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Rome Burned, Will We?
Posted by Cryptocurrency on September 27, 2018 at 8:19am
Ruling class accelerates planned economic implosion
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
As America’s engineered economic implosion accelerates, the parallels with how the Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now abundantly clear that the ruling class is preparing for a planned economic implosion after which they will declare themselves the saviors.
A recent Reuters report highlighting how the Federal Reserve has been telling major banks in the U.S. to prepare for a “worst case scenario” financial collapse and that these banks would not be able to rely on government support underscores once again how the elite are positioning themselves to exploit the next leg of the orchestrated financial meltdown.
Just as happened in the aftermath of 2008, the ruling class is getting ready to offer the solution of more centralized control and more financial serfdom as the solution to the problem they created in the first place.
By making the public and industry beg for QE3, the Federal Reserve will once again try to manipulate the crisis to portray itself as the guardian of a fragile system and accumulate yet more power.
America is now ruled by a gaggle of completely corrupt financial terrorists who will stop at nothing to hollow out the country in pursuit of their own maniacal and selfish gain.
This precisely parallels Rome’s rapacious ruling Emperors and Senators of the fifth century who were so obsessed with seizing wealth and control that they ended up destroying their own culture, their own country and its empire in the process.
Just as in Rome, while the ruling elite got filthy rich, the people struggled and starved.
More than 100 million Americans are now on government welfare, a third of the entire country, and that figure doesn’t even include Social Security or Medicare.
22.3 million households and 46.5 million Americans have now entered technical poverty and live off food stamps.
Just as in Rome, where the need to constantly generate revenue to satisfy the cost of defense and a sprawling bureaucracy ultimately led to the country becoming bankrupt as Nero and subsequently emperors hiked up taxes and debased the currency, America is hurtling towards a similar fate.
Entitlement spending, military defense and a bloated federal bureaucracy has left the United States almost $16 trillion dollars in debt, and the prospect of QE3 threatens to sink the dollar as the world reserve currency for good.
Just as Romans found their currency becoming increasingly worthless, the U.S. dollar has lost almost 100 per cent of its value since 1900.
Just like Rome, America was once a Republic that has been hijacked and turned into an empire. Just as the Roman Empire crumbled under its rulers’ inability to afford its maintenance, America’s overseas presence (the U.S. has troops in a staggering 130 countries), is bankrupting the country.
Like America, Rome once had an influential middle class whose wealth allowed them to have a political stake in their country. Merchants and traders were able to prosper because taxes were modest and economic regulation was relaxed. However, beginning in the third century B.C., the Roman economy became more regimented and taxes were raised. This eviscerated and disenfranchised the middle class, just as has unfolded in America, where middle class neighborhoods are disappearing and income is polarized between a struggling downtrodden mass of people and a tiny rich elite.
When the economic collapse arrives, it could be more brutal than anything America has experienced in its history as a nation.
Consider the fact that during the ten years of the 1929 Great Depression, some 8 million Americans starved to death. And this at a time when 90 per cent of the population lived in rural areas and were at least somewhat self-sufficient. That number is now 50 per cent and many people who live outside major cities are not self-sufficient in any way.
Aside from economic factors, cultural and societal parallels can also be drawn between Rome and 21st century America.
Rome’s increasing use of illegal immigrants to do agricultural work its host population refused to undertake mirrors America in 2012. As Peter Heather writes in The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and Barbarians, “The Roman government allowed uncontrolled hostile immigration to dissolve the fabric of their civilization. Illegal and legal Immigrants grew more powerful while exercising their own character of their cultures. They did not adopt Roman ways. Second, vast blocks of once Roman lands became foreign held and even the Roman population, once outnumbered, was no match for hostile immigrants.”
“Factors that destroyed Rome now manifest in accelerating numbers in America. Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco, Raleigh and all large cities suffer millions of illegal immigrants. Uncounted millions of them cannot and do not speak English. Millions work under the table without paying taxes. Millions use our hospitals without paying. They immigrate but do not assimilate. They colonize in ethnic enclaves separated from Americans. They fracture our country,” writes Frosty Wooldridge.
Just as Roman rulers created bread and circuses to distract their population from the fact that the country was collapsing, Americans are also enraptured by entertainment and sports, which in turn encourages them to lead superficial, meaningless lives.
As Roman poet Juvenal (circa 100 A.D.) wrote, “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions–everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”
This loss of interest in civic duty and its replacement with an obsession for entertainment and folly is routinely cited by scholars as one of the primary reasons behind the collapse of Rome.
As Kyle Trottier writes, “In many modern books written about Ancient Rome and her people, the ancient Romans are often portrayed as people who enjoyed violence and thought it amusing to see people being injured and killed to the point of obsession. It is now common knowledge that, in Ancient Rome, people often attended (and enjoyed) gladiatorial fights to the death, wild beast hunts, naval battles and chariot racing. Some public thinkers today have suggested that “entertainment” today, as it was in ancient times of Rome, reflects the decline of culture, into a plethora of lust, greed, violence, selfish individualism and bad behavior. Some Scholars suggest that history is repeating itself and we are now in a reoccurring cycle of moral decay and social breakdown. From the excessive amount of glorified violence in Hollywood movies, video games, music and on the internet, one can easily see the downward spiral of decency.”
The moral decay of the Roman culture is also being aped almost precisely in America. While fertility and birth rates of the host population continue to plummet, sexual promiscuity and infidelity is lauded. As Dr. Carle Zimmerman’s 1947 book Family and Civilization documented, America shares the pattern of its moral decline with Rome. Zimmerman identified a number of behavior traits that signaled the decline of a civilization. These included “the breakdown of marriage and rise of divorce,” “acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity and rebellion,” “refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept their family responsibilities,” “a growing desire for and acceptance of adultery” and “increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions and sex-related crimes.”
All of these traits have come to shape American society in the 21st century.
It does not take a crystal ball to see where all this is heading, and the planned economic implosion is going to be the trigger. Europe has already been rocked by riots over the past two years and federal authorities are already preparing for similar scenes in America only on a far bigger scale.
As Ron Paul has warned, the coming engineered financial breakdown is leading directly to domestic unrest which will inevitably lead to a state of martial law.
Riots prompted by food shortages, inflation, inequality and political corruption are inevitable should the ruling class continue to deliberately implode the economy – as is the brutal police state response that will come as a result.
Just as Rome burned when it was sacked in 455AD, the historical point which marked the formal end of the Roman Empire, America faces the same fate.
The only way to prevent or try to lessen the kind of collapse that could make the dissolution of Rome look like a cakewalk is to use the tools that ordinary Romans never had – the power of the modern alternative media.
Only by relentlessly emphasizing that the collapse is being deliberately engineered by those who seek to exploit it for their own gain can we hope to deflate the myth that the ruling class are our only saviors in the coming time of peril.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Status: AHSQ
Date of birth: 30-10-1982 Age: 37 Country: USA
Height: 5' 11" Weight: 190 lbs Star Power: 0
Repêché : N/A Average Cap Hit: $5,000,000 over 1 Year(s)
Condition:100% Suspension: 0
53 32 98 84 57 99 99 82 25 13 21 92 25 82 85 50 99 0
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Summary
SHT%
2008-09 Portland Pirates 16 4 13 17 2 12 3 0 1 0 42 9.5
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 1 6 7 -3 18 0 0 0 1 22 4.5
2009-10 Worcester Sharks 65 5 35 40 27 13 4 0 0 0 145 3.4
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.0
2010-11 Worcester Sharks 80 8 42 50 -14 6 5 0 1 0 193 4.1
2010-11 San Jose Sharks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 2 9 11 -4 10 2 0 0 0 56 3.6
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 0 12 12 11 30 0 0 0 0 30 0.0
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 82 3 16 19 6 39 0 0 1 0 53 5.7
2017-18 San Jose Sharks 82 11 28 39 31 12 6 0 3 0 102 10.8
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 4 8 12 4 8 1 1 1 0 52 7.7
2019-20 San Jose Sharks 50 5 13 18 -1 8 2 0 0 1 64 7.8
FARM TOTALS 161 17 90 107 15 31 12 0 2 0 380 4.5
PRO TOTALS 752 41 168 209 105 291 14 2 7 3 634 6.5
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Summary
2008-09 Portland Pirates 5 2 2 4 1 0 1 0 0 13 15.4
2009-10 Worcester Sharks 13 2 8 10 3 2 2 0 0 25 8.0
2011-12 Worcester Sharks 17 0 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 22 0.0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.0
2013-14 San Jose SharksSan Jose Sharks 7 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 1 9 10 14 8 0 0 0 0 12 8.3
2016-17 San Jose Sharks 21 3 6 9 16 18 2 0 0 1 23 13.0
2017-18 12 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 16.7
2018-19 7 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 33.3
FARM TOTALS 35 4 14 18 0 2 3 0 0 0 60 6.7
PRO TOTALS 98 6 23 29 39 28 2 0 0 1 61 9.8
Ext. Summary
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - EXTENDED SUMMARY
OSMG
2008-09 Portland Pirates 16 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008-09 62 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2009-10 Worcester Sharks 65 0 85 0 0 38 37 0 0 0
2009-10 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
2010-11 Worcester Sharks 80 0 129 68 80 44 84 0 0 0
2011-12 82 0 40 18 0 18 35 0 0 0
2013-14 82 0 102 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018-19 82 0 61 28 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 0 129 68 80 82 121 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 752 0 802 92 0 18 37 0 1 0.0
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - EXTENDED SUMMARY
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 0 17 23 11 10 10 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Barracuda 17 0 23 5 16 7 13 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 5 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 7 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 5 0 23 28 27 17 23 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 98 0 127 1 1 0 3 0 0 0
Time On Ice
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Time On Ice
ES TOI
ES TOI/G
SH TOI
SH TOI/G
PP TOI
PP TOI/G
TOI/G
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 04:08 00:15 00:00 0 00:00 0 04:08 00:15 00:00
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 07:27 00:07 00:00 0 00:00 0 07:27 00:07 00:00
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 1242:19 19:06 139:09 02:08 138:55 02:08 1520:23 23:23 174:31
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 40:12 20:06 00:00 0 00:00 0 40:12 20:06 00:03
2010-11 San Jose Sharks 0 00:00 0 00:00 0 00:00 0 00:00 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 619:54 07:33 179:40 02:11 266:21 03:14 1065:55 12:59 00:33
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 780:24 10:24 125:30 01:40 00:32 00:00 906:26 12:05 00:19
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 82 1055:32 12:52 224:02 02:43 45:44 00:33 1325:18 16:09 00:22
2016-17 San Jose Sharks 82 1747:55 21:18 177:05 02:09 182:36 02:13 2107:36 25:42 00:19
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 896:44 10:56 69:32 00:50 46:46 00:34 1013:02 12:21 00:07
2019-20 San Jose Sharks 50 1051:56 21:02 82:40 01:39 123:31 02:28 1258:07 25:09 00:08
FARM TOTALS 161 3020:36 18:45 406:51 02:31 376:56 02:20 3804:23 23:37 02:41
PRO TOTALS 752 10795:50 14:21 1332:19 01:46 953:58 01:16 13082:07 17:23 01:28
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Time On Ice
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 01:33 00:18 00:00 0 00:00 0 01:33 00:18 00:00
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 242:07 18:37 65:38 05:02 64:04 04:55 371:49 28:36 39:06
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 5 28:18 05:39 10:59 02:11 33:37 06:43 72:54 14:34 01:06
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 122:53 06:28 00:00 0 00:00 0 122:53 06:28 00:20
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 7 85:44 12:14 14:01 02:00 00:00 0 99:45 14:15 00:15
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 272:00 22:40 31:54 02:39 02:39 00:13 306:33 25:32 00:38
2015-16 San Jose Sharks 15 254:15 16:57 34:45 02:19 00:00 0 289:00 19:16 00:23
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 7 140:41 20:05 16:05 02:17 02:08 00:18 158:54 22:42 00:08
FARM TOTALS 35 491:16 14:02 134:01 03:49 93:42 02:40 718:59 20:32 02:04
PRO TOTALS 98 1603:05 16:21 173:37 01:46 111:12 01:08 1887:54 19:15 01:32
Hits & Fights
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Hits & Fights
HTT
5 PIM
Fight W
Fight L
Fight T
1st Star
2nd Star
3rd Star
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 10 16 12 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 16 15 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 56 156 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010-11 San Jose Barracuda 80 69 201 6 0 0 1 0 2 1 3
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 32 63 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 40 44 30 10 1 0 1 0 0 0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 71 153 84 94 40 2 2 4 1 0 2
2016-17 San Jose Sharks 82 115 88 50 0 0 0 0 3 3 1
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 46 39 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 135 373 31 5 0 1 0 3 2 6
PRO TOTALS 752 679 569 291 85 3 4 10 10 6 10
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Hits & Fights
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 24 28 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Barracuda 17 6 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2015-16 San Jose Sharks 15 2 15 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 35 32 62 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 98 103 85 28 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Special Teams
Even : G
Power Play : G
Shorthanded : G
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 1 13 14 42 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 1 6 7 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 1 25 26 126 4 9 13 16 0 1 1 3
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 0 3 3 33 2 6 8 20 0 0 0 3
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 75 0 11 11 30 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
2013-14 San Jose Sharks 82 3 15 18 41 0 1 1 12 0 0 0 0
2017-18 San Jose Sharks 82 5 24 29 55 6 4 10 47 0 0 0 0
2018-19 San Jose Sharks 82 2 6 8 42 1 2 3 9 1 0 1 1
2019-20 San Jose Sharks 50 3 8 11 37 2 5 7 27 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 5 75 40 327 12 14 26 44 0 1 1 9
PRO TOTALS 752 25 143 168 466 41 168 39 161 41 168 2 7
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Special Teams
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 1 2 3 13 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 13 0 5 5 17 2 1 3 4 0 2 2 4
2012-13 San Jose Sharks 19 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2014-15 San Jose Sharks 12 1 9 10 11 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 35 1 9 2 48 3 1 4 8 0 4 4 4
PRO TOTALS 98 1 0 24 3 6 23 4 12 6 23 1 1
CAREER REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS - Shootouts
2008-09 Rochester Americans 16 0 0 0
2008-09 Buffalo Sabres 62 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Barracuda 65 0 0 0
2009-10 San Jose Sharks 2 0 0 0
2011-12 San Jose Sharks 82 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 161 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 752 0 1 0
CAREER PLAYOFF SEASON STATISTICS - Shootouts
2008-09 Rochester Americans 5 0 0 0
FARM TOTALS 35 0 0 0
PRO TOTALS 98 0 1 0
Salary Hit by Season
* = No Trade Clause
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No Trade Clause
1 Year(s) One Way Contract (PRO) NO NO NO
[08-11-2018 12:31:05] - Andy Greene ratings were not updated!
[11-05-2018 21:51:46] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Abdomen/Ribs Injury.
[03-05-2018 16:55:54] - Game 69 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Abdomen/Ribs) and is out for 2 weeks.
[30-05-2017 18:51:11] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured from Exhaustion.
[30-05-2017 18:53:19] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Exhaustion.
[03-05-2016 18:45:15] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Sprained Left Knee Injury.
[17-04-2016 09:31:29] - Game 22 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Sprained Left Knee) and is out for 3 weeks.
[05-05-2015 18:31:14] - Last 7 Days Pro Star : 1 - Kari Lehtonen of San Jose Sharks (0-936) / 2 - Matt Read of San Jose Sharks (2-2-4) / 3 - Andy Greene of San Jose Sharks (1-3-4)
[11-12-2014 18:19:11] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Fractured Bone in Left Hand Injury.
[10-25-2014 18:32:06] - Game 107 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Fractured Bone in Left Hand) and is out for 3 weeks.
[03-02-2013 22:39:13] - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is back from Strained Groin Injury.
[02-16-2013 20:29:48] - Game 824 - Andy Greene from San Jose Sharks is injured (Strained Groin) and is out for 2 weeks.
Before joining the Devils, he attended and played hockey for Miami University. He was signed out of Miami University, and was assigned to the Devil's AHL affiliate, the Lowell Devils, after training camp. He succeeded at the AHL level, making the PlanetUSA all-star team. He was called up for a short stint to replace the injured Johnny Oduya. Though Greene played well and showed considerable promise, he was reassigned to Lowell upon Oduya's return. Later in the season, he was again recalled when Colin White was injured. When the 2007 playoffs began, the NHL salary cap no longer applied, allowing the Devils to add Greene to their permanent roster. With the return of injured defenseman Richard Matvichuk, it appeared as though Greene would sit. However, an injury to Colin White allowed Greene to remain on the roster. During this period, Greene played so well that, upon White's return, Oduya was scratched in Greene's stead.
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Marias River Massacre 23 January 1870
22 February 2018 / tjlinzy / 0 Comments
At the confluence of the Two Medicine and Cut Bank Rivers is where the Marias River begins and flows east for approximately 60 miles to Lake Elwell, then on for another 80 miles where it meets the Missouri River near Loma, Montana. Somewhere along this stretch of river (possibly here), there lies an ancient American Indian site where Major Eugene Baker of the U.S. Army took his mixed detachment from the 2nd US Cavalry and the 13th Infantry to surround an encampment of Piegan Indians on 22 January 1870. What happened next is clear, but why is not so clear.
A Tragic, Familiar Story
The area had seen an altercation between two hotheads, one white, Malcolm Clarke, and one Indian, Owl Child. Clarke beat Owl Child, who he claimed had stolen his horses. Owl Child retaliated by killing Clarke. As so happened in those days, this caused cries for the army to make sure another white was not killed by another Indian, so Major Baker was sent to teach the Indians a lesson. Baker’s detachment left Fort Shaw on 15 January 1870 and rode north to find a group of Indians known as the Piegans. Baker found an encampment at a big bend on the Marias River and surrounded it in the winter’s night of 22/23 January 1870. There is some debate as to whether Baker knew it was the camp he was looking for or another one.
The Marias River Massacre
On the morning of the incident, also known as the Baker Massacre and the Piegan Massacre, Chief Heavy Runner tried to stop the attack by showing papers that he claimed gave him and his people clear passage in the area. Regardless, Baker issued the order to fire on the camp and many women, children and elderly were killed, the camp was burned and the survivors set afoot in the Montana winter without provisions.
Some said Baker knew that it as the wrong encampment. Some said he didn’t care. Some said he was a drunken commander and didn’t know what was happening. None of the PR options were good and the Army made it worse by ignoring, at the least, but probably covering up the massacre. As so often happened in these cases in the U.S. Army, a young soldier steps up where his superiors have fallen down and tells the truth. Lieutenant William Pease, acting as a Blackfoot agent, reported the massacre to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Ely Samuel Parker. Parker, a Civil War veteran, confidante to U.S. Grant and an Iroquois Indian whose Indian name was Donehogawa, demanded a investigation, but the outcome was prevarication as the U.S. Army closed ranks with General William Tecumseh Sherman saying he would prefer to believe his soldiers.
In the end, no official recognition of the Marias River Massacre was forthcoming and only time has brought a gradual acceptance of the fact of this massacre. Author Dee Brown, in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, puts the casualties at 33 men, 90 women and 50 children. Stan Gibson has investigated the topic deeply. He and Jack Hayne are working on a book on the topic.
If you are teaching this topic to 7-12th grade students, there is a good looking lesson plan that uses the Montana: Stories of the Land textbook by Holmes, Krys, Susan C. Dailey, and David Walter. Helena, Mont: Montana Historical Society Press, 2008. You can find the relevant chapter 7 online.
Marias River Massacre Motorcycle Ride
This is a long ride starting and ending at Browning, Montana at the Museum of the Plains Indians. The ride passes through the origin of the Marias River and also runs about 5 miles north and parallel to the Marias for a good while on the beautiful U.S. Highway 2. This is a good description of the things to see along this route, including a Cold War missile Silo. As always, good Battlefield Biking requires the courtesy to ask for permission to travel on private roads. Be polite and ensure the rest of us can enjoy the ride too.
Map courtesy of Hal Jespersen
Ulysses S. Grant Begins Western Campaign 2 February 1862
Map by Hal Jespersen, www.cwmaps.com [CC BY 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
On 2 February 1862, the Commander of the Union’s Army of the Tennessee, U.S. Grant, began the action that would lead to his being recognized by President Abraham Lincoln as a General with a bias for action. Grant launched his forces from Cairo, Illinois, through far western Kentucky towards Forts Heiman, Henry (on the Tennessee River) and Donelson (on the Cumberland River).
Grant Begins Western Campaign
Grant had a sizable force consisting of three infantry divisions, led by John A. McClernand, Charles F. Smith and Lew Wallace. There were also two regiments of cavalry and eight batteries of artillery. Grant also had Captain Andrew Foote’s squadron of seven gunboats. (troop numbers are from the excellent military history of the USA Civil War, The Longest Night by David J. Eicher)
The force, although reasonable, was not huge, so Grant had to make a decision to attack or wait for the initiative to be sent to him from his superiors. However, the western theatre (generally in Kentucky and south of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains, but also in Kansas and Missouri) was split into three commands. Those commands were frozen by indecision on how to attack the south, so Grant might have waited forever to get his chance to attack. The known forces were unclear to both sides, as proven by the still debatable troop numbers present at Fort Donelson to weeks later. Grant chose the warrior’s path of seizing the initiative whilst others debated strategy. He proposed to his Commander, General Henry Halleck, that he proceed to take Fort Henry and open up Tennessee via the Tennessee River. The rest as they say is history. Grant’s star was on the rise.
Grant Begins Western Campaign Motorcycle Ride Recommendation
Leaving Cairo, Illinois, cross the Ohio River near its confluence with the Mississippi River on U.S. Highway 51 towards Paducah, Kentucky. Take US-62 out of Paducah and US-68 down to KenLake State Resort Park on the Cumberland River (now Kentucky Lake) pretty much following the path that Grant followed to get to the Fort Henry area. Continue on KY-SR-94 down to Paris Landing State Park in Tennessee and then into the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. In the southwest corner of LBL, near the Piney Bay Campground, you can find the remains of Fort Henry. A map of the ride is here.
Appomattox Courthouse
Combat Veteran’s Motorcycle Association Conducts Civil War Ride
23 August 2016 / tjlinzy / 0 Comments
Combat Veteran’s Motorcycle Association Chapter 27-3 conducted a ride around the Petersburg, Virginia area on 19-20 August 2016. It was organized by a member who works as National Park Service Ranger, Chris Castle, who is a also a combat veteran. Castle conducted historical briefs at several stops. From the article,
The stop locations included, the Battle of the Crater, and Fort Fisher. The ride ended with lunch at a local restaurant. Everyone left with an understanding of the events that occurred during the 292 day campaign, that led to the retreat and eventual surrender of Lee’s army at Appomattox.
However, the article erroneously states,
This weekend also marked the 150th anniversary to the end of the civil war.
The USA Civil War concluded in the spring of 1865… 151 years ago from 2016. General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia on 9 April 1865. President Andrew Johnson issued a Proclamation of the end of the war on 9 May 1865 and the last major Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River surrendered on 2 June 1865.
I bet this was a great ride. Good people gathering to learn their nation’s history and a good ride to boot. If you attended, please let me know how it went.
Image Credit: Timothy H. O’Sullivan [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Carl Grupp Legacy Collection: A Gift of Art to AU
Included within the Collection are (left to right): Carl Grupp, Self Portrait, watercolor, ca. 1984. 19” x 13”; Carl Grupp, Untitled (Mountain landscape), watercolor on board, 30” x 40”; Carl Grupp, Iris, watercolor on board, 20” x 16”
Remarkable works by artist and AU professor emeritus Carl Grupp are entrusted to Augustana's Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, forming the Carl Grupp Legacy Collection.
SIOUX FALLS — The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University announces the recent gift of 351 paintings, original prints, and drawings from artist Carl Grupp to form the Carl Grupp Legacy Collection.
'The Extraordinary Life of Carl Grupp'
(The Augustana Magazine, January 2014)
Grupp (b. 1939, Moorhead, MN) has long been recognized as one of South Dakota’s and the region’s most preeminent artists. He earned a B.F.A. in painting, with a minor in printmaking, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1964. In 1965 he traveled through Europe and studied at the Art Student Vrije Academie in The Hague, Netherlands. He went on to earn a M.F.A. with honors in printmaking and a minor in drawing from Indiana University in 1969. Grupp has participated in over 100 regional, national, and international art exhibitions since 1961, with dozens of one-man shows. His work is represented in significant corporate and private collections.
Grupp was also a dedicated arts educator. From 1969 until 2004, Grupp was a professor at Augustana, and also chaired the art department from 1986-2002. He helped to inspire, develop and guide the careers of several generations of artists.
Carl Grupp founded the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana, with an ambitious exhibitions program and permanent art collection, which is now named for him. Over the years, he helped build the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection that now numbers nearly 4,000 objects and includes significant examples of works on paper from a range of important historical and contemporary artists, including: Marc Chagall, Degas, Homer, Matisse, Picasso and Warhol.
With this donation, the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection will now also be the signal repository of Carl Grupp’s works, from across the wide span of his prolific career in his most important media. From works from his earliest student days, to his first experiments in lithography, to the vast mountain watercolor paintings that he became known for in his later years. The collection will also feature his allegorical works created in series of intaglio and lithography that are based on themes of parables, mythology, and the Book of Revelations.
The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery is located on Commons Circle (30th Street and Grange Avenue), in the Center for Visual Arts at Augustana University. The gallery is open to the public and free of charge. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday 1-4 p.m.
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AU to Recognize Alumni for Achievement in the Arts
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Algorithmic Music
Surrealism Test Center. 2000. "Algorithmic Music."
Available online.
Surrealism Test Center
Copyright 1996-2013 Christopher Ariza.
“The computing machine is a marvelous invention and seems almost superhuman. But in reality it is as limited as the mind of the individual who feeds it material. Like the computer, the machines we use for making music can only give back what we put into them.”
(Full citation)
“With the development of electronic and computer music, multidemnsionality of sound representation turned out to be both natural and useful. But music goes beyond multidimensionality -- it is even more complex.”
“... and the hope of an extraordinary aesthetic success based on extraordinary technology is a cruel deceit.”
“... the individual and the society are deprived of the formidable power of free imagination that musical composition offers them. We are able to tear down this iron curtain, thanks to the technology of computers...”
“... but beware, technique can submerge the user: We must defend ourselves; it is good to use techniques, but we have to dominate them, to stay alert.”
“The characteristics of every sound depend on the way in which the sound was produced. Each art-form exploits its special production methods in order to endow the phenomena with unmistakable characteristics. Artistic economy demands that the means be appropriate to the end, and that the exploitation of the means be an end in itself.”
“The danger is great of letting oneself be trapped by the tools and of becoming stuck in the sands of technology that has come like an intruder into the relatively calm waters of the thought in instrumental music.”
“The use of computers is the logical outcome of a historical development. It by no means heralds a new musical epoch; it simply offers a fast, reliable and versatile means of solving problems that already demanded solution. The person who writes the computer programme must bear the development of musical language up to the present in mind, and try to advance a stage further.”
“Music is then no longer primarily conceived as a guide for premeditated emotions, but as the density of the possible relationships which first become actuality during production under the influence of chance, and which during performance are presented to the listener as sounds beyond any environmental associatiations, independent of bodily actions required to produce sounds...”
“... the use of numerical machines no longer stands in need of justification. It is not a mystery. If there is a mystery, it is in the mental structures of music and not in the computers, which are only tools, extensions of the hand and the slide rule.”
“Composers are now able, as never before, to satisfy the dictates of that inner ear of the imagination. They are also lucky so far in not being hampered by esthetic codification -- at least not yet! But I am afraid it will not be long before some musical mortician begins embalming electronic music in rules.”
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2 Chronicles Chapter 21-23: American Standard Version | Search | Next Version| Previous Page | Next Page |
21 2 Chronicles 21
1And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. 2And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 3And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born. 4Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel. 5Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. 7Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.
8In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 9Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots. 10So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day: then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray. 12And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, who were better than thyself: 14behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance; 15and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
16And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians: 17and they came up against Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. 20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead; for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. 4And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction. 5He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram. 6And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
7Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went unto Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. 8And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and slew them. 9And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Jehovah with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
10Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. 11But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not. 12And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
1And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. 2And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 3And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the sons of David. 4This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds; 5and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Jehovah. 6But let none come into the house of Jehovah, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Jehovah. 7And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever cometh into the house, let him be slain: and be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
8So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath; with those that were to go out on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses. 9And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God. 10And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. 11Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, Long live the king.
12And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Jehovah: 13and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason! treason! 14And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Slay her not in the house of Jehovah. 15So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king's house: and they slew her there.
16And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be Jehovah's people. 17And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 19And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Jehovah, that none that was unclean in anything should enter in. 20And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. 21So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
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James M. Reed Print Collection.
The Fairfield University Art Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut, announces the major gift of the James M. Reed Print Collection. Assembled over several decades by artist, collector and master printer James Reed, the collection, which will be given in its entirety, consists of over 1,500 prints spanning the 16th through the early 21st centuries. The great strength of the Reed collection is 19th-century French etching and lithography. Géricault, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet, Redon, and Fantin-Latour are among the major artists of the period represented. Over 30 old master prints dating from the 16th-18th centuries are also included.
Léopold Flameng after Eugène Delacroix, St. Sébastien secouru, ca. 1870s. Etching. Fairfield University Art Museum, Gift of James Reed, 2017. (2017.35.668)
The second concentration of the collection is a significant group of over 50 German Expressionist prints, including woodcuts and lithographs by Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, and Max Beckmann among others. James Reed has also collected modern prints by iconic names including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine, as well as lithographs, etchings and woodcuts by established contemporary printmakers, many of whom he has collaborated with as master printer at Milestone Graphics, the fine printmaking studio he owns and directs and which is an important institution for artists working in Connecticut and the Northeast. This part of the collection includes examples of Mr. Reed’s own work as an artist and printmaker, which is represented in more than 20 public collections around the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library. The modern and contemporary prints in the James M. Reed Print Collection are promised to the museum as a bequest.
Linda Wolk-Simon, Frank and Clara Meditz Director and Chief Curator of the Fairfield University Art Museum, called the gift of the James Reed Print Collection “truly transformative.” Explaining its significance for the museum she noted, “Unlike our peer institutions, whose foundational holdings typically comprise rich collections of prints—long an important resource in the teaching of art history in addition to being artworks to display on the walls—Fairfield has lacked a collection of works on paper. Though we have made small strides to rectify this, acquiring a handful of old master and contemporary British prints since our founding seven years ago, this lacuna seemed hopelessly insurmountable. The situation has changed, literally overnight, with the glorious gift of the James M. Reed Collection, which provides an endlessly rich font of marvelous works on paper for both display in the museum and for teaching across multiple disciplines. We are profoundly indebted to James Reed for this truly historic gift, and for the extraordinary generosity of spirit it represents.”
An exhibition celebrating the gift of the James M. Reed Print Collection and featuring some 50 highlights drawn from the full range of old master, 19th-century, German Expressionist, and modern and contemporary prints will open in the museum’s Walsh Gallery on March 14, 2019 and remain on view through June 8. Several programs will be organized in conjunction with the exhibition, including a conversation and printing demonstration with James Reed, and an exhibition publication will be produced. The exhibition and programs are free and open to the public; dates and other information will be posted on the museum’s website in the coming months (fairfield.edu/museum). As a long-term project, the museum plans to catalogue the entire collection as part of the online collections database.
James Reed has taught printmaking as an adjunct professor of fine arts for over 30 years. He studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; San Francisco State University; Tamarind Institute; and the University of New Mexico, and had a curatorial and conservation internship at the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco. He was a curatorial assistant for the print collection at San Francisco State University and is currently Manager and Curator of the Gabor Peterdi International Print Collection at Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Conn. Mr. Reed has received a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Rockefeller Research Grant. His art has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute Tecnólogico in Monterey, Mexico, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and Goat Shed Gallery in Brooklyn, and he has participated in more than 150 invitational group exhibitions in the United States, Latin America and France.
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The high-quality articles in the Arthropoda collection are handmade in Finland from beginning to finish: Each item is subtly different – no two pieces are identical.
The jewelry is made to last: even the most delicate structures have been designed and made to withstand wear. Some of the parts, such as wings, may bend during use, but this is just as intended. Over time, each item becomes even more unique, taking after its user.
The products are marked in accordance with the legislation on precious metals, with a registered responsibility mark, a fineness mark, year mark and, if possible, a handicraft mark. This means that silver products include the marks PLOP (the goldsmith’s registered responsibility mark), 925 (fineness mark) and I8 (year mark, changes annually) and possibly the Finnish word for handicraft, ‘käsityö’. The shape of the marks for silver products is a rectangle, apart from the handicraft mark, which does not have to be in a certain format.
For gold products, the marks are PLOP, 585 or 750, I8, and ‘käsityö’. The shape of the marks for gold products is an oval.
For further information about the marks and legislation, visit the following websites:
The Association of Finnish Goldsmiths (http://www.suomenkultaseppienliitto.fi/, only in Finnish)
The Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes) (http://www.tukes.fi/en/Branches/Articles-of-precious-metals/)
Inspecta (http://www.inspecta.fi/palvelut/jalomet.php?m=m4)
What do the material markings mean?
The product pages state the materials used for the articles.
Silver alloy is 925-‰ silver, i.e. 925 thousandth parts silver, mixed with copper (this alloy is also known as sterling silver). The alloy is nickel-free.
Yellow gold alloy is 585-‰ gold (also known as 14K gold), i.e. 585 thousandth parts gold, mixed with copper and silver. The alloy is nickel-free.
White gold alloy is 585-‰ palladium white gold (14K). In addition to fine gold, silver and copper, the alloy contains palladium, which gives it its white color. This alloy is, therefore, also nickel-free.
Darkened silver is 925-‰ silver, which has been chemically darkened. The color is a dark grayish black, and it does not stain skin or clothing. The dark color will gradually wear away (scratches, etc.), revealing silver. Such wear is normal, and it only serves to highlight the three-dimensional nature of the arthropods.
The articles are packed in boxes made for this collection, which can be used to store and display the products.
Why silver darkens and other information about jewelry:
For tips on cleaning and other information on jewelry, visit the websites of The Association of Finnish Goldsmiths (in Finnish only) and the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes).
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Mary Fox Herling Papers
The papers of Mary Fox Herling consist largely of personal correspondence with family and friends and reflect to a lesser extent her professional activities with the League for Industrial Democracy, the War Labor Board and the cooperative housing movement.
The cost of processing the Mary Fox Herling papers was underwritten by a gift from the estate of John Herling.
Important subjects in the collection: American Friends for German Freedom Bannockburn Cooperators, Inc. Housing, Cooperative--United States League for Industrial Democracy Refugees--World War, 1939-1945 Socialist Party U.S.A.
Important correspondents in the collection: Austen Albu Mary Blanshard Anna Caples McAlister Coleman George C. Edwards, Jr. Marie Feiler Ruth Fox Ruth Schechter Gold John Herling Kurt Lachmann Jennie Lee Frank Loeb H. L. Mitchell David Stolberg Norman Thomas
Series Description: Series I, Family Correspondence, 1930s-1970s Series II, General Correspondence, 1930s-1970s Series III, Subject Files, 1914-1980
Herling, Mary Fox (Person)
Refer to Walter P. Reuther Library Rules for Use of Archival Materials.
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The wife of John Herling, Mary Fox Herling was a member of the Socialist Party. She worked for the League for Industrial Democracy, the War Labor Board, the Washington Newspaper Guild, and the Group Housing Cooperative which built the Bannockburn Community in Maryland. Her papers are mostly personal correspondence, but also reflect her professional affiliations.
Mary Fox Herling was born in New York City on December 12, 1893 and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. After graduation from Vassar College and a year at Oxford Univeristy, she taught first in a private school in Colorado Springs and later in Chicago's Francis Parker School and the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School.
During the 1930s Mary Fox, a member of the Socialist Party, served as executive secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, recruiting field workers, editing its pictorial magazine, The Unemployed, and establishing a series of national lectures and chautauquas. She also established and managed Bleecker Gardens in Greenwich Village, a major conversion of tenements into housing for artists and writers. In the late 1930s she was active in the movement to aid refugees from Hitler's Europe, helping to organize the American Friends for German Freedom.
She moved to Washington, D. C. in 1941 and during World War II worked as an administrator for the cooperative housing section of the War Labor Board, which later became the Federal Public Housing Authority. After the war she served as administrative secretary for the Washington Newspaper Guild and then as president and driving force of Group Housing Cooperative, whose members bought an old golf course in Bethesda, Maryland and built the Bannockburn community.
In 1925 Mary Fox married labor publicist and author Benjamin Stolberg. They had a son, David, divorcing in 1929, and in 1937 she married labor writer John Herling. Mary Fox Herling died in Bethesda, Maryland on November 4, 1978.
Arrangement of the Records
Arranged in 3 series - Series 1 (Boxes 1-5), Series 2 (Boxes 5-7), and Series 3 (Boxes 7-9). Folders are arranged alphabetically.
John Herling Papers
A few photographs of Mary Fox, John Herling, the David Stolberg family and the Austen Albu family have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Department.
Processed by the Walter P. Reuther Library
League for Industrial Democracy
Guide to the Mary Fox Herling Papers
"Mary Fox Herling Papers, Box [#], Folder [#], Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University" http://as.reuther.wayne.edu/repositories/2/resources/1555 Accessed January 19, 2020.
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It was Commissioner Pim Jansonious who set the tone when he stressed the importance of developing a “socially-minded” and “representative” police force that works in partnership with other agencies to protect all people - no matter which community they belong to.
He was speaking to an audience of more than 25 law enforcement officials, decision makers and civil society activists from Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, exploring how the Dutch police work with marginalised communities, including people who use drugs and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. The event was hosted by the Alliance within the Partnership to Inspire, Transform and connect the HIV response (PITCH) programme on the fringes of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in July.
Arrested for possession of a large amount of marijuana, which he was safeguarding for a friend, Yogi, 39, got a 14-year prison sentence in Bandung prison, Indonesia. Diagnosed with HIV, he now teaches other inmates how to stay healthy in prison. © Vincent Rumahloine/Alliance
Dealing with vulnerable groups
Despite the push to decriminalise drug use and homosexuality in some countries, police forces elsewhere are facing increasing pressures to abandon a public health-based approach when dealing with marginalised groups. At the same time, funding cuts, new crime classifications and an increasing demand for services are driving the police to take a more punitive approach. Yet, this approach can be hugely detrimental, particularly when it impedes work to prevent new HIV infections.
The Dutch police have decided to take a more positive approach. At the event, officers from the Amsterdam Police Department and the Belgian police took the opportunity to discuss with their counterparts from PITCH countries their more nuanced approach to policing, sharing specific examples and pilot studies with participants.
This included their “Top 600” initiative, a programme designed to track and monitor the people who have the most contact with the police and public health services. Working in partnership with more than 40 different agencies and organisations, the Amsterdam police force has devised a series of tailor-made interventions designed to help tackle the underlying challenges faced by the 'top 600'. This person-centred approach means that, instead of immediately being arrested and detained, people are now referred to community-based mental health, treatment, or housing services.
Diversion programmes, which channel people away from prison and towards other services, are also being piloted by police in central Amsterdam, an area with high levels of illegal drug use, homelessness and public disorder. Through the pilot, when a petty crime is committed, a psychiatrist is called to conduct a rapid assessment. The report is then submitted to a public prosecutor who uses the findings to make a sentencing decision. During the pilot study almost 28% of those arrested were using drugs, while 24% had an existing mental health condition. Following the assessment, these people were then connected to the appropriate health services and their sentences reduced or postponed, depending of the severity of their crime.
Challenges to adopting public-health approaches
Participants were keen to understand if and how these approaches could be adapted in their own countries. Some of the challenges they raised included implementing diversion programmes in a setting with no mental health or community-based treatment services to refer people to (Myanmar); health services and prison services working in siloes, and health services not being free at the point of contact (Nigeria); lack of investment in harm reduction and mental health services (Uganda); and stigmatising attitudes by healthcare workers, making them more likely to call the police instead of dealing with a patient’s drug problem (Zimbabwe).
Implementing a more progressive approach can take time. Assistant Commissioner Peter Muyshondt from Belgium - who is a strong advocate against the war on drugs - was refreshingly honest about the challenges facing police forces, including their over-reliance on stereotypes and profiling. Performance metrics that are explicitly linked to number of arrests are also problematic and further restrict a police officer’s ability to take a more public-health based approach. The code of silence within police forces also prevents officers from speaking out and challenging the status quo.
This is true even in Amsterdam, a city that has long had a reputation of being LGBT-friendly, liberal and culturally diverse. One of the ways the Dutch police have attempted to change their operating culture and make themselves more accepting of marginalised groups, is to create a new task force called “Pink in Blue”. This is a specialist unit – most of whom are LGBT themselves – dedicated to building solidarity with and protecting the gay and transgender community.
In Amsterdam the police recognise that it is their duty is to protect and to promote public safety and wellbeing. Rather than ruling with an iron fist and stamping out ‘undesirable’ behaviour, the police are actively working to protect those who cannot protect themselves. This struck a chord with a Zimbabwean parliamentarian, who reflected: “I’m realising there are a lot of people I have failed. We have to rethink how we approach these social issues.”
Finding space within existing laws
Although decriminalisation is often out of reach, there are actions police officers can take to minimise the harm of certain polices. Often this requires individual officers to push the boundaries and look for space within existing legislation. As the director of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Mrs Roli Bode-George pointed out, although policy change takes a long time to achieve, law enforcement officers can certainly start taking a more supportive and humane approach, focusing on protecting the vulnerable, rather than cracking down on so-called ‘social evil’.
However, change also requires the police to take a stronger advocacy role. In many cases, as Marc Krupanski from the Open Society Foundation pointed out, it is actually more powerful if the calls for public-health based approaches come from law enforcement than from civil society. In many countries, law enforcement officials hold a lot of power and influence, and they possess a credibility that comes from front line experience.
As Ms Natasha Los from the Amsterdam Police put it: “Prison never helped anyone”.
PITCH is a five-year strategic partnership between the Alliance, Aidsfonds and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The importance of catalytic investment for harm reduction
This briefing shows evidence of the importance of catalytic investment in harm reduction.
Edging closer to equality
2018 has seen momentous progress in many countries on rights for LGBT people, but there are challenges ahead.
GALLERY: Raising the status of women who use drugs in India
WINGS - Women Initiating New Goals for Safety - aims to reduce violence and HIV among women who use drugs in India.
India’s LGBTQ future - the new generation
What does the abolition of India’s homophobic law mean for people living with HIV?
Cast your vote for ‘A blossom pink world’ in UK Charity Film Awards
Alliance enters transgender rights film, 'A blossom pink world' into UK Charity Film Awards 2019
Women and girls in Uganda speak up for right to HIV and SRHR services
Photos by girls and young women, in their diversity, describing how stigma and discrimination prevent them from accessing services.
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Portraits of Mexico
Essays | Autumn 2013
Adriana Zehbrauskas
A photographer explores Mexico’s hopeful future and heavy past.
A vocalist for Banda Unicornio, Julio Cesar Vasquez Rivera, 19, holds his stage costume. Rivera, who lives in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico that has lost many residents to emigration, was planning his first trip to the United States. (October 2007)
Siblings Rosa Maria, 6, Juan Antonio, 1, Yasmin, 17, and Juan Manuel, 14, in their temporary home. The Romero-Dias family—a household of nine, headed by a single mother—would soon move into a new residence designed by Tierra Savia. Based in Ciudad Juárez, a city of 1.5 million across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, Tierra Savia employs Juarezeños living in extreme poverty to build their own eco-friendly houses from dirt. (April 2012)
Micaela Rivera, of Villa de Vázquez, outside Mexico City, and her mother borrowed $3,550 from Compartamos for their homemade-cheese business. Compartamos (“we share” in Spanish) is a commercial microlender that has become one of Mexico’s most profitable banks. Today, its average customer pays a yearly interest rate of about 80 percent. (February 2008)
Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman and perhaps the world’s richest person, with a net worth of $73 billion, poses in his Mexico City gallery amid his private art collection. (June 2007)
Yaihr Castillo García, 8, plays outside his family’s home in Ciudad Juárez. His sister, Brenda Berenice, went missing while in a downtown neighborhood. She is one of hundreds of women and girls who have disappeared in the area since 1993. Some bodies have been found, many bearing marks of rape and torture. (September 2012)
Fernando Ramírez Rangel, chef and owner of Maria del Alma, a restaurant in the fashionable Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City, specializes in cuisine from rainforest-covered Tabasco, a southeastern state on the Gulf of Mexico. (January 2007)
A model waits backstage at a fashion show organized by Amor por Juárez (Love for Juárez), a group that hopes to revitalize the city through the arts. (April 2012)
In Culiacán, Sinaloa, a city on the Gulf of California notorious for drug-related violence, women dance in a cemetery during a birthday party for a man who died the year before, at age 35. (April 2013)
ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS is a freelance photojournalist from Brazil. Based in Mexico City for the past nine years, she contributes regularly to The New York Times, and her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Glamour Magazine, The Guardian, and Paris Match. She is an instructor for Foundry Photojournalism Workshops, which holds photojournalism courses in developing nations.
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Longwood Central School District » Community » Longwood Journey » Time Periods » American Revolution » Isaac Smith
From the book The Refugees of 1766 from Long Island to Connecticut, by Fredric Mather, 1913
SMITH ISAAC 4 (Richard.3,2, Maj. Richard 1-Bull; or Isaac 5, Epenetus 4, Job 3, 2, Maj. Richard 1-Bull)-From Brookhaven to Derby. On Feb. 2, 1780, he petitioned the Conn. Gen. Assembly, stating that he had been captured, but escaped, and asking leave to bring his wife, family and effects from L. I. As he was well recommended, the petition was granted. (E. 26-29) Rivington-Aug. 28, 1779; On Aug. 14 about 20 Rebels, at Coram, made Prisoners of Isaac Smith and five of his sons. Isaac Smith escaped." (Bayles' "Suffolk Co.") He appears in a list of Prisoners. ("N.Y.in theRevolution-Spt.," P- 43)
He signed the Association, in 1775. (H. 20, 26, 27) Another of the name, from Smithtown, signed (H- 32); and still another, in 1776, from Queens Co. (H. 9)
Men of this name served in Col. Smith's Regt. (G, 25); in the 1st and 4th of the Line (G- 43, 48); in Weissenfels' Levies TG. 57 ; in the 2d Westchester (G- 78); and in Conn. (G. 98) There were numerous men of the name, some of them Officers, in the Dutchess, Orange and Westchester Regts.
Census of 1776: Males-above 50 years, j; above 16, 1; under x6, 2. Females-above 16, 2; under 16, 2. (A. 51)
According to tradition Isaac Smith was taken prisoner by the British and escaped by wearing women's clothing earning him the nickname "Petticoat Smith"
Isaac Smith had two sons who also were patriots to the American cause. Joshua joined his father in making whale boat raids from Connecticut to Long Island. While His other son, Isaac, joined Capt. Daniel Grifiing's Company.
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Building an Investment and Financing System for the Belt and Road Initiative - by City of London
This report is jointly produced by the People’s bank of China and the city of London corporation. The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally-successful UK.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is internationally recognised for its principles of conegotiation, co-building and co-sharing. The BRI drew inspiration from the concept of Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road which is a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013.
Financial support is critical to the implementation of the BRI. The countries along the BRI are mostly developing countries whose key projects, including infrastructure projects, are plagued by issues such as a lack of construction capability and funding. Therefore, these countries have greater demands for mid to long-term financing. The international finance community has previously offered concessional financing, including preferential loans, to these countries, which inevitably required financial subsidies and governmental support. This translated into greater limitations and a lack of sustainability, which would hardly satisfy the demands of the construction projects as part of the BRI, as these projects require substantial funds over a long period of time. It is therefore necessary to mobilise countries along the BRI to build a BRI investment and financing system that is market-oriented, sustainable and mutually beneficial. This paper will explore in detail the rationale for a BRI investment and financing system to comprise the following five features in order to expedite the building of a network of financial institutions and services:
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Ghanaian community gathers to mourn 6 lost in Belmont fire
Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:54 PM EST
Saturday, January 13, 2018 11:05 PM EST
BELMONT -
Community members and dignitaries gathered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Saturday night to mourn the loss of six Ghanaians who lost their lives in the Prospect Avenue fire.
The Ghanaian community said it was shaken by the loss after the Belmont apartment went up in flames, killing 13.
The six immigrants were identified as Gabriel Yaw Sarkookie, a 48-year-old Uber driver trying to provide for his family in Ghana; Solomon Donkor, 49, and his 12- and 17-year-old children, William and Hannah; Justice Opoku, 54, also couldn't make it out of the building; and 28-year-old Army National Guard soldier Emmanuel Mensah, who has been labeled a hero for helping save nearly half a dozen people from the fire before losing his life.
Mensah's father attended Saturday's service and spoke to News 12 about his son.
"He's the kind of guy that always wants to help people out…I think he did what he was supposed to do and I miss him a lot," he said.
Funeral arrangements of Mensah have not yet been finalized. Justice Opoku and Gabriel Sarkodie will have a joint funeral on Jan. 20.
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Overcrowding in County Jail
Federal Government Looks to Toughen DUI Limit
Court System Gets Hacked
Marijuana law jeopardizes all pot prosecutions
Recent DUI's Highlight Problems
Overcrowding in the Kitsap County Jail is forcing officials to change the standards about who stays behind bars and who gets released. Anyone arrested in Kitsap County is still booked into jail, but depending on the suspected crimes, some are being released without bail. The jail can operate with 421 inmates, but the population is currently exceeding that number. On Friday, the jail was 11 percent over maximum capacity. Records have shown that inmates are staying longer. The courts are seeing an increase in persons coming through there facing sentencing, so it's a matter of these two aspects that are causing this. In response, the chief of corrections made some changes to the jail's intake standards. Right now, the jail is booking and holding inmates for felony crimes, felony drug charges and domestic violence. But officials are releasing people suspected of nonviolent crimes, including misdemeanor theft, driving with a suspended license and DUI. The overcrowding also comes as the jail deals with budget issues and limited staff. But officals said the changes at the jail were made with safety in mind. "We recognize that fact that's why we're only being less restrictive with regard to crimes against property or civil violations, we're not talking about crimes against persons," officials stated. Officials are looking at the jail population every day, so the standards will change as the number of inmates decrease. If you or a loved one is charged with a criminal offense in Washington State, it is imperative that you seek the assistance of a qualified and reputable Seattle criminal defense attorney. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified and reputable Seattle criminal lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those arrested for crime all across Western Washington and the Greater Puget Sound region. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the criminal allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible in light of all the surrounding circumstances of the given case.
Federal accident investigators are weighing a recommendation that states reduce their threshold for drunken driving from the current .08 blood alcohol content to .05, a standard that has been shown to substantially reduce highway deaths in other countries. The lower threshold was one of a series of recommendations aimed at reducing drunken driving made by the National Transportation Safety Board's staff in a report presented at a meeting of the board. New approaches are needed to combat drunken driving, which claims the lives of more than a third of the people killed each year on U.S highways - a level of carnage that that has remained stubbornly consistent for the past decade and a half, the board said. Dramatic progress was made in the 1980s through the mid-1990s after the minimum drinking age was raised to 21 and the legally-allowable maximum level of drivers' blood alcohol content was lowered to .08, the report said. Today, drunken driving claims about 10,000 lives a year, down from over 18,000 in 1982. At that time, alcohol-related fatalities accounted for about 40 percent of highway deaths. But progress in cutting the rate further has largely stagnated, and board members have called for a fresh approach. Technology may be part of the solution, and anti-drunken driving forces have talked of turning cars into a part of the solution. In December, the board called on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the auto industry to step up their research into technology for use in all vehicles that can detect whether a driver has elevated blood alcohol without the driver breathing into a tube or taking any other action. Drivers with elevated levels would be unable to start their cars, but the technology is still years away. A combination of approaches will be needed to effectively drive down fatalities, researchers told the board at a two-day forum on drunk driving last year. Reducing the blood alcohol limit below .08 could save over 7,000 lives a year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has estimated. Australia saw a 12 percent decline in alcohol-related deaths as a share of overall traffic fatalities when it lowered its legal limit to .05. The limit in most of Europe is also .05, and in some countries it's as low as .02. A woman weighing less than 120 pounds can reach .05 after just one drink. A man weighing up to 160 pounds reaches .05 after two drinks. A recommendation made by researchers last year has been to expand the use of alcohol ignition interlock devices by drivers convicted of driving under the influence. The devices usually require a driver to breathe into a tube, much like the breathalyzers police ask suspected drunken drivers to use. Expanded use of high visibility checkpoints by police has also been recommended Getting a DUI has never been more serious. Now more than ever it is imperative that a person charged with DUI in Washington State retain a qualified Seattle DUI attorney or a qualified Bellevue DUI lawyer in order to best minimize potential legal consequences and protect their rights and interests. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified Seattle DUI lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those charged with DUI in Western Washington. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the DUI allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible.
The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked sometime between last fall and February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver's license numbers may have been accessed during the data breach of its public website, officials said Thursday. Court officials said they have only confirmed that 94 Social Security numbers were obtained and they don't believe the larger number was compromised, but they wanted to alert the public to the possibility as a precaution. The breach happened due to vulnerability in an Adobe Systems Inc. software program, ColdFusion, that has since been patched, court officials said. The hack happened sometime after September but wasn't caught until February. Telephone and email messages were left for Adobe representatives seeking comment. When court officials were first alerted to the breach, they believed all of the information accessed was public record, and didn't think confidential information was taken, but following an investigation by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the broader breach was confirmed in April, said courts spokeswoman Wendy Ferrell. Court officials said a law enforcement agency also investigated the case but they declined to say which one. They said the investigation was concluded and there was no information on who might be to blame. Keeling said he didn't believe the courts were a specific target. Ferrell said that once the breach was confirmed, it took additional time to go through the files and increase security to the website, which is why there was a lag in notifying the public. The 94 known names breached are being contacted by letter, she said. The rest of the people who are potentially affected come from a defined group: - Those booked into a city or county jail within the state of Washington between September 2011 and December 2012 may have had their name and Social Security number accessed. - Names and driver's license numbers may have been obtained from people who received a DUI citation in Washington state between 1989 through 2011, had a traffic case in Washington filed or resolved in a district or municipal court between 2011 and 2012, or had a superior court criminal case in Washington state that was filed against them or resolved between 2011 and 2012. Keeling acknowledged that confidential information should have been kept in a different area, "and now they are." "I can say nothing more than it was an oversight on our part," he said. Keeling said officials have added a number of additional security measures, including isolating anything that could be sensitive into more protected areas, implementing code to prevent hackers from getting to other parts of a server, and new encryption rules. Ferrell said no one from the Administrative Office of the Courts or any court in Washington state will be asking for personal information over the phone or via email related to the breach. State officials have set up a website and hotline to answer public questions about the break: www.courts.wa.gov/databreach and 1-800-448-5584. If you or a loved one is charged with a marijuana related criminal offense in Washington State it is imperative that you seek the assistance of a qualified and reputable Seattle criminal attorney. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified and reputable Seattle criminal lawyers that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those arrested for crime all across Western Washington and the Greater Puget Sound region. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the criminal allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible in light of all the surrounding circumstances of the given case.
Prosecutors and crime lab scientists say a little-noticed provision in Washington's new law legalizing recreational marijuana has jeopardized their ability to go after any pot crimes at all, and they're calling for an immediate fix in the Legislature. The group is suggesting a change in the legal definition of marijuana, and they have the support of the Seattle lawyer who drafted the initiative. The problem stems from a part of the law meant to distinguish marijuana from industrial hemp, which is grown for its fiber. The law defines marijuana as having more than 0.3 percent of a certain intoxicating compound, called delta-9 THC. Scientists with the state crime lab say that often, even potent marijuana can have less than 0.3 percent. It's only when heated or burned that another compound, THC acid, turns into delta-9 THC and the pot achieves its full potency. "When you smoke it, it would be very potent, but before that, it would be considered hemp under the law," said Erik Nielson, standards and accountability manager for the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab's Forensic Lab Services Bureau. That means that if people get caught with more than an ounce of marijuana - the amount adults are allowed to have under the law - or if police bust illicit grow operations, prosecutors might not be able to prove the plants or material seized meets the definition of marijuana. Although the lab could analyze the delta-9 THC content by burning it, that would essentially tamper with the evidence seized in any case. Another option would be to buy expensive new equipment that can test for the compound without burning the plant. But money is tight, and the lab would have to spend months developing protocols for using that method. Instead, the prosecutors and crime lab scientists worked to draft legislation to fix the problem by changing the definition of marijuana. The measure, introduced Tuesday, would define marijuana as parts of the cannabis plant containing more than 0.3 percent by dry weight of combined delta-9 THC and THC acid. The bill is due to have a public hearing in a House committee Thursday. Washington voters passed Initiative 502 last fall, joining Colorado as the first states to legalize recreational marijuana for adults over 21, and to allow the sale of taxed pot at state-licensed stores. Under Washington law, voter-approved initiatives cannot be amended within two years after passage unless lawmakers approve it by a two-thirds vote in both houses. The proposed fix for the marijuana definition is not considered controversial. It has the support of Alison Holcomb, who drafted the initiative. If you or a loved one is charged with a crime in Washington State it is imperative that you (1) assert your right to remain silent, and (2) seek the assistance of a qualified and reputable Seattle criminal attorney. The Seattle criminal attorneys that make up the criminal defense team of SQ Attorneys are highly qualified and reputable Seattle criminal lawyer that are dedicated to providing top notch, aggressive representation for those arrested for crime all across Western Washington and the Greater Puget Sound region. The team creates success by working with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office to ensure that all facts and circumstances related to the criminal allegations are considered in creating the fairest, most equitable and just resolution possible in light of all the surrounding circumstances of the given case.
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As the push continues for tougher DUI laws, two recent cases are drawing attention to repeat offenders. On Tuesday, Puyallup police say they got a repeat DUI offender off the streets when they arrested James Door. Tuesday's DUI arrest was Door's fifth, and investigators say he was so impaired when they pulled him over that he had trouble getting out of his car. After the arrest, Door refused to give a breath sample. "Essentially, the offender had already done time on a prior DUI arrest and felt he had nothing to lose and it didn't mean anything to him so he wasn't going to cooperate," said Capt. Scott Engle with the Puyallup Police Department. Engle then obtained a search warrant for a mandatory blood draw so it could be used later as evidence. "It's taking a serious, serious problem off the road that can impact innocent people in a moment's notice," he said. Door's arrest comes at the same time some lawmakers are proposing to tighten the state's DUI laws. Among other changes, the laws would require an arrest on the first offense and would set mandatory minimum jail time for second and third offenses. "We do think the laws need to be tougher here in Washington," said Dan Schulte, whose parents were killed and his wife and son seriously injured when they were hit by an alleged drunk driver in Seattle's Wedgwood neighborhood five weeks ago . In his first public statement since the crash, Schulte said things need to change. "A tragedy like this, it's really indescribable," he said. "It's something that is preventable and it's hit our family harder than it has most and it can happen to anyone." He now wants to help make sure no other family has to suffer like his. "All of us need to do what we can to make a difference, and we're hoping this horrible event can result in some positive outcomes," he said. Schulte's wife and infant son are both recovering in the hospital, but doctors say their road to recovery will be long. The suspected drunk driver, Mark Mullan, is facing two counts each of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. If you or a loved one is faced with a DUI charge in Western Washington, you deserve the assistance of a reputable and qualified Seattle DUI attorney who will relentlessly defend your case. You deserve a Seattle DUI lawyer who has an intimate understanding of Washington DUI laws and the legal issues that could win your case. You deserve a Seattle DUI attorney who is not afraid to stand up against the prosecution and aggressively fight for your rights and interests. SQ Attorneys is the right Western Washington DUI law firm for the job. Call for a free initial consultation – (206) 441.0900 (Seattle); (425) 998-8384 (Eastside) – it will be the best decision you make all day.
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Fitzgerald Gives Talks and Publishes on Her Recent Book Zimmerman Delivers Yom HaShoah Lecture, Interviewed by NBN
Levine Lectures Across The US
By yunews On May 6, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, recently delivered a number of lectures to various communities throughout the United States. In March, Levine spoke for the Ma’ayan Institute in Brookline, Mass., at their Yom Iyyun on the Five Megillot. She was the keynote speaker, delivering a lecture on “Poetry, Prophecy and Polemic: Rashi’s Commentary on the Song of Songs,” and also spoke on the topic, “A Guide to Being a Complete Jew: R. Obadiah Sforno’s Commentary on Kohelet.”
In April, Levine served as a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Valley Village, California, where she spoke on the following topics: “The Na’aseh Ve-Nishma Jew: The Italian Renaissance and R. Obadiah Sforno’s Conception of the Ideal Jew”, “The Blessing of Light and the Promise of Redemption” and “Devorah in the Book of Judges: A Woman Ahead of Her Times.” In addition, she gave lecture at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills sponsored by the Orthodox Union’s Women’s Torah Network on the topic “The Road to Redemption: All It Takes are Righteous Women.”
Levine was also hosted as a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Mekor Habracha, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, in addition to her lecture on Devorah, she spoke on “From Darkness to Light, From Slavery to Redemption”, “The Symbolic Ritual of the Paschal Lamb: Israel’s Ticket to Freedom” and “The Ten Plagues: Miracle vs. Nature?” In her own community of Kew Gardens Hills, New York, Levine gave a pre-Pesach shiur on Shabbat Hagadol at Congregation Ohel Yizhak about “The Road to Redemption: All It Takes are Righteous Women.”
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Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project: Interview with Kerry Woodward
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Kerry Woodward spent her youth moving about the United States with her family. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a homemaker. She went to elementary school in Ohio and junior and senior high schools in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Following graduation from Oberlin College, Woodward spent a year living in New York and then moved to Atlanta where she received her Montessori training. She lived in Minneapolis during the 1970s and was living in California at the time of the interview. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Woodward discusses her realization of being a lesbian and her process of coming to that realization. She speaks of her involvement with the DFL and friendship with Steve Endean. She also tells of her involvement with the Lesbian Feminist Organizing Committee, and against the repeal of the St. Paul Human Rights amendment. In the interview, Woodward compares the 1970s gay communities in Minneapolis to that in San Francisco.
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21 pages transcript
01:34:15 running time
Interviewee: Woodward, Kerry
Interviewer: Paulsen, Scott
Made in: Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
Creation: 10/18/1993
Oral History - Interview
AV1994.173.8 (Accession Number)
Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Twin Cities Gay and Lesbian Community Oral History Project'
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YAKOV SMIRNOFF- February 5, 2007
GUY MACPHERSON: Have you been to Vancouver before?
YAKOV SMIRNOFF: I came here several years back, probably 15 years ago. I think I was playing here at a club. That was kind of early in my career. And now I'm back.
GM: What kept you?
YS: I didn't hear from you so I figured nobody wants me here. And then I heard about your interview so I said, "Hey, I'm coming."
GM: Excellent. I have that kind of pull.
YS: Yes.
GM: I first saw you, I think, on Johnny Carson.
YS: Could have been, yes.
GM: Was that your first national TV exposure?
YS: Prior to Johnny Carson I did a couple of other things. I did the movie Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams and I did several Night Courts.
GM: You got those before you were on The Tonight Show?
YS: Yes. What was happening, the Carson people - the producer there - didn't really see me being on that show. And then I did a Miller Lite commercial and Carson saw the Miller Lite commercial, thought it was funny, and said, "Why don't we have him on?" And at that point the producer said, "Of course. We were planning soon."
GM: So you had a profile, then, as a comic before Moscow on the Hudson?
YS: Yes. And I was a comedian in Russia prior to that. So when I came to the United States I didn't speak English, so that was a little obstacle. But I eventually learned the language and little by little started working clubs. And probably I was here [Vancouver] - I don't know, I don't remember the exact date - prior to The Tonight Show.
GM: Did you also teach art in Russia?
YS: I taught art for a while in Russia before immigrating to the United States.
GM: And that was in 1977?
YS: Uh-huh.
GM: And a comedian. I would imagine deciding to emigrate when your job is telling jokes in Russian...
YS: Was not a popular choice.
GM: Was it difficult back then to get out?
YS: Very difficult. It was a very daring thing. I used to work in cruise ships on the Black Sea as an entertainer. I call them the Love Barge. I met a lot of Americans and that's where I kind of got the idea that there is more to life than being in Russia. Because they told us that we have freedom of speech and all of that. But Americans told me that they have freedom after they speak, which is a nice little feature. So that kinda intrigued me. And so I took a daring kind of a move and decided with my parents I said, "You know what? Let's give it a try." It took a long time. It took two years for us. And it was, like you guessed it, it was not a popular thing to do. They fire you from work pretty much. They turn people against you. So it wasn't a great thing.
GM: But you did it through the proper channels?
YS: I did it legally, yes. And the American government at that time - Carter was president - he wanted the Soviets to show human rights. Because they wanted wheat from the United States so we were basically exchanged for some wheat. So now when I see Wonderbread truck, I salute.
GM: What was your act like as a comic in Russia? You couldn't do the comparisons because you didn't know any comparisons.
YS: No. It was very safe. What they did at that time, they would censor your material. The government controlled everything. So once a year they censor your material and you could not talk about politics, government, sex and religion. The rest was fine. They had topics like buttons and fish and mother-in-law kind of stuff.
GM: Was your life there decent?
YS: Comparatively, I would say yes. But I lived in a communal apartment with my parents until we left with nine other families. But they told me I was having a good life.
GM: (laughs) So you believed them.
YS: Yeah, I believed them. We had no phone, no car, but I had the opportunity to travel. Compared to other people I was better off.
GM: Were your parents both on board with coming over?
YS: Mom was the last one to join. My dad was very much for it, even before I was. He was listening to Voice of America even though it was forbidden. In the middle of the night he would sit there with the short wave radio and listen. So he was very much encouraging us to get out. But mom was very cautious.
GM: What did he do there?
YS: He was a building construction engineer and inventor. He invented a bunch of stuff. A lot of it wasn't working, but one invention worked well. It was a device that measured the integrity of concrete. And in Russia, concrete was a national flower. The Berlin wall was one of the displays. So they paid him some money for that and that was enough for us to get some tickets to get out.
GM: Was the transition difficult for you or for your parents?
YS: It was harder for them because they're older than me. I don't know if that's an obvious thing. But for me it was exciting. Scary but exciting. For them it was a little bit more scary because they lived all their life there with all their friends and relatives. And the process, they made it very difficult when people wouldn't talk to you because you're a traitor and they announce it on television that people who leave are traitors. So it made it difficult, to say the least. But on the big picture, I'm lucky I did that.
GM: Have you been back?
YS: Yeah. Yeah, I've gone back several times. Everything changed dramatically.
GM: For the better?
YS: The majority, yes. I think there's a lot of kind of anarchy in some ways because people who are sort of black market people, they made it big and now it's legal, and people who were poor are still poor. But at least then they felt equal. Now they know they're not.
GM: How's your Russian? Have you lost it?
YS: It's perfect. My mom's still alive so I talk to her in Russian. I have some accent. When I speak to people from Russia they say, "Oh, you have an American accent." But it takes me two, three, four days or so and then I get back to normal.
GM: Now living in Missouri you must have a southern accent.
YS: I have a hillbilly accent. Absolutely. I was learning English for twenty years and I moved to the Ozarks and I have to start all over again.
GM: The culture shock of moving to Missouri must have been greater than when you moved from the Soviet Union.
YS: (laughs) You're right, you're right. In some ways, it is. On the other hand, it's safer. It's a nicer environment where you have your own theatre and you have people coming to you. So it's really something I could never imagine having.
GM: How many shows a year do you do there?
YS: About 200 shows a year. I have 2000 seats and it's pretty full most of the time.
GM: Do you constantly change the show from season to season?
YS: We have some big production numbers so you normally get three or four years out of it. In terms of my standup, I change it as much as I can to keep it fresh. But people enjoy seeing certain things and you've got to give them your greatest hits. That's what they come for.
GM: Smirnoff is a stage name, is it?
YS: Yes. Used to be Jack Daniels.
GM: (laughs) Did you change it because it was the vodka?
YS: Yes. I tried to figure out what would be a name that Americans knew. They knew Krushchev but that wasn't a good association. And they knew Brezhnev and all that. But they had a smile on their face when they heard Smirnoff. And I also was a bartender when I started in America. That was one of my first jobs.
GM: Where were you?
YS: In New York. That's where I kind of decided that Smirnoff is a good name.
GM: I've heard that even if people are really funny in their own language, it's much more difficult for them to be funny in their new language.
YS: I think I was very determined. I tell people I locked myself in my room and I watched TV for three months straight, and then I realized it was a Spanish station. But I was very driven and comedy was really important to me so I definitely wanted to learn. And I still have an accent but in terms of understanding of humour, working in the Comedy Store I was blessed with working with people like Robin Williams, David Letterman, Billy Crystal, Jay Leno. All of those guys were coming up at that time. So in a way I couldn't have asked for a better... I didn't even realize how lucky I was at that time.
GM: Were any of these guys like your mentors?
YS: Oh, absolutely. Robin, we were making Moscow on the Hudson and I was helping him with Russian and he was helping me understand things about American comedy. Bill Cosby was very influential. Carson. All of those people were very helpful.
GM: That was a good movie, by the way.
YS: Yeah, it was a fun movie. And it kind of started my career.
GM: A lot of your material these days is based on relationships. In the past, it was more Soviet versus American way of life.
YS: Also a kind of relationship, huh?
GM: Yeah, yeah.
YS: It was just more global.
GM: Did you have mixed feelings about the fall of the Soviet empire?
YS: Yes. When the Soviet empire fell I thought it was very inconsiderate of them to do this to me. Not even a phone call.
GM: They were just getting back at you for moving away.
YS: I think so. I think so. I mean, at least they could have said, "Okay, get ready. Your mortgage is gonna be the same, and your income is going to plummet." But it was actually one of the best things that happened to the world and to me, as well, because I needed it. I was too comfortable in that environment. I was doing Vegas, Atlantic City and was living high on the hog. And when this happened it helped me to reevaluate and see what is it I really want to do. And this new direction that I took I think is so much bigger than anything I'd ever done.
GM: In importance?
YS: For me, yes. And I think as a legacy, that's what I would like to leave for my children and grandchildren. You see, what happened here, I was blessed with a sense of humour and ability to be funny and make millions of people laugh. I took it for granted but I didn't really understand it empirically. I didn't understand what's funny, how am I doing it? I was just naturally funny. And most comedians probably don't even ever think of that. But when I started tracing it, I realized that laughter has a very specific formula. It has to do with two ingredients that most people overlook. It's kind of like Yin and Yang. There's somebody who creates laughter and somebody who laughs. You need two of those to create laughter. And in a relationship, exactly the same thing needs to be there, too. There has to be somebody who creates and somebody who appreciates otherwise it's not working. So it was like one of those epiphanies. And once I realized it and started tracing it, I realized that in the beginning of the relationship everybody laughs. And I have polled over three million people in my theatre and nobody remembers a good healthy relationship without laughter. In the beginning. And then it goes away. Little by little. And nobody knows why. And that's what happened in my marriage.
GM: Familiarity breeds contempt.
YS: There you go. In the beginning you're starting something and you're putting your effort into it but you didn't know what you were doing to begin with because the hormones are sponsoring you at that time. And then they check out and you're on your own. And you don't know what you did right or wrong. Every fairy tale ends with "happily ever after" but they don't tell you how. I believe I've figured that out.
GM: When did you figure it out?
YS: It's a process. It started right after my separation and divorce. But I'm tenacious. Just like I wanted to learn the language and become a comedian and, like you said, it seems not quite normal for somebody to come to another country and learn the language and figure out show business and Hollywood and make movies with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams and perform at the White House. All of the things that I chose to do, I did. But something that was so important to me, to create laughter in my marriage, and love, I couldn't make it work. So I failed. And that energy that I felt was so powerful to go after this and figure this out. So it started right at that point.
GM: How many years ago was that?
YS: Eight years. Then I went to college and got my Masters degree in psychology at an Ivy League university [Pennsylvania] and I just kept digging and digging. Now I teach at two universities: Missouri State and Drury University in Springfield. And the class is called 'Living Happily Ever Laughter'. And it changes people's lives. They're just blown away by this.
GM: You've figured it out but can you or your students put it into practice?
YS: Absolutely. Yes. Like anything new, like driving stick shift or typing, if you don't know how all of it takes practice. But what's amazing is that once they get it, it's so simple. They can implement it immediately. And then it's up to them, like anything else, whether they stick with it or not.
GM: People laugh at humour often because it's something fresh and new and something they hadn't thought of before. But if you're in a relationship for years and years, it's not fresh and new. You know the person inside and out.
YS: The secret here is not that laughter creates love; it's that love creates laughter. So what I'm teaching is that there is a formula of communicating and that formula brings the laughter. It's not the jokes, it's not your timing. It's about your intent in the relationship. I tell a story in my workshop. One of the things that changed the world was Reagan and Gorbachev meeting. Those were people who had great senses of humour. At that time, I was invited a lot to the White House so when Reagan was going to meet with Gorbachev, the head speech writer for Reagan called me and asked me if I would write some jokes for the summit because Reagan wanted to do a speech in the Kremlin in front of all the Russian politicians. And I'm thinking, if this doesn't work, I don't have any countries to go to! So but I did write the jokes and they used them in the speech. And that summit was crucial because after that the world started to change. I was friends with the interpreter who was in the room with Gorbachev and Reagan and I said to him, "What happened there that so dramatically changed the world?" And he said at first they were butting heads, Reagan and Gorbachev. They were both in the thinking modes. I call it thinking and feeling modes. The thinking mode is when you're all in your head and you're thinking how to create something. And the feeling mode is when people laugh and they feel good. So you need two ingredients, each person in a complementary mode. So Reagan and Gorbachev were both in their thinking mode, telling each other how to deal with the problems of their respective countries. And then Reagan, he said, got fed up. He got up and he headed for the door. And before he opened the door, he turned around and he smiled at Gorbachev and said, "My name is Ronnie. Can I call you Mischa? Let's play." And he told him a funny joke and it shifted Gorbachev into laughing. And then they connected and that's how the Berlin Wall came down.
GM: Wow. And you had a small role in it.
YS: A tiny role, but it's not even that. It's about understanding that role. So when I teach the class or what I'm going to be doing here at the seminar, they have an opportunity to start seeing when they're in a thinking mode or a feeling mode and they can change it depending on where they want to be. I teach them how to do it. What do preachers or sales people do at the beginning?
GM: They lighten the mood, ease tensions.
YS: They tell a joke. What they're doing is they're positioning themselves saying, "I'm going to be in a thinking mode, thinking how you feel. And if you're laughing, you're saying you like me the way I think." The same thing happens in a relationship. Husband, wife, they fight when they're in the similar mode. When they're in opposite modes, or complementary mode, laughter is there. No problem. But when they get into their heads or their hearts and not understand where the other person is, they clash.
GM: So when you point this out to the people...
YS: I make it funny. I tell them you learn and laugh your Yak-off.
GM: Do they have little exercises?
YS: Absolutely. Most of the time they spend practicing with each other and understanding that. Women's laughter is what men are after. They're the audience most of the time. A lot of research explains this phenomenon, that men are very much - and that was my graduate work - that men are very much interested in making women laugh. Women are interested in men who can make them laugh. So when people say they want someone with a good sense of humour, they mean two different things. There's research with 10 million people that says the number-one desired quality is a sense of humour. After financial security, education, even communication skills, they say they want a sense of humour. But what they're not realizing is they want two complementary opposite things. The men want somebody who will laugh at their jokes and women want somebody who can make them laugh, but they don't realize it. Once they realize it, and start seeing it everywhere, then they can focus on what it represents. And it represents a bunch of other qualities that they're not aware they're looking for. Like a good sense of humour in a guy is a sign of intelligence and creativity.
GM: Not everybody does have a good sense of humour, so are they doomed to a life alone?
YS: I don't think so. I think it's just one other measurement. If they have other qualities that are desirable... Most people laugh if you're funny. Most people. There might be one percent or two percent that are totally just not there. But if it's 99 percent that are laughing, they have a good sense of humour.
GM: I was just thinking that if it's the guy, whose role you say is to make the woman laugh, and he doesn't have that ability...
YS: But it's not... Here's the key. It's not about creating a joke; it's about understanding how a woman feels. That's where the rubber meets the road because the guys who will crack jokes that are inappropriate, they could be funny jokes, but you see women roll their eyes and they're going, "I don't want to be around this guy." But the guy who understands how a woman feels and can tune in to her feelings, that's the guy who will make women laugh.
GM: Has this helped you in your new relationships?
YS: Dramatically. Not only in my romantic relationships, but it helps me in my relationship with my kids, relationships with my employees. I understand which mode I'm in and then I try to position myself in the complementary mode with them. And the language is what I teach in this workshop seminar. It's very simple. All you need to do, the person who is in the thinking mode, they respond to the word 'think'. So when you talk to them you say, "What do you think about that?" And the person who is in the feeling mode, you ask them how they feel. And if they identify, if they say "I feel stressed, I feel frustrated", you know, then, how to talk with them. It's like Gorbachev and Reagan. Reagan didn't tell Gorbachev what he was doing. He just did it. And it turned around the whole thing. They could have been launching nuclear missiles if that didn't work.
GM: This seminar is for singles, aged 25 to 40. But you say this works in any relationship. So you don't need to be single. You could be married or use it in business.
YS: The reason I'm holding it for singles is because the name of the workshop is 'Let Laughter Lead You To Love'. And I don't think married people need to do that! I believe you can use laughter as a gauge not only in how your relationship is doing but who you want to attract in a relationship. That's why I wanted to specifically offer it before Valentine's Day to singles because they may use that immediately. There's going to be a lot of people there and they can mingle and practice it looking for the right person based on laughter and smiles and the joy they can create with that technique.
GM: Do you ever have people hook up at these seminars?
YS: I do, yes. I have people connect and stay together, or if it's married couples, they have improved their relationships so much based on this simple formula. I'll give you an example. A friend of mine called me yesterday. I was teaching at Drury College and she was helping me with my class. And her longtime boyfriend, they'd been having some challenges prior to this information coming their way. And she called me yesterday morning and she said, "I gotta tell you something. This was just so amazing. My boyfriend drove an hour, left me a message under my windshield wiper that said, 'Hurry home, sweetheart, there's a man waiting for you.'" And she didn't expect it, obviously. Branson is about an hour away, but he drove an hour there to leave her that message. And she said, "I couldn't drive fast enough home." And she said, "I'm so grateful to you." All I did for them was to explain that if you want to have this passion and laughter, all you need to do is to think how she feels. So he put his thinking cap on and kept thinking of different things to do for her to make her feel good. And they'd been in a relationship for twelve years. And she was just so excited that he knew what to do to get her excited. Obviously they had a very good evening.
GM: Is it possible for people to change? People get set in their ways.
YS: I think so. This formula can help people totally change because it's very, very simple. Men normally don't know. When we say "I do", we don't because we don't know what to do. Nobody gave us an instruction. My thought when I was getting married was my quest ends when I catch the girl. On the wedding day, once we're married, everything will live happily ever after. And that's all I need to know because no one said anything else. And the only other information we're getting is after people get in trouble and they're already unhappy. But in the middle, nobody's filling that gap. And I'm suggesting that laughter is that gauge. You know when the coal miners used to go in the mines and they didn't have any equipment to detect carbon monoxide, they would bring a canary with them. And if the canary was singing, they knew everything was fine. And if it stopped, they knew they were in trouble. So laughter, I believe, is that canary in the relationship.
GM: Interesting analogy. What do you think the biggest mistake people make in relationships is?
YS: The biggest challenge right now, in my opinion, in western society, is this: There's a 57 percent divorce rate. There's 120 million single people in the United States alone. The reason it is, when you're in the same mode, you repel just like magnets do. When I went to school I was able to learn that there's a lot of new information coming out with CAT scans and MRI's saying that we are genetically different in certain ways. Women are prone to feel first and then they think, and men are prone to think first and then they feel. So in the beginning of the relationship, we're kind of doped up for about a year with hormones and other new hormones that people didn't even know before like oxytocin, dopamine and things like that. And we do things right in that honeymoon stage of a relationship. It's always there. But then the hormones wear off and because society wants us in a thinking mode - we go to work and we're thinking and making deals and all that - and when we come home we're in the same mode. And you get into this, "Where do you want to go to eat?" "I dunno. Where do you wanna go to eat?" "I dunno." And you get those little challenges that grow into bigger challenges. To create laughter you need to have two complementary entities. Have you ever tried to tickle yourself?
GM: It's impossible.
YS: It's impossible, right? But somebody else can tickle you. That's how basic it is. You need people in opposite modes: one to be tickled and one to tickle. But if you have both people trying to do the same thing, it doesn't work.
GM: It's all very interesting and serious stuff.
YS: Very.
GM: But your seminar is being held at a comedy club. And people, of course, know you as a comedian.
YS: They will learn things that will make them laugh for the whole time. When I talk about things that make us different. For example, women's eyes are designed totally different from men's eyes. Women have wide peripheral vision because when we were hunter/gatherers, men had to get the animals so they developed tunnel vision. And women developed peripheral vision because they stayed with children and watched for the predators. So when we're in a social situation, if the woman wants to check out another guy, she doesn't have to turn her head. Men, we have to turn our head to look so that's how we get caught. Women's eyes by nature are designed like those wide-angle mirrors on the side of the car. That's why to women some objects appear smaller than they really are.
GM: (laughs)
YS: And women are more intuitive. They can read between the lines and they want men to read between the lines. We can't even colour between the lines! So I interact with jokes and humour. And the presentations and the questionnaires I give to them all have humorous punchlines. Laughter is a serious matter but it's very much an entertaining workshop. My goal is to pass on this information because I am personally so excited by this. My mission statement is "to experience happiness and teach it to the world with passion through comedy and sensitivity." So I'm making it very fun and interesting but mainly this information has to go out there because there are too many unhappy people.
GM: Could also do this within the framework of your standup?
YS: Absolutely. I do, but when I do, I have to have a two-hour show and my whole second act is about relationships. And it's all standup and very funny. I did a Broadway show, actually, in 2003. It was called "As Long as We Both Shall Laugh". And that was all funny stuff. But for them to learn the technique, you can't just do standup because then they walk out and they laugh, but they don't know what to take home. So what I want to give them is tools that they can take home and create laughter in their own homes. It's kind of like the Home Depot of comedy.
GM: Do you perform often outside the States?
YS: Not as often because I do a lot in my theatre. So once in a while I'll get out. But I'll be all this week, actually, in Yuk Yuk's working on new material. So I'll be there every night working basically on what we're talking about, just to make it more fun, more interesting, more entertaining.
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Black Girls and the Police State Menace
Whenever there’s a black girl on a school campus wielding a dangerous weapon like a cell phone, white macho can always be counted on to come to civilization’s rescue with the full force of fascist violence. These days, unarmed black children rank higher than mass murderers with semi-automatic weapons as public enemy number one on American school campuses. Shortly after the videotaped assault of a cell phone wielding sixteen year-old Spring Valley High School student in Richland, South Carolina by a white male school resource officer went viral, a New York Times letter writer naively asked—“Why are children not treated like children when they do silly things?”
Why? Because black children have never been children in the eyes of the police state and its proxy, American public education. Nor do they qualify as victims within the lens of a corporate media regime hell bent on exploiting black pain, à la news outlets like CNN. Zealously milking the moment for maximum reality TV effect, CNN correspondents played and replayed the brutal image; first, as the silent backdrop to an interview with a Richland school board representative, then as a frame-by-frame analysis to evaluate the girl’s “responsibility”. In their "analysis", the upraised arm of the girl being dragged from her desk was transformed into a strike against the officer. Her flailing legs were parsed as a potential “assault” on his person. Claiming “she had no respect for the school or her teacher”, CNN commentator Harry Houck deemed the assault to be justified, conjuring racist-sexist stereotypes of black girls as violent, lawless Jezebels. As Color of Change activists have argued, this shameless victim blaming is itself a form of emotional and psychological trauma that would never be inflicted on a white girl.
The criminalization and policing of black girls on school campuses has been well-documented by the U.S. Department of Education and the African American Policy Forum, headed by esteemed activist law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw. Black girls are suspended more than any other group besides black boys. They have higher suspension rates vis-à-vis white girls than do black boys in comparison to white boys. One of the most insidious aspects of race/gender disproportionality in school discipline is the double standard of conduct—when black girls “act out”, talk back, wear “inappropriate” clothing or use restricted personal items like cell phones in classrooms they’re disciplined more harshly than whites who commit serious offenses such as assault. The Indiana Education Policy Center’s 2000 “Color of Discipline” report concluded that black students were more likely to be referred out of class for lower level infractions such as excessive noise, disrespect, loitering and “threat.” Hearkening back to its Jim Crow legacy of anti-black terrorism, black children in the South are more likely to receive corporal punishment than are students in other regions.
So while white children are given the social and cultural space to “just be kids”—acting out, talking back, playing with gadgets and clothing styles—black children must always toe the line of respectability or risk detention, assault and/or death. And while white children of all class backgrounds have greater access to college preparation curricula and college resources, many black students have greater “access” to school police than a college counselor.
From high-achieving older students to the tiniest students just starting out, black girls are criminalized at every step of their school careers. In a widely publicized 2013 case, sixteen year-old chemistry student Kiera Wilmot was arrested, led away in handcuffs, and expelled from Bartow High School in Florida for a science experiment gone awry. In 2012, the handcuffing of black female preschoolers and kindergartners in Georgia elicited a groundswell of activism around the egregious numbers of very young black children who are suspended and expelled. Despite being only 18% of the preschool population, black preschool students receive 48% of school suspensions. By contrast, white students comprise 43% of all preschoolers and 26% of those suspended. Responding to these horrendous demographics, school-community activists of color have pushed for restorative justice programs, fewer police, and less paramilitary weaponry on campuses.
In Richland, black students are 59% of the student population and 77% of those suspended. The Richland Two Black Parents Association has been working with the national Dignity in Schools campaign to get the district to implement a culturally responsive discipline code “that clearly spells out that peaceful students will not be dealt with by law enforcement, but by school officials.” Addressing the epidemic of school push-out and prison pipelining that targets students of color, Dignity in Schools has advocated for a human rights-based discipline model which would replace school resource officers with community intervention workers trained to do mentoring, conflict resolution and peace-building in heavily criminalized schools. Changing the paramilitary climate of schools of color would remove the real menace to the mental health, wellbeing and academic success of African American youth who are bearing the brunt of the U.S.’ mass incarceration cancer.
Hillary Clinton and the Problem of White Feminism
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton rode a wave of feminist zeal. Touted by Gloria Steinem and other marquee white feminists as the antidote to “the patriarchy”, Clinton strode onto the national stage with her women’ s rights bona fides largely unquestioned. Flash forward and the adulation has waned. As evidenced by last night’s debate, Bernie Sanders’ left flank challenge has exposed Clinton’s corporate/centrist/imperialist underbelly and made her scramble for the populist street cred she lacks. Cautiously rebranding herself as a “practical” progressive, Clinton touted family friendly policies, an end to mass incarceration (motivated by the challenge she’s gotten from Black Lives Matters activists), subsidized college tuition, universal pre-K and defense of women’s health as bread and butter issues she’d fight for. In a nod to her traditional base, she attacked the GOP theocracy’s cowardly assault on Planned Parenthood.
Yet, as the economic climate worsens for communities of color, generalized white feminist shibboleths on women’s rights won’t cut it for women of color. For example, the Democrats’ narrow focus on income inequality and equal pay for equal work (a half step that would exclude women who work in low-paid historically female jobs) ignores the massive race/gender wealth gap which separates white women and women of color. While Clinton and Sanders blasted the big banks and the disaster of deregulation, there was no mention of the devastating impact of predatory and subprime lending on communities of color—policies that disproportionately affected black women and have decimated black wealth.
Over the past decade, the wealth gap between black women and virtually everyone else in the U.S. has widened to epic levels. According to the NAACP, in 2012, “Wealth for black women under age 65 was $100, amounting to a penny of wealth for every dollar of wealth owned by single black men and a fraction of a penny for every dollar of wealth owned by single white women or men.” Because African American women bear a greater child care burden, this disparity is not mitigated by the larger numbers of women of color in higher education relative to men (a factor which conservatives and others cite as an example of how sexist discrimination is nonexistent). As Nia Hamm writes about a recent Congressional Black Caucus economic report, “When African-American mothers — more than half of whom are raising their children on their own — can’t financially support their families, the consequences often have long-lasting and devastating implications for their communities.” Further, women of color are less likely to work in jobs that have wealth-generating fringe benefits such as defined benefit retirement plans or paid sick leave.
The nexus between poverty, wealth and opportunity is also reflected in the criminalization of black girls and women. Nationwide, African American girls are 14% of the youth population but constitute 34% of the juvenile incarcerated population. When white girls attend America’s schools they don’t have to fear being pounced on by school police or local law enforcement for not conforming to gender norms. As the African American Policy Institute has noted, black girls are subject to pernicious double standards about their race/gender identities. And they are systematically funneled through what the Human Rights for Girls organization identifies as the “sexual abuse to prison pipeline”. While prison pipelining ensnares youth of color of all genders, girls of color who are sexually abused are more likely to wind up in juvenile jails and experience a cycle of re-victimization that may result in commercial sexual exploitation. Nationwide, black girls have some of the highest rates of domestic sex trafficking victimization.
But when it comes to the status of black women in the U.S., the intersection of sexual violence, economic inequality and mass incarceration is seldom addressed in national policy forums. From the wealth gap to sex abuse prison pipelining, white women and girls actively benefit from black female criminalization. When white girls are perceived as brainy and/or non-threatening in schools with zero tolerance policies they automatically benefit from the wages of whiteness. When campaigns against sex trafficking minimize or don’t focus on the epidemic of sexualized violence against black girls and women, white girls and women are the default victims of choice.
Both Clinton and her right wing evil twin Carly Fiorina illustrate the perils of white role model feminism and the optics of empowerment. Rounding out her self-portrait in last night’s closing statements, Clinton extolled her “blessed” status as one who came from a humble background yet was able to seize the rugged individualist promise of American capitalist opportunity. Missing was a nod to the civil rights and social justice legacies—most notably affirmative action, which white women have been the biggest beneficiaries of—that facilitated her success and helped consolidate white middle class postwar wealth. But of course, Clinton’s narratives of progressive sisterhood only extend so far.
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Genes Can Make You Smarter? New Research
Mental Acuity - Gene Link Asserted...
Research on schizophrenia has taken an unexpected turn for researchers at the Feinstein Institute who found that a gene that plays a role in determining whether someone has this disease also seems to play a role in mental acuity and intelligence. (This in interesting note compared to APOEe4-risk for cognitive impairment in the case of Alzheimer's and Dementia)
The work, conducted at The Feinstein Institute's Zucker Hillside Hospital on Long Island, was originally aimed at studying the association between the gene dysbindin-1, located on chromosome 6, and an increased risk for developing schizophrenia, the debilitating mental illness whose sufferers are plagued by psychotic episodes and asocial behaviors.
"Our primary and first question wasn't to find genes for good cognition," said Anil Malhotra, principal investigator of the study. "It was to figure out what the effect of this risk form of the gene was, and that led us to our findings."
Malhotra and his team administered tests of mental acuity and took DNA samples from 213 schizophrenic patients and 126 healthy volunteers. The results showed that a specific variation of the dysbindin gene was not only associated with an increased risk for schizophrenia, but also with a low performance in general cognition. The researchers say this variation of the gene affects mental ability regardless of whether its carrier develops a mental illness, leading them to believe that the gene, in all its variations, is directly related to general intelligence.
"If having this risk form makes you perform worse, then in the other forms the converse is true—you perform better," Malhotra said.
The study is appearing in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, and found that the variant form of dysbindin-1 that is associated with lower intelligence was present in 7% of the general population and 12% of the schizophrenic population. In addition to an increased risk of schizophrenia, individuals who posses this gene variation can also expect to perform 3% to 5% percent worse on standardized neuropsychological cognition tests, which rate a person's mental skills in reading comprehension, attention, verbal fluency and memory.
According to Katherine Burdick, the study's principal author, these findings support the argument that genes (or the nature half of the nature vs. nurture equation) are significant determinants of intelligence.
Jensen has noted the link between intelligence and raw brainspeed.
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Home testimonies sports Bears football star Tommie Harris weathered tragic loss of wife
Bears football star Tommie Harris weathered tragic loss of wife
By Levi Photenhauer —
Chicago Bears star Tommie Harris was the best at everything, but he’d never been tested — until his wife died unexpectedly 41 days into their marriage.
“I was #1 getting drafted, #1 going to Oklahoma University, so I never was tested,” Harris recounts on a Grace For Purpose video. “I knew God in a good place. I didn’t know Him in a place when things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go.”
The Texas native was playing for the San Diego Chargers at the time. On a visit from his fiancé, Tommie decided to move the wedding date forward and go to the courthouse right then and there on New Year’s. They already had two kids together.
The church ceremony would come a few months later, and to fit the white dress better, Ashley wanted a breast reduction. It was a simple procedure, but she never woke up. A brain aneurysm tragically snuffed her life out on the operating table in 2012.
“I had something like $25 million in the bank when I lost Ashley, and not one dollar had been able to help her,” Tommie laments. “If it could have, I would have given every last cent to save my wife.”
Up to that point, Tommie was a football sensation. At Oklahoma, he was twice named All-American. In his eight years in the NFL, the 6’3”, 295-pound defensive tackle was three times a Pro-Bowl pick and once a Super Bowl player.
But when his wife slipped into eternity, he suddenly retired. He wanted to take care of his kids, Tyson and Tinsley.
“Physically, I was ready” to keep playing NFL, he says. “But mentally, I wasn’t dialed in. I mean, what if I went out there and suffered a head or neck injury and couldn’t take care of my kids? What would I tell them, that daddy had wanted to make some more money?”
He invested his money for the family to live on. He went back to school to complete his MBA and capitalized a variety of business ventures.
And he would grow in God. After winning so much in football, Tommie calls the untimely death of his wife “my greatest loss.”
“Today, I’m not the man Ashley married,” he says. “I’m a much better version of that man — one I wish she was here to see. But I know that she is here, every day, watching over me, Tyson and Tinsley, shining the light that guides us as we do our best to keep her spirit alive and make her proud.”
To know more about a personal relationship with God, click here.
Levi Photenhauer studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Los Angeles. His journalism instructor also sells bamboo steamers on Amazon. Click on the link or the image at right if you want to purchase one.
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The Citizens’ Voice celebrated its 40th anniversary on Oct. 5, 2018. Striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader, started The Citizens’ Voice in 1978. The Citizens’ Voice added the Sunday edition in 1993 after the closure of the Sunday Independent. Times-Shamrock Communications bought The Citizens’ Voice in 2000.
Gathering, distributing news has changed
by jreeser | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
In 1978, typewriters and notebooks were a reporter’s best friends. Today, it’s a mobile phone and a Twitter account that are must-have tools. Here are some of the changes in the way a newspaper is produced since The Citizens’ Voice launched in 1978. Then When the...
Then & Now: The Wyoming Valley has seen many changes over 40 years
by Bob Kalinowski | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Steve Barrouk served as president of the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry for 18 years and still is chairman of the Diamond City Partnership. We sat down with him to talk about the changes in the Wyoming Valley the past 40 years and some of the most...
Publisher’s Letter on the 40th anniversary of The Citizens’ Voice
by Staff Report | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Birthday celebrations often lead to reflection. Have I lived a full life so far? What are the highlights — and lowlights? Who am I thankful for? Are there any regrets? Are there changes I should be making? The Citizens’ Voice turns 40 on Oct. 9 and I can say,...
Top 40 sports moments of the last 40 years
by Matt Bufano | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Slow news day? It happens to the best newspapers and most-watched networks in America’s smallest and biggest cities. Relying on the entire Wyoming Valley (and then some), however, The Citizens’ Voice sports staff seemingly always has something to write about. A...
VIDEO: Watch the story of The Citizens’ Voice
Two-paper town: Wilkes-Barre market a rarity
by Michael P. Buffer | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
Wilkes-Barre became a city with two daily newspapers in October 1978 when striking workers started publishing The Citizens’ Voice to compete with the Capital Cities-owned Times Leader. Forty years later, the newspaper competition continues — a surprising feat for a...
Some advertisers have been with us for the last 40 years
by Denise Allabaugh | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
While social media has changed the way businesses market to consumers, Garden Drive-In owner Doug Barbacci said newspaper advertising is “probably the most important advertising we do.” The Garden Drive-In on Route 11 in Hunlock Twp. is one of the businesses that...
Since the beginning: 40-year subscribers
by Bill Wellock | Oct 7, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
When The Citizens’ Voice started 40 years ago, it had dedicated employees, companies advertising with the new paper and four unions sticking together. None of that would have mattered if it hadn’t been for someone else — you. Locals who subscribed to the new endeavor...
The strike that launched The Citizens’ Voice
WILKES-BARRE — Union leaders blew a whistle inside The Times Leader, Evening News/Record newspaper at 5:45 p.m. on Oct. 6, 1978, giving the signal to unionized workers to abandon their jobs and risk their livelihoods. “I said, ‘Folks, we are going on strike against...
CV at 40: Natural disasters, scandals marked last decade
Plenty of good things happened in Luzerne County this past decade, and The Citizens’ Voice newsroom staffers were always on the chase for the most memorable events — those that dominated headlines, stirred emotions and especially affected readers — carried themes of...
CV at 40: 9/11 attacks, Hugo Selenski among enduring stories of the 2000s
by Jim Halpin | Oct 5, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
WILKES-BARRE — The 2000s brought about major news stories, both on the world stage and at the local level. The decade experienced the most devastating terrorist attack in world history and a global economic depression, and saw the emergence of one of Luzerne County’s...
CV at 40: Curley murder probe dominated headlines in the ’90s
by Eric Mark | Oct 4, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
News continued to break throughout the 1990s in the Wyoming Valley. The decade’s top stories included a murder investigation that drew national attention, the construction of a controversial arena and convention center, the creation of a conservancy dedicated to...
CV at 40: Banks murder spree shocked region during the ’80s
by Steve Mocarsky | Oct 4, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
WILKES-BARRE — The 1980s were marked by the rise of computers and the end of the Cold War, but there was an array of shocking, thrilling and disappointing local news in those 10 years that will be long-remembered by Wyoming Valley residents. The Citizens’ Voice,...
CV at 40: Flood indictment, Butler Tunnel incident top biggest stories of 1978-79
For 40 years The Citizens’ Voice has been reporting on stories of local interest to its readers. During the Voice’s infancy in October 1978, news of the labor strife between strikers and Cap Cities — the new owners of the Times Leader — dominated the pages. Here’s a...
FIRST EDITION: See the inaugural copy of The Citizens’ Voice
by Staff Report | Sep 25, 2018 | 40th Anniversary
The first edition of The Citizens' Voice was published Oct. 9, 1978.
TIMELINE: The history of The Citizens’ Voice
1978 Members of four unions — The Newspaper Guild, Typographical Union and the photoengraving and pressmen units of the Graphic Communications International Union — go on strike against Capital Cities Communications, publisher of the Times Leader, Evening News and...
Members of four unions — The Newspaper Guild, Typographical Union and the photoengraving and pressmen units of the Graphic Communications International Union — go on strike against Capital Cities Communications, publisher of the Times Leader, Evening News and Wilkes-Barre Record. The strikers launched their own newspaper — The Citizens’ Voice — on Oct. 9.
The strike ends without a settlement as Capital Cities moves to decertify the last of the striking unions. The unions continue to operate The Citizens’ Voice.
The Citizens’ Voice acquires its own press in June and consolidates its operations into its current building at 75 N. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre. Before the move, the newspaper’s news, advertising and circulation offices were located on the second floor of the Hotel Sterling and the plate and printing facility were in Plymouth.
The unions incorporate The Citizens’ Voice, shifting ownership of the newspaper and its assets to the original strikers and retirees. Of the 204 people who went on strike in 1978, eight returned to the Times Leader.
The Voice published its first Sunday edition on May 16.
Times-Shamrock Communications, owner of The Scranton Times, purchased The Citizens’ Voice in May.
In April, the Voice switched from its familiar tabloid format to a broadsheet newspaper.
FACTS ABOUT THE CITIZENS’ VOICE
• The Citizens’ Voice was first published as an interim newspaper published by the Wilkes-Barre Council of Newspaper Unions for the duration of the labor dispute. On settlement of the dispute, the intention was to cease publication. Two hundred out of 225 of the original Times Leader employees representing four local unions went on strike and formed an employee-owned newspaper called The Citizens’ Voice.
• The first edition of The Citizens’ Voice made its debut Oct. 9, 1978.
• The first issue of The Citizens’ Voice had a circulation of 45,000.
• At one time, all employees received the same salary from the publisher to maintenance worker.
• In 1989, The Citizens’ Voice Inc. was formed and the original strikers and retirees became shareholders.
• Times-Shamrock took ownership of The Citizens’ Voice on May 1, 2000.
• The Citizens’ Voice’s first newsroom, circulation and advertising offices were located at 1 N. Main St., just off Public Square. The newspaper operated for years out of the second floor of the Hotel Sterling. Operations moved to its present facility — 75 N. Washington St. — in June 1984. The building was formerly a warehouse for Fowler, Dick & Walker The Boston Store.
• The company’s color is orange because when the employees went to purchase delivery tubes they bought orange tubes at a substantial discount because no one wanted orange.
• The Citizens’ Voice made its debut as a tabloid because owners of the Wyoming Valley Observer — a weekly tab newspaper — allowed staffers to use their press.
• In 2014, The Citizens’ Voice launched a new Sunday broadsheet publication called the Greater Pittston Progress.
• The Citizens’ Voice published its first Sunday edition on May 16, 1993.
• The Citizens’ Voice was named the Newspaper of the Year by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association in 2011.
• The Citizens’ Voice Facebook page was created in 2009 and, in 2018, has more than 30,000 likes.
• Jack Williams was the first publisher of The Citizens’ Voice.
• Community editor Leonarda Bilbow was one of the first “non-strikers” hired by The Citizens’ Voice. She was hired in 1979. Now in her 39th year, she has the distinction of being the longest Citizens’ Voice employee in the history of the paper.
• Former Ashley mayor and current Wilkes-Barre Twp. councilman, John Jablowski was one of the first Citizens’ Voice carriers.
• Former staff writer Frank Zini went on to become managing editor of the New York Post.
• Neil Corbett spent 34 years as the paper’s sports editor before his retirement in 2013. He was the last of the original strikers to leave the newsroom.
• Ed Hourigan Sr., the son of the Hourigan Family who sold the original Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company to Cap Cities, would be hired in the early 1990s as The Citizens’ Voice publisher.
• Presston, The Citizens’ Voice “orange” mascot was born in 1996.
• While Times-Shamrock owns newspapers, website, billboards and radio stations, in the late 1990s The Citizens’ Voice had a weekly television show called Northeast Real Estate Review hosted by Judi Shaver which ran on FOX every Sunday morning.
• King’s College is the school from which most of the newsroom staff graduated. Penn State University has the second-most graduates, followed by Syracuse University and Misericordia University.
• The Citizens’ Voice has won many awards for its special sections, including Gameface and JumpStart! Gameface highlights the best in high school football and debuted in 2007. JumpStart! debuted in 2010 and covers the latest entertainment events throughout the Wyoming Valley.
• The Citizens’ Voice switched from its familiar tabloid format to broadsheet in April 2017.
• The online feature NEPA Bazaars debuted in 2012 to catalogue, map and celebrate the annual summer tradition of church and fire company bazaars. It now has nearly 10,000 likes on Facebook.
• The Citizens’ Voice has been a primary sponsor of Valley Santa for 35 years. The program relies on financial donations to purchase Christmas gifts for children whose families could not afford to buy them.
• The Citizens’ Voice has co-sponsored the Wyoming Valley Athletic Association’s Dr. George P. Moses Senior All-Star Classic since 1979.
• ESPN NFL reporter Adam Schefter wrote a story about Greg Skrepenak for The Citizens’ Voice in September 1988.
• The number-one movie on the day The Citizens’ Voice debuted, Oct. 5, 1978, was “Grease” and a ticket cost $2.34, according to playback.fm. The number one song was “Kiss You All Over” by Exile and the number one fiction novel was “Chesapeake” by James Michener.
• The Citizens’ Voice took over presenting the George Hooper Memorial Award in 1997. It’s given to the top wrestler each year in the Wyoming Valley Conference.
• The bar and restaurant ads in the Citizens’ Voice that run with all type and no artwork are called “style ads.” The reason they are called “style ads” is that all the ads are set in the same font with no artwork permitted. Back when the CV was formed, the employees realized the potential for getting this business if they could accept late ads. Most bars and restaurants work late night and sleep most of the day. Advertisers would call to place ads at 2 p.m. for the next day’s paper. Trying to get their ads earlier was a losing effort so we decided to work with their deadlines, but the ads could be copy only and all set in the same type and all must run on the together. That is how style ads were born. Forty years later they still exist and are looked to regularly by our readers for dining specials and things to do.
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Who is vulnerable?
Which places are disadvantaged?
What actions support resilience?
What can be done to tackle fuel poverty?
Which households emit the most carbon?
Why does climate justice matter?
Who needs to do what?
People in poor health
Who are we concerned about?
Why is it important to act?
How can we do it?
People in poor health are more sensitive to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events
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Groups sensitive to heatwaves
Groups sensitive to flooding
The impacts of climate change and extreme weather events can affect anyone, but those already in poor health potentially face more serious harm. Not all individuals in poor health are equally sensitive or equally vulnerable; different conditions may mean people are affected in different ways. Some people may also be more vulnerable due to other social or environmental factors. People experiencing multiple causes of vulnerability are the most extremely socially vulnerable.
The sensitivity of people in poor health to climate impacts can be compounded by other characteristics, such as age. Older people and babies/young children, for example, are particularly sensitive to extreme weather. Social factors also affect the ability of people to adapt to climate impacts and extreme weather events, including being on a low income, being a tenant, being socially isolated or living in certain types of housing. The Further Resources section provides a link to where you can get more information about who is socially vulnerable and why.
The following section shows how ill-health can make people particularly sensitive to climate impacts and related extreme weather. It should be noted that the specific vulnerabilities of individuals and communities will be affected by other personal, environmental and social factors which are explored in detail elsewhere in this website.
People with pre-existing health problems may be more likely to experience detrimental physical impacts such as dehydration during a heatwave event.1,2 Particular health problems of concern include chronic cardiovascular, respiratory illness, diabetes, renal diseases, nervous system disorders, Parkinson’s disease, emphysema and epilepsy. Furthermore, people who already have a high body temperature, for example as a result of an infection, are more susceptible to the effects of heat.
People with limiting long term illness may have diminished ability to adapt to high temperatures due to lower awareness of their circumstances or an inability to take action.3 Examples of people who may be disproportionately affected include people who are bed-bound, unable to leave home daily, or who are unable to care for themselves for other reasons.
People with mental health disorders may not be able to cope with extreme heat or alter their physical environment when hot.4 People affected by mental health issues may be less likely to take effective precautions, recognise the symptoms of heat stress such as dehydration or know what to do in response. In addition, there is evidence that certain medications for the treatment of mental health conditions can make people more susceptible to the effects of heatwaves.5,6
People on medications that affect the body’s ability to sweat (renal function) or to perform its other normal temperature regulation functions will be more susceptible to the effects of heat.7 The National Health Service provides guidance on the medicines which can cause problems for patients during heatwaves,8 in addition to those associated with the treatment of mental health conditions.
Those in care homes are more reliant on others to deal with high temperatures. There is an association between dependency and the potential for adverse effects from heatwave events.9,10 Care home residents may experience greater exposure to heatwave events if indoor temperatures are not appropriately controlled or moderated, sufficient refreshments provided, and account taken of the different temperature preferences of residents.11 Institutional regimes can also exacerbate problems through being too rigid or due to difficulty in satisfying all of a building’s users’ needs, including staff.12,13 This underlines that it is not just the most fragile and dependent people within residential and care homes that require support during extreme weather events like heatwaves. Evidence suggests that some of the most independent and least physical fragile can be disproportionately affected, potentially as a result of staff concentrating on the most dependent residents and a lack of knowledge about symptoms and appropriate actions amongst the more independent residents.14,15
People who misuse alcohol or take illicit drugs may be unable to adapt quickly and be less likely to follow public health announcements during extreme weather events.16
People who are homeless tend to have higher rates of ill-health compared to other people and a greater susceptibility to the effects of heatwaves. Homeless people tend to have higher rates of physical and mental illness, a greater difficulty in effectively managing illness and an increased likelihood to have substance dependencies and cognitive impairments. Homeless people also have other environmental and social factors which increase their vulnerability. They tend to be more exposed to heatwaves through spending a greater amount of time outdoors, often in urban areas where temperatures are higher. See the sections on Adapting Buildings and Green Infrastructure on how to address issues in the built and natural environment. Homeless people are also often socially isolated so are less likely to receive help if suffering from the effects of heat stress. As a result, heatwaves can cause mortality, a worsening of existing illness or lead to other forms of ill-health in this group. See the Heatwave Plan for England.
There are direct and indirect health impacts from flooding.17,18 A broad range of possible flood-related health outcomes can affect people before, during and after events (Figure 1). Their relative importance depends on the nature of the flooding itself, behavioural responses to it and a range of other environmental, social and personal risk factors, including pre-existing illnesses.19
Figure 1: Health outcomes associated with flooding, before (top) during (middle) and after (bottom).20
People who are temporarily or permanently ill are one of the groups expected to require specific help during a flood event. The National Flood Emergency Framework for England also highlights other groups including: children; older people; pregnant women; people with physical, sensory and cognitive impairments; homeless people; tourists; and people from different cultural and language backgrounds.21 Further Resources (in Section 6 above) has more information about some of these other groups.
Flooding may restrict an individual’s access to medicine, e.g. due to loss or damage, and make it difficult to obtain appropriate medical attention in an emergency. Flood events can directly impact local medical services and also affect the wider community given than it may be necessary for hospitals to postpone routine or other non-urgent medical treatments.22
People with limiting long term illnesses can be less able to prepare for, cope during and recover from flooding. Vulnerability can be particularly high during events; for example, power-cuts can impact on life support equipment, such as oxygen generators or ventilators, or affect people’s mobility given that they may be reliant on electric wheelchairs requiring recharging and/or access to lifts.23 Taking preparatory action is particularly important as more complex health care is now being delivered at home rather than in hospitals and medical centres often using more sophisticated and power-reliant equipment.24 Power cuts can also affect other services and be an outcome from heat-related events as well as flooding and other hazards like storms (Figure 2). The use of alternative energy sources, like inefficient or poorly managed generators can lead to other impacts, such as carbon monoxide hazards.25,26 Accessing clean drinking water may also present particular challenges for this group as is access to a water supply for people on home kidney dialysis. Those living with mental or physical disabilities require additional assistance in preparing for and recovering from flood events. However, these impacts are not just felt by individuals; the presence of a disabled family member puts additional pressures on others in households affected by extreme events and the recovery of these households may take longer.
People with mental health disorders may be less able to prepare for and respond to flooding. Conditions such as dementia or Alzheimer’s can change how a person views the dangers associated with a flood event and how they behave in response.27 Ad-hoc carers helping people during or immediately after events may not have sufficient information about an individual’s medical history and associated medical and care needs28 and not all vulnerable people are able to provide appropriate information to carers under these circumstances.
Figure 2: The direct and indirect impacts of power cuts on different aspects of health and wellbeing.30
Kovats, R.S., Hajat, S., and Wilkinson, P. (2004) Contrasting patterns of mortality and hospital admissions during hot weather and heat waves in Greater London, UK. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 61(11): 893-898.
McGeehin, M.A. and Mirabelli, M. (2001) The potential impacts of climate variability and change on temperature-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives 109(supplement 2): 185-189.
Defra (2012) UK Climate Change Risk Assessment: Evidence Report, London
Reinhard, K., Rubin, C., Henderson, A., Wolfe, M., Kieszak, S., Parrott, C., Adcock, M. (2001) Heat-Related Death and Mental Illness During the 1999 Cincinnati Heat Wave. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 22(3): 303-307
Page, L. A., S. Hajat, R. S. Kovats and L. M. Howard (2012). "Temperature-related deaths in people with psychosis, dementia and substance misuse." Br J Psychiatry 200(6): 485-490.
Bouchama A, Dehbi M, Mohamed G, Matthies F, Shoukri M, Menne B. Prognostic factors in heat wave related deaths: a meta-analysis. Archives of internal medicine. 2007 Nov 12;167(20):2170-6.
NHS (2012) Which medicines could cause problems for patients during a heatwave?
Kovats, R.S. and Ebi, K.L. (2006) Heatwaves and public health in Europe. European Journal of Public Health 16 (6): 592-599
Poumadere, M., Mays, C., Le Mer, S. and Blong, R. (2005) The 2003 Heatwave in France: Dangerous Climate Change Here and Now Risk Analysis 25(6): 1483-1494
Building comfort for older age: Designing and managing thermal comfort in low carbon housing for older people.
Stafoggia M et al. (2008). Factors affecting in-hospital heat-related mortality: A multi-city case-crossover analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62:209–215.
Brown, S. and G. Walker (2008). "Understanding heat wave vulnerability in nursing and residential homes." Building Research and Information 36(4): 363-372.
Anderson, M., C. Carmichael, V. Murray, A. Dengel and M. Swainson (2012). "Defining indoor heat thresholds for health in the UK." Perspect Public Health.
World Health Organisation Europe (2013) Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention
Defra (2013) The National Flood Emergency Framework for England
Lowe, D., Ebi, K.L. and Forsberg, B. (2013) Factors Increasing Vulnerability to Health Effects before, during and after Floods Int J Environ Res Public Health. 10(12): 7015–7067
Fernandez, L.S., Byard, D., Lin, C-C., Benson, S. and Barbera, J.A. (2002) Frail elderly as disaster victims: emergency management strategies. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 17(2): 67-74
Klinger C, Landeg O, Murray V. Power Outages, Extreme Events and Health: a Systematic Review of the Literature from 2011-2012. PLOS Currents Disasters. 2014 Jan 2. Edition 1
(note permission required) Klinger C, Landeg O, Murray V. Power Outages, Extreme Events and Health: a Systematic Review of the Literature from 2011-2012. PLOS Currents Disasters. 2014 Jan 2. Edition 1
Climate Change is recognised as the biggest public health threat this century1
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Threat to public health
The Sustainable Development Strategy produced by the National Health Service and Public Health England in 2014 for the health, public health and social care system notes that “Health and social care organisations are at the forefront of action to address the health impacts of climate change and need to adapt to, and prepare for, these circumstances”2. Understanding the extent of this remit requires consideration of the ways that climate change can influence health in the UK, including through impacts on patterns of disease, patterns of exposure to disease (e.g. through changes in migration) and impacts on access to the basic necessities of life3. Where people and communities already struggle to afford basic necessities there is a greater possibility ofmore severe outcomes, and increasing health inequalities4. These issues are increasingly recognised, for example one of the key messages of the recent Marmot review is that “Tackling social inequalities in health and tackling climate change must go together” 5.
Preparing for extreme weather events can help with effective use of resources and building community resilience.
Climate projections and associated analyses show that the frequency of heatwaves is increasing6. Evidence from the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) suggests that by the 2080s what we currently understand as a heatwave could occur most years and could even occur more than once a year in some regions. However, changes will be felt much earlier than the 2080s. Regional assessments suggest that, on average, heatwave frequency could be six times higher by the 2050s alone. The pressures on health services dealing with emergency situations will be much greater. Heatwaves often do not occur in isolation and may be associated with other events such as droughts and wildfires, which have their own health consequences.
It is also anticipated that the emergency services will face greater pressure from expected changes in the frequency of flood events. Estimates from the CCRA suggest a further 0.9 to 2.3 million people could be at significant risk of river flooding by the 2080s resulting in more than doubling of the effort required by the emergency services without taking account of any change in costs associated with responding to more severe events7.
The financial costs associated with events are difficult to estimate, and do not take account of the full impacts on health and wellbeing that occur. Although costing tools exist, these are controversial and must be used with caution. Indeed, there are strong arguments pointing to fundamental flaws in current costing methods from the perspective of rebalancing inequalities – a key aim of the recent Sustainable Development Strategy. Costing methodologies can place lower values on the health impacts of those least responsible and most impacted by the effects of climate change – the poor and future generations – so that those who are worst affected count least. It is also important to consider that it is not always the funder of responses who is the beneficiary of savings.
See the Further Resources section for more information.
Local authorities and their partners in health and social care have statutory duties and other responsibilities in relation to the protection of people’s health. For instance:
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 puts local authorities at the centre of activities to improve health, with public health now brought into local government. This brings together the work of the NHS with those providing social care, housing, environmental health, leisure and transport services. The Act puts new duties on clinical commissioning groups to have regard to the need to reduce inequalities in benefits which can be obtained from health services including both NHS and public health functions. Important instruments for joining up actions to address climate risks and extreme weather events are the Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and the associated strategies produced by Health and Wellbeing Boards. Health and Wellbeing Boards also have a duty to encourage health and care commissioners to work together to enhance the health and wellbeing of people in their area.
The Equality Act 2010 allows for positive action in favour of people in groups with protected characteristics. Protected characteristics include disabilities defined as “physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on normal day-to-day tasks”.
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 identifies local authorities, along with the emergency services and NHS bodies as the key organisations who have a responsibility for developing plans for emergency situations. There is an explicit responsibility for helping ‘people who are less able to help themselves in the circumstances of an emergency’ by planning for the potential effects of an emergency, warning and informing both before and during events and facilitating support which can be provided through the commercial and voluntary sectors.8 Partnership working is given a strong emphasis and there is a requirement to work with other organisations in local resilience fora to develop responses to support civil protection.
The National Flood Emergency Framework provides a central reference point to assist local authorities and their partners in service delivery to work together to plan for flood events.9 It provides a number of core information resources, guidance on key actions such as interpreting flood warnings and communications and case studies from recent flood events.
The Heatwave Plan for England is non-statutory but provides a basis through which other obligations to produce adaptation plans can be developed. Its main purpose is to provide information which helps in the process of building more resilient communities to heatwaves. It sets out ways to prepare for heatwave events and what to do to avoid some of the most severe impacts from prolonged exposure to high temperatures. Raising awareness among the wider public is one important goal. It also highlights the role of local NHS, public health and social care organisations in overseeing the care of people with particular susceptibilities, to help reduce the potential for over-exposure and to help ensure that service provision is sufficiently resilient to cope with the challenges associated with heatwaves.
Action on reducing health and social inequalities is central to the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) for NHS England and Public Health England’s recent Sustainable Development Strategy10 (Figure 1). The strategy is an important reference point for actions in relation to statutory responses. The SDU also provides additional guidance on statutory and policy drivers for action.11
Figure 3: The foundation for creating a virtuous cycle for achieving ‘sustainable, resilient, healthy places and people.12
Anthony Costello, Mustafa Abbas, Adriana Allen, Sarah Ball, Sarah Bell, Richard Bellamy, Sharon Friel, Nora Groce, Anne Johnson, Maria Kett, Maria Lee, Caren Levy, Mark Maslin, David McCoy, Bill McGuire, Hugh Montgomery, David Napier, Christina Pagel, Jinesh Patel, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Nanneke Redclift, Hannah Rees, Daniel Rogger, Joanne Scott, Judith Stephenson, John Twigg, Jonathan Wolff, Craig Patterson (2009) The Lancet 373: 1693–733
NHS Sustainable development Unit (2012) Adaptation to Climate Change for Health and Social care organisations “Co-ordinated, Resilient, Prepared”. Page 3
Sotiris Vardoulakis and Clare Heaviside, The Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK, 2012, Health Protection Agency.
The Marmot Review Team (2010) Fair society, healthy lives.The Marmot Review. Page 9.
Civil Contigencies Secretariat (2008) Identifying People Who Are Vulnerable in a Crisis: Guidance for Emergency Planners and Responders.
Defra (2013) The National Flood Emergency Framework for England.
Public Health England and the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS England (2014) Sustainable, Resilient, Healthy People & Places A Sustainable Development Strategy for the NHS, Public Health and Social Care system
Public Health England and the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS England (2014) Statutory and Policy Drivers for Change presentation
Public Health England and the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (2014) Sustainable, Resilient, Healthy People & Places. A Sustainable Development Strategy for the NHS, Public Health and Social Care system
The Climate Just map tool contains a series of maps which can be used to understand patterns of ill-health and wider sensitivities and susceptibilities across England, Scotland and Wales.
Credit: JRF/Liz Hingley
The Climate Just map tool contains a series of maps which can be used to understand the current patterns of people in poor health across England, Wales and Scotland. Some of the main geographical patterns for England are summarised below. The tool also allows users to overlay maps of potential exposure to flooding and heatwaves. See the map tool for the national maps for 2011 in your area, including updated and refined data on social flood vulnerability and flood disadvantage in England, Scotland and Wales.
The most recent Census suggests that the neighbourhoods with the highest proportion of people whose daily activities are limited a lot by a long term health problem tend to be in the north of England, and on the coast, particularly in the southwest. The neighbourhood in England with the highest proportion was located in East Lindsey (on the East Midlands coast) where 39% of the population reported that their daily activities were limited by a long term health problem or disability. The neighbourhoods with the lowest proportions were predominantly in the south, particularly in the London area. Several of the least affected neighbourhoods were found in Kensington and Chelsea but the neighbourhood with the absolute lowest proportion (3%) was found in Manchester, contrasting with the general tendency for the urban areas of the North to have higher proportions of residents in ill-health.
The distribution of households containing at least one person whose daily activities are limited a lot by a long term health problems shows a similar pattern. In this case the highest proportion was found in a neighbourhood in Barnsley (44%) and the lowest in Leeds (5%).
See the map tool for more information on patterns in Englands, Scotland and Wales.
Assess the nature of the problem in your area
Identify locations with high proportions of people in your area whose activities are potentially affected by ill-health using the Climate Just map tool.
Identify the magnitude and likelihood of hazards associated with the changing climate, including flooding and heatwaves.
Consider how patterns of people in ill-health and more broadly sensitive to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events compare with patterns of potential exposure to flooding and heatwaves.
Draw on existing risk assessments, adaptation tools such as the UKCP09 projections, UKCP18 which will update the UKCP09 projections and other local information (for example following the UKCIP Local Climate Impacts Profile (LCLIP) process). See the Further Resources section for an example LCLIP for Greater Manchester.
Examine the impacts of extreme weather events including their location, timing, costs and the effectiveness of responses by recording local experiences to support continuous learning.
Review the case studies in the Further Resources section to see what others have done.
Use additional resources to identify particular sensitive and susceptible individuals, groups and locations. See the How can we do it section for more ideas about where to get information.
Use the Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation (SHAPE) tool to access a range of health indicators at fine geographical scales (areas representing populations of 1000-3000). The SHAPE tool also includes overlays of areas potentially affected by flooding. See the Further Resources section for more information about the SHAPE tool.
Identify the location of sensitive groups in institutions, such as those in care homes and hospitals.
Identify where sensitive individuals live. The map portal provides information about where there are particularly high proportions of sensitive people, but it is also important to remember that all communities will have some sensitive people within them.
Ensure that a full range of issues are incorporated into organisational risk registers.
Raise awareness of climate change to build adaptive capacity among sensitive individuals and groups.
Raise awareness among the wider public of the potential impacts on health from extreme weather events using existing guidance and public-orientated information bulletins. This should also include information about what preventative actions can be taken and the support available to assist people in making short and longer-term preparations. Support can include what needs to be done to sign up for telephone, text or email flood warning messages and how to join Priority Service Registers run by UK Energy companies to protect people reliant on medical equipment.1 Consider appropriate outreach activities for marginalised groups and those who are particularly susceptible to the impacts of high temperatures and the health impacts of flooding. In locations with a highly transient population, information may need to be more frequently issued or made available in different ways and there may be other particular needs for people who have only recently arrived to a local area.2 See the Further Resources section for more information about raising awareness.
Raise awareness among social and health care staff. There are also recommendations that climate change adaptation needs to be built into training programmes for those working in health and social care. It is important to ensure that all staff members, especially those in day-to-day contact with people with vulnerabilities, are aware of the issues and of appropriate adaptation measures so that they are considered as part of everyday working activities.3See the Further Resources section for links to advice for different staff groups:
Advice for health and social care practitioners: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave.4
Advice for care home managers and staff: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave.5
Advice available to Category 1 and 2 responders as part of the Flood Guidance Statements issued by the Flood Forecasting Centre at times of heightened likelihood of flooding.6
Develop local plans that reduce the impact of heat-waves and floods on sensitive individuals and which protect the systems through which care is delivered to them.7 It is recommended that plans build from national guidelines but are strongly tailored to specific local circumstances. Wider risk management activities are already well established for those with responsibilities for health and social care provision. Therefore plans should aim to make climate change adaptation part of general risk management and not just reserved for emergency situations.8 If this is achieved it helps to ensure that information is readily available when it is required, often when normal communication channels are particularly stretched. It also helps to establish measures which can help reduce exposure and build adaptive capacity but which require a longer time-frame to be effective.
Consider your specific legislative context. The following text relates primarily to England, but some of the equivalent context for Wales and Scotland with respect to flooding and health is included in our 'Why climate justice matters' presentation, where relevant.
Joint Strategic Needs Assessments are a primary mechanism for highlighting local ambition on reducing climate-related burdens on health and can make the links on this agenda to inform local activities.9 The SDU and Environment Agency’s ‘Under the Weather’ toolkit10 is designed to help health and wellbeing boards and commissioners to increase resilience in a changing climate by integrating climate-related risks into JSNAs.
See the Further Resources section for a link to an example Joint Strategic Needs Assessment produced by the London Borough of Hackney.11
Sustainable Development Management Plans The Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) recommends that health and social care organisations develop SDMPs and that these include a specific section on climate adaptation and that this provides information on local risks and the processes for their management.12 This information can be used by coordinating bodies such as Health and Well-Being Boards and show how obligations are being delivered. These sections might also identify how measures are accounting for specific local circumstances and the potential for uneven impacts as a result of patterns of social vulnerability and socially vulnerable groups.
Specific adaptation plans. The research carried out as part of the Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC) project has fed into the development of the Sustainable Development Unit’s recommendations for developing an adaptation plan for building climate resilience.
See Section 5 'How can we do it?' for more information.
Encourage people with specific needs to make their own flood and heatwave plans either alone or with health care professionals. This can cover having a safe place for contact lists, information about prescriptions and care needs, a check list of personal items, instructions for safe operation of equipment, items to help with maintaining hygiene and other general guidance, e.g. as outlined by the National Flood Forum. Preparatory work can include signing up for flood messaging, heat wave alerts and registering on the Priority Service Registers run by UK energy companies. Awareness raising work might also help to identify and deal with any misconceptions about flooding.
Reduce exposure of the vulnerable individuals by considering ways that buildings and local environments can be better adapted over the longer term.
Enhance green space and green infrastructure in the design of health and social care facilities as well as more widely in urban areas in order to offset the impacts of flooding and reduce temperatures. See the Further Resources section about why this is important and appropriate measures which can be taken.
SHAPE tool
Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation (NHS tool) for health providers
BIOPICCC toolkit
Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (Durham University)
Neighbourhoods without much greenspace
Klinger C, Landeg O, Murray V. Power Outages, Extreme Events and Health: a Systematic Review of the Literature from 2011-2012. PLOS Currents Disasters. 2014 Jan 2. Edition 1.
London Climate Change Partnership (2011) London’s changing climate. In sickness and in health
Advice for health and social care practitioners: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heat-wave
Advice for care home managers and staff: supporting vulnerable people before and during a heat-wave
Flood Forecasting Centre, Flood Guidance Statement
NHS Sustainable development Unit (2012) Adaptation to Climate Change for Health and Social care organisations “ Co-ordinated, Resilient, Prepared”
London Climate Change Partnership (2012) Linking Environment and Health
SDU and Environment Agency (2014) Under the Weather Toolkit
City and Hackney, Health and Wellbeing Profile 2011-12: Our Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
1. Review the recommended general actions. This includes information about raising awareness and partnership working.
2. Make use of health data and registers which are already held within local authorities and organisations with a role in service provision. Data sharing requires relevant approval, but subject to that being received, organisations involved in emergency planning could make use of local authority data on people receiving care and other types of support in order to ensure that their needs are appropriately considered.1
See the Further Resources section for an example of where this has been done. The Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Resilience Forum’s ‘Vulnerable People Tactical Framework’2 has involved identifying appropriate organisations working with vulnerable individuals and developing an ‘Information Sharing Protocol’ through which information about vulnerable people and sites such as hospitals and nursing homes can be shared during an emergency situation.
3. Consult guidance about how to incorporate climate change impacts into risk registers and other key strategies including local Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs). Some of the equivalent context for Wales and Scotland with respect to flooding and health is included in our Why climate justice matters presentation, where relevant.
See the Further Resources section for links to guidance and examples. Guidance relating to risk registers has been produced by Lancashire County Council3 and there are examples of risk registers from local authorities from Blaby District Council4 and Greater Manchester5.
Assess the climate resilience of your local JSNA using the checklist at the back of the Environment Agency/SDU ‘Under the Weather toolkit’.6 Kent County Council has also produced guidance on JSNAs and sustainability.7
4. Make use of specific guidance for raising awareness among people in poor health and encouraging the development of wider personal plans either alone or with appropriate health-care professionals or voluntary groups
See the Further Resources section for links to:
Guidance on health and heatwaves, including heatwave alerts.8,9
National Flood Emergency Framework guidance on flood-related communications.10 Guidance covers the information requirements of different groups and different communication methods such as social media.
Guidance for the wider public and front-line responders on flooding issues, answers to frequently asked questions, floods and mental health and cleaning up safely after an event.11
Information about the services of the Flood National Flood Forum12
Information about how to join Priority Service Registers run by UK energy companies.13
5. Consider how staff training events can be used to build up knowledge of the issues. This can include some of the resources noted elsewhere and dedicated information sources for Category 1 and 2 responders, such as through the Flood Guidance Statement.14
6. Consult guidance about health issues to consider after a flooding event has occurred.15
7. Develop a step-by-step programme of activities.
See the Further Resources section provides links to examples of what others have done. For example, Hertfordshire County Council produced guidance and identified and assessed twelve possible actions as part of their 2009 assessment of climate change impacts on health and adult care services. Bedford Borough Council has listed a set of specific recommendations targeted at organisations involved in health and social care,16 some of which are related to the recommendations provided by the NHS Sustainable Development Unit.
8. Work in partnership with others to protect the vulnerable people in poor health. Partnership working is a crucial part of any response to the challenges of climate change and extreme weather. Workshops are one way through which improved dialogue can be achieved, but in order to make meetings as effective as possible it is important to involve all relevant organisations. Wider discussions may also identify new opportunities to join up with existing initiatives or communication channels with target groups, such as through measures put in place to tackle the problem of fuel poverty and to ensure that such measures do not create problems with adapting to summer heatwaves.
See the Further Resources section for a link to an example of who to involve. The National Flood Framework lists organisations and agencies to work with in relation to a number of vulnerable groups.17 A list of organisations that should be considered is provided in the ‘Under the Weather’ toolkit.18 Local Resilience Forums also provide a good basis for collaboration and dialogue and provide a foundation for understanding pressures and opportunities across a range of organisations with shared goals and related responsibilities.
Also see the Further Resources section for more information on partnership working.
9. Support and encourage local organisations to work with the voluntary and community sector to raise awareness of climate risks and promote personal adaptation strategies. Where possible, this should build on existing programmes and voluntary sector initiatives and pay particular attention to reaching marginalised communities.
See the Further Resources section to watch an interview about the responses that Equinox has implemented to help illicit drug users in hot weather.19
See the Further Resources section for a link the Snow Angels initiative.This aimed to reduce the physical and social isolation of sensitive individuals during cold weather but ideas could be extended to consider needs during other extreme weather events.
See the Further Resources for links to community resilience building tools, such as the Community Disaster Resilience Scorecard Toolkit20 (produced by the Australian Government but with content which can be applied in the UK) and resources produced by the Cabinet Office.
10. Use existing processes and good practice guidelines to help draw up adaptation plans for health and social care organisations.
See the Further Resources section for a link to the Sustainable Development Unit’s information about the characteristics of a good adaptation plan in health and social care.21 Five steps are recommended in the Sustainable Development Unit’s report as follows:
Step 1: Find out who to involve from the organisations listed in Appendix 1.
Step 2: Find out what information is needed from the suggestions listed in Appendix 2.
Step 3: Assess the relative local importance of different potential impacts, investigate how they will affect the day-to-day running of essential services and systems and draw up possible responses to problems which may arise.
Step 4: Decide on a set of priorities for action.
Step 5: Construct plans and initiate a regular monitoring and review process.
11. Ensure that preparedness for extreme events includes relevant infrastructure, such as buildings which are important for delivering health and social care so that patients and staff are protected from the impacts of events like heatwaves and flooding.22 Such buildings include hospitals, clinics and health centres, doctors’ surgeries, care centres, residential care and nursing homes, day centres and general care facilities.
See the Further Resources section for a link to the Health Technical Memorandum 07-07: Sustainable health and social care buildings23 and Health Building Note 00-07 Planning for a resilient healthcare estate24
See the Further Resources section to watch a video examining how existing National Health Service hospital buildings might be refurbished in order to become more resilient to the impacts of high temperatures.25
See the Further Resources section for other resources to support building resilience to flooding.
12. Explore ways in which changes can be made in how and where people work, the codes of practice used and the sorts of systems used to deliver services. Relatively simple back up measures may be helpful, such as the use of telephone follow ups in place of appointments if patient access is an issue during extreme events.26 Telehealth and telecare may also offer some opportunities through which the health and well-being of very ill patients or those who have limited mobility can be monitored.27 There is now an increasing availability of electronic devices which can support healthcare providers, for example through providing warning systems to carers or through triggering automated responses, e.g. the activation of fans at certain temperature thresholds. However, it is important to note that telecare systems like these have implications for socially just adaptation, given that they are only available to those who can afford them unless other means are found to financially support people on low incomes. There is also a need to consider how such systems will operate during the potential power cuts and related problems associated with extreme events (see Figure 2, in Section 1).
See Further Resources for a link to a report examining the benefits of telecare options.28
See the Further Resources section for links to examples of the services which can be offered, for example by Bournemouth29 or Taunton Deane Borough Council.30
People who are socially isolated
Document/report
Fuel Poverty Review
The Hills Report: an assessment of problems associated with measuring fuel poverty and a new alternative
Health and Wellbeing toolkit
Designed to help integrate adaptation into health and social care, Environment Agency 2014
Houston, D., Werritty, A., Bassett, D., Geddes, A., Hoolachan, A. & McMillan, M. (2011) Pluvial (rain-related) flooding in urban areas : the invisible hazard, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.
Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly LRF (2012) Vulnerable People Tactical Framework
Lancashire County Council guidance relating to risk registers
Blaby District Council Adaptation Risk Register
Greater Manchester Community Risk Register
Environment Agency and SDU (2014) Under the Weather toolkit
Kent County Council (2013) Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: A Guide to Integrating Sustainability
NHS (2010) Heatwave: Looking after yourself and others during hot weather
Heatwave Plan for England
Public Health England (2014) Flooding: Health Guidance and Advice
National Flood Forum (2011) Ready for Flooding: Before, During and After
Citizen's Advice Bureau, Self-help guide on the Priority Services Register for older and disabled people
Public Health England and the Environment Agency, Flooding: Advice for the Public
Bedford Borough Council recommendations for health and social care organisations (list near bottom of long webpage)
YouTube video: Equinox's response to climate change
Torrens Resilience Institute (2012) Community Disaster Resilience Scorecard Toolkit
NHS Sustainable development Unit (2012) Adaptation to Climate Change for Health and Social care organisations “Co-ordinated, Resilient, Prepared”.
Department of Health (2013) Environment and Sustainability Health Technical Memorandum 07-07: Sustainable health and social care buildings Planning, design, construction and refurbishment
Department of Health (2014) Health Building Note 00-07: Planning for a resilient healthcare estate
Video clip: refurbishing hospital buildings to reduce overheating. This work is part of an EPSRC-funded research project Design and Delivery of Robust Hospital Environments in a Changing Climate which was carried out by the Universities of Cambridge, Loughborough and Leeds with the Open University.
London Climate Change Partnership (2011) London’s changing climate. In sickness and in health.
Yeandle S. (2009) The Bow Group, Telecare a crucial opportunity to help save our health and social care system
Bournemouth Borough Council telecare services available to older people
Tauton Deane Borough Council telecare services
Under the Weather toolkit
Climate Ready/SDU
Local Climate Impacts Profile (LCLIP)
Designed to support the UKCIP Climate Adaptation Wizard, this tool supports local assessments of past weather-related events and their impacts as a basis for understanding the possible impacts of future weather-related events.
UKCIP
Guidance and Spreadsheets
Community Resilience: resources and tools
Aimed at local communities and the organisations working with them, this set of resources supports the process of understanding local needs and developing emergency plans based on those needs
Cabinet Office (UK)
Reports, checklists and case studies
Community Disaster Resilience Scorecard Toolkit includes materials to for local government and their partners in service delivery to work with in workshop settings.
Torrens Institute
Communities, guidance and check-lists
Ready For Flooding: Before, During and After
Practical advice and guidance for householders, including list of what to have in an emergency kit.
National Flood Forum
Householders, guidance and check-lists.
Citizen’s Advice Bureau self help guide on the Priority Services Register for older and disabled people
Web materials
Severe Weather Impacts Monitoring System (SWIMS)
A data collection tool to encourage learning about the impacts of and responses to past extreme weather events as the basis for improved future decision-making.
Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC) Toolkit
Aimed at anyone with a role in supporting health and social care for older people. Resources cover understanding needs and protecting infrastructure.
Cold Weather Plan for England (2013)
The plan provides the framework for action during specific periods of very cold weather. It includes an ‘equality analysis’ and other resources which can assist local decision-making
Public Health England/DH/NHS England and the Local Government Association
Health and social care sector
Reports and action cards.
Advice produced through the Heat-wave plan for England 2013
The heat-wave plan contains advice for a range of practitioners and the public
Advice for different groups
Public Health Outcomes Data Tool
A set of indicators and associated data about public health and health inequalities supporting the Public Health Outcomes Framework. Data Indicators are updated on a regular basis and available at a range of geographies across England
Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation (SHAPE)
A mapping tool principally aiming to support strategic planning of health services and infrastructure but which has a role in providing more effective adaptation solutions. Documentation on the use of SHAPE in the context of flooding is currently being developed.
World Health Organisation cost analysis tool
A controversial tool aimed at the health sector. Read more about issues associated with using cost-benefit analyses to build resilience in our introduction.
Information about the Flood Guidance Statement, including a user guide
Met Office and Environment Agency
Flooding and mental health: essential information for front-line responders
1. Flooding: advice for the Public
2. Health advice: general information about mental health
3. Floods – how to clean up your home safely
4. Guidance on recovery from flooding: essential information for frontline responders
5. Flooding and mental health: essential information for front-line responders
6. Answers to frequently asked health questions about flooding.
Health Protection Agency
Health sector Guidance document
Six Steps to Flood Resilience
Designed to address the lack of easy-to-use guidance to support the use of novel flood resilience measures in planning, this resource provides a process to follow and resources for further information
Building Research Establishment, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Manchester
UK Climate Change Risk Assessment: Evidence Report, London
Sustainable, Resilient, Healthy People & Places A Sustainable Development Strategy for the NHS, Public Health and Social Care system
Public Health England and the NHS Sustainable Development Unit (2014)
Adaptation to Climate Change for Health and Social care organisations “Co-ordinated, Resilient, Prepared”
NHS Sustainable development Unit (2012)
Health Building Note 00-07 Planning for a resilient healthcare estate good practice guidance and reasons for action
Health Technical Memorandum 07-07: Sustainable health and social care buildings
Telecare: a crucial opportunity to help save our health and social care system
Yeandle (2009)
The Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2012
Vardoulakis & Heaviside (2012)
Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention: review of the evidence in Europe
World Health Organisation Europe (2013)
Greater Manchester Local Climate Impacts Profile
Online example of an LCLIP
Example of a strategic plan aiming to provide a mechanism to assist in the identification of vulnerable people in an emergency
Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Resilience Forum
Online (downloadable)
Guidance for completing climate change adaptation risk template
Lancashire County Council
Online material (external)
Example of a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
London Borough of Hackney
Example of a risk register (District Council)
Blaby District Council
Example of the use of telecare systems
Bournemouth Borough Council
Case study (external online)
Taunton Deane Borough Council
Based in Cheshire, Snow Angels is the result of a partnership between organisations involved in health, housing, environmental & emergency planning and the local community to provide community-based responses to extreme cold weather in a rural area.
Climate Just team with Snow Angels representatives
Case Study (internal)
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Topic: EconomySubtopic: Patent ApplicationsCategory: Performing Operations; Transporting
General Notes: Classification code 347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information. Subclasses for this classification include inkjet printing. For more details, please visit http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/uspc347/defs347.htm. Patents and patent applications are filed by the United States Patent Classification (USPC) code system developed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the Department of Commerce. Total counts are aggregated by geography and classification for which there is available data. Classifications available on SAGE Business Stats represent the top 10% classifications the USPTO uses to categorize patents and patent applications. In some cases, the original classification name was retitled for clarity.
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Posted on June 17, 2015 by davidswanson
U.S. House Debates and Votes Down Withdrawal from Iraq/Syria
Wednesday afternoon, by a vote of 288-139 with one voting “present” and five not voting (roll call of who voted which way is here) the U.S. House of Representatives voted down a resolution (H.Con.Res.55) that would have required the President to . . .
“remove United States Armed Forces deployed to Iraq or Syria on or after August 7, 2014, other than Armed Forces required to protect United States diplomatic facilities and personnel, from Iraq and Syria. (1) by no later than the end of the period of 30 days beginning on the day on which this concurrent resolution is adopted; or (2) if the President determines that it is not safe to remove such United States Armed Forces before the end of that period, by no later than December 31, 2015, or such earlier date as the President determines that the Armed Forces can safely be removed.”
While some number of the 139 yes votes were apparently cast by Congress members wanting a chance to vote yes on more war during the next 30 days or the next 6.5 months, most were presumably cast by Congress members actually favoring withdrawal or wanting to go on record as favoring withdrawal in a vote that stood little chance of succeeding. Almost two years ago now, Congress was compelled by public pressure to indicate its intention to vote no on missile strikes into Syria. Since that time it has refused to vote wars up or down, while allowing them to be launched and waged and escalated.
Of course, votes for wars have a history of pleasing campaign funders and displeasing voters. Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, in Wednesday’s debate, made clear that she wanted to have the war continue but maintain the right to denounce it as completely ill-conceived. That’s why a vote needed to be forced, to put Congress members on record one way or the other, to not let them have it both ways. There are now 288 of them who should be removed from office at the earliest opportunity and, like Hillary Clinton in 2008 and hopefully in the future, blocked in the pursuit of higher office.
Of course, President Barack Obama has made clear that he will wage war with or without Congress, but a vote by Congress to withdraw, and (if needed) perhaps a further vote to cut off funding, and (if needed) perhaps a further vote to impeach, would at the very least be interesting.
The resolution was brought by Reps. Jim McGovern, Barbara Lee, and Walter Jones under the War Powers Resolution, which allows any Congress member to force a debate and vote on any war that a president has launched without legal authorization. Congressman McGovern chose, however, not to use the debate he had forced in the manner in which then-Congressman Dennis Kucinich used to use it, namely as a debate on ending a war. Instead, McGovern framed this as a debate on whether to have a debate.
So, for two hours on Wednesday, proponents of war advocated at length with great passion and fear mongering for more war, while proponents of having a debate advocated procedurally for the proper use of Constitutional war powers and for having a debate. But of course they knew the resolution was very likely to fail, meaning that their debate on whether to have a debate would be all there was in the way of debating.
McGovern also chose to frame the debate defensively, arguing against opponents’ assertions that his resolution required withdrawal in 30 days, claiming on the contrary that the resolution gave the President until the end of the year “if he chooses.” But, of course, the resolution, quoted above, didn’t say “if he chooses” — rather “if the President determines that it is not safe to remove.” McGovern seemed to be admitting that that was nonsense. It’s dangerous to leave troops in a war; it’s always safe to remove them, but McGovern was prepared to allow Obama to pretend the opposite “if he chooses.”
A number of opponents of the resolution, in fact, pretended the opposite on Wednesday, arguing for more war “to protect the troops.” Meanwhile another opponent of the resolution, Brad Sherman, argued that the resolution would indeed pull troops out in 30 days because they were in no danger.
The highlights of the debate came when four Congress members spoke against war, and one in particular did so with passion and wisdom. His name was John Lewis. He said that people are “sick and tired of war” and that war only makes matters worse, “Terrorism is not stopped by weapons. Bombs don’t end hate.” I’ve asked his office to send me his written remarks and am also hoping they post them here.
The others who spoke against war were Barbara Lee, very briefly, Rick Nolan, also briefly, and Charlie Rangel who pushed myths about the inherent violence of the Middle East and the goodness of past Good Wars, but who also said there was no reason for U.S. troops to be over there, and that ISIS wasn’t invading our jobless communities. Rangel was the first to bring war opposition into Wednesday’s “debate.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey had on Wednesday in a committee hearing pushed the idea that religious sectarianism had created the disaster that in fact U.S. war-making has created in Iraq. Dempsey also said that there was no military solution, so instead he would use both the U.S. military and arming and training of Iraqis. So now you know what “no military solution” means — a phrase that has apparently maintained the same relationship to its dictionary definition as “imminent” or “combatant.”
Speaking in favor of war on Wednesday were Reps. Ed Royce, Eliot Engel (a believer in well-vetted moderate rebels and possibly the tooth fairy), Vicky Hartzler, Gerald Connolly, Joe Wilson (who seems to think Congress should take orders from military), Brendan Boyle, Lee Zeldin, Ted Poe, George Holding, David Cicilline, Adam Kinzinger (who wants Assad overthrown), Brad Sherman, and Michael McCaul.
Rep. Thomas Massie spoke for Constitutional war powers, but not for or against war. So did Walter Jones and Jim McGovern for that matter. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wants a war debate, but paints war as philanthropy for its foreign victims, and restraint as greedy self-interest. Rep. Jerrold Nadler says he doesn’t know if war should go on but that he and his colleagues should decide if war should go on. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton wants a vote for DC for or against war, but speaks only in praise of war. Rep. Mark Sanford wants a war debate, mentions war’s financial cost, but never quite says yes or no to more war.
Royce gave a long pro-war closing after McGovern’s quick procedural wishy-washy closing that never actually opposed war.
Royce claimed there was no third option beyond war or doing nothing. Here are some of those missing options.
To email Congress your opinion, click here.
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Kevin Murphy, December 2, 2019, Domain Registries
The Internet Society has started to fight back against those trying to put a stop to its $1.13 billion sale of Public Interest Registry to Ethos Capital.
Among the tactics being deployed appears to be an attempt to play down the notion that .org has always been considered as a home for non-profits run by a non-profit.
Apparently, it’s perfectly fine for .org to transition back into commercial hands, because not-for-profit ISOC was never intended as its forever home and the TLD was never intended for non-profits anyway.
Is that bullshit?
Yes and no. Mostly yes. It turns out you get a different answer depending on when you look in .org’s storied history.
ISOC, it seems, is starting in 1994, in an internet standard written by Jon Postel (who was ICANN before there was an ICANN).
A statement published by ISOC last week tries to characterize .org as a home for the “miscellaneous”, quoting from RFC 1591
I also want to address some other misconceptions about .ORG. Although .ORG has often been thought of as a “home of non-profits”, the domain was not actually defined that way. In 1994, RFC 1591 described it this way: “ORG – This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn’t fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.”
It’s an accurate quote.
.org is described in other RFCs in a similar way. The earliest reference is 1984’s RFC 920 which says .org means “Organization, any other domains meeting the second level requirements.”
RFC 1032 says:
“ORG” exists as a parent to subdomains that do not clearly fall within the other top-level domains. This may include technical-support groups, professional societies, or similar organizations.
I can’t find any mention of non-profits in any of the relevant DNS RFCs.
ISOC goes on to note that .org was managed by a for-profit entity — Network Solutions, then Verisign — from 1993 until PIR took over in 2003.
Again, that’s true, but while it might have been managed by a commercial entity, NetSol was pretty clear about who .org was for.
When it went public in 1997, the company told would-be investors in its S-1 registration statement:
The most common TLDs include .com, used primarily by commercial entities, .org for nonprofit organizations, .net for network service providers, .edu for universities and .gov for United States governmental entities
That’s pretty unambiguous: the .org registry in 1997 said that .org was for non-profits.
In 2001, when ICANN inked a deal with Verisign to spin off .org into a new registry, there was no ambiguity whatsoever.
In announcing the deal, ICANN said that it would “return the .org registry to its original purpose” and .org would return to “to its originally intended function as a registry operated by and for non-profit organizations” (my emphasis).
The price ICANN paid for extracting .org from Verisign’s clutches was the very first “presumptive renewal” clause being inserted into the .com contract, which has seen Verisign reap billions with no risk of ever losing its golden goose.
The prize was so potentially lucrative that Verisign even agreed to give a $5 million endowment — no questions asked — to the successor registry, for use relaunching or promoting .org.
The only catch was that the new registry had to be a non-profit. Commercial registries — Verisign competitors such as Neustar — wouldn’t get the money.
ICANN and its community spent the remainder of 2001 and most of 2002 devising an RFP, accepting proposals from 11 would-be .org registries, and picking a winner.
The multistakeholder Domain Names Supporting Organization — roughly equivalent to today’s GNSO — was tasked with coming up with a set of principles governing who should get to run .org and how.
It came up with a report in January 2002 that stated, as its first bullet point:
The initial delegation of the .org TLD should be to a non-profit organization that is noncommercial in orientation and the initial board of which includes substantial representation of noncommercial .org registrants.
It went on to say that applicants “should be recognized non-profit entities” and to suggest a few measures to attract such entities to the bidding process.
These recommendations, which secured consensus support of the DNSO’s diverse stakeholders and a unanimous vote of the Names Council (the 2002 equivalent of the GNSO Council), nevertheless never made it into ICANN’s final RFP.
At some point during this process, ICANN decided that it would be unfair to exclude for-profit bidders, so there was no non-profit requirement in the final RFP.
As far as I can tell from the public record and my increasingly unreliable memory, it was Vint Cerf — father of the internet, creator of ISOC, then-chair of ICANN, and one of the few people currently cool with PIR being sold into commercial hands — that opened it up to for-profit bidders.
The decision was made at ICANN’s board meeting in Accra, Ghana, at ICANN 12. Back then, the board did its thinking aloud, in front of an audience, so we have a transcript.
The transcript shows that Cerf recommended that ICANN remain neutral on whether the successor registry was non-profit or for-profit. He put forward the idea that a commercial registry could quite easily create a non-profit entity in order to bid anyway, so it would be a kinda pointless restriction. The board agreed.
So in 2002, 11 entities, some of them commercial, submitted proposals to take over .org.
In ISOC’s bid, it stated that it would use the $5 million Verisign endowment “primarily to expanding outreach to non-commercial organizations on behalf of .ORG”.
ISOC/PIR took Verisign’s millions, as a non-profit, in order to pitch .org at other non-profits, in other words.
The evaluation process to pick Verisign’s successor was conducted by consultancy Gartner, a team of “academic CIOs” and ICANN’s Noncommercial Domain Name Holders’ Constituency (roughly equivalent to today’s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group).
The NCDNHC was under strict instructions from ICANN management to not give consideration to whether the applicants were commercial or non-commercial, but its report (pdf) did “take notice of longstanding relationships between the bidders (whether for-profit or non-profit) and the noncommercial community available in the public record”.
It ranked the PIR bid as third of the 11 applicants, on the basis that .org money would go to support ISOC and the IETF, which NCDNHC considered “good works”.
ICANN’s preliminary and final evaluation reports were both opened for public comment, and comment from the applicants themselves, and on both occasions ISOC sought to play up its not-for-profit status. In August 2002, it said:
Overall, we believe ISOC’s experience as a not-for-profit, Internet-focused organization, combined with Afilias’ expertise as a stable and proven back end provider, enables us to fully meet all the criteria set forth by the ICANN Board.
In October 2002, it said:
We believe strongly that the voice of the non-commercial community is critical to the long-term success of .ORG. ISOC’s global membership and heritage and PIR’s non-profit status will ensure the registry remains sensitive to non-commercial concerns. Should the ICANN Board select ISOC’s proposal, PIR will execute extensive plans to ensure that this voice is heard.
ISOC’s application was of course ultimately determined to be the best of the bunch, and in October 2002 ICANN decided to award it the contract.
Then there was the small matter of the IANA redelegation. IANA is the arm of ICANN that deals with changes to the root zone. Whenever a TLD changes hands, IANA issues a report explaining how the redelegation came about.
In the case of .org, IANA echoed the previous feelings about .org’s “intended” purpose, stating:
the Internet Society is a long-established organization that is particularly knowledgeable about the needs of the organizations for which the .org top-level domain was intended. By establishing PIR as a subsidiary to serve as the successor operator of .org, the Internet Society has created a structure that can operate the .org TLD in a manner that will be sensitive to the needs of its intended users
So, does history tell us that .org is meant to be a TLD by and for non-profits?
Mostly, yes, I think it does.
Kevin Murphy, November 4, 2019, Domain Registrars
Web.com, which owns top 20 registrars Network Solutions and Register.com, got itself and millions of its customers hacked a few months ago.
The company disclosed last week that malicious hackers broke into its network in late August, making off with customer account information.
The attack was not discovered until October 16.
The compromised data included “name, address, phone numbers, email address and information about the services that we offer to a given account holder”, Web.com said.
“We encrypt credit card numbers and no credit card data was compromised as a result of this incident,” it added.
Customers are being told to change their password next time they log in to their services.
It’s not clear how many registrants were affected. The NetSol accreditation has over seven million domains in the gTLDs alone, while Register.com has almost 1.8 million.
Web.com said it brought on a private security firm to investigate the attack, and informed US law enforcement.
Kevin Murphy, August 20, 2019, Domain Registrars
A California hospital has seen its three-letter .com domain reportedly hijacked and transferred to a registrar in China.
Sonoma Valley Hospital, a 75-bed facility north of San Francisco, was using svh.com as its primary domain until earlier this month, when it abruptly stopped working.
The Sonoma Index-Tribune reports that the domain was “maliciously acquired”, according to a hospital spokesperson.
It does not seem to be a case of a lapsed registration.
Historical Whois records archived by DomainTools show that svh.com, which had been registered with Network Solutions, had over a year left on its registration when it was transferred to BizCN in early August.
BizCN is based in China and has around 711,000 gTLD domains under management, having shrunk by about 300,000 names over the 12 months to April.
The Sonoma newspaper speculates that the domain may have been hijacked via a phishing attack. It’s not clear whether the hospital or NetSol, part of the Web.com group, was the target.
Three-letter .com names are highly prized, usually selling for tens of thousands of dollars.
Domain investors should obviously steer clear of svh.com, which will is probably already up for sale.
Not only is there a possibility of attracting unwelcome legal attention, but there’s also the moral implications of paying somebody who would steal from a hospital.
The hospital in question has now changed its name to sonomavalleyhospital.org. This transition, which includes migrating the email addresses of all of its staff, seems to have taken several days.
Anyone sending personal medical information to the old svh.com email addresses may find that information in the wrong hands.
Operation September Thrust leads to another million-domain Radix gTLD
Kevin Murphy, February 4, 2019, Domain Registries
Radix has become the first new gTLD portfolio registry to hit over one million domains in more than one TLD.
It said today that .site has crossed the seven-digit threshold, joining .online, which hit a million names in 2018.
It’s huge recent growth for .site, which had around 561,000 domains under management at the end of September.
Radix CEO Sandeep Ramchandani told DI today that the rapid uptick comes as a result of a marketing program internally code-named “September Thrust”.
This involved promotional pricing — Ramchandani said the cheapest a .site could have been obtained would be about $0.99 — and joint-marketing efforts with multiple registrars.
This mostly involved plugs on registrar home pages, email shots, and promotion in the “check availability” part of registrar storefronts, he said.
The latest transaction reports filed with ICANN show .site grew by about 120,000 DUM in October, with West.cn, NameCheap and Network Solutions (Web.com) the biggest beneficiaries.
NetSol’s .site DUM actually grew by about 10x in the month.
The $1 retail pricing was apparently available at some registrars prior to September, and continues to exist on storefronts today.
ICANN turns 20 today (or maybe not)
Kevin Murphy, September 18, 2018, Domain Policy
ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday.
If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was “created” on September 18, 1998, 20 years ago today.
But that claim, which has been on Wikipedia since 2003, is unsourced and probably incorrect.
While it’s been repeated elsewhere online for the last 15 years, I’ve been unable to figure out why September 18 has any significance to ICANN’s formation.
I think it’s probably the wrong date.
It seems that September 16, 1998 was the day that IANA’s Jon Postel and Network Solutions jointly published the organization’s original bylaws and articles of incorporation, and first unveiled the name “ICANN”.
That’s according to my former colleague and spiritual predecessor Nick Patience (probably the most obsessive journalist following DNS politics in the pre-ICANN days), writing in now-defunct Computergram International on September 17, 1998.
The Computergram headline, helpfully for the purposes of the post you are reading, is “IANA & NSI PUBLISH PLAN FOR DNS ENTITY: ICANN IS BORN”.
Back then, before the invention of the paragraph and when ALL CAPS HEADLINES were considered acceptable, Computergram was published daily, so Patience undoubtedly wrote the story September 16, the same day the ICANN proposal was published.
A joint Postel/NetSol statement on the proposal was also published September 17.
The organization was not formally incorporated until September 30, which is probably a better candidate date for ICANN’s official birthday, archived records show.
Birthday meriments are expected to commence during ICANN 63, which runs from October 20 to 25. There’s probably free booze in it, for those on-site in Barcelona.
As an aside that amused me, the Computergram article notes that Jones Day lawyer Joe Sims very kindly provided Postel with his services during ICANN’s creation on a “pro bono basis”.
Jones Day has arguably been the biggest beneficiary of ICANN cash over the intervening two decades, billing over $8.7 million in fees in ICANN’s most recently reported tax year alone.
Wix.com obtains ICANN accreditation — bad news for Web.com?
Kevin Murphy, July 26, 2018, Domain Registrars
Web site building tools provider Wix.com has got itself an ICANN accreditation, potentially bad news for current partner Web.com.
The Nasdaq-listed, Israel-based company popped up on the official registrar list in the last day or so with the IANA ID 3817.
That means it could before long start selling gTLD domains directly from the registries rather than going through its current business partner.
According to its domain services agreement and other online sources, Wix currently acts as a reseller for Network Solutions, a Web.com company.
Its retail prices are therefore, as you might expect, rather above the market average, pretty much in line with NetSol’s.
If it does choose to go solo, it could potentially pass on savings to its customers, or just pocket higher margins on domain sales.
While Wix says it has 110 million users, obviously it has sold nowhere near that number of domains.
Its relationship with NetSol is not lucrative enough for Web.com to count the relationship as a risk factor in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings, though Wix is listed as one of just a small handful of competitors.
If Web.com should lose Wix as a reseller, we won’t get to find out what impact that had on revenue; Web.com’s going private in a $2 billion deal.
Disclosure: I’ve had to listen to or skip through repetitive Wix ads on YouTube a dozen times a day for what seems like years, so I’m not naturally predisposed to like this company. Same goes for Grammarly. Grrrr!
Web.com to be acquired for $2 billion
Kevin Murphy, June 26, 2018, Domain Registrars
Web.com is to go private in a deal valued at roughly $2 billion.
The company, which owns pioneering registrars Network Solutions and Register.com as well as SnapNames and half of NameJet, will be bought by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group, a private equity firm.
The cash, $25-a-share deal has been approved by the Web.com board but is still open to higher bids from third parties until August 5.
The offer is a 30% premium over Web.com’s 90-day average price prior to the deal’s announcement.
While Nasdaq-listed Web.com has briefly topped $26 over the last year, you’d have to go back five years to find it consistently over the $25 mark.
Web.com acquires dozens of registrars from Rightside
Kevin Murphy, May 11, 2016, Domain Services
Web.com has acquired dozens of registrars from rival/partner Rightside, seemingly to boost the success rate of its SnapNames domain drop-catching business.
I’ve established that at least 44 registrars once managed by Rightside/eNom have moved to the Web.com stable in recent weeks, and that might not even be the half of it.
All of the registrars in question are shell companies used exclusively to register pre-ordered names as they are deleted by registries, usually Verisign.
The more registrars you have, the more EPP connections you have to the Verisign registry and the better your chance at catching a domain.
Web.com runs SnapNames, and is in a 50-50 partnership with Rightside on rival drop-catcher NameJet.
The two compete primarily with NameBright’s DropCatch.com, which obtained hundreds of fresh ICANN accreditations last year, bringing its total pool to over 750.
Web.com has fewer than 400 accreditations right now. Rightside has even fewer.
It’s usually quicker to buy a registrar than to obtain a new accreditation from ICANN.
If Web.com finds itself in need of more accreditations in order to compete, and Rightside is happy to let them go, it could be possible to infer that SnapNames is doing rather better in terms of customer acquisition than NameJet.
But the two services recently announced a partnership under which names grabbed by either network would be placed in an auction in which customers of either site could participate.
This would have the effect of increasing the number of caught names going to auction due to there being multiple bidders, and thus the eventual sales prices.
Verisign’s silly .xyz lawsuit thrown out
Kevin Murphy, October 28, 2015, Domain Registries
Verisign has had its false advertising lawsuit against the .xyz gTLD registry thrown out of court.
XYZ.com this week won a summary judgement, ahead of a trial that was due to start next Monday.
“By granting XYZ a victory on summary judgement, the court found that XYZ won the case as a matter of law because there were no triable issues for a jury,” the company said in a statement.
The judge’s ruling does not go into details about the court’s rationale. XYZ’s motion to dismiss has also not been published.
So it’s difficult to know for sure exactly why the case has been thrown out.
Verisign sued in December, claiming XYZ and CEO Daniel Negari had lied in advertising and media interviews by saying there are no good .com domain names left.
Many of its claims centered on this video:
XYZ said its ads were merely hyperbolic “puffery” rather than lies.
Verisign also claimed that XYZ had massively inflated its purported registration numbers by making a shady $3 million reciprocal domains-for-advertising deal with Network Solutions.
XYZ general counsel Grant Carpenter said in a statement: “These tactics appear to be part of a coordinated anti-competitive scheme by Verisign to stunt competition and maintain its competitive advantage in the industry.”
While Verisign has lost the case, it could be seen to have succeeded in some respects.
XYZ had to pay legal fees in “the seven-figure range”, as well as disclose hundreds of internal company documents — including emails between Negari and me — during the discovery phase.
Through discovery, Verisign has obtained unprecedented insight into how its newest large competitor conducts its business.
While I’ve always thought the lawsuit was silly, I’m now a little disappointed that more details about the XYZ-NetSol deal are now unlikely to emerge in court.
Did XYZ.com pay NetSol $3m to bloat .xyz?
Kevin Murphy, August 25, 2015, Domain Registries
Evidence of a possibly dodgy deal between XYZ.com and Network Solutions has emerged.
Court documents filed last week by Verisign suggest that the .xyz registry may have purchased $3 million in advertising in exchange for $3 million of .xyz domain names.
Verisign, which is suing .xyz and CEO Daniel Negari over its allegedly “false” advertising, submitted to the court a list of hundreds of exhibits (pdf) that it proposes to use at trial.
Among them are these two:
Email from Negari to Andrew Gorrin re EPP Feed and billing directly for $3,000,000 in domains
Credit Memo to Andrew from Negari “We have elected to pay for our $3MM Q2 advertising insertion order, which was dated May 20th with a credit…….” (5/31/14)
Gorrin is Web.com’s senior VP of marketing and Negari is Daniel Negari, XYZ.com’s CEO.
The documents these headings refer to are not public information, and are not likely to be any time soon, but they appear to refer to on the one hand XYZ billing NetSol for $3 million in domain names and on the other NetSol billing XYZ for $3 million in advertising.
Only one of the two document headings is dated, so we don’t know how closely they coincided.
Other headings, among the 446 documents Verisign wants to use at trial, suggest that they happened at pretty much the same time:
Email from Andrew Gorrin to Ashley Henning (web.com) re Bulk Purchase of .xyz domains (5/29/14)
Email from Andrew Gorrin to Negari re XYZ.Com Advertising IO and Marketing Agreement attaching signed agreements (5/20/14)
Email string Ashley Henning to Christine Nagey, Andrew Gorrin, Edward Angstadt re Bulk Purchase of .XYZ Domains (5/30/14)
The emails Verisign cites were dated May 2014, shortly before .xyz went into general availability June 2.
What we seem to be looking at here — and I’m getting into speculative territory here — are references to two more or less simultaneous transactions, both valued at exactly $3 million, between the two parties.
Both companies have consistently refused to address the nature of their deal, citing NDAs.
As you recall, the vast majority of .xyz’s early registrations were provided by NetSol, which pushed hundreds of thousands of free .xyz domains into its customers’ accounts without their explicit consent.
The number of freebies is believed to be about 350,000, based on comments Negari recently made to The Telegraph, in which he stated that .xyz, which had about 850,000 domains in its zone at the time, would have 500,000 registrations if the freebies were excluded.
With a registry fee roughly equivalent to .com’s (.xyz’s is believed to be a little lower), 350,000 names would work out to roughly $3 million.
Negari has stated previously that every .xyz registration was revenue-generating, even the freebies.
Is it possible that NetSol paid XYZ’s registry fees using money XYZ paid it for advertising? Is it possible no money changed hands at all?
I’m not saying either company has done anything illegal, and it’s completely possible I’m completely misunderstanding the situation, but it does rather put me in mind of the old “round-trip” deals that tech firms used to dishonestly prop up their tumbling revenue at the turn of the century.
Back in 2000, the dot-com bubble was on the verge of popping, taking the US economy with it, and companies facing the decline of their businesses came up with “creative” ways to show investors that they were still growing.
AOL Time Warner, for example, “effectively funded its own online advertising revenue by giving the counterparties the means to pay for advertising that they would not otherwise have purchased”.
Regulators exercised their legal options in these cases only where there appeared to be dishonest accounting, and I’ve seen no evidence to suggest that XYZ or Web.com unit NetSol have failed to adhere to anything but the highest accounting standards.
Again, I’m not saying we’re looking at a “round-trip” deal here, and there’s not a great deal of evidence to go on, but it sure smells familiar.
Certainly, questions have been raised that Verisign did not raise in its initial complaint.
On a personal note, I’d like to disclose that among the documents Verisign demanded from XYZ are dozens of pages of previously confidential emails exchanged between myself and Negari.
I’ve read them, and they’re mostly heated arguments about a) his refusal to give details about the NetSol deal and b) my purported lack of journalistic integrity whenever I published a post about .xyz with an even slightly negative angle.
XYZ had no choice but to supply these emails. I can’t blame it for complying with its legal requirements.
I wasn’t the only affected blogger. Mike Berkens, Konstantinos Zournas, Rick Schwartz and Morgan Linton also had their private correspondence compromised by Verisign.
I don’t know how they feel about this violation, but in my view this shows Verisign’s contempt for the media and its disregard for the sanctity of off-the-record conversations between reporters and their sources.
And that’s what I have to say about that.
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Anthony Bennett Apr 17, 2014 16:28:30 GMT
Post by Ian Noble on Apr 17, 2014 16:28:30 GMT
PF - Anthony Bennett
Drafted: 2013 1st round (4th pick) by the Orlando Magic (2013 Draft)
Joined: February 4th, 2014 from the Orlando Magic (trade thread)
Departure: March 14th, 2016 to the San Antonio Spurs (trade thread)
2013/14 - The Celtics targeted Bennett on draft night with pick #5 but fell short and traded the 5th pick as a result. After Bennett's underperformance in real life however, the Orlando Magic, who picked Bennett at #4, traded him in exchange for proven youngster Alec Burks just a few days before the 2013/14 season tipped off.
Bennett was a solid starter in his rookie season alongside Enes Kanter in Boston's frontcourt.
2014/15 - In the NBA Bennett was traded from Cleveland to Minnesota but his performance remained underwhelming and he was unable to shake the "bust" label hanging over his head. The D5 Celtics however remained optimistic and started Bennett for all 82 games, in a much more prominent role, and Bennett continued to produce at a steady level despite his rating remaining a disappointing 69.
2015/16 - With the arrival of Jabari Parker in Boston, Bennett played in all 46 games off the bench for the Celtics in 2015/16, ending his two season tandem with Enes Kanter in Boston's frontcourt. After an impressive real-life outing with Team Canada in the Summer of 2015 Bennett left the Minnesota Timberwolves after a lack of playing time and signed for the league minimum with the Toronto Raptors. However the Raptors cut Bennett shortly after the real-life All Star Break in another downturn for the young former #1 pick's career. Bennett was traded to D5's San Antonio Spurs on 14th March 2016 in what was at the time the closest voted trade in D5 History.
2016/17 - After a short stint with the Nets in real life Bennett left the NBA and played for Turkish team Fenerbahce before being cut by the team in May 2017, cementing Anthony Bennett's career as by far the worst performing #1 pick in any draft in NBA history! In D5 Bennett sat at the end of the San Antonio Spurs bench all season.
2016/17 - Bennett played out the last year of his rookie contract buried deep within the Spurs bench rotation. The Spurs reached the Playoffs but fell to the 2nd Seed Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round.
Player Statistics:
Last Edit: Aug 12, 2018 15:13:41 GMT by Ian Noble
Anthony Bennett Mar 19, 2016 16:16:51 GMT
Post by Ian Noble on Mar 19, 2016 16:16:51 GMT
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King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud?
Dallas Theological Seminary, a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey, has been in operation since 1924?
amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class?
Facts on topics related to 1924
about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire Syrian infantry brigade and several armored battalions as part of the Battles of the Kinarot Valley (see map) on May 20, 1948?
director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?
in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
the bronze L'Âme de la France (pictured) lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone?
the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
the first postage stamps of Israel (pictured) were issued on May 16, 1948, within 48 hours of the independent republic being proclaimed?
the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7, 1948, when passengers on the B&O Railroad's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series?
when Rollie Free rode his motorcycle to a land speed record in 1948, he was wearing only a Speedo bathing suit, a shower cap, and a pair of borrowed sneakers?
when the eight-mile Texas and Northern Railway began operations in 1948, it was designated a Class I railroad, in the same class as giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad?
motorcyclist Jo Siffert was killed in an end-of-season non-championship F1 race on October 24, 1971 at Brands Hatch?
Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95?
Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?
the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide, the first factory custom motorcycle, used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks?
the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das, who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum?
the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28, 1971, the same day as Workers' Memorial Day?
the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match, because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years?
Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette?
Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began?
during a 90-minute period on January 30, 1996, three commuters fell into the gap at the Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset due to icy platform conditions?
in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?
since the genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published in 1996, the complete genome sequences of over 50 other eukaryotes have been completed?
the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004?
the Adivasi Cobra Force was formed after ethnic conflict between Santal and Bodo erupted in 1996?
the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile, controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet, and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget?
John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other?
soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski?
Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?
C is for Cookie is a song by Joe Raposo, first performed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster on March 28, 1972?
in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India?
the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the murder of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans?
the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR, a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972?
the founders of the Communist League in Denmark, had departed from the Left Socialists in 1972 even though they had been in majority in that party?
former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
in 1978, Governor of Florida Reubin Askew gave the Bee Gees "honorary citizenship" after the success of their single "Night Fever"?
in 1978, the nitrate-base film vaults of both the US National Archives and George Eastman House autoignited?
one of the Sunken Forests of New Hampshire off the coast of Rye, New Hampshire, hasn't been above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since 1978?
the 1978 musical film The Wiz re-tells L. Frank Baum's popular story The Wizard of Oz in an urban setting and with an entirely African-American cast?
the golden age of arcade games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978?
the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978?
1980's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games?
as a result of the Okęcie Airport Incident in 1980, four top players of the Polish national football team were disqualified, and one of them never capped for Poland again?
the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in 1980, leaving several incomplete junctions, one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
the St. James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, was nearly demolished in the 1980s and is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts?
the Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?
the shooting of the government critic Archbishop Óscar Romero on March 24, 1980 was one of the causes of the El Salvador Civil War, in which 75,000 people died?
1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?
Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004?
Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004?
Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004?
Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?
Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix?
an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures?
footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975?
J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975?
in 1975 a freak Typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
the Angolan War of Independence lasted from 1961 until 1989, even though Portugal left Angola in 1975?
the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, launched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?
Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007?
Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
Robert Adley became on December 10, 2007, the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary?
a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3, 2007?
former world chess champion Garry Kasparov helped to organise the Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented (pictured) on 3 March 2007?
in 2007, the John Edwards's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras?
on November 3, 2007, Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football's longest bilateral streak?
the 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet, awarded on July 17, 2007, is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds?
the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007?
the second line of the Valenciennes tram (pictured) will open in 2007, but will reuse the platform of a railway line that opened in 1838?
on March 4, 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
Francis Birtles was an Australian adventurer who set many long distance cycling and driving records including becoming the first man to drive a car from England to Australia in 1927?
as part of a publicity stunt, the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin?
the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?
the BBC coat of arms was adopted in 1927 and uses heraldic symbols to depict the various qualities of broadcasting?
the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay?
NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing in 1922?
Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookstore in left bank Paris, first published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922, but the book was subsequently banned in the United States, United Kingdom and the author's home country Ireland?
a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
between 1922 and 1926, Soviet Russia was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal?
the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch?
the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26, 1922?
the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain?
the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?
Dutch bus-building firm Den Oudsten was founded in 1926 and went out of business in 2002?
from 1926 to 1940, the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day, 1926 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi?
Governor James B. A. Robertson called out the Oklahoma National Guard in order to restore law and order during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921?
the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921?
football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929, but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
Jatin Das, an Indian freedom fighter, died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929?
William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929, it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?
in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes?
the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929, but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place only five times since 1825?
the Alexander Aircraft Company, which produced Eaglerock biplanes in Colorado, was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world for a brief period between 1928 and 1929?
the Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin, known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite tsarinas, was dismantled in 1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School?
Mather Tower, the headquarters building for Mather Stock Car Company built in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, has the smallest floor size of any of Chicago's skyscrapers?
the Northeast Flag Replacement in 1928 ended the Chinese Warlord Era, in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the Nationalist Government's flag, thus nominally reuniting China?
Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics, was a pack-a-day smoker?
in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions?
in addition to 8,000 Scouts, the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
the football game between Offenburger FV and the SC Freiburg on 28 March 1920 lasted for over three hours?
the Slovak National Theatre hosted its first performance, the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana, at its opening on March 1, 1920?
the region of Cieszyn Silesia was in 1920 divided by the Spa Conference between Poland and Czechoslovakia and remains divided to date?
Dolmabahçe Palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1923?
Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own?
the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster?
the first U.S. National Christmas Tree (pictured) was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?
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Home » Health News » High-Fiber Diet May Help Gut ‘Microbiome’ Battle Melanoma
High-Fiber Diet May Help Gut ‘Microbiome’ Battle Melanoma
02/28/2019 mediabest Health News
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 27, 2019 — A healthy diet may trigger a better response to a certain kind of melanoma treatment.
New research suggests that a diet that’s full of fiber appears to lead to more diverse intestinal bacteria (microbiome). In turn, a thriving gut microbiome is linked to a stronger response to an immune therapy for the aggressive skin cancer.
“We found that patients eating a high-fiber diet at the start of therapy were about five times more likely to respond to the anti-PD-1 immunotherapy,” said study author Christine Spencer. She’s a research scientist with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in San Francisco.
Anti-PD-1 immunotherapy helps the immune system recognize cancer cells as dangerous cells that need to be destroyed, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). The cancer drugs Keytruda and Opdivo are examples of this type of immunotherapy.
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. It only accounts for about 1 percent of all skin cancers, but is responsible for most skin cancer deaths, the ACS says.
Several recent studies have suggested that a healthy and diverse gut microbiome might improve the response to melanoma immunotherapy treatments, the researchers said. What wasn’t known was how certain diets might improve the microbiome and boost the response to melanoma treatment.
To see what difference diet might make, the researchers collected fecal samples from more than 100 people being treated for melanoma at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston. With these samples, the researchers could learn what types of bacteria people had in their gut microbiome, as well as how diverse the bacteria in the microbiome were.
The investigators then compared these findings to a previously completed diet/supplement survey to see what type of diet was linked to a more robust gut microbiome.
The findings showed that a high-fiber diet — one full of vegetables, fruits and whole grains — was associated with the types of bacteria that had already been linked to a better response to anti-PD-1 therapy.
The researchers also noted that about 40 percent of the people in the study were taking a probiotic supplement. Probiotics contain live bacteria believed to be helpful to maintaining the balance of the microbiome. However, the researchers found that probiotic use was actually linked to lower diversity of the gut microbiome.
And, a lower diversity of the microbiome has been linked to a poorer response to melanoma immunotherapy, the researchers noted.
The study team also looked at a group of almost 50 patients who had complete information on diet and gut microbiome, and found that those on a high-fiber diet were about five times more likely to respond to anti-PD-1 treatment than people eating a low-fiber diet.
Dr. Marcel van den Brink, head of the division of hematologic malignancies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, said, “This study found a high-fiber diet would lead to better diversity in the gut flora, and greater diversity gave you better outcomes,” at least for anti-PD-1 immunotherapy.
“In clinical medicine, we do a great job of monitoring a lot of parameters. But when it comes to monitoring what people eat and effects of diet, we’re doing a lousy job,” he added.
“Patients and family members ask about diet, and we say, ‘Just eat healthy,’ and we don’t have much more specific guidelines,” van den Brink explained.
“So, these types of studies are intriguing. Diet may work in a collaborative way with immune therapy. But, we’re not there yet. This was a small study. The research is early,” he noted.
Still, van den Brink said that he suspected — from this study and others, including his own research on the microbiome in blood cancers — that the gut microbiome likely influences the immune system throughout the body, and he thinks the microbiome “will be relevant for most, if not all, immune therapies in cancer.”
Spencer said hers was the first study on diet and melanoma immunotherapy. She agreed more research is needed before doctors can make specific recommendations on diet.
The findings were scheduled for presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, in Atlanta, March 29 to April 3. Research presented at meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Learn more about melanoma from the American Cancer Society.
Posted: February 2019
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New EC Horizon 2020 project “SWEET” investigates the implications of greater use of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers to replace sugar in the European diet.
Professor Richard Murphy of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) at the University of Surrey has provided us with information on this EC-funded project which began in the autumn of 2018. Richard leads the Sustainability assessment workpackage of SWEET which is using an innovative Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) approach to evaluating the ‘sustainability footprint’ of selected sweeteners and sweetness enhancers (S&SEs) in example food products. The sustainability footprint includes the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability and is calculated on a ‘whole life cycle’ basis that includes all stages in the supply and use of S&SEs from purification and manufacture of the ingredients (including agriculture) through to formulation, use in food product(s) and all energy, transport, wastes etc that occurs across the entire spectrum of production, supply and use. Once evaluated, these sustainability footprints will be compared with those for conventional sugars (from sugar cane and sugar beet) so that we can reach a clear, evidence-based, evaluation of the sustainability potential of using S&SEs for sugar replacement in European diets. Because of the integrated and comprehensive research being undertaken in SWEET, a unique opportunity in the sustainability assessment is its ability to include modelling of the potential health benefits of lower sugar diets (e.g. on obesity, diabetes) into the overall project assessment.
SWEET is a new study, led by researchers from the Universities of Liverpool and Copenhagen, to identify the risks and benefits of sugar replacements in European diets. SWEET, a European Commission Horizon 2020 funded project, is supported by a consortium of 29 pan-European research, consumer and industry partners, who will develop and review evidence on the long term benefits and potential risks involved in switching over to S&SEs in the context of public health and safety, obesity, and sustainability.
The five year multidisciplinary project engages stakeholders from across the food chain — consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators — to address the role of sweeteners in weight control, and potentially move viable products to market. Stakeholders, including consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators will be engaged in the project.
As part of the five year project, a two-year randomised controlled trial, involving recruitment of 660 adults and children with overweight or obesity from four European countries (Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain), will be conducted. Trial participants will undertake a two-month weight loss diet. During this period, they will be randomised to one of two treatment types. Both groups will receive dietary advice on existing recommendation to reduce consumption of added sugars by 10%. However, one group will be allowed to consume food and drink with sweeteners, whereas the other group will not.
Jo Harrold, Project co-ordinator from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Psychological Sciences, said:
Obesity has emerged as a major health issue across Europe and around the world. An investigation of the effects of sugar replacements on appetite and food choice on this scale has never been undertaken. Our study will adopt a multidisciplinary approach to examining the impact of prolonged sugar replacement on weight control, appetite and energy intake. Understanding the effectiveness of alternative sweeteners will help shape best practice in the future when it comes to weight management.
For further information about the SWEET study
Please visit the website https://sweetproject.eu/ or contact SWEET Principle Investigators: Dr Jo Harrold harrold@liverpool.ac.uk, Professor Jason Halford J.C.G.Halford@liverpool.ac.uk, Professor Anne Raben – ara@nexs.ku.dk.
If you have a particular interest in the sustainability assessment in SWEET please do contact Professor Richard Murphy – rj.murphy@surrey.ac.uk
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1Now when they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2And according to Paul's custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ." 4And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women.
NOTE Paul's custom was to "go to church" (synagogue). He doesn't criticize it, yet goes to look for the God-fearing who might be attracted to JESUS PLUS NOTHING, for those whose hearts are leaning in and are attracted to Jesus as God's Messiah. And the Jewish leadership stirred up the people and threw them out of the city! Then, there is an interesting comparison here. Look at verse 10.
10The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Thessalonica and Berea. Each had a synagogue where Paul and Silas went in to speak. In Thessalonica "some were persuaded and a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and leading women." But Luke goes on to say that in Berea they found the people more noble-minded than in Thessalonica, real eager students of the word, testing out all that was said. What's most interesting to me is the apparent "noble-minded" reception of the Gospel by the Bereans didn't prove to be nearly the impact that it was to the Thessalonians. After only 3 Sabbaths the believers at Thessalonica really "got it." Once they received the Gospel, they spread the message of the Good News throughout most all of Asia Minor. The Bereans church didn't experience such impact! YOU CAN'T JUDGE WHAT WILL COME FROM PEOPLE'S INITIAL RESPONSE TO JESUS. REAL FRUIT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO GROW.
16Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols. 17So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present. 18And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? 20"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean." 21(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
While Paul is waiting in Athens, he has a divine appointment. This is the first totally non-synagogued (non-churched) audience he has spoken to and therefore handles his message of Jesus differently.
22So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. 23"For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD ' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.'
29"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. 30"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead." 32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, "We shall hear you again concerning this." 33So Paul went out of their midst. 34But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
NOTE that Paul is speaking to an non-synagogued group of people who were not familiar with the Scriptures. So he does the following:
FIRST-Paul affirms their religious zeal as he observes all of the idols of worship. How many ministers would berate the idols and criticize their worship?
SECOND-Paul picks up on an inscription on one of the altars to an unknown God and uses this as a stepping-stone for his message.
THIRD-He appeals to their common-sense belief that there is a HIGHER POWER Who has created everything gives us life and breath.
FOURTH-He doesn't quote Scripture, but quotes one of their famous poets. This is because his audience wouldn't have been familiar with the Scripture. Since all truth is God's truth, then even truth from a local poet can move a person's heart toward God.
FIFTH-He doesn't mention Jesus' name, but only speaks of this one Man whom God appointed to die and be resurrected.
And, some joined up with him and believed. Others decided to hear more later.
Christians spend too much time talking to themselves like "preaching to the choir". Paul is demonstrating how to relate to a non-churched audience and he does it without all the "normal" things we think might be important to say. When we use Christianese and do not relate to our world, our world cannot relate to our God. We just keep talking to ourselves!
Instead of judging the world and talking to ourselves, we must be about judging ourselves and talking to the world!
Five years ago Paul was in these cities and now he returns to find them vibrant and growing. That must have been an encouraging experience for him to see the fruit of his labor. Then he found a special disciple: 1Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra and a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek, 2and he was well spoken of by the brethren who were in Lystra and Iconium. 3Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 5So the churches were being strengthened in the faith and were increasing in number daily.
Because Paul perceived Timothy to be so special, he believed he could be very effective coming alongside Paul to reach the same people was to reach. Therefore, he required Timothy, as an adult, to be circumcised. What an amazing act of devotion on Timothy's part, yet probably no one was shocked at this, knowing how faithful and outstanding Timothy had proven to be.
12and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia, a Roman colony; and we were staying in this city for some days. 13And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.
In Philippi there was no synagogue for Paul and Timothy to orbit around. But where the Jews were unable to have a synagogue they had a place of prayer and these places of prayer were usually by the riverside. On the Sabbath Paul and his friends took their way there and talked with the women who met in that place. They met a special lady that day, Lydia.
14A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul. 15And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
The extraordinary thing about Paul's work in Philippi is the amazing cross-section of the population that was won over to Christ. Lydia came from the very top end of the social scale; she was a purple merchant. The purple dye had to be gathered drop by drop from a certain shell-fish and was so costly that to dye a pound of wool with it would be the equivalent of a small fortune. Lydia, wealthy woman and merchant prince that she was, was attracted to Jesus.
NOTE her immediate reaction was to offer the hospitality of her house to Paul and his friends. When Paul is describing her character he says that the believer should be "given to hospitality". There is no better place to show hospitality than in someone's home. In the fellowship of Jesus, your home is an open door!
22The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods. 23When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely; 24and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; 26and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened. 27When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!" 29And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas, 30and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
You just can't give up, no matter how tough your situation is. The Lord is very capable of coming through on your behalf. Don't give up on Him, no matter how dark it seems to be! The response from the jailor was incredible! He had been LISTENING in on Paul and Silas as they sang and prayed, then when the supernatural happenings took place, he instantly asked, "What must I do to be saved?"
31They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." 32And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. 33And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. 34And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.
After the prison scene was over, 40They went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia, and when they saw the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.
NOTE 4 things in this chapter. 1. People came to faith after listening to the Good News-Lydia at the place of prayer and the jailor overheard Paul and Silas singing and praying. All that is required is that you be interested!
2. Both Lydia and the jailor, once they entered into a genuine faith relationship with Jesus, turned on the hospitality. Lydia invited them to stay with her. The jailor took them home to clean up their wounds.
3. The entire households of Lydia and the Philippian jailor also came to faith in Jesus. Your influence is very clear and God has brought many around you who will come to Jesus. All for just hanging around these people.
4. Their hospitality focused around their homes. This is what we've lost in many circles-THE HOME. It's the home where people are most comfortable and feel very safe.
Two questions come to mind: FIRST-Are you listening with your heart? Are you leaning in to learn more about Jesus?
SECOND-Are you willing to use your home to make people feel more comfortable and safe?
The JESUS MOVEMENT of the 21st Century is happening outside the local, organized church. This movement is the largest, fastest growing movement in our world today. My philosophy of life is to find out where the Lord is moving and go there immediately to be with Him and His people!
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HR crops
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Open letter – no to new GM crop approvals in the EU
An open letter to the European Commission, calling on them to reject a number of pending applications for genetically engineered plants to be cultivated in the EU.
Open letter - why the next European Commission must implement its GMO law
Together with a coalition of civil society groups, we are calling on the next European Commission to make sure that it actively implements the legal requirement that the new generation of 'GMO 2.0' genetic engineering techniques are subject to the existing legislation on genetically modified organisms.
GMO 2.0: what's happened since the ECJ ruling?
Three months after a landmark ruling from the European Court of Justice which confirmed that new 'GMO 2.0' should be covered by the same safety, traceability and labeling rules as existing GMOs in the EU, we take a look at the state of play. While the EU's top court confirmed the legal status of these new techniques, the European Commission and national governments are showing a worrying lack of action to implement the ruling.
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2019 Hyundai Mercury Prize “I’m fully expecting there to be a bit of fisticuffs” - Gaz Coombes talks judging the 2019 Hyundai Mercury Prize
After being shortlisted himself with Supergrass, Gaz tells us what it’s like to be on the other side.
Photos: Patrick Gunning
After being shortlisted with Supergrass’ debut record ‘I Should Coco’ back in 1995, former frontman Gaz Coombes is now stepping across to the other side as a judge for this year’s Hyundai Mercury Prize, joining fellow new judges and former-nominees Stormzy and Jorja Smith. “It’s been a really interesting process!” He told us at this morning’s event. “Quite enlightening and exciting!”
With an incredible shortlist including IDLES, The 1975, and slowthai, it’s going to be a difficult decision that we definitely don’t envy having to make. “There’s been a few disagreements,” Gaz said about the judges’ deliberations so far. Any big bust-ups? “Not yet! I’m fully expecting there to be a bit of fisticuffs when we get to the final night and have to get to that one! But no, it’s been very amicable.”
Talking about the selection process, he tells us it’s been very “pure”. “We’re all talking about what we feel when we listen to those records and what we get from them,” he explains. “But not only that, we’re looking at the whole year that these artists have had.”
Who’s his money on for the £25k prize though? “I don’t know if I can say really!” He laughs. “I think there’s a few favourites but I’ll leave that to the imagination… But they’re all so great!”
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Gotham Book Mart.
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Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. papers
Extent: 15.22 linear feet (38 boxes, 7 oversize folders)
Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr., was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy during World War II, who went on to serve as the Secretary of the Navy (1957-1959), Secretary of Defense (1959-1961), and Ambassador to China (1976-1977). As a civilian he also pursued a career in investment banking at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (later J.P. Morgan & Co.). Gates’ personal papers focus largely on his government service, with a small amount of additional personal items. Included are many military and government documents and correspondence with influential politicians--perhaps most notably with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, under who Gates served as both Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of Defense. The collection also includes many clippings and photographs that have been assembled into a remarkable collection of scrapbooks that bring Gates’ service to life.
15.22 linear feet (38 boxes, 7 oversize folders)
1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Gates, Thomas S. Gates, Thomas Sovereign, Sr., 1873-1948 United States. Department of Defense. United States. Department of the Navy. United States. Navy.
Awards Clippings (information artifacts) Correspondence Interviews Medals Memorabilia Memorandums Military records Photograph albums Photographs Scrapbooks Speeches
Sophia Wittenberg Mumford papers
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg, 1899-1997
Extent: 23.22 linear feet (48 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
The Sophia Wittenberg Mumford papers contain, correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, memorabilia, audio-visual material, financial and legal material documenting the private and public life of Sophia and her husband Lewis Mumford. A large majority of this collection is remnants of Lewis Mumford's papers that remained in their house upon his death in 1990 and were finally transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after her death in 1997.
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg, 1899-1997
PUSp.Ms. Coll. 958
23.22 linear feet (48 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 Mumford, Sophia Wittenberg, 1899-1997 Morss, Alison Mumford, 1935-1993 Mumford, Geddes, 1925-1944
Audiovisual materials Correspondence Diaries Estate records Family papers Financial records Glass plate negatives Ledgers (account books) Manuscripts, American--20th century Memorabilia Photograph albums Photographic postcards Photographs Picture postcards Research notes Typescripts Writings (documents)
Mark J. Dresden papers
Extent: 2.4 linear feet (3 boxes and 2 oversize folders)
Mark Jan Dresden (1911-1986) was a Dutch-American Iranist who studied Indology. He taught Persian and Old and Middle Iranian Languages at the University of Pennsylvania from 1949 until his retirement in 1977. Dresden’s work on Khotanese, Persian and Iranian languages and texts is widely published. This collection, dating from 1930 to 1994 contains correspondence, ephemera, event files, lectures, financial documents, funding and grants files, project files, research and writing, and personal documents.
2.4 linear feet (3 boxes and 2 oversize folders)
Dresden, Mark J. University of Pennsylvania. Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Correspondence Financial records Memorabilia Photograph albums Research notes Writings (documents)
Leopold Stokowski papers
Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977
Extent: 47 boxes (+ 1 map drawer)
Some personal papers of Leopold Stokowski, including correspondence to and from Stokowski, notebooks, calendars, bank statements, royalty statements, insturance records, and contracts; this includes some correspondence and contracts related to Stokowski’s tenure as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra (bulk 1937-1946). Also includes writings by and about Stokowski, obituaries, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, awards, memorabilia, and issues of three newsletters devoted to Stokowski. Also includes administrative correspondence of the former curator of the Leopold Stokowski Collection at the Curtis Institute of Music, Dr. Edwin E. Heilakka, 1980-1994.
47 boxes (+ 1 map drawer)
Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 Curtis Institute of Music.
Contracts Correspondence Memorabilia Photograph albums Photographs Scrapbooks Writings (document genre)
Gotham Book Mart records
Extent: 79 linear feet (95 boxes)
The Gotham Book Mart (1920-2006) was one of New York City’s most iconic bookstores during the 20th century. Founded by Frances Steloff (1887-1989), the daughter of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants, the Book Mart became a social center for the New York literati and a focal point for literary modernism in the United States. Steloff’s successor, independent literary manuscript dealer Andreas Brown (1933-), maintained the store’s focus on avant garde and small press publications while incorporating his own interests in postcards and genealogy. This collection contains 91 boxes of material relating to the daily operation of the Book Mart; correspondence, biographical, and legal material from both Brown and Steloff; postcard and genealogical material collected by Brown; photographs of the store, its employees, and events which took place there; and manuscripts and ephemera offered for sale.
79 linear feet (95 boxes)
1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Gotham Book Mart. Black Sparrow Press. Brown, Andreas Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 Steloff, Frances, 1887-1989 Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Audiovisual materials Book catalogs Broadsides (notices) Business records Cabinet photographs Correspondence Genealogies (histories) Legal documents Manuscripts (documents) Memorabilia Photograph albums Photographic postcards Photographs Postcards Sales records Scrapbooks
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George's Outdoor News
If you love Maine’s outdoors then I have a lot to tell you
Maine Woods
An extraordinary and unforgettable story about Liberia and West Africa
December 8, 2019 Book Reviews, History
By George Smith
When I saw the title of Captain Hank Bracker’s book, The History of Liberia & West Africa, I did not think it would be of much interest to me. I could not have been more wrong.
Bracker is a graduate of Maine Maritime Academy and has had some very interesting experiences and jobs. In the 1950s he navigated the rivers and sailed the coast of West Africa as the captain of a Farrell Lines coastal ship and worked as a harbor pilot for the Port of Monrovia. And he notes, “Although it seems like a lifetime ago that I left Liberia, my interest in the country has continued.” He also reports that he “watched in dismay as the country which showed so much promise went downhill, both politically and economically.”
Since Bracker was there, the country has suffered through two civil wars and an Ebola epidemic.
The book begins with our country’s extradition on hundreds of slaves to Liberia and West Africa. Throughout the centuries there has been murder, mayhem, horrible tragedies, and terrible suffering therre. I found it all to be both extraordinary and very troubling.
Occasionally our country intervened to stop the chaos, with limited success. It seems ironic that the country’s slogan is “The love of liberty brought us here.”
This book has won two history awards, and will be one that I never forget.
About George Smith
George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants. View all posts by George Smith →
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George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.
Convincing two pigs to move to Maine
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Fly Fishing Podcasts
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Top 11 Acadia National Park events that defined the decade
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From the National Statutes:
Article 22. Regional Fraternity Council
1. “The Regional Fraternity Council is composed of the Ministers of the Local Fraternities that together form the Regional Fraternity, the Regional Executive Council, and the Regional Spiritual Assistant or the Conference of Regional Spiritual Assistants, each of whom may vote. Regional Spiritual Assistants, however, do not vote in financial matters and in elective chapters [cf. Statutes for Spiritual Assistance, article #12.1].
2. The Regional Fraternity Council is the representative body of all of the Local Fraternities that together compose the Regional Fraternity, and has the power to create regional guidelines in conformity with the Rule, the General Constitutions and the National Statutes.
3. The Regional Fraternity Council shall meet at least once a year. Every third year the Regional Fraternity Council shall meet in elective chapter in accord with the General Constitutions and these National Statutes.
4. The Regional Fraternity Council has the duties set forth in article #62 of the General Constitutions.
(See SFO Constitutions below)
Article 23. Regional Executive Council
1. Between the meetings of the Regional Fraternity Council, an elected Regional Executive Council shall carry on the business and carry out the purposes of the Regional Fraternity in a spirit of ministry and service [cf. General Constitutions, article #62.1 below].
2. The Regional Executive Council is composed of the Regional Minister, the Regional Vice Minister, the Regional Secretary, the Regional Treasurer, at least one elected Councilor, and the Regional Spiritual Assistant or the President of the Conference of Regional Spiritual Assistants. In addition, the Regional Formation Director may also be elected. In those regions in which the Regional Formation Director is appointed rather than elected, she or he attends the meetings of the Regional Executive Council and exercises a consultative role.
3. All elected members of the Regional Executive Council and the Spiritual Assistant have voting rights.
4. Election of the Secular members of the Regional Executive Council shall follow the model set forth in Section II of these National Statutes which deals with the National Fraternity insofar as it may be adapted to the needs and circumstances of the Regional Fraternity.
5. The Regional Executive Council may establish and direct commissions and committees deemed necessary to achieve the goals and objectives determined by the Regional Fraternity Council.
6. When not in session, the Regional Executive Council may conduct business electronically (i.e., via e-mail, telephone, fax, etc.), provided that any decisions and determinations made in this way are reviewed and ratified at the next regular meeting of the Council.
7. The Regional Executive Council shall meet at least twice a year, at times and places to be determined by its members. The Regional Minister shall give written notice of meetings at least two months in advance.
From the SFO General Constitutions: Article 62
1. The regional council is constituted according to the provisions of the national statutes and of its own regional statutes. At the heart of the regional council there can be set up an executive council (or board) whose duties are determined by those same statutes.
2. The regional council has the following duties:
a. to prepare the celebration of the elective chapter;
b. to promote, animate, and co-ordinate the life and activities of the SFO and its insertion into the local Church within the regional area;
c. to detail the action plan of the SFO within the region according to the directives of the national council and in collaboration with it and to publicize that program to the local fraternities;
d. to communicate the directives of the national council and of the local Church to the local fraternities;
e. to provide for the formation of those responsible for animation;
f. to offer to local fraternities activities which support their formative and operative needs;
g. to discuss and approve the annual report to the national council;
h. to schedule, when circumstances recommend so, the fraternal visit to the local fraternities, even if it is not requested;
i. to make decisions regarding the use of available funds and, in general, to deliberate on matters regarding the financial management and the economic affairs of the regional fraternity;
j. to have, before its term of office is finished, the regional fraternity’s financial and real estate situation audited either by an expert who is not a member of the council or by the fraternity’s board of examiners;
k. to perform such other duties as are indicated by the Constitutions or necessary to achieve its own aims.
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The social shaping of technology
MacKenzie, Donald and Wajcman, Judy, eds. (1999) The social shaping of technology. Open University Press, Buckingham, UK. ISBN 9780335199136
Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. General arguments are introduced about the relation of technology to society and different types of technology are examined: the technology of production; domestic and reproductive technology; and military technology. The book draws on authors from Karl Marx to Cynthia Cockburn to show that production technology is shaped by social relations in the workplace. It moves on to the technologies of the household and biological reproduction, which are topics that male-dominated social science has tended to ignore or trivialise - though these are actually of crucial significance where powerful shaping factors are at work, normally unnoticed. The final section asks what shapes the most frightening technology of all - the technology of weaponry, especially nuclear weapons. The editors argue that social scientists have devoted disproportionate attention to the effects of technology on society, and tended to ignore the more fundamental question of what shapes technology in the first place. They have drawn both on established work in the history and sociology of technology and on newer feminist perspectives to show just how important and fruitful it is to try to answer that deeper question. The first edition of this reader, published in 1985, had a considerable influence on thinking about the relationship between technology and society. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to take into account new research and the emergence of new theoretical perspectives.
http://mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/
© 1999 Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Departments > Sociology
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/28638
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I’m an expert? Hahahaha… oh wait…
October 15, 2012 JezUncategorized
For reasons unknown to me, I was quoted in The Herald the other week: Beyond the horizon: The future isn’t what it used to be
“Dr Jez Weston, an expert on the interaction between environmental science and society, reckons it will be possible for us to radically change our way of life to meet environmental challenges; the question is whether we will be prepared to.
“The choices we make for ourselves are about energy, infrastructure, immigration, and vulnerability to the climate and to the rest of the world,” he says. “Those are all choices and I expect we’ll choose to muddle along.”
More use of renewable energy will mean cheaper electricity, but the price of oil will continue to climb. “I’m not someone who believes that we’ll suddenly run out,” says Weston. “There’s plenty of unconventional oil, vast amounts of gas and coal that can be turned into petrol and diesel. Instead, it’ll just be more expensive and increasingly loaded with carbon taxes.”
Weston predicts that extreme weather events will become frequent and sometimes “frightening”. But greater expertise in pest eradication could save some threatened species and advances in DNA science could even see extinct creatures such as the moa and the huia brought back to life.”
So yeah, that’s a journalist’s summary of what I said. To focus those comments in on what I mostly care about, namely how we as a global society are choosing to deal with climate change, I’d say we have the technology to drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and reduce our overall footprint. If we don’t, then there we’re likely to be looking at climate change that will be bearable for developed countries and hard to bear for undeveloped countries. We’ll also be facing a small chance of really harsh climate change, with major increases in average temperature, drastic increases in peak temperatures and a possibly unbearable increase in droughts, floods, and overheating in many nations. What “small” means, we’re still arguing about, but we’re looking at maybe a 2%, maybe a 5% chance of enough warming to put civilisation at risk. That’s the risk face by not really doing very much about reducing emissions. And we’re choosing to accept that risk.
I’m not terribly happy about that, but that’s what I mean by “choosing to muddle along”.
Anyway, in other news, our Ministry of Social Development have not been choosing to muddle along. They’ve been screwing it up, with a security breach that let’s anyone walk in off the street and use publicly-accessible terminals to access far too much of the information that they hold on every beneficiary in NZ. Fraud claims, names and locations abused kids, what medication those kids where on. Ffs, IT security fuckups don’t get much worse than that.
This was exposed by Keith Ng, an independent journalist. Right now, there are no good business models for good journalism. Newspapers are dead and TV news isn’t much better. Strong, honest, and uncorrupt nations require strong, honest, and uncorrupt journalism. That requires someone to pay journalists to do the right thing. That someone is you. Give Keith money. I have.
Feel the burn!
October 4, 2012 JezUncategorized
Following on from Tatjna and Alphamatrix, here’s that pic as requested:
RAAA!
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Frémont, John Charles
John Charles Frémont
Nyack, NY
Charles Frémon (father), Anne Beverly Whiting (mother), Jesse Benton (wife), Thomas Hart Benton (father-in-law)
Other Education:
Charleston College, SC
Other Occupation:
Relation to Slavery:
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties:
Van Buren Administration (1837-41)
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
John Charles Fremont (Congressional Biographical Directory)
FRÉMONT, John Charles, (son-in-law of Thomas Hart Benton), a Senator from California; born in Savannah, Ga., January 21, 1813; pursued classical studies and attended Charleston College 1828-1830; instructor in mathematics in the United States Navy 1833-1835; civil engineer assistant 1838-1839, exploring the territory between the Missouri River and the northern boundary of the United States; appointed second lieutenant of Topographical Engineers of the United States Army 1838; commenced in 1842 explorations and surveys for an overland route from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; major of a battalion of California Volunteers in 1846; appointed lieutenant colonel of United States Mounted Rifles in 1846 and ordered to act as Governor of California by Commodore Stockton; General Kearny, United States Army, revoked this order and placed him under arrest for mutiny; tried by court martial, found guilty, and pardoned by President James Polk, but resigned; settled in California on the Mariposa grant; commissioner to run the boundary line between United States and Mexico in 1849; upon the admission of California as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from September 10, 1850, to March 3, 1851; unsuccessful as the first Republican candidate for president of the United States in 1856; appointed major general in the United States Army by President Abraham Lincoln in May 1861 and placed in command of the western military district; removed in December 1861; appointed to command the mountain department in February 1862 and resigned in June 1864; again nominated for president in 1864; Governor of Arizona Territory 1878-1881; appointed a major general in the United States Army on the retired list 1890; died in New York City on July 13, 1890; interment in Trinity Church Cemetery; reinterment in Rockland Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y., March 17, 1891.
“Fremont, John Charles,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000374.
John Charles Frémont, Mexican War (American National Biography)
When confirmed reports of war with Mexico reached the Pacific, the U.S. Navy seized California ports. Commodore Robert F. Stockton named Frémont commander of the California Battalion, which helped to occupy the province. In the winter of 1846-1847, during a revolt centered in Los Angeles, Frémont became entangled in a quarrel between Stockton and late-arriving General Stephen Watts Kearny of the army, both of whom claimed supreme authority in California. When Frémont, an army officer, rashly sided with Stockton, who had named him governor, Kearny marched him east in disgrace to face a court-martial. Despite widespread public support and Benton's personal defense of him during the long, rancorous trial, Frémont was found guilty and dismissed from the army. Although President Polk reinstated him for "meritorious and valuable services," Frémont bitterly resigned.
Pamela Herr, "Frémont, John Charles," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00252.html.
John Charles Frémont, Election of 1856 (American National Biography)
Frémont reentered politics in 1856. With crucial early support from Nathaniel Banks and Francis Blair, Sr. (1791-1876), he became the first presidential candidate of the newly formed Republican party on a platform opposing the extension of slavery. Chosen more for his heroic image than his political skills, he nonetheless inspired great enthusiasm in the North, while in the South he was branded a "Frenchman's bastard" and, incorrectly, a secret Roman Catholic. Although Frémont gained the majority of northern votes, he was defeated nationwide by the Democratic candidate, James Buchanan (1.8 to 1.34 million, with an electoral vote of 174 to 114). Despite the loss, his candidacy established the Republican party's dominance in the North and set the stage for Abraham Lincoln's victory in 1860.
06/17/1856 06/17/1856 The Republican Party convention opens in Philadelphia
08/30/1861 08/30/1861 General John C. Fremont declares martial law in Missouri and orders emancipation of slaves in the state
09/11/1861 09/11/1861 President Lincoln orders General John C. Fremont to modify his emancipation mandate in Missouri
09/27/1861 09/27/1861 General Frémont consolidates his forces and moves against the Confederate invasion of Missouri with five divisions
10/25/1861 10/25/1861 In Missouri, Union cavalry disperses Missouri Confederates outside Springfield with a spirited charge
11/02/1861 11/02/1861 In Missouri, Major General John C. Frémont resigns as head of the Western Department of the Army
07/01/1863 07/01/1863 The War Department decides that Generals Fremont and McClellan outrank General Benjamin Butler
09/21/1864 09/21/1864 John C. Frémont withdraws from the presidential election, healing a dangerous split in the Republican vote
Author Docs
11/02/1861 Gen. Frémont's farewell address to the Western Department Army, Springfield, Missouri, November 2, 1861
08/30/1861 Gen. John Fremont, Declaration of Martial Law in Missouri, August 30, 1861
07/30/1861 John C. Fremont to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1861
09/21/1864 John C. Frémont, Letter announcing his withdrawal from the Presidential Election, September 21, 1864
Subject Docs
06/07/1856 Abraham Lincoln to Lyman Trumbull, June 7, 1856
07/26/1856 New York Herald, "Our Boston Correspondance," July 26, 1856
09/08/1856 Abraham Lincoln, Form Letter to Fillmore men, September 8, 1856
10/13/1856 Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “N. C. University,” October 13, 1856
12/30/1856 New York Times, “The Slave Troubles,” December 30, 1856
01/01/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, "Black Republicanism in Missouri," January 1, 1857
04/17/1857 New York Times, “Advertising Patronage and the ‘Irish’ Weekly Newspapers,” April 17, 1857
07/11/1857 New York Times, “Where is the South?,” July 11, 1857
10/15/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, "The Union," October 15, 1857
10/22/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, “Collapse of Abolitionists,” October 22, 1857
10/22/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, “Virginia and the South,” October 22, 1857
02/26/1858 New York Herald, "Political Agitation in this Metropolis," Febraury 26, 1858
07/14/1858 New York Times, "Presidential Candidates," July 14, 1858
08/03/1858 Thomas J. Pickett to Abraham Lincoln, August 3, 1858
08/13/1858 New York Herald, “The Illinois Campaign,” August 13, 1858
09/22/1858 Lowell (MA) Journal and Courier, "The Senatorial Canvass in Illinois," September 22, 1858
01/17/1859 New York Herald, “The Present Congress and the Next President,” January 17, 1859
07/29/1859 New York Times, “The Slavery Question,” July 29, 1859
10/09/1859 Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Fremont’s Position,” October 9, 1859
10/25/1859 Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Dissolution of the Union," October 25, 1859
03/26/1860 Henry Fitzhugh to Robert Hunter, March 26, 1860
05/25/1860 Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune,“The Fillmore Men,” May 25, 1860
06/05/1860 Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “Can Locofocos Explain It?,” June 5, 1860
06/12/1860 Richard W. Thompson to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1860
07/11/1860 John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, July 11, 1860
10/04/1860 Ripley (OH) Bee, "The Disunion Slave Code Candidate," October 4, 1860
11/14/1860 Charles Billinghurst to Abraham Lincoln, November 14, 1860
08/20/1861 Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Secession Organs in the North,” August 20, 1861
09/16/1861 Timothy Davis to William H. Seward, September 16, 1861
09/21/1861 Chicago (IL) Tribune, “How They Do It,” September 21, 1861
09/22/1861 Abraham Lincoln to Orville Hickman Browning, September 22, 1861
03/24/1862 Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, March 24, 1862, New York City
07/19/1862 New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "New Publications," July 19, 1862
08/09/1862 New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Speech of Rev. M.D. Conway," August 9, 1862
05/26/1863 Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Newton Arnold, May 26, 1863
04/04/1864 Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864
Addressee Docs
09/02/1861 Abraham Lincoln to John Frémont, September 2, 1861
John Charles Fremont
John Charles Fremont, detail
John Charles Fremont, bust view, detail
John Charles Frémont, Buttre engraving
Election of 1856 Republican Banner
"Well, Master Fremont, that's rather a long reach, ain't it?" cartoon, October 26, 1861
Chicago Style Entry
Levin, Lewis C. The Union Safe!: The Contest Between Fillmore and Buchanan!: Fremont Crushed!. New York, 1856.
Chaffin, Tom. Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.
Goodwin, Cardinal Leonidas. John Charles Frémont, an Explanation of His Career. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1930.
Volpe, Vernon L. “The Frémonts and Emancipation in Missouri.” Historian 56 (Winter 1994): 339-354.
Roberts, David. A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Hawgood, John A. “John C. Frémont and the Bear Flag Revolution: A Reappraisal.” Southern California Quarterly 44 (June 1962): 67-96.
Facts for the People, No. 1: The Conspiracy of Fillmore Leaders to Elect Buchanan, by Inducing Honest Men to Throw Away Upon Mr. Fillmore Votes Which Would Otherwise Be Cast Against Slavery Extension and for John C. Fremont. New York: H. F. Snowden, 1856.
Stenberg, Richard R. "Polk and Fremont, 1845-1846." Pacific Historical Review 7, no. 3 (1938): 211-227.
Tinelli, L. W. Fremont, Buchanan and Fillmore; or, The Parties Called to Order. New York: Livermore & Rudd, 1856.
How to Cite This Page: "Frémont, John Charles," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12000.
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Act I, Scene I:
In I,1 the two characters are introduced to the audience. We understand that Frank is not happy with his life, his wife and his job (Open University). He also seems to have developed a drinking habit. Nonetheless, Frank is well read in English literature. Rita’s entrance is remarkable, because the audience sees right away that she doesn’t behave (speak, act) in an adequate way. Her language is rude – at times vulgar with a lot of sexual frankness, her behaviour doesn’t fit into the situation (first meeting with a University Scholar). Rita asks a lot of very direct and inadequate questions (“D’y’need the money?” p. 10, l. 8)
In the course of conversation, the audience sees that Rita has a different attitude towards literature than Frank has (“It’s the kind of poetry you can understand” p. 10, l. 12). Rita quite openly reveals her goals: At 26, she feels “out of step”. Everyone else expects her to settle down and have children, whereas Rita wants to “discover” herself first. Her motivation to join the course is apparently that she wants to create a new identity for herself. She is looking for a meaning in her life and the course (i.e. Frank) is the means to this end. (We may infer that Frank is in quite a similar situation). Frank tries to convince Rita of finding a different tutor, but Rita makes clear that she is determined to have Frank as her teacher “an’ you’re gonna bleedin’ well teach me” p. 26, l. 1-2)
The first thing I consider important is, that I noticed two different levels in the dialogue. First there is a private chat and the second level is the ongoing education of Rita. Moreover, some of Frank’s feelings towards Rita become apparent. All through the text you get bits of information about the two characters.
The main content of act 1 scene 2 is the discussion of Rita’s subjectivity. Frank criticizes Rita’s lack of objectivity. Though Frank does understand why Rita is offended by the contents of the discussed literature “Howards End”, he does not appreciate the reason, why she stopped reading it. In order to educate Rita he tries to explain, why objectivity is necessary to be able to deal with such literature.
As a matter of fact Frank is quite amused about the way Rita’s trying to understand the books.
Some key parts in which shreds of the relation between Frank and Rita become apparent are e.g. when Frank is waiting for Rita to come. His repeated checking of his watch is a sign for his eagerness to meet Rita. Moreover, Rita admires the way Frank lives. That can be seen from the quotation “cos you’ve got taste” and “perfect mess”. Apart from that Rita is worried about the health of her teacher (“You’ve not been drinking, have ‘Y?”).
The ambition of Rita, i.e. she wants to be able to “talk about things that matter”, becomes clear in this scene as well. She tells Frank about her neglected school education and about the question of whether her life has nothing better to offer for her. She is trying to resist the pressure society is exercising upon her (“[…]you managed to resist another new dress?”p. 32 ll. 11-12) When Frank tells her, why he and his wife split up, she cannot understand the reason (“Nobody splits up because of poetry”). Shortly after this, he’s charming Rita and gives hints about his feelings towards her.
In act I, scene 3, Rita’s first impression of the books she has received from Frank is very negative. To her, these books are “borin’” and “sort of posher”. So it’s no wonder, that there are a lot of discrepancies (=Unstimmigkeiten) between her and Frank with regard to her learning (or her desire to learn). After they have talked about the books, he gives her some advice on how to understand these books right. At the end of the scene, Rita understands (or sees) that she has to learn how to cope with “proper” literature.
The fourth scene of the first act of “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell starts with Rita, who enters Frank’s room by telling him that she doesn’t understand the book “Howard’s End” by William Forster. Later Frank reads her homework, an essay on “Peer Gynt”, which includes only one sentence: “Do it on the radio.” Rita’s answer to Frank’s question, why her essay is that short, is that she has had a lot of work that week, and her husband Denny doesn’t want her to work at home. While she gets the chance to write this essay again, Frank and Rita discuss the “working-class culture” and “Howard’s End”. Finally, she writes two sentences (instead of just one).
In this scene, the audience learns that Denny has burned Rita’s books, because he has found out that Rita is still on the pill. Rita sees that she is merely finding herself and that this process is the reason for her crisis at home. However, Rita rather discusses Chekhov than her marital problems.
In the following, we watch Rita and Frank talk about personal matters – e.g. Frank informs Rita that he has stopped writing poetry, because he simply couldn’t stand his own “academic” style.
 It seems as if Frank’s way of “educating” Rita is in contrast to his own perception of his poems. Where he dislikes his academic style, he continues to demand a more academic style in Rita’s way of “dealing with literature”.
In the beginning of this scene Frank is sitting in his office, when Rita is entering, out of breath. She´s a bit jittery and wants to tell Frank about her “adventures” she has had the night before. As a result of that she talks about some play she has been to and comes to the conclusion that it has been totally exciting and entertaining. After a short discussion it becomes clear that it has been Macbeth. Just a minute later she wants to leave again, because she has left a customer at the hair-dresser’s studio. But then she uses the word “tragedy” in a wrong context, so Frank starts explaining the true meaning of a “tragedy” and its difference to “tragic”.
Finally, Frank invites her to a dinner party at his house the next Saturday.
In this scene it becomes obvious, that Rita is just at the point where she starts appreciating literature. She seems to be amazed by the fascinating plots of some tragedies and plays. Indeed, Frank is a bit surprised but actually quite happy about this development.
In this scene Frank talks to Rita about why she and Denny haven’t arrived at the dinner- party.
Rita tells him, that she has had a big fight with her husband concerning the invitation and that she has wanted to go to Frank on her own, but when she has stood in front of his house she has realized that she has been out of place there, because she’s just a second- class woman and not as educated as the others. When she tells Frank this he tries to encourage her to be more self-confident because she’s a ‘delight’ and a funny person.
She has gone to the pub where her family has been but there she has also felt out of place. At this moment she has realized that she doesn’t want to end like her mum and sitting just in a pub singing songs. So she decided to carry on going to the course.
In this scene Rita feels out of place everywhere and she’s insecure. But after she has arrived in the pub she has started to distance herself from her family and her old way of living because she doesn’t want to end like her mother. The other character, Frank, is, in this scene, very charming and tries to make Rita calm down.
All in all we can see that both characters have changed. On the one hand Rita who is more self-confident and has decided to distance herself from her old live and on the other hand Frank shows more feelings and so we can see that now there’s really a relation between the two.
Act 2, Scene 1:
Rita is back from London and comes to Frank’s office. They talk about the time in which they haven’t seen each other and Rita gives Frank an expensive pen as a present. Frank hasn’t changed a lot in contrast to Rita. He is still drinking and smoking. Rita, however, has changed very much. She has given up smoking and has bought new clothes. She has new friends and seems more educated. She has even lost her innocent “point of view”. Because of that Frank thinks that Rita doesn't need him anymore, as she has achieved everything she has wanted from Frank at the beginning of the play.
Act 2; Scene 2
Rita comes in and speaks in a new and unnatural voice. She seems like a new Rita, who knows how to behave. She has even spoken to other students on the campus. Trish has changed Rita a lot and Frank doesn't understand what has happened to Rita.
Frank is drunk throughout the whole scene. In the beginning, Frank tells Rita that his students have reported him, because he was so drunk that he couldn’t stand straight during a lesson. Because of this it has been suggested that Frank takes a sabbatical for an open period of time somewhere in the USA, Europe or Australia (p.93, ll.20f).
In the second part of this scene, Frank and Rita are discussing Rita’s essay on “Blake”. Frank thinks that it’s ok, but there’s nothing of Rita in it and Rita thinks that Frank still sees her the way she has been in the beginnig.
In this scene, Rita has changed a lot. She has become more self-confident so she wants Frank to respect her work and the way she has changed (p.97, ll.15-end). Moreover, she criticises that Frank doesn’t care for his students but just for himself (p.94, ll.1f.).
In the fourth scene of the second act Frank and Rita are talking. In this scene Frank seems to be hurt by Rita. He thinks that she doesn’t want to meet him anymore, because she is coming too late and wants to leave after a few minutes. Frank confronts Rita with his view of the situation: she hasn’t told him about her new job in a bistro, where she has worked for a short time and he remembers older times, when she has told him everything. That is why Frank is also scared of “losing” her. He always wants her to stay, when she wants to leave. He is peeved when she leaves and he is jealous when he gets to know that Mr Tyson works in the bistro, too. Thus, you can see he’s jealous.
Rita isn’t that emotional in this scene. She explains to him everything about her new job, that she is worried about the exams and that she still wants to meet Frank. She seems to be very neutral without showing any feelings.
In the end, Frank gives Rita one of his poems and wants her to analyse and interpret it.
Frank is sitting in his study room, drinking and listening to the radio. His emptiness and loneliness are apparent. He used to see Rita every week, but now she’s gone and his life has once more become pointless, but this time with no hope of rescue.
To Frank’s astonishment, Rita suddenly comes in. She has read his poems together with her flatmate Trish. Frank is disappointed when he hears Rita’s pompous interpretation of his work. He doesn’t at all agree with her and thinks that his poems are lifeless and without any meaning. His comments are bitterly ironic, but Rita doesn’t notice that.
Sarcastically, he remarks that he has done a fine job on her and compares himself with Mary Shelley, the author and creator of Frankenstein. Rita doesn’t understand the hint that Frank has created a monster by “educating” her. He fears to have made her repress her emotions and spontaneity. Finally, Frank asks Rita to go away because he can’t bear her any longer.
Misunderstanding him, Rita is very angry and thinks that he just regrets to have lost his influence on her now that she has reached the same level as Frank. She tells him that she doesn’t need him anymore now that she has found a “better culture”.
When she describes her new life, Frank wonders if this is all that she has wanted: a room full of books, knowing what clothes to wear, what wine to buy, what plays to see und what books to read. To him this seems to be very little. He’s disappointed because he has tried to show Rita his understanding of culture. During the process of being educated, Rita has lost all the qualities which used to make her a special person: Her spontaneity, her originality, her vitality. He uses a metaphor to describe her change: Her “new song” isn’t any better than her “old” one, but only different and tuneless.
Angrily Rita accuses Frank of wasting all his opportunities in life. Then she ridicules him for still calling her “Rita”, the name she has rejected as soon as she has learned to recognize good quality literature and has left behind her old life.
Act 2: Scene 6
Frank and Rita now only rarely meet each other and therefore Frank has to ring her at work to give her the details of her exam. He doesn’t know that she calls herself by her original name Susan.
Frank has been advised to take a two years vacation in Australia. He’s packing for Australia when Rita comes to him. Frank is surprised to see her. Rita wants to thank him for his help and she says he was right and that he was a good teacher. Frank wants her to come with him to Australia and Rita tells him that she now has a choice: she can choose from different options on her own. Rita informs Frank that she will go to France or to her mum.
Rita has left Denny. We learn that Denny has given Rita an ultimatum. Denny has wanted her to stop studying and come off the pill or else he has wanted her to leave.
At first, Frank doesn’t seem to carry on “as usual”, but then he discusses Rita’s essay and tells her that it is “moving” and “honest”, but that it wouldn’t be suitable for the exams. Rita wants to know what she is supposed to change. Frank, however, sees Rita (and her style of writing essays) as unique and he doesn’t want to change her. Rita responds to this by tearing up her essay and by preparing to start again.
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Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Joe Hale, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Holocaust Education, are pleased to announce the appointment of Racelle R. Weiman, Ph.D. as the Director of the Center for Holocaust Education in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Center will create and provide educational and curricular resources and teacher training in Holocaust and tolerance education for educational, religious, and civic institutions in the greater Cincinnati area. In addition, the Center will sponsor courses, conferences, and symposia on the Holocaust and tolerance education, and serve as a focus for Holocaust remembrance ceremonies for Jews and non-Jews throughout the Cincinnati community.
As director of this new Center on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Dr. Weiman will oversee the development of the Center and manage its day-to-day operations, work with the HUC-JIR faculty to expand course offerings in Holocaust Studies, and collaborate with the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities to develop courses, curricula, and educational programs.
Dr. Weiman is currently on the faculty of the University of Haifa, teaching courses on, Conflict Resolution and Democratic Values, and Tolerance and Coexistence. She is also responsible for the educational branch of the USA-based NGO, Global Dialogue Institute; and a research fellow on Professional Ethics at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Recipient of many grants and awards, Racelle Weiman earned her Ph.D. at the Department of Religion at Temple University, Philadelphia, in the field of Interfaith Relations.
"We are proud to appoint Dr. Weiman as the director of the Center for Holocaust Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion," stated Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, President of HUC-JIR. "We are delighted that she will bring her dedication, considerable expertise, and extensive experience to our Center and to our community. We are confident that Dr. Weiman and our Board of Directors will create a unique community resource which will serve as an example of religious tolerance and social justice for generations of educators, clergy, and youth."
The search committee, chaired by Sam Knobler, initiated a world-wide search for a director to head this newly created Center, established by HUC-JIR in cooperation with the Combined Generations of the Holocaust of Greater Cincinnati. A resident of Israel for more than 20 years, Dr. Weiman was born in Mexico, and lived for many years in California and Pennsylvania. Dr. Weiman and her family will be moving to Cincinnati, to begin her new position as director of the Holocaust Education Center on August 1.
Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is North America's leading institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates leaders to serve North American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, museums, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement's congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR's campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish heritage and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding. www.huc.edu
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Image in the collective memory / Petra Barreras del Rio
Voces y visiones : Highlights from El Museo del Barrios permanent collection : El Museo del Barrio 1969-2004. -- New York, NY : El Museo del Barrio, 2003
p. 22 - 31
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Barreras del Rio, Petra. "Image in the collective memory." In Voces y visiones : Highlights from El Museo del Barrios permanent collection : El Museo del Barrio 1969-2004, 22- 31. New York, NY: El Museo del Barrio, 2003.
exhibitions (events); Latino; museum administration; Puerto Rican
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In this essay, Petra Barreras del Río relates her experience as curator and interim director of El Museo del Barrio throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. She describes the process of building up the financial and administrative resources of the museum during an era of waning government support for the arts (NEA). Also discussed are landmark exhibitions executed during her tenure such as: Puerto Rican Painting Between Past and Present, and retrospectives of Rafael Ortiz and Pepón Osorio. Barreras concludes that El Museo del Barrio’s significance lies in establishing new paradigms of museum practice that embrace inclusiveness and honor the Latino immigrant experience in the United States.
Founded in 1969, El Museo del Barrio was the first Puerto Rican museum established in New York. City. In the 1990s, El Museo’s goal was revised as follows: “The mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States.” Petra Barreras served as curator of El Museo from 1977 to 1978 and, later on, as director from 1986 to 1993. Her essay, “Image in the Collective Memory,” was written in celebration of El Museo’s thirty-fifth anniversary.
Yasmin Ramirez
Courtesy of Petra E. Barreras del Río, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Courtesy El Museo del Barrio ["Image in the Collective Memory", Petra E. Barreras del Río by EL Museo del Barrio), 2003, New York, NY
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The course has shown significant change and improvement since its inception in 1875. In the 1920’s the renowned golf course designer James Braid was engaged and much of what he altered and recommended remains intact to this day.
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With the number of players steadily increasing a decision was taken in the early 1990’s to purchase additional land. Three new holes were constructed negating the hazard of crossing what was known as the “Great North Road” to play what were two short Par 3 holes (the old 16th and 17th). This led to the new 9th, 10th and 11th holes on the newly purchased land whilst the redundant Par 3 holes were designated as a practice area.
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Focus poverty analysis on actionable priorities for policy interventions to accelerate poverty reduction and develop the SCD discussion of linkages between recommended actions and their expected impact on poverty reduction.
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WB: Agrees. The SCD has been developed exactly to help address these issues. Therefore, this recommendation will be addressed through implementation of the new country engagement framework as part of the prioritization undertaken in the SCD. The Poverty Global Practice also addresses this issue at the sectoral level by supporting other Global Practices in the operationalization of the goals within sectoral programs.
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Stocktaking analysis of SCD priorities for 30 early SCDs has been completed, and the findings are reflected in a draft powerpoint (attached) that has been presented at internal meetings of management. A more detailed note/working paper is being prepared and will be completed by the end of 1st quarter of FY18. Given the status of the action, namely a completion of the analysis for a number of SCDs that exceeds what was in the action plan, a rating of "high" (90% or more completed) is merited. The action is not rated as "complete" yet since the written note has not been completed.
The attached PPT updates (and replaces) the previous version in the PPT attached with the last update, which reflected an analysis of 15 SCDs that has now been expanded to 30 SCDs. The current PPT should also be considered as draft, which are subject to revision or additional analysis depending on the comments received during presentations, as the note is being finalized.
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The stocktaking exercise for the first batch of completed SCDs is well underway. This exercise analyzes priorities identified by the SCDs, including the sectoral/thematic distribution, level of sub-sectoral disaggregation of the priorities, and patterns across regions and types of countries (by income-classification), as well as knowledge and data gaps identified by SCDs, using a methodology and criteria that were tested on the first 15 SCDs. Early results of this test exercise were shared with the SCD Advisory Group for feedback. The methodology and criteria are now being refined in collaboration with the Bank's Knowledge team in Chennai, so that they can be applied consistently and efficiently to a larger number of SCDs. Draft results based on 30 SCDs are expected in Q1 of FY17, which will then be reviewed for further feedback from management before they are reported as final results of this stocktaking. The results will be disseminated internally through a note and presentations to staff and management through FY17.
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The defamation of socialism
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by Serendipper » Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:23 am
FWD to 57:30
We should recognize what I think is true, I've written about it plenty myself, that the Bolshevik Revolution, was really a coup, was really a counter-revolution, which placed state power in the hands of a highly authoritarian anti-socialist group which within a couple of months had destroyed the factory councils, had destroyed the Soviets, had dismissed the Constituent Assembly (because they knew they were gonna lose) and have eliminated every popular movement; and had done exactly what Trotsky said: turned the country into a labor army under the control of the maximal leader. That was mid 1918. And since then there hasn't been a shred of socialism in the Soviet Union!
Now of course they called it "socialism", but they also called it "democracy", you know, they were "people's democracies", "the purest form of democracy", they were "socialism". The West, the big propaganda system in the world, of course, just laughed at the "democracy" part, but it loved the "socialism" part because that's a way to defame socialism. So if you think that the fall of the Soviet Union is a blow to socialism, you ought to also think, on the same grounds, that it's a blow to democracy. After all, they call themselves democracies too, so why isn't it a blow to democracy? Makes as much sense. It's only when it gets filtered through the Western propaganda system that it's not a blow to democracy, but it is a blow to socialism.
But, you know, there's actually no reason to play that game. Whether you play it in Dissent [the magazine] or in the Nation [the magazine] or on the Right or anywhere else, expose it for the fraud that it is.
[Someone asks question]
What ideology? The ideology of totalitarianism? Yeah it's deeply flawed. I mean, they were the initial modern totalitarians.
[Asks another question]
It doesn't have anything to do with socialism. They destroyed socialism within weeks! You know. They didn't wait. By 1918 it was finished. And they knew it. You know. Like, it's not a secret; they knew it. I mean, in fact, Lenin as soon as, you know, as soon as he sort of got grips of things, he moved to what he called "state capitalism". Which is what it was. It had nothing to do with socialism.
Socialism... I mean we can argue about... there's no point arguing about what the word means, but what it always meant at the core was that producers take control of production, working people take control of production: what's sometimes called industrial democracy, that was the absolute core of it. Well, you know, there was more socialism in Germany, in Western Europe, than there was in Russia.
No, Russia's about the most anti-socialist place you can imagine, since 1918. It had wage-labor, had super-exploitation, had no element of worker's control or involvement or participation. What's that got to do with socialism? It's the exact opposite on every point.
As I say, the West liked to call that "socialism" while laughing at the fact that they called themselves "Democrats", but that's for purely propaganda reasons. I mean, unless you're committed to being part of the Western propaganda system, there's nothing to say about that issue, except to laugh.
Serendipper
Re: The defamation of socialism
by phyllo » Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:32 am
That's a good reason to be cautious. Someone peddling socialism might be a totalitarian in disguise.
Look at you. You call socialism any system where the government spends a lot - it could be a monarchy or a dictatorship.
That's a recipe for disaster.
by Silhouette » Thu Mar 07, 2019 3:33 am
phyllo wrote: That's a good reason to be cautious. Someone peddling socialism might be a totalitarian in disguise.
Who is the government?
Normal regular people who are told what to do just the same as if they are in a private business. The motivation, incentive, ethic - it's the exact same for all wage labourers, whoever they work for.
Doesn't matter who your totalitarian boss is: Capitalist or public payroll, if you take what you're told for granted with no conscience, that's a recipe for disaster. That's how genocides happen, doesn't matter one bit who orders it as long as the people who get paid will do whatever they're told. Nothing to do with government or capitalist payroll, Socialism or Capitalism. Zero.
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by phyllo » Thu Mar 07, 2019 1:23 pm
So what are you saying? Don't worry because it's all the same anyways?
by Karpel Tunnel » Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:02 pm
I agree, though I would add the same thing can be true for someone peddling capitalism - it could be a monarchy or a dictatorship also.
This is not to discount your point. I am wary of governments and corporations, powerful private and powerful public players. I see them generally in cahoots, which is true in both socialisms and capitalisms, at least often.
Karpel Tunnel
Right. Develop your 'spidey sense' and use it.
Silhouette wrote:
I tend to agree and my reaction was similar, but I think it is good for the discussion to look at the specific concerns around power in each system - and also, I would like to add, not assume that these are the two systems and one must choose one of them.
One of the problems with socialist countries/communist countries has been the potential for a world encompassing idealism. Now of course leaders in capitalist nations can also 'do things for the people' and ask people to 'do things for the people'. But there is something all encompassaing aobut the idealisms in some of the larger far left regimes. China and Russia and the USSR for example. Here we can sacrifice for a great future in ways that I think would be hard in the capitalist nations. Because these latter are trying to convince you that their current policies, in general, are good for you. Selfishness is more built in - for good and for ill - and presumed.
Which is why capitalist nations have to come up with wars, and have creatively got a few going at once now, when we include the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. Wars allow them to shift powers to their buddies/themselves but also make it sound like it is in all our interests.
But in socialist countries there really is a kind of God's kingdom is coming, though without God, and the government, in that system, is much more able to couch policies in the name of some future proletariet heaven and guilt trip formally and punish depending on the government powers directly based on what all of you need to sacrifice for our ideals. Capitalist regimes have more of a sales job.
I think we also need to look at what happens in powerful socialist nations, because it is the smaller ones that tend to have good human rights records.
What's good for Denmark, might be problematic in a superpower. You have less degrees of separation between those people in government and those they rule. In Denmark the chances a someone fairly high up in government has kids in a daycare that also has your cousins kids go way up. Large governments with massive militaries and intelligence communities may handle left wing rule in a very different way. I don't know that's the case. I see some historical support for that. I think it might be the case.
Now I wouldn't even know what to call myself. My position is not that socialism is better or that capitalism is better. Honestly I dislike both, though there are facets of both that appeal to me. I see the current US as an oligarchy with socialist facets.
What do we say to people coming from the old USSR or other communist regimes when they raise skepticism about socialism. They lived through the consequences of when leaders put on false humility, and considered inviduals only valuable as parts of the whole and in fact often not valuable in and of themselves. And could even say this out loud. Leading to very intrusive intelligence communities, because the I does not matter. Of course our little NSA with infinitely more highpowered tools is extremely intrusive, but they are joke in terms of intrusion compared to STASI.
Of course socialism does not have to be like in the USSR. Just as capitalism does not have to be like is Saudi Arabia or Guatamala in the 80s.
And then Scandanavia is not really socialist. Certainly not anymore. Though most middle americans would call them commies if they knew what happens there.
WE can smile and say that something mixed is best. Sort of like it is assumed that something with a mix of democratic and republican policies makes for the best.
I am skeptical.
But I do not have an answer.
I can't really create/designe at the level of 100s of millions of people. If we are talking about the US.
But to repeat: The US being socialist is nto the same as Denmark being socialist. More degrees of separation betwene gov and people. More massive intelligence and military. A history of much more violent law enforcement. Law enforcement that is vastly more heavily armed.
phyllo wrote: Right. Develop your 'spidey sense' and use it.
So as you look around the world now, which government do you, using your spidey sense, trust the most. Or distrust the least, might be better.
by Bob » Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:33 pm
I found this an interesting take on what happened in Soviet Russia, but I think an even better description of what happened can be found in "The Gulag Archipelago", from someone who actually suffered the betrayal.
Solzhenitsyn wrote:
"Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Ideology – that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes.... That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations... Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago."
— The Gulag Archipelago, Chapter 4, p. 173
There is a pattern described here of how ideology works, and the pattern is being repeated again in our time. Just as then, people seem to be oblivious of the fact, even the evildoers. It is as though they are possessed.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
The best systems available are democracies with strong limits on the powers of the government and robust tools for removing politicians.
So for example, increasing the length of time that a president or prime minister can serve would be strictly forbidden.
An example of robust tools, is the removal of Mussolini by the Grand Council of Fascism in 1943. When things got really got out of hand, they still retained ways of getting rid of the dictator. That significantly deduced the damage to Italy and the Italian people. (non-democratic example, I know )
Of course, if put your faith in democracy, you have to trust that the average human will do the right thing.
by Serendipper » Thu Mar 07, 2019 3:19 pm
Yes, like National Socialism that has zero to do with socialism by any definition.
It's often the case that politicians don the label of socialism to garner whatever appeal it may offer.
But it's also prudent to be aware of the ongoing propaganda campaign to defame socialism by pointing to the USSR or the Nazis, neither of which had any socialistic aspects whatsoever.
Or Venezuela which neither puts the people in charge of production nor issues wealth to its citizens by virtue of having the largest oil reserve on the planet.
If Denmark tops every list of measures of prosperity, mainly due to its oil and lack of Islam, then how much more should Venezuela?
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Look at you. You call socialism any system where the government spends a lot
Government spending is an attribute of socialism and not necessarily the equivalency. However, it's impossible to have a socialistic system without government spending.
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The accretion of capital is an attribute of capitalism and the dispersal of capital is an attribute of socialism.
- it could be a monarchy or a dictatorship.
Even then, at least 50% of monarchies are social and fairly prosperous. Norway is a monarchy.
Norway is a unitary constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government, wherein the King of Norway is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. Power is separated among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, as defined by the Constitution, which serves as the country's supreme legal document. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Po ... government
The UK is a monarchy and Canada is technically under the Queen, so you're living in one lol. Not so bad, eh?
I agree that a monarchy is not the way to go, even if it's purely ceremonial.
phyllo wrote:
The best democracies are those where people are encouraged to have informed debates on subjects, which are completely transparent as to where the people (or the information) are/is coming from. This is, of course, difficult because many people rely more on their uninformed "opinions". I believe also that those who do have power should be held accountable, which also means that the job must be worth the hassle.
phyllo wrote: Of course, if put your faith in democracy, you have to trust that the average human will do the right thing.
They do and did.
All 55 counties in West Virginia voted for Bernie, but Hillary won the state.
3 million more votes were cast for Hillary, but Trump won the election.
In 2000, Gore won 1/2 million more votes, but lost the election.
The people have excellent spidey sense, but the US does not have democracy.
Bob wrote: This is, of course, difficult because many people rely more on their uninformed "opinions".
There is also propaganda meant to demonize academia and intelligentsia causing people to believe there is virtue in ignorance.
"I realize you’re under a bit of a penalty because all our professors are stupid liberals, but that’s the best we can do." https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015 ... ain_folks/
That is spouted on AM radio and youtube daily.
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And on here with this post speculating that "communists" have taken over academia: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=194702#p2720670
The first step is to attack and marginalize academia:
Totalitarian governments manipulate and apply anti-intellectualism to repress political dissent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
The totalitarian regime doing this is the plutocratic corporations, and Rush Limbaugh is their Goebbels.
Serendipper wrote:
Yes, there is an ongoing attack on academia, but the counter-attack seems to be falling into the trap that ideologies on both sides fall into. If you give your opposition what they've been giving you, you could adopt your own system of ideology and be in danger of being just the other side of the coin. I get the feeling that people know that the right-wingers are doing this, but are not aware that left-wingers tend to use the same strategy. You know when someone on the right oversteps the line of being beyond an appropriate reaction. Do we know when the left overstep?
I think the Orwellian warning is valuable in assessing the present situation because there is a tendency to confuse the whole issue, so that simple working people are left trying to work out what on earth is going on. There are many people who regard themselves as left-orientated who have now become confused when looking at the battlefield. It is hard to find the people you actually agree with.
Yeah. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are important for a democracy.
It has more democracy than a lot of places.
You guys don't appreciate what you have.
Oh yes, I hate that the left focuses on Russian collusion and appealing to grave threats to humanity through climate change while legitimate perils of poverty and lack of education and healthcare exist. Their ploy seems transparent to me, but I hope it's not too transparent to everyone else. I wonder if Chomsky is more sly than I thought. Maybe he doesn't buy climate change, but knows it's the surest way to slay the real dragon.
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Green is the new Blue. The easiest way to make the country Blue is to first make it Green
For half a century Chomsky battled the corps with nary a mention of climate, then suddenly he jumped on the climate bandwagon and shutup about his most passionate crusade, only in the last handful of years.
But the working people of the future will be better equipped to handle it. We're in a transition period from scarcity to abundance and such demands social reforms that those of old just can't embrace because all they know is hardship and what it takes to overcome it.
All I have that you don't have is sunshine... and the ability to go out and waste ammunition anytime I want. Canada tops the US in almost ever measure except prisoners and number of people thinking the devil is real.
Canada ranks 7th in happiness, the US ranks 18th.
Canada ranks 13th in life expectancy, the US 32nd
Canada ranks 4th in freedom, the US 53rd.
Canada ranks 6th in democracy, the US 25th.
Once again, only focusing on the negative. Focusing on what "the other guy" has. No appreciation of what you have.
phyllo wrote: Once again, only focusing on the negative. Focusing on what "the other guy" has. No appreciation of what you have.
Once again, only focusing on relative prosperity "well wage slavery is bad, but be thankful you're not a real slave, so let's not aspire for more, but be happy with what we have." Focusing on what the other guy has to justify your own suffering. No motivation to prosper, but only motivation to perpetuate suffering in the name of appreciation.
Chomsky talked about the proliferation of religion as a means for people to take their focus off of this world and concentrate on the other. "Well don't worry about this place or bettering yourself, just focus on the next world."
Don't worry about this world...
Be thankful for what you have...
Now bend over and grab your ankles!
No thanks, I don't want that philosophy.
Suit yourself. It's your life.
by Silhouette » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:12 am
The "Fallacy of relative privation" is the dismissal of arguments due to the existence of more important arguments. Saying the US doesn't have it as bad as other countries seems to fit this, especially in response to the argument that the US could have it better. The US having room for improvement isn't a failure to appreciate what it does have.
There is something wrong with a system that boils down to just two representatives to figurehead one of two political agendas that they choose, and even if more people vote for one, the other gets in. Even when the more popular does actually get in (I wonder how much it resembles random chance), it's unclear whether it would have been any different if they hadn't. It's still all just lobbying by rich people anyway... To call that democracy is generous even if there is some truth to it. The format of it all too, is exactly like a sports game - support your team and watch them try to win, then resume your life as normal. You could get less democracy, but you could get more! An argument in its favour is that at least the two choices you're ultimately left with have to be offering something at least partly preferable to the populace that they are to be governing, but a skeptical point might be that it is just another autocracy like any other undemocratic rulership - only it's a rich, powerful and well connected one. I.e. the democracy thing is just PR, when really things are just being run for you and happen to be going relatively well. A lot of the reason why the PR of Socialism or Communism hasn't done well is because the rich, powerful and well connected countries cut them off in addition to the infrastructure that they're left with being poor to begin with. We all know that the US was founded on genocide, but somehow it's only remembered and reprimanded when poorer, more economically isolated countries with different PR do it.
In short, you have to wonder how much politics is just smoke and mirrors, and how much it's all really to do with resources, infrastructure, trade agreements and reputation. To phyllo, I'm not flatly saying it's all the same anyways, but the degree to which it is all the same anyways is not to be underestimated. The ways in which it's not all the same anyways - that at least seems to matter in theory, and I would like to test whether it actually does.
by Serendipper » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:28 am
Silhouette wrote: The "Fallacy of relative privation"
Nearly fell outta my chair laughing
by phyllo » Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:05 am
I gave him a link to the Democracy Index and he knows that the US ranks 25th out of 167 countries. He still makes this bizarre statement: " ... but the US does not have democracy."
What can one say? Count your blessings. Get therapy.
Various forms of democracy, communism, fascism, monarchy, etc have been tried and tested.
You don't think the differences have been shown? It's just PR?
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Why There Might Be More Universes Than Our Own
The idea of parallel universes, once consigned to science fiction, is now becoming respectable among scientists – at least, among physicists, who have a tendency to push ideas to the limits of what is conceivable.
Multiverse. Illustration of multiple universes (spherical) making up the multiverse, also called the meta-universe or metaverse. This is the hypothetical set of possible universes, and includes all of space and time, and all forms of matter and energy, and also other forms of the laws of nature. Galaxies are seen on the surface of some of the expanding spheres (universes). The multiverse hypothesis arises from cosmology and quantum physics.
In fact there are almost too many other potential universes. Physicists have proposed several candidate forms of “multiverse”, each made possible by a different aspect of the laws of physics.
The trouble is, virtually by definition we probably cannot ever visit these other universes to confirm that they exist. So the question is, can we devise other ways to test for the existence of entire universes that we cannot see or touch?
Worlds within worlds
In at least some of these alternative universes, it has been suggested, we have doppelgängers living lives much like – perhaps almost identical to – our own.
Giordano Bruno speculated that the Universe might be infinite
That idea tickles our ego and awakens our fantasies, which is doubtless why the multiverse theories, however far-out they seem, enjoy so much popularity. We have embraced alternative universes in works of fiction ranging from Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to movies like Sliding Doors.
Indeed, there is nothing new about the idea of a multiverse, as philosopher of religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein explains in her 2014 book Worlds Without End.
In the mid-16th century, Copernicus argued that the Earth is not the centre of the Universe. Several decades later, Galileo’s telescope showed him stars beyond measure: a glimpse of the vastness of the cosmos.
So at the end of the 16th century, the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno speculated that the Universe might be infinite, populated by an infinite number of inhabited worlds.
The idea of a Universe containing many solar systems became commonplace in the 18th Century.
By the early 20th Century, the Irish physicist Edmund Fournier d’Albe was even suggesting that there might be an infinite regression of “nested” universes at different scales, ever larger and ever smaller. In this view, an individual atom might be like a real, inhabited solar system.
Scientists today reject that notion of a “Russian doll” multiverse, but they have postulated several other ways in which multiverses might exist. Here are five of them, along with a rough guide to how likely they are.
The patchwork universe
The simplest multiverse is a consequence of the infinite size of our own Universe.
There must be worlds identical to Earth somewhere out there
We do not actually know if the Universe is infinite, but we cannot rule it out. If it is, then it must be divided into a patchwork of regions that cannot see one another.
This is simply because the regions are too far apart for light to have crossed the distance. Our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old, so any regions further than 13.8 billion light years apart are utterly cut off.
To all intents and purposes, these regions are separate universes. But they will not stay that way: eventually light will cross the divide and the universes will merge.
If our Universe really does contain an infinite number of “island universes” like ours, with matter and stars and planets, there must be worlds identical to Earth somewhere out there.
If the universe is infinite, there must be millions of earths. (credit: NASA)
It may sound incredibly unlikely that atoms should come together by chance into an exact replica of Earth, or a replica that is exact except for the colour of your socks. But in a genuine infinity of worlds, even that strange place must exist. In fact, it must exist countless times.
The Universe began as an infinitesimally tiny point and then expanded incredibly fast in a super-heated fireball
If so, then somewhere almost unimaginably far off, a being identical to me is typing out these words, and wondering if his editor is going to insist on radical revisions.[nice try Phil – ed]
By the same logic, rather farther away there is an entire observable universe identical to ours. This distance can be estimated at about 10 to the power 10 to the power 118 metres.
It is possible that this is not the case at all. Maybe the Universe is not infinite. Or even if it is, maybe all the matter is concentrated in our corner of it, in which case most of the other universes could be empty. But there is no obvious reason why that should be, and no sign so far that matter gets sparser the farther away we look.
The inflationary multiverse
The second multiverse theory arises from our best ideas abouthow our own Universe began.
According to the predominant view of the Big Bang, the Universe began as an infinitesimally tiny point and then expanded incredibly fast in a super-heated fireball. A fraction of a second after this expansion began, it may have fleetingly accelerated at a truly enormous rate, far faster than the speed of light. This burst is called “inflation”.
There are many, perhaps infinitely many, universes appearing and growing all the time
Inflationary theory explains why the Universe is relatively uniform everywhere we look. Inflation blew up the fireball to a cosmic scale before it had a chance to get too clumpy.
However, that primordial state would have been ruffled by tiny chance variations, which also got blown up by inflation. These fluctuations are now preserved in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang. This radiation pervades the Universe, but it is not perfectly uniform.
Several satellite-based telescopes have mapped out these variations in fine detail, and compared them to those predicted by inflationary theory. The match is almost unbelievably good, suggesting that inflation really did happen.
This suggests that we can understand how the Big Bang happened – in which case we can reasonably ask if it happened more than once.
The current view is that the Big Bang happened when a patch of ordinary space, containing no matter but filled with energy, appeared within a different kind of space called the “false vacuum”. It then grew like an expanding bubble.
Perhaps our Universe is simply one of a crowd
But according to this theory, the false vacuum should also experience a kind of inflation, causing it to expand at fantastic speed. Meanwhile, other bubble universes of “true vacuum” can appear within it – and not just, like our Universe, 13.8 billion years ago, but constantly.
This scenario is called “eternal inflation”. It suggests there are many, perhaps infinitely many, universes appearing and growing all the time. But we can never reach them, even if we travel at the speed of light forever, because they are receding too fast for us ever to catch up.
The UK Astronomer Royal Martin Rees suggests that the inflationary multiverse theory represents a “fourth Copernican revolution”: the fourth time that we have been forced to downgrade our status in the heavens. After Copernicus suggested Earth was just one planet among others, we realized that our Sun is just one star in our galaxy, and that other stars might have planets. Then we discovered that our galaxy is just one among countless more in an expanding Universe. And now perhaps our Universe is simply one of a crowd.
Read the remainder at BBC.com
Posted in Science & Tech
Astronomers Discovered Dwarf Galaxy Loaded With Precious Elements
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2019 County School Cross Country Finals
Following the recent District Finals at Milford AC, the top four finishers from our school in the U-9 boys, U-11 girls and Under 13 girls’ categories have qualified for the County Final which is due to take place in Shore Front Park, Buncrana on Tuesday 22nd October, starting at 11:30am.
There will be medals for the first three individuals in each race, the first three teams in the school categories; i.e. small, medium and large schools and this year all finishers will get a certificate.
There is a charge of €5 per child, towards the cost of entry and bus. Please prepare for all weather eventualities, bring a packed lunch, plenty of water and a change of clothing.
Best wishes on the day,
District Finals
Congrats to our School Athletic Team on a successful first outing of the year. Competing in the district School’s Cross-Country event at Milford, Kilmacrennan NS participated in the Medium Size section. We won three of the six sections, earning Team Gold in U-9 Boys, u-11 Girls and U-13 Girls. The winning teams now qualify for the County Finals in Buncrana on October 22nd.
We had 44 runners on the day, winning 11 individual medals as well as the team successes. We were delighted to win the Best Overall School on the day too.
Comhghairdeas le gach duine.
Cross -Country
The school Athletic Club are ‘up-and-running’ once again. The hard graft has certainly paid off with Kilmacrennan winning Team Gold in all six team events at the first athletic outing of the year-the local Primary School’s Cross-Country Divisional finals. The school also won the Best Overall School Cup.
Twenty-four athletes qualified for the County Finals in Buncrana in October 2018. We had numerous individual medal successes and were delighted to capture two Team Gold County titles, with our U-11 and U-13 Girls teams bringing home the bacon!
We also acknowledge the donation from Kilmacrennan Parents Association of a set of new athletic bibs.
Sportshall
The school sent four teams to the Aura in early February for the qualifying events. A high standard on the day by many athletes across all the various disciplines saw the school finish runners-up in the four competitions. Well done all!
The first athletics meeting of the school year was held in glorious weather at Milford track on Tuesday 18th September 2018. Forty-two athletes represented the school in three age categories; u-9, u-11 and u-13. The athletes had a great day, returning with individual medals, and 6 team placings for the event.
The hard work has paid off with a most successful outing at the regional School’s Cross Country event at Miford A.C. The U-9 Boys, U-9 Girls, U-11 Boys, U-11 Girls, U-13 Girls, U-13 Boys won Team Gold. Kilmacrennan N.S won the Best Large Schools and won the Best Overall School on the day. Well done to all involved.
We recently took part in the Track and Field Athletics Competition in the Aura, Letterkenny, where we came back with loads of medals on the day. Well done to all who took part.
Donegal Cross Country Athletics Finals
The finals of the Donegal Cross Country athletic competition took place in Buncrana on Tuesday October 24th. Twenty-four athletes represented the school. We had a most enjoyable day with many fine team and individual performances. Our u-11 girls won team silver in the large school section.
Primary School Cross-Country Championship
The first athletics meeting of the school year was held in glorious weather at Milford track on Tuesday 19th September 2017. Thirty-eight athletes represented the school in three age categories; u-9, u-11 and u-13. The athletes had a good day, returning with 15 individual medals, and are awaiting final team placings for the event.
The hard work has paid off with a most successful outing at the regional School’s Cross Country event at Miford A.C. on Tuesday, 19th September. The U-9 Boys, U-13 Girls, U-13 Boys won Team Gold. Kilmacrennan N.S won the Best Large Schools and won the Best Overall School on the day. Well done to all involved.
The U-9 Boys receiving their Gold medals and plaque from James Gibbons of Milford A.C.
The U-13 Girls Team receiving their Gold medals and plaque from James Gibbons, Milford A.C.
The U-13 Boys Team receiving their Gold medals and plaque from James Gibbons, Milford A.C.
Joycelene and Dylan receiving the best Large Schools prize and the best overall school on the day from James Gibbons, Milford A.C.
Active School Flag News //School Athletics News
ASF Committee for 2016/17:
Sophie ; Oisin; Tara ; John-James ; Dylan; Mary
2016-17 Cross-Country Training:
Our Under 9 Boys and Girls
Our under 11 Boys and Girls
Pupils from first to sixth classes have been lunchtime training since we returned to school in September, with training on Mon/Wed/Fri weekly.
The hard work has paid off with a most successful outing at the regional School’s Cross Country event at Miford A.C. on Tuesday, 27th September. Our U-9 girls and boys won Team Silver and Team Gold respectively, while both our U-11 girls and boys won Team Gold. Further success followed when both the U-13 teams also won Team Gold.
Kilmacrennan NS also won the best overall school on the day.
The top four in each winning gold team, as well as our two top eight finishers in the U-9 girls qualified for the County Donegal Primary School’s Cross-Country Final at Lifford A.C. on October 13th.
The meeting at Lifford was most enjoyable with 24 athletes representing the school. Our U-13 Boys claimed team gold medals, winning the County title, while our U-11 girls won Team Silver. Comhghairdeas le gach duine.
Active School Information
Kilmacrennan NS has once again achieved the standards required to be awarded the ‘Active School Flag’ 2015-2018.
The school applied for the renewal of the flag in early September, having been awarded the flag for the first time in 2012. A new committee is formed at the start of the new school year consisting of six students from Rang 4- Rang 6 with the help of Mr. O’Donnell who coordinates the process. A portfolio was compiled and sent into Mayo Education Centre, who in turn sent out a representative to see how we implemented the whole process. To our delight, we got the good news that we were being awarded the flag once again. The school now can boast of being one of the only schools in the country to have achieved the ‘Active School Flag’ standard on two occasions. It is hoped to unfurl the flag in the coming weeks with some special guests being lined up!!
Active School Flag Committee Elected.
Rang 4-Rang 6 elected the following students to represent them on this years (2016-17) ASF committee (). This committee will meet with Mr. O’Donnell on a fortnightly basis to discuss upcoming events being organised within the school and also to discuss the process of regaining the Active School Flag once again.
2015-’16 Athletics News
Fun for all at Sportshall 2015:
The school recently competed in the regional qualifiers of the Sportshall Athletics in the Aura, Letterkenny. A total of six schools competed in four competitons (Junior boys; Junior girls; Senior boys and Senior girls). The competition was of the highest standard across 12 different disciplines, 6 field events and 6 track events. The final results were as follows:
Senior Boys: 2nd place
Senior Girls: 3rd place
Junior Boys: 3rd place
Junior Girls: 3rd place
Having fun at the Sporthall Athletics
School’s Cross Country Athletics.
Our School Athletic Club is up and running once more. The first meeting of the school year was a district Cross-Country meeting in Milford. We had a large number of athletes participating on the day. All put in a determined effort and were rewarded with a considerable number of individual and team medals.
There were six team categories. Kilmacrennan took team gold in three of these; U-11 GIRLS, U-13 Boys and U-13 Girls. Comhghairdeas le gach duine.
These teams, and a number of other top finishing athletes, then represented the school at the Donegal Cross Country Primary Schools Final in Lifford on October 15th. We had 15 athletes representing the school in the finals. Again, it proved to be a successful outing. The U-13 boys claimed gold in their category, while the U-13 girls claimed team silver medals.
2014-’15 Athletic News.
School Year 2014-’15.
The School Athletic Club is ‘up and running’ once again for the new term. Cross Country training is our early focus. The first meeting of the school year was the Donegal Primary School’s Cross Country Championships in Finn Valley on 30th September 2014. There were six races on the day.
Under 9—-600m
Under 11—800m
Under 13—-1000m.
The school enjoyed great success on the day, winning individual gold in three out of the six races. These individuals were backed up by numerous other individual placings and medals. Overall, the school also won two gold team events and one team silver event. Comhghairdeas le gach duine.
The second athletic event was a meeting organised by Letterkenny A.C. in October. Once again, the school had numerous individual and team successes, winning two individual gold and two team gold events.
Athletics 2013/14
Letterkenny AC Track & Field Championships:
The inaugural LAC meeting was held in the Aura, Letterkenny under darkened skies with plenty of rain. However, our pupils’ spirits failed to be dampened as they once again came to the fore. Hundreds of children from the surrounding areas participated across five different age groups in sprints, long distance and long jump events. A total of 29 pupils respresented the school on the day and a medal tally of (5 gold); (4 silver); (3 bronze) and (3 team bronze) were won on the day. The children deserve great credit for this wonderful achievement. Well done to all!
Donegal Cross-Country Championships:
Kilmacrennan N.S. entered the 2013 Donegal School’s Cross Country Championships and were delighted with the performances of all athletes on the day. Many enjoyed personal best times, others claimed individual or team medals but team participation and enjoyment was the key factors. Particular mention is afforded to the Senior Boy’s team who won the Boy’s U-13 County title.
Below are the team group photographs.
First up is the Kilmacrennan U-9 team.
Below, Kilmacrennan U-11 team.
Above, the Kilmacrennan u-13 teams.
Above, Kilmacrennan N.S. Athletics teams for 2013 Cross Country Championship.
Above are Kilmacrennan N.S. U-13 Senior Boys; County Champions.
In-School Training.
All pupils from first to sixth class began a six week cross-country training programme at lunchtime in the school in early September 2013. Many of the pupils are reporting that the training is gradually becoming a little easier!
Donegal Primary Schools Athletics 2013:
Finn Valley was the setting on a glorious summer day for the annual 43rd Donegal Primary Schools Athletics finals. Our squad travelled to Ballybofey in May with a proven record as one of the outstanding schools on the athletics circuit over the past 5 years.Again our athletes failed to disappoint and put in some brilliant individual and team performances to claim a haul of 14 medals. This included 5 gold and 9 silver medals with a couple of 4th place finishes also to gather points in the team standings. This was a great achievement considering that over 1300 children and 100 schools participated on the day. The school were also successful on the team front as we finished in 2nd place in the large schools section for the second year running. A truly outstanding feat when you consider the size of other schools in this section.
Schools Results:
1st Scoil Iosagain, Buncrana (73pts)
2nd Kilmacrennan NS (45pts)
3rd St. Mary’s, Stranorlar (34 pts)
Donegal Cross-Country Athletics 2012/13:
The first race meet of the season took place in late September with the cross-country athletics taking place in Finn Valley. Over 1500 children participated in races at U9, U11 and U13 age groups. Our children excelled in all of the races with 15 children taking home medals. Outstanding performances on the day saw team medals being won by the U9 girls; U11 boys and U11 girls.
Sportshall Athletics 2013:
The first race meeting in this competition took place in the Aura, Letterkenny with four teams from the school participating. The 3rd/4th class girls teams were outstanding on the day and qualified for the county finals. The finals were again held in the same venue and again the girls excelled by lifting the county title for the first time. The Donegal victory saw the girls progress to the All-Ireland semi finals that were held in Sligo in March. Again the girls showed their talent and came through in 1st place to qualify for the finals in Athlone. The finals showcased the best talent in Ireland at this level and the girls put in a fantastic performance to finish in 3rd place. A truly outstanding achievement by a fantastic bunch of girls. The future does indeed look bright for athletics in the school.
All Ireland Record-Breaker:
A word of mention to Stephen (Rang 5) on breaking the All-Ireland long jump record in Athlone recently by jumping a fantastic 4.57m. Well done Stephen.
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Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
Sometimes, you just want a pizza.
A police officer in New Jersey did:
A pair of New Jersey police officers were suspended after one of them was caught on camera pushing a Domino’s restaurant chain manager against a wall because their pizza didn’t get delivered on time.
Video obtained exclusively by News 4 shows the two Jersey City police officers storming a Domino's on Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City and pushing the branch’s manager up against a wall in an incident the manager, Mena Kirolos, said was spurred because of a missed pizza delivery Tuesday evening.
That is an abuse of power. Absolutely.
But if I were a cop – let’s be glad I’m not – I’d probably use the siren in the squad car for any number of things -- including food runs.
Especially pizza.
Pizza is best hot out of the oven or else cold from the fridge. There's not a lot of in between on pizza.
Warm pizza, for me, is so-so pizza.
My favorite pizza is canadian bacon and mushroom. After that, it's probably a vegetarian pizza and then it would be bell peppers, onions and some type of meat. I also enjoy anchovy pizza but it's very hard to get that these days.
Friday, March 30, 2018. So many enable the current war and occupation of Iraq.
The key to understanding Gary Younge is to remember he lies frequently. When he writes for THE GUARDIAN (writing often reproduced in THE NATION), he's one way. When he's writing for a Socialist publication, he's another way. He can tailor himself to fit any outlet. He did so this week at THE GUARDIAN where he made two key points about the Iraq War:
First, because many are still living with the consequences. Amnesia is the privilege of the powerful. The powerless do not have the luxury of moving on, because their nations have been flattened, economies ruined and sectarian divisions deepened and weaponised as a result of a war that was prosecuted in their name.
Second, it was the greatest foreign policy error of a generation or more, in which most of the political class and the media class were entirely complicit. We cannot walk away – because it has changed who we are, and so wherever we go, this dark shadow follows us.
It was really hard for him to get there because he had to provide links and he was writing for a UK audience. This meant noting some of Tony Blair's claims (lies) in the lead up to the war. It also means he can't note the Downing St. Memos that document so much about how Tony and Bully Boy Bush worked it out ahead of time. In the US, much was made about the corporate media ignoring the memo but the reality is that they weren't the only ones. The blessed GUARDIAN, to this day, has never mentioned them. (THE TIMES OF LONDON is the British paper that first reported on them.) That's because you can't call out Labour too harshly in the New Labour outlet that THE GUARDIAN is.
Now you can write any truth about the United States in THE GUARDIAN and Ajay Singh Chaudhary gets a few in:
Although Trump still has plenty of time to catch up (and I fear he will), his crimes do not come close to the crimes against humanity committed by members of our ruling class from political leadership to the media in our lifetime. I won’t list names here because it would be too inflammatory, but there are dozens, hundreds, who would be facing tribunals if they were not American.
They not only walk free but are rewarded for their complicity in one of the key moments that is the short walk to now. Watching the sickening rehabilitation of political and media figures of this period – and for some the simple continuity – is also a reminder of the partial utility of that term “totalitarian”.
No matter how much they destroy, how many lines they cross, whom they murder en masse, their respectability is unaffected, their leadership de rigueur. This was not the failure of the rule of law: this is the rule of law in a system in which any attempt to transform power or even challenge it has been silenced.
This was not because “norms” or the constitution were violated; this was the absolute functioning of norms and the constitution. This was the America that some tell me was already great.
But you cannot tell the truth about the UK government in THE GUARDIAN -- which is why Gary's links in his article to opposition go to GUARDIAN articles published . . . after the war had started.
From Gary, let's go to another whore of Babylon, Jane Arraf (NPR at this moment):
In 2014, tens of thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority, facing genocide from ISIS, escaped to the mountain from the town of Sinjar and surrounding villages in northern Iraq.
The United States said it entered the war against ISIS partly to protect Yazidis trapped on the mountain with no food and water.
Four years later, several thousand of them remain there. Destitute and living in tents, they are still too afraid to come down.
True Barack story, in late 2015 as the Yazidis were still refusing attempts to 'rescue' them by getting them off the mountain, then-President Barack Obama wondered "what the f**k do they want?" A very good question. But not one that should have surprised him or anyone else.
In real time, in 2014, with this situation, we were quite clear. We said don't send in US troops. We said do air drops of packages so that they didn't starve.
That's what should have been done.
The US forces and the Kurds both provided every opportunity for the Yazidis to get off Mount Sinjar. Not for one day, not for one week, not for one month, not even for one year. Over and over they provided that opportunity. The Yazdis wouldn't -- and still won't -- leave.
"I'm trapped! I'm trapped! Rescue me!"
Save yourself.
Are you a kitten caught in a tree?
I am not a pretty girl
That is not what I do
I ain't no damsel in distress
And I don't need to be rescued, so
So put me down, punk
Wouldn't you prefer a maiden fair?
Isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere?
And what if there are no damsels in distress?
What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?
Don't you think every kitten
Figures out how to get down
Whether or not you ever show up?
The Yazidis don't figure it out because they don't want anything but to start more wars. I don't know if that has to do with their worship or what.
But they have certainly been vocal about how the Kurds abandoned them! Left them on Mt. Sinjar! They are trapped!
No, you had you chances to come down but you refused to. That's on you. And everyone knows the Yazidis will use the same sentences to gripe about the US just as soon as they figure they've drained the US out of all the sympathy they can get.
The Yazidis are victims of their own making.
PIX 11 reports:
A native son of Carmel, Indiana, who served with New York City's fire department and died in Iraq received a send-off punctuated by crisp military precision, appreciation and moments of joy.
Capt. Christopher "Tripp" Zanetis was celebrated at New York University by Mayor Bill de Blasio, fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro and many others after a solemn ceremony in nearby Washington Square Park on Thursday.
On Long Island, a funeral was held for Staff Sgt. Dashan Briggs, another of the four New York Air National Guardsmen killed in a March 15 helicopter crash. Funerals will be held Saturday on Long Island for Master Sgt. Christopher Raguso, another fire department veteran, and on April 6 in Tampa, Florida, for Capt. Andreas O'Keeffe.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS notes:
Amid the chaos of 9/11, as the fires burned at Ground Zero, volunteer Christopher Zanetis worked alongside the FDNY members searching in the rubble for their lost brothers.
Three years later, he joined their ranks. And in 2008, the heroic Zanetis became a member of the Air National Guard.
The 37-year-old FDNY fire marshal and U.S. Air Force major, who was killed March 15 in a helicopter crash in Iraq, was honored Thursday for a life driven by service for city and country at an emotional Greenwich Village sendoff.
The “Celebration of Life” began at his old East Village firehouse and continued in Washington Square Park, where his his brown wood casket arrived beneath its massive marble arch.
From LONG ISLAND NEWS 12:
Funeral services were held today for Tech. Sgt. Dashan Briggs, of Port Jeff Station – one of four members of the Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing who died earlier this month in a chopper crash in Iraq.
Friends spoke Thursday about how giving he was, how great he was as a father, and how honored they were to have served with him.
Would those service members have died were it not for the Yazidi spokespersons (and the neocon p.r. firm in the US)? Maybe not.
They refused to be rescued after their spokespeople insisted they needed to be rescued. They should accept the fact that many have tired of their little-boy-who-cried-wolf ploys.
Again, we didn't play heartless here. We said if they're trapped, drop food on the mountain for them. But instead it was send more US troops into Iraq. Where they remain.
Melissa Steininger (WTAJ) reports:
The men and women salute in honor of their country at the Punxsutawney Community Center Wednesday morning.
The same group will soon put their lives on the line. They're the 665 Engineer Utilities Detachment and they will be deployed to Iraq at the end of the week.
The Iraq War never ends. Remember what Anthony H. Cordesman (CSIS) argued earlier this year:
The United States, its allies, and international organizations are just beginning to come to grips with the civil dimensions of "failed state" wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, the Sudans, Syria, and Yemen. In each case, it is clear that the civil dimension of the war will ultimately be as important as the military one.
Any meaningful form of "victory" requires far more than defeating the current extremist threat in military terms, and reaching some temporary compromise between the major factions that divide the country. The current insurgent and other security threats exist largely because of the deep divisions within the state, the past and current failures of the government to deal with such internal divisions, and the chronic failure to meet the economic, security, and social needs of much of the nation's population.
In practical terms, these failures make a given host government, other contending factions, and competing outside powers as much of a threat to each nation’s stability and future as Islamic extremists and other hostile forces. Regardless of the scale of any defeat of extremists, the other internal tensions and divisions with each country also threaten to make any such “victory” a prelude to new forms of civil war, and/or an enduring failure to cope with security, stability, recovery, and development.
Any real form of victory requires a different approach to stability operations and civil-military affairs. In each case, the country the U.S. is seeking to aid failed to make the necessary economic progress and reforms to meet the needs of its people – and sharply growing population – long before the fighting began. The growth of these problems over a period of decades helped trigger the sectarian, ethnic, and other divisions that made such states vulnerable to extremism and civil conflict, and made it impossible for the government to respond effectively to crises and wars.
These issues are analyzed in depth in a new study by the Burke Chair at CSIS entitled Iraqi After ISIS: The Other Half of Victory, which is available on the CSIS web site at https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/180109_iraq_other_half_cordesman_civilian.pdf?8SEsjcRdOq.sakyQJ_PN3RKfCGlBCgs4. It is being circulated in working draft form in order to seek comments, directions and additional data, which should be sent to Anthony H. Cordesman atacordesman@gmail.com.
The study shows that the economy and infrastructure of Iraq and the other countries involved in "failed state" wars have now been further crippled by years of war. As a result, each conflict has changed the country to the point where it creates a need to establish a new structure of governance and economy that reflects major shifts in the population, the balance of power in each state, and its real-world post-conflict opportunities for development.
The cumulative result is to make "stability operations" a key part of grand strategy. Defeating a given mix of terrorists or insurgents requires aid and assistance efforts that look beyond the fighting and the short-term priorities of conflict termination. Negotiations and new political arrangements, emergency humanitarian aid, and recovery aid are all critical steps towards lasting stability.
This is about occupation. "Stability." It's not ending.
Walking away from Facebook
Be careful when you eat out
5 Biggest money losers of 2017
People step away from FACEBOOK
THE INTERCEPT is lousy
Hillary is the stupid one for thinking Americans are stupid
I saw this:
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Each 1-ounce serving provides 18 grams of unsaturated fat with zero cholesterol or sodium. In fact, American Pecans are certified as a heart-healthy food by the American Heart Association's(r) Heart-Check Certification Program. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, scientific evidence suggests but does not prove that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts, such as pecans, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease.
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For more recipes, nutrition information and cooking tips, visit americanpecan.com.
I love pecans. C.I. got some at the farmer’s market while we were on the road and I mean she got a ton of them. If she was thinking they would be snacks for a couple of days, she quickly learned you do not leave pecans around me. :D
I love pecans. I’m not much of a nut person. I’ll eat walnuts and if the others are in a dish – C.I. and Ava do a green been with red onions and sauted sun flower seeds that I love – I’ll certainly eat them.
But in terms of eating them alone, it’s really just pecans.
But a pecan pie leaves me cold.
I’ll eat them cooked in anything but a pie. I’ll eat them sprinkled on top of anything. And I can eat them all by themselves. They are also tree nuts which is something that I think we’re told to include in our diets.
“Lawmakers, Organizations React to Citizenship Question in 2020 Census ” is something LATINO USA posted. It’s the topic I wrote about earlier this week in “The 2020 census ” and I’d recommend LATINO USA’s post to anyone interested in this topic.
Thursday, March 29, 2018. The feel good nonsense or the reality of death and destruction?
The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) on Wednesday admitted to killing at least 855 civilians in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in the past four years. “To date, based on information available, CJTF-OIR assesses at least 855 civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve,” the US Central Command said in its monthly civilian casualty report. The coalition conducted a total of 29,225 strikes between August 2014 and the end of February 2018, and during this period the total number of reports of possible civilian casualties was 2,135. The total number of credible reports of civilian casualties during this time period was 224, according to the statement. It said that 522 reports are still open.
That's what they are now admitting to. You can be sure the actual count of civilians killed in airstrikes is much higher.
Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo Mar 25
All across the nation, people are protesting against "violence," and yet not one demonstration about the government's violence in #Syria, #Libya, #Iraq, #Afghanistan, #Somalia, #Niger. Millions have died since 2003 and it doesn't even register on the outrage meter.
Al 🐾 @alyasserwatso Mar 26
Not that I think the gun violence march in America was irrelevant but the children of Iraq, Syria, and Palestine would like to be safe in school and at home. Where are the marches for these children? Why is the world so silent when it comes to them?
Yes, we're back to the issue of does violence only matter when effects White kids in the US? Do the lives of Iraqis -- including Iraqi children -- not matter at all?
Ajamu Baraka (BLACK AGENDA REPORT) observes:
So, it was a good week for both bourgeois parties. The Democrats didn’t get called out for their collaboration with Trump and the Republicans on the budget. The Trump folks have more ammunition to use to mobilize their supporters in opposition to what they will frame as efforts to violate the constitution and take away their guns and give more power to a repressive government. Even the intelligence agencies benefited from the week’s events with attention being shifted away from the FBI scandal that is threatening to blow the cover off of official criminal activity to undermine the electoral process, not by the Russians, but unelected forces in the U.S. state.
But for those of us from the colonized Black and Brown zones of non-being, we can never allow ourselves to be distracted by the diversionary and accommodationist politics of the latest carefully crafted spectacle, especially one that purports to be advancing a superior moral politics.
We must always remind ourselves that some can march with the confidence that “their” government might be trusted with regulating weapons and protecting their lives but that the protection of our fundamental human rights rest with our ability to defend our collective rights, and no one else.
Through our painful lived experiences, we understand and must live by the insight provided by our dear brother, James Baldwin, who counseled us that we must be vigilant when our oppressors speak of morality and the sanctity of life:
“The “civilized” have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their “vital interests” are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death; these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the “sanctity” of human life, or the conscience of civilized world.”
Distraction can be deadly, let’s us get and stay woke.
Saturday's look-at-me-look-at-me tantrum accomplished nothing and was never going to accomplish anything while rubbing elbows with the likes of Senator Dianne Feinstein and others. It was an effort to release some steam from the system, a moment to distract from reality. When elements of Congress and the press stroke themselves to stroke the event, you know it was meaningless. As Glen Ford (BAR) points out:
There is “movement” afoot in the U.S., but it does not “arc towards justice.” Ever since Trump’s electoral victory, the collective national consciousness has been smothered in a maddening fog of manic, industrial-scale propaganda, spewed non-stop by corporate communications conglomerates working hand-in-glove with the most aggressive elements of the surveillance-intelligence “community” and the bi-partisan War Party. We are enveloped in a toxic miasma of Russia-hate that, by sheer weight and repetition, has infested every aspect of American political thought, distorting and subverting even the most progressive-minded “movements” struggling to find a way towards human dignity under late stage capitalism in a profoundly racist country. Voices for peace and social justice are asphyxiated in the pestilential plume -- unless they find their own air.
Damn right, there is a conspiracy -- possibly the loudest one in history! -- megaphoned by a billionaire-owned media screaming “War, War, War” day and night, fouling the public mind with pure reactionary malice. The duopoly contest has devolved into a dance of death between Donald Trump’s raw white supremacist nationalism and Democratic Party corporate imperial warmongering. Only fools claim there is space for progressive maneuver in the interstices between such forces.
We've been "Down So Long" Jewel notes but doing for-show and feel-good fauxtests won't change a thing ("Down So Long" first appears on Jewel's SPIRIT).
The realities of faux 'protest' and real protest were addressed when Ann Garrison interviewed Riva Enteen (BAR):
AG: Some March for Our Lives supporters are likely to get defensive and ask whether you're refusing to support their cause. What would you say to them?
RE: Of course we support the cause of protecting lives, but there is an exceptionalism to believing it only applies to American lives and especially white lives. In a promotional video that Democracy Now played repeatedly during their broadcast of the Washington, DC March for Our Lives, former US soldiers said that they’d learned how to put assault rifles to good purpose in US wars, but didn’t want them aimed at US citizens.
Isn’t it time to stop aiming those guns—and our missiles, fighter jets, and drones—at the rest of the world? My mother was a member of Women Strike for Peace, founded in 1961 with the slogan “Stop the Arms Race, Not the Human Race,” and that has never been more true.
Women, the givers of life, are confronting the Pentagon in Washington, DC, October 20-21. We hope that all peace-loving people will consider this a chance to make a stand for peace. There will be local antiwar actions springing up, as they did during Occupy, so keep your ear to the ground, and watch for updates on our websiteand our Facebook page .
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People are dying. Don't expect kids raised on media fawning to tell you that. Certainly don't expect the corporate media to tell you that. All the corporate media does is lie.
The EconomistVerified account @TheEconomist 11h11 hours ago
Iraq has defeated IS and avoided the wave of Shia-on-Sunni violence that many thought would follow
Things are great in Iraq!
If you forget the fact that people are protesting in the streets because there are so few jobs. Or that the medical situation in Iraq is actually worse now than at any point in the history of this wave of the Iraq War. The brain drain got a big kick in the last six months but no one bothers to notice that -- the flight of needed professional from Iraq. There are enough beds for the orphans but Iraq did open a cat hotel this year so I guess that's the 'great' that THE ECONOMIST sees taking place.
B-b-b-but ISIS is defeated! Except they are not. ANADOLU AGENCY reports that yesterday saw 5 Iraqi soldiers killed when ISIS ambushed them at "a fake checkpoint on the road linking Mosul and the Tal Afar district."
But the corporate press can't stop their waves of Operation Happy Talk. It's been going on for years now and it's never turned out to be true. Hayder al-ABadi, for example, has promised to get the trains running. When I saw that a few days ago, I rolled my eyes as I remembered when we were sold that lie -- in THE NEW YORK TIMES, among other places. The trains were working, running and doing great! It took Deborah Haynes (TIMES OF LONDON) to expose that as a lie. But here we are, about twelve years later and they're trying to re-sell that failed talking point.
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I fell for the click bait, I admit it. I don't usually. But I'm reading a story about Subway's former spokesperson Jared (the one in prison for having kiddie porn) and at the bottom of the story is a photo in the click bait sections.
I say to myself, "Damn, Priscilla Presley is looking bad."
I'd honestly not seen her look that old. It was a photo from the Grammys.
I go to click. It's Jenny McCarthy.
Maybe it's the blue hair? I don't know. She's a pretty woman but those pictures. I'd argue her dress doesn't help and that she should never wear anything that emphasizes armpits -- she's no Cher. She needs to keep those covered.
So click bait.
I try to avoid it because I can go into it, and next thing I know, it's three hours later or even more than that.
For me, the worst click bait is always 70s TV shows. Daytime or prime time. Mention Erica, Phil or Tara and you know I'm clicking. (ALL MY CHILDREN's first great love triangle.) Or cartoons. CAPTAIN CAVEMAN AND THE TEEN ANGELS, JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS. That's always major click bait for me.
Now if it's a Friday or Saturday night, I'm okay with it. But during the week, I just don't have the time -- I point I fail to realize until many hours later.
Click bait is bad.
But if you're likely to grab it, maybe, like me, you can say it's not as bad?
I can remember days back in the mid-90s when I'd sit at the computer just going page to page. The internet was so new and I'd stay up some nights until three or four in the morning. I'd just be smoking one cigarette after another. Often drinking cups of coffee which was just going to keep me up further into the night and morning.
So at least that's not me anymore.
But click bait can still get me.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018. As elections approach in Iraq, ISIS makes it clear that they have not been vanquished.
Anthony H. Cordesman (CSIS) has argued:
Is that really the answer or is just a way to prolong the war and occupation even more? In his report (PDF format, here), he argues "success will require years of patient effort."
15 years isn't enough?
Apparently for the War Hawks, the Iraq War must last 100 years -- the way John McCain was saying when he was running for president in 2008.
Now in 2008, McCain was ridiculed and called out for that statement.
Today, do most Americans even pay attention?
May 12th, Iraq is set to hold parliamentary elections and no one's been bothered by the fact that Ramadan takes place from May 15th to June 14th. Past elections in Iraq have resulted in many delays -- in the case of the 2010 parliamentary elections, many months -- to settle. If the post-election process goes even 1/4 as poorly as it did in 2010, Ramadan will only compound that. Holding the election three days before Ramadan was very poor planning.
Hayder al-Abadi staked his future on the premature claim that he vanquished ISIS in Iraq. That, of course, hasn't proven to be the case. Amnesty International's Donatella Rovera notes:
Donatella Rovera @DRovera 3h3 hours ago
150-200 security forces members killed in attacks across #Iraq in recent months. The #ISIS monster is rearing its ugly head again, as elections approach and security cooperation between Iraq and #KRG is affected by tensions since #Kurdistan referendum washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
And she's not the only one noting reality.
Mr. Revinsky @MrKyruer Mar 24
#Iraq #Isis is still really active in Iraq. Yesterday, militants captured many Iraqi soldiers (using fake checkpoint). Part 1 pic.twitter.com/J49oHkfwua
2 replies14 retweets8 likes
ISIS was supposed to be Hayder's big claim to fame.
Nouri al-Maliki was ousted by Barack Obama in 2014 because ISIS had seized Mosul and other spots. Otherwise, the US would have kept installing Nouri every four years as Bully Boy Bush and Barack had already done. It's that 'stability' that Cordesman is arguing for. Forget that Nouri was running secret prisons and torture sites, forget that this had been exposed in the press, forget that he was disappearing people, forget that he was having the military use tanks to circle the homes of members of Parliament that he didn't like, none of that mattered. Nor did his attacks on journalism and journalists. His forces kidnapped reporters who covered the protests. Even after both NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST reported that, Nouri was still given a pass by Barack.
The passes would have continued were it not for the rise of ISIS.
Hayder was installed by Barack to to get rid of ISIS.
He hasn't.
Christopher Reuter (DER SPIEGEL) reports:
The days are clear and bright. As long as you have a wide-open view, it's safe, they insist. As long as you can see the contours of the rows of trees at the edge of the village, the bushes between the last fields and the edge of the desert.
But in wintertime, the days are short. As soon as darkness falls following a brief dusk and all outlines, colors and movements are swallowed up by the uniform blackness -- that is when the fear begins. That's what the residents of Gharib say, and urgently request that you start your journey in time, that you leave their village, that you leave the region.
Because at night, the horror returns.
Sometimes, the villagers say, the dogs sound the alarm. On occasion, tracks can be seen the next morning. And frequently, it is possible to hear the voices of the men who return at night to taunt, to threaten and to kill those who have officially been freed of the yoke of Islamic State (IS).
In early October, the Iraqi army rolled through the terrorist group's last significant stronghold in the country, the Hawija district, located southwest of Kirkuk. After just a couple of days and a few brief skirmishes, the government declared that IS had been defeated, driven away. Destroyed.
But that wasn't true then and it still isn't true today. At least not for the more than 100 villages in the fertile region, crisscrossed with rivers and irrigation canals. Even though the Hawija battle was supposed to be a fight that IS stood no chance of winning. Mosul had been retaken by the Iraqi army in the summer after months of bitter fighting, as was the city of Tal Afar. Aside from a couple of desert areas, Hawija was all that IS had left -- the same region where the series of IS triumphs, which began quietly at first, got its start back in 2013.
In addition, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Susannah George (AP) report:
Iraq declared victory over IS in December after driving the militants from the last territory under their control, but in recent months the group has resumed insurgent-style attacks in northern Iraq.
Iraqi security officials say between 150 and 200 members of the security forces have been killed in IS attacks across the country in the past few months. The security officials, and the policeman in the taxi, spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the media.
“There are empty spaces between the federal forces and the peshmerga,” said Kirkuk Gov. Rakan al-Jibouri, referring to the Kurdish forces who have been locked in a months-long standoff with Baghdad.
He said he has repeatedly asked the central government for additional forces to secure the area, but has been ignored. “This issue is not taken sufficiently seriously despite the many incidents,” he said.
Nope, ISIS isn't gone.
Hayder hasn't been very effective eliminating corruption either. MEM reported last week, "Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into allegations that fake jobs in the public sector were being offered to citizens by political parties in order to win votes in the country’s upcoming general elections."
Christopher M. Blanchard (CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE) notes:
Prime Minister Abadi has announced his plan to lead a coalition of mostly Shia parties and independent Sunni figures under the framework of his Victory (Nasr) Alliance. In launching his own coalition, Abadi is competing with Vice President and former prime minister Nouri al Maliki, who, like Abadi, is a leading member of the Dawa Party. Maliki’s State of Law alliance has been critical of Abadi’s leadership, and some State of Law members are vocal opponents of Iraq’s security partnership with the United States. Several former leaders of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) militias organized to help fight the Islamic State are participating in the elections as candidates under the rubric of the Fatah Alliance (see textbox below).
Other prominent Iraqi figures have organized coalitions and lists to contest the election, including a largely Sunni list led by Vice President Osama al Nujayfi and the National Alliance jointly led by Vice President Iyad Allawi, COR Speaker Salim al Juburi, and former deputy Prime Minister Salih al Mutlaq. Among Shia leaders, Ammar al Hakim’s Wisdom (Hikma) movement has formally withdrawn from the Prime Minister’s coalition, but Hakim reportedly intends to coordinate with Abadi during government formation negotiations after the election. Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr is directing his followers to support the multiparty, anti-corruption oriented Sa’irun coalition. Sadr has criticized the participation of PMF leaders in the election and is campaigning on a populist reform and anti-corruption platform.
Barack Obama ousted Nouri al-Maliki in the fall of 2014 to make Hayder prime minister. Former prime minister and forever thug Nouri wants to be prime minister again despite his flunkies repeatedly insisting that is not the case. ALSUMARIA reported last week that Nouri has insisted Iraq is passing through a serious, make-it-or-break-it period. Naturally, Nouri believes he's the one who can save the country -- despite nearly destroying it in 2014.. Last week, ALSUMARIA noted that he's saying Iraq needs someone who can lead the country in construction and progress. Others who would like to become prime minister include Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr who has teamed up with five other groups -- including the Iraqi Communist Party -- for this election cycle. Two others who'd like to become prime minister, Ammar al-Hakim and Ayad Allawi, have done joint photo-ops. Ayad Allawi should have been prime minister per the 2010 elections. But Nouri refused to step down for eight months and brought the country to a stalemate. Barack Obama, then president, refused to back the winner of the election and instead brokered The Erbil Agreement which, in November of 2010, gave Nouri a second term as prime minister -- in effect, nullifying the election results and overturning the will of the Iraqi people.
March 7, 2010, Iraq concluded Parliamentary elections. The Guardian's editorial board noted in August 2010, "These elections were hailed prematurely by Mr Obama as a success, but everything that has happened since has surely doused that optimism in a cold shower of reality."
November 10, 2010, The Erbil Agreement is signed. November 11, 2010, the Iraqi Parliament has their first real session in over eight months and finally declares a president, a Speaker of Parliament and Nouri as prime minister-designate -- all the things that were supposed to happen in April of 2010 but didn't. Again, it wasn't smart to schedule elections right before Ramadan.
Dr. Nussaibah Younis @Nussaibah 16h16 hours ago
Fears that Turkey could still strike Sinjar despite PKK claims that they have withdrawn from the Yezidi Iraqi town. Would be a major violation of Iraqi sovereignty that Iraq PM Abadi can't afford so close to elections
Ranj Talabany @ranj_talabany Mar 24
Intelligence indicators point to a resurgent #ISIS, ready to carry out multiple, large attacks in build up to #Iraq elections in May 2018.
Meanwhile, Martin C. Evans (NEWSDAY) reports:
A somber string of wakes and funerals will begin Wednesday to mark the passing of the four area National Guard troops who perished March 15 in a helicopter crash in Iraq.
The men — members of the 106th Rescue Wing based at Westhampton Beach — had been among a contingent of 106th airmen who deployed to Iraq in January. The 106th’s combat specialty is rescuing downed pilots and other troops from behind enemy lines.
The four — Master Sgt. Christopher J. Raguso, 39, of Commack, Technical Sgt. Dashan J. Briggs, 30, of Port Jefferson Station, Capt. Andreas B. O’Keeffe, 37, of Center Moriches, and Capt. Christopher T. Zanetis, 37, of Long Island City, Queens — were among seven American military personnel who perished when the Pave Hawk rescue helicopter they were flying in went down near Iraq’s border with Syria.
The gatherings will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, with a wake for Briggs at the Westhampton Beach Fire Department. Briggs was posthumously promoted from his previous rank of staff sergeant.
How many more will have to die for Cordesman's "years of patient effort"?
Hassan Hassan (THE NATIONAL) observes:
For observers focusing on Iraq, the following argument often made in Washington’s policy circles about the future of the country might be a familiar one: the political system in Baghdad, put in place by the United States in 2013, has finally a real chance to be consolidated, resulting in more stability than at any other time over the past 15 years.
According to those advocating the argument, the war against ISIL has created a reality in which the Shia majority is now more able than ever to control all of the country. The argument attributes instability in Iraq over the years to Sunni rejectionist politics. Sunni rejectionism, to proponents of the idea, has created space for groups such as ISIL throughout Iraq and led to political stagnation in Baghdad.
Today, they argue, the situation has changed dramatically. Sunni rejectionists, often used as a shorthand for any person opposed to the Shia dominance in Baghdad, have been crushed. Sunnis, according to the argument, lost the bet they had placed on the rise of ISIL in the summer of 2014 to reclaim a larger place for themselves in Iraqi politics. The result is an empowered majority that could potentially take its rightful place as the leaders of Iraq.
The implication of the argument, which has been cited to the author by officials in Washington as an idea often advanced by Iraqis, is that the US must focus on supporting the historic chance rather than instating demands for political reforms that could only add to the stagnation. The idea also appeals to the basic political instincts of any official who wishes that the moment of a true “mission accomplished” is finally in the horizon.
But this is a dangerous argument. The narrative is based on a flawed logic as well as a tendency to overstate the ability of the Shia majority to sustain order beyond the relative calm that naturally follows extreme violence. It is simply a shortsighted and incomplete view that mischaracterises the situation in Iraq.
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THE BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT, 1886
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The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act of 1886 came into effect from the 8th of March in 1886. The act aims at providing for the intentional registration of certain births and deaths, for the purpose of instituting General Registry Offices so as to maintain registers of certain births, deaths and marriages and for some other definite functions. The legal provisions for mandatory and voluntary registration of births, deaths and marriages were present in various parts of the Indian Territory divided by various provincial rules and regulations such as Registration of Births and Deaths 1864 in Bengal, the registration of deaths 1865 in Bombay province etc. However it was only in the year 1886 that a central act, namely, the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act came into being all across the British India.
The act grants each State Government the power to create and (a) establish a general registry office for the collection and maintenance of certified copies of the registered births, deaths and marriages which the registry is empowered to register as per the act and (b) to appoint an officer to head the working of the office as the registrar. Section 8 of the act allows for any person who pays the prescribed fees to inspect the entries of the certified copies of the births and deaths register. The registrar is expected to keep track records of the marriages under the provisions of three acts namely: (a) The Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872; (b) Special Marriage Act, 1954; and (c) The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936.
The certified copies of the entries of births, deaths and marriages have the legal value of conclusive substantive evidence of the particular birth, death or marriage as per section 9 of the act. The evidential value of the Act was highlighted by Justice S.S.Sinde Honorable Judge of the Bombay High Court who had observed that“ in order to give presumptive value to the entries made in the register for birth, the condition specified under sub-section(1) of section 22 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act has necessarily to be satisfied”.
Section 32 of the Act requires a person in possession of any records or registers in the matters of death, birth or marriage to transfer the same to the Registrar general of Births, Deaths and marriages. The Act also permits the state government to appoint as many persons as it thinks fit as the commissioners to examine all such registers and records. Such a commissioner shall thus have the duty to verify the authenticity of such records and registers.
The act goes hand in hand with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as the international convention also mandates for the registration of the birth of every child by the registry office in every locality including the details of the parents and to maintain a register book concerning the particulars of the children in the region.
The Supreme Court in the case of Government of Andhra Pradesh and Anr v. M.Hayagreev Sarma 1990(2) SCC 682, while confirming on the nature and validity of the Act had observed that “The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 is a central law which is referable to union list”.
The latest amendments brought to this act have almost created a vacuum to the main provisions of the act. The Repealing Act 1938 (1 if 1938), has made a major alteration to the Original act. The Act repeals Chapter IV of the original act, which related to the Amendment of Marriages Acts. Moreover section 37 of the original Act has been repealed by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Act, 1911.The A.O. 1937 has also repealed Section 15 of the Act. However, the Law Commission in its 211th report (October, 2008) had enlightened the importance of the Act even after an excess of a 100 years since its conception. The Commission reported that even though numerous numbers of laws dealing with the same legal ground has been enacted in the country the relevancy of the act has not been lost and the act still remains in force. The eminence of the Act can further be evidenced with the help of section 29 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act of 1969, which substantiates that no rule or regulation of the said act is in derogation with the act of 1886.
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The Also-Rans
Posted by Brian S at 8:54 AM
I've never really been a fan (in the fanatic sense of the word) of a championship team at any level. I focus on teams because it's something completely different to be a fan of a particular player--I'm a fan of Tiger Woods, for example, and I was a fan of both Andre Agassi and John McEnroe in their primes. The individual performer is easier for me to relate to than the team.
Part of this comes, no doubt, from being exposed to hapless teams from a very early age. I went to my first baseball games when I was in first grade (I think). We got free tickets to see the Houston Astros, and I really don't remember much other than the scoreboard lighting up when someone--I don't even know which team, much less the player--hit a home run. The Astros weren't very good at the time--this was the mid-70's--and I never really developed an affinity for them because I was too young to understand the sport, especially since my parents weren't the kind to let me play little league.
My first team experience was the New Orleans Saints; I moved to Louisiana when I was seven, just before starting the second grade, and the Saints were bad--as they had been and as they would remain for many years afterward. They were also the only game in town, mostly, and the other games in town were also bad. The New Orleans Jazz were creeping slowly toward respectability, led by Pistol Pete Maravich (probably the least-known all-time-great basketball player in history), but they still lost more than they won. There was no baseball team, and New Orleans's contribution to college sports was Tulane University, not exactly a hotbed of excellence.
I felt an affinity for the Saints. They came into the league the year before I was born, and seemed as hapless on the field as I did on the playground before school and during recess. I was not an athletic child--glasses in kindergarten and asthma will do that to you--but I loved playing all the same, even though it meant trips to the optician and learning how to repair broken glasses with tape and paperclips. Steve Bartkowsi's Hail Mary against the Saints to complete an incredible comeback still stings thirty years later. I turned 12 the year the Saints went 1-15 one year after going 8-8, knocking on the door of what was their elusive first winning season. They beat the Jets. I remember being nervous before the Saints played the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who were 0-26 at the time going back over two seasons, desperately hoping the Saints wouldn't be their first victim. I took no solace in the fact that the Bucs would win their next game, and would then make the playoffs the following year.
The story of Saints futility is a long one--thirty years before even having a winning season, and only 8 of 41 winning seasons total. Only three head coaches in the team's history have winning records: Jim Mora, who led the team to their first continued success; Jim Haslett, who led them to their first playoff victory; and Sean Payton, who has them currently at or near the top of most power rankings. Other teams have had really bad eras--the Cardinals had a really crappy couple of decades recently--but no team has ever defined futility over the long haul like the Saints.
So it's no surprise, given my love for the Saints, that when I started hunting for a baseball team to adopt (since we had no New Orleans team) that I would gravitate toward one which felt familiar. I shifted from team to team as a kid, mainly following players--the Dodgers of Steve Garvey and Ron Cey, the Cardinals of Willie McGee and Tommy Herr, George Brett's Royals (I still have the glove I got after Brett's .390 season)--but didn't really follow a team until I was an adult. I'm a Cubs fan.
When the Red Sox ended their run of World Series futility a few years ago, lots of commentators suggested that Boston fans would finally have to give up their fetishization of losing, because they had nothing to complain about. That's not going to happen--Sox fans will continue to internalize their status as losers until the Sox have won as many World Series as the hated Yankees, which will probably happen about the time the head of Richard Nixon wins the presidency of Earth.
Cubs fans are now alone in their celebration of mediocrity, at least in baseball. I don't celebrate it, though. I would love to see the Cubs win the Series, just as I am hoping against all hope that the Saints pull it off this year. And I wouldn't feel like a part of me is missing if that happens. I don't root for also-rans because I'm celebrating crappiness--I root for them because they're all I know how to root for. The Saints trained me to have hope just so it could be dashed. I don't know any other way to react as a fan.
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Liz Prato Interviews Steve Almond
It’s 10am on the Saturday morning of the AWP Conference in Denver. Steve Almond and I are sitting at a high round table at the back of a deeply laminated hotel bar. We’re sleep-deprived, oxygen-depleted, caffeine-addled, and on social overload. But, damnit, we’re going to talk about his new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, a look into his obsession with music. The interview goes like this: I babble, he babbles. Fortunately, he’s a better babbler than I am. An hour later, we go our separate ways into the high altitude madness. Days later, the whole experience plays back like a psychedelic scene from Fear & Loathing — messy and beautiful and kinda profound. If I’ve learned anything from the music obsessives in my life (or “Drooling Fanatics,” as Steve brands his brethren), it’s that all the mysteries of the universe can be ordered in a Top-10 list. So, here we go:
The Top 10 Lessons of Music, Life & Literature, as Espoused by Steve Almond
1. Obsessions Tell the Whole Story
I teach these workshops when I say, Okay, write about a song that stands for a relationship. And, immediately, the whole relationship is so much easier for people to access, because they’ve got an angle in on it. When you write about an obsession, you can always use that as your filter, but what you’re really writing about it all your associations, memories or insights when it comes to this one thing which, mystically, always tells the whole story.
I’m able now to look back on my time in Greensboro [as an MFA graduate student] and say, I was lonely and miserable and angry at a lot of people – mostly myself – and what did I do to deal with that? I went to this fucking lousy little mall and tried to find new albums. I was always seeking out music as a refuge. The book is about people like me who need music to feel certain feelings. They’re inside us, but they’re not accessible by other means.
2. Yearning is Good – or Maybe God.
A big part of being obsessed with anything, desiring anything, is the part where you’re not getting it. It’s why we say, Yeah, sex is fine, but desire is what gives it energy. I can remember [as a kid] just sitting there listening to KFRC, waiting for them to play “Undercover Angel,” waiting for them to play “The Things We Do for Love,” and oh-my-God, when it happens it is so much bigger an event than when I can just click to it with my mouse. And people think I’m shitting on technology, and it’s not that. I’m not being a luddite. I’m just saying, Look, convenience at a certain point starts to overlap with spiritual indolence. It just does. It fails to activate the part of us, the big part of us, that needs to be in a state of desire, of yearning, and when that is immediately gratified the object of that yearning automatically becomes a little less sacred.
3. In the End, You Really Need Someone Who Gets Your Shit
That story of courting Erin [his wife]. . . that time was very ambivalent, tortured, not a happy thing for either of us, especially for her. I mean, my behavior was just this side of despicable. But at a certain point I decided — with Dayna Kurtz’s help — I need to stop seeing my loneliness or isolation as exalted bullshit. I just need to have someone to listen to music with. And that’s what Erin is. The glue was that she got my love of music and she wanted to hear my music, from the beginning . . . and in the end, what you really need is someone who gets your shit. And my shit was, I kind of depend on music, and I find it, and I’m evangelical about it, and Erin totally got it. She went to bed curled up in my little man-cave many times when Boris [McCutcheon] and I and the guys were still getting high and eating chocolate and I was trying to be part of the band. Not a lot of people who have put up with that.
4. If You Want to Really Know Someone, Know Their Music
The “Exegeses” in the book are my way of poking fun at rock lyrics, which is pretty much fish in a barrel behavior. It’s a funny barrel, fine, but part of the reason I cut some of those out is because they were too easy. When Erin read my exegesis on “Fade to Black” by Metallica, she said, “Well, it’s funny, but . . . .” and she had this look on her face, like something didn’t quite sit right. I said, “What? What else?” and she said, “Well, that song was really important to me.” And what happened then was a discussion about what that song had meant to her, which revealed a lot more about her teenage years than – I mean, I knew sort of the shadowy details – but a lot more about what happened. Remember I said songs are the way in? So, when she hears “Fade to Black” she remembers all of it in a way she wouldn’t if you just said, “Tell me about your troubled adolescence.” If you’re going to take account of what songs do for people, then I would be dumb not to hear that story and go, this belongs in the book, because that’s what this book is about.
5. Karma’s a Bitch
I hope that I was sympathetic to Erin’s folks, because they couldn’t have liked having a daughter who was getting all tarted up as a heavy metal chick, and was angry and wanted to be liberated and sexual and all those things. I’ve got a daughter and I’m going to have to deal with that at some point, and I’m sure I’ll be, in my own liberal, sensitive way, just as fucked up about it.
I wasn’t trying to vilify her folks – or anyone, for that matter. That’s why I said to Erin, “Are you really okay with this?” And I basically submitted it to her editing. “How can I say this? What should I say?” After all, they know what happened. It’s not like it’s some secret. But the question is the rest of the world, and how that looks. I hope it doesn’t hurt them or make them feel exposed or awful. Fortunately, I’m a pretty obscure author, so it’s unlikely that Oprah’s going to be saying, “Let’s bring on Steve’s wife to talk about her difficult childhood years!”
6. Get a Grip on Where You Exist as an Artist
I don’t think you consciously make this decision, but you’re always thinking, How many people do I want to affect and how deeply do I want to affect them? So if you make the decision to be a poet, you’re automatically saying you’re going to speak to a smaller number of people in a deeper way, in this very particular, urgent, lyric way. When you write short stories, or when you decide to write literary nonfiction, as opposed to a political book or a celebrity memoir . . . you put yourself pretty far out of the margin.
Candyfreak unexpectedly reached a larger number of people. But most of the people who read that book probably didn’t say, “How interesting. He’s writing about depression and the way in which a particular kind of identity is being eroded in America,” all that deep heavy stuff that you try to build into a book so you feel like it’s not just about candy and you’re a big dope for writing about candy. So even if the book reached several tens of thousands of people, as opposed to just a few thousand, I can’t even control how it’s received by those people. It’s about recognizing — especially if you chose to be a writer — the limitations of that.
7. Maybe Success is Just a Good Party
There was a moment [in Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life] of me recognizing that it wasn’t the dream for Nil Laura be a big deal, by which I really meant, Wasn’t the dream for me to be a big deal? And he was, like, “No. The dream is to have a good party and to be able to see people’s bodies and how they’re receiving the music.” I had projected all my crazy, fucked up, needy ambition onto him, and he was gently saying, No man. That’s not what it’s about.
I like the little niche I’m in. If there’s a certain part of me that’s needy or narcissistic saying, Well, I want to be famous, too, — it’s not the best part of me. It’s the part of me I was systematically trying to get rid of in all my years of analysis and therapy. And is it gone? No, and everybody still dreams that dream. But in your better moments, you try to go, Whatever. And my concerns, frankly, have less to do with my personal fate as a writer, than, Is art going to play a role in rescuing this species, or not?, to the extent that anyone’s who’s doing art is trying to make people feel some moral responsibility for the suffering of others. I now have these little kids, so my horizon goes out to 80 years. So I figure if I have a book that does well, then I get a platform – to use the barfety barfy marketing term – to say, Hey, why are we behaving this way? Let’s all agree to be more compassionate and not be so greedy and so self-interested. That’s what I’m trying to think about, as opposed to, Oh my god, how will I do? I’m doing fine.
8. For Every Dave Grohl, There Are 90 Kurt Cobains
The whole idea of celebrity is a modern construction that is so deeply fucked up. When people lived in a communal setting, if you were a good singer, then the village you lived in knew that you sang well, and that was your fame. It’s not like you needed approval, and you didn’t have to be connected to some late capitalist nightmare where you start moving product. The expectation of making money for people . . . I mean, Jesus. Anytime you’re worrying about that, you’re heading away from interesting work. Because you’re saying, what will the audience think? Not what did the characters experience?
For musicians, I think the dream of being a rock star is that everybody knows you. You’re a big famous person! But, ultimately, the ones who are Big Famous People just end up getting devoured. Dave Grohl is one guy I can point to who’s really famous and he seems really well adjusted and happy. For every Dave Grohl, there’s, like, ninety Kurt Cobains. The pressure of that kind of attention and expectation and projection just destroys them. It grinds them down.
9. Care Deeply and Disastrously
What I feel in good music, the music that endures, is that the emotion feels real. And that’s because it’s focused on what the songwriter and the character are feeling. Musicians have this amazing — a zillion times more powerful than words — tool they can use, but we, as writers, should aspire to that, to reach that lyric register where you’re trying to get at the heart of a very emotionally complex and troubling moment, and you slow down, instead of trying to race through it. And the music inherent in the language hopefully emerges. It sounds really easy to say, “Well, just slow down where it hurts,” or any of my bromides. But then it turns out to be very difficult, in fact. “Just tell the truth about the things that matter to you the most deeply”— I always say that. Okay, great Almond. Sounds easy. I’ll just do that. But it’s hard. And it took me until I was 35 to even start doing that, and I mean start doing it.
I’m always saying and recognizing that the kind of writer I am – and reader, for that matter – is I want to know that the author cares deeply and maybe even disastrously about what’s happening on the page with his or her characters. When I would hear these musicians, when I was in grad school especially, I would say, That’s what I want to get to. Literary writing should give us permission to be more emotional than we are in our regular lives.
10. Don’t Blame Me For that Stupid Song Stuck in Your Head
When I play Toto during a lecture – it’s less true of Styx – but Air Supply, okay, a lot the audience is having this complicated experience of saying, “I know that song’s cheesy, so I’m sort of laughing at it out of one side of my mouth, but out of the other side of my mouth I’m singing along.” What can you say? The band found a beautiful melody – or, at least, a stubbornly catchy melody – and it’s good enough to have dignified whatever clichéd language comes rolling out of the singer’s mouth, and you fall for it. You fall for it over and over again. I know people are going to be pissed because they’re going to have those songs stuck in their head, but it wasn’t me. It was some classic rock DJ.
That being said, everyone can find those bands in two seconds. I hope they look for Ike Riley, Boris McCutcheon, Nil Lara, Dayna Kurtz, Bob Schneider, Gil Scott Heron, etc. What I really hope happens is that people will make their way to these much less known, much more obscure musicians. I totally stand by them. I know that if I can force people to listen to them a few times, they’ll say, “You’re right. That’s the shit. That’s real music.”
Read Liz Prato’s “My Son’s Father” and Steve Almond’s “A Bird of the Parrot Family” in LAR Issue 6.
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Posted on 10 Jul 2012 by Michael J. Solender
Charlotte resident Lashonda Perry has a future that looks bright. Perry, 26, is thriving in her role as a licensed insurance agent for industry leader Allstate. Growing up in Charlotte as part of a single parent household, success for her was not always clearly in focus. Perry said the dropout prevention program, Communities In Schools made all the difference for her.
Perry participated along with other family members in Communities In Schools intervention programs when she was in middle school at Coulwood, and high school at West Charlotte. “It really made a significant difference for me,” said Perry. “I received leadership skills training and also was continually encouraged to dream big and know that anything was possible. The programs and people were very inspiring for me.”
A North Carolina A&T University graduate, Perry is a volunteer for Communities In Schools where she is a weekly “lunch buddy” and mentor to a ten year-old student at Walter G. Byers Elementary school. Perry feels strongly about delivering the same kind of support she received as a youngster and knows firsthand how support, encouragement and positive role models can make a difference in the lives of students at risk of dropping out of school.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Communities In Schools is an affiliate of the national Communities In Schools network, serving over 6,500 students annually in 44 high poverty Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools who are most at-risk for dropping out. Their mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. As the nation’s leading dropout prevention organization, Communities In Schools is helping build a stronger local community where every child is capable of reaching his or her greatest potential.
May Johnston is the community relations director for Charlotte CIS. “We work with children beginning in kindergarten all the way through high school,” said Johnston, “It is critical that our kids have the support they need whether it is a good breakfast and snacks so they are ready to learn or having the appropriate school supplies and resources necessary, CIS is there to provide support.
Perry and Johnston were two of the over one thousand participants at a recent celebration recognizing more than 600 graduating high school seniors from 12 area high schools and 400 underclassmen who were recognized for attendance and other scholastic achievements for the 2012 school year. The celebration was held at Time Warner Cable Arena Uptown and was a joyful and enthusiastic event. Statistics shared at the celebration cited 99% of the program’s participants systemwide stayed in school for the prior year and 88 % of CIS students had a 90% or greater daily attendance average.
Perry has taken her enthusiasm for the outreach program to her workplace and through the Allstate Foundation secured a one thousand dollar grant for her outreach idea that will work to establish a community garden at the elementary school where she mentors. The Allstate Foundation donation to Charlotte CIS was part of their “Give Outside the Box” program where the company encouraged its employees to think about how they would spend $1000 to make a difference in their community. 37 such grants were made to nonprofit organizations across the country through the program.
“We are thrilled to be a recipient of such generosity,” said Johnston. “And knowing that the idea for the donation came from one of our former students was really heartwarming. Lashonda is a role model that others can truly look up to.”
Lashonda Perry would have it no other way.
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Thursday in Mooseville – Unholy Alliances: DeMille and the Fraternal Order of Eagles 3/7/19
by DoReMI • March 7, 2019
Ten Commandments Monument from the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. Austin, Texas. Photograph by J. Williams. (Aug. 26, 2002)
“How can ‘Christians’ support the current pResident?” is a question we’ve all heard over and over again. I, however, think it’s the wrong question, or at least a question that is asked without benefit of a particular type of historical background. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to provide some of that background through stories of past and current “unholy alliances” with the hope that they point to a path for recognizing the tactics used, re-centering conversations, and reclaiming our right to weigh in on issues of morality (whether defined as “Christian” or not).
If you know little about Cecil B. DeMille beyond “Hollywood director,” you’re probably in good company. If you decided you wanted to know a bit more, it’s likely that Step One would be a visit to his Wikipedia page, where one can read about a long, successful career, with only one sentence noting, “DeMille was a lifelong conservative Republican activist.” (Cecil B. DeMille) What’s missing is both accuracy and nuance. There is little reason to doubt that DeMille was sincerely and explicitly devout in his younger years, or that he found the Bible to be a great source for film ideas. But his apparent religious conservatism did not make him a lifelong conservative Republican activist. There is little evidence of political activity for the first 50 years of his life (although he later crafted a retrofitted and largely fictional persona of activism with the aid of studio publicists); in a 1931 Variety interview, he stated that the public “has been milked” by big business, which is hardly the argument of a Republican; and in 1932, he voted for Roosevelt, claiming only later that his vote was driven by the desire to have Prohibition repealed (which also raises questions about the extent of his “devoutness” given the role of so many churches, including the American Episcopal Church in promoting temperance). It is far more likely that DeMille, whose biographers generally portray him as a consummate showman, a benevolent despot, and a selfish opportunist, started on his path to political conservatism when personal income taxes and a tax audit led him to believe that he was being oppressed by the government, which was taking all of his money.
Whatever his motivation, by Roosevelt’s second term, DeMille was well on his way to becoming committed Republican and a supporter of James Fifield’s Spiritual Mobilization. By 1945, as an extension of his own anti-union battles within the radio industry, he started his own foundation, the DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom. As the hagiographic Cecil B. DeMille Foundation describes it:
After hosting Lux Radio Theatre for nearly nine years, DeMille opposed the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA, later AFTRA) when it required its members to contribute a dollar towards a political campaign supporting the closed shop. Though in favor of unions, DeMille decried political assessment fees and refused to pay the dollar tribute. He was suspended from the union in January 1945. His action cost him the Lux job and banished him from radio (and later television) for the rest of his life. In 1947 Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, assuring that no one can be denied the right to work for refusal to pay a political assessment. Senator Robert A. Taft said that DeMille’s refusal to pay the dollar had drawn widespread attention to an abuse of union power.
A grassroots movement gave birth to the DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom. When the organization began in September, 1945, only two states had had right-to-work laws on their books. At the time of DeMille’s death in 1959 there were nineteen. Cecil B. DeMille Legacy
Meanwhile, across Middle America…
The Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE) was formed in 1898, and in its early years was noted for its role in promoting the establishment of a national Mother’s Day and for its support of Social Security. With membership requirements that were explicitly white-only and Christian, it was unsurprising that they took up a campaign to distribute framed paper scrolls printed with the Ten Commandments. The program was started by Eagle and judge, E.J. Ruegemer of Minnesota, who was dismayed when a juvenile defendant in his court admitted he didn’t know the Ten Commandments. The judge sentenced the boy to learn (and obey) the commandments; as head of the Eagles’ Youth Guidance Commission, he persuaded the order to distribute copies of the commandments.
In 1947, Minnesota Judge E. J. Ruegemer sentenced a youth who had stolen the family car and hit a pedestrian to learn the Ten Commandments. From this case, Ruegemer got the idea for the Eagles Ten Commandments program.
Starting in 1951, the Fraternal Order of Eagles distributed framed copies of an Eagles version of the Ten Commandments to courthouses and schools in Minnesota. The purpose was to indoctrinate youths in Judeo-Christian morality with the expectation that they would conduct their lives according to “God’s Law.” The program went national in 1953. Fraternal Order of Eagles Ten Commandment Monuments Program (1951-2010)
It is estimated that by 1954 almost 10,000 of these framed scrolls had been distributed across the country, to cities, churches and schools; to civic and religious groups; and to individuals.
And then a consummate showman has a brainstorm…
In 1952, DeMille had begun planning his next film, The Ten Commandments. Although he had done a movie on the topic in 1923, he felt the times were ripe for another rendition.
“The great clash between two beliefs is dramatized,” the director explained to the Los Angeles Times. “Rameses II represents the ruler governing only by his own whims and caprices, whereas Moses brought to the people a rule of life which was eternal and right because it came from the Supreme Being.” “It is the story of human freedom,” he told the Washington Post, “whether men are to be ruled by law or by whims of dictators, whether they are to be free souls under God or whether they belong to the state.” (Kruse, Kevin, One Nation Under God: How Corporate American Invented Christian America, Basic Books, 2015, p. 142)
(Note: those 30 years of Moses life were pretty much a figment of DeMille’s imagination, despite what he says about historians.)
When DeMille heard about the FOEs program of distributing Ten Commandment scrolls, he saw the opportunity to wed his belief in “free souls under God” with a marketing opportunity for his huge, and hugely expensive, film. He urged the Eagles to switch from paper scrolls to stone tablets closer to those described in Exodus. A new program of stone monuments was born, and DeMille, with the help of the Paramount publicity department, worked to ensure that unveilings included stars from the film; Yul Brynner attended one in Milwaukee, Charlton Heston in North Dakota, and promotional materials from Paramount everywhere. The scope of the program changed too. At DeMille’s suggestion, the Eagles worked to present monuments that would become fixtures on state capitol grounds, courthouse lawns, public parks, and even school properties. By the time The Ten Commandments was released in 1956, monuments had been erected on public land for the first time, in 1955 at a public park in Ambridge, PA. No record was kept of how many monuments were donated and erected by Eagles’ groups before the program ended in 2010 (estimates range as high as 4000), but as of January, 194 have been accounted for, with 118 of those on public land (Where are the Eagles Ten Commandments Monuments?) The legacy of the film lingers too: when adjusted for inflation, it is the 7th highest grossing film of all time, and since 1973, it has been aired on network television in primetime during Easter/Passover.
There’s one other legacy of this merger of faith and marketing that was becoming apparent even by 1957. Although the program as originally conceived by the Eagles had received widespread interfaith and interdenominational support, when the push came for placement of monuments on public property, support, especially Jewish support, waned. The American Jewish Congress feared the erosion of the separation of church and state, and local branches of the ACLU also voiced objections. In the 2005 Supreme Court case, Van Orden v Perry, the monument on state Capitol grounds in Austin TX was deemed constitutional (in a 5-4 plurality decision), because it had both a secular (historical) and religious value. Part of the rationale for this distinction is due to the placement of the Austin monument in an area where other historical markers and monuments exist. Interestingly, on the same day the Van Orden decision came down, another case was decided. In McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, two ten commandments displays in two different Kentucky courthouses were ruled unconstitutional in a 5-4 decision. In this case, it was held that no secular or historical purpose existed for the placement of these displays, and their solely religious purpose violated the Establishment Clause.
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5 comments for “Thursday in Mooseville – Unholy Alliances: DeMille and the Fraternal Order of Eagles 3/7/19”
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{{{DoReMI}}} – hucksters gonna huck pretty much. I’ve never understood the appeal of us v. them. Especially not the us=good, them=evil. More especially the us=good so anything we do to them=evil is OK no matter how evil we loudly proclaim it when it’s done to us. I know about it. Goddess knows I’ve lived around it most of my life (not Momma but just about everybody else in the family and who they married even more so). But it’s definitely a really sucker attractant. No easier way to make money than to appeal to that particularly unXtian form of Xtianity. We got mega-churches all over the place – including one just 3 blocks from my house. Whited sepulchers indeed. And the same folks who fall for the mega-church crap actually believe movies are history. sigh. Thanks for your posts. Enjoy isn’t exactly the right word, but definitely appreciated. moar {{{HUGS}}}
I’m not even sure there really was an “us” in DeMille’s vocabulary. His granddaughter has been quoted as saying (and I’m paraphrasing, because naturally, I can’t find the quote now) that DeMille was for whatever was good for DeMille. I’m becoming convinced that one of the hallmarks of conservatism is the emphasis on “me, me, me” and the inability to embrace an inclusive “us, us, us.”
Yup – “me, me, me” on the inside – with a slick con game of “let’s you and him fight while I hold both your coats (and wallets)” on the outside. And that’s allowing the scammers to one more time appropriate what used to be a perfectly good and serviceable word. Conservatism. But then since the MSM is their propaganda arm they are quite successful at Humpty-Dumpty-ing – making words mean what they want them to.
Diana in NoVa
Thanks, DoReMI, this was interesting about DeMille. I hadn’t known that about him. I lived in the American Southwest for much of my youth until I thankfully escaped at age 21. Religion—just one religion—was crammed down our throats, even in school, night and day.
There wasn’t much for a girl to do in those days except go to church every time they opened the door, which I did. I began accompanying a friend of mine to choir practice (this was junior choir) on Wednesday afternoons. I enjoyed it: in my music-starved life, the religious music of the Episcopal church appealed to me. (It still does.) Eventually I joined the Episcopal church as a member. I loved the liturgical year, with Lent, Easter, Advent, and so on.
For years after I grew up I eschewed religion but while researching a novel involving a long-ago Witch burning, I discovered the religion of the Goddess. I find the concept of a loving Mother Goddess very much more to my taste than the concept of a stern sky god passing judgment on human beings, especially women. I like the fact that in the Goddess religion women are considered sacred beings made in the image of the Great Mother rather than looked on as dirty, inferior, sex-crazed beings out to cause the downfall of pious, God-fearing men.
I’ll stop there! :) Thanks for this post and I look forward to reading the others.
Several years ago I read The Case for God by Karen Armstrong, and it put into words so much of what I believe. It starts as a summary of the history of “God” or the god concept or the sacred reality (depending upon which language you prefer). Although my beliefs are monotheistic, I don’t reject polytheism, but see it as many names for One Sacred. I don’t see the Sacred as male (although my tradition clearly tends that way), but as the Divine Mother, which is entirely consistent with early beliefs in the Divine Feminine. When my tradition uses the language, “Come, Holy Spirit, come,” I don’t see it as substantially different from when you or bfitz talk about healing energy. I’ve had some pastors who were horrified by my beliefs and my path to “heresy”, but surprising absolutely no one, they were also horrified by my political beliefs. I’ve had pastors who felt my beliefs were a touch unorthodox for Methodism, but they in no way felt there wasn’t space for me in the church or that I should be stripped of the identity of “Christian.” At any rate, if you ever get the time and/or inclination for a heavy, but fascinating, read, I strongly recommend Karen Armstrong’s book.
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Astigmatism- The Genetic Disorder
By Emily Gartner
What is Genetic Disorder?
There are many different types of genetic disorder which are all caused by abnormalities or mutations in a person's DNA. These abnormalities can range from a little change in the eye to an entire limb being deformed to a severe mental illness. These abnormalities can be a single gene mutated or a group of genes out of place, which can be inherited or totally new to the person's family. Whatever the disorder is, it is both unique in some way to the person and has a treatment, either discovered or waiting to be found.
Astigmatism is a genetic/inherited disorder that exists in the eye and can cause many issues in a person's vison. An astigmatism can be one of two forms, both abnormalities in the eye's shape. The two forms of astigmatism are:
Corneal Astigmatism which is caused by the cornea of the eye being an irregular shape, making the light refract or bend.
Lenticular Astigmatism is where the lens of the eye is an improper shape, which also makes the light bend.
Astigmatism is an extremely common disorder, which occurs in two-thirds of the population of near-sighted people and in over 80% of Americans. Most often astigmatism is something one is born with, when the eye doesn't form to be perfectly semetric in the womb. In some less common situations, a disease, like diabetes causes an astigmatism, by making the eye's lens or cornea change shape. Eyes are often not quite rounded and most mild cases, of irregular cornea or lens shapes, can be adjusted to, avoiding need for glasses or contacts, but in more severe conditions, astigmatism can require correction.
Humans have always been effected by this particular disorder. It causes near/long sightedness, headaches, lazy eye, blurred vison, excessive squinting, eye strain, and sensitivity to light. Most moderate cases have at least one or two symptoms.
There are a verity of treatments for astigmatism, each depending on the severity of the person's condition. The most used treatment is correction lenses. They help filter the light in a way that the eye can pick it up better, without it becoming blurry or distorted. There are three types of lenses commonly used: rigid contact lenses, which are made of glass and plastic, gas permeable contact lenses, that are made out of polymers, which allow oxygen behind the lens, and soft contact lenses, that are made of water and polymer, that lets the water and oxygen to touch the eye, but not the plastic. Soft lenses are disposable. The other treatment for astigmatism is laser-eye surgery, where a laser is used to cut the cornea of the eye into a more symmetrical shape. The most used forms of this type of surgery include: Photorefractive keratectomy, when the cornea is cut so that it will heal into a better shape, Lasek, where the whole cornea is removed, then reshaped and put back on the eye, and Lasik, in which a cut is made to the cornea and then the cut is lifted and the eye is sculpted underneath, which is the least painful treatment of the three surgeries. While the laser-eye surgery can be a good, perminant correction of astigmatism, it can also have some bad side effects, such as correctional error, epithelial in-growth, ectasia, and keratitis, all of which could cause worsened vision and need for further surgery, however the chances of their occurence in extremely minute.
What is Gene Therapy?
Gene therapy is where a gene is used to prevent/fight a disorder or disease. The gene is either injected or placed in the indivdual at risk and it replace a mutated gene or deactivate it before it continues causing problems. It is useful, yet dangerous method that is very effective in genetic disorders and inherited diseases.
While gene therapy is used on other disorders like it, gene therapy isn't yet used to correct astigmatism.
Brief description of what astigmatism is and diagram.
What is astigmatism? Link: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158810.php
What is a genetic disorder? Link: http://www.geneticalliance.org/diseases
More about astigmatism. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/physical_health/conditions/astigmatism2.shtml
What is gene therapy? Link: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/therapy/genetherapy
Images/video:
Top image of eyes. Link: http://www.accuvision.co.uk/astigmatism.html
Lower image of eyes. Link:http://www.theeyepractice.com.au/_blog/Optometrist-Sydney/tag/LASIK/
Video explaining astigmatism. Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkGYEbgC9c
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Japan Must Keep U.S. Military Ties
Strategic dialogues have been taking place between Japan and the United States for some time now over Washington’s plans to realign U.S. armed forces in Japan, part of the ongoing reforms of U.S. troop placements abroad. But they have reportedly made little progress–a situation that causes little surprise to me.
As in the past, whenever I hear about bilateral strategic talks, I cannot help but feel it strange because Japan has no real security strategy. What we see, instead, is a position the government has created over the years by compounding one parliamentary reply upon another in response to lawmakers’ questions.
If the government stated, for example, that the Japanese-U.S. alliance had much to contribute to global security, it would be a commendable declaration of the country’s national security strategy. However, it would typically be criticized by the opposition in the Diet and subsequently the government would say it meant that if Japan ensured its security thanks to the alliance with the United States, such a situation would then contribute to global security. It would be forced to give a further pledge that Japan would by all means stick to a policy of exclusively defending itself–and would not involve itself in activities ensuring global security.
Such policy statements in the Diet appear to be prepared by lazy, precedent-dominated bureaucrats. But they perhaps denote something more strategically deep-rooted in the background. While the Japanese government characteristically lacked its own strategy, the communist bloc during the Cold War had a steadfast Marxist-Leninist strategy. It aimed at restricting the role of Japan and that of U.S. Forces Japan in the global theater, and the leftist camp in Japan was instrumental in making such a policy pervasive in the Diet.
The Japan Socialist Party’s clout eventually vanished. Today, the existing leftist parties–the Social Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party–are supported only by a few percent of the population.
Yet, the evolution of Japan’s security strategy continues to be habitually restricted by the government’s past answers to parliamentary questions, which a great majority of the Japanese no longer pay attention to. Now is the time to ponder Japan’s grand strategy for national security without being bothered by the past parliamentary accounts.
The grand or far-reaching strategy for Japan is, needless to say, to maintain the security of the Japanese people and promote the prosperity of the nation. The notion of security also embraces the independence and freedom of the nation. Independence of this kind has nothing to do with what some people envisage when they resort to, often only verbal, anti-American gestures, believing such behavior will lead to Japan’s “independence” from the United States.
If Japan had been invaded by the Soviet Union during the Cold War era, it would have lost both the freedom of its people and its independence as a nation. Likewise, if Japan yields to a military threat from North Korea today, we will be trapped in an emergency. Yes, the very independence of Japan as a nation matters. Prosperity means the sustainable existence of our nation–it means something more important than the prevailing state of the economy or some friction in trade talks.
Since 1868, when Japan broke from centuries of seclusion, one premise has been in place regarding the country’s relations with the rest of the world. Relying on natural resources from other countries and maintaining overseas markets to earn hard currencies to import resources, this maritime nation has had to cooperate with the Anglo-Americans dominating the seven seas of the earth. Japan had been safe and free and prospered for more than 20 years following the signing of a military alliance with Britain in 1902. Since World War II, the country has been in a similarly favorable position thanks to its alliance with the United States.
Considering the above-mentioned postulate is certain to be relevant in the foreseeable future, the grand strategy of Japan is to maintain the Japanese-U.S. alliance. If we can work out such a strategy, our security and prosperity will remain guaranteed into our children’s generation and that of our children’s children.
The country’s grand security strategy, once mapped out, will serve as the starting point for any security-related issues and will provide solutions as required. If the government is questioned in the Diet, for example, on its exit plans of Self-Defense Forces personnel in Iraq and what extent of casualties among SDF members will influence a decision on their withdrawal, its answer will be clear-cut. The government can say: “As we have deployed SDF units in Iraq as part of our determination to keep the Japanese-U.S. alliance, we will pull SDF personnel out of Iraq once we feel confident the bilateral alliance has been effected favorably. In other words, we must not withdraw SDF members from Iraq if it damages the alliance even to the slightest extent.”
In reality, the government would have no other alternatives, regardless of demands for withdrawal from the opposition–quibbling one way or the other by interpreting laws.
It is easier said than done to maintain and strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance. We frequently encounter skeptical arguments–“Is it wise for Japan to place so much faith in the United States?” or “Won’t the United States engage with China over the head of Japan?” However, those who raise such questions cannot provide any viable alternatives when asked. Here lies the pivot of all the problems surrounding Japan’s grand strategy for national security.
As for the Japanese-U.S. alliance, Japan has no other choice but to maintain it, given the geopolitical environment surrounding the country and its national strength. On the other hand, for a superpower like the United States, the alliance with Japan is nothing but a better option among many others. These facts can lead us to draw up Japan’s optimal security strategy. The utmost strategy for national security is to let Japanese-U.S. relations evolve in a way that help establish the nation as the best strategic partner for the United States.
According to press reports, the focal points of discussion between Tokyo and Washington over the new configuration of USFJ include the relocation to Japan of the command of the U.S. Army’s 1st Corps from the U.S. mainland. Behind the U.S. proposal is a desire to give Japan further importance as a strategically vital location. This development reflects Washington’s continuous emphasis on Japan in its global strategy, as clearly expressed in the so-called Armitage Report in October 2000, In this regard, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should be commended for his dedication to deepening mutual trust, which must have prompted the United States to proceed with the realignment of its forces in Japan. Indeed, Japan’s position is its best in years.
Nevertheless, the government appears hesitant in taking advantage of this golden opportunity because of its interpretation of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. The government seems to be clinging to its traditional stand that the security pact exists for the security of Japan and the Far East alone. Therefore, according to this theory, the relocation to Japanese soil of a higher class command involved in U.S. global strategy will be contrary to the spirit and purpose of the treaty.
Certainly, Article 6 of the treaty stipulates: “For the purpose of contributing to the security of Japan and the maintenance of international peace and security in the Far East, the United States of America is granted the use by its land, air and naval forces of facilities and areas in Japan.” However, the treaty does not restrict U.S. military activities to the aforementioned areas. The restrictive clause in the pact requires prior consultations with Japan when the United States plans a major change in the forces configuration in Japan, including weaponry, or when it wants to launch attacks directly from its bases in Japan.
For its part, the Japanese government does not seem to believe that a command relocation to Japan amounts to a major change of the configuration of forces and weaponry. The government’s worry–that a command transfer may give the impression that USFJ will have global military functions–is only reminiscent of its past answers to Diet questions from the now-defunct Japan Socialist Party. Actually, U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture have been functioning as vital rear facilities for Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean since the Cold War. In the ongoing war on terrorism, U.S. marines based in Okinawa Prefecture and the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, based at Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, are often deployed to areas far from Japan. What these facts show is that it is a fiction to continue insisting that Japan should not allow USFJ to take up missions that have nothing to do with the security of Japan and that of the Far East.
The maintenance of the Japanese-U.S. alliance essentially is based on the mutual trust. This means Japan should cooperate with the United States internationally regardless of location to strengthen mutual trust, in order to serve the interests of the Japanese people.
Connected to this, Article 6 of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty should be reinterpreted for the U.S. side: “Do not forget that Japan grants the use of areas by the U.S. military for the purpose of contributing to the security of Japan and the maintenance of peace and security in the Far East. Nonetheless, this does not mean that use of USFJ facilities in Japan for global purposes is forbidden. Rather, Japan has cooperated with the United States’ use of its Japanese bases for international operations. But do not, under any circumstances, spare your commitment to the defense of Japan.”
From the Japanese standpoint, authorizing the U.S. military to use facilities in Japan can be justified as long as the United States does not neglect the defense of the country. In practice, the United States has practiced to apply measures to fill any defense vacuum when USFJ units and the Yokosuka-based aircraft carrier are on global missions.
As for the proposed relocation of the command of the U.S. Army’s 1st Corps, it has nothing to do with the so-called “base issue” raised by residents around USFJ bases since the command staff alone–not its combat troops and weapon systems–will be transferred to Japan. Procrastinating and hesitating over this issue will have a negative effect on the overall interests of people in both countries.
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The instrumental background has been removed to leave only the vocals. The result is a delight!
Most of the songs released by the British band The Queen have become international hits. The band members performed on the largest scenes of the world, and the vocal-only version of the rock band leaves us speechless.
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“Bohemian Rhapsody” was released in 1975. Composed by Freddie Mercury, the song is part of the album “A Night at the Opera”. The interpretation brings into evidence the amazing voices of the band’s artists, and the harmonies that only a musician like Freddie Mercury can bring to life.
The song is six minutes long, and consists of several sections of vocal interpretation: an introduction, a ballad, an opera-like fragment, a segment of hard rock, and a grand ending. The song belongs to the genre of progressive rock trending in the 1970s, and it became one of the best-selling singles of all time, with over 6 million copies sold around the world.
Without the instrumental background, the voices of the band members bring into evidence the beauty of this immortal song. This special version of the song uses the original audio recording and part of the fantastic guitar solo by Brian May.
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Red Sox announce front office moves
The Red Sox officially announced a number of front office personnel moves on Tuesday, some which had been reported earlier this offseason. The highlights included notable promotions from within, the creation of a new Behavioral Health Program, and the hiring of a few well-known names from outside the organization.
One of the most notable moves, which had first been reported back in November, is the promotion of Raquel Ferreira to Vice President of Baseball Operations. Ferreira is just the third woman to hold the title of vice president for a Major League Baseball organization. Ferreira most recently served as the organization’s senior director of minor-league operations, a role she held for the last three seasons. Ferreira is a Rhode Island native who graduated from the University of Rhode Island, and has worked with the Red Sox for the last 16 years. For more on Ferreira, be sure to check out friend of the site Alex Speier's excellent podcast focusing on her role in the organization.
Also officially announced were the promotions of Amiel Sawdaye and Mike Rikard to Vice President of Amateur and International Scouting and Director of Amateur Scouting, respectively. For more on these promotions, check out James Dunne's report from this past November.
With a commitment to devoting focus to the mental side of the game, the Red Sox also announced the hiring of Dr. Richard Ginsburg as director of the team’s new Behavioral Health Program. Ginsburg, who specializes in sports psychology, has been a consultant within the organization since 2013.
Joining Ginsberg will be a team of three mental skills coaches, Bob Tewksbury, Laz Gutierrez and Justin Su’a. Tewksbury had spent nine years in the role before spending 2014 working with the Major League Baseball Players’ Association, and was named by countless players coming up through the Red Sox system as having a major role in their development. According to Speier, now with the Boston Globe, Tewksbury is expected to work with the major league club as well as Triple-A Pawtucket. Gutierrez, who served as the Player Development Programs Coordinator for the last two years and is entering his tenth year with the organization, will provide counseling to players in Double-A Portland, High A Salem, and Low A Greenville. Su’a is new to the organization, coming from the IMG Academy in Florida. He will focus on working with the short-season minor league teams.
The Red Sox also added former major league pitcher Brian Bannister (pictured) to the professional scouting staff. Bannister, who spent five seasons in the majors and was initially drafted by the Red Sox in 2002 (though he chose not to sign), joins the organization as a professional scout and analyst. The 33-year-old Bannister is well-known for his interest and involvement in sabermetric statistics.
Also noteworthy is the addition of Todd Gold, who signs on as an amateur scout for North and South Carolina. Readers may know Gold from his six years with Perfect Game as a scouting supervisor, and he has also spent time as a scout for Baseball Prospectus since 2012.
Tom Kotchman, who was recently announced to be returning for his second season as manager of the Gulf Coast League Red Sox, received a promotion in his other role for the organization, being named crosschecker in Florida. Kotchman led the GCL Red Sox to a league championship in 2014 in his first season as manager, and has more than 30 years of experience within baseball. Last season, he was an amateur scout for Florida.
Here is the full Red Sox press release, covering all of the moves announced today:
Baseball Operations
Raquel Ferreira has been promoted to Vice President, Baseball Administration. A member of the Red Sox organization since 1999, Ferreira is only the third female to be elevated to the position of vice president in a baseball operations department in Major League Baseball. The University of Rhode Island graduate and native of the Ocean State has worked in minor league operations for the club for each of the last 16 years, most recently as Senior Director, Minor League Operations from 2012-14.
Amiel Sawdaye was promoted to Vice President, Amateur and International Scouting. Over the previous five seasons, the University of Maryland graduate has been the club’s Director of Amateur Scouting. He began his career with the Red Sox as an intern in 2002 and moved into the scouting department full time for the 2004 season. A Baltimore, MD native, Sawdaye has been a part of the Red Sox organization for 13 years (2002-present).
Paul Fryer has been hired as Global Crosschecker. Fryer joins the Red Sox with 26 years of scouting experience over stints with the Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations. For the past three years, he worked as national crosschecker for the Dodgers. A native of Scranton, PA, Fryer spent eight years (1978-85) as an infielder in the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and San Francisco Giants minor league systems.
Mark Wasinger has been promoted to Special Assistant, Player Personnel. Wasinger, who has been a member of the Red Sox organization for the last 12 seasons (2003-present), has spent the last four years as a Special Assignment Scout for the club. A former infielder, he played parts of three seasons in the major leagues between the San Diego Padres (1986) and San Francisco Giants (1987-88). The upcoming year will be Wasinger’s 20th in scouting overall, as he also spent seven years with the Padres in that capacity.
Mike Murov was promoted to Assistant Director, Major League Operations. A 2007 graduate of Dartmouth College, Murov has worked for the Red Sox since 2010, most recently as Coordinator, Baseball Operations from 2013-14. Prior to joining the Red Sox organization, the Oakland, CA native interned in the baseball operations departments of the Florida Marlins (2008) and Cincinnati Reds (2009).
Joe McDonald has been hired as Baseball Operations Analyst. A native of Malden, MA, McDonald was hired by the Red Sox as a baseball operations intern in 2013. Prior to joining the organization, the 2011 Boston College graduate was an intern in both the New York Yankees (2011) and Detroit Tigers (2012) baseball operations departments.
Major League Staff
Adrian Lorenzo has been hired as Major League Staff Assistant. A native of Miami, FL, Lorenzo first joined the Red Sox organization in 2013 as a player development department intern in Fort Myers, FL. This past year, he interned in the baseball operations department, in the areas of international scouting and player personnel. Lorenzo also spent part of 2014 as a translator for several Spanish-speaking players on the major league roster. Before coming to the Red Sox, Lorenzo worked in the baseball division of the Wasserman Media Group from 2011-13.
Brian Abraham has been promoted to Assistant Director, Player Development. A native of Worcester, MA, Abraham spent the last two seasons with the Red Sox as a Major League Staff Assistant. Prior to joining the organization, the Holy Cross graduate spent six years with the Toronto Blue Jays (2007-12), primarily working in advance scouting and video operations.
Sports Medicine Service
Dr. Richard Ginsburg, PhD has been hired as Director, Behavioral Health Program. In addition to his role with the Red Sox, Ginsburg also serves as Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital PACES Institute of Sport Psychology, and as the Director of both the MGH Child and Adolescent Group Psychotherapy Program, and Psychological Services at the MGH Youth Concussion Clinic. He is also an assistant clinical professor at both Harvard Medical School and MGH. Ginsburg, a native of Baltimore, MD, originally joined the Red Sox as a consultant in 2013.
Jason Bartley, DPT, OCS was hired as Physical Therapist and Clinical Educator. A native of Vancouver, WA, Bartley spent the last year as a contracted physical therapist for the United States Air Forces Special Operations Command in the United Kingdom. After obtaining a degree in Exercise Science from the University of Puget Sound in 2004, Bartley earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Creighton University in 2007. He is a certified orthopedic clinical specialist by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties, and is fellowship trained in manual physical therapy.
Bob Tewksbury, Laz Gutierrez, and Justin Su’a, MS were named Mental Skills Coaches.
Gutierrez, who is entering his 10th year in the Red Sox organization, has spent the last two seasons as Player Development Programs Coordinator. He has also worked for the club as an amateur scout since 2006, and served as Short-A Lowell’s pitching coach in 2007 and 2010. A former pitcher who played professionally in the Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres minor league systems, Gutierrez attended the University of Miami.
Su’a joins the Red Sox from the IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL where he served as the Head of Mental Conditioning for the last two years. Prior to that position, the native of Torrance, CA, worked as a Performance Enhancement Specialist in the United States Army-SAIC. Su’a obtained his master’s degree in Psycho-Social Aspect of Sport from the University of Utah in 2011. As an undergraduate, Su’a earned a degree from Brigham Young University in 2007, where he pitched on the varsity baseball team and was named an All-American in 2001.
Tewksbury returns to his role at the Red Sox in 2015 after working for the Major League Baseball Players’ Association last year. The former All-Star pitcher and veteran of 13 seasons in the big leagues had previously worked as mental skills coach for Boston for nine years (2005-13). The upcoming year will mark the New Hampshire native’s 16th in the Red Sox organization.
Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD has been named Team Nutritionist. Currently operating a private practice in Newton, MA, Clark, a native of Little Compton, RI, has worked with several athletes among the city’s professional, collegiate, and high school teams. She is the author of Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook, counsels athletes, and leads workshops nationally, and teaches sports nutrition to health professionals. Clark, who served as a nutrition consultant for the Red Sox in 2014, holds a degree in nutrition from Simmons College, and a degree in nutrition with a focus on exercise science from Boston University. She completed her dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Amateur Scouting
Mike Rikard was promoted to Director, Amateur Scouting. A University of North Carolina-Greensboro graduate, Rikard has spent the last 10 years working in the Red Sox scouting department, most recently as national scouting coordinator from 2013-14. Prior to that post, he served as a regional crosschecker (2005-10) and national crosschecker (2010-12) for the club. Rikard began his scouting career as an area scout for the San Diego Padres from 2000-04.
Steve Sanders was promoted to Assistant Director, Amateur Scouting. The upcoming year will mark his fifth in the Red Sox organization. Originally hired by the club as a baseball operations intern in 2011, Sanders served as Coordinator, Amateur and International Scouting in 2014. Prior to joining the Red Sox, the 2010 graduate of Northwestern University interned with the Los Angeles Dodgers in baseball operations from 2009-10.
Tom Kotchman, in addition to his role as the manager of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Red Sox, will serve as a crosschecker for the state of Florida. At the 2014 Winter Meetings, Kotchman, who has over 30 years of service in baseball, was named East Coast Scout of the Year. This weekend in Los Angeles, CA, Kotchman will receive a Legends in Scouting Award from the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation. Kotchman is entering his second season managing the GCL team, which won last year’s league championship.
Todd Gold has been hired as an amateur scout for North Carolina and South Carolina. Prior to joining the Red Sox organization, he spent the last six years (2009-14) as a Scouting Supervisor at Perfect Game. In addition, Gold also worked part time as a scout for Baseball Prospectus from 2012-14.
Stephen Hargett has been hired as an amateur scout for Northern Florida. The graduate of Florida State University spent the last two years as a part-time scout for the Red Sox. Prior to joining the organization, Hargett spent seven years (2006-12) as a part-time scout for the Los Angeles Angels.
Josh Labandeira has been hired as an amateur scout for Northern California. Prior to joining the Red Sox, Labandeira worked in a part-time scouting role with the Kansas City Royals in 2014, and as an associate scout in the Houston Astros system from 2011-13. An infielder, he was a sixth-round selection of the Montreal Expos out of Fresno State University in the 2001 June Draft.
Justin Horowitz has been hired as Assistant, Amateur and International Scouting. A graduate of Georgetown University in 2013, Horowitz began his Red Sox career as an intern in the baseball operations department in 2012. The La Jolla, CA native is entering his fourth year in the organization.
Professional Scouting
Gus Quattlebaum has been named Assistant Director, Professional and International Scouting. Quattlebaum, an Andover, MA native, is entering his 10th year in the Red Sox organization. He originally joined the club in 2006 as a professional scout. The Davidson College graduate began his baseball career as a player development intern for the Montreal Expos in 1998. Before coming to the Red Sox, Quattlebaum served as a scout in the New York Yankees (1999-2003) and Baltimore Orioles (2004-06) organizations. He has spent the past five years with the Red Sox as Assistant Director, Amateur Scouting.
Dave Klipstein has been promoted to Special Assignment scout. Klipstein has 22 years of professional scouting experience in professional baseball over stints with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1993-96), Texas Rangers (1997-2006), and the Red Sox (2006-present) organizations. For the past three years, he was a major league scout for Boston. Klipstein was a 29th round selection of the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1982 June Draft out of Mississippi State University.
Brian Bannister has been hired as a Professional Scout and Analyst. A former pitcher who played five seasons in the majors between the New York Mets (2006) and Kansas City Royals (2007-10), Bannister finished third in American League Rookie of the Year voting with the Royals in 2007. Bannister was originally selected by the Red Sox out of the University of Southern California in the 2002 June Draft, but did not sign.
Francisco Polanco has been hired as an area scout for the Dominican Republic. A former right-handed pitcher, Polanco spent three years playing in the Texas Rangers minor league system before pitching internationally in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and Italy. He worked for the Cleveland Indians as an area scout in 2014, and as an associate scout for the Atlanta Braves in 2013.
Lenin Rodriguez has been hired as an area scout in Venezuela. Prior to joining the Red Sox, Rodriguez spent eight seasons (2000-07) for the Arizona Diamondbacks as an international scout working in Venezuela.
Photo credit: Brian Bannister by Kelly O'Connor.
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Title: Local Industries, Local Government, and No-Confidence in the Hall Ministry; speech delivered in the House of Representatives, 28th July 1881
Author: Richard John Seddon
In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41
Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington
Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout
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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41
Local Industries, Local Government, and No-Confidence in the Hall Ministry
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Local Industries, Local Government, and No-Confidence in the Hall Ministry.
Speech delivered by Mr. Seddon, in the House of Representatives, 28th July, 1881.
[Extracted from Hansard.]
Mr. Seddon.—At this very late period of the debate it is very difficult for any honorable member rising to speak not to travel over the same course, and to repeat a good deal of what has been already said; but I shall, as far as is in my power, endeavour to steer clear of the course that has been followed by others. I will say at once to the House that the subject-matter under discussion is one of vital importance, and I will say further that we have had too much abuse in this debate. We have had too much legislation, too much government, and too little common sense. Members on both sides of the House have taken part in this debate, and they are each wishing to be successful on this occasion: still, I question very much whether or not one or both sides have been doing their duty to the colony. The affairs of this colony have been neglected. We have our vast resources undeveloped. We have our land frittered away, and the birthright of the people taken from them; we have its varied industries left unencouraged, and we have many unemployed in New Zealand. I say this state of things is a scandal and a disgrace to our legislators. I would further say this: that whilst Mature has endowed us with innumerable blessings—while we have a climate superior to any in the Southern Hemisphere—I question very much if it is not superior to any other on the globe—while we have a population which we should be proud of and should endeavour to retain amongst us, they are gradually but surely leaving our shores. I say it is a standing disgrace to this House, which pretends to represent the people, to have such a state of things existing. Here we have been from day to day and night to night debating and legislating; the people are crying for bread, and yet we give them a stone. Under these circumstances we are proving to the world our own incapacity; we are proving to the colonists of New Zealand that we are not the men who should represent them. I say, let us go to the country; let a change take place, and it is quite possible we shall have men returned here fit to originate plans for the well-being of the people—men who will at all events give satisfaction to the colony, and who will prevent that going on which is going on at the present time. I say we have too much government. What have we in New Zealand? We have something like eight hundred governing bodies in the colony. We have Road Board?, River Boards, Highway Boards, River Conservators, County Councils, Borough Councils, Waste Lands Boards, Boards of Education, Cemetery Boards, Local Committees, Benevolent Societies, School Committees, Charitable Aid Boards—the latest—Reserves Commissioners, Cattle Boards, Boards of Health, and also Rabbit Boards. I have been totting them up out of curiosity to see the number. I find of those authorized by this House the total number is something like six hundred and forty-eight. Giving some twenty local School Committees to each education district, these bring up the total to something like eight hundred governing bodies in the colony of New Zealand. I would ask this question: Are the inhabitants of New Zealand a class of people that require to be thus specially provided for?—do they require so much government? The answer must inevitably be "No." I have seen, in this colony, between eight thousand and ten thousand men assembled together—the first pioneers. They worked together, and they appointed from among themselves a Vigilance Committee of twelve men. These men abode faithfully by the decisions of the committee. There were no police or governing body whatever, and yet there was no crime, and no expense attendant upon the governing of these eight or ten thousand men. I say it is the same class of people that we have now in the colony; and how can it be said that we require so much of this government? The cry from the country is not so much that our system of local government is defective; the cry is that there is too much government. The desire is not for that centralization which the Colonial Treasurer speaks of. The people do not want to be governed from Wellington or from any of the large centres of population in the colony; they want one governing body in each district of the colony, with certain powers to govern the people of the district. Let us consider all the expense consequent upon having so many local bodies in the colony. A return was ordered on the motion of my honorable friend the member for Auckland City West (Dr. Wallis). From the returns sent in from the Borough page 2 Councils alone in the year 1878, the total amount they had administered was over £1,200,000; and the total expense of administering this amount was something like £300,000. Seeing that we have so many local bodies administering our affairs, their revenues must be circumscribed, and a great portion of those revenues is absorbed in administrative expenses. I shall be able to prove this from figures at a subsequent period of my address. One-fifth of the total amount which the taxpayers have to subscribe goes to meet the expense of local government. Any Government or set of men who will endeavour once and for ever to put a stop to such a state of things will have my cordial support. I will, for illustration, take the West Coast, a part of the colony with which I am best acquainted. On the West Coast we have nine local governing bodies: we have Borough Councils, County Councils, Road Boards, besides various local committees. I find that the total revenue for the County Councils was £36,000, and for the boroughs £ 15,213. The cost of administering these funds by the nine bodies was something like £12,000. These local bodies are pointing out to me that there is a deficiency, and that they cannot carry on. There are works urgently required to be carried out, but there are no funds. The money has been frittered away. We have too much government on the West Coast. There are largo liabilities which these local bodies feel themselves unable to meet. Therefore, under these circumstances, so far as the West Coast is concerned, a change is absolutely necessary, and I trust that a change will take place with the sanction of this House, because I feel satisfied it will meet with the sanction and approval of those whom I have the honor to represent. Now, with regard to the consolidation of existing statutes. J say that the number of ordinances in force is another standing proof that we have not done our duty to the colony during the present Parliament, or during previous Parliaments. Why, there are ordinances in force in various parts of the colony that are twenty-two or twenty-three years old. This supreme legislative body, those who have had the honor of representing the colonists of New Zealand for a number of years, have not been able to enact for the guidance of the people laws more suited to the wants of the people than those ordinances which were passed twenty-three years ago. I say this may be said to the shame of those who have been in this House for twenty-three years. This is a matter which Las not been grasped by those who have had—shall I say?—the trust of the people of the colony committed to them. Circumstances, no doubt, alter cases. These ordinances that are now in force may be suited to the requirements of each separate district. Those that would suit one part of the colony would not suit another. This House has never attempted—since I have been in it, at all events—to grapple with the question. The people have not had an opportunity of saying what laws would be most advantageous to them, what laws should be passed and substituted for those enacted twenty or thirty years ago. The provincial system was swept away in 1875, and the Colonial Treasurer said he would not meddle until he could amend. I say that he has not been able to amend, and the difficulties placed in his way by those who have been representing the people have been so great that he dare not meddle. The Bill we have before us to-night is the first attempt to meddle or amend. Whoever sit on these benches will be for many years more afraid to meddle, because they will not have the assistance of those who should endeavour to amend. What suited the circumstances of the colony twenty years ago is not suitable now, and, under these circumstances, we are failing in our duty if we do not endeavour to effect an improvement in the existing laws. Now, I said that we had had unjust taxation, and I will ask any member of this House whether he considers the property-tax fair and equitable. I condemned it at once when it was brought forward, but we have been told since that it has worked smoothly, and that the people have contributed freely. Sir, my answer to that statement is that, so long as you have your hand at the throat of local industry, so long as you have the penalty imposed upon the people that they must contribute or be branded with infamy, it cannot truthfully be said that they contribute freely. And, while I would rather see them pay quietly and peaceably that which the law directs they shall pay, instead of massing in numbers and resisting the Acts of the Legislature, still it shall never be said, while I have a voice in this House, that they have paid those taxes cheerfully. I say they have not. In the district I represent we have many mining companies that are paying no percentage whatever upon the outlay. We have had expensive machinery placed upon the ground, and it has been taxed under the property-tax until it has become a losing investment; and, if this goes on in the way it has been going on, it means that the machinery must be removed from the district and taken out of the colony, because it must becomes white elephant in the hands of the owners. I say that if the House had listened to reason at the time we fought for the exemptions it would have exempted machinery for mining purposes and all other classes of machinery used in local industries. We should not have taxed property which is paying 2½ per cent, on all the proceeds, which no other class of property in the colony is paying. I say, under these circumstances, that the property-tax is unjust; and I ask again, why is the shipping not taxed? We were told that there was a difficulty in the way of taxing shipping, and that, if we taxed it, it would be taken away and registered elsewhere. Well, Sir, when I see the results that are obtained by certain companies which are paying very large dividends, and that the whole of their trade and capital is confined to New Zealand, it seems to me that it would have been a great saving if the companies had been taxed and the shipping of this colony made to pay its fair quota to the revenue of the colony. Then I come to another point which I consider unjust, but which I pointed out at the time, although then a very young member of this House, and that is that these large companies in London, which have advanced moneys upon land here page 3 —and which are still, although money is much cheaper, grinding down those who borrow from them—pay no property-tax whatever. Sir, when we have Mr. Tollemache coming forward and voluntarily paying £2,000 to the revenue for property-tax, which he need not have paid, I say that that very considerably strengthens the protest which I made at the time; and when the Treasurer says that he is going to amend the Property-Tax Act in order to meet such cases, it only shows that he would have acted wisely to have inserted this provision when the Bill passed, and then many like myself would not have had so many reasons to complain. I say that the gentlemen who occupy those benches, and those who support them, have not the interests of the large majority of the people at heart. It is the large landed proprietors, and those whose interests he in the breeding of sheep, who make their all out of those I represent: those are the only interests they protect, and, as I look with suspicion upon their actions in the past, I can hope for naught better in the future. One honorable gentleman, acting in the capacity of Government whip,—the honorable member for Motueka,—raised the question of rating lands that had been improved by the public works policy. Sir, that is a question that the public of this colony will, as one man, take up at the next elections. Outlying districts like those I have the honor to represent, and other districts in less favoured spots, such as that of my honorable friend the member for the Bay of Islands, can have no sympathy with the Government, and I feel sure that very few of the representatives of those outlying districts will be found voting with the Government. It is only members like the honorable member for Motueka, who raised a question upon a very important point, who will be afraid to carry out the principles they profess. I say that those who have been enriched at the public expense must and ultimately will be called upon to contribute their fair share to the revenue of the country. Now, Sir, I said that we had too much legislation. One hundred and some odd Bills were placed upon the table the first session I came here. The next session we had a repetition of the same thing, and this year we have it again. It seems to me that the Government first wished to carry out certain principles that had been laid before the country by their predecessors. Some of those principles will prove very beneficial, and will give a large extent of power to the electors of the colony at the next election; but what reform has taken place that is likely to put bread into the mouths of the people? Our Statute Book is swelled year by year; but what great social laws have been carried? Has the social condition of the people been improved? I say, No. The greater number of the Bills have been passed for purely local purposes. I would point out to the Government, and it must be apparent to those who think for themselves, that there has been a great mistake somewhere. Fully two-thirds of our time has been wasted. The Government say that much of this waste of time is due to the opposition of certain parties in the House. They say, "There has been so much debate; the session is so far advanced that the convenience of members must be considered; the harvest-time is coming on; and, after consultation with members on both sides of the House, we have come to the conclusion to withdraw many of our measures." Well, they have been withdrawn, but, so far as the people of the colony are concerned, they have neither got their quid pro quo for the expense incurred nor have they got justice. An honorable member near me says, "That is all the fault of the Government." I am not prepared to go that length. On the West Coast it is generally understood that I always say what I mean, and I accuse myself and ask the House to share with me the responsibility of that loss of time. Sir, I have said that manufactures have been strangled. Now, I put it fairly to the House, have we dealt fairly with the resources we have at command, and with our local industries? I say we have not. There has been legislation on nearly every other subject, but this one has been almost completely ignored. It is true a Local Industries Commission was appointed, but the Government were in this position, that they had to appoint gentlemen on that Commission who had had no experience whatever in manufactures. They were tied down in selection exclusively to members of their own party. And what was the result? What was the report of the Local Industries Commission? It was oily, silky, and soapy, and touched slightly upon tin-pots, crockery ware, and gunpowder. Wow, look at the result! Look at the Press of the colony, and see the bonuses that are offered for local industries. They are simply farcical. I ask, were there any data laid down which would tend to encourage local industries in all parts of the colony, and particularly in the up-country districts? I say, No. They failed irrevocably to carry out what the Government intended them to do. They never visited the West Const at all. It has been said in times gone by that we were part of Victoria. I shall show by figures that we have always been an integral part of New Zealand, and have contributed our fair quota to the revenue of the colony, and specially to the Province of Canterbury, and I say that it was an insult to us on the West Coast that they could not find time to visit us, and give us some encouragement to establish local industries in our midst. And, Sir, I will ask the House, and every thinking man in the colony, to face another difficulty that has been overlooked. In looking at our returns I find that the number of children attending our schools under five years of age is 2,788. From five to seven the number is 16,431; from seven to ten, 26,655; from ten to thirteen, 21,714; from thirteen to fifteen, 6,777; and over fifteen, 1,189. There are attending other schools 10,200. We have, therefore, according to the returns laid on the table, a gross total of 85,764 souls that require to be provided for; and I ask, are we making any provision for them? Again I answer, No. We have at our door boys and girls numbering 21,714, whose parents have a right to say to this House, "Where is the trade for my boys? What am I to do with my girls?" Yes, it is to this House page 4 that they must come. Let us go ahead a couple of years, and we find 26,665 boys and girls in the same category. Within eight years we have to provide for 85,764 youths of both sexes. We have no land for our boys to till. It is monopolized by large owners, and we have sheep where the boys should be. We have no manufactories we can put our boys into. We cannot teach them a trade, and make them independent as many of us feel; because I have always felt that the trade my father placed within my reach has been my independence—has kept and will keep me from pandering—because I feel within myself that if the worst comes to the worst I have a trade by which I can always make £4 to £5 a week. I say our boys will throw it in our teeth and tell us, "You did not make the same provision for us that your parents made for you." We have some industries in four or live centres of population; but I would like to see industries sent out into the country. I do not like to see New Zealand like Victoria, where, when you have seen Melbourne, you have seen Victoria, and Melbourne is Victoria. We have too much of the centralizing tendency in New Zealand. The Local Industries Commission should have visited the outlying districts, and, after carefully going through them and conversing with those who knew their natural resources, they should offer a bonus—if it is the bonus principle we are to stand by for starting a particular industry in a particular spot, so that it would give encouragement to local capitalists or capitalists from a distance to erect plant and start an industry. If that had been the case, we should have other permanent industries following. We should have manufacturing industries in farming districts. A farmer does not want to make all his boys farmers. We should have local industries so that he might give some of his boys a trade. We have nothing of that kind. I will refer to the West Coast as another illustration. We have there 26,000 inhabitants. What is the result? We find that our principal imports are candles, soap, boots, and shoes. Now, a gentleman did start an industry there in the shape of a tannery. The property-tax has pressed very harshly and injuriously upon him, and with difficulty he has survived the infliction. We have a large export of tallow, and a large import of candles and soap. Why could not the Local Industries Commission come there and say that they would give a bonus which would be equal to half the capital for starting a candle and soap manufactory, and also for the manufacture of boots and shoes, the leather for which we tan in the district? Had that been the case you would not have that which I see every day. I see miners with large families who could for years to come earn £2 and £3 per week, leaving the district, and saying, as their only reason, "We have a large family. We have no trade here for our boys. "We do not know what to do with our girls. For the sake of them we have to go to serfdom, and work for 30s. a week in the large centres of population in other parts of the colony." That shows a rotten state of affairs. It proves conclusively we are neglecting the interests of those we are sent here to represent. It will be my cry, and I would ask it to be the cry of the Opposition, that we should make some attempt to provide for the children we have in this colony. It is criminal for those who bring them here to neglect to make provision for them. Why should we not provide for them when Nature has given us everything, and when we have such vast resources? Let us abstain from party warfare, and do something as one man for those who are here and cannot get away. Single men can go away, as we saw two hundred or two hundred and fifty of them go away the other day in the "Wakatipu;" but it is those who i are left behind that 1 feel for—fathers who have to term themselves "the unemployed," in a country like this. They cannot go to the gold fields, because they are unacquainted with mining work. If we had them on the West Coast we would soon make independent men of them. There is no work for the unemployed in the large centres; and in the country machinery has taken the place of men so far as agriculture is concerned. We find them begging for bread, and yet they have large families to support. They should have an opportunity to find trades for their children. Now, Sir, I come to the professions. Is there a distinction drawn as far as they are concerned? My answer is, Yes. So far as the large centres are concerned, you have your high schools and colleges. They are endowed with what? With land now becoming valuable—land which belongs to the colony. And they are actually coming to this House and saying, "Give us power to sell." They feel that the people of the colony are grasping the situation. They feel, as I feel, that they will not allow all the money which belongs to the colony to be expended for the sole and exclusive benefit of a particular class or set in a district. As far as my voice goes, I will endeavour to defeat every attempt in that direction. We find; that a select few—Government nominees—control those colleges. There is a certain routine to be gone through, and the mass of the people cannot send their boys and girls to those schools from other parts of the colony because the distances are so great. The boys and girls on the West Coast compete with the rest of the; colony for scholarships and hold their own, but their parents cannot send them away to Christ-church, Dunedin, Wellington, or Auckland. We must look to that. The funds are sometimes voted by this House, and are in a great measure got from the lands of the colony, and we should endeavour to prevent that. Then, again, in many instances, the fees charged in these schools are quite prohibitive; and in other cases a man cannot afford to send his boy to a lawyer's office to sit there for three or five years. The lawyers have full control. We find them on the move now. They presented a petition to-day through the honorable member for Grey Valley (Mr. Weston). That exclusive sect, that conservative body, are on the move trying to check popular opinion, trying to hold to what they have got, and saying, "No one shall come here except those whose parents are well-to-do." I should be neglecting my duty—this House would be neglectful of the trust re- page 5 posed in it—if we allowed those persons to preserve their exclusiveness. In other countries who have been the brightest gems of the legal profession? Look at Lincoln, the woodcutter. Did he spring from this conservative sect? No. Yet he was an ornament to the profession, whom the world universally looked up to, and whose memory it respects. That should teach us a lesson in New Zealand, and we should not say that this or any other profession shall be exclusively for those who have wealth. We should say that they shall be open to all who possess merit, integrity, and perseverance, and who are skilled in what is required. If that is done, I feel satisfied we shall have a better class, as honest a class, and a class less exclusive and conservative in the ranks of the profession. I speak with all due sincerity, and I do trust that the House will consider this matter, and, as one man, will support that which I believe to be for the interest and welfare of the colony as a whole. I said we were rich in mineral resources. I find that a very able writer in the Melbourne Age commenting upon the New Zealand exhibits, says that he was astonished, and that the whole Southern Hemisphere must be astonished, to find that New Zealand could make such a display of minerals. We have every mineral required to make a country great. We find that Victoria has one very great want—the want of coal; yet she is progressing so far as industries are concerned. We have here every mineral necessary to make a country great; but what encouragement is given to develop those resources? They are cramped in every shape and form. We had a fine display in the library the other day, and no doubt our Otago friends are quite right in bringing this House face to face with facts—that they have certain minerals in parts of their district. I saw a fine display in the library the other day, and when I asked the question, "What is required to foster and encourage the development of these resources? " I was told railway communication and lower charges where the railways are already constructed. Now, if we are to export copper, if we are to develop our antimony, these industries must not be strangled by railway tariffs unsuited to the occasion. Then, if other districts are to be left out in the cold, and the policy of Sir Julius Vogel is not to be carried out, what is the use of our resources? All our population will be sheep-farmers and agriculturists, and the resources Nature has given us will be altogether ignored. I do not blame the Government very much for not paying more attention to this, for I feel satisfied that they do their best. As at present constituted, they do not know how to encourage and foster the development of our mineral resources. If we go a little farther, and go to the various departments, we shall find that the Under-Secretaries, and those who reign supreme in those departments, know less than the honorable members on the Government benches. I say that our Mines Department is neglected—the mineral resources of the colony are neglected, and will be so until some Government are in power who will have the courage to say, " We will place and have amongst us some one who understands what is required for this department, and who will be better able to deal with matters that are unknown to us." Before going on to the subject of local government, I will ask the House to believe me that from fifteen years' experience I ought at all events, if I am not too obtuse, to know something about local self-government. We have had on the West Coast the first county system tried; since that, the provincial system; and now we are working under the county system. So that, under the circumstances, what I may have to say I trust will be listened to with attention, and from that experience which I shall give—though I may differ somewhat from the honorable member for Clive, the honorable member for Cheviot, and the honorable member for Bruce—still in the scheme I am about to propose, though there are so many, I trust I may be able to claim a little originality. It is as follows: (1.) There should be only one local body in each district—the local council—which should have power to administer all matters except police, education, lunatics, surveys, railways, machinery, prisons, mines, and justice. (2.) The present provincial districts should be subdivided. Then a Waste Lands Board for each district should be formed, constituted as follows: The Government to appoint a Chief Commissioner; the Chief Surveyor also to be a member. The other members to be elected in the following manner: Each present land district to be divided into five ridings. The ratepayers then to elect the five members. (3.) On and after the 1st January, 1882, that, with the exception of Borough Councils of boroughs containing ten thousand inhabitants, all existing local bodies, by whatever name designated, be abolished. (4.) That a Commission be appointed, whose duties shall be as follows: (a) To determine the boundaries of each local Council; (b) To determine and settle accounts as between those local bodies whose districts may be subdivided and altered. (5.) That the ratepayers of any district who are dissatisfied with the decision of the said Commission as to settlement of accounts shall have the right to appeal to a Judge of the Supreme Court, whose decision shall be final. (6.) That, once the boundaries of each local district have been defined by the Commission, any separation, amalgamation, or alteration shall be left solely to the ratepayers interested and resident in the districts wishing such change. (7.) That all Acts of the General Government and Provincial Ordinances dealing with the question of local government, and now in force in each district, remain in force until repealed by this House, or replaced by by-laws made by the local Councils; such by-laws, before having effect, to be signed by His Excellency the Governor, and to he on the table of the House one session. (8.) That, in addition to the revenues now allocated to local bodies, the Colonial Treasurer shall be entitled to pay to each local Council, upon a capitation basis, the amounts received by him from the property-tax and beer duty; further, that in lieu of tolls cattle, sheep, horses, and vehicles be taxed. Now, Sir, the proposals contained therein I contend should be carried out. They do away with too much government. They define the powers, page 6 and they say there shall be only one local body in each district. We have Road Boards performing the same functions as County Councils. We have Highway Boards and River Boards doing exactly work that could be done by the one body. As an illustration of that, I will show you what occurs on the West Coast. I have seen a gentleman sit at the table of the City Council. I have seen him go two or three doors from that, and sit as member of a Board of Education. I have seen him go a little further, and sit as a member of the Waste Lands Board. I have seen him, after that, sit next day as a member of a Road Board for the district. I have then, Sir, seen him sit as Chairman of a local School Committee. And not he alone, but three or four of his colleagues; and I would ask a question of the House: Under these circumstances, would not the same men, with the powers given to them to deal with these subjects, be just as able to sit at one table, and, with the clerk, be able to deal with the subjects I have enumerated? Most decidedly so. But it is not a question of saying they are not capable of doing it. The public say they are capable of doing it. The public have to pay a certain amount of administrative expense, and, under these circumstances, I say, any Government that would come on those benches and say, "Sweep them away, abolish them, and let there be only one body in each district which shall perform those functions "—that Government, I say, would do away with the difficulty we have at the present time. I know that in Canterbury they are very much in favour of Road Boards. In the North Island they are also in favour of Road Boards; and what is the reason? The boundaries of the counties were fixed by an Act of Parliament hastily passed. They had no time to consider the wishes of the ratepayers. Each of these districts has its Road Board within the county, and each Road Board has its Chairman. The various Boards raise certain revenues in themselves, and, when they raise it, it is spent within themselves. That, Sir, is the true secret of their wishing to retain Road Boards. In Canterbury—in some parts of it, at all events—we know why they wish to retain them. They have had a law in operation which, to a great extent, at the time may have been considered right, but it seems to me at all events to have been a fallacy as far as the rest of the colony is concerned, because the land has been opened up at the public expense; the railways that have been made have enhanced the value of that land; that land has been sold, and now from the funds derived from the land sold they have been able from this day forward and for ever to refrain from taxing themselves. The interest on the money of the Boards deposited in the banks is sufficient to maintain the roads. I do not wonder, under these circumstances, that they wish to retain Road Boards, because any change that took place would mean that this money must be circulated and expended in public works. I say, Sir, it is to their shame that within a few miles of one of these Road Boards we have a cry to this House to find labour for the unemployed. We see that they, or those who represent these districts, find fault with the Colonial Treasurer's proposals. I do not wonder at it. It is only by letting these facts be known to the House that we find where the objection comes from, and the cause of that objection. Sir, with my proposals we get over the difficulty of the division of this money, which must be divided some day or other. We allow them to retain their Road Boards as at present; we do not destroy them, and any Ordinance at the present time suitable we allow them to retain. I do not disturb the existing state of affairs, except saying there shall be only one local body. Take, for instance, our fencing and impounding. We find that last session an attempt was made to introduce and pass through a Bill dealing with these subjects. What was the result? I, on behalf of a Westland constituency, objected to an alteration, because they wanted certain principles conserved which this House would take from them. We saw the same objection taken in Auckland; and under these circumstances it was shown that, in questions of this nature, the West Coast of New Zealand was distinct and different in all its bearings from other parts of the colony. We must be allowed to govern ourselves, and get that which we know to be for our own salvation. Look at our land, for instance. On the West Coast £2 an acre is the amount we pay for land. £2 an acre on the West Coast, as compared with what you pay on the Waimate Plains of Canterbury and Otago, means £102. That is a very large difference; and I may tell you that, while you can put in your plough in Canterbury and bring out results that will pay, in Westland it means £80 an acre before you can put your plough into it at all; and after taking off two or three crops it requires artificial manuring. If you would only give to the people the right of saying, under the Homestead Act clauses, how much land should be open to them to cultivate, and so enrich the colony, I feel satisfied we should have more settlement on the West Coast; but where it means £2 in the first instance and £60 or £80 expended either by labour or capital before you can touch it with the plough, it means no cultivation whatever. And yet we have no right whatever to deal with this subject. We have there a continuous Waste Lands Board. As one goes out another of the same family steps in. There is no chance for the people. And I may tell you—and it is worth relating—they are 60 conservative that that Board has actually denied the miners at Kumara a last resting-place. The Borough Council of Kumara applied for a piece of ground outside the town on a terrace, and covered with tea-tree and scrub. The Waste Lands Board, as usual, sent out their surveyor, and the ground allotted was in a swamp. Adjoining this swamp was a nice knoll or terrace. Mining accidents are frequent. These poor men are entitled to a last resting-place. As Mayor of the town, I said, "The miners have hard work enough in life, and they shall, at all events, have a dry place to rest in after death," and I ordered an interment on this knoll. We have buried some fifty or sixty persons there since, and we have sent four times to the Waste Lands Board, asking them to ex- page 7 change what they gave us for this knoll, but they refused. I know they cannot displace those whom we have buried there—they cannot bring up the dead for trespass: still, their right to rest there is disputed by this nominated Board of the Government, who defy public opinion. Everything I have stated is true. The Borough Council of Kumara have written to the Government on the subject, and they have the papers. Can it, then, be wondered at that I should protest against having Waste Lands Boards so constituted? They are all honorable men. There is not one of them whose hand I would not shake; but they are not of the people I represent. They are not elected by the people. They are exclusive men, and do not represent public opinion. Then we have had an experiment of the system which the honorable member for Cheviot would introduce. We had one County Council, which included all the Borough Councils on the West Coast. I may say at once, that experiment was successful j but the first County Chairman—the present Premier—had too much power. He had more power than a Superintendent. He had power outside his Council and outside the people. That, Sir, was the great defect in the first experiment of the County Council system upon the West Coast. Besides that, the number of members was too few, and the consequence was that we had log-rolling there as elsewhere, so that the experiment was not as successful as it should have been. But I feel satisfied that, if worked by experienced men, and if the defects I have pointed out were removed, we could with advantage revert to the system we had in 1868; and yet that is almost a fac-simile of the proposal which the honorable member for the Thames (Sir G. Grey) has laid on the table, and which has been described as so wild and visionary. We have been told so by the honorable member for Grey Valley (Mr. Weston) amongst others. But, Sir, we have had experience of it on the West Coast, and we feel that, with the slight defects I have alluded to taken out, and which are cured in the Bill of the honorable member for the Thames; it would work splendidly. Another defect was that the Land Fund was allocated by the County Council to the Road Boards, and the consequence was that we found there, as we always shall find, that the large fish ate up the little ones. The first thing the Council did was to reduce the allowance to the Road Boards to 25 percent.; but even that would not suit them, so they set to work and took it all to themselves, and then they wanted to know why the Road Boards were a failure. It is the same thing from beginning to the end, and I am afraid we shall find the same thing so long as there are two or three local bodies in any district. We must say there shall be only one. Now, I wish to say that frequent changes of government and forms of government are injurious. We know that uncertainty in taxation is injurious: that is laid down by the best authorities. I am of opinion that on the present occasion to have any radical changes would be injurious, and therefore, under the circumstances, I feel that the expression made use of by the Colonial Treasurer, that at the next elections we shall simply be confined to County Councils and Road Boards, will prove a truism. No such change can take place. We shall have to make the best of what we have at present, and I am quite prepared to make the best of it. I say that the Government have been forced without due consideration into their proposals and into the measure now before the House. I can say that as far as I am aware there was no objection made to the present system of local self-government in the part of the country I represent. No doubt the true leader of the Opposition (Sir G. Grey) has seen the defects in our present system, and, seeing them, it was his place to point them out, and to protest against continuing in the way we are going. Then we find among the Government supporters the honorable member for Clive, the honorable member for Cheviot, and two or three others, saying to the Treasurer, "We do not agree with your proposals. We say there is something more wanted." He comes to the House with a policy and asks the House to debate it on its merits, and we find that it is challenged by the honorable member for Clive in such a manner that the Government have for once a backbone, and say they will accept the challenge. I say it is not exactly fair for the Government to be placed in this position, because last session, when the Crown and Native Lands Rating Bill was brought down, there were many members on this side, some of whom have spoken against it this session, who said they would support it. I have myself said it was a step in the right direction, and I for one am prepared to support the Treasurer in endeavouring to pass it into law. The defects pointed out by many speakers are such as can be amended in Committee. I therefore shall support this Rating Bill, and I say it. Ought not to be universally condemned. But, as regards the Roads Construction Bill, I object to it. We are told that a Bill to make amendments in the Counties Act will be laid on the table, but, not knowing what those amendments are, I cannot debate them. If, however, I am to take what has happened in the past as a criterion, I believe that, while the Treasurer knows what is necessary, his colleague, the Premier, does not; for he has, on two or three occasions, objected to very necessary amendments which were brought before the House both last session and in previous sessions. The first alteration proposed was with regard to the boundaries. Under the present county system we cannot alter the boundaries or constitute a new county without coming to this House. An amendment was carried, I believe, by the honorable member for Grey Valley (Mr. Reeves), that a riding in one county could attach itself to another county, but it must be done with the consent of the two County Councils. Now, it is not at all likely that a county having a good riding in it, which is contributing well to its revenue, will let it go; and therefore a riding has really no power to attach itself to a county which it believes will do it justice. Then there is a provision by which two or more ridings can combine and form themselves into a county; but they have to send a petition to this House, and it page 8 must be sent here ten days before the House sits, and must he on the table for a certain time. I presume, therefore, that the consent of the House is required to the prayer of the petition, and that any honorable gentleman can oppose it in the interests of his own particular riding if the majority of the electors there should be opposed to separation. We have had two cases of objections being made, and the separation has not been allowed to take place—unwarrantably, as I think, and without due consideration of the wishes of a vast majority of the electors. There was, no doubt, a technical legal objection, but I urge that we ought to bow to the wishes of a majority of the ratepayers in these districts and give effect to them. It was the Government and their supporters who were the principal objectors to these amendments. Then, I think power should be given to County Councils to levy a tax on sheep, and cattle, and vehicles without being obliged to have recourse to the toll-gate system, which involves an expense of 50 per cent, of the total collected. In the Old Country power is given to impose a tax on sheep and cattle and vehicles, and it is as easily imposed as on other property. Those who have the most cattle and sheep pay the most rates, and I say a very substantial local revenue could be derived if power were given to the local bodies to impose this tax. I should also propose that the same power be given to counties as is given to boroughs: that is to say, they should have a right to charge so much upon those from other districts who pass along their roads. In the boroughs certain fees are imposed, and I cannot see why the same right should not be given to counties. An amendment proposed in that direction was opposed, and especially by the Premier, and was thrown out. Another amendment proposed was that the Chairman should be elected by the people. I say, if it is necessary that the Chairman of a Borough Council should be elected by the ratepayers, I fail to see why the same kind of election should not apply to the County Councils, and with still greater reason. There, parties are generally formed by the action of the Council in electing its Chairman. The particular party who elect the Chairman spend the money in their own districts, and the others are ignored. If the County Chairman were elected by the whole county, this party government, of which we have too much even in this House, would be done away with in the local bodies, because the Chairman would be kept independent of the Council, and it would be his duty to see that justice was done to all parties. I say, therefore, that amendments in the direction I have indicated will, I am sure, be conducive to the interests of the colony. In conclusion, I may say I disagree altogether with the selfishness that has been displayed during this debate. Honorable members who come from districts well provided with railways, such as the honorable member for Cheviot, the honorable member for Waitemata, and others on that side of the House, say that we must stop borrowing. They say that so far as the colony is concerned we are deep enough in the mire. Now, I for one say that that is utter selfishness. I say that we have no right to stop until we have carried out the true policy of those who initiated our public works scheme. I am here to say that that policy was not a vicious one, and has not so proved itself; and I say it is impossible, under existing circumstances, to stop its progress. We shall be doing a great injustice if we take such a step, and, although the people in those districts which have not been favoured with public works may be in a minority, still they will ultimately be a majority, because the districts which have had the benefit of public works, seeing that those who have been enriched by the construction of those works are not paying their fair share of taxation, will combine with those who require public works, and will make such a party in this House that no Government will remain on those benches that will not carry out this policy to the end. Amongst those who displayed a slight amount of selfishness is the honorable member for Motueka. That honorable gentleman was rather sarcastic because my constituents on my return to them honored me with a banquet. The honorable member informed us the first session he sat here that he had so educated his constituents that they regarded it as a compliment that he should come here to represent them. I think they have shown this session that they have become highly educated—or, from the honorable gentleman's point of view, debased—because the honorable gentleman admits that they have ordered him to demand public works, which proves conclusively that they are beginning to get tired of that honorable gentleman and his policy, that they are no longer under a compliment to him, but that he must obey their wishes and endeavour to obtain for them a fair share of the public expenditure. Then, Sir, that honorable gentleman said he had been on the gold fields, and that the miners were in favour of the retention of the existing gold duty, and of the charge for miners' rights remaining as at present. He has been so long away from an enlightened people, and so long in Motueka, that I make every excuse for the honorable gentleman, and attribute this assertion to his want of knowledge on the subject. The statement that the miners wish to' retain this taxation is an insult to that portion of the community, and displays such ignorance that I am astonished at any honorable member making the assertion. The honorable gentleman also went to the extent of saying the yield of gold was falling off. Now, after carefully going through the report which has been laid on the table of the House, I find that, as compared with the returns of 1879 and 1880, there is an increase of something like 30,000 ounces. There is another assertion which the honorable gentleman has made without having the slightest foundation for it. He further said that our forests were an incumbrance to us. That observation also requires to be qualified. Our forests only require to be opened up by the expenditure of some portion of the public money, to become a vast mine of wealth to New Zealand. If they were so developed, would the honorable gentleman dare, on the floor of this House, to say that our forests are detrimental to us? The forests page 9 of Westland will supply New Zealand with timber when the forests in other parts of the country, which have been grossly abused, are dead and gone. Then the honorable member for Motueka talked about gods, and he held up to us as paragons of excellence various members of this House, but said that in each case he had been deceived. I can now account for the honorable gentleman simply holding the position of junior whip. Seeing he has been in the House so long, his discernment and judgment have been very much at fault, and, unless great improvement in this respect takes place, he will always remain a whip, because he will never be fit to occupy any higher position. It is by judging of men, and endeavouring to discern between right and wrong, that each one of us tries to raise himself above his fellows. If the honorable gentleman has been mistaken in the past, I hope, at any rate, that for the future he will use better discernment, and not be too confiding. I also trust that, in debates of such importance as the present, he will not use abuse broad-cast, instead of logic, because the effect of such conduct is simply to throw a veil over the question at issue, so far as the public are concerned, and to prevent its being ventilated and discussed on its merits. Sir, that honorable gentleman, as far as I am concerned, is welcome to go back to the bumpkins of Motueka and live 011 his mutton and turnips. Other honorable members have also failed in the respect I have just pointed out, and have had too much to say as to the conduct of their fellows in this House. There has not been sufficient charity displayed. I am sorry to find amongst these offenders a recently-elected member—the honorable member for Grey Valley (Mr. Weston). When I say I feel sorry, I say what I mean. I have known that honorable gentleman for a very long time; I feel sure that he will make a very worthy member of this House; but I do say that in the stand he has taken, and the language he has used to members older than himself, and without due thought, he has acted wrongly. We find him first of all abusing the Government. He said their scheme was utterly unacceptable, and not for the good of the colony. Now, Sir, that is strong language to use. It means that the honorable gentlemen who sit on the Government benches are actually dishonest. The honorable member for Grey Valley, in saying that, used language which he had no right to use. I do not think that the proposals of the Government were ever intended to be detrimental to the colony, or that they were brought in from dishonest or corrupt motives.
Mr. Weston.—I do not like to disturb the House, and I like to disturb the honorable member still less, but at the same time it is due to myself to say that I never charged the Government with corrupt and dishonest motives. I have not the slightest intention to do so, however much I may disapprove of their policy.
Mr. Seddon.—It is always understood that when an honorable gentleman makes a disclaimer it should be at once accepted, but I have verbatim notes of the words which the honorable gentleman used. Speaking of the Government scheme he said, "It is a scheme utterly unacceptable; certainly not for the good of the colony." Now, Sir, those were the words used, and I say that in the abstract, when fairly and logically argued out, they can only mean that in bringing forward such a scheme the Government have been absolutely dishonest, because the scheme is not for the good of the country. Now, Sir, he went further than that. He said that he for one would protest against the trust funds being apportioned to defray the cost of the public works under the Roads Construction Bill. He said he was afraid those funds would be used until those who were entitled to them would not receive their money back. Why, what does that mean? It means accusing the Colonial Treasurer of propounding a scheme under which he would take from the public funds of the colony, from the widow and orphan, and give the money to this Board appointed under the Roads Construction Bill, and not be able to repay the money so used. There is no other meaning to be attached to the honorable gentleman's statement, and under these circumstances I say that, though he may, as he said he would, vote for the Government on the amendment, but against their Bills, still, considering the view he holds of their conduct, I do not think they will thank him for his vote at all. At all events, if they do thank him for his vote they will be very hard pressed. The same honorable gentleman, in rather bad taste, took upon himself to defend the Judges. Now, as far as I am concerned—I was never before any of them—I believe we have on the Bench in New Zealand gentlemen who reflect credit on the colony. I am also sure in my own mind that the honorable member for the Thames (Sir G. Grey, in what he said on this subject, meant to cast no reflection whatever on the Bench, but was simply doing a duty which devolved upon him as a representative of the people; and I find he took up the very same position as the present Minister of Lands took up in 1875. That gentleman then called the attention of the House to certain matters that had transpired between the Government and the Bench. What was the action taken on that occasion? What was the statement made by the honorable member? That he brought the matter up before the House to have it ventilated. The then Minister of Justice (Mr. Bowen) replied that the Ministry had taken upon themselves to make certain changes. This occurred about the time of the Ward and Chapman inquiry. But now, when the honorable member for the Thames mentions the Judges in this House, the honorable member for Grey Valley finds fault with him. Sir, it is the height of absurdity. In 1852 the Judges of this colony were retained during good behaviour. In 1862 they were capable of being removed by an Address from both Chambers. No doubt my honorable friend the member for Grey Valley (Mr. Weston) would like to be appointed for life, and would have been better satisfied if the District Judges had been so appointed also. At all events, I say that any member of this House has a right, if any utterances are made which he considers derogatory to the Bench, to page 10 call attention to the matter here. On that occasion I may say I felt somewhat sorry. I felt somewhat hurt to find that the honorable gentleman, holding the position he does—a gentleman who has, and I say it without fear of contradiction, a larger following in New Zealand than any other man in the colony—I felt sorry that he should not have passed over the taunts with silent contempt. My feelings at the time would be better described by the exhibition of a canine picture by Landseer with which honorable members may be acquainted. After these statements on behalf of the Judges, what would the House say if the following language had been uttered by one of the Supreme Court Judges?—
"The country will yet realize the folly of degrading and pauperizing the Judicial Bench. By-and-by our Courts will be presided over by men possessing neither honor, experience, nor ability; and so it will come to pass that crime will go unpunished, the innocent will suffer, and property be no longer safe to its possessors. Of all the institutions of the country the Bench should be the most carefully protected. Its occupiers should be placed beyond temptation, and beyond the influence and caprice of members of Parliament annually exercisable."
Sir, the honorable gentleman who uttered these words was at the time a District Judge, and receiving a salary of £750 per annum. Those utterances are now challenged. They show the view the honorable gentleman took of those who were invested with the power of governing the country. I say, under the circumstances, the attack of the honorable member for Grey Valley (Mr. Weston) was unjustifiable; it was simply contemptible, and I regret very much that the honorable member for the Thames (Sir G. Grey) should have taken any notice whatever of the honorable member's remarks. Just fancy! A sum of £75 was taken away from the salary of this District Judge, and that reduction was to cause such disaster—to cause crime to go unpunished, the innocent to suffer, property to be confiscated, dishonest men to sit on the bench, and corruption generally. Such remarks brought the Bench into contempt, and were the emanations of a puerile mind, and highly improper under the circumstances. It is right and just that this House should have the power of saying by address who shall go and who shall not—who shall be dispensed with and who shall not. So far as I am concerned, the Government have my support in the action they took on that occasion. Such a statement as I have read was reprehensible, and ought not to have been made; and the person who made such a statement has no right now to cast reflections upon the honorable member for the Thames. I shall not go any further into this matter. I will now refer to the treatment which the gold-fields districts have received from the present Government. I am sure the Minister of Mines will himself admit that he has not done the gold fields justice. I am sure I pressed upon him four or five times during the recess the advisability of visiting the West Coast Gold Fields. He apologized for not going, owing to the resignation of the Native Minister. Native affairs were to paramount importance, and the mining industry of the colony was only of secondary consideration. The interests of 15,000 men were not to be considered. These men contributed last year to the exports of the colony no less a sum than £1,165,521. The duty on the export of this gold was £30,321. These men were to be ignored altogether, although they contribute a large amount of revenue which is not paid by any other class of the community. I will give the following figures as the value of the export of gold and wool: The value of wool exported amounted to £3,169,280: a duty of 4d. per pound would amount to £143,458. The value of gold exports was £1,165,521, the duty paid upon it being £30,321. The average earning of the miners is £82 7s. 6d. per annum; they contribute £3 per head per annum in the shape of special taxes, making a gross total of £49,000 per annum; besides which they have constructed 5,000 miles of water-races, valued at £800,000. The gold export from the West Coast alone last year amounted to £501,029 in value. As regards the collateral advantages derived by the colony from the export of these products, they are in favour of the gold fields. The gold fields members are not in a majority in this House, and we have not the sympathy of the present Government. Then, again, the district I represent on the West Coast has received but very little public money in the shape of public works. Have any steps been taken towards the progress of the Hokitika Railway? There are many bridges, the erection of which cost the colony a large amount of money, and they are allowed to rot. A coat of tar would save them, but there is no money even for that. This is one of the reasons why I say that the Government have been doing us a great injustice. Then, again, I ask the Government, were they justified in their representations as to the financial condition of this colony? Although I am specially a gold-fields member, yet I take a great interest in the subject of finance. I take as much interest in the credit of the colony as any other member, or as any man in the colony. I am an Englishman; we go to the English market and borrow money; we are an integral part of the Empire; I am proud of being an Englishman; I am proud of the credit of this colony, and I do not like to see it dragged down in the way it was dragged down by the present Government. Their course of action, in my opinion, was unwarrantable, and I do not think the exigencies of the case demanded it. No doubt we were in a bad position: I have admitted that all through. The same principles that apply to the Government apply to a commercial firm; and I ask, would any one in charge of a commercial firm have adopted the same tactics with regard to its financial state or credit as were adopted by the Government in reference to the credit of the colony? There is another charge I have against the Government, and I trust the honorable member for Timaru will not think I am interfering with his constituents or their wants. The Government were asked to afford employment to men who were out of employment. When the Government called for tenders for a page 11 certain public work, they imposed such prohibitive stipulations as to the amount of securities and one thing and another, that none but capitalists could undertake the work. The capitalists go to the men and say, "You must work ten hours a day, and we shall only give you sufficient pay to find bread for yourselves and your families." Those capitalists attempted to break down the system that existed in the colony as to the daily hours of labour. If the Government are to identify themselves with the interests of the colony,—if they wish to make themselves popular with the mass of the people,—if they wish to do justice, they must go a different way to work. They must not leave these matters in the hands of their engineers; they must look after them themselves. They must not call for tenders and make such stipulations as to entirely place it beyond the power of any men but capitalists to undertake the work. It is unjust to the people of the colony that they should be placed in that position. Another grievance I have against the Government—and it is the last I shall refer to—is this: They are about to deprive the people of the West Coast of one of their members. The scheme they have proposed is that the representation of the colony should be based on population. Now, this House has laid it down that every man shall have certain qualifications. The two qualifications are a residential qualification and a property qualification. My honorable friend the member for Auckland City West (Dr. Wallis) will not rest until the ladies have a voice in the election of members to this House. At present the ladies and children are shut out, and yet men, women, and children are to be the basis of representation. I say that is unfair. I say let us have our representation fixed on the basis of the male population—persons over twenty-one years of age. If that is the basis, I do not fear the scheme of the present Government. We are entitled to the same number of members on the West Coast as we have at present. If the scheme which the Government intend to propose be carried a number of the electors will be virtually disfranchised: it will simply mean throwing the power into the hands of the large centres of population. The proposal will have a centralizing tendency, and such districts as I have the honor to represent will be dealt with unjustly in the future, as they have been in the past. I should feel very much the loss of the assistance of my esteemed friend the honorable member for Totara. He has been of very great assistance to me and my district, and we require his assistance still further. I have no doubt he will be returned for some other electorate on the West Coast, and some one else will have to take a backseat. I shall not be one of these. I am not shivering and shaking, or afraid to go back to my constituents. The honorable member for Motueka said honorable members were shivering with fear to go back to their constituents. I shall go back to ray constituents with a clear conscience, as I hope that that honorable gentleman will go back to his constituents. While I admit there are some merits in the Government proposals, great credit is due to the honorable member for Olive for being the means of bringing the important question before us to an issue. The conclusion arrived at will, no doubt, be in favour of the Government, but the result will prove to the Government that they have not sufficient support to carry any policy, and that the sooner they go to the country the better it will be for themselves and the better it will be for the country. I shall give my vote with the intention of sending this House to the country as soon as possible. I am not afraid that we shall have two Houses or two parties. I know too much of those who are sent here to represent the people to believe such a thing; and no doubt that verdant greenness will wear off from the honorable member for Grey Valley (Mr. Weston) in the course of time. He said he wished to save the cost of a fresh election; but I may say this: that, if we had an election to-morrow, the last thing the new members would think about would be a new Representation Act. They would have exactly the same feeling the honorable gentleman has. They will say, "After I have gone to the; expense of an election why should I force myself J into another expensive contest? I have been sent here to represent the people, and I will stay here! as long as my term lasts." It will be just the same with the new Parliament, and therefore in giving my vote I am not at all afraid of plunging the colony into the expense of a second election.
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Object of the Month #11: Roman, Reproduction, Forgery
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Object of the Month #11
Roman, Reproduction, Forgery
Possible Roman Glass Unguentarium (2013.01.240)
This glass vase might be almost 2,000 years old.
Or a reproduction.
Or a fake.
Found on a shelf in the archives without accompanying information, there’s no definitive answer. It could be almost two millennia old, but there’s nothing conclusive. And there’s the rub.
A Roman form called an unguentarium, this type of vase was sometimes used for storing perfume or cosmetics.[1] It is 18 cm tall (approximately 7”), completely intact without chips or breaks, transparent pale green, with a flared and flattened rim, and a tall, cylindrical neck above a bell-shaped body with a constriction where the neck and body join. The unguentarium was handblown, and there is a raised ring called a pontil mark on the underside indicating where the vase was once attached to the blowpipe.
The first time I saw this vase in the NMH Archives I was so surprised I nearly fell over.[2] Before working in the archives I was an archaeologist and one of my areas of specialization was the eastern Roman Empire, with a focus on glass production and trade. More specifically, I excavated in Petra, Jordan and cataloged what was largely a Romano-Byzantine glass corpus.[3] I’ve examined and recorded thousands of pieces of ancient glass, but never have I pulled an intact vessel, such as this, directly from the ground. To say I was excited to see this vase would be an understatement. But then I began to wonder, could this unguentarium really be “real,” or was it too good to be true?
What we do know is that this and other objects representing several centuries of Anatolian history were donated to the NMH Archives in 2011 by the grandson of Frank L. Duley.[4] Duley was the unguentarium’s original owner, and a graduate of Mount Hermon in 1893. He later taught at both Mount Hermon and Northfield before becoming the interim principal of the Northfield School for Girls in 1925. Before returning to teach, he lived and worked in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey).[5]
That Duley lived in Turkey is suggestive, and it is almost certain he acquired the unguentarium during his time there. It is of a style and shape that, if it were ancient, I would date to the 1st-3rd c. CE, maybe toward the latter half of that range. The vase would not have been out of place in Roman Anatolia.
So, having confirmed that: (a) the unguentarium is a recognizable Roman form, and (b) that Duley probably acquired it from an area where it could have originated, why do I hesitate to formally recognize it as Roman? The short answer is because it lacks context.[6] In archaeology, “context” refers to the relationship between an artifact and its physical find spot, and its relationship to other objects. Context can be invaluable for dating both artifacts and entire sites, as well as determining function. Ancient glass is immune to archaeometric dating methods such as radiocarbon dating, due to its low carbon content, and as a result benefits greatly when context is available.
When context is erased from an artifact, as it has been from this unguentarium, it becomes difficult if not impossible to discuss specifics. Not only don’t we know where this vase was found within the stratigraphy of an archaeological site, we don’t even know the location of the site (if it even came from one). We are left with a plausibly Roman glass form, and some intriguing hunches, but little in the way of definitive answers.[7]
Moving on from context for the moment, let’s run down some of the pros and cons for the three possibilities: Roman, reproduction, forgery. The lack of context is disappointing, but neither does it prove that the unguentarium isn’t Roman. To me, the greatest strike against it being authentic is how intact and relatively clean the vase is. Ancient glass is often some combination of friable, pitted, dirty, worn, broken, flaking, dull, and iridescent.[8] Aside from being ever so slightly iridescent, none of these features are represented by the NMH vase. Not only isn’t the vase particularly weathered, the pontil mark on the bottom is still sharp enough to cut. Staggeringly pristine pieces of ancient glass do exist, however, such as a 2nd c. CE bowl in the Israel Museum, so although the unguentarium’s excellent condition doesn’t rule out a Roman date, it does raise some red flags.
The important distinction between a fraud and a reproduction is that the former is intended to deceive, while the latter is put forward honestly. I don’t believe this unguentarium is a forgery, mostly because I just can’t imagine that someone attempting to defraud would pass up the chance to make it look at least a little more aged. If I wanted to make a modern vase look old, I’d fake at least a few of the weathering characteristics mentioned above; dirt at a bare minimum. This vase is so clean, that in fact, it’s the basis of much of my doubt about its age.
There are several good arguments in favor of it being a reproduction. As a reproduction, it would be acceptable, even desirable, for the vase to be perfectly clean and intact. The sharp pontil mark is no longer of concern if it’s a reproduction. You could imagine a modern glass artisan scrupulously reproducing an old Roman form. Its relatively small size would make it tourist-friendly as well.
And yet the unguentarium just seems so believably, authentically Roman. The light green color is accurate for the period, and the form and size ring true.[9] I have gone back and forth so many times about whether I think it’s more likely authentic, or a reproduction, that depending on what time of the day you ask me about it I might give you a different answer. Right now I’m leaning toward it being a reproduction; as an archaeologist it would be irresponsible to definitively call it authentic without much better evidence.
Mostly what this unguentarium teaches us is that context and documentation are paramount. Without it all we’re left with are educated guesses. It is possible to appreciate the vase and the skill of the glassblower, whether that glassblower was working a century ago or two millennia ago. It certainly deserves a place in the NMH Archives, not only because of its possible antiquity, but also because of its connection to Duley, an important and influential figure in the school’s history.
Sara Karz Reid
Assistant Archivist
[1] Auth, Susan H. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum. Newark, New Jersey: The Newark Museum, p. 114.
[2] This vase is actually one of a pair of unguentaria. The two are nearly identical, although the other one is a bit shorter.
[3] If you’re interested in hearing more about my archaeological research in Jordan or other places, I’m always happy to talk about it. Send me an email at sreid.
[4] Anatolia roughly corresponds to modern-day Turkey.
[5] Weis, Peter. "To Constantinople and Back." NMH Magazine 15.1 (2013): 16-17.
[6] It also lacks provenance, but that’s another column.
[7] Don’t loot, kids.
[8] Yes, glass can be both dull and iridescent at the same time. A lot depends on soil chemistry.
[9] Part of my research hinged on the change over time of glass color between the Roman and Byzantine periods, so I’m making a great effort here not to drown this post in details, but I will add that in order to make the glass anything but light green would take effort; this is just a default color, as it were.
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This daily blog is composed of clips and links from other progressive blog and news sites, accompanied by my own observations. We are committed to challenging the Trump administration and its policies, exposing its corruption and lies, and helping to lay the groundwork for a progressive comeback.
Here's what happens to a candidate who gets used to just answering questions off the top of his head
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-punish-women-who-get-illegal-abortions/2016/03/30/fea5378c-f6b4-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_video.html
Trump: Punish women who get illegal abortions
Start the timer: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11334558/donald-trump-abortion-punishment-twitter-pro-life
Everyone — even pro-lifers — hated Donald Trump's abortion comments
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-backs-abortion-ban-calls-punishment-women
The Trump campaign issued a slightly longer clarification this afternoon, which read as follows: “If Congress were to pass legislation making abortion illegal and the federal courts upheld this legislation, or any state were permitted to ban abortion under state and federal law, the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb. My position has not changed – like Ronald Reagan, I am pro-life with exceptions.”
[NB: So, he says directly that they should be punished, then issues a "clarification" -- love that word -- reversing his position. That's not a clarification. And the original footage isn't going away any time soon. The current Trump Company line is that the evil media, in the person of Chris Matthews, somehow tricked him into a misstatement. Good luck with that one!]
Will the damage linger? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/will-trumps-abortion-gaffe-actually-hurt-him.html
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11333472/trump-abortions-punishment-women
Women can already be prosecuted for abortion in America
It gets worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/30/donald-trumps-abortion-comments-prove-again-why-he-could-be-a-disaster-for-republicans/
And, while Trump's comments on abortion are the news of the day (and problem of the day for Republicans) what they expose is an even more troublesome reality if you are hoping to run and win as a Republican with Trump as the nominee: He is wildly and deeply unpredictable. Today these comments on abortion. On Tuesday, a refusal to condemn a campaign manager charged with battery. On some other day a retweet of a white supremacist. Or a slam on Hillary Clinton's looks. Or a fight with Pope Francis. Or a less-than-full throated dismissal of a violent incident at a rally. . . .
And worse: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11332074/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-japan-south-korea-saudi-arabia
Donald Trump: make America great again by letting more countries have nukes
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-scotus-nominee-clinton-emails
Donald Trump has an interesting concept of what, exactly, Supreme Court justices do. Asked about what kind of nominees he would appoint to the Supreme Court, Trump said he'd choose "people that would look very seriously" at Hillary Clinton's "email disaster." . . .
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/donald-trump-galactically-deliberately-ignorant
The depth of Donald Trump's ignorance is inexplicable. Seriously. How is it that after nine months of campaigning he still knows less about most subjects than your average guy in a bar working on his fourth beer? At the CNN town hall last night, an audience member asked Trump, "In your opinion, what are the top three functions of the United States government?" . . . But watching last night, it was obvious that Trump had no idea what to say. . . [read on]
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/nbc-publishes-23-conflicting-positions
NBC Publishes 23 Conflicting Positions By Donald Trump
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fact-check_us_56fc375fe4b0daf53aee9175
Donald Trump Made Up Stuff 71 Times In An Hour
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11331040/trump-lewandowski-michelle-fields-assault-victim-blaming
Here's why Donald Trump's comments about a female reporter are so disturbing
Think just for a second about the narrative around the abuse of a woman:
-she didn't yell
-she made up the story
-she had bruises already
— kelsey mckinney (@mckinneykelsey) March 29, 2016
How bad is it, really, when Ann Coulter thinks you're too crazy to be president?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ann-coulter-donald-trump-mental
More: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/hes-mental-whatwasyourfirstclue.html
Starting from a YUGE deficit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-would-be-least-popular-major-party-nominee-in-modern-times/2016/03/30/b4b077e0-f5e7-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html
Trump would be least-popular major-party nominee in modern times
Grab the popcorn!
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/274742-gop-nears-the-breaking-point
The presidential primary has been a wrenching experience for the GOP so far — and it’s about to get even worse. . . . [read on]
Ah, finally. There's a resignation in that scandal over an alleged affair between the Alabama governor and a female staffer. She quit
https://politicalwire.com/2016/03/30/aide-to-bentley-resigns-amid-scandal/
More: https://politicalwire.com/2016/03/30/bentley-ordered-law-enforcement-to-target-critics/
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) “pressured law enforcement officers to use federal and state resources to target those critical of his relationship with senior advisor Rebekah Caldwell Mason,” according to the Alabama Political Reporter.
https://politicalwire.com/2016/03/31/bentley-says-he-wont-quit/
Bentley Says He Won’t Quit
Bernie's path to victory, by the numbers
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/31/bernies_miracle_path_to_victory_nate_silver_crunches_the_numbers_on_a_sanders_win_partner/
Reich defends Sanders: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/31/robert_reich_theyve_marginalized_bernie_at_every_turn_partner/
Crazy, yes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/30/the-crazy-logic-behind-an-alliance-of-trump-sanders-supporters/
The crazy logic behind an alliance of Trump-Sanders supporters
Media alert: the Washington Post issues a slight correction
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/30/1508086/-It-turns-out-there-weren-t-147-agents-looking-at-Clinton-s-emails-Go-figure
The Washington Post has retracted its anonymously sourced claim that 147 FBI agents are detailed to the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, and is now reporting that the real number is fewer than 50. . . . [read on]
Bonus item: This wall mural in Cairo covers 40 buildings
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11333224/el-seed-mural-cairo
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Posted by Nick Burbules at 7:07 AM
"I NEVER TOUCHED YOU"
Trump aide arrested
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/heres-frame-frame-footage-trump-campaign-manager-grabbing-michelle-fields
Here's the Frame-by-Frame Footage of Trump's Campaign Manager Grabbing Michelle Fields
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/29/corey-lewandowskis-arrest-should-matter-to-donald-trump-it-wont/
Corey Lewandowski lied about Michelle Fields. That should matter to Donald Trump. It won’t.
What is misdemeanor battery? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/why-trumps-aide-got-charged-with-battery.html
The shifting stories of Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trumps-lewandowski-comments-then-and-now/2016/03/29/483f0ddc-f606-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_video.html
"Perhaps she made the story up"
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/trump-spokeswoman-denies-reporter-grabbed-on-arm-by-manager-lewandowski/
"In addition to our staff, which had no knowledge of said situation, not a single camera or reporter of more than 100 in attendance captured the alleged incident."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/paloma/the-daily-trail/2016/03/29/the-daily-trail-trump-s-many-reactions-to-battery-charges-against-his-campaign-manager/56fadb35981b92a22dc1077f/
"Look at tapes-nothing there!"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/29/trump-on-the-defensive-seeks-to-discredit-reporter-accusing-campaign-manager-of-battery/
“I mean, maybe he touched her a little bit. But it was almost like he was trying to keep her off me, right?”
Trumpism 101 - Never apologize, attack
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/donald-trump-reporter-actually-battered-me.html
Donald Trump Suggests Michelle Fields Actually Battered Him
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/30/donald_trump_insists_he_was_assaulted_by_reporter_who_charged_his_campaign_manager_with_assault_she_had_a_pen_or_something/
“She had a pen or something”
[NB: Of the many utterly moronic aspects of this story, there is this: HE MANHANDLED A REPORTER WHO WAS JUST DOING HER JOB. All he had to do was apologize. Now they have every news hound in the country furious with them.]
Unleashing the spin doctors
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/29/trump-spokeswoman-katrina-pierson-offers-ridiculous-defense-of-corey-lewandowski-on-cnn.html
Trump Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson Offers Ridiculous Defense of Corey Lewandowski
More: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/why_donald_trump_won_t_fire_corey_lewandowski.html
Why Trump Won’t Fire Lewandowski. And why decisions like that will be his undoing.
Oh, perfect
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kendall-coffey-corey-lewandowki-stripper-bite
Lawyer For Top Trump Aide Resigned As US Atty After Allegedly Biting Stripper
I never believed it in the first place
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/trump-takes-back-pledge-to-support-gop-nominee-221363
Trump takes back pledge to support GOP nominee
They all do it: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-nominee-pledge/index.html
All three GOP candidates backed away from their pledge to support GOP nominee
Please, PLEASE nominate him
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/29/1507734/-Trump-s-favorability-with-American-voters-sinks-to-a-new-low
The more American voters see of Donald Trump, the less they like him. Even as Trump gets closer to seizing the GOP nomination, he gets less and less popular, with nearly two-thirds of the electorate viewing him unfavorably. . . . [read on]
This is giving him too much credit, I think
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/30/anderson_cooper_shuts_down_donald_trump_with_all_due_respect_he_started_it_is_the_argument_of_a_five_year_old/
Anderson Cooper shuts down Donald Trump: “With all due respect, ‘He started it!’ is the argument of a five-year-old”
It got worse: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/cnn_s_anderson_cooper_was_cranky_and_donald_trump_was_a_disaster.html
After months of softball interviews, Cooper went after Ted Cruz and (especially) Donald Trump with forensic skill. In response, Trump flailed and crumbled, the bigot and misogynist in him laid bare. Will it matter? Probably not. But at the very least, at a moment when his colleagues in the political media have been fitted for hairshirts over their alleged enabling of Trump, Cooper was able to elicit from the Republican front-runner his most disastrous performance of the campaign. . . . [read on]
Another ugly incident at a Trump rally
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/protester-pepper-sprayed-in-face-at-trump-rally.html
15-Year-Old Girl Groped, Pepper Sprayed in Face at Trump Rally
Bye-bye Bentley
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sex-scandal-gets-even-worse-alabama-governor
Sex scandal gets even worse for Alabama governor
I know some of you disagree
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/hillary-clinton-fundamentally-honest-and-trustworthy
Hillary Clinton Is Fundamentally Honest and Trustworthy.
Bonus item: Background checks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/03/30/facial-hair-pot-and-video-rentals-the-strange-details-unearthed-when-vetting-supreme-court-nominees/
Facial hair, pot and video rentals: The strange details unearthed when vetting Supreme Court nominees
KEEPING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
Hillary knows who the enemy is -- and it's not Bernie Sanders
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/hillary-clinton-warns-about-trumps-racist
Hillary Clinton Credits GOP Extremism For Trump's 'Racist Campaign'
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/us/politics/hillary-clinton-attacks-gop-for-not-acting-on-obamas-supreme-court-pick.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Hillary Clinton Attacks G.O.P. for Not Acting on Obama’s Supreme Court Pick
More: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/clinton-super-pac-donald-trump-221313#ixzz44HzyyL72
Clinton super PAC readies early Trump strike
Now you have leading candidates on both sides suing, or threatening to sue, their own parties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/28/trump-campaign-says-it-will-file-complaint-with-rnc-over-louisiana-delegate-count/
Trump campaign says it will file complaint with RNC over Louisiana delegate count
Cruz and Clinton understand it's all about the delegates, not the states
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/28/1507123/-Trump-whines-and-threatens-lawsuits-as-Cruz-outmaneuvers-him-in-the-delegate-chase
Trump whines and threatens lawsuits as Cruz outmaneuvers him in the delegate chase
This won't work
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/28/1507291/-No-the-superdelegates-won-t-bail-out-Bernie
No, the superdelegates won't bail out Bernie
More: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11319720/bernie-or-bust-sanders
Why "Bernie or Bust" will probably go bust in November
Bernie wants a NY debate. Here's the response from the Clinton campaign
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/clinton-aide-suggests-sanders-change-his-tone.html
What will Bernie ask for as a condition of support for Hillary?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_03/hillary_clintons_weakness_is_a060074.php
Trump's insane foreign policy views may not matter to the Republican primary electorate -- but they are going to be a big problem in the general election if he makes it that far
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11318722/trump-foreign-policy
Confessions of a former Trump staffer
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/open-letter-from-defector.html
I don't think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all. He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to the White House, but his ego has now taken over the driver's seat, and nothing else matters. The Donald does not fail. The Donald does not have any weakness. The Donald is his own biggest enemy. . . . [read on]
Trump's plan for a contested convention
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/29/1506042/-Donald-Trump-has-plans-to-stop-a-contested-Republican-convention-and-it-s-crazy
California's $15 minimum wage -- will it work?
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/california-dives-unknown-15-minimum-wage
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/californias-15-minimum-wage-a-good-idea.html
We have a disease
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11306846/criminal-justice-reform-crime
A researcher explains the sad truth: we know how to stop gun violence. But we don't do it.
The Republicans sure didn't want to tell gun owners they couldn't come packin' at the convention. But the Secret Service took them off the hook
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/28/1507221/-Secret-Service-bails-Republicans-out-of-their-convention-open-carry-dilemma
Cheap pleasure. Conservative Alabama gov gets caught with a staffer. And there are tapes!
http://wfla.com/2016/03/28/investigations-launched-into-alabama-governors-relationship-with-adviser/
More: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/listen-alabama-governor-leaked-sex-call-advisor-article-1.2576237
Bonus item: Mean girls read Trump tweets -- and it sounds, like, totally natural. For real!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/28/mean-girls-reading-donald-trumps-tweets-works-surprisingly-well/
NEEDS A MUZZLE
The best argument for electing Trump I have heard so far
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/27/donald-trump-says-if-elected-he-wont-tweet-very-much/
Donald Trump says if elected he won’t tweet ‘very much.’
The mainstream story is that the GOP frontrunners are attacking each other's wives. But that's not what's happening. Trump is attacking Cruz's wife, not vice-versa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/27/accusations-fly-between-trump-and-cruz-on-sunday-shows/
More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/trump-doubles-down-cruzs-wife-there-are
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/27/lets-uproot-the-pernicious-unproven-claim-that-ted-cruz-attacked-donald-trumps-wife/
Uh, changing the subject much?
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/trump-aide-comes-unglued-over-sexism
Trump campaign spokesperson Stephen Miller shocked a CNN panel on Sunday by deflecting sexism charges against his boss with warnings about genital mutilations in the United States. . . .
More: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/theyre-coming-to-mutilate-your-daughters.html
He obviously cares nothing for these girls because his answer to the problem of female genital mutilation is to make them have it on their home soil. The fact is that American culture and law actually prevents this barbaric practice more often than not. But as with most things Trump, he has it exactly backwards. . . .
Trump's appalling ignorance about foreign policy
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/andrea-mitchell-donald-trump-completely
More: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/274386-trump-refuses-to-rule-out-war-with-china-i-dont-want-to-be
Trump refuses to rule out war with China: 'We need unpredictability'
At war with itself
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/opinions/republicans-slow-motion-implosion-opinion-axelrod/index.html
The slow-motion implosion of the Republican Party
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-some-republicans-are-feeling-shame/2016/03/27/b4e0ac00-f2de-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html
Why some Republicans are feeling shame
More: https://politicalwire.com/2016/03/27/trump-says-the-gop-is-a-disgrace/
Trump Says the GOP Is a Disgrace
An insider's look at what a contested GOP convention might be like
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/this-problem-might-cause-chaos-at-gop-convention.html
EXCELLENT idea. Allow open carry at the convention!
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/some-republicans-want-open-carry
Rolling Stone may not be a young person's magazine any more, but they are a long-time advocate for the youth vote (thanks to AG for the link)
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/hillary-clinton-for-president-20160323
Hillary Clinton for President
The absurdity of the so-called Clinton email "scandal"
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/hillary-email-scandal-continue-be-non-scandalous
Bonus item: John Oliver on Internet conspiracy theories
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/28/john-oliver-blows-the-lid-off-the-illuminati-cadbury-creme-egg-conspiracy/
A NOTE OF DESPERATION
I have a feeling this isn't the last time I will have a post like this
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/26/the-republican-partys-worst-week-in-washington/
The GOP race just hit a new low.
Here is what I think today. While some in the GOP are trying to get used to the inevitability of Trump as the nominee, it appears that there is a larger group in the establishment who would rather lose the election than see that happen. Whether Trump is the nominee or not, it's a disaster either way. But the disaster of this bullying, bullshitting buffoon as the national candidate will tar the party for years and embolden the worst elements to think that the party now belongs to them. Even Cruz, who is widely despised, would be better, they believe
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/insiders-to-trump-no-majority-no-nomination-221219
Insiders to Trump: No majority, no nomination
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/the-2016-blast/2016/03/establishment-agonizingly-accepts-cruz-jeb-backs-ted-sanders-sees-path-kasichs-great-poll-213374
Establishment grudgingly accepts Cruz
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/inside-the-shadow-campaign-to-deny-trump-the-gop-nomination-221172
Shadow campaign to deny Trump his delegates begins
"Long history"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/26/1505790/-Donald-Trump-s-long-history-of-treating-women-badly
Donald Trump's long history of treating women badly
More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-coming-gendered-armageddon
Does Donald Trump hate women? And I guess this begs the question of what is misogyny? I don't want to put myself forward as an expert on the issue, for obvious reasons. But looking just at Trump's case, it is not hatred of women per se but hatred of powerful women or female power itself that is the defining trait. In a society where women have become more powerful in all aspects of life for decades and where gender equality is a defining political issue, the distinction may be rather semantic. But this is about power and being out of place in the proper hierarchy of power which has Trump at the top at all times. . . [read on]
This is from a couple of months ago, but I hadn't seen it. Here's what the Rich Guy does when his microphone doesn't work (thanks to AG for the link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1quVs9aogY
Trump's creepy foreign policy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/26/trump-in-nyt-interview-elaborates-on-his-foreign-policy-outlook-here-are-9-key-points/
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In Donald Trump’s Worldview, America Comes First, and Everybody Else Pays
Does Trump need a little rest?
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/low-energy-trump.html
[T]he fact is that Trump's an older guy and he doesn't look to be in great shape if you ask me. . . [read on]
"The best political move of the season" (thanks to AG for this link too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atIMRh7YqLg
Is Trump, personally, you know, kind of a nice guy?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noam-bramson/trump-is-charming-hitler-_b_9530610.html
Bernie sweeps three caucuses
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/27/1506688/-With-71-of-the-caucus-vote-Sanders-adds-Hawai-i-to-his-overwhelming-wins-in-Washington-Alaska
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/27/why-did-bernie-sanders-dominate-saturday-caucuses-in-whiter-states/
Why did Bernie Sanders dominate Saturday? Caucuses in whiter states.
What is Bernie's next step? Will he split the party?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-sharpens-attacks-for-ny-showdown-that-may-dash-clintons-unity-hopes/2016/03/26/79d69b7a-f297-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html
Progressives for whom Bernie isn't left ENOUGH
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/should-progressives-support-bernie/
[NB: Well, that's fine, but then just say you will never vote for anyone, ever]
Robert Reich: the end of the two party system?
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/27/robert_reich_this_is_a_working_class_revolt_partner/
Bonus item: I can't top this, from Morgan Knight (also via AG -- busy guy)
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REALLY? REALLY???
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> Peace Councilor 14th Dalai Lama: in any war the poor and the helpless suffer most (March 11)
> QUOTE OF THE WEEK (April 8, 2003)
IRAQ: Peace Councilors Oppose U.S. Plans for War with Iraq (October, 2002 statement)
The following statement by members of the Peace Council was sent to the Associated Press and to other media on October 2, 2002. The statement was signed by Swami Agnivesh, Dr. Saleha S. Mahmood-Abedin, Dr. Dalil Boubakeur, Dr. Elise Boulding, Rev. Marcus Braybrooke, Swami Chidananda Saraswati, Sr. Joan Chittister, osb, Prof. Chung Hyun-Kyung, Ven. Dhammananda Samaneri, Samdech Preah Maha Ghosananda, H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Fr. Thomas Keating, ocso, Mrs. Máiread Maguire, Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, Most Rev. Samuel Ruiz-García, and Most Rev. Desmond M. Tutu:
We members of the interfaith and international Peace Council are opposed to wars of all kinds on moral, spiritual, and practical grounds. Similarly, a war between the United States and Iraq would do nothing to resolve the tensions in that region in the long run. It will make them worse. The costs in human suffering – especially for the women and children of Iraq – would be overwhelming.
The situation is very complex and there is certainly no guarantee that a war against Iraq will bring stability and security to either Iraq or the United States. On the contrary, a war would fuel frustration, extremism, and fanaticism, and may even create new blocs that would increase the likelihood of continuing violence and terrorism.
We call upon our fellow members of the world community to make every effort to halt such a war before it begins, through creative diplomacy and non-violent means, and to work peacefully together to remove the root causes of war and terrorism.
APRIL 8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
(BAGHDAD - New York Times, 8 April, 2003):The scene at the foot of the bridge over the Diyala River was one of utter desolation, with the ground littered with dead and smoldering Iraqi dead. Burning vehicles sent plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky. The air stank from the smell of so much afire.
Only the stray dogs, nosing around the flesh and flames, seemed alive.
Thousands of American marines poured into the Iraqi capital today after capturing the bridge in a day-long firefight, and crossing at two other points as well. Battling tenacious opposition, the marines moved about a mile into the southeastern corner of the city, securing a foothold and silencing most Iraqi opposition by nightfall.
"It's a little sobering," said Capt. Sal Aguilar, standing in a field with dead Iraqis all around him. "When you're training for this, you joke about it, you can't wait for the real thing. Then when you see it, when you see the real thing, you never want to see it again." ...
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Rock Songs About School
By Fist | October 2, 2019 - 2:05 am | October 2, 2019 News
When it comes to school music, rock songs are among the top genres. Rock musicians have succeeded in mixing rock and roll with education. After all, music education has always been offered in schools. However, in recent years, institutions are excluding music to make room for other subjects in the curriculum.
Rock songs about the school are quite relatable. Students from different schools can relate to the lyrics of almost every song. Even though learners study in different learning environments, they also share common experiences. Services like do my homework ensure you have a smooth learning experience in school.
Here are rock songs about the school you might recognize.
1. Rock’ n’ Roll High School
The most impactful experiences that remain with students are usually got from high school. Even though students change as they grow, high school experiences shape all of us. Rock’ n’ Roll High School by the Ramones is a rock song that talks about typical high school experiences.
The song expresses typical Ramones fashion with lines like ‘I just wanna get some chicks’. Isn’t that what high school is about. Every boy wants a girlfriend, and every girl wants a boyfriend. The song was recorded and released in 1979. It has since had many variations over the years, but it maintains the same message.
Even after all these years, high school is still about wanting new shoes and being cool. So far, there are three versions of this song, and even though none of them charted in the U.S., the first version took 67th place on U.K. singles chart.
2. School by Nirvana
As the name suggests, this is a rock song about school. It is a big hit from the Seattle gods. The song was part of a 1989 album called Bleach. The song’s storyline highlight bullying in high school. An oversized bully is featured taking another kid’s lunch money, leaving him with nothing to eat throughout the day. Nirvana spent just $600 on the production of the song, and it turned out to be a hit song.
3. School’s Out by Alice Cooper
School’s Out is a 1972 anthem in which Alice Cooper threatens never to come back to school. I bet high school students can relate to this feeling. High school is fun, but it can be overwhelming sometimes. Students are always looking forward to the summer break.
This song was inspired by a phrase characters liked to use in the Bowery Boys movies. These movies run between 1946-1958. The song was released in 1972 when school was really out. To date, Alice Cooper’s song is an anthem for summer breaks.
4. Hot for Teacher by Van Halen
Van Halen’s 1984 Hot for Teacher video took the world by storm. It’s a controversial song about boys having a crush on their teacher. Ever since the release of the sixth studio album, the band has not made another song.
Hot for teacher was the fourth and final single in their first-ever album. The band featured adults and school going kids. Many parents frowned upon the song because it featured sexually suggestive lyrics.
5. Smokin’ in the Boys Room by Mötley Crüe
This rock song is yet another literal representation of life in high school. Smokin’ in the Boys Room is a song from Mötley Crüe’s 1985’s Theatre of Pain album. Boys always smoke in the washrooms even though if they get caught; they’d suffer the consequences. Mötley Crüe band members are still alive to date.
Rock songs about school have a relatable illustration of how high school was and still is. Judging from the songs, high school is fun, but it can be overwhelming sometimes. Students are always looking forward to summer vacations. Listening to old school rock songs about school brings back memories of your glory days.
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Greetings and salutations. Call me Fist, I'm a proud Kentuckian and I've used metal to help me get through the suffering of living in the bible belt. I am an encyclopedia of metal. I'm a fan of all types of metal. My main goal here is to help people find more music they will fall in love with. Hope you enjoy our words! \m/
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OMAHA (DTN) -- Following the expected signing of a phase one trade deal with China, President Donald Trump plans to speak Sunday at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention, the third straight year the president has addressed Farm Bureau's convention.
A White House spokesman confirmed to DTN that Trump will speak at the convention on Sunday. "The president is expected to tout his administration's work on behalf of American farmers, by strengthening our domestic energy policies and renegotiating trade deals to better benefit all Americans," the spokesman said.
It will be a victory lap for the president's trade agenda following his expected signing of a new agreement with China on Wednesday. Trump administration officials have stated the deal will lead to agricultural sales of $40 billion or more to China annually in the coming years.
The president also is on the cusp of seeing the successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new trade deal, expected to boost agricultural exports by roughly $2.2 billion annually, is being held up by Senate committee hearings on the trade deal, and also the anticipated impeachment articles coming from the House to the Senate this week.
Agriculture also scored another trade win at the beginning of the year as Japan began lowering tariffs on agricultural products following an agreement signed last fall.
Trump spoke at the past two AFBF annual meetings where he has gotten strong support from the farmer audiences. When Trump first spoke at AFBF in 2018, it was the first time a president had addressed the group since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
"The American Farm Bureau is honored President Trump will return for a third consecutive year to speak with farmers and ranchers who work tirelessly to produce the quality food and fiber our country needs," said AFBF President Zippy Duvall. "We are grateful that he has made agricultural issues a priority and look forward to welcoming him to Austin at a time when there is much to talk about, from trade progress to important regulatory reforms."
Besides trade deals, the Trump administration also has revoked the 2015 EPA "waters of the U.S." rule that caused controversy in rural America over the Obama administration's interpretation of federal waterways. That rule dispute remains tied up in court, as at least 14 states have sued the Trump administration to protect the 2015 rule.
The president also established year-long E15 ethanol sales last year, though his administration has drawn criticism from biofuel supporters for its handling of small-refinery exemptions at EPA. Andrew Wheeler, EPA's administrator, is expected to attend AFBF's annual meeting as well, along with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
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FMC Update
FMC held an informational meeting on Tuesday, December 3, to bring village organizations up to date on plant activity and the remediation effort in and around the village.
The DEC will continue coordinating the remediation effort in 2020. To be done is State St. from Alfred to Vernon including the stub streets of William and Washington. Current information from the DEC indicates the properties on Robertson St. are clear including the two that are on State that corner with Robertson. There is also a few small areas at the school that need to be finished. 85 main Street has a new owner and will be remediated. It was not done in 2018 when that part of Main was cleaned up.
FMC will take over in 2021 with DEC over site. FMC will finish the CMS for the part of the tributary in OU5 (Francis to Pearson) which is currently being revised with changes requested by the DEC. After approval there will need to be a public comment period. FMC is looking for some flexibility in areas along the creek which are not residential. It remains to be seen if there will be any. There has been no decision on how the part of the tributary that runs under the canal will be cleaned. Actual remediation probably won't begin until 2021.
In addition, any properties the DEC began to remediate in 2020 which are not completed during the construction season will be finished by FMC in 2021.
The area on FMC property in the past referred to as the CAMU may be regraded and closed. The plan for this will need to be submitted to the DEC and if approved will have a public comment period.
FMC will continue with their effort to sample properties in the OU 6 (tributary north of Pearson Rd.) and OU 7 (Jeddo and Johnson Creek) areas during 2020. Only about 40% of property owners so far have agreed to sampling. This effort will most likely continue into 2021.
FMC continues to invest in the Middleport plant with capital improvements. There are 65 full time employees at the site with a current need for more part time employees.
Th Roy-Hart School is planning to replace the play ground and tennis courts lost to remediation the last couple of years. Remediation at the school should be competed in 2020.
The fmc-middleport.com web site will have a make over including organizing the remediation part by Operable Units (OU's). A visitor can click on a particular OU and go to all the pertinent information on that OU. This will be worked on in early 2020.
The next meeting will be held in the June 2020 time frame.
Posted by: BillA on Dec 06, 2019 - 06:32 PM
NYS DEC Announcement
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS DEC made a major announcement on June 7, 2019, regarding the FMC plant in Middleport and the current ongoing arsenic cleanup in and around the village.
Click on the following links to download the announcements that were published in news media or other entities:
Orleans Hub
Lockport Union Sun & Journal
Gov Cuomo's office
FMC Corp.
These announcements, for the most part, paint FMC as the bad guys and New York State as the heroes. FMC has basically waved the white flag. The DEC had made doing business in the state and especially in Middleport very difficult with increased and excessive inspections, cited violations and fines. Since acquiring DuPont's agricultural business, FMC wanted to move that activity to the Middleport plant and plans to expand the facility with capital improvements. FMC believes that with this settlement, the working environment between themselves and New York State will improve allowing them to continue in Middleport.
The agreement is a new Order of Consent that includes various fines and commitments as listed in the announcements. Another one that was not included in the announced material is that in any year there is remediation effort by FMC, the company must spend 10 million dollars on that effort or be fined.
Law suits between FMC and New York State DEC have been dropped.
The DEC will continue the cleanup in the Air Deposition area including the school which should end at the conclusion of the 2020 construction season. Starting in 2021 FMC will do all the remediation work with over-site by the DEC. These areas will include Culvert 105, the Jeddo Creek Tributary from Francis St. to Lyndonville (if necessary) and areas east and north of the village.
It remains to be seen if this agreement will improve the working relationship between FMC and New York State.
Posted by: BillA on Jun 08, 2019 - 01:24 AM
2019 Phase 5 Air Deposition Area Anouncement Update
On April 18, the DEC updated their remediation plans for 2019 construction season.
Phase 5 of the Roy-Hart school remediation project will begin in April. Areas to the south, west, and north of the high school and areas north of the middle school will be cleaned up. This includes all that area in front of both schools to the State St. right-of-way. The first work to be done will most likely be removal of the trees along State St. Approximately 12,000 cubic yards of soil will be removed. All the work continues to be performed under the over-site of the DEC without FMC involvement. For now, cost will be paid for from The New York State Superfund.
Phase 5 of the Air Deposition Area will also begin in April. Up to 33 properties will be cleaned up this year. The areas includes:
The north side of State St. between Hammond Parkway and Butler parkway.
Both the east and west side of East Ave.
The first two properties on the east side of Butler Pkwy from State. (The other properties on this street have “No further action required” status except for the two on either side at the end of the street next to the canal [as of 2018]. Their status may have changed for 2019.)
The grassy island within the circle in Hammond Pkwy.
The residential property immediately east of the Middle School on State Rd.
The east and west sides of Maple Ave. between State and Park.
The north side of Park Ave. between Maple and Vernon.
Two properties on the south side of State Street east of Maple. (The third property forms a break point as it has 'No further action required” status.)
The east side of Vernon Street between Park and State.
Required restoration work not completed during the 2018, Phase 4 effort.
Some properties within these areas will not be remediated as they have “No further action required” status and some may be properties whose owners refuse. The DEC will work with owners to determine what must be removed and how the property will be restored. Work will be conducted by National Vacuum Environmental Services Corporation of Niagara Falls under the over-site of the DEC on weekdays generally between 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Full time air monitoring will be employed.
After this year's phase, all that will remains in the Air Deposition Area is State Street between William and Vernon and two feeder streets north of State (William and Washington). All properties on Robertson St. have “No further action required” status. Also, some fields east of the village remain to be done pending owner approval.
To download the DEC announcement for Phase 5 of the Air Deposition Area cleanup, click here.
Posted by: BillA on Apr 19, 2019 - 07:14 PM
FMC Update Meeting
On Tuesday, December 4, 2018, FMC held an information meeting to bring community officials up to date on plant activities and the remediation process in and around Middleport. Officials from the village a long with the Supervisors from the towns of Yates and Hartland attended.
A new remediation project coordinator was introduced. Elizabeth (Liz) Madara will be assuming those duties replacing Nick Schapman. Nick came on board just a year ago. Liz has a background as an environmental consultant.
The DEC will continue to remediate the Air Deposition Area and the school yard in Middleport during 2019 and 2020 without FMC. Although the Agency has announced only one more phase for school remediation, it was thought that there is too much area to cleanup for it to be completed in 2019, so there may be some amount of work to do in 2020. It was also mentioned that the school has some issues with the DEC plan concerning accessibility to certain areas of the campus during the remediation process.
After the Air Deposition Area is completed it is believed the DEC will be remediating Culvert 105 between Sleeper St. and the sewage treatment plant along with any areas of the culvert not already done between Sleeper and the canal. This activity will also be performed without FMC. There is no schedule for this. The culvert south of the canal will be done as individual properties that the underground culvert passes through are remediated.
FMC continues to work with the DEC and EPA on Jeddo Creek and its tributary that runs through Middleport. FMC has submitted the Corrective Action Measures for the tributary but the DEC/EPA have asked for revisions. The two sides could not come to an agreement so they are in dispute resolution. It is now doubtful that any work can begin in 2019.
A proposal for the eastern area of the FMC plant (past proposed site for the CAMU) was submitted to the Agencies on December 29, 2017, but there has been no feedback.
The Administrative Judge is continuing to review the submitted briefs supporting or opposing the Hazardous Waste Management Facility Permit Application. These briefs were to be submitted by last spring. The permit, if so ordered, will replace the AOC (Administrative Order of Consent) that FMC and the Agencies are currently working by and will continue to until the status of the permit is resolved.
FMC had begun some sampling activities along the Jeddo Creek north of Pearson Rd but stopped when hunting season began . They will resume next spring. Any sampling results obtained so far have been submitted to the Agencies.
FMC has added three new product lines at the Middleport plant and are in the process of adding a fourth. These lines are from product acquisitions from Dupont. There was a 55% increase in production of their product Command. FMC has invested 3 million dollars in plant improvements in 2018 and plan to invest 8 million in 2019. There is also a plan on the table to construct a building to house new labs and offices. The intent is to become more than just a manufacturing site. They would like to be able to demonstrate products to potential customers at the plant.
Posted by: BillA on Dec 06, 2018 - 12:57 AM
Roy-Hart School Phase 5 Remediation
The DEC has announced the final phase of remediation at the Royalton Hartland Middle and High School. Instead of two more phases over the next two summers, the remaining areas at the schools will be remediated beginning this month, November, 2018, in one phase. Completion is expected to be November, 2019. As a contingency, there may be some work left for the summer recess of 2020. Approximately 16,600 cubic years of soil will be removed from mainly in front of the two schools, and to the west and behind the high school.
Preparation and the installation of a work area fence behind the high school will begin in November with major soil removal beginning in April, 2019, continuing through October, 2019. Soil removal will begin behind the high school, moving to the front of both schools during summer recess to minimize the impact on the function of the school. During school hours, work will not begin before 8:00 AM. Air monitoring will be performed during work hours.
To view the DEC flier describing the activity click here.
Posted by: BillA on Nov 08, 2018 - 05:44 PM
Latest Update 11/2/18
The DEC has sent letters requesting access for sampling and potential remediation to around 70 property owners in the Air Deposition Area. These residential properties are the last in that area that have not been previously remediated or their owners declined aside from the school and agricultural fields. The properties run along State Street from Hammond Parkway to Vernon St. and include the side streets along the way (East Ave., Butler, William, Washington, Maple and Vernon Streets). In addition, three residential only property owners east of the school have received letters requesting permission. The properties on and bordering Roberson St. have clear or No Further Action Required status. There are about 37 properties scattered along the area that also have received clear letters.
The DEC want to get permission, if they can, on these remaining properties so they can sample and develop plans for remediation over the winter. However only about 30 properties will be remediated in 2019 with the rest being done on 2020. It should be noted there will probably be some owners who will refuse. Although the request for access from the DEC includes sampling and remediation, owners are still allowed to opt out at any time during the process. They may write on the agreement what they are agreeing to before signing and returning the request.
There is no way to know at this time how many owners will refuse but there most likely will be some. Note that for this year's activity, the refusal rate on Main St., south of South St., was above 50% who declined. However that rate on Hammond Parkway was around 10%.
On another front, FMC sent letters during the summer to property owners along the Tributary and its flood plain north of Pearson Rd to Mill Rd near Marshall in Orleans County. Theses areas are refereed to as Operable Units 7 and 8. The intent is to gain access to survey boundaries and mark drainage areas as well as gain knowledge of the property's history. FMC has already filed a preliminary sampling plan with the DEC. Unlike the Air Deposition Area, FMC is executing the survey and sampling. It remains to be seen who does any subsequent remediation.
The DEC has not announced their plans for next year's activity at the school, but it's most likely the areas in front of the two buildings will be remediated. Remaining would be areas west and south of the high school. The DEC has planned on two more phases at the school.
Roy-Hart Phase 4 Remediation
The DEC mailed a fact sheet to area residents the week of June 24 describing their planed activity for Phase 4 of the cleanup of contaminated soil at the Royalton-Hartland school in Middleport for the summer of 2018.
They planed on starting mid June but there has not been much activity as of June 30. The excavation work and back fill is suppose to be completed by September. Restoration will be performed during the fall.
Some 8300 cubic yards of soil will be removed east and south of the Middle School along with the existing playground area. A temporary fence will surround the work area. The truck route during the summer while school is out will run through the parking area north of the middle school from the gym to the building housing the cafeteria. During fall when school is in session the truck route will run only through the parking area in from of the gym. It appears trucks will be loaded in these parking areas. The work area will be reduced when the school starts in the fall.
Dust monitoring equipment will be placed around the work area but it was not mentioned where in the fact sheet.
A letter to community members from the school superintendent was included with the DEC fact sheet. Dr. Stopinski stated that the school is committed to replace the playground as part of their “Long Range Plans” so it is unclear when this will happen and if it will be paid for by the school or the DEC as part of the latter's restoration. It was mentioned that part of the restoration would include site work for new tennis and pickleball courts along with a new access driveway to the field hockey field and a parking area next to the field.
To view the fact sheet click here.
Posted by: BillA on Jun 30, 2018 - 06:31 PM
NYS Court of Appeals Rules on FMC Law Suit
On May 1, 2018, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of the DEC and against FMC's law suit claiming the latter should have been able to arbitrate the DEC's decision to proceed with cleanup in the Air Deposition Area with their selected corrective measure (CMA9). In agreeing with the DEC, the court determined that their decision to remediate unilaterally was cost effective, dismissed FMC's claim and directed FMC to pay for the cleanup effort both past and future. The Court claimed state law permits the DEC to act unilaterally if they determine their decision is cost effective and FMC offered no proof it wasn't.
This decision is somewhat of a surprise since the lower court, the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court, ruled unanimously in FMC's favor.
FMC is looking into their next move but believe they will still have the opportunity to dispute their liability to pay for the cleanup. This will probably have to be in federal court.
The DEC has spent about 20 million dollars so far in the cleanup effort and estimate the total will be from 58 to 69 million for the Air Deposition Area including the school grounds. To date this money has come from the state supperfund. Before the DEC unilateral cleanup began, FMC spent about 200 million dollars on studies and cleanup such as various RFI's and CMS's, cleaning up the school football field, east side of South Vernon St, south side of Park Ave, etc.
The DEC will begin Phase four of the six phase cleanup of the school yard in May. The work will be east of the middle school. The existing playground will be replaced with a new, improved one meeting 2018 standards and new tennis courts and a parking lot will be built in the area.
The next phase of residential property cleanup will also begin in May.
Posted by: BillA on May 06, 2018 - 07:42 PM
DEC Announces 2018 Activity
The DEC announced its plans to continue remediation of private properties in the Middleport village during the 2018 construction period.
The areas to be done are:
The "N&O block" which is the area bounded by Park Ave. on the north, the railroad on the south, Maple Ave. on the east and Main St. on the west. This does not include St. Stephens Church which has already been remediated.
The "S block" which is what is left to be done on the west side of Vernon St. between South St. and Telegraph Rd.(three properties) and the east side of Main St. between South and Telegraph excluding the two properties already remediated in 2003.
The "G block" which is Hammond Parkway including those properties on State St and the east side of East Ave.
However many properties within these blocks are not up for remediation because they have received "clear letters or no further action required". For example, in the N Block, only one property on Main St. (the large brick apartment house) and the two properties on Vernon behind the apartment building are up for remediation. All the rest are clear. On Main in the S block, six owners have refused and one (perhaps a new owner) has received a request from the DEC without a reply so far. This leaves only six properties that will be remediated this year in that block. Even though the DEC announcement included the east side of East Ave. in the G block, only those ranch houses within the Hammond Parkway development will be up for remediation this year but of the five properties bordering State St. in the G block, three are clear and the owner of one has refused, leaving only one to be remediated.
The properties along Telegraph Rd. are clear and all but two properties along west side of Main St. between Francis St. and Telegraph Rd. are clear. Of the latter two, one will be remediated this year and the owner of the second has refused.
After this year there will be roughly 60 properties remaining to be remediated mostly along State St., its feeder streets and Main and Vernon St. between State and Park. However many in these areas have received clear letters. About 30 properties are done each year so maybe after this year only two more years remain and the Air Deposition Area will be done (except for those properties along State between the village line and the county line).
In their announcement, the DEC stresses that remediation is voluntary and property owners have the ability to decline. Indeed a number of owners have declined.
The DEC also announced separately the remediation at the Junior/Senior High School will continue in 2018. The remediation effort will involve the eastern portion of the school property (east of the Junior High to the property line and north of the already remediated field hockey field up to the road (Rt 31E).
To view the DEC announcement on residential cleanup click here.
FMC's Home Value Assurance Program Extended
FMC announced they have extended their Home Value Assurance Program until December, 2021. There have been no changes made to the program. To view a pamphlet describing the program click here.
FMC has not updated their online pamphlet so this download is for the program dated 2016 to 2018. However aside from the dates and FMC contact, the information is the same.
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3 John –
Partnering with Ministers of the Gospel;
Avoiding Troublemakers
Only a single chapter long, 3 John is another memo written by an important leader in the early church to address a matter of concern with a follower of Christ. The author of this epistle identified himself simply as, “the Elder.” Although there is no other concrete evidence to suggest that it was written by John, the brother of James and son of Zebedee, the similarity in style, vocabulary and other details closely resemble those of John’s Gospel, 1 John and Revelation, wherein John identified himself as the author. [Nelson’s Complete Book of Bible Maps & Charts © 1996, by Thomas Nelson, Inc., p. 473].
Bible scholars estimate that the letter was written about the same time as 2 John—around A.D. 90—most likely from his headquarters in Ephesus. It is addressed anonymously “To the beloved Gaius…” Although brief—a mere fourteen verses long—the letter is still relevant today in its encouragement to minister to fellow believers and avoid those who oppose church leaders.
3 John Chapter 1
As mentioned above, John opened his letter simply by calling himself, “the elder.” Having been arrested and exiled and even having had an attempt made to execute him for his faith, perhaps John was being cautious about identifying himself—either for his safety or that of his correspondents. Perhaps, as the oldest surviving member of the original twelve apostles, he needed only identify himself this way, and people would know who he was.
John referred to his recipient as “Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth” (3 John 1:1). The love of God for us and love for one another were John’s favorite subjects in all his writings. It is fitting that the first thought he expressed toward the recipient of this letter was the fact of his genuine agape love for this brother in Christ.
I love what John prays for his friend: “that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers” (v. 2). So much modern research confirms that anyone who is sound of mind is also sound of body. Our hearts, minds and bodies are so connected.
John mentioned next that he had heard from other believers that Gaius was walking in the truth, and said hearing that his spiritual children were doing so was one of the greatest sources of joy in his life (3-4). Not only that, but John encouraged Gaius that “you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers” (5). Gaius was well known for his love among those in the local church (6a). John exhorted him to extend that same love to itinerant evangelists, by supporting them in their work, since they were doing so with no support from the non-Jewish people among whom they were ministering (6b-7). “We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth” (8). Or as Jesus had previously said, according to Matthew 10:41, those who extended a kindness to someone who represented Him would be rewarded.
In contrast to Gaius’ hospitality, another man, “Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them,” resisted what John had written to the church he oversaw (3 John 1:9). Rather than commending this man who lived for the applause of others, John intended to confront Diotrephes for his opposition to John and his slander of him and other believers (v. 10). Not only was this man resisting the authority of church leaders, but he refused to help other ministers and threatened excommunication to anyone in ‘his church’ who did!
In light of the unfortunate reality of Diotrephes and other arrogant men in leadership in some churches, John urged Gaius, “don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God” (11). John was advocating what some Bible teachers refer to as ‘fruit inspection.’ If a person lives in a way that is consistent with the character and teaching of Christ, then he/she is worthy of emulation. If a person does not live in a way that represents our Lord well, then more likely than not, that person doesn’t really know God and should not be followed at all.
In contrast to Diotrephes, John appeared to hold up another man, named Demetrius, of whom he had apparently heard a much better report. It appears that John recommended him as a better role model for Gaius to follow (12).
As he had done in the “dear lady” addressed in 2 John, the Apostle concluded by saying he had more things to communicate, but intended to do so face-to-face—something he anticipated doing soon (13-14). He closed with the benediction, “Peace be to you,” and extended the greetings of anonymous “friends,” encouraging Gaius to greet them by name.
No matter where you go, you will find men and women who model the humility and love of Christ and those who want all the focus on themselves, instead. Even today, it is easy to be unduly impressed by those in positions of authority—even when their influence over others is wrongly applied.
Although we are not allowed to judge and condemn anyone, believers are encouraged to examine the speech and conduct of others to see whether it lines up with the words and example of Christ. We should follow the example of those who are loving, kind and generous; not that of people who are arrogant, forceful, stingy or self-serving.
Quotations from Scripture are from the World English Bible (WEB), Public Domain
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The Melody Lingers On
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Dedication to the American Songbook would not be complete without including the contributions of Hollywood songwriters from Sammy Cahn to Marvin Hamlisch. It seems only fitting that we celebrate our Silver Anniversary with a look at Songs From The Silver Screen! ~ J. Kent Barnhart
The silver screen bursts into radiant, living technicolor in this cabaret tribute to tinsel town’s finest tunesmiths, including classics “Hooray For Hollywood,” “That’s Entertainment,” and “Over The Rainbow” coupled with Oscar-winning favorites “Call Me Irresponsible,” “The Way We Were,” and “Evergreen”.
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Whangarei is a relatively late Troup class C station building. A large structure of rectangular form with a large verandah, it has exterior cladding of rusticated weatherboards and a corrugated-iron roof. The wide verandah has twin railway-iron posts and a sawtooth valance. The main building is divided by a concrete wall. There are a number of chimneys across the roof. Decoration is minimal, but there is a simple flared motif picked out in the gable end. The windows are largely sash with multi-pane upper lights. The platform elevation has numerous entrances and windows along its length. The interior has been altered over the years but much original fittings and joinery remain, particularly the doors and windows.
The station building is Whangarei's third. The North Auckland Line opened as far as Whangarei in 1880 and it is likely the town's first station dated from then. A contract for a new station building was let in 1902/3 and the new building was attached to the old lean-to structure. However, with the imminent completion of the line to Auckland, planning began in 1922 for a major station rearrangement and a new station building. Completed in 1925 to coincide with the opening of the line, the new building reflected Whangarei's growing regional importance. From 1939, when the parcels office was partitioned and lockers added, the interior has been the subject of successive alterations. In 1968 the Road Services depot was relocated to the station, with consequent additions and alterations. Today the building has no residual railway use, and is largely empty.
Whangarei reveals again the enduring nature of railway station design. There is no great difference between gable stations of the early 20th century and Whangarei, built two decades later. The most impressive feature is the size of the main building and verandah: the decorative railway iron supporting the latter is also noteworthy, as is the external joinery.
Whangarei was part of an isolated regional railway line until the link with Auckland was established in 1925. The present building ushered in a new era of rail communication and it is a fitting reminder of Whangarei's position as the principal town in Northland.
Whangarei station is some way from the centre of town and has little impact on the surrounding area.
Railway Rd, Whangarei
Whangarei District Council
Type Troup class C station
Line NAL
NZHPT Category II
NZHPT Number 7646
Conservation Plan Yes
Integrity Good
Landscape / Townscape Setting On the edge of the city centre, in a commercial district with houses nearby
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Brandon | McKees Rocks, PA
On the Sunday before Christmas 2016, Brandon, 31, was playing dek hockey when he slipped, fell backward, and suffered severe whiplash, but never hit his head. The next day at his job as a middle school gym teacher, he was unable to read the computer, and he felt dizzy and nauseous. Thinking he may have the flu, Brandon went to see his primary care physician (PCP) who diagnosed him with vertigo and prescribed him medication for his dizziness.
Concussion Symptoms
Over Christmas break, Brandon powered through the dizziness and the intense headaches because the medication wasn’t helping. When he returned to work, he was still unable to concentrate when using the computer. Watching his students perform their gym activities also made him dizzy. He decided it was time to seek additional help. He went to a nearby hospital, where he underwent a CAT scan, an EKG, and various blood tests. The emergency room physician told him he may have a concussion and he should follow up with his PCP.
Brandon then took a week off from work and returned to his PCP, who had been treating him for more than a month, and was given the number for Micky Collins, PhD, clinical and executive director of the UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program. Dr. Collins saw Brandon at the program’s Bethel Park office, where his concussion diagnosis was finally confirmed.
Concussion Treatment
Dr. Collins had Brandon perform the ImPACT® test to establish a baseline for his symptoms. He was told to do vestibular and exertional therapy, including side to side head movements, moving his eyes back and forth, walking down the hall while spinning and walking backward – anything to recreate his symptoms and see how his body would recover.
To aid in his recovery, Brandon was also encouraged to go back to his day to day routine. He would meet up with friends and go out to eat. He would go to grocery stores since the back and forth eye movement used there would increase his symptoms, but ultimately help him heal. He pushed himself to recover, but this would result in migraines and then depression, due to still not feeling better.
“This is the worst injury I’ve ever had because it affected me both physically and psychologically,” says Brandon. “I was in a really dark place because I wanted to feel better right away, but it takes time and gets really frustrating.”
Concussion Recovery
Brandon shared his feelings with Dr. Collins, who taught him some stress relief and meditation techniques.
“I don’t think I could’ve gotten over this without the help of my therapists and Dr. Collins,” says Brandon. “He’d talk to me and assure me others were going through the same thing. I felt so alone but Dr. Collins encouraged me. Every time I left his office, I felt better about myself.”
Brandon stayed dedicated to his therapy and worked hard to recover. After completing his fourth ImPACT® test, he was cleared of his concussion in March 2017.
“Looking back, I’m kind of glad I went through this,” remarks Brandon, who also coaches high school football. “Having a concussion has been an eye-opener for me. Now I can better understand and help my students who go through the same thing.
“Do what the doctors tell you – that’s the most important part. Stay positive. You will feel better,” concludes Brandon.
To learn more about our patients, read their stories.
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Born and raised in New York, Hillary began her career as a project manager for Manhattan’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, where she facilitated marketing campaigns for all of The Garden’s entertainment entities, including the New York Knicks and New York Rangers. Hillary then joined the team at Matthew David Celebrations. There, she gained exposure to some of New York City’s most notable venues, planning events at landmarks like Lincoln Center and The Central Park Boathouse. Early on in her professional life, Hillary experienced both the venue management and party planning sides of the industry.
Hillary moved on to Colin Cowie Celebrations to become an executive producer for more large-scale, international events. She traveled the world for almost a decade with celebrity event designer Colin Cowie, collaborating on projects for high-profile individuals with headline talent and world-renowned chefs. Together, Hillary and Colin conceived the world’s most incredible living art projects — from hotel openings in Dubai to royal weddings in Qatar. At Colin Cowie Celebrations, Hillary worked with the best and learned from the best to become the dynamic leader she is today.
Over 15 years in the event and entertainment industry has led Hillary to produce successful events with ease. Her best asset: maintaining attention to detail without losing perspective on the big picture. As the founder of Ruby Stone — created in 2008 — Hillary gets to apply her skills to her life’s passion every day. She spends her days making people’s dreams become a reality while she’s living out a dream of her own. Above all, Hillary values loyalty and compassion and instills these values into her business. Her warm disposition is what sets Ruby Stone apart in a competitive enterprise where sales often take precedence over relationships.
From extravagant celebrations to more personal affairs, Hillary strives to master the art of event planning every day.
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Eyes Green, Hair Bald!
My title refers to something I forgot to mention this in my last post. It’s possible I repressed it, though my conscious mind seems to find it funny. Not much of a story, really. I sat down for my ID picture, waited a few seconds, the personnel lady asked me if my eyes were green or blue, I said they straddle the line but I usually go green. She nodded, and then handed me a card that said, yes, Eyes: Green, Hair: Bald. I mildly protested, but knowing that bald-and-in-denial is worse than regular bald, I acquiesced. But if this bad boy demagnetizes, I’m having it changed. Hell, there’s a guy on board who shaves his head, and his card had a hair colour!
I still maintain I’m balding, not bald. But daily rides in mirrored elevators do have me glowering with some frequency at my scalp’s flesh island, and the fact that I’m sunburnt at the top of my forehead where I went light on the sunscreen because of ostensible hair coverage also has me reevaluating.
So, not much more to report on excursions. I’m definitely pacing myself. My logic is why burn all the cool places to see in the first few weeks when I’m here for a few months? Plus, I’m racing to meet a deadline to enter a play into the Fringe New Play Contest. (Whether I make it or not is still up in the air, but I figure worst-case scenario, the attempt will make me productive. And there’s a month after that deadline to decide if I just want to submit on my own, so it’s energy well spent.)
There has been fun, though, lest you were concerned. Mostly of the improvisers hanging out with each other and nerding out variety. For instance, there was the invention and first round ever of “Toast Your Vacation,” most of the credit of which goes to director Matt Craig (though variations will developed with the cast.) In essence, it involves bouncing a crumpled-up napkin off the ceiling and trying to get it to land in a triangular upright menu on the bar table. It’s exactly twice as fun as it sounds.
There was also the night in the karaoke room, where we did a series of duets with entirely invented and usually wildly inappropriate lyrics. For the most part, the lyrics didn’t even match up in terms of timing with the originals, the exception being the chorus of “Constant Craving,” which of course became “Constant Raping.” Again, twice as funny as it sounds. My personal highlight of the game was probably a duet with Matt Craig where I was a baby abandoned in a dumpster (which he quickly changed into a baby born into a dumpster, with the lid slamming shut cutting the umbilical cord), he was the father, and the bulk of the song was the ways in which I was violated by products in the dumpster, mostly breakfast cereals.
In terms of less than perfect experiences, we went to Teppanyaki (the ship equivalent of Benihana). I don’t know if it’s a class consciousness thing, but I’m always extremely uncomfortable in situations where servers or chefs are forced to perform for me. The way I see it, they’re already performing a service for me, they shouldn’t have to pretend to be thrilled about it. (Feel free to observe me next time we’re in a restaurant and waiters have to sing “Happy Birthday.” Welcome to Cringe City, population: me!) Plus, noisy! (I realize there may be some projecting or cognitive dissonance at play here, but that’s a rant for a later night.)
One thing about the Teppanyaki experience that does bear sharing: at one point, sensing that we were a young, hip and ribald crowd, the chef created a fried egg manpart (complete with egg-shell testes) and a fried rice lady’s hoohah, and once that had been established, pushed the manpart into the hoohah, viciously chopping the egg as it entered. Misogynistic, perhaps. Horrifying, hells yeah!
Oh, and I did some laundry and discovered the crew ping-pong table. Small things, but they helped with the transition from “I’m in a hotel” to “I live in a hotel.”
Today was a big day in two ways. This morning, our director, Matt Craig, left us. He will definitely be missed. It’s interesting to see how even in the few hours he’s been gone how the group dynamic has changed. This is because he is one of the most naturally entertaining people I’ve ever met, and so many of our group encounters consisted of us just sitting back and listening to him tell stories, riff, etc. Nature abhors a vacuum, though, so I’m sure we’ll recover. But he’ll be missed.
We also had our first improv shows tonight. I’m aware that I should be writing more about that (and possibly less about egg-penises), but it’s late and I’m tired, and this is the part I’m writing in real time, and I’m not entirely sober. But they were fun, and as with the sketch show, you could feel the learning curve happening, and by the end of the second show, we seemed to really be discovering each other as an ensemble. So good times ahead, I’m sure, and hey, it’s not like I’m going to be running out of opportunities to talk about shows.
And for those who want to track my personal entertainment, I have finished Part One of American Gods, and am four episodes into the first season of NYPD Blue (you can really taste the Milch!)
Go to bed, you nutcases!
Oh wait, you probably are.
I’m going to bed.
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The Kansas City Star: Shell Oil official clarifies remarks to Senate panel: "Boxer said Hofmeister’s letter left her “more convinced” that there was a conscious effort on Shell’s part to purposely reduce the supply of gasoline and increase gasoline prices in California. “Enough is enough,” Boxer wrote. “We need to get at the truth, and the only way to do that is to bring the oil company executives before the committee under oath.” Shell said in a statement that it would evaluate any request to call Hofmeister back to testify under oath.": Wed 14 December 2005
By STEVE EVERLY
The Kansas City Star
A top Shell Oil Co. official has withdrawn remarks before a Senate committee that the company tried to sell a Bakersfield, Calif., refinery before announcing it would close it.
John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, told a U.S. Senate committee in November that the company “shopped the refinery around unofficially but did not find buyers. We then decided to close it.”
But in a letter earlier this month to the chairmen of two Senate committees involved in the hearings, he said Shell’s efforts to sell the refinery began after the announcement that it would be closed. He said he had been mistaken on the sequence of events because he had been working outside the United States and was not overseeing the proposed closing or sale.
The closing of refineries has been an issue because a lack of refinery capacity can contribute to higher prices for gasoline and other refined products. One of California’s senators, Democrat Barbara Boxer, said Hofmeister’s admission was another reason to recall him and the other oil executives who were at the November hearing and make them testify under oath.
Shell announced in 2003 that it would close the Bakersfield refinery and said operating it no longer made economic sense. But the California attorney general and others questioned the closing, saying it could hurt gasoline supplies and prices. Shell then delayed the closing and found a buyer, completing the sale earlier this year. Critics said the sale wouldn’t have occurred without the outside pressure.
Darci Sinclair, a spokeswoman for Shell, said Tuesday that Hofmeister intended to be completely accurate and felt it important to clarify his remarks made at the hearings.
In a further statement, the company said Shell had actually increased its U.S. refinery capacity from 1994 to 2004 and invested substantial sums to do so. The company also said it was able to supply gasoline to its California customers through its existing West Coast supply network.
The Bakersfield refinery was mentioned in June in an article in The Kansas City Star about the closing of a refinery in Arkansas City, Kan., despite buyers who wanted to purchase it. In the article, some employees at the Bakersfield refinery said they had been told by a company official that the refinery was being closed to keep it out of the hands of competitors. Shell denied that.
Boxer made her proposal to recall the oil executives in a letter dated Dec. 8 to the chairmen of the Senate Commerce Committee. The executives were not under oath for their November testimony.
Executives of other oil companies said at the hearings that their companies had not met with Vice President Dick Cheney when he was working on a national energy policy in 2001. A recent Washington Post story citing a White House document said executives of those companies did meet with Cheney.
Boxer said Hofmeister’s letter left her “more convinced” that there was a conscious effort on Shell’s part to purposely reduce the supply of gasoline and increase gasoline prices in California.
“Enough is enough,” Boxer wrote. “We need to get at the truth, and the only way to do that is to bring the oil company executives before the committee under oath.”
Shell said in a statement that it would evaluate any request to call Hofmeister back to testify under oath.
A spokesman for the Senate Commerce Committee said the decision to recall the executives was being left to Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, a Republican, and the Energy Committee that he heads. Both the Energy and Commerce committees participated in the hearings.
A spokeswoman for the Energy Committee did not return a message seeking comment.
Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said the Senate should further investigate Shell’s action and why it didn’t initially intend to sell a refinery that in the end sold for more than $100 million.
“If they want to know, there’s something to look at,” he said.
■ Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, is proposing to recall oil executives. The executives were not under oath for their November testimony.
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Apple News, apple, Article, Business, Carbon emissions, Climate change, Coal, Computing, Corporate social responsibility, Energy, Environment, Felicity Carus, Fossil fuels, Greenpeace, Main section, News, Technology, Technology sector, UK news — April 21, 2011 11:37 — 0 Comments
Apple named ‘least green’ tech company
This article titled “Apple named ‘least green’ tech company” was written by Felicity Carus in San Francisco, for theguardian.com on Thursday 21st April 2011 10.07 UTC
Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on "dirty data" centres.
The list, which is compiled by Greenpeace and released in San Francisco on Thursday, shows that the company relies heavily on highly polluting coal power at the sites that house its banks of servers.
Greenpeace’s report, How Dirty is Your Data? reveals that the company’s investment in a new North Carolina facility will triple its electricity consumption, equivalent to the electricity demand of 80,000 average US homes. The facility’s power will be supplied by Duke Energy, with a mix of 62% coal and 32% nuclear. On Wednesday, Apple posted a large boost in quarterly earnings, which grew by 95% to bn (£3.65bn).
Gary Cook, Greenpeace’s IT policy analyst and lead author of the report, said: "Consumers want to know that when they upload a video or change their Facebook status that they are not contributing to global warming or future Fukushimas."
Companies in the US are not required by law to disclose their energy use or carbon emissions. But Greenpeace drew on publicly available information on investments made in data centres, to estimate the maximum power these facilities will consume, and matched that information with data from the government or utilities.
The report estimated dependence on coal for Apple’s data centres at 54.5%, followed by Facebook at 53.2%, IBM at 51.6%, HP at 49.4%, and Twitter at 42.5%. Top marks in Greenpeace’s clean energy index went to Yahoo, followed by Google and Amazon. Greenpeace is also campaigning for Facebook to "unfriend coal" and use cleaner energy to power its servers.
Cook said: "Many companies treat their energy consumption a bit like the Coca-Cola secret formula, because they don’t want competitors knowing how much they spend on energy. The amount of electricity they consume would give some indication of what kind of arms race they were in. They don’t really want this story to be told."
Cloud computing relies on large data centres, rather than in-house based IT services, to power internet-based services such as Hotmail or Gmail. Data centre energy demand already accounts for 1.5% to 2% of world electricity consumption and is set to quadruple over the next 10 years.
Molly Webb, head of smart technology at the Climate Group in London, said: "Greenpeace is calling for transparency from companies which rely heavily on data centres, and that would ideally highlight the need for investment and ambitious government policy to ensure enough clean power is available to green our tweets."
Jonathan Koomey, a project scientist for the End-Use Forecasting Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work was cited in the study, said that the IT industry wrongly attracted criticism: "The use of IT often reduces environmental impacts. When we compared greenhouse gas emissions for downloading music to buying it on a CD, for example, we found downloads reduced emissions 40-80%."
Apple declined to comment on the Greenpeace report. But at its last shareholder meeting, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the company would have more to say on the new data centre in Maiden, North Carolina, in the spring.
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Chasins studied at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and the Curtis Institute. After touring as a pianist, he served as a teacher at the Curtis Institute. Chasins is most-known for his work in radio broadcasting and he received four citations for his radio programs during WWII. His compositions include piano concertos and other pieces for piano. He also wrote several books on music history and appreciation.
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Bikers on The 700 Club
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CBN TV - Renegade biker finds Christ in prison
Tennessee's Wild Ride
By Sheryl Fountain
CBN.com – “We went bar-hopping, and I started doing two shots of Beam and a shot of Budweiser. I started to get ripped, and we went to the go go bar down the street and smoked a couple of joints. I left the go go bar and was doing 85 miles an hour down the road. I went to take a turn, and I don’t know if I yelled Jesus or God. I yelled something out, and the bike turned and catapulted. I almost went over a power line and landed on my feet. I fell back and had no feeling from my waist down.”
Tennessee William Morse had survived several accidents in his lifetime, but this one would end a long road of rebellion. As a child, Tennessee never felt accepted or wanted. He says, “I was picked on a lot, constantly called names. I wanted to be cool and accepted. Everyone wants to be accepted. Everyone wants to be loved.”
By the time he was 12, he was not only doing drugs but selling them. He recalls, “I was caught up in some pretty heavy stuff at that age. It wasn’t about the money it was just about being cool.”
In high school, Tennessee was introduced to a local biker club, The Renegades. “They’d ride up on their bikes, man, and I was attracted to that,” he says. “Nobody messed with you. Know what I mean? I was messed with all my life. They took me under their wing, and I got my first tattoo.”
Tennessee never became an official member of the club, but he embraced the lifestyle.
“There’s more drinking than anything. A lot of one night stands with different people. A lot of riding. There’s a lot of intimidation going on. You weren’t going to mess them with. I’ve seen people get beat half to death. I’ve seen people beat unrecognizable. It was good to be accepted and not messed with no more. Yes, it was nice.”
When he wasn’t riding with The Renegades, Tennessee was traveling with rock bands. That’s where he was introduced to crystal meth.
“Everything that you would want in any kind of drug form was there for free. I didn’t really like it, to be honest with you. It was just to be cool.”
This need to feel accepted came with near fatal results. He recalls, “My body wasn’t functioning right. I was just totally flipping out. I ended up staying up for eight days. I flat lined at Lee Memorial. I died.”
The doctor’s were able to revive him, but despite his near-death experience, Tennessee went back to his regular routine.
“I started drinking more and smoking more pot, because I didn’t like staying straight. Thought about killing myself a few times. It’s like I really wasn’t happy, but I thought I was. As long as I was around everybody and I was around the lights, the excitement, the clubs, the motorcycles and the bands, I was good but seems a lot of times when I got home I was depressed.”
In the early morning hours on New Year’s Day, Tennessee’s wild ride finally came to an end.
“I went to take a turn and the bike turned. I almost went over the power lines. I was paralyzed. I could not move my lower end, and I was laying there, just thinking. I’m not walking anymore, and I still had a little bit of a buzz but it was pretty much gone. I just said, ‘Jesus, if You just let me walk, I’ll walk with You. I’m done.’ I knew I was done.”
Immediately after he prayed this, feeling started to come back to into his legs. The next day, still sore from the accident, he went to the doctor.
“I went to the emergency room, and the doctor said the impact of the bruise that I had on my heel could have shattered everything. I shouldn’t be walking. I said, ‘I know.’”
Aware that he was miraculously spared, Tennessee committed his life to the Lord. “I’ve been in 11 motorcycle and car wrecks. My 11th brought me to Christ. No sex, drugs, rock’n’roll, no high could ever touch the peace I had. It was like I was healed.”
Since the accident, Tennessee says that God has completely changed him.
“My life is totally restored. I got a four-year-old boy now, and I’ve been married for 11 years. I don’t want anything to do with drugs or alcohol or my old lifestyle. God put it on my heart to start this Christian Soldiers group I’m in. You can still be a biker and hang out with bikers but do the right thing. Now I’m national president.
"I look back at all the times that I have been spared of death and getting beat half to death ‘cause I know God was there. He blesses my in spite of myself. I still look around and have to smile the way He takes care of me. He was patient and put up with me for so long waiting for me to come to Him. The only reason why I am sitting here talking to you and not in dead or in prison is because of Jesus Christ.”
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Tranny Wants to Teach Kindergartners Something Sick
Danica Roem, a Democrat running opposite of Republican Rep. Bob Marshall for Virginia state legislator, made controversial statements in September regarding the education of youth on the topic of transgender people.
Roem, who now dresses as a woman after changing his legal sex from male to female, supports teaching kindergartners about transgender people.
The Larry O’Connor Show on WMAL featured Roem as a guest. During the radio broadcast, O’Connor asked Roem: “If somebody says that a kindergarten classroom should include gender identity discussions, would you support that?”
Roem responded with a series of questions.
“Is it age-appropriate? What is the way that it is being taught?” Roem asked. “Do you have real people who are coming into class to talk about it? There’s a lot of nuance that goes into it.”
Technical difficulties resulted in Roem’s audio being interrupted for a moment, prompting O’Connor to sum up Roem’s opinion.
“It sounds like, yes, if it’s done correctly you would support transgender curriculum in the kindergarten,” said O’Connor.
“That’s such a BS question,” Roem responded. “That’s not what I said.”
Roem elaborated further on his position.
“Are you talking about someone’s anatomy, or are you talking about ‘Hi, this is someone who is five years old, this person is transgender,’ and then we just explain ‘This is what that means,’ and that’s it,” Roem continued. “We’re not going to be talking about people’s anatomy and their private parts and any of that stuff in front of children.”
Roem said he would not be putting forth legislation dealing with transgender curriculum in kindergarten classes.
Instead, Roem argued that “my (sexual) identity should not be a big deal.”
However, Roem’s campaign ad focuses exclusively on his status as a transgender person.
Roem’s platform cites issues of equality, including “the DREAM Act, civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, raising the minimum wage and making health insurance more accessible and affordable for everyone.”
Roem’s opponent, Marshall, is a Republican state representative who sponsored the state’s constitutional amendment which preserved the institution of marriage as two-sex, according to Breitbart.
Earlier this year, Marshall put forth a sexual-privacy bill which would allow women to exclude transgender people from women-only bathrooms, showers, swimming pools, and other public facilities.
Marshall argues that his stance on transgender ideology has made him “the Number One target of the Democrats,” in the upcoming elections.
“If they beat me, this will put (conservative) Representatives in the closet for years,” Marshall said.
Source: www.westernjournalism.com
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ABOUT WORK BLOG CONTACT
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SCRIPTING. PRODUCTION. MULTIMEDIA DESIGN. TRAINING.
Spellbound was born in 2006 with a belief that the principles and processes of great storytelling could benefit anyone looking to create content that inspired, entertained and engaged their increasingly fragmented audiences.
Quietly but passionately we went about helping a range of clients create powerful video content, from large corporates like Unilever and Diageo, to small entrepreneurial brands like Daylesford Organic, from new online travel sites like Monumental Adventure to complex institutions like the Metropolitan Police.
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As the potential for video online, on mobile and across other platforms began to unfold, we expanded our offering to include animation, multimedia design and digital marketing, providing our clients with a range of creative options and the tools to reach their intended audience.
Fast forward to today and the appetite for great content is larger than ever, along with the platforms on which it can be shown. For us, great content is not something produced as an add-on to a brand strategy or communications plan. It should be at the heart of how a brand engages with internal and external audiences across every touchpoint. It should be actively working to build a powerful and emotionally engaging brand story.
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The combined creativity and skills of our team of brand experts, designers, developers and of course film production crew means we can work with a client like the Department of Energy & Climate Change to develop and create a series of animations explaining the energy challenge in the UK. In addition, build all the brand elements across online, print and social media and create a range of infographics for a series of nationwide debates on energy that we then film and distribute.
Or develop and produce a series of travel films that tell the story of a city by those who live there. 150 films were created for London, New York and Beijing in the Monumental Adventure project that featured celebrities such as Joanna Lumley, Tracey Emin, Kristen Johnston, Piper Perabo and Tom Hollander and places as diverse as the Summer Palace in Beijing and the Frick Collection in New York to a small fountain in Aldgate that marks the spot where the last wolf in London was shot. The films have generated over a million online views, been featured on ITV and a host of other media such as China Today, British Airways and Heathrow Express as well as within lifestyle apps and across social media.
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Novelty, Efficiency, and Trust
I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the "big picture" is for Software Carpentry. What are the best practices every scientist should master? What are the principles of computational thinking? How exactly are we helping people? My latest attempt to put this all in a nutshell has three strands: novelty, efficiency, and trust:
By improving scientists' computing skills, we're helping them do things they couldn't do before.
We're also showing them how to do things with less effort.
Finally, scientists can have more confidence in results (both their own and others') that are produced our way.
The second of these, efficiency, is what sets us apart from other "computing for scientists" initiatives. On on side, supercomputing and big data have opened up entirely new kinds of science, just as radio telescopes and PCR did. On another, advocates of open access and reproducible research are changing the way science is done, and by doing so, making it easier for people to check and build on each other's work. Our goal is to help them implement all of these things without superhuman effort—to do with ten minutes of scripting what used to take an hour of mousing around in a spreadsheet.
Taken that to an extreme, you could say that our goal is to put ourselves out of business: to reduce the time scientists spend writing software to as close to nothing as possible, so that they can spend more time thinking about their science. I suspect, however, that some form of Parkinson's Law will kick in—that time spent programming will expand to fill the hours available. If every one of of those hours is spent productively, we'll know we've done our job well.
Originally posted at Software Carpentry.
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Violence Policy Center (VPC) Response to National Rifle Association Charges That VPC Misrepresented Beretta as a Foreign Gunmaker
For Release: Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Washington, DC–On Monday, July 25, the Violence Policy Center issued a new report, A Foreign Affair: Contracting for U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Firearms, revealing that, contrary to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s claim that firearms litigation could result in U.S. armed forces having to depend on “foreign manufacturers” for their sidearms, the “American” company Senator Frist cited as being at risk, Beretta, is, in fact, a foreign company. That same day, the National Rifle Association issued a statement claiming that the VPC statement was false and that Beretta USA, located in Accokeek, Maryland, is not Italian. In response, VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand today released the following statement:
“The NRA will apparently do anything, say anything to grant the gun industry, already exempt from federal health and safety regulation, immunity from civil liability. NRA lobbyist Chris Cox claims that Beretta USA is not Italian. Let’s ask Beretta USA on their web site, www.berettausa.com. On the upper right hand side corner click on `About Beretta’ (http://www.berettausa.com/about.htm). You’ll be greeted by a photo of the company’s current `leadership,’ Franco, Ugo, and Pietro Beretta. The web page explains: `In the early 1900s Pietro (1870-1957) took the Company reins, introducing modernized manufacturing methods, many patents for mechanisms and simplified construction, consequently establishing Beretta, the first Italian firearms maker, as one of the most modern firearms production facilities in the world. The modernization process was continued by the sons Giuseppe (1906-1993) and Carlo (1908-1984), securing the Company’s multinational character with commercial and production activity in numerous European countries and the United States. These efforts created successful ventures in the military, law enforcement and private sectors.’
From the front page of the Beretta USA web site, you can also go to its `Media Center’ button on the left hand side and click on `Press Releases’ (http://www.berettausa.com/media/media_press_releases.htm). Then click on the May 13, 2005 press release titled `Military–Beretta Awarded Contract for 18,744 M9 Pistols to US Army 05/13/2005.’ The press release states, `Beretta is the oldest industrial dynasty in the world tracing its roots though 16 generations of continuous family ownership back to 1526.’
Or visit Beretta’s international web site at http://www.beretta.com/, go to the `International’ button and click on `Company’ (http://www.beretta.com/index.aspx?m=53&did=5). The web site states, `The company is part of the Beretta Holding Group. Controlled by the BERETTA family….Beretta supplies firearms to the Armed Forces and Police Forces of Italy and numerous other countries since many years. The greatest success story regarding pistols is the fact that the American Armed Forces and State Police Forces have adopted Beretta 92 series pistols. President, Ugo Gussalli Beretta and his sons, Pietro and Franco, run the business.’
Finally, one could look at the 2005 Beretta catalog, which on the back cover lists Accokeek, Maryland, as the address for Beretta (http://vpc.org/graphics/berettabackcover.jpg). The catalog opens on the second page to a picture of a villa, stating, `Beretta was born in 1526, during the height of the Italian Renaissance….[W]e have been making history for the last half-millennium by serving our customers with enthusiasm and integrity, and by being innovative without losing sight of our Italian heritage. Since its inception, our company has been owned and operated by the Beretta family….’ (http://vpc.org/graphics/berettaTOC.jpg)
Under the NRA’s logic, BMW, because it has U.S. manufacturing facilities, is not a German company, but a U.S. Company. Same for Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota.
There’s an adage about lies, damn lies, and statistics. Now we can add an even lower standard: NRA lies.”
The Violence Policy Center is a national educational organization working to stop gun death and injury. Follow the VPC on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
Sally Martinelli
smartinelli@vpc.org
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
The Library of Congress Wants Your Help Transcribing Suffragist Papers
tags: Library of Congress, archives, suffragists, transcription
Over the past year, By the People has introduced a number of “campaigns” calling on volunteers to transcribe the digitized papers of Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman and others. The suffrage campaign coincides with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which was passed by Congress in June 1919 and ratified the following year. Library experts hope that by transcribing these documents, volunteers will not only help make suffrage materials more accessible, but also “engage with our collections and feel a connection with the suffragists,” as Elizabeth Novara, an American women’s history specialist and curator of a new suffragist exhibition at the library, puts it.
Anyone can participate in the transcription effort. Once a given page has been completed, it must be approved by at least one registered volunteer before it is integrated into the library’s main website. “It's a consensus model,” explains Lauren Algee, By the People’ senior innovation specialist, “similar to Wikipedia.” Users are encouraged to tag documents, with the goal of supplying additional information that would not be captured by the transcription.
“I can't easily tell you what's in a lot of these papers,” Algee says. “There are scholars who have looked through every page of them and could read off ... a list of all the stories that are included. But I can't easily search for those things. Having volunteers delve into these papers, it's going to bring more of those stories to light.”
Awaiting transcription are documents pertaining to five suffrage leaders, among them Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two giants of the movement. The documents attest not only to their working relationship, but also to the intimacies that existed between them and their colleagues. In 1896, for instance, Anthony wrote to Stanton’s daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch, who was also a women’s rights crusader, to express her condolences for the death of Blatch’s young daughter.
Read entire article at Smithsonian Magazine
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Categories “EMPIRE Strikes Black: Propaganda of The Media” & “Malcolm X: 50 Years Later" (Digital Download) 4hr
“EMPIRE Strikes Black: Propaganda of The Media” & “Malcolm X: 50 Years Later" (Digital Download) 4hr
“EMPIRE Strikes Black: Propaganda of The Media” & “Malcolm X: 50 Years Later, Why Is He Still Relevant?” by Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network Show & The Michael Imhotep Show. (THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AND NOT A DVD) 4 Hours, Recorded, April 5th, 2015 in Detroit.
This presentation will deal with the Propaganda of the media and how negative depictions of African-Americans influence the way people think, feel, act and behave. Most people think that TV shows, movies, songs, etc. are just entertainment. The history and evidence prove that this is wrong.
- The TV Show “EMPIRE”, its negative images of African Americans and
why we don’t understand it.
- Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda” & The Marketing of Destruction To African
- How does excessive TV watching damage the self esteem of African-
American Children?
- A history of how Negative Images of African Americans helped to
facilitate attacks on African Americans and much more.
DVD - The Distortion of The Legacy of Dr. King by Michael Imhotep (DVD) 2 Hrs, Recorded 1-14-17
Redistributing The Pain How African Americans Fought Back With Economic Boycotts - Michael Imhotep
Time We've Been Waiting For Is Now, Colin Kaepernick, National Anthem, Slave Movies- Michael Imhotep
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A jobs recovery to write home about?
There is some good news in the latest jobs figures, published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics – 69,000 more people in work in the quarter April-June, a small fall of 4,000 in unemployment, 29,200 fewer people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in July, 19,000 more job vacancies and 17,000 fewer redundancies. All this suggests that things are moving in the right direction, albeit volatility in the quarterly data make the underlying trend difficult to assess while the likely rate of progress in the remainder of the year remains uncertain. Independent surveys of employers' hiring intentions, including those published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development earlier this week, suggest the news will remain broadly positive. Yet despite this there are enough worrying signs about the underlying state of the UK jobs market to dent the enthusiasm of those tempted to swallow uncritically the more upbeat economic narratives that have surfaced in recent weeks.
The latest quarterly rise in employment is almost matched by an increase in the size of the workforce, which means the unemployment rate is unchanged at 7.8%, suggesting that the Bank of England might be right to think the jobless rate will remain above 7% for some considerable time yet. Corresponding population growth also means that the employment rate has more or less flat-lined since last autumn. Meanwhile, in line with the general trend of late, the number of men unemployed has increased by 15,000. Youth unemployment has also increased by 15,000 (on its way back toward the 1 million mark once more), with the number of 16-24 year olds in work sharply down by 92,000. Long-term unemployment has increased by 7,000 (to over 900,000) with the number of people unemployed for more than two years approaching half a million (474,000).
Moreover, while job security might have increased a little (the quarter saw a big drop of 70,000 in temporary employment, suggesting that permanent posts account for all the net new jobs created between April and June) underemployment has also increased and the squeeze on pay has continued. The number of part-time workers who want a full-time job jumped 25,000 to 1.4 million in the quarter. And although the headline rate of growth of average earnings has increased to above 2%, regular pay (adjusted for bonus payments) is only rising at 1.1%, well below the 2.8% CPI inflation rate.
The headline jobs figures may continue to be broadly positive but one only has to dig a little deeper into the statistics to see that millions of people are still being hit by a combination of lack of jobs and a ceaseless sharp fall in the real value of their pay. This doesn't look or feel like an economic recovery to write home about.
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Bored Of Education
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The Little Rascals Remastered & Unedited Vol. 8 (VHS) from Cabin Fever and
The Little Rascals Remastered & Unedited Volume Two (4 LD set) from Cabin Fever
Released July 6, 1994. Also released as part of 12 VHS boxed set. This is a complete original print with excellent picture quality. The total footage lasts 10:06. This version has appeared on numerous bootlegs. There's also a clip lasting 0:03 included in the opening advertisement of all the Cabin Fever VHS releases, showing Porky licking his lips.
The Little Rascals Volume 8: Collector's Edition (VHS) from Hallmark Home Entertainment
Released Aug. 15, 2000. Also included as part of The Little Rascals Volumes 1-10: Collector's Edition (10 VHS set), released Aug. 15, 2000.
The Little Rascals Remastered & Unedited Vol. 7 & Vol. 8 (DVD) from Cabin Fever
Same contents as the Cabin Fever VHS releases. Also released as part of The Little Rascals Remastered & Unedited (6 DVD set).
The Little Rascals Digitally Remastered - Collector's Edition III (DVD) from Hallmark Home Entertainment
Released Nov. 15, 2005. This derives from the Cabin Fever release.
The Little Rascals - The Complete Collection (8 DVD set) from Genius Products
Released late Oct. 2008. This is identical to the Cabin Fever version. There are also four clips from this film shown in the main menu.
Little Rascals: Readin' And Writin' & Bored Of Education (VHS) from Cabin Fever
Canadian release.
The Little Rascals Colorized Collection (VHS) from Hallmark Home Entertainment
Released Apr. 19, 1999. One of six same-named VHS releases, each with three colorized films, deriving from the Cabin Fever versions.
The Little Rascals Volume 2 (VHS) from Spotlite Video
Released 1985. This is a home movie print from Blackhawk. The opening title and crew credits are remade, but the end title is original. The picture quality is very good, but the soundtrack is a bit shaky. The original footage totals 9:37, but the original soundtrack lasts an additional 0:19.
The Little Rascals Book X (VHS) from Blackhawk Video
This is the Blackhawk print.
The Little Rascals: Bored Of Education/Arbor Day (VHS) from Republic Pictures Home Video
Released May 1991. This is the Blackhawk print.
Rascal Dazzle (VHS/LD) from Embassy Home Entertainment
Original film released 1981. Video released 1984. A clip lasting 0:36 is included, showing the kids looking glum on the school steps, with music and narration added.
Jackie Remembers Our Gang - Memories From Little Rascals Family Theater (VHS/DVD) from Jackie Taylor
A clip lasting 3:32 is included, showing various scenes from the film.
Production K-1.
Released August 29, 1936. It was the 146th film in the series to be released. The reissue of the book lists Aug. 20th, while the 1977 edition, and Maltin's earlier book, list Aug. 29th, which makes it the usual Saturday release.
Copyrighted September 3, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation. Registration no. LP6593. Renewed November 1, 1963, with registration no. R324749. This copyright is currently due to expire at the end of 2031.
All-talking one-reeler.
Opening title: 'Hal Roach presents Our Gang in "Bored Of Education".' This film was the first with a new title design.
King World Productions episode no. 11a, available in both colorized and original black-and-white versions.
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Photography: Art Lloyd, A. S. C.
Film Editor: William Ziegler
This credit appears in the film. Maltin & Bann credit William Randall.
Sound: William Randall
Not listed by Maltin & Bann. This credit appears in the film.
Animal trainer: Tony Campanaro
He trained the current Pete.
Indicated in the opening title card.
Western Electric System
Approved by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America
Certificate no. 2431.
general manager - David Loew until early to mid 1936. He was replaced by Mat O'Brien, who was also secretary and treasurer.
vice president in charge of production - S. S. Van Keuren
Roach's assistant on production activities - Lawrence Tarver
assistant secretary-treasurer, comptroller - Hugh Huber
film editor and sound department - Elmer Raguse
story department - Jack Jevne
casting - Joe Rivkin
publicity and advertising - Fred Purner
art department - Arthur I. Royce
construction department - C. E. Christensen
paint department - James Follette
property department - W. L. Stevens
electrical department - William Lewis
process department - Roy Seawright
musical director - Marvin Hatley
men's wardrobe - Harry Black
women's wardrobe - Dorothy Callahan
purchasing department - Russell Walker
cashier - Mrs. M. Van Keuren
paymaster - Mrs. Grace Cash
garage - Walter Johnson
commissary - W. M. Furlong
writing - Hal Yates, Carl Harbaugh, Hal Law, John Guedel, Felix Adler, Harry Langdon, Richard Flournoy and Gordon Douglas may have been among the gag writers.
property department - Charles Oelze was probably involved in this capacity.
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Lead role. The nickname wasn't used in this film. He pretends to have a toothache, and ends up singing with a stopper caught in his throat.
George "Spanky" McFarland
Featured role. The nickname wasn't used in this film. Everything that happens to Alfalfa is Spanky's idea.
Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
Supporting role. The nickname wasn't used in this film. He's left out of Spanky and Alfalfa's scheme.
Eugene "Porky" Lee
Small part. The nickname wasn't used in this film. He eats Darla's apple.
Small part. She's the only one who's excited about the first day of school.
Baby Patsy May
Extra. Her photo is shown during the opening credits, but she isn't noticeable in the film. However, she does appear in publicity photos for the scene in front of the school.
Joe "Corky" Geil
Extra. Not listed by Maltin & Bann. He sits behind Alfalfa.
Harold Switzer
Extra. He sits behind Spanky.
John Collum
Extra. He sits behind Corky.
Sidney Kibrick
Extra. He sits to the right of Corky.
Extra. She sits behind Buckwheat.
Extra. He sits behind Sidney.
Donald Proffitt
Extra. He sits behind Harold.
Dickie De Nuet
Extra. He sits in front of Sidney.
Barbara Goodrich
Extra. Not listed by Maltin & Bann. She sits in the back of Buckwheat's row.
Extra. He sits in front of Alfalfa.
Extras. There are six additional kids in the classroom, and perhaps one or two shown outside the school in the opening scenes that didn't make it into the classroom scene. Maltin & Bann listed Dorian Johnston in the 1977 edition of their book, and added Robert Lentz to the 1992 edition without removing Johnston's name. This was the same mistake they made for "Sprucin' Up" (no. 137), where two names end up on the list for one kid. In any event, none of these kids look like either Lentz or Johnston to me. Patsy Barry signs photos for this film, and I think she might be one of the brunette girls outside the school. She also signs classroom photos as well, but is identified as a different kid in those.
Pete the Pup IV
Bit part. He's shown outside the school at the beginning of the film.
Rosina Lawrence as "Miss Lawrence"
Featured role. She's given onscreen credit. She's the new teacher and isn't easily fooled.
Jack Egan as the ice cream man
Small part. He delivers ice cream to the school.
The Unfinished Portrait is hanging in the classroom.
"Good Old Days" by Leroy Shield
Copyrighted Jan. 10, 1931.
(A15.) This is played over the opening titles and as we first see the school. The second verse is repeated as Spanky and Alfalfa eat ice cream and the end title appears.
"Good Morning To You" by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill
First published in 1893 as "Good Morning To All" in a songbook called Song Stories For The Kindergarten. In this film, Alfalfa sings it outside, and later, the class sings it to Miss Lawrence. The song was rewritten with new lyrics as "Happy Birthday To You."
"Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" by Thomas Moore
This melody was put to the poem My Lodging It Is In The Cold Ground, and first printed that way in 1737, but probably existed long before that. Moore put new words to the melody in 1808. The melody was also used for "Fair Harvard." The Moore song was a number ten hit for John McCormack in 1911. In this film, it's sung by Alfalfa. Marvin Hatley received arrangement credit for this version, which was copyrighted on May 18, 1936.
Hal E. Roach Studios
This entire film was shot at the studio, no doubt on Stage 4.
The date of the first day of school in this film is Sep. 14th.
This film won the Academy Award for Best One-Reel Short of 1936. The awards ceremony took place on Mar. 4, 1937.
©July 23, 2005, by Robert Demoss.
2005 updates: 8/27, 8/30, 11/7, 12/19.
2007 updates: 4/1, 11/4, 11/16.
2008 updates: 2/26, 5/26, 7/12, 7/28, 8/11, 8/24, 9/7, 9/22, 11/6.
2009 updates: 7/23.
Thanks to Rob Stone, Joe Moore, Piet Schreuders and Paul Mular for assistance on this page.
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Brian Navarro (bio) explains how to build an LGBT-inclusive school environment.
You know, I have seen many changes. Changes in the department that are really going to be coming from a policy standpoint — The Department of Children and Family Services — laws and policies about one's gender expression and inexpression of their sexuality. So we're seeing some policy changes, which really means that the environment may still look very similar. I thought it could be hostile to the LGBT youth, but now there might be some actual consequences or repercussions that now as a therapist or as a social worker, I can direct that family or that child into having some kind of plan or recourse. And I think oftentimes going a legal route might be a way to pressure larger institutions to being compliant with the laws and policies that they have in place.
There's going to be a new policy in [Los Angeles Unified School District] LAUSD. I want to say it's under Title IV, or Title VII, which is the Civil Rights Act, so really trying, in the state of California, to incorporate gender identity and expression and sexual orientation as a protected class. And having that as a protected class means that you have certain freedoms and liberties, right, as an individual in this state and this school, and if those are ever abridged, there will be some kind of legal repercussions. So I think that's the beginning. The hard part is that for many of the youth that we work with, they're going to be marginalized. They are going to be people of color who really don't have the economic means to really begin to really fight large bureaucracies like that.
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BOOKS GALLERY NEWS & BLOG CONTACT INFO
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PHOTOGRAPHY / SOCIAL REPORTAGE
BlancoStefano de LuigiText by: Giovanna Calvenzi, Philippe Dagen, José Saramago
Blanco is a photographic project whose purpose is to report on the blind condition worldwide of Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and to inform about the battle with this disease, and when it is possible to prevent and cure it.
Onchocerciasis is the world’s second-leading infectious cause of blindness. It is caused by parasitic worms transmitted through the bite of the black fly which live in fast-flowing rivers, and along fertile banks where farming communities are often located.
The WHO (World Health Organization) have a project called “World Vision 2020”, which aims to put an end to the condition of permanent blindness by 2020.
The journey ‘Blanco’ (since blindness is seen as a constant vision of white), starts in 2003 and ends in 2007, reporting on the blind conditions in four continents and the countries Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Thailand, China, Laos, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Lithuania.
Illustrations: 69 colour
Retail Price: UK £24.99 \ US $40.00 \ EURO €29.95 \ CAN $ \ AUS $
Designer: Fruitmachine
Stefano De Luigi is an Italian photographer whose work has been published and exhibited around the world. During his career he received many awards that included two World Press Photo and the W.E. Smith Fellowship Grant in 2007 with the work on the blindness. He is member of VII/Network agency.
Best Photography Book of the Year Award 2010
Awarded by Pictures of the Year International (POYi)
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Strictly professional: Television Production students work on set of BBC Christmas special
Two of our TV Production students have been busy over the Christmas period working on the set of BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing - Christmas Special". Read the full article below, featured on www.uca.ac.uk/news.
"With Olympian Denise Lewis, singer Frankie Bridge and television presenter Gethin Jones making this year’s festive line-up, two of our Television Production students have been busy in action on set of the hit entertainment show Strictly Come Dancing.
Wesley Denne and Harry Taylor, who are both third-year BA (Hons) Television Production students, were tasked with helping to manage the show’s audience for its much anticipated Christmas special, which will air at 6.45pm on BBC One on Christmas Day.
“For me, the highlight of working on Strictly is being on the set of such a popular TV show. The celebrity contestants and performers are such a joy to watch, and most take the time to talk to you if they have a spare moment,” said Wesley, who is 20 and from Ashford.
“As well as on the main show, everything is manic behind the scenes! There is such a high number of people working on the show that the viewers do not see. Yes, there are stressful moments but everyone works together to make the show the success it is.”
Harry, who is 21 and from St Mary’s Bay, said: “Working on the Christmas special is certainly very surreal. It really makes you appreciate the opportunities you've been given. The highlight is definitely being in that environment surrounded by people who love what they do and being part of the team that helps make Strictly.”
This is the 13th edition of the BBC’s Christmas edition of the popular show, with previous Christmas champions including athlete Colin Jackson, cricketer Darren Gough and musician Harry Judd.
Describing how the experience has helped to prepare him for a future in television production, Wesley added: “I have a big passion for Entertainment TV so having the chance to work on such a popular prime time show is such a brilliant opportunity for me to get real hands-on experience of something I want to go into. I really enjoy that busy studio vibe rather than filming out on location, so I feel very lucky.”"
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STMSS01 – Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen – PREVENTS Task Force
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About Today’s Guest:
Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D., named to TIME magazine’s 2012 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, is the president of Give an Hour. A licensed clinical psychologist who has been practicing in the Washington, D.C., area for over 20 years, she received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland in 1991. Concerned about the mental health implications of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dr. Van Dahlen founded Give an Hour in 2005 to enlist mental health professionals to provide free services to U.S. troops, veterans, their loved ones, and their communities.
Working with other nonprofit leaders, Dr. Van Dahlen developed the Community Blueprint, a national initiative and online tool to assist communities in more effectively and strategically supporting veterans and military families. Give an Hour has implemented the Blueprint approach in two demonstration sites and continues to lead community collaboration projects.
In June of 2019, she was named the Executive Director of the Task Force to create the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS).
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
PREVENTS Task Force Announcement
PREVENTS Executive Order
Episode Transcript:
Duane France: (00:00) Welcome to episode one of the seeking the military suicide solution podcast brought to you by the military times. I’m Duane France
Shauna Springer: (00:07) And I’m Doc Shauna Springer
Duane France: (00:08) And we’d like to thank you for taking the time to learn more about suicide in the military affiliated population.
Duane France: (00:22) Thanks again to everybody for joining us to listen to an honest conversation about service member veteran and military family suicide. Our guest today is Barbara Van Dahlen. Shauna, how about you tell us about the guest.
Shauna Springer: (00:34) Sure. Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen is a clinical psychologist who serves as the executive director of the task force to create the president’s roadmap to empower veterans and end the national tragedy of suicide. What’s called PREVENTS. Prior to spearheading the efforts of PREVENTS, Dr. Van Dahlen and founded Give An Hour in 2005 based on her concern that as a nation, we would not be ready to respond to the needs of those who have deployed to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As president of Give An Hour, Barbara led efforts to create a national network of mental health professionals who provide free services to us troops, veterans, their loved ones and their communities. Like many people who become leaders in the field, Barbara’s work is not just a job. It’s personal. After serving in the Pacific during world war II, her father came home with post traumatic stress. At the time, there was no concept of what PTSD is and how it can be treated like there is today. Barbara and her father were very close and she admired him for his strength, especially as he stepped into the role of being a single father for much of her childhood. So Give An Hour was established in large part because of Barbara’s lived experience and the resultant clarity in her perception that we need to do a better job at supporting those who serve in our military. In today’s episode, she and Duane discuss the concrete aims of the task force and her philosophical approach to the work of suicide prevention.
Duane France: (02:01) That’s great. I really appreciate that. Whenever we were thinking about who the first guest should be, or lining up the guests, obviously the prevents task force where it is right now and where it’s going to be going, she was definitely one of the first ones that I thought of, and that you agreed, would really be important to come on the show. So let’s get into the conversation then. You and I will come back afterwards to pull out some of the key points.
Duane France: (02:33) So the PREVENTS Task Force, I’ve been hearing about it for a couple of years, obviously it’s been in the works. President Trump signed the executive order back in March and now it’s a thing. So if you can give us maybe a little bit of an overview of what the PREVENTS Task Force is.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (02:50) Sure. So maybe this will help frame why this is such an extraordinary issue, at least from my perspective and why I was so honored to take the position. So I was aware as many people in our community, those of us who are working to support military veterans, you know, related to this work, suicide prevention, mental health in general. I read the, the executive order in March when it was signed. I was actually then at that point the president of Give an Hour, the organization I ran for 15 years that I founded, I was asked to read it by a news outlet that wanted me to comment on it. And so I read it and I thought, this is extraordinary. We have never seen an effort from the federal government focused on addressing a challenge, a societal challenge like suicide. So that was my reaction.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (03:48) I was like, Oh my gosh. And the opportunity to pull together across agencies was just as I said, extraordinary. And so little did I know a couple months later I was called and asked whether I would consider running the task force becoming the executive director. And I was, you know, I said I was honored. And so, so began my journey with this work. The executive order, PREVENTS is the acronym, stands for the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide. And both of those pieces doing are really important. Why? Because people who are empowered, people who feel like they have purpose, they have mission, people like that are much less likely to die by suicide. And we can talk more about that. The other half of that acronym, end a national tragedy of suicide, suicide is not just a concern in our military and veteran community.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (04:48) Suicide is on the rise in our nation. And in fact, suicide is now the second leading cause of death for people aged 10 to 35. 10. 10 year olds. And so this is an opportunity. Yes, our goal with some of the parts in particular, some of the funding that will eventually flow, so the research is very, very focused on veterans, but that’s not all we’re focusing on. This is an opportunity actually for our veterans and our military community to lead the way as we tackle suicide broadly. So this effort is an all hands on deck. It is about interagency coordination, collaboration. It’s about working with our community partners, diving deep into our communities to ensure that we knit together efforts that are currently there. The last thing I’ll say is that a piece of this work, and for me, perhaps the biggest piece, this is a public health approach. We’ve never done this before. We have never tried to address suicide on this massive scale from a public health approach.
Duane France: (05:57) Right. And, and that’s what I find interesting about this. It’s all out there. All the resources are out there, but it’s more of a facilitation role rather than, you know, somebody taking the lead. You know, we’re all digging holes, but nobody’s telling us where to dig the holes or how effectively to dig them together.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (06:18) Yes. Well, and I think to your point, the public health approach, you know, people use that phrase, but not everyone knows what it means. And really, the focus of public health, we’ve seen it, you know, over decades that when we take on a challenge and issue and we applied this notion of it’s public health issue as opposed to only trying to find those people who are at high risk, that’s a part of this. But for too long we have tried to find the needles in the haystack, those veterans those service members in this case, in this community who are struggling, who are hurting, who were suicidal. If we could have done that, we’d be done. We’d all, we’d be going, okay, anybody who’s got, you know, suicidal ideation, come on in. It doesn’t work that way.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (07:12) So rather than continuing to look for the needles, we’re not focusing on the haystacks. That doesn’t mean we aren’t still looking for [people at risk]. And that’s a part of this, of a public health approach. You start with a sort of an inverted triangle, you know, that’s the way I visualize it. At the top, you have the widest part of the triangle and the messaging and the efforts and the awareness and the education, and the call to action. That’s for everyone. Meaning everyone in our country. Veterans, non-veterans, active duty. That’s why we’re working with DOD and, and all of the agencies. It’s inter-agency. So we start with that broad population. We’ve got to tackle suicide broadly. Then in the middle of the triangle you have people who are at greater risk, those who have, and we know what those risk factors are. We know that there are a number of risk factors that are not all mental health related, some have to do with financial stress and collapse.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (08:06) Others have to do with chronic pain or substance use and addiction. And there, there are obviously as well mental health risk factors, you know, if depression runs in someone’s family or if they’ve experienced trauma, repeated trauma or if they are dealing with post traumatic stress. So that that’s that middle band and we definitely are targeting and want to both understand how to reach people, how to help them, how to bring hope back into their lives so that they do not fall into the tip of that triangle. Those are the people who are at very high risk. People who have attempted before, perhaps multiple times. People who are chronically struggling with severe depression, who have chronic substance use, serious illness. We have that tip. So public health approach is really going after in this case, preventing suicide by doing all these things.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (09:05) Research is a huge part of this, but it’s not research for research sake. This is not about creating more studies that will just become, you know, thick reports that sit on someone’s shelf. This is on creating what we’re calling a research ecosystem. How do we gather research that is out there in disparate places? How do we integrate data? How do we share data? And again, I’m talking now not only within the government but also in the private sector. Looking at health insurers, as they’re part of this conversation. Looking at big technology companies. Most importantly, how do we take all this data, crunch it, and then translate it into knowledge that can be applied at the community level? Because that’s where we want to be at the community level, ensuring that community efforts, organizations have the tools, the knowledge, and then we’re going to track it all to make sure that we can demonstrate what’s working and we can then adjust if we find something that isn’t working,
Duane France: (10:11) That’s great. It’s something as you said, we’ve, we’ve needed for a very long time and it’s been a big gap. I love a theory as much as the next clinician but I’m more interested in the practical application of that theory. I really liked that visualization of the, the upside down triangle and that needle in the haystack is in that, that, that bottom point, going back to what you had said about empowerment it’s interesting because it comes to my mind that suicide prevention is something that is done to someone, not by someone that we try to prevent suicide to those people in the point rather than try to get everybody to do it.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (10:51) Yes. And try to lift people up so they never get there. So as a child psychologist, I’m always thinking about development prevention, early intervention because we don’t want people to be at that hopeless dark place where it’s much harder, much harder for them to recover from that place. If we reach them earlier with basic knowledge and information that helps them understand what they are experiencing and that it means something and it is not something to feel ashamed of or guilty about or that they need to hide from others. One of the messages that you are going to be hearing a lot coming out of PREVENTS is that we all have risk factors. Every single one of us, we have risk factors for a number of conditions. It’s part of being human. We all have risk factors for suicide. Some of us have more, some of us have many.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (11:43) That doesn’t mean we’re suicidal at any given point in time, but if we know our risk factors, then we’re much better able to, to reach out, to engage in protective activities ensuring that we’re connected to people, ensuring that we are taking good care of our emotional health and wellbeing. So there’s going to be a lot of messaging coming out. Last thing I want to say about that is, I hope this sort of resonates with people, everyone who dies by suicide, at some point in that person’s life, they were not suicidal. And our job is to make sure that we get the right information and tools into the hands of people at that point because waiting until they’re at the, you know, crisis point, for many people it’s, it’s too late and we may not be able to pull them back. That’s why the preventive acronym is so, so powerful, so accurate.
Everyone who dies by suicide, at some point in that person’s life, they were not suicidal. And our job is to make sure that we get the right information and tools into the hands of people at that point
Duane France: (12:59) You know, something I often tell my clients is, we don’t prepare for the storm when the storm is imminent, we prepare for things. People in Miami prepare for hurricanes, hopefully decades in advance. And so, you know, the idea of let’s stop it before it starts. The best way to stop smoking is to never start smoking. Looking at another, you know, public health issue. And also knowing that if I have risk factors for cancer, if I do start smoking, that’s going to increase those chances.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (13:31) Yes, absolutely. And so, you know, there’s a lot of these pieces of this conversation that are, “yes, you know, wow, this is so complex.” Indeed it is. But there are also a lot of things that are very simple, in a way, that everyone can do. Everyone can work on talking more openly about the challenges that we all face. Everyone can work on reaching out to somebody who they know is struggling and you don’t have to have the answers. You don’t have to be a mental health professional. You can be there for someone else. You can say, I see that you’re hurting, I see that you’re struggling. I want to be part of this solution. I want to help. You know, this is something I’ll also, that we talk about a lot on my team as we’re building this massive effort.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (14:21) And there are over a hundred people who’ve been working on the PREVENTS building this roadmap. And we often talk about if I developed cancer, if I got a diagnosis of cancer, my husband would be at my side every step of the way at doctor’s appointments, figuring out treatment options, figuring out things to do to ensure, you know, that I was keeping my spirits up as we were searching for a cure, as I was going through whatever treatments. People would be bringing casseroles to the house they’d be taking care of my kids. We don’t do that around mental health challenges and, and there’s really no good reason why. The shame and the guilt that has as you know, developed, and, and it’s not to blame our society because this is, this is a global phenomenon. We don’t like to feel vulnerable and, and we can’t see this kind of illness or this kind of injury the way we can see or look on a scan and see cancer, but we have to change that. And that’s where everyone can play a role in preventing suicide.
Duane France: (15:24) Yes, I’ve seen the same thing. This is something I think NAMI has really said this isn’t a casserole. And kind of situation. But you’re talking about the roadmap. And so I’m interested in hearing, part of the PREVENTS is to establish this roadmap. You’ve been getting a lot of input, like you said, from a wide range of people. So I’d like to hear more about the roadmap aspect.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (15:48) So this will literally we’re, we’re constructing it and putting it together now it, it will be delivered to the president’s desk on March 5th. Like a journey, you know, this is really a plan, how do we get from here to there? And there are several pieces of this journey that, you know, we need to be focused on. One is the big public health effort that we were just talking about. What does that look like? So creating a national campaign that will be very similar to big campaigns that we’ve seen that have made huge impact on our culture. Things like friends, don’t let friends drive drunk, buckle up for safety. These kinds of calls to action that are very easy for people to get. So a lot of the big public health piece that’s part of this roadmap, part of the plan.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (16:41) Building this research ecosystem. How do we partner both inter-agency partnerships, which, people may assume…or maybe they don’t…no, they probably don’t. They may assume that agencies work easily together and it’s not because agencies necessarily don’t want to. It’s just, it’s challenging. It’s difficult. So part of this work is going to be intentionally focused on inter- agency collaboration. Another piece of the roadmap will focus on workplace and professional development. We want to make sure that our corporations are ensuring programs are adopted that focus on emotional health and wellbeing. Again, public health, we want to make sure that it’s about everyone so that when people are struggling, veterans are struggling, those veterans who are in the workforce, who the VA doesn’t touch, we want to make sure that their companies are supporting not only them, but their entire workforce. And oh, by the way, we believe that our veterans will lead the way we were already seeing it.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (17:36) We’re already talking to many of our veterans service organization partners. They’re excited because once again, we need those who have served to continue to serve in this way for each other and for the broader community. So the workplace, that’s an important area of focus. We’re also talking about safety. Safety around lethal means because we know that access to lethal means increases suicide. We know that. And so this is one of the areas that some people are understandably concerned about, you know, they’re worried about, is this only about gun restriction? The answer is no, it’s not. It’s about safety. We all, we know that things like trigger locks, gun safes, saves having voluntary storage of weapons when people are at high risk. We know that looking at bridges and how do we ensure that we are smart around bridges. There’ve been good studies that have found that if there’s a bridge in a community that people are, are jumping from and you put up barriers and nets that they don’t go to other bridges.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (18:39) I mean, it’s just interesting what we’ve learned about how people make these decisions. So that safety issue is critical. And then partnerships, you know, we are building a huge number of partnerships because we can’t do this alone, even though PREVENTS, has access to a massive a number of potential partners, again within government, outside of government. But we also want to ensure that wherever possible we can facilitate other partnerships that grow efforts in communities. And then finally the community work. Eventually, we are crafting a proposal…we’re not in the work of, my office is not in the work of lobbying for any specific legislation…we were tasked with creating a proposal that is a standard that can be held up to say, this is what legislation can look like, that will help drive funding into communities to support this type of work. So you’ll have, you know, how we start out on this journey. You’ll see the big public health campaign, some of these partnerships, the research ecosystem being built, the grant funding, starting to get finalized and flowing. And lots and lots and lots of convenings and gatherings and elevating and amplifying as we work to change the culture of our country, which is a big task, but very doable.
Duane France: (20:00) I agree. And again, you had mentioned it before that if everything that everyone was doing individually would solve the problem, the problem would be solved by now. And so I think that right now there is this national effort. There’s more awareness. Really applaud your efforts. I appreciate your participation and obviously your continued service because that’s really what this is about is it’s not another effort just to do stuff, and then, like you said, just sit on a shelf somewhere.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (20:31) Absolutely. And a couple of things if I might, Duane, to close, one of the things I didn’t mention, but I’d like to also note our office and, and, and I have been out in communities already. We visited in Texas. We were in Arizona just last weekend. I was in Tennessee, Johnson city, Tennessee doing great work. We’re, we’re on the road, we’re doing town halls. We’re asking people to come together. And that’s really key too that people understand. We are looking, we want to make sure that we are, we’re working with tribal communities. That’s partly why we were out in Arizona. At some point I’ll be up in Alaska visiting, you know, we, we see this as this, this opportunity to save lives to improve emotional health and wellbeing. And I guess what I’d like to leave with or close with: two thoughts that I hope are helpful to people and one of these, I actually took from a good friend who’s a very smart epidemiologist at Harvard who said, you know, it takes about 30 things to go wrong for someone to die by suicide.
Dr. Van Dahlen: (21:41) So many things have to go wrong. It isn’t just one thing. You mentioned, you know, preparing for storms. It really is not to overuse the phrase, but it is an ugly, horrible storm, perfect storm of things that go wrong that lead to that decision. Sometimes it’s an impulsive act, but sometimes it is a series of things that that end with that final decision. What that means is if one of those things goes right, if somebody intervenes with one of those things, you can literally change someone’s life. And finally, I think the most important thing that we can each do is push ourselves to be more open and authentic with people we care about, about our own struggles and what works for us. If we do that, if we in increase just the basic communication about these things, you open the door that could save someone’s life. Thank you so much for bringing this to your audience and for all you do to ensure that those who serve their families, our veterans have a program like this to hear about these relevant topics, so thank you.
Duane France: (22:52) Yes, absolutely. Thank you.
Duane France: (23:01) It was great to talk to Barbara. As she mentioned she had been on Headspace and Timing Podcast and she and I had talked quite a bit in the past, but it was great to be able to get her point of view on the PREVENTS initiative. What did you think about what we talked about?
Shauna Springer: (23:16) I thought it was a great conversation to really frame out, you know, what is to come in terms of not only the work of the task force but what we’re going to be focusing on for this podcast. I really liked the analogy, you seem to really like it as well, of the needle in the haystack. As she describes these concrete aims of the task force, she talked about how messaging and interventions within corporations need to be part of this public health approach. And I think this is critical. One of my most fulfilling training experiences in the past couple of years was to develop and film for broad dissemination, a suicide prevention training for a civilian corporation that hires a large number of veterans as well as many, many civilians. They have a workforce of 20,000 people. And doing that training for all of them all at once really hit a cross section of individuals. And this was the haystack that Barbara refers to here. And after that training, the veterans in the group said felt really good for them not to be singled out for this kind of extra suicide prevention training, but to be included as everyone else in the workforce was. So I think this conversation about corporations is going to be critical to changing the culture of the country as far as Barbara put it. What do you think Duane?
Duane France: (24:39) Yeah. You know, I definitely agree with that. The idea that, you know, we don’t want to be singled out. We don’t eat, you know, we just want to put our head down and go to work. Right? I mean, we don’t want to be seen as one of those weird veterans in the workplace or so on. Which, really, again, is sort of the struggle of, we have this entire show, we’re going to be talking about this this entire year focusing on this. And so it’s a critical aspect to yes, focus on the unique cultural aspects of military when it comes to suicide. But I think you’re right. It’s also important to wrap that into the larger conversation.
Shauna Springer: (25:15) Yeah. And I really loved how she talked about suicide is not just an issue for those who serve in the military. You and I both agree, you know, it’s a society wide issue. In my work I’ve definitely emphasized how we shouldn’t underestimate how insidious suicidal thoughts can be given that some of our strongest, bravest citizens are dying by suicide. And I really appreciated how Barbara put it when she said that we all have risk factors for suicide. By explaining it in this way. Barbara is effectively stating that suffering is a human universal and at the same time, you know, the nature of what drives a particular person to despair is going to vary a little bit depending on who they are. So I think if we really integrate this understanding, we’ll approach others suffering with that necessary measure of humility and shared compassion. And I know that you and I agree on this general approach. How do you emphasize this message in the work you do with those you serve?
Duane France: (26:18) Well, one of the things that, I often tell people and, and we’ve meant, we’ve talked about it before is that something actually the Dr. Phillip Smith of the University of South Alabama had mentioned on the other show was how suicides both common and rare. And that it’s common in that all of us know someone who has maybe lost their lives or been impacted by suicide, but it’s that we can go many years without experiencing that. But when I started talking about this, one of the first things I remembered was the first funeral I ever went to, I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, and it was to a cousin who had taken his own life and he wasn’t in the military. Right? So it’s one of these things that it’s just this long-term you know, it’s pervasive in everybody’s life.
Duane France: (27:06) And, and like you said, it’s common. The other thing that she was talking about made me think about was these, these risk factors. And I didn’t bring it up in the interview, Ernest Hemingway. He had all of the risk factors, right? He was exposed to trauma, he had a substance use disorder, had depression, all of these different, you know, I mean, and if back then, whether Hemingway would have, you know, done anything about it or not, but I see that as a classic case of all of the risk factors right there. And it ended the way that it ended.
Shauna Springer: (27:41) Yeah. I mean, I remember being in high school and we had this beloved science teacher who was young and good looking. And two weeks before he died by suicide, he was actually the winner of what we called the Turkey trot, which was a cross country race that all the faculty from different schools in our division would race each other in this big event. And all their kids would come out and watch. And so everybody was cheering for him and he was just vibrant and full of health. And a favorite teacher among so many kids. Engaged to be married and he died by suicide and nobody, you know, saw it coming. And so we were called into this assembly and his fiancé was there, you know, grief stricken and it was such a shocking kind of way to be introduced to the idea that some of the people that you definitely wouldn’t see or wouldn’t expect to be suffering in that way can be. And so I really think it’s important to realize that and really loved the way that this conversation flowed with Barbara and the thought that we all have potentially risk factors for suicide. I think that brings us to a place of humility, which is very helpful for the conversation.
Duane France: (28:56) Yeah, I think this was a great conversation with Barbara. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what the prevents task force comes out with because this is something I think that has been needed at the national level is really sort of, again, what we’re trying to do here just to broadcast. But I think that they’re going to be doing some very good work.
Shauna Springer: (29:17) Yup. Very interested in seeing how it all unfolds.
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Issue 17: April 26, 2018
Education Benefits Transform Staff to Masters
Three University staff members who took advantage of Pitt’s education benefit to earn a new degree will graduate this spring. They believe the tuition benefit to be one of the top perks of working for the University — and say they couldn’t have accomplished their advanced studies without it.
During the 2017-18 academic year alone, 1,041 staff and 307 faculty members took at least one Pitt class using the education benefit, which pays for most of the employees’ tuition. Benefits were also extended to the spouse, domestic partner or children of 1,315 staff and 763 faculty members, according to Director of Benefits Lori Carnvale from the Office of Human Resources.
‘It Opens Up So Many Opportunities’
Mary Ann Brown is set to graduate from the School of Law with a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree. She chose an employment and labor law concentration, for which she took some of the same courses as the JD students aiming to be lawyers.
“If you don’t take advantage of it, it’s just a tremendous waste, because it opens up so many opportunities for you,” she said.
As the administrative manager for the Divisions of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Geriatric Medicine and Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine, Brown handles paperwork for new hires and visiting physicians. “I just work with a great group of people and that makes everything enjoyable,” she said of her colleagues.
And yet, she knew that if she wanted further career advancement she’d need an advanced degree. Such an accomplishment, she realized, would only be possible with Pitt’s education benefit.
Having experienced downsizing and underemployment for several years before coming to work at Pitt in 2012, Brown decided that she would add the MSL degree to her previous experience in marketing and her current job skills, making her even more valuable as an employee.
Getting the degree wasn’t easy, Brown said, since the law school’s curriculum has neither night nor online classes, but her Pitt supervisor accommodated her class schedule.
“If you really want something you figure out a way to make it happen,” Brown said. “I’ve enjoyed it because you’re challenged. You’re really working every last brain cell.”
Bringing School and Career Together
Kimberly Muth found a perfect fit between her Pitt undergraduate experience, her current Pitt work and the degree she’ll be awarded this month: a master’s degree in education from the School of Education, focusing on foreign language teaching.
Muth is the manager in the lab of psychology faculty member Charles Perfetti, director and senior scientist in the Learning Research and Development Center. Muth started working in the Perfetti lab as a Pitt sophomore psychology major/neuroscience minor in 2010 and was hired by the lab upon graduation in 2014. The lab’s focus is reading and language: how our brains comprehend words and put them together into meaningful combinations.
As an undergraduate, Muth’s favorite experience had involved language as well: She was a volunteer English tutor for members of the local Somali Bantu community, via an undergraduate service organization called Keep It Real.
All of these experiences made her new degree a great match for her current skills and future plans. Muth said that balancing her lab work and her classes was a tough challenge that paid off.
“My growth as an individual has been really that I’ve been doing all of this at the same time,” she said. “I’ve been required to multitask and connect what I do in my classes to my work.”
“The education benefit is one of the best benefits they give you at Pitt, and I think you should take advantage of it if you can,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to afford it” otherwise, she added.
Advancing While Staying on the Job
Jeffrey Weiss realizes it’s rare bioengineers like him even to seek a job before getting an advanced degree — which is why he chose to pursue a master’s in bioengineering from the Swanson School of Engineering.
Like Muth, he joined a Pitt lab as an undergraduate, starting in 2011 in the lab of Jennifer Collinger, faculty member in the School of Medicine’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. At the time, Weiss was studying for a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering. He was hired as a staff member in Collinger’s lab in 2013 and today helps with its research studies on brain-computer interfaces that make mobility possible for those with paralysis.
Working toward his new degree, he said, “gave me a chance to develop research skills that I am applying in my job here.” Collinger, he added, “very much encouraged me to apply for the program and served as my adviser.”
Weiss explained that without the education benefit, he would have had to quit his job to undertake such a degree, since graduate students in bioengineering normally must attend school full-time to be eligible for a tuition stipend.
“It would have been substantially more difficult,” he said. Without the education benefit, “I don’t know that I would have done it.”
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Mary Ann Brown will graduate from the School of Law with a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree. She is the administrative manager for the Divisions of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Geriatric Medicine and Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine. (Mike Drazdzinski/University of Pittsburgh)
Kimberly Muth, manager in the lab of psychology faculty member Charles Perfetti in the Learning Research and Development Center, will graduate with a master’s degree in education from the School of Education, focusing on foreign language teaching. (Mike Drazdzinski/University of Pittsburgh)
Jeffrey Weiss has completed his master’s in bioengineering from the Swanson School of Engineering. Weiss works in the lab of Jennifer Collinger, faculty member in the School of Medicine’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. (Thomas Altany/University of Pittsburgh)
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History of Thailand, A Strong Nation
Thailand History dates back to Paleolithic age. All along its past, it has emerged to become one of the leading cultural and financial centers in south east Asia. The narrative of fascinating nation, Thailand is filled with religious disagreements, bloody revolution, rich heritage and other complications. Though there is high turbulence, Thailand is regarded as a popular tourists’ destination, and it has achieved a strong political and economic location at the global level.
Thailand is also known as Sukothai มรภ.สวนสุนันทา . It was originally called Buddhist religious territory and the area was broken up into several kingdoms like Lanna, Lan Chang, and Sukhothai. During this period the annals of Thailand captured the name of early Modernity or Enlightenment by a few historians.
Only at that time, major forces such as Britain and France were frequently attempting their very best to colonize countries in an effort to develop strong empire, but Thailand managed to escape by the hands of these external forces. As there were very strong rulers, so it managed to preserve its liberty and hence, its identity was maintained through the duration of the competitive colonization. With this moment, all of the neighboring states were consumed in the sway of western civilization.
The twentieth century brought traumatization for Thailand as all the surrounding people and top notch events laid their effect on the country’s economy. From the early part of this century, the fresh constitutional monarchial government has been set that gave a new identity into Thailand government structure and altered the face of the country radically. The group of young and educated with the idea of western democracy necessitated a shift in absolute to constitutional monarchy and moved the ability to the ministry established system of government.
Asian Financial Crisis, which took place in 21st century was that the previous episode and also laid the most notable impact on the nation’s economy. At present, Thailand is among those strong countries to follow the future path. Though there were financial crises in last year, the country remains still occupying leading position in economic, financial and political screen.
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New Research Published by the American Educational Research Association
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Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?
Study: “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?”
Authors: Daphna Bassok (University of Virginia), Scott Latham (University of Virginia), Anna Rorem (University of Virginia)
Published online January 6, 2016, in the AERA peer-reviewed journal AERA Open
In recent years, parents and teachers have become increasingly concerned about changes in kindergarten classes across the country leading many to wonder if kindergarten has become the new first grade. Recent accounts suggest that accountability pressures have trickled down into the early elementary grades and that kindergarten today is characterized by a heightened focus on academic skills and a reduction in opportunities for play.
Researchers from the University of Virginia tackled this question by comparing kindergarten and first grade classrooms between 1998 and 2010. They found that over a 12-year period, kindergarten classes have become increasingly like first grade.
Researchers used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study in 1998 and 2011 to compare kindergarten classrooms between 1998 and 2010. The sample included 2,500 public school kindergarten teachers in 1998 and 2,700 in 2010 and whenever possible, responses from kindergarten teachers in 2010 were also compared to those of first grade teachers in 1999.
The authors hypothesized that kindergarten classrooms in 2010 would be more focused on literacy and math than those in 1997, because these subjects were specifically assessed by No Child Left Behind.
Based on the data they examined, the authors found that kindergarten teachers in 2010 have much higher expectations of their students than in 1998 and their classrooms have become more similar first grade classes from the ’90s.
Specifically, teachers in 2010 are much more likely to believe academic instruction should begin before kindergarten, including an increase in the number of teachers who believe students should know the alphabet and how to use a pencil before beginning kindergarten, both of which rose by 33 percent.
Teachers in 2010 were also significantly more likely to think students should leave kindergarten knowing how to read. In 1998, 31 percent of teachers believed their students should learn to read in kindergarten while in 2010, that figure jumped to 80 percent.
As anticipated, the amount of time spent on reading and math instruction increased, particularly on skills that in 1998 were considered too advanced for kindergarten.
In addition, researchers found that while academic instruction increased, time spent teaching arts substantially decreased. Between 1998 and 2010, the number of teachers reporting daily music instruction decreased by 18 percentage points and daily art instruction decreased by 16 percentage points. In a similar vein, the number of teachers who spent at least one hour per day on child-selected activities and the likelihood that classrooms have discovery or play areas, such as a sand table, science area, or art area, fell by 14 percentage points and over 20 percentage points, respectively.
Teaching strategies also underwent significant shifts between 1998 and 2010 with children twice as likely to be taught reading and math using textbooks in the later period. Kindergarten teachers were also about 15 percentage points more likely to report daily use of math and reading workbooks.
Teachers were 22 percentage points more likely to indicate that evaluating students in relation to local and state standards was very important or essential. Notably, in 1998, teachers were not asked how frequently they used standardized tests to assess student progress while teachers in 2010 were. Twenty-nine percent of kindergarten teachers in 1998 indicated they assessed their students with standardized tests at least once a month.
Data also revealed that these findings were similar across the country but were more pronounced at schools that serve predominantly low-income and minority students, particularly with respect to teacher expectations and didactic instruction.
“Young children’s first experiences in school are quite different today than they were in the late nineties,” said study co-author Daphna Bassok. “These changes likely have important implications for children’s learning trajectories.”
“We were surprised to see just how drastic the changes have been over a short period of time,” added Bassok. “We expected to see changes on some of these dimensions but not nearly so systematically and not nearly of this magnitude.“
Periodically, AERA will send out a brief overview, or snapshot, of a recent study that has been published in one of its peer-reviewed journals. AERA's "Study Snapshot" provides a high-level glimpse into new education research.
To see the full study, click HERE.
To speak with study author Daphna Bassok, please contact Tony Pals at tpals@aera.net or Victoria Oms at voms@aera.net.
To browse more recent AERA research, click here.
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After the Altar Call
About Jacqueline J. Holness
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Posted on Sunday, January 19, 2020
OWN Network Cancels ‘The Book of John Gray’ Reality Show & More…
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Welp, there is one less pastor on television as of 2020…For some that may be the good news but for others, not so much. I will let you be the judge of that…
Pastor John Gray’s local newspaper The Greenville News reported that the Relentless Church pastor’s show The Book of John Gray is “not being renewed for a fourth season on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
The website of the show at Oprah.com describes The Book of John Gray as a ‘dramedy docu-follow hybrid about the life of John Gray and his uniquely humorous way of helping people.’
Officials at the network did not respond to follow-up questions about why the show was discontinued.
Gray and his wife, Aventer, meanwhile, are considering other TV and film opportunities, according to Holly Baird, their spokesperson.
John Gray has been associated with celebrities, renowned musicians and star athletes. On Wednesday, Aventer Gray shared photos on Instagram of her and John Gray on a yacht with actor Tyrese Gibson and his wife, Samantha Gibson, during a recent vacation.”
But frankly, Pastor Gray’s show being canceled is not even the worst of his current troubles…
You can read the rest of the article HERE and another one HERE.
And it was a year ago that I wrote this post: Why Pastor John Gray & His Wife May Not Be Wrong to Host A Relationship Conference in February After Cheating Rumors & Divorce Discussions…
And then there was this post I wrote last April: Hope Carpenter, former First Lady of Pastor John Gray’s Relentless Church, Threatens Greenville News With a Knife, Saying ‘I Cut People!’
If you’ve lived a few years by now, you know that the book of all of our lives have inspirational chapters, tragic chapters, fast-paced ones and slower than slow ones. From the looks of it, Pastor John Gray and his family have had a series of chapters that I’m reasonably sure that he hopes the “author and finisher of our faith” didn’t have to write. Here’s hoping that Pastor John Gray carefully reviews these past chapters of his life (as we all have to do) and continues to seek God’s direction what has yet to be written…
I wish all of God’s people well in this chapter of 2020.
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Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘Megxit’ is a Modern-Day ‘Leave and Cleave’ in Action…
Two of the Most Popular Biblical Couples Show How to Leave and Cleave...
I was one of millions of people the world over who watched Prince Harry & Meghan Markle get married on May 19, 2018. A wedding is one of my favorite occasions so a royal wedding upped the ante to royal proportions! In my glee, I even wrote a gushing blog post about the wedding “7 Reasons Why Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding Was the Best Royal Wedding Ever!!!”
But the trouble is for Prince Harry & Meghan Markle is that since then, the world has not stopped watching Prince Harry & Megan Markle. And watching, unfortunately, is not all that has been done. There has been scrutinizing which in their case is watching with a sinister twist. This scrutiny has led to harsh headlines…Below is a small sampling of the fevered coverage…
“Getting up at 5am, bombarding aides with texts and her eyebrow-raising fashion: Palace insiders reveal how Hurricane Meghan is shaking up the Royals six months after the wedding.”
“Danny Baker fired by BBC over royal baby chimp tweet”
“’A Complete and Utter Bombshell’: Meghan Markle’s “High Risk” Lawsuit Shocks the British Press”
It got to the point that Megan Markle was painfully transparent about how these headlines made her feel in this documentary about their recent trip to Africa…See below…
In that clip, it is clear to see that change was on the horizon and that change was announced last Wednesday. In what has become known as “Megxit,” Prince Harry and Megan Markle announced in an Instagram post that they plan to “step back as senior members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.” Additionally, they “plan to balance [their] time between the United Kingdom and North America.”
They also launched a new website sussexroyal.com which includes an updated media policy that in which they explain they will “no longer participate in the Royal Rota system.” And they made sure to define this Royal Rota system:
The Royal Rota was established more than 40 years ago as a way of giving UK print and broadcast media exclusive inside access to the official engagements of members of the Royal Family.
Under this system, the rota, or pool, gives these British media representatives the opportunity to exclusively cover an event, on the understanding that they will share factual material obtained with other members of their sector who request it. The current system predates the dramatic transformation of news reporting in the digital age. The core group of UK outlets with Royal Rota access remain the predominant news source through which worldwide media organisations receive content on the official engagements of members of the Royal Family. These UK media outlets are: The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Evening Standard, The Telegraph, The Times, The Sun.
On the same day that Princess Harry and Meghan Markle announced their redefined Royal stance, this is the headline The Daily Mail published…”Once Prince Harry was the life and soul of the party, so how did he go from a fun loving bloke… to Prince of Woke?”
Correct me if I’m wrong but there has been a racist tinge to some of The Daily Mail Headlines…Here’s one from before they were married…”EXCLUSIVE: Harry’s girl is (almost) straight outta Compton: Gang-scarred home of her mother revealed – so will he be dropping by for tea?”
From what I understand, the racist tinge to Meghan Markle coverage by the British tabloids is part of what has influenced Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to fight back… Here are two articles that explain this…
“Black Britons Know Why Meghan Markle Wants Out” by Afua Hirsch
“As a woman of colour, I applaud Meghan for refusing to keep calm and carry on” by Natalie Morris
I’m so happy that this couple has taken charge of their family and is launching literally and figuratively into new territory. This principle is Biblical as it is plainly stated in Genesis, the very first chapter of the Bible…
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:24
And there are several examples of new couples taking charge of their family and launching into new territory…Below are two of the most dramatic examples of leaving and cleaving…
In Genesis 12, it is stated…”Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee…And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
In Luke 2, it is stated…”And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David: To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”
I’m not saying that in every case that a new couple has live away from family (especially if finances prevent that), but boundaries of some sort have to be put in place so that emotionally a couple can create a new life as one. I don’t think Prince Harry and Meghan Markle originally wanted to separate from the Royal Family in such a dramatic fashion, but I’ve often found that a breakdown is necessary for a breakthrough. And I believe that now, finally, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can live happily ever after as royals are supposed to do…
And while this issue was brought on by many tears, I’m reasonably sure, I hope that some of these memes and commentary since Megxit have caused them to laugh…hopefully so, anyway…here are two that made me chuckle…
Reportedly, the entire Royal family will be meeting tomorrow with Meghan conference calling in from Canada (YES!) to discuss these recent developments…Let’s hope Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stay strong on their new stance…
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Posted on Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Greenleaf Recap Season 4 Episode 5: Unwanted…
So y’all, this episode has been the BEST episode of Season 4 and let me explain why in this Greenleaf Recap Season 4 Episode 5: Unwanted…
Everything She Wants…
This explosive and yet internally rich episode begins with the baby of the family Charity explaining to her baby Nathan why he will be seeing less of his mama. I will be preaching soon, she says to her son who has nothing to say (because he can’t talk yet!LOL) about her nonsensical statement. This poor chile (not Nathan her son) thinks that everything she wants she will get…Grace busts into Charity’s suite and breaks up the mother and son bonding time. She confronts her sister about leaving that reckless message on the voicemail of Noah and Isabel. “She kicked him out and now he’s moving in with his folks. You broke up a marriage.”
As Grace interrogates Charity, she tries to act her like phone call was innocent but when she is by herself, she knows that she has invited God’s judgment on her. She watches a television preacher preach, “Judge not that you not be judged…When you go messing with other people, you’re playing with fire.” We all know that what you sow, you shall reap. Charity has sown duplicity to serve her own goals so she shouldn’t be surprised when she reaps duplicity to serve someone else’s goals. (Phil DeMars, anyone?)
The newly named associate pastor Jacob starts off this episode with a noble cause unlike his baby sister. The first time we see him, he is sitting on his bed, praying that God will use him to serve the homeless in the city of Memphis. “Use me mightily on their behalf,” Jacob says. In other words, he wants what God wants and Charity wants what she wants without seeking God’s will.
Grace, Jacob and Charity’s mother’s, Lady Mae, who readily goes after what she wants and seeks what God wants (at least some of the time anyway), is searching through Bob Whitmore’s book. She tells Kerissa, “I’m looking through his book for clues about why he set up camp here.” After she explains what she is doing, she still feels Kerissa staring at her. She asks her what does she want. “I can feel a need stalking me from a mile away.” Kerissa asks if she and Jacob can take their furniture in their suit to furnish their new home. But Lady Mae denies her request, reminding her that the first time they left for the “flimsy parsonage,” they took furniture then. And then when they were run out of the parsonage, they left the furniture there for that “Nigerian to sell on Ebay.” She tells her daughter-in-law that this time the couple has to buy their own furniture. I’m with Lady Mae. This is not a newly married couple who needs a head start. It’s not Lady Mae’s fault that Basie, Tasha and Rochelle tricked them like they were toddlers playing Peekaboo. Jacob and Kerissa need to grow up, at least financially anyway…(And had they kept their land and sacrificed short-term gain for long-term wealth, they would be able to achieve this…)
Bishop is occupied as well. Bishop and his former assistant Karine are uploading all of his sermons onto a hard drive. Apparently, he’s doing research for a speaking engagement in Atlanta. “I can’t tell you how much I miss preaching.” As you may remember, Lady Mae doesn’t think Bishop should venture away from Calvary, even for one Sunday. “Nero did stay in town while Rome was burning,” she says.
Although Charity is pretty much a spoiled brat, after she’s had some time to think, she realizes her action was flat out wrong. What she wants isn’t worth what it costs. She unburdens herself by telling Carlton the choir director what happened with Noah and Isabel. Carlton tells Charity, “Hell is for those folks who don’t want to turn to God.” Although Charity wants to do right, a part of her still wants to wrong. “I haven’t fully turned away from the sin that got me into this mess.”
Any Way You Want It…
Also at Calvary, Phil DeMars, with his shady self, walks up on Grace and tells her to take Jacob’s proposal for a homeless outreach program off of the board agenda. But Grace continues to let Phil know that he’s not the boss of her. After she gets him straight, she walks into her office where she finds her son! “Did anyone see you come in here?” she asks A.J. He assures her that his arrival was under the radar. While in her office, he takes the opportunity to gaze at photographs of his extended family including Bishop and Lady Mae. “They look like good people.” Grace gets a bit nervous, probably thinking about the fact that A.J. is closer than ever to meeting them. But A.J. reassures her. “I’m not here to blow up your spot.”
He then pivots to the reason for his risky visit. “Are you going to give me money or not, and it’s not like you don’t have it.” See…So I know this kid wasn’t exactly raised, but he needs some on-the-spot home training. What you are not gonna do is talk to me like we are on the same level. Although she abandoned him, she was the one who brought him into this world. At least, he can speak to her in a respectful tone. And then when Grace asks him about how his job search is going and offers to get him a job, he says, “I’m not a d**** charity case.” Grace wants to have a relationship with her son finally, but I’m sure this is not the way she wants it to be.
But before A.J. can continue hitting up his mother like she’s his personal ATM machine, Phil busts in on the meeting. He senses he has interrupted something important but asks about the whereabouts of Karine. Grace tells him that she is with Bishop. “Oh, she’s taking a sick day,” Phil says after noting that Bishop doesn’t work for Calvary anymore. But Grace tells him Karine is on the clock and her meeting with Bishop is really helping Grace. When it comes to Phil, Grace is determined to have it any way she wants it. After Phil leaves, A.J. gets up to walk out the way he comes in, but Grace directs him to a different door. She explains this it is the door that is used in case of a fire. A.J. says, “I guess I’m fire.”
Speaking of fire, Nicki, the girlfriend of Memphis Red Devils’ b-ball star Dante Saunders, calls up Zora to invite her to a “super lit” soire (party) at Dante’s house. Y’all know Zora is ’bout that life.
Following Grace’s meeting with A.J., she meets with her attorney and half-brother Aaron. He explains that with the help of Grace’s inheritance from their father, Bishop’s IRS bill has been paid in full. “The worst is behind you,” he says. Not so counselor, from where I’m sitting. Grace must agree with me because she asks her brother if he could employ a young man at the church. She explains that “he’s got a record” and “needs a routine.” Aaron agrees to do so and asks Grace to send the young man to his office later that day.
While Grace is still keeping her secret a secret, Charity realizes she is not willing to get to Grace’s secret on behalf of Phil DeMars. “Phil, I can’t do this anymore.” She explains that her phone call to Noah’s house led to his wife’s decision to kick him out of their home. “I wan’t to be AP,” she says,”but I don’t want to mess up people’s lives to get there.” Phil DeMars tries to convince her to continue spying for him. “Uncovering evil is not evil,” he says. But Charity says, “If a thing doesn’t want to be seen, I’m not going to lift up a rock. I’m not like you.” (That almost sounds like a Lady Mae line, right?) Thank God Charity is coming to her senses!
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party…
Lady Mae and Bishop always find a way spoil the party and have discord. “Give them the furniture,” Bishop says to his ex-wife. “Bless them as they leave.” Lady Mae says that she wants her son in her house, but she does have a way to make a deal. “Don’t go to Atlanta.” “Quid pro quo,” Bishop states. (Where have a heard that term lately?) “I’ve already told Desiree yes,” he says. She responds with, “I’ve already told Kerissa no.” Lady Mae says, “The fire of loyalty to the Greenleaf name is dying and it needs tending.”
Grace’s fire a.k.a. A.J. shows up at his Uncle Aaron’s office. Once the two introduce their selves to one another, as much as they can anyway with Aaron not knowing that he is meeting his nephew, A.J. lauds the virtues of his half-sister. He calls her the “real deal,” recounts how she has been known to give the shoes off of her feet to strangers and explains how she feels life more deeply than others. He finishes his praise with, “She’s special.” A.J. doesn’t know what to say so he asks about the location of the bathroom. As they say, when you have nothing good to say, say nothing. Aaron was having a praise Grace party and A.J. didn’t want to spoil it.
Phil DeMars doesn’t want to spoil his personal connection to the Greenleaf estate. So he approaches Charity again. She promptly tells, “Get behind me Satan.” LOL
Charity changed her tone with Phil, real quick. 😂 #Greenleaf pic.twitter.com/JG8srEgQJ5
— Greenleaf OWN (@GreenleafOWN) October 2, 2019
But Phil is persistent, telling her that she really doesn’t know the real him. He invites her to dinner for her to get to know him better. Oh Charity. If a man is asking you to turn on your own family, then no amount of getting to know him is gonna make him a good dude.
Back at the Greenleaf estate, Bishop and Lady Mae are still at it. She tells him that Bob Whitmore invited her to speak at the National Women’s Gathering for the Harmony & Hope churches to be held in D.C. But she politely declined the invitation in order to maintain her “presence” at Calvary. She hopes that Bishop will realize that he needs to follow suit. But Bishop is an Alpha male to her Alpha female. “Do you know what it feels like to be ignored and unwanted?” he says. “You’ve never been unwanted ever. All I want is one more Sunday.” Not being in the pulpit is starting to get to Bishop. Lady Mae reveals that when Bishop was following behind Lady Mae’s sister Mavis and Rochelle Cross, that made her feel ignored and unwanted. “I want to be respected and heard,” she says. “I think you mean obeyed,” says Bishop. “I haven’t once mentioned Lionel and how that made me feel.” Lady Mae spits out, “If it’s that important to you, go to Atlanta.”
Phil DeMars wants Charity to feel like he wants her. At dinner, he explains that he ghostwrites all of Bob Whitmore’s sermons and books. “I”m Bob Whitmore.” He also says how he would like to be the pastor of Calvary as it is the only black in the Harmony & Hope churches. (There’s your clue, Lady Mae.) She starts to feel like they have something in common as he has been forced to be in the background although their gifts have made the church shine, much like Charity I will admit…
Although Jacob isn’t exactly wanted at Calvary, he does work there. He presents his proposal to help the homeless in front of the board. His presentation actually goes over well, but an emergency call from Zora causes him to rush out of the meeting like his pants are on fire. Zora warns him that Dante, whom Jacob is supposed to be supervising, is having a wild party at his house and it’s getting out of control. Dante is threatening to burn the confederate flag and when a white team member bucks on Dante, a blaze of a fight is ignited. Jacob tries to stop the fight even as partygoers document the mess on their cell phones.
I Want To Be Loved…
When Grace hears that A.J. blew off the interview with Aaron by excusing himself to go to the bathroom and never coming back, she confronts him about it. A.J. explains how Aaron’s praise of Grace made him uncomfortable given how he was treated by Grace. “He thinks you’re so good.” A.J. explains that because she thinks she is good, she cannot be trusted. Given the fact that he was shuttled from foster home to foster home and obviously endured abusive conditions all because his mother chose not to raise him, he knows that Grace is not what she and others think she is. “It’s the ones who think they’re good that you have to worry about.” Finally, he says, “Grace we’re done.” And then he takes it a step further. “And the next person who asks me who I am, I’m telling them.”
Back at the Greenleaf estate, now that Bishop’s sermons have been stored on a hard drive, he watches one of his old sermons in which he is reminded of a message that he preached. The message that he preached actually spoke back to him. “God is longing to sit with you and talk it all out…When you’re life is too hard, we’ve got to have a talk with God.”
Two people that are having a tough time talking in this episode are Lady Mae and Kerissa. Before she can plead her case again, Lady Mae criticizes her daughter-in-law for enlisting Bishop in her request to take the furniture with the family when they leave. And since Kerissa is leaving, she decides to let Lady Mae have it in her own bedroom no less. She tells her that “no one has ever hurt me the way you hurt me.” She explains that the reason that she sought the approval of Lady Mae was that her own mother was always in a competition with her. (But Kerissa always seems like she is competing against all of the Greenleaf women, right? Name one woman that she truly gets along with…I am glad that we’re getting some backstory on Kerissa though…) She blames Lady Mae for everything and calls Lady Mae an “old rusted jalopy with a corpse in the trunk.” Wow! If this is her way of getting the love she wants, this is not the way to do it. Obviously Lady Mae agrees with me because she slaps her daughter in a way that reminds me of those old-time night soap operas like “Dynasty.” Those slaps reverberated like gun shots fired!
😳 #Greenleaf pic.twitter.com/kzpHNmHeFX
Bishop walks in on them and for some reason believes the two have made peace?! But Lady Mae does say, “We’ve come to an understanding.” After Kerissa leaves, he tells her that he is not going to Atlanta after all. “God is trying to get me to slow down and see myself, see Him.” I guess this is what God told him once he decided to speak with God about his dilemmas – missing preaching and regaining control of Calvary the right way. You can’t escape your pain. You have to face it, Bishop…
Kerissa is gonna need to talk with Jesus now. Jacob comes home and tells her what happened with Dante. As a result, he has lost his job with the Memphis Red Devils. “You’re going to have to wait on that house.” Bwaaaahaaa…As crazy as that moment is, it’s not THE moment of the episode. That happens next.
The next morning, Grace walks in on her mother, who is studying Hebrews in the kitchen in preparation for her Bible study with Zora. She tells Grace that the book “mystifies her.” Grace explains that she is little mystified herself and needs her help with something. Lady Mae says, “What is it?” Grace replies, “My son.”
OMG. #Greenleaf pic.twitter.com/NUfMzTpRMh
And scene…A mic drop moment for reals…What we gon do? What we gon do? When Lady Mae gets involved, the drama will be on 10…And from the preview, I can tell that even a newfound grandson is not gonna stop Lady Mae from reaching her destiny…You reach for Lady Mae, you will be left looking at a nub…convict or not…A.J. thinks he wants to be loved but not like this…
So the reason I LOVED this episode and think it’s the best one so far this season is that we finally got to see into Kerissa after three seasons of not knowing anything about her background, we got to see a good old-fashioned soap opera slap between two divas and we got to see Lady Mae realize that Grace is her daughter in more ways than one…What say you?
Thank you sooo much for reading my Greenleaf Recap Season 4 Episode 5: Unwanted… and my other recaps so far. If you would like to keep up with OWN’s “Greenleaf,” and my recaps, please click on this link to subscribe to my blog !
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