chirurgie Vasculaire in French), the College Francais de Chirurgie Vasculaire and the ASLM (American Society for Laser in Medicine and Surgery) .He participate actively to international meetings and conferences and teaching.
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Uniform: The Walk
Following last year's incredible, Wake In Fright, and their grabbing, recent collaborative record with The Body, Uniform announce the release of their upcoming LP, The Long Walk due out on Sacred Bones on August 17th. For their new endeavors the band enlisted the talents of a third member, drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy, Zs).
The video for the album's lead single, The Walk, is created by Danny Perez, and its visuals serve as a commentary on the quality of today's news, looking perfectly matched to the bleakness of the track's hellish industrial sounds.
Vocalist Michael Berdan reveals in a statement: "In Stephen King's book, The Walk is a shorthand colloquialism for an annual race ordered by a totalitarian American government called The Long Walk. In this contest, 100 boys are made to walk south from the Maine/Canada border at a constant rate of 4mph until only one is left standing. The winner is granted anything he wants for the rest of his life, while a far more nefarious fate awaits the 99 behind him. It is one of the most cynical stories I've ever read and speaks volumes to many of the ugliest parts of the human condition.
"Over time I've come to view aspects of the book as loosely parallel to feelings I've had towards organized religion and capitalism, where for some people an unattainable ideal is set as an absolute. We allow ourselves to be broken under rigidly defined norms regarding traditional strata, where lack of compliance leads to ostracisation and success as dictated by religious and economic rule often leads to the disintegration of one's own hopes and dreams. As someone existing in late capitalism who sees beauty and personal empowerment in many of the basic tenants of all world religions, these are subjects that I wrestle with constantly."
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Spiritual wickedness in high places
Politics from a progressive Christian perspective
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What happens when the façade crumbles and all you’re left with is your own lies?
We may finally be approaching that point with this President.
The Trump administration started with a big lie about the size of his inauguration crowds. Now 10K lies later, his behavior is common knowledge but it continues.
The Mexican foreign minister said that no secret immigration deal exists and that there is no promise to buy more of our agricultural products.
A Homeland Security watchdog retired early after admitting that their audits of disaster response were altered to reflect the President’s claim of effectiveness.
He fired his own pollsters because their leaked polls contradicted his narrative that he was winning. Instead he blames the media.
He even denies that he said things that were recorded. He did call the Duchess of Sussex “nasty”. He was the person the appearing in the Access Hollywood tapes. He did tell an ABC interviewer that he would accept opposition research from a foreign power rather than notify the FBI because “everybody does it”.
He lied about considering firing Mueller and then lied about telling his chief counsel to lie about being told to fire Mueller.
He lied about his payoffs to coverup affairs.
Some people say that it doesn’t matter, that “everybody does it” and that he’s just a “salesman” and all salesmen lie.
The fact is that everybody doesn’t do it.
But worse, the suggestion that lying is OK is damaging to our moral fabric as a society. What happens when we can no longer hold our leaders accountable for telling the truth?
Yet that’s where we are. Truth has become a morally irrelevant term. The religious right has abdicated their normal role of being a moral scold and as a result lost all future credibility for any culture discussion.
Truth is now defined for some by tribe or affiliation. Truth is what agrees with your fundamental world view rather that your world view being informed by truth.
In a country that has some respect for the truth, people like Lenny Pozner would not have to go to court in order to prove that his son was murdered at Sandy Hook. Instead he has had to take conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones to court because his Infowars site was making money suggesting that Pozner’s son never died and Pozner was a paid actor. He also had to take the publisher of James Fetzer and Mike Palacek’s book entitled “Nobody died at Sandy Hook” to court to get them take the book off the shelves. They claimed it was a FEMA drill. He had to pressure Facebook to remove conspiracy theory videos that were leading to death threats against him. Lucy Roberts was sentenced to five months in prison for threatening Pozner and was banned from visiting any conspiracy theory websites in the future.
Lenny Pozner wasn’t interested in being a public figure. He was just a grieving parent that was forced to fight back against this culture of situational truth.
The scope of the hypocrisy is honestly breathtaking.
Trump says that the economy is great and getting better while at the same time browbeating the Fed to lower interest rates. The Fed raises rates when the economy is good in order to give themselves room to lower interest rates when the economy is bad. The stock market is going up because they anticipate that the Fed will soon lower interest rates. Why? Because the economy is getting worse.
Trump says that China is paying the tariffs that he has raised. At the same time he has a system where US businesses, who are really paying the tariffs, can request exemptions. If China WERE paying the tariffs, there would be no need for exemptions.
Trump claims that he didn’t receive any help from the Russians in 2016. Senate Majority Leader McConnell is blocking a vote on bi-partisan bills which would clarify what candidates should do in 2020 if they learn of any attempts by foreign powers to influence an election.
IMHO Trump and the Republican Party share blame for this culture because they have promoted it for political gain.
This is very dangerous territory and it is exactly where Trump wants us to be.
This culture allows Trump to claim that he can and would accept election help from a foreign power because “everybody does it”.
When asked whether or not a president can obstruct justice, he responded, “I run the country”.
This is the same response that Nixon gave to David Frost when he said that a President couldn’t do anything illegal because he gets to define what is legal.
Both Trump and Nixon felt that Article II of the constitution provides the President broad powers. That is basis for Trump and was the basis for Nixon’s claims that no crimes were committed.
There is no larger reason to conclude that Trump is unfit for office. He has expressed a willingness to do whatever he needs to do to stay in office. He has even suggested that he might defy the constitution and run for a third term if he has the opportunity. His motivations, in this case, don’t matter. His willingness to state that he was willing to challenge the constitutional term limit says all that we need to hear.
He simply can’t be trusted with the immense power that we have chosen to give the President.
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I enjoyed the debate this evening…
As much as I agree with many things senator Warren has to say things like this are what would prevent a vote for her. And in an interview with Chris Mathews she would answer what the top income tax rate should be, individual, or how she would collect the 2% on wealth above $50 million. Chris almost seemed incredulous asking how the government would know where to good looking. She said “come on, we’re only talking about 75,000 people.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/25/democrats-trump-election-2020-227215
Pretty spot on commentary
Jeff Beamsley says:
I don’t think that Warren will get the nomination, in part because her stance on medicare for all. What her campaign IS doing, however, is forcing all of the other candidates to be more specific about their plans.
But this is what the primary is SUPPOSED to be all about. Put big ideas out there and let the voters decide what is most important to them. All of her ideas are well researched including the fractional tax on the wealthiest individuals in the country. The claim that the IRS would not be able to figure this out is specious. Matthews claim could be made for ALL taxes collected by the government. People regularly attempt to defraud the government and many end up either paying big fines or going to jail. It is just a question of whether the government has the will to enforce whatever rules the Congress decides to pass.
BTW, most of those wealthiest individuals support additional taxes on their wealth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/12/most-millionaires-support-tax-on-wealth-above-50-million-cnbc-survey.html
So this sets up an interesting debate with Republicans who will definitely disagree. It will force them to defend the ultra-wealthy from additional taxes while a majority of them have said they were willing to pay the tax. This will certainly strengthen the Democrats claim that Republican really are the party of and for the rich.
I saw this article.
I’m in general agreement.
It’s a playbook for how Republicans could structure their campaign.
1. Hold firmly to the idea that Twitter is the beating heart of the real Democratic Party.
I think that the Dems are on to this. Read an article that documented that most democratic twitter users are Bernie bros. We’ll see tonight, but right now BECAUSE of the rise of Warren, the Bernie bros appear to be losing influence.
2. Embrace the weird.
See my previous comment. There are a lot of candidates. Once of the ways to distinguish yourself from the pack is to bring some new ideas and see what sticks. Clearly the passion that Inslee brings to climate change has caused that issue to rise among all candidates.
Trump made a lot of promises in his first campaign too. Very few of them were kept. At the moment it appears that he is planning to run the same campaign in 2020 that he ran in 2016 with all the same promises. We’ll see if voters are willing to hold him accountable for failing to deliver.
3. Keep promising lots of free stuff and don’t sweat paying for it.
This again depends on whether voters are willing to hold Trump accountable for running up a big debt. All of Warren’s plans include revenue sources. We’ll see whether that precision will force all the Democratic candidates to describe how they plan to fund their big ideas. I’m hoping that the campaign WILL move in that direction because Trump will find it difficult to defend his first four years.
4. Go ahead and abolish private health insurance.
See above. Voters will decide whether or not they are willing to take this big step or not. The math makes sense. It might also make political sense, if only because Republicans have failed to either replace or improve Obamacare. The best way to protect expanding healthcare may be to simply eliminate private insurance. That said, Germany has a public/private system that appears to work well. Perhaps we end up there as a compromise.
What this reminds me of are the years running up to the civil war. For several election cycles, voters were reluctant to elect an anti-slavery president because of the possibility of civil war. It was clear that slave states would not voluntarily give up their way of life. Finally, the anti-slavery movement gained sufficient traction as well as the perceived threat of new states being added to the “slavery” block; that voters decided to call the question. They elected Lincoln and the country went to war.
I don’t know that we are at that point yet with regard to universal healthcare, but we are clearly a lot closer than we were four years ago BECAUSE Trump failed to deliver on his promise to replace Obamacare with something better.
5. Spend time talking about reparations.
I don’t think that reparations will become a big issue. I think social justice IS a big issue. We’ll see whether it becomes one of the biggest issues in this campaign. If it does, it will surely push Trump even further into the white privilege corner. Then voters will have yet another chance to decide what kind of country we want to be.
6. Trump thinks that immigration and the crisis at the border are winning issues for him. They aren’t. But you can turn that around.
Every Democratic candidate recognizes that immigration is an important issue. You can also see that only a few candidates were willing to decriminalize border crossing. Just as Inslee is going to influence the climate change debate, Castro will influence the immigration debate. We’ll see whether voters are willing to go that far.
7. Lots more focus on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Her name didn’t come up once in the Democratic debate last night. I suspect she won’t be heard from tonight either. Beto is probably the closest generational candidate to AOC. FWIW, he did not do well last night.
Whomever becomes the nominee will need to make peace with AOC, but many of the issues that she supports are already widely shared among all the candidates.
8. Socialism.
See above. You didn’t hear that word last night either. Bernie is the only one who is going to use that word and I believe that the moment has already passed for him. I believe that even the Bernie bros will come around and realize that their votes are needed to get Trump out of office.
9. Turn the abortion issue from a winner into a loser.
You could see that even Warren was willing to give a nuanced answer with regard to late term abortions. Dems can easily position themselves to defend Roe without getting dragged down into a late term abortion debate. The Republican position on healthcare leaves them wide open on the abortion debate. Republicans have and will claim that the best healthcare is delivered when the government does not interfere in the relationship between a physician and their patient (very old and inaccurate criticism of Obamacare). Democrats don’t have to do anything more than point out the hypocrisy of that statement when the conversation between the physician and patient concerns terminating a pregnancy.
10. You can also turn a winner into a loser on the issue of guns.
Warren had the best answer here. There are obvious things that should be done which have broad public support. Beyond that, we should treat GUN VIOLENCE rather than GUN OWNERSHIP as a public health issue. We should repeal all of the NRA supported prohibitions regarding gathering data on gun violence, determine root causes, and then test solutions to determine what further measures will be most effective.
I suspect that this approach will bubble to the top for most candidates.
11. As you try to get Americans more alarmed about Trump’s attacks on democratic norms, make sure you talk as much as possible about your support for court-packing.
This is not an issue right now. It could be an issue if the SCOTUS does something extreme during the next year. I believe that the court understands that too. That’s why you see “conservative” judges siding with the liberal majority on specific decisions.
The reality is that you need a Senate majority to pursue any plan to pack the courts.
I don’t think that Dems will gain a Senate majority on the issue of using that majority to pack the courts.
For the record I am for higher taxes on most everyone including the wealthy. I am for the Bill Clinton tax rates but not 28% on long term cap gains. I am for the Corp tax rate atbor near where it currently is.
I am opposed, today, of a wealth tax.
Senator Warren says many things that are just commons sense as you have pointed out an I agree. Then out of nowhere in her interview with Mathews she said. “Our economy needs structural change!” Again our economy is the best in the world. I’m not certain anyone would argue with that. She says we need to structurally change it. Wow.
My opinion the dems focus so much on 10-20 million people and forget the other 300 million…
Here are a few facts about our economy.
1. The fastest quarterly growth rate in recent history was not under Trump. The fastest four quarters of growth over the past ten years or so were under Obama.
2. The best sustained economic growth according to most economists was during the post war 50’s.
3. Stock market gains did not match those during the last years of the Obama administration and stocks have been flat over the last 18 months.
4. The trends for both lower unemployment rates and higher wages both started during the Obama administration. Trump can certainly claim credit, however, for the continued improvement of both of those metrics – though African American unemployment has actually risen over the past year from an historic low of 5.9% to a peak of 7% in February.
When Chuck Todd challenged Trump on his claims, all Trump could actually claim was a significant increase in optimism during his term.
As far as our world ranking, both China and India are growing faster than we are. They are both on track to surpass the US in GDP in the next 10 years.
The reasons why are simple. They have more people, they are investing more in education than we are, and they are investing more in automation that we are.
So please provide some detail on why you believe that our economy is “the best in the world”.
As far as structural change, I believe your bias may be showing.
Warren has said she is “capitalist to the bone”.
She is not suggesting that we replace capitalism with socialism. She does support a government supported healthcare system, but that’s only because she can prove that private insurance is inefficient, fails to delivery universal coverage, and fails to deliver any measurable improvement in outcomes to justify it’s costs. If we are going to be globally competitive, we need a cost and outcomes competitive healthcare system. All of our global competitors have cheaper better healthcare systems. The Trump administration claims that our tax and regulatory environment hamstrung our industries. Well guess what, so does our healthcare system.
Replacing our existing healthcare system with one that is more efficient, covers more people for less money, and delivers better results is ONE of the things she has said we need to do to improve our economy.
Our economy regularly requires structural change. That’s what keeps us competitive. She is simply calling out the reality that we have allowed some of the companies in our economy to get so big that they are preventing innovation rather than encouraging it. She’s right.
The Clinton economy changed from manufacturing to technology. That change made us the world leader (at least for a while) in both productivity and innovation. It also created the beginnings of a massive manufacturing disruption that we are still working through. Bush II radically deregulated that economy (another restructuring), encouraged the growth of global financial institutions (another restructuring), and then watched it all collapse because capitalism can’t regulate itself. Obama restructured the global financial system preventing a global depression. That restructuring included introducing sensible regulations to PREVENT financial institutions from getting “too big to fail” again. Trump is attempting to restructure global trade by replacing multinational trade agreements with bilateral ones. He also promised to revive domestic coal, steel, and manufacturing by protecting them from global competition. He has failed to deliver on that promise so far.
Warren wants to invest heavily in making the US the leader in climate change mitigation. I think that’s a great idea. That will require us to be a leader in moving away from fossil-based fuels as well as creating new technologies that satisfy our energy needs without adding to the climate change problem.
She also wants to break up big tech and pharma companies that dominate their respective industries. I think that’s a great idea too. Bill Gates famously said that in the software business you have to be prepared to eat your young if you want to remain on the cutting edge. Microsoft’s failure to move away from their desktop business gave Google the opportunity to dominate the mobile operating system business with Android. Gates has said, that was his greatest failure. Breaking up IBM was what ultimately led to the rise of Microsoft. Breaking up ATT led to the rise of the internet, cable TV, and the mobile phone business. Breaking up Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple will ultimately create another cycle of innovation in this country – which is what we are going to need if we are going to retain our leadership position.
Sure didn’t sound like that last night, but I agree that the Democrats have to offer working people a better deal in order to win back their support. I heard a lot of good ideas on how to do that.
I am a big fan of Kamala. President I don’t know but she single handedly knockednout Joe. Side note – where was this scrutiny of Mr Joe for 8 years as VP? Stunning really.
Last night exposed the overall weakness of the dem party. The top candidates were there minus Mrs Warren. They all mostly yelled, were angry, and most importantly there was ZERO humor. Can’t win that way. Highlighting this is Trump makes a joke after a stupid question from a reporter and the whole liberal media is going nuts.
If this is still Obama’s economy then Clinton’s was Reagan’s. I mentioned this MANY times to you Obama’s economy should have been better. Old ground and no use covering it again.
Also to the Media’s lack of honestly and creating a narritive. Kamala Harris is not and African American. Why do they insist on calling her one?
May be a little hasty to count Joe out. If his struggle with the issue of school busing affects his support in the African American community, then he is in trouble.
As far as “scrutiny” for Joe, four years ago Obama was running unopposed. It would have been Romney’s responsibility to dig up dirt on Joe, but any questions regarding his support for civil rights would have immediately been answered by Obama. In other words, Obama’s endorsement inoculated Joe from any of those claims.
The reality is that no one is questioning Joe’s support for racial equality today either, but he failed to provide a credible answer to the attack from Harris questioning why he opposed busing 50 years ago. A better answer would have been an apology like Mayor Pete. Here’s what Joe could have said,” Kamala, I’m sorry for any pain I may have caused you. That busing happened 50 years ago when we were all trying to figure out the best way to tear down institutional segregation. I honestly believed that the shortest path to school integration was through state government. I was wrong and I apologize. But I won’t apologize for my lifelong commitment to oppose racism in all its forms. This President has proven how fragile our gains can be if we let our guard down for even a moment. The single most important thing we can do today to advance the cause of equality for everyone is to defeat Donald Trump, and that’s why I’m running.”
The fact that he DIDN’T have a response like that ready is more troubling to me than the episode that Harris brought up. Someone who has been in public life as long as Joe, has hundreds of these sorts of things in his past. Getting legislation passed is not a pretty business, but Joe can turn those things to his advantage too. For example, the question of working with segregationists or making the Bush tax breaks permanent, here’s an answer for Joe, “As the past couple of administrations have shown, getting real bi-partisan legislation passed these days is a difficult task. People have forgotten that compromise requires working with people with whom you may have deep disagreements. It also requires giving something up in order to get something else in return. It’s easy to blame the failures of government on the other guy. It’s always easier in hindsight to criticize any compromise as having given up too much. It’s a lot harder to take the political risks required to actually get stuff done for country. It is never perfect, but I’d rather be accused of coddling racists in order to get their votes, if their votes helped me get something valuable done for the american people. I’m also willing to take the heat for an imperfect deal, if the result is something that gets our government working. I’m here to get something done. If voters would prefer more gridlock and partisan warfare, they should vote for somebody else.”
He didn’t say that either. That’s what bothers me.
Last night exposed the overall weakness of the dem party. The top candidates were there minus Mrs Warren. They all mostly yelled, were angry, and most importantly there was ZERO humor. Can’t win that way.
Disagree. It is a big tent. There are plenty of views and plenty of candidates willing to express them. The nature of the responses were the result of the nature of the questions. As far as humor, I think Williamson provided plenty of humor.
Highlighting this is Trump makes a joke after a stupid question from a reporter and the whole liberal media is going nuts.
What “joke” was that?
Maybe this one about his dislike for journalists?
“Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it?” Trump said. “You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.”
“We also have,” Putin answered, in English. “It’s the same.”
The difference is that in Russia, if Putin doesn’t like you, you die. So when Trump referenced “Get rid of them”, it was NOT a very funny joke.
From the Wash Post.
According to the Columbia Journalism Review, 59 journalists were murdered in Russia between 1992 and this year. And the World Press Freedom Index puts Russia near the bottom of the list as a place where journalists are safe and can do their jobs. (The United States, shamefully, has dropped on the list, barely ranking in the top 50.)
Or maybe it was this one,
“U.S. President Donald Trump has appeared to make light of Russian election interference during a meeting with the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin. A smirking Mr. Trump wagged his finger at the Russian president and said: ‘Don’t meddle in the election, please.’”
If that was the joke, it was on the American people. The Russians did meddle in the election. Putin denied it. Trump makes a joke about it, and Putin has free reign to do it all over again in 2020 with a President who has said he would gladly accept the help.
I was asking what you meant when you said it was the best economy in the world. If you meant it was historically the best, you’re wrong. If you meant it has the fastest global growth rate, you’re wrong there too. If you meant it has historically the lowest unemployment rate, that’s true, but the bulk of the improvement in the unemployment rate from it’s high point came from somebody else. Trump has improved an already robust economy and financed it all with debt. The CBO is predicting an “unprecedented debt” of 144% of GDP by 2049. Seems like any mention of the economic growth under Trump HAS to include that.
Welcome to the world of Republican propaganda.
If you are interested, here’s an article on how this lie was spread.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-kamala-harris.html
You have now officially participated in this spread.
Questioning a persons race is no different than questioning their religion.
Unless you are prepared to have people question your faith, I suggest that you stop questioning how people SELF-IDENTIFY with regard to race.
I have no doubt that Ms. Harris experienced discrimination during her life because of the COLOR OF HER SKIN. I have no doubt that she was CHOSEN by her school board to be part of a group of “negro” students who were bused to a predominantly “Caucasian” school. There were also “Caucasian” students who were bused to “negro” schools.
BTW, our friends over at Gateway Pundit also tried to discredit Harris by publishing pictures of the high school yearbook which showed that the high school was integrated as early as 1963. At that time Berkeley had only one HS, so it was integrated. But the elementary schools were not. Ergo busing.
If there is any evidence that Harris has ever denied her racial heritage, please produce it. Otherwise, stop spreading this stuff. The only dishonesty here are the people have chosen to spread this ugly lie and you should be ashamed. Even Eric deleted his tweet. I suggest you do the same.
Only time for one comment.
I asked why the media insists on calling her an African American. She is not and the times article accurately states that. I don’t question her at all. I continued to hear cnn and msnbc commentators refer to her that way. I know some about her, like her, and know her mother and fathers back ground. I just thought it interesting they referred you her as African American when she clearly isn’t. Can you take a stab at why? I simple found it curious. Why not refer to her as a women of color. (Not sure why that’s important anyway if you want equality) I know nothing about any tweet or Trump etc. You can apologize to me at a later date for your inference….. 😄
I asked why the media insists on calling her an African American. She is not and the times article accurately states that.
Here’s what the NYT says.
The facts are these: Ms. Harris, a first-term senator from California and a former prosecutor, is the biracial daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother. She has faced repeated questions about her race throughout her career, but has at times resisted being put into one category or another. In an interview with The Washington Post this year, Ms. Harris called herself “an American,” defying calls at various points for her to choose.
“My point was: I am who I am,” Ms. Harris said at the time. “I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”
On Thursday evening, Ms. Harris was more forceful in relaying her experiences with racism. “Growing up, my sister and I had to deal with the neighbor who told us her parents couldn’t play with us because she — because we were black,” Ms. Harris said.
That characterization is VERY different from the slur that Ali Alexander tweeted and DJTjr. retweeted.
“Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves,” Ali Alexander, a member of a right-wing constellation of media personalities, wrote on Twitter. “She’s not. She comes from Jamaican Slave Owners. That’s fine. She’s not an American Black. Period.”
The issue IS NOT what her racial heritage is.
The issue is whether or not she personally experienced racially motivated discrimination because of the color of her skin. Every indication is that she did. That’s because those who are willing to treat people differently because of the color of their skin DON’T CARE about ancestry.
The larger issue is whether or not this personal experience of racism as well as her political career qualify her to represent the interests of voters who have also experienced racism.
If you aren’t questioning either or these positions, then why question how the media chooses to define her racial heritage?
I know some about her, like her, and know her mother and fathers back ground. I just thought it interesting they referred you her as African American when she clearly isn’t. Can you take a stab at why? I simple found it curious. Why not refer to her as a women of color. (Not sure why that’s important anyway if you want equality)
I think it is particularly ironic that a white person is trying to parse what the word African American means.
Harris doesn’t even enter into that debate. As the NYT article points out, she prefers to call herself an American. But she also doesn’t shy away from calling herself “black”.
As far as the media are concerned, African American DOES NOT reflect heritage. It is the same as saying “black”. It is a function of skin color, not parentage.
As I recall, you didn’t object to Obama being called the country’s first African American president even though he has a bi-racial background and his father WAS NOT an American or the descendant of American slaves.
To point out how ridiculous your argument is, what would you call someone who has dark skin, was born in Africa, but becomes a United States citizen? A “naturalized” African American?
We have a racial shorthand in this country, for better or worse. White, Black/African American, Brown/Latino, Indian/Native American, Chinese/Asian, and Indian/SE Asian. Regardless of their ancestry, we put everyone into one of those categories. Those who are bi-racial (e.g. Obama) are black.
I know nothing about any tweet or Trump etc. You can apologize to me at a later date for your inference….. 😄
You learned of this from someone. It is too coincidental to suggest that you came up with this question at the EXACT same moment as this meme was spreading through the Internet.
What you did is take it at face value and spread it rather than doing a little bit of research to find out where it came from. That’s the problem.
As a result, you became part of what is turning out to be a deliberate coordinated attempt to take down Harris by suggesting that she is an imposter. You didn’t call her an imposter, but you suggested that at least the media was mislabeling her as an African American. This certainly implies that either the media or Harris were trying to use a label that they didn’t “deserve” for some political benefit.
This activity caught the attention of Caroline Orr, a Virginia-based researcher who studies disinformation and elections. Mr. Alexander is a real person, but Ms. Orr hinted that the activity may have been the work of Twitter bots meant to spread his misinformation.
“A lot of suspect accounts are pushing the ‘Kamala Harris is not Black’ narrative tonight,” Ms. Orr wrote on Twitter. “It’s everywhere and it has all the signs of being a coordinated/artificial operation.”
Whether deliberate or not, you were part of that operation.
You must learn to trust. It is coincidence that someone tweeted it. I thought it immediately. I did wonder why President Obama was more commonly referred to as black then white. Just like Tiger Woods was always, at first celebrated as black, although VJ Sing a much darker skinned golfer, was not? I agree with and am EXCITED Kamala views herself as American. So do I. I was simple wondering why two seconds after the debate the words African American rolled off their tongues. You are simply missing my point. And by the way being a woman of color hasn’t held Kamala back one bit.
Chris Mathews interviewed her after and asked how hurtful it was to be told the other kids couldn’t play with her and how she overcame that adversity, how do you deal with that. At first, my impression only, she looked at him like he was nuts. She said something to the effect of, you just do. Again, no effect on her it’s the media and those with a cause that want to go back 50 years and wollow those days. She has clearly moved on.
If I follow your logic of identity; I am white. I grew up spending much of my time with blacks grades 7-12. I played college football. My position room at times was me and overwhelmingly blacks. They are some of my closest friends. Professionally I have had to make several decisions that choose between black and white employees, In The DEEP SOUTH at times where the better employee for the company was black. I choose with zero regard for race. Try that!!! I rode across Mississippi with a black women one evening trying to advance her career and stood at the door of a restaurant while no one would come and wait on us. She wanted to leave, I refused. The patrons there seemingly couldn’t take their eyes off us. This only scratches the surface of my experiences in this regard. I could go on and on. I have heard “n-lover” directed at me many, many times. It never bothered me in the least. In my mind their comments were and are a reflection of who they are and has nothing to do with me. If I choose your logic or that of the media, do I get to identify as African American? Of course not!!!! We should all follow Kamala’s lead and call ourselves Americans!!!!
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2019/july/leader-of-national-hispanic-christian-group-tours-border-facility-pushes-back-against-reports-of-mistreatment-of-migrant-children
If you google “Hispanic Pastors tour detention centers you get this article and one by Fox. Where are all the others?
And by the way being a woman of color hasn’t held Kamala back one bit.
Curious what you mean by that. If Harris has said that, please post it. Otherwise, this is simply your interpretation of her career. It has not basis in fact with regard to the challenges which she had to overcome and her thoughts with regard to what she might have been able to accomplish if she hadn’t faced those challenges.
It is a nice thought, but I suspect that more accurate description of the “look” is the following. She is an experienced politician in a world where she KNOWS how important it is to stay on message and avoid offhand remarks that end up having unintended consequences. She knows that there are MANY people lying in a wait to pounce on her first misstep. Instead she simply didn’t answer the question because it was something she didn’t see any value in talking about.
Thanks for sharing that. I agree that we would ALL be much better if we were able to put the issues of race behind us…BUT…you and I are not the ones who get to make that decision. We are both trying to live colorblind lives. We will actually BE in a color blind country when those who experience discrimination and racism in their lives because of the color of their skin no longer have those experiences. We will live in a color blind country when the prison racial population reflects the country’s racial makeup. We will live in a color blind country when the racial makeup of police forces reflects the racial makeup of their community AND when those police treat all of those they come in contact with in the same way. We will live in a color blind country when parents of dark skinned children no longer have to warn their kids about how to act when they are approached by the police. I can tell you from personal experience that we are not there yet.
I don’t know why this particular story didn’t get picked up by the mainstream press.
I can tell you why other stories that appeared on Fox and other unrealiable news sites didn’t show up in the WashPost, NYT, NPR, or Christian Science Monitor. It was because when those news organizations researched the story, they couldn’t confirm the events as described. Pastor Rodriguez visited only the Clint location. Several Democratic Congresspeople and reporters visited that same site and other sites during this same period of time and came away with a very different story.
The key part of Pastor Rodriguez’s story was the claim by the people operating that facility that nothing had changed. We know that the facility had previously had several hundred kids. Most of them were moved out. Now there are only 70 or so and they are recent arrivals. I would hope that the facility gets cleaned every day. But that is all speculation.
What is NOT speculation is the evidence of EXTREME bias among some of the border patrol agents.
Whether you like AOC or not, border agents posting vile made-up images of her to a private facebook group is clearly over the line. Hopefully you agree that there is no place agents who harbor bigoted views of immigrants or those who have differing political views.
Here’s another reason why perhaps Pastor Rodriguez’s story didn’t get more play.
The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the conditions earlier reported by court appointed lawyers and more recently by elected officials.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/us/politics/border-center-migrant-detention.html
Overcrowded, squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its report describes standing-room-only cells, children without showers and hot meals, and detainees clamoring desperately for release.
On a related matter, the acting head of homeland security acknowledged reports of border patrol bias shared on facebook.
On Wednesday morning, Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, cited “disturbing & inexcusable social media activity that allegedly includes active Border Patrol personnel.”
This appears to be a situation where at least some in the border patrol and perhaps some in the Dept of Homeland security are taking their cues from the President rather than their own chain of command. This is just another example of why words, particular when then come from the President, matter.
As to challenges Kamala May have had, Shea rose to the top of her field and now finds herself a one if the favorites to be the dem nominee. We all have challenges and nothing effects her.
Now I’m confused and I’m quite sure Joe is also
https://apnews.com/586b1e81cb684654b0cf689b9074c1cb
Clearly her busing answer is affecting her. I can appreciate her position, but her answer to the question clearly reflected the challenge that Joe was dealing with. Parents in local school districts care about whether the federal government is going to step in and mandate busing. While we don’t have nearly the level of institutional school segregation that existed in the 70’s, many schools are defacto segregated because the communities they serve are segregated. I suspect that either Joe or the moderators in the next debate are going to bring this answer up to her and give her an opportunity to respond to what appears to be a hypocrisy.
By comparison, here’s a video of Mayor Pete’s response when an attendee at one of his Iowa events suggested the solution to the racial problems in South Bend would come when blacks stopped committing crimes and stopped using drugs.
To his credit, Mayor Pete, speaking to an all-white audience cut right to the core of that racist suggestion.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-buttigieg-shuts-down-racist-question_n_5d1f4285e4b04c4814124d50
What is bothersome here is that I don’t think that the person asking this question thought it was racist. The statistics certainly indicate that there are more black people in jail proportionately than white people. The reality is that when you look at the statistics more closely, black people DO get arrested and ARE sent to jail at a much higher rate than white people for similar offenses. As a result, white people can fall into the trap of blaming black people for their condition including poverty by suggesting that it is the natural consequence of making a bad choice. The reality is WAY more complicated.
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Community conversation on restoring trust in government, April 21
The Charlevoix County Democratic Party will hold a non-partisan Community Conversation from 7 p.m. to …
The Charlevoix County Democratic Party will hold a non-partisan Community Conversation from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday April 21, in Community Rooms A and B of the Charlevoix Public Library at 220 West Clinton St. in Charlevoix.
A “Community Conversation” is a small, informal town hall meeting to gain input from Michigan’s residents.
The moderator of the Community Conversation will be Ken Winter.
Winter is past publisher of the Petoskey News-Review. He was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2011.
Winter currently teaches political science and communications at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey.
The topic of discussion will be “restoring public trust in Michigan’s state government.”
Attendees will be asked their biggest barriers to trusting state government, as well as their ideas for what it would take to improve trust. Topics will include state government services, management of the public purse, and oversight of Michigan’s political system.
Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP by April 19 to assist in planning for seating and refreshments.
To RSVP or for more information, email: democrats.charlevoix@gmail.com or call (231) 753-8411.
The Center for Michigan is a “think-and-do” tank founded in early 2006 by former newspaper publisher and University of Michigan Regent Phil Power.
A 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, The Center’s objective is to make Michigan a better place by encouraging greater understanding and involvement in policy issues among the state’s citizens and making sure their voices are regularly heard.
The Center does this by regularly by calling forth citizen views, amplifying those views and projecting them into the halls of power.
The Center’s work can be described in only three verbs – engage, inform and achieve – which work together to make up a dynamic model of social and political change.
Leaders do respond to the results of these conversations.
The findings from previous Community Conversations provided public momentum for state leaders to: approve the nation’s largest expansion of public preschool, institute tougher certification tests for new teachers, approve deeper state investment in the “Pure Michigan” marketing campaign, improve the state’s evaluation system for teachers, reform state business taxes, institute reforms to save taxpayers $250 million in state prison costs and stop the backslide of the traditional 180 day K-12 school year.
This is The Center’s seventh round of Community Conversations.
The Center ‘s initial effort, Michigan’s “Defining Moment Public Engagement Campaign” launched in 2007 in partnership with Public Sector Consultants, Inc. sought in-depth citizen deliberation rather than the standard telephone polls that allow brief and shallow comments to shape public policy.
The Center worked to collect and disseminate detailed non-partisan information about Michigan’s challenges and, in turn, gathered pragmatic, grass-roots ideas to build a better future.
In 2013-2014, the Center embarked upon a round of Community Conversations that asked nearly 5,000 participants statewide to identify their priorities for Michigan’s future in the lead-up to the 2014 election.
The summation of attendee discussion outlined the issues considered most urgent to our state in the following areas: the economy, education, quality of life, and public money.
In 2015 the Center led a public engagement campaign titled “Getting to Work: Opportunity and Hurdles to Prosperity in Michigan.”
Topics of discussion included career navigation for young people, college value and affordability, and challenges to upward mobility.
The public’s agenda that resulted from this campaign gave recommendations to state leaders for improving workforce development from classroom to career.
Summaries of the Community Conversations are on The Center for Michigan website. The Center also maintains the online Bridge Magazine.
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Grangers remember Theodore Miller Jr.
By Waterbury Republican-American (3-8-11)
MARCH 9, 2011 --
Theodore Miller Jr., 84, a lifelong Morris resident, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home on Higbie Road on Monday morning, March 7, 2011.
He was born March 3, 1927, the son of the late Theodore and Mary Miller. Ted was involved in the Morris community his whole life as a member of the Boy Scouts, the volunteer fire department, the Morris Grange, the senior center and Morris Congregational Church.
He is survived by his two sisters, Janet Weik of Morris, and Rosemary Hoffman of Nampa, Idaho, and was predeceased by his brother, Donald Miller. He was an important uncle to Kevin Weik, Rodney Weik, Lori Margaitis, Julie Weik of New Hampshire, Greg Weik of Idaho, and Timothy Miller of Michigan. Emma and Colby Weik spent many happy times in their home living with Uncle Ted for the last 11 years. He had special relationships with his other nieces and nephews: Ryan and Jeremy Margaitis, Keely and Ericka Weik, Nick, Christine and Eric Parrot, and Theo Miller.
Ted worked for many years as the custodian at James Morris School. He loved cars and taking part in senior center activities.
Donations may be made to the Morris Fire Department or Morris Congregational Church. There will be a memorial service at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 11, at Morris Congregational Church. Arrangements entrusted to Rowe Funeral Home of Litchfield.
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DRS sponsors international ministerial seminar on technology in education
Education technology provider, DRS is sponsoring the first ever Learning and Technology World Forum to be delivered by Becta (the UK government's lead agency on supporting technology in education) on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
DRS in support of real-time access to attendance information for parents
DRS fully supports the important steps being taken by the Government to provide parents with invaluable information about their children through the use of technology.
DRS e-Marker® is highly commended at prestigious Awards Ceremony
DRS is proud to announce that e-Marker®, its electronic examination marking solution, has been highly commended at the 2006 BETT Awards, for its role in ‘Supporting Institutional Management’. The results were announced at an exclusive event at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London last night.
Special BETT Promotion
Data capture specialist, DRS, is to upgrade any school or Local Authority (LA), wishing to purchase or rent a manual Optical Mark Reader (OMR), with a free three month pilot and trial of an automatic OMR. This is a limited offer, so must be taken up quickly to avoid disappointment.
e-Marker® up for a BETT Award!
Today, DRS is proud to announce that e-Marker®, its electronic examination marking solution, has made the final for an esteemed BETT 2006 Award.
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Wireless tech means safer drones, smarter homes and password-free WiFi
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
System from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab enables single WiFi access point that can locate users within tens of centimeters.
For a demo at a local cafe, the Chronos system was 97 percent accurate in distinguishing in-store customers from out-of-store intruders — meaning it could be used to prevent non-customers from stealing WiFi. Photo: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL.
We’ve all been there, impatiently twiddling our thumbs while trying to locate a WiFi signal. But what if, instead, the WiFi could locate us?
According to researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), it could mean safer drones, smarter homes, and password-free WiFi.
In a new paper, a research team led by Professor Dina Katabi present a system called Chronos that enables a single WiFi access point to locate users to within tens of centimeters, without any external sensors.
The group demonstrated Chronos in an apartment and a cafe, while also showing off a drone that maintains a safe distance from its user with a margin of error of about four centimeters.
“From developing drones that are safer for people to be around, to tracking where family members are in your house, Chronos could open up new avenues for using WiFi in robotics, home automation and more,” says PhD student Deepak Vasisht, who is first author on the paper alongside Katabi and former PhD student Swarun Kumar, who is now an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “Designing a system that enables one WiFi node to locate another is an important step for wireless technology.”
Experiments conducted in a two-bedroom apartment with four occupants show that Chronos can correctly identify which room a resident is in 94 percent of the time. For the cafe demo, the system was 97 percent accurate in distinguishing in-store customers from out-of-store intruders - meaning it could be used by small businesses to prevent non-customers from stealing their WiFi. (32 percent of Americans have copped to this cyber-crime.)
Chronos locates users by calculating the “time-of-flight” that it takes for data to travel from the user to an access point. The system is 20 times more accurate than existing systems, computing time-of-flight with an average error of 0.47 nanoseconds, or half than one-billionth of a second.
Vasisht presented the paper at this month’s USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '16).
Existing localization methods have required four or five WiFi access points. This is because today’s WiFi devices don’t have wide enough bandwidth to measure time-of-flight, and so researchers have only been able to determine someone’s position by triangulating multiple angles relative to the person.
What Chronos adds is the ability to calculate not just the angle, but the actual distance from a user to an access point, as determined by multiplying the time-of-flight by the speed of light.
“Knowing both the distance and the angle allows you to compute the user’s position using just one access point,” says Vasisht. “This is encouraging news for the many small businesses and consumers that don’t have the luxury of owning several access points.”
Exploiting the fact that WiFi lets you hop on different frequency channels, the team programmed the system to jump from channel to channel, gathering many different measurements of the distance between access points and the user. Chronos then automatically “stitches” together these measurements to determine the distance.
“By devising a method to rapidly hop across these channels that span almost one gigahertz of bandwidth, Chronos can measure time-of-flight with sub-nanosecond accuracy, emulating with commercial WiFi what has previously needed an expensive ultra-wideband radio,” says Venkat Padmanabhan. a principal researcher at Microsoft Research India. “This is an impressive breakthrough and promises to be a key enabler for applications such as high-accuracy indoor localization.”
That said, getting an accurate time-of-flight with this method still isn’t easy, due to three sets of delays that happen during the transfer.
First, when you wirelessly send a piece of web data, there is a delay in detecting the presence of the “packet” that is hard to distinguish from the actual time-of-flight. To account for it, the team exploits the fact that WiFi uses an encoding method that transmits bits of packets on several even smaller frequencies.
Secondly, if you’re indoors the WiFi signals can bounce off walls and furniture, meaning that the receiver gets several copies of the signal that each experience different times-of-flight. To identify the actual direct path, researchers developed a mechanism to algorithmically determine the delays experienced by all of these copies. From there, they can identify the path with the smallest time-of-flight as the direct path.
Lastly, the team’s channel-hopping approach leads to one other complication: every time Chronos hops to a new band, the hardware resets, adding a delay known as a “phase offset.” To address this the team used the fact that in WiFi, you get an acknowledgement back for each data packet that your phone sends. The team uses these acknowledgements to intelligently cancel out the phase offsets.
The success of Chronos suggests that WiFi-based positioning could help for other situations where there are limited or inaccessible sensors, like finding lost devices or controlling large fleets of drones.
“Imagine having a system like this at home that can continuously adapt the heating and cooling depending on number of people in the home and where they are” says Katabi. “Eliminating the need for cooperation between WiFi routers opens up many exciting new applications for localization.”
Read this article on MIT News.
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Gratitude and almost-tears
Today is Grandparents and Special Friends Day at the boys' school. Tom's parents are in Peru, mine are coming up in just two weeks, my grandmother who was supposed to come got sick, and so the boys and I went enthusiastically down the Special Friends path. Jack immediately chose my dear friend, Gay, who lives here in D.C. Actually, he asked her more than a month ago because he really wanted to seal the deal with her as his date. Gay and I met in Pilates four years ago, and I have loved her and our friendship ever since. She has grandkids of her own but has lovingly welcomed my boys into her fold. In first grade, Jack interviewed her for his "interesting-cool person" assignment, and recently, he happily took a book on Japanese art she was giving away. They have a very sweet connection.
Oliver had invited my grandmother and when she got sick, he said his next most special friend was Mr. Glenn, the father of a boy in J's class and on his baseball team. Since it was Tuesday evening, I was not sure this would be possible, but Glenn said he would be honored to attend, and Ol was thrilled. I was touched to tears that Glenn would make the time to do this.
Today, when I drove up to school to drop Gay off, there was Glenn. I hugged and thanked him and introduced him to Gay. He said, "Actually, I really want to thank you because my son doesn't have anyone here today and now in some way, he does. I can't be with him, but I am here." Almost crying at this point, I then nearly went over the edge when Gay said, "Well, I'll adopt your son today because isn't he in Jack's class?"
At that point I was grateful to have to get back in my car, because I almost lost it. I drove home in a state of appreciative bliss, thinking about how all these kindnesses and friends came together in an even more beautiful way than they had already. These sorts of connections, full of generosity, girded by grace, are such incredible moments and treasures. It's worth keeping in mind just what a big impact seemingly small actions can have.
May 09, 2014 / Em-i-lis/ 4 Comments
Musings, Parenting & Family
Mother's Day eve
Shrimp, grits, jam
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Cookbook Authors to Make Appearances at Book Festival
It's exciting that we have a first-class literary festival, right in our (Atlanta) backyard. The Decatur Book Festival, August 31 to September 2, is the largest independent book fair in the United States, and this year a handful of local cookbook authors will be signing books at Taste, a gourmet food store located in Decatur.
On September 1, Hugh Acheson of Empire State South, will be signing A New Turn in the South from 2:30 to 5 p.m. From 3:30 to 6 p.m. on September 2, Natalie Dupree, a writer who has penned 11 best-selling books about Southern cooking, and Cynthia Graubart, a culinary expert, author and speaker, will be signing Southern Biscuits.
To view a complete list of all the authors who will be at the festival, visit www.decaturbookfestival.com/2012
Firenze Ristorante Serving Wood-fire Grilled Menu Items
Italian haunt Firenze Ristorante is offering wood-fire grilled cuts like grass-fed local veal chop, marinated lamb chop, homemade sausage and Mediterranean sea bass on the weekends. All of these tasty dishes are served with your choice of sides including roasted potatoes, risotto, and polenta. Of course, you also can choose from the restaurant’s robust menu of homemade ravioli and pasta.
6025 Peachtree Parkway
firenzeristorante.net
Vinny’s on Windward Hosts Wine Tasting
Mark your calendars for September 14, and then be sure to head over to Vinny’s for a wine tasting at 5:30 p.m. next month. This wine tasting will feature wines hailing from Napa Valley’s Caymus Vineyard—a family-owned winery which celebrated 40 years of wine making this year.
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Tue, 08/20 | Men's Soccer vs. Keuka College (3:00 PM)
Sat, 08/24 | Men's Soccer vs. Medaille College (1:00 PM)
Sun, 08/25 | Men's Soccer at Monroe Community College (2:00 PM)
Wed, 08/28 | Men's Soccer at North Country Community College (4:00 PM)
Sun, 09/01 | Men's Soccer vs. SUNY ESF (4:00 PM)
Sun, 09/08 | Men's Soccer vs. North Country Community College (1:00 PM) LS
Wed, 09/11 | Men's Soccer vs. Mohawk Valley Community College (4:00 PM) LS
Sat, 09/14 | Men's Soccer at Onondaga Community College (3:00 PM)
Sun, 09/15 | Men's Soccer vs. Roberts Wesleyan JV (2:30 PM)
Wed, 09/18 | Men's Soccer at Jamestown Community College (4:00 PM)
Sat, 09/21 | Men's Soccer at Cayuga Community College (3:00 PM)
Wed, 09/25 | Men's Soccer vs. Jefferson Community College (4:00 PM) LS
Sat, 09/28 | Men's Soccer vs. Corning Community College (2:00 PM) LS
Mon, 09/30 | Men's Soccer at St. John Fisher College JV (6:00 PM)
Wed, 10/02 | Men's Soccer vs. Niagara County Community College (4:00 PM) LS
Sat, 10/05 | Men's Soccer at Roberts Wesleyan JV (6:00 PM)
Sun, 10/06 | Men's Soccer vs. Tompkins Cortland Community College (2:00 PM) LS
Wed, 10/09 | Men's Soccer vs. Genesee Community College (4:00 PM) LS
Tue, 10/15 | Men's Soccer vs. Herkimer College (4:00 PM) LS
Thu, 10/17 | Men's Soccer at Erie Community College (4:00 PM)
Sat, 10/19 | Men's Soccer at Fulton-Montgomery Community College (TBA)
Wed, 10/23 | Men's Soccer vs. SUNY Broome Community College (4:00 PM) LS
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Florence exhibitions / Florence museums
Piero Tosi: clothes behind the camera
by Giuseppe Garbarino · October 14, 2014
Until 11 January 2015 the Costume Gallery in the Pitti Palace hosts an exhibition dedicated to Piero Tosi year’s achievement award an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement with the following motivation “Piero Tosi, a visionary whose incomparable costumes exceed the time doing live art in the film “.
The Master has worked for years as a theatrical costume designer, then establishing itself especially in the cinema alongside great directors, including Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini, Liliana Cavani, Franco Zeffirelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Tosi has made use of theatrical tailors prestige, like that of Umberto Tirelli, with whom he collaborated again today after many years after the death of the latter.
The view, entitled “Tribute to Maestro Piero Tosi. The art of the costumes from the Donation Tirelli “, offers fifteen costumes by Piero Tosi displayed in the ballroom of the museum, in setting coordinated by Mauro Linari, and constitute a core of great historical importance and undeniable charm of the rich donation made by Umberto Tirelli Costume Gallery in 1986, including historical clothing and costumes, theatrical and film.
The Superintendent of the State Museums of Florence, Cristina Acidini, explained that “this selection of costumes taken from the Donation Tirelli is not only the well-known creativity of Tosi in a variety of ages and types, but takes us through the best films of the greatest Italian directors of the twentieth century “.
Among the costumes designed by Tosi which can be viewed in the exhibition include Medea (film: “Medea”, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, interpreter: Call Maria), Elizabeth (film: “Ludwig”, directed by Luchino Visconti, interpreter: Romy Schneider), Giuliana Hermil (film: “L’innocente”, directed by Luchino Visconti, interpreter: Laura Antonelli); the latter two are the result of its partnership with Luchino Visconti, who gave birth to masterpieces based on a philological rigor perfect, “Which are complementary – as explained by the Director of the Galleria del Costume, Catherine Chiarelli – revealing the complexity of expression of the Master, inventiveness and creativity unleashed by the characters atavistic, almost tribal in the film Medea “.
The view, closed every first and last Monday of the month, will be open from 8.15 at 18.30 in October, and from 8.15 at 16.30 from November to January.
Admission to the museum is free to 18 years; come on 18 to 25 years is reduced; adults pay regular admission.
In addition to, Sunday 12 October, on the occasion of “National Day of Families at the Museum”, the Educational Department of the State Museums of Florence and the Galleria del Costume of Palazzo Pitti, propose a series of guided tours of the exhibition. A nice opportunity for families.
The tours will be held at 10 e alle ore 11.30 with accompanying free educational, entrance with the entrance ticket to the Galleria del Costume.
A reservation is required at the Educational Department in Via della Ninna 5, in Florence, or call 055-284272, or by writing an email to didattica@polomuseale.firenze.it
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Kinsella Log Cabin at Pleasant Ridge Park
The Kinsella log cabin is a 2-story structure which was built around 1854. The cabin is constructed of hand-hewn logs, measuring from 8 to 18 inches in diameter. The bark that was stripped from the lumber was stuffed between the logs and then filled with plaster. The first floor was probably L-shaped, and the second rectangular. A brick chimney runs through the center of the home and was probably used by wood burning stoves on either side. The log cabin was moved approximately 150 feet east of its original location. It now sits on a concrete foundation with a crawl space. A rear addition was added around 1920 at which time the log exterior was covered with siding.
The Kinsella property was originally purchased from Cornelius and Eve Rittenhouse by William Kinsella for $200 on September 28, 1880. The log cabin was then dedicated on September 19, 1976 to the City of Fairview Heights at Pleasant Ridge Park. The Log cabin received a face-lift on the front portion on the cabin in 1993. The worn wood beams were replaced with hand-hewn logs to keep the integrity of the log cabin. The log cabin is not opened to the public at this time.
The log cabin has a special place with the City, in that it is the oldest structure in a relatively modern city. In 1840, during the great potato famine, William Kinsella left his home in Dublin, Ireland and immigrated to Caseyville Township to seek his fortune. There he worked as a carpenter with the B and O Railroad, building a trestle and laying ties for the new line.
During his breaks he would rest at the crest of the hill overlooking the railroad and he eventually decided to buy the acreage and build a lean to on the property. He was so impressed with the beauty of the trees, especially in the fall, that he named the area “Pleasant Ridge”.
After the line was finished he married Anna S Connely from Wexfort, Ireland in 1850. Using the wood from the nearby trees, he built a two-story log cabin of hand-hewn logs. In their new home Anna and William farmed and raised the first generation of U.S. Kinsella's - three sons and five daughters.
The homestead was left to his youngest son, Lawrence, who married Emily Townie in the early 1900's. They raised their nine children Prosper, Tom, Stella, Gart, Joe, Mary, Cyriel, James and Bernard in the log cabin. Between the years 1920-1925 Lawrence built an extension to the log cabin and covered it with white wooden siding to preserve the wood.
After his death, the farm was passed on to Cyril who was married to Rita O'Brien. They continued to farm and raised their children Larry, Kenny, Dennis and Susan in that house.
In 1960, Cyril and Rita built a brick home next to the old farmhouse. They rented the farmhouse to the Gart's daughter Mary Cyril and her husband Jack Kock. Mary and Jack raised their seven children in the house that Williams built.
After Cyril's untimely death in 1962, the farmland was leased. In 1973 the City of Fairview Heights purchased the Pleasant Ridge farm for a nature park. As part of the Bi-Centennial Celebration in 1976, a committee was formed to restore the unique two-story log cabin in its original form. Joe Kinsella, Lawrence's son, supervised the project, and Larry Kinsella, Lawrence's grandson, was the foreman on the job.
Email the Parks & Recreation Department
Park Listings
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La Svengali
From Rocklopedia Fakebandica
Female singer from the George Du Maurier novel Trilby, set in 1850s Paris. First published as a serial in 1894 in Harper's Monthly, it was published in book form in 1895.
Trilby O'Ferrall, a tone deaf, half-Irish laundress, falls under the spell of Svengali, who through hypnotism, turns her into the talented singing sensation "la Svengali," but only when she is under his hypnosis.
The novel:
gave us the term "Svengali"
partly inspired Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910)
named a hat called the trilby.
The novel was adapted into a long-running play, Trilby, starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Svengali, premiering in London in 1895.
The play was so popular it was parodied as A Model Trilby; or, A Day or Two After Du Maurier by Charles H. E. Brookfield and William Yardley, 1895.
Trilby, a 1914 British silent film starring Viva Birkett and Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Trilby, a 1915 American silent film starring Clara Kimball Young and Wilton Lackaye
Trilby, a 1923 American silent film starring Andree Lafayette, Arthur Edmund Carewe and Creighton Hale
Svengali, a 1927 German silent film starring Paul Wegener
Svengali, a 1931 Warner Brothers release with John Barrymore in the title role.
Svengali, a 1954 British film starring Donald Wolfit
Svengali, a 1983 TV movie starring Peter O'Toole and Jodie Foster
Svengali, a 1991 stage musical adaptation by Frank Wildhorn
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Fictional singers
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Kent services set for Thursday
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2013-02-28 12:18
Ronald William “Ronnie” Kent, 65, of Hawkeye died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at his home surrounded by his family.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hawkeye.
Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until service time on Thursday.
Friday funeral, Clarence G. Jorgenson
Friday funeral
Clarence G. Jorgenson, 85, of West Union died Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in his home following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 1, at Bethel Presbyterian Church, West Union.
Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at Burnham-Wood Funeral Home in West Union.
Wadena native dies in Wisconsin
Betty M. Brackin, 84, of Galesville, Wis., formerly of Wadena, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, at Marinuka Manor in Galesville.
A memorial gathering will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. today (Wednesday) at Zwickey Funeral Homes, Galesville Chapel, in Galesville, Wis.
Betty M. (Cline) Brackin was born Aug. 25, 1928, in Wadena to Lawrence and Ima (Everett) Cline.
William G. “Bill” Yearous
Services held for longtime Elgin resident
Funeral services for William G. “Bill” Yearous, 101, of Elgin were held Wednesday, Feb. 13, at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Elgin. The Rev. Rick Johnson officiated.
Burial followed in the Elgin Cemetery, Elgin.
Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elgin was in charge of arrangements.
Bill’s death occurred Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at Good Samaritan Society – Postville.
William George Yearous was born March 1, 1911, in Holcomb, Kan., to Clifton and Louisa (Schmidt) Yearous.
He attended country school through the eighth grade.
On Dec. 24, 1938, Bill was united in marriage with Alo Patterson in Waterloo. To this union three children were born.
Services held for Layne Schneider, 22
Funeral services for Layne E. Schneider, 22, of Elgin were held Tuesday, Feb. 19, at West Clermont Lutheran Church, Clermont, with Pastor Dayna Winke as the officiant.
Inurnment followed at East Clermont Lutheran Cemetery, rural Clermont.
Schutte-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Clermont assisted the family with arrangements.
Layne’s death occurred Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013.
Layne Edward Schneider was born July 2, 1990, in West Union to Edward Schneider and Susan (Gunderson) White.
He was baptized Nov. 25, 1990, and confirmed April 10, 2005, at West Clermont Lutheran Church in Clermont.
Layne graduated from Valley High School on May 24, 2009.
He did custom work for Jason Klemp and also farmed with Jake Larson and John and Megan Schroeder.
Gay Caldwell
Gay Caldwell of West Union dies Feb. 13
Gaylord A. Caldwell, 77, of West Union died Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at Strawberry Point Lutheran Home in Strawberry Point.
A private family service and burial will be held at a later date.
Burnham-Wood & S.K. Rogers Funeral Home, West Union, is in charge of arrangements.
Gaylord Allen “Gay” Caldwell was born Feb. 25, 1935, in Cedar Rapids to Oliver and Jessie (Doran) Caldwell.
He graduated from Independence High School in 1954.
He proudly served his country in the United States Army from September 1956 until September 1958.
On May 21, 1960, Gay was united in marriage with Linda Dennis in Fayette.
He worked for Dessel-Roach Floor Covering of West Union for over 40 years.
Eileen A. Meyer
Services today at St. Peter in Eldorado
Funeral services for Eileen A. Meyer, 78, of West Union will be held at 10:30 a.m. today (Wednesday) at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Eldorado with the Rev. Ginny Olson officiating.
Burial will follow at West Union Cemetery.
Visitation was set for Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Burnham-Wood & S.K. Rogers Funeral Home in West Union, which is handling the arrangements.
Eileen died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at Palmer Lutheran Health Center, West Union.
Eileen Ardath (Pape) Meyer was born May 18, 1934, in Dover Township, West Union, to Sam and Lillie (Osmundson) Pape.
She was raised on the family farm two miles east of Eldorado.
Eileen was baptized June 10, 1934, and confirmed on March 21, 1948, both at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Eldorado.
She attended Dover No. 3 country school and graduated from West Union High School in 1952.
Dr. John Smith dies Saturday
John E. Smith, DVM, 88, of Wadena died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013.
Arrangements are pending with Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Monona.
Memorial service held for Waucoma man
Howard G. Adams, 88, of Waucoma died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at Community Memorial Hospital in Sumner.
A memorial service was held Saturday, Feb. 9, at St. John Lutheran Church (Stapleton), rural Waucoma.
Helen Koester dies Feb. 5
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10 Places to Holiday in August
August is the busiest vacation time on the Continent since the schools are closed down for the summer break and almost all places are basking in the warmth of late summer. Thus hotel prices tend to be high in this month as flights are likely to get booked quickly. However there are many other places in the world where you could holiday at a leisurely pace and without spending a bomb. Here are ten spots worth considering for a holiday in August.
Despite the busy holiday season in Europe, Edinburgh is one of the best places to visit this time, primarily because of the Edinburgh festival which takes place through August. The festival incorporates a whole range of events like music concerts, film screenings, art shows, story-telling events, book fairs, ethnic melas and even a fringe festival. If you wish, you can extend your Festival visit to explore more of this fascinating capital city of Scotland. You can view the entire city from an incredible vantage point known as Arthur’s Seat, ramble through self-contained communities like Old Town and Stockbridge known for their distinctive character and village-like feel or make use of shopping and dining opportunities at fashionable quarters like New Town and West End.
Aubenas, France
August can be a good time to explore the French Alps when most of the vacationing crowds are heading for the coast. Aubenas lies on an extremely picturesque location of the Rhone Alps and because of its proximity to nearly all major tourist attractions, forms the base of most holiday makers in the region. From Aubenas tourists can easily access popular destinations like Ardeche river Gorges, explore the wild beauty of the Ardeche mountains, visit the startling point of the river Loire in the Mont Gerbier de Jonc and experience the thrill of looking down from the heights of the Cevennes plateau. Besides being blessed with endless vistas of natural beauty, Aubenas is also rich in treasures of the past. The history of the town goes back to several centuries and proof of this lies in its architectural landscape which is rich with historical monuments, churches and chateaus.
Trans-Siberian trip, Russia
If you want to have a truly special holiday this August, how about experiencing Russia through the Trans-Siberian rail trip which is reputed to be one of the longest rail-routes in the world. The Trans-Siberian rail journey begins from Moscow and continues to Vladivostok. Along the way it crosses Russian cities like Perm, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chita as well as Khabarovsk. Overall the railway covers 9258 km or 6252 miles in seven days. Passing through the wide Siberian region is an unforgettable experience for a traveler as the scenery gets etched in one’s memory. Food and drinks are available at all major stops along the way or else non-Russian travelers can book their meals in dining cars. One-way fares start at around 13,000 rubles or $450 in a fourth-berth sleeper while in a two-berth sleeper, fares can go up to 25000 rubles or $850. Though the Trans-Siberian Railway includes two other routes – one from Moscow to Beijing and another from Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia, it is the journey from Moscow to the eastern tip of Vladivostok which gives a real feel of the Siberian landscape.
The Scandinavian region is a good time to visit in August when the weather is great and everybody seems to be out, having fun. Built on fourteen islands and connected by 57 bridges, Stockholm offers a remarkable cityscape to its visitors. One of the most popular tourist centers in the city is the Medieval city center at Gamla Stan which is also one of the largest and oldest medieval cultural centers in the whole of Europe. Gamla Stan is the place where Stockholm was founded more than 700 years ago in 1252. Here, the narrow winding streets are bordered by medieval buildings in various shades of gold while occasional sightings of frescoes and cellar vaults take back visitors to the Middle Ages. Other than these medieval cultural attractions, Gamla Stan also boasts of some of the most beautiful churches and buildings in Europe including the Stockholm Cathedral and the Royal Palace of Sweden.
If you wish to holiday at a place relatively less crowded but visually striking, a good choice would be the Halong Bay in Vietnam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located nearly 170 kms east of Hanoi, Halong Bay or “descending Dragon Bay” in Vietnamese is a scenic rock formation which includes thousands of limestone karsts as well as isles in a variety of shapes and sizes. Each of these islands is topped with thick vegetation and many of which have been hollowed out into striking grottos and caves. Geologists believe that the unique rock formations were created by several ideal factors coming together like the presence thick pale grey limestone layer, hot and humid climate as well as slow tectonic processes. Vietnamese legend however has it that when the local people were fending off Chinese invaders, the gods sent a family of dragons to help defend the land. These dragons began spitting of jewels which in turn became the series of isles dotting the bay and thus acting as a natural barrier to attacks from outside.
Legoland California, United States
If you are looking for a family vacation idea, you cannot go wrong with a visit to Legoland, California at Carlsbad. Legoland California is divided into six villages based on different kinds of attractions. The Dino Island, Explore Village and Fun Town are especially popular with the younger kids while the Castle Hill and Land of Adventure are the areas with the bigger roller coaster. The Pirate Shores is yet another fun area which has several water-based activities and is particularly crowded on hot days. The lego-building areas and IMAX theaters are located in the Imagination Zone while Miniland USA houses iconic American lego structures built by in-house designers. In between lego-building and the hair-raising rides, you can catch your breath at the model shops where you can watch lego designers at work.
History buffs have always been intrigued by Turkey which has long straddled two continents and cultures – the European and the Asian. And what better way to experience the grandeur and complexity of its two-thousand year past than by visiting the imperial palaces of Istanbul? Most of the palaces, mosques and historical monuments are reminders of the Ottoman Empire’s erstwhile opulence and one of the grandest among them is the Dolmabahce Palace. The palace complex sprawls over 285 rooms and 43 large salons. One of the biggest highlights in the palace is a Bohemian glass chandelier which weighs over 4000 tons. While the architecture of the palace is an appealing blend of European and Ottoman traditions, the precedence of the European elements gives the palace a slightly modern look. Other places of historic interest in Istanbul are Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Basilica Cistern, Beylerbeyi Palace and many others.
Samoan Islands
For those of you who believe that lazing on the beach and swimming in balmy waters is the only way to spend a vacation, the Samoan Islands can be an ideal holiday destination. Located in the heart of the Pacific Ocean just below the equator, the country of Samoa is composed of ten islands. Samoa’s primary natural attraction is its coastline which includes white sandy beaches, lapped by turquoise waters and bordered by graceful swaying palms. One such pristine destination is the Lalomanu Beach on the southeastern tip of the island of Upolu. However other than offering delights of sea and sand, the Lalomanu Beach is also famous for its treasure of marine life. The translucent lagoon lying on the southern coast is in fact a protected marine reserve where visitors can watch various species of exotic tropical fishes or go scuba-diving and snorkelling. Visitors can stay at Upolu which is the biggest town in the vicinity.
Managua, Nicaragua
The central American country of Nicaragua could be a good choice for vacationers who don’t want to venture far from the mainland and yet want a slice of overseas tropical paradise. In fact the biggest bonus of an August vacation in Managua is experiencing the Santo Domingo festival which is held every year in honor of the patron saint of Managua, Santo Domingo de Guzman. Every town in Nicaragua has its own patron saint. During the fiestas patronales held each year, Citizens of all ages honor the saint’s birthday with religious processions, music, dance, parades and rodeos. Likewise during the San Domingo festival, celebrations continue for two days during which people in traditional costumes take part in processions and parades while the ardent believers pray or seek blessings before the statue of the saint.
East Europe is a good time to visit in August when the summers are warm and the winter chill is still far away. So this year, why not travel to Ukraine to gain a surreal experience of the Odessa Catacombs? This is actually a vast maze of network of underground tunnels which extends to almost 2500 kilometers beneath the city and which has been developing for around two hundred years. There are a number of interesting theories as to how this underground labyrinth of tunnels came about. While its earliest cause may have been geological, later the tunnels were developed to serve a variety of human purposes. According to one theory, the dark and dingy tunnels of the catacomb were used by slave traders to smuggle their human cargo. Yet other and more prosaic theories have that the tunnels came to be dug as part of mining and construction activities. The Odessa Catacomb museum has an excellent display of how the tunnels were used by armies during the Second World War to store rations and weapons.
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Guatemalan Union Leader Killed
Marco Tulio Ramirez Portela, a union leader for the Guatemalan Banana Workers Union of Izabal (SITRABI), was murdered at 5:45 a.m. on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Masked assailants gunned down Marco Tulio while leaving his home for work on a banana plantation. He leaves behind a wife and young children. GHRC believes that this murder is directly related to SITRABI’s efforts to end acts of intimidation and harassment against its defense of labor rights. Click here to send a message to Guatemalan authorities urging them to investigate the murder and bring the perpetrators to justice!
Ramirez Portela’s murder is the most recent in a series of threats and attacks against SITRABI and its leaders. In 1999, the union suffered a devastating attack by armed individuals. In November 2006, assailants stoned and then shot at a SITRABI-owned vehicle driven by an elected union officer. In late July of this year, military officers forcibly entered SITRABI’s headquarters and demanded to know the identity of the union leaders. The assassination of Ramirez came just three days after SITRABI learned that military officers had been disciplined by the Ministry of Defense in response to SITRABI complaints about the unlawful entry.
SITRABI and GHRC consider the military's recent acts of intimidation to be retaliation for the union's significant role in worker rights training and support for workers on banana plantations in the Izabal and Southern Coast regions.
Violence against unionists in Guatemala has increased since the passage of CAFTA, the free trade agreement between Guatemala and the US. Four union representatives have been murdered so far in 2007, including the January murder of Pedro Zamora, head of the STEPQ Docker’s Union. The government has yet to charge anyone in the murder of Mr. Zamora.
Click here to send a message to the Guatemalan government to investigate Marco Tulio Ramirez Portela's murder, bring those responsible to justice, and do its utmost to prevent future attacks against union leaders.
[Information for this Urgent Action has been taken from STITCH, the Solidarity Center – AFL-CIO, and the Center for Labor Studies and Support (CEAL). We appreciate their contributions!]
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Thomas Boyd Edelin
Born in Maryland September 1833, son of Captain James N. Edelin, U. S. M. C. and Margaret McPhearson Tolson [married 28 Dec 1829, Prince George's County]
Father, 1st Capt., Navy Yard, Washington, DC
June, 1836, Father, Capt., Fort Mitchell, Alabama
July, 1838, Father, Capt., On Board USS Frigate MacEdonian
December, 1841, Father, Capt., Marine Barracks, Washington
August, 1846, Father, Capt., On Board The US Ship Independence
June, 1847, Father, Capt./Major, On Board The USS Razer Independence
January, 1848, Father, Major, On Board Store Ship "Erie"
December, 1848, Father, Major, Gosport [Portsmouth], Virginia
1850 Federal Census, Student, age 16, Boarding School, Fairfax, Va.
[Would assume he attended, graduated College, no records however]
Accepts appointment as 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Infantry, June 11, 1855 at Norfolk, Va., age 21, resident Norfolk, Va. His father, Major, USMC, commanding at Gosport, Va.
September, 1855, Fort Smith, Arkansas
November - December 1855, Fort Arbuckle, Choctaw Nation, Oaklahoma
January - December 1856, Fort Arbuckle
January - December 1857, Fort Arbuckle, Choctaw Nation, Oaklahoma
Ca 1857 he married Isabella Lee Whiting [born ca. 1839] of Maryland, daughter of Capt. D. P. Whiting, USA, USMA 1828
March/April 1858, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
Father in law Capt. Daniel P. Whiting 7th Infantry, also stationed at Jefferson Barracks
September/December 1858, Crittenden, Floyd, Utah Territory
January - December 1859, Camp Floyd
January - April 1860, Camp Floyd
February 18, 1860, Camp Floyd, applies for a 6 month leave of absence Granted April 20
June 18, 1860 Resident, Election District 5, Prince Georges, Maryland, Piscataway Post Office, Owner 9 slaves [appear to be domestic staff] Farmer, age 24, Value of Real Estate $5,000, Personal Estate 9,000
September 10, 1860, Washington City, applies for an additional 6 month leave of absence beyond the Nov. 1 expiration. Reason, health of his child. Approved Sept. 14, 1860
January 1, 1861 At Portsmouth, Va. reporting he'll be in Norfolk, Va. for the next 30 days
May 7, 1861, Washington City, applies for a Captaincy in one of the new Regiments of Cavalry, signs as 1st Lt.
May 23, 1861, Washington City, DC, I have the honor to resign my commission as 1st Lieutenant in the 7th Regiment United States Infantry, accepted May 30
Father, Lt. Col, stationed at Philadelphia
June 1861 - March 1863 ????
April 19, 1863 [near Chesterfield, Va.] recommended for appointment as 1st Lieutenant and assigned to LCol. John J. Garnett's Battalion of Artillery
May 23, 1863, Appointed from Maryland as 1st Lt. CSA to report to LCol. Garnett, Commanding Arty. Battn. ANV
August 31, 1863, father, Lt. Col. James N. Edelin, USMC, Marine Barracks, Washington, DC, joined August 20, 1863, was detached this date
November 4, 1863, Father in law, Colonel D. P. Whiting, USA retired
Nov. 7, 1863, relieved from duty with Garnett's/Richardson's Artl. Battalion [aka Battalion A, 1st Corps Artillery] and will ____ to Brig. Genl R. M. B. Young for duty as Acting ____ of his Brigade
December 15, 1863, Lt. Edelin reported as serving as AIG to Butler's Brigade
January 5, 1864 assigned as Capt., Brigade Inspector to Young's Brigade, Cav. Corps. ANV
Boyd Edelin, Captain and A. A. G., General & Staff Officer, appointed February 4, 1864, to take rank January 13, accepted March 12, 1864, Maryland resident
A. I. G. to Brig. Gen. P. M. B. Young. 1863 to November 4, 1864; afterwards colonel of 6th North Carolina Cavalry.
March 5, 1864, ordered to report to Gen. P. M. B. Young as A.I.G.
June 4, 1864, recommended for promotion to Major, presently Insp. General, Capt. Boyd Edelin, who now commands two Battalions of my Brigade serving with BGen. N. P[?] Butler, P.M.B Young, BGen.
September 14-17, 1864, Gen. Wade Hampton says Capt. Edelin volunteered for the occasion, aided me by Acting on my staff in his September 27, 1864 report on operations to the rear of the enemy
November 4, 1864, Capt., A. A. G. assigned to Young's Brigade, ANV
November 11, 1864, recommended for promotion to Lt. Col. & command of the 16th North Carolina Cavalry Battalion
December 7, 1864, appointed Lt. Col., Temp. rank, to report to Gen. R. E. Lee for service 16th N. C. Battn. Cav.
March 27, 1865, pens a private letter to [?] noting his being relieved and sent to North Carolina to recruit a regiment ??
March 30, 1865, captured Dinwiddie C. H., Va.
March 30/31, 1865, admitted 2nd Div., 2nd A. C. Hosp., A. of P., Hatcher's Run, Va., Sprand Anckle [sic], sent to Provost Guard
April 12, 1865, released from Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D. C. having subscribed to Oath of Allegiance to the United States
Post war resided on his farm in Maryland
October 24, 1865, recorded in the New-York Times as among ex-officers of the US Army, whom resigned to enter the Rebel service having applied for pardon
October 9, 1867 swears to Amnesty Oath, Prince George County, Maryland
September, 1870 Resident of Piscataway, Prince Georges, Maryland, Farming, age 34, Value of Real Estate $7,000, Personal Estate $1300
June 10, 1880, Resident of Washington, D. C., Farmer
1896 Retired from the United States Indian Commission
1900 Resident of Culpeper, Virginia
Saturday, February 8, 1902 7:30 a. m., died at his home in Culpepper, Va. having been an invalid for a number of years. Survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters
February 10, 1902, Interned at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C., 3 p.m. Plot R50/69
Isabelle Lee Edelin died January 27, 1920 in Washington, DC at the home of her son Daniel W. Edelin, buried alongside her husband in Plot R50/69
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Political will, not public opinion, is preventing action on abortion
Saturday, September 29th 2012
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The Irish Feminist Network will today (Saturday, September 29th) participate along with thousands of others in a March for Choice to mark the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion and celebrate their support for a woman’s right to choose.
IFN co-ordinator Alison Spillane said, “Today is a historic day – not only are we marking the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion but we are also reminding the government that this issue is not going away. The most recent opinion poll (Sunday Times, September 16th 2012) shows that 80% of the electorate support access to abortion when a woman’s life is at risk, as per the X case judgment. It is clear that political will, not public opinion, is holding this issue back.”
“The government’s expert group was initially due to report in July of this year before the deadline was extended to September – we are now at the end of the month and no report has been published. The government must immediately make public the findings of the expert group and legislate for X”, she said.
“Today we march in solidarity with over 150,000 women who, since 1980, have been forced out of this country to access abortion services abroad and together we demand change to Ireland’s archaic and barbaric abortion laws”.
Notes to the editor:
The Irish Feminist Network is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting gender equality in Ireland. With over 3,000 online supporters, it is the fastest growing feminist organisation in the country.
The March for Choice will start at the Spire on O’Connell Street at 2pm before proceeding to Merrion Square. Speakers include Clare Daly TD, Senator Ivana Bacik and journalist Colette Browne.
Cake, biscuits, and Action on X: Letter-writing with the IFN
When: 6pm – 8pm, Tuesday, March 27th
Where: Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar
Why: To ask your TDs to support the X case legislation
Join the IFN on Tuesday, March 27th for an evening of tea, cake, and a bit of lobbying! We’ll be holding a letter-writing group in Exchange Dublin encouraging people to write to their local TDs asking them to support the X case legislation when it comes before the Dáil after Easter.
The aim of the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill is to legislate for the 1992 Supreme Court judgment in the X case, which ruled that abortion is legal in Ireland when the life of a woman is at risk, including the threat of suicide.
Successive governments have failed to legislate for this basic human right but opposition TDs Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, and Joan Collins have put forward this Bill to implement the X case ruling. In advance of the Dáil debate, all TDs need to know their constituents support this legislation.
If you have a laptop you can bring along – great! If not, no worries – we’ll have a plentiful supply of paper and pens for some good old-fashioned handwritten letters. We’ll also have sample letters for inspiration and background information on the legislation.
Feel free to bring the kids along as we’ll have a colouring corner and a mountain of biscuits to keep them occupied. The event will run from 6pm to 8pm so feel free to drop in for half an hour or join us for the evening. Any questions? Contact us on irishfeministnetwork@gmail.com
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MainAll NewsInside IsraelKfar Darom´s Plans Abruptly Changed
Kfar Darom´s Plans Abruptly Changed
Thought for the last month to be all but completed, negotiations between the gov't and a contactor have broken down, and expelled Kfar Darom residents won't be moving to the location they planned.
The 58 families of Kfar Darom - nearly all of the original population - have been living in the Paradise Hotel in Be'er Sheva since they were thrown out of their homes in Gush Katif. Despite what they underwent, they agreed to abandon their lifestyle of open areas and private homes, and move to temporary quarters in a high-rise building in Ashkelon. In this way, they felt, they could take an active role in the country. "Our goal is to be with the people, to remain in the center, to be able to have an influence," one resident said just ten days after the expulsion.
But their idealism, it appears, must withstand yet further tests. They were informed on Yom Kippur Eve that the demands made by the contractor were as high as his 19-story building, and that the government could not meet them.
The homeless families, who have been on forced vacation in the hotel for two months, are not totally without a solution, however. Negotiations are already underway for another building in Ashkelon, which was originally designated for the expelled residents of Netzarim. Netzarim, though, has chosen a different option: forming a new community in the Halutza Sands, south of Gaza, with some families remaining in Ariel, in the Shomron, and building a new neighborhood there.
The new building has smaller apartments than the original one, but the contractor is willing to come towards the large families of Kfar Darom, and will combine 3- and 4-room apartments into 7-room units.
The building will also house nurseries for the children, a "clubhouse," and even a synagogue.
Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports that a solution has apparently been found for the expelled residents of Moshav Katif. They have been living in the Kfar Pines Girls'
High School dormitories, with no communal solution in sight. It now appears that they will move, shortly after the Sukkot holiday, to temporary quarters in Moshav Nehushah in the Kiryat Gat-Lachish area.
Some 60 families from the former N'vei Dekalim are scheduled to join them in the temporary prefab home site, not far from where many of the Gush Katif families hope to build a permanent bloc of communities. Families from Atzmona currently living in the "Faith City" encampment near Netivot may also join the Nehushah group.
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By Christina Spann Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:05 p.m. CST
Courtesy Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS
Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS’ annual benefit will be at Hal & Mal’s Feb. 8.
Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS' 22nd annual benefit is Feb. 8 at Hal & Mal's in downtown Jackson. Each year, the Valentine's Day-themed event features amazing art, food and music. This year the event is dedicated to the late cofounder of Hal & Mal's, Hal White.
It is a favorite art auction for many of the state's well-known artists, while also presenting new talent in the areas of art and music. Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS volunteers devote time, energy, and resources to help those living with HIV/AIDS to live healthy lives and also to prevent the spread of HIV.
Mississippi ranks seventh in the national in HIV case rates, with a rate of 20.7 cases per 100,000 people.
The Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS nonprofit organization started in 1992 as project of the Mississippi Episcopal AIDS Committee. It held its first benefit Feb. 13, 1993, at Hal & Mal's.
Since then, the event has become the organization's largest fundraising opportunity. The organization has since expanded its collaborations to reach their goals of helping Mississippians suffering from HIV/AIDS live healthy and lives and preventing the spread of HIV.
"HeARTS was started 20 years ago with the goal in mind of (providing) funding for people with HIV/AIDS in Mississippi because there was no such organization at the time," said Anthony Cloy, vice president of Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS. To date, the organization has raised more than $1 million.
The Mississippi HeARTS Against AIDS benefit will begin at 6 p.m. and tickets are $40 at the door. For more information about the HeARTS Against AIDS Benefit, call Anthony Cloy at 601-259-0092. The JFP is a media sponsor.
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Hurricane Season Summary through September
From www.tbnweekly.com
Hurricane season for the Atlantic basin begins June 1. On average one tropical storm forms every other year during that first month. This year, 2011, was one of those years. Tropical Storm Arlene formed June 29 and made landfall along the coast of Mexico June 30.
Three named storms formed in July – well above the long-term average of one.
Tropical Storm Bret formed July 17 off the eastern coast of Florida. The storm never came close to land, tracking north and east before disintegrating over the Atlantic Ocean July 22.
Tropical Storm Cindy from July 20 well offshore in the eastern Atlantic and was never a threat to land. It became a post-tropical storm on July 23.
Tropical Storm Don formed July 27 about 190 miles north of Cozumel Mexico. It fell apart as it came ashore the coast of Texas near Baffin Bay July 29.
August was the busiest month with a tropical depression and seven named storms, including Irene, which became the season’s first hurricane and first major hurricane.
Emily formed Aug. 1 about 50 miles west-southwest of Dominica. The storm degenerated into a tropical low Aug. 4.
Tropical Storm Franklin formed about 460 miles north-northeast of Bermuda early in the morning of Aug. 13. By end of day, the NHC announced it had lost its tropical characteristics. It was never a threat to land, remaining over the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Tropical Storm Gert formed Aug. 14 about 275 miles south-southeast of Bermuda. Two days later, Gert had degenerated into a post-tropical low.
Tropical storm Harvey formed Friday, Aug. 19, about 285 miles east-southeast of Belize City and made landfall near Dangriga Town Belize on Saturday afternoon. Maximum sustained winds were 40 mph.
Hurricane Irene formed Aug. 20 east of the Leeward Islands about 190 miles east of Dominica. Irene was the ninth named storm of the season and the first hurricane and major hurricane. It is the first to hit the United States since 2008.
Irene made landfall twice along the U.S. East Coast - first in North Carolina on Aug. 27 and again the next day in New Jersey. Irene is blamed for as many as 55 deaths and billions of dollars in damage.
Tropical Storm Jose formed Aug. 28 in the eastern Atlantic while Irene was making its way along the Atlantic Seaboard. Jose skirted to the west of Bermuda before heading off into the open waters.
Katia formed Aug. 29 about 535 miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands. The NHC tracked its path until Sept. 10 when it went post-tropical about 295 miles east-southeast of Cape Race Newfoundland. Katia was the second hurricane and second major hurricane of the season. It followed a similar path to Irene, only remaining offshore, traveling through the Atlantic between the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda.
Tropical Storm Lee formed Sept. 2 south of Louisiana and made landfall over south-central Louisiana Sept. 4. Lee created problems for residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle over the Labor Day weekend before moving on to bring rain and winds to residents still cleaning up from Hurricane Irene. The red flags waved on Pinellas County beaches due to rip current dangers as Lee kicked up large waves in the Gulf of Mexico. Lee was the first tropical storm to made landfall in Louisiana since Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
Maria began as Tropical Depression 14 the afternoon of Sept. 6 and became a tropical storm on Sept. 7. It was located about 1,220 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. Maria followed a similar path to Hurricane Katia, moving offshore the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda. It became a hurricane on Sept. 15 and was a post-tropical cyclone by Sept. 16.
Nate, the 14th named storm, formed Sept. 7 in the Bay Campeche. Nate made landfall Sept. 11 along the coast of Mexico just north of Barra de Nautla.
Two storms are active now: Ophelia, which formed Sept. 20 in the central tropical Atlantic and degenerated into a remnant low on Sept 25, is now the fourth hurricane of the season, and Philippe – the season’s 16th named storm, which formed Sept. 24.
The last five names on the 2011 list are Rina, Sean, Tammy, Vince and Whitney
Hurricane season ends officially on Nov. 30.
Labels: 2011 Hurricane Names, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harvey, Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Season, Irene, Jose, Katia, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe
2 Storms to Meet?
I don't think it's possible, but both Katia and Lee are headed towards the a relatively imilar spot in the Northeast
11am Sat 9-3-11
Katia is predicted to turn to the North and perhaps Northeast and Lee is moving like a slug so this probably won't happen, but the current long range map makes for interesting speculation.
At least for me!
Labels: 2011 Hurricane Names, Hurricane Katia, Tropical Storm Lee
Wild Weather Explanation in 150 Seconds
Text & Social Media First When Hurricane Hits
This caught my eye this morning. Makes a lot of sense. The Twitter traffic from Irene shows the trend.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/29030108/detail.html
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hurricane Irene steered clear of Central Florida for the most part, sparing the region of not just damages but communication troubles, as well, but experts warn that families need a plan.
More than 60 percent of all phone calls are made on a cellphone, and when an earthquake shook the East Coast last week and Hurricane Irene roared ashore over the weekend, many people couldn't get through to family and friends because the networks were jammed.
To avoid these problems in the future should a natural disaster hit Central Florida, FEMA suggests emailing or texting first. While a call might not go through, a text message should.
When Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne whirled through Central Florida in 2004, sheriff's deputies and fire fighters also had problems with cellphones.
Volusia County's community information director, Dave Byron, said that it really is a problem when cellphones don't work during hurricanes .
"When you get a disaster and you're a first responder like I am and you don't have a main communication tool, that does put you at somewhat of a disadvantage," Byron said. "I do think that is a subject that those that have some control over this ought to take a look at."
Not only do networks jam, but the wind and weather affects the equipment on the towers, so should a hurricane hit Central Florida, plan ahead:
If a phone call or text message doesn't go through, use social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
Consider getting a landline phone that plugs into the wall, because like cellphones, portable phones might not work during or after a hurricane.
Make an emergency plan with family and friends should all of these options fall through, such as picking a place to meet after a storm.
FEMA has a new mobile app for Android (iPhone coming soon) and a text messaging program. Here are the details.
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Katia will get the attention, but I'm watching the Caribbean and Gulf
While important to keep an eye in both directions, there are the makings of a storm system to the South of Florida in the Northwest Caribbean worthy of watching. See the Accuweather forecast box on the right rail of this blog.
Irene's said goodnight but there's more storms a-brewin'!
TD 12 is out there in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico is waking up.
Read all about it from Accuweather.
How many tweets did Irene generate?
More than a million Twitter messages were posted about Irene. Hurricane Ike, by contrast, will be remembered in only about 10,000 Tweets.
Odd Turnabout!
Coming to Florida to Escape a Hurricane. Who would have thought?
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Labels: Florida, Hurricane Irene, Irene
Irene- Please Be Kind!
Best of luck to everyone along the East Coast! We're praying that Irene provides as Good a Night (and day) as possible!
Labels: 2011 Hurricane Names, Hurricane Irene, Irene, New York City Hurricane
Cuts could limit Hurricane Research
From the Miami Herald
Tropical Storm Don making landfall in Texas
Only three hurricanes have struck Florida in July since 1900, but.....
The three incidents include Dennis, a Category 3 when it struck near Pensacola in 2005, a Category 2 system that hit near Cocoa Beach in 1926 and a Category 1 storm that struck Central Florida in 1933.
Read the entire SunSentinel story here.
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Early Tropical Disturbance in Atlantic
From the Palm Beach Post and the Weather Underground:
Early tropical disturbance in Atlantic not a sign of active season, hurricane expert says
By John Nelander | Friday, April 22, 2011, 08:56 AM
The low pressure system north of Puerto Rico was still holding together Friday, but the National Hurricane Center cut its chances of tropical development. (Credit: NOAA)
It’s unusual for the National Hurricane Center to start tracking a tropical system this early in the year - hurricane season doesn’t officially begin until June 1.
But there’s no need to hit the panic button, a hurricane expert says. Early disturbances in that part of the Atlantic basin do not portend a busy season.
The NHC began discussing the system, designated 91L, on Thursday. It was still on their radar Friday morning, although forecasters had reduced the chances that the disturbance would grow into Tropical Storm Arlene, the first of the 2011 season.
Satellite images showed the swirl of clouds and storms was still holding together, though.
“It’s interesting that it’s done as well as it has, because there’s really high wind shear,” meteorologist Jeff Masters, co-founder of online weather portal Weather Underground, said in an interview Thursday. “We’re talking 70 or 80 knots when 20 is often enough to tear something apart.
“It is early to be having a tropical disturbance like this because you don’t often see that in April. But it’s definitely not a harbinger of an active season. Sings of an early season are systems that are coming off the coast of Africa, or in the Caribbean.
“You start to get a lot of early activity down there and that’s when you worry. But early activity between the Bahamas and Bermuda doesn’t really matter that much.”
On Friday, 91L was plotted at 25.3N 63W, or 496 miles south-southeast of Bermuda and 1,064 miles due east of Palm Beach. It had winds of 40 mph but had not developed into a true tropical system. It was moving to the north at about 10 mph.
But some computer models show the system - or at least moisture associated with the low - nearing the Florida coast early next week.
Labels: Early Season Storm; Atlantic Ocean
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City/State: Grand Island, Neb.
High School: Central Catholic
2008 Second-Team ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American
2008 First-Team Academic All-District VII
Two-Time First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2007, 2008)
2008 Brook Berringer Citizenship Team
Five-Time Big 12 Commissioner’s Fall Academic Honor Roll (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Four-Time Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Academic Honor Roll (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
2008 (Senior)
Linebacker Tyler Wortman worked his way into a leading role on the Nebraska defense in 2008. A walk-on performer, Wortman secured a starting role during spring football, then excelled late in the season after injuries took their toll on the Husker linebacking corps.
Wortman solidified the unit that helped the Nebraska defense rank second in the Big 12 in total defense, a year after finishing last in that category. Wortman was NU’s top BUCK linebacker throughout the year and played in all 13 games, with six starts. He finished the season with 36 tackles, including 29 stops in the final five games.
Wortman made two tackles each against Western Michigan, Virginia Tech and Iowa State, then had a strong game against Oklahoma. He was second on the team in tackles with a career-high 11, and added a career-high three tackles for loss. His six-tackle effort against Kansas included a key seven-yard tackle for loss on a reverse in the fourth quarter. He added five tackles, including a tackle for loss, against Kansas State. Wortman had a first-quarter interception on Senior Day against Colorado, returning the pick eight yards to set up a field goal. He capped his career with four tackles against Clemson in the Gator Bowl.
Wortman excelled in the classroom throughout his college career. He carried a 3.958 cumulative grade-point average in mechanical engineering, and he was named an ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA Second-Team Academic All-Americans in 2008.
2007 (Junior)
Wortman played in nine games, including each of the last eight contests. Wortman served as a backup behind senior Bo Ruud at the Sam linebacker spot, and saw his most extensive action when Ruud was sidelined for three games late in the year. Wortman finished the year with nine tackles, including three solo stops. He also had three tackles for loss.
Wortman made a pair of tackles against both Texas and Kansas. He had a three-yard tackle for loss at Texas, then had two tackles for loss (7 yards) against the Jayhawks. He capped the year with three tackles at Colorado.
2006 (Sophomore)
Wortman did not see game action, but was a key scout team performer.
Wortman was a backup linebacker and scout team performer, but did not play in a game.
2004 (Redshirt)
A walk-on athlete, Wortman redshirted in his first season in the program.
Before Nebraska (Grand Island Central Catholic HS)
Wortman played both defensive end and tight end at Grand Island Central Catholic, while also excelling in wrestling and track. Wortman earned all-state, all-conference and all-district honors during his prep football career. He was also selected to the All-Heartland Area team. Wortman set school records for season and career sacks, while also establishing the school record in career tackles for loss.
On the wrestling mat, Wortman medaled twice at the state meet, and was a conference and district champion. He ended his high school career by winning a pair of gold medals at the state track meet. He was a member of GICC's gold medal 4x800 relay, helping his team capture the Class C team title. Wortman also earned a third-place medal in the 4x400 relay. Wortman ranked first in his class with a 4.0 grade-point average and earned academic all-state honors in all three sports.
The son of David and Janet Wortman, Tyler was born on June 13, 1986. He is majoring in mechanical engineering and is an eight-time Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll pick. Wortman was named to the 2008 Brook Berringer Citizenship Team for his outreach work that includes Nebraska’s team hospital visits, as well as volunteering at Elliott Elementary School.
Wortman's Career Statistics
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2008 13-6 19 17 36 5-11 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0
Single-Game Highs
Tackles–11 at Oklahoma, 2008
Solo Tackles–4 at Kansas State, 2008
Tackles for Loss-3-3 at Oklahoma, 2008
Interceptions-1-8 vs. Colorado, 2008
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Ballston, VA Real Estate
Ballston is located approximately four miles from Washington, D.C. At one point, the land was owned and operated by the Ball family, who were relatives of George Washington. The historic focal point of the community is the intersection of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard. This intersection dates back to 1740 and is one of the oldest crossroads in Northern Virginia.
Ballston has always been an Arlington hotspot. Ballston experienced growth with the arrival of the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church trolley line in the late 1890s. By the turn of the 20th century, Ballston was beginning to take shape as a centralized neighborhood. Ballston took on a new role as a commercial center in the 1950s. With the development of Ballston Common Mall and the Washington metro rail network, the community of Ballston has become an indelible fixture in Arlington County.
Ballston is a modern, interurban community that has evolved to meet the needs of its residents. Tall apartment and condominium complexes recede to residential hamlets, offering a spectrum of living accommodations. Ballston has plenty of parks and trails for those seeking an active lifestyle. Bike riders are welcomed on designated bike lanes.
Ballston is a walkable community that offers it all. There is retail shopping at Ballston Common Mall paired with an equally inspiring array of well-seasoned restaurants. Head to the Ballston Farmers Market every Thursday during the spring and summer. The Taste of Arlington held in May generates quite the buzz. If all else fails, hop on the metro and explore the nation’s capital.
Ballston is proudly known as a transit-oriented community. The Ballston Metro station on the Orange Line is only minutes away, which is ideal for the daily commute or a trip to Reagan National Airport. Both Metro and ART buses service Ballston. Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard are the main thoroughfares through the community. I-66 is easily accessible for a drive out west or east into D.C.
Washington-Dulles International Airport: < 25 miles.
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In Europe, a “Right to Be Forgotten”
Jeb Magruder died this month at age 79, in relative obscurity four decades after serving time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandals. After he got out, Magruder got religion and went on to serve as a Presbyterian minister for churches in three states.
Those who lived through Watergate or later became obsessed with it were well familiar with the details of Magruder’s pre-redemption life. Others, however, presumably resorted to a Google search of Magruder’s name the Internet age technique for biographical research.
If a European court has its way, however, people like Magruder with unsavory conduct in their pasts may be able to bury such information in an Orwellian memory hole. In a precedent-setting decision for countries in the European Community, the European Court for Human Rights ruled this month [May 13] that, when requested, Google generally must block access to private information about a subject’s distant past unless the public has a “preponderant interest” in the information.
In effect, the European court ruled that individuals have “a right to be forgotten.” The ruling came in a case brought by a Spanish lawyer, Mario Costeja González, who complained that Google linked his name to news coverage of a 1998 foreclosure proceeding against him. Costeja González contended that Google had to “delink” the news stories because the proceedings “had been fully resolved for a number of years” and any reference to them now was “completely irrelevant.”
In the United States, the ruling drew mostly critical reaction. “Americans will find their searches bowdlerized by prissy European sensibilities," Stewart Baker, a privacy and computer security expert and former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told The Associated Press.
"Privacy rights shouldn’t be a tool to rewrite history,” David Vladeck, a Georgetown Law School professor and former consumer protection official with the Federal Trade Commission, told The Washington Post. “Who gets to decide whether all these links get deleted?”
At first blush, the European ruling seems unlikely to be followed in the United States, where the First Amendment guards against government-enforced restrictions on access to information already in the public domain. In fact, however, the Supreme Court has two precedents in different contexts and different decades that look somewhat favorably on a privacy-based right to be forgotten.
In the earlier of the cases, the Supreme Court ruled in 1979 that a libel plaintiff could be treated as a private instead of a public figure despite a news-covered contempt of court citation two decades earlier. Ilya Wolston sued Reader’s Digest for publishing a book in 1974 that referenced his conviction for refusing to appearing before a grand jury investigating Soviet espionage.
Unanimously, the court ruled in Wolston v. Reader’s Digest Ass’n that Wolston could take advantage of the lower burden of proof for private figures in his suit. In the main opinion, the court held that Wolston had never voluntarily become a public figure, but two of the justices joined the decision only on the ground that Wolston was entitled to private-figure status because of the passage of time.
A decade later, the Supreme Court backed the privacy rights of criminal defendants and arrestees in a Freedom of Information Act case involving the FBI’s computerized data base of “rap sheets.” In U.S. Dep’t of Justice v. Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press (1989), the court rejected a news organization’s efforts to check the FBI data base for an individual under investigation for political corruption in Pennsylvania.
The court acknowledged that the FBI collected the rap sheet information from what are generally public records maintained by state and local law enforcement agencies. But the court ruled that individuals identified in the FBI data base had a privacy interest in “the practical obscurity” of whatever criminal records they might have in any of the thousands of jurisdictions across the country.
The ruling in the Reporters Committee case is closely analogous to the European decision in the Google case. The European court is not requiring Spanish newspapers to delete the news coverage of the case against Costeja González, but requiring Google not to link to that coverage in effect allows Costeja González to reclaim the “practical obscurity” of his past financial difficulties.
Privacy law in the United States is not as expansive as in Europe, even though the United States gave birth to the right of privacy in an influential law review article written in 1890 by Samuel Warren and the future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis. In the 120 years since, the Supreme Court and lower courts have wavered on how far to go in restricting access to information in the name of a “right to be let alone.”
In the Internet era, that right is exponentially harder to protect, but the European court is trying with a ruling that individual countries will be tasked with putting into effect. Despite robust First Amendment protections, some U.S. courts might be tempted to try as well. Jonathan Zitrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard, suggests that the European court could have required Google not to delink old news but to allow individuals to add linkable replies. Whatever happens in Europe, the hope is that information remains free here in the United States.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act put the spotlight on a group of people in the USA. This group now has a voice; a constituency that has come of age. This community votes, works and pays taxes.This blog is based on a N.Y. newspaper column I wrote for the Rockland County Journal-News from 1990-92.
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Disability is in the Eyes of the Beholder
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve written, but it has been extremely busy since I last posted here. Work was busy, but not unfruitful.
One project I finished last December was a video for IBM managers worldwide called: “Disability is in the Eyes of the Beholder,” which IBM’s diversity organization asked me to do. This video and other material is being used to help inform managers about IBM’s diversity policies and strategies as it applies to people with disabilities.
Similar education and awareness material is provided throughout every business year on any number of topics including equal opportunity, sexual harassment and policies regarding equity in the workplace as it applies to women, LGBT and other constituency members.
One of my colleagues on this project wrote the following introduction to the video, which I’d like to share with you.
In December 2012, my now three-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare disease – 1 in 100,000 people – Hunter Syndrome. Because of his disease, he had chronic ear infections which led to speech delays. I was recently talking to his new speech therapist after his session and giving her a little background on his disease – no cognitive involvement yet, he is getting weekly enzyme replacement therapy for the enzyme he is missing, treat him like you would any other child, etc. She listened patiently, and then patted my son on the head and said, “Okay. I’ll see you next time, Hunter.”
"His name is Cole," I said. "He has Hunter Syndrome. He is not his disease."
“I tell you this story,” my colleague wrote, “not to shame the therapist, but to ask you to pause - - take a step back and reflect. As an IBM manager, who do you see when you look at a person with a disability? Do you see the person with ability, talent, dreams and ambitions? Or, do you see just the disability or worse, more work for yourself?
The video was produced to make viewers uncomfortable as they get a front row look at what some people with disabilities experience during a job interview, if they ever get one. In addition, the video:
· Points out unacceptable behavior
· Reveals “subliminal” bias
· Depicts an attitude of indifference by the person conducting the interview
As you watch the video, keep in mind that if you or companies you do business with aren’t hiring the most qualified person for a job, competitors will.
Making assumptions about someone’s ability based on lack of information, incorrect assumptions or bias can become a competitive disadvantage. As Deidre’s character says so well in the video, “Nothing will hold us back except the fears, biases, and misconceptions of people. All I ask is that you judge my credentials and intellectual capital as you would anyone else."
The video has been posted on YouTube, as a public service. I hope you can find some use for it in the work you do or causes you support. Let’s get qualified people with disabilities hired!
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From the Huffington Post: Busting Myths About Hiring People with Disabilities
By Mary Bailey Autism Advocate; Speaker; Co-founder Chase Yur Dreams Foundation; and Chase 'N Yur Face Media
As the subject of disability inclusion in the workforce becomes more prevalent, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the myths surrounding the hiring of people with disabilities, and to seek the insights of someone on the front lines of this movement.As the Head of Disability Inclusion at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and a C5-C6 quadriplegic, Jim Sinocchi’s knowledge and experience with this topic is unparalleled. Sinocchi thinks and speaks in terms that challenge and change how people with disabilities see and present themselves in the workforce; as well as how employers and colleagues perceive, interact with, and assimilate people with disabilities into their corporate cultures. Through an emphasis on professionalism, partnership, equalizing the playing field, enhancing performance, and opportunities for promotions, Sinocchi dispels the myths about hiring people with dis…
The Henry Viscardi School Class of 2018 Commencement Address
On the evening of Thursday June 21, 2018, 19 talented high school students received their high school diplomas form the Henry Viscardi School in Albertson, New York.
I was honored to be invited as the commencement speaker for this talented class of graduates, who completed a rigorous education curriculum despite their disabilities.
The Viscardi Center, a network of non-profit organizations, provides a lifespan of services that educate, employ and empower people with disabilities. Its programs and services include Kindergarten through High School education, school-to-work transition services, vocational training, career counseling and placement and workforce diversification assistance to children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities and businesses. View an overview video about The Viscardi Center.
The school was founded in 1952 by Dr. Henry Viscardi, Jr. who himself wore prosthetic legs, served as disability advisor to eight U.S. Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Jimmy Cart…
Looking for the disabled social butterfly
As I usually do on Sunday mornings, last week I was watching the CBS Face the Nation television show as I sipped my coffee. Bob Schieffer's guest was Mayor Bloomberg of New York City and the Mayor was commenting on the recent sequester issue facing the federal government.
Mayor Bloomberg believed that President Obama should meet with all members of Congress, in fact, he said that the President should meet with as many people he can, whether he's playing golf, having dinner, or lunch with members of both sides of the House and Senate.
The Mayor concluded by saying that being “social” at work is key to advancing different types of issues, business or political, as well as one’s career. When people meet socially, he said, people get to know you better and have the opportunity to trust you more than they usually would if not for the opportunity.
So, how “social” can you be with a disability? As I look back on my 37-year career with IBM, 32 of which I spent as a disabled employee, I b…
Jim Sinocchi is Head of the global Office of Disability Inclusion at JPMorgan Chase. He works closely with senior leaders across the firm to establish consistent standards and processes to better support employees with disabilities. Sinocchi joined the firm in 2016 to head the newly established office. He currently serves as a board member of the Viscardi Center’s Board of Directors Inc., a K-12 school in New York for severely disabled students affiliated with The Viscardi School; United Spinal Association, a nonprofit that seeks to enhance the quality of life for people living with spinal cord injuries and disorders; and RespectAbility, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Sinocchi received an MA in Public Administration from New York University and a BA from Colgate University.
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San Francisco Parks
San Francisco's parks and green areas are another reason to visit San Francisco, you will enjoy a picnic, go for a relaxing stroll, or practice one of the many outdoor activities that the City offers including hiking, camping, bicycling, horseback riding, and golf; there are also many water activities such as swimming, fishing, boating, water skiing, and surfing. San Francisco Parks Trust is the organization in charge to protect and enhance more than 200 San Francisco's city parks, playgrounds and recreation centres.
It is the nation's largest cultivated urban park, covering a total area of over 405 hectares, its varied landscape include gardens and woods, as well as man-made lakes such as Stow Lake and Spreckels Lake and waterfalls. Major features inside the Park includes the De Young Museum, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Music Concourse Area, the Conservatory of Flowers housing over 20,000 species of rare plants, the California Academy of Sciences, the Strybing Arboretum, the AIDS Memorial Grove, a bronze statue of Don Quixote and his companion Sancho Panza, and a children's playground.
The park defines the extreme North-western corner of San Francisco; the Park provides majestic views of the Marin highlands, the Golden Bridge and the Pacific Ocean. The land on which the Park stands was a cemetery in the late 1860s. In 1923 the park was chosen as the site of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor which houses many incredible artworks. Lincoln Park houses the Lincoln Park Municipal Golf Course. Lincoln Park is part of the Golden Gate National Recreational Area.
Named for its two virtually identical summits although its former name is San Miguel Hills, is a hill in San Francisco that provides spectacular views out over San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay especially at and after sunset. The area is part of the Twin Peaks Natural Area which acts as home to an array of natural resources and wildlife, Twin Peaks is one the few remaining habitats for the endangered Mission blue butterfly. Temperatures up there can be quite a bit lower than in the rest of the city, warm clothing is therefore recommended.
It is a national park on the northern tip of San Francisco, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Once home to the Ohlone native peoples, it was a military fortification since 1776. In 1995, it was closed as a military base and transferred to the National Park Service; now the old military structures house both commercial and non-profit entities. The park is home to wild plant and animal species; it also boasts many forests, hiking trails, an airfield, and provides spectacular views over the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. No fees are required to enter the park
HERON'S HEAD PARK
Heron's Head Park is a 25-acre peninsula located at the foot of Cargo Way. The park is a sanctuary on San Francisco Bay; birdwatchers will be able to see a number of migrating birds in its restored wetland areas especially during winter.
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The Steel Dragnolias on the Women Who Shaped Them
by Jason LeRoy (@ExcessFaggage)
In the twenty-plus years that cult film goddess Peaches Christ has written, directed, and starred in drag movie parodies in San Francisco and around the world, she’s paid homage to many films about strong female characters. But in all that time, there’s one ferociously feisty and tear-stained female-driven dramedy that’s been requested by fans again and again: stage and screen classic Steel Magnolias, featuring what is arguably movie herstory’s strongest (and cattiest) ensemble of women.
So what’s taken so long? It’s not disinterest! Peaches loves Steel Magnolias as much as anyone, almost as much as she loves giving her fans what they want. There’s just one problem that’s stymied her every time the movie has come up: how would she create an insanely fun and irreverent drag play out of a movie that’s so incredibly emotional and earnest about death and mortality? It’s like the anti-Death Becomes Her!
Well, guess what? She finally figured it out. So if you want to find out how Peaches will put her hilarious trademark spin on one of the biggest tearjerkers ever made, then come to the historic Castro Theatre on May 5, 2018, for the world premiere of Christ’s all-new stage show, “Steel Dragnolias,” featuring six sass-mouthed southern belles throwing more shade than a magnolia tree. Tickets are on sale at peacheschrist.com.
Since Steel Magnolias is an affectionate celebration of women with big hearts and strong personalities, we asked each of the brilliant queens starring in “Steel Dragnolias” to choose a woman from their lives who helped shape them, and nominate them as their own personal Steel Magnolia. Below, learn about the women who helped make some of our favorite queens who they are today.
Alaska Thunderfuck (Anal Dupuy)
Who is your Steel Magnolia and how did she come into your life? My Steel Magnolia is my mother, Pamela. She came into my life when she gave birth to me!
Why have you chosen her? Shortly after I was born, my mother and my father got a divorce. At the time he was struggling with substance abuse and, with two young children, my mom bravely faced the unknown and said enough is enough. She met my stepdad, who raised us and my two half-brothers. He always ran a tight ship.
While we didn’t have a lot of money, we never felt like it — Mom and Dad always figured out a way to make our home a place of laughter and warmth. I’ve always admired her ability to be fiercely strong and simultaneously vulnerable and sensitive. And she also taught me how to swear like a sailor when I’m pissed off.
What’s a favorite memory you have of her? I remember vividly when I was applying to various colleges. I wanted to leave Erie, PA and go to school in the big city of Pittsburgh. I finally got accepted to the University of Pittsburgh, and the time came for me to decide my major. It was between Communications — the safe choice that could parlay itself into a variety of careers — or the riskier choice, Theatre Arts.
I was going to go with Communications to diversify my options. But one day in the living room, my mom said, “Make sure you don’t just go with the safe choice. If you choose to follow your dream and study what you’re truly passionate about, I’ll support you 100%.” I chose Theatre Arts.
If she were to do a lip-sync, what song would she choose and how would she perform it? I could definitely see her doing “I Will Survive.” It’s a drag cliché, true, but it exemplifies her ability to make it through everything life has thrown her way. She’s seen betrayal and loss and hardship and pain, but her sense of humor and love of life and of her children are always at the forefront. I would like to put her in the costume from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert where they’re dressed like glamorous dinosaurs.
Heklina (Clairee Felcher)
Who is your Steel Magnolia and how did she come into your life? I guess I’d have to say my aunt Cyndi, who obviously I’ve known my whole life. We lost touch for ages but reconnected a few years ago.
Why have you chosen her? Her side (my father’s) of the family is riddled with addiction and closed-mindedness. She decided early on to buck the trend, and forged her own path, dedicating her life to helping differently abled people by becoming an occupational therapist. She’s also the ONLY member of my family to fully embrace me and my life. No one else ever talks about it. If they do, they say I’m in “entertainment.”
What’s a favorite memory you have of her? Riding in a float with her for Pride in 2014. I had matching outfits made for us.
If she were to do a lip-sync, what song would she choose and how would she perform it? “These Boots Are Made For Walking” by Nancy Sinatra, but she would sing it live. She loves karaoke!
Coco Peru (Ouisa Bidet)
Who is your Steel Magnolia and how did she come into your life? My Steel Magnolia is my mother, Helen, and I think she might ask the question, “How did I come into her life?” I was the oops-baby! My siblings are 20 years older than me.
Why have you chosen her? My mother hasn’t had an easy life. She’s had a lot of tragic losses, including my sister who died at the age of 15 when I was 3 months old. Yet my mother, now 91 years old, still keeps pushing herself forward. She allows herself to cry, but then makes herself stop and count her blessings. We never had a lot of money, but my mom always managed to look glamorous and still insists on wearing a small, sensible heel. Even at 91, she sees no reason why a person should look sloppy.
Like in Steel Magnolias, my mother had a group of girlfriends in our Bronx neighborhood, all of whom I called Aunt. I loved listening in on their conversations because they were characters to me; they were funniest when they weren’t trying to be funny. In a way, these women gave me my sense of humor.
What’s a favorite memory you have of her? I remember the first time my mother saw me in drag, her mouth fell open and she looked kind of horrified. She said, “Holy shit! You look like your dead sister’s ghost!” I said, “It’s not the look I was going for…but thanks?”
One day not long after that, I was still feeling uneasy about how my parents really felt about my doing drag. I came home and overheard them talking about me (they hadn’t heard me come in). I heard my mother say to my father, “Well, think of it this way, honey: we lost a daughter, but now we have a son…and a daughter!” My mom has been my biggest fan from day one.
If she were to do a lip-sync, what song would she choose and how would she perform it? Standing in the nook of a grand piano, a spotlight, a microphone, and, like me, not lip-synching but really singing the song “Smile”: “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”
Peaches Christ (M’Lynn Eatin’-Tons)
Who is your Steel Magnolia and how did she come into your life? I’d have to say my Steel Magnolia is my mother Dianne, a.k.a. “Mrs. Christ,” and I’ve known her since the day I was born.
Why have you chosen her? My mother grew up with a lot of tough challenges. She was the oldest of five children and was raised in a very dysfunctional family that included an extremely angry, alcoholic father. She ended up becoming a second mother to her siblings. She left home at a young age and made it work. She was sixteen. Eventually she met my father, married him, and left her successful career on Capitol Hill in D.C. to raise her three children.
She was always a strong presence in our lives who taught us to stand up for what we believed in, and gave us a great moral code and set of values. Much like M’Lynn in the movie, she pushed us to do what made us happy and emphasized that her children’s happiness was the most important thing. My mom ended up being a maternal figure to friends and extended family members who needed one. She’s always been feisty and theatrical and has appeared in multiple shows of ours, including Mommie Queerestand The Silence Of The Trans.
What’s a favorite memory you have of her? We tease her about it all the time, but she gets anxious around the holidays because she wants everything to be PERFECT. My favorite memories of her have to do with those holidays, not because of how fantastic the were — although all the food and presents and decorations were great — but because she wanted to give her children something she never had.
If she were to do a lip-sync, what song would she choose and how would she perform it? I think she could do a straight-up raw, emotional, powerful lip-sync to something dramatic and rock-and-roll like “Piece Of My Heart” by Janis Joplin. I don’t think she’d need any bells and whistles to emote a powerful translation of the song.
Mahlae Balenciaga (Shelby Eatin’-Tons)
Who is your Steel Magnolia and how did she come into your life? My mom would be my Steel Magnolia. It was more about me coming into her life.
Why have you chosen her? She’s taught me so much about life: how to treat people, how to manage a busy schedule, life and the changes that it brings. My mom had six brothers and was the only girl, so she had to find her own identity amongst them all. She was very close to her mom and I believe that’s the reason why we’re so close; we’re more like siblings. We talk about any and everything just like best friends. Shout-out to you, Mom!
What’s a favorite memory you have of her? We took a trip back to New York to celebrate her birthday and visit some family. We were in Times Square and it was FREEZING. My mom wanted to look cute on her b-day, so she got up and got all pretty and did her hair and makeup. She wore a pair of false lashes and the wind was blowing so hard that it clapped her lash off! Her lash was hanging on by one drop of glue, flapping in the wind. Every time I think about that it makes me laugh.
If she were to do a lip-sync, what song would she choose and how would she perform it? My mom is a huge Janet Jackson fan, she’s been to every concert of hers dating back to the Velvet Rope tour. So I’d have to say “All For You” and “Escapade” would be her go-to songs.
Abbey Roads (Truvada Jones)
Who is your Steel Magnolia and how did she come into your life? My Steel Magnolia is my best friend Shermona Mitchell. We were both cast in a musical called Are You There God? It’s Me Karen Carpentermy first year of living in Seattle. It was my first play there, and also my first professional drag gig. We played 12-year-old girls who were best friends, and I’m so happy that our friendship moved from beyond the play and into our real lives. She’s my sister, my confidant, and my best friend.
Why have you chosen her? We live very similar professional lives that are different enough for us to be good foils to each other. I’m a plus-size gender-fluid drag performer, and she’s a plus-size African-American actress. Both art forms are similar enough that we “get it”, but the worlds are different enough that we can be objective with each other. I’m her biggest fan and toughest critic, and vice versa. We take up a similar space/energy in the world. Because we’re both extremely busy with shows and gigs, we sometimes go weeks without seeing each other, but we always seem to pick up right where we left off no problem. She’s so strong and determined, yet also very aware of her emotions. I hope to learn even a fraction of her self-awareness and determination one day. I don’t know what my world would be like without her.
What’s a favorite memory you have of her? Shermona works on the north side of Capitol Hill in Seattle, and we have the perfect spot for ogling hot guys. We get coffees at this cute coffee shop by her work and sit out front in their Adirondack chairs for hours just watching the butts go by. Khaki shorts with Chihuahua, skinny jeans with grocery bag, etc. We could (and do) spend hours and hours there in the summers. We compare notes, plan fake weddings, all of it. When we’re parched, we go around the corner for margaritas…but eventually make our way back for more ogling. It’s just us.
If she were to do a lip-sync, what song would she choose and how would she perform it? She’s done drag as a hyper queen performer, but usually sings live. I’d love to see her lip-sync the “MacArthur Park” suite by Donna Summer. We both love any retro diva action. She’s such an emotionally available actress, but also hysterical and so expressive. I think she’d have the audience in tears, then when the beat drops she’d do something zany to catch them by surprise. She would grab it by the balls and really ride it home. I would also LOVE to perform “No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” with her someday. Love you, Mona!
Peaches Christ Productions Is Proud To Present…Steel Dragnolias
our unforgiving, Southern fried parody of the stage & screen classic “Steel Magnolias”
MAY 5th, 2018 @ The Castro Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Starring the inimitable hair, nails and talents of SIX(!) of the country’s greatest Queens…!
ALASKA THUNDERFUCK as Anal Dupuy
HEKLINA as Clairee Felcher
COCO PERU as Ouisa Bidet
PEACHES CHRIST as M’Lynn Eatin’-Tons
MAHLAE BALENCIAGA as Shelby Eatin’-Tons
ABBEY ROADS as Truvada Jones
This riotous stage show will be followed by a screening of the 1989 classic film “Steel Magnolias”, starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton & Darryl Hannah.
STEEL DRAGNOLIAS
429 Castro Street, SF, CA 94114
1 Comment on The Steel Dragnolias on the Women Who Shaped Them
Pamela Lawrence // April 30, 2018 at 8:23 am // Reply
This article made me cry! I am actually my sons “steel magnolia”!!
Love you, JustinAndrewHonard so much!!!
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Jozef Van Wissem’s compositions for his unique, custom-built lute are direct and hypnotically ascetic, with courteous melodies evoking an idyllic and metaphysical world. Scoring ‘Only lovers Left Alive’, the 2013 Jim Jarmusch vampire film, has brought him to a wider audience, winning the Cannes Soundtrack Award in the process. Van Wissem hails from the Netherlands, lives in New York and has amassed an impressive body of work on such labels such as Important Records, Incunabulum and Crammed Discs. To date, he has performed more than 800 times with his lute.
Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen from London are behind the relatively new Tomaga project, a purposeful break from their musical past in such projects as Shit N Shine, The Oscillation, Neon Neon and Raime. Tomaga’s music surfs on synesthetic waves of industrial, jazz, psychedelia, dub and minimalism. Live, Valentina Magaletti plays the drums and Tom Relleen plays electronics.
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Established in November of 1950, the Korean Service Medal honors United States Armed Forces personnel who carried out service in Korea between the dates of June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954 during and shortly after the Korean War. In 2004, the Korea Defense Service Medal was established to recognize post-war service in Korea. Qualifying operations are listed below.
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Siemens researchers have developed a new type of electric motor that, with a weight of just 50 kilograms, delivers a continuous output of about 260 kilowatts – five times more than comparable drive systems. The motor has been specially designed for use in aircraft. Thanks to its record-setting power-to-weight ratio, larger aircraft with takeoff weights of up to two tons will now be able to use electric drives for the first time.
To implement the world-record motor, Siemens' experts scrutinized all the components of previous motors and optimized them up to their technical limits. New simulation techniques and sophisticated lightweight construction enabled the drive system to achieve a unique weight-to-performance ratio of five kilowatts (kW) per kilogram (kg). The electric motors of comparable strength that are used in industrial applications deliver less than one kW per kg. The performance of the drive systems used in electric vehicles is about two kW per kg. Since the new motor delivers its record-setting performance at rotational speeds of just 2,500 revolutions per minute, it can drive propellers directly, without the use of a transmission.
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Whatever dog we are, its just important that we focus on the cricket: Williamson
ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2019 FINAL
Kane Williamson addressing the press conference prior to the big finale © Getty
If you want to know Kane Williamson as a person, find yourself the clip of the winning moment of the first semifinal between India and New Zealand. The bowlers had just sealed a thrilling win to ensure a consecutive World Cup final appearance and all Williamson had to offer was a smile. Nothing less, nothing more. No over the top celebration – just a gentle smile. And as cliche as it may sound, Williamson isn’t someone who gets too caught up in the end result. He’s the guy who will offer you banal statements at press conferences about following plans, what’s worked for them, how crucial execution is on the field and some others. It’s not for the sake of it but because he truly believes in it.
So, on Saturday (July 13), when Williamson stressed it’s not much about the result of the final of the World Cup, it didn’t come as a surprise. Detachment is key for him. “We’ve sort of spoken a little bit about results and it’s not so much about that, it’s not about willing the perfect performance, you don’t have to be perfect, but it is about how we want to operate as a side and that’s been the case throughout this tournament,” the New Zealand captain offered. “We have tried to adjust to conditions as best we could and we’ve been fairly effective in doing that and we want to be good at that again come tomorrow. We want to focus on the task that is at hand for us to play our best cricket and the endpoint is the endpoint.
“I try not to get too caught up in the results, hopefully not too emotional about just the outcome and maybe look at it with a bit more reason. Where we perhaps could have improved and where some things that were out of our control had an impact on the game and then try and move on from that as quickly as possible.
“So there’s always more to the picture than just the endpoint and that is sort of the focus for us as a team, it’s actually putting our efforts into the moment, how we want to operate as a group and it may well be very different to other sides and how they operate which is fine, but we trust in it and it is important that we do and we look forward to tomorrow treating it with a huge amount of respect because it’s not very often you get the opportunity to be out in a World Cup Final. But very much focussed on what we need to try and achieve.
“I prefer winning than losing. That is probably the best way to say it. It is always any experience that you have is an opportunity to learn and sometimes tough experiences, being on the wrong side of results, can sometimes slap you in the face and give you a glaring lesson and if you ignore that, I don’t think that is a positive thing. So treating both of those, the outcomes with respect and trying to learn from them to be better as a group and as an individual I think is the best part.”
Williamson, though, the good-guy Kane, isn’t someone who is shy of getting involved in banter. England’s high-risk, high-reward cricket have held them is good stead but Williamson feels his side has it in them to contain the blitzkrieg. “A lot of people say that on a number of occasions which is great and I think England rightly so deserve to be favourites. Coming into this tournament from the start, they were favourites and they’ve been playing really good cricket. But whatever dog we are, it’s just important that we focus on the cricket that we want to play and we have seen over the years that anybody can beat anybody regardless of the breed of dog,” he said.
“We are really looking forward to the occasion and, like I say, the endpoint and the result, there’s a lot of time between now and that point. So focussing too much on it I don’t think is a positive thing and the focus for us as a group is what’s in front of us. And we know you go into any match and you have to deal with a number of different things, whether it’s different moments of pressure, whether it’s different moments of momentum and we have to be prepared to deal with all of those again.”
Both England and New Zealand have never won a World Cup. While there’s plenty of chatter about how a World Cup win will change the landscape of cricket in England, Williamson acknowledged a win for his side could well have a massive impact back home as well. “I’d like to think it would have a really positive impact on the sport in our country and having played in the previous one and (having) been in the final there, it still had a massive impact in terms of perhaps inspiring kids to get involved in the game which, at the end of the day, when you move past a number of different parts of the professional game is kind of why you do it.Hopefully there’s a lot of kids out there that have been enjoying the cricket we have been playing and appreciate the hard work that’s gone into being here now.”
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2018-19 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll — Poll 4 (Jan. 29, 2019)
Benedictine (Kan.) and Vanguard (Calif.) climb into top five
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As upsets begin to carve the landscape of the NAIA Coaches’ Top 25 poll, several teams benefited from big wins over the past two weeks. Benedictine (Kan.) and Vanguard (Calif.) both jumped into the top five after wins over top five opponents while a slow stretch knocked William Penn (Iowa) out of the top ten.
LSU Alexandria (La.) stayed put at No. 1 with a 20-2 overall record on the year, while the consistently great play from Carroll (Mont.) helped the Fighting Saints to the No. 2 spot. The first loss of the season for Missouri Baptist knocked the Spartans two spots down to No. 5.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000)
Over the course of the last two weeks, LSU Alexandria extended its win streak to 12 games with a thrilling 112-105 win over LSU Shreveport (La.) and a commanding 90-77 win over then-No. 13 Wiley (Texas). The Generals trailed the Wildcats at the half, but put together a 13-2 run led by a pair of three-pointers by Malek Harris.
The Generals are led by JaMichael Brown, Devin Jackson and William Claiborne, who each rank No. 1 in the nation in three respective offensive categories (Brown, 7.722 assists per game; Jackson, 79 total three-pointers made; Claiborne, 0.716 field goal percentage).
Carroll (Mont.) makes the jump this week to No. 2 with a critical win over then-No. 16 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho), 85-69 on Jan. 24. The Fighting Saints have recorded wins in back-to-back ratings periods over the Warriors and have quietly moved up the ranks this season as the top three-point shooting percentage team in the nation (0.456).
Perhaps the hottest team in the NAIA made its mark and ascended into the top five as Benedictine moved to the No. 3 spot. The Ravens recorded a pair of ranked wins during the ratings period with a victory over then-No. 2 William Penn on Jan. 14 and another over then-No. 24 Central Methodist (Mo.) on Thursday, Jan. 24.
This is the highest ranking for the Benedictine Ravens going back through the 2000-2001 season. Their highest ranking prior to this poll was back on Oct. 28, 2014 when the team was ranked No. 4 overall in the preseason edition.
No. 17 Cumberlands (Ky.), No. 20 Bethel (Tenn.), No. 22 Rocky Mountain (Mont.) and No. 23 LSU Shreveport are all new to the poll this week.
Former member Mountain State (W.Va.) owns the most No. 1-rankings with 48, followed by Robert Morris (Ill.) (24) and Georgetown (Ky.) (16). Current No. 1 LSU Alexandria is next on the list with 15 while former NAIA member Concordia (Calif.) is at 12.
Pikeville (Ky.) owns the longest active streak in the Top 25, which is now at 71 consecutive polls.
The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and Association of Independent Institutions.
The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low ratings) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appears on.
Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
Frequency of polls occur bi-weekly. This policy was approved by the National Administrative Council (NAC) beginning in the 2016-17 academic season. This change will allow raters the opportunity to consider a larger body of work in between rating periods.
For the complete Top 25 calendar, click here.
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2018-19 NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Poll 4 (Jan. 29, 2019)
RANK LAST WEEK SCHOOL [1st Place Votes] RECORD FINAL POINTS
1 1 LSU Alexandria (La.) [8] 20-2 219
2 4 Carroll (Mont.) 20-2 207
3 7 Benedictine (Kan.) [1] 18-2 201
4 9 Vanguard (Calif.) 20-1 198
5 3 Missouri Baptist 21-1 194
6 10 Tougaloo (Miss.) 18-2 181
7 5 The Master's (Calif.) 19-3 173
9 10 Stillman (Ala.) 19-2 169
10 14 Wayland Baptist (Texas) 16-5 159
11 17 Peru State (Neb.) 16-5 142
12 8 Langston (Okla.) 17-4 139
13 18 William Carey (Miss.) 16-5 136
14 2 William Penn (Iowa) 16-5 127
15 13 Wiley (Texas) 15-5 120
16 15 Pikeville (Ky.) 17-5 106
17 NR Cumberlands (Ky.) 17-5 101
18 24 William Jessup (Calif.) 16-6 87
18 16 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 16-6 87
20 NR Bethel (Tenn.) 16-5 83
21 24 John Brown (Ark.) 15-6 82
22 NR Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 15-7 76
23 NR LSU Shreveport (La.) 14-9 58
24 21 Arizona Christian 17-5 54
25 22 Providence (Mont.) 14-7 41
Dropped from the Top 25: Campbellsville (Ky.), Hope International (Calif.), Science & Arts (Okla.), Central Baptist (Ark.)
Others Receiving Votes: St. Thomas (Texas) 37, Hope International (Calif.) 36, Science & Arts (Okla.) 23, Graceland (Iowa) 19, Life (Ga.) 13, Loyola (La.) 13, Campbellsville (Ky.) 11, Dillard (La.) 10, SAGU (Texas) 10, William Woods (Mo.) 3, Talladega (Ala.) 3.
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John R. Wood Makes the 2019 Real Trends 500 List for Largest Brokerages in the U.S. and Highest Sales Volume in 2018
John R. Wood Properties announced today its ranking in the 2019 Real Trends 500 as #86 for largest brokerages in the U.S. based on sales volume, with over $2.5 billion. This number not only reflects the nearly 13% increase in closed sales in 2018 as compared to 2017, but also the magnitude of business that JRW is managing across Southwest Florida. The ranking further demonstrates the leading advantage JRW holds among major competitors in the area with comparable county coverage.
John R. Wood Properties Announces New Corporate Positions and Promotions
John R. Wood Properties (JRW) announced today the following new corporate positions and promotions.
John R. Wood Properties Launches New Series, “SoWeFlo Life by John R. Wood”
Taking the lead once more in the marketing arena, John R. Wood Properties has launched a new episodic video series, “SoWeFlo Life by John R. Wood”, unfolding as a complementary brand that currently resides on Facebook. The series, with a name that plays off of the abbreviation for Southwest Florida (SWFL), showcases the company’s collective love of the area with each episode featuring a different real estate agent exploring what they enjoy most about living here.
Local Executives Make Florida Trend’s List of the 500 Most Influential Business Leaders
Visibility and financial heft don’t necessarily equal influence according to Florida Trend magazine, which spent a significant amount of time researching and compiling their list of Florida’s Most Influential Business Leaders, 17 of which reside right here in Southwest Florida.
John R. Wood Properties Announces Merger with John R. Wood Island Real Estate
Phil Wood, CEO of John R. Wood Properties, has announced that the firm completed the merger of their long-time Sanibel franchisee, which operates under the name of John R. Wood Island Real Estate.
John R Wood Properties Creates College Scholarships to Commemorate 60th Anniversary
Naples, FL: (February 27, 2018) Local real estate business John R. Wood Properties, Inc. today announced Southwest Florida’s most experienced real estate company will donate $60,000 to provide college scholarships to deserving students.
According to president Phil Wood, the firm...
Our Sincerest Gratitude - Hurricane Irma
What we have all witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma is truly remarkable. From the tireless work of our first responders, utility workers and public service employees, to the charitable organizations and volunteers assisting neighbors in need, we are grateful for everyone working to restore Southwest Florida.
All of your selfless efforts are a testament to the compassion
and resilience of our beloved communities.
John R. Wood Properties Receives Best Residential Real Estate Agency Award
NAPLES, AUGUST 2, 2017 – Founded in 1958, John R. Wood Properties, one of the oldest real estate companies in Southwest Florida, with almost 60 years of industry and market experience, has been named as the Best Residential Real Estate Agency in the Gulfshore Business Magazine’s 2017 Best of Business Awards.
John R. Wood Properties Named Number 8 for Best Designed Real Estate Website
John R. Wood Properties has been named No. 8 as having the Best of Design for its company website, www.johnrwood.com, by REAL Trends’ 2017 Real Estate WEBSITE RANKINGS.
VANLOO NAMED CFO OF JRW
John R. Wood Properties today announced that it has named Gwen M. VanLoo as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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Boxing stalwart passes on
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THE BOXING FRATERNITY has lost one of its great stalwarts. Barbados’ leading referee, judge, official and trainer Derek Herbert passed away yesterday at the age of 60 following a lengthy illness. A staffer of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for 38 years, Herbert was most renowned in his role as a licensed World Boxing Council judge and referee in a 27-year career spanning 98 bouts. After his recent retirement, he conducted training courses for prospective officials in the sport. “This is a blow not only to boxing but to all sports in general because he made a contribution to so many sports in some manner,” said secretary of the Amateur Boxing Association, Kathy Harper-Hall. Herbert had the distinction of playing a representative role at the national level for at least six different sports, having served as either a medic or trainer in boxing, basketball, cricket, hockey, football and volleyball. (JM)
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International weekly journal of science
Nature | Editorial
A nation with ambition
India is making great strides in improving its science, but it needs to look carefully at its approach and work with the rest of the world if it is to realize its full potential.
The website of the Indian Department of Science and Technology proudly states that “India is one of the top-ranking countries in the field of basic research”.
It is true that India has made considerable progress in areas such as biotechnology, renewable energy and aerospace. But it is also mired in deep problems that impede innovation and are hampering the country’s progress. India has a puny scientific workforce, relatively few high-quality universities, an anaemic manufacturing sector and an epidemic of red tape. The result is that many Indian scientists head to other countries for training and jobs.
Nature special: Science in India
It would be easy to argue that a lack of funding is holding India back and stopping it from becoming a science superpower. The country devotes less than 1% of its gross domestic product to research and development, which puts it far behind emerging nations such as China and Brazil, as well as the established economies of the United States and Europe. But more money will not cure India’s multiple science ills, as Nature documents this week in a special issue on the state of research in the country (see page 141).
One of India’s biggest challenges is to boost its science to help drive national development. As a start, it must expand its research workforce. But that will require more high-quality universities and appropriate jobs for their graduates. The government is taking steps in the right direction. It has established tax incentives for research and development that are among the best in the world. These have helped to boost research investments by a few industries, but have yet to drive widespread innovation.
In tandem, India must tackle the bureaucratic morass that is impeding research and innovation. Scientists complain that funds for grants routinely arrive months late and that it can take years to fill positions. As a measure of the problem, one-third of the national laboratories, which are overseen by the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), lack permanent leaders (see page 144). Even the CSIR is run by a temporary director-general, Madhukar Garg, who told Nature that if the organization continues along these lines, “it will affect the national innovation system as a whole”.
“The solution is not to silence discussion or to shrink environmental oversight.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, like his predecessors, has denounced the bureaucratic brakes holding back science, but there has been little progress here. A key to solving the issue is to elevate talented scientists who have administration experience into positions of responsibility. One example is Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, who is profiled on page 148. He is a gifted geneticist who in 2013 took over as head of the Department of Biotechnology, the leading funder of bioscience research grants. Among other changes, he is attempting is to streamline the notoriously cumbersome grant-application process.
India could use some help. Compared with some other developing nations, it has a relatively low level of international collaboration, even with the United Kingdom, with which it shares a unique history. It bodes well that the new UK minister of universities and science, Jo Johnson, has a strong interest in India. In fact, he co-edited a book entitled Reconnecting Britain and India: Ideas for an Enhanced Partnership (Academic Foundation, 2012).
India does, however, need to look closely at the changes it is making, because not all are positive. As part of its effort to encourage development, the Modi administration has tried to silence some critics of policies on energy, climate and human rights. In April, the Indian government revoked the registrations of thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive foreign funds, and it has frozen the assets of Greenpeace over claims that it had violated reporting rules about foreign contributions. On 6 May, the US ambassador to India, Richard Verma, warned about “the potentially chilling effects of these regulatory steps focused on NGOs”.
Some scientists might be tempted to applaud India’s clampdown on environmental groups, which have stymied certain research initiatives. In March, environmentalists held up construction of a major neutrino observatory with debatable claims that the facility would harm an aquifer. And Naturereports this week that the Modi government has quietly moved forward with trials of genetically modified crops, which have long been desired by biotech researchers but have been impeded by environmental groups (see page 138).
But scientists in India should not cheer the government’s attempts to suppress dissent, even if it helps them to achieve their research goals. It would be wrong to blame environmental advocates for India’s lengthy and fault-ridden procedures for weighing up the impact of projects. The solution is not to silence discussion or to shrink environmental oversight. Rather, India should make strategic improvements to the environmental evaluation process that balance progress with protection.
( 14 May 2015 )
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Missing Airliner: FBI to Investigate Pilot's Wife
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will be questioning the wife of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who commanded the missing Malaysian airliner, amid growing suspicions that he may have hijacked the flight.
Published: 24th March 2014 02:45 PM | Last Updated: 24th March 2014 03:01 PM | A+A A-
Faizah Khan, a mother of three, will face questioning in an investigation conducted by the FBI, the Daily Mirror reported Monday.
American intelligence, along with Malaysian police, are still looking into the backgrounds of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid.
Sources close to Shah have said that his personal life was quite complicated. His relations with his wife had deteriorated to the point where he was no longer in a relationship with her, despite living together with their children in the same house.
His unstable personal life and his support of an opposition political leader recently jailed in Malaysia, has brought him into prime focus.
The police are also examining the two-minute phone call that Captain Zaharie received from a mysterious woman who used a mobile number with a fake identity, before take-off March 8.
Investigators are still trying to find clues in Captain Zaharie's flight simulator which was found at his residence by the Malaysian police. All the game logs in the personal flight simulator were deleted Feb 3. He played three games on his simulator -- Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator 9 and X Flight Simulator.
FBI agents are still investigating the simulator's hard disk.
The police searched Shah's house soon after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed last week that the plane was suspected to have been diverted deliberately.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished mysteriously about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur March 8.
The Boeing 777-200ER was initially presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast in the South China Sea. The plane was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30 a.m. the same day. The 227 passengers on board included five Indians, 154 Chinese and 38 Malaysians.
Contact with the plane was lost along with its radar signal at 1.40 a.m. when it was flying over the air traffic control area of Ho Chi Minh City.
The area of the multinational search operation being conducted now for the missing jet is around 2,500 km southwest of Perth.
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Limaye to join as NSE MD and CEO from July 17
Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) on Friday said Vikram Limaye will join the company as Managing Director and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) from Monday, July 17.
“Vikram Limaye has been relieved by the Supreme Court of his responsibilities at the Committee of Administrators of BCCI, with immediate effect,” the NSE said in a statement.
“He will be joining the National Stock Exchange of India limited as Managing Director and CEO from Monday the 17th of July, 2017.”
On June 9, the NSE announced that securities markets regulator Sebi had approved the appointment of Limaye as its new Managing Director and CEO.
The stock exchange major at that time had said that Limaye’s appointment will be subject to him being relieved from his “BCCI (COA)” assignment.
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Chip Kelly won't hate on the Dallas Cowboys
Published: Dec. 12, 2014 at 09:05 a.m.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2014 at 09:51 a.m.
Romo: Jason Witten will pick up where he left off
Chip Kelly understands the historical animosity between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys, but in advance of Sunday's showdown that could decide the NFC East winner, the coach isn't getting into the hating game.
"I understand that (dislike)," Kelly said, per the Philadelphia Daily News. "But that's not the way we're wired. I want to compete against the best. It's the same thing, if we went to go to play any other place in the NFL, they would allow us to practice at their facility. When I was in college, everybody allowed us to practice -- USC practiced at our place when we were at Oregon, and we practiced at their place. That's what this deal is all about."
(Kelly's response is partially rooted in a recent ridiculous story wherein he took flak from a local college coach for allowing an Oregon team to use the Eagles' practice facility.)
Kelly knows the Eagles-Cowboys rivalry runs deep, but he doesn't believe it needs to devolve into abhorrence.
"I've never been a hate guy," he said. "I don't hate anybody we've ever played. I've got the utmost respect for 'em, and I hope when we have an opportunity to play any team we play, that they're at their full strength. That's the best part about it; that's when really true competitors go against it."
Needless to say, Kelly won't be invited to the Playa Haters Ball next year.
The latest Around The NFL Podcast previews the Week 15 schedule and recaps the Cardinals' win over the Rams. Find more Around The NFL content on NFL NOW.
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The Cast of the Living Trust
In talking with clients, it is sometimes apparent that there is misunderstanding regarding the titles and roles involved in the cast of a living trust. This article is an attempt to shed some light on the matter.
The person creating a trust can be called by several different names. Grantor, trustor, and settlor are three terms commonly used to refer to the creator of the trust. The creator may be either an individual (a single or married person) or a married couple.
The second person in the cast is the trustee. The trustee is the person who manages the property in the trust according to the guidelines of the trust. When a trust is created, the creator of the trust usually appoints himself or herself as the initial trustee and assumes authority over the assets of the trust. Where the trust is created by a married couple, each spouse is a trustee and together they are referred to as co-trustees.
If one of the spouses in a joint trust becomes incapacitated, generally his or her spouse will carry on as sole trustee. In an individual trust, if the initial trustee is unable to carry out the duty of managing the trust and its assets, the person named in the trust as the successor trustee will assume the role of trustee. The successor trustee essentially steps into the shoes of the initial trustee and continues to manage the trust and its assets according to the terms of the trust.
The third cast member is the beneficiary. There may be only one beneficiary or there may be several. Most beneficiaries are designated by name; however, some are designated by a class of people, such as “all my children” or “all my nieces and nephews”. The beneficiary might also be a charity or other type of organization. It is possible for the successor trustee to be a beneficiary as well.
Beneficiaries can be of two general types: beneficiaries of a specific gift or residuary beneficiaries. For example, suppose the grantor has a beautiful baby grand piano that he wants to go to his grandchild that shows special musical talent. The grantor can specify in the trust that the piano will go to that grandchild. He can then designate that everything else (after payment of debts, funeral expenses, taxes and any costs of administering the trust) will be equally divided between his children. The children are the residuary beneficiaries – they take the “residue” of the estate left over after specific gifts are given and expenses are paid.
When a trust is created, the person creating the trust generally has all three roles: grantor (or trustor or settlor), initial trustee and initial beneficiary. If a grantor becomes incapacitated and unable to manage the trust, the successor trustee will manage the trust for the grantor’s benefit. The other named beneficiaries only have a contingent interest in the trust until the death of the grantor. Only after the death of the grantor does the interest of any of the named beneficiaries become vested. The successor trustee then manages the trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries.
Most trusts are written so that the grantor reserves the right to amend the trust to change his or her choice of successor trustees and/or beneficiaries. This means that the cast is not set in stone and cast members are subject to change; however, the role of successor trustee or beneficiary always remains the same. © 2013 by Marlene S. Cooper. All rights reserved.
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Should You Buy BPA Free for Baby?
When you take on that confusing undertaking of creating a baby registry for the first time you'll no doubt see many labels on bottles, cups and containers that they are "BPA free." So what is BPA, and why should you avoid exposing your baby to it?
BPA is short for bisphenol A and is a chemical widely used in plastic and other household products. It's somewhat controversial in the sense that plastic manufacturers say it poses no real threat--and other environmental and health groups disagree. According to the Mayo Clinic, the National Toxicology Program at the Department of Health and Human Services says it has "some concern about the possible health effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children." Animal studies have shown BPA can cause reproductive abnormalities by disrupting the endocrine system, and other research has linked BPA to an increased risk of diabetes, cancer and heart arrhythmias.
However, you are also exposed to BPA as an adult--through plastic water bottles, canned foods (because of the liners)--and oddly, cash register receipts, because of a thermal liner used to produce them. HealthDay recently reported on a study soon to be published in Pediatrics. In a study of pregnant moms, it found that 85 percent of moms and more than 96 percent of the children had trace amounts of BPA in their urine. While researchers did not find significant impacts to boys, they did find that "the higher the moms' BPA concentration levels during pregnancy, the more likely their daughters were to have higher scores on measures of anxiety, depression and hyperactivity, and poorer emotional control and inhibition at age 3."
However, it's also worth nothing that "none of the girls' behavior, which was described by their mothers in questionnaires, was out of the range of normal" according to study author Joe Braun, a research fellow in environmental health at Harvard School of Public Health.
The bottom line? The study authors admit that the findings are preliminary and more work needs to be done--so don't freak out about it. However, try to limit your exposure to plastics and canned foods, especially when you're pregnant, and look for that BPA free label when shopping for baby bottles.
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The ANU School of Music is a school in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, which forms part of the College of Arts and Social Sciences of the Australian …
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Historic Albany Foundation, Inc.
Established in 1974, Historic Albany Foundation is a private, nonprofit, membership organization whose mission is to preserve and protect buildings that have architectural, historic, or civic value. HAF fulfills this mandate through technical assistance, education, and advocacy. The organization’s ongoing efforts include lectures and tours, workshops, special events, an awards program, technical and research expertise, publications, and operation of the retail Architectural Parts Warehouse. Notable successes have included advocating for the redevelopment of Wellington Row, acquiring and protecting the Van Ostrande-Radliff House, and partnering on Breathing Lights, a multi-city art installation project that raised awareness of the issue of vacant buildings. HAF is governed by an eighteen-member Board of Directors and benefits from the guidance of a thirteen-member Advisory Board. The staff currently comprises an Interim Administrator, a Technical Services Director, an Outreach, Programming and Membership Coordinator, and a Warehouse Manager. HAF works closely with an active volunteer base and an energetic Young Urban Preservationists group.
http://www.historic-albany.org/
Historic Albany Foundation (HAF) is seeking a creative nonprofit executive to lead the organization and establish a renewed vision for its future. The ideal candidate will be an experienced director, possess collaborative, strategic and entrepreneurial skills, and have a passion for historic preservation and a deep commitment to the mission of the organization. This full-time, salaried position reports directly to the President and Board of Directors and is based at HAFs offices at 89 Lexington Avenue in Albany, New York.
Established in 1974, Historic Albany Foundation is a private, nonprofit, membership organization whose mission is to preserve and protect buildings that have architectural, historic, or civic value. HAF fulfills this mandate through technical assistance, education, and advocacy. The organizations ongoing efforts include lectures and tours, workshops, special events, an awards program, technical and research expertise, publications, and operation of the retail Architectural Parts Warehouse. Notable successes have included advocating for the redevelopment of Wellington Row, acquiring and protecting the Van Ostrande-Radliff House, and partnering on Breathing Lights, a multi-city art installation project that raised awareness of the issue of vacant buildings.
HAF is governed by an eighteen-member Board of Directors and benefits from the guidance of a thirteen-member Advisory Board. The staff currently comprises an Interim Administrator, a Technical Services Director, an Outreach, Programming and Membership Coordinator, and a Warehouse Manager. HAF works closely with an active volunteer base and an energetic Young Urban Preservationists group.
Key responsibilities of the Executive Director include but are not limited to:
In close collaboration with the Board, creating a unified vision for HAF with short- and long-term plans to build organizational capacity.
Leading HAFs dedicated team of employees, consultants and volunteers, working collaboratively with the Board of Directors and Advisory Board, and serving as staff representative on Board committees.
Defining and executing HAFs programmatic agenda, including preservation, advocacy, and education efforts.
Preparing and monitoring HAFs annual operating budget of approximately $350k, overseeing all financial accounting and reporting, and ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations.
Expanding HAFs development and marketing program, including membership, annual, major and planned giving, corporate giving and sponsorships, and programs and special events.
Serving as an articulate and effective spokesperson for the organization and the lead public advocate for preserving Albanys historic built environment.
Building mutually supportive relationships with the citys diverse neighborhood groups. Nurturing positive working relationships with local, state and federal government agencies and decision-makers, as well as with the regions developers and builders. Partnering with other community, cultural and educational organizations to address issues such as the citys vacant building crisis.
Implementing plans for HAFs Van Ostrande-Radliff House to raise funds for its stabilization and restoration, promote its history and significance, and seek a partner to establish in it an appropriate adaptive use.
Executing and enhancing the business plan for the Architectural Parts Warehouse and identifying opportunities for related new ventures.
Proven experience in nonprofit leadership, including managerial best practices, staff supervision, human resources, organizational planning, financial management, compliance requirements, governance, development, marketing, and external affairs.
Outstanding interpersonal skills, including political savvy and facility for building positive relationships with diverse individuals and communities.
Comfort with public speaking and addressing the media and strong written and oral communication skills.
Degree in historic preservation or other relevant field preferred. Understanding of and ability to communicate knowledgably about preservation policies, principles and issues required. Knowledge of Albany and/or New York State a plus.
Capacity to think analytically, strategically and entrepreneurially.
Ability to both lead and be a team player, to handle diverse tasks in an organized and efficient manner, and to perform well in time-sensitive situations.
Willingness to work a flexible and varied schedule and travel as needed.
Proficiency with office technology and software. (HAF currently uses MS Office for Windows, Google Drive, Donor Tools, SquareSpace and QuickBooks.)
About Albany, New York
Located on the Hudson River in Upstate New York, the City of Albany is the State Capital as well as home to prominent medical centers, established industries, growing technology and research firms, and numerous institutions of higher education. It is also a city of diverse residential neighborhoods, vibrant cultural institutions and a creative economy, and evolving commercial and industrial areas that are attracting start-ups, co-work spaces, craft brewers and distillers, and unique shops and restaurants. The area has an abundance of parks, nature preserves, and hiking/biking trails, along with easy access to the surrounding rural communities, to the Hudson River, to Mohawk Valley and Lake George, and to the Berkshires, Catskills and Adirondacks. At the center of a major geographic region, Albany is within approximately thirty minutes of Hudson, Troy, Schenectady and Saratoga Springs and three hours of New York City, Boston and Montreal.
Send résumé with cover letter, three professional references, and salary requirements to Kimberly Konrad Alvarez, Board President, at jobs@historic-albany.org with “HAF Executive Director” in the subject line. No phone calls, please. The deadline to apply is September 28, 2018 at 5:00PM. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.
http://www.historic-albany.org/s/HAF-ED-job-description-final-w-logo-pkcm.pdf
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Serena Osti – There’s A Crisis!
There’s A Crisis!
On a September day, after having spent some days of complete isolation at the seaside, I came back to my ordinary student life and I was sunddenly acknowledged that the world had changed. It was Autumn 2008 and the financial international crisis had its breakthrough. Since I’m always keen on understanding what’s happening in the world, I chose this event as the topic for my final degree project giving it the title Instructions for the time after now.
The final project, There’s a Crisis, is an alternative analysis of the recent economic crisis the way it was narrated and perceived in Italy in 2008-09. It is intended for making a comparison between the objective truth told by the media and subjective experiences of common people, in an attempt of underlining influences and differences intrinsic to each other.
By doing this, I employed graphics, interviews and pictures in order to represent and reconstruct the intensity of crisis-related news and visualize the different ranges of emotions that such a collectively lived event has brought into people’s life.
The work consists of a set of 3 books (analysis of newspapers, television and people’s impressions), illustrations inspired by mortgage flyers and a tarot set. It also comes with an research publication where theorical, journalistic and literary extracts as well as reference works of graphic designers and artists can be found.
In the book I Giornali I analysed the intensity of the crisis by measuring and exactly repositioning the space of the newspaper article on the front cover. I chose and tracked for 5 months a mainstream moderated newspaper for this, Corriere della Sera. The result is a story of appearance and disappearance, emphasis or minor importance and, most of all, the crisis is regarded here as a financial international problem, there as a political internal issue, or again as a social, wide-spread situation which has already existed in Italy since a couple of years.
People’s reactions to my questions differ a lot from person to person. When asking “What do you think of the crisis?” most of them refer to the financial and international credit-crunch, often reporting what they heard from the media. When, however, asked “Which kind of crisis are we talking about?” they would soon embark on very personal hypotesis and reflections with strong reference to their daily life, some pessimistic and some even optimistic.
The tarots set is a recollection of people, objects and landscapes based on the advertisements of the last page of Corriere della Sera ironically associated to tarot characters. They are products or services which are either suffering under the circumstances of the credit-crunch or gaining an advantage from it. No matter their position, they are still to be found in our daily information update and they are therefore part of it.
We usually disregard advertisiment because it’s visually emphatized and verbally charming – not exactly the kind of objective representation of the world we’re looking for. Though we forget that the same is done with the news – they are just words and pictures. This blurring bewteen fiction and non-fiction is the core problem in understanding our perception of reality. An essential reading on the topic is Aesthetic Journalism – How to inform without informing by Alfredo Cramerotti which has been recently published by Intellect in 2010.
There’s a Crisis is meant to be a consultation tool for further investigations which aims to approach the analysis of the present from the perspective of visual data instead of words or numbers. Furthermore, it questions the role of contemporary media and their responsability in shaping the public discourse and determining individual choices with particular regard to the Italian media landscape.
This final degree project has been supervised by art curator Emanuela De Cecco and graphic designer Christian Upmeier at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in March 2009 and subsequently displayed at Design Crisis during the Milan furniture fair. I personally wish to develop further and publish this project in the nearest future. I’m constantly researching on the issues of power, media and aesthetics with particular regard to Italy and I’m on the look for discussions and collaborative projects. I’m now based in Brighton, United Kingdom, where I’m working for mixed-media artists Heather and Ivan Morison and hope to soon start an MA in Art and Politics at the Goldsmiths College, London.
Further documentation: http://www.serenaosti.com/
C’è crisi Project: http://www.serenaosti.com/indexhibit/ce-crisi/
Dissertation: http://www.serenaosti.com/images/documentazione_web.pdf
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Reflections on the “Free Market” & Its Ideological Fruits
February 28, 2018 Race Hochdorf
Originally published at Areo Magazine (February 9th). All citations and notes for the studies, statistics, quotes, and news stories can be found on the magazine's website.
Looking thus into your eyes and seeing how each of you is a creature which has never in all time existed before and which shall never in all time exist again and which is not quite like any other and which has the grand stature and natural warmth of every other whose existence is all measured upon a still mad and incurable time; how am I to speak of you? As ‘tenant’, ‘farmers’, as ‘representatives of your class’, as social integers in a criminal economy? Or as individuals, fathers, wives, sons, daughters, and as my friends and as I know you?
— James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
In Ayn Rand’s overrated fantasy Atlas Shrugged, our crabby Olga-frahm-ze-old-co’ntry envisions a land called “Galt’s Gulch”: a country club Hogwarts where horrific character traits like affection, selflessness, and giving are reviled by the book’s “heroic” entrepreneurial protagonists, who — in a way the book does not explain — also build everything in Galt’s Gulch absent the burden of any employees they have to pay. While classic stories on film and on the page normally contain memorable lines that are witty, humorous, biting, full of gumption, or simply sweet (The Aeneid’s “Fortune favors the brave” or Casablanca’s “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid”), the main character of Rand’s novel, Dagny Taggart, recites a community credo as bleak and cold as her god-creator’s Russian winter: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
The entire plot and premise of Atlas Shrugged, of course, yields more than a satisfactory glimpse of Ayn Rand’s overall sophomoric philosophy: the world is divided into “creators” and “parasites” (her words). All people who are poor (read “parasites”) deserve to be poor, all people who are rich (read “creators”) deserve to be rich. Ego is good, altruism is evil. But above all, the “virtue” of greed and the accruement of personal wealth will— somehow— usher in a world where all societal ills are alleviated (and thus one where the parasitic poor, I assume, are invisible). Environmental issues, complex trade agreements between nations, corporate influence on government and politics, predatory lending, and widespread decades-long wage stagnation seemingly do not exist in the fictional world of Atlas Shrugged or in the equally-fictional world in which Ayn Rand’s philosophy of “objectivism” operates; or if these things do exist, they don’t have any significant impact on the causes of poverty and inequality.
Consequently then, if I had to think of a book possibly worse than Ulysses, Atlas Shrugged would definitely be it. As fiction, the characters are one-dimensional and there isn’t enough sex or explosions or sex with explosions in the background. As political philosophy, well… I’ve just gone over that.
Yet there are plenty of people who would say that my observations of the book and its writer are completely off-base. That Ayn Rand really was onto something when she envisioned Galt’s Gulch, and formulated her ideas of what the world is and what it should be like. This should demonstrate that while the pursuit of utopia is a fault often attributed solely to the political left, right-libertarianism is capable of being just as deluded. In the eyes of this political faction, a free market society is one where competition is guaranteed, monopolies never form, jobs never move overseas, and corporations in this unregulated environment never— in their wildest dreams— attempt to influence legislators to pass laws that favor them exclusively.
In 2018, American labor unions have hit their all-time low. The minimum wage— long portrayed by free marketeers as being a millstone hanging around the necks of business owners— has not risen at the national level since 2009 while corporate profits, on average, have risen to over $1 trillion, making up 11% of the American economy. In fact, the tipped minimum wage hasn’t risen since 1991, and the wages of the American middle class in general have not risen with inflation since 1964. 51% of American workers make less than $30,000 a year while the average cost of living in the United States is $48,700. Furthermore, apps and web services have thrown the transportation industry, hospitality industry, music industry, manufacturing industry, and even public libraries into crisis.
If ever there was an opportunity for a free market paradise to emerge, this would be it. Organized labor has been virtually vanquished, wages for workers have hit rock bottom with excess profits being hoarded at the top, and the need for those underpaid workers is gradually being undermined by emerging technology. But to anyone with their full mental faculties intact, a Randian utopia is taking its time getting here. Galt’s Gulch remains elusive.
To be clear, Ayn Rand wasn’t the originator of free market ideology, nor is this article really about her or her terrible books. But I think it’s safe to say that had it not been for Rand’s work in the mid-20th century, discourse about capitalism would be very different today with the banking crisis of the 1980s, the recession of the early-1990s, and the financial crisis of 2008 in our rearview mirror.
I also should say that I don’t think right-libertarians are terrible people. One doesn’t have to be terrible to have terrible ideas. In fact, in the interest of fairness, I should add that right-libertarians aren’t the only political group who view markets as a nation’s way to salvation. Conservatives and neoliberal Democrats routinely proclaim their belief in a “market-based economy” that’s only very lightly regulated.
The philosophy of our nation’s financial system, then, is clear: the “Invisible Hand of the Market” is a second god to be worshipped whenever a majority of Americans are not worshipping their primary god. Its cathedrals are the malls, shopping centers, and online retailers; its hymns are the sounds of neighbors stampeding over one another for “deals” on items not even in their consciousness a day before; and the sacrifices the Great God of Capitalism requires are merely the swiping of one plastic card after another, which are guaranteed to keep being swiped by the consumerist religion’s built-in mechanism of planned obsolescence. An air of mysticism surrounds the utterance of the phrase “free enterprise,” and many institutes and foundations of apologetics are devoted to defending the concept.
For this reason, I wish to list four objections: the first, against the very idea that an economy can exist without regulation; the second, that attempting to deregulate the economy on a massive scale because of an ideological devotion to “free markets” sets the United States on a path to disaster; the third, how companies exercise an extreme degree of control over the personal lives of their employees to an extent the actual government could never dream of when it comes to its citizens; and finally, fourth, why “consumer society” is an oxymoron.
My aim in raising these four objections is twofold: 1) There are plenty of allies in the “anti-postmodern/SJW” fight who claim a love for liberty and free society whilst simultaneously backing an economic philosophy that is, in fact, incredibly anti-democratic and harmful to the cause of social freedom. This leads to 2) A general feeling, sensed if not spoken, that unless one is a “classical liberal”, one cannot truly be an effective voice against postmodernism or the excesses of social justice activism. Classical liberalism, to the best of my understanding, is the belief in the coexistence of civil liberties and “laissez faire” capitalism. My four points, I hope, will show why this political position is at best unrealistic and at worst contradictory, and that if one desires freedom in the personal sphere (e.g. speech, sexuality, religion, association), then one must consistently support an economic vision that empowers individuals to truly enjoy those freedoms without risk of being impoverished due to corporate coercion and influence.
#1. A Free Market Can’t Actually Exist
“Give me some examples of economic regulations” I usually ask when debating libertarians or conservatives at work or online, and the answers I normally get in return are: “price controls”, “the minimum wage”, “insurance mandates”, and “environmental legislation.” In no debate that I have had— not one— have I ever heard as an answer to my request for regulation examples: “child labor bans”, “slavery abolition”, or “the outlawing of selling votes and government offices.” This is because we take economic regulations like the last three for granted. In fact, we don’t really even think of them as regulations at all. The moral arc in Western societies has bent to such an extent that our decency prevents us from seeing these antiquated evils in those terms.
In a book I highly recommend, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, University of Cambridge economics professor Ha-Joon Chang writes:
“A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them… Like many people, as a child I was fascinated by all those gravity-defying kungfu masters in Hong Kong movies. Like many kids, I suspect, I was bitterly disappointed when I learned that those masters were actually hanging on piano wires. The free market is a bit like that. We accept the legitimacy of certain regulations so totally that we don’t see them. More carefully examined, markets are revealed to be propped up by rules — and many of them.”
Advocates of “free markets”, for example, would be appalled if they were to fall through a time warp and find themselves in the Dickensian world of two centuries ago, where small children swept chimneys and roadside “cure-alls” were sold by charlatans to gullible buyers in poor health. When they argue for a complete absence of regulation, then, they do so completely ignorant of the fact that ending child labor and enforcing strict licensing standards in medicine— while humanitarian achievements first and foremost— were also economic regulations.
“But hold on,” you may interject, “All this means is that free markets shouldn’t exist morally speaking, not that it’s impossible for them to exist.” Well, so far yes, but I haven’t finished. Aside from an economy without regulation opening the door to all sorts of repugnant unethical practices and norms, an economy without regulation would consume itself almost as soon as it began.
On the very basic matter of separating government and markets completely, how is this separation to be ensured? Established laws preventing businesses from lobbying legislators for special favors or preventing relatives of powerful businessmen from entering politics due to conflict-of-interest, or preventing businesses from contributing large sums of money to political campaigns in order to sway voting outcomes, would be economic regulations themselves.
And how about the issue of monopolies? Even assuming that businesses begin on a level playing field from which to compete (“equality of opportunity”), there is no reason whatsoever to believe that they would stay that way, and in fact that’s the point of free market capitalism: dog-eat-dog. But what happens when all the dogs have been eaten and there’s only one dog left? What happens when that only dog becomes so large and powerful that no up-and-coming pup who wishes to challenge it stands a chance? It seems, then, that competition in the marketplace is merely a temporary state. Then what? Would a government see the danger monopolies present to national and economic stability, and break up those monopolies so as to allow for competition again? If they did this, the inevitable conclusion would be that competition in markets could only be made possible by an authority establishing rules to the game and frequently refereeing. In a word, regulation.
My argument that any attempt at creating a “free market” results only in an economy that eats itself has a strong basis in American history. In 1904, President “Teddy” Roosevelt broke up the Northern Securities Company rail monopoly, which had been comprised of a conglomerate of smaller companies like Great Northern Railway (GN), Northern Pacific Railway (NP), and the Chicago, Quincy, & Burlington Railroad company (CBQ). The way the Northern Securities railroad monopoly came to be, was when a rich guy named James Hill — owner of Northern Pacific and Great Northern — bought Chicago, Quincy, & Burlington. This infuriated another rich guy named Edward Harriman, who owned Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad, and who also had wanted to purchase Chicago, Quincy, & Burlington.
The two rich men were not fighting by themselves. Behind Hill was the financial backer J.P. Morgan, and behind Harriman was William Rockefeller and Jacob Schiff. Thus, a battle between gods was afoot. Harriman began buying large amounts of shares in Hill’s company Northern Pacific, so that he could gain access to Chicago, Quincy, & Burlington in a roundabout way; and in turn, Hill began buying up large shares of stock in Northern Pacific (his own company) to keep Harriman from gaining any influence. As a result, shares in Northern Pacific spiked and the New York Stock Exchange was on the brink of crashing. To avert this imminent catastrophe, Hill and Harriman and both of their respective financial backers called a truce of sorts by forming the Northern Securities Company. Under this arrangement, Hill maintained control of his company while Harriman was able to appoint directors to look after the substantial number of shares he had already bought in Hill’s company. What this whole fiasco achieved, essentially, was monopoly-by-stalemate. And a situation, also, where train ticket prices could then be set as high as the bosses wanted, and railroad placements in certain locations could be determined by political favors that were offered rather than locations for railroads being based on market demand. Predictably, public opinion turned against Northern Securities Company, and hence the reason why “Teddy” Roosevelt broke it up in 1904.
A more nuanced argument advocates of capitalism would be better off making, in light of this history, is that there’s a spectrum of “economic freedom” deserving of study and experimentation, as opposed to any concrete ideological predeterminations to which the “freedom-minded” must commit. Unfortunately, I have never heard such an argument. Never at libertarian conferences, paleoconservative forums, or “classical liberal” Facebook groups. What instead is espoused in such places is the ahistorical certainty that it is not only possible, but best, that economies operate without any “government intervention” (i.e. regulation) whatsoever. This is a proposition that is wholly unfounded and absurd.
#2. “Leaving Problems to The Market” Is Generally Not a Good Idea
In the case of some free market-advocates, the argument against any-and-all economic regulation comes from noble intent rather than glorified selfishness. Advocates in such a category will point out that many regulations exist which are designed to create unfair advantage rather than create atmospheres of equal opportunity (what is often referred to as “crony capitalism”), and thus the way to end such favoritism is to end the act of regulating itself.
But while these rare bleeding heart-capitalists are completely right about certain regulations existing which unfairly benefit certain industries or corporations over others, their conclusion that— because crony-regulation exists— that all regulation is bad and must be stopped, is completely upside down. The reason why crony-regulation exists is not because legislators wake up one morning and decide they like one company over another and will therefore do everything in their power to make sure their favorite brand, whimsically chosen, gets ahead; it is because companies, in an environment of “market freedom”, use that so-called freedom to rig the system by bribing legislators. Simply put, economic regulation does not give birth to crony-regulation, prior lack of regulation does.
Moreover, even sensible regulation meant to address today’s issues isn’t sufficient for establishing long-term societal stability. For this, economies also require a certain amount of planning. Few words strike fear into the hearts of bowtie-wearing Milton Friedman disciples like “planning” does, but there are two reasons why markets without planning fail.
The first is that markets are only concerned with the priorities of today, not the needs of the future, because the needs of the future can’t buy things today. A clear example of this is climate change. Scientists and informed citizens know that if nothing is done about man-caused climate change, we can kiss New York, Boston, Houston, South Florida, and the Bay Area goodbye (along with locations abroad like Bangladesh, London, the Netherlands, and Shanghai). To keep this from happening, a “green economy” would have to be planned, because markets only mindful of profits made today are not going to be concerned about a New York, Boston, Houston, South Florida, and Bay Area still above ground. An economy that is as fair as it is efficient (which I believe most of us would desire) must take into account not only the demands of today, but the demands of tomorrow.
In his book The Predator State, the economist James K. Galbraith provides an example from recent history on how one of the worst natural disasters in American history brought more devastation than it had to, because there was no economic planning for future concerns:
“On August 29th, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina tore through the levees that had protected New Orleans, it exposed exactly what markets cannot do: it focused attention, albeit too briefly, on the most massive failing of American government in the twenty-first century, which is its incapacity to plan effectively in advance of great dangers or in response to them. The catastrophe that hit the population of New Orleans, southern Louisiana, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the days that followed stemmed from the willful neglect, decline, and disintegration of coherent public forethought, carried out deliberately by a political class that has used the metaphor and myth of markets to abandon the responsibility to plan.
About 500,000 people lived in New Orleans on August 29th, 2005. It was well known, to those who had responsibility for them, that a hurricane level three or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale would, if it came ashore below New Orleans, destroy the system of levees that kept the city from complete destruction in a flood. It was known that sooner or later, this disaster would happen…
Given those facts, the public obligation was clear: either the levees should have been reinforced until they could cope with an event substantially less probable than a Force Three hurricane, or the low-lying areas of the city should have been abandoned and the levees rebuilt around the areas that could be protected. As a conceptual matter, plans actually existed… but the will, the ability, and the compulsory authority — in one word, the public power — to carry out the plan did not exist."
The second reason that markets without planning fail, is because whenever markets do cause significant problems, legislators and other government officials are left with only piecemeal solutions to fix those problems; often the economic equivalent of putting a band aid over a bleeding artery. Take, for example, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s $20 million proposal to fund statewide job training to fight unemployment in manufacturing. Does job training create new jobs? Not last time I checked. Or take President Trump’s frequent conflation of “economic growth” with job growth, as if they’re both the same thing. Does economic growth necessarily entail the creation of new jobs? Not in this day and age. An increasing reality which transcends any hopeful image of “economic growth” is the expansion of production without the expansion of personnel. In plain English, technology is replacing workers. We today would call this “job automation”, but as far back as 1930 John Maynard Keynes was using a far less bullshitty term for what he saw coming over the horizon: technological unemployment.
“We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come — namely, technological unemployment. This means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour.”
While Keynes also thought this would merely be “a temporary phase of maladjustment”, and that a hundred years later quality of life would be “four to eight times higher”, technological unemployment has only gotten worse 88 years since. In fact, according to a study conducted by Oxford University in 2013, nearly 50% of all existing American jobs will be automated in the next two decades. Given the imminence of this economic and social catastrophe, how will we prevent technology from causing massive unemployment? You guessed it: planning.
I am reminded of the story about a meeting which took place in 1953 between Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and one of Henry Ford II’s most trusted managers. The manager was walking the labor leader through a new automobile factory, and as the machines were assembling vehicles he proudly boasted “You won’t get many union members from those machines!” To which Reuther shot back, “And you won’t sell them many Fords either.”
The lesson couldn’t have been clearer: runaway capitalism has a way of producing the rope with which it ultimately hangs itself. It pits workers and bosses against each other in a way that keeps economies in constant states of crisis. Fundamentally, bosses keep trying to make more profit by attacking worker salaries (often by laying off workers themselves), and in turn worker salaries eventually become so meager that the working class isn’t able to buy what companies are selling. (This is why defenders of “free markets” always point to the amount and variety of products produced under capitalism, whilst ignoring whether or not many people are in financial situations to be able to buy said products, or whether they’re able to do so without going into debt.)
To be clear, I am not an advocate of the state attempting to plan the entire economy. Such a task would be impossible even for the most efficient of governments, and markets do play an important role in the economic wellbeing of a civilization. Clearly when the state attempts to plan everything— as the Soviet Union tried to do— it doesn’t end well. But acknowledging that planning has limits doesn’t prevent us from, say, replacing CEOs with workers councils who are elected by workers themselves, or at the very least, capping CEO salaries while mandating a raise in salary for the lower and middle classes. Nor does acknowledging that planning has limits mean that unmarketable goods, like healthcare or energy, cannot be cordoned off from the market and nationalized. Most importantly, acknowledging that markets play an important role when it comes to economic wellbeing does not mean we can’t begin planning for an automation crisis we know is coming, and frankly it is reckless not to.
I part with this second objection with one final observation: how technological unemployment perverts what we most desire when it comes to how we spend the limited time we have in this world. In his essay The Revolt Of The Salaried Bourgeoisie, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek notes the following:
“A consequence of the rise in productivity brought about by the exponentially growing impact of collective knowledge is a change in the role of unemployment. It is the very success of capitalism (greater efficiency, raised productivity, etc.) which produces unemployment, rendering more and more workers useless: what should be a blessing — less hard labour needed — becomes a curse. Or, to put it differently, the chance to be exploited in a long-term job is now experienced as a privilege."
It was Goethe who once remarked that “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free,” but I disagree. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who know they are enslaved and long to remain so for fear of freedom. That technological unemployment presents us— for the very first time in human history— with the possibility of freedom from work, is spoiled by the fact that as a society we have formulated no alternative to getting by without it. As a result, the day-to-day soul-crushing grind that has come to define so many workplaces becomes an environment we long for, not out of any genuine sense of desire, but of anxiety. In this sense, automation— and lack of economic planning for it— not only presents us with an economic and social crisis, but also a fundamentally existential one.
#3. Corporations, The Managerial Class, & Quasi-Feudalism
It was September 9th, 2004 when Lynne Gobbell— an employee at an insulation factory in Moulton, Alabama— was called into the office of her boss Phil Geddes. When Geddes looked up to see Lynne standing in his doorway, the order he gave was as shocking as it was straightforward: “Remove the sticker from your vehicle outside or you’re fired.”
The sticker to which he was referring was a Kerry/Edwards ’04 election sticker, and Geddes— who weeks before had passed out fliers to his employees explaining why they should vote for Bush— did not wish to employ a vocal liberal at his company. Lynne, at first defiant, replied to her boss “You can’t tell me who to vote for.” To which her boss, in turn, affirmed that he could do precisely that because he “owned the place”. The implicit message of course being that if one owns a workplace, then one can own the people inside of it; not just in the sense that the employer has authority over the employee in matters related to the job itself, mind you, but in all matters including those completely unrelated to the job one performs.
Lest you believe that employers are only content to exercise this dominion over their employees in matters of political expression, you should know that company control over workers’ activities also extends to more basic areas of daily life.
At poultry processing plants around the country, for instance, line workers wear diapers because managers make clear that bathroom breaks are “a privilege not a right.” On hot summer days, the temperature inside an Amazon warehouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania reaches 100°, yet keeps its doors and windows shut for fear that employees will steal products. But take comfort. The company compassionately arranges for ambulances to wait outside the warehouse, ready to treat workers who pass out from the heat. Teachers at private schools— religious and non-religious— are frequently disciplined or fired for posting beach vacation photos online that show them wearing bikinis or drinking alcohol.
Adding insult to injury, a 2014 study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute found that wage theft amounts to approximately $50 billion annually, while corporate offices and firms mull over the possibility of penalizing their employees who have unhealthy diets, or who fail to attend sponsored “wellness programs”, by driving up their health insurance premiums.
Generally speaking, “at-will employment” contracts dictate online and offline speech, manner of dress, diet, and when (or if) we can empty our own fucking bowels. The workplace has become a small-scale tyranny, and this reveals a flaw in our Great American Experiment: rights and liberties are things we hypothetically enjoy as citizens, but which corporate power, glorification of the entrepreneur, and market worship prevent us from actually enjoying as people who need to work to eat.
This, in turn, also creates a disparity when it comes to what we perceive to be “public discourse” and “popular opinion”. Because if only the well-off feel secure enough to voice their opinions on important issues, while those who struggle to make ends meet feel forced to stay silent on those same issues for fear of losing their jobs, how can we accurately ascertain the mood, wishes, values, and very state of our union and the common people within it? How can we delude ourselves for even a moment thinking that our once democratic republic hasn’t been replaced by quasi-feudalism?
The counterargument to everything I have just said in this third objection, is that if employees feel their employers have too much control over their lives, they can always quit their jobs and look for a new one. But this argument, as moral philosopher Elizabeth Anderson puts it, “is like saying Mussolini wasn’t a dictator because Italians could immigrate”. Putting aside for a moment that there is no magical job tree which people can just pluck a jobbie from whenever they need one, taking the position that the answer to corporate overreach into our private lives is to just “look for other jobs” ignores the fact that a majority of workplaces require the signing of at-will employment statements, and that nearly all employers dictate one aspect or other of their employees’ private behavior.
The irony in this, of course, is that conservatives and right-libertarians constantly worry about the death of our democratic republic due to outside causes such as immigration, foreign adversaries, and being out-competed economically by other countries, but fail to realize that the massive amount of power possessed by “job creators”— for which they so passionately advocate— entails the de facto death of the republic, because it is the death of personal liberty by a thousand privately-owned cuts. We are, in this sense, as I like to joke on good days, the “McRomans” collapsing from within.
I should also like to add that those who place more weight on corporate rights over individual ones do more to advance the cause of political correctness than any overzealous group of college kids could ever dream; and often the employees who suffer the most under the thumb of employers with too much power, are ones whom we would be inclined to defend in magazines such as Areo and others for contravening that correctness.
For instance, the Google employee who didn’t believe that gender differences were a social construct of “the patriarchy”, and was fired for writing an internal memo laying out alternative explanations for why there weren’t as many women in STEM. Or the flight attendants who were having a conversation in the airport about transgender issues, and got reported to their employer by Lena Dunham who overheard them and was so #upset that their conversation didn’t conclude the way she wanted it to.
It doesn’t take a very keen observer of popular culture to see that businesses, advertisers, and sponsors routinely cave to the demands of the perpetually outraged. This is why I remain amused whenever a “classical liberal” argues for a free market model of employment in the same breath as he or she decries the rise of Social Justice Warriorism; because the latter, in a lot of ways, takes advantage of the former. Hence the reason why dirty rotten “Bernie Bros” (like yours truly) shout from the rooftops about how identity politics is a deliberate distraction from class struggle.
#4. Consumerism vs. Community & Self-Knowledge
Free market ideology as the death of social liberty, and ultimately as the death of the democratic republic, provides a natural segue into my fourth and final objection: free market ideology as the death of community and knowledge of self.
This means that whereas in prior objections I dealt mostly with the results of free market ideology upon our politics and system of government (monopolization, lack of future planning, worker intimidation), in this final point I am taking on the central ethos of the ideology instead: the fetishization of choice (i.e. the notion that the more material choices you have, the more “free” you are). In a nutshell, I contend that consumer culture— spurred by our belief in the omniscience of markets— carries implications beyond the economic, and that we can see these implications all around us.
To begin with, advertisers overload children’s senses from the time they’re toddlers with promotions for cereal, toys, cartoons, clothes, music, franchise movies, junk food, and games, to the point where children begin to have an implicit belief that they have a right to be free from boredom and want; and parents who voice concern about the predatory norm of advertising— or voice concern regarding the behavior these norms seem to be creating in their children— are frequently ridiculed for wanting to “shelter” their kids, or for wanting to “place them at a social disadvantage”, or for just being plain weird.
Social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat await pre-teens and teenagers after a decade of this corporate bombardment, rewarding these kids’ learned narcissistic behaviors to the best of their ability (e.g. the provision of endless photo-filter options to help adolescents become comfortable with the projection— and projecting— of false realities). Meanwhile, for those youth who possess the rare attribute of being semi-aware, the mob-politics and lazy bandwagon-activism of Twitter’s hashtag-system will pacify their desire to do good by giving the impression that change requires no actual learning or sacrifice, just the click of a mouse.
Of course, it isn’t just children and teenagers who are up shit creek without a paddle because of the relentless onslaught of consumerism; the free market ethos has also affected modern adults in harmful ways. If you’re having relationship problems, you can ditch your partner and pick another one from an app like Tinder, as if partners are things you can just select like items from a store. If you don’t like the way you look naturally, you can buy hair growth treatments, new breasts, bigger lips, or a new face entirely. If your news source, radio program, or favorite website puts out information that conflicts with your biases and worldview, you can find hundreds of others that don’t, and even a few which cater specifically to your bias and worldview.
The result of a lifetime of this, of course, is a diminished desire to have meaningful interactions with neighbors and loved ones, along with a general cluelessness about what one genuinely likes and dislikes and what one genuinely believes and doesn’t believe. Suspense and risk are stripped away entirely during the process of building relationships (familial, friendly, and romantic), because we are told that any situation which results in individual discomfort during relationship-building is “toxic”. Which is to say that the customer satisfaction mentality has taken root in our minds— not only in the sense that we have been trained since we were knee-high to implicitly believe that we have a right to freedom from boredom and want— but in the sense that we are also learning to commodify the people around us.
I believe, then, with all of my heart and fearfully so, that consumerism is bringing about the end of genuine self-exploration and self-knowledge in favor of the numbing of the self; the numbing of the self to the self and the numbing of the self toward others. This brings to mind a statement the psychologist and sociologist Erich Fromm made in his 1956 book The Art Of Loving:
“Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man…"
This leads us to the subject of community. For how can a community flourish in an economic environment which discourages and distracts a vast majority of people from becoming self-actualized and connecting meaningfully with others? More importantly, how can a community have an agreed-upon foundation of facts or a shared perception of reality, if targeted ad campaigns, alternative news sources, and social media algorithms put each one of us in our own “bubble reality”?
Upon hearing this last question, you might wonder if I’ve somehow confused the ill-effects of consumerism with postmodernism. I haven’t. The reason you might recognize postmodernism, when I talk about how consumerism destroys community and cultural identity with entitlement, fact/narrative-choosing, and replacing self-discovery with self-as-construct, is because consumerism encourages postmodernism. Postmodernism is merely the academic protege of the free market ideal which lies at the heart of our culture. This is why new university students take to postmodern philosophy so easily. It follows the choose-your-own-reality template they’ve been exposed to by market forces their whole lives.
Hence the reason the leftwing political theorist Frederic Jameson wrote in the New Left Review back in 1984 that postmodernism was “the cultural logic of late capitalism”. Because market ideology and consumerism have encouraged our social slide into the “post-truth era” by feeding our hyper-individualistic need for constant amusement, and amusement through entertainment and social mediums which promote unthinking rather than active thinking.
The funny thing is, none of this is an accident of free market philosophy. If you notice, the distraction and dissatisfaction forced upon us from our cradles to our graves is very much about social sleep. This is because, to the surprise of no one, an economic system that culminates in wealth being concentrated at the top has its mechanisms for ensuring it stays there; and for all of the lip service paid to “citizen engagement”, the last thing that is wanted by the upper class and elites in any society— including supposedly democratic ones— is for citizens to be informed about what’s really going on in their world. The fetishization of choice, which is the central ethos of free market belief, serves as a sedative that makes the creation or continuation of community impossible.
Rereading everything I have written, I understand that my tone and approach seem radical. But frankly speaking, they seem radical because they are radical. I confess that it’s hard not to be radical when today’s “normal” appears to be so radical in the opposite direction. What to think, when the wealth gap continues to widen, American jobs are being shipped to countries where worker protections are nonexistent, and future economic crisis due to the automating of the remaining jobs within the country is so clearly written on the wall? What to do, when widespread political apathy, avoidance of contrary views, and a large appetite for a pop-culture largely devoid of meaning comes to be the defining characteristics of your generation? What to conclude, when all around the country, public lands and parks are being privatized to make way for corporate offices, shopping centers, and highways?
This is why I feel the need to state that while the excesses of social justice movements is an issue (on college campuses and in leftwing discourse), it is not the only issue or even the biggest issue we face. Conversations around democratic socialism, labor organizing, social safety nets, the erosion of community, and even around related subjects like climate change and alternative energy need to be happening a lot more frequently and in a lot more places than they currently are. Too much hangs in the balance for us to be caught up in inadequate political ideas like “classical liberalism”, conservatism, neoliberalism, and even that deservedly-despised strand of leftism which gets so caught up in the minutiae of identity politics that it misses the big picture on issues that affect everyone. We need a politics of informed populism. A national vision of progress for the many, not the few. That is… if it’s not too late.
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International Sales Continue to Climb in U.S. Market, Realtors® Report
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WASHINGTON, DC – June 12, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Due to low prices and the relative weakness of the dollar, international buyers continue to identify the U.S. as a desirable place to own property and make a profitable investment.
According to the National Association of Realtors® 2012 Profile of International Home Buying Activity, total residential international sales in the U.S. for the past year ending March 2012 equaled $82.5 billion, up from $66.4 billion in 2011. Total international sales were evenly split between non-resident foreigners and recent immigrants. The survey asked Realtors® to report their international business activity within the U.S. for the 12 months ending March 2012.
“Today’s advantageous market conditions have drawn more and more foreign buyers to the U.S. in recent years, signaling how desirable and profitable owning property in this country can be,” said NAR President Moe Veissi, broker-owner of Veissi & Associates, Inc. in Miami, Fla. “Low housing prices, a good inventory condition and increased buying power with today’s exchange rates help attract international clients. Foreign buyers also have the advantage of working with a Realtor®. Realtors® who specialize in serving international clientele have a truly global perspective; they know what hurdles foreign buyers face when purchasing property in the U.S., and have the expertise and knowledge that comes from working with clients from different cultures and real estate practices.”
International buyers bought homes throughout the country, but four states accounted for 51 percent of the purchases – Florida, California, Texas and Arizona. Florida has been the fastest growing destination of choice, accounting for 26 percent of foreign purchases. California was second with 11 percent and Texas and Arizona accounted for seven percent. Proximity to the home country, the presence of relatives and friends, the convenience of air transportation, and climate and location are all important considerations to prospective foreign buyers. Locations on the East Coast generally attract European buyers, while Asian buyers tend to purchase on the West Coast, particularly California. Florida attracts a diverse set of international buyers including South Americans, Europeans and Canadians. Meanwhile, Texas remains popular among Mexican buyers. Within markets in an individual state, it is not unusual to find concentrations of people grouped by nationality.
“Foreign buyers recognize that owning a home in the U.S. has many benefits, both financial and social,” said Veissi. “Many purchase property as an investment, vacation home, or to diversify their portfolio. In addition, many recent immigrants view homeownership as an important accomplishment. They believe that being a homeowner is one of many ways they become established in the U.S. and attain stability, security, and a sense of community.”
International buyers came from all over the globe, but Canada, China (The People’s Republic of China including Hong Kong), Mexico, India, and the United Kingdom accounted for 55 percent of all international transactions, according to the survey. Canada and China remain the fastest-growing home countries. Canada accounted for 24 percent of international sales while China accounted for 11 percent, up from nine percent in 2011. Mexico was third with eight percent of sales and India and the U.K. both accounted for six percent.
Forty-five percent of international purchases were under $250,000. In addition, there appears to be a gradual increasing trend toward purchases in the $250,000 to $500,000 price range. In 2012 this range accounted for 30 percent of purchases, up from 28 percent in 2011. The average price paid by an international buyer was $400,000 compared to the overall U.S. average of $212,000. Several reasons account for why the average international home price is higher than the average overall price. The international client is typically wealthier than the domestic buyer and is looking for a property in a specialized niche, for example, a larger property suitable for multi-generational living, or a property that establishes the individual’s presence and standing in the community.
Many homes purchased by foreign buyers are used as a primary residence. Vacation and rental use are also major reasons for a purchase. More than half – 66 percent – of survey respondents reported international buyers purchased detached single-family homes. About half of international buyers, 52 percent, preferred to buy in a suburban area and about a quarter, 23 percent, bought in a central city/urban area.
Sixty-two percent of international purchases were all cash, which has increased since 2007. International buyers still experience many financing challenges when purchasing a home in the U.S. In fact, among transactions that failed, Realtors® reported that in 26 percent of the cases financing issues were the problem. The difficulties facing foreign buyers in trying to obtain a mortgage include lack of U.S.-based credit history and hurdles in meeting mortgage requirements. Other reasons for not purchasing properties were cost/taxes/insurance and immigration laws.
Twenty-seven percent of Realtors® reported having worked with international clients this year. Fifty-two percent of Realtors® reported that international transactions accounted for one to 10 percent of their total transactions, while 27 percent reported that they made up more than 10 percent of total transactions. Realtor® specialization on the buyer’s side of the market – such as foreign language capabilities, cultural affinity or orientation with the prospective purchaser and experience in explaining the U.S. real estate – appear to be important in working with foreign buyers.
NAR helps Realtors® expand their businesses globally. The Certified International Property Specialist designation prepares Realtors® to service the growing international market in their local community by focusing on culture, exchange rates, investment trends, and legal issues. The CIPS® Global Network is comprised of over 2,000 Realtors® worldwide.
In addition, Realtor.com® International delivers U.S. residential listings to buyers across the global, as well as listings from international data providers. As NAR’s official property website, Realtor.com® increases exposure of U.S. properties to global markets and helps Realtors® grow their global business. Last month over 950,000 international unique visitors searched for U.S. properties on the site (as reported by Omniture Site Catalyst for May 2012 as an aggregate of all countries other than the U.S.).
The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
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Viking Air has become world’s largest seaplane factory
Two heritage, one seaplane airplane factory. Canadian aircraft manufacturer Viking Air has acquired and modernized the types of the deHavilland Canada aircraft factory, including such legendary models as the Twin Otter and Beaver seaplanes. Plus the Viking Air bought the servicing and manufacturing rights and production line of the Bombardier’s fire fighting seaplanes.
Further to the preliminary announcement made earlier this year, Viking Air Limited of Victoria, British Columbia, has now completed the acquisition of the Amphibious Aircraft program from Bombardier, including transfer of the Type Certificates for the CL-215, CL-215T, CL-415 aircraft and all variants to Viking.
Upon completion of the Type Certificate transfer, Viking is designated as the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for the amphibious aircraft fleet, including full manufacturing design rights for all variants. Viking also assumes responsibility for in-service product support for the fleet of 170 water bombers currently in operation in 11 countries worldwide.
“The completion of this acquisition is a significant milestone, and now allows us to fully engage with the operator group to understand their requirements,” said David Curtis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Viking and Chairman of Longview Aviation Capital. “Aerial firefighting capability is becoming increasingly important, and with our leadership in supporting utility aircraft, we look forward to working with operators to ensure these vital aircraft remain ready to perform to their full potential protecting communities and critical infrastructure.”
Viking has over 40 years’ experience supporting a wide-range of utility aircraft, and will extend this pertinent industry knowledge to supporting the CL-215, CL-215T, and CL-415 amphibious aircraft fleet.
The CL-415 is the aviation industry’s benchmark amphibious water-bombing aircraft and the backbone of aerial attack firefighting missions around the globe. The aircraft is a key strategic asset for government and community firefighting efforts both nationally and internationally, and its multi-mission capability also allows it to perform in a variety of roles including maritime patrol and search and rescue.
Originally launched in 1969, the CL-215 water bomber forms a key part of Canada’s rich aerospace heritage and led the way for further development of the design. The CL-415 variant was introduced in 1994, and has since built a reputation as the best aerial firefighting aircraft in the world, earning the nickname “SuperScooper” due to its ability to scoop a 6,137 litre load in 12 seconds while skimming at high speed over the water.
Headquartered in Victoria, BC, Viking is the global leader in utility aircraft support and services, and the manufacturer of the world-renowned Series 400 Twin Otter. Viking is the Original Type Certificate holder for all out-of-production de Havilland aircraft – DHC-1 through the DHC-7 – and provides exclusive spare parts manufacturing for the legacy de Havilland fleet.
In 2007, Viking launched the Twin Otter Series 400 production program and to date over 125 new aircraft have been sold to 29 countries worldwide, making the Twin Otter the best-selling next generation 19-passenger aircraft available today.
Viking is managed by Longview Aviation Capital, and forms part of the portfolio of a prominent Canadian family office investment firm which maintains a long-term investment horizon and is one of the leading investors in the Canadian aviation industry.
(Resource: Viking Air Limited)
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From Selfie to Groupie
Spanning eight years and 2,000 participants, a portrait of today’s Jewish-American community
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 27, 2015
CONTACT: Samantha Friedman, West End Strategy Team, samantha@westendstrategy.com;
Book launch event Sunday, May 17 in New York
NEW YORK – This May, acclaimed artists Alina and Jeff Bliumis will publish From Selfie to Groupie, a book of photographs and essays exploring the variety and intricacy of Jewish-American identity. The pair began their visual survey in the Russian-Jewish immigrant enclave of Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach before expanding to the wider Jewish-American community in locations including greater New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Sonoma Valley, and St. Paul. In total, 1,922 people participated in creating a portrait of the community – in its many shades, shapes, and sizes—building a collaborative statement about collective identity. Participants ranged from a two-year-old girl who identified herself as a “future president” to vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman, who identified himself as “a proud and grateful Jewish American.”
The project began early one morning, when on a sunny July weekend in 2007, the Bliumises asked beachgoers in Brooklyn’s predominantly Jewish, Russian-speaking Brighton Beach to define their identities. Each participant was asked to pose for a photograph with any or all of three signs reading “Russian,” “Jewish,” and “American,” or to come up with his or her own self-definition by creating a unique sign. By the end of that day, 52 people had posed, and 44 portraits were taken (some photos featured multiple people).
“When I moved from Minsk, Belarus, to New York 20 years ago, I noticed a certain ‘identity crisis’ within the Russian-Jewish community in the United States,” Alina Bliumis said. “Americans often consider members of this community to be Russian, Russians consider them to be Americans, and some Jewish Americans are not quite sure how to relate to this subset of their own community, still struggling to fit into the larger Jewish-American context. The question of how people define their own identity compelled us to undertake our anthropological inquiry into Brooklyn's Russian-Jewish immigrant population – we wanted to hear from people firsthand.”
From 2012 to 2014, the Bliumises expanded the project with new subjects through interactive stations installed at various exhibitions and public events. Participants wrote their own identifying phrases on poster boards and posed in front of a backdrop depicting Brighton Beach, photographing themselves with a tripod-mounted camera in six locations: the National Museum of American Jewish History, in Philadelphia in 2012; the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery at the Jewish Community Center of Manhattan in New York, from December 2013 through February 2014; Limmud NY, also in New York, in 2014; Jewish Funders Network International Conference, in Miami, in 2014; Limmud Bay Area, in Sonoma Valley, in 2014; and the Jewish Community Center of the Greater St. Paul Area, in Saint Paul, Minn., in 2014.
Jeff Bliumis explains how the project grew beyond Brighton Beach. “We next became interested in the question: Considering that Russian-speaking Jewish Americans are looking to fit into the Jewish-American community at large, what does it mean to be Jewish-American today? Not finding one uniform answer to that question, we wanted to ask as many people as possible, record every individual voice that would eventually become a brushstroke in a community portrait.”
The next step was to turn a visual project into a book conveying the results. Genesis Philanthropy Group, stepped in to provide the necessary support to make publication possible.
“GPG always welcomes initiatives that encourage Russian-speaking Jews to preserve their heritage and help to find their Jewish roots and identity,” said Marina Yudborovsky, Regional Director of Genesis Philanthropy Group. “We are glad to support the Bliumises’ photo project, as it poses the important question: Given the freedoms America provides, how do people identify themselves? So, these portraits represent a real case study, a sort of visual sociological research project, and at the same time present a creative art project.”
The final product of the book includes personal essays by Professor David Shneer, authors Anya Ulinich and Joshua Ellison, visual data analysis by Jenya Gorbatsevich, and a historic essay by Konrad Bercovici.
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT
A public event celebrating the book’s launch will be held:
Sunday, May 17, from 5-8 p.m.
New York (Lower East Side)
The book’s editor, Joshua Ellison, will lead a discussion with two of the book’s contributors, Brooklyn-based Russian-speaking Jewish author Anya Ulinich and professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado David Shneer. A reception with music by Stefania Pia will follow.
Interested media should RSVP to Samantha Friedman at samantha@westendstrategy.com.
Jeff Bliumis, born in Kishinev, Moldova, and Alina Bliumis, born in Minsk, Belarus, are New York-based artists who have been collaborating since 2000. Jeff received his BA from Columbia University in 1981. Alina received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy, in 2005. Their work has been exhibited internationally at the first, second, and third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), Busan Biennale 2006 (Busan, South Korea), Assab One (Milan), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), Galerie Anne de Villepoix (Paris), Centre d’art Contemporain (Meymac, France), Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland,), Museums of Bat Yam (Bat-Yam, Israel), the Jewish Museum (New York), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Their works are in various private and public collections, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), Museums of Bat Yam (Israel), the Saatchi Collection (UK), the Harvard Business School (Boston), the Museum of Immigration History (Paris) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).
About Genesis Philanthropy Group
Genesis Philanthropy Group is a private foundation whose mission is to develop and enhance a sense of Jewish identity among Russian-speaking Jews worldwide by supporting and launching projects, programming and institutions that are focused on ensuring that Jewish culture, heritage and values are preserved in Russian-speaking Jewish communities. More information is available at gpg.org.
From Selfie to Groupie by Alina and Jeff Bliumis; Joshua Ellison, editor; David Shneer, Anya Ulinich, Joshua Ellison, Jenya Gorbatsevich, Konrad Bercovici, authors; Hard cover, 9 x 11 in, 240 pages, 245 color and 14 black-and-white photographs; Release date: May 2015; ISBN 978-0-9797248-2-4.
More information is available at www.selfietogroupie.com.
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A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there. - Ted Solotaroff
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Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial
Arguably, the Super Bowl commercial that "started it all" was the 1984 Apple Macintosh created by Mike Murray. The commercial was in a class of its own. Nothing quite like it had ever been seen before. Other companies took note and began imitating the ad, trying to shock you with "in you face" commercials, pushing the envelope farther and farther. We quickly got to the stage we are at now where the Super Bowl commercials, for some, are the only reason they watch the game. Here's that ad.
Apple Macintosh 1984 Super Bowl Commercial
"On January 24th, 1984, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."
We've found a remake of this 1984 Apple computer commercial. It is much clearer than any other we've seen. The more you watch it, the more you see. For example, after about the tenth viewing, we wondered what is on the shirt of the woman. We started and stopped it multiple times until we got a shot that showed most of the shirt. With this clear version of the ad, you can see that it is the new Macintosh computer that is being advertised. (We should have known.) See the apple on the left.
With this version, you can also see that the woman is wearing tubes from her ears to some device attached to her waist band. We're stumped on that one. Does anyone have an idea about what that could be? Please email us. Use the "Contact Us" link on the left of the page.
Apple 1984 Commercial - Behind the Scenes
Then we came across this video of behind the scenes in the making of the Apple commercial. It's fascinating. (There are no words, so you could turn off the sound until the end where the actual commercial is shown.) Robert P. Munafo has more information on the Apple 1984 commercial which you may find interesting. He includes the writing on the back wall of the auditorium and the complete text of what the figure that resembles George Orwell's "Big Brother" in the book 1984 is saying.
Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh in 1984.
2011 Motorola Spoof
In 2011, Motorola did a spoof on this commercial. They wanted to show
that Apple had become the establishment and Motorola was about to break
their stronghold on the market.
Old Time Candy
You Know You Want Some!
Hundreds to Choose From
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Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game for the Super NES and Sega Genesis/Mega DriveRead more
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game for the Super NES and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, developed by Software Creations and published by LJN (a subsidiary of Acclaim) in 1994. The game, based on a sprawling comic book story arc of the same name, features numerous heroes, including Spider-Man, Venom, and their allies from the Marvel Comics fictional universe like Captain America, Black Cat, Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger, Deathlok, Morbius and Firestar, all teaming up to battle an onslaught of villains led by Carnage, including Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin and Carrion.[1]Both the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super NES versions come in a red cartridge. They were later released in the normal cartridge colors (black for Genesis, gray for Super NES).The game was followed up by a sequel called Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety.Universal Studios Orlando used Maximum Carnage as the theme for a haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights in 2002.
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IntelBrief: Houthi Rebels Step Up Attacks Against Saudi Arabia
Houthi Rebels Step Up Attacks Against Saudi Arabia
• Since April, Houthi rebels have conducted at least ten separate missile or drone strikes on Saudi targets, including airports, oil pipelines, and other energy infrastructure.
• Despite boasting the world’s third largest military budget, the Saudis’ Patriot missile-defense system has performed inconsistently in the face of mounting Houthi attacks.
• Since the beginning of the war in Yemen, Iran has increased its support for Houthi rebels in both the quantity and quality of the weapons it provides.
• As tensions in the region escalate, Iran will continue to rely on its network of proxy and militia groups to strike out against its adversaries, including the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
As the conflict drags on in Yemen, Houthi rebels backed by Iran have stepped up their campaign to pressure Saudi Arabia. Since April, the rebels have conducted at least ten separate missile or drone strikes on Saudi targets, including airports, oil pipelines, and other energy infrastructure. An attack last week involved several drones that crashed into the parking area of the Abha airport in Saudi Arabia. That attack killed a Syrian national and wounded seven other people. The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, with spokesman Yahia al-Sarie noting that the rebels had deployed drones against the airports in Abha as well as Jizan. A June 13 cruise missile strike by the Houthis against the same airport in Abha injured 26 people. Despite boasting the world’s third largest military budget, the Saudis’ Patriot missile-defense system has performed inconsistently in the face of mounting Houthi attacks.
These attacks are another sign that the war in Yemen is nowhere near an end. Moreover, the recent escalation has demonstrated that Iran views the Houthis as a valuable asset through which it can conduct proxy warfare, as tensions continue to rise in the Persian Gulf. Ironically, in what could accurately be described as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Riyadh claimed that substantial Iranian military support to the Houthis in Yemen was its raison d’etre for its intervention there. While it is true that when the Saudi-led coalition first began operations in Yemen, Iran provided some support to the Houthis, over the past several years the level and degree of that support has increased dramatically. Far from countering Iranian influence in Yemen, then, the war has amplified it. This is part of Iran’s traditional playbook, part of which is supplying its network of proxies and militias with a range of weaponry. A Saudi blockade to deny Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis has continued to be unsuccessful.
Tensions between Iran and the U.S., as well as with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are approaching critical levels. During an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on June 24, Kuwait—which holds the Council’s presidency for June—condemned recent mine attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, which Iran is widely suspected of conducting. Kuwait also stressed the need for all parties to exercise ‘maximum restraint’ to avoid greater conflict. Yet as seen in Yemen, that conflict is already escalating, with civilians continuing to pay the price.
The Trump administration supports the Saudi and UAE-led campaign in Yemen, despite increased congressional opposition. Washington views Yemen as one of the front lines in its regional conflict with Iran. The administration’s campaign of ‘maximum pressure’ against Iran has led it to ignore the counterproductive nature of the conflict in Yemen. Trump’s foreign policy has assumed a zero-sum nature with respect to Iran, where any action that American allies take to counter or rollback Iranian influence in the Middle East is considered acceptable, despite what are clearly negative second and third order effects, including widespread poverty, famine, and disease in Yemen.
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Club head says Fognini could face fine for Wimbledon "bomb" outburst
"I wish a bomb would explode on this club," the Italian was heard saying during his third-round defeat.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local):
Serena Williams has been fined $10,000 by the All England Club for damaging a court during practice before the Wimbledon tournament started.
Fabio Fognini was fined $3,000. The Italian said during his third-round loss that he wished a bomb would hit Wimbledon.
Nick Kyrgios was handed two fines, one for $3,000 from the first round and another for $5,000 from the second round — both for unsportsmanlike conduct. The Australian lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets in the second round.
Guido Pella came from two sets down to knock out another former finalist at Wimbledon.
Pella beat 2016 runner-up Milos Ranoic 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), 8-6 to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal.
The 26th-seeded Argentine defeated last year's runner-up Kevin Anderson in the previous round, a year after beating 2017 finalist Marin Cilic.
The 15th-seeded Raonic served for the set at 5-3 in the fourth set but was broken. The Canadian then saved one match point at 5-4 in the decider and two more at 6-5. But Pella converted his fourth chance when Raonic hit a half-volley into the net.
It was the last fourth-round match to be completed at the All-England Club.
Kei Nishikori also advanced, beating Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Pella will next face Roberto Bautista Augut, while Nishikori plays eight-time champion Roger Federer.
Venus Williams lost for the second time at this year's Wimbledon tournament, eliminated from mixed doubles in the second round.
Williams, a five-time champion at the All England Club, lost to Coco Gauff in the first round of the singles tournament last week.
In mixed doubles, Williams and partner Frances Tiafoe lost to 12th-seeded Franko Skugor and Raluca Olaru 6-3, 6-1. If they had reached the semifinals, Venus could have been up against sister Serena, who is playing mixed doubles with Andy Murray.
Roger Federer delivered another vintage Centre Court performance to reach a record-extending 17th Wimbledon quarterfinal.
Federer ousted 17th-seeded Matteo Berrettini 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in a match that only lasted 1 hour, 14 minutes.
The eight-time Wimbledon champion lost only one point on his serve in the first set and didn't face a break point until he was up 3-0 in the third. He saved that one and went on to serve out the match at love.
The 37-year-old Federer became the oldest man to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal since Jimmy Connors did it at 39 at the 1991 U.S. Open.
The Bryan twins are out of the Wimbledon doubles competition after losing in the third round.
Bob and Mike Bryan lost to French duo Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 7-6 (3) 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (5) in men's doubles. Bob missed last year's tournament after having hip surgery, but Mike won the doubles title with replacement partner Jack Sock.
As a pairing, the American brothers have 16 Grand Slam doubles titles, including at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2013.
Four-time champion Novak Djokovic is into the Wimbledon quarterfinals again after beating Ugo Humbert in straight sets.
Djokovic took advantage of 34 unforced errors to win 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 on No. 1 Court and set up a meeting with David Goffin.
Djokovic, who beat Kevin Anderson in last year's final, reached his 11th Wimbledon quarterfinal. That puts him level with Boris Becker in fourth place on the all-time list. Roger Federer was trying to reach a record-extending 17th later.
Goffin beat Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (9), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Sam Querrey also advanced after winning an all-American matchup against Tennys Sandgren 6-4, 6-7 (9), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5).
Johanna Konta reached her second Wimbledon quarterfinal by coming from a set down to knock out two-time champion Petra Kvitova.
Konta, the only British player left in the tournament, won 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 on Centre Court. Konta missed two match points at 5-2 in the decider but served it out on her next opportunity when Kvitova sent a shot long.
Kvitova hit 40 winners to Konta's 22, but also had 34 unforced errors compared to 21.
In 2017, Konta became the first British woman since Virginia Wade in 1978 to reach the semifinals at the All England Club but she lost in the second round last year.
Konta also came from a set down to beat Sloane Stephens in the third round. She will next face Barbora Strycova.
Karolina Muchova narrowly avoided a deciding-set tiebreaker, beating third-seeded Karolina Pliskova 4-6, 7-5, 13-11 to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
Muchova won the last three games of the match and converted her third match point with a return that clipped the net cord.
Pliskova broke for an 11-10 lead but couldn't serve out the match as she was broken back at love.
If the score had reached 12-12, the pair would have played the first deciding-set tiebreaker since Wimbledon introduced new rules for this year's tournament.
In the past, there were no tiebreakers in deciding sets.
The longest match in Wimbledon history was in 2010, when John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth set. Last year, Kevin Anderson beat Isner 26-24 in the fifth set in the semifinals.
Coco Gauff's Wimbledon run is over.
The 15-year-old American lost to former No. 1 Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the fourth round.
Halep broke Gauff five times and took advantage of 29 unforced errors. Gauff saved two match points when serving at 5-2 but Halep clinched the win when the teenager sent a forehand wide in the next game.
Gauff was playing in her first Grand Slam tournament after becoming the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon's main draw in the professional era and knocked out five-time champion Venus Williams in the first round.
Halep reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the fourth time and will next face Zhang Shuai of China.
Rafael Nadal reached his 39th career Grand Slam quarterfinal by beating Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 on Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Nadal dominated from the start, breaking Sousa in his first two service games to take a 4-0 lead in the first set. The Spaniard never faced a break point and converted six of the eight he created on Sousa's serve.
He earned a standing ovation from parts of the crowd after setting up one of those break points, ending a 20-shot rally with a running backhand cross-court winner to make it 30-40 at 1-1 in the third set. He hit another backhand winner to secure the break and broke again for a 5-2 lead.
It was the two-time Wimbledon champion's 52nd match win at the All England Club, surpassing Bjorn Borg for eighth place on the all-time list.
Serena Williams eased into the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the 14th time by beating Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 6-2 on No. 1 Court.
Williams won six straight games from 3-2 in the first set to take control of the match. She raised both arms in celebration after her fifth break of the match gave her a 5-2 lead in the second set and served out the victory when Suarez Navarro sent a backhand wide.
Williams is looking for her eighth Wimbledon title after losing last year's final to Angelique Kerber. She has never lost a set in seven career meetings against Suarez Navarro.
Williams will next face fellow American Alison Riske, who upset top-ranked Ash Barty earlier in the day.
Also, Barbora Strycova came from a set and break down to beat Elise Mertens 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Mertens led 5-2 in the second set but lost nine straight games to go 4-0 down in the second.
Unseeded American Alison Riske came from a set down to upset top-ranked Ash Barty 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 at Wimbledon and reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.
Riske broke for a 5-3 lead in the deciding set and clinched the win on her first match point when Barty sent a backhand wide.
The loss ends a 15-match winning streak for Barty, who was coming off titles at the French Open and Birmingham and was playing her first tournament as No. 1.
Barty opened the match with four straight aces but landed only 40 percent of her first serves in the second set and was broken four times in total.
Riske is playing in her 30th Grand Slam tournament but her previous best result was reaching the fourth round at the 2013 U.S. Open.
She will next face either Serena Williams or Carla Suarez Navarro.
Also, Zhang Shuai beat Dayana Yastremska 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.
Play is under way on the busiest day in Grand Slam tennis: Wimbledon's so-called "Manic Monday."
No. 1 Ash Barty is in action against 55th-ranked American Alison Riske on No. 2 Court in one of four women's singles matches currently in progress.
All 16 men's and women's fourth-round matches are on the program to begin Week 2. This is the only major tournament that schedules the middle Sunday off — and then the only one to play every singles match the following day.
Coco Gauff, Serena Williams and the men's Big Three are slated to play later Monday.
The head of the All England Club thinks top-10 player Fabio Fognini could be given a "small fine" for saying during his third-round loss that he wished a bomb would hit Wimbledon.
Chief executive Richard Lewis called what Fognini said "a very unfortunate comment" but also "one of those heat-of-the-moment comments."
Lewis also gave Fognini credit for being "good enough to apologize straightaway."
Still, Lewis said, "it wouldn't surprise me if in the end there's a small fine."
More than 1,000 bombs fell in the area during World War II, destroying thousands of nearby homes, and 16 fell on the tournament grounds. One hit Centre Court.
A star-filled cast that includes Serena Williams, 15-year-old sensation Coco Gauff and the men's Big Three of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic is on the schedule as Wimbledon resumes after its traditional day off.
All 16 men's and women's fourth-round singles matches are planned for "Manic Monday," as it's known.
The All England Club is the only Grand Slam site where there is no play planned for the tournament's middle Sunday — and the only one where everyone still around plays on the initial day of Week 2.
Gauff will try to prolong her magical Grand Slam debut when she meets former No. 1 Simona Halep. That match on Court No. 1 follows seven-time Wimbledon champion Williams against No. 30 seed Carla Suarez Navarro.
The top three seeded men — Djokovic, Federer and Nadal — all face opponents who never have been to the second week at Wimbledon.
More AP Tennis: https://www.apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2008 Yamaha YZF-R6 - Added by Kyle.nospam.gmail.com on 28-May-2019
Uploaded for: Kyle - 2008 Yamaha YZF-R6
More Information on the Yamaha YZF-R6
The Yamaha YZF-R6 is a Yamaha 600 class sport bike motorcycle, first introduced in 1999, updated in 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2017, and revised in the years in between.
The YZF-R6 was introduced in 1999 as the super sport version of YZF-R1 super bike, and as a companion to the more street-oriented YZF600R sport bike which continued to be sold alongside the R6. The motorcycle featured Yamaha's completely new engine design capable of producing over 108 hp (81 kW) while stationary. The R6 was the world's first 600cc production four-stroke motorcycle producing over 100 hp (75 kW) in stock form.
The YZF-R6 has been revised several times since its introduction. Starting with the 2003 model, when the R6 became fuel-injected. The 2006 model year was a significant upgrade with a new engine management system featuring the YCC-T ride by wire throttle and a multi-plate slipper clutch. The 2008 model incorporated the YCC-I variable-length intake system to optimize power at high engine rpm and an improved Deltabox frame design.
2006 tachometer problem
In 2006, Yamaha advertised that the R6 had a redline of 17,500 rpm. This is 2,000 rpm higher than the previous R6 model and was the highest tachometer redline of any 2006 production four-stroke motorcycle engine. The true maximum engine speed was limited by the ECU to 15,800 RPM. In February 2006, Yamaha admitted the bike's true engine redline was more than 1,000 rpm lower than what was indicated on the tachometer and had been advertised, and offered to buy back any R6 if the customer was unhappy.
Chaz Davies helped Yamaha to win both the riders and manufacturers title during the 2011 Supersport World Championship season. The bike also won the supersport category at the 2008 North West 200 Races.
The updated R6 has improved aerodynamics with inspired styling from the current R1 as well as its 43mm inverted front fork and front brakes, new rear shock, a new aluminum fuel tank, magnesium subframe, ABS brakes, riding modes, and traction control. The new aerodynamics are claimed to reduce drag by 8% over previous models. The engine is unchanged with rear wheel power still at about 100 hp. Body is similar to Moto GP's Current 2005–Present YZR-M1
The 2017 update comes with an OBD port. Unlike previous models, this R6 does not have the same diagnostic mode option. In order to retrieve the diagnostic codes, you must purchase an adapter that plugs into any ODBII scanner. This is the only way other than going to a dealer to erase the error codes.
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Yamaha R6 Year-model comparison
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ANOTHER INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION / April 3, 2015 by SPOTTISWOODE
ENGLISH DREAM, the band's 6th record, has been nominated for an Independent Music Award. Category: Best Adult Alternative Album of 2014. Judges this year included Suzanne Vega, Michelle Ndegeocello and Amanda Palmer.
It's the band's third nomination and Spottiswoode's sixth. In 2012 the band's ballad Chariot won the IMA for Best Adult Contemporary Song. That year the band's fifth record, Wild Goosechase Expedition, also won the Vox Populi Award for Best Eclectic Album of the year.
To vote for the band in this year's Vox Populi Awards PLEASE go to the link here and make it happen. Thank you!
Congratulations to the whole band and particularly to Riley McMahon, our guitarist and producer.
IMAs, Independent, Music, Award, English Dream, Spottiswoode, Enemies, McMahon, Suzanne Vega, Amanda Palmer April 04, 2015
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REVIEW: 'Grown-ish' - Zoey and Her Friends Have a Spirited Debate About a New School Policy in 'Messy'
Freeform's Grown-ish - Episode 2.07 "Messy"
When a new "Enthusiastic Sober Consent" policy is introduced on the CalU campus, everyone has strong opinions about whether it's in place for the students' benefit or to protect the school. Cash is caught in the crossfire and Luca is surprised when Zoey jumps to his defense.
In 2018, there were 495 scripted shows airing amongst the linear channels and streaming services. The way people are consuming content now is so different than it used to be. It happens according to one's own schedule. As such, there is less necessity to provide ample coverage of each specific episode in any given season from a show. Moreover, it is simply impossible to watch everything. As such, this site is making the move to shorter episodic reviews in order to cover as many shows as possible. With all of that being said, here are my thoughts on the next episode of Freeform's Grown-ish.
"Messy" was written by Richard Brandon Manus and directed by Linda Mendoza
At the end of the first season, three men were fighting for Zoey's love - Aaron, Luca and Cash. In the end, she chose to date Luca. It's been very welcome to watch as everyone accepts that decision and allows everything to naturally evolve from there. There isn't any lingering tension that should give hope to one of the guys not chosen still having a shot with her. They understand the decision that she made and are moving on with their lives as well. Sure, Luca and Aaron don't get along. But there isn't a beat where Aaron is angling to get together with Zoey the moment that there is tension in her relationship with Luca. Instead, the priority is on the current relationship. Zoey and Luca are figuring out how to communicate better together. However, those fears of yearning for someone else do make up a component of this episode. This is Cash's first appearance of the season. It may also be his last because of the developments that happen here. Zoey says hi to him and defends him when a scandal breaks out that changes the college policy regarding sexual consent on campus. But that is her perspective that comes from her well-informed opinion and being able to discuss it with her friends. Of course, Luca sees it as her defending Cash because she doesn't want him to leave the school. That's what happens with Cash too. He is forced out over something that is basically one big misunderstanding. It's clear the show wanted this conversation to happen regarding someone the audience knew. But they also didn't want it to completely tarnish Cash's overall character. As such, it's a false accusation but one that has very real consequences. He has sex with a girl at a party. They both wanted it and enjoyed it. However, the conversation around the act makes it seem as if he assaulted her. That's the impression the show wants the audience to have about the situation. It is more interested in the conversation that happens afterwards regarding the school's new policy. Now, the show doesn't have an authority figure in the school administration who can speak eloquently about the thoughts behind this decision. In fact, the characters in those positions of power are mostly just used for comedic effect despite the importance they could have in the foundation of the show. And yet, the show also gets a lot of power by this being a conversation amongst the friends. They are all college students trying to figure their lives out while having fun at the same time. They don't want a policy to limit what they can and can't do. However, Zoey and Ana see it as something that can make everything safer and actually foster an environment of conversation. Sure, it's scary a lot of the time when it comes to dating and sex. But each person should feel empowered to speak out during any moment and be understood. The show does make some jokes at Aaron and Vivek's expense here. But it's mostly a very engaging conversation. One that may not be enforceable because the school can't be in the room when it happens. It may just be a way for the institution to defend itself should something tragic occur in the future. That may make the students very cynical about the whole thing. But again, it fosters a conversation. The issue isn't black-or-white. There isn't an easy solution to ensure that people aren't assaulted. An honest conversation is a step in the right direction though to ensure that people are thinking about their actions before they actually take them.
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REVIEW: 'Will & Grace' - Will and Grace React Horribly to a Dead Person in Their Apartment in 'Dead Man Texting'
NBC's Will & Grace - Episode 10.10 "Dead Man Texting"
Will and Grace's plan to win over Will's new Columbia department head goes awry when he drops dead in their apartment - and they use his phone to text his full recommendation of Will. Karen and Estefan's dislike for each other puts Jack in full damage control mode when he must keep them separate at his birthday dinner.
In 2018, there were 495 scripted shows airing amongst the linear channels and streaming services. The way people are consuming content now is so different than it used to be. It happens according to one's own schedule. As such, there is less necessity to provide ample coverage of each specific episode in any given season from a show. Moreover, it is simply impossible to watch everything. As such, this site is making the move to shorter episodic reviews in order to cover as many shows as possible. With all of that being said, here are my thoughts on the next episode of NBC's Will & Grace.
"Dead Man Texting" was written by Jordan Reddout & Gus Hickey and directed by James Burrows
It makes perfect sense that Grace has no idea how to check someone's pulse to see if they are still alive. She just assumes that when Will's new boss passes out in their apartment. They do the right thing in calling 9-1-1. However, first responders don't come to handle the situation quickly. Will and Grace don't do anything in the hopes that the professor may still be alive. Instead, they are very focused on their own selfish interests. That has always been a core part of their characters. Will wants to remain teaching while Grace wants to win her campaign which isn't as political or serious as she would like to believe it is. That makes them both comfortable with stealing the professor's phone and unlocking it with his eye in order to send a message approving Will's continued employment at the university. Sure, they are grossed out by the whole thing. But they are still willing to do it. And yet, they don't receive any major consequences for that action either. It turns out the professor isn't dead after all. He just passed out because his blood sugar dropped. It's a condition that he has and is incredibly embarrassed about. He wants to keep it a secret because he doesn't want it to change people's perception of him. Of course, he has the sensible reaction of immediately firing Will for this clear invasion of privacy too. The only reason that Will still has employment at the moment is because he makes an impassioned plea about how much he loves this job. It has made him fall in love with the law again. He loves shaping the minds of young students instead of being out there in the corporate world doing all of that trivial paperwork. This is a position that hasn't gotten a whole lot of screen time this season. But this episode does confirm that it remains something Will is passionate about. He doesn't want anything to change it. That is enough to impress the head of his department. Sure, he doesn't get a permanent position at the university. But he will remain a professor just to see how this relationship continues to work out. That ending means that everything returns to a solid status quo while also dipping its toes into a moment of seriousness for only a second. There is really no weight to it at all though. It mostly just showcases how Grace's natural impulses may not be the best and Will shouldn't listen to her in these kinds of matters. Elsewhere, Jack is celebrating his birthday by trying to keep Karen and Estefan apart because they hate each other. It's just a simple case of name-calling that has them at odds with each other as well. Karen calls Estefan a sky waitress while Estefan calls Karen a hag. Both are offended by these comments. But there is more going on beneath the surface as well. Jack is celebrating getting married which is something that Karen no longer has in her life. Her divorce has been finalized. She fears being all alone. She may potentially be losing her best friend too. Sure, the solution here may be too simple especially after the story builds to a fight in the middle of a restaurant pool. But at least Jack and Karen are committed to not letting anything change their friendship despite their constantly changing lives. That's sweet and genuine.
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REVIEWER: New Kennedys Documentary Based on Book Is The 'Highlight' of New Oliver Stone "JFK" DVD Pak
Warner marries new JFK disc with doc
Ultimate Collector's Edition will be released Nov. 11
By Laurence Lerman -- Video Business, 10/23/2008
OCT. 23 | Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK has been issued on DVD several times over the past decade, but never with the with the kind of collectability and supplemental sheen that accompanies it in Warner Home Video’s upcoming JFK: Three-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition.
The highlight of the package—which includes the director’s cut of the film, a vintage documentary and featurettes, reproductions of Kennedy family and presidential photos, letters written by or to John F. Kennedy and more—is the new feature-length documentary The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings. Written, directed and produced by Robert Kline, the film will premiere on Nov. 10 at Boston College, a day before the Ultimate Collector's Edition is released. [Ed Note: In New York, it'll be shown at Fordham's Lincoln Center McNally Ampitheater on Nov. 12]
Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
The DVD set is priced at $39.98.
Kline is a former executive at 20th Century Fox, co-founder of the Lifetime Network and producer of Stone’s 1993 Vietnam saga Heaven & Earth. He based his Kennedy film on Thomas Maier’s 2003 book of the same name, which examines five generations of the renowned family.
“It couldn’t have been done without the total cooperation of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,” Kline told VB last week “They gave us a full-time archivist, and they never interfered creatively.”
As for the inclusion of the intensely researched documentary on the JFK: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, Jeff Baker, Warner’s senior VP/general manager of theatrical catalog, calls it “a marriage that a matchmaker dropped down from heaven.”
“We were planning on repromoting JFK anyway because of the 35th anniversary of the assassination,” he told us. “Oliver [Stone] gave us his blessing. He liked that we were marrying up his film with a documentary on the same subject. His visceral reaction was that it could be very interesting.”
America's Emerald Kings also will be available individually priced at $19.97.
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Mountain Music Museum to unveil Roy Acuff fiddle
From staff reports • Apr 28, 2018 at 6:30 PM
KINGSPORT — A rare fiddle, once owned by the late country music legend Roy Acuff, will be unveiled at the Mountain Music Museum on Tuesday, May 1. Members of the Acuff family will be present, and there will be live music and free admission during the celebration, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The fiddle is on loan to the museum for one year, courtesy of its owner, Lamar Peek, in memory of his late brother, Bobby, who purchased it at a pawn shop in Alabama. The fiddle received national attention last January, when a member of Peek’s family donated it to Goodwill in Kansas City without realizing its historical significance.
Goodwill initially placed the fiddle for auction online. Bidding reached $8,200 before Goodwill returned the fiddle to Peek, who donated $1,000 to Goodwill. The organization also received an $8,000 donation from Stacy Harris, a Nashville-based country music journalist.
After learning about the fiddle, the museum approached Peek to see if he would consider loaning it to be displayed as part of an existing Acuff exhibit. Peek agreed, and in April, he and museum Executive Director Rick Dollar met in Nashville to sign the paperwork and transfer the fiddle.
Peek discussed the fiddle during an interview with former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on his weekly program “Huckabee” on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The interview can be seen here: https://youtu.be/6DU_VyQ9wTo.
“We are grateful to Lamar Peek for his generosity and to Mike Huckabee for sharing the story of the fiddle on his show,” Dollar said.
The instrument was made in 1945 by the singer’s uncle, Evart Acuff, in Maryville, Tennessee, just south of Knoxville. Evart was an acclaimed fiddle maker in the region.
The fiddle will be unveiled at the museum, 316 Broad St. Admission during that period will be free. For information, call (423) 765-2552.
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Posted on July 10, 2019 by TomsWrite
Why has New Zealand suddenly guaranteed bank deposits?
Australians and New Zealanders alike should be very concerned about what’s happening in NZ’s banks, which are owned by Australia’s.
In a special episode of the CEC Report, Robert Barwick has interviewed real estate and financial expert Joe Wilkes, a veteran of the 2008 financial crisis in London now living in NZ, who is sounding the alarm about the NZ property market and banks. Click here to watch: What the hell is going on in Kiwi banks?
The New Zealand government has suddenly announced it will establish a guarantee for retail bank deposits, up to a limit of between NZ$30,000 and NZ$50,000. New Zealand has never had a deposit guarantee, except for a temporary one during the 2008 global financial crisis. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has always taken a hard line against a guarantee due to fears of “moral hazard”—that guaranteed banks would take more risks.
So why implement a guarantee now? Is it for the same reason the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed interest rates twice in two months to a new all-time low of 1 per cent? Is it an emergency response to a crisis they don’t want to publicly acknowledge?
Bail-in capital of the world
The guarantee is especially significant, as NZ is the bail-in capital of the world. It has the most explicit bail-in scheme to confiscate deposits to prop up failing banks, called Open Bank Resolution (OBR).
The RBNZ prides itself on its hard-line insistence on strict “market” discipline for the banks. It justifies the OBR bail-in system, for instance, by defining a depositor not as someone who has entrusted their money to the bank for safekeeping, but as an “investor” who has “freely invested in a private institution and has enjoyed a return on that investment whilst accepting the risks associated with the investment”.
This definition does not reflect how bank customers understand the relationship, which is one based on trust; moreover, it is a joke when assessing the “return” the “investors” have supposedly “enjoyed”: miserly deposit interest rates in no way compensate for the risk of bail-in. Worse, most Kiwis have no idea that their deposits can be bailed in (just as they had no idea that their deposits weren’t guaranteed), so how can they be expected to make a proper assessment of risk?
Unfortunately, Kiwis should not assume that the new guarantee will protect their deposits from bail-in. Unless it states so explicitly in legislation, the guarantee is only for paying out depositors when a bank fails, whereas bail-in is imposed before a bank fails.
Once-in-200-year event!
While the OBR bail-in system has been in place for several years, the RBNZ has also recently taken emergency measures to shore up the banks.
Earlier this year the RBNZ announced it wants the banks to dramatically increase their tier-1 capital—their buffer against losses—from 8.5 per cent, to 16 per cent. RBNZ governor Adrian Orr justified this steep increase by saying he wants the banks to be able to survive a once-in-200-year event.
The question is, just what sort of event does Orr anticipate?
The NZ banks and their Australian parents aren’t happy. In a submission to RBNZ against the higher capital requirement, the NZ Banking Association (NZBA) decided to side with their depositors, and say that they shouldn’t be required to have more capital for the same reason depositors shouldn’t be bailed in—that the RBNZ is responsible for anticipating crises, and therefore should bail the banks out.
It’s a bit rich that the banks are only defending their depositors against OBR bail-in now that they are being required to raise more capital. After all, OBR has been discussed since 2011 and has been in place for a number of years. Their argument against bail-in, however, is right.
Here’s what the NZBA submitted, in the form of an analysis by the Sapere Research Group:
“We have some concerns that the OBR is being assumed to provide a ‘bail-in’, whereas it seems to us highly unlikely that any government would allow all depositors in a major bank to take a haircut. Depositors would have a right to argue that the Reserve Bank should have seen this coming and that as the government’s designated regulator of the banks, the government should take the hit rather than the depositors. Depositors are poorly placed to monitor the performance of their banks in contrast to the regulators who have better information and a duty of care to the depositors. Requiring banks to hold additional Tier 1 capital would seem unlikely to be the most efficient method for managing these risks.” (Emphasis added.)
While the specific argument against bail-in is spot on, using it to argue against more capital didn’t wash. At a press conference on 29 May, Governor Orr ridiculed this submission as “astounding” and reiterated RBNZ’s insistence on more capital. The bottom line for NZ depositors is: expect to be bailed in, because the NZ authorities are going to need all the money they can get to prop up their banks!
The “once-in-200-year” event that Orr fears could come from multiple sources, or a combination of all of them. New Zealand like Australia is at the mercy of the global financial system, which is threatened by the crisis in Deutsche Bank, the fallout from the US-China trade war, and the US$1.2 quadrillion global derivatives bubble. As of the last time NZ’s bank derivatives were reported, in 2015, the country’s exposure was NZ$2.77 trillion.
New Zealand’s banks are also at the mercy of their Australian parents, which are staring down the barrel of a collapsing housing bubble that will likely bankrupt them; in the event of a crisis in the Australian banks, they are able to raid their NZ subsidiaries for capital, which could trigger a NZ crisis.
And NZ is capable of causing its own crisis, which, as in Australia, is likely to come from the deflating housing bubble that is as big in NZ as in Australia. As Joe Wilkes has often reported on Martin North’s Digital Finance Analytics YouTube channel, Auckland and Wellington had some of the highest prices in the world, but are now falling, and many large developments have ground to a halt. This is as much a crisis for the over-exposed banks as the over-extended borrowers trapped in negative equity. And the signs are especially bad for the largest bank, ANZ, which has most fiercely resisted the higher capital requirements; like its Australian parent it is hiding its derivatives exposure, and has suddenly lost its chief executive in the sort of scandal that seems to happen when a bank is covering up deeper problems.
Like Australia, NZ needs bank reform, starting with a Glass-Steagall separation of deposit-taking banks from speculation. Kiwis should join the Australian campaign for bank separation and contact their NZ MPs to demand they scrap bail-in and instead adopt Glass-Steagall to make the banks safe.
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Many writers try to capture the voice of an adolescent protagonist. Few of them succeed. Most of them sound like what they are: adults trying to sound like teenagers, and failing. In a few cases, in the best first-person coming-of-age novels, the authors manage to capture an authentic teenage voice.
Besides this authentic voice, however, these great novels have another thing in common: their protagonists are unusually sensitive, idealistic, mature, and/or intelligent. Simply put, they're a lot smarter -- or rather, a lot deeper -- than the average teenager.
And I suspect there's a simple reason for that: their authors are also deeper in certain ways than the average person. One of the reasons those authors can write so well is that they have much more than the ordinary amount of insight into themselves and into other people. They understand human nature so well.
Thus, even when great writers capture an authentic adolescent voice, their protagonists understand the world around them far better than most adolescents do. Even so, they remain adolescents. They don't know everything; they still have things to learn. And great writers know this. They understand their protagonists completely. They know what their protagonists know, and perhaps even more importantly, they know what their protagonists don't know.
Of course, this seems like an obvious point, but it is crucial to understanding the success of Twilight and why Stephenie Meyer is a great writer, but only "sort of," and only accidentally at that.
Because where Meyer is indeed great is in the way she captures an authentic adolescent voice: Bella Swan. Bella's voice is as true as that of any teen or child in American literature. I say that without qualification. At least in Twilight (the only one of the books I've read so far), Bella is just as real as Huck Finn, Holden Caulfield, Scout Finch, Josh Arnold, Reuven Malter, or any other protagonist in a great coming-of-age novel. She is completely authentic in her own way.
But this is not by Meyer's design. As I've said before (and as many other people have noted), in Twilight Meyer actually seems to believe she's telling a story about an intelligent, grounded, and mature girl whose self-esteem is a bit low, not a girl who is strikingly immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic. Bella constantly complains, blushes, stumbles, faints, gets tongue-tied around the opposite sex, feels embarrassed about being seen with her parents, freaks out when people look at her, and obsesses over a boy she hardly knows because he has bronze hair and golden eyes, yet every other character in the book seems to consider her mature and intelligent.
In other words, Meyer fails miserably at one of the things that the authors of truly great coming-of-age novels all do. She fails utterly at knowing her protagonist and especially at "knowing what her protagonist doesn't know." Nobody in the book realizes that Bella is immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic because Meyer doesn't realize it either.
Ironically, though, that is Twilight's greatest strength. Because think about what it's like to be an adolescent. I don't mean one of the unusually sensitive, idealistic, mature, and/or intelligent protagonists typical of a great coming-of-age novel, but just an ordinary, everyday teenager. To the extent one can generalize, "immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic" seems like a pretty reasonable description.
And lacking the unusually keen insight of truly great authors, Meyer doesn't realize that that's who Bella is. But that failure actually serves to make Bella's voice more authentic. Because typically immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic teens never realize that they are immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic. In fact, they always think that they are mature, deep, and intelligent. So Meyer's lack of insight actually causes her to accidentally capture that aspect of teenage psychology perfectly.
Indeed, almost everything that's bad about Meyer's writing makes Bella's voice more authentic. The one- and two-dimensional characters who can easily be summed up in short mocking descriptive phrases (e.g., Carlisle The Wise Leader, Esme The Motherly One, Alice The Nice One)? This reflects a typically narcissistic way of seeing the world that many teenagers have, in which people are defined solely by their roles relative to oneself: Parent, Teacher, Friend's Parent, etc. (Hence the disconcerted feeling that can arise when adolescents are somehow made to think of those people in different roles, the "Ewww!" at the thought of teachers having sex lives, for example.)
The purple prose, never having Bella "open the window and look out into the darkness" when she can have her "throw open the window and look into the night, her eyes scanning the darkness, the impenetrable shadows of the trees"? Adolescent love of melodrama.
And the odd values expressed in Twilight, the equating of beauty with goodness, and lack of beauty with badness or at least lack of any real importance, the extreme focus on romantic love as if it were the most valuable thing in the world, worth ignoring friends and deceiving family over, the viewing of unhealthy stalker-like behavior as proof of True Love? Well, how much more adolescent, how much more immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic can one get?
But Bella realizes none of this, of course. An "unreliable narrator" is
...a first-person narrator that for some reason has a compromised point-of-view. In all stories with a first-person narrator, the narrator serves as a filter for the events. What the narrator does not know or observe cannot be explained to the reader. Usually, however, the reader trusts that the narrator is knowledgeable and truthful enough to give them an accurate representation of the story. In the case of an unreliable narrator (sometimes called a fallible narrator), the reader has reason not to trust what the narrator is saying.
It's a fairly common literary device. Indeed, it's one that's been used in great American coming-of-age novels. Huck Finn (because of his age, his prejudices, and his good nature), Holden Caulfield (because of his idealism and his almost-craziness), and Scout Finch (because of her age) are all unreliable narrators to some degree.
But the use of an unreliable narrator as a literary device presupposes the author's intent. It presupposes, again, that the author knows what the narrator knows and what the narrator doesn't know. It presupposes that the author intentionally uses that knowledge to tell us something by letting us fill in the blanks in the narrator's knowledge.
But that is decidedly not the case with Stephenie Meyer and Twilight. Bella is indeed an unreliable narrator -- she doesn't see herself as she is -- but not because Meyer wants her to be. She's unreliable because Meyer doesn't see her as she is either. Meyer doesn't realize that there are any blanks to be filled in. Rather than creating a classic unreliable narrator, Stephenie Meyer has become an unreliable author.
And that's what makes her a great writer (sort of). Meyer captures an adolescent voice with a truly brilliant degree of authenticity, but she does it accidentally, with everything that makes her a truly bad writer making her even better at capturing that voice.
And that, I think, is the real reason Twilight has such deep appeal. The people who love the book so much are primarily immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic adolescent girls who recognize themselves in Bella's voice; women who have outgrown their own formerly immature, melodramatic, shallow, and narcissistic past selves and nostalgically recognize the voice of who they once were; and women who have never really outgrown those selves (including, one supposes, Meyer herself) and recognize a younger version of who they still are.
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Ben 12/08/2009 4:45 AM
Brilliant analysis. Thank you.
kuri 12/08/2009 6:57 AM
Thanks, Ben.
Urban Koda 12/08/2009 8:04 AM
I hadn't considered that angle to the writing. Simply Genius!!
Now to try and figure out why I, a guy in his mid thirties with 5 kids would enjoy such a book...
OakMonster 12/08/2009 9:52 AM
Deep.
Nah. I'm in it only for the eye candy. I found the whole storyline and Steph's taking liberty on the "monsters" ridiculous. Sparkly vampires? Shapeshifters which you go and call werewolves? Puh-lease!
Well, my analysis: http://www.oakmonster.com/2009/11/26/what-is-love/
kuri 12/08/2009 10:02 AM
Thanks, Koda. I have no idea why a guy would like the book. lol
Oakley,
Don't worry ;) the analysis applies only to the books, not the movies, and only to people who really love the books, the genuine twi-tards.
C. L. Hanson 12/11/2009 1:49 PM
Excellent insight!!
It's true that a lot of novel-land universes suffer from the author's need to validate his/her POV. So if it's a first-person narrative from the (potentially unreliable) POV of an adolescent, it actually works...
kuri 7/12/2013 2:49 PM
I agree that the essay is overly harsh on and stereotypes teens, something that jumps out at me now much more than it did when I wrote it. I regret that tone now.
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What I learned about justice from Dorothy Day
What kind of impact did influential Catholic reformer Dorothy Day have on those who knew her best?
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First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who was more of a praying person than Dorothy Day. When I think of her, I think of her first of all on her knees praying before the Blessed Sacrament. I think of those long lists of names she kept of people, living and dead, to pray for. I think of her at Mass, I think of her praying the rosary, I think of her going off for Confession each Saturday evening.
If you find the life of Dorothy Day inspiring, if you want to understand what gave her direction and courage and strength to persevere, her deep attentiveness to others, consider her spiritual and sacramental life.
“We feed the hungry, yes,” she said. “We try to shelter the homeless and give them clothes, but there is strong faith at work; we pray. If an outsider who comes to visit us doesn’t pay attention to our prayings and what that means, then he’ll miss the whole point.”
Second, Dorothy Day taught me that justice is not just a project for the government, do-good agencies, or radical movements designing a new social order in which all the world’s problems will be solved. It’s for you and me, here and now, right where we are.
Jesus did not say “Blessed are you who give contributions to charity” or “Blessed are you who are planning a just society.” He said, “Welcome into the Kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world, for I was hungry and you fed me.”
At the heart of what Dorothy did were the works of mercy. For her, these were not simply obligations the Lord imposed on his followers. As she said on one occasion to Robert Coles, “We are here to celebrate him through these works of mercy.”
Third: The most radical thing we can do is to try to find the face of Christ in others, and not only those we find it easy to be with but those who make us nervous, frighten us, alarm us, or even terrify us. “Those who cannot see the face of Christ in the poor,” Dorothy used to say, “are atheists indeed.”
Dorothy was an orthodox Catholic. This means she believed that Christ has left himself with us both in the Eucharist and in those in need. “What you did to the least person, you did to me.”
Her searching of faces for Christ’s presence extended to those who were her “enemies.” They were, she always tried to remember, victims of the very structures they were in charge of.
She sometimes recalled the advice she had been given by a fellow prisoner named Mary Ann, a prostitute, when she was in jail in Chicago in the early 1920s: “You must hold up your head high and give them no clue that you’re afraid of them or ready to beg them for anything, any favors whatsoever. But you must see them for what they are—never forget that they’re in jail too.”
Fourth, I learned that beauty is not just for the affluent. Tom Cornell tells the story of a donor coming into the Catholic Worker and giving Dorothy a diamond ring. Dorothy thanked her for it and put it in her pocket. Later a rather demented lady came in, one of the more irritating regulars at the house. Dorothy took the diamond ring out of her pocket and gave it to the woman.
Someone on the staff said to Dorothy, “Wouldn’t it have been better if we took the ring to the diamond exchange, sold it, and paid that woman’s rent for a year?”
Dorothy replied that the woman had her dignity and could do what she liked with the ring. She could sell it for rent money or take a trip to the Bahamas. Or she could enjoy wearing a diamond ring on her hand like the woman who gave it away. “Do you suppose,” Dorothy asked, “that God created diamonds only for the rich?”
Fifth, Dorothy taught me that meekness does not mean being weak-kneed. There is a place for outrage as well as a place for very plain speech in religious life.
She once told someone who was counseling her to speak in a more polite, temperate way, “I hold more temper in one minute than you will hold in your entire life.”
Or her lightning-like comment, “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
Sixth, I learned from Dorothy to take the “little way.” The phrase was one Dorothy borrowed from Saint Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower. Change starts not in the future but in the present, not in Washington or on Wall Street but where I stand.
Change begins not in the isolated dramatic gesture or the petition signed but in the ordinary actions of life, how I live minute to minute, what I do with my life, what I notice, what I respond to, the care and attention with which I listen, the way in which I respond.
As Dorothy once put it: “Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens—these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.”
Or again: “What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.”
What she tried to practice was “Christ’s technique,” as she put it, which was not to seek out meetings with emperors and important officials but with “obscure people, a few fishermen and farm people, a few ailing and hard-pressed men and women.”
Seventh, Dorothy taught me to love the church and at the same time to speak out honestly about its faults. She used to say that the net Saint Peter lowered when Christ made him a fisher of men caught “quite a few blowfish and not a few sharks.”
Dorothy said many times that “the church is the cross on which Christ is crucified.” When she saw the church taking the side of the rich and powerful, forgetting the weak, or saw bishops living in luxury while the poor are thrown the crumbs of “charity,” she said she knew that Christ was being insulted and once again being sent to his death.
“The church doesn’t only belong to the officials and bureaucrats,” she said. “It belongs to all people, and especially its most humble men and women and children.”
At the same time I learned from her not to focus on the human failings so obvious in every church, but rather to pay attention to what the church sets its sights on. We’re not here to pass judgment on our fellow believers, whatever their role in the church, but to live the gospel as wholeheartedly as we can and make the best use we can of the sacraments and every other resource the church offers to us.
“I didn't become a Catholic in order to purify the church,” Dorothy told Coles. “I knew someone, years ago, who kept telling me that if [the Catholic Workers] could purify the church, then she would convert. I thought she was teasing me when she first said that, but after a while I realized she meant what she kept saying.
“Finally, I told her I wasn’t trying to reform the church or take sides on all the issues the church was involved in; I was trying to be a loyal servant of the church Jesus had founded. She thought I was being facetious. She reminded me that I had been critical of capitalism and America, so why not Catholicism and Rome?
“My answer was that I had no reason to criticize Catholicism as a religion or Rome as the place where the Vatican is located.... As for Catholics all over the world, including members of the church, they are no better than lots of their worst critics, and maybe some of us Catholics are worse than our worst critics.”
Last but not least: I learned from Dorothy Day that I am here to follow Christ. Not the pope. Not the ecumenical patriarch. Not the president of the United States. Not even Dorothy Day or any other saint.
Christ has told us plainly about the Last Judgment, and it has nothing to do with belonging to the right church or being theologically correct. All the church can do is try to get us on the right track and keep us there. We will be judged not on membership cards but according to our readiness to let the mercy of God pass through us to others. “Love is the measure,” Dorothy said again and again, quoting Saint John of the Cross.
Hers was a day-to-day way of the cross, and just as truly the way of the open door. “It is the living from day to day,” she said, “taking no thought for the morrow, seeing Christ in all who come to us, and trying literally to follow the gospel that resulted in this work.”
Jim Forest began his association with Dorothy Day in 1961, when he moved to New York City to join the Catholic Worker community there. A recent convert to Catholicism, he had been discharged from the U.S. Navy as a conscientious objector.
Nearly 30 years earlier Day, together with Peter Maurin, began a Depression-era newspaper called The Catholic Worker. And from this early collaboration an entire movement was born—the Catholic Worker movement, which has become well known for its houses of hospitality for people in need and for its strong stance against injustice and violence.
Forest went on to become managing editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper, and it was his work on the paper that first put him in touch with Catholic monk Thomas Merton.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 1995 issue of Salt of the Earth magazine.
Jim Forest has been jailed several times for acts of civil disobedience, on one occasion for more than a year after burning draft records as a protest against the Vietnam War. His many books include biographies of Thomas Merton (Living With Wisdom) and Dorothy Day (All Is Grace). His latest is The Root of War is Fear: Thomas Merton's Advice to Peacemakers (Orbis Books).
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The Poisoned Chalice
Star Trek: The Fall
The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow
Release date: November 26th, 2013
Read November 27th 2013
Previous book (Titan): Fallen Gods
Previous book (The Fall): A Ceremony of Losses
Next book (The Fall): Peaceable Kingdoms
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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Poisoned Chalice and The Fall!
One simple act, and the troubles of the United Federation of Planets have grown darker overnight. The mystery behind the heinous terrorist attack that has rocked the Federation to its core grows ever deeper, and William Riker finds himself beset by rumors and half-truths as the U.S.S. Titan is ordered back to Earth on emergency orders from the admiralty. Soon, Riker finds himself drawn into a game of political intrigue, bearing witness to members of Starfleet being detained—including people he considered friends—pending an investigation at the highest levels. And while Riker tries to navigate the corridors of power, Titan’s tactical officer, Tuvok, is given a series of clandestine orders that lead him into a gray world of secrets, lies, and deniable operations. Who can be trusted when the law falls silent and justice becomes a quest for revenge? For the crew of the U.S.S. Titan, the search for answers will become a battle for every ideal the Federation stands for. . . .
How is it possible that the books of The Fall just keep getting better and better? The Crimson Shadow was simply outstanding, at a level that I thought would be impossible to match. Then comes A Ceremony of Losses, and I have to eat my words, as David Mack more than rose to the occasion. But that level of quality story-telling couldn't possibly be maintained, could it? It turns out that it can, as James Swallow hits another one out of the park with this month's The Poisoned Chalice.
The Poisoned Chalice continues the two main story threads that have come up so far in The Fall: the fall-out from the assassination of President Bacco, including the rise of the morally-ambiguous Ishan Anjar, and the solution to the Andorian reproductive crisis and the repercussions for Dr. Julian Bashir and his "co-conspirators." James Swallow deftly handles both threads extremely well, bringing them together in the end in a creative and entertaining way.
The events in the book can be seen as parallels to events and issues in the real world. While some of these parallels are fairly obvious, it is still worth examining them. For example, the members of the "Active Four" group encounter a "black site" maintained by an ally of the Federation, the Klingons. In many ways, this black site is reminiscent of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. Similarly, the Ishan regime's methods of pinning a terrorist attack on the Typhon Pact instead of the true perpetrators brings to mind the initial justification for the attack and invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2004.
Earlier, I mentioned the group called "Active Four," a paramilitary unit activated by the President pro tem's chief of staff in order to capture or otherwise neutralize the President's assassins. This group consists of Nog, Tuvok, another member of Starfleet, a Federation "marine," and a few civilian mercenaries, including a familiar face we haven't seen in some time: William Riker's transporter twin "brother," Thomas Riker! I've long been curious as to his fate, and I'm overjoyed that James Swallow was able to use him here.
It was a pleasant surprise to see Thomas Riker playing a part in this novel!
The original characters created by Swallow are interesting enough, but what I truly enjoyed was his use of the regular characters. Nog and Tuvok are especially well-written, and I really enjoyed the interactions between the two of them. Similarly, Swallow has a great handle on the literature-only characters such as Admiral Akaar and the members of the Titan crew, including my favorite, Ensign Torvig Bu-Kar-Nguv (usually shortened to Ensign Torvig). I have previously not been a big fan of Titan's first officer, Commander Christine Vale, but this book has done a great deal to change my opinion of her. She receives a short-lived commission as commander of the U.S.S. Lionheart, and her actions and how she was written really redeemed the character in my eyes. Similarly, I've never been very impressed with Tuvok, but his role in this novel is very well-written, and I found myself really empathizing with him.
Tuvok has never been one of my favorite characters, but James Swallow has
written him in a very compelling way while still remaining true to his character.
As I've said above, I was blown away by this novel. However, if I were to search high and low for one small quibble, it would be the speed at which the Titan seems to have returned to Earth. Previously, she had been out in the far reaches of the Beta Quadrant exploring the fringes of known space. However, she made it back to Earth on what seems to be very short notice. However, as I said, this is a very minor quibble, and if this is the quality of the story we get, I'm okay with the assumption that they found a short-cut!
Absolutely stellar. I thought that I had already figured out what the best Star Trek novel of 2013 would be. Now, I'm not so sure. James Swallow has advanced the story of The Fall in an extremely compelling way. I found myself staying awake into the wee hours saying "just one more chapter" over and over again. Well done. Dayton Ward certainly has his work cut out for him in the conclusion! I can't wait to see how this all turns out. 5 out of 5, would read again!
TrekBBS discussion and review thread for The Poisoned Chalice
Interview: James Swallow on Trekcore.com
Podcast: Literary Treks 45: Out of Your Comfort Zone - James Swallow discusses The Poisoned Chalice
Also by James Swallow:
Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers (2008)
Star Trek: Titan: Synthesis (2009)
Star Trek: Cast No Shadow (2011)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Stuff of Dreams (2013)
Star Trek: Titan: Sight Unseen (2015)
Star Trek: The Original Series: The Latter Fire (2016)
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself (2018)
Revelation and Dust by David R. George III
The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack
A Ceremony of Losses by David Mack
Peaceable Kingdoms by Dayton Ward
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Cover and blurb for 2014's Voyager: Protectors!
Simon and Schuster have released the cover for the much-anticipated continuation of the Voyager relaunch, Protectors by Kirsten Beyer. Check it out below, along with the back-cover blurb!
Following the destruction of four fleet vessels at the hands of the Omega Continuum, the U.S.S. Voyager and U.S.S. Demeter set course for a region of the Delta Quadrant far beyond anything previously explored. Captain Chakotay is determined to prove to Starfleet Command that the fleet’s ongoing mission is vital to Federation interests…and the key to doing so may lie in a distress call Voyager received nine years earlier, but could not investigate. Meanwhile, Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway is recalled to the Alpha Quadrant for an evaluation period to determine her next assignment. Given the trauma she has recently endured, Admiral Akaar, Starfleet’s Commander-in-Chief, questions Janeway’s fitness to command the fleet. Janeway’s primary concern remains the fleet’s safety. For their mission to continue, she must find a way to secure the resources they require. But the uncertainty of her superior officers has left her powerless to act in their best interests...
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Release Day! The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice
Hey everyone! A new feature here at Trek Lit Reviews will be a day-of-release announcement for all new releases, with a publisher's description and links to purchase. So, without further ado, here's this month's new release: Star Trek: The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow! The Poisoned Chalice is available now! Pick it up wherever books are sold, or download the e-book version.
My Review of The Poisoned Chalice
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Previous Release: The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses
Next Release: The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms
Invincible, Part Two
Star Trek: S.C.E. #8
Invincible, Part Two by David Mack and Keith R.A. Decandido
Re-released in print form as part of the S.C.E. compilation Miracle Workers in February 2002.
Read March 4th 2013
Previous ebook (S.C.E.): #7: Invincible, Part One
Next ebook (S.C.E.): #9: The Riddled Post
Original ebook cover
Compilation of S.C.E. #5 - 8: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk
Spoilers ahead for Invincible, Part One and the rest of the Corps of Engineers series!
Long believed to be just a Nalori myth, the shii has turned out to be devastatingly real! The monster -- seemingly invulnerable, undeniably powerful, and completely ruthless -- has carved a swath through the Nalori construction project on the crystal planet of Sarindar. The project's supervisor, Commander Sonya Gomez, must find a way to stop the deadly creature before it destroys the entire project and its workers.
But when the truth behind the shii is revealed, Gomez realizes that even one of the S.C.E.'s top officers may not be able to solve every problem...
Part two of this story amps up the stakes and the drama, as a second "monster shii" conducts a murderous rampage, killing many of the workers assigned to Sarindar. As Commander Gomez attempts to discover the true nature of this violent animal, she finds herself abandoned, both by the workers she is assigned to lead and by the government that has enlisted her services.
At its heart, Invincible is an exploration of the character of Gomez in the face of extreme difficulty and hardship. The mystery of the shii and why it is attacking the work camp is a vexing one, and attempts to communicate or come to some sort of understanding are ultimately futile. While the search for a technological or diplomatic solution is admirable, in the end, it comes down to the use of brute force and ingenuity to overcome the threat. The story is a good examination of Gomez's character, and the solutions she improvises are certainly creative and worthy of an engineer's mind.
In my review of Part One, I mentioned that I was fascinated by the character of Zilder, an evangelistic Bolian, and was curious about where the authors would take his character. As it turns out, where they took him wasn't very far; Zilder is one of the earliest casualties of the monster shii in part two!
In part two, the conceit of telling the story through log entries and "tricorder transcripts" continues. While it is an interesting way to present the story, it does tend to become a little tiresome towards the end. The log entries are just a little too detailed to be taken as such, and I wonder what this story would have been like told in a more traditional manner.
Sonya Gomez has come a long way since her days as an ensign aboard the Enterprise-D.
Sonya Gomez has come a long way from the young, green ensign we saw in TNG's "Q Who" and "Samaritan Snare." Mack and DeCandido present her as a competent engineer who, while still experiencing a certain level of self-doubt, is very much up to the tasks before her. It was fun to follow her on this journey, although the log and transcript method of telling the story did tend to distract, especially towards the end.
This review marks the end of the second collection of S.C.E. stories, Miracle Workers. I intend to continue to read and review the stories of the Corps of Engineers in the future, as well as more traditional Trek novels, including new releases. Speaking of new releases, I'm currently reading the fourth book in The Fall, James Swallow's The Poisoned Chalice, featuring Riker and the crew of the U.S.S. Titan. Look for a week-of-release review!
Labels: David Mack, Keith R. A. DeCandido, review, sce
TatV: TOS Season One, now available in the UK and Europe!
Hey everyone, just a quick post to let you know that Marc Cushman's These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season One has just been released in European markets. Customers in the UK, France, and Germany, you can now click the links below to get your copy, along with a link for customers in the US! Also pictured below is the brand new final cover for this edition. Enjoy!
Click to purchase from Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.fr | Amazon.de
You may also click here to read my review of These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season One.
These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season Two will be available to purchase early in 2014.
Invincible, Part One
Invincible, Part One of Two by David Mack and Keith R.A. Decandido
Previous ebook (S.C.E.): #6: Cold Fusion
Next ebook (S.C.E.): #8: Invincible, Part Two of Two
One of the SCE's top officers, Commander Sonya Gomez, is assigned to supervise a project on the crystal planet of Sarindar -- helping the reclusive and hostile Nalori harness a valuable new ore. Morale is low and the project is behind schedule. Gomez must get the workers up to speed and on track -- a task made more difficult by the Nalori workers, who do not want her there even though their government does.
Just when Gomez begins to gain their trust, two workers are killed by a mysterious local animal called a shii. Gomez must learn the secret of the shii before it kills again...
In Invincible, we learn what Commander Sonya Gomez was up to while the rest of the da Vinci crew battled the Androssi for control of Empok Nor. The reclusive and somewhat xenophobic Nalori have invited Starfleet to assist them in extracting a mineral called chimerium from one of their planets, Sarindar. Gomez is sent to take charge of the project, which has been marred by setback after setback. At first, the workers resent her presence, both because she is from the Federation and because she is a woman. However, Gomez manages to begin to get the project back on track despite the attitude of the workers under her command. However, things take a turn for the worse when a large creature, seemingly an oversized "shii," attacks the work camp. When the creature is killed by Gomez, the threat seems to be over. Unfortunately, as part one comes to a close, it is apparent that the danger is far greater than initially believed...
Invincible is a different sort of story from what most readers of Star Trek fiction would typically be used to. Told in series of log entries and letters, the narrative is presented in the first-person, a rarity for Trek fiction. The style works for the story, for the most part. Of course, Gomez's log entries are far more detailed and verbose than the one or two sentence entries we usually got during the various Trek television series.
In the course of the story, we learn a little more about Commander Gomez and her career in Starfleet since her two appearances in the second season of The Next Generation. There are also some interesting revelations about the currently-in-limbo relationship between Gomez and Duffy. In addition, a few of the secondary characters get some interesting development. In particular, I enjoyed learning about Kejahna, the Nalori "second in command" of the Sarindar project. Also of note is a Bolian by the name of Zilder, who turns out to be an evangelical believer who tries to convert everyone he encounters. Evangelism is something that isn't explored all that often in Star Trek, so I'm curious to see where his story goes in part two.
A very interesting setup here in part one, and a cliffhanger ending that makes me eager to find out what happens. The first-person narrative style is interesting, and a departure from the norm is always welcome. Good character development and a suspenseful tone made this story one worth reading. Here's hoping that the payoff in part two is just as good!
Next review: S.C.E. #8: Invincible, Part Two by David Mack and Keith R.A. DeCandido.
Cold Fusion by Keith R.A. Decandido
Published July 2001
Previous ebook (S.C.E.): #5: Interphase, Part Two
Next ebook (S.C.E.): #7: Invincible, Part One
Spoilers ahead for Cold Fusion, the rest of the Corps of Engineers series, and the events of the Deep Space Nine relaunch novels Avatar, Book One and Book Two!
Following the catastrophic conclusion of Avatar, Lieutenant Nog -- the chief operations officer of space station Deep Space 9 -- joins forces with the crew of the USS da Vinci!
With the station's future in doubt, Nog meets the da Vinci at Empok Nor, Deep Space 9's long-abandoned twin, in order to salvage vital technology. But they arrive to find that someone has beaten them to it -- an enigmatic and dangerous alien race known as the Androssi. When the SCE crew learns what the Androssi have planned for Empok Nor, it threatens not only the lives of the da Vinci and Deep Space 9 crews, but galactic peace itself!
The sixth S.C.E. story is a bit of a departure from stories we've gotten so far. A tie-in to the Deep Space Nine relaunch series, Cold Fusion contributes to the on-going story taking place in those novels.
Cold Fusion takes place shortly after the events detailed in the Avatar two-parter. Deep Space Nine is on emergency battery power, having lost her fusion core during an incident with rogue Jem'Hadar forces. DS9's chief engineer, Lieutenant Nog, has a daring plan to replace it. He intends to salvage the fusion core from the abandoned Empok Nor, featured in a number of episodes of DS9. Rather than removing the core and transporting it to Deep Space Nine, Nog proposes tractoring the entire station to Bajoran space, where it can be used for spare parts indefinitely. This ambitious plan is set in motion with the help of the S.C.E., specifically, the crew of the intrepid starship da Vinci.
Cold Fusion chronicles the attempt to tractor Empok Nor to Deep Space Nine to use for spare parts.
I like the idea of tying in the S.C.E. crew to the goings-on of the wider novel continuity, and it was nice to have the connection to the DS9 relaunch in particular (having recently reviewed the Avatar two-parter). It's possible that the idea was to bring in readers of the DS9 novels to the S.C.E. world by having a tie-in story. In any case, the S.C.E. crew were a good fit for the story that was told, and it was a good decision to do this crossover.
One aspect of the story that annoyed me somewhat was the condescending attitude that the team from the da Vinci had towards Nog. They were dismissive of his ideas and had little to no respect for his expertise. I've slowly begun to really like the S.C.E. crew, and I have to admit that they disappointed me here. In the end, of course, Nog proves his abilities and is better appreciated by the engineers. However, the initial dismissive attitude towards him was a little vexing.
Lt. Nog of DS9 guest-stars in Cold Fusion.
The main antagonists of the story are the Androssi, introduced in this story for the first time. They would later be used in the novel A Time to Be Born. I enjoyed the implied backstory between the Androssi and the S.C.E. crew. While I would like to have known more about the past encounters, the references to their previous engagements were used to good effect.
Another enjoyable entry in the S.C.E. series. The tie-in to DS9 was a nice touch, and while the attitudes of the da Vinci crew towards Nog were annoying, I appreciated that they came to respect him in the end. With this story, we begin to see the hints of a larger shared continuity beyond just the Deep Space Nine relaunch series, something that I greatly come to appreciate as the prime Trek universe continues to mature in the novels beyond Star Trek Nemesis.
Also by Keith R.A. DeCandido:
Star Trek: S.C.E. #2: Fatal Error (2000)
Star Trek: The Next Generation #61: Diplomatic Implausibility (2001)
Star Trek: S.C.E. #7: Invincible, Part One of Two with David Mack (2001)
Star Trek: S.C.E. #8: Invincible, Part Two of Two with David Mack (2001)
Gateways, Book Four: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Demons of Air and Darkness (2001)
"Horn and Ivory" from Star Trek: Gateways, Book Seven: What Lay Beyond (2001)
Star Trek: S.C.E. #10: Here There Be Monsters (2001)
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Book One: A Good Day to Die (2003)
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Book Two: Honor Bound (2003)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Time for War, A Time for Peace (2004)
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Ferenginar: Satisfaction Is Not Guaranteed (2005)
Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon, Book Three: Enemy Territory (2005)
Star Trek: Articles of the Federation (2005)
Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House (2008)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Slings and Arrows, Book VI: Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment (2008)
The Klingon Art of War (2014)
Next up: S.C.E. #7: Invincible, Part One by Keith R.A. DeCandido and David Mack.
Labels: Keith R. A. DeCandido, review, sce
Interphase, Part Two
Interphase, Part Two of Two by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
Published March 2001
Read February 3rd 2013
Previous ebook (S.C.E.): #4: Interphase, Part One of Two
Next ebook (S.C.E.): #6: Cold Fusion
Spoilers ahead for Interphase, Part Two and the rest of the Corps of Engineers series!
With Captain David Gold and an away team trapped on the other side of an interdimensional rift, Lieutenant Commander Kieran Duffy finds himself in command of the U.S.S. da Vinci just as the ship comes under attack by the Tholians. The enemy is armed with a new and improved version of their infamous energy web and the da Vinci is badly outnumbered, but fleeing the battle means abandoning the captain and others to an unknown fate outside this universe. There, marooned aboard a derelict vessel, Gold and his S.C.E. team struggle to keep the madness-inducing effects of the rift from driving them to suicide and murder before they can find a way to escape the realm of Interphase.
The mission to recover the U.S.S. Defiant, lost for a century in spatial interphase, takes a dark turn when the daVinci is attacked by the Tholians. Responding the the discovery of a Tholian device aboard the Defiant, the Tholians' attack is designed to prevent a terrible secret from getting out. The Defiant is pulled back into the interphasic rift, and the boarding party is cut off from the rest of the crew aboard the daVinci.
Part two continues the fast-paced action and suspense of part one quite well. In this story, the crew lives up to their name as the away team must think their way out of their predicament in a manner that only engineers truly can.
The Tholians remain one of my favorite "antagonistic" races in Star Trek, and any opportunity to explore this mysterious species is welcome. They are used to good effect in Interphase, and their actions are "other-worldly" enough that they don't simply come across as another race of "bad guys." Their motivations and behavior are truly "alien," and difficult to comprehend.
Tholians: wholly alien
One thing that surprised me reading this story was the tie-in to the Vanguard series of novels. Of course, this story was written years before Vanguard came about, so the genius really is in that later series, but that is not the order in which I read them. The mysterious Tholian device being carried by the Defiant? We learn its true purpose in the course of the Vanguard novel series, and let me tell you, its purpose is pretty far from benign. The Tholians were right in their desire to not allow it to be discovered.
Hey, cool. This is my 100th Review!
As I mentioned in my review of part one, the events of this story are superseded by the "canon" version of the Defiant's ultimate fate, as seen in the Enterprise two-parter "In a Mirror, Darkly." This fact does not take away from this story whatsoever. Interphase is a fun and compelling "version" of the Defiant's story, and the unexpected tie-in to the Vanguard series was a fun thing to discover. This two-parter showcases what the Corps of Engineers series can truly be: exciting, imaginative, and a welcome addition to the world of Trek!
There is room in Star Trek for more than one ultimate fate of the Defiant!
Also by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore:
Star Trek: S.C.E. # 4: Interphase, Part One (2001)
Star Trek: A Time to Sow (2004)
Star Trek: A Time to Harvest (2004)
Star Trek: Mere Anarchy, Book 1: Things Fall Apart with Kevin Dilmore (2006)
Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come (2011)
Star Trek: Seekers #2: Point of Divergence (2014)
Star Trek: Seekers #4: All That's Left (2015)
Star Trek: Legacies, Book 3: Purgatory's Key (2016)
Next up is S.C.E. #6: Cold Fusion by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
Labels: Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, review, sce
A Ceremony of Losses
Read October 22nd, 2013
Previous book (The Fall): The Crimson Shadow
Next book (The Fall): The Poisoned Chalice
Purchasing Links: A Ceremony of Losses from Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk
Spoilers ahead for A Ceremony of Losses and The Fall!
Despite heroic efforts by Thirishar ch’Thane, the Andorian species is headed for extinction. Its slow march toward oblivion has reached a tipping point, one from which there will be no hope of return.
THE NEEDS OF THE FEW
With countless lives at stake, the leaders of Andor, the Federation, and the Typhon Pact all scheme to twist the crisis to their political gain—at any price.
THE NEEDS OF THE ONE
Unwilling to be a mere bystander to tragedy, Doctor Julian Bashir risks everything to find a cure for the Andorians. But his courage will come at a terrible cost: his career, his freedom . . . and maybe his life.
After Una McCormack’s absolutely stellar The Crimson Shadow, how could another book in The Fall possibly measure up?
Quite well, as it turns out.
I do not envy David Mack's task of having to follow Una McCormack's fantastic entry in The Fall, but unsurprisingly, he handles the task with his usual aplomb. A Ceremony of Losses continues the story of the Andorian reproductive crisis; a story-line that, surprisingly, has now been with us for over a decade. Against the backdrop of the recent tragic events that have befallen the Federation, Dr. Julian Bashir embarks on a personal mission of mercy to help solve the Andorians’ dilemma. His plan is to access the Shedai meta genome, and act which, if discovered, would led to the end of his Starfleet career at best, and at worst, charges of treason and a life in prison. The meta genome is the Federation’s most closely-guarded secret, possibly for good reason. Featured in the unparalleled book series, Vanguard, the Shedai meta genome was discovered by Starfleet a century earlier. Its discovery and the fallout from that event led to a short but brutal conflict with the Tholian Assembly. In addition, while the meta genome could yield a plethora of benefits, the knowledge it contains could also be used in very destructive ways. In fact, Project Genesis was derived from information in the meta genome, a device that could be used as a devastating weapon. Needless to say, Starfleet and the Federation will do everything it can to ensure that the information contained in the meta genome stays under lock and key.
Dr. Bashir must overcome overwhelming odds in his fight to bring a cure to the Andorians.
It is against all of this that Bashir must struggle to find a cure for the Andorian people. This herculean task is the ultimate embodiment of Bashir's frequent "uphill battles," famously enacted in the holosuites on DS9 through the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Thermopylae. Instead of a small force of Texans holding out against a vast Mexican army or 7000 Spartans against a force of 100,000 Persians, Bashir and a few genetic scientists must go up against the entire might of Starfleet and the Federation, as well as a reactionary Andorian government that would rather consolidate its hold on power than allow their people to be cured.
A Ceremony of Losses touches on a lot of topics that are worth deep examination. The political party in power on Andor is very right-wing and reactionary, and their base is very much against science and anything that goes against their religious beliefs. Key to maintaining their power is getting their base riled up and ready to fight. The "President Pro Tem" of the Federation, a Bajoran by the name of Ishan Anjar, is also extremely reactionary and a true "warhawk." Quick to anger and looking to score cheap politcal points at the expense of the prudent course of action, Ishan's (hopefully short) regime is a stark contrast to the presidency of Nanietta Bacco. It is in the middle of this charged political climate that Bashir finds himself.
As usual, David Mack handles the characters in his book as expertly as he does the grand, epic plots. In particular, the strained-of-late relationship between Bashir and Dax gets some very welcome development, and I'm eager to see where it goes in future novels. Also, this novel features the return for one of my favorite lit-only characters: Thirishar Ch'Thane, formerly the science officer of Deep Space Nine.
Thirishar Ch'Thane ('Shar'), formerly of Deep Space Nine.
A Ceremony of Losses, much like David R. George III's Revelation and Dust, leaves several plot points dangling at the end. A few of these are obviously specific to The Fall and will be picked up in the remaining two books in the series. However, Bashir's story in particular looks to be continued in David Mack's 2014 novel, Section 31: Disavowed, which is set to be released toward the end of next year. In addition, due to the lack of mention of the plot points revealed at the end of Revelation and Dust in this novel, we can probably assume that those stories will be continued in another novel further along in the DS9 story, and will not feature in The Fall.
I was a little worried about being disappointed after the high level of quality of Una McCormack's The Crimson Shadow, but my fears were completely unfounded. Truly, this is unsurprising, as I have yet to be disappointed by anything of David Mack's that I have read. He keeps his streak going with A Ceremony of Losses. This epic and far-reaching entry in The Fall will be an influence on story-lines going forward for many novels to come. As usual, Mack remains secure in his position as one of my favorite Trek-lit authors of all time. Another winner! 4/5 stars.
Blink and you'll miss it...
In one of my favorite references to something outside of Star Trek EVER, keep an eye out for a hilarious call-out to the animated series Pinky and the Brain.
TrekBBS discussion and review thread for A Ceremony of Losses
Interview: David Mack on Trekcore.com
Podcast: Literary Treks 42: Beset by Serpents - David Mack discusses A Ceremony of Losses
Also by David Mack:
Star Trek: S.C.E. #7: Invincible, Part One of Two with Keith R.A. DeCandido (2001)
Star Trek: S.C.E. #8: Invincible, Part Two of Two with Keith R.A. DeCandido (2001)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Time to Kill (2004)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Time to Heal (2004)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warpath (2006)
Star Trek: Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind (2007)
Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice (2009)
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: The Sorrows of Empire, expanded edition (2010)
"The Stars Look Down" from Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified (2011)
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions (2011)
Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven (2012)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations, Book I: The Persistence of Memory (2012)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations, Book II: Silent Weapons (2012)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations, Book III: The Body Electric (2013)
Star Trek: Seekers #1: Second Nature (2014)
Star Trek: Section 31: Disavowed (2014)
Star Trek: Seekers #3: Long Shot (2015)
Star Trek: Legacies, Book 2: Best Defense (2016)
Star Trek: Section 31: Control (2017)
Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours (2017)
Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War (2017)
Look for my reviews of the stories from the second volume of S.C.E., titled Miracle Workers. First up: Interphase, Part 2 by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.
Labels: David Mack, DS9, review, The Fall
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Fighting World War I in the woods of the Pacific Northwest
World War I in the Pacific Northwest saw the discovery of a new strategic war material, the Sitka Spruce, that supported a rapidly growing new war technology, the combat aircraft. Getting the spruce out of the forests while a rapidly growing and aggressive labor movement began to take charge of the woods was a major challenge. Added to a volatile labor issue was a fundamental change in how the Spruce was harvested and milled along with an exploding, world-wide demand. And don’t forget another ingredient, the deadliest epidemic of modern times, the so-called Spanish Flu. Finally, let’s add in four events that just scared the hell out of people. The Everett Massacre just before the US entry into the war, the Centralia Massacre, on the first anniversary of the armistice, The Seattle General Strike and the Russian Revolution.
Everett Library Northwest Collection
The first event was the Everett Massacre in November of 1916. In support of a Shingle Weaver’s Union strike in Everett, two boats containing 300 men chartered in Seattle by the Industrial Workers of the World attempted to land at an Everett dock.
As the passengers on the first boat, the Verona, approached, they were greeted by 200 armed men deputized by Snohomish County Sheriff Don McCrae. The Sheriff and his deputies believed that the IWW radicals were going to burn down their city and Sheriff McCrae shouted at the men on the boats that they were not going tie up in Everett. There was a shot, stunned silence for half a breath, and then an enormous barrage that killed five on the boat and two on the dock and wounding many. It is quite possible that others on the boat were killed but never found as they fell, wounded or dead, into the receding tide.
Jack Miller, last surviving passenger on the Verona.
He died in 1986. This is his booking picture taken the day
after Bloody Sunday
When the Verona and the Calista returned to Seattle, 30 miles south, many who had been on those boats were arrested and returned to Everett. Ultimately, only one person on the Verona was tried for murder and he was acquitted. No one on the dock was tried.
Another event was the Centralia Massacre. Four young veterans were killed, along with a Lewis County deputy sheriff and an IWW veteran during a November 11, 1919 parade celebrating the first anniversary of the Armistice. The IWW had opposed America’s fighting in Europe and had tried to close the woods with a vigorously enforced strike over the eight hour day and the appalling conditions for loggers even as timber was becoming a critically important part of the war effort.
Clockwise, from left. Ben Casagranda, Warren Grimm,
Arthur McElfresh, Dale Hubbard, Legionnaires killed.
The IWW and the citizens of Centralia had tangled the year before during a parade and the IWW hall had been destroyed and its inhabitants beaten. This time, the seven men waiting in the union hall were armed and they had stationed other armed men with line of sight to the hall.
The men in the parade were set on violence, prepared for it and, as expected, charged the hall. While it is not entirely clear, I think it is more likely than not that the Wobblies fired first. Two in the parade died immediately and two others were shot by Wesley Everest, a veteran and IWW organizer, as he dashed out the back door and was cornered. Everest was captured, jailed and later mutilated and lynched by a mob who broke into the jail and hung him on a bridge over the Skookumchuck River.
In between these events, the Spanish Flu ebbed and flowed, piling up the bodies of far more people than the fighting in Europe or at home.
Perry Cross
At this moment John Cross, who preferred his middle name, Perry, reported for duty in the US Army at the Vancouver Barracks, across the Columbia River from Portland. Cross was homesteading and making moonshine near the Crook County village of Hampton, Oregon 60 miles southeast of Bend in what is the northern edge of the Great Sandy Desert. His mother, Mary was with him as was his older brother, Frank. Hampton had enough rain to support cattle then and even had a post office, which would close in 1953. The cattle were mostly gone by the time Perry left his claim as the desert crept north.
The picture here shows him in a US Navy uniform. It’s hard to read on his cap the ship he’s assigned to, but it’s the Charleston. The ship was stationed at the Bremerton Navy Yard between 1912 and 1916 and served as a “receiving ship,” a temporary assignment for new recruits until things got sorted out and a permanent assignment for the recruit was found.
The USS Charleston on Puget Sound
The temporary assignment never got permanent and Cross left the Navy after just five months, likely sometime in 1916, I believe. When he registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, he noted his Navy experience and wrote that he had been a coal passer, a person with a shovel at the interface of a very hot fire and a very large pile of coal. Clearly, the Navy assignment didn’t go well for Perry. Perhaps he couldn’t stand the dust, heat and noise in the bowels of the Charleston, or perhaps he busted something up in Bremerton, maybe a colleague. His kids think the jagged scar on his throat stemmed from that time.
Spruce Loggers
Note that they are splitting this log in two, lengthwise
Cross was thirty when he registered for the draft, which would put him at the high end of the draftee manpower pool. Perhaps that was the reason for his assignment to the Vancouver Barracks, a place where he and 30,000 other soldiers reported to the Spruce Production Division and fanned out across the Northwest to logging camps. His assignment was a camp not far from Grays Harbor, along a narrow band of the Pacific coast where the Spruce thrived. It had become a strategic war material critical for use in wood frame airplanes.
The combination of strength and flexibility made the Sitka Spruce the ideal wood for the cloth covered bombers and fighters used by the allies. British airframe manufacturers had identified the value of Sitka Spruce and had tested it in British Columbia in 1914. As Europe began blundering into war, they decided it was by far the best airplane material for their air force, overtaking Fir, not as strong and 35% heavier than Sitka Spruce.
Spruce Production Division
Meeting the design requirements for aircraft quality wood was difficult and the demand for properly prepared Sitka Spruce seemed impossible meet. There could be no knots of any kind in the wood. Knots created weak points unable to stand up to the stresses of flying. Milling the wood to keep the grain in the wood at its strongest, required techniques not invented before the war. Initially, only ten percent of the Spruce tree would meet design requirements after it was milled. Drying the wood properly took many months. But national security is a powerful motivator and problems got solved with enough money and men. Work at the University of Wisconsin led to a new technique that would dry the wood in a matter of days and loggers started splitting the wood in the field to keep the grain intact and also made the giant logs more manageable.
Demand was massive. At the beginning of World War I, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy and the United States had just 688 warplanes between them and they played a limited role in combat strategy. By the end of the war, the allies were flying more than 12,000 combat aircraft in many different strategic roles. There were long range bombers, anti-submarine aircraft, torpedo fighters and many other specialized planes being built and deployed. Aircraft were also falling out of the sky in astonishing numbers. France, England and Russia lost 116,000 planes in just four years.
Price for Sitka Spruce was twice what Fir could command and airplane quality wood was selling at $105/thousand board feet. Despite a strong price incentive, the demand continued to exceed delivery. According to the Lumberman, an industry publication in Portland, there just weren’t enough workers in the woods. Combined with the technical problems and the difficulty of getting equipment to the right stands of trees, production of aircraft quality wood was well-below the expectations of the war managers. The workforce left in the woods was unreliable and highly politicized. Many former loggers were now fighting or working in European forests and the percentage of IWW men in the woods was higher than ever before. Their strikes, slowdowns and industrial sabotage was becoming a national issue. In 1917, the Lumberman published a tough editorial outlining the problem:
“In the Spruce camps of Oregon and Washington are to be found a steadily decreasing number of Americans...Among the men of the woods there is to be found a certain percentage who have developed an outright antagonism to this
country and its institutions. We will not stop to consider or analyze the causes of their mental attitude. They are bitter. They have no interest in the nation’s affairs at home and are not concerned with its success on the battlefields. Their resentment is manifest. Their influence for evil is world-wide.
The nation must rise to the emergency. This is not the time to quibble over hours, or the price of logs or the percentage of acceptable grades. This is a national crisis. To delay action with the view of harmonizing individualistic views is well nigh treasonable. Unionism and employers’ associations should be forgotten while the insidious, stealthy and criminal acts of sabotage should, upon conviction, be met by death.”
Military intelligence had labeled the woods of the Pacific Northwest a volcano ready to explode. The war department decided that a fresh set of eyes were necessary and they found them in a retired Lieutenant Colonel who had, before the war, decided to start a new career as the warden of the Michigan State Prison System. As the American entry into the war became more evident, Brice Disque wanted to get into the European fight as an infantry commander and was lobbying the army for a command. Instead, he was asked to remain a civilian and make a study of the situation in the Pacific Northwest forests and bring back recommendations to meet the demand for Sitka Spruce.
A University of Washington professor who studied union/management issues, Carlton Parker, was one of the people Disque turned to for advice. Parker was a student of working conditions in the woods and was aware of a recent study by the Commission on Industrial Relations that specified the cruel conditions in the logging camps. Half of the camps were infested with bed bugs and only half had showers. Forty people slept in a tent designed for twelve, two people sleeping in the lower bunk with another two overhead. The majority of mattresses were nothing more than hay dumped into a bunk. Food was dreadful, turnover was off the charts.
Parker took Disque on a tour of the camps. Disque, who had served during the
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Philippine Insurrection, noted that they had treated prisoners there better. He was appalled by the conditions and thought attitudes of the companies and the IWW and the other forest unions had long since frozen in place. Company spies were everywhere and The IWW was growing in strength, as many as 100,000 IWW in the northwest forests.
“My wonder was not that production was low but that there was any production at all,” Disque wrote.
Working with Parker and with University of Washington President Henry Suzzallo, who was serving as Chairman of the Washington State Board of Defense, Disque devised a plan that would address working conditions, install military discipline and standards and create a labor union that could work with the companies and have the respect of workers.
Disque recommended that military camps be set up near the Spruce forests and the private camps were expected to apply the same standards to their workers as the military. Each camp had to have designs for sleeping quarters, bathing, latrines and recreation that met US Army standards. If the private companies could not, military teams would step in and build them. The food was double the military ration in Europe and mostly better in quality.
General Black Jack Pershing, head of the War Department, liked the recommendations and asked Disque to implement them.
As 1918 approached, Disque, who was suspicious of politics, showed some excellent political instincts. The pay would be standardized and each skill would be paid accordingly, the same for the civilians as for the military. Also, Disque announced that there would be an eight hour day in the forests of the United States Army.
The companies preferred firing people rather than compromising with them and were completely shocked by what Disque was doing. So was the IWW and the American Federation of Labor, who competed for the loyalty of the loggers. The unions thought the Army was simply a strikebreaker, but here they were giving the unions their key issues -- the eight hour day, on-site medical care, better food, better pay and decent housing.
There was a catch. Workers and companies who did not sign the patriotic pledge as a member of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen had a tough time finding work in the woods. While never claiming to be a labor union, the Spruce Division made the LLLL the only game in the forests. The constitution of the LLLL defines a role far more benign that it actually was:
“The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen is not a labor union in the common acceptance of that term, but is purely a patriotic association of both operators and operatives engaged in this essential war industry.”
In the twelve months from November 1917 to October 1918, aircraft quality Sitka Spruce production went from under 3,000,000 board feet/month to well over 30,000,000/month. Not only did actual logging and milling increase dramatically, but the infrastructure being built by the army was an asset of considerable future value to the region. New logging roads, bridges and rail lines opened up billions of board feet to Sitka Spruce production, but also for whatever other forest products were in the way.
In November of 1918, an exhausted Europe laid down its arms and the Spruce Production Division its shovels, axes and saws. Men like Perry Cross were sent to the Vancouver Barracks to be mustered out. At the same time the great pandemic, the Spanish Flu, was at its peak in Portland and on the way to killing 50,000,000 people in the rest of the world by the end of 1919.
The flu was always big news in our family. It took the man who would have been my uncle. Joe Royer died at 18 years in Missoula, Montana, one of three people who died that day, about an average day at the Railroad Hospital. The disease ended my father’s formal education. The schools closed in St. Ignatius and my father, an eighth grader, never returned.
When Cross left the woods, he likely would have spent some time quarantined at the Vancouver Barracks. Had he gone into Portland, he likely would not have seen one of the vaudeville shows at the Pantages Theater. He might have been unable to join other soldiers at a bar. It's possible he would have been barred from riding a trolley without a cotton mask. Portland was ambivalent about preventative measures like these because of their impacts on business, and put them in place and abandoned them throughout 1918. The mayor and others in Portland found a silver lining just about everywhere, and decided to believe the epidemic was on its last legs. Some weeks cases might wane somewhat, but they came back with a vengeance throughout the year and well into 1919.
The disease was especially hard on young, healthy people for reasons still unknown today. Here are the heartbreaking death notices for December 27, 1918 from the Seattle Times:
Charles Henry Herman, 3; Matilda Kotiranta, 28; Victor Denton, 51; Leonard S. Martin, 25; Marjorie Hilda, Dolores, Howard Prosser, 4, 2, and 6 months; Myrtle Hoffman, 33; Frederick Harvey, 55; Wells Perigo, 36.
December, 1918 nurses log at the Long Beach, Washington
hospital in Southwestern Washington coast
Who can say how many fatalities might have happened in the woods if the conditions Brice Disque found in 1917 existed in the flu years? Medical care, better food and clothing, and better housing kept fatalities in the Northwest woods in the lowest quartile of death rates around the country.
A unique 1919 study among wage earners across the US, Harvard professors Lee Frankel and Louis Dublin studied rates of death based on insurance claims among 12,000,000 policy holders across the United States. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company sold life insurance policies to industrial workers over
many years. Analyzing that data base, the two professors compared claims before and after the pandemic. They found that the rate of death from flu and pneumonia between the pre-influenza years 1911-1917, was 125/100,000. If that number were applied to 1918, it would have meant 14,000 deaths. However, the death rate they found during the epidemic was 774/100,000, translating to more than 71,000 deaths of policyholders between October of 1918 and June of 1919. Nearly 75% of those deaths happened in the Fall of 1918.
Spanish Flu got the name because Spain was neutral during World War I and did not have the kind of press censorship the allies practiced. Accordingly, it seemed worse in Spain than anywhere else. The real origins of the flu are disturbingly vague. An early outbreak occurred at Fort Riley near Manhattan, Kansas and killed 48 soldiers in March of 1918. It has long been thought as the beginning of the pandemic. Today, a Canadian historian points to the formation of the Chinese Labor Corps, a 100,000 people who came to Canada from China by boat and shipped across Canada by train before reporting to France as laborers, freeing up servicemen for the front.
Before leaving, the Chinese had been exposed to an evolving flu virus coming from the mixing of birds and pigs in China that produces our influenza today. As the virus evolved, it would soon turn into the killer it became in 1918/1919. The laborers' early exposure to a more benign virus made them less susceptible to being sick later. People born after 1889 and never been exposed to a flu epidemic were highly vulnerable.
Like so many other veterans demobilized at the Vancouver Barracks, Cross felt fine in the morning and sick as hell in the afternoon. Soon, he was wheezing inside a hospital tent, the regular hospital completely full and he toes poking into and under the wet canvas. He couldn’t keep track of the time, dozed on and off and woke to a strange voice above him saying:
“Well, this one’s moving.”
His mother and brother were then in Portland and Cross recuperated there before making his way to Hampton where he found his homestead stripped of most things that were useful. The house still stands though the bunch grass that surrounded the place, “belly deep to a steer,” no longer is part of the desert landscape.
He wasn’t long for Hampton. In a couple of years he traded the homestead for an orchard in Mosier, in the heart of cherry country near The Dalles. He met a woman there and she moved in. Just about the time she thought they had become orchardists, they moved on to Harrison, Idaho, where Cross made his life as a ranch hand and whiskey-making entrepreneur way up lake Couer d’Alene. He said he never drank his own. There, even in the mid-twenties, people needed a good ranch hand and especially someone good with all animals. He rode horses everyday until one day he couldn’t get up on one. He had six children.
The Charleston is still working. Towed to a Powell River log pond next to a mill, she was part of a breakwater fleet of hulks on Vancouver Island keeping the logs close to the mill. In danger of sinking, she was towed a short distance away and protects Kelsey Bay, though scuttled now and sitting on the shallow bottom.
Brice Disque was made a Brigadier General by the end of the war but soon found himself before The House Investigations Committee on Wartime Spending trying to explain why a railroad he built into the Olympic Peninsula cost so damned much a mile.
A great many things came together after the war that made the wartime decision to send 30,000 troops into the woods of the Pacific Northwest seem as radical as it was. The 1920 presidential election loomed. Some private lumber companies who felt they could have done it better than the government wanted an opportunity to complain. Other timber companies wanted a return to the 50 hour week and the two dollar day. Canada, they said, didn’t put its army in its forests and still put out Spruce in the millions of board feet. Still others saw the infrastructure in place and wanted to buy it or steal it.
Disque was a guy who liked the offense, felt partisan politics a despicable profession and was proud of what he’d done. He didn't like where he was and the pique came out. In a deposition, he was told by his inquisitors that the person who was going to testify negatively was the brother of the President of Columbia University:
“The brothers of a lot of prominent men are the worst crooks that you meet,” he said. Later, he asked the the statement be dropped from the record.
The storm passed and Disque supervised the biggest surplus sale of federal equipment since the building of the Panama Canal.
The Sitka Spruce has none of the elegance, say, of a True Cedar, Sequoia or Ponderosa Pine. It is simply big, often with great burls just above its feet, limbs pointing every which way, moss along its shaded side. It is a loner, a kind of alien dropped into a community of meek, skinny trees keeping their distance.
On the road between Seaside and Portland our family drove by such a tree for years, a sign by the road saying “World’s Biggest Sitka Spruce.” It stood close to the highway, down a path from a small parking lot.
Klootchy Creek Spruce
The conversation, starting in the early 1950s and lasting, with mostly different participants, until 2007, started this way, beginning in the back seat:
“Daddy. Can we see the tree?”
“No, it’s late. We have to keep going?”
“Just this time?”
“Okay. Just this time.”
The tree, 52.5 feet around, breast high, went down in the great coastal typhoon that struck Oregon in 2007. Many people say it was 1000 years old.
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Plain packaging? Plain nonsense
The government would be crazy to go ahead with standardised packaging unless they knew with certainty it was going to work. They don't
Time to dump this costly consultation?
On 25 May 2012 14:15
The UK Coalition government recently launched a consultation which will consider whether or not cigarettes and rolling tobacco should be legally required to be sold in standardised or plain packs. Like a disturbing number of other announcements from the government in recent times, this is worrying from a personal liberty perspective.
There is no question that smoking is a bad for your health. I would recommend that anyone who does smoke stops. However, this doesn’t mean I believe it is justifiable that the state should intervene to remove the intellectual property of a company selling a legal product in a misguided attempt to stigmatise a legal activity.
In the same vein, why should the government use our taxes (and, let’s be perfectly clear, smokers pay far more in tax than they cost the NHS, they are in reality net-contributors to the state) to hector, lecture, cajole or coerce millions of adults to induce them to act in a way that the Department of Health deems to be acceptable? The simple answer is that they shouldn’t.
There is no majority consensus behind standardised packaging, despite what we were told by a recent YouGov poll. The poll in question made claims based on a highly leading question and the President of YouGov happens to be on the Board of Trustees of a taxpayer funded anti-smoking lobby organisation, ASH. And even if there was a consensus, government should exist to support individual rights rather than to pander to calls from vested interest groups.
Many object to standardised packaging on the grounds that it will be highly ineffective in reducing smoking uptake or lowering smoking rates, but this completely misses the point.
As a non-smoker, the reason I am deeply concerned by this proposal is because I believe that people should be able to do as they please, without interference from a nanny state. Government should not be able to force its views on adults engaging in a legal activity; free citizens who choose to smoke shouldn’t be a target for the Department of Health.
On the introduction of the Smoking Ban many liberal voices raised concerns that this was the thin end of the regulatory wedge: if government could tell people where they can and can’t smoke would they soon be doing the same with drinking and eating? And they were right – government, whether red or blue, has continued to introduce more and more draconian measures such as a minimum unit price for alcohol.
Government is the tool of its citizens – it exists to serve them – not to belittle or marginalise them and this is exactly what this preposterous piece of legislation does. It says that smokers are pariahs on society who need special laws for their products, such as the introduction of the display ban last month. The organisations that the Department of Health funds to campaign against smokers call this process “denormalisation”, a phrase that sounds like it was handpicked from Orwell’s 1984.
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The government has allegedly “launched a public consultation” on the proposal but it has quite clearly already made up its mind. It has also lined up a number of taxpayer funded organisations to support the proposal. This will include “elicit[ing] the subjective judgements from three groups of internationally - renowned experts on “tobacco control”. Not a business owner, police officer or border control officer in sight. Impartial evidence based policy making this is not.
If the Department of Health listened to small and local business owners, recently pummelled by the costs of installing special tobacco displays, they would know that many of these businesses can’t afford more regulation from government. The policy, drawn up in the depths of the Department of Health, is the definition of disproportionate. That it comes at a time when the overburdened UK economy has slipped back into recession is one of the clearest signs that this government is chronically out of touch and bereft of ideas. Not only has government asked your local newsagent to hide cigarettes from you, they now want those hidden cigarettes to be in standardised or plain packets so that in case anyone sees them there’s no risk they’ll be influenced by the packaging. Reality meets satire.
The proposal for standardised packaging also has terrifying implications for the level of organised crime in the UK. Without a single shred of evidence, anti-tobacco organisations like ASH will tell you that it isn’t easier to forge one single style of standardised packet than it is to replicate the 200 strong varieties there is in branded packs. Common sense alone tells us that this simply cannot be true.
In the UK, HM Treasury loses £2.2bn a year from cigarettes and tobacco products being smuggled and sold illegally. This is more than the entire annual budget for our intelligence agencies or the FCO; and we hand it straight to organised criminals. Let’s be clear who we’re talking about: sophisticated gangs who traffic drugs, women and children into the UK. The only people who are going to profit from the over regulation of cigarettes are criminal networks who already do enough damage to British society.
In the face of this swathe of negative effects, the government would be crazy to go ahead with standardised packaging unless they knew with certainty it was going to work; unless they were sure that this was the silver bullet that would make every smoker successfully quit. They don’t. They have no idea, not a single piece of evidence, if it will work or not. There is no precedent to judge. No other country has tried such a draconian measure; Australia’s parliament has recently passed the policy but it has not yet come into force and is currently subject to several expensive legal challenges in the High Court, and it has disputes at World Trade Organisation (WTO) level with some countries including from Honduras and the Ukraine.
Even the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli, has publicly rejected the policy saying that "the European Commission doesn't want to go as far as Australia, where cigarette packets must be completely plain.” Mr Lansley, and indeed Mr Cameron, should ask why the policies of this apparently “Conservative led” government are more interventionist than even those of the EC.
I have spoken to a number of my colleagues and voters on this issue. We all agreed that this costly consultation is plainly preposterous and should be dumped.
Roger Helmer is Member of European Parliament for the East Midlands region, UKIP Spokesman on Energy and Industry and a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
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Smith Thompson
6th United States Secretary of the Navy
January 1, 1819 – August 31, 1823
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
September 1, 1823 – December 18, 1843
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January 17, 1768(1768-01-17)
December 18, 1843 (aged 75)
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Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 – December 18, 1843) was a United States Secretary of the Navy from 1818 to 1823, and a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 until his death in 1843.
Thompson was born in Amenia, New York.[1] He graduated from Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) in 1788, taught for a short period thereafter, then studied law under James Kent and subsequently set up a law practice.[2] He practiced in Troy, New York from 1792 to 1793, and in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1793 to 1802.[1] He was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1800, and attended the New York Constitutional Convention of 1801.[1] He was appointed to the New York State Supreme Court in 1802, serving as Associate Justice from 1802 to 1814, and Chief Justice from 1814 to 1818.[1]
He was a founding vice president of the American Bible Society and provided a copy to every officer and enlisted man in the Navy.
He was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President James Monroe, and campaigned for the Democratic-Republican presidential nomination in 1824. When Andrew Jackson won the nomination, Thompson only reluctantly accepted his appointment to the United States Supreme Court.[3] He did not give up his political ambitions there, and took the — now considered unusual, but then quite common — step of running for political office from the bench; however, his 1828 bid for Governor of New York was unsuccessful, unlike the example of Chief Justice John Jay, who had been elected governor in 1795. Thereafter he mostly exited political life, and on the court was a staunch opponent of Chief Justice John Marshall.[4]
USS Smith Thompson (DD-212) was named for him.
^ a b c d Smith Thompson at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
^ Tomlins, Christopher, ed. (2005). The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice (Houghton Mifflin), p. 522. ISBN 0618329692.
^ Smith, Jean Edward (1998). John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (Macmillan), p. 470.
^ Tomlins (2005), p. 522.
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19 March 1922 – 22 January 1924
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18 October 1928 – 4 June 1929
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William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel GCSI, GBE, PC, TD (7 January 1867 – 28 September 1937) was a British politician.
1 Background and education
2 Political career
The eldest son of Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel and Adelaide Dugdale, Peel was born in London in 1867. His father was the fifth and youngest son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford,[1] where he was secretary of the Oxford Union.[2] In 1893 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, and practised as a barrister before taking the position of special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.[2] [1]
In 1900 Peel was appointed a member of the Royal Commission formed to inquire into the operation of the Port of London. In the same year he began his political career when he was elected to the London County Council.[1] He was a member of the pro-Conservative grouping on the council that became the Municipal Reform Party. He was leader of the Party from 1908 to 1910 and chairman of the county council from 1914 to 1916.[1][2] He had begun his Parliamentary career when he was elected as Liberal Unionist MP for Manchester South at a by-election. At the next general election in 1906 he stood unsuccessfully at Harrow. He returned to the Commons in 1909, when elected as Conservative MP for Taunton at a by-election.[2] He inherited his father's viscountcy in 1912, and moved to the House of Lords.
Peel was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1912, and on the outbreak of the First World War moved to France with his regiment. Due to ill health he returned to Britain in 1915. In 1918 he received his first government post as Joint Parliamentary Secretary at the Department of National Service. In 1919 he became Under-Secretary of State for War and a member of the Privy Council.[2] [1] Two years later he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Transport.
He entered the cabinet in 1922 as Secretary of State for India as part of the coalition government of David Lloyd-George but continued in the post after the downfall of the Coalition during the premierships of Bonar Law and Baldwin. Baldwin's Government fell in January 1924, but after a brief spell in opposition was returned to power at the 1924 General Election. Peel was appointed First Commissioner of Works in the Conservative administration formed by Stanley Baldwin. In 1928 he briefly returned to the India Office before the Conservatives lost power at 1929 general election.[2] The latter year he was created Viscount Clanfield, of Clanfield in the County of Southampton, and Earl Peel.[1] When a Conservative-dominated National Government was formed after the 1931 election he became Lord Privy Seal. He only held this office for two months, leaving government in November.[2]
In 1932 he was appointed chairman of the Wheat Commission, and in 1934 chaired the Royal Commission on the Common Law.[2] In 1936-1937 Lord Peel was the chairman of the Peel Commission which presented for the first time in its period the British Mandate of Palestine as the solution of partition for the Jewish - Arab conflict in Palestine.[2]
Lord Peel married the Hon. Eleanor, daughter of James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton, in 1899. They had two children. In 1929 Lord Ashton died and Peel succeeded him as chairman of James Williamson and Company. He was also a director of Barclays Bank and of the Great Northern Railway.[2] [1] Lord Peel died aged 70 at his home in East Meon, near Petersfield, Hampshire in 1937 after a long illness.[1] [2] He was succeeded in his titles by his son, Arthur.
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^ a b c d e f g h Lord Peel, Family Tradition Of Statesmanship, The Times, September 30, 1937, p. 14
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Alex May (2004). "Peel, William Robert Wellesley, first Earl Peel (1867–1937)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35453. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Peel
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The Info List - Coquihalla River
The Coquihalla River
Coquihalla River (originally locally /ˌkɒkɪˈhælə/ or more recently and popularly /ˌkoʊkɪˈhælə/) is a tributary of the Fraser River
Fraser River in the Cascade Mountains
Cascade Mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates in the Coquihalla Lakes and empties into the Fraser River
Fraser River at Hope. The Coquihalla River
Coquihalla River divides two portions of the Cascades, the Skagit Range and the Hozameen Range.[4][5] The river flows through a deep, narrow valley, dropping 3,400 feet (1,000 m) in 33 miles (53 km), a tumultuous course that creates an incessant roar.[4] Kw'ikw'iyá:la in the Halkomelem language
Halkomelem language of the Stó:lō, is a place name meaning "stingy container" or "stingy place". It refers specifically to a deep pool named Skw'éxweq or Skw'exwáq, near the mouth of what is now known as the Coquihalla River. The Stó:lō would go to this pool to spear suckerfish, which were plentiful there. According to Stó:lō oral history, the s'ó:lmexw (black-haired, 2-foot tall, dark-skinned underwater people) would grab the spears, preventing fish from being caught. Thus they were stingy with the fish. There were two other pools in the rivers where this was said to happen.[6] The Coquihalla Highway, which runs from Hope to Kamloops, derives its name from running alongside this river between Hope and the site of a former toll booth about 50 kilometres (31 mi) away. Portions of the motion picture First Blood
First Blood were filmed there. See also[edit]
List of tributaries of the Fraser River
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coquihalla River.
^ Elevation derived from ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model, using GeoLocator, and BCGNIS coordinates. ^ "Coquihalla River". BC Geographical Names. ^ "Archived Hydrometric Data Search". Water Survey of Canada. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2013. Search for Station 08MF068 Coquihalla River
Coquihalla River above Alexander Creek ^ a b Beckey, Fred (2009). Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Routes: Rainy Pass to Fraser River
Fraser River (3rd ed.). The Mountaineers. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-89886-423-6. ^ "Skagit Range, Canadian 1:50K topographic maps" (map). TopoQuest.com. Retrieved 17 August 2013. ^ Galloway, Brent Douglas (2009). Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem. University of California Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-520-94518-0. Retrieved 16
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Venezuela’s Post-Election Conflict Approaches Full-Blown Political Crisis
With both the Maduro and Capriles camps employing highly divisive and hostile rhetoric, Venezuela’s political climate appears increasingly volatile, though the opposition candidate’s decision to cancel a planned march today may mark a first step towards de-escalating the conflict.
The fallout from Nicolas Maduro’s razor-thin victory margin in Sunday’s presidential election continued yesterday, as the president-elect sought to consolidate his claim to the office and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles continued to refuse to recognize the results until a full recount of paper ballots is held. As Venezuela expert David Smilde of the Venezuela Politics and Human Rights blog notes, however, Capriles has yet to present an official complaint to the National Electoral Council (CNE), opting instead to promote his demand for an audit through mass mobilizations.
While he has urged supporters to use peaceful methods of protest, some of these have turned violent and even deadly. Venezuela’s chief prosecutor announced that at least 61 people had been injured in protests, and 7 had been killed.
The violence, paired with Maduro’s accusation that Capriles is orchestrating a coup, has led Capriles to distance himself from violent and confrontational protests. In a press conference yesterday he announced that he would be canceling a planned march to the CNE headquarters in Caracas today, claiming that it would have played into the government’s agenda. According to the opposition leader, intelligence agents had informed him that the Maduro administration was planning on “infiltrating” the march. "To all my followers...this is a peaceful quarrel. Whoever is involved in violence is not part of this project, is not with me," he told reporters. Instead, he urged supporters to continue holding cacerolazo rallies throughout the country.
Capriles’ cancellation of today’s march may defuse some of the immediate tension in the country, but on the institutional side the level of political divisiveness appears insurmountable. El Universal reports that National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) yesterday refused to grant the floor to an opposition congressman who did not recognize Maduro as the rightful president-elect, and another opposition lawmaker claimed that he and his colleagues had been physically attacked by PSUV members of the Assembly.
To further complicate things, Maduro has warned that he will not recognize Capriles’ status as governor of Miranda state, and threatened to bypass him to allocate federal resources “directly to the people,” according to VTV. In response, the opposition leader told CNN Español that Maduro should recognize him not as a governor, “but as President.”
The Venezuelan government has announced that Maduro’s swearing in ceremony will be held on Friday, and the fact that delegates from 15 countries (including officials from Honduras, Argentina, Haiti, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and China) will attend suggests that it will be difficult for Capriles to continue to refuse to recognize Maduro’s presidency for much longer.
A State Department spokesman yesterday told the press that it is “difficult to understand” why the CNE has certified the victory of Maduro, although he stopped short of saying the U.S. would not recognize a Maduro government.
El Nacional has obtained fact sheet distributed by the Capriles campaign which alleges several “irregularities” in Sunday’s elections, although some of these are suspect. One example it provides is the existence of more than 1,000 voting centers where Maduro won more votes than Capriles by an overwhelming majority, in some cases by at least 500% more votes. Considering the level of support for the PSUV among lower class Venezuelans, it is difficult to see this as evidence of fraud.
On Monday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Paraguay’s ABC newspaper published evidence supporting allegations that leading Paraguayan presidential candidate and banker Horacio Cartes took part in an international money laundering scheme via his bank, Banco Amambay SA. Cartes has denied the allegations, but the evidence may give a last-minute push to rival candidate Efrain Alegre ahead of Sunday’s vote.
According to the Associated Press, some 700 indigenous Brazilians pare occupying part of the country’s lower house of Congress in protest against a proposed amendment which would give lawmakers a say in defining the boundaries of indigenous lands. The protesters are demanding that the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Henrique Eduardo Alves, abandon his decision to form a commission to consider the amendment.
The L.A. Times profiles the failure of Mexico’s “Operation Cleanup,” an investigation launched in 2008 to crack down on high-level government collusion with organized crime but which has hit a wall due to systemic corruption and the country’s rickety justice system.
The AP reports that on Tuesday evening the Honduran Congress voted to intervene in the administration of the Interior Ministry for 60 days, and has suspended several top public prosecutors for this period in a stated attempt to improve the ministry and address the country’s widespread insecurity. According to La Prensa, the ministry’s responsibilities will be carried out by a special congressional oversight committee.
Guatemala’s Plaza Publica highlights two examples of apparently paid campaigns meant to delegitimize the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, consisting of statements by former guerrillas, academics and businessmen who claim that the ruler is not guilty of crimes against humanity and acted only to defend his country.
In Foreign Affairs, Oliver Kaplan and Michael Albertus look at the importance of land reform to peace talks between Colombia’s FARC rebels and the government. The two argue that the government should make concessions on the issue of foreign involvement in industrial agriculture in order to ensure a lasting peace in the country.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has released its 2012 Annual Report. While Colombia has been taken off of the IACHR’s so called “blacklist” of countries which are perceived to warrant special mention, the report singles out in Venezuela, Cuba and Honduras for human rights violations.
Alfredo April 17, 2013 at 9:34 PM
"The Venezuelan government has announced that Maduro’s swearing in ceremony will be held tomorrow"....... actually it will be held Friday 4/19.
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Review - Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
Publisher: Tor Teen
ARC Received from Book It Forward ARC Tours
Rating: 4.5 Bookcases
Summary found on Goodreads
WOW! So much smexy hotness in one book, I’m surprised the book didn’t burst into flame!
Frannie is the "rebel" middle sister in a Catholic family. By rebel I mean, she doesn’t go to Catholic school (actually she was asked to leave) and she definitely doesn’t believe in God. After a tragic loss when she was a child, Frannie keeps everyone at a distance and doesn’t believe in love…until Luc Cain enrolls at Haden (Hades) High that is. Luc is as tempting as they come, and Frannie, well she can’t stay away. Then there’s Gabe, a blue eyed, golden boy, who also shows up out of nowhere. Let’s just say there’s a bit more at stake than who Frannie should date.
Personal Demons has a lot going for it: a smart, strong, take no nonsense leading lady, parents that are present and involved in their children’s lives, two awesome love interests, angels, demons, snarky best friends, action, and romance. The story sucked me in from the beginning with Luc’s commentary about going back to another high school and kept me hooked right until the last sentence. The basic premise of good verses evil isn’t new, but Ms. Desrochers put such a unique spin on it that it felt like an entirely new concept.
One of the best parts of Personal Demons is the characters. Frannie is a great example of a girl that has brains and strength, both physical and emotional. But she wasn’t intimidating as a character; you know those characters that are just too perfect, that if they were real people, you might be too intimidated to talk to, totally the opposite of Frannie. She was instantly relatable and it felt like she could be a really great friend (I went to Catholic school all the way through high school, so to me Frannie felt like a long lost school mate). Luc was a tough guy to really pin down. It was clear from the start that he was more than just a demon doing a job and his character arc was the most fun to witness. Gabe, what can I say about Gabe, except that I wish there was more of him. But, seriously, it was easy to see that he was the good guy, who maybe didn’t always want to go by the rules. The secondary characters were just as fascinating as the main three and really helped to fill out the story.
I have to take a moment and talk about Frannie’s family. I love that Ms. Desrochers included a family where the parents are present and seen more than once. Even though they did not have big parts in the story, it was clear that they loved their children and cared what happened to them. Their suspicions about Luc and overwhelming pro-Gabe feelings let the reader know that they were more perceptive than Frannie would have liked them to be. And Frannie’s grandfather was possibly my favorite character in the whole book. His relationship with Frannie was wonderful and it really made her a more complete character.
Throughout the book, Frannie had a few tough decisions to make, one of which was of course the choice between Luc and Gabe. This choice really was more than just the choice of which boy to date. By choosing between the, Frannie was really choosing a side, good or evil. For most of the book she’s pretty much set on one guy (um, yeah not going to tell you who) but the other guy, she still had feelings for him too. She does make a decision at the end of the book, but it will be interesting to see what happens in the rest of the series.
Normally, I’m not crazy about books that have more than one point of view, but having both Frannie and Luc’s points of view really works in Personal Demons. You get to see certain high stakes situations from both sides, plus it’s fun to see into both Frannie and Luc’s heads. But, it also makes me wonder about Gabe and his thoughts, especially towards the end.
Overall, Personal Demons was an excellent book. I really enjoyed reading it and can't wait for the next book in the series! If you're into paranormal books or like books with lots of action with some romance, definitely read Personal Demons. Even if you're not, you should read Personal Demons anyway.
Posted by Maria (Serpentine Library) at 5:37 PM
Labels: ARC, Book Review, Tor Teen, Young Adult
Natalie (Mindful Musings) August 23, 2010 at 7:24 PM
This one sounds right up my alley, especially with the whole "Catholic" girl thing. I'm the black sheep in my family, in that I'm the only one who isn't Catholic (anymore) and an agnostic.
Apart from that, the general plotline and characters sound great. Thanks for the review! :)
Jessie August 27, 2010 at 4:18 PM
thanks for posting the review and making me want to read it again... I wanted to when I heard about it, but then didn't when I saw the cover. It doesn't really work for me... but your review is fab
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WHAT IS THE WAY OUT?
NRC Conundrum
By PUBLIC On Aug 14, 2018
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The politics over the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is turning into a hot potato. While the media is rightly focussing on it, there is confusion and nagging apprehension of what is to follow. The Supreme Court too is peeved for its two court-appointed officers –Assam State coordinator and Registrar General of India are only adding to the conundrum.
Recently, it pulled up the officers for stating to the media “documents, which were earlier not accepted, would now be accepted at the stage of claims and objections and persons who raise this will be given extensive and numerous hearings.” This is beyond their brief as the apex court is yet to hear from the Central government about its standard operating procedure (SOP) on claims and objections. Thus, they were barred from speaking to the press.
But, who will rein in our political leaders, whose statements are only adding to the nagging fear of the 40 lakh people left out of the NRC? The safety and security of the people staying in a country cannot and should not be denied. Though it is believed that a large part of Assam’s 3.3 crore population may comprise what is being termed “illegal immigrants” coming from Bangladesh, can these migrants be pushed back after staying in the State for over two or three decades?
Political analysts have started wondering the real intention behind such a move. Moreover, it is understood that the Central government is fore-warning of a similar Register at the national level, but saying that Indian citizens would not impacted. On its part, the Opposition sees it as yet another issue to take on the Modi government. Recently, 11 political parties, including the Congress, submitted a joint memorandum to the President seeking his intervention.
Though the question of migration from neighbouring Bangladesh is well known, the governments of this country – whether at the Centre or at the State — has allowed this and no strict action has been taken in this regard. Electoral considerations may have encouraged this to happen. Ironically, it is the Congress, that signed the onerous Assam accord in 1985, remained indifferent to such migration. But the migration was due to factors such as communal tension i.e. torture on Hindus in Bangladesh, poverty and lack of opportunities of the minority community there to earn a decent livelihood.
However, at this juncture implementing the accord may be quite inhuman. The most-affected would obviously be Bengalis, whether belonging to Hindu or Muslim community, and for this West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is protesting vehemently by warning of a ‘civil war’ taking place if the NRC was not rectified. Experts say even if 20 lakh residents are accommodated in the revised NRC, what will happen to the remaining half?
Assam was a part of undivided Bengal before partition and lakhs of Bengali population have been residing in that State for generations. Thus, the draft NRC, where names of thousands or lakhs of people have been omitted appears no doubt discriminatory and against the basic norms of human rights, as per the United Nations guidelines. What will the international community view this matter as reports reveal that 4.5 lakh Indians have taken the citizenship with firms that facilitate “citizenship by investment”, reporting a 40 per cent increase in applicants?
In the name of nationalism, sovereignty and protecting the rights of Assam people, the exercise is undoubtedly arbitrary and smacks of political agenda and religious bias. Where would Bengali Muslims who have come from Bangladesh go for no fault of theirs? Moreover, if other States follow the Assamese example, there would be large scale displacements, leading to chaos and civil instability, which is most unhealthy for our country.
The religion of a community should not be any consideration “illegal migrants” as they may have been staying in the State since say 1980 or 1985 or even later. The cut-off date, as suggested by many commentators, should have been revised at this point of time and brought forward to say 1990 or any date around that time.
The NDA government’s anti-secular policies have created lot of controversies over the past few years as they want to promote Hindutva in an aggressive manner to cash in on the Hindu vote bank. But for this, some of the actions towards the minority community go against the basic principles of human rights. This has also come to the notice of the international media and there is much criticism. The migration problem in Assam cannot be treated in isolation as this has happened in Bengal, Tripura, Punjab and Kashmir but there is no such problem there.
By taking a firm and clear stand, the BJP wants to live up to its reputation of being a tough party that is headed by a decisive leader, who is not afraid of taking difficult decisions. Coming at a time when the Modi government has been in the firing line over the poor state of the economy, the agrarian crisis, growing unemployment and the Rafale deal, the publication of the citizens’ list in distant Assam has provided an opportunity to the BJP to change the national political discourse and return to its communal agenda.
The BJP apparently is worried that Muslims constituted over 34 per cent of Assam population in 2011 – and may now be anything above 36 per cent – up from 30 per cent in 2001 and have become a majority in some border districts. However, one cannot ignore communities fearful of being overwhelmed and converted by immigrants, obviously from Bangladesh.
It is thus necessary to read the NRC alongside the pending Citizenship Amendment Bill which offers fast-track citizenship to people belonging to six religions – excluding only Muslims – from three countries, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, on the ground that they are minorities in their own countries.
Further, if the so-called illegal migrants cannot be given citizenship, they may be given green card equivalents and allowed to stay and work in Assam as before. Their right to livelihood should not be taken away. It is thus the duty of the Centre to settle the matter judiciously.
The present problem poses a challenge before the government as this involves not just questions pertaining to human rights but relations with Bangladesh. Pushing back residents to that country is not easy and these may have to be allowed to stay on. An option would be to settle them in States where population density is low and where there is scarcity of farm labour. It should not be forgotten that India is country with diverse communities and religions and all of them have equal rights to citizenship.
Keeping in view the fact that the tradition and heritage of our country focuses on brotherhood and fellowship – which are key tenets of Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and even Islam – the present leadership should not do anything to disturb our present status. Thus, the question of migrants has to be tackled with care. Political parties must put aside their vote bank politics and think and act in the larger interest of the nation.—INFA
THERE MUST BE AN ‘EASE OF LIVING INDEX’
Exit Karunanidhi
SUPREME COURT DOES TIGHT ROPE WALKING
NEED TO REFRESH POLICY
ASTUTE CONSERVATION VITAL
PARADIGM SHIFT IN THINKING VITAL
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The YBBS > The New News > MP casts doubt on David Kelly suicide
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Cloak & Swagger
MP casts doubt on David Kelly suicide
SOURCE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060723/wl_afp/iraqweaponsbritain&printer=1;_ylt=A0SOwljo7cNECVIBBBWROrgF;_ylu=X3oDM TA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE)
An opposition member of parliament has alleged that a government scientist who cast doubt on intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction may not have taken his own life.
A judicial inquiry into the death of David Kelly in July 2003 concluded that the one-time UN weapons inspector and expert on Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes committed suicide.
He did so after he was named as the source of a BBC news report suggesting that Tony Blair's government had "sexed up" intelligence in the run-up to the US and British invasion of Iraq four months earlier.
"Today, I challenge that conclusion," wrote Norman Baker, from the Liberal Democrats, in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
"I do so on the basis that the medical evidence available simply cannot sustain it, that Dr Kelly's own behaviour and character argues against it and that there were serious shortcomings in the way the legal and investigative processes set up to consider his death were followed."
Points raised by Baker -- whose centre-left party opposed the Iraq war -- included the fact that Kelly supposedly cut his ulnary artery in his wrist, a more difficult and painful option that the radial artery.
In 2003, Baker said, Kelly was the only person recorded to have taken his or her own life in this fashion.
Baker also said that paramedics who attended the scene where Kelly's body was found in Oxfordshire noticed that he had lost little blood and was "incredibly unlikely" to have died from the wound they saw.
Police said that 29 tablets of pain-killer coproxamol were missing from a packet in his home, but all that was found in Dr Kelly's stomach was the equivalent of one-fifth of a tablet, Baker said.
Volunteer searchers who found his body said he was slumped against a tree, rather than lying prone, as police stated.
And despite the stress he was under in the days leading to his death, Baker said contacts with friends and relatives showed no sign that Kelly had suicidal thoughts.
Baker also faulted the way Kelly's death was investigated, saying that the pathologist assigned to the case was one of the least experienced in the country, and that Lord Brian Hutton, who conducted the judicial inquiry, had never conducted such a public inquiry before in his long career.
"Many people find it hard to accept that Dr Kelly's death was suicide and the passage of time has only firmed up that doubt," wrote Baker in the Mail on Sunday, which editorially is highly critical of Blair's government.
"I am conscious that some, particularly those who were close to him, will want to put all this behind them, to move on. The reality, however, is that this episode is not going to go away."
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The YBBS > The New News > U.N. Gives Iran Until The End Of August
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U.N. Gives Iran Until the End of August
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(07-31) 07:40 PDT UNITED NATIONS, (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council passed a weakened resolution Monday giving Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
Because of Russian and Chinese demands, the text is weaker than earlier drafts, which would have made the threat of sanctions immediate. The draft now essentially requires the council to hold more discussions before it considers sanctions.
The draft passed by a vote of 14-1. Qatar, which represents Arab states on the council, cast the lone dissenting vote.
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These Companies Are Rocking the Vote this Election Season
by Alexandra Ostrow
Exercising your right to vote is so important, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy, or even possible, for everyone.
Earlier this year, we shared different ways that businesses can encourage and help their employees to vote. These include educating employees about why voting is important, making it easier by giving them time off or offering transportation, and providing crucial information about candidates. With voter turnout on the decline in recent years, decreasing from 62.3% of eligible citizens in 2008 to 57.5% in 2012, it is critical that we support efforts to inform and encouraging voting. Companies can make a huge difference in getting informed citizens to the polls.
Since then, we’ve seen a number of companies step up to make that happen. In the final days leading up to the election, we’re especially grateful for their forethought and effort. Here are a few:
In April, Virgin America was announced as the Official Airline of Rock the Vote for the 2016 election season. What does that mean? In each of their flights, they feature a video created by Rock the Vote that shows passengers how to register easily and immediately via free in-flight WiFi. The video targets Millennials, as only 46% of them showed up to the polls for the last presidential election, and focuses on how voting gives them a chance to make a difference when it comes to the issues that they value, such as equality and gun control.
USA Today sparked conversation around voting this election season with their #votingbecause campaign. The campaign encouraged people to share their reason on social media by taking a photo of themselves with a sign that says #votingbecause ________. In doing so, participants join a national conversation around the importance of voting, as well as get a chance to be featured in USA Today. The campaign page also includes helpful resources like instructions on registering to vote, informative blogs and podcasts, and interactive learning experiences.
This isn’t the first time we’ve been impressed by Patagonia’s unique efforts to make a positive impact, and we’re pretty sure it won’t be the last. This election season, Patagonia launched a Vote Our Planet campaign centered around green voting, or voting for candidates that are actively working to support environmental initiatives. Like USA Today, their campaign page includes helpful resources, but with a particular focus on green issues. The campaign also invites people to share their #VoteOurPlanet stories and photos on social media, which Patagonia then shares on their website. Additionally, the company opted to take the conversation offline by organizing a series of free events across the country for voters to attend and learn.
Take Tuesday Off
When employers don't give time off from work on Election Day, it becomes a major roadblock for voters. Many countries – like France, Germany, Brazil and Japan, to name a few – don’t schedule election days during the workweek. In the U.S., however, voting in the presidential election takes place on a Tuesday, a day when many Americans aren’t able to leave their jobs. This year, Noah Fradin launched the Take Tuesday campaign, arguing that election day should be a paid holiday for eligible voters, or that companies should at least offer a block of time during which employees can go to the polls. As a result of the campaign, companies like Thrillist and Salon have signed a pledge to offer paid time off for voters.
Do you know of any other companies who are doing their part to educate and encourage voter turnout? Tell us about them! Let’s make sure they get the recognition they deserve. Here’s how:
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Boy with Down Syndrome
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder in which a person’s cells have 1 too many chromosomes, causing moderate to severe mental handicap and a characteristic appearance. It is the most common chromosomal cause of mild to moderate intellectual disabilities. People with Down syndrome also have some distinct physical features, such as a flat-looking face, and they are at risk for a number of other health conditions.
1 Birth defects in Down syndrome
2 Developmental delay
3 Cognition
4 Incidence
5 Cause
6 Mutation and inheritance
7 Common Name
8 Medical or Scientific Names
9 A-Z of Genetic Diseases (External)
10 Articles on Down syndrome
Birth defects in Down syndrome
People with Down syndrome may have a variety of birth defects. About half of all affected children are born with a heart defect. Digestive abnormalities, such as a blockage of the intestine, are less common.
Individuals with Down syndrome have an increased risk of developing several medical conditions. These include gastroesophageal reflux, which is a backflow of acidic stomach contents into the esophagus, and celiac disease, which is an intolerance of a wheat protein called gluten. About 15 percent of people with Down syndrome have an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped organ in the lower neck that produces hormones. Individuals with Down syndrome also have an increased risk of hearing and vision problems. Additionally, a small percentage of children with Down syndrome develop cancer of blood-forming cells (leukemia).
Delayed development and behavioral problems are often reported in children with Down syndrome. Affected individuals' speech and language develop later and more slowly than in children without Down syndrome, and affected individuals' speech may be more difficult to understand. Behavioral issues can include attention problems, obsessive/compulsive behavior, and stubbornness or tantrums. A small percentage of people with Down syndrome are also diagnosed with developmental conditions called autism spectrum disorders, which affect communication and social interaction.
People with Down syndrome often experience a gradual decline in thinking ability (cognition) as they age, usually starting around age 50. Down syndrome is also associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer disease, a brain disorder that results in a gradual loss of memory, judgment, and ability to function. Approximately half of adults with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer disease. Although Alzheimer disease is usually a disorder that occurs in older adults, people with Down syndrome usually develop this condition in their fifties or sixties.
Down syndrome occurs in about 1 in 800 newborns. About 5,300 babies with Down syndrome are born in the United States each year, and approximately 200,000 people in this country have the condition. Although women of any age can have a child with Down syndrome, the chance of having a child with this condition increases as a woman gets older.
Most cases of Down syndrome result from trisomy 21, which means each cell in the body has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of the usual two copies.
Less commonly, Down syndrome occurs when part of chromosome 21 becomes attached (translocated) to another chromosome during the formation of reproductive cells (eggs and sperm) in a parent or very early in fetal development. Affected people have two normal copies of chromosome 21 plus extra material from chromosome 21 attached to another chromosome, resulting in three copies of genetic material from chromosome 21. Affected individuals with this genetic change are said to have translocation Down syndrome.
A very small percentage of people with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21 in only some of the body's cells. In these people, the condition is called mosaic Down syndrome.
Researchers believe that having extra copies of genes on chromosome 21 disrupts the course of normal development, causing the characteristic features of Down syndrome and the increased risk of health problems associated with this condition.
Mutation and inheritance
Most cases of Down syndrome are not inherited. When the condition is caused by trisomy 21, the chromosomal abnormality occurs as a random event during the formation of reproductive cells in a parent. The abnormality usually occurs in egg cells, but it occasionally occurs in sperm cells. An error in cell division called nondisjunction results in a reproductive cell with an abnormal number of chromosomes. For example, an egg or sperm cell may gain an extra copy of chromosome 21. If one of these atypical reproductive cells contributes to the genetic makeup of a child, the child will have an extra chromosome 21 in each of the body's cells.
People with translocation Down syndrome can inherit the condition from an unaffected parent. The parent carries a rearrangement of genetic material between chromosome 21 and another chromosome. This rearrangement is called a balanced translocation. No genetic material is gained or lost in a balanced translocation, so these chromosomal changes usually do not cause any health problems. However, as this translocation is passed to the next generation, it can become unbalanced. People who inherit an unbalanced translocation involving chromosome 21 may have extra genetic material from chromosome 21, which causes Down syndrome.
Like trisomy 21, mosaic Down syndrome is not inherited. It occurs as a random event during cell division early in fetal development. As a result, some of the body's cells have the usual two copies of chromosome 21, and other cells have three copies of this chromosome.
Medical or Scientific Names
47,XX,+21
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Genetic terms glossaries.
Glossary of Genetics | Glossary of genetic testing terms
Common genetic disorders This list of genetic, orphan and rare diseases is provided for informational purposes only and is not comprehensive.
Common genetic disorders list A-Z
* achondroplasia * alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
* antiphospholipid syndrome * attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
* autism * autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
* breast cancer * charcot-marie-tooth disease
* colon cancer * cri du chat syndrome
* crohn's disease * cystic fibrosis
* dercum disease * down syndrome
* duane syndrome * duchenne muscular dystrophy
* factor v leiden thrombophilia * familial hypercholesterolemia
* familial mediterranean fever * fragile x syndrome
* gaucher disease * hemochromatosis
* hemophilia * holoprosencephaly
* huntington's disease * inborn errors of metabolism
* klinefelter syndrome * marfan syndrome
* methylmalonic acidemia * myotonic dystrophy
* neurofibromatosis * noonan syndrome
* osteogenesis imperfecta * parkinson's disease
* phenylketonuria * poland anomaly
* porphyria * progeria
* prostate cancer * retinitis pigmentosa
* severe combined immunodeficiency * sickle cell disease
* skin cancer * spinal muscular atrophy
* tay-sachs disease * thalassemia
* trimethylaminuria * turner syndrome
* velocardiofacial syndrome * wilson disease
A-Z of Genetic Diseases (External)
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Father-son team sees bright future for Warwick’s Double Vision Optical
FATHER AND SON: John L. Spaziano and his son, John W. Spaziano, make up the team at Warwick’s Double Vision Optical.
(Beacon Communications photo)
Posted Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:35 pm
By DANIEL KITTREDGE
John L. Spaziano and his son, John W. Spaziano, will take in a Pawtucket Red Sox game with their wives later this month to celebrate Father’s Day.
Their bond is both personal and professional. Each is a registered optician, and the younger Spaziano, 39, has joined his father at the family’s business, Double Vision Optical at 1168 Warwick Ave. in Warwick.
“I’m grateful to have him,” said the elder Spaziano, who is 61.
It’s not John L. Spaziano’s first experience working with family. He and his brother Louis were both trained as opticians during their service in the U.S. Navy, and they worked together at Douglas Drug for a time before going out into business on their own with Double Vision roughly 25 years ago.
A couple of years ago, Louis decided to retire and relocate to Florida. John bought out the business, and his son began to help part time as he pursued a new career path and earned his associate degree with honors from the Community College of Rhode Island’s Opticianry Program.
“I’ve had a little practice, working with my brother, working with a relative…It’s nice to have someone you can trust at the business, and someone that looks at it as their future and building for themselves,” the elder Spaziano said.
John W. Spaziano, who holds a master’s degree, previously worked as a physical education and health teacher in several school districts. He said his change in careers was motivated by a desire to work with and help people in a different setting.
“I just kind of got tired of bouncing around,” he said. “It gives you a lot of flexibility, working with family…I really enjoyed working with the kids, but it was everything else [that teaching involved].”
Double Vision draws many of its customers from the Warwick area, but also has regular clients from all corners of the state, including Newport and northern Rhode Island.
“If you come see me once a year, it’s worth the ride,” the elder Spaziano said.
Aside from the Spazianos, the business’ staff includes a doctor who is on-site part time – typically Saturdays – to provide eye exams. The elder Spaziano said the availability of exams might be expanded going forward.
He also spoke of the various aspects of the job.
“It’s a unique profession, because there certainly is a lot of retail with it, but there’s also diagnosing customers’ issues and concerns,” he said.
Double Vision offers many buy one, get one free specials – which allow clients to get a pair of sunglasses in addition to their regular eyewear, for example – and takes pride in providing affordable, high-quality work.
“We have a good following, and we’re very customer oriented,” the elder Spaziano said. “Our big thing is the customer service and our prices, and our attention to detail … I’m happy with the quality of what we put out.”
The younger Spaziano said he is excited to “continue the family tradition” and help Double Vision grow in the years ahead. He also spoke of his appreciation for his father as a resource and sounding board as he continues to gain experience.
The elder Spaziano, meanwhile, said he is looking forward to pursuing “semi-retirement” as his son takes the reins of the business.
“It’s been an adventure over the years…I’m grateful,” he said.
Double Vision Optical is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information, call 463-7100.
Creative pursuits fuel Cranston's Lauren Fairweather
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World-class sounds, close to home
Music on the Hill series bringing seven concerts to Warwick, Cranston, East Greenwich & Westerly
GREAT OUTDOORS: The Music on the Hill festival will return to Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum in Warwick for this year’s opening performance on June 2, featuring the Narragansett Brass Quintet.
(Courtesy of Music on the Hill)
SWEET MUSIC: Kevin Owen, pictured performing on French horn, will be among the musicians taking part in the 45th Music on the Hill chamber music series starting June 2.
STRING DUO: The Miller-Porfiris Duo will take part in performances during this year’s Music on the Hill series, including the finale “Four Hands” concert on June 12 at Dunn’s Corners Community Church in Westerly.
SONATA SHOWCASE: Nicholas Goluses, who creates and leads the guitar program at the Eastman School of Music, will perform Sonata No. 3 in C Major during the June 9 Music on the Hill concert at St. Gregory the Great Church in Warwick. The concert will feature the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
PERFECT SETTING: Immaculate Conception Church will play host to the June 6 Music on the Hill concert titled “Amadeus,” which will feature the work of Mozart.
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2019 1:35 pm
By DON FOWLER
Music on the Hill opens its 45th season on Sunday, June 2, at 3 p.m. with an outdoor concert featuring the Narragansett Brass Quintet, on the beautiful grounds of Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum at 4157 Post Road in Warwick.
The festival of classical music continues through June 12 at venues in Cranston, Warwick, East Greenwich and Westerly that provide ideal acoustics and atmosphere for the talented musicians, many of whom honed their talents in Rhode Island.
Gerard Pellegrino, president of the Board of Directors, and his wife, Carol, a renowned Rhode Island piano teacher, have watched many of the musicians grow from young high school music students to positions in major orchestras all over the world. Every June, many of the native Rhode Islanders return home, bringing their professional musician friends with them to share their passion for chamber music.
The series moves on to First Baptist Church at 30 Pierce St. in East Greenwich on Monday, June 3, at 7 p.m. for some “French Champagne” – music of French composers, including Saint-Saens, Debussy and Poulenc.
Immaculate Conception Church at 237 Garden Hills Drive in Cranston is the setting for “Now That’s Italian” – with music by Italian composers Puccini, Rossini, Albinoni and others – on Wednesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. “Amadeus” is the theme for the Thursday, June 6, concert at 7 p.m., also at Immaculate Conception Church, featuring the work of Mozart.
The series shifts to Warwick on Sunday, June 9, at 3 p.m., where the music of Bach will be performed at St. Gregory the Great Church, 360 Cowesett Road.
It heads back to Cranston on Monday, June 10, at 7 p.m. for “Trio Time,” featuring music by Prokofiev, Bach and Previn at Holy Apostles Church, 800 Pippin Orchard Road.
The series closes on Wednesday, June 12, at 7 p.m. with “Four Hands,” featuring the Miller Piano Duo and the Miller-Porfiris Duo playing the music of Gershwin, Barber, Sheng and others.
Artistic director John H. Pellegrino has performed, toured and recorded with many of the country’s leading orchestras. He was named artistic director in 2007 and continues to work year-round to assemble the festival performers.
“I am pleased that these concerts offer so much variety for the listeners and the performers,” he said. “Inviting Rhode Island musicians home is always a fulfilling component of Music on the Hill.”
Festival programs include biographies on all the musicians, program notes on every selection, concert schedules and the actual time of each piece, which ranges from three to 40 minutes. Most concerts are about an hour and a quarter long, with an opportunity to mingle with the musicians afterward.
As in past years, Music on the Hill offers free admission for any student. Pellegrino suggests bringing the children and grandchildren to the concerts and exposing them to classical music.
“We also perform a free educational program for Warwick elementary students on Friday morning, June 7, where we introduce our instruments and our own brief stories about starting out in music,” Pellegrino said. “Most of us owe our beginnings in music to the Rhode Island public school programs.”
Tickets are available in advance online through BrownPaperTickets.com for $20 (plus a $1.69 service fee) and Paypal at MusicOnTheHill.org ($20 plus a $1.50 service fee) or by check to Music on the Hill, Box 633, East Greenwich, RI 02818 ($20.50). Tickets are also available at the door for $25. Tickets allow the holder to any one of the seven concerts.
Music on the Hill programs are available in advance at Warwick and Cranston libraries.
‘A summer tradition for so many’
A rare American
Starting summer with a bang
Learning from the masters
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You think we’ve committed some kind of unnatural act, but we haven’t. The whole of human life is about violence. It’s a cruel world.
— Cassandra’s Dream
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Bryce Harper Signs $330 Mil Deal With Phillies
Bryce Harper is finalizing a deal with the Philadelphia Phillies, as first reported by MLB Network.
Harper's deal is for 13 years, $330 million, according to reports.
That amount averages out to $44,929 per plate appearance; or $156,695 per game.
Source says Harper did not want an opt-out in the contract.
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Category Archives: Detective
Directed by Gordon Parks
Produced by Joel Freeman
Written by Ernest Tidyman (novel & screenplay)
John D.F. Black
Starring Richard Roundtree
Music by Isaac Hayes & J. J. Johnson
Cinematography Urs Furrer
Editing by Hugh A. Robertson
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Warner Bros. (DVD)
Release date July 2, 1971 (USA)
Shaft is often hailed as one of the first Blaxploitation films that were made in the 1970s but I am not so sure if it really fits into that category. To me it seems more like a typical cop film set in New York, only with a black man as the hero of the piece. There is also the iconic Theme From Shaft by the late Isaac Hayes, which I guess sets it apart from the rest.
I enjoyed Shaft very much and thought it was very exciting. Compared to the blaxploitation films that followed this one seems very tame, as the sex scenes and violence are toned down, while the swearing is not as over the top as the later films. The plot involves the daughter of a black crime boss being kidnapped by the mafia and Shaft having to rescue her in order to stop the potential bloodshed that a gang war in Harlem would cause. Richard Roundtree is very likable as John Shaft and gives a very laid back performance. Most of the acting is pretty good, especially when compared to later blaxploitation films.
1 Comment | tags: Blaxploitation, Ernest Tidyman, Gordon Parks, Isaac Hayes, Movies, Richard Roundtree, Shaft, Shaft (1971 film), United States | posted in 1970s, Action, Blaxploitation, Detective
Directed by Robert Moore
Produced by Ray Stark
Starring Eileen Brennan
James Coco
Elsa Lanchester
Nancy Walker
Estelle Winwood
Richard Narita
Music by Dave Grusin
Cinematography David M. Walsh
Editing by Margaret Booth & John F. Burnett
Distributed by Columbia
Release date 23 June 1976
Running time 94 minutes
Neil Simon’s Murder By Death is a spoof of all those mystery films (and novels) of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. At the time of its release Agatha Christie’s stories were undergoing a revival on the big screen as Murder On The Orient Express (1974) was released at around this time.
Murder By Death has a star-studded cast, with Truman Capote (the writer of Breakfast At Tiffany’s) hosts a murder in which he has invited the world’s greatest detectives, among them Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) who is based on Charlie Chan. Whilst many may consider it to be politicall incorrect for Sellers to be playing a Chinese detective I find it to be OK, as he is parodying the Charlie Chan films from the 30s & 40s in which Warner Oland and Sidney Toler went yellow face to play the Oriental detective.
Also in the cast is David Niven and Maggie Smith whose characters are based on the society detectives from the Thin Man series of movies. James Coco’s Perrier is a spoof of Poirot, Elsa Lanchester’s Miss Marbles is of course based on Miss Marple, while Peter Falk’s Sam Diamond is based on Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, as portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.
There are a lot of quick fire jokes and if you are a fan of detective films you will love this. Not all the jokes hit the mark but most of them are quite funny.
1 Comment | tags: Breakfast At Tiffany, Capote (film), Charlie Chan, David Niven, Humphrey Bogart, Maggie Smith, Maltese Falcon, Miss Marple, Neil Simon, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, Sam Spade, Truman Capote | posted in 1970s, Comedy, Detective
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Matthew J. Breiding PhD
CDR Matt Breiding PhD joined the U.S. Public Health Service in 2005, first serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Division of Violence Prevention at CDC. His work focused primarily on the public health surveillance of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment. He contributed to the development and implementation of the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. In 2014, he moved to CDC’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention where he serves as the Traumatic Brain Injury Team Lead. In this capacity he has worked with the team to develop the National Concussion Surveillance System.
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Derek Leininger
Derek Leininger began running cross country and track in middle school. Derek was a state medalist and school record holder in the 800 meter run his senior year at Columbia City HS.
Leininger coached high school cross country and track for twelve years: one year at East Noble HS (2003), two years at Concordia Lutheran HS (2004-2006), and nine years at Snider HS (2006-2015). At Snider, Leininger coached three state-qualifying cross country teams and dozens of all-state cross country and track athletes. The Snider boys 4×800 meter relay team from 2012 still holds the all-time indoor state record.
In 2017, Derek and his wife Gwendolyn co-authored the book Enduring Wisdom, which highlights training and coaching approaches of some of Indiana’s all-time winningest cross country coaches.
Derek continues to be an active runner and he participates in several road races each year.
Assistant Coaches
Megan Theismann
Megan Thiesmann began running cross country and track in middle school and now competes at the collegiate level at Indiana Tech. She graduated from Norwell High School in 2017. This will be Megan’s second year as an assistant coach for Appleseeds. She enjoys helping kids have fun with running and improve their abilities along the way!
Austin Rockstroh
Austin has been running for 9 years and has grown very attached to the sport and the people in it. Currently, he runs cross country and track at Purdue Fort Wayne and is looking to further his career in running after graduation. Austin loves to see people have fun in running and improving to reach their goals! He would love to be able to help people in their running as his coaches have helped him.
“I recommend 3RRC because they truly care and make you feel like family. The store has so much combined running knowledge that they will set you up for success whether you are walking for fitness or endurance running.”
Steve Carr
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Archive for Michele Battiste
6/4 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series – Week 5
Posted in Events with tags Black Angels, Bob Walicki, Emily Mohn-Slate, Hemingway's, Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series, Joan Bauer, Kris Collins, Kristofer Collins, Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Michele Battiste, Robert Walicki on June 2, 2019 by 6GPress
8 PM TUESDAY…
Founded by Jimmy Cvetic
Co-hosted by Joan E. Bauer & Kristofer Collins
Open mic after featured readings as time permits
Listen in @ www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com
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Tuesday June 4 – Michele Battiste, Kristofer Collins, Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Emily Mohn-Slate & Bob Walicki
Michele Battiste is the author of three poetry collections, including Waiting for the Wreck to Burn, which received the 2018 Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press and will be published in Spring, 2019. Her other books are Uprising (2014) and Ink for an Odd Cartography (2009), both from Black Lawrence Press. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Left: Letters to Strangers (Grey Book Press). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Memorious, and Mid-American Review, among others. Michele has taught poetry workshops for Wichita State University , the Prison Arts Program in Hutchinson , KS , Gotham Writers’ Workshops, and the national writing program Teen Ink. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, AWP, the Center for the American West, the Jerome Foundation, and the NY State Senate. She lives in Colorado where she raises money to save the planet.
Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor at Pittsburgh Magazine, as well as being a frequent contributor to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is the publisher of Low Ghost Press and Coleridge Street Books. His latest poetry collection, Salsa Night at Hilo Town Tavern, was published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2017. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife Dr. Anna Johnson and their son Cassidy.
Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for Rare Space and the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards. Her second book, Liquid Like This, was published by Word Press in 2008 and Slag by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2014. Leslie’s poems appear in Grist, Jubilat, The Mississippi Review, PANK, Poetry Magazine, the New Ohio Review, The Chiron Review and more. Leslie works as a copywriter in Pittsburgh where she lives with her son Silas.
Emily Mohn-Slate is the author of FEED, co-winner of the Keystone Chapbook Prize, forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press (2019). Her poems and essays can be found in New Ohio Review, At Length, The Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her manuscript, THE FALLS, was a finalist for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize offered by Kent State University Press, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize offered by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Robert Walicki’s work has appeared in over 40 publications including Fourth River , Stone Highway Review, Red River Review, and others. A Pushcart and a Best of The Net nominee, Robert currently has two chapbooks published: A Room Full of Trees (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and The Almost Sound of Snow Falling (Night Ballet Press), which was nominated to the 2016 Poet’s House List of Books in NYC. His first full length collection, Black Angels, is out now from Six Gallery Press.
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StoicJackal in Uncategorized April 19, 2019 June 28, 2019 2,898 Words
In the previous article, it was necessary to tackle the subject of the definition of ‘gospel’ and to provide examples of various gospels throughout world history. However, there is still much confused ground to cover concerning the details professing Christians consider about the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Because gospels are political campaign messages, contextually definitive of how societies should be maintained, it should be obvious that the political campaign message of King Jesus the Nazarene was fundamentally different than the false gospels that preceded it and still come after it. Whereas the gospels of civil rulers and Benefactors who exercise authority necessarily enticed the people to contractually bring themselves into bondage while promising them liberty, then the gospel of Christ obviously stands in direct contradiction and exclusive competition to offers of man-made civil society.
His Gospel promised true, uncompromised freedom, not by the might and power of social contracts, but through faith, meaning that if the people are faithful to God alone to be their ruler and magistrate, then God will be faithful to them and maintain their society by His Spirit. This is the very essence of relying on God’s Providence. This Spirit indwells every faithful citizen of God’s kingdom, giving them hearts of flesh, compelling them to love their neighbors as themselves, allowing them to remain faithful to social virtues because they are faithful to each other, making faith a primary component of interpersonal relationships rather than relying on contract laws. When the people are bound by social contracts in believing on the false gospels of false christs, their hearts harden to each other, creating an unnatural indifference towards their fellow man because they are no longer compelled to maintain organic relationships of service, but can expect their society to be maintained by the bureaucratic compulsion of human institutions. When you outsource your social virtues to human institutions, you (un)naturally become indifferent to your neighbor.
Whereas the gospels of pagan societies necessitate human rulers to acquire the powers of choice and the wealth of society, the politics of Christ reversed that relationship where He willingly gave up His royal, wealthy estate in order to be made poor, leading the people through an example of service and humility, compelling them to establish a network, not of a bureaucracy fueled by taxation and socialist benefits, but of an adhocracy fueled by charity and capitalistic integrity. When the legal and judicial order of authoritative gospels remake men into their own image, washing the outside of the cup through positive law and requiring them to narrowly specialize their skills to strengthen the false economies of collectivist societies, they become bound together in contracts, entitlements, and taxation. But when the God of the Kingdom of Heaven, through the Gospel of Jesus Christ writes his natural law onto your heart where you are naturally compelled to love your neighbor as yourself, and to productively retain your liberties and the rights to your family and property, then your society becomes bound together in faith, hope and charity. Both of these kinds of gospels and their kingdoms are inherited from generation to generation. While one inheritance is of a bastardized bondage, calling earthly rulers ‘fathers‘, the other inheritance is of liberty and everlasting life.
In order to continue, it is necessary to explicitly express this dichotomy in common Christian language by endeavoring to put that language back into context of the Kingdom of God: The kingdoms of men are ‘worldly‘ institutions that are centered on ‘the flesh’. They appeal to the things of our flesh. They entice us with wanton covetousness of socialist meat, benefits, creature comforts, daily bread, safety, security, fiat wealth, and authoritarian organization to partake in all of these things in a systematic way. These kingdoms change the nature of society in a spiritual way, causing the people to be dead and born of the flesh. The Kingdom of God, however, is of the Spirit causing redeemed men to be born of the Spirit so that they can retake their self-control and other fruits of the Spirit, and to seek to serve their neighbor by sacrificing and laying their lives down for their neighbor when they had previously only required their neighbor’s taxed contribution to provide for their civil society. These images will be useful in further exploring the Biblical concepts surrounding the Gospel in accurate context.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:16-21)
Each of the time the word ‘world’ is mentioned in this passage it is translated from the Greek ‘kosmos‘ referring to ‘an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government’ referencing the kinds of human civil governments exemplified by the Roman New World Order at the time and, in this case, as synecdotal reference to those within its jurisdiction. When John says that ‘God loved the world’, it means that God loved those trapped into civil bondage by chasing after the socialist desires of their flesh. When John says that God sent Christ to not condemn the world, it means that Christ’s arrival was not one of punitive judgment against their political rebellion and usurpation of God’s jurisdiction, but one of restorative offering of repentance. Read carefully that passage. It is saying that an alternative kind of politician in the person of Christ, along with his alternative kind of kingdom is a new and renewed rebuttal to the status quo of the kingdoms of darkness. The very introduction of the Kingdom of Light as an idea is enough to expose the wickedness of the hearts of men who find their citizenship to reflect the gospels of the ‘world’. They had broken the commandments of God, each and every one of them sinning by doing that which God prohibited, thereby finding themselves under the power of civil magistrates. Sin leads to darkness and death, as everybody knows, except that modern Christians cannot fathom that God’s perfect Law of Liberty can keep men from the imperfect laws of civil bondage, and that their breaking of that law is the very reason why they pay taxes and bear the heavy burden of civil law and ever-diminishing freedom. They cannot fathom that truly believing on the campaign promises of King Jesus may liberate them from those fruits of their sins.
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. For John was not yet cast into prison. Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying. And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. (John 3:22-26)
Although the image of washing with water was often utilized in Israel’s history to signify a sanctifying purification that sets apart a people or a project for the cause of God, the ceremony of baptism was not exclusive to the servant-ministers or the ritual induction into the Kingdom of Heaven. As a symbol of traditional preparation and solemn intent, the act of baptism was an expression of naturalization into a civil jurisdiction. It was an act of making one a citizen as an official statement regarded by witnesses. And, at this time in Israel’s history, John the baptizer on behalf of the Kingdom of God, was not the only one offering ritual immersion into a civil society.
Herod the Great, in order to secure the favor and loyalty of the people, and in addition to his civil engineering projects like aqueducts and the building, and incorporating of the temple in Jerusalem, had also established an offer of baptism so that the people could enter into his jurisdiction, provided by his New Deal of civil citizenship through social security registration. He had employed, not only the Pharisaical civil bureaucracy as teachers into his socialist schemes, but also a sect of Essenes to be his missionaries, to preach the not-so-great-commission of his worldly gospel.
Herod the Great had a grand scheme of a vast worldwide membership. This involved sending evangelists out all over the world. The participants of this system of social security were ritually baptized after an application and payment to Herod’s ministers of the prescribed fees. Annual contributions would be collected and recorded by the scribes…
Membership was marked by the display of a white stone seal or token with a registered Hebrew name whenever entering homes for the weekly gatherings or at synagogues or temples and applying for social benefits. The temple tax collectors now collected an annual contribution that brought great wealth to the government, Herod, and his administrators…
The missionaries… with their leather wallets full of white stones, would come back with the same wallets full of money, in foreign currency. Once put into Jewish currency by the money-changers [porters of the temple], it would be stored in vaults, ready to be used by Herod for his vast building projects, or any subsequent causes…
Herod’s scheme of initiation into a new form of Judaism was immensely successful. Jews everywhere were willing to join the worldwide society whose meetings were held in the evenings in private houses. Entry was for members only; they had to show at the door an admission token in the form of a white stone from the river Jordan which the missionaries gave them at baptism. On the stone was written their new Jewish name. (Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Barbara Thiering)
The notion of a white stone as a form of identification that stood as a proxy for the person bearing it, was not exclusive to Herod’s New World Order. Scripture says that even those who are baptized into God’s kingdom will receive a white stone with a new name. Not a legal name like that which is used by human civil governments to have power over their citizens, but a name known only by the one to whom it is given.
The Baptism of Christ was a competitive alternative to the baptism of Herod. Its offer of citizenship into the Kingdom of God required an exclusive allegiance to that kingdom and a willingness to sacrifice for one’s neighbor voluntarily rather than compel one’s neighbor to sacrifice for them through Herod’s bureaucratic socialist projects and covetous offers of benefits. This competition is the premise of the whole message of Christ, the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
In fact, the image of Baptism: the washing away of an old civil obligation and putting on a new, pure one, is borrowed by other Biblical metaphors, like ‘being born again’ ‘as a new creature’.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:3-7)
This takes us back to the differences between the corruptible seed of the flesh and the incorruptible seed of the spirit (1 Peter 1:23) where the people were once destined to bear the image of God, but were instead born into the sin of civil bondage characterized by ‘the flesh’, inheriting their parents’ curses through birth certification and social security, as they inherited it from their parents ‘unto the third and fourth generation‘ which keep the people dead. However,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead… (1 Peter 1:3)
This notion of being ‘born again‘ and becoming a ‘new creature‘ is not just some hyper-spiritual mantra meant to make professing Christians convince themselves that they are faithful through the witchcraft of repeating Biblical phrases and rhetoric. The notion explicitly refers to classical sumerian cuneiform, to ancient Abrahamic history, of which Christ expected Nicodemus to know: ‘Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?‘ A little bit of that history is as follows:
Abraham had rejected the false gospels of the city-states of Ur and Haran, and undermined their civil authorities by rescuing their civil slaves to form a free society in an obedient kingdom with him in the wilderness. Before doing so, Abraham was familiar with the interwoven Mesopotamian cultures in the Indus Valley, including Sumer, Akkadia, and Lagash. He and his people had conflict with the ‘merchants of men’ there, a mercantile caste who considered the people to be their property and merchandise through debt and taxation. This conflict was characterized by a ‘bitter struggle for power between the temple and the palace—the “church” and the “state”— with the citizens … taking the side of the temple’ which justified their individual rights. It was during the reign of Urukagina that opposition with ‘the wealth and criminality of the tamkarum [merchant-moneylenders]’ who had enslaved the people had occurred. It is in the historical cuneiform ‘document that we find the word “freedom” used for the first time in man’s recorded history; the word is amargi…’ which may literally be translated ‘return to the mother’ or her womb. (The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character By Samuel Noah Kramer documents of 2350 BC in the reign of Urukagina) The term ama-argi or ama-gi produced the idea of ‘freedom’, as well as ‘manumission‘, ‘exemption from debts or obligations’, ‘reversion to a previous state’ Akk. anduraāru. and release from debt, slavery, taxation or punishment. It was into this liberty that Abraham advocated for the people. It was into this liberty that Moses was instrumental in redeeming the Israelites from Egypt. A renewal of a free society means a rebirth of the individual from the corruption of bondage to the primordial cradle of the human condition. In legal terms, baptism and being born again into God’s Kingdom is a representation of expatriating from one country, and becoming a naturalized citizen of another. One must die to their old master so that they may begin, through rebirth, to serve a new body politic.
In other words, the notion of being ‘born again’ is entirely related to being adopted into mankind’s original liberty before he was enslaved into the jurisdictions of civil magistrates and the human Benefactors who exercise authority, and is ceremonially expressed through baptism and ritually washing away your debt to your old social contracts. To be born again is to be remade into God’s image, in the conception of upright innocence and power of choice, after having been born into the image of civil fathers who make you their property through civil law and societies of flesh. This principle is common throughout Scripture, and God’s people were often given explicit instructions on how to not build a society on debt and interest, and to intentionally manumit their neighbor from their debt obligations.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty (manumission) throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. (Leviticus 25:10)
This is the essence of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not only is it a campaign promise of a better society, but it is a promise of freedom from the societies that have already bound you through contracts, entitlements, and taxation to the mercantile caste of your choosing. It promises you equity and allodium, and a renewed natural relationship to your family, without the deleterious legal titles in marriage certificates and birth registration. What is more important is that it is the only gospel in existence that offers these things and has the power to deliver them.
In order to continue to thoroughly analyze gospel-related material, the next article will endeavor to explore the significance of a few of the highlights of Christ’s ministry, and to solidify them as wholly kingdom-related examples of his consistently political message.
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You Can Complain About Poor Hospice Services
July 3, 2019 Kirsten Howe
Sharon stared at the bill from the hospice that had cared for her mother in her final days. “I can’t believe they charge so much for such crappy care. Heck, Mom almost died while they were transporting her. They clearly didn’t know what they were doing.”
Her friend, Lynda, nodded. “They were pretty bad. I remember how upset you were when they failed to show up at the appointed time and you had to wait until their nurse arrived. Then everything was rush, rush, rush. To heck with the patient. I felt so bad for you.”
Sharon sighed. “I suppose it’s too late to complain now. I should have said something at the time. But Mom took a turn for the worse so suddenly. I was in no shape to pay attention to anything but her.” A tear dripped from her eye. “I was in shock. I couldn’t believe I was losing my mother and best friend.”
“Do you think the hospice contributed to her death?”
“At the very least, their incompetence hastened it. She died so quickly after the transfer. She was lucid enough to know what was going on and I know she was really upset about it. And she was uncomfortable and in so much pain. All she was to that place was a body to fill a bed.” Sharon snapped her fingers. “Ca-ching! It’s all about the money. To hell with the patient.”
Lynda shook her head. “I think you should complain, even though a month has passed. People who are near death still deserve respect. They should be allowed to die with dignity. That place took that away from your mom.”
“I wouldn’t even know where to begin,” Sharon said. “If I complain to the hospice, they’ll probably pitch it in the garbage bin. If I complain, I want someone to pay attention.”
Lynda patted her hand. “Let’s go on the Internet and see what we can find.”
There is no question that hospice agencies can provide a valuable service. Hospice care is intended to provide skilled and compassionate care during a patient’s end of life. The agencies or nurses no longer treat the disease, illness, or injury, but rather work to ensure a patient’s comfort in their final days. Generally, hospice care begins after it is determined that a patient will not survive a disease, illness, or injury. Treatment ceases and the patient is either sent home or to a hospice facility to die.
Hospice care is big business in the United States. Estimates are that the industry—primarily corporate-for-profit—bills Medicare almost $18 billion a year. Yet, regulation and enforcement of such facilities are much more relaxed than for nursing homes and other institutions that care for the sick and dying. Technically, the federal government requires states to recertify hospice agencies every three years. However, critics say, records show that close to 80 percent of all hospice agencies are not reviewed or certified by state entities. Instead, those agencies pay private accreditation companies to evaluate their performance, a situation that could lead to less that objective and credible results.
It also appears that complaints are rare and fines even more so. For example, there are more than 1,300 hospice agencies in California. Yet, for fiscal year 2016-17, the California Department of Public Health received only 213 hospice complaints and only one of those complaints resulted in a penalty. Records also show that the 213 complaints, on average, remained open for about a year before any decision was rendered.
Critics say the statistics are not indicative of stellar performance but rather the lack of consumer knowledge about how to complain when a patient is mishandled or mistreated. Dying patients are often discharged quickly from hospitals, without educating families about hospice care and available options. Since death is usually imminent, there usually isn’t time to research available hospice agencies and make informed decisions. And once death occurs, grieving over the loss usually takes precedence.
That does not mean, however, that families are barred from complaining about poor service or bad experiences with a hospice. According to the Hospice Patients Alliance (https://www.hospicepatients.org), the federal government has set forth specific standards of care for hospice agencies who bill Medicare or Medicaid. Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, those standards—set forth at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-06-05/pdf/08-1305.pdf —may be useful when determining if you have a legitimate grievance and ultimately, grounds for filing a formal complaint against a hospice agency.
When making a complaint about hospice care, the Alliance recommends the following:
Speak with the Hospice RN Case Manager about grievances and concerns. If the issue is not resolved, ask to speak with the hospice agency’s Medical Director/Manager.
If the problem remains unresolved, send the agency a certified letter restating your complaint, and informing them that you intend to file an immediate complaint with the state. A written complaint should then be submitted to the California Department of Public Health at https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/FileAComplaint.aspx. Provide a copy to the agency and keep one for your files.
In addition, if the agency holds accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, file a complaint at The Joint Commission.org or The Joint Commission, 1 Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181. Provide the agency with a copy of the complaint and keep one for your files.
Typically, there is some delay in getting the state and accreditation group to act, but there is a chance that the hospice agency will be motivated to act sooner if they are aware that you are serious about launching a complaint. If the complaint involves an immediate concern, it may be necessary to get others involved to increase the pressure, for example:
A physician
A consumer affairs reporter
A local advocacy group for the aging or related issues
Every person and every family deserves to be treated with dignity and respect when the end-of-life approaches. Therefore, if a hospice agency fails to deliver quality, compassionate care, it is important to act.
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To attain uniform, high standards of professional conduct within the Forwarding Industry. The Australian Federation of International Forwarders was created in July 1996 following the merger of two distinct organisations, namely: The Australian Federation of Airfreight Forwarders - 'AFAFF'- formed (as a Federal body) in 1977 and The International Forwarders Association of Australia -'IFAA'- representing the Seafreight Forwarders (formed in 1976). The merger was deemed to be a natural progression which mirrored the business of it's combined membership, most of whom were active in both air & sea transport. Existing and new members could elect to be represented in the Air and /or Sea division of the new entity.
As time progressed, the separate 'divisions' were incorporated into the organisation as a whole and at the same time, the expanding role of the Freight Forwarder into 3rd party logistics and the resultant wider range of services, was catered for by AFIF as it expanded it's representative involvement. In addition to specific Air & sea matters, AFIF also represents its members in issues related to: Customs & Quarantine; IT/E-Commerce; Training & Education; Security; Depot & Warehousing; etc.
AFIF also strengthened its presence at both local committee and regional and world representative level. More details are covered within this document. During its evolution, the organisation continued to develop and deliver a comprehensive vocational training program which has progressed to cover most subjects required by operatives in the freight forwarding industry.
During 2001 AFIF, in partnership with a new specialist group training company 'my freight career', combined to pioneer a traineeship for our Industry. AFIF continues to increase its membership services and since 1999 has been the official Australian distribution Agent for IATA publications and in late 2010, was also appointed by OAG Singapore as it's GSSA for cargo publications and products for Australia.
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Posted: July 9, 2019 in Uncategorized
Tags: corruption, Jeffrey Epstein, MeToo, police state, sex trafficking
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.”—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Power corrupts.
Anyone who believes differently hasn’t been paying attention.
Politics, religion, sports, government, entertainment, business, armed forces: it doesn’t matter what arena you’re talking about, they are all riddled with the kind of seedy, sleazy, decadent, dodgy, depraved, immoral, corrupt behavior that somehow gets a free pass when it involves the wealthy and powerful elite in America.
In this age of partisan politics and a deeply polarized populace, corruption—especially when it involves sexual debauchery, depravity and predatory behavior—has become the great equalizer.
Take Jeffrey Epstein, the hedge fund billionaire / convicted serial pedophile recently arrested on charges of molesting, raping and sex trafficking dozens of young girls.
It is believed that Epstein operated his own personal sex trafficking ring not only for his personal pleasure but also for the pleasure of his friends and business associates. According to The Washington Post, “several of the young women…say they were offered to the rich and famous as sex partners at Epstein’s parties.” At various times, Epstein ferried his friends about on his private plane, nicknamed the “Lolita Express.”
This is part of America’s seedy underbelly.
As I documented in the in-depth piece I wrote earlier this year, child sex trafficking—the buying and selling of women, young girls and boys for sex, some as young as 9 years old—has become big business in America. It is the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
Adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States.
It’s not just young girls who are vulnerable to these predators, either.
According to a 2016 investigative report, “boys make up about 36% of children caught up in the U.S. sex industry (about 60% are female and less than 5% are transgender males and females).”
Who buys a child for sex?
Otherwise ordinary men from all walks of life. “They could be your co-worker, doctor, pastor or spouse,” writes journalist Tim Swarens, who spent more than a year investigating the sex trade in America.
Ordinary men, yes.
But then there are the extra-ordinary men, such as Jeffrey Epstein, who belong to a powerful, wealthy, elite segment of society that operates according to their own rules or, rather, who are allowed to sidestep the rules that are used like a bludgeon on the rest of us.
These men skate free of accountability by taking advantage of a criminal justice system that panders to the powerful, the wealthy and the elite.
Over a decade ago, when Epstein was first charged with raping and molesting young girls, he was gifted a secret plea deal with then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, President Trump’s current Labor Secretary, that allowed him to evade federal charges and be given the equivalent of a slap on the wrist: allowed to “work” at home six days a week before returning to jail to sleep. That secret plea deal has since been ruled illegal by a federal judge.
Yet here’s the thing: Epstein did not act alone.
I refer not only to Epstein’s accomplices, who recruited and groomed the young girls he is accused of raping and molesting, many of them homeless or vulnerable, but his circle of influential friends and colleagues that at one time included Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Both Clinton and Trump, renowned womanizers who have also been accused of sexual impropriety by a significant number of women, were at one time passengers on the Lolita Express.
As the Associated Press points out, “The arrest of the billionaire financier on child sex trafficking charges is raising questions about how much his high-powered associates knew about the hedge fund manager’s interactions with underage girls, and whether they turned a blind eye to potentially illegal conduct.”
In fact, a recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals allowing a 2,000-page document linked to the Epstein case to be unsealed references allegations of sexual abuse involving “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders.”
This is not a minor incident involving minor players.
This is the heart of darkness.
Sex slaves. Sex trafficking. Secret societies. Powerful elites. Government corruption. Judicial cover-ups.
Once again, fact and fiction mirror each other.
Twenty years ago, Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut provided viewing audiences with a sordid glimpse into a secret sex society that indulged the basest urges of its affluent members while preying on vulnerable young women. It is not so different from the real world, where powerful men, insulated from accountability, indulge their base urges.
These secret societies flourish, implied Kubrick, because the rest of us are content to navigate life with our eyes wide shut, in denial about the ugly, obvious truths in our midst.
In so doing, we become accomplices to abusive behavior in our midst.
This is how corruption by the power elite flourishes.
For every Epstein who is—finally—called to account for his illegal sexual exploits after years of being given a free pass by those in power, there are hundreds (perhaps thousands) more in the halls of power and wealth whose predation of those most vulnerable among us continues unabated.
While Epstein’s alleged crimes are heinous enough on their own, he is part of a larger narrative of how a culture of entitlement becomes a cesspool and a breeding ground for despots and predators.
Remember the “DC Madam” who was charged with operating a phone-order sex business? Her clients included thousands of White House officials, lobbyists, and Pentagon, FBI, and IRS employees, as well as prominent lawyers, none of whom were ever exposed or held accountable.
Worse, as 19th-century historian Lord Acton concluded, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a politician, an entertainment mogul, a corporate CEO or a police officer: give any one person (or government agency) too much power and allow him or her or it to believe that they are entitled, untouchable and will not be held accountable for their actions, and those powers will eventually be abused.
We’re seeing this dynamic play out every day in communities across America.
A cop shoots an unarmed citizen for no credible reason and gets away with it. A president employs executive orders to sidestep the Constitution and gets away with it. A government agency spies on its citizens’ communications and gets away with it. An entertainment mogul sexually harasses aspiring actresses and gets away with it. The U.S. military bombs a civilian hospital and gets away with it.
Abuse of power—and the ambition-fueled hypocrisy and deliberate disregard for misconduct that make those abuses possible—works the same whether you’re talking about sex crimes, government corruption, or the rule of law.
It’s the same old story all over again: man rises to power, man abuses power abominably, man intimidates and threatens anyone who challenges him with retaliation or worse, and man gets away with it because of a culture of compliance in which no one speaks up because they don’t want to lose their job or their money or their place among the elite.
It’s not just sexual predators that we have to worry about.
For every Jeffrey Epstein (or Bill Clinton or Harvey Weinstein or Roger Ailes or Bill Cosby or Donald Trump) who eventually gets called out for his sexual misbehavior, there are hundreds—thousands—of others in the American police state who are getting away with murder—in many cases, literally—simply because they can.
The cop who shoots the unarmed citizen first and asks questions later might get put on paid leave for a while or take a job with another police department, but that’s just a slap on the wrist. The shootings and SWAT team raids and excessive use of force will continue, because the police unions and the politicians and the courts won’t do a thing to stop it.
The war hawks who are making a profit by waging endless wars abroad, killing innocent civilians in hospitals and schools, and turning the American homeland into a domestic battlefield will continue to do so because neither the president nor the politicians will dare to challenge the military industrial complex.
The National Security Agency that carries out warrantless surveillance on Americans’ internet and phone communications will continue to do so, because the government doesn’t want to relinquish any of its ill-gotten powers and its total control of the populace.
Unless something changes in the way we deal with these ongoing, egregious abuses of power, the predators of the police state will continue to wreak havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives.
Police officers will continue to shoot and kill unarmed citizens. Government agents—including local police—will continue to dress and act like soldiers on a battlefield. Bloated government agencies will continue to fleece taxpayers while eroding our liberties. Government technicians will continue to spy on our emails and phone calls. Government contractors will continue to make a killing by waging endless wars abroad.
And powerful men (and women) will continue to abuse the powers of their office by treating those around them as underlings and second-class citizens who are unworthy of dignity and respect and undeserving of the legal rights and protections that should be afforded to all Americans.
As Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the at the University of California, Berkeley, observed in the Harvard Business Review, “While people usually gain power through traits and actions that advance the interests of others, such as empathy, collaboration, openness, fairness, and sharing; when they start to feel powerful or enjoy a position of privilege, those qualities begin to fade. The powerful are more likely than other people to engage in rude, selfish, and unethical behavior.”
After conducting a series of experiments into the phenomenon of how power corrupts, Keltner concluded: “Just the random assignment of power, and all kinds of mischief ensues, and people will become impulsive. They eat more resources than is their fair share. They take more money. People become more unethical.They think unethical behavior is okay if they engage in it. People are more likely to stereotype. They’re more likely to stop attending to other people carefully.”
And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
However, it takes a culture of entitlement and a nation of compliant, willfully ignorant, politically divided citizens to provide the foundations of tyranny.
As researchers Joris Lammers and Adam Galinsky found, those in power not only tend to abuse that power but they also feel entitled to abuse it: “People with power that they think is justified break rules not only because they can get away with it, but also because they feel at some intuitive level that they are entitled to take what they want.”
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, for too long now, Americans have tolerated an oligarchy in which a powerful, elite group of wealthy donors is calling the shots. They have paid homage to patriotism while allowing the military industrial complex to spread death and destruction abroad. And they have turned a blind eye to all manner of wrongdoing when it was politically expedient.
We need to restore the rule of law for all people, no exceptions.
Here’s what the rule of law means in a nutshell: it means that everyone is treated the same under the law, everyone is held equally accountable to abiding by the law, and no one is given a free pass based on their politics, their connections, their wealth, their status or any other bright line test used to confer special treatment on the elite.
This culture of compliance must stop.
The empowerment of petty tyrants and political gods must end.
The state of denial must cease.
Let’s not allow this Epstein sex scandal to become just another blip in the news cycle that goes away all too soon, only to be forgotten when another titillating news headline takes its place.
Sex trafficking, like so many of the evils in our midst, is a cultural disease that is rooted in the American police state’s heart of darkness. It speaks to a far-reaching corruption that stretches from the highest seats of power down to the most hidden corners and relies on our silence and our complicity to turn a blind eye to wrongdoing.
If we want to put an end to these wrongs, we must keep our eyes wide open.
Source: https://bit.ly/30yJqLx
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People is available at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.
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« Are Orthodox Jews Diluting the Debate on Homosexuality and Judaism? | Jews Should Have an Open Way to Buy Land in the West Bank »
Wikipedia is a great website. Ignore it at your own peril. Teachers and professors talk it to hell, but not using it is to ignore a tremendous tool that Google considers the automatic top result on virtually any academic topic. Most professors don’t understand that the reason you shouldn’t cite it as a source isn’t due to its lack of reliability. It’s because the information of its articles are constantly changing. You should be checking the footnotes and hitting the links listed at the bottom of the page. New information makes the date you accessed it originally constantly irrelevant, but letting it point you in the right direction is assuredly a good strategy for writing a paper or thinking of a research topic.
So when it comes to Middle East topics, it’s not so much the subjectivity I worry about – even on articles covering things like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s the outdated information. In terms of minorities, Wikipedia seems much more like an aggregate for recycled, archaic information than it does a reliable source of the modern state of different religious or ethnic groups.
The particular page of concern for me is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Syria. What the page has to say about Alawites is peculiar: “Although they are settled cultivators, Alawis gather into kin groups much like those of pastoral nomads. The four Alawi confederations, each divided into tribes, are Kalbiyah, Khaiyatin, Haddadin, and Matawirah.”
The information is correct. But it was a better summary about 100 years ago. Alawites, Ismailis and Druze have not been left out of the age of the internet, digital music, cars or the urban explosion. Every group has moved away from rural lifestyles into Latakia, Hama, Homs and Damascus. But most importantly of all, the community’s conservative roots have been decimated by the modern age. A combination of Arab nationalism, feigning devotion to religion and the marathon of Western cultural influences into the year 2012 have made religion a weak link among Alawites. In the spirit of the age, the experience is defined by a raw, dark, realpolitik approach to life. Alawites’ main concern right now is living under the thumb of political Islam defined by the Muslim Brotherhood. More relevant than referring to the group’s religious history is its political history. The Ottoman Empire made great efforts toward the end of its existence to push Syria’s Alawites to embrace the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam in custom, law and sect. By the time the empire fell, the community’s leadership was either running to Shi’ite Islam for legal inspiration or enthusiastically defining the community’s independence.
After 90 years of secular Arab nationalism and a Western culture not at all defined by religious tradition, secularism is perhaps the more dominant trend in Alawite and other minorities’ religious identities in 2012 Syria. bear this in mind for your next term paper. But also bear in mind “secular” doesn’t imply atheist, agnostic or apathetic regarding religion. It can merely imply someone doesn’t live his or her life in accord with it, or doesn’t want religious affairs mixed up in government or politics. But in terms of tribal authority, or the authority of religious figures, it’s virtually non-existent. The effective leadership of the Alawite community is Bashar al-Assad and the disproportionately Alawite Syrian armed forces.
This doesn’t mean religion is finished for the Alawites. It would be just as naïve to say the same for the American Northeast and West Coast. Religion is hardly on its way out. How Alawites deal with religion in the future will likely change, but contemporary Western trends will hardly be the end of the story or the ushering in of a sudden wave of secular or atheist Humanism. Alawites have had the opportunity for years to eliminate other elements of religion in Syria’s political life and have balked at the opportunity. A number of minorities are converting to Twelver Shi’ite Islam.
So when you look at a map on the news describing where the Alawites are, or what percentage of people actually believe in a certain religious idea, take the statistics and the graphics with a grain of salt. A lot of the research is out of date and the conclusions conveniently organized. Surveys have never been rich enough to absolutely define the beliefs of many Middle Eastern minorities, much less nail down an arbitrarily line on the map defining where they live. The information is helpful, but trends like urbanization and the ability to commute long distances make looking at these sources as infallible or perfectly accurate extremely precarious.
Posted on June 3, 2012 at 9:37 am in Alawis / Alawites, Alevis & Alevism, Druze, Intros to Different Religious Groups, Ismailis & Ismaili Shi'ite Islam, Shi'ites & Shi'a Islam, Syria & the Syrian Civil War | RSS feed | Reply | Trackback URL
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#NeverAgain
Across the globe, Christians and other religious minorities are being violently persecuted for their faith. At ADF International, we know we have a duty to act.
‘Either we speak up against what is happening, either we make this cause our own, or our silence tells the perpetrators they can continue to act with impunity. Our silence tells the victims that no one is there to help them. Our silence encourages others to act in this way in the future.’ – Paul Coleman, Executive Director
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Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East are deliberately targeted by ISIS/Daesh for destruction.
In Syria alone, the number of Christians has dropped from over 2 million to under a million, and from 1.4 million to under 260,000 in Iraq in just a few years. The Yazidis in the region of Kurdistan have been almost entirely wiped out. Atrocities include assassinations of church leaders, torture, mass murders, kidnapping, sexual enslavement and systematic rape of Christian and Yazidi girls, and the destruction of churches, monasteries, and cemeteries.
As a result, ADF International diligently worked with national governments and major international institutions for the recognition that the suffering of Christians and other minorities was indeed genocide. This work included hosting events at key institutions to bring together the key players that could enact change, raising awareness of the issue with key journalists and key outlets, and engaging with politicians in several countries, providing them with the evidence and the arguments to make formal declarations of genocide in their parliaments. Our team travelled to Iraq and collected evidence to show governments the truth of the suffering of Christians.
In 2016, several important institutions did recognize genocide. This included the United States State Department, the United Kingdom House of Commons, and the European Parliament, among others.
On 21 September 2017, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution supporting Iraq in prosecuting members of ISIS/Daesh for crimes committed against religious minorities in the region.
As an NGO, help us raise awareness and contact the government officials in your country or the country where the atrocities take place.
As an individual, help us raise awareness and contact your national government officials.
You can write a short letter, email, Facebook, or Twitter message.
Never Again presents a comprehensive analysis of the law on genocide. Drawing on evidence of genocide since 1948 and eyewitness accounts of ISIS/Daesh atrocities, Never Again demonstrates that the system designed to safeguard the vulnerable offers only illusory protection. With the rise of non-State actors, its capacity to oppose the most egregious violations of human rights is frighteningly limited.
The summer of 2014 marked the beginning of a dark time for Christians in Iraq. That June, the Islamic State (ISIS) launched a major military offensive against the northern part of the country. Their jihad swept across the region so rapidly that state security forces were quickly overwhelmed. The government, paralyzed, offered little help to minorities—including Christians—who stood in the path of the oncoming violence.
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2018-19 Team Profile: Dolomiti Energia Trento
Aug 25, 2018 by Eurocupbasketball.com Print
Dolomiti Energia Trento comes off its second EuroCup campaign in three years and it proved to be a formidable foe. After a slow start to the season saw the club fall to 2-4, Shavon Shields returned from injury and sparked Trento to four straight victories and second place in Group D with a 6-4 record. Trento defeated all five of its regular season opponents at least once. A victory over Cedevita Zagreb gave Trento a fine start to the Top 16, but three consecutive losses followed, including a double-overtime 105-106 shootout to Buducnost VOLI Podgorica, which eliminated the team from reaching the elimination rounds. Back home, Trento overpowered Sidigas Avellino and eliminated regular season champ Umana Reyer Venice to reach the Italian League finals against AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan. After splitting the first two games, Milan won Games 5 and 6 to take the crown, but Trento had already proven that it is a rising continental force.
SEASON COMPETITION RECORD FINISH
2017-18 Eurocup 8-8 Top 16
2015-16 Eurocup 15-7 Semifinal
TOTAL: 23-15
Aquila Basket Trento will play back-to-back season in the 7DAYS EuroCup for the first time. Founded in 1995 on the initiative of Gianni Brusinelli and Marco Angelini, the club slowly gained momentum. The club began in the seventh tier of Italian basketball and the arrival of Giovanni Zobele, who would stay with the team for 13 years, as team president brought its first promotion to a higher level. But that was only the start of things to come. Over the next five seasons, the club climbed up two more tiers and in the 2004-05 season, Aquila Basket won a lower league double crown by winning the fifth division championship, while also downing Navarra Ferentino 77-68 to lift the Italian Cup for amateur teams. Trento's appetite grew as it came close to promotion again before it acquired Lumezzane Basket's license to get into the Italian third division in 2009. By 2011-12, Aquila Basket was already on top of the third division; head coach Maurizio Buscaglia's team downed Chieti 3-1 to lift the crown. Trento had immediate success in the second-best Italian level and lifted the Second Division Cup by downing Pistoia in the final 84-76. The team also reached the playoff semifinals. By the next season, Trento went all the way by winning the regular season and storming through the playoffs against Agrigento, Turin and Capo d'Orlando to earn promotion into the Italian League first division. Trento played its first elite level season in 2014-15 and finished fourth in the Italian League regular season led by league MVP Tony Mitchell. Trento was ousted in the playoff quarterfinals by eventual champion Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari, but earned a spot to play the 2015-16 EuroCup. Behind Coach Buscaglia and forwards Julian Wright and Davide Pascolo, Trento went on a historic run to the semifinals against all odds. Back home, Trento also made it to the Italian Cup semifinals and returned to the Italian League playoffs, in which Milan prevailed. Last season Trento played in its second EuroCup campaign and used a five-game winning streak to reach the Top 16. Domestically Trento is the only team to have reached the Italian League finals in each of the past two seasons, though it came up short each time in its quest for the title. After so much success in recent years, Trento is eager to finally capture a trophy to top it off.
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