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Today In History – Dom DiMaggio’s Hitting Streak Ends
09 August 1949 – On this day 58 years ago, Red Sox outfielder Dom DiMaggio’s franchise-record 34-game hitting streak comes to an end as he goes 0-for-5 at the plate against Yankee hurler Vic Raschi, but Boston still wins the game 6-3 in front of more than 35,000 fans at Fenway Park behind eventual 23-game-winner Ellis Kinder. With one last chance to extend the streak in the bottom of the eighth inning, Dom’s line drive to center field is caught on the shoestrings by his own brother, Joe DiMaggio, who today still holds the major league record for the longest consecutive-game hitting streak at 56.
Known to teammates as “The Little Professor,” the five-foot-nine bespectacled outfielder looked more like he belonged in front of a classroom than on a baseball diamond, yet he was perhaps one of the best to play the outfield for Boston. Seven times, DiMaggio was named to the All-Star game during his 11 seasons in Boston, sandwiched around three years of service with the Coast Guard during the second World War. DiMaggio would also hit in 27 straight games in 1951 and, used primarily as a leadoff hitter, scored 100 or more runs seven times. Though his numbers were not enough to earn consideration for Hall of Fame induction, he was part of the original class of former players inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1995.
Author fenfanPosted on 2007.08.09 2012.04.05 Categories Today In HistoryTags dom dimaggio, ellis kinder, fenway park, hitting streak, red sox
Did You Know? – Red Sox 20-Game Winners
In team history, the Red Sox have seen 26 different pitchers win at least 20 games in a season at least once in a Boston uniform. The pitcher who holds the franchise record for the most victories in one season is Smoky Joe Wood, who won 34 games in 1912 for the eventual World Series champions; he was one of three pitchers on the 1912 staff, along with Buck O’Brien and Hugh Bedient, to reach the 20-win threshold, as the latter two each won exactly 20 games on a team that set the franchise record for wins in a season (105). Only one other pitcher in team history, Cy Young, won better than 30 games in a season; he accomplished this feat twice, once in Boston’s inagural season of 1901 (33) and then again in 1902 (32). Young also holds the record for the most seasons of 20 or more wins with the Red Sox, having accomplished the feat six times in the eight years that he was part of the starting rotation. After him, there are three pitchers with three seasons of 20 or more wins: Bill Dinneen (1902-1904), Luis Tiant (1973, 1974, 1976), and Roger Clemens (1986, 1987, 1990). Other multiple winners include Babe Ruth, Carl Mays, Boo Ferriss, Jesse Tannehill, Mel Parnell, Wood, Tex Hughson, and Wes Ferrell.
In total, there have been 46 instances where a pitcher won 20 games or more in a season for the Red Sox. Nine times, the starting rotation for Boston has had multiple 20-game winners. Between 1902 and 1904, Dinneen and Young won at least 20 games in each season for the Red Sox and, with Boston pitchers Tom Hughes (20 wins in 1903) and Tannehill (21 wins in 1904) also reaching that plateau, fans were witness to eight instances in three straight seasons that a Sox pitcher accomplished this feat. The most recent instance in which two players on the Red Sox pitching staff won at least 20 games in a single season happened just five years ago in 2002, when Derek Lowe (21) and Pedro Martinez (20) both managed the feat; before that, you have to go back to 1949 to find multiple 20-game winners on the Red Sox pitching staff for one season: Parnell (25) and Ellis Kinder (23). Curiously, there have been ten Boston pitchers in franchise history to fall just one win short of the mark for a single season; of those ten, both Martinez and Howard Ehmke did reach the mark in another season for the Sox. Martinez fell one win shy his first season with the club in 1998 but won 23 the next year, while Ehmke won 19 in 1924, one year after winning 20.
Author fenfanPosted on 2007.04.27 2015.01.12 Categories Did You Know?Tags babe ruth, bill dinneen, boo ferriss, carl mays, cy young, derek lowe, ellis kinder, howard ehmke, hugh bedient, jesse tannehill, joe wood, luis tiant, mel parnell, pedro martinez, red sox, roger clemens, smoky joe wood, tex hughson, tom hughes, wes ferrell
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Closing Sunday, June 16, 2019 THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES Off-Broadway: Kirk Theatre @ Theatre Row Book by Roger Bean Music and Lyrics by Various Directed by Michael and Tom D’Angora Choreographed by Alex Ringler Cast includes: Kristen Alderson, Kristy Cates, Michelle Dowdy, Amy Hillner Larsen, and Amy Toporek Take a musical trip down memory lane to the 1958 Springfield High School [...]
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Grammy Winner Barry Manilow will play limited run on Broadway
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The engagement, which begins in July, is part of the Lunt-Fontanne's In Residence on Broadway series. Grammy winner Barry Manilow will be part of the In Residence on Broadway series at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which kicked off May 2–11 with Morrissey. Manilow, who was last on Broadway in Manilow on Broadway, will play the Lunt-Fontanne July 26–August 17. “I am [...]
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Queen Musical ‘We Will Rock You’ to play Madison Square Garden in November
The Queen musical We Will Rock You is set to relaunch with a North American tour 17 years after the stage production first debuted at London's Dominion Theatre in 2002. The show is set to kick off its upcoming concert series Sept. 3 in Winnipeg, Canada. Additional dates are scheduled for New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver and Toronto. [...]
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what’s in previews, what’s premiering out of town, and what’s in development ...... BE MORE CHILL Theatre: LyceumFirst Preview: February 13, 2019Opening: March 10, 2019Score by: Joe IconisDirector: Stephen BrackettBased on Ned Vizzini’s novel, the show tells the story of an average teenager (currently played Off-Broadway by Dear Evan Hansen's Will Roland), who takes a pill purported to make people [...]
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Fifty years after the Woodstock music festival became one of the watersheds of hippie counterculture, an anniversary event will take place in August 2019 on the same field north of New York City. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts announced a three-day festival of “music, culture and community” that will celebrate “the golden anniversary at the historic site of [...]
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now playing at Broadway's newly renovated Lyric Theater. Seven lead members of the original West End company of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child reprise their roles on Broadway at the Lyric Theater. . Broadway bound are Jamie Parker (Harry Potter), Noma Dumezweni (Hermione Granger) and Paul Thornley (Ron Weasley) with Poppy Miller [...]
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Close sat down at New York City's Town Hall for a wide-ranging chat pegged to the launch of the composer’s memoir Unmasked. While the two Broadway titans commanded rapturous applause, Close’s dog Pip, who followed her out onstage and sat next to her through the evening, stole the show. "I'm working with a dog act!" [...]
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I Was Used By Richard Meier
Richard Meier (1934-) is what we call these days a starchitect. He won the most prestigious award for architecture, the Pritzker Prize, in 1984, the year after I.M. Pei won. I am not a big fan though I can appreciate his innovation. He has been described as, “an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white.” Is white your favorite color?
I believe that the first Richard Meier building I was in was the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, shortly after it opened in 1983. My two memories of it are that aside from being very white, inside and out, the stair railings were built so a child could easily fall through, a fault that was later corrected. Also, on the top floor which was to house the drawings a large skylight allowed for direct sunlight on the walls, the greatest peril for works on paper!
In 1995 Meier completed the City Hall and Library for the Hague in the Netherlands, creating a new city center. In 2017, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the de Stijl movement, Meier’s huge white slab building was painted with blocks of color in the style of Piet Mondrian, de Stijl’s preeminent into “the world’s largest Mondrian painting”. The new façade was created by artists Madje Vollaers and Pascal Zwart of Studio VZ. Although meant to be temporary, in my personal opinion it was a great improvement!
In the mid 1990’s, when I was on the President’s Cultural Property Committee, we were taken to Meier’s yet unfinished Getty Museum to meet with many Arts Ministers from Central America. Here is a photo of the committee and others participating in the conference in front of the building.
The Getty officially opened in December of 1997 at a staggering cost of $1.3 billion! To be fair, it is a campus complex including the Conservation Institute, the Research Institute, the Foundation, the Trust and, of course, the museum. The President of the museum at the time had rejected several suitable locations on terra firma, as he wanted to build a monument overlooking L.A.. He picked a spot in Brentwood with breathtaking views but directly on a major earthquake fault! Special structural considerations were needed and, methods had to be invented to secure the museum’s works of art against the inevitable tremors and quakes.
A short time after this I was told that Richard Meier wanted to meet and have lunch with me. I must say I was somewhat flattered. Why would this starchitect want with me? It took a while to realize what his goal was. My parents were originally from Frankfurt am Main, Germany and he wanted to learn all about it. My knowledge, however, was fairly limited having only been there a few times and my parents’ stories were limited. The other shoe dropped sometime later when I found out that Meier had been asked to build the Museum Angewandte Kunst (decorative arts museum) in that town and needed background information! Of course, he had not mentioned this. I was not a happy camper!
To quote Meier, “Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.” According to one definition, Polemic is “a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something”. So, as I have found there are those who love his work as well as some that hate it, I suppose he would consider it a success!
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It was a dream come true, hearing Buffy Sainte-Marie performing here in Santa Fe. In the 1960’s I frequented the Greenwich Village coffee houses in New York but to my recollection, I had never heard her live before. We are so lucky to live somewhere that people enjoy visiting and entertainers want to come despite the fact that they make money touring playing venues much larger than our local Lensic theater with its 821 seats. During her solo performance Buffy talked several times about how expensive it is to travel, especially with her band, so I presume that is why they did not come along. She used the excuse, however, that they had just been to Australia.
Joel Aalberts, Executive Director of the Lensic introduced her performance by explaining that the evening’s event was a fund raiser for Indigenous Solutions/Indigenous Ways, The Friendship Club of Santa Fe and Tewa Women United. All very appropriate for our new holiday in the State of New Mexico, Indigenous People’s Day, formerly known as Columbus Day.
Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in 1941 or 1942 into the Cree Tribe in Saskatchewan, Canada where records of the Indians were not that carefully kept. She was adopted by a family from Massachusetts where she grew up. During her performance she mentioned twice the bullying and sexual harassment she experienced both from her stepbrother in their home, and a relative who lived outside their home.
The concert began with a traditional Indian blessing in the Tewa language and English for an on-stage group of local Native women elders. There was one of two signers translating throughout the evening. I don’t know why people who could not hear would come to a small concert like this but maybe it was just a fitting symbol of communication. Part of the Buffy message is that we have consideration for others as we all need to get along, particularly important in these divided times.
Of course, the reason for going to a concert given by Buffy Sainte-Marie is to hear her sing her songs. She is not only has a great voice but she is a multitalented in the musical arts, playing different instruments. She played two string instruments a keyboard and a mouthbow on this particular evening. If I am not mistaken, she only sang songs that she herself had written. Her lyrics make you realize her talent for poetry as well.
Of course, she sang some of her strongest and most popular songs such as, “My Country 'tis of Thy People you're Dying” and her fans’ 1964 all-time favorite, “Universal Soldier”.
She explained it came to her when she was stuck overnight in San Francisco Airport and in the middle of the night this Airforce transport landed, and injured soldiers were brought through on gurneys… that was Vietnam.
After her performance there was an after party at which we were all giving a shoulder bag which included Buffy’s Biography.
Altogether the experience was much more than an exercise in nostalgia, it was a stirring performance by a still-great artist and a perfect opening for the Indigenous Day weekend.
The San Francisco Mint
I remember being taken to the Mint when I was still in my single digits. I believe it was one in Washington D.C. I was so disappointed, not sure why but maybe it was because I went with a my class to a donut factory we all got samples and at the Mint we could not get close enough t actually see the money, just the stacks on a conveyor belt below our glass glorified catwalk.
In any case, it did give me a taste for how money is actually made. Therefore, when I read an article in The Arts Journal, one of the art blogs I subscribe to, I latched onto this headline “The Museum where they Print Money”. The article came from the San Francisco Chronicle, “SF Newest Museum is opening in the City’s Oldest Mint”. In 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, establishing the first national mint which Congress declared would be in Philadelphia, this country’s Capital at the time. Congress directed that “In copper: half cent and cent, In silver: half dime, dime, quarter, half dollar, and dollar and In gold: quarter eagle ($2.50), half eagle ($5), and eagle ($10)”. Only the gold and half penny have disappeared in the meantime!
When gold fever gripped the country, they needed to open U.S. branch Mints with assay offices to weigh and value the gold. The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and the San Francisco Mint opened in 1854 , the oldest one in the West, turning nuggets and gold dust into coins. It was soon too small, and a new mint was established in 1874. This building known both as the Old United States Mint and “The Granite Lady” was one of the few to survive the 1906 earthquake. Only the base and basement were made of granite, the upper stories were done in sandstone. It is very much in the same Classical Style as the Metropolitan Museum built in the same decade but by different architects.
By the time of the fire, the San Francisco mint held $300 million, one third of the United States Gold Reserve. Fort Knox was established only in 1936 and in 1937 got the first shipment of the country’s precious bullion reserve. At the same time San Francisco built a new Mint.
Designated a National Historical landmark, the old Mint was open to the public until 1993. In 2003 the Federal government sold it to the City of San Francisco for $1. They used an 1879 silver dollar struck at the mint to pay. It was supposed to become a historical museum and called San Francisco Museum at the Mint. They finished the first phase but then the project languished between many possible owner museums. In 2014 the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society began raising funds for phase 2 but they failed. Vice president of the Historical Society was also active in real estate and saw an opportunity in this property located in the heart of the oldest part of the city. He made a deal with the city that if he left the original building intact and it remained a museum he could build on the property.
The Historical Society has a 5-year lease with an option to renew. They have started out modestly with an exhibition on the untold stories of the men of the gold rush, which I certainly would be interested in seeing. If you go let me know what you think.
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Highland’s University Statue
For my birthday my wife surprised me with a visit back to the Castaneda ...
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The idea was that their much-touted restaurant and 12 course tasting menu would be open and ready, but that was not to be. Construction delays as always. We had a lovely time anyway, and, wanting to visit a part of town we had not been to before, we went over to Highlands University. It was founded in 1893 as a teacher training school but is now a branch of the state university system.
On a Saturday afternoon the campus was almost empty and even the library was closed. That would, of course, not have been the case in my day but then, I didn’t have the internet for research. As we walked around, we found the Commons with a bronze statue in the center. Titled “Harmony” it consists of three figures by artist and educator Gary Coulter (1935-2000). It was dedicated in 1987 to “to recognize and honor the cultural and ethnic diversity of New Mexico Highlands University’s students”. Definitely not a great work of art but what they did with it I found so appropriate for a place of learning in these days of conflict.
Large plaques on each side of the base have excerpts from the writings of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and José Marti, as well as “A song of the Tewa”.
The Tewa are a linguistic group of Native Americans living today in pueblos along the Rio Grande. The Song of the Tewa, is looking to the day when tame animals and children are blessed as are their brother Indian tribes and even the Mexican and Anglo-American people, wishing all “may make our lives together here”.
José Marti (1853-1895) was Cuban poet, and philosopher who is regarded as a hero in his country as a revolutionary activist. In 1893 he writes, “Man has no special rights because he belongs to a particular Ethnic Group, “Anyone, you might want to send this plaque to?
JFK writes in 1962, “In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power…” “Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.” Oh, how I wish that our politicians would learn their history before aspiring to a political office.
The plaque with the best known quotation is, of course, Martin Luther King’s, “I have a dream” speech of 1963, It continues, “I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia the sons of slaves the sons of former slave owners will sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
Just think if every student who came to Highlands University would just sit in front of this statue and take in the lessons that each of these plaques had to offer what fabulous individuals and politicians they would make!
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Hype Records » Artistes » Taufik Batisah
From persisting through the gruelling trials of reality TV competition, to possessing a star branding called his own, Taufik Batisah has proven that dreams can turn into reality, and reality into a statement.
A natural-born performer with strong vocal prowess, captivating showmanship and mesmerizing aura, Taufik won the hearts of the masses when he was crowned as the first ever Singapore Idol on 1 Dec 2004. His debut album BLESSINGS left a significant footprint in local music history as the best-selling local English album in the past decade with a record sales of more than 36,000 copies.
With a wide music repertoire of jazz, sentimental ballads to street hip hop and pop, Taufik has well-established himself a versatile performer and one of the region’s biggest stars. Audiences in the region and beyond have also witnessed his progression from an aspiring star to an iconic artiste in a league of his own.
Taufik’s all-rounded capabilities as a singer-performer-composer-producer aid him in building a remarkable presence in the English and Malay music industry. His own distinctive brand of music has garnered overwhelming recognition from fans and music professionals alike.
Taufik’s music production capabilities rose to it’s peak with the release of his fifth studio album “Fique”. The first single “Awak Kat Mane” was a megahit, taking Singapore and Malaysia by storm. The infectious song went viral instantly, with the music video racking up more than 5 million views shortly after its release.
Beside his outstanding achievements in Singapore, Taufik also excels on the international stage. He was the only Singapore artiste invited to perform at the Live and Loud Music Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, alongside international artistes KC & JoJo, Kool & Gang and James Morrison. He have also headlined the performances of the Asean-Korea Commemorative Summit in Jeju (Korea) and Seoul, and represented Singapore in the inaugural Asia Broadcasting Union (ABU) TV Song Festival, a non-competitive concert showcase featuring high profile music artistes across the Asia-Pacific countries. Taufik performed alongside Korea’s TVXQ, Japan’s Perfume, Australia’s Havana Brown and other singers. The Festival, staged in Seoul, was beamed over Korea’s national television KBS and across the region. Over the years, Taufik has also headlined Singapore Day performances in London and San Francisco. More recently, Taufik represented Singapore at the ASEAN-JAPAN Music Festival in Tokyo together with Dato Sri Siti Nurhaliza (Malaysia), W-inds (Japan), Sarah Geronimo (Philippines), Andien (Indonesia) and Dong Nhi (Vietnam). The performance was too televised on NHK Asia-wide.
Recognised with more than thirty awards and accolades, Taufik was the recipient of the nation’s highest youth honour– Singapore Youth Award, and was the first Singapore artiste to be presented the “Best Asian Artist – Singapore” Award at the Mnet Asia Music Awards (MAMA) – a major Korean awards ceremony complimenting outstanding Kpop and international artistes. He has also received prominent music accolades such as the MTV Asia Award, AnugeraHitz.sg Awards, Temasek Award, Compass Awards and 17 Anugerah Planet Muzik Awards till date.
In the recent years, Taufik has also proven his acting chops through many significant roles for various drama and telemovie productions in Singapore such as “Tanglin”, “Demi Adriana” and “Gunting”, winning praises all around. He has also starred in the leading roles for Malaysian movies “Soulmate Hingga Jannah” and ““Dakun Doktor Dani”. 2019 sees him winning his first acting and “Best Actor” award for his role in telemovie “Gunting” at the Pesta Perdana 2019 TV Awards.
Taufik’s humble and endearing personality has not only won a tremendous fan support throughout his career but also endorsements from popular consumer brands. His wholesome approach has gained recognition from government agencies, prompting him to be the top choice to front various national initiatives.
Without a doubt, Taufik’s determination and passion to fulfil his aspirations will continue to leave a significant impact in the music scene, shining through the region and beyond.
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OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
OUR morning’s exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes’s departure for the concert, I lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours’ sleep. It was a useless attempt. My mind had been too much excited by all that had occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises crowded into it. Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted, baboon-like countenance of the murdered man. So sinister was the impression which that face had produced upon me that I found it difficult to feel anything but gratitude for him who had removed its owner from the world. If ever human features bespoke vice of the most malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch J. Drebber, of Cleveland. Still I recognized that justice must be [37] done, and that the depravity of the victim was no condonement in the eyes of the law.
The more I thought of it the more extraordinary did my companion’s hypothesis, that the man had been poisoned, appear. I remembered how he had sniffed his lips, and had no doubt that he had detected something which had given rise to the idea. Then, again, if not poison, what had caused this man’s death, since there was neither wound nor marks of strangulation? But, on the other hand, whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor? There were no signs of a struggle, nor had the victim any weapon with which he might have wounded an antagonist. As long as all these questions were unsolved, I felt that sleep would be no easy matter, either for Holmes or myself. His quiet, self-confident manner convinced me that he had already formed a theory which explained all the facts, though what it was I could not for an instant conjecture.
He was very late in returning–so late that I knew that the concert could not have detained him all the time. Dinner was on the table before he appeared.
“It was magnificent,” he said, as he took his seat. “Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.”
“That’s rather a broad idea,” I remarked.
“One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, ” he answered. “What’s the matter? You’re not looking quite yourself. This Brixton Road affair has upset you.”
“To tell the truth, it has,” I said. “I ought to be more case-hardened after my Afghan experiences. I saw my own comrades hacked to pieces at Maiwand without losing my nerve.”
“I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror. Have you seen the evening paper?”
“It gives a fairly good account of the affair. It does not mention the fact that when the man was raised up a woman’s wedding ring fell upon the floor. It is just as well it does not.”
“Look at this advertisement,” he answered. “I had one sent to every paper this morning immediately after the affair.”
He threw the paper across to me and I glanced at the place indicated. It was the first announcement in the “Found” column. “In Brixton Road, this morning,” it ran, “a plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway between the White Hart Tavern and Holland Grove. Apply Dr. Watson, 221B, Baker Street, between eight and nine this evening.”
“Excuse my using your name,” he said. “If I used my own, some of these dunderheads would recognize it, and want to meddle in the affair.”
“That is all right,” I answered. “But supposing anyone applies, I have no ring.”
“Oh, yes, you have,” said he, handing me one. “This will do very well. It is almost a facsimile.”
“And who do you expect will answer this advertisement?”
[38] “Why, the man in the brown coat–our florid friend with the square toes. If he does not come himself, he will send an accomplice.”
“Would he not consider it as too dangerous?”
“Not at all. If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring. According to my notion he dropped it while stooping over Drebber’s body, and did not miss it at the time. After leaving the house he discovered his loss and hurried back, but found the police already in possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning. He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate. Now put yourself in that man’s place. On thinking the matter over, it must have occurred to him that it was possible that he had lost the ring in the road after leaving the house. What would he do then? He would eagerly look out for the evening papers in the hope of seeing it among the articles found. His eye, of course, would light upon this. He would be overjoyed. Why should he fear a trap? There would be no reason in his eyes why the finding of the ring should be connected with the murder. He would come. He will come. You shall see him within an hour.”
“And then?” I asked.
“Oh, you can leave me to deal with him then. Have you any arms?”
“I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges.”
“You had better clean it and load it. He will be a desperate man; and though I shall take him unawares, it is as well to be ready for anything.”
I went to my bedroom and followed his advice. When I returned with the pistol, the table had been cleared, and Holmes was engaged in his favourite occupation of scraping upon his violin.
“The plot thickens,” he said, as I entered; “I have just had an answer to my American telegram. My view of the case is the correct one.”
“And that is– –?” I asked eagerly.
“My fiddle would be the better for new strings,” he remarked. “Put your pistol in your pocket. When the fellow comes, speak to him in an ordinary way. Leave the rest to me. Don’t frighten him by looking at him too hard.”
“It is eight o’clock now,” I said, glancing at my watch.
“Yes. He will probably be here in a few minutes. Open the door slightly. That will do. Now put the key on the inside. Thank you! This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday–De Jure inter Gentes–published in Latin at Liege in the Lowlands, in 1642. Charles’s head was still firm on his shoulders when this little brown-backed volume was struck off.”
“Who is the printer?”
“Philippe de Croy, whoever he may have been. On the flyleaf, in very faded ink, is written ‘Ex libris Guliolmi Whyte.’ I wonder who William Whyte was. Some pragmatical seventeenth-century lawyer, I suppose. His writing has a legal twist about it. Here comes our man, I think.”
As he spoke there was a sharp ring at the bell. Sherlock Holmes rose softly and moved his chair in the direction of the door. We heard the servant pass along the hall, and the sharp click of the latch as she opened it.
“Does Dr. Watson live here?” asked a clear but rather harsh voice. We could not hear the servant’s reply, but the door closed, and someone began to ascend the stairs. The footfall was an uncertain and shuffling one. A look of surprise passed [39] over the face of my companion as he listened to it. It came slowly along the passage, and there was a feeble tap at the door.
“Come in,” I cried.
At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment. She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers. I glanced at my companion, and his face had assumed such a disconsolate expression that it was all I could do to keep my countenance.
The old crone drew out an evening paper, and pointed at our advertisement. “It’s this as has brought me, good gentlemen,” she said, dropping another curtsey; “a gold wedding ring in the Brixton Road. It belongs to my girl Sally, as was married only this time twelvemonth, which her husband is steward aboard a Union boat, and what he’d say if he comes ’ome and found her without her ring is more than I can think, he being short enough at the best o’ times, but more especially when he has the drink. If it please you, she went to the circus last night along with– –”
“Is that her ring?” I asked.
“The Lord be thanked!” cried the old woman; “Sally will be a glad woman this night. That’s the ring.”
“And what may your address be?” I inquired, taking up a pencil.
“13, Duncan Street, Houndsditch. A weary way from here.”
“The Brixton Road does not lie between any circus and Houndsditch,” said Sherlock Holmes sharply.
The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little red-rimmed eyes. “The gentleman asked me for my address,” she said. “Sally lives in lodgings at 3, Mayfield Place, Peckham.”
“And your name is– –?”
“My name is Sawyer–hers is Dennis, which Tom Dennis married her–and a smart, clean lad, too, as long as he’s at sea, and no steward in the company more thought of; but when on shore, what with the women and what with liquor shops– –”
“Here is your ring, Mrs. Sawyer,” I interrupted, in obedience to a sign from my companion; “it clearly belongs to your daughter, and I am glad to be able to restore it to the rightful owner.”
With many mumbled blessings and protestations of gratitude the old crone packed it away in her pocket, and shuffled off down the stairs. Sherlock Holmes sprang to his feet the moment that she was gone and rushed into his room. He returned in a few seconds enveloped in an ulster and a cravat. “I’ll follow her,” he said, hurriedly; “she must be an accomplice, and will lead me to him. Wait up for me.” The hall door had hardly slammed behind our visitor before Holmes had descended the stair. Looking through the window I could see her walking feebly along the other side, while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind. “Either his whole theory is incorrect,” I thought to myself, “or else he will be led now to the heart of the mystery.” There was no need for him to ask me to wait up for him, for I felt that sleep was impossible until I heard the result of his adventure.
It was close upon nine when he set out. I had no idea how long he might be, but I sat stolidly puffing at my pipe and skipping over the pages of Henri Murger’s [40] Vie de Boheme. Ten o’clock passed, and I heard the footsteps of the maid as she pattered off to bed. Eleven, and the more stately tread of the landlady passed my door, bound for the same destination. It was close upon twelve before I heard the sharp sound of his latchkey. The instant he entered I saw by his face that he had not been successful. Amusement and chagrin seemed to be struggling for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a hearty laugh.
“I wouldn’t have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world,” he cried, dropping into his chair; “I have chaffed them so much that they would never have let me hear the end of it. I can afford to laugh, because I know that I will be even with them in the long run.”
“What is it then?” I asked.
“Oh, I don’t mind telling a story against myself. That creature had gone a little way when she began to limp and show every sign of being footsore. Presently she came to a halt, and hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. I managed to be close to her so as to hear the address, but I need not have been so anxious, for she sang it out loud enough to be heard at the other side of the street, ‘Drive to 13, Duncan Street, Houndsditch,’ she cried. This begins to look genuine, I thought, and having seen her safely inside, I perched myself behind. That’s an art which every detective should be an expert at. Well, away we rattled, and never drew rein until we reached the street in question. I hopped off before we came to the door, and strolled down the street in an easy, lounging way. I saw the cab pull up. The driver jumped down, and I saw him open the door and stand expectantly. Nothing came out though. When I reached him, he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to. There was no sign or trace of his passenger, and I fear it will be some time before he gets his fare. On inquiring at Number 13 we found that the house belonged to a respectable paperhanger, named Keswick, and that no one of the name either of Sawyer or Dennis had ever been heard of there.”
“You don’t mean to say,” I cried, in amazement, “that that tottering, feeble old woman was able to get out of the cab while it was in motion, without either you or the driver seeing her?”
“Old woman be damned!” said Sherlock Holmes, sharply. “We were the old women to be so taken in. It must have been a young man, and an active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor. The get-up was inimitable. He saw that he was followed, no doubt, and used this means of giving me the slip. It shows that the man we are after is not as lonely as I imagined he was, but has friends who are ready to risk something for him. Now, Doctor, you are looking done-up. Take my advice and turn in.”
I was certainly feeling very weary, so I obeyed his injunction. I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.
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CME ARTICLES
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and its ocular complications
Narsing A Rao
Doheny Eye Institute and the Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology, University of Southern California, USA
Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California 90033
Human immunodeficiency virus infection is the first major pandemic of the 20th century. At present, almost 10 million people are known to be infected with this virus, and it is estimated that by the year 2000, approximately 40 million people will be infected. Transmission of this deadly infection is predominantly by sexual contact. Individuals infected with this virus pass through several predictable stages with progressive decrease in circulating CD4+ T cells. During the advanced stage, these patients develop various opportunistic infections or malignancies, or both. It is this advanced stage that was first recognized as AIDS, which has a 100% mortality rate. The opportunistic organisms that can involve the eye in patients with AIDS include cytomegalovirus, herpes zoster, Toxoplasma gondii, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Cryptococcus neoformans, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, Pneumocystis carinii, Histoplasma capsulatum, Candida, and others. Intraocular lesions from these agents often represent disseminated infections. Visual morbidity occurs secondary to retinitis due to cytomegalovirus, herpes zoster, or Toxoplasma gondii. Anti-viral agents such as ganciclovir or foscarnet are effective against cytomegalovirus infection. The role of the ophthalmologist in the diagnosis and management of AIDS is becoming increasingly important. Not only does the eye reflect systemic disease, but ocular involvement may often precede systemic manifestations. In the AIDS patient, the ophthalmologist thus has an opportunity to make not only a slight-saving, but also life-saving diagnosis of disseminated opportunistic infections.
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Human immunodeficiency virus Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Ocular complications - Cytomegalovirus - Pneumocystis carinii - Tuberculosis
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THE BIG INTERVIEW: FTN interviews Rick Loomic, founder of Flying Buffalo
February 1st, 2014 by Legendgerry Comments
Rick Loomis is an American game designer, and has been officially part of the games industry since 1972 when he co-founded his company Flying buffalo to publish Nuclear War. He went on to publish Tunnels and Trolls the second modern RPG shortly after Dungeons & Dragons was released and wrote the first solo adventure book Buffalo Castle.
Legendgerry had a chat with him at Spoel ’13 in Essen, Germany last october.
FTN: What got you into Games?
R.L: I’ve always been interested in games, I play games, I make up my own games.When I was in high school I invented a game that I played with my friends but I had to be the referee, When I was in the army in ’70 through ’72 I came up with some more ideas about this game and I decided that I wanted to try it out but the only way I could do it was by mail. So I got people to play it by mail so I could try out my game.
It became real popular and by the time I came out of the army I had 200 people playing by postal mail, so I thought, well, maybe I can make a business out of this and it just kind of grew from there.
FTN: Tunnels and Trolls came out just after Dungeons and Dragons, was there a sense of competition between you?
R.L: I’d like to think so but I suspect the Dungeons and Dragons people barely noticed us, Tunnels and Trolls has been popular, we’ve sold a lot of copies over the years, we’ve sold a lot of translations in different languages but it was never anywhere near as big as Dungeons and Dragons.
FTN: When Dungeons and Dragons became popular it got a lot of flak from religious groups. Did you ever have any problems with groups like B.A.D.D. (Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons) or other groups claiming roleplaying was evil?
R.L: No actually we haven’t, most of those people went after the big companies, like TSR (D&D’s early publishers) and mostly ignored us, though we did have one guy who claimed that one of our expansion sets for Nuclear War was a role playing game, which it isn’t and it was evil, which it isn’t,but that didn’t get very far.
FTN: How did the first Tunnels and Trolls book come about?
R.L: Ken St. Andre is the guy who wrote Tunnels and Trolls, he came over to my house on a game night and borrowed a copy of D&D from a friend of mine. He read through it once and said “I can’t play this, I don’t even understand it, there must be an easier way!”.
So he went home and wrote his own game.
Then he printed up a hundred copies and sold them to his friends and played it with his friends, then he came to me with his last 44 copies and said take this with you to the game convention you’re going to and sell it for me.
I’d never heard of role playing games, I thought it was a silly idea, it has no board, you don’t have a winner, what kind of game is this? nobodies going to like it, but Ken was a friend so I thought I’d take them, put them on the corner of my table, nobody would buy them and when I got home I’d give them back to him and say “Sorry Ken, no one was interested”.
I sold all 44 copies.
So I said “Hmm maybe roleplaying is something” and that was the beginning of it, I reprinted his book.
FTN: How did the Solitaire adventure books come about
R.L: We came up with the idea of the solitaire adventures. One of Ken St. Andre’s friends suggested somebody oughta do an adventure for a role playing game where the book is the adventure and so I said “Yeah, that’s a good idea” So I wrote Buffalo Castle and then we ended up publishing over 30 different adventures, where the book is the game master.
They were the first solo game for a roleplaying game ever, they were out long before any of those choose your own adventure books.
FTN: How did people react initially to the idea of a chose your own adventure book?
R.L: It became very popular, we had a lot of customers that did not have a group to play with, they were kinda by themselves, so a game they could play alone really appealed to them.
That became Tunnels and Trolls niche, even though it was originally designed as a group role playing game, just like all the others where you have a game master and 5 or 6 players, we had a lot of customers that just played it solitaire.
FTN: What do you think of new platforms like Kickstarter and so on?
R.L: The systems that are there now do make it easier but it’s harder now to get noticed. It’s easier to publish something you’ve invented or written because you can make fewer copies, you don’t have to take out a second mortgage on the house to print out 5,000 copies and then find out you can only sell 110! That’s the sort of thing that used to happen.
We didn’t make too many serious errors like that in the past, we made a couple..
FTN: On that note, what advice would you give to people starting out?
R.L: Research what everyone else is doing, pay attention to the mistakes that others make, make sure you know what’s out there and don’t spend to much money before you find out.
FTN: What’s next up for Flying Buffalo?
R.L: Well right now we’re working on the newest edition of Tunnels and Trolls, the basic rules and calling it the deluxe edition, we did a kickstarter for it in January (2013), which was very successful and we hope to have that published and available to the public by the end of this year. (2013)
Then after that I’m planning on doing a new City book. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the city books, but that’s a roleplaying supplement that’s generic and suitable for any fantasy role playing system. We did seven different city books in the past and we’re going to do city book eight next year.
It will be edited by Jennell Jaquays the well known artist and we hope to have that out early in 2014
Tags: Dungeons & Dragons, Flying Buffalo, rick loomis, Tunnels and Trolls
Legendgerry
Actor, App developer, Tai Chi practitioner, Gamer, writer, rpg podcaster with the Flat Earth Fighters https://www.mixcloud.com/FlatEartfighters/ Does other things too. You can follow his many misadventures on twitter via @legendgerry.
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Senate begins debate on patent reform
By Kenneth Corbin | March 01, 2011
The Senate on Monday began its consideration of legislation that would undertake a comprehensive reform of the nation's patent system, a long-standing priority of many members of the tech sector that has foundered in the three preceding congresses.
The bill's sponsor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), took to the floor to introduce and endorse the legislation, along with co-sponsors Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
"This is commonsense and bipartisan legislation," Leahy said, noting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office hasn't seen a major update in more than half a century. "This is an idea that cuts across the political spectrum."
In the meantime, the office is laboring under a backlog of more than 700,000 applications, a condition Hatch said "represents dynamic economic growth waiting to be unleashed."
Leahy touts the legislation as deficit-neutral, noting that the U.S. PTO is funded through filing fees. Under the Patent Reform Act, the office would have new authority to set fees, "provided that patent and trademark fee amounts are in the aggregate set to recover the estimated cost to the Office for processing, activities, services and materials relating to patents and trademarks, respectively, including proportionate shares of the administrative costs of the Office."
Geithner pours cold water on currency repatriation
Court denies Verizon's net neutrality appeal, in part
Study finds 24% of all Web traffic tied to infringement
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Saint-Remy,December 1889 Oil on canvas 73x92cm f 587,jh 1853 Otterlo,Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller
Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890 Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 ?C 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art. Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide. The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.
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Manufacturing Slowdown... What Does It Mean for the Economy?
In September 2019, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) — which measures a wide variety of manufacturing data — fell to 47.8%, the lowest level since June 2009.1
A reading below 50% generally means that manufacturing activity is contracting. The August reading of 49.1% had signaled the beginning of a contraction, and the significant drop in September suggested that the contraction was not only continuing but accelerating.2 Shortly after the ISM report was released, nearly two-thirds of economists in a Wall Street Journal poll said the manufacturing sector was already in recession, defined as two or more quarters of negative growth.3
The PMI — which tracks changes in production, new orders, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories — is considered a leading economic indicator that may predict the future direction of the broader economy. Manufacturing contractions have often preceded economic recessions, but the structure of the U.S. economy has changed in recent decades, with services carrying much greater weight than manufacturing. The last time the manufacturing sector contracted, during the “industrial recession” in 2015 and 2016, the services sector helped to maintain continued growth in the broader economy.4
That may occur this time as well, but there are signs that the services sector may also be slowing down. In September, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index (NMI) dropped suddenly to its lowest point in three years: 52.6%. Although this still signaled service sector expansion — for the 116th consecutive month — it was a significant decline from the 56.4% reading in August 2019 and the 12-month high of 60.4% in November 2018.5
Global Weakness and Trade Tensions
The slump in U.S. manufacturing is being driven by a variety of factors, including a weakening global economy, the strong dollar, and escalating tariffs on U.S. and imported goods.
In October 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its forecast for 2019 global growth to 3.0%, the lowest level since 2008–09. The IMF pointed to trade tensions and a slowdown in global manufacturing as two of the primary reasons for the weakening outlook.6 Put simply, a weaker world economy shrinks the global market for U.S. manufacturers.
The strong dollar, which makes U.S. goods more expensive overseas, reflects the strength of the U.S. financial system in relation to the rest of the world and is unlikely to change in the near future.7 Tariffs, however, are a more volatile and immediate issue.
Originally intended to protect U.S. manufacturers, tariffs have been effective for some industries. But the overall impact so far has been negative due to rising costs for raw materials and retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports. For example, tariffs on foreign steel, which were first levied in March 2018, enabled U.S. steel manufacturers to set higher prices. But higher prices increased costs for other U.S. manufacturers that use steel in their products.8 Retaliatory tariffs by Canada and Mexico contributed to a $650 million drop in U.S. steel exports in 2018 and a $1 billion increase in the steel trade deficit.9 (In May 2019, the United States removed steel tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which dropped retaliatory tariffs in return.)10
U.S. manufacturers in every industry may pay higher prices for imported materials used to produce their products. An average of 22% of “intermediate inputs” — raw materials, semi-finished products, etc., used in the manufacturing process — come from abroad.11 Tariffs paid by U.S. manufacturers on these inputs must be absorbed — cutting into profits — and/or passed on to the consumer, which may reduce consumer demand.
The Uncertainty Factor
Along with specific effects of the tariffs, manufacturers and other global businesses have been hamstrung by trade policy uncertainty, which makes it difficult to adapt to changing conditions and commit to investment. A recent Federal Reserve study estimated that trade policy uncertainty will lead to a cumulative 1% reduction in global economic output through 2020.12
On October 11, 2019, President Trump announced that he would delay further tariff hikes on China — including an increased tariff on intermediate goods scheduled for October 15 — while the two sides attempt to negotiate a limited deal. Although a deal would be welcomed by most interested parties, past potential deals have collapsed, and it’s uncertain how any agreement might affect the $400 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods already in place, or the tariffs on goods from other countries.13
Will the Slowdown Spread?
Manufacturing accounts for only 11% of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and 8.5% of non-farm employment, a big change from 50 years ago when it accounted for about 25% of both categories.14–15 However, the manufacturing sector’s economic influence extends beyond the production of goods to the transportation, warehousing, and retail networks that move products from the factory to U.S. consumers. The final output of U.S.-made goods accounts for about 30% of GDP.16
Even so, a continued slowdown in manufacturing is unlikely to throw the U.S. economy into recession as long as unemployment remains low and consumer spending remains high. The key to both of these may depend on the continued strength of the services sector, which employs the vast majority of U.S. workers. It remains to be seen whether the service economy will stay strong in the face of the global headwinds that are holding back manufacturing.
1–2, 5) Institute for Supply Management, 2019
3) The Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2019
4) The New York Times, July 28, 2019
6) International Monetary Fund, 2019
7) National Review, August 22, 2019
8) Bloomberg, March 24, 2019
9) The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2019
10) Bloomberg, May 17, 2019
11) Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2018
12) Federal Reserve, 2019
13) USA Today, October 11, 2019
14) U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2019
15–16) The Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2019
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helen 11
The Aim
The Helen 11 Project
Traditional boat building skills return to the quayside at Conwy
It all started in December 2009 when an old fishing boat, in need of complete restoration was delivered to the quayside in Conwy. The delivery flagged up the return of boat building which was first seen in Conwy over 150 years ago.
The Helen 11 is a wooden fishing boat and was built in 1910 by Crossfields. Conwy was the home of John Crossfields’ boat building enterprise, which extended to a number of locations along the coast of North Wales and Lancashire. They would often travel up and down the coast building boats on the beach for people, and it is said that they would produce a boat in six weeks, using timber sourced near the site and with only 6-7 men. These boats are called Nobbys, which is a colloquial word for rough wood, but they are identifiable by their sleek lines, low freeboard and beautiful counter stern. They are also called Prawners as that was the catch for subsistance fishermen and they were built for speed to get the catch back to harbour and achieve the best price for the freshest fish. Their low freeboard allowed the men to haul in the nets, with their bare hands, just using the roll of the boat in the sea. They only had the use of their sails, with topsails for light winds, to get home, as engines were not fitted until the 1930’s.
Before arriving at Conwy, the boat was previously owned by the Roddick family who are great enthusiasts of the Nobby class boat. They have generously donated the boat to the Community of Conwy in memory of Jamie Roddick who tragically died of cancer at the age of 34.
Jim Roddick recalls the history of the Helen II
“The Helen II was constructed for George E Stonall of New Brighton. She is 40 feet long and of oak frame and pitch pine construction. As well as being a working boat, she also has a long history of successful racing awards. In 1914, she was the RMYA regatta winner in the fishing boat class and in 1920, the winner of the Liverpool Yacht club regatta. In the December 1930, the Helen II went missing as a result of a storm in Liverpool bay. She was eventually rescued from the Queens channel, with the help of a New Brighton lifeboat and was subsequently purchased by Ludwick Anderson of Port Maddog. She spent the next 10 years in waters off the welsh coast, around Port Maddog and Bangor. In 1943, she was purchased by Jackie Martin of Fleetwood and worked off the Lancashire coast under various owners until 1999 when she was acquired by us”.
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MainAll NewsUS & CanadaUS PR Giant Boycotts Israel, Works for Brotherhood
US PR Giant Boycotts Israel, Works for Brotherhood
One of the world’s largest public relations firms finds themselves in a crisis of their own.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood shout sloga
According to documents filed with the American government, WPP-owned Burson-Marsteller has recently been hired by the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood – yet refuses to represent Israel for their public relations needs. An op-ed by Ronn Torossian in The NY Observer cites European news reports indicating that Burson-Marsteller refuses to work with Israel, yet proudly represents Muslim Brotherhood.
As the Al Monitor first revealed, “Tunisia's Ennahda movement has hired public relations giant Burson-Marsteller to boost its image in the United States ahead of elections that could see the Islamist party return to power. The public relations push by the Muslim Brotherhood-inspired group comes as the Barack Obama administration has declared war on Islamists in Iraq and all but signed off on the military coup that deposed its ideological brethren in Egypt.” Burson-Marsteller signed a contract with Ennahda's London office and have agreed to "arrange meetings between Ennahdha representatives and stakeholders" and "encourage support for free and fair elections in Tunisia" with the goal of providing Ennahda "support on media and stakeholder outreach in advance of upcoming elections."
Torossian – a contributor to Arutz Sheva – revealed that Burson-Marsteller refuses to work with Israel. Sigurd Grytten, Burson-Marsteller’s Managing Director turned down a $3.5 million engagement from Israel stating “We will not deliver tender to such a project… we are running a commercial venture. If we accept this project, this will create a great amount of negative reactions … Israel is a particularly controversial project.” Burson-Marsteller issued a statement claiming that the firm has no policy about whether to represent Israel – yet pointedly refused to say they would represent Israel.
“The facts are very clear – The Arabs spend much more than the State of Israel, and clearly this mega Public Relations Agency understands that dollars matter. As they said, they are running a commercial venture, and will seek to white-wash the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood to an American audience during these sensitive political times,” said Torossian. “There is an inherent conflict of interest for a PR Agency to agree to represent Israel, and simultaneously work for entities opposed to the existence of Israel.”
Ennahdha’s members have been implicated in both incitement and violent actions against Tunisian and foreign targets. The party supported the 1979 embassy takeover in Iran, and evidence suggests it was responsible for bombing four tourist hotels in the 1980s.”
The leader of the organization, Rachid al-Ghannouchi, has predicted the end of the state of Israel, described Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 as “the first step in the complete victory of all of Palestine and the holy places of the Muslim,” and supported Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The man has called for the liberation of “Palestine from the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea” and has openly threatened the United States, saying during a time of crisis, “There must be no doubt that we will strike anywhere against whoever strikes Iraq … We must wage unceasing war against the Americans until they leave the land of Islam, or we will burn and destroy all their interests across the entire Islamic world.”
Arutz Sheva will keep readers posted on this developing story.
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Singapore is made up of a multi-racial demographic with many different cultures and social customs. A small island, this relatively young country has developed into a bustling hub of technology, arts and finance in the centre of Southeast Asia within decades. One can easily adapt to its diverse culture, lifestyle, customs, food and activities. All international festivals and occasions are celebrated with equal enthusiasm and excitement. International cuisines of different nationalities are also available at various food outlets.
It's natural for anyone to take some time to adapt to a new environment and culture. The following address a few points to help make the process a little easier.
A person relocating to Singapore for better opportunities should get acquainted with our native languages for better communication. Singlish is a predominant slang here - a local form of English which also consists of words from different languages like Malay and Chinese, as well as Chinese dialects like Hokkien and Cantonese. For example, sentences here may be accented and ended with ‘lah', in similar fashion to how some Canadians may end their sentences with ‘eh'.
Most expatriates are often offered competitive salaries with additional benefits like bonuses and recreational facilities. Other examples of said benefits include an entertainment allowance, payment of school fees, housing, childcare and a transportation allowance. With these subsidies, expatriates may find housing, transportation, food and education costs relatively cheaper than in their own countries.
Taxes & Taxable Income
Taxes in Singapore are regulated by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS). All Singaporeans and expatriates employed here are required to pay income tax. The income that is taxable comprise of profits earned from profession and business, income from fulltime as well as part-time work, interest earned from annuity and pension, dividends earned from company shares, property rent and royalty.
Housing in Singapore
When moving to Singapore for the first time, Expatriates usually rent a private apartment or house. With this in mind, it's not surprising to find expatriates concentrating in certain areas that have a wide variety of condominiums to choose from.
Consider the following factors when looking for a property for the first time in Singapore:
- Budget for rental
- Type and size of property you want to live in
- Distance to work and transportation links
- Proximity to international schools if you have any young children
- Restaurants and entertainment options to spend your free time in the neighbourhood
- Distance to the airport, if you or your partner plan or have to travel often
Budget and Property Prices
Rental prices fluctuate heavily depending on the supply and demand of available units. With constant development and upgrading within such a small land area, home and property prices can be rather steep, with many expatriates opting to rent instead. These prices vary greatly, depending on many different factors like location, amenities, and size of the home.
The following table gives a rough idea of the current price range you can expect:
LOCATION PROPERTY TYPE RENTAL RANGE
Central (Newton, Holland Village, River Valley, Orchard, Tanglin)
1-bedroom apartment S$3,000 - S$7,000
3-bedroom apartment S$4,500 - S$10,000
Penthouse / 4+ bedrooms S$6,000 - S$20,000
Terraced House S$6,000 - S$25,000
Bungalow S$15,000 - S$60,000
East Coast & Bukit Timah
Penthouse / 4+ bedrooms S$3,200 - S$8,000
Bungalow S$8,000 - S$20,000
For the latest prices, check our rental listings at PropertyGuru.com.sg
Property Type - House vs. Apartment
Typical condominiums in Singapore have a multitude of facilities - e.g. swimming pools, gyms, tennis courts, playgrounds, BBQ pits, etc. They are also usually within a walled compound with security guards. Do note that because plot sizes here are relatively small, only the very luxurious landed properties have pools and other facilities.
For somebody moving from a colder climate, please remember that Singapore has a tropical climate, with more small animals and insects around than what you may normally be used to. These tend to cause more problems in landed properties, especially those close to high density areas of flora. If your budget allows however, there are also some nice bungalows that will give you the luxury and privacy that a condominium would not be able to.
Various reliable housekeeping agencies here offer quality cleaning services for offices, apartments and homes. The two prominent housekeeping services companies in Singapore are the Housekeeper's Management Services and the Association of Singapore Housekeepers.
Singapore has one of the most modern and efficient public transportation systems in the world, and travelling from any point on the island to another does not take long under normal conditions.
Car ownership can be expensive here, but the roads are well maintained and somewhat less congested than in many other cities. Public transportation is also very effective, but tends to be more concentrated in areas where locals live (HDB estates). In any case, unless you live along the edge of Singapore, your commute would rarely exceed one hour.
The main options for getting around are:
Singapore's metro/underground train system currently has three lines, with the fourth partially finished. The map below shows the locations of each MRT station as well as details of the distance to the closest MRT station for each listing. Fares range from S$1 to S$2.10, depending on the distance travelled, and if you've had to switch from a bus, and vice versa. The map can be found at http://www.smrt.com.sg/trains/images/tn_networkmap_big_030811.jpg
Singapore also has an extensive bus network that covers a much larger area than the MRT. Calculated by the distance travelled, fares can range from S$0.71 to as high as S$4, depending on differing factors like distance travelled, and the type of bus service taken. More details on the bus services and the routes covered can be found at http://sbs.streetdirectory.com.sg/sbs/sbsindexsn.jsp?map=1.
Taxis here are generally plentiful and relatively cheap, compared to many other developed countries. Fares can start from S$2.80 to S$5.00, depending on the type of taxi one hails or calls. This would probably be the transport of choice for most single professionals living close to the city centre. It can sometimes be difficult to get one during peak periods, and additional charges apply for phone bookings and certain hours.
Private Cars
Owning a car here is more expensive, compared to many other countries, and is not really necessary here on a whole. Most save money by using a taxi; however, owning a car gives you the freedom to move around - and heading up to Malaysia every now and then for a round of golf might be a strong enough reason to get one.
Singapore is densely populated and traffic may slow down especially during peak hours. However, the infrastructure helps to smooth out some of the issues and public transportation on the whole is still considerably better than in some of the neighbouring countries. If you still intend on purchasing a car however, but be aware of additional charges that comes with owning one:
Purchase Price - Cars here are probably the most expensive in the world due to import duties and Certificate of Entitlement (COE - a permission to own a car for 10 years, after which it has to be renewed).
Road Tax - Depending on the size of the engine, you need to pay road tax annually. This can vary from a few hundred for a small car to thousands for an SUV.
Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) - A fee is charged during peak hours (from S$0.50 to a few dollars) to access certain roads and areas (mostly in the Central Business District (CBD)). ERP locations can be found at
www.lta.gov.sg/motoring_matters/motoring_erp_location_cbd.htm
Parking - Though there are parking charges in most locations in Singapore, please note that parking in the CBD can be especially expensive. Condominiums usually have parking charges included in the maintenance fee (which is paid by the landlord).
Petrol - It may come as a surprise, but petrol is probably the smallest component of your car ownership costs. It is currently around S$1.80 / litre.
You will also need to convert your driver's license into a Singaporean one within the year. This is a relatively straightforward process, but will require you to take the basic theory test. Please note that the traffic flow in Singapore is on the left side of the road (as in UK and Malaysia).
There are a multitude of schools of great repute in Singapore, including over 370 childcare centres, offering affordable and high quality childcare services.
We also have many international schools in Singapore to cater to the needs of expatriate children. For most large groups, you have a choice of sending your children to a school which follows your national curriculum while being taught in your native tongue. We've listed the main international schools in Singapore below - please check their websites for more information.
1 Lorong Chuan, Singapore 556818
http://www.ais.com.sg/
Bhavan's Indian International School
11 Mt Sophia Blk E, Singapore 228461
http://www.biissingapore.org/
5 Toh Tuck Road, Singapore 596679
http://www.cis.edu.sg/
Chatsworth International School
37 Emerald Hill Road, Singapore 229313
http://www.chatsworth-international.com/
301 Dover Road, Singapore 139644
http://www.dovercourt.edu.sg/
36 Aroozoo Avenue, Singapore 539842
http://www.dps.com.sg/
EtonHouse International School
51 Broadrick Road, Singapore 439501
http://www.etonhouse.com.sg/
German School
72 Bukit Tinggi Road, Singapore 289760
http://www.gess.sg/
http://www.hollandseschool.org/
514 Kampong Bahru, Singapore 099450
http://www.ics.edu.sg/
ISS International School
21 Preston Road, Singapore 109355
http://www.iss.edu.sg/
251 West Coast Road, Singapore 127390
Japanese School (Primary)
95 Clementi Road, Singapore 129782 (Clementi Campus)
11 Upper Changi Road North, Singapore 507657 (Changi Campus)
http://www.sjs.edu.sg/
Japanese School (Secondary)
KGS International Pre-School (Japanese)
16 Ramsgate Road, Singapore 437462
http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~yoko/kinder/kgs.html
Lock Road Kindergarten
10 Lock Road, Singapore 108938
Lycee Francais De Singapour
3000 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3, Singapore 569928
http://www.lyceefrancais.edu.sg/
c/o Royal Norwegian Embassy, 16 Raffles Quay #44-01 Hong Leong Bldg, S048581Tel:
Overseas Family School
25F Paterson Road, Singapore 238515
http://www.ofs.edu.sg/
25 Ettrick Terrace, Singapore 458588
http://www.rosemount.com.sg/
Rosemount International School
461 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore 109022
Sekolah Indonesia
20A Siglap Road, Singapore 455859
40 Woodlands Street 41, Singapore 738547
http://www.sas.edu.sg/
Singapore Korean School
74 Lim Ah Woo Road, Singapore 438134
http://www.koreansingapore.org/
c/o Swedish Embassy, 111 Somerset Road #05-01 Singapore Power Building,
38 Swiss Club Road, Singapore 288140
http://www.swiss-school.edu.sg/
95 Portsdown Road, Singapore 139299
http://www.tts.edu.sg/
United World College of South East Asia
1207 Dover Road, Singapore 139654
http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/
57 West Coast Road, Singapore 127366
http://www.waseda-shibuya.edu.sg/
We have provided some other useful websites for additional school matters:
Directory of Local Schools - http://app.sis.moe.gov.sg/schinfo/SIS_DirSvc.asp
Studying in Public Schools - www.croxxing.com/english/info_overview.html - in german
Fee Structure Public Schools - www.croxxing.com/english/info_fees.html - in german
Ministry of Education - www.moe.edu.sg/
Foreign Student Information - www.moe.gov.sg/esp/foreign/ and www.moe.gov.sg/csc/csc_admission.htm#Foreign
Foreign Student Admission Application Form - http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/international-students/
CQT Application Form - www.moe.gov.sg/esp/foreign/CQTForm.pdf - not working and can't find a replacement
Advice for Expatriates to Place Children in Local Schools - www.moe.gov.sg/esp/eduinfo/
School Terms and Holidays - http://www.moe.gov.sg/schools/terms-and-holidays/
There are certain restrictions imposed for the relocation of a pet brought from places other than England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. These pets are quarantined for around thirty days. The completed license has to be submitted two weeks in advance before the import. An amount of S$50 is charged for every pet.
There is also a ban on Pit Bulls, Tosas, Akitas, Dogo Argentinos, Fila Brazilieros and Neapolitan breeds in Singapore. The Animal, Meat & Seafood Regulatory Branch in the Singapore government can be approached for obtaining detailed information on import regulations.
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Tandem Solar Modules: One-Two Combination Packs a More Powerful Punch
Perovskite/ CIGS semiconductor pairing promises to boost photovoltaic efficiency
The researchers engaged in the Capitano project are developing new materials, processes and prototypes for highly efficient perovskite solar cells and modules. (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT)
The efficiency ceiling of commercially available solar modules leaves little room for improvement. Tandem solar modules with two light-harvesting active layers have far greater potential. The future could well belong to this promising technology. Research-ers engaged in the Capitano project are combining thin-film solar modules based on perovskite semiconductors with semiconduc-tors made of copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS). This combination is the key to building remarkably efficient tandem solar cells with all the advantages of thin-film technology and an efficiency factor that could top the 30-percent mark. The Karls-ruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Schwäbisch Hall-based enterprise NICE Solar Energy, and the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) have joined forces in this project with the ZSW acting as coordinator.
Tandem solar modules consist of two different types of modules in a layered array that puts the solar spectrum to much better use than any single solar cell. This combination is far more efficient. Multi-junction solar cells’ efficiency could extend beyond 30 percent, in theory. The ceiling for single-layer silicon solar cells, for example, is 29 percent.
Two is better than one
Several variants of tandem modules are now available. The perovskite solar cell in the CIGS/ perovskite version converts the light in the visible part of the solar spectrum into electricity. The underlying CIGS solar cell absorbs the light in the near-infrared spectrum that penetrates the perovskite solar cell. One of the reasons why these tandem solar cells look to be so promising is that they could be realized as thin-film tech-nologies on substrates of several square meters. This would not only boost efficiency; it would also cut costs.
A joint effort to up efficiency
Commenting on this consortium’s excellent skill-set, Michael Powalla, ZSW board member, head of the Photovoltaics division at ZSW and professor at KIT, says, “Given the wide spectrum of skills at work in this project ranging from fundamental science to mass manufacturing, I expect great advances to be made in the further development of this promising technology.” Dr. Ulrich W. Paetzold, head of the junior re-search group at KIT, adds, "We are developing the next generation of highly efficient thin-film tandem cells with an efficiency potential above 30 percent. Promising applications include highly efficient solar mod-ules for building-integrated photovoltaic solutions, for example.”
The Capitano project
Launched in July 2019, the Capitano project is to run for three years with the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy providing around €5.2 million in funding. This project aims to develop cells with higher yet stable efficiency factors, and then combine these cells to make efficient tandem solar modules. The industry partner NICE Solar Energy will assess the possibility and cost of manufacturing these modules on an industrial scale.
To achieve this project’s goals, the ZSW is developing CIGS modules with an adapted bandgap and optimized surface, and investigating semitransparent perovskite solar cells and highly efficient and trans-parent modules. Eager to test industrial processes such as slot-die coating for the perovskite layer, researchers are focusing on producing optimized intermediate layers and transparent contact layers that have been adapted accordingly. The results will flow into efforts to make tandem solar cells and modules that are interconnected in monolithic array. These scientists also want to assess the manufacturing process’s ecological impact.
KIT is doing its part for this project by developing new materials, pro-cesses, and prototypes for manufacturing semi-transparent perovskite solar cells and highly transparent modules with an adapted bandgap a high efficiency factor. The institute’s researchers are particularly inter-ested in exploring scalable manufacturing processes such as slot-die coating and gas-phase vacuum deposition. Its scientists are developing a light management concept to improved light yield amid the complex architecture of the tandem solar cells. They have also been tasked to calculate yields.
NICE Solar Energy GmbH is providing small CIGS solar modules from its CIGS innovation line to underpin the other two partners’ efforts to make tandem solar modules. The enterprise will then assess these tan-dem modules’ suitability for manufacturing at industrial-scale, 300 megawatts capacity. A cost comparison with single-junction CIGS solar modules is also on the company’s agenda.
About ZSW
The Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, ZSW) is one of the leading institutes for applied research in the areas of photovoltaics, renewable fuels, battery technology, fuel cells and energy system analysis. There are currently around 260 scientists, engineers and technicians employed at ZSW’s three locations in Stuttgart, Ulm and Widderstall. In addition, there are 90 research and student as-sis-tants. The ZSW is a member of the Innovationsallianz Baden-Württemberg (innBW), a group of 13 non-university, applied research institutes.
About NICE Solar Energy
NICE Solar Energy is a vertically integrated research and development joint venture with the shareholders China Energy Group, Shanghai Electric Group Co., Future Science City and Manz AG. As the world’s leading research joint venture, we are working to continuously increase the efficiency of CIGS solar modules and develop many new applications. More than 160 employees at the Schwäbisch Hall site are pursuing an ambitious technology roadmap into practice, steadily increasing the efficiency of CIGS solar cells and ensuring maximum investment security for these applications.
The images are available from Solar Consulting or from https://energie.themendesk.net/zsw/.
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Main opposition lawmakers vow to resign en masse following passage of prosecution reform bill
Lawmakers from South Korea’s main opposition party agreed Monday to resign en masse following the unilateral passage of a bill aimed at reforming the prosecution.
The Liberty Korea Party (LKP) reached the decision at a two hour-long meeting after the National Assembly passed a controversial bill that will allow the setting up of a separate unit to probe corruption by high-ranking public officials.
“Most LKP members couldn’t hold in their anger at the latest railroading of a bill following two previous bills that were rammed through the assembly,” the party’s floor leader, Rep. Shim Jae-chul, told reporters. The other bills are the 2020 national budget and changes to election laws. He said that such outrage allowed lawmakers to reach a consensus to give up their seats.
The party leadership will later decide on how to handle the resignations of the lawmakers, he said.
The establishment of the proposed corruption probe unit is aimed at overhauling the prosecution, one of the key election pledges by President Moon Jae-in.
Under the bill, the proposed unit will be created in July next year and will be empowered to investigate corruption committed by ranking public officials, including the president, lawmakers, top court justices and prosecutors. The agency will be able tp directly indict police, prosecutors and judges.
A seven-member committee to recommend the chief of the unit will be set up and the president will select one of two candidates who receive support from six panel members. A parliamentary confirmation hearing is needed for appointment.
The bill also obliges the prosecution to report to the proposed probe unit all of its information on suspected crimes by high-ranking officials under its investigation, in what critics have called a “poisonous” clause.
In this photo taken on Dec. 30, 2019, the main opposition Liberty Korea Party’s floor leader Rep. Shim Jae-chul (front) announces party members’ resolution to resign en masse in protest against the passage of the corruption probe unit bill aimed at reforming the prosecution at the National Assembly in Seoul. (Yonhap)
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Posted by Simon on May 19, 2017 0 Comments
The above video by Michael Tucker from his series Lessons from the Screenplay is quite insightful and useful. And it has helped me determine exactly why I do not find Breaking Bad to be at all compelling.
For a long time, I thought it was largely because I tend not to find the rise of the white dude gangster narrative very compelling. I don’t particularly like The Godfather, or The Godfather 2 or most other similar stories. I don’t find the protagonists of those stories people that I can root for, so I do not feel any of the intended tension when they are in danger, or going through their trials and tribulations. I just want them to die. Now. And for the movie/show to be over.
This general distaste for, and lack of interest in, the kind of character Walter White instantiates is multiplied by the other facet I found off-putting about Breaking Bad — its general lack of tension and its highly repetitive structure. Walt gets into a slightly worse/more dangerous/more criminal situation and the person higher up than him in the organization Walt happens to be involved with at the time is getting tired of him and needs/wants to kill him. But Walt, because he is sad-sack-white-dude-wish-fulfillment, instead, outwits, and kills these long-term, highly successful bad men, and moves up the ladder. At no point in the first two seasons did I feel, or remotely believe, that Walt might die, or that his kids might die, or his wife might die, or that his wife whom he seems to despise, and that the audience is clearly not supposed to like, might leave him in any substantive way. (Nor do I find it plausible that Walt should get the better of his frenemies).
But this video helped me to understand exactly what is wrong with Breaking Bad as a series, and identify the cause of this tensionless, repetitive structure, and explains much of why it is so boring, and why I could not watch more than the first two seasons, when I first tried it out, and why, when I went to watch Season 3 recently, I could only get through a couple of episodes before refusing to deliberately bore myself any longer.
This Lessons From the Screenplay video let me know that the problem is that the Pilot is excellent as a self-contained story about Walter White’ descent into crystal meth making criminality from his banal, suburban, existence.
As a consequence, Walter White has his entire character arc begin and end in the very first episode. Walter White has, essentially, become a bad guy by the end of the first episode when he chooses to pursue more power and his willingness to be a violent criminal to have it. The rest is denouement. We basically have five seasons of denouement. Repetitive, repetitive denouement.
In each season, the show reaches its ultimate dramatic conclusion, and then has to ‘reset’ to something resembling Walter White’s original status quo for the beginning of the next season. (I know I have not seen the whole thing. Seeing this happen in Seasons 2 and 3 was enough.) This is the classic soap opera, or sitcom, structure, where the status quo needs to be re-established after every destabilization so that the same story can be told over again. (Which is fine in those broad genres. They do not typically try to offer nuanced character studies and the story of characters that go through interesting, lasting transformations, or have tragic endings — they are, after all, ultimately Romances or Comedies — the status quo is supposed to return in each story. See any Shakespearean Comedy for illustration.)
And so, the rest of the series consists of repetitions of the same character-altering moment witnessed in the very first episode — Walt gets a taste of more power, and he reaches for it, there is a threat to his life (or Jesse’s life) because of this reaching, and he overcomes it. With violence.
So, while Michael in the video, and doubtless, the fans of the show, were tantalized by the promise of the further adventures of Walter White, and satisfied by them, I was not (well, not beyond the first season, at any rate).
This point is very similar to one Mike Stoklasa makes in his extensive review of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
At the beginning of the film, Anakin Skywalker kills the defenseless Count Dooku, whom he has just defeated in a lightsaber duel. And it is at this point that Anakin has basically transitioned from Jedi Knight on the side of the more-or-less right and just, to an evil Sith apprentice — he is now, effectively, Darth Vader. And the rest of the movie is just the story of how this character got into his iconic suit. The character arc is over before the bulk of the bulk of a story supposedly about this character’s arc has been told.
I find this sort of story structure incredibly boring.
And I think, if we are all honest, it should be admitted that Breaking Bad should have been a single season, or mini-series. And thereby a lesser exercise in tedium.
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WELCOME TO HUANGSHAN UNIVERSITY
Huangshan University is located in Huangshan, Anhui province, a picturesque region famous for tourist attractions, including two UNESCO World Natural and Cultural Heritage sites, the Huangshan Mountains and the ancient villages of Xidi and Hongcun. The Huangshan Mountains and the rich regional Huizhou culture make this land wondrous. Tourism management, environmental science, and Huizhou culture research are the school’s three major disciplines. These programs benefit from the domestic resources and the advantages of being in a culturally rich region.
At present, Huangshan University boasts two campuses within the city, totaling about 118 hectares, with a current enrollment of 18,000 full-time undergraduates. The university consists of 16 schools and 2 departments, and offers 57 majors that include art, science, economy, pedagogy, engineering, agronomy, management, law, and literature.
Huangshan University has established sister school relationships with 25 Schools and institutes from around the world, including the U.S., France, Germany, South Korea, Holland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Dozens of international students and teachers have come to the university each year as a result of transfer student, dual degree, and faculty exchange programs. Huangshan University began enrolling international students in 2006, and in 2013 it was selected as one of the commissioned Schools able to offer the China Government Scholarship to international students.
As part of the university’s commitment to providing high-quality education, HSU has taken great efforts to build a well-structured and qualified faculty of teachers. Among the 903 teaching and administrative members, 759 of them are full-time teachers, including over 200 professors and associate professors, many holding doctoral degrees. In addition, the University also engages long-term foreign experts and a number of part-time professors from famous universities.
Since its establishment, the University has graduated more than 50,000 students. Graduates are noted for their professionalism and their all-around competence in their selected vocational field. The employment rate of Huangshan University ranks among the highest of all colleges and universities of the same level throughout the province. We are awarded the title of Anhui college Advanced Unit on Graduates’ Employment for 5 times and Anhui Model Unit on Graduates’ Employment for 3 times. Media like CCTV, China Education Report and Anhui Daily have reported the graduate’s employment work, which even attract the research of State Council.
The University emphasizes an administration that employs democracy and an education that encourages wholeheartedness.HSU is home to many outstanding achievements and honors. Among them, it has been honored as an Advanced State University, the Advanced State Unit for Spoken and Written Language Standardization, The Official Mandarin Language and Chinese Culture Dissemination Center of Anhui Province, the Provincial Advanced Unit for Excellent Grass-root Party Organization, the Provincial Advanced University, and University for the Promotion of Social and Spiritual Values. The campus has been cited as a Garden-like Unit and achieved an Excellent status in the first provincial teaching appraisal.
Continuing development is of the utmost importance to the university as it strives to grow as a characteristic high-level applied science education institution and serve the community relying on the profound resources of tourism, ecology and regional culture.
After many years of experience, the university has developed the following characteristics: enriching students’ social experience by utilizing Huizhou culture; utilizing home-stay programs and summer camps to establish an international student educational rapport; and ensuring the quality of international students’ education by means of small-class sizes and one-on-one tutoring.
While studying at Huangshan University you will experience the marvelous natural beauty of China and the profound Chinese traditional culture. Huangshan University welcomes you in the spirit of hospitality.
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The Arctic Monkeys’ “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino” Album and Tour, Singular in Today’s Popular Music Scene
Heath Hooper October 23, 2018
With their latest release, the Arctic Monkeys have thrown a curveball at the current popular music scene. After the success of 2013’s AM, the British group achieved worldwide, multi-platinum status. So when riff-heavy indie rock was replaced with a keyboard-centered, spaced-out sound that struggles to be fit into a genre, the group’s fans, and much of the music world, were puzzled.
The title, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (TBH&C), turns off many would-be listeners. But that seems to be the point for frontman and lyricist of the group Alex Turner, who, judging from his latest work, resents the widespread success the band has received. The title, ‘Tranquility Base,’ references the site of the moon landing, where Turner centers the album around a hypothetical lunar colony, overrun with commercialism and technology. Turner parallels his made-up interstellar world with today’s, using the TBH&C as his platform for his half-satirical, half-pessimistic social critiques.
A line of predominantly young adults filled the sidewalk and plaza adjacent to the Civic Auditorium Sunday night. It was the second of two consecutive sellouts for the Arctic Monkeys’ 2018 world tour, in wake of Tranquility Base. The abiding crowd brought up the question: would their latest album’s effort to dissuade fans work?
Judging from the majority of the show, it did not. Turner and the rest of the band put on a high-energy, deafening performance, the audience rarely unenthralled by their setlist. Tracks from the group’s early albums like ‘Crying Lightning,’ ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor,’ and ‘Do Me A Favour’ kept the pace upbeat, as did more recent hits such as ‘Arabella,’ ‘Do I Wanna Know,’ and ‘R U Mine?.’ Turner had no trouble captivating the audience with his charisma and undeniable stage presence.
Four Out Of Five
Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair
Crying Lightning
I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
The Ultracheese
Library Pictures
Do I Wanna Know?
Pretty Visitors
No. 1 Party Anthem
Star Treatment
Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?
R U Mine?
As a fan of the band’s music, I enjoyed hearing their hits off AM. However, I was disappointed by how little off of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was played in the show. They opened with ‘Four Out Of Five,’ but Turner seemed to treat it like a joke, breaking into a fit of laughter halfway through when he forgot the words. They did play four other songs off the album, including ‘Star Treatment’ in the encore; however, I personally would have liked to have seen TBH&C more central, with their past releases as the sideshow. Instead, it was the other way around.
★★★★✰ – “Four stars out of five,” because like the song says, “that’s unheard of.”
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is by no far stretch unique. From its experimental instrumentation to abstract, science fiction inspired lyrics that jump from idea to idea, some will surely feel overwhelmed by the album’s weirdness. But looking past its oddities, the common trends of the Arctic Monkeys’ music are there: the layered virtuosity of the band’s rhythm and guitar sections, their trademark falsetto backup vocals, and Turner’s bravado as frontman, in this instance taking on a burnt-out lounge singer, crooning apocalyptic tales from the digital age.
Apparent in Turner’s commentary on the pitfalls of the 21st century is his disenchantment with being in the limelight. In the album’s opening line from ‘Star Treatment,’ Turner does not shy away from disclosing his own materialistic desires, “I just wanted to be one of the Strokes.” He goes on to elaborate, “I’m a big name in deep space, ask your mates, the golden boy’s in bad shape.”
Throughout the album, Turner displays his cynical views of the media, “Breaking news, they take the truth and make it fluid” on ‘American Sports.’ On album highlight ‘Golden Trunks,’ he targets today’s politics, making a comparison between Donald Trump’s political campaign and the showmanship and brutality of a wrestler, “The leader of the free world, reminds you of a wrestler wearing tight golden trunks. And he’s got himself a theme tune, they play it for him as he makes his way to the ring.”
Most prominent, however, are Turner’s lyrics regarding the influence modern technology has had on himself and society as a whole. He explores its effect on communication (“I’ll be by the batphone, if you need to get a hold”), entertainment (“Everybody’s on a barge floating down the endless stream of great TV”), and convenience (“My brain shrinking, you push the button and we’ll do the rest”).
Critics of the album see Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’s hyperactive lyricism as shallow ideologically, and Turner’s wordplays as only for stylistic purposes. He may not disagree, as in the album’s title track he riffs, “I’ve been on a bender… Where I ponder all the questions, but still manage to miss the mark.” Additionally, Turner’s sporadic storytelling could be part intentional, as he alludes countless times to technology causing his inability to focus throughout the album (Quite literally in ‘One Point Perspective’, “Bear with me, man, I lost my train of thought”).
The consistent sound and feel of the album’s tracks, as well as their common musical trends and ideas, make Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino a cohesive and unique listen. With it, the Arctic Monkeys have challenged the current state of popular music, executing an album that reinstates the importance of music as an art form, as their counterparts fall into the black hole of the commercialized music industry.
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Massport’s Airports Blow Away the Competition Like Snowflakes
BOSTON -- The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) announced that the Northeast Chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives (NE/AAAE) recently awarded Boston Logan International Airport the Balchen/Post Award for Outstanding Achievement in Airport Snow and Ice Control. It was the fifth time in 11 years that Logan was recognized for having the nation’s best snow and ice control program at a large commercial airport, and the first time in the award’s history that one airport operator received three first place wins.
In a record-breaking winter for snow fall, Logan plow operators cleared 110 inches of snow this winter. Logan utilizes a fleet of equipment, including multifunction equipment with 27-foot blades that clear its 10,000-foot-long runways in 10 to 20 minutes. Logan received the award in the category of Large Commercial Airport. Hanscom Field in Bedford received 102 inches and garnered the top spot in the Large General Aviation airport category and Worcester Regional Airport, airport for the snowiest city in America in 2014-15 with 119.7 inches, received the award for the top Small Commercial Airport.
“Congratulations on your clean sweep of the runways this winter that resulted in a clean sweep of airport awards,’’ said Gov. Charlie Baker. “Having our airports open during an historic winter shows not only the resilient spirit of our residents, but tells the country and the world we are always open for business.’’
“These awards are a monumental and unprecedented achievement and dedicated to the men and women of Massport who kept Boston Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field and Worcester Regional Airport open during the most challenging winter seasons in recent history,’’ said Alex M. Kashani, A.A.E., chairman of the Balchen/Post award committee. “They have proven themselves consistently and are recognized as the standard to look for in snow removal and ice control in the airports profession.”
“Receiving these awards is a great honor to our organization and the many people who worked so hard day after day, storm after storm, to keep our facilities safe and functioning,” Massport CEO Thomas P. Glynn said. “Our snow crews and operations team deserve a lot of credit for getting us through such a tough winter season. This was truly a team effort.”
Massport’s top priority is the safety and security of the customers and employees who use our facilities. More than 31 million passengers traveled through Logan last year, and 17,000 people are employed at the airport. During the winter season, Logan follows a carefully orchestrated plan to tackle all types of weather. Logan’s award-winning “snow crews” consist of approximately 100 highly-trained and experienced men and women who operate more than 40 specialized pieces of equipment, with the goal of making sure the airport can connect New England to the world in any type of weather. Boston Logan budgets approximately $5 million annually for snow removal.
“We’re honored to have been selected again for this prestigious award that validates our commitment to the safe operation of Boston Logan and our other airports,” said Massport’s Director of Aviation Edward C. Freni. “The value of the Balchen/Post is that it is an endorsement by not only the airlines, but also by the pilots and ground crews who depend on us to keep our airports open and functional during all weather conditions.”
The award, named for pioneering aviators Wiley Post and Col. Bernt Balchen, recognizes the dedicated efforts of “snow crews” in maintaining their airports in safe and operational conditions during the winter season. The award was presented at the NE/AAAE 47th annual International Aviation Snow Symposium in Buffalo, NY.
About Boston Logan International Airport
Boston Logan, a short distance from the intersection of Route 128 and I-90 and five minutes from downtown Boston, serves as the gateway to the New England region and offers nonstop service to 76 domestic and 46 international destinations and in 2014 handled 31.6 million passengers. Boston Logan is served by two public transit lines and is the Air Line Pilot Association’s Airport of the Year for 2008 because of its commitment to safety. The airport generates $13 billion in total economic impact each year.
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The Molecular Biophysics & Structural Biology (MBSB) Graduate Program at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University is an interdisciplinary program for PhD studies that cross the boundaries of biology, chemistry, physics and other traditional disciplines. MBSB research groups aim to unravel and explain biological phenomena and processes in atomic and molecular detail.
Research conducted by faculty of the graduate program covers a diverse range of topics in Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology. Areas of study are focused on understanding fundamental principles involved in reactions and interactions in biological systems. Research projects attempt to address and elucidate answers to questions such as:
How do proteins fold and can we prevent misfolding?
Can we design proteins with novel functions?
How does the coordinated interaction between proteins and nucleic acids lead to cellular differentiation and the formation of an organism?
How do macromolecules assemble into molecular machines or viruses and how do they operate?
How do signals traverse membranes?
The curriculum stresses an interdisciplinary approach to learning and research in modern Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology. In addition to traditional lectures, the curriculum includes multiple novel components from laboratory and hands-on demos to student-taught lectures and review of actual grant proposals. Students with a diversity of backgrounds in physics, chemistry and mathematics as well as cellular and molecular biology are encouraged to apply. As they join the program, all MBSB students will be advised by a mentor, exploring research options through laboratory rotations before choosing a thesis advisor in their first year.
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Students in the program are trained through specifically designed courses and extensive laboratory research, set in a collaborative and collegial atmosphere. Unique to this program is the opportunity to train across traditional boundaries, and possibly be co-mentored by two thesis advisors. Students benefit from active participation and mentoring by prominent, internationally renowned faculty and receive training in state-of-the-art methodologies such as high field solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, cryo electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy and computational molecular biology. Excellent state-of-the-art equipment and resources are available for both experimental and computational research (see also: Research Facilities).
The University of Pittsburgh ranked ninth overall in the National Science Foundation's most recent ranking of federally funded research. In a recent analysis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, the Faculty of the University’s School of Medicine ranked sixth among U.S. medical schools. Carnegie Mellon University attracts students from all 50 US states and 93 nations, and is affiliated with 19 Nobel Laureates and 12 Turing Award recipients, among other prestigious award recipients. An open and collaborative atmosphere between faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University allows students to explore all aspects of Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology in an integrated research community.
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Hello, Cannes. Plus, 2019 ad sales growth slows: Monday Wake-Up Call | Advertising Age
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up here.
What people are talking about today
It’s Cannes Lions time. If you’re on the French Riviera for the ad industry’s most important festival, lucky you. But also, brace yourself for a lot of self-promotional advertising clichés. Here are some actual tweet excerpts from agencies, consultancies and brands at Cannes: “we’re all about reinventing experiences” ... “we will host high-level purpose engagements” … “we believe brands can be a force for good and a force for growth.” And yada yada yada.
Over five days, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will host 300-plus talks and workshops, and 600-plus speakers. It’s a lot, but Ad Age has a team of reporters on the ground to figure out what’s interesting or important (as opposed to just jargony.) Here’s the link where you can keep up on the latest Cannes news.
First up: On Cannes' opening day, Unilever explained why it’s been giving its marketers and agency folks voluntary DNA tests. As Ad Age’s Jack Neff writes, “The idea is to help marketers and agency people break down stereotypes about other people by learning how diverse they are themselves.” And in turn, to make stronger, less stereotypical creative work.
Cannes deal-making: “WPP is hooking up with IHeartMedia on a new partnership aimed at luring more audio business from marketers,” Ad Age’s E.J. Schultz writes.
In case you missed it: Check out Cannes veterans' most memorable moments, from taxi strikes to Gawker’s last party there. Ad Age also has a handy map of where to shop, eat and party in Cannes. And keep an eye out for the 5,000 copies of the latest Ad Age print edition that we're bringing to the Riviera.
While the ad industry celebrates itself in Cannes, here's some not-so-great news: Global ad sales growth is slowing down in 2019. That’s according to a new report from Interpublic Group of Co.’s Magna, which says ad revenue will grow 5 percent in 2019, hitting almost $600 billion worldwide. As Ad Age’s I-Hsien Sherwood writes, that’s down from last year’s growth rate of 8 percent. It’s partly (but not only) because of a lack of major events in 2019, like the Olympic Games. Another interesting and quotable figure from the report: “Early this year, digital ad sales reached a milestone, hitting 51 percent of total ad sales in the world,” Sherwood writes.
Meanwhile in the U.K.
A U.K. law banning stereotypical depictions of gender in advertising just went into effect, after being announced by the national advertising regulator six months ago. That means no more ads showing a man unable to change diapers or a woman struggling to park a car. As The New York Times writes, “With the new guidelines, Britain joins countries like Belgium, France, Finland, Greece, Norway, South Africa and India, which have laws or codes of varying degrees and age that prevent gender discrimination in ads.” And lest you think that this isn’t really an issue anymore in our enlightened times, check out this 2017 study by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender; the institute scanned thousands of commercials and found that men’s roles were more numerous and prominent, that men were more likely to be depicted as funny, and that women were often shown in the kitchen.
Just briefly:
Lawsuit: “Three pharmaceutical companies sued the federal government Friday to block a proposal requiring drug manufacturers include the list price of prescription drugs in television ads,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The suit was filed by Amgen Inc., Merck and Co., Eli Lilly and Co. and the Association of National Advertisers.
In-house: “After parting with Wieden & Kennedy and trying WPP’s Berlin Cameron, Procter & Gamble Co. has landed on doing most of its work for Secret deodorant in house—saving a lot of money in the process,” Jack Neff writes in Ad Age.
Attention Target shoppers: A technical glitch at Target left cash registers down for two hours on Saturday. “In a statement, the company said the failure was not the result of a data breach or security-related issue,” CNN.com reports.
First look: Choice Hotels, which owns Quality Inn and Comfort Hotels, has new campaign out called “Our Business is You,” and it’s the first work from McKinney, the brand’s new creative agency of record. Read more by Ad Age’s Adrianne Pasquarelli.
Video of the day: A lot of people were not happy about the way HBO’s “Game of Thrones” ended. If you’re in that camp, you’ll probably enjoy a deepfake video of character Jon Snow, played by Kit Harrington, apologizing for how things went down. “When the Starbucks cup is the smallest mistake, you know you fucked up!” the faux Jon Snow says, referring to an errant contemporary cardboard cup that appeared in one scene. “We take the blame. I’m sorry we wrote this in like six days or something.” Read more by Ad Age’s Simon Dumenco about the video, which was posted on the Eating Things With Famous People channel on YouTube, and watch it here.
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HomeArticlesIsraeli Firms Accused of Profiting from Holocaust
Israeli Firms Accused of Profiting from Holocaust
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth
Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in ‘lost’ accounts belonging to Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.
Bank Leumi has denied it holds any such funds despite a parliamentary committee revealing in 2004 that the bank owes at least $75 million to the families of several thousand Holocaust victims.
Analysts said the bank’s role is only the tip of an iceberg in which Israeli companies and state bodies could be found to have withheld billions of dollars invested by Holocaust victims in the country — dwarfing the high-profile reparations payouts from such European countries as Switzerland.
“All I want is justice,” said David Hillinger, 73, whose grandfather, Aaron, died in Auschwitz, a Nazi camp in Poland. Lawyers are demanding reparations of $100,000 for Bank Leumi accounts held by his father and grandfather.
The allegations against Bank Leumi surfaced more than a decade ago following research by Yossi Katz, an Israeli historian.
He uncovered bank correspondence in the immediate wake of the Second World War in which it cited “commercial secrecy” as grounds for refusing to divulge the names of account holders who had been killed in the Holocaust.
“I was shocked,” said Dr Katz, from Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv. “My first reaction was: ‘My God, this isn’t Switzerland!’ ”
In 1998, following widespread censure, Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion in reparations after they there were accused of having profited from the dormant accounts of Holocaust victims.
Dr Katz’s revelations led to the establishment of a parliamentary committee in 2000 to investigate the behaviour of Israel’s banks. Its report came to light belatedly in 2004 after Bank Leumi put pressure on the government to prevent publication.
Investigators found thousands of dormant accounts belonging to Holocaust victims in several banks, though the lion’s share were located at Bank Leumi. Obstructions from Leumi meant many other account holders had probably not been identified, the investigators warned.
The parliamentary committee originally estimated the accounts it had located to be worth more than $160m, using the valuation formula applied to the Swiss banks. But under pressure from Leumi and the government, it later reduced the figure by more than half.
A restitution company was created in 2006 to search for account holders and return the assets to their families.
Meital Noy, a spokeswoman for the company, said it had been forced to begin legal proceedings this week after Bank Leumi had continued to claim that its findings were “baseless”.
The bank paid $5m two years ago in what it says was a “goodwill gesture”. Ms Noy called the payment “a joke”. She said 3,500 families, most of them in Israel, were seeking reparations from Bank Leumi.
The bank was further embarrassed by revelations in 2007 that one per cent of its shares — worth about $80 million — belonged to tens of thousands of Jews killed during the Holocaust.
Mr Hillinger, who was born in Belgium in 1936 and spent the Second Wold War hiding in southern France, today lives in Petah Tikva in central Israel.
He said before the outbreak of war his father and grandfather had invested money in the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the forerunner of Leumi, in the hope it would gain them a visa to what was then British-ruled Palestine.
Although his parents escaped the death camps, his grandparents were sent to Auschwitz and died in the gas chambers shortly after arrival.
Mr Hillinger said he had only learnt of the outstanding debt from Bank Leumi after his father, Moses, died in 1996. Papers showed the bank had paid his father “a pittance” in 1952 when he closed his account and that it had never returned his grandfather’s money.
When he wrote to Bank Leumi in 1998, it denied his grandfather had ever opened an account.
“My grandfather died because he was a Jew, and it is shameful that other Jews are exploiting his death,” he said. “We need to wake people up about this.”
A quarter of a million Holocaust survivors are reported to be in Israel, with one-third of them living in poverty, according to welfare organisations.
Shraga Elam, an Israeli investigative financial journalist based in Zurich, said after the war many Israelis showed little sympathy for the European Jewish refugees who arrived in Israel.
“David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister] notoriously called them ‘human dust’, and I remember as children we referred to them as sabonim, the Hebrew word for soap,” he said, in reference to the rumoured Nazi practice of making soap from Jewish corpses.
“In fact, I can’t think of any place in the world where [Holocaust] survivors are as badly treated as they are in Israel,” Mr Elam said.
He said Bank Leumi’s “lost” accounts were only a small fraction of Holocaust assets held by Israeli companies and the Israeli state that should have been returned. The total could be as much as $20bn.
He said European Jews had invested heavily in Palestine in the pre-war years, buying land, shares and insurance policies and opening bank accounts. During the Second World War Britain seized most of these assets as enemy property because the owners were living in Nazi-occupied lands.
In 1950 Britain repaid some $1.4 million to the new state of Israel, which was supposed to make reparations to the original owners.
However, little effort was made to trace them or, in the case of those who died in the Holocaust, their heirs. Instead the Israeli government is believed to have used the funds to settle new immigrants in Israel.
“These are huge assets, including real estate in some of the most desirable parts of Israel,” Mr Elam said.
Last year the Israeli media reported an investigation showing that the finance ministry destroyed its real estate files in the 1950s, apparently to conceal the extent of the state’s holding of Holocaust assets.
The case against Bank Leumi may end the generally muted criticism inside Israel of the banks’ role. Officials and even the families themselves have been concerned about the damage the case might do to Israel’s image as the guardian of Jewish interests.
In 2003 Ram Caspi, Bank Leumi’s lawyer, used such an argument before the parliamentary committee, warning its members that the US media “will say the Israeli banks also hide money, not just the Swiss”.
Organisations that led the campaign for reparations from European banks, such as the Jewish Claims Conference and the World Jewish Restitution Organisation, have also downplayed the role of the Israeli banks.
– Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Visit: www.jkcook.net. A version of this article originally appeared in The National – www.thenational.ae – published in Abu Dhabi.
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Penny Couchie
Penny is an award-winning arts leader, dancer, actor, choreographer, and community engaged artist of Anishinaabe ancestry from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario. Penny is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Aanmitaagzi, an Indigenous multi-arts company based in her home community. In 2016, Penny received the K.M. Hunter Award for Dance from the Ontario Arts Council. Over the past 20 years, Penny has been guest instructor at schools throughout Canada and the U.S., including Centre for Indigenous Theatre, where she has been a faculty member and choreographer since 1998. She is the assistant director and choreographer of Marie Clements’ The Unnatural and Accidental Women at the National Arts Centre’s Indigenous Theatre’s inaugural season.
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Home / FANTASY/SCI-FI / Roland Emmerich’s Highly anticipated Sequel to “Independence Day” to Begin Production
Roland Emmerich’s Highly anticipated Sequel to “Independence Day” to Begin Production
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- April 21 –New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced today that principal photography is scheduled to begin, May 4, on the sequel to “Independence Day.” Twentieth Century Fox releases the film in theaters worldwide on June 24, 2016 (June 23 in the Philippines).
After “Independence Day” redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth, anticipating the invaders’ return, have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
The film stars Liam Hemsworth (“Hunger Games”), Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Nymphomaniac”) , Jeff Goldblum (“Independence Day”), Vivica A. Fox (“Independence Day”), Bill Pullman (“Independence Day”), Judd Hirsch (“Independence Day”), Jessie Usher (“When the Game Stands Tall”), Joey King (“The Conjuring”), Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”), and Travis Tope (“The Town that Dreaded Sundown”). Dean Devlin (“Independence Day,” “Godzilla”), who produced the original film, produces with Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser (“2012,” “The Day After Tomorrow”). Larry Franco and Carsten Lorenz are the line producers. Ute Emmerich is the executive producer.
"I’m beyond excited to bring the sequel to ‘Independence Day’ to New Mexico,” said Director Roland Emmerich. “With their state of the art Albuquerque Studios, the robust tax incentive program, the proximity to Los Angeles and last not but least its talented cast and crew make New Mexico a great fit for my movie."
“We are pleased to continue our excellent relationship with Twentieth Century Fox,” said Mr. Maniatis. “We welcome Roland Emmerich and his talented team to New Mexico. In all, the production will employ approximately 300 local crew members and more than 4,000 local background talent.”
“Albuquerque welcomes the sequel to ‘Independence Day’ to our city,” said Mayor Richard J Berry. “We support the movie industry and the movie industry supports our economy; it’s a great thing for everyone.”
The film’s creative production team includes Oscar®-winning visual effects supervisor Volker Engel (“Independence Day,” “2012”), director of photography Markus Förderer (“Stonewall”), production designer Barry Chusid (“The Day After Tomorrow,” “2012,” “San Andreas”), editor Adam Wolfe (“White House Down”), and costume designer Lisy Christl (“Point Break,” “White House Down”).
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Interviews Liz Asaro
Liz Asaro is a singer based out of New York. Her music is a mixture of sorts taking genres of modern/alternative rock. Her newest single "1000 Years", has been said to be a lot like the 90's band The Cranberries with that strong guitar loop, thick bass line, and driving beat with smooth rock vocals to bring it altogether. Liz herself took some time to discuss said single with us!
1. Can you introduce yourself, to those who may not know who Liz Asaro is all about?
I’m authentic, I’m real, I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I appreciate when others do the same. I’m also from Irish and Italian descent, so I’ll mention the fact that I’m by default very passionate about everything I do, in a good way I think! I have a lot of thoughts on human nature and I like to get other people considering why we do what we do. I love telling stories through music and I want to evoke emotion in people when they listen. I am a mom to three amazing kids and it’s important to me that they do what they love. I hope by seeing me follow my passion, they will always do the same for themselves, whatever that may be. I hope that for everyone really. I do what I love, and the more that comes across the better. As far as the style of music I make, many of my influences are from the rock genre, so there will likely always some level of grit in my songs, something that really digs in. Yet I’m also a fan of a lot of modern electronic sounds, so finding the balance that gives it a cool atmospheric vibe and makes it truly me, is what is driving where my music is landing.
2. You have a new song turned single called "1000 Years", when did you write and record this song?
I wrote it last year in Ireland. I went to my friend Wayne Sheehy’s studio in West Cork to write for a week. It’s called Ocean studios and it’s a pretty magical place. I wrote the chords with Wayne and Yoyo Rohm, and I wrote the lyrics there, from a spot where I could see the beautiful landscape and ocean outside my window. It was recorded partially at Mission Sound in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and partially at Gerry Leonard’s studio in Woodstock. Gerry was the first one to put some amazing guitar sounds on it, he played and MD’d for David Bowie for many years, so you can imagine the talent and inspiration he brought to the project. I was lucky to have Gerry, Sterling Campbell (drums), Tim Lefebvre (bass) and Tommy Kessler (rock guitars) all play on it. Hector Castillo mixed it in Brooklyn.
3. Why did you want to write and record this song, why was it called "1000 Years". What does that song symbolize and represent for you as an artist and as the song itself.
I think a lot about past lives and the past in general, in terms of why we are what we are now and why people do what they do. '1000 Years' is about what we've learned from those who have come before us in life, and what we have not learned. Or what we have chosen to ignore maybe. We have made so much progress as humans, yet in some ways, we have made little to none. The conflicts in today's social and political climate speak to this. The song asks you to think about what happened in the past right where you are standing, or maybe in past lives of your own if they exist, and take the things you have learned and put them in place. Are you going to remain helpless and not effect change? Will you try to keep others standing still with you? Or will you take what you innately know and apply it in productive ways? Given all of the human evolution and experience over the past 1000 years, would you do things differently now than you would have done 1000 years ago? 100 years ago? 10 years ago? Even a week ago?
4. Will there be a video to accompany this single release?
Yes, there is a video already to accompany the acoustic version, which we shot up in Woodstock, and we are planning the video for the full version now.
5. "1000 Years", is said to be a rock edged pop single, why combine those genres for this particular track?
I am a rock girl at heart. I don’t know that I will ever be able to let go of the rock edge in my music altogether. I love guitars and any real instrument, so no matter how electronic one of my tracks gets, I will likely always have an overlay of edgy instrumentation in there somewhere. For this song in particular, I think the rock guitar sound over the ethereal journey it takes, keeps you awake and aware, which is what the song asks you to do.
6. Besides this single, do you have any other new tunes in the works, that we will get to see in the future?
Yup, I have a few other singles just about ready to go. Some are finished and I am currently writing new songs as well.
7. What else do you have planned for the rest of this year, that you would like to share with us?
Well I am about to set off to London to collaborate with some amazing writers in June. Now that I have played the music live a handful of times in NYC I have a feel for what I want to keep the same and what I would like to add to the overall sound of my music. I’m hopeful and excited about what will come out of the next couple of months. The single launch is within the next couple of weeks, and the EP will be soon to follow. I am sure we will be booking several live shows in NYC and we will be looking into touring toward the second half of the year.
7. Would you like to add on or want to say anything more to wrap this all up?
It’s a really exciting time! I am anxious to get this music out there and I am determined to keep that rock edge there while bringing a modern sound that speaks to what 2017’s ears want to hear. I think my music has a unique sound and I look forward to having it reach more people. I think once musicians start making music, they just can’t stop. The sounds we make and the stories we tell shift the universe, it’s why we do it. I love people, the give and take, and I love feeding the senses. This journey is only opening more doors for more opportunities to do that. I am incredibly grateful for the people that I work with and those who have supported me. It can be a tough industry, so the more amazing people around you the better! Thank you!
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Elane Hershey's Speaks Out About Her Bondage Adventures
Model and producer Elane Hershey has been involved within the bondage community for quite sometime now. Since getting her act toget...
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« Submissions to MCYS on Women’s Charter
Update on correspondence with MCYS »
MCYS response and No To Rape’s reply
[Edited on 17 March 2011 to add: A reader has pointed out that No To Rape incorrectly addressed Ms Rahayu Buang of MCYS as “Ms Buang” rather than “Ms Rahayu” in our reply. We are sorry for this error and have emailed Ms Rahayu to apologise. Many thanks to the blog visitor for pointing out our mistake.]
In October 2010 No To Rape made a submission to the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sport’s consultation on proposed amendments to the Women’s Charter. We reiterated our call for the complete repeal of Sections 375(4) and 376A(5) of the Penal Code, and also submitted that compulsory marriage preparation courses should emphasise the importance of affirmative consent in all sexual activity.
In November 2010 we received the below response from the Ministry. The reply that we sent them today is also reproduced below.
To date, given the absence of any reply to the original petition from the Prime Minister’s Office, this is the fullest statement that we have from the government on the issue of marital rape. No To Rape is continuing to work at a grassroots level to conduct research and build community report for legislative change. If you would like to be involved, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
Link to our original submission here. This is the response received from the Ministry:
We refer to the submission by No To Rape to MCYS via the REACH website and also to Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on 5 Oct 10 regarding the abolition of marital immunity to rape in Singapore.
2 We note No to Rape’s views with regard to sections 375(4) and 376A(5) of the Penal Code. The issue of marital rape is an understandably emotive topic. Following substantial consultation and deliberation in 2006 and 2007, the Government had moved to accord wives with greater protection by expanding the circumstances under which marital immunity is lifted, but not to abolish it altogether. This is a balanced and calibrated approach which would ensure that wives who have made clear their intent to withdraw their implicit consent to conjugal relations are protected by the law. Such an approach affords the necessary protection to women whose marriages are, in practical terms, on the verge of a breakdown or have broken down, and who have clearly signalled that they are withdrawing their implicit consent to conjugal relations, so that their husbands are forewarned that marital immunity has been lifted. At the same time, husbands who have entered into sexual activities with their wives on the basis of mutual consent are protected from accusations of rape thereafter.
3 A balance needs to be struck between various interests, such as that of protecting vulnerable women and preserving the institution of marriage. The Government believes that such a balanced and calibrated approach is a better one than abolishing marital immunity altogether and will continue to retain sections 375(4) and 376A(5) in the Penal Code.
4 Public education is key in preventing family violence. MCYS, together with our partners, conducts public education on family violence, including spousal abuse, dating violence, child abuse and elder abuse. The key messages are: Violence is not acceptable and may continue to get worse; seek help early if you are or if you know someone in a violent relationship. The public is also educated on the signs of violence and the help channels which are readily available at their neighbourhood family service centre (FSC) or family violence specialist centre. In addition, efforts are also made to provide skills on conflict resolution and building healthy relationships, and strengthening families to better cope with stresses without resorting to violence.
5 On your suggestion that compulsory marriage preparation courses should emphasise the importance of affirmative consent in all sexual activity, we will consider this suggestion when evaluating the content of the courses.
6 We wish to thank No To Rape for taking the time and effort to submit the feedback.
Rahayu Buang (Ms), Senior Assistant Director (Family Policy), Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
This is the reply that No To Rape sent today:
Dear Ms Buang
No To Rape would like to thank you and the Ministry for responding to our submission of 5 October 2010. We are heartened by your consideration of our suggestion that the importance of affirmative consent be a component of marriage preparation courses. However, we are disappointed that the Ministry supports the retention of Sections 375(4) and 376A(5) of the Penal Code. In our view, marital rape is not simply an “emotive topic”, but an unacceptable form of violence which threatens the physical security and psychological well-being of married women.
We are troubled by your statement that only women who have taken the specific steps listed in those subsections have “made clear their intent to withdraw their implicit consent to conjugal relations”. We urge the Ministry to consider what this means, concretely and in practice, for married couples. It means that where a woman says, “No, I do not want to have sex tonight”, or “No, I do not want to have sex unless you wear that condom”, or gives any other direct indication of non-consent, she will still be understood by the law not to have “made [it] clear”. It means that unless a wife makes certain legal applications against her husband, she is obligated to have sex with him whenever he chooses – regardless of her physical condition or her own wishes, and in particular regardless of the threat of unwanted impregnation or a sexually transmitted infection.
We agree with the Ministry that balance is important. However, we submit that the complete removal of Sections 375(4) and 376A(5) would allow a fuller and fairer balance to be struck between the interests of complainants in protection from sexual violence, and rights of defendants to the due process of law. In every matter of criminal law, the police, the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the courts must consider all the available evidence, including the credibility of the complainant’s and defendant’s accounts, before a defendant can be charged, prosecuted or convicted. Under our proposal, this multi-layered safeguard would continue to apply to all instances of alleged marital rape. By contrast, at the moment, Sections 375(4) and 376A(5) create an imbalance by providing a blanket immunity which applies in every case regardless of the specific facts. They settle the question conclusively, dismissing all complaints of sexual violence as not amounting to “rape”, however forceful the non-consensual penetration, and however clear or overwhelming the evidence of non-consent. This applies even in cases such as PP v. N (1999), where the court concluded on the evidence that a man tied his wife up and forced her to have sex with him. Despite the changes to the law considered in 2006 and 2007, a case similar to PP v. N would still fall within Sections 375(4) and 376A(5) – and therefore not be treated as marital rape – today.
We note that Section 376 of the Penal Code, which criminalises non-consensual anal or oral penetration, as well as the non-consensual penetration of a woman’s vagina by parts of the body other than the penis, are not subject to any marital exemption whatsoever, although this provision carries the same penalty as those in contention. We struggle to understand why the police, the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the courts are assumed by the law and the Ministry to be less able to thoroughly and fairly consider evidence of non-consensual penile-vaginal penetration than of any other form of forced sexual penetration. We urge the Ministry to reconsider the issue of marital immunity for rape in light of the experience of Section 376 and the application of that section to all marital relationships in all circumstances.
Thank you for your attention. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like further information.
Jolene Tan, Mark Wong and Wong Pei Chi
The No To Rape core team
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Ng Yi-Sheng says:
As a gay man, that phrase “preserving the institution of marriage” really gets my hackles up. Too often it’s used for as a euphemism preserving an unequal status quo.
(Of course, I understand that it can also translate into “avoiding an epidemic of single motherhood that overburdens women”. The “institution” of marriage is definitely good for some things.)
Marital rape an ‘emotive topic’ – MCYS | The Online Citizen says:
[...] The following is an excerpt from No To Rape’s blog [...]
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Silent Witnesses: A History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery
[paperback] £8.99
isbn 9780099569244 Arrow (Random House),2014
The creator of the hit television show Silent Witness takes us through the development of the incredible forensic techniques used to read evidence at a crime scene. He also uncovers real-life crimes and demonstrates that people have a story to tell long after they are dead. 264pp illus.
The author served with the Nottinghamshire Constabulary, retiring injured in 1987. He joined the BBC in 1990, becoming the creator of many successful series including Silent Witness. He lives and works in Nottingham.
Forbidden Forward: the Justin Fashanu Story by Nick Baker
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Northwest Montana Educational Cooperative
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Need to visit us?
Monday-Friday 8:00 am -4:30 pm (typically). These vary sometimes depending upon travel schedules and meetings.
You can find us in the Gateway Community Center (the old mall). Our office is in Suite 39, so use Entrance B on the west side to find us. Our phone number is 406.752.3302.
Our address is 1203 Hwy 2 West, STE. 39, Kalispell, MT 59901
Beth Lambert, Administrative Assistant
Beth comes to us from Dalton, Georgia. She attended Lenoir-Rhyne University, in Hickory, NC. She worked for Dalton Public Schools for 18 years as a paraprofessional, school data entry clerk, and Student Information System Coordinator. She has a son that lives in North Carolina, and a daughter and granddaughter that live in Georgia. She moved to Montana to fulfill a dream to live in the "The Last Best Place".
Cherie Stobie, Director
Cherie attended school in Helena through 7th grade and then in Oregon, Illinois through high school. She then moved back to Montana to escape the never-ending cornfields and return to her mountainous family hometown of Helena.
She attended Carroll College, majoring in Elementary Education. She taught a variety of grade combinations and subject areas in her 16 years of teaching. One highlight of her teaching career was being selected to travel to the Society for Neuroscience National Meeting. There she visited the Salk Institute, witnessing brain research first-hand.
After completing her Master's Degree in Educational Leadership at the U of M, she served three years as the K-5 principal at St. Ignatius Elementary. She then relocated to the Flathead Valley, where she worked as the K-8 principal at Marion School for five years. Throughout her years as a teacher and principal, she stayed actively involved in curriculum work at the local and state levels.
Her husband John works at Three Rivers Bank. They have three young adult children, Amanda, Katherine, and Dominic.
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Power Projects in Africa
Impact of Mini- and Off-grid Power Projects in Africa
Tags: africa energy indaba, electrical grid, technology, africa, emissions
Several exciting dialogues will form the focus of the discussions at the 11th edition of the Africa Energy Indaba, which returns to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 19 – 20 February 2019. Access to energy and the rate at which Africa is realising this will be amongst the dominant themes of the event. This leading energy gathering comprises a high-level, strategic summit will be focusing on energy access, finance, renewables as well as transmission & distribution thereof.
The landscape and population distribution of the African continent underscores why major power plants are unable to reach and serve all areas. As many of these regions are located so far from other urban centres, extending a country’s main electrical grid remains unaffordable. This leads us to the interim solution of investigating energy access and planning in an integrated manner, which includes incorporating smaller “mini-grids” that operate independently from the main grid and off-grid systems in isolated regions of the continent. Implementation of these solutions could also prove viable in regions where it remains unfeasible to spread the national grid, owing to issues such as topography or low population density.
Africa is rich in renewable energy sources which remain the most economical approach for powering mini-grids. However, the development of mini-grids poses several barriers that must be unpacked. Challenges facing the development of private sector mini-grids in Africa comprise of gaps in the policy and regulation governing mini-grids along with deficits in market data and linkages; capacity of key stakeholders and access to finance. In response to these barriers, SE4All Africa Hub at the African Development Bank (AfDB) designed the GMG MDP which is a pan-African programme that focuses on the financial, policy, technical and market barriers facing the emerging GMG sector. Phase 1 of the GMG MDP was launched in 2015, with financing from the AfDB’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA).
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has forecasted (in Africa Energy Outlook 2014) that 70 percent of new rural electricity supply in Africa will be provided by independent systems and mini-grids by 2040. The GMG MDP, SE4All, SEFA and ESMAP are playing their parts in reducing costs, as well as contributing to technological innovations and improvements in GMG expansion. All this is set to verify that up to two thirds of this power supply will be powered by renewable sources.
OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) provides funding for off-grid energy projects delivering home solar solutions that are not only portable and easy to install, but affordable, thereby enabling people without power, access to support appliances such as air conditioners and refrigerators. In Nigeria, OPIC financing is supporting Lumos, an off-grid electricity provider, in launching its portable solar stations which connect to rooftop panels and include cell phone payment systems. An OPIC loan is also funding Greenlight Planet, affording remote communities solar lighting and phone charging devices. These unserved populations will now be provided with ready access to power for their homes and businesses.
By substituting kerosene and diesel with solar, these solutions offer millions of people the benefits of both reducing their energy expenditures as well as drastically reducing CO2 emissions.
Mini-grids and off-grid power projects are set to make a huge impact as Africa plays catch-up in its generation capacity. These revolutionary solutions will be discussed and showcased at the upcoming Africa Energy Indaba to provide the latest insights, trends and applications to ultimately increase energy access across the continent.
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Family - Waddells - Dodds - Evangeline Bell
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-evangeline-bruce-1525799.html
Obituary: Evangeline Bruce
Antony Beevor/Artemis Cooper
Evangeline Bruce appeared to emerge straight from the pages of a roman-a-clef, alas never written. Intelligent, beautiful, mysterious, ethereal, she was impossibly perfect as an ambassadress, yet would often disappear from her own parties. Charmingly seductive and quietly amusing, she knew exactly what she wanted and achieved it. Famous as one of the best-dressed women in the world and the Georgetown hostess par excellence, she overcame the most terrible experience that could ever befall a mother, the virtual certainty that her daughter had been murdered. And at the end of her life, just before losing her sight, she completed a historical biography which enjoyed great success, both in the review columns and in the best-seller lists.
Evangeline Bell and her sister Virginia - the author Virginia Surtees - were the daughters of Edward Bell, an American career diplomat. When he was en poste in Peking, Evangeline's nanny used to take her for walks along the Great Wall of China. Her father died when she was still a child, but the peripatetic existence continued because her English mother, Etelka, married the British diplomat Sir James Dodds in 1927.
Evangeline already spoke perfect French when she went to Radcliffe in 1937, where she first got to know the historian Arthur Schlesinger. In 1942, she was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services to work in London. She was given the fearful responsibility of creating convincing aliases for agents parachuted into France, then making sure that there were no inconsistencies in their forged documents. This work brought her in touch with her future husband, David Bruce, whom General "Wild Bill" Donovan had appointed as head of the London headquarters.
Bruce, some 20 years older, was a handsome and distinguished Virginian of great charm, a natural part of the circle which the journalist Joseph Alsop later termed "the Wasp Ascendancy". He had drifted apart from his first wife, Ailsa Mellon, the sister of Paul Mellon, but managed to remain on good relations with her family and, when Andrew Mellon created the National Gallery in Washington, Bruce became the first president. Mellon had also helped Bruce resurrect his family fortunes, first with a wedding gift of one million dollars, which Bruce invested most successfully, then with business contacts, which led to directorships with blue chip companies.
David Bruce landed in Normandy with Donovan on D-Day plus one. And, as might be expected of a Princeton friend of Scott Fitzgerald, he "liberated" the Ritz Hotel at the end of August 1944 with Ernest Hemingway and his gang of highly irregular partisans. Evangeline did not join him until a few weeks later, when she was given a tour of Paris on the back of a US army motorbike.
The following year, she and David Bruce were married, and in 1947 she accompanied him back to Paris when he was appointed to oversee the Marshall Plan in France. The Bruces lived in a beautiful apartment which had belonged to the Princesse de Lamballe in the rue de Lille but, as their family grew, it became too small. Bruce returned one day, to announce that he had found a much larger place. Evangeline asked where it was. "On the avenue d'Iena," he replied. It was the residence of the United States ambassador, a post which he had been offered that day.
Bruce was a very popular ambassador with the French, mainly because he understood their sensitivities after the defeat of 1940 and the Occupation. Jean Monnet paid him the ultimate tribute when he described him as "a deeply civilised man" with "rare foresight and good faith" who "does not think of his country in terms of domination". But Bruce's popularity was also in a large part due to the success of Evangeline as ambassadress. Nearly 50 years later, French ministers from the period would immediately respond to the mention of her name with: "Ah, la charmante Madame Bruce!"
So great was her success in Paris that she had to reject scores of would- be lovers, but always with a tact and wit that the French admired and appreciated. Couturiers vied to dress her and every fashion magazine longed to photograph her. Dior even created a special range of maternity clothes for her. But Evangeline's greatest friends were by no means the richest. Intelligent and amusing characters, expecially the outrageous Marie-Louise Bousquet, were more to her taste. Her circle was also increased because her sister Virginia was then the wife of Ashley Clarke, the British Minister in Paris after the Liberation.
Bruce, from his position of unusual influence, greatly encouraged moves towards a European Community begun by Monnet and Robert Schuman. He became a close friend of Conrad Adenauer, and so it was a natural development when, in 1957, Bruce became US Ambassador in Bonn. Four years later, he was translated to London as Ambassador to the Court of St James, where he and Evangeline flourished. President John F. Kennedy loved Bruce's gossipy accounts of the Profumo scandal. In 1970, when Bruce's time came to an end, they took the most handsome set in Albany, which had belonged to Lord Melbourne.
That year saw a return to Paris for the Vietnam peace talks, and three years later, Bruce, although a long-standing Democrat, was chosen by President Nixon as the man to play "the China card" as ambassador in Peking. For Evangeline, this was a curious, and in some ways disappointing, return to her childhood, even though she did not waste a moment in studying Chinese art.
The next appointment, in 1974, as ambassador to Nato in Brussels, was the time of their greatest sadness. Their daughter, Alexandra, known as Sasha, married a Greek, Marios Michaelides. On 7 November 1975, Sasha was found shot in the head, lying under a tree at the Bruce family estate in Virginia. The house had been looted. She died two days later. Investigations could not establish for sure whether her death had been suicide or murder. Michaelides was later charged with murder and theft, but he escaped back to Greece and there avoided extradition to the United States.
The shock of Sasha's death was made infinitely worse by the media. The tone of the lurid and speculative coverage suggested that the press were interested primarily in destroying the image of the perfect couple. The episode caused lasting damage to both parents. David Bruce died two years later. Evangeline, determined to bring some good out of it, set up and funded a charity in Sasha's name to help troubled young people, a cause for which Sasha herself had worked at Radcliffe.
Evangeline Bruce might have been remembered by the world mainly for superficial characteristics: her tall, elegant figure, her inspired dress sense, her gentle, husky, seductive voice, her famous parties in Washington and London; yet she loathed being described as a society hostess, and accepted the term "saloniste" with resignation. Any grande dame mystery which she maintained was mainly a line of defence for someone who was still quite shy and had always needed a degree of privacy. She had not just a natural generosity, but also a talent for friendship. She used to take a house in Tuscany each summer with her old friend Marietta Tree to entertain mutual friends. After Marietta's death in 1991, Evangeline Bruce continued the tradition, with house-parties in Italy or France with friends such as Ludovic and Moira Kennedy, Lord and Lady Jenkins of Hillhead, Sir Nicholas and Lady Henderson, Lord and Lady Weidenfeld, Edna O'Brien, the Arthur Schlesingers. But this year the publication and success of her book Napoleon and Josephine: an improbable marriage prompted many who had not taken her seriously to revise their opinions.
Napoleon and Josephine grew out of an earlier book, never published. The manuscript was about the year 1795 - to her, "the most exciting year in history". All Paris was celebrating the end of the Terror, in a mood of excitement and licentiousness; while, in the new liberalised economy, huge fortunes were being made in speculations and army contracts. "The contracts could be for anything, from oats to cavalry sabres," she wrote, "and as like as not, carried off by a woman wearing flesh-coloured tights and diamonds on her toes." The degree of influence wielded by women at this time was astonishing; and Bruce, who had watched the exercise of power over the years from an ideal position, was fascinated by the subject. Her descriptions of the Parisian social and political scene - from Thermidor to Waterloo - are so sure, so vivid, one almost feels she had lived through it.
She had just finished the book when she woke up one morning having completely lost her sight. Whatever the turmoil caused by this cruel blow, she never complained except to say what a bore it was.
and Artemis Cooper
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NomiS details his passion for Social Justice and the World Cup
Unknown Interview, Nomis, Singles
First and foremost are you enjoying this year's World Cup?
I haven't been watching a ton, but I have watched both USA games and have definitely enjoyed those. Saw some pretty impressive highlights from Mexico as well.
Speaking of the World Cup, you recently recorded and released a song called "World Cup (Drink of It)". What is the inspiration behind this song?
The inspiration of the song comes first from my passion for Social Justice. Issues of modern slavery (whether it be sex trafficking or manual labor), are pretty much always present in any large scale, tourist attracting event. Some friends of mine were in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, and that's where my eyes were opened to these issues as it pertains to sporting events. I had already been learning about human trafficking for about 2 years prior, but was still in the early stages of how it all worked and where it was happening.
Why do issues such as sex trafficking and labor related issues garner less press than other issues?
There are many reasons, but I will just address two of them. At its basic level, sex trafficking is an issue that almost everyone knows exists, but most don't realize how close to home its happening. When your average person thinks of the sex trade, they think of countries like Thailand. Most don't understand that this is happening all over the united states, therefore its easier to not think about.
When you can't relate to the face thats oppressed, its much easier to feel like you aren't responsible for them. Beyond that, the sad reality is that Human Trafficking (in my opinion) garners less press for the simple fact that without it, American lives would be more uncomfortable across the board. We love getting things cheap, we dont want to change our shopping habits. We love being comfortable. It's easier to speak up for things like "Invisible Children (Child Soldiers)" or "bring our girls home" because you can see that it's wrong, and changing it wont effect your life.
You are an activist for a variety of things. What drives you to present the activism in rhyme form?
That is a great question. I address these issues through HipHop & Spoken Word for the simple fact that writing songs is what I know how to do best. Whenever im on the road, one of the main things I try to get across to people is that we all have a role to play in the good fight.
You don't need to be an artist to be an activist. You don't even need to be creative. I've spent countless hours around Human Trafficking Non-Profits, and trust me, the artists are NOT the ones that keep these things running smoothly. We're just often the face of it. Admin skills, people skills, organizational talents, etc. Whatever you do best, you can find a way to use that in this movement, or any movement you're passionate about.
Which country will win the World Cup?
USA ALL DAY!
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Tales from our trash: New York City’s sanitation workers, sustainable cities, and the value of knowledge
by Rebecca Bratspies
We have a problem in New York City: We generate more than 30,000 tons of waste each day. Roughly one third of that waste is household trash, and the daunting task of collecting garbage from New York City’s three million households falls to 7,000 workers from the NYC Department of Sanitation. They are, in the words of artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, “keeping New York City alive.”
All of NYC’s waste is shipped out of state for disposal. But first, the city must consolidate the garbage at one of 58 waste transfer stations. In addition to the overpowering odors the trash itself produces, these stations generate a constant stream of truck traffic, air pollution, noise pollution, and safety issues. So, of course, no one wants to live near them.
Thus, it may come as no surprise that most of NYC’s waste transfer stations are concentrated in poor and minority communities in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. In 1996, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance helped form the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods to address this injustice, and over the next decade these groups worked with hundreds of concerned citizens, ultimately culminating in the passage of the City’s 2006 Solid Waste Management Plan. Although the plan laid the foundation for a more equitable distribution of these facilities, attempts to locate a waste transfer station in Manhattan have been met with litigation and outrage.
I think about these numbers every time I place my family’s trash can on the curb for sanitation workers to empty. These workers do this thankless and risky job every day. Sanitation workers are far more likely to be killed on the job than are police officers or firefighters. In 2010, this was the case when NYC sanitation worker Frank Justich was hit by a truck and killed while on the job in Queens. My daily commute takes me past the corner where he died, which was renamed Frank Justich Way in his honor. How many of us know the names of the men and women who collect our trash? Their vital contribution to our welfare goes unacknowledged: their specialized knowledge and skills overlooked.
This is why the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform (CUER) is launching itsWhose Trash? Initiative, which uses NYC waste-handling practices to consider broader questions of urban sustainability. This initiative highlights the importance of including under-represented voices in the waste planning processes: communities burdened with landfills and transfer stations; workers tasked with collecting and handling wastes; and young people saddled with undesirable economic and ecological legacies.
The kick-off event, Tales from Our Trash, will take place this Thursday, November 14, at 6 p.m. at CUNY School of Law. Commemorating Frank Justich’s life and service, this event highlights the contributions sanitation workers make to urban sustainability. The event will be memorialized by Frank Justich’s widow, who will speak briefly about what it means to her that this event is commemorating her husband’s life and work. Other participants include Dr. Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation and author of Picking Up; myself, CUNY School of Law Professor and CUER Director; artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, creator of Touch Sanitation and artist-in-residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation; NYC Sanitation CommissionerJohn J. Doherty; and three NYC high school students speaking on behalf of future generations. More information is available on CUNY Law’s website. Don’t live in New York? No Problem! The events are free and it is open to the public, and will be live-streamed online. Hope to see you there!
Cross-posted on US EPA's Environmental Justice blog.
Tagged as: NYC
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PEAK CARES PHILANTHROPY PROGRAM SELECTS SPIRIT OF SERVICE WINNER, DONATES TO CITY OF GATLINBURG
Atlanta, Georgia – Peak Campus, one of the nation’s leading student housing operators, and its philanthropy program, Peak Cares, is thrilled to announce the winner of the annual Spirit of Service award and the $5,000.00 donation to the winner’s charity.
PEAK CAMPUS FURTHER EXPANDS INFRASTRUCTURE, APPOINTS POYER AND BROOKS AS DIRECTORS
Atlanta, Georgia – Peak Campus, one of the nation’s leading student housing operators, announced two strategic staffing moves, including the promotion of Ashly Poyer to Director of Sales and the promotion of Courtney Brooks to Director of Talent Management.
BEECHWOOD VILLAGE RECEIVES LEED CERTIFICATION
Atlanta, GA - Peak Campus, one of the nation’s leading student housing operators, is proud to announce that Beechwood Village, owned and developed by Fountain Residential Partners, has achieved a Certified level of certification through the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) for Homes program.
PEAK CAMPUS HOSTS 7TH ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
The Peak Campus team recently celebrated their 7th Annual Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA with an academic, spunky theme called “Peak University.” This event serves as one of the key ingredients to renew and refocus all teams for a successful 2017-2018 leasing season. The conference kicked off with a vendor exposition, where over 50 national vendors and sponsors participated. Over the next three days, the executive team hosted nearly 200 property managers, assistant managers, and corporate support staff. The schedule was filled with education sessions including team networking events, a role-based curriculum on key programs and 2017 initiatives, and a group panel focused on Leadership, moderated by CEO Bob Clark. Additionally, a keynote speech was delivered on how technology influences and changes human behavior by outside speaker Kyle Lacy, Head of Marketing for OpenView, a venture capital firm focused on software companies with over $715 million under management.
PEAK CAMPUS AWARDED OVER 1,000 BEDS IN TEXAS
Atlanta, Georgia – Peak Campus, one of the nation’s leading student housing operators, has announced that it has been awarded and assumed property management of the Reserve, a 753-bed, purpose-built community serving the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in San Antonio, Texas, as well as Warehouse and Factory Apartments at Northgate a 265-bed community serving Texas A&M in College Station, Texas.
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Philip J Minardi
Philip James Minardi is an expert in communications and digital strategy for start-ups, the federal government and industry trade associations. Having built a career serving in leadership positions within the private and government arenas, his passion is in leading companies through crucial stages including company and product narrative development, media and digital strategy, launch planning and execution, and crisis communication management.
Currently serving as the Director of Policy Communications for Expedia, Inc., Philip leads the company's Washington, D.C. based public affairs team on initiatives at the crossroads of tech and public policy. Minardi joined Expedia after two years at The Travel Technology Association (Travel Tech), where he led public relations strategy as the Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs. As the industry's spokesman and staunch advocate, Philip spearheaded multiple federal, state, and municipal campaigns utilizing a diverse mix of traditional, digital, and grassroots tools. Minardi also helped shepherd the association through a time of strategic growth and new member development. Travel Tech members include tech leaders HomeAway, Expedia, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Orbitz, Priceline, Amadeus, Sabre, and Skyscanner.
Prior to joining Expedia and the Travel Technology Association, Philip served as Press Secretary to United States Congressman Erik Paulsen (MN-03), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. During his time on Capitol Hill, Philip led the development and implementation of traditional media and digital communications plans. Under Philip's leadership, Congressman Paulsen won the Congressional Management Foundation's Inaugural Gold Mouse Award for Citizen Engagement on Social Media. As a proven spokesperson, communicator and digital strategist, the Chicago native has managed messaging on an array of issues ranging from international trade to domestic tax reform. Philip got his start on the Hill in Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam’s (IL-06) communications team.
Philip began his career as a global sales consultant at Anixter Inc. focusing on enterprise infrastructure and security solutions for members of the Fortune 500 and the U.S. government. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from DePaul University in Marketing and Sales Leadership. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Philip has spent the last six years living and working in Washington, D.C.
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Home / Department of Public Health and Primary Care / Primary Care Unit / Featured / NIHR awards £3m for new research to investigate screening to prevent one in ten strokes
A collaboration of several universities led by Cambridge has won a £3m funding award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to lead a new programme of research investigating screening to detect undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, a heart condition responsible
for one in ten strokes.
The research will include the largest ever randomised controlled trial to find out whether screening for atrial fibrillation in people aged 65 and over can prevent stroke and other problems that cause early deaths like heart attacks, and whether screening represents good value for money for the NHS.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common disturbance of the heart rhythm, characterised by an irregular pulse. It affects up to 10 in 100 people over the age of 65, a considerable proportion of whom do not know they have the condition. Atrial fibrillation may not be associated with any symptoms, but is linked to increased risk of stroke, heart attack, dementia and premature death. About 10% of strokes happen in people unaware that they have atrial fibrillation. However, therapy with medication (anticoagulation) is highly effective at reducing the risk.
At present, some GPs look for atrial fibrillation opportunistically by using a diagnostic device such as a hand-held electrocardiogram (ECG) or simply take the pulse of patients who could be visiting for any reason. However, this is not done in a systematic way, and only in some
general practices.
Central to the research award, the NIHR is funding the world’s largest randomised controlled trial to discover whether screening systematically for atrial fibrillation and offering optimal treatment reduces the incidence of stroke, premature death and other health risks
associated with atrial fibrillation.
The research, led by the University of Cambridge, will involve 120,000 patients aged over 65 in 300 general practices across England. Patients in 100 practices will undergo screening, and those in 200 practices will not. People who are found to have atrial fibrillation by the
screening programme will be offered treatment with anticoagulant drugs to reduce their risk of stroke and heart attack. Both sets of patients will be followed up for five years to see whether screening and treatment leads to fewer strokes, heart attacks and deaths.
The programme of research will include a cost effectiveness analysis to assess whether screening is a good use of NHS resources. Researchers will also observe what goes on in general practices when screening is carried out and interview staff and patients to explore issues around consent to screening and patient concerns.
Lead investigator Professor Jonathan Mant, Professor of Primary Care Research and Head of the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge, said: “We know that a significant proportion of strokes occur in people with undiagnosed atrial fibrillation. Anticoagulation
therapy is a very effective treatment that can reduce the risk of stroke by about 65%, so many of these strokes are preventable.”
At the moment, atrial fibrillation is detected haphazardly in some practices by opportunistic case finding. Our NIHR programme of research is testing a way of systematically screening everybody over 65 for atrial fibrillation. It’s more complete than the existing approach and simple, so won’t take up much doctor or nurse time.”
– Professor Jonathan Mant, University of Cambridge
One problem with the current approach is that some people do not have atrial fibrillation all the time but go into and out of an irregular heart rhythm. In this new research, patients will be loaned a handheld ECG device, provided by Zenicor, to measure a (single lead) ECG twice a day at home for two weeks. “This novel technique, the first time home screening has been used on this scale in the NHS, will detect intermittent atrial fibrillation that otherwise would be missed in a one-off test at a GP appointment,” said Prof Mant.
Co-applicant Professor Richard Hobbs, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford and Director of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, said: “There’s currently not any evidence on whether systematic screening for atrial fibrillation works, so the National Screening Committee is not able to recommend it. Whether or not this research shows that screening is effective and cost effective, it will be a landmark trial that will affect UK screening guidance and guidance elsewhere around the world.”
“We’ve been wanting to do a large trial of atrial fibrillation screening for more than 10 years, and we’re now able to do so thanks to funding from the NIHR. It simply would not be possible to do such huge studies without significant investment such as from the NIHR.”
Both of Trudie Lobban’s parents have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, and last year her mother experienced a stroke related to the condition.
Stroke related to atrial fibrillation can be more debilitating, more disabling and in many case more fatal than any other type of stroke. My mother’s stroke could so easily have been avoided with appropriate anticoagulation therapy.”
– Trudie Lobban, daughter of AF-related stroke patient and co-applicant
“This NIHR study will go a long way to telling us how to reduce the burden of stroke caused by atrial fibrillation and prove whether screening is beneficial for patients and their families, and cost saving for the NHS”, added Trudie, who is also a co-applicant for this research
study and founder of the Atrial Fibrillation Association.
The UK National Screening Committee has welcomed this trial of systematic population screening for atrial fibrillation. Prof Robert Steele, Independent Chair of the UK National Screening Committee, and Prof Anne Mackie, Director of Screening at Public Health England, said: “Screening for atrial fibrillation, which is a major cause of morbidity and death, would seem to be an excellent idea, but it is only by robust research coupled with economic analysis can we be sure that the benefit of screening outweighs any harm that it may cause and that it is cost effective.
“The UK National Screening Committee is frequently asked to assess the evidence for introducing national screening programmes for a wide variety of conditions, and in most instances such evidence is lacking. It is really heartening to see a first rate research team tackling this issue for such an important condition, and we are eagerly looking forward to the results which will have the potential to affect screening policy across the United Kingdom.”
About research at the Cardiovascular Group, Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge
See SAFER – Screening for Atrial Fibrillation website for more information on the trial
About Professor Mant
Video clip from BBC Look East with interview with Professor Simon Griffin on the study
Lucy Lloyd
University of Cambridge, Primary Care Unit, School of Clinical Medicine
e: ll448@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Image: Zenicor
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According to NAHB analysis of the Survey of Construction (SOC), nationally, there were 881,076 new single-family units started in 2018, 4% higher than the units started in 2017. It was the double of the units started in 2011, and still 49% less than the peak of 2007 (1,731,171 units).
Among all the nine Census divisions, new single-family units started in the South Atlantic, West South Central and Mountain Divisions exceeded 100k in 2018. These three divisions represent 21 states, while the number of new single-family housing starts in these three divisions accounted for about 62% of the total new single-family housing starts in 2018.
In addition, there were 98,760 new single-family units started in the Pacific Division and 78,858 units started in the East North Central Division in 2018. The Pacific Division accounted for 11% of the total new single-family housing starts, while the East North Central Division accounted for 9%. The other four divisions, including East South Central, West North Central, Middle Atlantic and New England, accounted for the remaining 18% of the total new single-family housing starts.
The scatter plot below compares the nine Census divisions’ annual growth rates of new single-family housing starts in 2017 and 2018. The red line represents the national level in 2018. The X-axis presents the annual growth rates in 2017; the Y-axis presents the annual growth rates in 2018. Each division grew at the different pace, while, nationally, new single-family housing starts rose by 4%. Four out of the nine divisions grew faster than the national level. The New England Division and the Mountain Division led the way with a 13% increase each, followed by the West South Central Division with an 8% increase, and the South Atlantic Division with a 4% increase. Meanwhile, the growth rates of the other five divisions were below the national level.
As shown in Figure 2, compared to last year, the New England Division and the Mountain Division had an acceleration in growth in 2018. Noticeably, the New England Division grew by 13% in 2018, after a 5% growth rate in 2017. Meanwhile, six out of the nine divisions, including South Atlantic, East North Central, Pacific, Middle Atlantic, East South Central and West North Central, experienced a deceleration in growth in 2018. Among them, the West North Central Division experienced the largest deceleration with a decline of 14% in 2018. Moreover, the West South Central Division grew by 8% in 2018, unchanged from 2017.
Single-Family Starts Growth Slowed in Six Divisions
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Go Farther in Lightness
Written by: MIN on 22/11/2017 15:32:45
Somewhere in Australia, two and a half years ago, Gang of Youths arrived with what I’d call less than a thud to us Scandinavians. While everyone here at Rockfreaks.net – myself included – was preoccupied with the latest record by another bunch of Aussies, The Smith Street Band, David Le’aupepe (self-proclaimed ”previous loner”) teamed up with what seemingly sounds like a basic rock group: lead guitar (Joji Malani), bass guitar (Max Dunn), keys/additional guitar (Jung Kim) and drums/percussion (Donnie Borzestowski). In reality, however, the band’s debut album, “The Positions”, was far from regular and felt more like an amalgamation of Titus Andronicus and The Killers than just another “run of the mill” rock outfit. During the recording of said album, Le’aupepe was dealing with the fact that his wife had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and he found himself questioning his faith and mental health. Today, on their second album, “Go Father in Lightness”, Le’aupepe is divorced from his now recovered wife, making for a slightly different but overall even more satisfying listening experience that retains the band’s versatility and impressively personal lyrics.
The sum of all the bands you can draw parallels to when listening to Gang of Youths is what makes them such a remarkable band, simply due to the fact that they still manage to sound unique in the midst of all their influences. Album-opener “Fear and Trembling” starts with a few minutes of piano playing that recalls both the theme from “Cheers” and Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” just before going full-fledged punk rock on our asses. Somber tracks like “Persevere” and “Keep Me in the Open” feels like they’re written by The National, while the seismic powers of “Atlas Drowned” is enough to tear down buildings by virtue of sounding like a combination of Bruce Springsteen and previously mentioned Titus Andronicus – in fact, the drums alone are able to kickstart your heart if they needed to. Insistent strings and gentle transitions on tracks like “Achilles Come Down” and “Le Symbolique / Let Me Down Easy” make sure that the record never drowns in bombastic rockers on a record that sounds surprisingly dynamic and never comes off as overblown, while making sure that the record feels coherent and smooth.
However, “Go Farther in Lightness” in full probably isn’t for everyone. While I can’t imagine anyone having any complaints about the up-beat material present, somewhere around the middle of the record, Le’aupepe and company dive dark and deep, both musically and lyrically. “Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane” is seven and a half minute long, and most of it is slow build-up. During it, Le’aupepe depicts a dream he has most nights in which he has a happy life and a loving family, but even in his dream there’s a constant creeping feeling that he might not be strong enough to carry on and ends up sitting alone in the basement, drunk. The track ends with a magnificently emotional guitar solo that doesn’t need to be flashy, but just lets the “less is more”-approach flow free. It’s a highly ambitious track, which requires patience, but the pay-off is incredible. Afterwards comes the part where some listeners risk falling behind: although some might stick through “Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane”, it takes another 15-20 minutes before an up-beat track appears, displaying that this record is in fact 78 minutes long. If you’re into it, you won’t mind because it’s all flawlessly executed by top-notch musicians, but it’s definitely the reason why you won’t see this record topping any charts across the sea; “Go Farther in Lightness” is, despite it’s accessible parts, an artistic piece of work disguised as a rock n’ roll record.
No matter his depressive tendencies, there are only a few frontmen around who are able to inspire such hope in you as Le’aupepe is, shining like a beacon of light in the darkest of nights. Ranging from gentle, intimate guitars to grandiose climaxes, the highly There Will Be Fireworks-sounding “The Deepest of Sighs, the Frankest Shadows” features as exactly that kind of light as it reaches the chorus, in which Le’aupepe sings:
Cause not everything means something, honey // So say the unsayable, say the most human of things // And if everything is temporary // I will bear the unbearable, terrible triteness of being
Thankfully, such hopeful insights reoccur during the record’s last and 16th song, “Say Yes to Life”, which wraps up all the shit and bile, guts and glory that Gang of Youths have presented to us. When you finally get around to listening to it, ask yourself: has there really been a more perfect vocal-delivery this year than during the very last moment of “Say Yes to Life”? Le’aupepe’s ability to balance intimate integrity and stadium-reaching heights is impeccable, and it’s mirrored in the rest of the band’s performance, which, ultimately, only furthers the record’s potential. “Go Father in Lightness” is a remarkable, whole and dynamic album, and it’s probably the best rock record you’ll hear all year. It’ll have you jumping around, pondering alone and maybe even sobbing a little bit, but it’s worth every drop of sweat and tears.
Download: Fear and Trembling; Atlas Drowned; What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out?; Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane; The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows; Say Yes to Life
For The Fans Of: Titus Andronicus, The Gaslight Anthem, The Killers, The National, There Will Be Fireworks
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Release date 13.10.2017 (EU/UK)
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Republican Insiders Prefer Mitt
Mitt Romney has already proven that he isn’t much of a presidential candidate. I guess he looks “presidential,” if what you’re looking for in a president is an upright bearing, good hair, success in the business world and state politics and a flair for business casual. Yet he has never shown the capacity to secure a substantial core of support within the Republican primary electorate.
Remember that this is a guy who, despite a vast personal fortune and a Rolodex full of major Republican bundlers, couldn’t manage to keep up with Mike Huckabee in the last presidential election cycle. Your diagnosis of Romney’s deficiencies as a candidate is as good as mine. Maybe it’s the wooden manner he shares with Al Gore, that his Mormonism turns off evangelicals, all those ideological epiphanies he has had with respect to core conservative values, RomneyCare etc. The list isn't short.
So it says something about the extraordinary shallowness of the Republican presidential field that Romney still has the overwhelming support of party insiders in what’s looking like a two-man race with Rick Perry. Here’s Benjy Sarlin over at TPM:
“Republican ‘insiders’ are wary of Rick Perry's ability to win, according to a survey by National Journal, picking Mitt Romney by a wide margin as the more electable candidate. The poll, which regularly checks in with a pool of Republican and Democratic strategists, finds both parties in agreement that Romney is the superior candidate. Republicans think the GOP would be better off nominating him by a 69% to 31% margin. That number is even higher among Democratic insiders, 83% of whom see Romney as the better bet versus 17% for Perry.”
This may just be a case of Romney’s being a known quantity whose advantage with lukewarm insiders will fade over time if Perry keeps running neck and neck with Obama in the polls, performs decently in the debates and avoids a spectacular gaffe. If you asked Democratic insiders at this time in 2007, a huge majority would have told you that Hillary Clinton would be a lot more formidable candidate than Barack Obama. They hadn't reckoned with Obama's capacity to inspire rank-and-file support or how tired a lot of Democratic insiders were of the Clintons.
Yet, being the country’s longest serving governor from one its largest states, Rick Perry’s not exactly coming out of nowhere. He has always been on the list of contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. So party insiders presumably know enough about him by now to make educated guesses about his electability and whether his candidacy will be good for the party in other respects. And they still seem to be guessing that he's a lot less electable than a candidate with Romney’s manifest weaknesses.
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OAK RIDGE UNITED METHODIST: 7 miles SW Flat Rock. 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Sunday School, 6 p.m. Worship 2nd Sundays.
OAK GROVE CHURCH OF LAMOTTE PRAIRIE: 5 miles NW of Palestine, Scott Mendenhall, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship.
BIBLE CHAPEL CONG. CHRISTIAN: 4 mi. W of Robinson and 1 mi. S of Rte. 33, Joe Griffith, pastor. 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Sunday school, 7 p.m. Worship.
BERLIN CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN: Roy D. Jordan, pastor. 9:30 a.m.Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 7 p.m. Worship.
PEARL CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST: 8 miles SW of Robinson, Rev. Fred White, minister. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 7 p.m. Worship every Sunday.
SEED CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST: Oblong area, David Ducommon, pastor. 10 a.m. Worship, 9:15 a.m. Sunday school.
HEBRON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST: 4 mi. south of Robinson, David Vaughn, pastor. 9 a.m. Morning worship, 10 a.m. Bible classes, 6 p.m. Evening service.
PLEASANT VIEW CONGREGATIONAL (United Church of Christ): Rt. 1, Palestine, Rev. Paul K. Phillips. 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Church school.
KIRK CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST: 2 miles N of radio station. Preaching services first and third Sundays of the month at 10:30 a.m. Bible study Wednesday each week at 10 a.m.
PLEASANT GROVE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN: Three miles west of Annapolis. Bill Ulrey, minister; Jeff Monroney, minister. 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school, 7 p.m. Worship, Preaching 1st and 3rd Sunday evenings 7 p.m.
WHITE OAK CHRISTIAN: 6 miles NW Of Oblong, Rusty Shields, pastor. 9:45 a.m. Worship, 9 a.m. Sunday school, 6 p.m. Worship.
GRACE UNITED METHODIST: Rt. 1, Palestine, Pastor Jane Drake. 9 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school.
NEW HEBRON BAPTIST: Independent & Fundamental. Jack Clay, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Bible school, 10:30 a.m. Church service, 5:30 p.m. AWANA, 6:30 p.m. Worship.
HARDINVlLLE UNITED CHURCH: Minister Otis Bailey. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship.
GRAND PRAIRIE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: Route 1, Robinson; 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m. Sunday school.
OLIVE BRANCH BAPTIST: 3 miles North of Annapolis, Randy Nave, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Worship.
BELLAIR CHURCH OF CHRIST: 9:30 a.m. Worship, 10:30 a.m. Preaching. 2nd Sunday speaker is Bob Adams; 4th Sunday speaker is Larry Abraham.
HARDINVILLE CHRlSTIAN: John Bogle, minister. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Youth meeting, 6 p.m. Worship.
PRAIRIE GROVE BAPTIST: 7 miles Northeast of Oblong, Jeff Monroney, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship.
PORTERVILLE CHRISTIAN (East): Robert Stephens, minister. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Communion, 10:45 a.m. Worship.
BIRDS UNITED METHODIST: 9:30 a.m. Church school; 10:30 a.m. Worship, first and third Sundays; 7 p.m. Worship, 1st and 3rd Sundays.
DOGWOOD PRAIRIE UNITED METHODIST: David W. Ducommon, pastor. 10 a.m. Sunday school, 9 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Bible study.
WILLOW HILL UNITED METHODIST: Richard Houser, pastor. 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Sunday school.
MOUND COMMUNITY CHURCH: Bill Ikemire, pastor. 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Sunday school.
YALE UNITED METHODIST: Joe Crain, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 9 a.m. Worship, first and third Sundays.
PRIOR GROVE BAPTIST: 9:30 Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Worship.
CANAAN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST: Three miles S. of Heathsville and one mile west. 9:45 a.m. Bible study, 10:30 a.m. Service.
DUNCANVILLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST: J.D. Branson, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Worship.
BETHANY CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN: Five miles NW of Oblong, Kenneth Slisher, minister. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 7 p.m. Evening services.
CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN (West): Porterville, Leland Culp, minister. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 6:30 p.m. Worship.
ZION UNITED METHODIST: 9 mi. southwest of Robinson, Bob McCarter, lay minister. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:40 a.m. Worship, 7 p.m. service 4th Sundays.
SOUTH UNION CHURCH: Jack Cunningham, Pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship; 7 p.m. Worship.
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH: Stoy, Kenneth Maxwell, pastor. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school,10:30 a.m. Worship, 6 p.m. Services.
LANDES UNITED METHODIST: Landes, Bob Constable, pastor. 9 a.m. Worship, 10 a.m. Sunday school.
SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: Willow Hill, Pastor Bill Holbrook. 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. Worship, 5:30 p.m. Prayer groups, 6 p.m. Evening worship.
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Installing Two Rabbis: This Week in Southern Jewish Life, Oct. 30
Above: Honorees Richard Pizitz Jr., Raymond and Cynthia Tobias, Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar, General Charles Krulak and Rabbi Eytan Yammer at t...
Above: Honorees Richard Pizitz Jr., Raymond and Cynthia Tobias, Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar, General Charles Krulak and Rabbi Eytan Yammer at the Oct. 28 joint awards program of Israel Bonds, the Birmingham Jewish Federation and Birmingham Jewish Foundation. Photo by Rabbi Barry Altmark.
Around the South: Week of Oct. 30, 2015
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Two New Orleans-area congregations are installing rabbis on the same evening. Touro Synagogue will install Rabbi Todd Silverman as Rabbinic Director of Lifelong Learning at its 6 p.m. service on Oct. 30. A Shabbat dinner reception will follow. He joins Rabbi Alexis Berk and Cantor David Mintz on the Touro clergy. Rabbi Alexis Pinsky will be installed as assistant rabbi at Gates of Prayer in Metairie on Oct. 30 at the 8 p.m. service. There will be a dinner, prepared by the Brotherhood, at 6 p.m.
The 28th annual Delta Jewish Open, a reunion for the Jewish communities of the Mississippi Delta and a fundraiser for the Jacobs Camp and Institute of Southern Jewish Life, will be on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 in Greenville. Registration is open and one need not be a golfer to attend.
The Southern Jewish Historical Society is having its annual conference in Nashville this weekend.
A Southern Jewish Halloween, from Bay City, Texas, in the 1930s, as a way of being part of the general community.
On Tablet’s Unorthodox podcast this week: A chat with Shulem Deen, author of “All Who Go Do Not Return,” about his journey out of the Skverer Hasidic group. He is scheduled to speak in New Orleans in late November as part of Jewish Culture Month at the Uptown JCC.
Shearith Israel and Temple Israel in Columbus, Ga., will have a concert with renowned Israeli violinist Boris Savchuk, at Temple Israel, Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. The event is free, but a donation of $10 is suggested.
The UAH History Department and the UAH Humanities Center will host a lecture by Monique Laney on her book “German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era” on Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Roberts Recital Hall at UAH. The book tells stories of relationships of the Germans and their families with various races and ethnic groups in Huntsville, including the Jewish community, and of how the groups remember the past.
Rabbi Joseph Polak, author of “After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring,” is speaking in Mobile this month through the Mobile Christian Jewish Dialogue, co-sponsored by the Gulf Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education. An infant survivor of two concentration camps, Polak is an assistant professor of public health at Boston University, rabbi emeritus of the Hillel House there and chief justice of the Rabbinical Court of Massachusetts. His main public address will be on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at Ahavas Chesed. There will be a book signing during the reception. He will also speak at Springhill Avenue Temple on Nov. 9 at noon, with lunch available on a first come, first served basis, and at Ahavas Chesed on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. Other Nov. 9 talks will be to students at Spring Hill College and a Holocaust educator workshop for high school and middle school teachers at the University of South Alabama. On Nov. 10 he will also address David Meola’s class at South Alabama.
You Belong in Birmingham is holding a Pop Up Happy Hour on Nov. 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the new Grand Bohemian Hotel’s rooftop bar in Mountain Brook.
Brad and Marion Lapidus will be honored at the annual Temple B’nai Sholom Sisterhood Gala at the Ledges in Huntsville, Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El will have a Ghouls in the Shul program for grades 1 to 6 on Oct. 31 from 6:45 to 8 p.m., with a “spooky rendition” of Havdalah, Jewish ghost stories, Make Your Own Golem and more.
The Bais Ariel Chabad Center in Birmingham will have a Pajama Popcorn Party on Oct. 31 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville will have “Ghosts of Shabbats Past” on Oct. 30 at the 7 p.m. service, a “spooky Shabbat” where deceased B’nai Sholom members will “visit.”
The Birmingham International Center announced its 2016 program will be a Salute to Belgium. Each year, the center selects a country and does a series of educational programs, promoting both awareness and business ties to that country throughout the state. On Nov. 15, there will be a program of “Remembrance and Resistance” at the Southern Museum of Flight, honoring Alabama veterans and the Belgium resistance movement during World War II. The 3 p.m. event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required here.
Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El is co-hosting the Magic City Acceptance Project’s “A Generous Faith: Walking With Our LGBTQ+ Community” interfaith conference on Nov. 5 and 6. More information here. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will have a four-week class about the history of Downton Abbey, at the Levite Jewish Community Center in Birmingham. Taught by Linda York, who has a doctorate in early modern history from Auburn, the class will view and discuss classic British episodes of the hit television show. The free class will meet on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. from Oct. 30 to Nov. 20.
Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center will be celebrating Jewish Book Month with a series of programs throughout November. There will also be a book sale in the lobby. The festival starts on Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. with “All In” by Josh Levs, the story of how a fatherhood columnist fought back when his employer denied him parental leave after his child was born. He became a leading advocate for modern families and his book discusses how fatherhood is different today than in previous generations.
On Nov. 5, Dave Gettinger will present “What is a Jew?” by his father, M.C. Gettinger. The 6 p.m. program will include a wine and cheese reception, and attendees will receive a free copy of the book. The illustrations by Cynthia Fitting will be on display at the LJCC all month.
On Nov. 10, Marcia Friedman will present “Meatballs and Matzah Balls,” the story of re-creating her Italian-American kitchen after her conversion to Judaism, exploring the union of Jewish and Italian life through food. The noon cooking demonstration, discussion and tasting is $10.
Joe Mussafer will share his research on 1492, one of the most consequential years in Jewish history, at Temple Beth Or in Montgomery on Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. His talk will be the first in this year’s Rothschild Blachschleger Library Series.
On Nov. 3, Troy University will have a workshop for middle and high school teachers on how to more effectively teach the Holocaust. Ann Rosenheck, a survivor of Auschwitz, will speak at the workshop. She will also give a public talk at Troy on Nov. 5, and speak at Temple Emanu-El, Dothan, on Nov. 2 at 6:30 p.m.. The 8:30 a.m. workshop is presented in partnership with the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and will be facilitated by educators from the museum.
The annual TLC Day, Teens Lend a Caring Hand, will be on Nov. 1 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Coordinated by Collat Jewish Family Services in Birmingham, teens in grades 7 to 12 will meet at the LJCC for pizza and then go to homes of senior adults and do seasonal tasks. Teens are asked to register by Oct. 19 to Lise in the CJFS office.
Agnes Tenenbaum, a Holocaust survivor living in Mobile, will speak at the Oct. 30 6 p.m. service at Springhill Avenue Temple.
Dothan’s Temple Emanu-El Brotherhood will have its Autumn 2015 pancake breakfast for the entire congregation on Oct. 31 at 9:30 a.m. with guest speaker Ron Owen, chief medical officer of Southeast Alabama Medical Center.
The Temple Beth Or Sisterhood in Montgomery is doing a cheesecake fundraiser, with cheesecakes from the Carnegie Deli in New York. Orders must be received by Oct. 30, and can be picked up on Nov. 17 or 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Six-inch cheesecakes are $25, while 8-inch cheesecakes are $35. For information, email here.
Chabad Emerald Coast in Destin will have a Unity Shabbaton with Israel on Oct. 30. There will be a Mediterranean dinner and discussion about what one can do for Israel, starting at 5:30 p.m. There will also be a big Kiddush lunch following services on Oct. 31. Reserve here.
There will be a memorial program for Yitzhak Rabin, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. at Temple Beth-El in Pensacola.
Tickets are on sale now for the annual B’nai Israel Veterans Day Dinner in Pensacola. The dinner will be on Nov. 6 at 6 p.m., and tickets will be sold through Oct. 30. Call (850) 433-7311 for tickets. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for ages 8 and under.
The New Orleans Jewish Community Center will become a comedy club on Nov. 7, with two comedy stars taking the stage for the JCC’s annual gala. Johnny Lampert and Dan Naturman will perform at the Center Celebration, starting at 7 p.m. Lampert is a regular at New York City’s and Los Angeles’ best comedy clubs, including Carolines on Broadway, The Comic Strip and The Improv. He has also made numerous appearances on MTV, A and E, NBC, HBO’s “Comedy Showcase” and a multitude of shows on Comedy Central. The evening will be catered by Vincent’s Italian Cuisine. Tickets are $200, with sponsor levels starting at $500.
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans will hold the Betty and Phillip Meyers Leadership Development Alumni Event of the Katz-Phillips Program on Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m., at the home of Erin and Asher Friend. Donors to the Leadership Development Endowment Campaign will also be present, as the campaign has raised about $800,000. There will be a cooking demonstration by Alon Shaya, who is in this year’s class, and a jazz clarinet performance by Michael White, who was in Israel as part of the community’s Partnership2Gether program earlier this year.
A new book about New Orleans landmark Longue Vue will be released with a launch party at the famous estate. Published by Rizzoli, “Longue Vue House and Gardens: The Architecture, Interiors and Gardens of New Orleans’ Most Celebrated Estate” features texts by Carol McMichael Reese, Thaisa Way, Walter C. Stern and Charles Davey, and original photography by Tina Freeman. The book describes the estate and founders Edith and Edgar Stern, who were major Jewish philanthropists. Edith Stern was the daughter of Sears Roebuck and Co. President Julius Rosenwald. The book is available for preorder on the Longue Vue website, or at the book launch on Nov 4. Starting at 4 p.m. there will be a program with Freeman and Reese, followed by a book signing from 5 to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The party is free and open to the community.
Friend Ships will hold “The Jerusalem Call,” Nov. 9 and 10 in Lake Charles, as a political advocacy event for Israel in the Christian community. Speakers include Ambassador Ran Ichay, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and Middle East expert Erick Stakelbeck. The free event is held in association with the Israel Allied Foundation in Washington.
R. Daniel Hoffman will be returning to Beth Israel in Metairie this Shabbat, delivering a guest sermon at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 31.
At the Dream Caravan event in New Orleans on Nov. 8, Rodger Kamenetz will present a lecture on the connection between Kabbalah and dreams. The event will be at the Arts Estuary 1024 from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women is partnering with other groups to discuss gun violence, with the screening of “91%: A Film About Guns in America” on Nov. 9, and a Moving the Ball Forward discussion on Nov. 12.
The Downtown Lunch and Learn series for Beth Israel, Metairie, continues at the Gertler Law Firm, on Nov. 5. A deli lunch is available, and a $10 contribution is suggested.
Beth Israel in Metairie will have a Shabbat dinner on Nov. 6 featuring Sarah Cramsey, professor at Tulane. She will speak on “Saying Kaddish in Czechoslovakia: Hana Volavkova and the first state-sponsored monument to the Shoah.” Volavkova was the director of the Jewish Museum of Prague from 1945 to 1960. Dinner will be after the 6 p.m. service. Reservations are $18 for member adults, $9 for children over 5; non-members are $25 and $18 respectively.
Beth Shalom in Baton Rouge will have its Nearly New Sale on Oct. 29, 30 and Nov. 1 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will not be any clothing sold, so any donated clothing will be given to Here Today Gone Tomorrow.
Chabad of Baton Rouge is holding an 11-part series, Torah Studies. Each session is self-contained and meets on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. The course started on Oct. 13. Classes are free but there is a textbook fee.
The Touro Infirmary Foundation and Touro Tomorrow will host L’dor V’dor, a post-gala party benefiting Touro Infirmary’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, on Nov. 14 from 9 p.m. to midnight at Mardi Gras World’s Mansion Room. Open to the community, the evening will feature live entertainment by Flow Tribe, signature dishes from La Cocinita, Mobile Memories Photo Booth, over 200 young professionals around the community and an open bar. Proceeds from L’dor V’dor 2015 will be used to support improvements to Touro Infirmary's NICU and help provide the latest and most cutting edge equipment and care to the smallest and sickest infants. Tickets are $50/person, $90/couple.
Rabbi Alexis Berk of Touro Synagogue will have a twice-monthly lunchtime study group, News and the Jews, discussing current events through a Jewish lens. The noon sessions are open to the community at the Mautner Learning Center. Upcoming dates are Nov. 12 and 19, Dec. 3 and 17 and Jan. 7 and 21.
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Title: Tenerife
Subject: List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1986 FIBA World Championship, Canary Islands, Guanches, Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur
Collection: Islands of MacAronesia, Islands of the Canary Islands, Miocene Volcanism, Pleistocene Volcanism, Pliocene Volcanism, Tenerife
Clockwise from top: Dracaena draco, Roques de Anaga, Teide National Park, Traditional Canarian house and Auditorio de Tenerife.
Map showing location of Tenerife
Capital and Largest City
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Pop. 221,956)
2,034 km2 (785 sq mi)
Highest elevation (Teide)
3,718 m (12,198 ft)
• Ethnicities
Spanish, other minority groups
UTC (UTC0)
UTC+1 (UTC+1)
www.tenerife.es
Tenerife (; Spanish: ) is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands;[2] it is also the most populated island of Spain,[2] with a land area of 2,034.38 square kilometres (785 sq mi) and 898,680 inhabitants,[3] 43 percent of the total population of the Canary Islands.[2] Tenerife is also the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia.
About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the most of any of the Canary Islands.[4] It is also one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain.[5] Tenerife hosts one of the world's largest carnivals and the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is attempting to become a World Heritage Site.[6] Tenerife is served by two airports, Tenerife North Airport and Tenerife South Airport, and is the tourism and economic centre of the archipelago.[7][8]
The island is home to the University of La Laguna, which was founded in 1792 and is the oldest university in the Canaries. San Cristóbal de La Laguna (a World Heritage Site) is the second city of the island and the third one of the archipelago. The city of La Laguna was also capital of the Canary Islands until Santa Cruz replaced it in 1833.[11]
Tenerife also has the highest elevation of Spain, a World Heritage Site that is the third largest volcano in the world from its base, El Teide.[12] Also located on the island Macizo de Anaga since 2015 is Biosphere Reserve[13] and is the place that has the largest number of endemic species in Europe.[13] The island's capital contains the architectural symbol of the Canary Islands, the modern Auditorio de Tenerife.[14][15]
Toponymy 1
Demonym 2
Territorial organisation before the conquest (The Guanches) 3.1
Spanish conquest 3.2
Slavery and plantations 3.3
Emigration to the Americas 3.4
Military history 3.5
Modern history 3.6
Geology 5
Origins and geological formation 5.1
Orography and landscape 5.2
Central heights 5.2.1
Massifs 5.2.2
Dorsales 5.2.3
Valleys and ravines 5.2.4
Coastline 5.2.5
Volcanic tubes 5.2.6
Water 6.1
Pollution and air quality 6.2
Flora and fauna 7
Protected natural areas 7.1
Law and order 8.1
Municipalities 8.2
Counties 8.3
Flags and heraldry 8.4
Natural symbols 9
Demographics 10
Economy 11
Tourism 11.1
Agriculture and fishing 11.2
Industry and commerce 11.3
Monuments 11.4
Culture and arts 12
Literature 12.1
Painting 12.2
Sculpture 12.3
Music 12.4
Architecture 12.5
Crafts 12.6
Traditional celebrations 12.7
Carnival of Santa Cruz 12.7.1
Pilgrimages (Romerías) 12.7.2
Holiday of the Virgin of Candelaria 12.7.3
Holiday of the Cristo de La Laguna 12.7.4
Corpus Christi 12.7.5
Easter 12.7.6
Science and research 14.1
Museums 14.2
Transport and communications 16
Roads 16.1
Airports 16.2
Ports 16.3
Buses (guaguas) 16.4
Taxis 16.5
Tramway 16.6
Railway plans 16.6.1
Gastronomy 19
Fish 19.1
Meat 19.2
Canarian wrinkly potatoes 19.3
Mojos 19.4
Cheeses 19.5
Gofio 19.6
Confectionery 19.7
Wines 19.8
International relations 20
Twin towns — Sister cities 20.1
See also 22
The island's former inhabitants, the Guanches, referred to the island as Achinet or Chenet (variant spellings are found in the literature). According to Pliny the Younger, Berber king Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira and gave the Canary Islands its name because he found particularly ferocious dogs (canaria) on the island.[16] Juba II and Ancient Romans referred to Tenerife as Nivaria, derived from the Latin word nix (nsg.; gsg. nivis, npl. nives), meaning snow, in clear reference to the snow-covered peak of the Teide volcano.[17] On the other hand, maps dating to the 14th and 15th century, from authors like Bontier and Le Verrier refer to the island as Isla del Infierno, literally meaning "Island of Hell", a reference to the volcanic activity and eruptions of Mount Teide.
Finally, Teide is also responsible for the name of the island widely used today, named by the Benahoaritas (natives of La Palma) with a derivation from the words tene ("mountain") and ife ("white"). Later, after colonisation, the Hispanisation of the name resulted in the adding of a letter "r" uniting both words to obtain the name Tenerife as a result.[18][19]
Panoramic of Teide National Park
The formal demonym used to refer to the people of Tenerife is Tinerfeño/a, also used colloquially is the term Chicharrero/a.[20] However, in modern society, this is generally only given to inhabitants of the capital, Santa Cruz. The term "chicharrero" was once a derogatory term used by the people of the former capital of La Laguna, in reference to the poor inhabitants and fishermen of Santa Cruz. It was used in reference to the fishermen who would survive by catching poor quality mackerel and citizens who ate potatoes of a low quality.[20] However, as Santa Cruz grew in commerce and status, replacing La Laguna as capital of Tenerife in the 19th century during the reign of Fernando VII, the inhabitants of Santa Cruz ironically began using the insult to honour the new status of the city at La Laguna's expense.[20]
The earliest known human settlement in the islands date to around 200 BC, by people known as the Guanches.[21]
Territorial organisation before the conquest (The Guanches)
About one hundred years before the conquest, the title of mencey was given to the monarch or king of the Guanches of Tenerife, who governed a menceyato or kingdom. This role was later referred to as a "captainship" by the conquerors. Tinerfe el Grande, son of the mencey Sunta governed the island from Adeje in the south. However, upon his death, his nine children rebelled and argued bitterly about how to divide the island. Two independent achimenceyatos were created on the island, and the island was divided into nine menceyatos, with the menceyes within them forming what would be similar to municipalities today.[22] The menceyatos and their menceyes (ordered by the descendants of Tinerfe who ruled them) were the following:
Territorial map of Tenerife before the conquest
Taoro. Menceyes: Bentinerfe, Inmobach, Bencomo and Bentor. Today it includes Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, La Victoria de Acentejo, La Matanza de Acentejo, Los Realejos and Santa Úrsula.
Güímar. Menceyes: Acaymo, Añaterve y Guetón. Today this territory is made up of El Rosario, Candelaria, Arafo and Güímar
Abona. Menceyes: Atguaxoña and Adxoña (Adjona). Today it includes Fasnia, Arico, Granadilla de Abona, San Miguel de Abona and Arona.
Anaga. Menceyes: Beneharo and Beneharo II. Today this territory spans the municipalities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Tegueste. Menceyes: Tegueste, Tegueste II y Teguaco. Today this territory is made up of Tegueste, part of the coastal zone of La Laguna.
Tacoronte: Menceyes: Rumén and Acaymo. Today this territory is made up of Tacoronte and El Sauzal
Icode. Menceyes: Chincanayro and Pelicar. Today this territory is made up of San Juan de la Rambla, La Guancha, Garachico and Icod de los Vinos.
Daute. Menceyes: Cocanaymo and Romén. Today this territory is occupied by El Tanque, Los Silos, Buenavista del Norte and Santiago del Teide.
Adeje. Menceyes. Atbitocazpe, Pelinor, and Ichasagua. It included what today are the municipalities of Guía de Isora, Adeje and Vilaflor
There was also the achimenceyato of Punta del Hidalgo, governed by Aguahuco, a "poor noble" who was an illegitimate son of Tinerfe and Zebenzui.
Spanish conquest
Alonso Fernandez de Lugo presenting the native kings of Tenerife to Ferdinand and Isabella
In December 1493, the Catholic Monarchs (Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon) granted Alonso Fernández de Lugo the right to conquer the island of Tenerife. In April 1494, coming from Gran Canaria, the conqueror landed on the coast of present-day Santa Cruz de Tenerife and disembarked with about 2,000 men on foot and 200 on horseback.[23] After taking the fort, the army prepared to move inland, later capturing the native kings of Tenerife and presenting them to Isabella and Ferdinand.
The menceyes of Tenerife adopted differing responses to the conquest. They divided themselves into the side of peace (Spanish: bando de paz) and the side of war (Spanish: bando de guerra), with the first including the menceyatos of Anaga, Güímar, Abona and Adeje, and the second group with the Tegueste, Tacoronte, Taoro, Icoden and Daute. The opposing group tenaciously fought the conquerors delaying the conquest of the island for two years. Castillian forces under the Adelantado ("military governor") de Lugo suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Guanches in the First Battle of Acentejo in 1494, but the Guanches were eventually overcome by superior technology and surrendered to the Crown of Castile on 25 December 1494.[23]
As in the rest of the islands, many of the natives were enslaved, especially those belonging to the side of war, while a good part of the native population succumbed to diseases such as influenza and probably smallpox, to which they lacked resistance. After the conquest, and especially in the following century, there was a mass movement of colonization and repopulation with the arrival of immigrants from the diverse territories of the growing Spanish Empire (Portugal, Flanders, Italy, Germany).
Tenerife's forests were gradually reduced by population growth and the need to clear land for agriculture for local consumption and for export. This was the case with the introduction of sugar cane at the beginning of the 16th century while in the following centuries, the island's economy centred on the use of other crops such as wine grapes and plantains.[24]
Slavery and plantations
As on the other islands of the same group, much of the native population of Tenerife was enslaved or succumbed to diseases at the same time as immigrants from various places in Europe associated with the Spanish Empire (Portugal, Flanders, Italy, Germany) settled on the island. Native pine forests on the island were cleared to make way for the cultivation of sugarcane in the 1520s; in succeeding centuries, the island's economy was centered on the cultivation of other commodities such as wine and cochineal for making dyes, as well as bananas.
Emigration to the Americas
Tenerife, like the other islands, has maintained a close relationship with Latin America. From the start of the colonization of the New World, many expeditions stopped at the island on their way to the Americas, and added to their crews with many tinerfeños who formed an integral part of the conquest expeditions or simply left in search of better prospects. It is also important to note the exchange in plant and animal species that made those voyages.[25]
After a century and a half of relative growth, based on the grape growing sector, there was an extended emigration of families especially to Venezuela and Cuba. Also by these times there was a new interest on the part of the Crown of populating those empty zones in the Americas to pre-empt the occupation by foreign forces as had happened with the English in Jamaica or the French in the Guianas or western Hispaniola, so Canary islanders including many tinerfeños left for the New World. The cultivation of new crops of the Americas, such as cocoa in Venezuela and tobacco in Cuba, contributed to the population exodus from towns such as Buenavista del Norte, Vilaflor or El Sauzal in the late 17th century. Witness to the emigration history of the island is the foundation in the outskirts of Santo Domingo of the village of San Carlos de Tenerife in 1684. This village founded by tinerfeños was created with the strategic purpose of protecting the town from the French established in the western side of Hispaniola. Between 1720 and 1730 the Crown moved 176 families, including many tinerfeños to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. In 1726, about 25 island families migrated to the Americas to collaborate on the foundation of Montevideo. Four years later, in 1730, another group left which would found the following year the city of San Antonio in Texas. Later, between 1777 and 1783, the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife sent a new group to ultimately help in the foundation of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, and also some groups went to Florida.[25]
Emigration to the Americas (mainly Cuba and Venezuela) continued during the 19th and early 20th century due to economic problems and isolation. In the last few decades, with newer island protectionist economic laws and the resurgence of the tourism industry, the migration flows have reversed, and today Tenerife receives an influx of people, including the return of many descendants of the islanders, some of whom had left five centuries earlier.[25]
Admiral Nelson wounded at Tenerife
The most notable conflict was the Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana to repel the invaders. Nelson lost his right arm from cannon fire, widely believed in legend to have been the cannon Tiger (Spanish: Tigre) as he was trying to disembark on the Paso Alto coast.[24]
On 5 September 1797, another attempt was made in the Puerto Santiago region and was repelled by the inhabitants of Santiago del Teide, who threw rocks at the British from the heights of the cliffs of Los Gigantes.
The island was also attacked by Robert Blake, Walter Raleigh, John Hawkins, Woodes Rogers.[27]
Between 1833 and 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands, until in 1927 a decree ordered that capital status be shared with Las Palmas, as it remains at present.[9][10]
Tourists began visiting Tenerife in large numbers in the 1890s, especially the northern towns of Puerto de la Cruz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.[28] Independent shipping business, such as the Yeoward Brothers Shipping Line, really aided to boast the tourist industry during this time.[29] The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ascended the peak of Mount Teide and remarked on the beauty of the island.
Before his rise to power, Francisco Franco was posted to Tenerife in March 1936 by a Republican government wary of his influence and political leanings. However, Franco received information and in Gran Canaria agreed to collaborate in the military coup that would result in the Spanish Civil War; the Canaries fell to the Nationalists in July 1936. In the 1950s, the misery of the post-war years caused thousands of the island's inhabitants to emigrate to Cuba and other parts of Latin America.
Tenerife was the site of the worst accident ever in commercial aviation. Known as the "Tenerife airport disaster", the airliner collision took place on March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos airport in the north of the island and two Boeing 747 airplanes were involved.
The oldest mountain ranges in Tenerife rose from the Atlantic Ocean by volcanic eruption which gave birth to the island around twelve million years ago.[30] The island as it is today was formed three million years ago by the fusion of three islands made up of the mountain ranges of Anaga, Teno and Valle de San Lorenzo,[30] due to volcanic activity from Teide. The volcano is visible from most parts of the island today, and the crater is 17 kilometres (11 miles) long at some points.
Map of Tenerife
Tenerife is a rugged and volcanic island sculpted by successive eruptions throughout its history. There are four historically recorded volcanic eruptions, none of which has led to casualties. The first occurred in 1704, when the Arafo, Fasnia and Siete Fuentes volcanoes erupted simultaneously. Two years later, in 1706, the greatest eruption occurred at Trevejo. This volcano produced great quantities of lava which buried the city and port of Garachico. The last eruption of the 18th century happened in 1798 at Cañadas de Teide, in Chahorra. Finally, and most recently, in 1909 that formed the Chinyero cinder cone, in the municipality of Santiago del Teide, erupted.[31]
The island is located between 28° and 29° N and the 16° and 17° meridian. It is situated north of the Tropic of Cancer, occupying a central position between the other Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, La Gomera and La Palma. The island is about 300 km (186 mi) from the African coast, and approximately 1,000 km (621 mi) from the Iberian Peninsula.[32] Tenerife is the largest island of the Canary Islands archipelago, with a surface area of 2,034.38 km2 (785 sq mi)[33] and the longest coastline amounting to 342 km (213 mi).[34]
In addition, the highest point, Mount Teide, with an elevation of 3,718 m (12,198 ft) above sea level is the highest point in all of Spain,[35] is also the third largest volcano in the world from its base in the bottom of the sea. For this reason, Tenerife is the tenth highest island worldwide. It comprises about 200 small barren islets or large rocks including Roques de Anaga, Roque de Garachico, and Fasnia adding a further 213,835 m2 (2,301,701 sq ft) to the total area.[33]
Origins and geological formation
Tenerife formation
Tenerife is an island created volcanically, building up from the ocean floor 20–50 million years ago.[36]
According to the theory of plate tectonics, the ascent of magma originating from the Earth's mantle is produced by the effects of tectonic activity from faults or fractures that exist at the oceanic plate. These fractures lie along the structural axes of the island itself, forming themselves from the Alpine orogeny during the Tertiary Period due to the movements of the African plate.
Underwater fissural eruptions originated from the pillow lava, which are produced by the rapid cooling of the magma when it comes in contact with water, obtaining their peculiar shape. This pillow-lava accumulated, constructing the base of the island underneath the sea. As this accumulation approached the surface of the water, gases erupted from the magma due to the reduction of the surrounding pressure. The volcanic eruptions became more violent and had a more explosive character, and resulted in the forming of peculiar geological fragments.[36]
After long-term accumulation of these fragments, the birth of the island occurred at the end of the Miocene Epoch. The zones on Tenerife known as Macizo de Teno, Macizo de Anaga and Macizo de Adeje were formed seven million years ago; these formations are called the Ancient Basaltic Series or Series I. These zones were actually three separate islands lying in what is now the extreme west, east, and south of Tenerife.[37]
A second volcanic cycle called the Post-Miocene Formations or Latest Series II, III, IV began three million years ago. This was a much more intense volcanic cycle, which united the Macizo de Teno, Macizo de Anaga and Macizo de Adeje into one island. This new structure, called the Pre-Cañadas Structure (Edificio pre-Cañadas), would be the foundation for what is called the Cañadas Structure I. The Cañadas Structure I experienced various collapses and emitted explosive material that produced the area known as Bandas del sur (in the present-day south-southeast of Tenerife).[36]
Subsequently, upon the ruins of Cañadas Structure I emerged Cañadas Structure II, which was 2,500 metres (8,202 feet) above sea level and emerged with intense explosive activity. About one million years ago, the Dorsal Range (Cordillera Dorsal) emerged by means of fissural volcanic activity occurring amidst the remains of the older Ancient Basaltic Series (Series I). This Dorsal Range emerged as the highest and the longest volcanic structure in the Canary Islands; it was 1,600 metres (5,249 feet) high and 25 kilometres (16 miles) long.[36]
About 800,000 years ago, two gravitational landslides occurred, giving rise to the present-day valleys of La Orotava and Güímar.[36] Finally, around 200,000 years ago, eruptions started that raised the Pico Viejo-Teide area in the centre of the island, over the Las Cañadas caldera.[36]
Orography and landscape
The uneven and steep orography of the island and its variety of climates has resulted in a diversity of landscapes and geographical and geological formations, from the Parque Nacional del Teide with its extensive pine forests, juxtaposed against the volcanic landscape at the summit of Teide and Malpaís de Güímar, to the Acantilados de Los Gigantes (Cliffs of the Giants) with its vertical precipices. Semidesert areas exist in the south with drought-resistant plants. Other areas range from those protected and enclosed in mountains such as Montaña Roja and Montaña Pelada, the valleys and forests with subtropical vegetation and climate, to those with deep gorges and precipices such as at Anaga and Teno.
Central heights
The principal structures in Tenerife, make the central highlands, with the Teide–Pico Viejo complex and the Las Cañadas areas as most prominent. It comprises a semi-caldera of about 130 km2 (50 sq mi) in area, originated by several geological processes explained under the Origin and formation section. The area is partially occupied by the Teide-Pico Viejo strato-volcano and completed by the materials emitted in the different eruptions that took place. A known formation called Los Azulejos, composed by green-tinted rocks were created by hydrothermal processes.[24][36][38]
South of La Caldera is Guajara Mountain, which has an elevation of 2,718 metres (8,917 feet), rising above Las Cañadas del Teide. At the bottom, is an endorheic basin flanked with very fine sedimentary material which has been deposited from its volcanic processes, and is known as Llano de Ucanca.[24][36][38]
The peak of Teide, at 3,718 metres (12,198 feet) above sea level and more than 7,500 metres (24,606 feet) above the ocean floor, is the highest point of the island, Spanish territory and in the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano is the third largest on the planet, and its central location, substantial size, looming silhouette in the distance and its snowy landscape give it a unique personality.[39] The original settlers considered Teide a god and Teide was a place of worship.
In 1954, the Teide and the whole area around it was declared a national park, with further expansion later on. In addition, in June 2007 it was recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.[40] To the west lies the volcano Pico Viejo (Old Peak). On one side of it, is the volcano Chahorra o Narices del Teide, where the last eruption occurred in the vicinity of Mount Teide in 1798.
The Teide is one of the 16 Decade Volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas.
The uneven contours of the Anaga massif
The Anaga massif (Acantilados de Los Gigantes ("Cliffs of the Giants") present vertical walls reaching heights of 500 metres in some places.[24][36][38]
The Adeje massif (Macizo de Adeje) is situated on the southern tip of the island. Its main landmark is the Roque del Conde ("Count's Rock"), with an elevation of 1001 metres. This massif is not as impressive as the others due to its diminished initial structure, since in addition to with the site's greater geologic age it has experienced severe erosion of its material, thereby losing its original appearance and extent.[24][36][38]
The Dorsal mountain range or Dorsal of Pedro Gil covers the area from the start at Mount La Esperanza, at a height of about 750 m (2,461 ft), to the center of the island, near the Caldera de Las Cañadas, with Izaña, as its highest point at 2,390 m (7,841 ft) (MSLP). These mountains have been created due to basaltic fissural volcanism through one of the axis that gave birth to the vulcanism of this area.[24][36][38]
The Abeque Dorsal was formed by a chain of volcanoes that join the Teno with the central insular peak of Teide-Pico Viejo starting from another of the three axis of Tenerife's geological structures. On this dorsal we find the historic volcano of Chinyero whose last eruption happened in 1909.[24][36][38]
The South Dorsal or Dorsal of Adeje is part of the last of the structural axis. The remains of this massive rock show the primordial land, also showing the alignment of small volcanic cones and rocks around this are in Tenerife's South.[24][36][38]
Valleys and ravines
Valleys are another of the island's features. The most important are Valle de La Orotava and Valle de Güímar, both formed by the mass sliding of great quantities of material towards the sea, creating a depression of the land. Other valleys tend to be between hills formed by deposits of sediments from nearby slopes, or simply wide ravines which in their evolution have become typical valleys.[24][36][38]
Tenerife has a large number of ravines, which are a characteristic element of the landscape, caused by erosion from surface runoff over a long period. Notable ravines include Ruiz, Fasnia and Güímar, Infierno, and Erques, all of which have been designated protected natural areas by Canarian institutions.[24][36][38]
Panorama of Valle de La Orotava
The coasts of Tenerife are typically rugged and steep, particularly on the north of the island. However, the island has 67.14 kilometres (41.72 miles) of beaches, such as the one at El Médano, surpassed only in this respect by the island of Fuerteventura.[41] There are many black sand pebble beaches on the northern coast, while on the south and south-west coast of the island, the beaches have typically much finer and clearer sand with lighter tones.[24][36][38]
Volcanic tubes
Lava tubes, or volcanic pipes are volcanic caves, usually in the form of tunnels formed within lava flows more or less fluid reogenética duration of the activity. Among the many existing volcanic tubes on the island stands out the Cueva del Viento, located in the northern town of Icod de los Vinos, which is the largest volcanic tunnel in the European Union and one of the largest in the world, although for a long time was even considered the largest in the world.
Tenerife is known internationally as the "Island of Eternal Spring" (Isla de la Eterna Primavera).[42] The island, being on a latitude of the Sahara Desert, enjoys a warm climate year-round with an average of 18–24 °C in the winter and 24–28 °C in the summer and high sunshine totals. The moderate climate of Tenerife is controlled to a great extent by the tradewinds, whose humidity, principally, is condensed over the north and northeast of the island, creating cloud banks that range between 600 and 1,800 metres in height. The cold sea currents of the Canary Islands also have a cooling effect on the coasts and its beaches and the topography of the landscape plays a role in climatic differences on the island with its many valleys.
Major climatic contrasts on the island are evident, especially during the winter months when it is possible to enjoy the warm sunshine on the coast and experience snow within miles, 3,000 metres (9,843 feet) above sea level on Teide.[38] There are also major contrasts at low altitude, where the climate ranges from arid (Köppen BWh) on the southeastern side represented by Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Mediterranean (Csa/Csb) on the northwestern side in Buena Vista del Norte and La Orotava.[43]
The north and south of Tenerife similarly have different climatic characteristics. The windward northwestern side of the island receives 73 percent of all precipitation on the island, and the relative humidity of the air is superior and the insulation inferior. The pluviometric maximums are registered on the windward side at an average altitude of between 1,000 and 1,200 metres, almost exclusively in the La Orotava mountain range.[38] However, although climatic differences in rainfall and sunshine on the island exist, overall annual precipitation is low and the summer months from May to September are normally completely dry. Rainfall, akin to Southern California, can also be extremely erratic from one year to another.[44]
Climate data for Santa Cruz (1981-2010)
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm)
178 186 221 237 282 306 337 319 253 222 178 168 2,887
Source: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología[45]
Climate data for Tenerife South Airport (1981-2010)
Climate data for La Laguna (1981-2010) - Tenerife North Airport (altitude: 632 m)
11 10 10 10 7 4 3 3 5 10 10 12 95
Climate chart ()
The volcanic ground of Tenerife, which is of a porous and permeable character, is generally the reason why the soil is able to maximise the absorption of water on an island of low rainfall, with condensation in forested areas and frost deposition on the summit of the island also contributory causes.[48]
Given the irregularity of precipitation and geological conditions on the island, dam construction has been avoided, so most of the water (90 percent) comes from wells and from water galleries (Horizontal tunnels bored into the volcano) of which there are thousands on the island, important systems that serve to extract its hydrological resources.[49] These tunnels are very hazardous, with pockets of volcanic gas or carbon dioxide, causing rapid death.[50]
Pollution and air quality
The Canary Islands have low levels of air pollution thanks to the lack of factories and industry and the tradewinds which naturally move away contaminated air from the islands. According to official data offered by the Health and Industry Ministry in Spain, Tenerife is one of cleanest places in the country with an air pollution index that is below the national average.[51] Despite this, there are still agents which affect pollution levels in the island, the main polluting agents being the refinery at Santa Cruz, the thermal power plants at Las Caletillas and Granadilla, and road traffic, increased by the high level of tourism in the island. In addition the island of Tenerife like at La Palma light pollution must be also controlled, to help the astrophysical observatories located in the island's summits.[52] Water is generally of a very high quality, and all the beaches of the island of Tenerife have been catalogued by the Ministry of Health and Consumption as waters suitable for bathing.[53]
The island of Tenerife has a remarkable ecological diversity in spite of its small surface area, which is a consequence of the special environmental conditions on the island, where its distinct orography modifies the general climatic conditions at a local level, producing a significant variety of microclimates. This diversity of natural microclimates and, therefore, habitats, means that a rich and diverse flora (1400 species of plants) exists on the island, with well over a hundred entirely endemic to Tenerife.[54] Endemic species include Viper's bugloss, Teide white broom, Teide violet etc. The fauna of the island has many endemic invertebrates and unique reptile, bird and mammal species. The fauna of Tenerife includes some 400 species of fish, 56 birds, five reptiles, two amphibians, 13 land mammals and several thousand invertebrates, along with several species of sea turtles, whales and dolphins. Before the arrival of the aborigines, Tenerife and the Canaries were inhabited by now-extinct endemic animals, including a giant lizard (Gallotia goliath) and a giant rat (Canariomys bravoi).[55]
The vegetation of Tenerife can be divided into six major zones that are directly related to altitude and the direction in which they face.
Lower xerophytic zone: 0–700 m. Xerophytic shrubs that are well adapted to long dry spells, intense sunshine and strong winds. Many endemic species: spurges, cactus spurge (Euphorbia canariensis), wax plants (Ceropegia spp.), etc.
Thermophile forest: 200–600 m. Transition zone with moderate temperatures and rainfall, but the area has been deteriorated by human activity. Many endemic species: juniper (Juniperus cedrus), dragon trees (Dracaena draco), palm trees (Phoenix canariensis), etc.
Laurel forest: 500–1000 m. Dense forest of large trees, descendants of tertiary age flora, situated in a zone of frequent rainfall and mists. A wide variety of species with abundant undergrowth of bushes, herbaceous plants, and ferns. Laurels, holly (Ilex canariensis), ebony (Persea indica), mahogany (Apollonias barbujana), etc.
Wax myrtle: 1000–1500 m. A dryer vegetation, poorer in species. It replaces the degraded laurel forest. Of great forestry importance. Wax myrtles (Myrica faya), tree heath (Erica arborea), holly, etc.
Pine forest: 800–2000 m. Open pine forest, with thin and unvaried undergrowth. Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis), broom (Genista canariensis), rock rose (Cistus spp.), etc.
High mountain: over 2000 m. Dry climate, intense solar radiation and extreme temperatures. Flora well adapted to the conditions.[54]
Gallotia galloti, a wall lizard species endemic to Tenerife
Canary Islands dragon tree
Tenerife bugloss
Protected natural areas
Map showing the classification of protected areas in Tenerife
Nearly half of the island territory (48.6 percent),[56] is under protection from the Red Canaria de Espacios Naturales Protegidos (Canary Islands Network for Protected Natural Areas). Of the 146 protected sites under control of network in the Canary Islands archipelago,[57] a total of 43 are located in Tenerife, the most protected island in the group.[58] The network has criteria which places areas under its observation under eight different categories of protection, all of them are represented in Tenerife. Aside from Parque Nacional del Teide, it counts the Parque Natural de Canarias (Crown Forest), two rural parks (Anaga and Teno), four integral natural reserves, six special natural reserves, a total of fourteen natural monuments, nine protected landscapes and up to six sites of scientific interest. Also located on the island Macizo de Anaga since 2015 is Biosphere Reserve[13] and is the place that has the largest number of endemic species in Europe.[13]
Building of the Presidency of the Canaries Autonomous Government in Santa Cruz
Tenerife island's government resides with the Cabildo. Since its creation in March 1913 it has a series of capabilities and duties, stated in the Canary Autonomy Statutes (Spanish: Estatuto de Autonomía de Canarias) and regulated by Law 14/1990, of 26 July 1990, of the Régimen Jurídico de las Administraciones Públicas de Canarias.[60]
The Cabildo is composed of the following administrative offices; Presidency, Legislative Body, Government Council, Informative Commissions, Spokesman's office.
Map of Municipalities in the island of Tenerife
The island, itself part of a Spanish province named Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is divided administratively into 31 municipalities.
Only three municipalities are landlocked: Tegueste, El Tanque and Vilaflor. Vilaflor is the municipality with the highest altitude in the Canaries (its capital is 1,400 meters high).
The largest municipality with an area of 207.31 kilometres (128.82 mi) is La Orotava, which covers much of the Teide National Park. The smallest town on the island and of the archipelago is Puerto de la Cruz, with an area smaller than 9 km2.[33]
It is also common to find internal division, in that some cities make up a metropolitan area within a municipality, notably the cities of Santa Cruz and La Laguna.
Below is an alphabetical list of all the municipalities on the island:
The counties of Tenerife have no official recognition, but there is a consensus among geographers about them:[61]
Acentejo
Flags and heraldry
Flag of Tenerife
Coat-of-arms of Tenerife
The Flag of Tenerife was originally adopted in 1845 by the navy at its base in the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Later, and at present, this flag represents all the island of Tenerife. It was approved by the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife and the Order of the Government of the Canary Islands on 9 May 1989 and published on 22 May in the government report of the Canary Islands and made official.[62]
The coat-of-arms of Tenerife was granted by royal decree on 23 March 1510 by Ferdinand the Catholic at Madrid in the name of Joan I, Queen of Castile. The coat-of-arms has a field of gold, with an image of Saint Michael (the island was conquered on the saint's feast day) above a mountain depicted in brownish, natural colors. Flames erupt from the mountain, symbolizing El Teide. Below this mountain is depicted the island itself in vert on top of blue and silver waves. To the right there is a castle in gules, and to the left, a lion rampant in gules. The shield that the Cabildo Insular, or Island Government, uses is slightly different from that used by the city government of La Laguna, which utilizes a motto in the arms’ border and also includes some palm branches.[63]
Natural symbols
The official symbols from nature associated with Tenerife are the bird blue chaffinch (Fringilla teydea) and the Canary Islands dragon tree (Dracaena draco) tree.[64]
Locals at the Semana Santa (Easter) in Los Realejos
According to INE data of 1 January 2011, Tenerife has the largest population of the seven Canary Islands and the most populated island of Spain with 908,555 registered inhabitants, of whom about 25 percent (220,902) live in the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and nearly 50 percent (424,200) in the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz–La Laguna.[65] Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna are physically one urban area, so that together they have a population of over 382,331 inhabitants.[66][67]
After the city of Santa Cruz the major towns and municipalities are San Cristóbal de La Laguna (144,347), Arona (72,328), La Orotava (40,644), Adeje (38,245), Los Realejos (37,224), Granadilla de Abona (36,224), and Puerto de la Cruz (31,131). All other municipalities have fewer than 30,000 inhabitants, the smallest municipality being Vilaflor with a population of 1,900. In addition to the registered population, there are numerous non-registered residents, primarily tourists.
Demographic evolution of Tenerife
Recently Tenerife has experienced population growth significantly higher than the national average. In 1990, there were 663,306 registered inhabitants, which increased to 709,365 in 2000, an increase of 46,059 or an annual growth of 0.69 percent. However, between 2000 and 2007, the population rose by 155,705 to 865,070, an annual increase of 3.14 percent.[68]
These results reflect the general trend in Spain where since 2000 immigration has reversed the general slow down in population growth, following the collapse in the birth rate from 1976. However, since 2001 the overall growth rate in Spain has around 1.7 percent per year, compared with 3.14 percent on Tenerife, one of the largest increases in the country.[69]
Tenerife is the economic capital of the Canary Islands.[7][8] Even though Tenerife's economy is highly specialized in the service sector, which makes 78 percent of its total production capacity, the importance of the rest of the economic sectors is key to its production development. In this sense, the primary sector, which only represents 1.98 percent of the total product, groups activities that are important to the sustainable development of the island's economy. The energy sector which contributes 2.85 percent has a primary role in the development of renewable energy sources. The industrial sector which shares in 5.80 percent is a growing activity in the island, vis-a-vis the new possibilities created by technological advances. Finally, the construction sector with 11.29 percent of the total production has a strategic priority, because it is a sector with relative stability which permits multiple possibilities of development and employment opportunities.[70]
Puerto de la Cruz, in the North, during winter, featuring background snowy mountains
Tourism is the most prominent industry in the Canaries, which are one of the major tourist destinations in the world.
In 2014, 11,473,600 tourists (excluding those from other parts of Spain) came to the Canary Islands. Tenerife had 4,171,384 arrivals that year, excluding the numbers for Spanish tourists which make up an additional 30 percent of total arrivals. According to last year's Canarian Statistics Centre's (ISTAC) Report on Tourism the greatest number of tourists from any one country come from the United Kingdom, with more than 3,980,000 tourists in 2014. In second place comes Germany followed by Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Russia and Austria.
Tourism is more prevalent in the south of the island, which is hotter and drier and has many well developed resorts such as Playa de las Americas and Los Cristianos. More recently coastal development has spread northwards from Playa de las Americas and now encompasses the former small enclave of La Caleta (a favoured place for naturist tourists). After the Moratoria act passed by the Canarian Parliament in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, no more hotels should be built on the island unless they are classified as 5 star-quality and comprise different services such as Golf Courses or Congress facilities. This act was passed with the goal of improving the standard of tourism service and promoting environmentally conscious development.
The area known as Costa Adeje (Las Américas-Los Cristianos) has many world-class facilities and leisure opportunities besides sea and sand, such as quality shopping centres, golf courses, restaurants, waterparks, animal parks, and a theatre suitable for musicals or a Congress Hall.
In the more lush and green north of the island the main development for tourism has been in the town of Puerto de la Cruz. The town itself has kept some of its old-harbour town charm mixed with northern European influences. Still, the tourist boom in the 1960s changed the outlook of the town, making it cosy and cosmopolitan at the same time, and a favourite for the more mature traveller (notably the German and Spanish tourist).
In the 19th and most of the 20th century large numbers of foreign tourists came, especially British, showing interest in the agriculture of the islands. With the world wars, this sector weakened, but the start of the second half of the century brought new forms of tourism. At first emphasis was on Puerto de la Cruz, for the kindness of the climate, and for all the attractions that the Valle de la Orotava concentrated, but following the attraction of the sun and beaches, around 1980 was born the tourist boom of south Tenerife, where emphasis was on cities like Arona or Adeje, shifting to tourist centres like Los Cristianos o Playa de Las Americas, that today house 65 percent of the hotels that were on the island. Tenerife receives more than 5 million tourists every year, of the canary islands Tenerife is the most popular. However, this data also reflects the large quality of resources that tourism consumes (space, energy, water etc.)[24][71]
The Botanic Gardens in Puerto de la Cruz
Since tourism dominates the Tenerifian economy, the service sector is the largest, but industry and commerce contribute 40 percent of the non tourist economy.[72] The primary sector has lost its traditional importance in the island, to the industrial and service sectors. Agriculture contributes less than 10 percent of the island's GDP, but its contribution is vital, as it also generates indirect benefits, by maintaining the rural appearance, and supporting Tenerifian cultural values.
Agriculture is centred on the northern slopes, and is also determined by the altitude as well as orientation: in the coastal zone, tomatoes and bananas are cultivated, usually in plastic enclosures, these high yield products are for export to mainland Spain and the rest of Europe; in the drier intermediate zone, potatoes, tobacco and maize are grown, whilst in the South, onions are important.[24]
View of fields around Anaga
Bananas are a particularly important crop, as Tenerife grows more bananas than the other Canary Islands, with a current annual production of about 150,000 tons, down from the peak production of 200,000 tons in 1986. More of 90 percent of the total is destined for the international market, and banana growing occupies about 4200 hectares.[73] In order of importance; after the banana, come tomatoes, grapes, potatoes and flowers. Fishing is also a major contributor to the Tenerifian economy, as the Canaries are Spain's second most important fishing grounds.
Commerce in Tenerife plays a significant role in the economy which is enhanced by tourism, representing almost 20 percent of the GDP, with the commercial center Santa Cruz de Tenerife generating most of the earnings. Although there are a diversity of industrial estates that exist on the island, the most important industrial activity is petroleum, representing 10 percent of the island's GDP, again largely due to the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife with its refinery. It provides petroliferous products not only to the Canaries archipelago but is also an active in the markets of the Iberian Peninsula, Africa and South America.
Castillo de San Andrés, declared of National Tourist Interest Center
There are many monuments on the island, especially from the time after the conquest, we can highlight the Cathedral of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the Church of the Conception of La Laguna and the Church of the Conception in the capital. The Basilica of Candelaria|Basílica de Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria can be found on the island (Patron of Canary Islands). The island also has several archaeological sites of Guanche time (prior to the conquest), which generally are cave paintings that are scattered throughout the island, but most are found south of the island, such as, Cambados The Archaeological Area and the archaeological site of El Barranco del Rey both in Arona.[74] We could also highlight the Cueva de Achbinico (first shrine Christian of the Canary Islands, Guanche vintage-Spanish). In addition there are some buildings called Güímar Pyramids, whose origin is uncertain. Also noteworthy on the island are the defensive castles located in the village of San Andrés, as well as many others throughout the island.
Among other impressive structures is the Auditorio de Tenerife, one of the most modern in Spain, which can be found at the entry port to the capital (in the southern part of Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife). Another prominent structure is the Torres de Santa Cruz, a skyscraper 120 meters high (the highest residential building in Spain and one of the tallest skyscrapers in the Canary Islands).[75]
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Antonio de Viana, a native of La Laguna, composed the epic poem Antigüedades de las Islas Afortunadas (Antiquities of the Fortunate Isles), a work of value to anthropologists, since it sheds light on Canarian life of the time.[76] The Enlightenment reached Tenerife, and literary and artistic figures of this era include Domingo Pérez Minik, amongst others.
Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa
During the course of the 16th century, several painters flourished in La Laguna, as well as in other places on the island, including Garachico, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz. Cristóbal Hernández de Quintana and Gaspar de Quevedo, considered the best Canarian painters of the 17th century, were natives of La Orotava, and their art can be found in churches on Tenerife.[77]
The work of Luis de la Cruz y Ríos can be found in the church of Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia, in Puerto de la Cruz. Born in 1775, he became court painter to Ferdinand VII of Spain and was also a miniaturist, and achieved a favorable position in the royal court. He was known there by the nickname of "El Canario."[78]
The landscape painter Valentín Sanz (born 1849) was a native of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz displays many of his works. This museum also contains the works of Juan Rodríguez Botas (1880–1917), considered the first Canarian impressionist.[79]
Frescoes by the expressionist Mariano de Cossío can be found in the church of Santo Domingo, in La Laguna. The watercolorist Francisco Bonnín Guerín (born 1874) was a native of Santa Cruz, and founded a school to encourage the arts. Óscar Domínguez was born in La Laguna in 1906 and is famed for his versatility. He belonged to the surrealist school, and invented the technique known as decalcomania.[80]
The arrival from Seville of Martín de Andújar Cantos, an architect and sculptor brought new sculpting techniques of the Seville school, which were passed down to his students, including Blas García Ravelo, a native of Garachico. He had been trained by the master sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés.[81]
Other notable sculptors from the 17th and 18th centuries include Sebastián Fernández Méndez, Lázaro González de Ocampo, José Rodríguez de la Oliva, and most importantly, Fernando Estévez, a native of La Orotava and a student of Luján Pérez. Estévez contributed an extensive collection of religious images and woodcarvings, found in numerous churches of Tenerife, such as the Principal Parish of Saint James the Great (Parroquia Matriz del Apóstol Santiago), in Los Realejos; in the Cathedral of La Laguna; the Iglesia de la Concepción in La Laguna; the basilica of Candelaria, and various churches in La Orotava.
Canarian timple
An important musician from Tenerife is Teobaldo Power y Lugo Viña, a native of Santa Cruz and a pianist and composer, and author of the Cantos Canarios.[82] The Hymn of the Canary Islands takes its melody from the Arrorró, or Lullaby, from Power y Lugo Viña's Cantos Canarios.[83]
Folkloric music has also flourished on the island, and, as in the rest of the islands, is characterized by the use of the Canarian Timple, the guitar, bandurria, laúd, and various percussion instruments. Local folkloric groups such as Los Sabandeños work to save Tenerife's musical forms in the face of increasing cultural pressure from the mainland.[84]
Tenerife is the home to the types of songs called the isa, folía, tajaraste, and malagueña, which are a cross of ancient Guanche songs and those of Andalusia and Latin America.
Pyramids of Guimar
Architecture in Santa Cruz (Plaza de España)
Auditorio de Tenerife, icon of architecture in Canary Islands[85]
Tenerife is characterized by an architecture whose best representatives are the local manor houses and also the most humble and common dwellings. This style, while influenced by those of Andalusia and Portugal, nevertheless had a very particular and native character.[38]
Of the manor houses, the best examples can be found in La Orotava and in La Laguna, characterized by their balconies and by the existence of interior patios and the widespread use of the wood known as pino tea ("pitch pine"). These houses are characterized by simple façades and wooden lattices with little ornamentation.[38] There are sash windows and it is customary for the chairs inside the house to rest back-to-back to the windows. The interior patios function like real gardens that serve to give extra light to the rooms, which are connected via the patio by galleries frequently crowned by wood and stone.
Gadgets like stills, water pumps, benches and counters, are elements that frequently form part of these patios.[38]
Traditional houses generally have two storeys, with rough walls of variegated colours. Sometimes the continuity of these walls is interrupted by the presence of stone blocks that are used for ornamental purposes.[38]
The government buildings and religious structures were built according to the changing styles of each century. The urban nuclei of La Orotava and La Laguna have been declared national historical-artistic monuments.[86]
In recent years, various governments have spearheaded the concept of developing architectural projects, sometimes ostentatious ones, designed by renowned architects–for example, the remodeling of the Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Other examples include the Playa de Las Teresitas project by the Frenchman Dominique Perrault; the center known as Magma Arte & Congresos; the Torres de Santa Cruz; and the Auditorio de Tenerife ("Auditorium of Tenerife"). The latter, by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava, lies to the east of the Parque Marítimo ("Maritime Park"), in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and is characterized by its sail-like structure, which evokes a boat, and has become a symbol for the city and island,[87] which makes Santa Cruz de Tenerife one of the Spanish cities with the most futuristic buildings.
Distinctive representatives of craftsmanship on the island are Tenerife Lace (calado canario), which is drawn work embroidery, and the intricate doilies known as rosetas, or rosette embroidery, particularly from Vilaflor. The lace, often made for table linen, is produced by the intricate and slow embroidering of a stretched piece of cloth, which is rigidly attached to a wooden frame and is finished with illustrations or patterns using threads that are crossed over and wound around the fijadores, or pins stuck in a small support made of cloth.[88] These decorated, small pieces are afterwards joined, to produce distinct designs and pieces of cloth.[89]
Another Tenerife-based industry is cabinetwork. The north of the island produced various master craftsman who created distinctive balconies, celosias, doors, and windows, as well as furniture consisting of pieces made in fine wood. Basketmaking using palm-leaves was also an important industry. Other materials are chestnut tree branches stripped of their leaves and banana tree fibre (known locally as la badana).[90]
Pottery has a long history harking back to the production of ceramics by the Guanches. The Guanches were unfamiliar with the potter's wheel, and used hand-worked clay, which gave their pottery a distinctive look. Pottery was used to produce domestic objects such as pots and grills, or ornamental pieces such as bead collars or the objects known as pintaderas, which were pieces of pottery used to decorate other vessels.[24]
Traditional celebrations
Annual performance to honour "Our Lady of Candelaria" at Socorro Beach, Güímar
Carnival of Santa Cruz
Perhaps the most important festival of Tenerife, popular both on a national and international level, is the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which has been declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest (Fiesta de Interés Turístico Internacional).[91] The carnival is celebrated in many locations in the north and south of the island, but is largest in scope in the city of Santa Cruz.[92] Contests are celebrated, and the carnival includes bands of street musicians (murgas), groups of minstrels (rondallas de Tenerife), masquerades (comparsas), and various associations (agrupaciones). Once the Queen of the festival is elected, the first part of the carnival ends, and thereafter begins the actual street carnival, in which large numbers of people gather in the centre of Santa Cruz, with the carnival lasting ten days.[93]
Pilgrimages (Romerías)
The most traditional and widespread religious festivals on the islands are the pilgrimages or romerías.[94] These events, which incorporate Christian and non-Christian elements, are celebrated by various means: with wagons and floats, plowing teams and livestock, in honor of the patron saint of a particular place. The processions are accompanied by local dances, local dishes, folkloric activities, local arts and crafts, local sports, and the wearing of traditional dress of Tenerife (trajes de mago).
The origins of these events can be attributed to the parties and celebrations held by the richest classes of the island, who would gather to venerate their patron saints, to which they attributed good harvests, fertile lands, plentiful rainfall, the curing of sicknesses and ending of epidemics, etc. They would thus give homage to these saints by consuming and sharing the fruits of their harvest, which included the locally cultivated wines. These have developed into processions to mark festivals dedicated to Saint Mark in Tegueste, where the wagons are decorated with the fruits of the earth (seeds, cereals, flowers, etc.); to Saint Isidore the Laborer in Los Realejos; to Saint Isidore the Laborer and Maria Torribia (Saint Mary of the Head) in La Orotava; Saint Benedict in La Laguna; Virgin of Candelaria in Candelaria; Saint Roch in Garachico; and Saint Augustine in Arafo.
Holiday of the Virgin of Candelaria
The Virgin of Candelaria is the patron of the Canary Islands; a feast is held in her honor two times a year, in February and August. The Pilgrimage-Offering to the Virgin of Candelaria is celebrated every 14 August in this event is a tradition that representations of all municipalities of the island and also of all the Canary archipelago come to make offerings to their patron. Another significant act of the feast of the Virgin of Candelaria is called "Walk to Candelaria" held on the night of 14 to 15 August in which the faithful make pilgrimage on foot from various parts of the island, even coming from other islands to arrive at Villa Mariana de Candelaria.
On 2 February we celebrate the feast of the Candelaria. Also on this day come to town many members of the Virgin.
Holiday of the Cristo de La Laguna
It is celebrated every 14 September in honor of a much venerated image of Christ in the Archipelago, the Cristo de La Laguna, is held in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Soil Tapestry in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (Town Square) in La Orotava
The religious festival of Corpus Christi is particularly important, and is traditionally celebrated with floral carpets laid in the streets. Particularly noteworthy are the celebrations in La Orotava where a very large carpet, or tapestry, of different coloured volcanic soils, covers the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (town square). These soils are taken from the Parque Nacional del Teide, and after the celebration, are returned, to preserve the National Park. The celebration of Corpus Christi in Orotava has been declared of Important Cultural Interest among the official Traditional Activities of the Island.[95]
Among the numerous other celebrations that define Tenerifian culture, Easter remains the most important. This is celebrated across the island, but is particularly notable in the municipalities of La Laguna, La Orotava and Los Realejos, where elaborate processions take place on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day, or "Resurrection Sunday". Holy Week in the city of San Cristobal de la Laguna is the largest of the Canary Islands.[96]
Cathedral of La Laguna
Basilica of Candelaria
As with the rest of Spain, Tenerife is largely Roman Catholic.[97] However, the practice of other religions and denominations has increasingly expanded on the island due to tourism and immigration, as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Evangelicalism, Judaism and Afro-American religion.[98] Minority religions are stationed in the island: Chinese Religions,[99] Bahá'í[99] and the neopaganism native form, the Church of the Guanche People,[99] among others.
An important Roman Catholic festival is the celebration of the feast day associated with the Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of the Canary Islands, who represents the union of the Guanche and Spanish cultures.[100] The Guanches became devoted to a Black Madonna that Christian missionaries from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura left on a beach near the present-day Villa Mariana de Candelaria, which gave rise to the legends and stories associated with the Virgin. These legends fueled the cult of the Virgin and the pilgrimages to Candelaria that have existed to this day on the island. Another cult to the Virgin Mary exists in the form of Our Lady of Los Remedios (la Virgen de Los Remedios), who is patron of the Roman Catholic diocese of Tenerife (Diócesis Nivariense).
In Tenerife born two Catholic saints who were of the greatest missionaries in the American continent: Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur and José de Anchieta. The first was a missionary in Guatemala and founder of Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem (the first American-born religious order), the second was a missionary in Brazil, and was one of the founders of São Paulo and of Rio de Janeiro. It also highlights the figure of the mystic Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado. This nun died with a reputation for holiness and is highly revered throughout the Canary Islands. Her body is intact in the Convent of Santa Catalina de Siena in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Principal Roman Catholic places of worship on the island include:
The Basilica of Candelaria (in Candelaria): The place where the image of the Virgin of Candelaria can be found, this sanctuary is built in neoclassical style, and is visited daily by the parishioners, who visit the Villa Mariana out of devotion to the Virgin.
The Cathedral of La Laguna (in San Cristóbal de La Laguna): The seat of the Diocese of Tenerife (known as the Diócesis Nivariense, or Nivarian Diocese), the cathedral is a place of devotion for Our Lady of Remedies (la Virgen de Los Remedios). A combination of neo-Gothic and neoclassical architectural elements, it is now being restored and rebuilt.
Real Santuario del Cristo de La Laguna (in San Cristóbal de La Laguna): Is one of the most important spiritual temples Canaries, this is because inside is venerated miraculous image of the Cristo de La Laguna, which is one of the most revered religious images of the Canary Islands and a symbol of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Principal Parish of Saint James the Great (Parroquia Matriz del Apóstol Santiago): Situated in Villa de Los Realejos, this parish church was the first Christian church built on the island after its conquest by Castilian forces, and is dedicated to Saint James the Great, due to the fact that the conquest was completed on the saint's feast day, that is, 25 July, in the year 1496. It was, along with the Parish of the Conception of La Laguna, one of the first parishes of the island.
The Church of the Conception of La Laguna (Iglesia de la Concepción de La Laguna): One of the most ancient buildings on Tenerife, its construction was ordered by Alonso Fernández de Lugo. It has been declared a National Historic Monument. Around this church were established the dwellings and framework that formed the nucleus of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Other important churches include the Church of the Conception in La Orotava (Iglesia de la Concepción); the churches of San Agustín and Santo Domingo in La Orotava; the church of Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia in Puerto de la Cruz; the church of San Marcos in Icod de los Vinos; the church of Santa Ana in Garachico; and the Church of the Conception (Iglesia de la Concepción) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The first saint of Tenerife[101] and Canary Islands[102] was Santo Hermano Pedro de San José Betancurt, born in the town of Vilaflor, Tenerife. His shrine is a cave in Granadilla de Abona, near the coast, where he lived in his youth.
University of La Laguna, the oldest and largest university in the Canary Islands
Formal education in Tenerife began with the religious orders. In 1530, the Dominican Order established a chair of philosophy at the convent of La Concepción de La Laguna. Still, until well into the 18th century Tenerife was largely without institutions of education.
Such institutions finally began to develop thanks to the work of the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País ("Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country"), which established several schools in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The first of these was an institute of secondary education established in 1846 to fill the gap left by the closure of the Universidad de San Fernando (see University of La Laguna).[103] An 1850 annex to this building was the Escuela Normal Elemental, the archipelago's first teachers' college or normal school, which became the Escuela Normal Superior de Magisterio from 1866 onward. These were the only institutions of higher education until the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera created several institutions. A turning point came around the time of the rise of the Second Spanish Republic. From 1929 to 1933 the number of schools nearly doubled.
Shortly after this, though, the start of the Spanish Civil War and the following dictatorship of Francisco Franco constituted a considerable reversal. Education in the hands of religious orders had a certain importance on the island until the 1970 Ley General de Educación ("General Law of Education") shifted the balance from religiously based education to public education. Public schools continued their advance during and after the post-Franco Spanish transition to democracy. Tenerife today has 301 centers of childhood education (preschools), 297 primary schools, 140 secondary schools and 86 post-secondary schools.[104] There are also five universities or post-graduate schools, the University of La Laguna, the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (National University of Distance Learning), the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Menéndez Pelayo International University), the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (University of Alfonso X the Wise) and the Universidad de Vic (Escuela Universitaria de Turismo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, "University School of Tourism of Santa Cruz de Tenerife"). The largest of these is the University of La Laguna.
Teide Observatory, part of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries)
While Tenerife is not prominent in the history of scientific and academic RICET, "Network of Research of Centers of Tropical Diseases"), located in various parts of Spain.
Puerto de la Cruz has the Instituto de Estudos Hispánicos de Canarias (Institute of Hispanic Studies of the Canaries), attached to Madrid's Instituto de Cultura Hispánica. In La Laguna is the Canarian delegation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Superior Council of Scientific Investigations), the Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias (Canarian Institute of Agrarian Investigation), the Instituto de Estudios Canarios (Canarian Institute of Studies) and the Centro Internacional para la Conservación del Patrimonio (the International Center of the Conservation of Patrimony).
Other research facilities in Tenerife are the Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, the Instituto Vulcanológico de Canarias, the Asociación Industrial de Canarias, the Instituto Tecnológico de Energías Renovables (Technological Institute of Renewable Energy) and the Instituto Oceanográfico de Canarias in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Guanche mummy in the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre
Guanche figures at Pueblo Chico in La Oratava
The island boasts a variety of museums of different natures, under dominion of a variety of institutions. Perhaps the most developed are those belonging to the
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^ Fondo museográfico del espacio
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Panorama of the La Orotava Valley with Teide in the background
Teide and Roque Cinchado.
Playa de Las Teresitas in San Andrés (Santa Cruz de Tenerife).
Masca.
Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Playa Torviscas—grey sand beach, Tenerife
Complejo Lago Martiánez
Casa de la Aduana
Fishermen's Museum by (Bernard Romain)
The sun setting over Los Gigantes.
Miami Dade, United States.[139]
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[140]
Tenerife is twinned with:
Twin towns — Sister cities
Viniculture in the archipelago, and especially in Tenerife dates back to the conquest, when the settlers brought a variety of vines to plant. In the 16th and 17th centuries, wine production played an important role in the economy, and many families were dedicated to the culture and business. Of special mention is malvasía canary, considered the best wine of Tenerife and at the time one of the most desired wines in the world, being shipped across to the major warehouses of Europe and America.[136] Writers such as William Shakespeare and Walter Scott make reference to the wine in some of their works.[137] Tenerife has 5 main wine growing regions. These include Abona, Valle de Güímar, Valle de La Orotava, Tacoronte-Acentejo and Ycoden-Daute-Isora.[138]
Confectionery in Tenerife is represented and strongly influenced by La Palma, with confections like bienmesabe, leche asada, Príncipe Alberto, frangollo, huevos moles, quesillo, etc.[24][38]
Gofio is one of the more traditional elements of cooking on the island, It is made with cereal grains that are roasted and then ground. Increasingly used to make a gofio on the island is wheat although there are other types, and they are often made with chick peas. Relatively common is a mixed-type with wheat. It was served as main food to the guanches even before the Spanish conquest. In later times of scarcity or famine it was a staple of the popular Canarian diet. Today it is eaten as a main dish (gofio escaldado) or an accompaniment to different dishes, meats, fishes, soups, desserts. Some famous cooks have even made gofio ice cream, receiving good comments from the critics.[24][38]
Gofio escaldado
Cheeses from Tenerife now have a quality mark promoted by the Fundación Tenerife Rural, to standardize their quality in an attempt to publicize the qualities of the cheese and improve its marketing.[133]
Cheese grew to become one of the most commonly produced and consumed products on the island and is regularly served as part of a starter course or as a snack. Farms at Arico, La Orotava and Teno produced a variety of cheeses, including soft cheeses, cured, smoked and were mostly handmade. Today the main product is goat cheese, although certain amounts are made from sheep's or cow's milk, and according to the Registro General Sanitario de Alimentos, the general health registry, around 75 different cottage cheeses are produced.[133] The cheeses of the Canaries have generally received good international reviews, noted for their sweetness which differentiates them from certain other European cheeses.[24][38][134] In particular, Tenerifan cured goats cheese was awarded best cheese in the world final of the 2008 World Cheese Awards held in Dublin, Ireland.[135]
After the conquest of the Canary Islands, one of the first commercial activities to be started was cheese production. The sale of cheese provided the inhabitants with an income and cheese was even used as a form of currency for exchange and sale, becoming a crucial product in agricultural areas of the island.
Tenerife exports about 3,400 tons of cheese per year, representing about 50 percent of the output of the island, and about 25 percent of the entire Canary Islands.
Mojo, a word probably of Portuguese origin, describes a typical Canarian sauce, served as an accompaniment to food. The sauces come in a variety of colours, flavours and textures, and are usually served cold, often in separate dishes, for the diner to choose how much to apply. Green mojo usually includes coriander, parsley, and garlic; whilst red mojo is piquant, and made from a mix of hot and sweet peppers. A wide variety of other ingredients are also used, including; almonds, cheese, saffron and fried bread.[24][38] Mojos are served with most meat, and some fish, dishes, and are often used on potatoes, or bread is dipped into them.
The fish dishes along with the meats are often accompanied by wrinkly potatoes (papas arrugadas). This is a typical Canarian dish which simply refers to the way the cooked potatoes look. They are boiled in their skins, in water with lots of salt, and the water is allowed to evaporate, leaving a salty crust.[24][38]
Canarian wrinkly potatoes, with red mojo
Canarian wrinkly potatoes
The typical festive meat dish of marinated porc tacos is a very popular dish prepared for town festivities in ventorrillos, bars and private homes.[132] Rabbit in salmorejo, goat, and of course beef, pork and poultry are also regularly consumed.[24][38]
Due to the geographic situation of Tenerife, the island enjoys an abundance of fish of various kinds. The species that are consumed the most are the gold lined bream (salema), grouper (mero), and various and abundant types of Thunnus. The Atlantic mackerel (caballa), sardine (sardine), and Jack mackerels (chicharros) are also consumed frequently. Moray eels (morenas) are also eaten, usually fried. Most seafood is cooked simply, usually boiled, or prepared "a la espalda" (cut into two equally shaped pieces along the spine) or "a la sal" (baked in salt). These dishes are usually accompanied by mojo (a local sauce) and wrinkly potatoes.[24][38]
In addition, two new peripheral hospitals in the North and South areas of the island are being constructed, located in the municipalities of Icod de los Vinos and Arona respectively. These centers will function, according to their classification, as second level hospitals, with services of hospitalization, advanced diagnosis, ambulances and emergencies, and rehabilitation, etc. There are also a total of 39 centers of primary care and specialized clinics which complete the sanitary infrastructure of Tenerife.[131]
The main hospitals on the island are the Hospital Universitario de Canarias and the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria. Both are third-level hospitals, with specialist facilities that serve all of the Canary Islands.[128] They are both affiliated with the education and research network of the Universidad de La Laguna. However, they belong to different bodies, since first one is under the directives of the Servicio Canario de la Salud (Canarian Health Service).[129][130]
Hospital Universitario de Canarias
On the island of Tenerife, a large number of sports are practised, both outdoors and indoors in the various facilities available throughout the island.The sports are numerous -Diving,Rock Climbing,Walking,Cycling,Sailing,Golf,Surfing,Go- Carting,Paragliding - the all year round weather makes it ideal for a wide variety of outdoor sports. There are also many indoor sporting facilities including fully equipped including 'Tenerife Top Training' centre in Adeje on the South of the Island.
By 2005, plans for a light-rail network linking the capital with the South had been approved by both the Tenerife Council and the Canary Islands Government, though the discussion with the central Spanish Government stalled on budget issues.[123] The original intent was to establish two railway systems that would serve the northern and southern sides of the island connecting these with the capital.[124] By March 2011, these intentions had been replaced by advanced plans for a single 80 km (50 mi) high-speed rail line, the "South Train" which would connect Santa Cruz de Tenerife with Adeje via Santa Maria de Añaza, Candelaria, San Isidro, Tenerife South Airport, and a main stopover station at Adeje which would be designed to service up to 25,000 passengers per day. Trains would run every 15 minutes during rush hours, and would achieve speeds up to 220 km/h (137 mph). The project, which involves 9 tunnels, 12 false tunnels (together 22.1 km) and 33 viaducts (8.3 km) has been budgeted at EUR 1.7 bn. It has met staunch opposition from local environmentalists.[125] An alternate plan for a high speed Transrapid maglev has also been put forward.[126][127]
Railway plans
From 2007, the Tenerife Tram connects Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna through the suburb of Taco. There are 20 stops and it covers a distance of 12.5 km (7.8 mi) in 37 minutes. It calls at some points of interest including Tenerife's two major hospitals, the university complex of Guajara, and a number of museums and theatres. Concerning its power supply, it will support development of further wind farms to provide it with 100 percent clean energy.[122]
Tramway servicing between Santa Cruz and La Laguna
Travelling by Taxi is a low cost and convenient way to get from the airport to your resort, especially if you have a family or a lot of luggage. You will find a taxi rank outside any airport terminal (Tenerife North and Tenerife South). Look for the sign pointing to the nearest taxi rank. The taxis operate all night and there are several hundred of them so you don't have to worry about not being able to catch a cab.
Tenerife has an extensive system of buses, which are called guaguas in the Canary Islands. The bus system is used both within the cities and also connects most of the towns and cities of the island. There are bus stations in all of the major towns, such as the Intercambiador de Transportes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Buses (guaguas)
Besides air transport, Tenerife has two principal maritime ports: the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Puerto de Santa Cruz), which serves the various capitals of the Canary Islands, especially those in the west; and the Port of Los Cristianos (Puerto de Los Cristianos), which serves the various island capitals of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The first port also has passenger services, which connect with the mainland port of Cádiz (and vice versa). There are plans to build a new port in the south of the island, in Granadilla de Abona, and in another in the west, at Fonsalía.[120] The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the first fishing port in the Canary Islands with approximately 7,500 tons of fish caught, according to the Statistical Yearbook of the State Ports 2006 (the latest of which is changing). Following this report is the largest port number of passengers recorded. Similarly, the second port of Spain moving ship and loaded into cars, only surpassed by the Port of Algeciras Bay.[121] In the port's facilities include a border inspection post (BIP) approved by the European Union, which is responsible for inspecting all types of imports from third countries or exports to countries outside the European Economic Area.
Tenerife is most easily reached by air. There are two airports: Reina Sofia (or Tenerife South Airport), in the south, and Tenerife North Airport, also called Los Rodeos, near Santa Cruz. Each has flights to the capitals of the other islands and to cities throughout Europe, as well as to Caracas, Dakar, and Miami. Overall, Tenerife has the highest annual passenger count and the greatest number of arrivals, made more popular by the frequency of cheap flights from many European destinations. Tenerife North Airport was the site of the deadliest accident in aviation history: in 1977 two Boeing 747s collided on a runway, killing 583 people. The Tenerife North Airport combined with the Tenerife South Airport, gather the highest passenger movement in the Canary Islands with 12,764,375 passengers (AENA report[117]). Given the two airports on the island of Tenerife is the most popular tourist and performing more operations of the Canary Islands.[118][119]
Tenerife North Airport
Also planned is the construction of a bypass road north of the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna. This aims to provide dual cores to Guamasa and Acorán, by way of Los Baldíos, Centenero, Llano del Moro, El Sobradillo, El Tablero, and El Chorrillo, among other neighbourhoods. The route will be approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) long and will cost an estimated 190 million euros (270 million in American dollars).[116]
The main means of transportation in Tenerife is by highways. The most important of these are the Autopista del Sur and the Autopista del Norte (the North and South Motorways), which run from the metropolitan zone to the south and north, respectively. These two motorways are connected by means of the Autovía de Interconexión Norte-Sur in the outskirts of the metropolitan zone. Within the network of roads on the island of Tenerife there are other minor roads that used to include the highway from San Andres and Santa Cruz (Holy Cross in English).[115]
TF5 motorway approaching Santa Cruz
Teno, the westernmost point in the island
The metropolitan Area formed by Santa Cruz and La Laguna is served by the Tranvía de Tenerife (English: Tenerife Tram) which opened in early 2007, after 3 years of intensive works. The fairly lengthy line from Santa Cruz up the hill to La Laguna serves almost 20 stops. A second line within La Laguna was added in 2009.
A rental car is sometimes a good option for discovering the remote wilderness regions, although TITSA do operate reliable bus services in the remotest spots, such as the Teno Massif via Masca (355), and up the Anaga mountains (247). TITSA even run two daily services up Mount Teide - from Puerto de la Cruz (348) and from Los Christianos/Las Americas (342) up to the Teide Parador, Teleferico cable car, Montana Blanca and El Portillo. The only car rental companies that actually have offices in the airports are: Autoreisen, Avis, Cicar, Europcar, Goldcar (only south airport) and Hertz.[112][113][114]
Public transport on the island is provided by an extensive network of buses and run by TITSA, who operate a fleet of modern, air-conditioned buses.[111] TITSA buses cover most of the island and they are fairly frequent. For more than one journey, customers can purchase BonoBus cards at €12 or €30 which work out much cheaper than single cash fares; on boarding stick the BonoBus card in the green bonobus box, and tell the driver where you want to go. The BonoBus can be purchased at many newsagents, most bus stations, and at Tenerife South (Reina Sofia) Airport in the Alpizpa souvenir shop, opposite gate 47 (Departures). The Bonobus is also valid on the tram in the capital, Santa Cruz (See Below).
Away from the major motorways, there is a network of secondary and communal roads, varying from wide to steep, winding narrow roads, mainly unlit and often with drops on either side of the main carriageway surface.
A network consisting of two fast, toll-free motorways (TF1 and TF5) encircles nearly the entire island, linking all the main towns and resorts with the metropolitan area. The exception is in the West, from Adeje to Icod de los Vinos, which is traversed by a smaller winding mountain road. However, plans are in progress to complete the motorway, which caused a heavy debate between the environmentalists and the local businessmen.
The other way to arrive on Tenerife is by ferry, either to Santa Cruz de Tenerife or Los Cristianos, near Playa de Las Américas.
Los Rodeos Airport, the smaller of the two, is located near the metropolitan area Santa Cruz-La Laguna (423,000 inhabitants). It serves inter-insular flights as well as national and European flights, and for the last two years, a weekly service to Venezuela. Reina Sofía Airport (south) is the busiest Airport in Tenerife, ranking 7th in Spain. It typically serves the mass of regular and vacation charter flights constantly arriving from most of Europe. Los Rodeos Airport was also the site of the Tenerife Airport Disaster, which killed 583 people and is the deadliest air accident in history.
The island of Tenerife is served by Tenerife North - Los Rodeos Airport (GCXO) and Reina Sofía Airport (GCTS).
Transport and communications
Along with many Spanish-language radio and TV stations, Tenerife has two official English-language radio stations. Coast FM broadcasts a mix of adult contemporary music and is the only local news service to broadcast in English. As the larger of the two stations, Coast FM can be heard across Tenerife and much of the Canary Islands from its transmitters on 106.6, 92.2 and 89.4. Energy FM is a non-stop music station that also broadcasts local news and information on the hour.
The Municipal Museum of Fine Arts in the Tenerifan capital has a permanent exhibit of the paintings and sculptures of José de Ribera, Federico Madrazo, Joaquín Sorolla and such Canarian artists as Manolo Millares and Óscar Domínguez.
The Casa del Vino-La Baranda ("House of Wine-La Baranda"), a member of the Asociación de Museos del Vino de España (Association of Wine Museums of Spain),[106] is located in the municipality of El Sauzal. Its facilities include a rustic, historic hacienda, a museum of the history of viticulture in Tenerife, a restaurant serving typical Tenerifan food, a wine store, an audiovisual hall, and a tasting room.
The Casa de la Miel ("House of Honey") is an annex to the Casa del Vino-La Baranda, and was established by the Cabildo Insular to support and develop the apicultural (bee-keeping) sector on Tenerife. The visitor's center of the Casa de la Miel offers exhibits about the history of this industry on the island and how apiculture is conducted, as well as information services and opportunities to taste Tenerifan denominación de origen honeys.[107]
The Museum of Iberoamerican Artisanship is located in the old convent of San Benito Abad, in La Orotava. El centro se encuadra dentro del programa de divulgación que ejecuta el Center for Documentation of Artisanship in Spain and America,[108] The Foundation is financed by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism; the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (Spanish Agency of International Cooperation), the Comisión Nacional "Quinto Centeneario" ("Fifth Centenary" National Commission), the Consejería de Industria y Comercio del Gobierno de Canarias (Council of Industry and Commerce of the Government of the Canaries), and the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. It has five galleries, specialized in popular musical instruments, textiles / new designs in artisanship, ceramics, fibers, and popular art.
The Archaeological Museum of Puerto de La Cruz in the city of the same name is located in a traditional casona (a type of house dating from the 18th–19th century), offers an archival collection comprising more than 2,600 specimens of items from the Guanche culture, and a document collection named after researcher Luis Diego Cuscoy.[109]
The Regional Military Museum of the Canaries, is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, more specifically in the Fuerte de Almeyda district. Its galleries present all of the military history of the de Canaries, including the repelling of the attack by British Admiral Horatio Nelson, as well as other events and battles waged in the islands. Separate from the Regional Military Museum are files providing the Intermediate Military Archive of the Canaries and the Military Library of the Canary Islands.[110]
Independent of the Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros are:
Museum of Nature and Man: located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, this museum exhibits the natural riches of the Canary Islands and of the pre-Hispanic people who inhabited these. The Museum of Nature and Man is a world reference in regard to preservation of mummies. The complex is composed of three museums:
The Museum of Natural Sciences
The Architectural Museum of Tenerife
The Canarian Institute of Bioanthropology
Museum of the History of Tenerife: located in the city of La Laguna, the history of museum presents an overview of the institutional, social, economic and cultural development of the Island in from the 15th to 20th centuries.
The Museum of Science and the Cosmos, also located in La Laguna adjacent to the property of the Instituto de Astrofísica as a museum about the laws and principles of nature, from those of the cosmos to those of the human body.
The Museum of Anthropology of Tenerife, in La Laguna as well, more specifically in Valle de Guerra is a public institution for the investigation, conservation and spread of popular culture
The Centro de Documentación Canario-Americano (CEDOCAM, Center for Canarian-American Documentation), located in La Laguna has a mission of strengthening cultural relations and elements of common identity between the Canaries and the Americas, through such means as conservation, information and diffusion of their shared documentary patrimony.
The Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife ("Island of Tenerife Photographic Center") located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife offers an annual program of expositions that allows contact with tendencies and works of various renowned and emergent photographers of the Canaries. In the future, this center will share a headquarters with the Instituto Óscar Domínguez de Arte y Cultura Contemporánea (Óscar Domínguez Institute of Art and Culture).
The Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA, "Tenerife Arts Space") also in Santa Cruz de Tenerife was founded to promote knowledge of the many contemporary tendencies in art and culture among the local population and visitors, by organizing cultural, scientific, educational and technical activities.
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Guillermo Portillo, MD
Dr. Portillo finished his 3-year research/administrative fellowship in 2009 after completing a General Surgery Residency in Mexico City.
Eduardo A. Perez, MD
Completed a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute between 2007 and 2008.
Mike Renfrow, MD
Sameer S. Mohiudin, MD
Loretta Brestan, MD
Jorge M.Trevino, MD
Dr. Trevino finished his 2-year research/administrative fellowship on 2006, although his relationship with the Texas Endosurgery Institute began being a junior General Surgery Resident. He actually is in private practice in Cancun, Mexico.
Gregory Kim, MD
Paul Arellano, MD
Trained at the University of Texas in San Antonio and a Board-certified general surgeon, he attended the Texas Endosurgery Institute as a Clinical Fellow from July 2004 to August 2005. He is currently practicing in El Paso, Texas.
Keenan R. Berghoff, MD
Trained at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and a Board-certified general surgeon, he finished a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute from June 2003 to July 2004. He is currently practicing at the St.Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
John J. Gonzalez, MD
Dr. Gonzalez finished his General Surgery training at Massachusetts General Hospital and attended Texas Endosurgery Institute as a research/administrative fellowship on October 2003. He is in private practice in San Antonio, TX.
Candace E. Moody, MD
Trained at Wayne State University School of Medicine, she completed a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute from July 2002 to August 2003. She is a Board certified surgeon currently in St Louis Missouri.
Alana D.Chock, MD
Completed a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute from June 2001 to July 2002.
J. Arturo Almeida, MD
Dr. Almeida finished his 2-year research/administrative fellowship on October 2001. He is currently in private practice in Barcelona, Spain.
Robert L.P. Michaelson, MD
Completed his clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute from July 2000 to June 2001. He is now a board-certified surgeon currently practicing in Seattle.
Jorge E. Balli, MD
Dr. Balli finished his 2-year research/administrative fellowship on October 1998, although his relationship with the Texas Endosurgery Institute began being a junior General Surgery Resident at the San Jose Hospital -ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico. Dr Balli is currently in Private practice in Monterrey, Mexico
James P. Dorman, MD
Board-certified general surgeon at the Texas Endosurgery Institute until 1998. He is practicing at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.
Jose A. Diaz-Elizondo, MD
A former research/administrative fellow, he also had the opportunity of being at our Institute as a General Surgery resident, due to an educational agreement between San Jose Hospital-ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico and the Texas Endosurgery Institute. He trained at our Institution from October 1998 to October 1999 and is currently in Private practice in Monterrey, Mexico.
George B. Kazantzev, MD
Trained at the University of Kentucky and a Board-certified general surgeon, he completed a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute from June 1998 to June 1999. He served as an associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and is now in practice in Berkeley, California.
Richard Norem, MD
He completed a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute in 1994 and is now in practice in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Daniel Pharand, MD
Finished a clinical fellowship in laparoscopic surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute in 1991. Now he is one of the best Laparoscopic Urology Surgeons in Toronto, Canada.
Alfred A. Santos, MD
Dr. Santos worked in our Institution from July 1999 until June 2000. He is Board Certified in General Surgery as well as Surgical Intensive care. Devoted to nutritional research for many years, his learning-oriented mind led him to join our Institution.do a clinical fellowship from June 1999 to June 2000.
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Listed on: 16 Oct 2019 Reference number: SCP34080
Thai Castle / Resort
RogerL
Location: Rayong
Sale price: B 89,000,000
Bathrooms: 25
Land size: 1600 Wah²
ADSL Internet
Ceramic Floors
For Sale or Rent
Hot Water Throughout
In Company Name
Maids Quarters
Reduced Price for a Quick Sale
Now on the market for sale, 2.5 hours from Bangkok airport, halfway between the villages Ban Phe and Laem Mae Phim and 20 minutes from the fairy island Koh Samet, you will find CET – Center of Excellence Thailand. This stunning 4 rai (6400m2) resort complex is situated just 100m from Chackpong beach, one of the best beaches between Bangkok and Cambodia.
The first building behind the golden gates is the impressive ”Thai Castle”, a unique 1500m2 creation with luxurious rooms and spacious wrap around terraces. There are 8 bedrooms and 3 apartments in this building as well as kitchens, sitting rooms and bathrooms. The Thai style buildings are all surrounded by lush gardens with a mixture of coconut palms and fruit trees (banana, mango, papaya, etc.).
Beyond the castle there is one 3 bedroom house (110 m2) and three 6 bedroom buildings (230 m2) all luxuriously built, and like the castle all with a unique quality. These individual 6 bedroom houses all have fully equipped kitchens, dining rooms, upstairs and downstairs lounges and terraces over looking the gardens.
The property boasts a total of 33 bedrooms with more than 70 beds. As well as the accommodation buildings there is a designated conference building to comfortably seat up to 50 people.
To facilitate relaxation and enjoyment of the property there is a beautiful swimming pool and Jacuzzi, a tennis court, a field for boule, small football pitch, volleyball court, shuffle board, table tennis, fitness room and a playground for children. The ground also has ample space for future construction.
Within 250m of the property there are several small Thai restaurants, a grocery shop and a number of small places for fruit, etc.
The tranquil local beach offers several kilometers of walks along pristine beaches, clear of salesmen but with many small restaurants and massage shops to help you enjoy you stay in the area. Of the coast there are many lovely islands for snorkling and fishing including the popular Koh Samet, which can be reached by speed boat in just 15 minutes.
All together a place as close to heaven as possible!
According to the head of Marriott International (who recently opened a hotel 2 kilometers from CET) this area will be one of the most attractive in Asia in the near future.
It is with deep regret that we have to sell now but we hope to find someone who will love the property as much as we have. The purchase could also be done by taking over the shares in the company.
THE BAN PHE – MAE PHIM AREA
Looking to the future, in keeping with other major cities around the world, it is likely that more and more people working in the city of Bangkok might make their main home in the Mae Phim area and commute to a city condo or rental apartment during the week, thus avoiding expensive Bangkok homes and taking advantage of the cheaper prices and electing for a more affordable and spacious luxury countryside home by the ocean. Such has been the case for many of the big cities around the world where prices in the city have risen to heights which prevent many from owning a decent sized detached family home, and there’s no reason to suspect that the same will not be true to some degree in the case of Bangkok.
Another factor which could boost the ease and speed of commuting to and from the capital city and from the new international airport is the plan a new high speed rail link between Rayong and Bangkok and the plan for the new railway from Beijing over Laos, and which will pass through Thailand close to this area. The high speed trains from Bangkok will travel at up to 250kmph, reaching Rayong within about an hour from Bangkok. Estimated at some 170 billion Thai baht it is one of four high speed rail links planned for Thailand, the others being Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Bangkok to Nong Kai border with Laos, and Bangkok to Hua Hin. Although costly, Deputy Transport Minister Chatchart Sithipan considers such new high speed rail links as an important element of Thailand’s infrastructure which will be of great benefit overall to the nation’s economy, in respect of which such links must be built. Detailed feasibility studies will soon be conducted, with the hope that bids for the construction of the new rail links will be tendered early next year, such that the Rayong rail link project could be completed before the end of the decade. Although it’s yet several years away, the new rail link will facilitate and expedite travel from Bangkok and the new international airport to the Eastern Seaboard, and provide a definite boost to the Rayong area, and the plans for such alone will already be a factor which is being considered by savvy investors in land and property in the area.
The new coastal highway from Laem Mae Phim to Trat is still underway, with much of the new road now complete from Mae Phim to Laem Sing near Chanthaburi, and only the bridge between Prasere and Laem Son across the river south of Klaeng to be completed as the final link in the chain. Once complete it will be that much easier to reach the Mae Phim area from other resorts along the coast to the east, and vice versa, and this will be of benefit to tourism in the area and to those who wish to travel the new scenic route.
With the dramatic rise in land prices for land near the ocean, the increasing demand from wealthy foreigners and Thais, the completion of the new coastal highway, fast road connections to the new international airport and to Bangkok and the future prospect of a new high speed rail link, it’s a sure fire bet that the prices of land with house will follow this upward trend when the true market value of rising land prices is taken into full account.
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ALL-STARS / POST SEASON TOURNAMENT TEAMS
Question: What are All Stars? How are teams formed? Who coaches? When do All Star teams play?
Answer: Little League International has a long history of post season tournament play where All Star teams from each local league play each other in District tournaments. District winners advance to a State tournament. State winners advance to Regionals, and for the 12 year old players, Regional winners advance to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA. ESPN/ABC have gotten involved and the telecast is a big deal. Teams are created by a nomination and voting process from the league’s coaches. A Head Coach is selected by the League President with input from League Coordinators and the League’s Executive Committee. The Head Coach assembles his/her assistants. All Stars start immediately following the end of the regular season. Consult the league calendar on the website for exact dates.
Question: How do I make sure my child is considered for an all-star team?
Answer: Each year Myers Park Trinity Little League sends tournament teams to play Little League tournaments for players ages 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Parents of interested and available players in these age groups are asked to respond during the all-star availability and interest registration period (typically the third week of April through the end of the regular season). Simply registering your players interest and availability does not guarantee your child will be placed on a post season team. Typically, only 12-14 kids in each age group are selected. Tournament teams are selected by the Major League head coaches (for ages 10-12) and Minor League coaches (for 8 and 9 year olds). Those selections will be made after the regular season ends. Participation on post season / all star teams requires a substantial time commitment and additional fees. The expectation is that players give priority to team activities during the relevant periods which may result in players having to skip or miss overnight camps. The following serves as a general guide for what to expect (these are not confirmed or definite dates):
8 year olds: Practice begins the Monday following closing ceremonies. Practice most days through 6/9. Tournament of Champions 6/10-6/16.
9, 10, & 11: Practice begins the Monday following closing ceremonies. Practice most days through 6/9. Tournament of Champions 6/10-6/16. Practice most days 6/19-6/23. LL District 3 Tournament 6/24 through the earlier of the team’s second loss or approximately 6/30.
12 year olds: Practice begins the Monday following closing ceremonies. Practice most days through 6/9. Tournament of Champions 6/10-6/16. Practice most days 6/19-6/23. LL District 3 Tournament 6/24 through the earlier of the team’s second loss or approximately 6/30.
A few important notes:
10 or 11 year olds: If either of these teams win their District 3 tournament then the team(s) would continue practices most days on 7/5 through 7/9 and advance to the NC State Little League Tournament for their respective age. In 2016 the 10 year old NC State LL tournament began 7/8 and ended 7/14. If the 10 year olds were to win the NC State LL tournament they would continue practices most days on 7/15 through 7/22 and advance to the Tournament of State Champions beginning 7/23 and ending 7/28 in Greenville, NC at Elm Street Park. Also in 2016, the 11 year old NC State LL tournament began 7/12 and ended 7/18. If the 11 year olds were to win the NC State LL tournament they would continue practices most days on 7/19 through 7/28 and advance to the Tournament of State Champions beginning 7/29 and ending 8/4 in Greenville, NC at Elm Street Park.
12 year olds: If this team wins the District 3 tournament then the team will continue practices most days on 7/5 through 7/14 with the 12-year-old NC State LL tournament beginning approximately 7/14 and ending 7/20. If this team were to win they would advance to the Southeast Regional tournament most likely to begin Friday, August 4 and end on Thursday, August 10.
DISCLAIMER: The dates listed above are not confirmed dates but provided to help parents understand the time commitment required. More up to date information for tournament dates is posted on the All-Stars program page here.
Question: Are there additional costs or fees to play all-stars?
Answer: Yes, MPTLL collects an additional participation fees to cover the costs of uniforms and tournament entry fees. The fee is $125 for participation on the 8-12-year-old teams. However, for any family for whom this additional fee is a hardship, MPTLL will use its league scholarship funds to cover this cost, in the same way that it covers the fee for participation in regular league play.
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1956 Address of Pope Pius XII on the Liturgy
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The following is an exact reproduction of Pope Pius XII’s address as it appears in
The Pope Speaks, (Winter 1956-1957), v. 3, no. 3, p. 273, which is the English
translation of the original: AAS (October 29, 1956), 48: 711-725; also
Osservatore Romano (September 24, 1956) *
The Liturgical Movement
An Address of Pope Pius XII to the
International Congress on Pastoral Liturgy
(September 22, 1956)
You have asked Us to deliver an address upon the closing of the International Congress on Pastoral Liturgy which has just been held in Assisi. We readily accede to your request and bid you welcome.
The progress of thirty years
If the position of the liturgical movement today is compared to that of thirty years ago, undeniable progress in its extent and in its depth becomes evident. Interest in the liturgy, practical accomplishments, and the active participation of the faithful have undergone a development which would then have been difficult to anticipate.
The chief driving force, both in doctrinal matters and in practical applications, came from the Hierarchy and, in particular, from Our saintly Predecessor, Pius X, who gave the liturgical movement a decisive impulse by his Motu Proprio of October 23, 1913, “Abhinc duos annos.” (1)
The faithful received these directives gratefully and showed themselves ready to comply with them. Liturgists applied themselves to their task with zeal and, as a result, many interesting and rewarding projects were soon under way, although, at times, certain deviations had to be corrected by the Church’s authority.
Of the many documents published on this subject in recent times, it will suffice for Us to mention three: The Encyclical “Mediator Dei,” “De sacra liturgia,” of November 20, 1947 (2); the new decree on Holy Week, dated November 16, 1955,(3) which has helped the faithful to achieve a better understanding and fuller participation in the love, sufferings and triumph of our Savior; and finally, the Encyclical “De musica sacra” of December 25, 1955. (4)
Thus the liturgical movement has appeared as a sign of God’s providential dispositions for the present day, as a movement of the Holy Spirit in His Church, intended to bring men closer to those mysteries of the faith and treasures of grace which derive from the active participation of the faithful in liturgical life.
The Congress on Pastoral Liturgy
The Congress which is just concluding has had for its particular end a demonstration of the inestimable value of the liturgy in the sanctification of souls, and, consequently, in the Church’s pastoral activity.
You have studied this aspect of the liturgy as it is revealed in history and has continued to be revealed. You have also seen how this aspect of the liturgy is founded in the nature of things, that is, how it is derived from essential elements of the liturgy.
Your Congress, then, included a study of historical developments, some reflections on existing conditions, and an examination both of objectives to be sought in the future and of means suitable for their attainment. After careful consideration of your program, We express Our hope that this new sowing of seed, added to those of the past, will produce rich harvests for the benefit of individuals and the whole Church.
In this address, instead of presenting to you in greater detail norms which the Holy See has already spoken sufficiently, We have decided it would be more useful to touch on a few important points which are actually under discussion in the field of liturgy and dogma, and which hold Our special interest. We shall group these considerations under two headings. These will be simple pointers rather than the express themes We propose to develop: The Liturgy and the Church, the Liturgy and the Lord.
I. The Liturgy and the Church
As we have said in the Encyclical “Mediator Dei,” the liturgy is a vital function of the whole Church, and not simply of a group or of a limited movement. “The Sacred Liturgy is the whole public worship of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, Head and members.” (5)
The Mystical Body of our Lord lives on the truth of Christ and on the graces which flow through its members, giving them life and uniting them to one another and their Head. This is what St. Paul means when he says in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: “All are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.”(6) All then is directed toward God, His service, and His glory.
The Church, filled with the gifts and the life of God, devotes herself with a deep and spontaneous movement to the adoration and praise of the infinite God. Through the liturgy she renders to Him, as a corporate body, that worship which is His due.
To this unique liturgy, all the members, those clothed with episcopal power and those belonging to the body of the faithful, bring all that they have received from God, all the powers of their minds and hearts and all of their achievements. This is true, above all, of the Hierarchy, since it holds the “depositum fidei” and the “depositum gratiae.”
Deposit of faith
From the “depositum fidei,” from the truth of Christ contained in Scripture and Tradition, the Hierarchy draws the great mysteries of the faith, in particular, those of the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Redemption, and causes them to pass into the liturgy. But it would be difficult to find a truth the Christian faith which is not expressed in some manner in the liturgy, whether in readings from the Old and the New Testament during Holy Mass and the Divine Office, or in the riches which the mind and heart discover in the Psalms.
Moreover, the solemn ceremonies of the liturgy are a profession of faith in action. They give concrete expression to the great truths of the faith which concern the inscrutable designs of God’s generosity and His inexhaustible benefits to men, the love and mercy of the heavenly Father for the world, the salvation for which He sent His Son and delivered Him to death.
It is thus that the Church communicates in abundance in the liturgy the treasures of the “depositum fidei,” of the truth of Christ.
Treasury of grace
Through the liturgy also are diffused the riches of the “depositum gratiae” which the Savior has transmitted to His Apostles: sanctifying grace, the virtues and gifts, the power to baptize, to confer the Holy Spirit, to forgive sins through the sacrament of Penance, and to ordain priests.
At the heart of the liturgy is the celebration of the Eucharist, the sacrifice and the repast. In the liturgy also are all the sacraments gathered up, and the Church, by means of the sacramentals, generously multiplies gifts of grace in the most varied circumstances.
The Hierarchy also extends its care to all that helps increase the beauty and dignity of liturgical ceremonies: the places of worship, their furnishing, the liturgical vestments, sacred music, and sacred art.
Role of the Laity
If the Hierarchy communicates the truth and the grace of Christ by means of the liturgy, the faithful on their side, have a duty to receive them, to give them their whole-hearted consent, to transform them into values for life. They accept all that is offered to them- the graces of the sacrifice of the altar, of the sacraments and sacramentals – not as mere passive recipients of the graces flowing over them, but cooperating in these graces with all their will and strength, and, above all, participating in the liturgical offices, or at least following their performance with fervor.
The laity have contributed in large measure, and by a constant effort to continue to contribute, to increase the external solemnity of worship, to build churches and chapels, to adorn them, to enhance the beauty of the liturgical ceremonies with all the splendors of sacred art.
Unity of shepherds and flock
The contributions which are brought to the liturgy by the Hierarchy and by the faithful are not to be reckoned as two separate quantities, but represent the work of members of the same organism, which acts as a single living entity. The shepherds and the flock, the teaching Church and the Church taught, form a single and unique body of Christ. So there is no reason for entertaining suspicion, rivalries, open or hidden opposition, either in one’s thought or in one’s manner of speaking and acting. Among members of the same body there ought to reign, before all else, harmony, union and cooperation. It is within this unity that the Church prays, makes it offering, grows in holiness. One can declare therefore with justice that the liturgy is the work of the Church whole and entire.
Private worship
But We have to add: public worship is not on that account the whole Church. It does not exhaust the field of her activities. Alongside public worship, which is that of the community, there is still place for private worship, which the individual pays to God in the secret of his heart or expresses by exterior acts. This private worship has as many variations as there are Christians, though it proceeds for the same faith and the same grace of Christ. The Church not only tolerates this kind of worship, but gives it full recognition and approval, without however raising it in any way to the primary position of liturgical worship.
Teaching and pastoral care
But when We say that public worship does not exhaust the field of the Church’s activities, We are thinking in particular of the tasks of teaching and of pastoral care, of the “Tend the flock of God, which is among you.” (7)
We have recalled the role which the Magisterium, the depository of the truth of Christ, exercises through the liturgy. The influence of the governing power upon it is also evident. For it belongs to the Popes to give recognition to rites which are in force, to introduce any new practices, to establish rules for the manner of worship. It pertains to the Bishops to watch carefully that the prescriptions of canon law with regard to divine worship are observed. (8)
But the functions of teaching and control extend even beyond that. To ascertain this it is sufficient to glance at canon law and its statements concerning the Pope, the Roman Congregations, the Bishops, Councils, the Magisterium, and ecclesiastical discipline. The same conclusion may be reached by observing the life of the Church, and in Our two Allocutions of May 31 and November 2, 1954, on the threefold function of the Bishop, We expressly insisted on the extent of his obligations. They are not limited to teaching and government, but embrace also all other human activities in the measure in which religious and moral interests are involved. (9)
Universal duties and interests
If then the duties and the interests of the Church on this point are universal, the priests and the faithful will be cautious in their manner of thinking and acting, lest they fall into narrowness of view or lack of understanding.
Our Encyclical “Mediator Dei,” has already corrected certain erroneous statements which were tending either to orientate religious and pastoral teaching into a form exclusively liturgical, or to raise obstacles to the liturgical movement because it was not understood.
In reality, there exists no objective difference between the end pursued by the liturgy and that of the other functions of the Church. As for differences of opinion, though they are genuine, they do not present insuperable obstacles.
These considerations will suffice to show, We hope, that the liturgy is the work of the whole Church, and that all of the faithful, as members of the Mystical Body, ought to love and value it, and take part in it, while understanding that the tasks of the Church extend well beyond it.
II. THE LITURGY AND THE LORD
We wish to consider now in a special manner the liturgy of the Mass and the Lord Who in it is both Priest and Oblation. As some inaccuracies and some misunderstandings are coming to light here and there with regard to certain points, We shall say a word about the “actio Christi,” and about the “praesentia Christi,” and about the “infinita et divina maiestas Christi.”
1. “ACTIO CHRISTI”
The liturgy of the Mass has for its end the expression through the senses of the grandeur of the mystery which is accomplished in it, and efforts are being made today which tend to make the faithful participate in as active and intelligent a manner as possible. Though this aim is justified, there is risk of lessening reverence if attention is distracted from the main action to direct it to the splendor of other ceremonies.
Eucharistic Sacrifice
What is this main action of the Eucharistic sacrifice?
We have spoken explicitly of it in the Allocution of November 2, 1954. (10) We there cited first the teaching of the Council of Trent: “In this divine sacrifice which takes place at Mass, the same Christ is present and is immolated in an unbloody manner, Who once on the altar of the Cross offered Himself in a bloody manner…For the victim is one and the same, now offering Himself through the ministry of His priests, Who then offered Himself on the Cross; only the manner of offering is different.” (11)
And We continued in these words: “Thus the priest celebrant, putting on the person of Christ, alone offers sacrifice, and not the people, nor the clerics, nor even the priests who reverently assist. All, however, can and should take an active part in the sacrifice.” (12)
An erroneous conclusion
We then emphasized that, from a failure to distinguish between the participation of the celebrant in the fruits of the sacrifice of the Mass and the nature of the action which he performs, the conclusion was reached that “the offering of one Mass, at which a hundred priests assist with religious devotion, is the same as a hundred Masses celebrated by a hundred priests.” Concerning this statement We said: “It must be rejected as an erroneous opinion.”
And We added by way of explanation: “With regard to the offering of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the actions of Christ, the High Priest, are as many as are the priests celebrating, not as many as are the priests reverently hearing the Mass of a Bishop or a priest; for those present at the Mass in no sense sustain, or act in, the person of Christ sacrificing, but are to be compared to the faithful layfolk who are present at the Mass.” (13)
On the subject of liturgical congresses, We remarked on the same occasion: “These meetings sometimes follow a definite program, so that only one offers the Mass, and others (all or the majority) assist at this one Mass, and receive the Holy Eucharist during it from the hands of the celebrant. If this is done for a good and sound reason,…the practice is not to be opposed, so long as the error We have mentioned is not underlying it,” that is to say, the error of equating the offering of a hundred Masses by a hundred priests to the offering of one Mass at which a hundred priests are devoutly present.
According to this, the central element of the Eucharistic Sacrifice is that in which Christ intervenes as “se ipsum offerens” – to adopt the words of the Council of Trent. (Sess. XXII, cap. 2) That happens at the consecration when, in the very act of transubstantiation worked by the Lord, (14) the priest-celebrant is “personam Christi gerens.”
Even if the consecration takes place without pomp and in all simplicity, it is the central point of the whole liturgy of the sacrifice, the central point of the “actio Christi cuius personam gerit sacerdos celebrans,” or “sacerdotes concelebrantes” in the case of a true concelebration.
Some recent events give Us the occasion to speak with precision on certain points regarding the matter. When the consecration of the bread and wine is validly brought about, the whole action of Christ is actually accomplished. Even if all that remains could not be completed, still, nothing essential is wanting to the Lord’s oblation.
Concelebration
After the consecration is performed, the “oblation hostiae super altare positae” can be accomplished by the priest-celebrant, by the Church, by the other priests, by each of the faithful. But this action is not “actio ipsius Christi per sacerdotem ipsius personam sustinentem et gerentem.” In reality the action of the consecrating priest is the very action of Christ Who acts through His minister. In the case of a concelebration in the proper sense of the word, Christ, instead of acting through one minister, acts through several. On the other hand, in a merely ceremonial consecration, which could also be the act of a lay person, there is not question of simultaneous consecration, and this fact raises the important point: “What intention and what exterior action are required to have a true concelebration and simultaneous consecration?”
On this subject let Us recall what We said in our Apostolic Constitution “Episcopalis Consecrationis” of November 30, 1944. (15) We there laid down that in an episcopal consecration the two Bishops who accompany the consecrator must have the intention of consecrating the Bishop-elect, and that, consequently, they must perform the exterior actions and pronounce the words by which the power and the grace to transmit are signified and transmitted. It is, then, not sufficient for them to unite their wills with that of the chief consecrator, and to declare that they make his words and actions their own. They must themselves perform the actions and pronounce the essential words.
The same thing likewise happens in concelebration in the true sense. It is not sufficient to have and to indicate the will to make one’s own the words and actions of the celebrant. The concelebrants must themselves say over the bread and the wine, “This is my Body,” “This is my Blood.” Otherwise, their concelebration is purely ceremonial.
And so it may not be affirmed that, “in the last analysis the only decisive question is to know in what measure personal participation, supported by the grace which one receives in the offering of worship, increases the participation in the cross and in the grace of Christ, Who unites us to Himself and with each other.” This inaccurate manner of putting the question We have already rejected in the Allocution of November 2, 1954; but certain theologians still cannot reconcile themselves to it. We therefore repeat it: the decisive question (for concelebration as for the Mass of a single priest) is not to know the fruit the soul draws from it, but the nature of the act which is performed: does or does not the priest, as minister of Christ, perform “actio Christi se ipsum sacrificantes et offerentis?”
Likewise for the sacraments, it is not a question of knowing the fruit produced by them, but whether the essential elements of the sacramental sign (the performing of the sign by the minister himself who performs the gestures and pronounces the words with the intention saltem faciendi quod facit ecclesia) have been validly performed.
Likewise, in celebration and concelebration, one must see whether, along with the necessary interior intention, the celebrant completes the external action, and, above all, pronounces the words which constitute the “actio Christi se ipsum sacrificantis et offerentis.” This is not verified when the priest does not pronounce over the bread and the wine our Lord’s words: “This is my Body,” “This is my Blood.”
2. “PRAESENTIA CHRISTI”
Just as altar and sacrifice dominate liturgical worship, the life of Christ must be said to be completely dominated by the sacrifice of the Cross.
The Angel’s words to His foster-father: “He shall save his people from their sins,”(16) those of John the Baptist: “Behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,” (17) those of Christ Himself to Nicodemus: “Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that those who believe in him…may have life everlasting,” (18) to His disciples: “But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished,” (19) and the words especially which He spoke at the Last Supper and on Calvary, all show that the core of our divine Lord’s life and thought was the Cross and the offering of Himself to the Father in order to reconcile men to God and to save them.
But is not He who offers sacrifice somehow greater than the sacrifice itself? So now we would like to speak to you about the Lord Himself, and first of all to call your attention to the fact that in the Eucharist the Church possesses the Lord, flesh and blood, body and soul and divinity. This is solemnly defined by the Council of Trent, in its thirteenth Session, canon 1. It suffices, moreover, to take the words pronounced by Jesus in their clear, literal, unambiguous meaning to arrive at the same conclusion: “Take and eat. This is my Body, which shall be given for you. Take and drink, this is my Blood, which shall be shed for you.” And St. Paul uses the same clear and simple words in his first letter to the Corinthians. (20)
On this subject there is neither doubt nor divergence of opinion among Catholics. But as soon as speculative theology begins to discuss the manner in which Christ is present in the Eucharist, serious differences of opinion rise on a number of points. We do not wish to go into these speculative controversies. We would like, however, to point out certain limits and insist on a fundamental principle of interpretation whose neglect causes Us some anxiety.
A norm for theological speculation
Speculation must take as its norm that the literal meaning of scriptural texts, the faith and teaching of the Church, take precedence over a scientific system and theoretical considerations. Science must conform to revelation, not revelation to science. When a philosophical concept distorts the genuine meaning of a revealed truth, it is either inaccurate or being applied incorrectly.
The nature of the real presence
This principle finds application in the doctrine of the real presence. Certain theologians, though they accept the Council’s teaching on the real presence and transubstantiation, interpret the words of Christ and those of the Council in such a way that nothing more remains of the presence of Christ than a sort of envelope empty of its natural content.
In their opinion, what the species of bread and wine substantially and actually contain is “the Lord in heaven,” with Whom the species have a so-called real and substantial relation of content and presence. Such a speculative interpretation raises serious objections when presented as one fully adequate, since the Christian sense of the faithful, the constant catechetical teaching of the Church, the terms of the Council, and above all the words of our Lord require that the Eucharist contain the Lord Himself.
The sacramental species are not the Lord, even if they have a so-called essential relation of container and presence contained with the substance of the heavenly Christ. The Lord said: “This is my Body! This is my Blood!” He did not say, “This is something apparent to the senses which signifies the presence of My Body and Blood.”
No doubt He could effect that those perceptible signs of a true relation of presence should also be perceptible and efficacious sings of sacramental grace; but there is question here of the essential content of the “eucharistic species,” not of their sacramental efficacy. Therefore it cannot be admitted that the theory We have just described gives full satisfaction to the words of Christ; that the presence of Christ in the Eucharist means nothing more; or that this theory is adequate to enable us to say in all truth of the Eucharist: “It is the Lord.” (21)
Undoubtedly, the majority of the faithful is unable to grasp the difficult speculative problems and the attempts to explain the nature of Christ’s presence. The Roman Catechism, moreover, advises against discussing such questions before the faithful, (22) but it neither mentions nor proposes the theory outlined above. Still less does it affirm that such a theory exhausts the meaning of Christ’s words and gives them a full explanation. One can still search for scientific explanations and interpretations, but they must not, so to speak, drive Christ from the Eucharist and leave in the tabernacle only a Eucharistic species retaining a so-called real and essential relation with the true Lord Who is in Heaven.
It is surprising that those who are not satisfied with the theory We have just described should be listed as adversaries, among the non-scientific “physicists,” or that there is no hesitation in saying, with regard to the so-called scientific conception of Christ’s presence: “This truth is not for the Masses.”
To these considerations We must add some remarks concerning the tabernacle. Just as We said above: “The Lord is somehow greater than the altar and the sacrifice,” so now We might say: “Is the tabernacle, where dwells the Lord Who has come down amongst His people, greater than altar and sacrifice?” The altar is more important than the tabernacle, because on it is offered the Lord’s sacrifice. No doubt the tabernacle holds the “Sacramentum permanens”; but it is not an “altare permanens,” for the Lord offers Himself in sacrifice only on the altar during the celebration of Holy Mass, not after or outside the Mass.
In the tabernacle, on the other hand, He is present as long as the consecrated species last, yet is not making a permanent sacrificial offering.
Sacrifice and adoration
One has a perfect right to distinguish between the offering or the sacrifice of the Mass and the “cultus latreuticus” offered to the God-Man hidden in the Eucharist. A decision of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, dated July 7, 1927, severely limits exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during Mass. (23) But this is easily explained by a concern to keep habitually separate the act of sacrifice and the worship of simple adoration, in order that the faithful may clearly understand the characteristics proper to each.
Still an awareness of their unity is more important than a realization of their differences. It is one and the same Lord Who is immolated on the altar and honored in the tabernacle, and Who pours out His blessings from the tabernacle.
A person who was thoroughly convinced of this would avoid many difficulties. He would be wary of exaggerating the significance of one to the detriment of the other, and of opposing decisions of the Holy See.
Worship of Christ in the Eucharist
The Council of Trent has explained the disposition of soul required concerning the Blessed Sacrament: “If anyone says that Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, is not to be adored in the holy sacrament of the Eucharist with the worship of latria, including the external worship, and that the sacrament, therefore, is not to be honored with extraordinary festive celebrations nor solemnly carried from place to place in processions according to the praiseworthy universal rite and custom of the holy Church: or that the sacrament is not to be publicly exposed for the people’s adoration, and that those who adore it are idolators: let him be anathema.” (24)
“If anyone says that it is not permissible to keep the sacred Eucharist in a holy place, but that it must necessarily be distributed immediately after the consecration to those who are present; or that it is not permissible to carry the Eucharist respectfully to the sick: let him be anathema.” (25)
He who clings wholeheartedly to this teaching has no thought of formulating objections against the presence of the tabernacle on the altar.
The position of the tabernacle
In the instruction of the Holy Office, “De arte sacra,” of June 30, 1952, (26) the Holy See insists, among other things, on this point: “This Supreme Sacred Congregation strictly commands that the prescriptions of Canons 1268, #2, and 1269 #1, be faithfully observed: ‘The Most Blessed Eucharist should be kept in the most distinguished and honorable place in the church, and hence as a rule at the main altar unless some other be considered more convenient and suitable for veneration and worship due to so great a Sacrament…The Most Blessed Sacrament must be kept in an immovable tabernacle set in the middle of the altar.’” (27)
There is question, not so much of the material presence of the tabernacle on the altar, as of a tendency to which We would like to call your attention, that of a lessening of esteem for the presence and action of Christ in the tabernacle. The sacrifice of the altar is held sufficient, and the importance of Him who accomplishes it is reduced.
The person of our Lord
Yet the person of our Lord must hold the central place in worship, for it is His person that unifies the relations of the altar and the tabernacle and gives them their meaning.
It is through the sacrifice of the altar, first of all, that the Lord becomes present in the Eucharist, and He is in the tabernacle only as a “memoria sacrificii et passionis suae.”
To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and their nature should remain united.
Specialists will offer various opinions for solving the problem of so placing the tabernacle on the altar as not to impede the celebration of Mass when the priest is facing the congregation. The essential point is to understand that it is the same Lord present on the altar and in the tabernacle.
Pious practices
One might also stress the attitude of the Church regarding certain pious practices: visits to the Blessed Sacrament, which she earnestly recommends, the Forty Hours devotion or “perpetual adoration,” the holy hour, the solemn carrying of Holy Communion to the sick, processions of the Blessed Sacrament. The most enthusiastic and convinced liturgist must be able to understand and appreciate what our Lord in the tabernacle means to the solidly pious faithful, be they unlearned or educated. He is their counselor, their consoler, their strength and refuge, their hope in life and in death.
Not satisfied simply with letting the faithful come to their Lord in the tabernacle, the liturgical movement, then, will strive to draw them even more.
3. “INFINITA ET DIVINA MAIESTAS CHRISTI”
The third and final point We would like to treat is that of the “infinita et divina Maiestas” of Christ, which the words “Christus Deus” expresses.
Certainly the Incarnate Word is Lord and Savior of men; but He is and remains the Word, the infinite God. In the Athanasian creed it is said: “Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, is God and Man.”
Humanity and divinity of Christ
The humanity of Christ has a right also to the worship of “latria” because of its hypostatic union with the Word, but his divinity is the reason and source of this worship. And so, the divinity of Christ cannot remain on the outer edge of liturgical thought.
It is normal to go “ad Patrem per Christum,” since Christ is Mediator between God and men. But He is not only Mediator; He is also within the Trinity, equal to the Father and the Holy Spirit. Let it suffice to recall the magnificent prologue of St. John’s Gospel: “The Word was God….All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that has been made.” (28) Christ is First and Last, Alpha and Omega.
At the end of the world, when all enemies shall have been overcome, and last of all, death itself, Christ, the Word subsisting in human nature, will give over the Kingdom to God His Father, and the Son will subject Himself to Him Who has subjected all to the son, so that “God may be all in all.” (29)
Meditation on the “infinita, summa, divina Maiestas” of Christ can surely contribute to a deeper appreciation of the liturgy. That is why We wished to call your attention to this point.
In closing We would like to add two remarks on the “liturgy of the past” and the “liturgy of the present.”
The immutable and the transitory
The Liturgy and the Past. In liturgical matters, as in many other fields, noe must avoid two exaggerated viewpoints concerning the past: blind attachment and utter contempt. The liturgy contains immutable elements, a sacred content which transcends time; but changeable, transitory, occasionally even defective, elements are to be found there.
It seems to Us that the present day attitude of liturgical circles toward the past is quite balanced. They seek and study seriously, hold on to what is really worthwhile without, however, falling into excess. Yet here and there erroneous tendencies appear, resistances, enthusiasms or condemnations, whose concrete manifestations you know well, and which We briefly mentioned above.
Progress and conservation
The Liturgy and the Present. The Liturgy stamps a characteristic mark on the life of the Church, even on the whole religious attitude of the day. Especially noteworthy is the active conscientious participation of the faithful at liturgical functions.
From the Church’s side, today’s liturgy involves a concern for progress, but also for conservation and defense. It returns to the past, but does not slavishly imitate. It creates new elements in the ceremonies themselves, in using the vernacular, in popular chant and in the building of churches.
Latin in the liturgy
Yet it would be superfluous to call once more to mind that the Church has grave motives for firmly insisting that in the Latin rite the priest celebrating Mass has an absolute obligation to use Latin, and also, when Gregorian chant accompanies the Holy Sacrifice, that this be done in the Church’s tongue.
Response of the faithful
For their part the faithful are careful to respond to the measures taken by the Church, but adopt divergent attitudes: some manifest promptness and enthusiasm, even at times a too lively fervor which provokes the intervention of authority. Others show indifference and even opposition. Thus are laid bare differences of temperament, and preferences for individual piety or for community worship.
Liturgy and the modern world
Present day liturgy interests itself likewise in many special problems. Among these are the relation of the liturgy to the religious ideas of the world of today, contemporary culture, social questions, depth psychology.
This mere enumeration is enough to show you that the various aspects of today’s liturgy not only arouse Our interest, but keep Our vigilance on alert. We sincerely desire the progress of the liturgical movement, and wish to help it, but it is also Our duty to forestall whatever might be a source of error or danger.
It is, however, a consolation and joy for Us to know that in these matters We can rely on your help and understanding.
May these considerations, along with the labors which occupied your attention these past days, produce abundant fruit and contribute to the attainment of the goal towards which the sacred liturgy is striving. In token of divine blessings, which We beg for you and the souls confided to you, We impart to you from Our heart Our Apostolic Benediction.
* Reported in Osservatore Romano, September 24, 1956. French text. Translated based on one released by Vatican Press Office. Most of the quotations in this address were cited by the Holy Father in Latin but have been translated here. Latin phrases incorporated directly into the text of the address have been left in that language.
This address was delivered to twelve hundred delegates to the International Congress on Pastoral Liturgy who had come to Rome by special train after their four day session at Assisi. About a hundred delegates from the United States were present (p. 274)
1. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 5, 1913, pp. 449-451.
2. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 39, 1947, pp. 522-595.
4. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 48, 1956, pp. 5-25 [English translation in The Pope Speaks, Vol. 3, pp. 7-23. – Ed.]
6. I Cor. 3, 23.
7. I Peter. 5, 2.
8. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 39, 1947, p. 544.
9. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 46, 1954, pp. 313-317; 666-677. [English translation in The Pope Speaks, Vol. 1, pp. 153-58; 375-385. – Ed.]
10. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 46, 1954, pp. 668-670. [See footnote 9. – Ed.]
11. Conc. Trid., Sess. XXII, cap. 2.
12. Acta Ap. Sedis, 1, c., p. 668. [See footnote 9. – Ed.]
13. Acta Ap. Sedis, 1. c., p. 669. [See footnote 9. – Ed.]
14. Cf. Conc. Trid., Sess. XIII, ch. 4 and 3.
15. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 37, 1945, pp. 131-132.
16. Mt. 1, 21.
17. John, 1, 29.
18. John, 3, 14-15.
19. Luke, 12, 50.
20. I Cor., 11, 23-25.
21. Cf. John, 21, 7.
22. Cf. Catech. Rom., pars II, cap. IV, n. 43, sq.
23. Acta Ap. Sedis, a. 19, 1927, pag. 289.
24. Conc. Trid., Sessio XIII, can. 6.
25. Conc. Trid., 1. c., can. 7.
26. Acta Ap. Sedis, a 44, 1952, pp. 542-546.
27. Acta Ap. Sedis, 1, c., p. 544.
28. John, 1, 1-3.
29. I Cor., 15, 28.
Vince Sheridan
Location: Western Washington, USA
Pax Christi !
Mike- Many thanks, I have printed this out.
In Xto,
Re: 1956 Address of Pope Pius XII on the Liturgy
Now posted on the Bellarmine Forums for the benefit of the BF readers.
Yours in JMJ,
Cristian Jacobo
Location: Argentina
Thanks Mike for this outstanding address of one of the best Roman Pontiffs the Church ever had.
I just would like to know the opinion of the members of this forum, regarding this:
In Christo et Maria Sanctissima
"Il n`y a qu`une tristesse, c`est de n`etre pas des Saints"
Cristian Jacobo wrote:
It applies to those cases in which the building faces West, instead of East. In such cases the altar still must face East. St. Peter's itself is one of these exceptional cases (the altar is over the tomb of St. Peter, and the nature of the site precluded the building extending West from that point, so it had to be built to the East), which is why the altar is placed so that Holy Mass is celebrated facing East but also facing the people. Pope Pius XII is cutting off this line of argument from Modernist innovators who would use it as a path to their preferred outcome - the removal of Our Lord's Presence from the altar in as many churches as possible, and His placement in some obscure corner where He can more easily be ignored. See many or even most V2 churches for examples.
In Christ our King.
Teresa Ginardi
Thank you, Mike, for posting this. It certainly seems further liturgical changes were coming no matter who was going to be the successor to Pope Pius XII. Fully 30 years+ had been spent on studying and experimenting with different liturgical changes, throughout Europe, especially. As Pope Pius XII stated, bishops had been requesting changes in certain areas for a number of years given the rapid changes in society from both World Wars and technology. They hoped that these changes would assist the laity in living the liturgical life in a society that was far apace from the quiet, agrarian life of prior centuries.
A couple of questions:
The concelebrants must themselves say over the bread and the wine, “This is my Body,” “This is my Blood.” Otherwise, their concelebration is purely ceremonial.
“Take and eat. This is my Body, which shall be given for you. Take and drink, this is my Blood, which shall be shed for you.”
1. Was concelebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass something new?
2. The words used for consecration used by Pope Pius XII are the short form??
3. I know that the 1962 Missal is seen by some clerics as a "stripped down version" of the pre-1955 Missal. How can these clerics appeal to a future pope for their continued used of this pre-55 Missal when both Pius XII and John XXIII were valid popes, and their is nothing dangerous or harmful to souls in the changes? This sounds to me like the Gallican error of appealing to a future Council to support your current position. In point of fact, if the Church during Pius XII and John XXIII did not alter some things in the Missal, the continuance of the pre-55 Missal may have become harmful to souls by keeping practices that had become too difficult to accomplish. I know that in those chapels that use the pre-55 Missal, the full Holy Week services are attended by very few Traditional Catholics. I've heard the clergy actually complaining on a number of occasions to the congregation about their lack of attendance at these services. Now, these are people who understand the crisis, etc., however, they, themselves, find the length of the services difficult to manage, and end up skipping most of the services. I know this is long-winded, but, imo, the NO crisis does not justify not complying with liturgical changes that valid popes have instituted for very good reasons. (Another example, overlapping octaves, e.g., Christmas, the Sacred Heart).
In the Holy Family,
Teresa Ginardi wrote:
Shorthand, not short form.
3. I know that the 1962 Missal is seen by some clerics as a "stripped down version" of the pre-1955 Missal. How can these clerics appeal to a future pope for their continued used of this pre-55 Missal when both Pius XII and John XXIII were valid popes, and their is nothing dangerous or harmful to souls in the changes? This sounds to me like the Gallican error of appealing to a future Council to support your current position.
No, there is no appeal from an authority who is present to a future authority, so it is a different situation. The principle applied by Fr. Cekada seems to me to be sound, and his argument "probable" (in the technical sense). I don't agree with it - but I think it plausible enough to be made in good faith by a Catholic. Indeed, I think the facts pretty much force us to that view. This is, after all, the worst crisis the Church has ever suffered.
In my humble view, the " Resotred" Holy Week Rite and the 1962 Missal, have nothing really to do with the " crsisis" and takeover by the modernists that followed. We trads like to package everything into a nice pouch, at the expense sometimes of the facts " withiin context".
Its like the oft used statement " Pope Pius Xiith is to blacme for this crisis, they were " his" bishops..........
P.S. Just my 2 cents... and one wonders " penny for your thoughts" ? Why do we give 2 cents anyway??
austinmarie
Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Thanks a million, Mr Mike.
Omnia ad Jesum per Mariam!
Vince Sheridan wrote:
Vince,
Couldn't have said it better. That's pretty much what I was getting at in my post. Pope Pius XII's changes and the 1962 Missal are being lumped in with the NO, when, imo, they stand independently. I don't believe they're modernist changes. There was no clerical/lay 'revolt' for any of those changes. In fact, Pope Pius XII noted that the changes were necessary given the social conditions.
I wonder why the Trads don't call the 3-hour communion fast a 'stripped-down version' of the older fasting laws. Why do they accept the one disciplinary change, but not the others? Certainly, the 3-hour fast, could be argued, led to the 1-hour fast now in place in the NO: but, we see, it certainly stands independently of what came later. I think it is a case of: "post hoc ergo propter hoc".
Dear Theresa and Vincent,
I agree. Pope Pius XII gives us the answer to these very issues in this excellent speech. He tells us that the chief driving force for the liturgical movement came from the hierarchy, and traces it back to St. Pius X who gave it a "decisive impulse." Clearly, Pope Pius XII is not distrusting the liturgical movement, he is embracing it, as the legitimate continuation of the work of his predecessor, St. Pius X.
But, the Holy Father goes even further stating that the liturgical movement:
has appeared as a sign of God’s providential dispositions for the present day, as a movement of the Holy Spirit in His Church, intended to bring men closer to those mysteries of the faith and treasures of grace which derive from the active participation of the faithful in liturgical life.
Here the Holy Father is attributing the liturgical movement to God's providential plan for his Church, directed by the Holy Ghost, to help Catholics. It seems that if we follow exactly what the Pope is saying, that the 1950's liturgical changes are the continuation of the good work which began by St. Pius X. It is all part of the same whole of good progress made by the hierarchy of the Church of the twentieth century "to bring men closer to those mysteries of the faith and the treasures of grace."
It seems to me that this good progress was derailed by Paul VI, who used the liturgical movement as a means of destroying the liturgy. He turned something that was praised and supported by St. Pius X and Pope Pius XII, for the good of souls into something ugly and evil, and the resulting fruits from Paul VI's Novus Ordo Missae are plain for all to see.
The correct understanding of the liturgy is given by the Holy Father in this beautiful and clear statement from the speech:
In my view, the mistake seems to come from some Catholics view of lumping together a rite which did not come from the Church, the Novus Ordo Missae, with rites and ceremonies that did come from the Church, Pius XII's laws, along with changes that probably came from the Church, John XXIII's laws. This lumping together of the work of Pius XII, John XXIII with Paul VI, does a great injustice to the name and reputation of Pope Pius XII, and further it can lead to a distrust of the Holy See.
Thank you, Mike, for a wonderful post! I don't anyone has stated the case as clearly and cogently as you have done in the above quote. It's well worth re-reading a number of times.
We, Catholics, trying to hold onto the Faith, can be overly "too conspiratorial" in our thinking, at times. We need to read and re-read the Holy Father's (Pope Pius XII's) address that you have posted above to appreciate that some changes were necessary for the good of the Church, and, not at all, linked with the devastating Novus Ordo Missae. I think that Vince posted that Pope St. Pius X, as bishop, had requested that St. Joseph's name be added to the Canon of the Mass: that fact certainly speaks well of the John XXIII change to the Canon.
As Pope Pius XII stated in Mediator Dei: "...The pressing need of Christians is to live the liturgical life."
Robert Bastaja
I don't see the above as what is being argued by those who reject these Pius XII changes. We must be careful here as well, not to remove this "rejection" argument from the "jungle" of this crisis. The facts do seem to lead to this conclusion...against the fact of promulgation by Pope Pius XII. Whether these changes were a prudent practical judgment may certainly be examined in the situation we find ourselves. I think a reading of Van Noort supports this view as well.
We, Catholics, trying to hold onto the Faith, can be overly "too conspiratorial" in our thinking, at times. We need to read and re-read the Holy Father's (Pope Pius XII's) address that you have posted above to appreciate that some changes were necessary for the good of the Church, and, not at all, linked with the devastating Novus Ordo Missae.
Again, I don't think one can say there isn't any link between the 1955 Holy Week changes and the changes made by Paul VI. If you are basing this on the fact that Pius XII was Pope at the time...remember that this is the same argument made by some for the validity and orthodoxy of the Novus Ordo Missae. Paul VI was a true pope...therefore the Novus Ordo is good. The facts do seem to indicate otherwise.
My main point is again, do not remove any analysis or judgment of other's actions during this crisis from the context of the crisis. It is often tempting to do this to make some point of argument in our favor.
John Lane wrote:
The principle applied by Fr. Cekada seems to me to be sound, and his argument "probable" (in the technical sense). I don't agree with it - but I think it plausible enough to be made in good faith by a Catholic. Indeed, I think the facts pretty much force us to that view. This is, after all, the worst crisis the Church has ever suffered.
I agree with this as well.
Those who reject the laws of Pope Pius XII on the liturgy, ususally state that the problems started long before the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae, they usually cite Bugnini's involvment during the days of Pope Pius XII, and they conclude that they are going to revert to times prior to all of the liturgical changes, ie. to the former laws in force at the time of St. Pius X.
In my opinion, I think this is a dangerous view, I believe that Catholics during a state of sedevacante, should not take it upon themselves to judge that they will reject the laws in force at the time of the state of sedevacante, refuse to obey them, and follow laws in force at a former age of the Church.
Pope Pius XII stated:
Here the Holy Father states clearly that the liturgical movement in force during his pontificate is "a movment of the the Holy Spirit in His Church." What rationale can there be to reject reforms that are moved by the Holy Ghost which "bring me closer to those mysteries of the faith and treasures of grace which derive from the active participation of the faithful in liturgical life."
I will be happy to read the texts you mentioned from Van Noort, and see how they relate to the quote I have cited above from Pope Pius XII.
John Lane posted :
When John does not agree with the stand to " reject" the Liturgical Laws of Pope Pius XIIth I am in 100% agreement. However, I do not agree with the statement supporting those that reject said laws " Indeed, I think the facts pretty much force us to that view"
The facts, in my humble view, when examined, appear to be in line with Church teaching to " indeed" accept the Laws of Pope Pius XIIth. As the years go by, those rejecting the Pope Pius XIIth Laws, in my limited observation, are in danger of schism. I have good friends that I have seen this stand become more ingrained, for example, they will only attend chapels that offer the " pre-1955" Liturgy. As the years have gone by they even look at this stance in a egotistical manner " they are more trad , then trads" ....
I am not speaking for all that reject the Pope Pius XIIth Laws , only observing those close to me that hold this view. This mindset does not appear to be positive.
It certainly seems further liturgical changes were coming no matter who was going to be the successor to Pope Pius XII. Fully 30 years+ had been spent on studying and experimenting with different liturgical changes, throughout Europe, especially. As Pope Pius XII stated, bishops had been requesting changes in certain areas for a number of years given the rapid changes in society from both World Wars and technology. They hoped that these changes would assist the laity in living the liturgical life in a society that was far apace from the quiet, agrarian life of prior centuries.
Yes Theresa, i perfectly agree.
The words in bold are very important. Those who criticize Pope Pius XII don`t realize that the world had changed a lot after 2 world wars, and so any comparison between St. Pius X and Pius XII`s liturgy taken out of the context are baseless.
Vincent this is so plenty of common sense that i can`t see how this can be denied for any person. In fact the pre and post Pius XII changes were made by 2 different Churches. (to me John XXIII wasn`t Pope).
Theresa you are right, i`ve never thougth on that! very good argument.
Dear Mike, very good summary of the whole question. I`m very glad to find here some persons who think exactly as i do regarding the "Liturgy-Question".
Cristian wrote:
I don't think this is a valid point at all. I believe the 3 hour fast was implemented because of the allowance of evening Mass. A fast from midnight would to too difficult if not impossible. The evening mass was for the changes in work habits...a working man could hardly fast from midnight till evening.
The point is that the Trads don't call the 3 hour fast "a 'stripped-down version' of the older fasting laws." What could be the argument against it?
Robert Bastaja wrote:
This whole thread is fascinating.
Vince, you misunderstood me, I think. I was referring to the view that Fr. Cekada's position is "probable" (even though I don't agree with it) - I was not arguing that his position is true.
Mike and Cristian, your position seems to me to have many merits, not least of which is the defence it provides for the proper filial love and devotion to the Holy Father. It also restores the sense that Christ acts in His Church; that Holy Church as His Mystical Body, with Him as its Head, acts with His personality. This idea - a crucial truth of ecclesiology - is very difficult to reconcile with any spirit of criticism directed towards the acts of Holy See.
Robert, the arguments against the three-hour fast could be that it lessened respect for the Blessed Sacrament and it slackened discipline in a matter in which there was no clear need. I contrast "need" with "utility." It could also be argued that this change gave impetus to the erroneous notions that Holy Communion is the purpose of the Mass, or that the Holy Sacrifice is somehow incomplete without lay Communion, or that one's assistance at the Holy Sacrifice is somehow incomplete or of little value if one does not receive Holy Communion... all of which would be suspects if one were to wonder why there are so many Communions and so few Confessions, even in traditional chapels.
These arguments are not incompatible with the view that the change was good and useful, either. They are merely observations that in addition to the good that the change worked, it also resulted in some concommitant evils. These may even have been foreseen by Pope Pius XII, weighed, and accepted as worth the risk in light of the great good he was attempting to secure by making the change.
And I understood that as well...a probable opinion meaning it has sound reasons behind it...not that it is probably true.
But we are in the "jungle" of this crisis...all of us.
Robert, the arguments against the three-hour fast could be that it lessened respect for the Blessed Sacrament and it slackened discipline in a matter in which there was no clear need. I contrast "need" with "utility."
Any major change in an established law has negative effects for sure. I might argue that Pope Pius X allowed for more frequent communion and the changes in work habits (a man couldn't necessarily get out of Sunday work) tended to negate that. He couldn't even assist at Mass...let alone receive Communion.
It could also be argued that this change gave impetus to the erroneous notions that Holy Communion is the purpose of the Mass, or that the Holy Sacrifice is somehow incomplete without lay Communion, or that one's assistance at the Holy Sacrifice is somehow incomplete or of little value if one does not receive Holy Communion... all of which would be suspects if one were to wonder why there are so many Communions and so few Confessions, even in traditional chapels.
So then why is no one rejecting the fasting changes along with the 1955 changes?
I might add that I am grateful that I don't have to decide whether I accept or reject these changes. I just go to Mass.
I don't think this is a valid point at all. I believe the 3 hour fast was implemented because of the allowance of evening Mass.
Robert, i`m not sure of that, because if that would be true, then Pope Pius XII, would have allowed the 3 hour fast just for the evening Mass, but he rather allowed it at any hour.
At most the evening Mass could have been the occasion, but not the cause.
A fast from midnight would to too difficult if not impossible. The evening mass was for the changes in work habits...a working man could hardly fast from midnight till evening.
Ok, is the same mutatis mutandis what Theresa just said above
Fully 30 years+ had been spent on studying and experimenting with different liturgical changes, throughout Europe, especially. As Pope Pius XII stated, bishops had been requesting changes in certain areas for a number of years given the rapid changes in society from both World Wars and technology. They hoped that these changes would assist the laity in living the liturgical life in a society that was far apace from the quiet, agrarian life of prior centuries.
We all agree on that, but the fact is not what they say, but rather what, it seems, they should say about the 3 hour fast.
Robert wrote:
I believe the 3 hour fast was implemented because of the allowance of evening Mass. A fast from midnight would to too difficult if not impossible. The evening mass was for the changes in work habits...a working man could hardly fast from midnight till evening.
The reasoning for the change in the fasting laws of Pope Pius XII were given by the Pope in the 1953 Apostolic Constitution Christus Dominus, which preceded his 1957 Motu Proprio on the same subject. The Pope stated:
It should nevertheless be noted that the times in which we live and their peculiar conditions have brought many modifications in the habits of society and in the activities of common life. Out of these there may arise serious difficulties which could keep men from partaking of the divine mysteries if the law of the Eucharistic fast is to be observed in the way in which it had to be observed up to the present time.
In the first place, it is evident to all that today the clergy are not sufficiently numerous to cope with the increasingly serious needs of the faithful. Especially on feast days they are subject to overwork, when they have to offer the Eucharistic Sacrifice at a late hour and frequently twice or three times the same day, and when at times they are forced to travel a great distance so as not to leave considerable portions of their flocks without Holy Mass. Such tiring apostolic work undoubtedly weakens the health of priests. This is all the more true because, over and above the offering of the Holy Mass and the explanation of the Gospel, they must likewise hear confession, give catechetical instruction, devote ever-increasing care and take ever more pains in completing the duties of the other parts of their ministry. They must also diligently look after those matters that are demanded by the warfare against God and His Church, a warfare that has grown so widespread and bitter at the present time.
Now our mind and heart go out to those especially who, working far from their own native country in far distant lands, have generously answered the invitation and the command of the Lord: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations."[20] We are speaking of the heralds of the Gospel who, overcoming the most difficult and multitudinous labors and all manner of difficulty in traveling, strive with all their might to have the light of the Christian religion illumine all, and to nourish their flocks, who but very recently received the Catholic faith, with the Bread of Angels which nourishes virtue and fosters piety.
Almost in the same situation are those Catholics who, living in many localities cared for by Catholic missionaries, or who, living in other places and not having among them their own priests, must wait until a late hour for the coming of another priest that they may partake of the Eucharist and nourish themselves with the divine Food.
Furthermore, since the introduction of machines for every sort of use, it very often happens that many workers-in factories, or in the land and water transportation fields, or in other public utility services-are employed not only during the day, but even during the night, in alternate shifts. As a result, their weakened condition compels them at times to take some nourishment. But, in this way, they are prevented from approaching the Eucharist fasting.
Mothers also are often unable to approach the Eucharist before they take care of their household duties, duties that demand of them many hours of work.
In the same way, it happens that there are many boys and girls in school who desire to respond to the divine invitation: 'Let the little children come to me."[21] They are entirely confident that "He who dwells among the lilies" will protect their innocence of soul and purity of life against the enticements to which youth is subjected, the snares of the world. But at times it is most difficult for them, before going to school, to go to church and be nourished with the Bread of Angels and then return home to partake of the food they need.
Furthermore, it should be noted that it often happens, at the present time, that great crowds of people travel from one place to another in the afternoon hours to take part in religious celebrations or to hold meetings on social questions. Now, if on these occasions it were allowed to offer the Eucharistic Sacrifice, which is the living Fruit of divine grace and which commands our will to burn with the desire of acquiring virtue, there is no doubt that strength could be drawn from this by which all would be stirred profoundly to think and act in a Christian manner and to obey legitimate laws.
To these special considerations it seems opportune to add some which have reference to all. Although in our days medical science and that study which is called hygiene have made great progress and have helped greatly to cut down the number of deaths, especially among the young, nevertheless conditions of life at the present time and the hardships which flow from the cruel wars of this century are of such nature that they have greatly weakened bodily constitution and health.
For these reasons, and especially so that renewed piety towards the Eucharist may be all the more readily increased, many Bishops from various countries have asked, in official letters, that this law of fast be somewhat mitigated. Actually, the Apostolic See has kindly granted special faculties and permissions, in this regard, to both priests and faithful. As regards these concessions, We can cite the Decree, entitled, [Post Editum,] given for the sick by the Sacred Congregation of the Council, December 7, 1906;[22] and the Letter of the 22nd of May, 1923, from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office to the local Ordinaries in favor of priests.[23]
In these latter days, the petitions of the Bishops have become more frequent and urgent, and the faculties granted were more ample, especially those that were bestowed in view of the war. This, without doubt, clearly indicates that there are new and grave reasons, reasons that are not occasional but rather general, because of which it is very difficult, in these diversified circumstances, both for the priest to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice, and for the faithful to receive the Bread of Angels fasting.
Wherefore, that we may meet these grave inconveniences and difficulties, that the different indults may not lead to inconsistent practice, We have deemed it necessary to lay down the discipline of the Eucharistic fast, by mitigating it in such a way that, in the greatest manner possible, all, in view of the peculiar circumstances of time, place, and the faithful, may be able to fulfill this law more easily. We, by this decree, trust that We may be able to add not a little to the increase of Eucharistic piety, and in this way to move and stir up all to partake at the Table of the Angels. This, without doubt, will increase the glory of God and the holiness of the Mystical Body of Christ.
Taken from: http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12CHDOM.HTM
I did not mean to claim that evening mass was the only reason...nor the direct cause. Reading Pius XII leads me to think it was a significant indirect cause.
Robert B wrote:
Explain...I don't follow you here.
Then we need not even consider the changes. They are correct.
Well, Cristian...apply that same thought to the sedeplentists and see where it leads you..."the fact is not what they say, but rather what, it seems, they should say".
The reasoning for the change in the fasting laws of Pope Pius XII were given by the Pope in the 1953 Apostolic Constitution Christus Dominus, which preceded his 1957 Motu Proprio on the same subject. The Pope stated: ...
Thanks. I have read that before. Do you think it is in conflict with what I posted? ... (and keeping in mind that I was not intending to present the entire reasoning.)
I am in no sense disagreeing with your views on the 3-hour fast. I fully adhere to Pope Pius XII's changes, (and Pope John XXIII's changes), and find no problem with them. I find a problem with the position that 'hunts the acorn' in liturgical matters. I pointed out the 3-hour fast as an inconsistency for those who use the pre-1955 liturgy, but avoid the 'imposition' of the midnight fast. As John wonderfully pointed out:
Robert, the arguments against the three-hour fast could be that it lessened respect for the Blessed Sacrament and it slackened discipline in a matter in which there was no clear need. I contrast "need" with "utility." It could also be argued that this change gave impetus to the erroneous notions that Holy Communion is the purpose of the Mass, or that the Holy Sacrifice is somehow incomplete without lay Communion, or that one's assistance at the Holy Sacrifice is somehow incomplete or of little value if one does not receive Holy Communion... all of which would be suspect if one were to wonder why there are so many Communions and so few Confessions, even in traditional chapels.
My argument is if one is an obedient child of Holy Mother Church, one doesn't 'sift' disciplinary or liturgical changes of valid popes anymore than one 'sifts' papal actions ... the sword cuts both ways.
Do you think it is in conflict with what I posted? ... (and keeping in mind that I was not intending to present the entire reasoning.)
I did not think there was any conflict between what I posted and what you said, but I was not sure if you had read the Pope's reasoning since you did not cite it. I was posting it in case you were not aware of it, and also for the benefit of all of the others who are following this thread. I think it is useful to follow the Pope's thinking in revising the law, which is given in the 1953 Apostolic Constitution Christus Dominus, but is not given in much detail in the 1957 Motu Proprio on the Eucharistic fast.
Thank you for the source. I do appreciate the work that you’ve done in these areas.
I did not cite any sources because I was posting here...a non-hostile environment.
I have spent countless hours debating in extremely hostile environments where one must carefully craft and source each statement as to avoid the inevitable irrelevant attacks based on a slight misstatement or a statement that is not 100% absolutely bulletproof.
This topic, unfortunately, seems to bring out less than the best in some...Teresa is right, the sword cuts both ways. I tried to make that very point but to no avail.
Take the SSPX out of the crisis and they are schismatics. Take those (who in some reasoned manner reject some of the liturgical reforms) out of the crisis and they are disobedient and smearing Pope Pius XII. None of these positions would even exist, of course, if there were no crisis.
Do you see my point at all? The very thing some of you complain about...you’re doing it yourself...in my humble and worthless opinion.
AMWills
Well, I think I see your point. Are you saying that rather than criticise those who adopt the pre 55 liturgy, we should make allowances for their position in consideration of the crisis, taking into account that one appeals to that very same thing (consideration of the crisis) in order to make allowances for the mistaken SSPX position?
If so, I agree. We should.
I should also like to add that I found Mike's posts very helpful, as I am one who has adopted the Pius XIIth changes a little reluctantly. I have now been brought to heel!
It is good to have you back safe and sound !
That is exaclty how I understood your post. I was just commenting on your second portion, which it appears, I must have misunderstood.
Not the first time I have done that.
Hope everyone has a grace filled Lenten Season,
My motivation for everything I do is my love for Christ and His Church. If I were to adopt a position which contradicted papal teaching and a brother in Christ pointed it out to me, by providing documented papal teaching, I would want to change my view to the Church's view. I would also see it as a great act of charity on the part of the person who corrected me. I do not want to hold any erroneous positions, and hopefully all Catholics should share that attitude.
Regarding this issue, I am not complaining about the people who hold this view, they are my brothers in Christ, I am trying to help them see that they have adopted a dangerous position. Vincent has cited some of the bad fruit of this position to this forum, and I have also seen it as well.
I also do not complain about Catholics who hold the view that Benedict is the pope. They are wrong, their position can lead to very serious dangers and could lead to heretical ideas on the papacy. I try to do what I can to show them that their position is not sound, and by accepting Benedict XVI, John Paul II, and Paul VI, that their position leads them by following the logic to dangerous errors against the faith.
I realize that in this time of crisis, Catholics must strive to be diffident, as John always reminds us. I do not judge those who have adopted erroneous positions, but I will try to help them as best as with the time that I have while following my duties of my state in life that I have been given by God.
I appreciate your correction, and I will reflect on it, to pray that my motives will always be pure and that all of my actions will be for the love of Christ and for my neighbor.
Thanks John, i knew that already, and actually i founded this in AER 120 p346/7.
Question: is a special dispensation necessary to have the altar constructed so as to face the people as was the custom in the primitive Church?...
Answer:... there is no legislation forbidding the construction of altar so that the priest faces the people. In fact, the Missal (Rit. serv. V, 3) still contains directions concerning certain minor changes in ceremonial when the altar is "as orientem, versus populum"...
But in spite of this my question was directed to another thing. I wonder if Pope Pius XII had in mind only the case of the altar built towards the east or He refered to any case.
Doubtless the "Paul VI-table" clerly contradicts Pope Pius XII here on separating the altar from the tabernacle.
No, only those cases in which the problem arose - that is, when to offer the Holy Sacrifice ad orientem meant also pro populo. Pius XII is clearly forestalling an objection. That objection would be based on some difficulty or other entailed by following his present instruction. The only such difficulty I am aware of is the one we are discussing. Ergo.
Robert, please excuse me the delay. I´ll try to explain myself better...
My argument (and i think Theresa`s) is that Pope Pius XII changed both the midnight fast and the Holy Week for the same reasons, namely the fact that due to the conditions of the modern society, man was no able to assist, as before, to such a large ceremonies and to keep the fast during 10-12 hours.
In His motu proprio Maxima Redemptionis, Pius XII points out that churches got empty during Holy Week because of all the changes the society went through at that time. And that is the reason i quoted you sayng "A fast from midnight would to too difficult if not impossible. The evening mass was for the changes in work habits[/b]...a working man could hardly fast from midnight till evening". And so if you accept (and i think, everybody does) the 3 hours fast and the reasons, it seems as if you have to accept the changes and its causes on Holy Week.
As far as i read, the 3 Holy Week under the new rubrics before Pius XII`s death, that is 1956, 1957 and 1958) got very good attendance of faithfuls.
But please, let me be clear on this: i`ve no problem to attend S Pius X`s liturgy (as a matter of fact, i do attend), and i understand the arguments (or at least i think that), eventhough to me the law nowadays is that of Pope Pius XII and for those who that law becomes nocive, they have no option to apply epikeya.
I hope this may clarify at least a little more my thoughts.
Well Robert now it is me that don`t understand... could you please?
Daneste305
I'm kinda new in the forum, and actually my first time posting one. For some time I've been reading topics here, but this one really confuses me. I attend to the traditional Holy Mass (SSPV priests). My point is this: Why this fascinating desire to change the liturgy in the Roman Rite? I mean, lack of attendance is a reason? so, we lower the standards?
(I honestly don't see our Lord lowering the standards to attract more...)
I think Pius XII, a holy and pious Pope by the grace of God, couldn't foresee that some "inocents" changes to adapt some practices would lead later into the caos and abuses that all of us know happened. But it happened.
Please, I don't want to sound as a narrow minded person. I am open to corrections, or suggestions.
Now it has not equal importance some changes with the fasting length (3 hours is reduced, but from midnight still can be used and recommended) compared with changes in the content of sacred liturgy and rubrics of the Mass. Nobody can say that post 1955 changes are bad for the faithful, yet, they were the seed of abuse and the excuse for future destruction of the true church.
I personally prefer to stick to the principle "as far as possible from modern changes" using pre 1955 Missal.
+ Instaurare Onmia in Christo +
Understanding their arguments means that their position is probable in the sense that it has sound reasoning behind it...let us remember that...so we don't put some real "distance" between traditionalists that really does not exist. This controversy will be settled by the Church in due time.
Now I don't agree that the changes in the fast requirements are the same as the changes in Holy Week. I think there is a big difference between the two. I think that is why no one has slid down the slippery slope that you say exists here.
Also, you hold the Law to be that of Pius XII...But many hold that John XXIII was also a true pope. So should they be using the '62 Missal?
Here is one person who seems to understand:
AMWills wrote:
Yes, here AMWills understands my point. But to be clear...I am not saying that we overlook each other's "mistakes" ... but that we understand that in these areas there will be "disagreements". It is not essential that we agree on these things...it is a tactic of those who oppose us to point out these non-essential differences. Let us not help in making the non-essentials of greater importance than actually are.
I agree entirely. One might say, we must be generous and forgiving, even towards our friends.
I perfectly agree Robert
Well i`m not saying (and if i did so, please excuse me) that the changes on Holy Week and on fasting are the same thing but rather i wonder why do they consider the 1955 changes a sort of "bridge" to Novus Ordo and why they don`t consider the 3 hour fast also as a "bridge" to the "1 hour fast" of Paul VI, that`s all.
If somebody consider John XXIII a true Pope i don`t see any problem for him...
Are you saing that the principle i pointed out above, if aplied to SSPX, it leads us to Fr. Cekada`s last issue? excuse me if i don`t undesrtand, please.
paxus
From Tradtio.com:
"It must be remembered that the Liturgical Commission that would bring to the world the invalid Novus Ordo Ordinal of 1968 and the Novus Ordo Mess of 1969, was originally instituted on May 28, 1948. This Liturgical Commission was headed by Ferdinand Antonelli and Hannibal Bugnini, a Freemason, who orchestrated all the deviations from the Traditional Latin Mass in the 1950s and the 1960s. For further information, click on the Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department of the TRADITIO Network for "The Road into the Black Hole of the Liturgical 'New Order.'
"Abp. Marcel Lefebvre personally wrote a glowing preface for this book. Father Bonneterre, referring to the so-called "liturgical reforms" of the 1950s, wrote:
"They are stages in the realization of a plot intended to bring about the death of the Church.... We must also recognize, in retrospect, for the reasons given above, they constitute the first stages of the 'auto-demolition' of the Roman liturgy."
Paxus wrote:
"Abp. Marcel Lefebvre personally wrote a glowing preface for this book. Father Bonneterre, referring to the so-called "liturgical reforms" of the 1950s
Dear Paxus,
While Archbishop Lefevbre may have written the preface to the book, I highly doubt that he would have used such strong language personally against the Papal laws of Pope Pius XII. I have not researched this, but perhaps someone on this board may be aware of the Archbishop's thoughts on the liturgical laws of Pope Pius XII.
For myself, I will never believe the theory that some Catholics put forward that somehow the laws of Pope Pius XII, therefore, the laws of the Church, were a stepping block to the evil and sacriligious Novus Ordo Missae. The Church is guided and protected by the Holy Ghost, who directs its official actions. The laws of Pope Pius XII came from the Church, and are spotless and holy. For me that is the end of the story, and thinking beyond that is dangerous.
I agree with you 100% ! And one thing that I have never seen verified:
" Bugnini crafted the 1955 Holy Week Liturgy himself"...... This has been a statement echoed for decades now, but has anyone really verified it? One would think a committee was formed to study the Holy Week Rite, not just one priest...........
Mike, i agree 100%.
Thanks very much for these thoughts.
Well it was a reference to a quote, and I do know there are not a few who agree with the Archbishop's views, however he may have expressed it. I personally have no opinion on the subject.
You write: The Church is guided and protected by the Holy Ghost, who directs its official actions. . I think we must be careful not to indulge mythological thinking in our zeal with respect to the Holy Ghost's guidance of all acts, as if popes and prelates cannot have good but misguided intentions. Nor is the pope a mythic-oracle we know. The Holy Ghost protects the acts of the ordinary magisterium from formal error, but it's no guarantee such acts are good for the Church. A weak pope can do much harm.
Another example, that Pius XII in Humani Generis did not "name names" with clear quotations or, more importantly, excommunicate the intended heretics, only allowed them to be "rehabilitated" by John XXIII---and we know to what sorry ends.
The laws of Pope Pius XII came from the Church, and are spotless and holy.
Here is what Father Sylvester Berry says in: "The Church of Christ: An Apologetic And Dogmatic Treatise, B. Herder Book CO, 1941 pg. 509";
"The Church is necessarily infallible in this doctrinal judgment, for if she were not, the faithful might be led into errors of doctrine at any time. But there is no promise that the rulers of the Church shall always enjoy the greatest degree of prudence; consequently, there is no guarantee that their laws and precepts will always be the best under the circumstances. Neither is the Church infallible in applying her laws to particular cases.
Also, as I quoted in a previous post, from Van Noort in his section on Infallibility:
The Church's infallibility in disciplinary matters, when understood in this way, harmonizes beautifully with the mutability of even universal laws. For a law, even though it be thoroughly consonant with revealed truth, can, given a change in circumstances, become less timely, or even useless, so that prudence may dictate it's abrogation or modification.
It is simply inaccurate to assume that every law that issues forth from the Church is always the best law, or the most prudent law. For example, is there any traditional Catholic who believes Pope Pius XII's "Instruction of the Holy Office on the Ecumenical Movement" was prudent? Would it be wise today, for our Bishops and Priests to avail themselves of this allowance to say some "Pater's" with our "separated brethren"? Would we not all take scandal given the current circumstance? If it is objected, "But these are allowances, not binding laws.", that is besides the point. To partake in ecumenical meetings, and say some prayers with heretics and schismatics is permitted. I believe it would be wrong headed to partake in such an affair, given the drastic change in circumstances that has occurred since the Instruction was issued.
What about the 1958 "Instruction on Sacred Music" which lawfully grants permission for "lay lectors" who can read the Epistle's and Gospel's and even act as a commentators for the mass (mind you, while the mass is actually being said by the priest)? Was this law, approved by Pius XII "spotless and holy"? Or was it truly a "stepping stone" to the Novus ordo?
Granted, even these instructions, cannot be viewed as evil in and of themselves, simply because they were given by the Church, and are therefore protected. Perhaps, if the Church were "healthy", these permissions could be utilized with the strict supervision of sound Bishops and Priests. But, good heavens! Today? Is anyone saying that these disciplinary laws, given with full approval by Pius XII, are not now harmful, and damaging to souls?
It would be better, I think, to say that those who reject the Holy Week "reforms" are simply applying a correct principle to the wrong situation. It is also inappropriate to speak of a few isolated individuals, as demonstrating the "bad fruits" of those with whom you disagree. I have yet to run across someone who says that anyone who accepts the "reforms" is somehow a liturgical softy who is jogging down the path to hell. I instead believe their stated reasons for rejecting the reforms, assume no hidden motives, and wish them Godspeed. I'm sure there are some who are more "voracious" in regards to the issue, but I don't think their indicative of the whole.
Alas, what is needed is an authority who has the power to bind in regards to disputed matters. Lacking that, all of us are treading "dangerous" ground, and should assume the best of those who are navigating through the same fog we are.
I am not judging the motives of those who reject Pope Pius XII's laws. I think you are reading into what I wrote. For myself, I accept what the Pope lawfully promulgated to the Church. I do not think it is healthy for Catholics to take it upon themselves to question the Holy See in matters of law, ie. which law is better than or worse. If Catholics do choose to do that, they should do so privately, and bring their issues to Rome.
Secondly, I have no problem with returning to the former law, or a different law, especially if it is outdated or no longer applicable. I think you have misunderstood me on this point, and I do agree with fully with Van Noort. Van Noort, in your quote, did not say that during a state of sedevacante, individual priests could on their own initiative make these determinations. The law is promulgated by the Pope, and as it stands, Pope Pius XII had promulgated the law.
If a future pope changes the law I will readily obey it. I am not attached to one law or another law. As a Catholic layman and this goes for priests as well, our duty is obedience to the Pope, and in a state of sedevacante, it is to the laws of the Church as promulgated until the death of the pope.
Regarding those Catholics who follow the other view, I also wish them Godspeed as you say. I wish them the best, and I hope and pray that someday when we have a pope once again, they will readily follow his laws, as all of us must, regardless of what decision he makes on the 1955 law of Pope Pius XII, and other liturgical laws. If the new pope decides to maintain the 1955 rite, or modify it, or revert to the former rite, all that matters is that we obey the pope, trust his judgment and be dutiful and obedient Catholics.
I hope that this clarifies my points.
I find this statement somewhat accusatory. The assumption is that those who “follow the other view” will possibly not “readily accept the laws” of a LIVING TRUE POPE. When the legitimate authority is restored they will not obey.
If “all that matters is that we obey the pope, trust his judgment and be dutiful and obedient Catholics”, then the neo-Catholics are correct. They believe that Paul VI, JPII, and now Benedict XVI are true popes and they do just this. But that’s not a good thing is it?
Where does this put the SSPX? They seem to do the opposite of what you recommend. But that’s a good thing isn’t it?
You want to apply this hard rule to a controverted period...then extrapolate the behavior during the crisis to later time. I believe this is wrong and dangerous as well.
I made no accusation, this is only your perception. Since this is your perception, let me make this clear. The law was originally promulgated by a true Pope, and some Catholics use very strong language against the 1955 rite, and by that I hope that they are ready to accept and obey a true pope, if he chooses to preserve this rite. I am not making an accusation that they will not obey, but as far as I am aware, none of the priests who reject Pius XII's law, have made any public statement saying that they will readily obey a future pope if he chooses to maintain this law.
The Catholics who follow Benedict XVI are not correct, because they are obeying a fake pope, not a real one. There is a world of difference. I do not judge their conscience, but they are objectively wrong. In reality, those who are still Catholic and adhere to Benedict XVI, do not believe the false doctrines he promulgates. The people that I know in the indult, for example, still believe the Catholic Faith, and think that the issue is one of interpretation. These people do not deny part of the Faith, but do erroneously follow a fake pope, but that does not make them not Catholic.
The SSPX in my opinion, is doing the right thing in so far as they are separating from Benedict, and preserving their Faith, but they have not, in my view, operated under consistent Catholic principles in responding to the crisis. They have reacted by retreating from the Novus Ordo hierarchy, and keeping their faith, but they have have not systematically formed a Catholic justification for their actions. They are as John Lane says, "practical sedevacantists," whether they realize this or not.
By the way, the SSPX position, even as it stands today, does not differ from the position of every Catholic in the world who reacted to the errors of Vatican II and Paul VI, who intially withdrew from him, but did not believe that he was a false claimant, and thereby not the pope.
I hope this helps to clarify.
"I am not judging the motives of those who reject Pope Pius XII's laws. I think you are reading into what I wrote."
The written word is a strange and terrifying thing, is it not? I actually think you were reading into what I wrote. I was speaking in general terms when I was discussing the attitude that some carry when criticizing those who have rejected the reforms. You, whom I believe acts with a genuinely Catholic demeanor in these forums, have not done this, but some have. I must wonder though, you claim your criteria for all things liturgical is the laws in force at the death of Pope Pius XII. Does this preclude your assisting at masses in SSPX chapels (at least the one's who insert St. Joseph's name in the canon, and who omit the last Confiteor)?
You also wrote this:
"Van Noort, in your quote, did not say that during a state of sedevacante, individual priests could on their own initiative make these determinations. The law is promulgated by the Pope, and as it stands, Pope Pius XII had promulgated the law."
Very well. Though I never implied that it did, nor was that the intent of my quoting it. The purpose of my quoting both Berry and Van Noort was to demonstrate that your apparent assertion that all laws emanating from the Church are "spotless and holy".....that all laws are somehow the direct will of God....is fundamentally wrong. Infallibility in disciplinary matters does not guarantee the best usage or applications of ecclesiastical law. Sometimes, the application of said laws, can be down rite imprudent, even harmful, yea, even mistaken. Your applying to the Church a measure of infallibility which she does not apply to herself.
In this state of sedevacante, Catholics are forced to make decisions they ought never have to make. This is precisely the insidious nature of the crisis. Traditionalists constantly point to principles dictating the cessation of a law when it becomes harmful to souls. It seems to me "rank cherry picking" when I see one traditionalist critiquing another for invoking a principle we all utilize to one extent or the other. I think it's fine to state that we should not reject the reforms. I just believe the reasons your using are flawed.
Also, you stated:
"I do not think it is healthy for Catholics to take it upon themselves to question the Holy See in matters of law, ie. which law is better than or worse. If Catholics do choose to do that, they should do so privately, and bring their issues to Rome."
Indeed, as I have stated before....if there was a "Rome" to go too, this matter would be settled. As it stands, we have a controverted question based upon sound principles of both canon and moral law. Until such an authority affords us the pleasure of a decision, it's probably best to be charitable where one can, and severely inclined to believe the best of those with whom you disagree.
I think the written word is actually preferable to the spoken word in that there is a record, and that ambiguities and mistaken perceptions can be clarified to make things clear, which is what is being done here, at least I hope.
The standard that I use in regards to the liturgy and all law for that matter, is that the law in force at the death of the last pope, is in force until a new pope either abrogates or changes the law. This has always been the standard during a period of sedevacante. Now, you may make the argument that this situation is different due to its length, but the principle remains the same.
Regarding assistance at SSPX or other masses which use the 1962 missal, this would not preclude attendance. John XXIII has not been judged by the Church to be a heretic, and whether or not he was a lawful pope, is still an open question. The 1962 missal was not impious or evil, as was the Novus Ordo Missae, so we are dealing with different issues here.
I stand by my assertion all of the universal laws of the Church are spotless and holy. You add to my statement saying, "that all laws are somehow the direct will of God....is fundamentally wrong." I never said that all of the laws of the Church are the direct Will of God. I was careful in what I said, and I did not say or imply that.
I agree that infallibility does not guarantee the best usage of the law. But, who is to make this judgment, laymen or simple priests? When a Catholic judges a papal law as not as good as another papal law, this is a very grave matter, that in my view should be left to ecclesiastical authority. As I stated in a previous post, if I thought that Pope should not have promulgated a law, and the former law was better, I would never make this a public matter, I would privately correspond with Rome on the issue, and wait for the thier judgment, and would accept that judgment.
I stated in my last post that I do not make any judgment against the motives of those who reject the law. I understand their position, but I will never accept that view. Pope Pius XII, spoke well of the liturgical reforms, (see Papal address above) I will accept his view on the matter.
To sum up, let me break this down:
1. I have not judged the motives of those who have rejected the liturgical law of Pope Pius XII.
2. I have stated that if I thought a former law was better than the current law, I would privately correspond with Rome on the matter, and would not make the matter public.
3. I am not qualified to judge papal laws in the first place.
4. I accept Pope Pius XII's laws, and I would not dare to think that I could make the judgment that his laws are lesser than the former law.
5. I trust Rome, trust the Pope, and regarding law, I will just obey the law, and not think about it beyond that.
I see we have a gentleman's disagreement in regards to the written versus spoken word. I prefer a face to face chat that enables individuals to look at facial features, hear tonal inflections and in general remove one from the "distance" that is inherent in communication by text. That I think, is the best remedy for misunderstandings and mistaken assumptions.
Nor Mike, did I "add to your statement". I was not quoting you when I said "that all laws are somehow the direct will of God". But if that is not what you meant when you said this:
The Church is guided and protected by the Holy Ghost, who directs its official actions.
then you need to clarify. If the Holy Spirit directs all of the Church's "official actions".....doesn't that mean that "all laws are somehow the direct will of God"? Does the Holy Spirit sometimes direct the Church into imprudent and mistaken "official actions"? Aren't we agreed that sometimes, the Church's "official actions" are not always the most prudent, and not always the best given the situation?
For example...do you think the Instructions of the Holy Office on ecumenism and sacred music are "guided and protected by the Holy Ghost, who directs it's official actions."? If so, would you have any objections to lay commentators during mass, and/or your parish priest attending an ecumenical meeting and praying with protestants and the Eastern orthodox? Those Instructions were "official actions", were they not? Do you think, given the crisis today, it would be wise to discourage lay commentators and joining ecumenical meetings, even though "Rome" encouraged/allowed them only a short time ago? There are many more "official actions" we could discuss (the suppression of the Jesuits, Honorius, Benedict XV's suppression of the Sodalitium Pianum etc..), but these should suffice to clarify your position, as some of your statements are confusing me.
is there any traditional Catholic who believes Pope Pius XII's "Instruction of the Holy Office on the Ecumenical Movement" was prudent?
If you are referring to the 1949 instruction, while subsequently abused I find it in the main unobjectionable for two primary reasons
1.) It reaffirmed that those outside the Church must "return" to submission to the Roman Pontiff---Thus an ecumenism of return which does not posit "positive ecclesial bodies" (Ratzinger) ..."means of salvation" (Vat2) outside the Catholic Church.
2.) In this sense the Church has always left the 99 faithful to seek out and bring back the straying lamb(s), as witness the Council of Florence; also she sought to bring back other Eastern Churches (the Jacobites of Syria, 1442, the Mesopotamians, 1444, the Nestorians and the Maronites, 1444). Etc., etc.
Protestants were guaranteed safe passage to debate in all freedom all the controverted issues with the fathers at the Council of Trent with a view to reconciling differences, misunderstandings, etc. etc.
But having said that I do think Pius XII was terribly pressured by liberal forces to make too many concessions, though thankfully he stopped far short of crossing the foul lines as they did at Vat2. In this area of the liturgical movement especially. Mediator Dei was a far more fuller and more cautious treatment that the text which began this thread, no?
Paxus,
The main thrust of the question is weather or not this instruction was "prudent" or the best decision given the circumstances. As Mike's position entails a defense of the notion that all of the "official actions" of the Church are "directed by the Holy Ghost", this question has significant meaning for many reasons.
1.) Was the granting of permission to attend ecumenical meetings and say prayers with heretics and schismatics given at the direction of the Holy Ghost?
2.) Since this was an "official action" of the Church, given by the direction of the Holy Ghost, would it not be impious and rash to question it? Would it not even be fair to say that the Holy Ghost, in directing this official action, is desirous of such meetings and joint prayers?
3.) Would it be objectionable for your parish Priest to participate in such gatherings, and say a few Pater's and Ave's with the local Baptist Pastor? If so, why?
The same type of questions apply to the "Instruction on Sacred Music". Keeping in mind, this instruction dealt with liturgical matters.
1.) This was an "official action" of the Church, given by direction of the Holy Ghost. This instruction allows for lay commentators. Is it then true that we must believe God is desirous of lay commentators? Or even that God is desirous of allowing lay commentators to comment on the mass while the priest is saying the prayers in Latin?
2.) Would you mind at all if your parish began using lay lectors to read the epistle's and Gospel's in the vernacular, and then began using the lay commentators to provide a play by play of the mass while Father is off praying in Latin? If so, why?
3.) Would it be wrong to view this liturgical instruction as a logical stepping stone to the Novus Ordo? Would it be wrong to discourage this practice, even though the Holy Father has permitted it, nay, even recommended it?
Keep in mind, it is my position that the laws of the Church are not always guaranteed to be the best laws, nor the most prudent laws. And in the application of these laws the Church is not infallible. Hence the quote from Fr. Berry. The Church even states that her laws, through a change in circumstances, can become harmful so that "...prudence may dictate it's abrogation or modification." Given the nature of the current crisis, an appeal to authority is not possible. Therefore, traditional Catholics state that certain laws have ceased to bind, because to enforce them, would be a danger to souls. So, traditionalists, on their own authority, disregard the need for imprimaturs when publishing, or the need to get permission from the ordinary to build a Church...etc. And even these are not things we dismiss because they are inherently harmful to souls (in other words, it is not in and of itself harmful to souls to not have a church building, or not have a Catholic book). We could say..."hey, the Church requires imprimaturs when publishing a Catholic work, we have no one to give these imprimaturs...so we're just not going to publish any Catholic works." But we don't. We instead simply assume the mind of the legislator, and claim the law has ceased, because it is understood that the law would not bind in such a circumstance. The notion that we cannot under any circumstance take it upon ourselves to claim a law has ceased due to a change in situations, ultimately leads to the "home alone" position.
Very very interesting issue...
Just few words... i believe Mike is right and in support of that i`ll quote (as soon as i can) Leo XIII`s letter called Epistolam Tuam, but right now i`ve not the text, here.
You say it, "given the circumstances"... well i blieve "given the circumstances" that instruction, in 1949 was prudent, why not?
If you re-read the instruction you`ll see it is surrounded with many precautions. It`s very different to that of Assis and others.
The instruction clearly says that all these activities should be under the guidance of the Ordinary, and today we have not, ergo this instruction cannot be aplied in our days, and the example to support that the laws of the Church may not be prudent (or the most prudent) at least in this case is not valid.
Well... one thing is to say that that law was not prudent at that time (which i don`t agree) an other very different is to say that today it is nocive to aply this law. Personaly i don`t see any problem to aply them, but i understand those who hold the opposite view.
Bill the words in bold just give the possibility that a law once good may became, later, nocive or need to be changed and so if you wish to say that a law made by a Pope may not be the most prudent at that time, i think you should prove it, because the text you quote doesn`t support that interpretation, all they say is that a law may became nocive or not prudent to aply due to the changes of circumstances.
May I suggest a review of this article also, especially pages 212 and 213, keeping in mind that Our Lord is Ruler as much as He is Teacher and Priest in the Church.
http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/fento ... 0Dogma.pdf
Of course, there is always The Catholic Encyclopedia available to emasculate this doctrine too.
"..if you wish to say that a law made by a Pope may not be the most prudent at that time, i think you should prove it, because the text you quote doesn`t support that interpretation,.."
Cristian, I can only assume you did not read the quote I provided from Father Berry. Here it is again.
You have asked me to "prove" that a "law made by a Pope may not be the most prudent at the time". Father Berry says "But there is no promise that the rulers of the Church shall always enjoy the greatest degree of prudence; consequently, there is no guarantee that their laws and precepts will always be the best under the circumstances."
This quote..."...prudence may dictate it's abrogation or modification." was from Van Noort. I'm using the word "prudence" because it seems to be the word of choice when talking about this issue in the manuals. In return, may I ask you... do you have any authorities who state that every law of the Church is most prudent, and the best given the circumstance? With all due respect Cristian, I think you have misunderstood the parameters of this discussion.
In regards to the Father Fenton article. Do you think it is addressing the particular point being discussed in this thread? I certainly agree with every word of it, nor do I find it in anyway opposed to the principle that some laws, while certainly never damaging to souls per se, may not be prudent given a particular situation, and may cease given a change in circumstance.
Again, people are not arguing that the principles are correct, but the application is wrong (in regards to the Holy Week reforms). Their arguing that the very principles some use to justify their rejection of the reforms are not valid. This seems to me, mistaken. Any guidance you can offer, John, would be appreciated.
Bill, as I stated, I certainly agree not all licit laws or directions are always prudent.
However you ask, "Was the granting of permission to attend ecumenical meetings and say prayers with heretics and schismatics given at the direction of the Holy Ghost?"
I think it would only be permissible if the Holy Father directed qualified representatives to such meetings with the explicit aim of the return of some Protestant groups to the Roman Catholic Church / submission to the Roman Pontiff.
I do think the 1956 Address of Pope Pius XII on the Liturgy was imprudent, and likely a concession under pressure (duress) from the liturgical "reform" groups which had cropped up all over the world in terrorist camps in preparation to mount up the Trojan Horse against none other than Pius and Card. Ottaviani themselves.
This is an excellent discussion.
I should say before I comment that I don’t have a final view of this, which is why I have not been participating closely, but rather observing and pondering.
The idea, it seems to me, is to come to a proper appreciation of the manner in which Our Lord acts as Ruler of His Church through what Mons. Fenton calls the “ambassadorial instrumentality” of His hierarchy. I deliberately avoid the term “understanding” in order to stress that there is an element of mystery here which I think we are bound to fail in fully penetrating. And in any case, whilst we do seek understanding our main aim is to grasp the fact of what the Church teaches and to accept it, even if we don’t really understand it at all.
All of this we are striving to do whilst refraining from any criticism of those who have already developed a position and acted in accord with it.
Now, it seems clear that we must avoid defect and excess, which is precisely the ground upon which you and Mike are presently grappling. In a sense, I think you are trying to discover the precise theoretical difference which underpins your difference of practical judgement.
Christ acts as Ruler of His Church. He does so in a manner which is definitely more intimate than the manner in which He acts in civil rulers by a more general Providence. We might describe the manner of His actions in the Church as a “special providence.” But even that would not get to the heart of it, I think, because the Church is His Mystical Body, He is its proper Head; it is certainly correct to describe its acts as His acts.
But on the other hand, not every official act of a member of the hierarchy can be considered His act in this sense – for example, a local bishop excommunicates unjustly, or errs in his ordinary teaching, or promotes a candidate who is manifestly unworthy, for unworthy motives.
Christ does not “inspire” the hierarchy in the sense in which He inspired Holy Writ; He employs them, as Fenton says, in an ambassadorial manner. An ambassador acts with the authority of the one who sends him, and the one who sends him takes full responsibility for his acts, when those acts are within the parameters laid down by his sending authority; and this is so much the case that those acts are said to be in a real sense acts of that sending authority, not just of the ambassador. Think of papal legates at General Councils for example.
In relation to Christ’s role as Teacher, we distinguish when the Church has definitely committed herself and when she merely offers guidance. In both cases she acts with the authority of Christ but her intentions differ in each case – in the one she teaches infallibly, in the other she does not - although we are still bound by her acts, precisely because she acts with His authority. As Mons. Fenton points out elsewhere, we are bound to hold as an opinion whatever she commands us to hold as an opinion, knowing fully that she might modify this position in future.
You have presented some useful texts which certainly provide some insight. However, in considering any text we need to take care in understanding the purpose of the author. Fr. Berry was not developing the whole subject, but rather it seems clear that he was merely laying down some definite boundaries or datum points.
Father Berry wrote:
The Church is necessarily infallible in this doctrinal judgment, for if she were not, the faithful might be led into errors of doctrine at any time. But there is no promise that the rulers of the Church shall always enjoy the greatest degree of prudence; consequently, there is no guarantee that their laws and precepts will always be the best under the circumstances. Neither is the Church infallible in applying her laws to particular cases.
Now, you take from this text the following lesson:
Perhaps we can distinguish here: Berry only says that there is no guarantee that “laws and precepts will always be the best under the circumstances.” No theologian writes a statement like that without considering it carefully. Fr. Berry definitely did not say that “there is no guarantee that laws and precepts will always be good under the circumstances.” That was not his point and it would be at least a dangerous thing to say. He contented himself with the definite rejection of the extreme notion that the hierarchy of the Church always acts in the best possible manner in any given circumstance. To claim such a thing would certainly be to err by excess.
However, this leaves untouched the substance of the controversy here. The precise point at issue is not yet completely clear, but one issue seems to be whether we may say that a given law was “imprudent” in itself, and another is whether a particular change was prudent (i.e. distinguishing the actual law from the decision to alter it – one could conceive of a decision which produced a law, good in itself, but resulting in harm accidentally, so to speak, through want of prudence or even of good intentions).
The question of whether a law may cease to do good through a change of circumstances is one which everybody already agrees on, I think.
In regards to the Father Fenton article. Do you think it is addressing the particular point being discussed in this thread?
No, I don’t. But some specific points that it makes are definitely applicable and in general I think it helpful to foster in the minds of the disputants the general sense of trust in the Church and love for her every act. A lot of babies get tossed out with bathwater these days.
Anyway, those are some thoughts which I hope may be helpful.
For any discussion such as this present one, the following general view must be the background and foundation of our thoughts.
Mons. Robert Hugh Benson, Christ in the Church, Longmans, London, 1911, pp. 10,11.
Catholics believe that as Jesus Christ lived His natural life on earth two thousand years ago in a Body drawn from Mary, so He lives His Mystical Life to-day in a Body drawn from the human race in general - called the Catholic Church - that her words are His, her actions His, her life His (with certain restrictions and exceptions), as surely as were the words, actions, and life recorded in the Gospels: it is for this reason that they give to the Church the assent of their faith, believing that in doing so they are rendering it to God Himself. She is not merely His vicegerent on earth, not merely His representative, not merely even His Bride: in a real sense she is Himself. That in this manner, as well as in another which is not our business at present, He fulfills His promise to be with His disciples all the days, even to the consummation of the world. To express the whole position once more under another aspect, in order to make clear what is the position on which I purpose to enlarge, it may be said that God expressed Himself in terms of a single life in the Gospels, and of a corporate life in the Church.
If, then, we Catholics declare to the Protestant world, you would truly "see Jesus" (as the Greeks in the Gospel), you can see Him only as He really is, living in that Body called the Catholic Church. The written Gospel is the record of a past life; the Church is the living Gospel and record of a present life. Here He "looks through the lattice," visible to all who have eyes; here He reproduces, in century after century and country after country, the events and crises of the life lived in Judaea. Here He works out and fills up, on the canvas of the world's history, that outline laid down two thousand years ago: He is born here, lives, suffers, dies, and eternally rises again on the third day. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
I will try to clarify this point as you have asked. The pope is not a puppet, whereas he has lost his free will to operate. But, God permits a given bishop to become the pope, and further the Pope is given special graces to perform his task of being the Head and Ruler of the Church.
Further, the pope is protected from promulgated an evil universal law, and protected from Teaching heresy and I would say error in his official capacity to the universal Church. If the Pope did so, he would not be the pope, this is one way of determining that Paul VI was not the pope.
Now, with that said, let us move to another point, can the pope bind the flock in a rite that is impious or would lead to impiety. Of course not!
Can the pope make prudential decisions in regards to the Divine Worship of the Church which all Catholics are bound to which may lead Catholics to a less perfect form of worship of God? I think this is the crux of our issue here. I seems that you are arguing that pope can do this, and for myself, I am not sure if he can do this, but even if he could do this, I don't think that I am able to judge which form of woship is better or not better, as both come from the Church. I would rather leave any judgment on liturgical matters to the pope.
My contention is to obey whatever law the pope gives us, trust him on these matters, and if a Catholic thinks they know better than the pope on these matters, that Catholic should address him privately with his reasons.
Now, I am not living on a desert island where I do not see that the Church is in crisis and we do not have access to the Pope or the Roman Curia. That is why I have told you that I do not judge those who differ with me on this. The only important point in a practical sense is that Catholics must be ready to obey the next pope when he comes and by that I am not implying that these Catholics will not.
Lastly, we are the sheep of the Church, the Pastors are the Shepherds and Teachers. In regards to the Pope, I have every desire to obey him, his laws, his commands, and to treat him as a young child who obediently follows his father's will and listens to what he has to teach him.
Conversly, when I hear Catholics say that I do not need to obey the pope's laws, or say that his his teaching is imprudent, or speak against the Roman Congregations under his authority, I for myself, flee from such ideas and commentary. I will stick with the Pope, and any idea which even lessens my loyalty, obedience and submission, and respect for the authority of the Holy Father in any degree is one which I do not want any part of.
I hope this clarifies.
As a Catholic I give my religious assent to this teaching of the Holy Father that was published in the Acta, and further, I as a Catholic will give the benefit of the doubt to the Holy Father that he was acting prudently and in the best interests of the Church in giving this Papal Address. When the Holy Father in the Address states that the liturgical reforms of the 1950's are good things, I will believe the Supreme Teacher of Christendom over a few unauthorized priests who say otherwise.
You may differ on this, but unless you have evidence, showing his imprudence, in giving this address, I will only think well of Pope Pius XII and his teachings given in this Address.
I understand. I was just pointing out that the questions posed needed to be viewed within the larger context of the discussion. I've always enjoyed your posts Paxus, thanks for the input.
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Davy Mooney and the Ghosts
Davy Mooney and the Ghosts is the new singer-songwriter project from world-renowned jazz guitarist Davy Mooney. Mooney has been leading a double life for his entire musical career: he is well known on the international jazz scene as a melodic and harmonically sophisticated guitarist, but for the past 15 years he has been performing solo in coffee houses and small bars singing his bittersweet, nostalgic songs to old folkies and young indie-rockers.
Although some of the songs go back 10 years or more, Mooney hadn't gotten around to recording them until this past year. The CD is "Ghosts of Music, Past ", and the band Mooney has put together to perform the music is called, fittingly, the Ghosts. Why the supernatural theme? Because Mooney has been haunted by these songs for years; they come from the past and are rife with regrets and shadowy memories. The record is stylistically diverse, but many of the songs deal with relationships, doubts, and complex, mixed emotions. The Ghosts are a band of virtuoso musicians that bring depth and musicality to Mooney's tunes. Listen and be transported!
How do you describe your music to people?
My singer-songwriter music is inspired by Sting, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, and many others, but I don't think I sound that much like any of them. The presentation of my music is fairly sparse, and I tend toward lyrical complexity, or at least verbosity! I love Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim.
My music is folky and jazzy and full of vocal harmonies and harmonic twists and turns.
I need to come up with a snappier description of it, to be honest, but it's constantly evolving, so that's difficult!
Tell me about how you originally got into your craft.
My uncles all played music: two of them played guitar and sang Beatles songs all the time, and the third was an aspiring jazz pianist. I also grew up back when MTV used to play music videos, and I was inspired by all of it, from glam rock in the late 80s through Nirvana and the early 90s grunge scene. You may not hear that influence in my music, but all those bands inspired me to be a professional songwriter and musician.
Later on I got heavily into jazz, and I was fortunate enough to be able to study jazz at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (an arts high school) with the late Clyde Kerr, Jr.
With or without my clothes on?
I'd have to say relaxing after a hard day with an ice cold dirty Stoli martini.
The skills required to make the music good and the skills required to sell the music and the musician (me) in the marketplace often seem mutually exclusive. I'm constantly slacking on one side or the other.
A musician. I can't remember anything before that.
In what way has your community impacted your development as a musician?
I'm from New Orleans, and that's a huge part of who I am as a musician and an artist. I didn't realize how much until I left there and settled in New York after Katrina. I heard one person describe New Orleans as the only American city where the maximization of efficiency and profit are not the two most important civic virtues, and for better and for worse that's where I'm coming from.
On the musical side, I learned how to play for people in New Orleans; the audience there loves to listen to music, and they're ready to enjoy themselves and get into what you're doing if you let them. Even if what you're playing is not booty-shaking music, although that makes it a bit easier. I still try to play for the audience, whether it's jazz or the singer-songwriter thing.
Famous artists: Stephen Sondheim , Sting , Chico Buarque , Paul Simon , Bob Dylan , Brian Blade , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Liz Phair , Kate Bush , Ruben Blades , Jobim
Not so famous artists: Mike West , Myshkin , Snarky Puppy , John Ellis , Sarah Renfro , Steve Masakowski
More of the same. Life in the trenches as a musician is what I signed up for. It would be nice to make some real money doing this, but that was never what I expected when I got into this business.
I hope to make at least one truly great record before I descend into senility and decrepitude.
Other than that, I'll just keep on keeping on.
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Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas.
Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas. Apart from the pyramidal structures, Teotihuacan is also known for its large residential complexes, the Avenue of the Dead, and numerous colorful, well-preserved murals. Additionally, Teotihuacan produced a thin orange pottery style that spread through Mesoamerica.
The city was thought to have been established around 100 BCE and continued to be built until about 250 CE. The city may have lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries CE. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. At this time it may have had more than 200,000 inhabitants, placing it among the largest cities of the world in this period. Teotihuacan was even home to multi-floor apartment compounds built to accommodate this large population. The civilization and cultural complex associated with the site is also referred to as Teotihuacan or Teotihuacano.
Although it is a subject of debate whether Teotihuacan was the center of a state empire, its influence throughout Mesoamerica is well documented; evidence of Teotihuacano presence can be seen at numerous sites in Veracruz and the Maya region. The Aztecs may have been influenced by this city. The ethnicity of the inhabitants of Teotihuacan is also a subject of debate. Possible candidates are the Nahua, Otomi or Totonac ethnic groups. Scholars have also suggested that Teotihuacan was a multiethnic state.
The city and the archaeological site were located in what is now the San Juan Teotihuacán municipality in the State of México, Mexico, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Mexico City. The site covers a total surface area of 83 km² and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is one of the most visited archaeological sites in Mexico.
San Juan Teotihuacán
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‘To End Religious Persecution’ Is the Responsibility of all Mankind
Category: Human Rights Tags: china human rights / Falun Gong / Human Rights / religious freedom
The first ever 'Ministerial to advance Religious Freedom' around the world was hosted by Secretary Pompeo, focusing on concrete ways to combat and end religious persecution around the world. (Image: Hermann Rohr / Vision Times )
By Hermann Rohr, August 7, 2018
Just recently, delegations from more than 80 countries and more than 40 ministerial officials attended the first Ministerial Conference for Religious Freedom organized by the U.S Department of State. This includes many representatives from human rights organizations and also faith groups.
Follow #IRFMIN for news/views about the @StateDept's Ministerial conference on International Religious Freedom (July 24-26). pic.twitter.com/23QkC0suKI
— ANCA (@ANCA_DC) July 23, 2018
Sam Brownback, the U.S Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, said: “We will build alliances around the world to resist religious persecution and witness its end. Together, we will defeat this evil!”
Mr. Brownback added: “I saw some Falun Gong practitioners gathering in Washington, D.C. in June of this year to commemorate the anniversary of the sad and painful persecution in China. I hope they continue to stand up bravely for the faith and freedom to practice. I also hope that more people around the world agree with the view that mankind needs freedom.”
On the same day, U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Ministerial Conference for Religious Freedom will continue to be held next year.
Many thanks to @SecPompeo and @IRF_Ambassador for organizing the first ever Ministerial Conference to Advance Religious Freedom and to @VP Mike Pence for his powerful speech. Poland has joined dozens of countries supporting religious freedom as a fundamental human right. pic.twitter.com/dL33PEEoch
— Piotr Wilczek 🇵🇱 (@AmbWilczek) July 26, 2018
In 1998, the United States passed the International Religious Freedom Act. Since 1999, the U.S. Department of State releases an annual report on international religious freedom. China has been classified as being among the “countries of particular concern (CPC),” due to their violation of religious freedom for 19 consecutive years. On May 29, 2018, the U.S. Department of State released the “International Religious Freedom Report.” In it, China is again designated as being among the CPCs.
A case of religious persecution
The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong has been going on for 19 years. Over these 19 years, Jiang Zemin’s so-called gangster group has been using all kinds of tactics to destroy the reputation, drain the finances, and eliminate the physical bodies of tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners.
Several million practitioners have been kidnapped, illegally detained, sent to labor camps to be brainwashed, and even tortured to death or killed for their organs during illegal organ-harvesting. Several million families have been persecuted and their homes torn apart.
The partaking members of the ministerial further addressed the challenges that need to be overcome in order to identify concrete ways to address religious persecution and discrimination in order to ensure greater respect for religious freedom for everyone.
Among the attendees were also 25 members of civil society groups, including religious leaders and survivors of religious persecution, who told their stories and shared their experiences, with the goal of forming a unity “on a path to greater religious freedom in our societies.”
Role of the government
Both government and international organization representatives present committed to promoting Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, focusing on ways to identify global challenges to religious freedom, and developing ways to respond to persecution on the basis of religion, while also refreshing their commitment to protecting religious freedom for everyone.
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By Chris Pomorski
On every day of every week, communications arrive in our inbox from the offices of landlords, brokers and public relations agents touting new and forthcoming residential real estate developments, mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With few exceptions, these developments are billed as “luxury.”
In some ways, what this says about trends in New York City real estate isn’t surprising. Developers are frequently happy to explain that the cost of land in pretty much all of Manhattan—and in great swathes of Brooklyn, too—is such that it often makes the most economic sense to build pricey condos or rentals.
There are, though, some things about the profusion of conversions, refurbishments and even mere re-brandings being described as “luxury” that strike us as odd. One is that the very fact of this cavalcade seems to stifle the notional scarcity on which “luxury” to some extent relies.
Merriam-Webster offers three definitions for the noun form of the word, one of them being something that “is not usually or always available.” But “luxury” in New York City nowadays appears to be anything but “not usually available.” In large portions of town, it can seem difficult to find housing that doesn’t claim the mantle. And as far as considerable segments of the real estate industry are concerned, the idea seems to have grown near-infinitely elastic, practically all-inclusive.
There are, first of all, the “luxury” rentals. (We refer here to homes that residents occupy in the long term, and not to the astronomical rentals that tenants who own other property sometimes live in for brief intervals—like the 4,786-square-foot floor-through at the Pierre Hotel currently on the market for $500,000 per month, or the $125,000-a-month unit Robert De Niro and his wife took at 15 Central Park West while their co-op in the Brentmore underwent renovation after a fire.)
The Shorecrest Towers at Trump Village, a complex of 880 units currently undergoing renovation in Coney Island—a waterfront neighborhood with yet-unproven high-end residential allure—where rents run from $1,500 for studios to $2,831 for three-bedrooms, makes its claim to luxury largely on the basis of moderately fine amenities, such as a shared fitness center and rooftop deck, stainless steel kitchen appliances and modern light fixtures lacking conspicuously in tony name brands. The intended effect seems to be to suggest sleek modern city living at a steep discount. (As of February, the average Brooklyn studio rents for $2,300, according to a report prepared by Douglas Elliman.)
But in modern Brooklyn, proximity to Manhattan trumps beach access every time, as evidenced by 123 on the Park, which, as its name indicates, overlooks Prospect Park—and which shares much in the way of interior features with the Shorecrest Towers, including a designer, Andres Escobar. Here, renters of two-bedroom units can expect to shell out more than $4,000 a month. Of course, 123 also flies the luxury banner—though it lacks the indoor pool, the generous portions of marble and cerused oak of, say, a $9,600-a-month two-bedroom currently on the market at 752 West End Avenue, in Manhattan, which likewise emphasizes luxury bona fides in its marketing. (One Hundred Twenty-Three on the Park also boasts shared, forward-thinking amenity spaces, like a billiards-appointed gaming lounge and a yoga room, which have cropped up increasingly of late to draw the cost-conscious and luxury-enthused.)
Others define luxury strictly by the numbers. “Everyone is trying to brand themselves,” said Donna Olshan, the president of Olshan Realty. Since 2006 she has published the weekly Olshan Luxury Market Report, a rundown of the last seven days’ priciest residential contracts. “I think people are trying to resonate ‘exclusive and rich’ without saying ‘exclusive and rich.’ So ‘luxury’ is sort of a catchall for that. What is the real definition? I don’t know. But it’s definitely an overused term.”
For purposes of Ms. Olshan’s report, which consists of a kind of box score denoting tallies for co-ops, condos, condops and townhouses, “luxury” means properties with asking prices of $4 million or more. Kirk Henckels, the vice chairman of Stribling and the director of that firm’s private brokerage, uses $5 million as the threshold for his own luxury market analysis. Jonathan Miller, the president of the real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel, defines the luxury market as the top 10 percent of the whole; apartments costing $10 million or more merit the distinction of “ultra luxury.”
“We needed a cutoff,” Ms. Olshan recalled. “Below $4 million, we would have had too many properties. It wouldn’t have been manageable. It may have been very arbitrary, but we set it there. And I’m glad that we did, because if we’d gone higher, in 2008, when things were a little lean, I wouldn’t have been reporting on hardly anything at all.”
Frederick Peters, the president of Warburg Realty, who deals routinely in sprawling multimillion-dollar apartments, grows evidently exasperated thinking of “the never-ending press stories about $30 million penthouses in Soho.” And when we asked him to limn the parameters of modern luxury real estate, he became wary. “That’s not a characterization I like to use,” Mr. Peters said. “What I prefer to say is that we provide a luxury experience, which means we’re trying to provide a high quality of customer service and added value through our expertise.”
Aby Rosen, the developer of a condo conversion at 300 East 64th Street that has been billed as “affordable luxury”—its units are ineligible for Ms. Olshan’s report, pricing out at less than $3 million—invited us, through a representative, to check out the building’s new “laundry lounge,” but declined our invitation to chat about its place in the luxury landscape.
Many brokers that we queried shared a similar reticence on the subject of “luxury”; it was as if such a discussion might bring down a jinx, or else break a spell.
But as in all things, marching orders for the lower echelons, affordable and otherwise, come from the top. Roger Ferris, the founder of Roger Ferris and Partners, an architectural firm trading in townhouse and penthouse renovations for properties that cost their owners well north of $10 million, told us, unsurprisingly, that at the end of the day, “Ego is driving everything.” (Mr. Ferris is currently at work in Manhattan on three penthouses and five townhouses.)
In the case of townhouse-dwellers, he said, the contrast between ultra-modern interior overhauls—rear walls of glass, gleaming kitchens, tiered screening rooms and indoor pools sunken deep underground often—has a strong attraction. “The city, for the most part, has a really fantastic fabric of townhouses,” Mr. Ferris said. “They tell kind of a historical tale from the outside. And then you can leave history behind and walk into the present, to aspirations for the future.”
Townhouses, he pointed out, are not anonymous. “You can say, ‘That’s my house. That’s my front door. That’s my facade.’”
Contrast that with a high-rise unit, where anonymity is often the desired state. From on high, with your feet in the clouds, one’s existence—and one’s holdings—is, in a sense, more unassuming. That is, of course, until guests get off the elevator. “In a penthouse, the whole space often acts as a big, open galley,” Mr. Ferris said. “You want to show off your views, with all the aspects of human endeavor laid out before you. It’s about what you’re claiming, visually, as your own.”
What these versions of idealized, up-market New York living have in common is that they hold as their primary claim to prestige the possession of some elemental sense of the city—via brownstone edifice commissioned by the early merchant elite, or sweeping vista of rivers, parks and pedestrians below. Aspirants can approximate superficial bells and whistles. But the true “luxury” product, as it turns out, is the city itself.
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Communication No. 378/1989; U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/38/D/378/1989
Thirty-Eighth Session
BEFORE: CHAIRMAN: Mr. Rajsoomer Lallah (Mauritius)
VICE-CHAIRMEN: Mr. Joseph A. L. Cooray (Sri Lanka), Mr. Vojin Dimitrijevic (Yugoslavia),
Mr. Alejandro Serrano Caldera (Nicaragua)
RAPPORTEUR: Mr. Fausto Pocar (Italy)
MEMBERS: Mr. Francisco Jose Aguilar Urbina (Costa Rica), Mr. Nisuke Ando (Japan), Miss Christine Chanet (France), Mr. Omran El Shafei (Egypt), Mr. Janos Fodor Hungary, Mrs. Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom), Mr. Andreas V. Mavrommatis (Cyprus), Mr. Joseph A. Mommersteeg (Netherlands), Mr. Rein A. Myullerson (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), Mr. Birame Ndiaye (Senegal), Mr. Julio Prado Vallejo (Ecuador), Mr. S. Amos Wako (Kenya), Mr. Bertill Wennergren (Sweden)
All the members, except Mr. Mommersteeg, attended the thirty-eighth session.
PermaLink: http://www.worldcourts.com/hrc/eng/decisions/1990.03.26_EE_v_Italy.htm
Citation: E. E. v. Italy, Comm. 378/1989, U.N. Doc. A/45/40, Vol. II, at 201 (HRC 1990)
Publications: Report of the Human Rights Committee, U.N. GAOR, 45th Sess., Supp. No. 40, U.N. Doc. A/45/40, Annex X, sect. T, at 201 (Oct. 4, 1990)
1. The author of the communication (initial submission dated 19 April 1988 and subsequent correspondence) is E. E., a Bangladeshi citizen currently detained at the Zegina Coeli Prison In Rome. He submits the communication on his own behalf and on that of nis busixess asscciate, M. M., who is detained at the same institution. They c1aim to ne victims of a violation of their human rights by
2.1 It is stated that the author and Mr. M. were engaged in business activities in Italy prior to their arrest on 23 January 1988 in Rome. The author indicates that on 24 December 1987. a suitcase belonging to himself and Mr. M., containing among other items $US 4,500 in cash, was stolen by other Bangladeshi citizens then residing in Rome. These citizens were known to the author, who, together with Mr. M., sought to recover the suitcase and the money during the following month. On 23 January 1988, in a Rome market, the author claims they were attacked with a dagger by one of the thieves, one Mr. J. In the course of the struggle, Mr. J. was injured, and upon their return to their hotel, they were arrested. It appears that Mr. J. subsequently died of his injuries.
2.2 The author alleges that there has been a "conspiracy" by some Bangladeshi citizens, reportedly all criminal elements, against him and Mr. M.. Some time during the spring of 1989 (no date is given), the Tribunal of Rome sentenced them to 16 years imprisonment, apparently on a conviction of manslaughter. It is claimed that in the course of the trial, the Italian police called a false witness and also produced evidence that the author and Mr. M. had intended to kill the men who had stolen the suitcase. It is submitted that there was no evidence on the basis of which the author and Mr. M. could have been convicted. The author accuses the Tribunal and the Italian judicial authorities of "racism" in this connection, without further specifying the charge.
2.3 By the time of the author's initial submission, the case had not been adjudicated by the Italian courts. By letters dated 21 July 1988 and 26 May 1989, the author was informed by the Secretariat about the conditions for submission of communications under the Optional Protocol. In the author's iatest submission, dated 23 June 1989, no mention is made of an appeal against the sentence pronounced by the Tribunal of Rome in the spring of 1989.
2.4 It is stated that the matter has not been submitted to another instance of international investigation or settlement.
3.1 Before considering any claims contained in a communication, the Human Rights Committee must, in accordance with rule 87 of its rules of procedure, decide whether or not it is admissible under the Optional Protocol to the Covenant.
3.2 The Committee has considered the material submitted by the author. On the basis of the information before the Committee, it appears that the author primarily claims bias on the part of the court, in particular in respect of the evaiuation by the trial judge of the evidence presented, which is said to 'have been "fabricated". While article 14 of the Covenant guarantees the right to a fair trial, it is in principle for the appellate courts of States parties to the Covenant to evaluate facts and evidence in any partic. ular case, unless it can be ascertained that the proceedings before khe domestic courts were clearly arbitrary or amounted to a denial of justice. The Committee reiterates that the review of generalized claims of bias is beyond the scope of application of article 14. In the circumstances, the Committee considers that the author has nc claim under article 2 of the Optional Protocol.
4. The Human Rights Committee therefore decides:
(a) The communication is inadmissible:
(b) This decision shall be transmitted to the authors and, for information to the State party.
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Difference between revisions of "Dimmock, West Virginia"
Dimmock was a small settlement about one mile west (downstream) of [[Thurmond, West Virginia|Thurmond]], across the [[New River]] nearly opposite the mining town of [[Rush Run (historical)|Rush Run]]. Shirley Donnelly, local history columnist, reported that John G. Brunk opened the Dimmock mine in 1890. However we have found no records of the mine's operation prior to 1892.
It is interesting to note that Dimmock is shown on maps as early as 1874, nearly 20 years before any mining activity began in the vicinity of the Dimmock. This early recognition of Dimmock was apparently due to the fact that a station was established at Dimmock by the C&O Railroad as early as 1873, the year that C&O was completed from Richmond, VA to [[Huntington, West Virginia|Huntington, WV]]. At that time, Dimmock was the only station on the C&O mainline between [[McKendree, West Virginia|McKendree]] and [[Sewell, West Virginia|Sewell]]. Between Oct. 1, 1873 and Sept. 30, 1874 Dimmock Station only sent and received a very small amount of freight shipments, sending out 8.62 tons and receiving 2.57 tons. It did however have 280 passengers that left through Dimmock Station and 324 arriving passengers between Oct. 1, 1873 and Sept. 30, 1874, remarkable figures considering that Dimmock was quite literately "in the middle of nowhere".[1]
It is interesting to note that Dimmock is shown on maps as early as 1874, nearly 20 years before any mining activity began in the vicinity of the Dimmock. This early recognition of Dimmock was apparently due to the fact that a station was established at Dimmock by the C&O Railroad as early as 1873, the year that C&O was completed from Richmond, VA to [[Huntington, West Virginia|Huntington, WV]]. At that time, Dimmock was the only station on the C&O mainline between [[McKendree, West Virginia|McKendree]] and [[Sewell, West Virginia|Sewell]]. Between Oct. 1, 1873 and Sept. 30, 1874 Dimmock Station only sent and received a very small amount of freight shipments, sending out 8.62 tons and receiving 2.57 tons. It did however have 280 passengers that left through Dimmock Station and 324 arriving passengers between Oct. 1, 1873 and Sept. 30, 1874, which were remarkable numbers considering that Dimmock was quite literately "in the middle of nowhere" at this early date.[1]
The name of the mine was apparently changed from Dimmock to Big Bend in about 1901. State mining records indicate the Dimmock mine was operated by the Dimmock Coal & Coke Company between 1892-1900 and by the Isabel Coal Company in 1905 -- the Big Bend mine operated by the Big Bend Coal Company between 1901-1920.[2]
1901 C&O track diagram showing Big Bend Coal Co.
Map of 1903-04 showing Dimmock and vicinity
Dimmock was a small settlement about one mile west (downstream) of Thurmond, across the New River nearly opposite the mining town of Rush Run. Shirley Donnelly, local history columnist, reported that John G. Brunk opened the Dimmock mine in 1890. However we have found no records of the mine's operation prior to 1892.
It is interesting to note that Dimmock is shown on maps as early as 1874, nearly 20 years before any mining activity began in the vicinity of the Dimmock. This early recognition of Dimmock was apparently due to the fact that a station was established at Dimmock by the C&O Railroad as early as 1873, the year that C&O was completed from Richmond, VA to Huntington, WV. At that time, Dimmock was the only station on the C&O mainline between McKendree and Sewell. Between Oct. 1, 1873 and Sept. 30, 1874 Dimmock Station only sent and received a very small amount of freight shipments, sending out 8.62 tons and receiving 2.57 tons. It did however have 280 passengers that left through Dimmock Station and 324 arriving passengers between Oct. 1, 1873 and Sept. 30, 1874, which were remarkable numbers considering that Dimmock was quite literately "in the middle of nowhere" at this early date.[1]
A circa-1896 list of mines in the Third Mining District of West Virginia listed the Dimmock Coal & Coke Company as operating the Dimmock mine, describing it as a drift mine working the Fire Creek seam of 4 ft. 6 in. thickness. The company employed 105 workers and W. H. Thayer was superintendent. The company's post office address was Dimmock.
A 1906 C&O Railway publication listed the Isabel Coal & Coke Company as operating a mine at a station named Dimmock. In the same publication an advertisement showed the Dimmock mine as being operated by the Isabel Coal & Coke Company, with T. C. Beury, Pres., and Ernest Echols, Treasurer. The company then maintained a tipple, company store, homes for workers, and was marketed as a shipper of "a superior grade of river sand." The population of Dimmock was estimated at 49 persons in 1910 by the West Virginia Geological Survey.[3]
A 1921 list of coal mines in West Virginia listed the Big Bend Coal as operating the Big Bend mine, with a post office address at Thurmond.
Exploring Dimmock
Rafter's Reference: the ruins of Dimmock are located along the railroad on river-right (private property, no trespassing permitted), downstream of Thurmond. (Dimmock can be viewed from Rush Run, located on river-left, just downstream and opposite of the Dimmock site.)
1890s photo showing the tipple and some of the company houses at Dimmock
[1] Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (1874) via Google Books
[2] West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, mine data tonnage reports
[3] Chesapeake & Ohio Railway: Official Industrial Guide and Shippers' Directory (1906) via Google Books
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Thinking of joining West Yorkshire Combined Authority? An introduction to what we have done, what we offer and what we have planned.
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West Yorkshire: heart of the Leeds City Region
West Yorkshire brings together four metropolitan districts – Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield – together with the core city of Leeds. Located at the centre of the country, at the intersection of the M1 and M62 motorways, it is just two hours from London and 40 minutes from Manchester by train, and within an hour’s drive of three international airports – including Leeds Bradford Airport within the region.
West Yorkshire is at the heart of the Leeds City Region – the UK’s largest economic area outside London.
A population of 3 million and workforce of 1.4 million make this the largest and fastest-growing city region in the North. Contributing one-fifth of the North’s economic output and 5% of England’s, the £62.5 billion Leeds City Region economy plays a significant role in driving northern and national prosperity.
Once at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, businesses in Leeds City Region are now at the cutting edge of 21st Century commerce and innovation.
119,000 companies are located here, from blue chip companies such as Asda, Siemens, Skybet and DLA Piper to start-ups in a wide variety of sectors. We have more manufacturing jobs in Leeds City Region than anywhere else in the country, and are the country’s largest financial and professional services centre outside the capital.
City Region businesses have bounced back strongly from the global recession. The pace of private sector growth has outstripped the national average; there are now 15% more businesses here than in 2011 and 100,000 more private sector jobs.
Investor confidence is also at an all-time high. In 2015 our region was ranked by EY as the UK’s fastest growing destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) outside London. An estimated £10bn worth of investor development is either on site or in the pipeline, including significant retail and commercial development and three enterprise zones.
Place and quality of life
Ours is a diverse city region, covering over 3,200 square miles of dynamic cities (we have four of them), traditional Yorkshire market and mill towns and picturesque countryside.
Tour de France through Haworth
Our thriving arts and cultural scene includes Europe’s largest sculpture park (the Yorkshire Sculpture Park), five national museums, award-winning opera and ballet in Leeds (which is bidding to be 2023 European Capital of Culture), two UNESCO world heritage sites, and historic York.
Meanwhile our outdoor spaces – which have inspired the likes of Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, J.M.W. Turner, David Hockney and the Brontes – are deservedly world-renowned. We’re a stone’s throw from three national parks (the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and Peak District) and are establishing a global reputation for major sporting events having played host to the Tour de France Grand Depart in 2014 and the Columbia Threadneedle World Triathlon Leeds in June 2016.
This quality of life is matched by affordability: the cost of living in Leeds City Region is lower than many other European cities including Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham. At £230,000 the average detached home here is £80,000 cheaper than the average apartment in London.
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'''''King's Quest''''' is an adventure game by [[Sierra Online]], originally released in 1984 for the [[PCjr]], and later ported to several other platforms. It is the first game in the [[King's Quest (Universe)|King's Quest series]] and a pioneer of the PC graphical adventure genre that remained hugely popular for another decade in the industry and spawned many rivals, most of whom made better games than Sierra. After a [[King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne|sequel]] was released, Sierra re-released King's Quest in 1987 with the title ''King's Quest I: Quest For the Crown'' with new box art and a slightly improved program.
'''''King's Quest''''' is an adventure game by [[Sierra Online]], originally released in 1984 for the [[PCjr]], and later ported to several other platforms. It is the first game in the [[King's Quest (Universe)|King's Quest series]] and the first game to utilize Sierra's [[Adventure Game Interpreter]] engine. It is a pioneer of the PC graphical adventure genre that remained hugely popular for another decade in the industry and spawned many rivals, most of whom made better games than Sierra. After a [[King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne|sequel]] was released, Sierra re-released King's Quest in 1987 with the title ''King's Quest I: Quest For the Crown'' with new box art and a slightly improved program.
King's Quest is an adventure game by Sierra Online, originally released in 1984 for the PCjr, and later ported to several other platforms. It is the first game in the King's Quest series and the first game to utilize Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter engine. It is a pioneer of the PC graphical adventure genre that remained hugely popular for another decade in the industry and spawned many rivals, most of whom made better games than Sierra. After a sequel was released, Sierra re-released King's Quest in 1987 with the title King's Quest I: Quest For the Crown with new box art and a slightly improved program.
There are a couple walking-dead scenarios in the game, most of which are caused by the gnome, but I've always just reloaded if he every robbed me.
US PCjr manual.
US DOS manual.
European DOS manual.
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Canadian Soccer Business Announces Landmark Ten-Year Media Deal With MEDIAPRO
Historic deal has global soccer media powerhouse bringing the best to Canadian soccer fans
Toronto, ON (February 20, 2019) – Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) is pleased to announce a ten-year "Official Media Partnership" with MEDIAPRO, one of the largest global soccer rights holders and content creators in the world, with 56 offices on four continents. As per the agreement, the landmark partnership has MEDIAPRO acquiring, in its entirety, all the media rights under CSB management for the next ten years including the global and domestic rights to the Canadian Premier League, Canada's new professional men's soccer league launching in April 2019.
The suite of rights includes the global and domestic media rights to the Canadian Championship, which in 2019 will expand to feature 13 teams from coast to coast competing for the right to play in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League. The rights also include all media rights for all home games of Canada Soccer's Men's and Women's National Teams. MEDIAPRO will also acquire the media rights to all League1 Ontario matches as it looks to expand the footprint of soccer in Canada.
As part of the agreement, the leading global content producer will be in charge of the production of all matches and will launch a diverse and versatile channel that will be available for all platforms and devices entirely devoted to delivering world-class dedicated Canadian soccer coverage and content (including a soccer streaming channel (OTT). The offering includes thousands of matches over the ten-year agreement, complemented by unique soccer shoulder programming including magazine shows, documentaries and other Canadian soccer programming. ThePostGame, a leading digital sports content and marketing agency, was responsible as the exclusive representation of the global media rights for CSB, the commercial representative of the Canadian Premier League (CPL). MEDIAPRO will continue to work with CSB to contemplate all distribution opportunities, partnerships and platforms that ensure the future success of CSB's media assets.
The MEDIAPRO Group, which recorded annual revenue of €1.649 billion ($2.469 billion Canadian dollars) in 2017, is a leader in the European audiovisual sector. With a fleet of 70 High Definition and 4K Outside Broadcast mobile units, the Group produces more than 6,000 events around the world each year. With its entry into the Canadian market, MEDIAPRO is expanding its international footprint and will be opening an office in Canada that will also provide significant employment opportunities for Canadians in the creation, production and transmission of domestic soccer content.
MEDIAPRO is the perfect fit with what the CSB set out to achieve in a media partnership in terms of unparalleled production quality and digital distribution expertise, bringing a best-in-class product to Canadians. The deal will provide soccer fans with never-before-seen Canadian soccer coverage across all current and future CSB assets to continue building on the unprecedented momentum the sport is currently experiencing in Canada.
About Canadian Soccer Business
Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) represents a suite of top-tier national assets that are core to the sport of soccer in Canada. This includes representation for all corporate partnerships and media rights related to Canada Soccer's core assets including its national teams, along with all rights associated with the Canadian Premier League – Canada's professional men’s soccer league set to debut coast-to-coast in April 2019.
About MEDIAPRO Group
The MEDIAPRO Group, which recorded annual revenue of €1.649 billion in 2017, is a leader in the European audiovisual sector. With a fleet of 70 High Definition and 4K Outside Broadcast units, the Group produces more than 6,000 events around the world each year. It is currently involved in the production of 16 national soccer competitions around the world, including top-tier leagues in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Kenya, Angola, Slovenia, Serbia, Colombia, Bolivia and Mexico. Mediapro Group crews produce events for the UEFA Champions League, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIBA, Euroleague, FIFA World Cup, the Arab Games, the Africa Cup of Nations and Formula 1.
In Spain, MEDIAPRO manages the rights to the LaLiga Santander for public establishments and was awarded the rights for the four seasons from 2020-21 for France's Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, where it is set to launch a 24/7 channel to carry live coverage of league matches. The MEDIAPRO Group produces more than 15 TV channels worldwide, including several specialty sports channels, such as beIN Sports and beIN Sports LaLiga (in association with the beIN Media Group), Real Madrid TV and Golf Channel.
With 56 offices on four continents, MEDIAPRO is also one of the most important creators of content in the world, with projects for HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Turner, DirecTV, Movistar, FOX, Viacom and Televisa.
Media Contacts: Micki Benedetti
Canadian Soccer Business
micki.benedetti@canpl.ca
MEDIAPRO Communications
comunicacio@mediapro.tv
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30% of Canadian businesses face a labour shortage: CIBC
Mario Toneguzzi (Calgary Herald)
The Province > business > all
Alberta has the highest job vacancy rate in the country.Photo by Photo courtesy Khalid Hakim
CALGARY — A new report on Canada’s job market indicates 30 per cent of the country’s businesses face a skilled labour shortage, which is double the rate seen in early 2010.
And the issue is more acute in Alberta.
The report, released Monday by CIBC World Markets, also said Canada’s job market shows a growing divide between have and have not occupations.
“Obviously when you look at the occupations you can see where Alberta is missing. It’s really things that are related to the oilsands. Engineers. Heavy machinery operators. The mining industry,” said Benjamin Tal, the CIBC’s deputy chief economist. “Those kind of occupations definitely you see it in Alberta (for shortages). Also, if you look at the rate of (job) vacancies relative to unemployment, you can see it is the highest in Alberta.
“Clearly this is an issue that is slowing down the ability of Alberta to grow . . . I think that if there is a problem, clearly it is in Alberta.”
He said the survey indicating 30 per cent of Canadian businesses face a skilled labour shortage would be higher in Alberta.
The largest skill shortage was found in health-related occupations, the mining industry, advanced manufacturing and business services. Put together, those occupations account for 21 per cent of total employment in Canada.
“One-fifth of the Canadian labour market is currently showing signs of skilled labour shortage,” said Tal, adding that in Alberta it would be higher. “The average unemployment rate of this pool of occupations is just over one per cent and their wages are now rising by an average annual rate of 3.9 per cent — more than double the rate seen in the economy as a whole.
“Overall employment in this group is rising by 2.1 per cent — much faster than the speed seen in the rest of the market, but obviously not fast enough to dent the labour market skill scarcity. In this context, the recently announced government plans to admit between 53,000 and 55,000 new Canadians in 2013 through an overhauled federal skilled worker program is a welcome development. However, it’s simply not large enough to turn things around. Ditto for the increased focus on apprenticeship as a possible solution to the chronic shortage in skilled trades. Despite recent program improvements, the number of certificates granted to apprentices is still a fraction of the overall size of the skilled trades labour pool.”
According to a recent survey commissioned by DeVry Institute of Technology, 86 per cent of Albertans believe that a shortage of technology workers would have a negative effect on Alberta’s overall labour market and economy. Such an impact could jeopardize the province’s employment rate, which continues to be highest in the country, said DeVry.
“We’re already starting to see the impact of a skilled IT worker shortage here in Alberta,” said Jonathan Nituch, vice-president of operations at Fortress Technology Planners. “Not enough Albertans are choosing Information Technology as a career path, which is leaving unfilled employment opportunities that are critical to economic growth.”
Recently, another report, from Hays, an international recruitment consultancy and Oxford Economics, said Canada is suffering from chronic skills shortages that will simultaneously drive up job vacancies and unemployment if left unchecked. But the report also said that Canada has the necessary framework to create the next generation of Canadian talent and successfully feed the candidate pipeline and bring down unemployment.
“The skills shortage is unfortunately a fact of life for many employers but Canada has the fundamentals in place to relieve the pressure in the medium term. Our path to success relies on our will to get it done,” said Rowan O’Grady, president of Hays Canada. “It will take genuine collaboration between business leaders, academics and the government to push for a change in how we collectively approach our labour challenges.”
mtoneguzzi@calgaryherald.com
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3 sexually transmitted diseases hit new highs again in US
FILE - This 1975 file microscope image made available by the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows chlamydia trachomatis bacteria magnified 200 times. U.S. infections from three sexually-transmitted diseases have risen for the fifth consecutive year and broken more records. More than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia were reported in 2018. (Dr. E. Arum, Dr. N. Jacobs/CDC via AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. infections from three sexually transmitted diseases have risen for the fifth consecutive year.
More than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia (kluh-MID'-ee-uh) were reported last year. The infection rate rose 3% from 2017.
It's the most ever reported in a year, though the trend is mainly attributed to increased testing.
About 580,000 gonorrhea (gah-nuh-REE'-uh) cases were reported. That's the highest number since 1991. The rate rose 5%. Scientists worry antibiotic resistance may be a factor.
And the syphilis rate rose 15%. About 35,000 cases of the most contagious forms of the disease were reported — also the most since 1991.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the numbers Tuesday.
The increases coincided with public health funding cuts and clinic closures.
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5 firefighters and a baby hurt in multi-alarm fire in Concourse Village, Bronx
CONCOURSE VILLAGE, Bronx (WABC) -- Fire officials said five firefighters and a baby were injured in a fast-moving, multi-alarm fire in the Concourse Village section of the Bronx.
The blaze broke out at 5:30 a.m. in the 200 block of McClellan Street and soon went to multiple alarms.
"I just looked outside my window," said resident Natalie Allen. "That's the kitchen right there, and I saw smoke coming out and then the alarms started coming out."
By 6:25 a.m. a fourth alarm had been struck. By 7 a.m. it was at five alarms.
A sixth alarm was struck shortly before 7:30 a.m and a seventh just after 8 a.m.
Video from NewsCopter 7 showed multiple firefighters, including several on the roof, working to control the blaze.
The fire heavily damaged a five-story residential building.
Chief of Fire Operations Thomas Richardson said the fire appears to have started in a grocery store on first floor and soon spread to all floors above.
A void in the walls of the building contributed to the quick spread of the blaze and has complicated efforts to contain it, Richardson said.
Residents began evacuating into the streets. Holding onto loved ones, they could only hope some of their possessions could be saved.
"This is all I have left on me," said Allen, gesturing to herself and what she was wearing. "I didn't take my phone. I didn't take nothing. I just took my dog and my son and my husband. That's it."
Jose Mercado said he saw the smoke early in the morning.
"I just went door to door to wake up people, it was crazy, thank God I saved my family and my dog," he said.
Fifty-five units and 250 firefighting personnel were hard at work on the scene by the time the situation was declared under control.
As they were still trying to get the upper hand, fire officials launched a drone that provided critical video.
"That can actually help us develop our strategy and tactics on how we are going to cut off the fire," said Richardson. "And that drone did come in handy today."
Five firefighters and a 9-month-old infant were treated for injuries.
One of those firefighters was taken away on a stretcher, having fallen down a flight of stairs.
In addition, images from the scene showed a cat which had apparently made its way onto a fire escape. The animal did not survive.
Very sad to report the woman just learned her cat has died. https://t.co/j1XNKXaaGj
— Derick Waller (@wallerABC7) August 5, 2019
Many residents are now being helped by the American Red Cross, which is providing food and shelter.
The blaze was the second multi-alarm fire reported in the Bronx in as many hours early Monday.
Three people were hurt in an earlier fire in Morrisania less than a mile away.
The FDNY said Tuesday that the cause of the fire was accidental and electrical. A smoke alarm in apartment 2A did not activate but alarms went off in many other apartments throughout the building.
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Adeyemi Oshunrinade
Adeyemi Oshunrinade (E.JD) is the founder and director of Gettysburg Language Institute the first privately owned language center in Gettysburg, PA. He is also the Outreach Coordinator for the Mediation Services of Adams County, PA a position he recently accepted. Besides his personal career, Adeyemi is the author of many publications including: "Murder of Diplomacy" on the disarmament of Iraq, "Wills law and Contests" on Wills and Trusts administration, "Criminal Law Homicide" and more including works of fiction.
Adeyemi completed his bachelor at Brooklyn College CUNY and his Master of Science at Long Island University New York. He went on to take PHD classes in conflict analysis and resolution at NOVA Southeastern University in Florida, worked briefly at the United Nations and completed his Executive Juris Doctor degree at Concord law school in California.
He is the creator of Global News Post, a blog that features more than 250 articles on law, politics, foreign relations and current affairs available at http://san0670.com. His language institute can also be linked via gettysburginstitute.com
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Community involvement and government leadership in challenging sexual violence on campus
By Gabrielle Ross-Marquette and Wendy Komiotis | From the Winter 2016 Issue
The involvement of community-based organizations such as METRAC was key to the creation of Ontario’s new action plan on sexual violence.
Governments rarely make drastic changes without strong, unified, and relentless pressure from community members, activists, organizations, and allies. Large-scale change to end violence and harassment against women is happening in Ontario because Premier Kathleen Wynne and her team took directions from community-based organizations and groups leading this work on campuses.
METRAC: Action on Violence (METRAC) was involved in early identification of the need for ongoing education to prevent sexual violence on campus. The agency called for training to equip students, faculty, and administrators with the knowledge to better understand the dynamics of sexual violence. It pointed to gaps in policies for handling sexual assault across institutions, with an emphasis on standalone policies. METRAC drew attention to the need for procedural fairness in adjudication processes for sexual assault complainants and respondents. Taken together, METRAC’s work was one catalyst that led to the government’s action plan recommendations for safer campuses, through championing women’s safety on campuses for over 30 years. Similarly, students’ voices were heard clearly through the safer campuses demands, thanks to the Canadian Federation of Students, which has been doing this work since the early 1980s through their “No Means No” campaign.
A provincial action plan to challenge sexual violence
In March 2015, the Government of Ontario released It’s Never Okay: An Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment. The action plan is a multi-faceted, long-term strategy comprising several commitments, including raising public awareness and shifting attitudes and behaviours through delivery of a multimedia public education and awareness campaign. Another commitment seeks to improve service responses to survivors of sexual violence and harassment through new training for health, education, justice, and community service professionals.
The action plan aims to systematically change laws, policies, and practices across broad sector lines in order to improve the experiences of survivors, encourage more survivors to report, and strengthen the criminal justice system’s response to sexual violence. As a preventative measure, the action plan updates the health and physical education curriculum for schools, integrating the root causes of gender inequality and including concepts of healthy relationships and consent.
The action plan also puts forward a specific strategy for safer university and college campuses in Ontario. When the details of this section of the action plan were revealed, campus communities and external partners breathed a sigh of relief. Decades of advocacy work had finally paid off. At last, it was hoped, the government, which is responsible for the administration of postsecondary education, understood the gravity of the situation. As outlined by Lichty and colleagues in their 2008 work on institutional responses to sexual violence, North American research suggests that between 15 per cent and 25 per cent of college- and university-aged women will experience some form of sexual assault during their academic career.
A confluence of factors on Canadian campuses creates an environment in which sexual and gender-based violence are ubiquitous, resulting in too many students having to navigate their studies after experiencing this violence and while dealing with an ever-present rape culture. The action plan details four specific provisions that will begin to address this issue:
Standalone institutional sexual violence policies, developed in consultation with students and mandated by law;
Clear complaint procedures and response protocols, training and prevention initiatives, and 24/7 support services for survivors;
Public reporting by universities and colleges on sexual violence incidences and prevention initiatives; and
Education and awareness campaigns on sexual violence, and appropriate supports and resources in the first few weeks of classes and throughout the year.
A significant first step in achieving the goals set out by the action plan was the development of Bill 132, the Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment), which became law in early September 2016. The Bill amended various statutes related to sexual violence. Of particular interest was Schedule 3, which amended the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act, codifying into law many of the provisions outlined in the safer campuses section of the action plan.
Ontario is the first province in Canada to put forward a concrete plan calling for systemic change in how we address sexual and gender-based violence within public institutions. While there has been some movement in other provinces (including British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Alberta) to pass similar legislation, and the federal government has announced the beginning stages of its own Federal Strategy on Gender-Based Violence, Ontario remains the only province with an action plan that demonstrates a real commitment to implementation.
METRAC’s contributions to the action plan
METRAC: Action on Violence is a small, not-for-profit organization with big ideas that has been operating out of downtown Toronto for more than 30 years. Originally formed as a committee charged with tackling the aftermath of an onslaught of sexual assault cases in Toronto, it grew into an organization devoted to working in partnership with communities, institutions, and individuals to end violence against women and youth through education, research, and policy. METRAC is best recognized for its safety audit work, which has won international acclaim and been adopted by many other organizations, such as UN-Habitat, in cities as far away as New Delhi. The safety audit process:
is an action tool to build safer neighbourhoods, schools, campuses, workplaces, transit systems, living spaces and public spaces. It combines best practices of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) with culturally competent community development approaches, Participatory Action Research and a gender-based violence analysis. It is a catalyst to reduce sexual violence, assault, harassment and discrimination against women, youth and others at high risk.
Early on, METRAC identified postsecondary campuses as spaces of interest for safety audits. Under the philosophy of “safer for women, safer for everyone,” it led many transformative initiatives and learning opportunities to improve campus environments. In 1989, the organization launched its campus safety audit process, which addresses sexual assault, harassment, and other forms of gender-based violence in public and private spaces between members and non-members of a campus community. The audit has been adapted and utilized across Canada to improve the safety track record of campuses, from those in urban centres, to rural areas, to distance/online learning programs. METRAC contributed heavily to the development of the Ontario Women’s Directorate’s Developing a Response to Sexual Violence: A Resource Guide for Ontario’s Colleges and Universities, in 2013, and the Canadian Federation of Students–Ontario’s Campus Toolkit for Combatting Sexual Violence, which was also created in 2013.
METRAC works directly with campus stakeholders to identify needs, conduct safety assessments, review policies and practices, and subsequently publishes a thorough report that includes safety recommendations for the institution. After 25 years of conducting more than 20 campus safety audits, METRAC has developed promising policies and practices for university and college campuses working to prevent and respond to sexual violence and harassment. Notably, METRAC has observed a common lack of standalone sexual violence policies in postsecondary institutions.
In October 2014, METRAC conducted research and produced and released Sexual Assault Policies on Campus: A Discussion Paper. This research, which was academically reviewed by faculty members and graduate students across the province, highlights promising practices and challenges in institutional policies on sexual assault committed by and against students. It provides a “snapshot review” of policies from 15 postsecondary institutions across Canada. While cursory, the review suggested that some universities and colleges lacked comprehensive policies to deal with sexual assault. In fact, only three of the 15 institutions METRAC studied had a specific sexual violence policy. As well, many of the reviewed policies—specific or not—did not include a comprehensive definition of sexual assault. It was also found that several of the policies defined the rights of respondents more clearly than those of the survivor. The drafting process also demonstrated how successful partnerships between students, academics, community members, and a community-based organization such as METRAC can improve policies and programs for addressing sexual violence on campuses. The discussion paper was distributed to networks far and wide.
Shortly after it was published, the discussion paper was featured in the Toronto Star. On November 20, 2014, the newspaper published an investigative report on campus sexual violence policies, which identified that only nine out of more than 100 universities and colleges had specific policies to deal with sexual violence and sexual assault. The article referenced METRAC’s research and quoted its Executive Director, Wendy Komiotis: “Komiotis said the government has ‘a responsibility to create legislation’ that will result in comprehensive policies on sexual violence and then ensure that each school is complying with those standards.” Together, the Star’s report and METRAC’s paper laid a path for the Ontario government’s action plan to end sexual violence and harassment.
It was an opportune media climate, as a number of high-profile incidents and allegations of sexual violence and harassment were unfolding in the public eye. The focus on creating safer campuses was therefore very timely. Recognizing an advocacy opportunity, student groups redoubled their efforts to promote the work they had been doing for decades, and this spurred the government to action. The government hosted select consultations with campus stakeholders from November 2014 until early winter 2015. Directly after these consultations, it began crafting the action plan. METRAC was part of those consultations, reinforcing campus communities’ message that survivor-centric, standalone policies and prevention measures were good first steps in systemically addressing sexual violence on campus for all students, faculty, and administrative staff.
Following the launch of the plan, METRAC was invited to become a member of the permanent Violence Against Women Provincial Roundtable, along with 22 representatives from provincial organizations in the violence-against-women sector, as well as other sectors affected by sexual violence.
Is a provincial action plan necessary for preventing sexual violence on campuses?
As other provinces seek to develop their own action plans, METRAC has received several inquiries asking key questions, such as: Is a provincial, legislative framework for preventing sexual violence on campuses really necessary? Isn’t it possible to have institutions create their own standalone policies, and to trust that they will develop them in a timely manner?
METRAC has learned from years of experience that government intervention is necessary to prevent and respond to sexual violence on campuses. Establishing the legislative framework propels and maintains systemic change and standards across provincial postsecondary institutions. A government-led framework that is developed in partnership with communities, students, and institutional representatives recognizes that everyone has a role to play in ending sexual violence. It can address the particular vulnerabilities and risks of students as the primary targets and perpetrators of sexual violence, while enabling them to shape policy and laws that have a significant impact on their human rights, physical and mental health, and future success in education and employment. Government policy also sets institutional guidelines and the bare minimums needed to address sexual violence on campus to ensure that no postsecondary education institution falls short. It facilitates collaboration between institutions across the province to measure progress and effectiveness in reducing and ultimately ending sexual violence on campuses.
Provincial action plans are therefore an essential part of balancing interests and power between students and institutions, to ensure that all students have the freedom to pursue an education without fear or experiences of sexual violence. However, legislative frameworks are only as effective as the processes for developing, implementing, enforcing and monitoring related policies that arise from them on campuses.
As with any policy initiative, realistic budgets must be put in place for investing in effective processes of policy development and implementation. Often unrecognized is the pattern by which institutions turn to external community organizations devoted to violence prevention and response services, to seek their participation on policy development committees or to review policies, with little to no remuneration for their work. Although community organizations such as METRAC are thrilled to witness and be part of this progress, they often have scarce resources and deserve to be valued for their work, time, commitment, and expertise. This is especially true at a time when many community not-for-profit organizations are facing challenges in making ends meet as they fulfill their mandates to provide prevention programs, essential frontline services, and crisis support for survivors of sexual violence.
Accountability is an equally important factor for measuring the effective implementation of legislative reforms and outcomes. If there are no clear accountability mechanisms in place, how do we ensure transparency? How do we know what works and what doesn’t? How do we manage conflict when it arises? Already, we have witnessed several incidents in which institutional processes have been identified as flawed in one way or another. Some situations point to insufficient consultation, or the lack of student involvement in the process, while others suggest that the final policy does not reflect perspectives put forward by students during consultation, or that the policy is inadequate and fails to cover certain areas for greater protection. When such situations happen, to whom can campus communities turn? Whose mandate is it to enforce new legislative provisions? These are important questions that must be answered when considering the power imbalance around a table when campus stakeholders meet to work on a project. Some have argued that the creation of a separate accountability division within government is required to oversee institutional compliance and collect and report data.
With standalone policies rolling out on Ontario campuses in January 2017, the time is ripe to ask what’s next for continuing to address sexual violence on campuses. Policies are a great first step, but in order to be effective, they must be practically applied on a daily basis. They must also be monitored and updated to reflect trends and areas in need of improvement. As the flurry of policy development comes to a close in the province, institutions need to shift their attention to prevention and education, in order to address and eliminate the root causes of gender violence on campuses. It is time that this pervasive, anti-social culture is stopped in its tracks. A great opportunity for collaboration awaits students, faculty, staff, administration, and community partners alike to harmonize their efforts in deepening preventive responses to sexual violence. It is our hope that the Ontario provincial framework to end sexual violence will not only offer a model to be replicated, but also one to be improved upon across the country, so that the right to pursue postsecondary education without fear or without the experience of violence will be realized for all students.
Gabrielle Ross-Marquette is the Communications Coordinator at METRAC; Wendy Komiotis is METRAC’s Executive Director.
December 7, 2016 Equity and social justice, Health and safety, History, Politics, Public policy
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Alan Hopkinson Award 2020: applications now open
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and its International Library and Information Group (ILIG) invite applicants for the Alan Hopkinson Award to attend the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Conference in Dublin from 15-21 August 2020.
This Award enables a qualified librarian who is a CILIP member to attend the IFLA World Library Conference. The Award covers the IFLA conference fee and £100 towards travel and accommodation.
Alan Hopkinson was an active member of CILIP ILIG from 2004 until his death in 2016. As well as regularly attending IFLA conferences, he was very interested in assisting young professional librarians from developing countries. He was involved in The Commonwealth Fellowship Scheme, and in training young professionals from Eastern Europe. Following his death, a trust fund was set up to support a CILIP member to attend the IFLA conference.
Applicants must have a maximum of five years post-qualification experience: the Award is aimed at newly qualified professionals of any age.
The Panel comprising three CILIP Staff and/or members plus ILIG Committee members will consider applications. Their decision will be final and they will not enter into correspondence on it.
Email Anna Jablkowska, ILIG Secretary at Secretary.ILIG@cilip.org.uk with:
A formal proposal in English of up to 500 words (equivalent to 1–2 pages of A4 paper) detailing how the visit will support their professional development within the context of their career to date and using the three headings of ‘Visit objectives’, ‘Planned approach and content’, and ‘Application of learning post-visit’
Attach a Curriculum Vitae (CV) of up to two pages in length, including the names of two referees in senior posts. Applicants are encouraged to seek the support of their line-manager or organisation, prior to submitting an application.
Applications must be received by 31 March 2020. Applicants will be notified by the end of April 2020. The winner of the Award is expected to write a reflective report of not more than 4,000 words within six months of their visit, and a version for publication in Focus on International Library and Information Work, the ILIG journal.
More information: CILIP/ILIG awards and bursaries.
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Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley
Talking Anarchy
Manufacturer: Black Rose Books
"In Dawn and the Darkest Hour, poet and author George Woodcock explores the famously complex life and career of Aldous Huxley. A brilliant and satirical novelist of ideas; a popular journalist and essayist on scientific and political subjects; a prophet of the future (Brave New World); a pioneer of psychedelic experimentation (The Doors of Perception), Huxley was a man plagued by excessive intellectual curiosity and a withdrawn melancholic nature. In the dramatic range of his characters and the encyclopedic quality of his thought, Huxley expressed some of the most interesting and disturbing commentary about the condition of human beings and their relationship to society.
As Woodcock traced the progress of Huxley's works, he recognized attempts to bring about a synthesis of knowledge 'that would give total meaning to existence'. In this striking and encompassing critical biography, Woodcock persuasively asks us to reconsider Huxley's works as the stages of 'a spiritual pilgrimage', as he demonstrates that Huxley's entire remarkable oeuvre must be taken as a whole, as a unified 'movement out of darkness toward light'.
It is a fascinating journey that provides a window into Huxley's life and character, that shows an intellectual continually striving for knowledge—intuitive, scientific and otherwise—and as such, is certain to renew interest in one of the most important and influential minds of the twentieth century."
George Woodcock. Black Rose Books, 2007.
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A Timeless Tale of Erudition: al-Yūnīnī and his Proverbial Manuscript of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī
While mapping out his genealogy of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852 AH) identifies nine routes of transmission from Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Firabrī (d. 320 AH), the primary transmitter of the Ṣaḥīḥ from its author. These routes further multiply as the transmission spreads out in every successive generation.[1] The invention of the printing press has allowed for the production of...
On the Manuscripts of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: Discrepancies and Disappearance of the Original Copy
On the Manuscripts of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: Discrepancies and Disappearance of the Original Copy By ʿAbd al-Qādir Jalāl Translated by Muntasir Zaman Translator’s Preface Orientalist studies on Ḥadīth were part of a broader investigation into Islamic history. Their criticism on the reliability of Ḥadīth started as early as the nineteenth century; by 1848, Gustav Weil (d. 1889) had already criticized a...
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Opting to transition from Utah jeweler with a degree in diamond grading to law student at William S. Boyd Law School at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas remains an easy decision. His winning personality shone as a law student, helping him ascend to leadership positions as student body president and co-founding and serving as president of the Real Estate Law Society.
While at law school, he taught pro bono courses on bankruptcy through Legal Aid of Southern Nevada. Additionally, he served as an intern in the Clark County Public Defender’s office. He found his place in the world, defending the people who most need a strong advocate.
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Proteins ‘Tagged’ to Clump in ALS Protect Neurons from Toxicity, Research Finds
by Magdalena Kegel
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute discovered that cells instruct proteins to form aggregates to protect them from toxicity associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
The research team, led by Claudio Joazeiro, associate professor of cell and molecular biology at Scripps, identified an enzyme that can “tag” abnormal proteins to be sent for clump formation. The study, published in the journal eLife, shows that protein aggregation can have a beneficial role. Protein aggregates are associated with other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, where they are mainly believed to contribute to pathology.
“We have uncovered a new molecular mechanism underlying neurodegeneration. This could lead to new diagnostics or new therapeutic approaches, especially for ALS,” Dr. Joazeiro said in a press release.
Researchers have long been studying cells’ ability to identify and destroy deviant proteins. In ALS, mutated proteins accumulate, which eventually lead to nerve cell death and symptoms such as muscle weakness and paralysis.
In 2009, the research team reported that when the enzyme Ltn1 is mutated, ALS-like symptoms appear in mice. In another Scripps study, researchers discovered that Ltn1 can identify abnormal proteins that are stuck in the ribosome, the cellular machinery that assembles new proteins.
While this system sends most abnormal proteins for destruction, it does not identify all of them. The researchers, therefore, figured another enzyme in the cell’s quality control complex must also be responsible for identifying faulty proteins. In their study, “The Rqc2/Tae2 subunit of the Ribosome-Associated Quality Control (RQC) complex marks ribosome-stalled nascent polypeptide chains for aggregation,” the authors discovered that the enzyme Rqc2 labels the abnormal proteins that Ltn1 misses. This alternative label sends proteins for aggregation instead of destruction.
“This is the first evidence that proteins are tagged for aggregation,” said Scripps Research Associate Ryo Yonashiro, first author of the study.
The researchers believe that the aggregates might prevent individual abnormal proteins from interfering with the function of normal proteins. They also hypothesize that the cell, by gathering the mutant proteins, can more easily destroy them. This also explains observations that mice with mutations in the quality control complex genes show ALS-like symptoms with age.
“Because we all have these enzymes we have been studying, we think it’s very likely that this process is going to be relevant in human diseases as well,” Dr. Joazeiro said in the release.
Tagged Ltn1, protein aggregate, RQC complex, Rqc2.
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Before Mötley Crüe, before RATT, even before there was a Metallica, Y&T was slogging away in sweaty rock clubs around America. When the band formed in the early 1970s, little did they know they would set the standard for hard rock bands that trailed. Many of the biggest acts of the ’80s became popular opening for headliners Y&T—and cut their teeth on the band, as evidenced by the Y&T mentions in tell-all books by acts such as Metallica and Mötley Crüe.
Born in Oakland, California, Y&T is one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s own innovators of the hard rock sound. Whether performing to a festival crowd of fifty-thousand or in an intimate nightclub, Y&T’s high-energy set and passionate performances still captivate legions of fans around the globe, proving Y&T’s music timeless.
Originally formed as Yesterday and Today, the initial powerhouse quartet—featuring Dave Meniketti (lead guitar/lead vocals), Phil Kennemore (bass), Leonard Haze (drums), and Joey Alves (rhythm guitar)—tore through the ’70s and ’80s with their own brand of hard rock. After two ’70s albums on London Records, they shortened their name to Y&T and released eight albums on A&M in the ’80s. Two more albums with Geffen Records marked an era of change with Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth) on drums and Stef Burns (Alice Cooper, Berlin, Huey Lewis) on guitar.
With a discography of 18 albums, three greatest hits collections, plus a boxed set, Y&T has sold over four million albums since their 1974 inception. The band’s most recent single I’m Coming Home has climbed to roughly 1.5 million views on YouTube. Y&T received extensive airplay with hits such as Forever, Rescue Me, Mean Streak, Don’t Stop Runnin’, and Summertime Girls—which played in heavy rotation on MTV. Y&T songs have been featured in a multitude of movies and television shows, including Real Genius, Out of Bounds, Baywatch, and Hunter. After five top 100 albums, songs that tipped into the 40s, two Bammie Awards, and many international television appearances, Y&T’s hits are still played on VH1 Classic and classic rock radio stations worldwide.
With the passing of Kennemore, Haze, and Alves, it’s Meniketti who carries on the legacy that is Y&T. Y&T continues to tour the world, featuring the dynamic original frontman Dave Meniketti (lead guitar/lead vocals), John Nymann (guitar/vocals), Aaron Leigh (bass/vocals), and Mike Vanderhule (drums/vocals), playing songs that span the band’s five-decade career and including all the hits and fan favorites. Prepare to have your face melted.
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Shelia Haefling – In Memoriam
Shelia Haefling called July 30, 1999, the “Darkest Day of My Life.” It was on that day that she stopped breathing; it was her second round with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
Shelia first ARDS diagnosis was in 1996. She had been smoker for thirty years and could not stop. The smoking led to illnesses that left scar tissue in her lungs. Shelia also worked in a demanding job with UPS, with harsh work hours and often-difficult work environment, and these things wore on her immune system. She went to the ER with severe uncontrollable coughing. They told her that she had pneumonia.
Shelia was immediately admitted to the Critical Care Unit and placed on a ventilator the next day as her oxygen saturation was declining fast. She was in a medically induced coma for the next eleven days.
The doctor explained to Shelia’s husband that the mortality rate for ARDS is extremely high and that he should “prepare” himself for the inevitable.
Both families were actively religious, but this made them even closer to God. And like a miracle, eleven days later Shelia’s vital signs on the monitors started to show improvement. Three days later, Shelia would be sitting up in bed and off the ventilator.
It took Shelia almost a year and a half to recover from ARDS and return to work. But within four months, she began to deteriorate.
She was back at work with the same hectic schedule and long hours with UPS. In order to replenish, Shelia and her husband, turned to horses and horseback riding for recreation, went riding and canoeing. Shelia had caught a cold and her immune system had become more compromised. So, when they went on a weekend trip on the Forth of July weekend, 1999, she ended up with another infection. Ten days later, she had an uncontrollable cough, was dizzy, and light headed.
Shelia went to her physician, who happened to be Indiana’s director of lung transplants. She did not need a lung transplant but felt she could not have a better specialist for her lungs. When she went to the emergency room, Shelia was admitted to the lung transplant floor at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, since this was her doctor’s floor. In three days, she was in the Adult Critical Care Unit, in a coma and on the ventilator, with ARDS for a second time!
Five and one half months later, Shelia woke up. She had pseudomonas aeruginosa, a gram-negative bacterial infection that spread fast in her system while she was in the coma. Not only did she have pseudomonas aeruginosa, but also MRSA, and a systemic yeast infection all of which affected her lungs and again, Shelia was not expected to live. This time the mortality rate was even higher. And as before, her vitals changed just as suddenly as they had went she was admitted.
After Shelia survived ARDS a second time, Shelia was left with pulmonary fibrosis and it became inevitable that she would need a lung transplant as a result of the infections.
For the last eighteen months, Shelia had been on the transplant list in Indiana, waiting. She was number one on that list for quite a while and there was at least one time that a donor was available, but the lungs were not a match.
In October, 2002, Jack, Shelia’s husband, notified the ARDS Foundation that Shelia was in the hospital due to the fact that Shelia had gotten debilitated while waiting for her lung transplant. The hospital was helping her back into shape while waiting for the lungs. In the middle of October, Shelia had to be moved to isolation for protection against infection.
The ARDS Foundation knew that Shelia was a fighter; after all, she beat ARDS twice before, and so prayers were dispatched as well as cards and notes.
However, on November 15, 2002, Jack learned that Shelia had acquired an unusual antibody would cause her to reject the transplant almost immediately and her chances for transplant had plummeted to nearly zero.
The following day, this email was received from Jack: “Shelia passed away today, November 16, 2002, at 12:50 PM EST. She went peacefully in my arms.
“Shelia is survived by her husband Jack, her children Scott Dewees, Dawn Stout; parents Miles and Mary Scott Miller; sisters Debbie Huesman, Rhonda Morgan, Beth Martin; and three grandchildren. Jack delayed Shelia’s funeral at Shelia’s request so that those from near and far could attend what they like to call her “Celebration of Life.”
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Greenwich financiers exonerated in dispute with Burlington heirs
Macaela J. BennettFebruary 12, 2018 GMT
Partners in a now-closed Greenwich private-equity firm have been exonerated of charges that they committed federal securities fraud.
The case was brought by members of the Milstein family, which founded Burlington, a retailer formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory that has southwestern Connecticut locations in Danbury, Stamford and Stratford. Bain Capital acquired the retailer in 2006 for more than $2 billion, with the founding family making around $1.3 billion from the sale.
Last week, a district court judge in Connecticut dismissed the plaintiffs’ allegations that they were defrauded by Foundation Capital Partners LLC, citing defendants as Dean Barr, Joseph Meehan, Thomas Ward and Joseph Elmlinger.
Barr launched Foundation in 2009, with Meehan, according to The Wall Street Journal. Barr had previously worked in senior management positions at Citigroup Inc. and Deutsche Bank. The two founders were also married to sisters, according to court documents, and eventually “developed ‘a dysfunctional rift and animus’ ” that would contribute to the firm’s strife, plaintiffs contended.
Foundation marketed itself as a firm that would invest in large and established hedge fund management companies. In 2014, members of the Milstein family invested $6.75 million in Foundation’s operations through an LLC called FIH.
By the time Foundation shuttered several years later, it had never closed a deal, according to The Journal. FIH sued Foundation’s partners, alleging its business was “terminally flawed” and the defendants had “misrepresented Foundation’s prospects and management.” FIH asked for its money back plus damages.
If convicted, the defendants faced millions of dollars in penalties, as well as being barred from the securities industry, according to Elmlinger’s defense attorney Jonathan Whitcomb, of Diserio Martin O’Connor & Castiglioni, which has offices in Stamford.
The case ultimately hinged on whether the court considered FIH to be a “sophisticated investor” with an ability to discern risky investments. The summary judgment cited numerous examples of the plaintiffs’ investment backgrounds and found that they should have had the ability to evaluate the “merits and risks of any investment.”
The “sophisticated investor” concept and its implications in legal disputes is an “evolving area of law,” Whitcomb said, adding, “It’s been around for a while, but it’s becoming more crystallized.”
Contact the writer at mbennett@greenwichtime.com; Twitter @Macaela_
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'High severity' kernel security flaw found in macOS file system
By Malcolm Owen
Monday, March 04, 2019, 08:07 am PT (11:07 am ET)
Google's Project Zero has revealed a "high severity" flaw in the macOS kernel, one which could allow an attacker to make changes to a file without macOS being informed, an issue that could lead to infected files being opened and allowing more malicious activities to become available to abuse.
Project Zero, Google's team of security researchers who find and report flaws in commercial software, revealed the issue with XNU on the Chromium website. The flaw is described as being able to take advantage of XNU's copy-on-write (COW) behavior that allows writing of data between processes, but while it is supposed to be protected from later modifications, the way it is implemented in macOS is apparently less secure than hoped.
If a user-owned mounted filesystem image is modified, reports NeoWin, the virtual management subsystem is not advised of any changes. This ability to change the on-disk file without the subsystem being aware is considered a security risk by Project Zero.
"This copy-on-write behavior works not only with anonymous memory, but also with file mappings," Project Zero explains in its posting. "This means that, after the destination process has started reading from the transferred memory area, memory pressure can cause the pages holding the transferred memory to be evicted from the page cache. Later, when the evicted pages are needed again, they can be reloaded from the backing filesystem."
"MacOS permits normal users to mount filesystem images," the post continues. "When a mounted filesystem image is mutated directly (e.g. by calling pwrite() on the filesystem image), this information is not propagated into the mounted filesystem,"
According to Project Zero's procedures, it discovered the flaw and advised Apple of its existence in November 2018, at the same time as issuing a 90-day deadline to fix the flaw before it is published, to encourage the development of a fix. Proof-of-concept code for the flaw and an explanation has since been posted by the team.
An update on February 28 advises the team has been in contact with Apple about the issue, but no fix for the problem has been released. "Apple are intending to resolve the issue in a future release, and we're working together to assess the options for a patch," team researcher Ben Hawkes notes.
This is not the first time Project Zero has taken aim at Apple's software. In February, it was revealed Apple had patched two flaws in iOS found by the team that were used to hack iPhones and iPads in the wild, while in 2015, three zero-day exploits in Mac OS X were disclosed.
The Project Zero team itself is made up of a number of prominent security researchers. The list includes Jann Horn, a researcher who was central to the discovery of the "Meltdown" and "Spectre" vulnerabilities that afflicted Intel- and ARM-based processors.
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by Florence Monkhouse
Volume 2, no. 2, 1891/92, pg. 413-419
It can scarcely be denied that of all the great educational subjects the one must inefficiently taught and least understood as a means of training is drawing. A girl of average ability whose inclination has been toward music leaves school with some degree of appreciation of good music. She has at least sufficient critical faculty to distinguish between the harmonies of a fine composer and the jingle of a pantomine song. She is a fairly intelligent companion in a concert room, and can herself play the easier works of the great masters on the piano or violin in a manner that makes it possible to listen without absolute pain. On the other hand, her sister, who does not care for music, but has a "taste for drawing," returns with a package of water-colour drawings or oil-paintings copied from chromolithographs, vulgar in colour, shapeless, with no relation at all to art or to nature; or worse still, with a collection of plaques, tambourines, and mirrors, mounted on plush, and daubed with fearful abortions supposed to be roses or branches of lilac or laburnum, things which, just at the moment a girl's taste is forming, blunt her perception of beautiful form, and utterly ruin that most delicate and most easily degraded of all faculties--the sense of colour. This poor girl proudly spreads her productions over her mother's drawing-room, driving out or extinguishing her grandmother's meaningless but delicate and harmless old-fashioned water-colour drawings in their wide white mounts and thin gilt frames, just as the dashing young lady teacher has driven out the old drawing master, with his bent shoulders and portfolio of crayon copies and thin water-colours, or perhaps flower drawings or studies of trees by Harding, a collection seldom worse than harmless, and often excellent. Even the simpering young women with doves on their shoulders and the home-sick Italian boys were better that what has superseded them. At any rate, the mischief generally stopped short at the artist, as they did not always rise to the dignity of being framed and so made little impression on the household, and were forgotten after a time. But tambourines and looking-glasses cannot be put away in a portfolio, and few people have the nerve to burn or break them, so they are disposed about the walls or presented to friends, and the mischief spreads.
Children at school should not be taught oil-painting; they should be taught to draw. Teachers ought to recognize and to take their stand firmly upon the fact that a medium so difficult to manage as oil-paint is beyond the scope of schoolgirls, however clever. It is only after years of hard technical training that a piece of work can be produced fit to be looked at, and it would be as reasonable to expect a class of girls to produce sonnets worthy of serious attention as to expect from them oil-paintings of tolerable quality. The girl who comes home with this collection of worthless lumber returns more ignorant and less capable of being taught what Art means than if she had never received expensive painting lessons. She is a most irritating companion in a picture exhibition, where her silly senses lead her unerringly to the wrong thing. She has no right perception of the difference between good and bad; pictures are to her at the best pretty things, and it has never dawned upon her that they may have a meaning. Of course it cannot be expected that a girl who has just left school will have a just appreciation of the great masters, ancient or modern; this can only be attained by long study and maturing years; but I can see no reason why her knowledge of Art should not be as advanced as her sister's knowledge of music. It may be said that if a girl's education has to be carried on too far from the centres where fine pictures may be found to make it possible to bring her into contact with them, she is not then on an equal footing with her musical sister, to whom the works of the masters may constantly be played more or less adequately. But if, while her hand was taught to draw her mind were directed to the beautiful forms around her--to the sweeping lines of the hills, to the supple strength of the trees, to the slender grace of the flower stems, to the living and breathing life of her everyday world; if her eye were trained to rejoice in the blue of the sky, the green of the fields and trees, the loveliness of the flowers, she might be safely trusted in after years, when she comes before pictures, to choose pure colour and fine drawing. Much, too, might be done by careful use of autotype reproductions from great works, such as Turner's Liber Studiorum, or the noble portrait studies from Holbein, which, with many other excellent things, are to be had at moderate cost. But to train her upon chromo-lithographs or bad oil-paintings, copies of copies perhaps, is like carefully training her to sing out of tune.
It is easy to attack a system so obviously wrong as this, but there is another which may be described as its direct antithesis, and which must be approached with much more diffidence, both because it is backed by high authority, and because it undoubtedly possesses some educational value --I mean the long and weary courses of Freehand Drawing adopted by the schools connected with South Kensington. In these schools there is placed before the pupil a succession of fine, wire-like outline drawings generally taken from Greek ornament of the best period, and, so far as actual form goes, above criticism. But the point and interest of this ornament lay in the play of light and shadow over the modeled surface, and when this light and shadow and all the little irregularities and variations which characterise hand-work are removed, the whole life and meaning of the original is taken away. It is doubtful, too, whether it is wise to make a child draw ornament; mere abstract form does not appeal to an untrained mind, and a child whose constant effort has been to reproduce the things around her will cease to take any interest in a study which she cannot connect with her own life.
I have said that this method has a certain educational value, but this is I think in special cases or for special purposes. A hand that show a tendency to weak and undetermined lines, or an eye insensible to differences of curve, might be strengthened or corrected by a judicious use of Freehand, and the engraver, or the worker in hard metals, stone or wood, might gain considerable precision by this means, but a conventional and mechanical outline is the very last thing desirable in a young painter. The distribution of light and shadow is the first to be studied. My experience tells me that children have a craving to surround their drawings with a hard line, and it is difficult to make them grasp the idea that outline is merely the meeting of light and dark parts. To train them on pure outline only tends to confuse them as to its real meaning.
The question arises--How are young people to be taught drawing? It seems to me that the first principle of teaching drawing or anything else is to arouse the intelligence--to make the pupil feel that the subject in hand is one of the interesting things in a world which every health young mind finds full of interest, that drawing is not an abstract study which they must plod at a certain length of time, however dull it may be, in order to become accomplished men or women, but a study full of deep meanings and vitally affecting everything they see in the course of their day. Almost all children show a desire to draw; it seems to be their natural mode of expression; but, curiously enough, when they begin to be taught to draw this desire generally leaves them. It if does not, this is often because they do not connect the two kinds of drawing, the cubes and curves and scrolls of their drawing-books have no intelligible relation to their endeavours to represent the man feeding his horse, or the house with a lady and a parasol in the garden.
It is this first young impulse toward drawing as a means of expression which should be directed and encouraged, and the dryer passages of study will become interesting when the child recognizes that they must necessarily be passed through to enabler her to do what she desires to do. Indeed, the dry passages in the study of drawing need by very few; there is little that cannot be made interesting. I had a remarkable proof of this some time ago on the part of a little pupil of mine. I had been helping him to draw a cup and explaining the changes that took place in the rounds as the position of the cup was changed. He listened with great interest and attention, and a few days afterwards burst into the room in a state of high glee to describe to me the wonderful changes he had seen take place in the shape of the wheels of a railway engine. "At first it was a long way off, and was like this," he said, taking up a piece of charcoal and drawing a straight line; "then it was like this," drawing an oval; "and then when it came into the station it was quite round." This little man was six years old, and found the elements of perspective positively exciting.
In teaching beginners to draw, whether young children or persons of more mature intelligence, I should take an object of the simplest possible form (a up is very good), place it in strong light, so that the shadows are distinct, and upon this explain the elements of perspective and of values. From this I should pass to easy casts of leaves, fish, fruit, &c., then to heads and full-length figures, but always encouraging the student to draw by herself, without the teacher's aid, similar things to those she is studying in the cast. If she is drawing an ear, encourage her to get a brother, or sister, or playmate to stand still while she makes a drawing of his or her ear; if a plaster head, then get her to try portraits of her friends.
For these cast studies the best medium to use is charcoal on French paper; but for drawings done for amusement by herself, it is better to let the child use any medium she fancies, in order to disabuse her of the idea that too much depends upon the means. Pencil, crayon, or water-colour may all be used with advantage, but for the more severe work from the cast charcoal is best, because by its means the effect can be obtained most readily, and alterations may easily be made. While it may be used with as much strength or as much delicacy as any other medium, the readiness with which alterations may be made encourages good drawing.
A question upon which there is room for considerable difference of opinion is as to how far cast drawing should be carried, and when work from the living model should begin. It is obviously a question to be determined in great measure by the idiosyncrasy of the pupil. It is much easier to attain accuracy of drawing from what is motionless, but study too long continued of what is lifeless and eolourless must lead to a certain dullness of style. In the case of schoolgirls--whose time is principally taken up with other work, and whose drawing occupies perhaps only two hours a week--it is scarcely possible to get so far as work from the living model at all; and to guard against the dullness incident to continual cast drawing, it is well to vary the work by a little landscape with pencil or water-colour, and also studies of leaves and flowers. But whatever work is done in colour, let it be the pure, bright colour of Nature, such as every eye that is unsophisticated loves. No child likes low tone or washed-out colour; they are for the world-worn--too weary to bear the glory of true colour, or for those whose sense is corrupted by this generation of aniline dyes, or hard metallic greens and blues, that they can no longer distinguish between the brightness of pure, natural colour, and the staring hideousness of chemical dyes. The sense of colour seems to be quitting us. Our cities are grey and melancholy from the absence of beautiful colour in buildings and dress; our skies, from the smoke of the cities; our pictures are low-toned, and all brightness is in bad taste. But we have still our wild flowers, and so long as "the little speedwell's darling blue" spreads itself over the bright green of the young grass we cannot quite banish colour from among us. Let us try to save the coming generation from the blight that has fallen upon ourselves, and make the children love purity of colour. If the eye be dimmed in youth the mischief can never be quite undone. It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that this thrusting away of brightness is the most serious of mistakes.
The question of cast drawing as it affects older students who have more time to give to the study of art must to some extent embrace the vexed question of the importance or otherwise of study from the antique. Until a girl can draw a head from the cast in a way that shows she understands the structure she is not fit to leave it for life, when the difficulties are so much increased by the impossibility of keeping the model quite still. But when she shows herself capable of drawing from the life the question is whether her time is better spent in drawing only from life, or in still devoting a great deal of it to working from the antique. My own impression is that the study of such works as the Elgin marbles and other examples of great art is of the very highest consequence to young people. It helps them to distinguish, on the living model, between what is accidental and what is essential; it accustoms them to largeness of conception, to grandeur of line; in fact, it helps them to "style." I speak with diffidence, however, knowing that may voices of authority are heard to declare that drawing from life alone is the most profitable use of time; but even these, I think, will say that constant study of great works is desirable, the point at issue being whether this should be by careful drawing or by frequent observation. Whether a drawing is from the life or from the marble it must be an accurate and exhaustive study of the particular model before the student, with all its faults and blemishes. A student must never idealise--that is for the accomplished artist, to whom years and application have brought knowledge.
As to the usefulness of copying pictures, I should say that much of it is certainly not good, but to take parts of a picture which are exceptionally fine in colour and to try to reproduce that colour, must, I think, be of assistance to a wise student.
A factor of immense importance in the work of an artist is a well-trained memory, yet, so far as I know, there is no school or system of teaching which lays much stress on this. Sir Joshua Reynolds, in those admirable discourses which, though a little old-fashioned in parts now, may still be read with very great advantage, strongly recommends that whatever work has occupied the attention of the student during the day should be repeated at night from memory. Another excellent method, which I am told is customary among the Japanese, is to place an object before the student for a given time, and then to remove it and cause him to draw it in the best way he can. Whether this is a Japanese method or not, it is certainly a sensible one, and ought to be universal.
What I particularly insist on in teaching is that it shall be made interesting, that the intelligence shall be kept bright, that the connection between Art and Nature shall never disappear from the learner's mind, that drawing shall not be an abstract study, but a living one.
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A Dozen Global Warming Slogans May 22, 2011
Tags: climate change, global warming, Professor Bob Carter
A Dozen Global Warming Slogans
By Professor Bob Carter
Quadrant Online
For many years now, our media outlets have been awash with commentary about dangerous human-caused global warming. The coverage tends to move in spasms relating to events such as meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or, as at present, to government efforts to introduce penal legislation against carbon dioxide emissions in the vain belief that this will “stop global warming”.
Given that carbon dioxide is indeed a greenhouse gas (albeit a mild and diminishingly effective one at currently increasing levels of atmospheric concentration), and that some human-caused emissions accrue in the atmosphere, the question of dangerous warming was a good one to raise back in the late 1980s. Since then, with the formation of the IPCC, and a parallel huge expansion of research and consultancy money into climate studies, energy studies and climate policy, an intensive effort has been made to identify and measure the human signature in the global temperature record at a cost that probably exceeds $100 billion. And, as Kevin Rudd might put it, “You know what? No such signature has been able to be isolated and measured.”
That, of course, doesn’t mean that humans have no effect on global temperature, because we know that carbon dioxide is a mild greenhouse gas, and we can also measure the local temperature effects of human activity, which are both warming (from the urban heat island effect) and cooling (due to other land-use change, including irrigation). Sum these effects all over the world and obviously there must be a global signal; that we can’t identify and measure it indicates that the signal is so small that it is lost in the noise of natural climate variation.
1. Dan Pangburn - May 22, 2011
A simple equation based on the physical phenomena involved, with inputs of accepted measurements from government agencies, calculates the average global temperatures (agt) since 1895 with 88.4% accuracy (87.9% if CO2 is assumed to have no influence). See the equation, links to the source data, an eye-opening graph of the results and how they are derived in the pdfs at http://climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true (see especially the pdfs made public on 4/10/10, and 3/10/11).
The future average global temperature trend that this equation calculates is down.
This trend is corroborated by the growing separation between the rising CO2 and not-rising agt. From 2001 through April, 2011 the atmospheric CO2 increased by 21.7% of the total increase from 1800 to 2001 while the average global temperature has not increased. The 21.7% CO2 increase is the significant measurement, not the comparatively brief time period. The trend of the average of the five reporting agencies has declined steeply since the peak of the last El Nino in about March 2010.
Some people are so blinded by ideology that they are unable to recognize reality. However, as the atmospheric CO2 continues to rise in the 21st century while the agt does not, more people will realize that they have been deceived.
2. Oliver K. Manuel - May 23, 2011
Thank you, Professor Carter, for being a voice of sanity in an increasingly insane world of government financed science.
Science seems to have surrendered the basic principles of science for more government support for research. Former President Eisenhower warned that this might happen one day in his farewell address to the nation on 17 January 1961.
This weekend I read the book by Benjamin Hoff, “The Tao of Pooh” (Dutton, 1982).
To my surprise, I learned that Benjamin Hoff attributes some of the problems with modern science to the teachings of the Chinese philosopher, Kung Fu Tse (Confucianism), when compared with the teachings of Lao-tse (Taoism).
Hoff appears to have several valid criticisms of modern science, including its shallowness and its rigidity (desiccated Confucian science).
He suggests that the more contemplative approach of Taoism is more consistent with the basic principles of science.
Again, I appreciate your excellent report.
3. NikFromNYC - May 23, 2011
Because of your involvement with corporate funded organizations, nobody within the cult of Climatology will listen to you. They have been conditioned to become apoplectic when they see anybody’s name even remotely associated with ExxonMobile, as this PR firm web site offers the suggestion of: http://www.desmogblog.com/rm-bob-carter
Here I present The Quick Glance Guide to Global Warming:
Denial: http://oi53.tinypic.com/2zi9d2e.jpg
Oceans: http://oi53.tinypic.com/35b9g08.jpg
Thermometers: http://oi52.tinypic.com/2agnous.jpg
Ice: http://oi52.tinypic.com/2upvlvm.jpg
Earth: http://oi54.tinypic.com/dw2nhw.jpg
Prophecy: http://oi54.tinypic.com/2hq5tae.jpg
Psychopathy: http://oi52.tinypic.com/i56fsg.jpg
Thinker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92YenWfz0Y
4. Ross James - January 30, 2012
Here are my points as to why I do not listen to Dr Bob Carter:
1. First of all, it’s difficult to determine where Carter is getting this $100 billion figure from. The article focuses specifically on Australia, and the country has not spent $100 billion on climate research in its entire history, period. Even on a global scale, nowhere near $100 billion has been spent on studies to identify anthropogenic signatures of global warming. This figure unless supported is simply made up.
2. No human warming signatures have been identified is entirely false, and reveals that Carter is either ignorant of the field of climate science, or is not being honest in his article. We have previously addressed the anthropogenic “fingerprints” or “signatures” of global warming in the rebuttal to “it’s not us”. Below is a brief summary of those fingerprints:
the upper atmosphere is cooling
the tropopause height is rising
nights are warming more than days
sea level pressure is rising
precipitation is changing as expected from anthropogenic forcing
ocean heat content is changing as expected from anthropogenic forcing
downward longwave radiation is increasing
upward longwave radiation is decreasing
3. Additionally, the warming trend is accurately projected by climate models – another fact which Carter denies.
4. Carter also suggests that rather than being man-made, the observed global warming could just be due to natural internal variability: Contrary to Carter’s claim, the average global surface air warming over the past century (0.8°C) is well outside the range of the influence of internal variability on surface temperatures over decadal timescales (generally no more than 0.3°C), and this variability can account for little if any of the 20th century warming
Estimation of the observed signature of internal variability in the observed 20th century global mean temperature in climate model simulations (Swanson et al. 2009).
Papers that over turn all of Dr Carter’s hypothesis……….
http://deepeco.ucsd.edu/~george/publications/09_long-term_variability.pdf
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2010JCLI3682.1
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5976/316.summary
Dr. Swanson noted:
“What do our results have to do with Global Warming, i.e., the century-scale response to greenhouse gas emissions? VERY LITTLE, contrary to claims that others have made on our behalf. Nature (with hopefully some constructive input from humans) will decide the global warming question based upon climate sensitivity, net radiative forcing, and oceanic storage of heat, not on the type of multi-decadal time scale variability we are discussing here. However, this apparent impulsive behavior explicitly highlights the fact that humanity is poking a complex, nonlinear system with GHG forcing – and that there are no guarantees to how the climate may respond.”
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/07/warminginterrupted-much-ado-about-natural-variability/
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She’ll Have Motivation, With a Little Motivation on the Side, Please
The moment two men wearing hard hats and carrying drawings walked into a third grade classroom for Career Day was precisely when Kelly Mejia decided she wanted to be a part of the construction industry when she grew up. Now at the age of 26, Kelly is a Balfour Beatty senior project engineer with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida (UF), a Master in Construction Management from Florida International University (FIU), holds a General Contractor license and has her LEED Green Associate credentials. She’s also a member of the Miami Chamber of Commerce and the FIU School of Construction Industry Advisory Council. And that’s just the beginning.
Kelly is passionate about setting goals and working relentlessly to achieve them. “I always ask myself what I can do to improve myself and make myself more knowledgeable,” says Kelly. “I picture what I want to be, and then I work toward that until I get there.”
Her five-year goal is to be a project manager—ideally working on a healthcare project. Her interest in the medical field stems from the consistent demand for such facilities. She’s also learned about the interesting challenges these projects pose from veteran builder Steve Nielsen, a general superintendent for Balfour Beatty who has more than 37 years of total industry experience under his tool belt and 20 on healthcare projects.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone this young with so many significant achievements,” remarks Steve. “Kelly is extremely motivated and has an exceptional work ethic. I tell the guys all the time that they better be nice to her, because she’ll probably be their boss one day! She has an incredible future in our business.”
At 5’1” with a slight build, Kelly doesn’t immediately come across as a hardcore construction professional. But it doesn’t take long for people to figure out Kelly is dedicated to construction from the soles of her boots to the top of her hard hat. As the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding. She once heard a subcontractor foreman tell another, “You have to listen to what [Kelly’s] saying…she knows what she’s talking about.”
Kelly’s path to a construction career didn’t begin with that type of support, though. In her high school, the four year drafting program focused on architecture. In college, Kelly was told there was no money to be made in construction, which led her to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Still drawn to the field, Kelly applied to FIU’s OHL School of Construction. Others continued to discourage Kelly from pursuing her passions, but she decided she would prove them wrong. And she did just that, excelling as an intern on Balfour Beatty’s Miami-Dade College Hialeah Campus project. Balfour Beatty’s focus on teamwork and the camaraderie she experienced easily convinced Kelly to begin her career here.
At Balfour Beatty, Kelly has experienced the diverse and rewarding career she began dreaming of as a young child. She played an integral role on a project for her alma mater—the FIU Student Academic Center, which won a first place Eagle Award from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of East Florida in 2016. Currently, she’s a member of the team building 3 Miami Central, which will serve as the headquarters for the new high-speed train connecting Miami and Orlando.
Kelly isn’t just building projects that benefit her community—she’s passionate about serving it too. Through a Miami Chamber of Commerce program for young professionals known as Leadership Miami, Kelly helps raise funds for worthy causes. In 2016, the team raised enough funds to renovate Holtz Children Hospital’s Pediatric Center classroom. This year, the team is helping renovate a park for a non-profit school that serves children with disabilities.
Though Kelly isn’t exactly one to let obstacles deter her, she does recognize the realities of working in a male-dominated industry. “As a woman in construction—and specifically in the field—you have to earn respect,” Kelly concedes. “Prove yourself with an outstanding performance, and communicate effectively. Once these are established, no one will question you just because you are a woman.” And no one is questioning Kelly. When she earned her GC license, she was the only woman and youngest among about 1,000 men testing on the same day. Not surprisingly, she passed on the first try.
There’s no question that talent and motivation differentiate Kelly, but perhaps that’s because building is in her blood. A first generation American born to parents from Honduras, Kelly’s father worked for a rebar and lumber company for 20 years. Growing up in Miami, she was fascinated by the tower cranes that dotted the skies in every direction. “Watching buildings go up in Miami was so cool,” remarks Kelly. “I grew up wanting to build one of them one day. Now I can say, ‘I’m so proud that I built that!’”
Jason Sizemore
Kelly Mejia
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Our guest last week on Art of the Song was John Oates. Best known for his work with the hit-making duo Hall & Oates, John has 6 solo albums to his credit. Born in New York City, his family moved to a small town outside of Philadelphia, PA in the early 1950s. Soaking up the sounds of the 60s, he was influenced by multiple styles including folk, bluegrass, delta blues, and ragtime, while also immersing himself in R&B legends. We spoke with John after the release of Arkansas. Originally inspired by the music and legacy of Mississippi John Hurt, the project grew to encompass other artists and styles that represent the dawn of American popular music. According to John, “It’s like Dixieland, dipped in bluegrass, and salted with Delta blues.”
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Mary Gauthier #3 Talks Songwriting Tips
Songwriting Tips: Mary Gauthier Digs Deep
[This transcript is excerpted from the Songwriters’ TeleSummit.]
Viv: Mary, tell us how to become a songwriter tell us about your process. Do you get up each day and invent your plan? That’s what you’re going to do each day?
Mary: No, I don’t. It’s a mystery. I don’t really understand it. I don’t have a process that’s predictable in any way. I think that anything I think I know changes daily. Generally I need an inspiration to write and I don’t walk around inspired all the time so when I have one I’ll chase it down and sit at the desk and try to write it for however long it takes and sometimes it takes months. Ultimately, having been on the road so much, I had to learn how to write on the road. And I try to carve out time to write the perspiration writing as well where I’m uninspired but I’m going to show up anyway. But I don’t do a lot of that because in my experience it hasn’t really been a source of good songs. Pushing myself in an uncomfortable way doesn’t seem to have a good payoff. If it paid off I’d do it. If there’s nothing happening I’m out of there, I’m going to go do something I enjoy and try it again the next day or next week. So I don’t push myself hard if I’m not inspired. But if I am inspired, I push myself incredibly hard, trying to execute that inspiration and trying to get that song right.
Viv: And what does that push look like?
Mary: Oh, sitting at a desk in a chair for fourteen hours a day for three or four days, five days in a row. Getting take out food or just doing the research. Oftentimes I have to do research. I’ve been working on some stuff about adoption and abandonment and I’ve read about fifteen or sixteen books about it to try to get an understanding so that I’m the one to write the songs. Painters have to get in their mind’s eye of the painting that they’re trying to paint so, in order for a painter to paint, a music writer has to go to shows and watch how people hold their instruments. So if I’m going to write about being an orphan, more than just having experience, I have to immerse myself in the language of it and so I do research. I’m a researcher. And I spend time at the library. I spend time on Amazon trying to find books. I listen to other people’s songs about it. And I try to soak it all in and hopefully it’ll add to what comes out in the end. It will. I have to put information in to get information out.
Viv: So you research the story. I know you’ve written songs that are based so much in your personal truth, but then there’s taking them out in the universal way, you do further research to broaden the topic, is that what you’re saying?
Mary: Yeah absolutely. I did a song about a hobo named “Steam Train Maury” Graham because I read his obituary in the paper and I wanted to know more about him. Several days of research went into being able to talk hobo. So I found websites where hobos talk to each other. I found the information about this gentleman’s life. I found a site that’s about their annual convention, or hobo gathering, and just looked at a lot of hobo words. And I went back into some of the old stuff by famous songwriters like Steinbeck/Woody Guthrie stuff that talks about hobos. I really tried to get myself saturated in the culture before I wrote the song.
Viv: And now, when you’re writing a song from that standpoint, and you’re still writing in your true voice, what does that feel like?
Mary: It feels like love. I have to fall in love with this guy. And I had to fall in love with the notion of hobos to write from that place of being passionate about it and being compassionate about it and so I just had to experience the love of it to be able to write it and, fortunately, that’s not hard for me to find things that I love and to write about them. I love this guy. I found a picture of him and I just thought, “My goodness, he looks exactly like you’d expect him to look. He looks like a hobo.” The more I read about him, the more I just love the guy. It comes from a passion and from a loving place and the unique voice that’s mine comes from I guess my love for these different people that I don’t even know. I wrote a song about a woman who was executed in Texas and I felt this love for her. I think that the listener hears that in the song.
Viv: Absolutely, this is something that I really think it’s an amazing thread that the connection between your true voice and that which you love.
Mary: Yeah, they are hand in hand. They hold hands. If you’re not holding hands with what you love and you’re lyric writing from a place that’s not that, I’m not sure how do you do that and stay true to who you are, I don’t know.
Viv: So writing about, this brings up, about something that you really couldn’t give a twist about, and yet you’re drawn to it or you’re paid to do it or something like that, it sounds like there’s a lot of staying true to your integrity, staying true to your personal core values…
Mary: That’s who I am as a writer. Now I live in Nashville and there’s about a hundred million people who aren’t like that at all and they make a ton of dough and they get cuts on the radio and they have a very high standard of living and it works for them. Before I moved there, I used to think those Nashville songwriters type guys were, I don’t know, lesser writers maybe. But yet, having been there for nine or ten years now and seeing how the craft is something that you get better at, and some of these are journeymen craftsmen, I respect that too. It’s just not the way that I got about it and it’s who I am as a writer and it’s not who I want to be as a writer. But yet I do respect that. It’s just a different type of writing and it’s not what I’m up to.
Viv: So let’s just sort of look at this again. Just sort of go back over it. The finding your voice is really also finding what your gift is to the world.
Mary: Yes, I think so, exactly.
Viv: And finding your voice, it’s like falling in love, it’s writing from your passions.
Mary: Yes
Viv: And it can be anything, really. It sounds like it doesn’t have to be from your personal life experience but it’s from whatever moves you, from the newspaper. Nanci Griffith I know reads social pages in the New York Times and she draws stories from and also from other newspapers. She reads a bunch of bunch of newspapers and she draws stories out of those. And it sounds like that’s because she gets intrigued by the character and falls in love with that character path. And that sounds like exactly what you do. So much of what you have brought to us has been drawn out of your personal life experience. Your honesty in your writing is just profound. Did you have any kind of process that you had to go through in order to find the courage to just let that stuff out and let it be known?
Mary: Yeah, I guess so. Although it’s my fate to be a truth teller. Because it’s my fate and destiny, it’s just something that I’ve always had to do. So it didn’t take as much courage as it would maybe for some other people who that’s not their destiny to do that. I’ve always been that kind of person. I guess I’m just well suited for this job. I have my theories as to why. I think it’s a reaction to the situation I was raised in and to the claustrophobia I felt as a child and to the lack of truth in my early environments. It just sent me like a flame shot to the truth as an adult. And a very short fuse for lies. Ultimately I think that it’s what I’m supposed to be doing and maybe it’s why I even in the spirit world picked that family to come through so I would be able to do this work. I don’t know, I mean that makes as much sense as anything. There’s no way to know, it’s just speculation. I’m not as afraid to tell the truth as I am afraid to not tell the truth. And so maybe that makes me well suited for the truth-telling folk singer that seems as though that’s my job description.
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Sauron, The Crimson King, and the Apophatic Nature of Evil
November 15, 2012 in JRR Tolkien, Mere Christianity, Modern Fantasy, Steven King | Tags: evil, Fantasy, JRR Tolkien, Modern Fantasy, Movies, Steven King, The Dark Tower, The Lord Of The Rings | 3 comments
A Study In Comparative Fantasy
I’m halfway to the Dark Tower, at the hub of all possible worlds. If you look at the architecture of Stephen King’s epic series, I am almost exactly halfway, having just now started the fifth volume in the series, The Wolves Of The Calla. Two volumes I have read deal in backstory; Wizard And Glass was almost entirely the story of Roland Deschain’s first years as a Gunslinger in the outer barony of Meijis and of his first love affair with the tragic Susan Delgado. The other volume was The Wind Through The Keyhole, a volume written by Mr. King and published last year, which was meant to “fill a gap” between the ending of Wizard And Glass and the beginning of The Wolves Of The Calla. The Wind Through The Keyhole is actually two stories nested inside each other like a wooden Russian babushka doll, which Roland tells as a single tale on the grandfather of all dark and stormy nights. Since Keyhole doesn’t advance the narrative of Roland’s ka-tet at all, I feel justified in saying I am still halfway to the Tower, despite having read more than 2/3 of the material in the series.
Comparing Stephen King’s Dark Tower series to another modern fantasy which I re-read before taking up the thread of Roland’s story again, I find that the Dark Tower series compares very favorably to The Lord Of The Rings. There are some superficial similarities. Both series deal with an epic Quest; that of Frodo to dispose of the Ring Of Power and that of Roland to reach the Dark Tower. Both series introduce a sworn brotherhood; The Fellowship of the Ring and Roland’s Ka-Tet. Finally, although I seldom see this commented on, invented language plays an important role in both series. Tolkien’s Elvish languages, of course, form the backbone of his mythopoetic work. Indeed, Tolkien himself claimed that he invented the elves and Middle Earth so that he would have speakers for his invented languages and a place for them to be spoken. Stephen King, being a professional writer instead of a professor of Anglo-Saxon, uses a subtler device. The High Speech hasn’t greatly factored into the first four books, but it appears to have an ancient Egyptian/Phoenician flavor to it. The Low Speech, the Westron of Mid-World, is English, but with very subtle differences. Listening to The Waste Land and Wizard And Glass after having read them in book form, you get something of the flavor of the Low Speech. There are words that you have to learn by context, such as “cullie“, “jilly” and “roont“. There are repeated tag-sentences, “so I do”, “ken thee?”. There is the non-grammatical use of the pre-Caroline English pronoun thee, differing from the customary King James usage. All of these, and the use of stock phrases such as “set your watch and warrant by it”, or, “forget the face of your father”, set a linguistic tone for the series and with great economy underscore the alienness of Mid World.
For Mid-World is not a nice place. Indeed, throughout the whole of the Tower books so far, I can almost hear Gollum hissing in the background – “We’re not in decent places”. Mid-world has “moved on”. Things have changed. The relationship between men and Creation has altered deeply, and the change has not been for the better. Time has, in the opinion of Eddie Dean, one of Roland’s companions, “gone on vacation”. A day may be fifty hours long, or it may stop altogether, or it may fly at a furious pace. Indeed, all of Roland’s companions have been gathered from New York, our New York, the New York of Robert Wagner, of Abraham Beame, and of Edward Koch respectively, but they are contemporaries in Mid-World. Causality is iffy. Things that produced a particular effect at one time may not at another time, for no apparent reason. Directions have become unhinged, and a moon that rises in the east one night may wobble over to the southeast the next. We are told that the Gunslinger’s world has “moved on”, but the direction it has taken is not an improvement.
Middle Earth, by comparison, is a stable place. Even though its wars and rebellions have altered the coastlines and the continents, the fabric of space and time remains the same. Actually, that isn’t entirely true. The Valar and their charges removed themselves entirely from Arda (the created universe in which Middle-Earth exists), and hence are no longer directly accessible to the inhabitants, be they Men or Dwarves or stubborn Elves who continue to refuse the summons back to Aman. Since there is a renegade Maia loose in Middle-Earth, this absence of the Valar forces the inhabitants thereof back onto their own resources. Sauron, the antagonist of The Lord Of The Rings, never appears directly in the narrative, and indeed is seldom referred to by name. He has slaves to do his bidding, and his bidding appears to be entirely ruin and blasting.
The central metaphor for evil in The Lord Of The Rings is that of barrenness. Mordor is a dead land. Nothing grows there, or at least in the ash-choked Plain of Gorgoroth surrounding both the Dark Tower and Mount Doom, although we are assured that to the south, around the sad shores of Lake Nurnen, there are immense farms tended to by slaves, a prophecy of the industrial agriculture that “feeds” (or fattens) our nation. Samwise, under the influence of the Ring, faces this temptation and masters it:
“The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.”
There is a sense in which there are two antagonists in The Lord Of The Rings, Sauron and the Ring. Sauron represents the Manichean, external aspect of Evil, the kind of evil you can, and must, resist with swords, bows, and valor. The evil of Sauron is something that would destroy everything “that you hold dear on this green earth”, but unaided, it cannot destroy the soul. It is the resistance, finally, of Aragorn and what remains of the West that allows Frodo and Sam to triumph, albeit imperfectly, over the Augustininan, internal aspect of Evil, represented by the Ring. The Ring speaks to that inner voice inside all of us that if only we could have things Our Own Way, whether by persuasion or coercion, that we could put Things to Right. Alas, it would begin that way, as Galadriel said, but in the end, the corruption of the Ring, which is the corruption of our own hearts, must be overcome by a different, but no less necessary, kind of valor; that of renunciation, self-denial, and voluntary suffering on behalf of others.
I believe that it is because we lost the struggle outlined in the Lord Of The Rings that we find ourselves, a generation and change later, in the situation of the Dark Tower books. Evil in King’s created universe is much more consistent than that in Tolkien’s world. The Crimson King, the antagonist of the Dark Tower books and the Sauron of Mid-World (he even has the sigil of a single red eye) goes beyond the Maia’s hatred of the organic, yearning for the predictability and order of the mineral. The Crimson King hates the very idea of order and predictability, or reason and morality. Significantly, he is represented as the offspring of Arthur Eld and a demoness of the primordial Chaos, out of which Gan (God) erected the Dark Tower and the beams of the multiverse, and which Arthur Eld and his descendants the Gunslingers swore to uphold. The Crimson King, like the Joker in the film The Dark Knight, just wants to see Creation burn. Inevitably, he hates himself as well, since he reflects the order of Creation within himself. His desire for destruction includes a desire for self-destruction. The Crimson King is, of course, barking mad.
One of the criticisms I have of modern horror fiction is that is hard for moderns to grasp the essence of evil. When you have no absolute values, nothing is ultimately at risk. Most threats in film or literature deal with the loss of Stuff or of social standing, which is scarifying enough for fragile egos in an increasingly turbulent world. Failing this, one of the most time honored ploys in horror literature is to put either children or the virginal Good Girl at risk. But the threat is always either death or dismemberment, bad enough in itself but not ontologically threatening. However, there is a disturbing undercurrent that one of the worst things that can happen to you is to be Found Out. Fear not him who can kill the body and all that. The scariest movie of all the time, The Exorcist, came close by showing its viewers a universe where good was evil, order was chaos, white was black, and worse, by telling its viewers that this is what they secretly wished for as well.
To me, true Evil is a mystery. It is a no-thing, even less than the vacuums between stars that nevertheless pulses with energies. I guess the closest metaphor I could invoke would be that of the Singularity, the Black Hole, a metaphor that could not have been available to Dante or Bram Stoker. Something that wants to draw all creation to itself and to unite all distinctions, isolate all similarities, reducing all things to the primeaval chaos; confusing, changing, dividing, and separating all things in an infinite falling from which no escape is possible.
Stand true. All things serve the Beam.
The Discreet Charm Of The Haute Bourgiosie
May 4, 2012 in Uncategorized | Tags: Films, Movies | Leave a comment
This is from my son’s Tumblr page. I hesitate to call it a blog because Tumblr is just a couple of steps above 4chan and people have been known to post some really objectionable and unedited material there.
For some reason, my son’s discussion of American director Whit Stillman’s film Metropolitan tweaked the nose of the hipster-gioisie milieu in which he lives and moves and has his being. I’m just impressed that any 21 year old knows who Wit Stillman and Chris Eigeman are.
Who knows. Maybe soon he and his friends will be discussing Charles Fourier.
now im going to make an AMV using clips of chris eigeman and chief keef
okay alex i will tell you my feels on Metropolitan and Stillman in general
In a way, I think American cinema needs a director like Stillman. Irony has been kind of a constant in a lot of popular film here and most of our beloved films have had some ironic schematic orchestrating a lot of a movie’s interactions with the audience, especially when addressing the class system of the United States. That’s why I think a lot of people enjoy Anderson because his films are really biting of the American upperclass and utilize a lot of ironic movement to generate humor. As American movie goers, we’ve become desensitized to the “plight” of the American bourgeois, a reality to people like Stillman and a welcomed circumstance that has been lampooned by people like Franzen in The Corrections and by Wes Anderson over the years, and its common for us to treat people who have definitive power and influence in our society with a lot of derision. However, the way we do this is by introducing our own vocabulary, our own manners (an important word to use when describing Stillman) and making it the primary lens from which we view this world. We view these people as alien, kind of remote, and the only way we have of relating to them is through antagonism or by taking the rich out of their frame of reference and putting them in ours, because it reflects the struggle of rich vs. poor that we’ve been taught is the reality (“the rich raise your income taxes, they live better than you do and don’t care about you, kim kardashian spent a ludicrous amount of money for a wedding and got divorced in three months isn’t that fucking ridiculous i could have paid off my student loans with 1/64th of her budget for that wedding”). And because these feelings or conceptions are the immediate response to imagery exemplary of the upper class, it is easier and simpler to make film that takes them out of their context and places them in our own and makes fun of them. Stillman proves that you don’t have to go through the effort of taking the rich out of context to make fun of them because the rich are capable of doing this on their own homefield.
I can understand why people dislike Stillman. He isn’t ironic in his films at all. This goes against our expectations of depictions of the upper class in film to be! Stillman isn’t crude, ironic, or chastising of the upperclass in his film and we absolutely, positively despise him for it sometimes. We want to see these people punished or stumble because it makes us feel better about our selves (this is some pretty basic shit that goes all the way back to Aristotle’sPoetics and what not) but Stillman won’t let us have the satisfaction. That’s because Stillman is a part of that world and that world has its own rules on how and why people fail, and to have his characters fail to such a point that they’d be brought to our stature is disingenuous to his characters, his experience, and to the rules of that reality. Really, when you first watch his films you feel a bit uncomfortable and annoyed that these people who clearly live better than you do and dress better than you do are having a good time and aren’t suffering, but then you watch them do things and talk about interesting things and you start laughing because, jesus christ these people are doomed and they know it.
To me, Stillman’s documenting the fall of an empire. He’s a chronologist of the privileged in America and he knows that the upper-class identity has been smudged by popular culture. I don’t think he’s trying to defend it in any way, but he is definitely trying to preserve some truths about that culture that the American audience isn’t exposed to. Metropolitan is a funny movie because it’s 100% American bourgeois and it’s genuine in its depiction of both the good and bad of that culture and does so without taking the culture out of context. I think a lot of people complain about the movie being 90% conversation, but fuck Louis Malle took a movie about two friends eating dinner and talking and made it really captivating so don’t tell me shit about how a movie about people talking is boring okay last time i checked people thought lost was a great show and you can literally reduce it to a clip reel of people reacting to shit. These conversations were definitely ones I could see myself having with people if I ever had the chance to run into such opinionated, quickwitted young people, or made the effort to leave my bedroom to see James, Andrew, Cass, or Galeon more. Really, it’s watching these people who have this structure of manners in place and seeing them being so unmannerly by it that makes Metropolitan such a great film. I think Nick has some great moments in that film that make you really sympathetic to him as a character and sympathetic of his awareness that his world is becoming more and more ephemeral with each passing day.
At the same time I’m really attracted to Carolyn Farina.
tl;dr i can understand why people hate stillman and Metropolitan but that is because he isn’t playing by our game in the first place and we want him to because we think our game is the only one worth playing
Ten Overlooked Fantastic Films You Should See – Number Three
July 30, 2011 in Fun, Modern Fantasy | Tags: Films, Movies | 2 comments
Look To The Skies!!
The Last Starfighter – 1984 It was 1984. The original Star Wars trilogy had just completed, with Return Of The Jedi having left an awful taste in everybody’s mouth after the gee-whiz fireworks of A New Hope, followed by the masterful chiaroscuro of The Empire Strikes Back. Indeed, I think a good case can be made for TESB as the best science fiction film ever made, and for ROTJ as one of the worst. Maybe it was the unsatisfactory resolution of the Star Wars trilogy that predisposed me to appreciate this goofy, well-meaning film that came out the next year.
There isn’t much to The Last Starfighter, but what there is is great fun. If you can praise Breaking Away as the best film ever shot in Indiana (it is leagues better than the histrionic Hoosiers), you can similarly praise The Last Starfighter as the best film whose protagonist lives in a dead-end trailer park. But what a trailer park! there is community, romance, challenge, and galaxy-saving, all within the [terrestial] confines of a few scant country acres.
Alex Rogan lives in said dead-end trailer park. All of his friends are going off to college, but he missed his chance at a scholarship and is stuck serving as a handyman for the Starlight Starbright Trailer Park. His widowed mother and porn-addled little brother are no help at all. The only bright spots in his dismal existence are his girlfriend Maggie (Catherine Mary Stewart, my favorite among the Starlets Referred To By All Three Names), and the Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game at the park’s office where the player defends “the Frontier” from “Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada”. Eventually he becomes the highest scoring player of the game. Thereafter he is visited by the game’s inventor Centauri (Robert Preston, basically reprising his role as Harold Hill from The Music Man). Centauri whisks him away to Rylos, an embattled planet, where Alex learns that Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada are real, and a real threat.
The Rylosians attempt to recruit him as a Starfighter, an elite corps of fighters who maintain the Frontier against the a rogue Rylosian noble and his Ko-Dan handlers. Alex begs off, and Centauri returns him to Earth, but when the Ko-Dan threaten people dear to him; his mother, Maggie, and other people in the Starlight Starbright Trailer Park, Alex mans up and saves the Universe.
Yeah, it’s a coming-of-age story, one of the oldest ever. But The Last Starfighter accomplishes for Alex Rogan in one film what the Star Wars trilogy fails to deliver for Luke Skywalker in three.
Ten Overlooked Fantastic Films You Should See – Number Eight
August 18, 2010 in Modern Fantasy, Uncategorized | Tags: Christianity, Movies | 1 comment
8. The Iron Giant – I didn’t see this on the big screen because I allowed my children to talk me into going to Inspector Gadget instead. For the next three years, the reputation of this movie percolated in the back of my mind until I finally saw it on VHS.
Hogarth and the Giant
This movie astounded me. It is still my favorite animated feature film of all time, and was my first introduction to the humor of Brad Bird, who was one of the writers for the Simpsons.
I loved The Iron Giant‘s take on the 50s. I think it helps to remember that the stifling conformity of that era was far from universal. There were single mothers [like my own] struggling in a world far less supportive of them, and anti-establishment types whose questioning of authority eventually led to the upheaval of the 60s and beyond. The Iron Giant is widely praised for being slyly anti-authoritarian and anti-military, but I found it to be a deeply patriotic movie.
What most people won’t tell you is how much Christian symbolism there is in this movie. There is a clearer presentation of the Gospel in The Iron Giant than there is in anything coming out of the ‘family-friendly, faith-and-popcorn’ circuit. I guess if you want to hide something, the best place is in plain sight.
God, the Spider
February 25, 2009 in Epistemology | Tags: Borges, Christianity, Epistemology, Movies | 3 comments
Watching the recent movie War, Inc. I saw another example of a cinematic cliché which, as far as I can tell by extensive Googling, I am the only film fan who has ever noticed. Now, if I am the only film fan who is aware of a cinematic cliché, can it possibly be a cliché? Since it appears I have few, but loyal readers, I will let you all be the judges of this.
I call the cliché “the paralyzed totalitarian”. I have seen him now in four movies. In Terry Gillam’s Brazil, Sam’s father’s colleague (and Sam’s mother’s lover?) Helpmann has enormous power, orders Sam to be tortured, but is confined to a wheelchair.
Also wheelchair-bound is José Lewgoy as the warden of the prison in which are being detained William Hurt and Raul Julia in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Together with the secret policeman, he cunningly positions the homosexual Molina to weave his way into the confidences of the suspicious political prisoner Arregui, yet he is incapable of any independent motion and is dependent on an attendant for everything.
In the recent War, Inc., Walken, the “viceroy” of sad Turaqistan, which has been the object of yet another American preemptive invasion, wields enormous power from his wheelchair, and the very earliest movie I in which have ever seen this “paralyzed totalitarian” figure is Abel Gance’s silent masterpiece Napoleon, in which Marat, Robespierre, and Louis St. Just plot together to eliminate enough Frenchmen to usher in the new day of la Republique juste et belle. The actor portraying the arch-Jacobin St. Just fidgets about in his little wooden wheelchair nervously planning the death of thousands and misery for uncounted others.
The image sticks with me, I believe, because it portrays those of a totalitarian cast of mind as victims of their own machinations. In gathering more and more power to themselves, they lose that which make them human, becoming in their turn as powerless as their victims.
One of the emotional objections I had to Calvinism as a system was that I always had a niggling in the back of my mind that the system would eventually eliminate the freedom of God. If man were not free, then I couldn’t see how God could possibly be free. Some great awful necessity, some dreadful immutable ἀνάγκη, whether internal to God or external to Him, would demand the damnation of men.
I know there are a thousand qualifications I would have to make, and I take a great risk in mentioning this. After all, the Christian blogosphere is about 94% Calvinists of disputatious temperament. I hope my obscurity saves me.
Borges says it better than I:
Lejos de la ciudad, lejos del foro
clamoroso y del tiempo, que es mudanza,
Edwards, eterno ya, sueña y avanza
a la sombra de árboles de oro.
Hoy es mañana y es ayer. No hay una
cosa de Dios en el sereno ambiente
que no le exalte misteriosamente,
el oro de la tarde o de la luna.
Piensa feliz que el mundo es un eterno
instrumento de ira y que el ansiado
cielo para unos pocos fue creado
y casi para todos el infierno.
En el centro puntual de la maraña
hay otro prisionero, Dios, la Araña
“Far from the city, from the clamorous forum and outside of Time, which is Change, Edwards, now eternal, dreams and walks forward under the golden trees.
Today is tomorrow and is yesterday, and in the serenity there is nothing of God which does not mysteriously exalt Him, the gold of the afternoon, or of the moon.
He meditates happily upon the world as an eternal instrument of wrath, and that the anticipated heavens were created for a very few,
and Hell for nearly everybody, and that at the absolute center of the maze waits another prisoner, the Spider, God.”
By the way, the movies are all good. War, Inc. is the weakest of them, maybe a C+. Brazil is a B+. Kiss of the Spider Woman is a solid A, and Napoleon is one of the best movies ever produced.
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Tag Archives: BDS National Committee
Israeli Law passed which effectively declares itself an apartheid colonial-settler state
The Canadian government is called to condemn this law and uphold its own Special Economic Sanctions Act.
“The Canadian government is called upon to immediately condemn Israel’s apartheid law by putting sanctions in place as is required under Canada’s own domestic law. The Canadian BDS Coalition joins with the Palestinian people and the Palestinian BDS National Committee in calling for the UN to activate its anti-apartheid laws and impose serious sanctions, on Israel such as those which were imposed on South Africa.”
On July 19, 2018, Israeli legislators approved the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” bill that unambiguously defines Israel as a state that belongs exclusively to the “Jewish people.” This law was approved even though one in five Israeli citizens is an indigenous, non-Jewish Palestinian. This law makes discrimination constitutional and enshrines apartheid into Law
The Jewish Nation-State legislation was approved by 62 to 55 votes. Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset condemned the law that stipulates that “Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it.”
“It has passed a law of Jewish supremacy and told us that we will always be second-class citizens,” Ayman Odeh, the head of the Arab Joint List – an alliance of four predominantly Arab parties – said in a statement following the law’s passage.
The newly passed law also states that an undivided Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and names illegal settlements as a “national value.” This blatant disregard of United Nations resolutions is also contrary to Canadian foreign policy. The legislation is a blatant disregard for the Fourth Geneva Convention which does not allow for populations of the occupier to be moved into occupied areas. Under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Canada as a signatory of the Convention is responsible for ensuring that the Convention is upheld in all circumstances.
Adalah, a leading Palestinian human rights organization in Israel,said that the law “affirms the principle of apartheid in housing, land and citizenship.” Adalah indicates “this law constitutionally sanctions institutionalized discrimination.”
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) shared Najwan Berekdar, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, reaction:
As a Palestinian citizen of this state, this bill entrenches my third-class citizenship on the land where generations of my family have lived since long before the state of Israel even existed.
The Jewish-Israeli majority is loudly reminding us indigenous Palestinian citizens of Israel that we are not welcome in our own ancestral homeland. My people have always suffered from legalized racism by the state of Israel and its institutions, but this law makes our apartheid reality the law of the land like never before.
As “non-Jews” we are already not allowed to buy or rent land on 93% of the area controlled by the Israeli state, and many of our communities are declared to be “unrecognized” and bulldozed out of existence by Israeli forces. I received a racially segregated and inferior education in a school system that conspicuously privileges Jewish-Israelis.
Israel is now stripping us of any semblance of equal rights based solely on our ethno-religious identity. It’s even demoting our language from one of the state’s two official languages.
Omar Barghouti from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) commented:
Israel has dozens of racist laws, including some which strikingly fit the UN definition of apartheid. But with the constitutional power of this Basic Law, Israel is effectively declaring itself an apartheid state and dropping its worn-out mask of democracy.
From now on, it will not just be legal to racially discriminate against the indigenous Palestinian citizens of the state. It will be constitutionally mandated and required. This should stir people, institutions and governments to take effective action to hold Israel accountable.
The Canadian BDS Coalition which includes over 25 groups from coast to coast, including national, regional and local groups, reminds the Canadian government that its own domestic legislation, the Special Economic Measures Act requires that sanctions are applied where gross and systemic human rights violations have been committed by a foreign state.
contact: bdscoalition@gmail.com
Release from Palestinian BNC here.
Press release on wire service here.
This entry was posted in BDS Coalition Actions, Campaigns, News, Take Action, Uncategorized and tagged 4th Geneva Convention, Adameer, Apartheid, Article 1 of Fourth Geneva Convention, basic law, BDS, BDS National Committee, Fourth Geneva Convention, israel as nation state of jewish people, Israeli Knesset, jewish nation state bill, nation state bill, nation state law, nation state legislation, sanctions, special economic sanctions act, United Nations on July 25, 2018 by cbcjpi.
Humble but Necessary Step BDS Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The Canadian BDS Coalition joins in sharing its gratitude to the Norwegian parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes with support of progressive Rødt (Red) Party for officially nominating the BDS movement for Palestinian rights for a Nobel Prize. The Canadian BDS Coalition congratulates the BNC and all those who are mobilizing civil society and decision makers to say no to apartheid, and yes to justice, equity and freedom for all including Palestine.
See BNC information HERE.
ByBjørnar Moxnes
January 31, 2018 —Norwegian parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes officially nominated the BDS movement for Palestinian rights for a Nobel Peace Prize. He did so with the support of his party, the progressive Rødt (Red) Party, explaining why BDS “should be supported without reservation by all democratically-minded people and states.”
Norwegian parliament.
Statement by Norwegian Parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes on Nominating the BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights for a Nobel Peace Prize:
As a member of the Norwegian parliament, I proudly use my authority as an elected official to nominate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nominating the BDS movement for this recognition is perfectly in line with the principles I and my party hold very dear. Like the BDS movement, we are fully committed to stopping an ascendent, racist and right-wing politics sweeping too much of our world, and securing freedom, justice and equality for all people.
Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement and the American Civil Rights movement, the grassroots, Palestinian-led BDS movement is a peaceful, global human rights movement that urges the use of economic and cultural boycotts to end Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights and international law.
The BDS movement seeks to end Israel’s half-century of military rule over 4.5 million Palestinians, including the devastating ten-year illegal siege collectively punishing and suffocating nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, the ongoing forcible eviction of Palestinians from their homes, and the theft of Palestinian land through the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. It seeks equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, currently discriminated against by dozens of racist laws, and to secure the internationally-recognized legal right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes and lands from which they were expelled. Palestinian refugees constitute nearly 50 percent of all Palestinians, and they are being denied their right to return, guaranteed by law to all refugees, simply because of their ethnicity.
The BDS movement’s aims and aspirations for basic human rights are irreproachable. They should be supported without reservation by all democratically-minded people and states.
The international community has a longstanding history of supporting peaceful measures such as boycotts and disinvestment against companies that profit from human rights violations. International support for such measures was critical in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the racist colonial regime in former Rhodesia.
If the international community commits to supporting BDS to end the occupation of Palestinian territory and the oppression of the Palestinian people, new hope will be lit for a just peace for Palestinians, Israelis and all people across the Middle East.
The BDS movement has been endorsed by prominent figures, including the former Nobel Peace Prize winners Desmond Tutu and Mairead Maguire. It is gaining support from unions, academic associations, churches, and grassroots movements for the rights of refugees, immigrants, workers, women, indigenous peoples and the LGBTQI community. It is increasingly embraced by progressive Jewish groups and anti-racist movements across the world.
Eleven years since BDS’ launch, it’s high time for us to commit to doing no harm, and for all states to withdraw their complicity in Israel’s military occupation, racist apartheid rule, ongoing theft of Palestinian land, and other egregious human rights violations.
Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign demonstrating that the international community is committed to supporting a just peace in the Middle East and using peaceful means to end military rule and broader violations of international law.
My hope is that this nomination can be one humble but necessary step towards bringing forth a more dignified and beautiful future for all peoples of the region.
This entry was posted in News, Uncategorized and tagged Apartheid, BDS, BDS National Committee, Bjornar Moxnes, human rights, Nobel Prize, Norwegian Parliament on February 5, 2018 by cbcjpi.
BNC statement on Nakba Day
On the 69th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) released the following statement:
BDS: Upholding our Rights, Resisting the Ongoing Nakba
The BNC Commemorates the 69th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba
It is possible…
It is possible at least sometimes…
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away…
It is possible for prison walls
To disappear.
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers
– Mahmoud Darwish
May 15, 2017 marks the 69th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist paramilitaries, and subsequently Israeli forces, made 750,000 to one million indigenous Palestinians into refugees to establish a Jewish-majority state in Palestine.
This entry was posted in News and tagged BDS National Committee, Nakba on May 15, 2017 by psnedmonton.
Kick settlements out of football at FIFA’s upcoming congress
As part of its #RedCardIsrael campaign, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is calling on FIFA to take action at its May 11 congress on Israeli football teams based in illegal settlements. More information on how you can take action is below.
FIFA will make a decision on Israeli football teams based in illegal settlements at their upcoming Congress on May 11, 2017. This is our chance to ensure that Palestinian human rights are front and centre on their agenda!
More than one hundred sports and human rights associations representing millions of people across the globe have called on FIFA to demand that the Israeli Football Association immediately exclude teams based in illegal settlements, and for FIFA to suspend the association if it refuses to comply.
As the pressure mounts on FIFA to respect its statutes, the Israeli government is using its embassies to push for removing the issue of settlement clubs from the Congress’ agenda altogether. We can’t let that happen: teams based in illegal settlements and human rights violations have no place in the beautiful game.
Take action now to pressure FIFA to respect its own statutes and Palestinian human rights:
Join the Thunderclap to FIFA ahead of its upcoming Congress!
Join the action on social media! Visit bdsmovement.net for sample tweets and memes to share. Use the hashtag #RedCardIsrael
Let’s make sure FIFA and member federations get the message: settlement clubs and Apartheid have no place in the beautiful game. Visit bdsmovement.net to see additional actions you can take.
This entry was posted in Campaigns, Take Action and tagged BDS, BDS campaigns, BDS National Committee, FIFA, sports boycott on April 30, 2017 by psnedmonton.
Statement of support for human rights defender Omar Barghouti
The Canadian BDS Coalition joins with organizations from across Canada and worldwide, including the BDS National Committee (BNC), Independent Jewish Voices, Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice, and Palestinian and Jewish Unity in condemning the detention of BDS Movement co-founder Omar Barghouti by Israeli authorities with the following statement:
The Canadian BDS Coalition expresses sorrow, anger, and renewed commitment with regard to the interrogation of Omar Barghouti.
Omar Barghouti is a prominent Palestinian human rights defender and the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement for the freedom, justice and equity of the Palestinian people.
BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.
Barghouti’s wife, Safa, was also interrogated for 16 hours, after the Israeli tax authorities barged into their home and detained them on March 19, 2017.
On March 22, 2017, the BDS National Committee (BNC) issued a statement that indicated “the Israeli government has resorted to fabricating a case related to Omar’s alleged income outside of Israel to tarnish his image and intimidate him.” Beyond this questionable investigation, this detention is happening just weeks before Barghouti is scheduled to receive the Gandhi Peace Award with Ralph Nader in a ceremony at Yale University. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in BDS Coalition Actions and tagged BDS, BDS National Committee, free speech, lawfare, Omar Barghouti on April 5, 2017 by psnedmonton.
Palestinians call for boycott of Hyundai
Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Hyundai over the company’s failure to stop its construction equipment being used by Israel to destroy their homes and communities.
An action alert released on February 7 by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Committee of Palestinian Citizens of Israel (BDS48) calls on people around the world “to boycott Hyundai products” and urges institutions, including investment funds and churches, to divest from Hyundai shares.
Below is the full text of the call, which can also be read on the BDS Movement website. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Campaigns and tagged BDS, BDS campaigns, BDS National Committee, human rights, Hyundai on February 8, 2017 by psnedmonton.
It’s time for a military embargo on Israel
This is a message from the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the broadest coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations that leads the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.
Two years ago today, Israel began a brutal military attack on Palestinians in Gaza in which more than 2,300 Palestinians were killed and 100,000 people were displaced.
Israel deliberately attacked entire civilian areas in Gaza and inflicted as much human suffering as it could. The UN and human rights organisations have documented Israel’s war crimes during the massacre.
Gaza has just entered its tenth year of siege, a policy described by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as “incremental genocide.” The siege has almost entirely prevented meaningful reconstruction since the 2014 attack.
As Abdulrahman Abunahel, our coordinator in Gaza, puts it “One of my worries is that the longer Israel maintains its siege of the world’s largest open-air prison, the more the official international community adapts and accepts Israel’s gradual and deliberate reduction of Gaza into an uninhabitable prison camp where close to 2 million Palestinians face slow death.”
“But as a refugee living in Gaza, it is not enough to just call for the end to Israel’s siege. We need to keep growing our BDS campaigns until the Palestinian people can exercise our right to self-determination, including the right of refugees to return home.”
Help us get spread the word: click here to share our graphic about Gaza and the campaign for a military embargo on Facebook
Israel is able to carry out its brutal military attacks and repress Palestinian popular resistance with impunity. As our Links that Kill fact sheet sets out, Israel is only able to do this because of the massive weapons trade and military cooperation, including research, it maintains with countries across the world.
Over the period 2009-2018, the US is providing military aid to Israel worth $30bn. EU arms exports to Israel during 2014 alone were worth over $1bn (mostly from Germany) and its arms imports from Israel reached a whopping $1.6 bn in 2015.
While India, Colombia and Brazil remain among the top importers of Israeli weapons, it has been recently revealed that Israel has supplied weapons that were used in committing crimes against humanity in Rwanda and South Sudan, among others.
Israel uses its criminal attacks on Palestinians to test its military technology and then exports its weapons as “field tested”. Up to 85% of Israel’s military industry production is exported and 60% of the world’s drones are manufactured by Israel.
Israel is not just oppressing Palestinians – it is exporting its ruthless model of securitization and militarized repression to the world. From the streets of Ferguson to the favelas of Rio to the borders of Fortress Europe, Israeli weapons and ruthless techniques are used to maintain oppression.
Our campaign for a two-way military embargo on Israel is growing. More than a dozen banks have divested from Elbit Systems over its role in Israel’s military violence, for example.
Please share our military embargo graphic on Facebook and check out our fact sheet for more ideas on how to get involved.
Thank you for your continued support for our nonviolent struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
This entry was posted in Campaigns and tagged BDS, BDS campaigns, BDS National Committee, Gaza, military embargo on July 7, 2016 by cbcjpi.
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Home How To How to Download and Install Windows 10 S on Your PC
How to Download and Install Windows 10 S on Your PC
Varun Mirchandani -
Last Updated: July 2, 2018 3:41 pm
A few months back, Microsoft had announced that it was going to compete with Google’s Chrome OS with Windows 10 S. The streamlined version of Windows, was launched alongside the Surface Laptop and is developed for primary use in educational institutions. Built from the core of Windows 10 Pro, the Windows 10 S is meant to be faster, more secure, lightweight, and with improved battery life over its sibling operating systems. Although the standalone release is still a good few months away, Microsoft recently made the latest member of the Windows family available for developers and IT pros to download and test. The company has now released a self-installer app that allows you to test Windows 10 S on existing devices running Windows 10. If you’re interested in trying out the latest offering from Microsoft, here is how you can download and install Windows 10 S on your PC.
Note: Windows 10 S installer currently only supports devices running Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Pro Education, Windows 10 Education, and Windows 10 Enterprise. Devices running on Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 N editions are currently not supported.
Install Windows 10 S Using Windows 10 S Installer Tool
Before proceeding, make sure to backup all your important data and connect your system to the internet before proceeding.
Download the Windows 10 S Installer here and run it. Click on the “Next” button to proceed.
Once you click Next, the system will now check if your hardware is compatible, that is, meets the minimum requirements for Windows 10 S. If your system meets the requirements, click the “Next” button to continue.
The setup will now Download the Windows 10 S files onto your system and then begin installing it on your device itself. You can continue to browse the web or perform other tasks on the system. You can simply click on the “Minimize” button to send the setup to the background.
Once the setup has been completed, you will be prompted to restart your device. Click on the “Restart Now” button to restart your device.
Your system will now restart. Upon booting, you will be greeted with a blue screen where the actual installation will begin. Your system will restart multiple times during the installation. Make sure that the system is connected to the power outlet to avoid any issues.
Once the system has finished installing Windows 10 S, the PC will restart on its own. You will now be greeted with the Setup page, similar to the normal Windows 10 installation, where you’ll be required to connect to a WiFi network, login with your account or add a new account, and configure other Windows settings. Once you’re done with it all, click the “Next” button to finish the installation.
Your system will now boot into Windows 10 S. Simply log in with your account and you’re good to go.
Note: Do note that while your personal data will be preserved, all Win32 software and apps, as well as your personal settings will be removed.
Clean Install Windows 10 S
Alternatively, you can perform a clean Windows 10 S installation as well. To do so, you can download the ISO Image File of Windows 10 S from here and create a bootable USB to install it. Do note that you need to be an MSDN user with Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription, which costs about $539/year or $45/month. As of now, Windows 10 S is in its infancy and is available only for developers. Over the course of next few months, we can expect to see retail images available for consumers. Once they are released, you can download and install them by creating a bootable USB disk.
Changes in Windows 10 S
Windows 10 S comes as a direct alternative to Google’s Chrome OS, with the idea of providing a familiar environment for the users. While the environment is similar to the normal Windows 10, you do end up being limited to Microsoft’s environment only. What this basically means is that you can only install apps from the Microsoft Store, and there’s no way, as of now, to install desktop programs. Additionally, the default browser is Microsoft Edge, and cannot be changed.
Also, since third party apps are not allowed, it also results in incompatibility with some drivers, since they rely on the installation of third party programs. For example, you cannot even install AMD’s Control Center or NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience. Furthermore, if you followed the above guide to using the Windows 10 S Installer, even though your data will be preserved, all your third party apps will automatically be erased from the system.
Another noteworthy thing is the fact that since you cannot install apps from outside the Windows Store, Windows 10 S users are limited to Office 365 which is the only available variant of Microsoft Office in the Windows Store. Users cannot install Microsoft Office 2016 or any other annual variant. This is in line to keep the security in check, as well as to reduce piracy. To take a better look at the differences between Windows 10 and Windows 10 S, read our detailed article here.
SEE ALSO: Windows 10 Home vs Pro: Which One You Should Upgrade to?
Ready to Install Windows 10 S on Your PC?
While the retail version of Windows 10 S may still be a few months away, thanks to Microsoft, you can try out the Windows 10 S in its current state using the above guide. Obviously, after using Windows 10 Pro, switching to Windows 10 S will give you a very locked down feeling, being trapped inside Microsoft’s Store. The Store itself has a limited number of apps, so there’s not much you can do with the Windows 10 S in its current state. That being said, the “streamlined” version of Windows 10 does seem promising in its aim of becoming a competitor to ChromeOS and being used ideally for schools and institutes.
Tell us what you think about the latest offering from Microsoft, and whether you’d like Google’s ChromOS or prefer Windows 10 S in the comments section below.
Aryan Jan 3, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Dean Feb 18, 2018 at 10:06 pm
I installed on an HP608 and the laptop has speeded up considerably.
Pranav Agarwal Aug 17, 2017 at 8:15 am
how do I uninstall windows 10s
Col. Panek Jan 29, 2019 at 3:12 am
Install Linux over it
Vasu Mittal Aug 9, 2017 at 8:10 pm
what all data will get lost from my laptop
when i will install windows 10 s
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BelarusDigest > All > Autumn of tough economic decisions – digest of the Belarusian economy
Autumn of tough economic decisions – digest of the Belarusian economy
On 17 October 2016, new macroeconomic data from Belstat, Belarus's national statistical committee, indicated that this year's economic decline seems to have finally halted. The GDP stopped falling and foreign trade saw a slight revival.
However, on 21 September the...
However, on 21 September the IMF warned the Belarusian authorities about new threats to macroeconomic stability, namely the high level of bad assets in the banking sector and the sustainability of state debt.
Meantime, the tight embrace of the Russian economy continues to squeeze Belarus – this time because of petroleum product transportation.
Economic growth: waiting for recovery
On 17 October 2016, Belstat announced that the downturn the GDP experienced in January to September reached 2.9 per cent year-on-year against 3.0 per cent year-on-year in January to August (see Figure 1). In other words, after entering a new slowdown phase in June, the economy is showing some signs of recovery.
However, household consumption, which accounts for approximately half of Belarus's GDP, is still failing to contribute to growth, unlike in previous years. For example, in September retail turnover (as a proxy for household consumption) dropped by 4.4 per cent year-on-year.
Thus, Belarusians continue to reduce their spending, expecting the economic recession to take a further toll on their financial resources. An important reason for this relates to the government's aim to link the growth of real wages with productivity improvements.
As a result, due to the weakening economy and a deteriorating external environment, in September real wages dropped by 2.4 per cent, coming to only $377. Moreover, according to Belstat the real disposable income of Belarusians in January-August decreased by 7.1 per cent year-on-year.
Another major component of GDP – capital investments – has also exhibited downward dynamics. After some recovery in the second quarter of the year, capital investment has become much weaker in recent months. In January-September it dropped by 19.5 per cent year-on-year.
Net exports, on the other hand, have stopped deteriorating. By the end of August, the trade deficit from the first half of the year had reverted to a trade surplus.
The financial sector: exposing hidden threats
Meanwhile, according to IMF reports published on 21 September 2016, there are two important new threats to the Belarusian economy. The first threat is the high level of bad assets in the banking sector (see Figure 2), resulting from the common practise of prolonging loans and changing their agreement conditions (mainly in order to restructure them).
Moreover, IMF experts have stated that the accumulated nonpayment risks in the banking sector are rapidly approaching the "red zone", which could trigger a new wave of financial instability. In order to prevent such a situation, the banking sector urgently needs to take new stabilising measures. This could mean the creation of a special body with powers to privatise debtors to address the issue of bad loans.
The second threat has to do with the sustainability of state debt, which according to IMF estimates will continue to worsen. Moreover, the state debt consists mainly of loans denominated in foreign currency. Thus, in coming years the debt's servicing and repayment to creditors will become one of the largest problems for the state budget due to the loans' sensitivity to shock from the exchange rate.
The only way for the government to alleviate budget pressure in the current economic climate is by repaying old debts with new ones. However, as a result this money will not actually boost the Belarusian economy but merely increase the state debt even more.
The right decision would be to introduce structural and institutional reforms. This sort of twin strategy could stimulate productivity growth and establish a basis for sustainable long-term economic growth.
The transport sector: the road less travelled
On 10 October 2016 it appeared that Belarus and Russia had almost resolved the oil and gas conflict. However, it seems that Belarus overpaid for this deal. In order to continue to receive duty-free oil, Russia may insist on "freezing" the transport routes of Belarusian petroleum products through nearby Baltic ports in favour of Russian carriage bays.
In order to displace the Baltic States (Latvia and Lithuania) the JSC "Russian Railways" (the main operator of railways in Russia) is offering an unprecedented 25 per cent discount on the transportation of Belarusian petroleum products to Russian ports.
Extraordinary discounts from Russia come with substantial pitfalls Read more
The discount will be valid until 31 December 2018 and makes the Russian Railway's tariffs for Belarus comparable with the transportation tariffs at the Latvian port of Ventspils or the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. However, as is usually the case when it comes to relations with Russia, such an extraordinary discount comes with substantial pitfalls.
In order to force Belarus's hand, Moscow is attempting to include commitments to export certain predetermined volumes of petroleum products via Russian ports into an intergovernmental agreement. The agreement regulates the duty-free supply of Russian oil for processing at Belarusian oil refineries.
However, such a set-up does not provide much economic incentive to Belarus. The Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and the Latvian port of Ventspils operate most of the transportation of Belarusian goods by sea and offer better conditions.
First of all, the Baltic ports are much closer to Belarus. For example, the distance between Mozyr (the second largest refinery centre in Belarus) and Klaipeda amounts to 783 km, while the distance between Mozyr and St. Petersburg comes to 1031 km. Secondly, Lithuanian and Latvian railways offer better services. Thirdly, such a re-orientation would involve additional logistical expenses.
Unfortunately, Russia is still playing a hard geopolitical game, and it will be difficult for Belarus not to get entangled in its eastern neighbour's ambitions. Therefore, the only remaining question is what toll these impending economic decisions will take on the Belarusian economy.
Aleh Mazol, Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)
This article is a part of a joint project between Belarus Digest and Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)
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Belarus struggles to control its borders
Swamp buggy Rosa 21 supplied to Belarusian border guards through an EU-funded project. Image:iom.by
On 13 October Belarusian border guards received EU-funded special equipment worth €2.5m. This will help Minsk control the Ukrainian border. There is an element of irony in this: although it works to remove borders within the EU, Brussels is helping to construct them in the rest of Europe.
If Belarus succeeds in sealing off its border with Ukraine, its Russian border will be the only one to remain open. However, despite decades of integration, the status of this border is precarious. In mid-September, the Kremlin closed its border with Belarus for third-nation nationals without any prior notice – thus ruining Minsk's plans of becoming a transit country.
Belarus still has serious problems with the development of adequate border control agencies, as their dependence on foreign aid, as well as allegations of corruption, reveal.
Why is the EU giving millions to Minsk?
In order to provide the Belarusian border patrol with what it need to control its border, the EU is funding a project called “Strengthening surveillance and bilateral coordination capacity along the common border between Belarus and Ukraine” (SURCAP), implemented by of the International Organisation for Migration.
The EU launched SURCAP in 2012 after a period of disruption in relations with Belarus following the 2010 presidential election in the country. In November 2012, Lukashenka even hinted that without such EU assistance, Minsk would no longer be able to control illegal migration to the EU.
Was averting such a threat the reason Brussels initiated the SURCAP project? This is unlikely. By the time the Belarusian president had articulated this threat, SURCAP was already a done deal. Moreover, such declarations have never been particularly alarming, given the fact that illegal migration from Belarus to the EU has always been relatively insignificant.
Brussels probably intended to help Ukraine establish control over its borders and thus move it further towards eligibility for EU membership. The Belarus-Ukrainian border has for years been an issue which Minsk links to Ukraine's need to settle its debts with Belarus.
For the first phase of the project the EU allocated €1.3m to Belarus in 2012-2014. In the second phase (2014-2016) funding doubled to €2.68m. Thanks to these funds, Belarusian border guards received SUVs, swamp buggies, speed boats and motor boats, quadracycles, motorcycles, and other equipment. This collaboration proves that the interests of Brussels and Minsk coincide in this area and that the Belarusian government is not averse to working with the West on issues of national security.
Although problems with the Ukrainian border are being solved, Minsk is unexpectedly encountering problems from the east. At some point in mid-September, Russia – without any prior announcement – closed its 1,230-km long border with Belarus for all third-country nationals.
They can now cross the Belarus-Russian border in just one place: the southernmost part of Belarus where the borders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine intersect. This came as an unpleasant surprise for Belarus as many foreigners are accustomed to entering Russia via Belarus.
For many years, persons banned by Russia from entering its territory could circumvent this by first coming to Belarus and then heading to Russia. Minsk and Moscow also failed to coordinate their visa policies, and kept their own lists of unwanted persons and citizens not allowed to go abroad.
As a result, for many years citizens of Belarus and Russia, as well as of third countries, used the Belarus-Russian border to enter or escape the two countries. The Kremlin put up with this despite the fact that Russia's borders have become increasingly closed since the mid-2000s.
So why did Moscow decide to close the border with Belarus now? There are good reasons to believe that this was a reprimand for Minsk. In July, Reuters reported a roughly 40 per cent decrease in Russia's oil supplies to Belarus as a punishment for Minsk's overly friendly gestures toward the West: the Kremlin has many other tools to put pressure on Minsk.
Another detail seems to prove that this is the real reason for the border closure rather than, for example, a response to the smuggling of sanctioned goods to Russia via Belarus. Russia continues to let cargo trucks cross the border unimpeded; only the movement of individuals is controlled.
Large-scale smuggling
The Belarusian border control system struggles with a number of internal problems as well. On 26 July, President Lukashenka publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the work of the State Border Committee. He emphasised that it was already the third time in 2016 that he had addressed the activities of border control agencies saying that they cause “not worry but deep unhappiness.”
Although he did not elaborate further, corruption and large-scale smuggling might be what Lukashenka had in mind. There are more and more examples of this. Thus, on 21 October Polish customs officials discovered 356,000 packets of cigarettes smuggled from Belarus in a cargo train. If sold at market price in the EU, they would cost $1.2m. In Belarus that quantity could cost as little as $72,000.
This is not the first time Polish authorities have apprehended this sort of illegal cargo; the problem has existed since the early 2010s. For instance, in July Polish authorities in Terespol confiscated two loads of cigarettes smuggled from Belarus in cargo trains with a total market value of more than $1.2m. Evidently, somebody is reaping huge profits. More conspicuously, it is impossible to smuggle such large quantities of cigarettes in this way without the collusion of border control officials.
Problems despite investment
Such problems present a paradox. The social prestige of border control agencies is high: even Lukashenka's sons have served on the border.
In material terms, Belarusian border control agencies belong to the most prestigious and developed government agencies in the country. Unlike other security agencies, they regularly receive up-to-date equipment. This comes not only in the form of foreign technical aid: in the late 2000s, the Belarusian government even purchased four French helicopters Ecureuil АS 355 NP for border guards. This was an unprecedented deal, as Minsk usually procures sophisticated hardware for its security agencies only from Russia.
Nevertheless, the Belarusian government struggles to maintain control over its hundreds of kilometres of borders. Over the past two decades it had to start patrolling borders which had not previously existed – with the exception of the Belarus-Polish border inherited from Soviet times.
In addition, Minsk has made efforts to avoid the harsh border control measures of Soviet times, when 30-km border zones, a highly militarised system, the subordination of border guards to the KGB, etc. were the norm. The Belarusian government has succeeded in overcoming many of these residues of the past. Constructing a more efficient system takes time as well as trial and error.
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Siarhei Bohdan
Siarhei Bohdan is an associate analyst at the Ostrogorski Centre.
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By Utsav Acharya October 2, 2019
Married To Husband or Single?
Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Size
The American Sci-fi, Fringe was a long hit series that was watched by millions of viewers. Not only that the TRP of Fringe also skyrocketed which brought its cast member in the limelight. Among those members, Anna Torv was the one who played the role of Olivia Dunham an FBI agent on the series.
Anna Torv was born on 7th June 1979 in Melbourne city, Victoria, Australia. Belonging to Australian nationality and Caucasian ethnicity, she was born to parents – Sausan (nee Carmichael) Torv and Hans Torv. She was raised along with a younger brother, Dylan. She did her schooling from Benowa State High School and graduated in 1996. Then, she earned a degree in Performing Arts from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2001.
Real Name Anna Torv
Birthday 7th June 1979
Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Profession Actress
Parents Sausan (nee Carmichael) Torv and Hans Torv
Dating/Partner No
Married/Spouse Mark Valley (Div)
Sibling Dylan Torv
Salary $100,000 – $300,000
Net Worth $6 million
Anna initially began her acting career by playing the role of Ophelia in John Bell’s production of Hamlet in 2003. After a year, she appeared as Nikki Martel on the television drama, The Secret Life of Us. Then, she got the chance to work on audiobooks for Scholastic Australia’s Solo Collection including, Jack’s Owl, Spike, Little Fingers, and Maddy in The Middle.
Not only that, she appeared in the BBC series, Mistresses. But, she came into limelight by casting the role of Olivia Dunham in TV series called Fringe. Till this date, she appeared in The Pacific, Open, Deadline Gallipoli, Secret City, and Stephanie. Since 2016, she is playing the role of FBI consultant, Wendy Carr in Netflix drama Mindhunter.
Eventually, she got listed for “TV’s 100 Sexiest Women” by BuddyTV four times; she got ranked 16th in 2009, 27th in 2010, 48th in 2011, and 68th in 2012.
As of 2019, Anna’s net worth is estimated at $6 million.
The Australian actress, Anna was married to her husband, Mark Valley, who is an actor from at Sci-fi series, Fringe. The lovebirds exchanged their wedding vows on December 2008. On their wedding day, only close celebrities, family and friends were invited.
Anna and Mark first met each other on the set of Fringe. After playing together in the same TV series, their love story began to blossom like a flower. They eventually began dating and were spotted in various places which later took their relationship toward marriage.
Unfortunately, their love life didn’t go along their way so, in 2009, Anna and Mike officially announced their divorce.
Anna was born in Torv family to parents Sausan (nee Carmichael) Torv and Hans Torv. Her father was born in Stirling, Scotland to a Scottish mother as her grandparents were Estonian Descent. Whereas, Anna’s mother was of Scottish Descent.
Anna grew up with a younger brother named Dylan on the Gold coast, Queensland. However, at the age of eight, she estranged from her father.
Anna stands tall height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs around 58kg. She has blonde color hair and hazel color eyes.
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‘Rabid’ dogs and Muslim ID cards
One of the front runners in the Republican presidential race on Thursday refused to rule out the idea of registering American Muslims in a database and giving them special ID cards that note their religion.
Another top candidate likened Syrian refugees who are largely Muslim to dogs. Some of them might be rabid, he said, which was reason to keep them all out.
And a third stood up in the Senate on Thursday and called for banning refugees from five Middle Eastern countries. He was explicit that the point was to keep Muslim refugees out while letting Christians from the same places in.
A week after terrorists tied to the Islamic State terrorist group killed 129 people in Paris, some Republican politicians have responded with the kind of rhetoric that another Republican George W. Bush explicitly avoided after the al Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In the angry aftermath, Bush said that “Islam is peace” and that all Muslims should not be judged for the deeds of a few radicals.
But in this election already defined by a suspicion of government and anger about immigration the rhetoric on Muslims has become a dominant feature of the Republican response to the attacks. It also comes as 47 House Democrats joined with 242 Republicans on Thursday to pass a bill placing new security constraints on President Obama’s pledge to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees, most of whom would be Muslim.
Some Republican presidential candidates have said they would go further and argue that all Muslims should bear greater scrutiny because it is too difficult to tell which ones are the radicals.
“If there’s a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably going to put your children out of the way,” retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said in Mobile, Alabama, on Thursday, when he was asked about Syrian refugees. “It doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination, but you’re putting your intellect into motion.”
Such rhetoric from candidates who would lead the Republican Party has been loudly condemned by Muslim groups and politicians.
“It’s unacceptable, and if we have somebody running for president they’re going to be president for all people,” said Rep. Andr Carson, D Indiana, one of two Muslim members of Congress. “We can’t have candidates painting a group of people with a broad brush, and that’s exactly what they’re doing.”
The growing suspicions about Muslims have not been limited to presidential candidates. In one particularly vivid example, Sid Miller (R) the elected agriculture commissioner in Texas likened Syrian refugees to rattlesnakes. “Sure some of them won’t [bite], Scannable Fake IDs but tell me which ones so we can bring them into the house,” Miller wrote in a Facebook posting.
The suspicions have also not been limited to Republicans. Earlier this week, the Democratic mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, cited the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II, under suspicion because of their race, as a positive lesson for dealing with Syrian refugees.
And Hillary Clinton’s top political patron, entertainment titan Haim Saban, called for “more scrutiny” of Muslims for ties to terrorism. Clinton’s camp did not respond to a request for comment about his remarks.
On the Syrian refugee issue, the Republican presidential candidates favor going further than the House bill, by blocking all or some of the migrants though, so far, the Paris attackers who have been identified have all been European.
Donald Trump, who has suggested closing down mosques and increased surveillance of Muslims, said in an interview with Yahoo News published online Thursday that “we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.”
When pressed on whether such measures might include tracking Muslim Americans in a database or noting their religious affiliations on identification cards, Trump said: “We’re going to have to we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”
Other Republican candidates have suggested that the United States might be in conflict with Islam itself. Constitution. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently proposed a new federal agency to spread “Judeo Christian Western values” in the Middle East.
And Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida) said the attacks were part of a “clash of civilizations” essentially casting the Paris attackers as products of Muslim society rather than a radical group apart from it.
“I don’t understand it,” Rubio said when asked about Clinton’s refusal to describe the terrorists’ ideology as “radical Islam” to avoid offending Muslims. “That would be like saying we weren’t at war with the Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party but weren’t violent themselves.”
Two other candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and former Florida governor Jeb Bush suggested this week that the United States should accept Christian refugees from Syria but not some or all of the Muslim refugees. That is in contrast to the new Republican House speaker, Paul D. scannable ids Ryan, R Wisconsin, who said there should be no religious test.
The two candidates’ argument, however, was that a Christian refugee is by definition more deserving and less risky.
“There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror,” Cruz said earlier this week. Cruz introduced a bill that would bar refugees from five countries, including Syria, with an exception carved out for groups that were victims of genocide. On Thursday, Democrats blocked the bill.
The approach contrasts sharply with Bush’s brother in 2001. George W. Bush visited a Washington mosque six days after the 9/11 attacks and later gave an address to Congress that urged tolerance toward Muslims.
“The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself,” the president said. “The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. . . . Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.”
George W. Bush and his advisers were trying to tamp down anti Muslim backlash in the United States and to counter a narrative from the terrorists themselves that Islam and the West were at war. Bush’s version tried to put the United States and the bulk of the world’s Muslims on the same side of the fight, defending civilization against al Qaida’s barbarity. “So the most basic point that we were making . . . was that what we were seeing in al Qaida was an aberration within Islam.”
Clinton, who is a strong favorite to win the Democratic nomination, said in a foreign policy speech Thursday that “we cannot allow terrorists to intimidate us into abandoning our values and our humanitarian obligations.”
“Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every Syrian refugee that is just not who we are, Best Fake ID websites ” she said.
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Top White House Official Told Congress ‘There Was No Doubt’ Trump Sought Quid Pro Quo With Ukrainians
The Last Outlaw on Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:44 pm
Shane Harris, Mike DeBonis, Elise Viebeck and Michael Kranish of The Washington Post wrote: In vivid and at times contentious testimony before House impeachment investigators, the senior White House official responsible for Ukraine described what he believed was an unambiguous effort by President Trump to pressure the president of Ukraine to open investigations targeting American politicians in exchange for a coveted Oval Office meeting.
Under questioning from Rep. Peter Welch (Vt.) and other Democrats, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman said “there was no doubt” about what Trump wanted when he spoke by phone July 25 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — particularly in contrast with an April call between the two leaders shortly after Zelensky’s election.
“The tone was significantly different,” Vindman said, according to a transcript of his Oct. 29 deposition released Friday. Vindman, who as a senior White House official listened in on both calls, went on to tell Welch: “I’m struggling for the words, but it was not a positive call. It was dour. If I think about it some more, I could probably come up with some other adjectives, but it was just — the difference between the calls was apparent.”
Welch asked Vindman if he had any doubt that Trump was asking for investigations of his political opponents “as a deliverable” — in other words, as part of a quid pro quo.
“There was no doubt,” Vindman said.
The release of Vindman’s testimony, and that of Fiona Hill, a former senior official for Russia on the National Security Council, comes as the House enters the next phase of its impeachment investigation.
Next week will bring two days of public testimony from three senior State Department officials who have already met with lawmakers behind closed doors. Hill and Vindman are in discussions to testify at a public hearing later this month, according to congressional Democratic advisers familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing inquiry.
Vindman’s description of a quid pro quo focused on the White House meeting desired by Zelensky as Ukraine’s new president desperately sought a show of U.S. support in his country’s continued battle with Russia-backed separatists. But the Army officer also detailed a previously undisclosed discussion in the Oval Office on Aug. 16, a conversation among senior leaders that he did not witness but understood to be aimed at persuading Trump to restore the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid to Ukraine.
Those involved included national security adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper, Vindman said. They gathered with Trump “to discuss the hold and other issues” after Bolton instructed Vindman to draft a memo for the president explaining why distribution of the security aid — totaling almost $400 million — was in the United States’ interests.
Vindman told lawmakers that there was broad agreement among national security officials that not providing the aid to Ukraine “would significantly undermine the message of support” for the country and “also signal to the Russians that they could potentially be more aggressive.”
But accounts of what transpired in the Oval Office varied, Vindman told impeachment investigators. One official told him that, inexplicably, the hold on military aid “never came up,” according to Vindman’s testimony. A second account indicated that it was raised, “but no decision was taken.”
In a discussion with impeachment investigators about what constitutes a quid pro quo, Vindman was grilled by a Republican lawmaker about why he believed Trump had made a “demand” that Ukraine launch an investigation of Hunter Biden in return for a White House meeting for Zelensky. Biden is the son of former vice president Joe Biden, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and was once employed by a controversial Ukrainian energy firm.
Vindman, explaining what he called the vast “power disparity” between Trump and Zelensky, told Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.) that Trump’s request for a “favor” from Zelensky was fairly interpreted as a demand.
“When the president of the United States makes a request for a favor, it certainly seems — I would take it as a demand.”
“Fair enough,” said Ratcliffe, who went on to express doubts about the premise.
Vindman said his reasoning was that “this was about getting a White House meeting. It was a demand for him to fulfill . . . this particular prerequisite to get the meeting.”
Ratcliffe pressed Vindman on the word “demand,” saying, “The word when we’re talking about an allegation that there was a quid pro quo has significance, and ‘demand’ has a specific connotation.” He stressed that Trump and others have denied there was any such demand.
But Vindman stood by his description, saying: “It became completely apparent what the deliverable would be in order to get a White House meeting. That deliverable was reinforced by the President. . . . The demand was, in order to get the White House meeting, they had to deliver an investigation.”
Vindman also testified that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told him that the idea to precondition a White House meeting on the Ukrainians’ help in investigating the Bidens was “coordinated” with the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.
Sondland “just said that he had had a conversation with Mr. Mulvaney, and this is what was required in order to get a meeting,” Vindman testified.
Mulvaney defied a subpoena Friday to appear for a deposition, claiming through his attorney “absolute immunity,” an official working on the impeachment inquiry said.
Trump later told reporters that allowing White House officials to testify would validate what he sees as an illegitimate proceeding. “They’re making it up,” he said. “I don’t want to give credibility to a corrupt witch hunt. I’d love for Mick to go up . . . except it validates a corrupt investigation.”
Sondland, a Trump donor turned diplomat, told impeachment investigators last month that the disbursement of military aid was contingent on the investigations Trump desired. A transcript of his deposition was released earlier this week.
Within an hour of Trump’s July call with Zelensky, Vindman said, he told White House lawyers that Trump had made an inappropriate request for an investigation.
“I thought it was troubling and disturbing” and “wrong,” Vindman told House investigators.
He said he brought notes of the conversation into a meeting that included White House lawyers John Eisenberg and Mike Ellis, as well as Vindman’s twin brother, Yevgeny, an ethics attorney on the National Security Council.
Vindman said what he found “particularly troubling was the references to conducting an investigation” into Hunter Biden, telling lawmakers he thought it was wrong for the president to ask a foreign power to investigate an American citizen.
He was also disturbed by Trump’s request that Zelensky speak with his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and Attorney General William P. Barr to “conduct an investigation that didn’t exist.”
Many of Vindman’s concerns about politicizing the relationship with Ukraine, which the United States sees as a bulwark against Russian expansion in Europe, were shared by Hill, the former NSC Russia official.
Hill testified that Giuliani and his business associates, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, were trying to use the powers of the presidency to further their personal interests. Fruman and Parnas were arrested last month and face federal charges of funneling foreign money to U.S. politicians while trying to influence U.S.-Ukraine relations.
Hill said Bolton repeatedly told his staff and colleagues in the administration “that nobody should be talking to Rudy Giuliani, on our team or anybody else should be.”
Even before Trump’s July phone call with Zelensky, during which Trump said Ukraine’s president should be in touch with Giuliani about investigations, “there was a lot of usurpation of that power,” Hill told impeachment investigators, characterizing Giuliani and his associates as “trying to appropriate presidential power or the authority of the President, given the position that Mr. Giuliani is in, to also pursue their own personal interests.”
Hill said that, in hindsight and with the benefit of a rough transcript of the call and media reports, she believed that her “worst nightmare” for U.S.-Ukraine relations had come to pass.
“My worst nightmare is the politicization of the relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine and, also, the usurpation of authorities, you know, for other people’s personal vested interests,” Hill said. “And there seems to be a large range of people who were looking for these opportunities here.”
Trump denies quid pro quo. Testimonies say otherwise. Whistleblower says the same as the other testimonies. Who do you believe? If you're a staunch Trump supporter, of course you're gonna believe Trump because... well... it's Trump! He's the greatest thing since sliced bread. He can do no wrong. But then again, all Trump supporters do not know his past.
Meanwhile, those of us who actually pay attention will believe the testimonies over Donald Trump any day, twice on Sunday.
It's OK to believe what is right. It's even better to stand up for what's right. Where do you stand? Do you stand for justice? For Truth? Or will you stand up for Donald Trump?
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NextEmployee Spotlight: Mike McCourt, Astrophysicist Turned Data Scientist
Invoca’s GDPR Compliance: Everything You Need to Know
Owen Ray
As a part of Invoca’s continued commitment to security and data privacy, we’re proud to report that we are in compliance with GDPR, which will go into effect on May 25. We feel that a critical component of this commitment is transparency, so we would like to share some background on GDPR, what our compliance process looked like, and how GDPR affects Invoca customers.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU regulation that will impact the way many companies collect and process personal data. The scramble to get in compliance has put the internet in a bit of a tizzy, but in the end, it should simplify data protection compliance for companies that do business in the EU.
The reason for this is that the previous Data Protection Directive that GDPR replaces was put in place in 1995, which was a few years before the internet was in wide use. Since then, personal data has been commoditized in a way that was not exactly on the minds of regulators in the 1990s, making the rules incompatible with the way we do business today. As the name implies, it was also a “directive”, which means it was up to the individual EU member states to implement the rules the way they saw fit, resulting in a patchwork of regulation that was difficult for organizations to navigate.
The aim of GDPR is to rectify both of these shortcomings by getting data privacy regulations up to speed with the digital age and simplifying compliance by creating a universal set of rules for all of the EU. The big change for companies outside the EU is that the new regulations now apply to all organizations that do business with EU residents, where the old directive only applied to companies that were actually based in the EU.
Under GDPR, organizations must ensure that personal data is gathered legally and under strict conditions. Data processing must comply with these six principles and satisfy at least one of the following processing conditions:
Consent: the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose.
Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract you have with the individual, or because they have asked you to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
Legal obligation: the processing is necessary for you to comply with the law or legal process (not including contractual obligations).
Vital interests: the processing is necessary to protect someone’s life.
Public task: the processing is necessary for you to perform a task in the public interest or for your official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law.
Legitimate interests: the processing is necessary for your legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party unless there is a good reason to protect the individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.
Explaining the finer points of GDPR are more fodder for a novel than a blog post, but you can get all the details at the EU GDPR Information Portal.
There is no doubt that getting in compliance is a complex process that requires a concerted effort at the organizational level. Given the value of data in the digital age, these changes are needed to both protect consumers and create a simpler compliance environment for companies.
How GDPR Affects Invoca Customers
So, how will things change for Invoca’s customers on the May 25, 2018 GDPR compliance deadline? In terms of an Invoca customer’s experience in the platform, it will be business as usual. Our justification for processing your data falls under the “contract” principle, as our customers are “controllers” and we are their “processor,” processing data solely in accordance with their instructions which are documented by the services agreement.
And Invoca’s practices remain compliant as we only transmit data to the controller of the data (you, the Invoca customer) and we only use first-party cookies on your properties.
Invoca will continue, as it always has, to process data solely in accordance with its customers’ instructions and for no other purpose commercial or otherwise. In terms of the relationship between Invoca and its customers, however, we believe those relationships will get even better with Invoca’s increased commitment to data privacy and security. Here are some of the ways we’re accomplishing that:
Invoca will be able to respond to valid data subject requests from its customers’ customers;
Invoca will execute a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) with its customers to contractually commit itself to compliance with the GDPR as it relates to a specific customer;
Invoca will continue to document and improve its data handling best practices, to fortify its strong preexisting data security and privacy pedigree;
Invoca will continue to maintain technical and organizational security measures that meet the standards of the GDPR.
Our GDPR Compliance Process
Getting in compliance with GDPR is huge undertaking for any organization. Fortunately for many of us at Invoca, our preexisting compliance posture — comprised of being PCI compliant, HIPAA compliant and Privacy Shield certified — made our transition into GDPR compliance more straightforward.
The Invoca call intelligence platform is the only one of its kind that is fully PCI and HIPAA compliant. Our machine learning engine has processed hundreds of millions of phone conversations across multiple industries, and our methodology of processing call data is in line with strict levels of data governance. Furthermore, the exercise of achieving GDPR compliance also enabled us to improve best practices related to managing data, resulting in an even stronger compliance posture.
So, what did coming into compliance with the GDPR look like? What was it about the compliance effort that created opportunities to strengthen data privacy and security best practices? To start, a key initial activity of the GDPR compliance effort was a comprehensive data mapping analysis. This required an eight-person internal Invoca team to interview key stakeholders from every department and map out the organization’s data flows.
The finished data map enables the organization to see where data is coming in, where its being stored, whether and when it is flowing out and who is managing the data. The exercise also requires internal stakeholders to justify the data’s existence. What emerged is an organization that’s more confident in its data handling practices which, in conjunction with the creation or improvement of policies, procedures and documentation, resulted in a stronger position of compliance.
The long and short of it — Invoca’s customers and its vendors will be able to rest assured that Invoca is committed to achieving a high standard of data security and privacy and that our products and practices meet all GDPR standards.
Posted by Owen Ray
Owen Ray is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Invoca. Prior to that, he worked with SaaS companies like Aria Systems, Glassdoor, and Mindjet. Owen sharpened his writing tools at San Francisco State University and Bay Area newspapers before working his way into the Silicon Valley creative services set. He hails from Santa Rosa, California and definitely does not leave work early on Wednesdays to go drag racing at Sonoma Raceway.
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Who’s Wearing LWI
Terms and Conditions | Ellen McConville | Monday 12th August 2019
T&C’s for All-Ireland Final Tickets Competition
Full terms and conditions are listed below.
The promoter is Shop Direct Ireland Ltd., Registered in Ireland. Registered Address: Cape House, Westend Office Park, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. Registered Number: 106058.VAT no. 4799561M
The competition is open to people who are aged 18 years or over, except employees of Shop Direct Ireland Ltd. and their immediate family, close relatives and anyone otherwise connected with the organisation or judging of the competition.
There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter this competition.
The competition begins on Monday the 12th of August at 13:00pm and closes on Wednesday the 14th of August at 2019 at 09:00am. The winners shall be picked at the sole discretion of Shop Direct Ireland Ltd.
By entering this competition, or entering on behalf, an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.
Route to entry for the competition and details of how to enter are via https://twitter.com/LittlewoodsIRL
Only one entry will be accepted per person. Multiple entries from the same person will be disqualified.
Use of a false name or address by a competition entrant will disqualify them from receiving any prize.
Engage with the conversational tweet, by clicking either ‘Tweet Kilkenny’ or ‘Tweet Tipperary’ and tweeting their support.
1 winner will be chosen from Twitter.
The winner will also receive 2 tickets to the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final.
The prize is as stated and no cash or other alternatives will be offered. The prizes are not transferable. Prizes are subject to availability and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice.
Closing date for entry will be as follows:
9:00am on Wednesday, August 14th, 2019. After this date, no further entries to the competition will be permitted.
No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
Winners will be chosen:
at random, from all entries received and verified by Promoter and or its agents.
In the event of any dispute regarding the rules, conduct or the results of a competition the decision of Shop Direct Ireland Ltd. will be final.
The winner will be notified via Twitter. If the winner cannot be contacted or do not claim the prize within 24 hours of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner.
The promoter will notify the winner when and where the prize can be collected or delivered.
The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by Irish law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ireland.
By entering this competition, the winner agrees to the use of his/her name and image in any publicity material. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely for the purpose of this competition.
The winner’s name will be available 28 days after closing date by emailing the following address: ellen.mcconville@shopdirect.com.
Entering into this competition will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and conditions.
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, Twitter or any other Social Network. You are providing your information to Shop Direct Ireland Ltd., the Data Controller and not to any other party. The information provided will be used in conjunction with our Privacy Policy which can be found at https://www.littlewoodsireland.ie/help/en/privacy-terms.page
Ellen McConville
Typically found on the sidelines or in Croke Park, Ellen is the Sports Content Editor for Littlewoods Ireland and your go-to gal for all things GAA. A big lover of all things Christy Moore, fashion and some wine and cheese as well.
Ellen McConville Monday 12th August 2019
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How we measure what the Government owns and what it owes
Categories: Economy, Office for National Statistics, ONS
It’s well known that the Government has large amounts of debt, currently £1.8 trillion according to the headline measure. But what about other liabilities that are not included in this figure and what about all the assets the Government owns? Here, David Bailey writes about the way we measure it all and how the numbers are being improved.
For decades, one of the main fiscal targets of the UK Government has been the level of debt, either reducing it or maintaining it below a certain threshold. Public Sector Net Debt (PSND), the Government’s main debt measure, largely reflects the stock of gilts (government IOUs) that it has issued to fund past spending. The ‘N’ in PSND, that is ‘net’, refers to the £0.2 trillion of government’s so-called liquid assets (effectively money in the bank) which are offset against the Government’s liabilities to arrive at PSND.
However, beyond PSND, the public sector balance sheet includes both many more liabilities and many more assets. For instance, the Government owns non-financial assets, such as real estate, infrastructure and vehicles as well as financial assets, such as shares (think of the Government’s 62% holding in the Royal Bank of Scotland) and loans (such as the money lent each year to students).
In tomorrow’s and next month’s public sector finances releases, we are making significant improvements to the measurement of the balance sheet in three broad areas. The first is implementation of a new treatment for student loans, the second is the introduction of extended reporting on public sector pensions and the third is the incorporation of improvements to estimates of public sector non-financial asset stocks.
Last December, I wrote about our decision to change the treatment of student tuition fee and maintenance loans in the public sector finances figures. Following a considerable amount of work this decision is being implemented in the public sector finances release tomorrow. It is likely that many of the headlines will focus on the £12 billion the new treatment of student loans adds to government borrowing, mainly as a result of the new treatment capturing the proportion of the student lending that is not expected to be repaid. But it is equally important to note that this new treatment will lead to a reduction in the reported government asset stocks of approximately £60 billion. As with the increase in borrowing, this reduction reflects the fact that under the new treatment only some of government lending to students is considered as genuine loans, and so a government asset.
While it was always clear that the student loan changes would decrease the reported stock of government assets, it was less obvious how pension changes being introduced would impact on the public sector balance sheet. At its most basic, what has been implemented is a move from a net reporting of public sector pensions, where only the net pension liability of government as an employer was recorded, to a gross reporting, which records all the assets and liabilities of public sector pension funds. This should increase both public sector assets and liabilities equally. However, for technical reasons, relating mainly to valuation and the inclusion of the Pension Protection Fund for the first time, this will not quite be the case and public sector net liabilities will increase slightly as a result of the new gross reporting.
Perhaps more significant is the fact that many public sector employee pensions are not held in ring-fenced funds but are paid directly from government revenue. These are known as unfunded pension schemes and the international rules we use do not recognise any liability for pensions within unfunded schemes. However, to provide as much transparency around the public finances as possible we began, in June this year, to publish public sector finance statistics based on the International Monetary Fund’s government finance statistics framework, which supports the inclusion of these liabilities. Therefore, on 22 October, when we publish an update on these statistics, we will be including liabilities of unfunded pension schemes for the first time.
In October we will also, for the first time, publish improved estimates of the value of stocks of public sector non-financial assets, including real estate and infrastructure. These improved estimates are the culmination of a large piece of work that we discussed in an article in August, and will help reliably to establish the public sector net worth (that is, the value of all assets less all liabilities).
Taken together these improvements will provide essential information about the state of the public sector balance sheet.
David Bailey is Head of Public Sector Finances at the ONS
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Book vs. Show: Alias Grace
January 10, 2018 by Books and Cleverness
Hellooo! I have a lot to talk about, so let’s jump into it.
A couple weeks ago my sister asked if I had seen any new shows recently. I told her that I hadn’t, because I’ve been growing farther and farther away from television – other than Mindhunter on Netflix because that show is GREAT. To which she replied, speaking of Netflix, you have to see Alias Grace, it’s about a servant woman in the 1800s who supposedly killed her masters but has amnesia, so a doctor tries to get her to remember if she killed them or not… and it’s based on a true story.
Well, once she said it was based on a true story I was sold. I’m a history person, and I can’t refuse a based on a true story movie. Hell, I can’t even refuse a documentary. So I hopped over to Netflix to start watching, but first I viewed the trailer. Well, the trailer said it was based off of Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name. For those who don’t remember, Atwood is the woman who wrote the bestselling book turned series The Handmaid’s Tale. I LOVED The Handmaid’s Tale book – but was lukewarm on the TV show. So I figured, you know what, before I watch the show I’ll read the book.
And holy crap.
I have some pros and cons here, but honestly the book was spectacular, and the show was phenomenal.
Let’s start with the book:
Basically, the story is all about uncovering what really happened the day of the murders. As I mentioned, Grace Marks is a woman who was accused of a double murder, that of her Master Mr. Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery. She was accused along with the stableman, James McDermott. He was convicted of the murders and hanged, spouting his tale of how Grace was not only a willing participant in the murders, but the one who had the idea in the first place.
Unfortunately, Grace remembers nothing of the murders, and despite her testimony from the trial in which she admitted to helping McDermott, she claims her innocence and says that her lawyer told her to admit in order for her to get a life sentence instead of a death sentence, which she agreed to. Flash forward some fifteen-twenty years later where Grace is living in a Canadian penitentiary.
Dr. Simon Jordan, a doctor who deals with the mind (i.e. somnambulism (aka sleepwalking) and amnesia) is commissioned by a local Reverend, who is convinced of her innocence, to come and do a study on Grace to find out what truly happened on the day of the murders.
So, that is the premise of the book. For fear of spoilers, I’m not going to go into detail on what happens in the story because it’s an emotional rollercoaster that is best left a surprise. However, I have some problems with the book.
To start, it’s actually an interesting read. What I mean by that is it’s written very differently from other books, and that made it absolutely enticing and exhilarating, but it also made it very dull and honestly a bit of a slog.
The first 80 pages or so I almost just put the book down and said screw it, I’ll just watch the show. I’m really glad that I didn’t, but I do have to put that warning out there. The book is written basically from three angles:
Grace Marks’ story itself;
Dr. Jordan’s perspective and life whilst in Canada (he’s an American);
Letters between Dr. Jordan, the Reverend, Grace Marks’ lawyer, someone from the insane asylum she was in before the prison, etc.
To be perfectly honest, while the parts about Dr. Jordan, as well as the letters, are certainly integral in understanding what happened to Grace, it was really, truly, a slog to get through. First of all, I had a personal battle when it came to Dr. Jordan because sometimes I liked him and other times I wanted to punch him in the face, which made it very difficult to read his sections of the story. Second, the letters were fine and all, but seeing as it did all happen in the mid 1800s, the letters reflected the writing style of the time, which is to say: super formal. For me, it was really only interesting to a point, and I found myself skimming certain paragraphs to get to the good stuff.
However, Grace Marks’ part of the story was PHENOMENAL. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the entire story, and thought that Margaret Atwood did an absolutely spectacular job at creating a fictionalized version of the woman, and in really reflecting the problems and social structure of the time period.
Now for the TV mini-series:
Here’s where I have some problems, not because the show wasn’t great, because it was. But because I think the show was both better and worse than the book itself.
To give you an idea – every single thing (minus a couple liberties) that is shown in the series is almost exact to how it happened in the book. That is so rare!! It was actually really surprising to me at first, because I wasn’t sure how they were going to fit everything in, but they did it spectacularly. The scenery was great, the acting was great, the clothing was spot on, even certain scenes were almost exact to how I pictured it in the book. Everything aligned perfectly. And even the little liberties they added didn’t subtract from the story, it actually added to it.
However, my problem is not what they added but rather what they left out. The book talks about so many more little things that were heart wrenching that I couldn’t believe they left out. This is where it gets tricky for me, because if I think about it, those little heart wrenching scenes didn’t actually need to be in the show in order to understand what happened, but at the same time I can’t see how it would have hurt the series to have included it.
You know how sometimes you watch a movie and you leave it thinking “you know, if they had taken out 30 minutes of crappy exposition in that movie it would’ve been perfect?” It was almost the opposite for me. Those little, almost trivial, pieces of the story may have been viewed as trivial exposition, but they were all something that I felt lifted the story into a higher plane of artistry rather than hindering it.
Keep in mind, almost everything that I’m thinking of that I feel should have been added would probably have only taken up about 3-5 minutes within the show itself, and almost always the series actually did bring it up at some point within the show, they just didn’t spend that much time on it (and in some cases it was literally only mentioned in one sentence and then never spoken of again). So it’s not like these were big plot points that they didn’t bring up, it was just flavor text that I absolutely loved within the book that was not there in the series.
Overall: READ THE BOOK FIRST!!!!!
I have one big favor to ask of you: If you plan on reading the book AND watching the series, read the book first!!!!
Why, you might ask? Because those first 100 pages are going to be boring as hell for you. The show really jumps right in to the action, which is great, but it means that your expectations are going to be that the book will jumps right in as well, which it does not. Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t read this book, because I actually think that reading the book in conjunction with watching the show is amazing because the book gives you a LOT more information than the show does and really does pique your interest. However, if you plan on watching the show first, keep in mind that it is extraordinarily different in terms of language, and for some people that will be a deal breaker.
All in all, though, I honestly think the book and the show are tied here. Both have their faults, but both have amazing pieces to them that the other does not have. The two of them paired is something outstanding, and I highly recommend that you enjoy BOTH of these in that order: book then show.
Let me know what you guys thought of both the book and the series – I’m really curious to hear your opinions. As always, if you want to contact me please feel free to comment down below or to e-mail me at rachel@booksandcleverness.com!
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“I Sing the Body Electric” – Walt Whitman
September 12, 2017 by Books and Cleverness
Hi guys! So I had do a little poem reading for a class I’m taking and really enjoyed this one that I’d never read by Walt Whitman, “I Sing the Body Electric.” It’s from his Leaves of Grass collection of poems, and is just absolutely fantastic.
Walt Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric,” begins in the 19th century (which is when this was written) at a slave auction, and discusses how he views slaves/people of color as exactly the same as white people. Whitman takes the time to verbalize every aspect of the human body to compare how alike the slave body and the white body are, and makes sure to convey to the reader that there is absolutely no difference between one body and the next, despite skin color. Whitman is obviously vehemently against slavery, and also is very pro-women’s rights, and uses this poem to express that message.
Whitman communicates this idea by discussing his view of what a female and a male (in terms of body and essence) are made of. For instance, when he describes women he explains that the proverbial “She” is something of beauty, something that produces life in more ways than one, someone who “contains all qualities, and tempers them – she is in her place, and moved with perfect balance.” He mentions that women are “the gates of the body, and [women] are the gates of the soul.” In other words, he gives the reader a full description of what his view of the Female is – powerful, life-giving, beautiful, strong, capable, and “divine.” As he continues, he mentions that he sees this slave woman up at auction as just Female; he does not see a slave, he sees a woman who is just as capable of life-giving, just as female, as the other women he was describing. To him, white, black, or any other color – they are all equally woman, and thus equally divine.
But he doesn’t just talk about women – he discusses men as being powerful, defiant, passionate and prideful. He tells the reader, “the male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,” which lets us know that he views men as equally as he does women.
Although I must say that I am genuinely impressed at his progressive views on women and equality, I also, in my own way, feel like Whitman might respect the female form more than he does the male form. I’m not saying he views them as unequal, or thinks that one should be valued over the other. Instead, what I mean is that Whitman is a man, and thus would be familiar with the male body and the strength and power that comes with it, but as a man I think he’s infatuated with the idea of what a female body can do.
Whitman even mentions, “I am drawn by [the female’s] breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it.” He sees the beauty in the form, the power in what it can do, and the mysteries of it he will never know. He appreciates that the life-cycle is dependent on the woman, and not that a man does not have a part in it, but he seems to truly respect and value the power of women.
He also, interestingly, discusses immigrants very briefly. Whitman says,
“The man’s body is sacred, and the woman’s body is sacred;
No matter who it is, it is sacred;
Is it a slave? Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
Each belongs here or anywhere, just as much as the well-off—just as much as you;
Each has his or her place in the procession.”
I was very taken aback at reading this since he not only mentions how he feels about immigration at the time, but also of how he equates slaves and immigrants. To start, I think it’s important to mention that starting around 1850, and going until the first World War, immigration was pouring in to cities. According to The Norton Anthology of American Literature, large cities were becoming even larger due to the influx of immigrants. For instance, New York City grew sevenfold going from 500k to 3.5 million, and Chicago went from 29K people in 1850 to more than 2 million in 1910. This is a monumental gap. This is so important because as a country we get so wrapped up in the romanticized idea that America was founded by and built by/for immigrants, and yet those in that time period did not necessarily view immigrants in a kind way.
In the 19th century (and prior), America gained a large amount of wealth from slavery and the trade/selling of goods that came from it. But at a certain point, immigrants began to understand that they may be able to leave the poverty and horrific regimes that they were experiencing and took the risk to come to America. Those immigrants were not seen as important, they were not seen as welcome. Much like the immigrants of today, many people told them to leave, and made their lives difficult if they did not; this made it extremely difficult for immigrants to make a living and for them to build a solid foundation for their families. Whitman, on the other hand, understood how the immigrants were being treated and viewed that treatment as inequality. Despite the majority of the immigrants being caucasian, he viewed their treatment as unequal, just as he viewed slavery as unequal.
Whitman also uses an interesting set of stanzas at the end of his poem that encompass what he was trying to express in the rest of his poem. He sets off to give an extremely in depth look at every single part of the human anatomy; he makes the connection that every body has these parts equally, and if we have all of the same parts, how can we not be equal? How are we truly different from one to the other? In order to make this point very clear, Whitman describes individual body parts, and his use of imagery here is remarkable. He mentions “the ample side-round of the chest,” “Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,” and “the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, and the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes.” It gives the reader something to envision perfectly as you read along.
The way he begins with body parts everyone has (i.e. nose, mouth, tongue, cheek, eyes, etc.) and then moves on to the individual parts of man and woman truly spark a very distinctive picture in the mind when reading it. At least for me, I had no particular color of person in mind when reading it (since Whitman does not use skin color to describe anatomy). I think that was his point: to make simply being a human being indistinguishable from race.
Whitman also equates the Soul and the Body. He tells the reader that every Body has a soul, and that soul is equal to all other souls. Thus, no matter what skin color, religion, language or social class, we are all equal. No one has the right to forcibly take another person’s body, to take another person’s dignity, to steal their rights.
Which brings me to my last point: Whitman’s writing of this poem is of extreme importance; particularly for the people of the time he wrote this. At the time this poem was published, approximately five years before the Civil War began, there was obviously an incredible divide between North and South. This poem simply explains that divide from the point of view of just an average observer. He can see the differences between these two groups of people: those who believed that there is nothing different from one body to the next, that it is a human right to be free, versus those who viewed slaves as property, as meat and cattle, as something that could be collected and sold, exploited and overused.
Whitman’s writing of this poem shows just how progressive he was at the time. While of course there were abolitionists and groups that sympathized them, there were certainly still divides concerning whether or not black people were equal. In my research I’ve found that there were more people who disagreed with slavery, but still viewed black people and other people of color as beneath them than there were people who viewed all bodies as equal.
So while it may seem like Whitman is simply appealing to abolitionists alone, it seems like this poem would have reached people who were against slavery but still did not see how people of color could possibly be equal to white people. Whitman even publishing this poem could have put him in hot water (and it did), but he published it anyway knowing that maybe someone who was on the fence might now be converted, and at the very least he’s gotten his opinions onto paper and out there for others to use and criticize.
I really enjoyed this poem, and thought Whitman did a truly wonderful job of capturing the truth about race, slavery, gender equality, and equality in general.
If you guys have read it, or would like to read it (I highly recommend you do!) let me know in the comments below or via email! I’d love to hear your thoughts on it, and what you inferred from reading it yourself.
If you have any other comments or questions, you can leave them below or you can email me at rachel@booksandcleverness.com! I hope to hear from you soon!
email: rachel@booksandcleverness.com
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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Member Request)
Chief Patron: Hanger
Mission of Mercy (M.O.M.) Dental Project
Health and Human Resources
Department of Health FY2017 $0 FY2018 $100,000 GF
Page 243, line 32, strike "$20,754,761" and insert "$20,854,761".
Page 247, line 8, strike "16,280" and insert "116,280".
(This amendment adds $100,000 from the general fund the second year for the Virginia Dental Health Foundation Mission of Mercy (M.O.M.) dental project. The introduced budget provided this amount of funding in the first year, however, did not provide any additional funding in the second year for the project. The M.O.M. dental project provides no cost dental services in underserved areas of the Commonwealth through the use of volunteer dentist and hygienists. The project has treated more than 59,000 patients with dental care valued at $38.3 million since 2000.)
Reenrolled
Governor's Veto Explanation
Keeper of the Rolls' Explanation
Financial Assistance to Community Human Services Organizations (49200) $21,004,761 $20,754,761
Payments to Human Services Organizations (49204) FY2017 $21,004,761 FY2018 $20,754,761
Authority: § 32.1-2, Code of Virginia.
A.1. Out of this appropriation, $832,946 the first year and $832,946 the second year from the general fund and $2,400,000 the first year and $2,400,000 the second year from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant shall be used to contract with the Comprehensive Health Investment Project (CHIP) of Virginia.
2. The purpose of the program is to develop, expand, and operate a network of local public-private partnerships providing comprehensive care coordination, family support and preventive medical and dental services to low-income, at-risk children.
3. The general fund appropriation in this Item for the CHIP of Virginia projects shall not be used for administrative costs.
4. CHIP of Virginia shall continue to pursue raising funds and in-kind contributions from local communities. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the CHIP program increases its efforts to raise funds from local communities and other private or public sources with the goal of reducing reliance on general fund appropriations in the future.
5. Of this appropriation, from the amounts in paragraph A.1., $24,679 the first year and $24,679 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the CHIP of Roanoke and shall be used as matching funds to support three full-time equivalent public health nurse positions to services in the Roanoke Valley and Allegheny Highlands.
B. Out of this appropriation $53,241 the first year and $53,241 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Alexandria Neighborhood Health Services, Inc. to promote the health of women in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County, and Falls Church, to prevent illness and injury and provide early treatment for serious health conditions. The contract with Alexandria Neighborhood Health Services Inc. (ANHSI) shall require that ANHSI provide comprehensive women's health care with a focus on preventative health services and screenings to low income, uninsured women. Women's health care services shall focus on preventative screenings. Blood pressure screening and body mass index shall be performed at each visit. The organization shall pursue raising funds and in-kind contributions from the local community.
C. Out of this appropriation $5,982 the first year and $5,982 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Louisa County Resource Council to promote, develop, and encourage activities to deliver community-based services to disadvantaged Louisa County residents. The contract with Louisa County Resource Council shall require that the council provide assistance to income-eligible residents in meeting various needs of the clients including medication assistance, outreach assistance, and medical care referrals by exploring affordable options. The council shall continue to pursue raising funds and in-kind contributions from the local community.
D. Out of this appropriation, $7,837 the first year and $7,837 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Olde Towne Medical Center. The contract with Olde Towne Medical Center shall require that the center provide cost effective, comprehensive primary and preventive health care (including obstetrical care) and oral health care to the uninsured, Medicaid, and Medicare residents in the City of Williamsburg, James City County, and York County. The population served shall include adults and children.
E.1. Out of this appropriation, $433,750 the first year and $433,750 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Community Healthcare Association (VCHA). The contract with VCHA shall require that the association purchase pharmaceuticals and medically necessary pharmacy supplies, and to provide pharmacy services to low-income, uninsured patients of the Community and Migrant Health Centers throughout Virginia. The uninsured patients served with these funds shall have family incomes no greater than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. The amount allocated to each Community and Migrant Health Center shall be determined through an allocation methodology developed by the Virginia Community Healthcare Association. The allocation methodology shall ensure that funds are distributed such that the Community and Migrant Health Centers are able to serve the pharmacy needs of the greatest number of low-income, uninsured persons. The Virginia Community Healthcare Association shall establish accounting and reporting mechanisms to track the disbursement and expenditure of these funds.
2. Out of this appropriation, $175,000 the first year and $175,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Community Healthcare Association. The contract with VCHA shall require that the association expand access to care provided through community health centers.
3. Out of this appropriation, $2,800,000 the first year and $2,800,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Community Healthcare Association. The contract with VCHA shall require that the association support community health center operating costs for services provided to uninsured clients. The amount allocated to each Community and Migrant Health Center shall be determined through an allocation methodology developed by the Virginia Community Healthcare Association. The allocation methodology shall ensure that funds are distributed such that the Community and Migrant Health Centers are able to serve the needs of the greatest number of uninsured persons. The Virginia Community Healthcare Association shall establish accounting and reporting mechanisms to track the disbursement and expenditure of these funds.
F.1. Out of this appropriation, $1,321,400 the first year and $1,321,400 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (VAFCC). The contract with VAFCC shall require that the organization purchase pharmaceuticals and medically necessary pharmacy supplies, and to provide pharmacy services to low-income, uninsured patients of the Free Clinics throughout Virginia. The amount allocated to each Free Clinic shall be determined through an allocation methodology developed by the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. The allocation methodology shall ensure that funds are distributed such that the Free Clinics are able to serve the pharmacy needs of the greatest number of low-income, uninsured adults. The Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics shall establish accounting and reporting mechanisms to track the disbursement and expenditure of these funds.
2. Out of this appropriation, $175,000 the first year and $175,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (VAFCC). The contract with VAFCC shall require the organization to expand access to health care services.
3. Out of this appropriation, $4,800,000 the first year and $4,800,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (VAFCC). The contract with VAFCC shall require that the organization support free clinic operating costs for services provided to uninsured clients. The amount allocated to each free clinic shall be determined through an allocation methodology developed by the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. The allocation methodology shall ensure that funds are distributed such that the free clinics are able to serve the needs of the greatest number of uninsured persons. The Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics shall establish accounting and reporting mechanisms to track the disbursement and expenditure of these funds.
G. Out of this appropriation, $29,303 the first year and $29,303 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with HealthWorks of Herndon. The contract with HealthWorks of Herndon (HWH) shall require that HWH provide treatment and prevention services, including health care services and mental health counseling, to low income and uninsured adults and children residing in the communities of Herndon, Reston, Chantilly, and Centreville in Fairfax County. These services shall include comprehensive primary health care with integrated behavioral health care to adult and children, prescription medications, diagnostic and lab testing, specialty referrals, and preventive screenings. Children's services shall include school physicals and sports physicals. Patients will also have access to oral health care through HealthWorks Dental Program.
H. Out of this appropriation, $164,758 the first year and $164,758 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium. The contract with Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education (GMEC) shall require GMEC to create and support medical residency preceptor sites in rural and underserved communities in Southwest Virginia. GMEC is a program of the University of Virginia's College at Wise.
I. Out of this appropriation, $355,555 the first year and $355,555 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the regional AIDS resource and consultation centers and one local early intervention and treatment center.
J. Out of this appropriation, $57,963 the first year and $57,963 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Arthur Ashe Health Center in Richmond. The contract with the Arthur Ashe Health Center shall require that the center provide HIV early intervention and treatment for HIV infected patients who reside within the City of Richmond.
K. Out of this appropriation, $10,663 the first year and $10,663 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Fan Free Clinic for AIDS related services. The contract with the Fan Free Clinic shall require that the clinic provide financial assistance and support groups and conduct an education and outreach program for HIV positive clients in Central Virginia.
L.1. Out of this appropriation, $4,580,571 the first year and $4,580,571 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation. The contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) shall require that the general fund shall be matched with local public and private resources and shall be awarded to proposals which enhance access to primary health care for Virginia's uninsured and medically underserved residents, through innovative service delivery models. The foundation, in coordination with the Virginia Department of Health, the Area Health Education Centers program, the Joint Commission on Health Care, and other appropriate organizations, is encouraged to undertake initiatives to reduce health care workforce shortages. The foundation shall account for the expenditure of these funds by providing the Governor, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees, the State Health Commissioner, and the Chairman of the Joint Commission on Health Care with a certified audit and full report on the foundation's initiatives and results, including evaluation findings, not later than October 1 of each year for the preceding fiscal year ending June 30.
2. The contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation shall require that on or before October 1 of each year, the foundation shall submit to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees a report on the actual amount, by fiscal year, of private and local government funds received by the foundation since its inception. The report shall include certification that an amount equal to the state appropriation for the preceding fiscal year ending June 30 has been matched from private and local government sources during that fiscal year.
3. Of this appropriation, from the amounts in paragraph L.1., $125,000 the first year and $125,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF). The contract with VHCF shall require that the general fund shall be provided to the foundation to expand the Pharmacy Connection software program to unserved or underserved regions of the Commonwealth.
4. Of this appropriation, from the amounts in paragraph L.1., $105,000 the first year and $105,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF). The contract with VHCF shall require that the general fund shall be used to contract with the foundation for the Rx Partnership to improve access to free medications for low-income Virginians.
5. Of this appropriation, from the amounts in paragraph L.1., $2,350,000 the first year and $2,350,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF). The contract with VHCF shall require that the general fund be provided to the foundation to increase the capacity of the Commonwealth's health safety net providers to expand services to unserved or underserved Virginians. Of this amount, (i) $850,000 the first year and $850,000 the second year shall be used to underwrite service expansions and/or increase the number of patients served at existing sites or at new sites, (ii) $1,350,000 the first year and $1,350,000 the second year shall be used for Medication Assistance Coordinators who provide outreach assistance, and (iii) $150,000 the first year and $150,000 the second year shall be made available for locations with existing medication assistance programs.
6. Out of this appropriation, $150,000 the first year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF). The contract with the VHCF shall require that the general fund be used to support the Virginia Student Loan Repayment Program (Va-SLRP).
M.1. Out of this appropriation, $272,313 the first year and $272,313 the second year from the general fund shall be used to support the administration of the patient level data base, including the outpatient data reporting system. The department shall establish a contract for this service.
2. Out of this appropriation from the amounts in paragraph M.1., $25,000 the first year and $25,000 the second year from the general fund the second year shall be used to contract with the Virginia All Payer Claims Database.
N. Out of this appropriation, $302,712 the first year and $302,712 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Health Wagon. The contract with the Health Wagon shall require the organization to provide summer outreach programs to low-income and uninsured individuals living in southwest Virginia.
O. Out of this appropriation, $105,000 the first year and $105,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Statewide Sickle Cell Chapters of Virginia (SSCCV). The contract with SSCCV shall require that the general fund shall be used to provide for grants to community-based programs that provide patient assistance, education, and family-centered support for individuals suffering from sickle cell disease. The SSCCV shall develop criteria for distributing these funds including specific goals and outcome measures. A report shall be submitted to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees detailing program outcomes by October 1 of each year.
P. Out of this appropriation, $116,280 the first year and $16,280 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Virginia Dental Health Foundation for the Mission of Mercy (M.O.M.) dental project. The contract with the Virginia Dental Health Foundation for the Mission of Mercy (M.O.M.) dental project shall require the Foundation to conduct Mission of Mercy (M.O.M) Projects that provide no cost dental services in identified underserved areas.
Q. Out of this appropriation, $1,000,000 the first year and $1,000,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with three poison control centers. The State Health Commissioner shall review existing poison control services and determine how best to provide and enhance use of these services as a resource for patients with mental health disorders and for health care providers treating patients with poison-related suicide attempts, substance abuse, and adverse medication events. The Commissioner shall allocate the general fund amounts between the three centers. The general fund amounts shall be based on the proportion of Virginia's population served by each center.
R. Out of this appropriation, $32,559 the first year and $32,559 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Community Health Center of the Rappahannock Region to provide medical, dental, and behavioral health services to low income and/or uninsured residents in the Rappahannock region. The contract with the center shall require the center to include acute and chronic disease management services, lab and diagnostic services, medication assistance, physical examinations, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, immunizations, women's health services (including family planning and pap smears), preventive and restorative dental services, and behavioral health services.
S. Out of this appropriation, $760,000 the first year and $760,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to contract with the Hampton Roads Proton Beam Therapy Institute at Hampton University, LLC. The contract with Hampton Roads Proton Beam Therapy Institute shall require that the institute support efforts for proton therapy in the treatment of cancerous tumors with fewer side effects.
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Dr. Arditti's work embodied a passion for innovative thinking and practical benefit to commerce and markets. He was passionate about bridging the gap between academia and the industry, about educating students who can "do things," and producing rigorous, innovative research that is first and foremost practical.
The Department of Finance at DePaul University established The Arditti Center for Risk Management to honor his lifetime achievements and to continue this important work in the areas of education, research and practice.
About Fred Arditti
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Fred Arditti studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in economics. After a career in academia at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Florida, Dr. Arditti entered the financial industry, ultimately joining the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as its chief economist in 1980. He held that position until 1982, pioneering futures contracts that helped transform how businesses and individuals manage risk. Most notable was Dr. Arditti's work with the exchange's Eurodollar Contract, the world's most actively traded futures contract. Dr. Arditti joined DePaul's faculty in 1990.
In 1997, he returned to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. As senior executive vice president of planning and development, he was instrumental in organizing CME's business development structure to strengthen its focus on innovation as it faced intensive competition in the new century from domestic and international markets. It was during this time that he originated weather futures and led CME's electronic trading business, which now accounts for about 75 percent of the exchange's trade. Alongside his academic and industry activities, Dr. Arditti published widely in various academic journals. Most notably, he authored "Derivatives," which has become one of the most assigned books on that subject at many universities.
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Grading Iowa Governor-Elect Terry Branstad’s Education Picks
A Judicial Litmus Test?
American Principles Project,
Branstad appointments,
Eric Goranson,
Iowa Department of Education,
Jason Glass,
Linda Lantor Fandel,
Staci Hupp,
Terry Branstad
Last week, Iowa Governor-Elect Terry Branstad tapped an education consultant from Ohio,Jason E. Glass, as the new director of the Iowa Department of Education. Governor Branstad said of Glass:
Jason is a reform-minded leader for this department, and someone who will bring a strong sense of accountability to the position. He is a collaborator, and all of Iowa’s students, teachers and parents will benefit with Jason as director.
He most recently is “senior director for human capital strategy” (consultant) at Battelle for Kids where he “provides policy leadership and technical consulting to state departments of education and school districts in implementing comprehensive human capital strategies, including strategic compensation systems, evaluation systems and the use of multiple measures to improve teaching effectiveness and student learning.” Before that he was Director of Human Resources at Eagle County Schools in Colorado. He has a bachelors and masters degree in political science and a masters in education. He is working on his PhD in education at Seton Hall University.
Staci Hupp of The Des Moines Register reported:
The Ohio education consultant’s agenda will include overhauling the way teachers are evaluated and paid. He played a key role in a Colorado school district’s performance-pay plan, which teachers there applaud today.
"The rest of the country, the rest of the world, has accelerated, and we’ve created systems that don’t allow for innovation, that don’t allow for us to take risks, that don’t allow for systems to work," said Glass, 39. "That has to stop. Part of what I will be about is trying in as many ways as we can to allow for greater innovation in schools. I think that happens by not imposing greater central control on schools, but actually freeing up local school districts to try new things."
She also notes that Branstad broke with tradition as typically former principals or school superintendents have filled that role. She said part of his recent work was with education leaders in Tennessee.
His recent consulting work included helping Tennessee education leaders carry out a reform plan that was awarded millions of dollars through the federal Race to the Top competition, President Barack Obama’s signature school reform effort.
Not excited about his assistance on helping them receive Race to the Trough Top funds… as the federal government told states to adopt their measure in order to just be eligible for federal money. I’m curious what his position on the federal role of education is. Also what I don’t know is where he stands on school choice.
I hear crickets… and there were no school choice or non-public school organizations at the press conference.
Eric Goranson, the Iowa Director of American Principles Project, said the following about Glass’ appointment, “In Ohio, Glass was a strong advocate of the “Common Core Standards” approach, but we are hopeful that here in Iowa, he will work with us to empower Iowa parents, create transparency in the educational system, and support parental choice in education.”
So my grade is “incomplete.” I can’t get excited about the pick yet, but I’ll remain optimistic until I know more. The fact that Branstad bucked the trend I think is a good thing, but I still see a person whose sole experience and involvement has been with public schools. So I just don’t know.
Governor Branstad’s pick of Linda Lantor Fandel as his special assistant for education honestly has me perplexed. She has been the editorial page editor for The Des Moines Register since July 2009. Before that she covered education as a reporter, editorial writer and deputy-editorial page editor for 20 years.
She has no academic preparation in education (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing the way most universities are today), instead has a B.A. in political science. Fandel said in a press release from the Branstad transition team that…
Iowa’s children must be ready to compete with young people around the globe for high-skilled jobs when they grow up. That calls for making sure our young people are as well prepared as those in Canada and other countries that rank among top school systems internationally. Iowa has a tradition of a strong commitment to education. Serving as special assistant for education in the Branstad/Reynolds administration is a great opportunity to help shape that commitment for the future.
This tells me nothing of her educational philosophy, attitude toward non-public education, and her position on school choice. Being the editorial page editor at The Register is actually a negative in my book due to their liberal bias and further makes me suspect of her advocacy for reform within the educational system. Yes change is needed, but not all change is good. For instance she opined a year ago in favor of the Iowa Core Curriculum and for a “challenging national curriculum.”
There a number of questions in my mind like does she agree with her new boss regarding the Iowa Core Curriculum. Where does she stand on school choice? How will she advise Governor Branstad if a homeschooling or tuition tax credit bill comes across his desk? Where does she stand on sex education within the schools? What relationship should Iowa’s private schools have with the Iowa Core Curriculum?
What I do know I’m not impressed… for now I give her appointment a D.
Both Fandel and Glass have the opportunity to raise their grades.
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How to write a successful argument
STEPS to a SUCCESSFUL ARGUMENT
An Argumentative essay takes a position on a debatable issue, such as abortion rights, same-sex marriage, gun control, tax increases, and so forth.
In writing your argumentative essay, you think out the issues and take a position, which is called your thesis. You use the body of your essay to defend and explore your position. The goal is to persuade the reader to agree with your side of the issue.
Create a Strategy by exploring both sides of the argument and considering who will be your audience. To do this you will LIST the arguments on both sides of the issue and take notes on whom your readers will be.
Consider the Merits and Weaknesses of Both Sides by looking over the lists of arguments and weighing them against how you previously felt about the issue. You also reconsider the audience as you do this.
Take a Position by writing out your thesis. This is your firm stance on the issue.
Create an Outline by using the items in your list that support your side of the issue.
Draft an Introduction that clearly states your thesis, your position, and invites the reader into your argument.
Use the Body of the Essay to Support Each Point in Your Argument with specific evidence. You may want to use statistics, evidence, examples from real life, expert opinions, and other reasonable sources of evidence.
Present and Refute Opposing Arguments by drawing from you original lists. Show the weaknesses and problems in the other side’s position. This will bolster your case.
Build a Link to Your Readers by finding some common ground between the two sides. This is often done by sharing the common values underlying a position on an issue, such as a sense of justice or fairness.
Be Sure to Avoid Common Mistakes in Reasoning by carefully using inductive and deductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning means: you arrive at a conclusion based on several facts. Deductive reasoning means you reach a conclusion based on premises, which may or may not be proven true. Also be sure to avoid logical fallacies, such as making hasty generalizations, using circular language, or employing biased language.
Always provide a thorough bibliography for your well-researched argument essay.
(taken from Rules for Writers, by D. Hacker [pp. 348-361])
Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
The topic of the society’s vulnerability to hazards and natural disasters is one that captivated further interest and attention after brief analysis on the issue. Vulnerability in this case refers to the potential of a group of people to be able to cope with a natural hazard (Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis, 2003). When a hazard causes a disaster, numerous people get injured and killed. The situations tend to be gruesome to the people affected but it does not affect everybody equally. There are people who are more susceptible to certain natural hazards than another group of people. Vulnerability to natural hazards differs from region to region. For example, people who live in an area that is a plateau and is near a large water body they are most likely to suffer from floods. Regions that are close to tectonic plates are more likely to experience earthquakes than other places. My research would like to involve what factors lie behind the vulnerability, what affects other areas more than others and how can the issue be improved or how can the people protect themselves. My interest in this segment was sparked by various factors that I came across. Most researches and work done on natural hazards do not look at the vulnerability angle of the society but rather concentrate on the triggers (Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis). Events that took my keen notice into the research were to specific ones: Haiti’s natural hazard and disasters experience and the Dhaka area in Bangladesh that is populated with squatters within the area. Both these regions have something in common: They have been key witnesses of natural hazards which have led to insurmountable amounts of damage that have set them back. I was curious to the factors that made these areas more vulnerable to the hazards as compared to other places which have fairly similar experiences but are able to maintain their progress. The research topic is well connected with content we are learning in class that is related to natural hazards and its geography. Through the content I have learnt in class I have been able to apply it and to understand how to approach a topic of research. Vulnerability of these regions gives a deeper scope of knowledge that I have learnt about natural hazards and disaster in our class.
For me to be able to learn more about vulnerability and how its related to natural hazards I had to first go through the historical experience of Haiti and disaster. Throughout time, the region has experience a continuous torrent of earthquakes and floods. Based on archived information and newspaper articles, I was able to really dig deep into articles providing the statistics of Haiti’s experience of with hazards (Jones, 2016). In 2008, Haiti was badly devastated by four storms which left almost 75% of its farm land destroyed and cost the life of 800 people (Jones). In 2010, they experienced one of the worst disasters in history. An earthquake left around 90,000 people killed and over 1.5 million people lost their homes. The information was able to really put into perspective the tragedy that the hazard had upon the people and the disaster they experienced. The research was able to provide to me information on the vulnerability that made Haiti vulnerable by the natural hazard. It was more than just their geographical location but factors such as instability in their political circle and high amounts of corruption (Jones). For information on Dhaka and the factors that also made it vulnerable to the disasters I was able to find reliable sources of information from research done on the area (Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis).
While undergoing this research I was able to find certain important factors that have been given considerable thought. In relation to vulnerability to hazardous natural factors, one key component that determines how much impact the disaster will have upon the region are certain human factors (“Vulnerability to Natural Hazards”). Some of the factors involved are the wealth of the people in the region. Rich people are able to access medical help and have more stable housing as compared to impoverished people which will make them experience the disaster differently. Education is a major component as people who have knowledge on dealing with hazardous situations can be able to protect themselves more adeptly than those who do not. Governance was also shown to be of key importance as they are the ones who develop policies that can reduce the vulnerability of the people to potential natural hazards. Other important factors include age of the people affected and the technological advancement of the area.
To limit my coverage of the topic I have decided to only look at vulnerability and factors that propagate it to make the society less protected to natural hazards. As significant as the hazards and disasters are by themselves, I will not delve into that but concentrate on how the people make themselves vulnerable to the situations. I will dig deeper and uncover more analysis on various areas that have lower vulnerability to hazard compared to those that have a higher amount like Haiti, and compare what the safer areas are doing to protect themselves.
“Vulnerability to Natural Hazards”. (n.d.). Retrieved May 6, 2017, from https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog030/node/379
Jones, S. (2016, October 4). Why is Haiti vulnerable to natural hazards and disasters? Retrieved May 6, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/why-is-haiti-vulnerable-to-natural-hazards-and-disasters
Wisner, B., Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., & Davis, I. (2003). t Risk: natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters 2nd Edition.
Posted on April 23, 2018 January 13, 2019 by kambongatara
Writing your Research Report
Topic: The topic of the research final paper is open to the interests of the students. Students should find a question they would like to answer using the statistical techniques learnt in class.
To find the topic of your final report you need to start from a broad perspective looking at some general idea that you would like to explore. For example, let’s say that you would like to look at the relationship between interest rates and the economy. This is a very broad topic and you need to start doing research looking to specify your main research question. In figure 1 we can see all the different sub-topics, or more specific areas, in which we can divide our broad topic.
Interest Rate and the Economy
We could list more sub-topics than the ones we represented in Figure 1. However, we need to pick one so we can have a more focused research topic. Let’s assume that we choose to research the question regarding the impact of interest rates on the growth of construction in the United States. Once that we decided what our topic is going to be, we need to solve three main issues regarding our research project:
Review of literature: we need to research what other people have done previously. Especially, we need to find peer-reviewed publications of researchers that have worked in this specific area and look at their results. To find other research you should go to the website of the UNF Library and search for research papers in this specific area. The following is a guide on how to search the library at UNF:
Enter the Library website and in that website you click on Databases by Subject
Once you click that link a new page will open, which will show you all the different databases of research articles according to the disciplines of study. In our case, we will be interested in the Business (Finance, Investment, International, Management) and the Economics and Geography databases. The specific database will depend on the research topic you choose.
In our specific example, we should click on the Economics and Geography link. There a list of databases will appear. You should select one of them. Let’s say that we pick EconLit.
Once we picked EconLit, a new page will open, where we can start searching for research reports. Then, if we find one that we believe is germane to the selected topic, we can download it and read it and use it in our review of literature and reference sections.
It is important to remember that when we read other people’s work we are looking for the following:
How they addressed the research question
What data they used?
What kind of statistical technique they utilized?
What conclusions they reached?
This will allow us to move further in our research project and to be able to understand how to perform our task.
Data Availability: once we do a review of literature we should be able to tell what kind of data we need to do our research project. At this time, it is very important to be able to find out if the data is available and where we can find them. Many times a research project cannot continue because of the lack of datasets or because the information does not exist yet. It is very important that you can find the data. Useful sites to check out:
Census Bureau: www.census.gov
Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov
Bureau of Economic Analysis: www.bea.gov
Federal Reserve Database: http://www.research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
U.S. Government Open Data: www.data.gov
International Data (World Bank): http://data.worldbank.org/
Statistical Methodology: finally, after the review of literature is done and the dataset is located we need to determine what the methodology that we are going to use is. That means we need to decide which technique that we learnt in class is appropriated to answer the research question. Accordingly, you can use your review of literature to inform this decision, the textbook, class notes, etc.
Once you performed these three tasks you are ready to use excel to calculate your model and show your results. Accordingly, we are ready to write our research report.
Format Research Report
The following are the main sections of your research report and a short explanation of what the contents of each section should be:
Cover Page: contains the title, authors and class section.
Introduction: this is a short section of your paper, no more than one page. However, this is a very important part of your report, as this is the section that most people are going to read first. As a result, you need to make sure that people are convinced of the worthiness of your research. You should emphasize the following:
Why is this research topic important? Why the reader should keep reading? Why should the reader care about this paper?
What are the main findings of your research?
Why these findings are important?
Review of literature: Explains the previous work on this topic, if any, and how the topic of this paper fits that body of work. You need to explain, very shortly what other people have found with regards to this research question and how their findings compare to your findings. By mentioning other people’s work you discuss the problem at hand and how other people have addressed this problem. If your research topic is about your company you need to discuss the nature of the problem and the different solutions that were offered and why you think that your empirical analysis could improve those proposed solutions. This section should have 2-3 pages.
Data: in this section you need to describe the data you found, show a table with the main statistics, like the mean and the standard deviation for each variable. Explain what the sources of your data are. This sections should be 2 pages at the most.
Methodology and results: In this section you need to proceed as follows: first, explain the statistical techniques that you are going to use to answer your research question. For example, if you are using a regression model you need to show the theoretical equation with the independent variables and why are you using the variables that you are using. Second, you need to show your results and do the tests to show that your model, if it is a regression model, satisfies the assumptions. If you introduced some modifications to satisfy the assumptions, then you need to explain those changes. Finally, you need to explain your results main results and conclusions. This section should be 4-5 pages long.
Conclusions: Explains what the results are and why they are important. This sections should be 1 page long.
References should be listed at the back of the paper.
Appendixes after the references (if needed)
Length and Format: The length of the paper is 12-15 pages (12 pages minimum), including title page, references and figures, but excluding appendixes.
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Big Data Patents (Digital Intellectual Property Law)
Article By Sandro Sandri
1- BIG DATA
Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate to deal with them. Challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy. The term “big data” often refers simply to the use of predictive analytics, user behaviour analytics, or certain other advanced data analytics methods that extract value from data, and seldom to a particular size of data set.1 “There is little doubt that the quantities of data now available are indeed large, but that’s not the most relevant characteristic of this new data ecosystem.”
In another way Big Data is an evolving term that describes any voluminous amount structured, semistructured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information. It is often characterized by 3Vs: the extreme Volume of data, the wide Variety of data types and the Velocity at which the data must be processed. Although big data doesn’t equate to any specific volume of data, the term is often used to describe terabytes, petabytes and even exabytes of data captured over time. The need for big data velocity imposes unique demands on the underlying compute infrastructure. The computing power required to quickly process huge volumes and varieties of data can overwhelm a single server or server cluster. Organizations must apply adequate compute power to big data tasks to achieve the desired velocity. This can potentially demand hundreds or thousands of servers that can distribute the work and operate collaboratively. Achieving such velocity in a cost-effective manner is also a headache. Many enterprise leaders are reticent to invest in an extensive server and storage infrastructure that might only be used occasionally to complete big data tasks. As a result, public cloud computing has emerged as a primary vehicle for hosting big data analytics projects. A public cloud provider can store petabytes of data and scale up thousands of servers just long enough to accomplish the big data project. The business only pays for the storage and compute time actually used, and the cloud instances can be turned off until they’re needed again. To improve service levels even further, some public cloud providers offer big data capabilities, such as highly distributed Hadoop compute instances, data warehouses, databases and other related cloud services. Amazon Web Services Elastic MapReduce is one example of big data services in a public cloud.
Ultimately, the value and effectiveness of big data depends on the human operators tasked with understanding the data and formulating the proper queries to direct big data projects. Some big data tools meet specialized niches and allow less technical users to make various predictions from everyday business data. Still, other tools are appearing, such as Hadoop appliances, to help businesses implement a suitable compute infrastructure to tackle big data projects, while minimizing the need for hardware and distributed compute software know-how.
a) BIG DATA AND THE GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation, which is due to come into force in May 2018, establishes a few areas that have been either drafted with a view to encompass Big Data-related issues or carry additional weight in the context of Big Data, lets analyse just two aspects.
– Data processing impact assessment
According to the GDPR, where a type of processing in particular using new technologies, and taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller shall, prior to the processing, carry out an assessment of the impact of the envisaged processing operations on the protection of personal data. This criterion is most likely going to be met in cases of Big Data analytics, IoT or Cloud operations, where the processing carries high privacy risks due to the properties of either technology or datasets employed. For example, linking geolocation data to the persons name, surname, photo and transactions and making it available to an unspecified circle of data users can expose the individual to a higher than usual personal safety risk. Involving data from connected IoT home appliances or using a Cloud service to store and process such data is likely to contribute to this risk.
– Pseudonymisation
According to the GDPR, ‘pseudonymisation’ means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person. At least two aspects link pseudonymisation to Big Data. First, if implemented properly, it may be a way to avoid the need to obtain individual consent for Big Data operations not foreseen at the time of data collection. Second, paradoxically, Big Data operations combining potentially unlimited number of datasets also makes pseudonymisation more difficult to be an effective tool to safeguard privacy.
b) BIG DATA APPLICATIONS
Big data has increased the demand of information management specialists so much so that Software AG, Oracle Corporation, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, EMC, HP and Dell have spent more than $15 billion on software firms specializing in data management and analytics. In 2010, this industry was worth more than $100 billion and was growing at almost 10 percent a year: about twice as fast as the software business as a whole. Developed economies increasingly use data-intensive technologies. There are 4.6 billion mobile-phone subscriptions worldwide, and between 1 billion and 2 billion people accessing the internet. Between 1990 and 2005, more than 1 billion people worldwide entered the middle class, which means more people became more literate, which in turn lead to information growth. The world’s effective capacity to exchange information through telecommunication networks was 281 petabytes in 1986, 471 petabytes in 1993, 2.2 exabytes in 2000, 65 exabytes in 20073 and predictions put the amount of internet traffic at 667 exabytes annually by 2014. According to one estimate, one third of the globally stored information is in the form of alphanumeric text and still image data, which is the format most useful for most big data applications. This also shows the potential of yet unused data (i.e. in the form of video and audio content).
2 “Data, data everywhere”. The Economist. 25 February 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
3 Hilbert, Martin; López, Priscila (2011). “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information”. Science. 332 (6025): 60-65. doi:10.1126/science.1200970. PMID 21310967.
While many vendors offer off-the-shelf solutions for big data, experts recommend the development of in-house solutions custom-tailored to solve the company’s problem at hand if the company has sufficient technical capabilities.
2- PATENTS
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is a product or a process. Being so, Patents are a form of intellectual property.
A patent does not give a right to make or use or sell an invention.5 Rather, a patent provides, from a legal standpoint, the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the patented invention for the term of the patent, which is usually 20 years from the filing date6 subject to the payment of maintenance fees. From an economic and practical standpoint however, a patent is better and perhaps more precisely regarded as conferring upon its proprietor “a right to try to exclude by asserting the patent in court”, for many granted patents turn out to be invalid once their proprietors attempt to assert them in court.7 A patent is a limited property right the government gives inventors in exchange for their agreement to share details of their inventions with the public. Like any other property right, it may be sold, licensed, mortgaged, assigned or transferred, given away, or simply abandoned.
The procedure for granting patents, requirements placed on the patentee, and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements. Typically, however, a granted patent application must include one or more claims that define the invention. A patent may include many claims, each of which defines a specific property right.
4 WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook: Policy, Law and Use. Chapter 2: Fields of Intellectual Property Protection WIPO 2008
A patent is not the grant of a right to make or use or sell. It does not, directly or indirectly, imply any such right. It grants only the right to exclude others. The supposition that a right to make is created by the patent grant is obviously inconsistent with the established distinctions between generic and specific patents, and with the well-known fact that a very considerable portion of the patents granted are in a field covered by a former relatively generic or basic patent, are tributary to such earlier patent, and cannot be practiced unless by license
thereunder.” – Herman v. Youngstown Car Mfg. Co., 191 F. 579, 584-85, 112 CCA 185 (6th Cir. 1911)
6 Article 33 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
7 Lemley, Mark A.; Shapiro, Carl (2005). “Probabilistic Patents”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Stanford Law and
Economics Olin Working Paper No. 288. 19: 75.
relevant patentability requirements, such as novelty, usefulness, and non-obviousness. The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent others, or at least to try to prevent others, from commercially making, using, selling, importing, or distributing a patented invention without permission.
Under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, patents should be available in WTO member states for any invention, in all fields of technology,9 and the term of protection available should be a minimum of twenty years.10 Nevertheless, there are variations on what is patentable subject matter from country to country.
a) EUROPEAN PATENT LAW
European patent law covers a wide range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of 1973, and a number of European Union directives and regulations in countries which are party to the European Patent Convention. For certain states in Eastern Europe, the Eurasian Patent Convention applies.
Patents having effect in most European states may be obtained either nationally, via national patent offices, or via a centralised patent prosecution process at the European Patent Office (EPO). The EPO is a public international organisation established by the European Patent Convention. The EPO is not a European Union or a Council of Europe institution.[1] A patent granted by the EPO does not lead to a single European patent enforceable before one single court, but rather to a bundle of essentially independent national European patents enforceable before national courts according to different national legislations and procedures.[2] Similarly, Eurasian patents are granted by the Eurasian Patent Office and become after grant independent national Eurasian patents enforceable before national courts.
8 Lemley, Mark A.; Shapiro, Carl (2005). “Probabilistic Patents”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 288. 19: 75. doi:10.2139/ssrn.567883.
9 Article 27.1. of the TRIPs Agreement.
10 Article 33 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
European patent law is also shaped by international agreements such as the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement), the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) and the London Agreement.
3- BIG DATA PATENTS
11 Patent Analytics Solutions That Help Inventors Invent”, Outsell Inc, June 3 2016
Patent data is uniquely suited for big data tools and techniques, because of the high volume, high variety (including related information) and high velocity of changes. In fact, patents are leading the way with big data and analytics in many ways. “The patent space offers a fascinating insight into the potential of big data analytics, rich visualization tools, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and artificial intelligence”.11 Especially recently, big data tools and technologies are being used in several ways in the patent world to transform and improve patent analysis.
Patents and Intellectual Property are gradually gaining significance around the world. This is leading to a bottleneck-large databases and ever growing information. A new way around the innovation problem is to acquire patents. With examples such as Nokia, Motorola, Twitter, the patent purchases seem rather straightforward. Nokia sold a large chunk of its company to Microsoft, but held on to the crucial patents by signing a licensing deal. They can now earn a revenue using patents licensed to Microsoft. Google bought Motorola and its patents and later sold the company to Lenovo while holding on to the patents. There are ample such examples in the industry.
Transactions of Intellectual Property (IP) are rather complex. Per example, a basic component to be verified before a patent is granted, is novelty. In other words, if a priorart describing the invention is found, the application stands to be rejected. A prior-art could be in the form of a publication, a blog post, a lecture, a video, or a book. With a massive amount of information generated, that doubles every 18 months, it is extremely difficult to found prior-art. One way, some organizations follow, is crowdsourcing the prior art search. Details about the patent are published on a website asking IP professionals from around the world to find a prior-art. The emergence of Big Data analytics, on the other hand, has provided a clear solution. In addition, the outcomes through this method get better and precise with each operation.
Since Big Data analytics is still not commonly used by most government authorities, prior-art gets overlooked and many false patents are granted. This comes out when-in litigation-the opposing parties put all their efforts in looking for a prior-art to invalidate each other’s patents. More often than not, a prior-art is found or there is an out of court settlement. Hence, a concept called patent wall has gained traction. It is very common for companies to file as well as acquire a number of patents around the technology they are working on. This serves as a defence against litigators and allows the companies to market and sell their products/services without any fear of litigation.
The core value of patents is that the invention must be publicly disclosed in exchange for a time-limited monopoly on the invention. Patents are not only a legal asset that can block competitors, they are potentially a business and financial asset. For market participants, patents can provide direct insight into where competitors are headed strategically.
Big Data is the key to unlocking this inherent value. Patent information is comprised of vast data sets of textual data structures involving terabytes of information. When unlocked through Big Data techniques and analysis, the insights are compelling, revealing the direction a technology is headed and even uncovering the roadmap for a specific company’s product plans. But, deriving these insights from the proliferation of information requires truly sophisticated Big Data analysis.
While Big Data is quickly growing as a trend, what’s delivering more value these days are Big Data services that optimize specific data sets and create specialized analysis tools for that data. Technology teams that are dedicated to certain data sets will curate and improve the data, learn the specifics of that data and how best to analyze it, and create selfservice tools that are far more useful than generic Big Data technologies.
A key part of the Big Data service is a specialized analysis engine tailored to particular data. For example, a patent analysis engine must understand the dozens of metadata items on each patent in order to group patents correctly and traverse the references. To be most effective, Big Data services need to automatically keep up with the data updates, as patents are living documents that change over time. Even after the patent Big Data Patents is finalized and issued, it can be reclassified, assigned to a new owner, reexamined and updated, attached to a patent family or abandoned.
Most importantly, Big Data services are only as good as the insights they deliver – a Big Data service should provide a specialized user interface that allows real-time, userdriven analysis with search, correlations and groupings, visualizations, drill down and zooms. The patent data analysis must be presented in a manner that is compelling and consistent.
There are more than 22,000 published patent applications between 2004 and 2013 relating to big data and efficient computing technologies, resulting in almost 10,000 patent families. Patenting activity in this field has grown steadily over the last decade and has seen its highest increases in annual patenting over the last two years (2011-2012 and 2012-2013) of the present data set. The growth has continually been above the general worldwide increase in patenting, showing a small increase of 0.4% over worldwide patenting for the 2005-2006 period and showing a maximum increase of 39% for 2012-13.~
“Using” a patent effectively means suing a competitor to have them blocked access to market, or charge them a license for allowing them to sell. When a patent holder wishes to enforce a patent, the defendant often can invoke that the patent should not have been granted, because there was prior art at the time the patent was granted. And, while patent offices do not seem to have a clear incentive to take into account actual reality, including the exponentially available information created by Big Data, when reviewing the application, the situation is very different for a defendant in a patent lawsuit. They will have every incentive to establish that the patent should never have been granted, because there was pre-existing prior art, and the information in the patent was not new at the time of application. And one important consequence of Big Data will be that the information available to defendants in this respect, will also grow exponentially. This means that, the probability of being able to defend against a patent claim on the basis of prior art, will grow significantly. Because of the lag of time between patent applications and their use in court, the effect of the recent explosion of information as a result of Big Data is not very visible in the patent courts yet.
A patent is, of itself, an algorithm. It describes the process of a technical invention – how it works (at least, that’s what a patent is theoretically supposed to be doing). It is therefore quite possible that a lot of algorithms around analysis of Big Data will become patented themselves. It could be argued that this will act as a counterweight against the declining value and potential of patents.
Many of these algorithms are, in fact, not technical inventions. They are theoretical structures or methods, and could therefore easily fall into the area of non-patentable matter. Algorithmic patents are particularly vulnerable to the ability by others to “innovate” around them. It is quite unlikely that a data analysis algorithm would be unique, or even necessary from a technical point of view. Most data analysis algorithms are a particular way of doing similar things, such as search, clever search, and pattern recognition. There is, in actual fact, a commoditization process going on in respect of search and analytical algorithms. Patents are “frozen” algorithms. The elements of the algorithm described in a patent are fixed. In order to have a new version of the algorithm also protected, the patent will either have to be written very vague (which seriously increases the risk of rejection or invalidity) or will have to be followed up by a new patent, every time the algorithm is adapted. And the key observation around Big Data algorithms is that, in order to have continued business value, they must be adapted continuously. This is because the data, their volume, sources and behaviour, change continuously.
The consequence is that, even if a business manages to successfully patent Big Data analytical algorithms, such patent will lose its value very quickly. The reason is simple: the actual algorithms used in the product or service will quickly evolve away from the ones described in the patent. Again, the only potential answer to this is writing very broad, vague claims – an approach that does not work very well at all.
80% of all big data and efficient computing patent families (inventions) are filed by US and Chinese applicants, with UK applicants accounting for just 1.2% of the dataset and filing slightly fewer big data and efficient computing patents than expected given the overall level of patenting activity from UK applicants across all areas of technology.
Against this, however, it should be borne in mind that many of the potential improvements in data processing, particularly with regard to pure business methods and computer software routines, are not necessarily protectable by patents and therefore will not be captured by this report. UK patenting activity in big data and efficient computing has, on the whole, increased over recent years and the year-on-year changes are comparable to the growth seen in Germany, France and Japan.12
12 Intellectual Property Office, Eight Great Technologies Big Data A patent overview
ï‚· Herman v. Youngstown Car Mfg. Co., 191 F. 579, 112 CCA 185 (6th Cir. 1911)
ï‚· Hilbert, Martin; López, Priscila (2011). “The World’s Technological Capacity to
Store, Communicate, and Compute Information”. Science. (6025).
ï‚· Lemley, Mark A.; Shapiro, Carl (2005). “Probabilistic Patents”. Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No.
ï‚· Springer, New Horizons for a Data-Driven Economy –
ï‚· “Data, data everywhere”. The Economist. 25 February 2010. Retrieved 9
ï‚· Eight Great Technologies Big Data – A patent overview, Intellectual Property
ï‚· “Patent Analytics Solutions That Help Inventors Invent”, Outsell Inc, June 3 2016
ï‚· Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
ï‚· Article 33 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights (TRIPS).
ï‚· 75. doi:10.2139/ssrn.567883.
ï‚· TRIPs Agreement.
ï‚· WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook: Policy, Law and Use. Chapter 2: Fields of
Intellectual Property Protection WIPO 2008
Posted on November 17, 2017 October 30, 2018 by Blue Papers
David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning the Principals of Morals
Reason Versus Sentiment:
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of morals; whether they be derived from reason, or from sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgment of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.
The ancient philosophers, though they often affirm, that virtue is nothing but conformity to reason, yet, in general, seem to consider morals as deriving their existence from taste and sentiment. On the other hand, our modern enquirers, though they also talk much of the beauty of virtue, and deformity of vice, yet have commonly endeavored to account for these distinctions by metaphysical reasonings, and by deductions from the most abstract principles of the understanding. Such confusion reigned in these subjects, that an opposition of the greatest consequence could prevail between one system and another, and even in the parts of almost each individual system; and yet no body, till very lately, was ever sensible of it.
The Case for Reason:
It must be acknowledged, that both sides of the question are susceptible of specious arguments. Moral distinctions, it may be said, are discernible by pure reason: Else, whence the many disputes that reign in common life, as well as in philosophy, with regard to this subject: The long chain of proofs often produced on both sides; the examples cited, the authorities appealed to, the analogies employed, the fallacies detected, the inferences drawn, and the several conclusions adjusted to their proper principles. Truth is disputable; not taste: What exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgment; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment. Propositions in geometry may be proved, systems in physics may be controverted; but the harmony of verse, the tenderness of passion, the brilliancy of wit, must give immediate pleasure. No man reasons concerning another’s beauty; but frequently concerning the justice or injustice of his actions. In every criminal trial the first object of the prisoner is to disprove the facts alleged, and deny the actions imputed to him: The second to prove, that, even if these actions were real, they might be justified, as innocent and lawful. It is confessedly by deductions of the understanding, that the first point is ascertained: How can we suppose that a different faculty of the mind is employed in fixing the other?
The Case For Sentiment:
On the other hand, those who would resolve all moral determinations into sentiment, may endeavor to show, that it is impossible for reason ever to draw conclusions of this nature. To virtue, say they, it belongs to be amiable, andvice odious. This forms their very nature or essence. But can reason or argumentation distribute these different epithets to any subjects, and pronounce before-hand, that this must produce love, and that hatred? Or what other reason can we ever assign for these affections, but the original fabric and formation of the human mind, which is naturally adapted to receive them?
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other. But is this ever to be expected from inferences and conclusions of the understanding, which of themselves have no hold of the affections, or set in motion the active powers of men? They discover truths: But where the truths which they discover are indifferent, and beget no desire or aversion, they can have no influence on conduct and behaviour. What is honourable, what is fair, what is becoming, what is noble, what is generous, takes possession of the heart, and animates us to embrace and maintain it. What is intelligible, what is evident, what is probable, what is true, procures only the cool assent of the understanding; and gratifying a speculative curiosity, puts an end to our researches.
Extinguish all the warm feelings and prepossessions in favour of virtue, and all disgust or aversion to vice: Render men totally indifferent towards these distinctions; and morality is no longer a practical study, nor has any tendency to regulate our lives and actions.
The Limited Role of Reason:
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions. The final sentence, it is probable, which pronounces characters and actions amiable or odious, praise-worthy or blameable; that which stamps on them the mark of honour or infamy, approbation or censure; that which renders morality an active principle, and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: It is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species. For what else can have an influence of this nature? But in order to pave the way for such a sentiment, and give a proper discernment of its object, it is often necessary, we find, that much reasoning should precede, that nice distinctions be made, just conclusions drawn, distant comparisons formed, complicated relations examined, and general facts fixed and ascertained.
Some species of beauty, especially the natural kinds, on their first appearance, command our affection and approbation; and where they fail of this effect, it is impossible for any reasoning to redress their influence, or adapt them better to our taste and sentiment. But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes much of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.
Arguments Against Other Roles of Reason in Morality:
This partition between the faculties of understanding and sentiment, in all moral decisions, seems clear from the preceding hypothesis. But I shall suppose that hypothesis false: It will then be requisite to look out for some other theory, that may be satisfactory; and I dare venture to affirm, that none such will ever be found, so long as we suppose reason to be the sole source of morals. To prove this, it will be proper to weigh the five following considerations.
Approval as Not a Judgment About Fact Or Relations:
It is easy for a false hypothesis to maintain some appearance of truth, while it keeps wholly in generals, makes use of undefined terms, and employs comparisons, instead of instances. This is particularly remarkable in that philosophy, which ascribes the discernment of all moral distinctions to reason alone, without the concurrence of sentiment. It is impossible that, in any particular instance, this hypothesis can so much as be rendered intelligible; whatever specious figure it may make in general declamations and discourses. Examine the crime of ingratitude, for instance; which has place, wherever we observe good-will, expressed and known, together with good-offices performed, on the one side, and a return of ill-will or indifference, with ill-offices or neglect on the other: Anatomize all these circumstances, and examine, by your reason alone, in what consists the demerit or blame. You never will come to any issue or conclusion.
Reason Judges Either of matters or Fact or Relations:
Enquire then, first, where is that matter of fact, which we here call crime; point it out; determine the time of its existence; describe its essence or nature; explain the sense or faculty, to which it discovers itself. It resides in the mind of the person, who is ungrateful. He must, therefore, feel it, and be conscious of it. But nothing is there, except the passion of ill-will or absolute indifference. You cannot say, that these, of themselves, always, and in all circumstances, are crimes. No: They are only crimes, when directed towards persons, who have before expressed and displayed good-will towards us. Consequently, we may infer, that the crime of ingratitude is not any particular individual fact; but arises from a complication of circumstances, which, being presented to the spectator, excites the sentiment of blame, by the particular structure and fabric of his mind.
No New Fact Is Discovered:
When a man, at any time, deliberates concerning his own conduct (as, whether he had better, in a particular emergence, assist a brother or a benefactor), he must consider these separate relations, with all the circumstances and situations of the persons, in order to determine the superior duty and obligation: And in order to determine the proportion of lines in any triangle, it is necessary to examine the nature of that figure, and the relation which its several parts bear to each other. But notwithstanding this appearing similarity in the two cases, there is, at bottom, an extreme difference between them. A speculative reasoner concerning triangles or circles considers the several known and given relations of the parts of these figures; and thence infers some unknown relation, which is dependent on the former. But in moral deliberations, we must be acquainted, before-hand, with all the objects, and all their relations to each other; and from a comparison of the whole, fix our choice or approbation. No new fact to be ascertained: No new relation to be discovered. All the circumstances of the case are supposed to be laid before us, ere we can fix any sentence of blame or approbation. If any material circumstance be yet unknown or doubtful, we must first employ our enquiry or intellectual faculties to assure us of it; and must suspend for a time all moral decision or sentiment. While we are ignorant, whether a man were aggressor or not, how can we determine whether the person who killed him, be criminal or innocent? But after every circumstance, every relation is known, the understanding has no farther room to operate, nor any object on which it could employ itself. The approbation or blame, which then ensues, cannot be the work of the judgment, but of the heart; and is not a speculative proposition or affirmation, but an active feeling or sentiment. In the disquisitions of the understanding, from known circumstances and relations, we infer some new and unknown. In moral decisions, all the circumstances and relations must be previously known; and the mind, from the contemplation of the whole, feels some new impression of affection or disgust, esteem or contempt, approbation or blame.
Hence the great difference between a mistake of fact and one of right; and hence the reason why the one is commonly criminal and not the other. When OEdipus killed Laius, he was ignorant of the relation, and from circumstances, innocent and involuntary, formed erroneous opinions concerning the action which he committed. But when Nero killed Agrippina, all the relations between himself and the person, and all the circumstances of the fact, were previously known to him: But the motive of revenge, or fear, or interest, prevailed in his savage heart over the sentiments of duty and humanity. And when we express that detestation against him, to which he, himself, in a little time, became insensible; it is not, that we see any relations, of which he was ignorant; but that, from the rectitude of our disposition, we feel sentiments, against which he was hardened, from flattery and a long perseverance in the most enormous crimes. In these sentiments, then, not in a discovery of relations of any kind, do all moral determinations consist. Before we can pretend to form any decision of this kind, every thing must be known and ascertained on the side of the object or action. Nothing remains but to feel, on our part, some sentiment of blame or approbation; whence we pronounce the action criminal or virtuous.
Similarity Between Moral and Aesthetic Perception:
This doctrine will become still more evident, if we compare moral beauty with natural, to which, in many particulars, it bears so near a resemblance. It is on the proportion, relation, and position of parts, that all natural beauty depends; but it would be absurd thence to infer, that the perception of beauty, like that of truth in geometrical problems, consists wholly in the perception of relations, and was performed entirely by the understanding or intellectual faculties. In all the sciences, our mind, from the known relations, investigates the unknown. But in all decisions of taste or external beauty, all the relations are before-hand obvious to the eye; and we thence proceed to feel a sentiment of complacency or disgust, according to the nature of the object, and disposition of our organs.
Euclid has fully explained all the qualities of the circle; but has not, in any proposition, said a word of its beauty. The reason is evident. The beauty is not a quality of the circle. It lies not in any part of the line, whose parts are equally distant from a common centre. It is only the effect, which that figure produces upon the mind, whose peculiar fabric of structure renders it susceptible of such sentiments. In vain would you look for it in the circle, or seek it, either by your senses or by mathematical reasoning, in all the properties of that figure.
Attend to Palladio and Perrault, while they explain all the parts and proportions of a pillar: They talk of the cornice and frieze and base and entablature and shaft and architrave; and give the description and position of each of these members. But should you ask the description and position of its beauty, they would readily reply, that the beauty is not in any of the parts or members of a pillar, but results from the whole, when that complicated figure is presented to an intelligent mind, susceptible to those finer sensations. ’Till such a spectator appear, there is nothing but a figure of such particular dimensions and proportions: From his sentiments alone arise its elegance and beauty.
Again; attend to Cicero, while he paints the crimes of a Verres or a Catiline. You must acknowledge that the moral turpitude results, in the same manner, from the contemplation of the whole, when presented to a being, whose organs have such a particular structure and formation. The orator may paint rage, insolence, barbarity on the one side: Meekness, suffering, sorrow, innocence on the other: But if you feel no indignation or compassion arise in you from this complication of circumstances, you would in vain ask him, in what consists the crime or villainy, which he so vehemently exclaims against: At what time, or on what subject it first began to exist: And what has a few months afterwards become of it, when every disposition and thought of all the actors is totally altered or annihilated. No satisfactory answer can be given to any of these questions, upon the abstract hypothesis of morals; and we must at last acknowledge, that the crime or immorality is no particular fact or relation, which can be the object of the understanding: But arises entirely from the sentiment of disapprobation, which, by the structure of human nature, we unavoidably feel on the apprehension of barbarity or treachery.
No Distinctly Moral Relation:
Inanimate objects may bear to each other all the same relations, which we observe in moral agents; though the former can never be the object of love or hatred, nor are consequently susceptible of merit or iniquity. A young tree, which over-tops and destroys its parent, stands in all the same relations with Nero, when he murdered Agrippina; and if morality consisted merely in relations, would, no doubt, be equally criminal.
Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of reason and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood: The latter gives the sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one discovers objects as they really stand in nature, without addition or diminution: The other has a productive faculty, and gilding or staining all natural objects with the colours, borrowed from internal sentiment, raises, in a manner, a new creation. Reason, being cool and disengaged, is no motive to action, and directs only the impulse received from appetite or inclination, by showing us the means of attaining happiness or avoiding misery: Taste, as it gives pleasure or pain, and thereby constitutes happiness or misery, becomes a motive to action, and is the first spring or impulse to desire and volition. From circumstances and relations, known or supposed, the former leads us to the discovery of the concealed and unknown: After all circumstances and relations are laid before us, the latter makes us feel from the whole a new sentiment of blame or approbation. The standard of the one, being founded on the nature of things, is eternal and inflexible, even by the will of the Supreme Being: The standard of the other, arising from the internal frame and constitution of animals, is ultimately derived from that Supreme Will, which bestowed on each being its peculiar nature, and arranged the several classes and orders of existence.
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Erratum to: Additional Saturday rehabilitation improves functional independence and quality of life and reduces length of stay: a randomized controlled trial
Casey L Peiris1,2,
Nora Shields1,3,
Natasha K Brusco1,4,
Jennifer J Watts5 &
Nicholas F Taylor1,2
The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2013 11:198
Authors’ correction note
On reviewing our recently published trial in BMC Medicine [1], we realised that there were some minor errors in the demographic data reported in Table 1 and in 2 sentences of the accompanying text. Specifically, our sample comprised 365 men, not 359 as reported, and there were some very minor differences in the numbers of participants reported in each diagnostic category. The main contributing factors for the minor errors were misinterpretation of gender neutral first names, and grouping of the diagnostic codes assigned during data collection for reporting. We believe these changes do not affect the results or conclusions of our study, and are confident in the processes we employed (full double data entry by two independent teams) to ensure the integrity of the rest of our data. Table 1 has been corrected and the first two sentences in the accompanying text in the methods when describing the participants should read: Participants had a mean (SD) age of 74 (13) years and 631 (63%) were women (Table 1). A total of 581 (58%) participants were admitted with an orthopedic diagnosis, 203 (20%) with a neurological diagnosis and 212 (21%) participants were admitted with other disabling impairments. A total of 94% of participants were living independently in the community prior to their acute hospital admission.
Table 1 Baseline characteristics
This is a Correction article on http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/198.
Corrected text (page 4: Participants, first 2 sentences)
Please replace: Participants had a mean (SD) age of 74 (13) years and 637 (64%) were women (Table 1). A total of 579 (58%) participants were admitted with an orthopedic diagnosis, 203 (20%) with a neurological diagnosis and 214 (21%) participants were admitted with other disabling impairments.
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Participants had a mean (SD) age of 74 (13) years and 631 (63%) were women (Table 1). A total of 581 (58%) participants were admitted with an orthopedic diagnosis, 203 (20%) with a neurological diagnosis and 212 (21%) participants were admitted with other disabling impairments. A total of 94% of participants were living independently in the community prior to their acute hospital admission.
Peiris CL, Shields N, Brusco NK, Watts JJ, Taylor NF: Additional Saturday rehabilitation improves functional independence and quality of life and reduces length of stay: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Medicine. 2013, 11: 198-10.1186/1741-7015-11-198.
Department of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Casey L Peiris
, Nora Shields
, Natasha K Brusco
& Nicholas F Taylor
Allied Health Clinical Research Office, Eastern Health, Box Hill, Victoria, 3128, Australia
Allied Health Learning and Research Unit, Northern Health, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Nora Shields
Physiotherapy Services, Cabrini Health, Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Natasha K Brusco
School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
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The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/1741-7015-11-198
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Peiris, C.L., Shields, N., Brusco, N.K. et al. Erratum to: Additional Saturday rehabilitation improves functional independence and quality of life and reduces length of stay: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Med 11, 262 (2013) doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-262
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US 9th Cir.
CHAPMAN v. PIER IMPORTS INC 1132
United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit.
Byron CHAPMAN, Plaintiff–Appellee, v. PIER 1 IMPORTS (U.S.) INC., dba Pier 1 Imports # 1132, Defendant–Appellant.
No. 12–16857.
Decided: March 05, 2015
Before MARSHA S. BERZON and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and ELAINE E. BUCKLO, Senior District Judge.* Minh N. Vu (argued), Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, D.C.; Eden Anderson, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant–Appellant. Scottlyn J. Hubbard IV, Law Offices of Lynn Hubbard, Chico, CA, for Plaintiff–Appellee.
Byron Chapman, a wheelchair user, challenged numerous alleged barriers to access at Pier 1 Imports (U.S.) Inc.'s store in Vacaville, California (the “Store”) in a suit first filed in 2004. Chapman claimed that the alleged barriers denied him “full and equal” access to the Store in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA” or “the Act”). 42 U.S.C. § 12182(a). Seven years later, after an appeal to this Court, the district court held that the obstructions in shopping aisles and on sales counters Chapman encountered on numerous visits to the Store violated his rights under Title III of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12181 et seq. Having so concluded, the court granted Chapman's motion for summary judgment and enjoined Pier 1 from obstructing its aisles and counters in the future.
Pier 1 appeals, arguing that the alleged obstructions are “temporary” barriers to access under the ADA's implementing regulations and so do not violate Chapman's rights under the Act. 28 C.F.R. § 36.211(b). We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.
This appeal is another chapter in this case's lengthy history. Byron Chapman is disabled by a spinal cord injury and requires the use of a motorized wheelchair when traveling in public. In July 2004, Chapman sued Pier 1 under the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12181 et seq., the Disabled Persons Act, Cal. Civ.Code § 54 et seq., and the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ.Code § 51 et seq.1 Chapman's 2004 Complaint requested injunctive relief requiring the Store to remove numerous barriers. Some of those barriers Chapman had personally encountered during his visits to the Store; others he had not, but, he alleged, they might impede his access during future visits. The challenged barriers—both those he had encountered and those he had not—were listed in an “Accessibility Survey” attached to the Complaint.
The parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment. Chapman's motion appended a new and separate list of unencountered barriers identified by his accessibility expert, Joe Card. See Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports (U.S.) Inc., 631 F.3d 939, 943–44 (9th Cir.2011) (en banc). The district court granted summary judgment for Pier 1 as to many of the challenged barriers, but ruled for Chapman as to seven barriers listed in the Card Report, none of which Chapman had personally encountered at the Store. See id. at 944.
Pier 1's position on appeal was that Chapman did not have Article III standing to challenge unencountered alleged barriers. Sitting en banc, we “clarif[ied] that when an ADA plaintiff has suffered an injury-in-fact by encountering a barrier that deprives him of full and equal enjoyment of the facility due to his particular disability, he has standing to sue for injunctive relief as to that barrier and other barriers related to his disability, even if he is not deterred from returning to the public accommodation at issue.” Id. at 944. But, we held, Chapman still lacked standing under this standard to litigate his ADA claim. His complaint, we explained, did not allege “which, if any, of the alleged violations deprived him of the same full and equal access that a person who is not wheelchair bound would enjoy ․ [or] identify how any of the alleged violations threatens to deprive him of full and equal access due to his disability if he were to return to the Store, or how any of them deter him from visiting the Store due to his disability.” Id. at 955. We therefore vacated the grant of summary judgment and remanded to the district court.
After remand, Chapman filed a Second Amended Complaint, alleging that on numerous visits to the Store he had encountered two specific barriers violative of his rights under the ADA. First, he alleged, the Store's “customer service counter for disabled patrons” was cluttered by merchandise, a condition which prevented customers with disabilities from easily purchasing items. Second, he claimed, the Store did not maintain accessible routes for wheelchair users, as the Store's aisles were often obstructed with merchandise and other items. According to Chapman, these barriers interfered with his ability to “use and enjoy the goods, services, privileges, and accommodations offered at the store,” and denied him “full and equal access.” Moreover, he alleged, Pier 1 “knew that these elements and areas of the stores were inaccessible, violate state and federal law, and interfere with (or deny) access to the physically disabled.”
Pier 1 once again filed a motion for summary judgment, this time contending that any obstructions of the sales counter or the store aisles were “temporary,” and so not violations of the ADA. More specifically, Pier 1 argued that the obstructions at the Store fell within the scope of DOJ regulations providing that “isolated or temporary” obstructions to accessibility do not violate the ADA. In support of its motion for summary judgment, Pier 1 submitted declarations by Kim R. Blackseth, Pier 1's disability accessibility expert, and Tracy Snow, the Store's manager since November 2004.
Blackseth stated in his expert report that (1) on the date of his inspection, the Store's customer service counter was “clear of goods”; (2) the “aisles throughout the store were the required minimum 36″ wide and clear of goods”; and (3) he was “able to navigate the aisles in [his] electric Invacare wheelchair.” The report contained photographs from the November 2011 inspection, depicting three aisles clear of obstructions.
According to Snow's declaration, she had “been a part of Pier 1[sic] efforts to assist its mobility-impaired customers and to ensure the stores aisles are 36 inches wide, pursuant to Pier 1's policy.” Snow explained that the Store's monthly merchandise plans directing employees on how to place merchandise for display “always include an instruction to maintain an aisle-width of at least 36 inches for the shopping aisles.” She went on to report that because customers commonly move merchandise around the Store, and because Store employees must move merchandise for customers or for stocking purposes, the Store “ha[d] adopted a number of strategies for ensuring the Store's shopping aisles” remained accessible—for example, directing that employees regularly walk around the Store with a yard stick to measure the width of Store aisles. Moreover, Snow stated, she and two other managers had personally measured all the shopping aisles at the Store, finding each to be at least 36 inches wide.
Chapman opposed Pier 1's motion and filed a cross-motion for summary judgment. He explained that on each of his eleven visits to the Store in 2011 and 2012, aisles were obstructed by merchandise or other items, such that “there were times that [he] could not reach or get to certain items, height or not, due to the aisles being blocked.” Additionally, on at least on two occasions, the store's accessible sales counter, designed to be used by Pier 1 customers using wheelchairs, was cluttered with objects.
Chapman enlisted expert Joe Card once again to support his position. Card inspected the Store's aisles and accessible counter and reported numerous obstructions. Relying upon a number of photographs he had taken of alleged barriers, as well as his wife's declaration and the Card report, Chapman argued that there is no genuine dispute of material fact concerning whether merchandise blocked accessible routes and counters during his eleven visits to the store. He contended that these barriers were “not temporary, isolated occurrences ․ but, rather, a systematic pattern of abuse against the disabled.”
The district court denied Pier 1's motion for summary the district court rejected Pier 1's argument that the ADA does not apply to movable obstructions, because Chapman himself, or store employees upon request, could clear the items.2 “DOJ commentaries—and the ADA itself—refer to an obligation that defendant bears,” the court observed, and the ADA was intended “to eliminate the stereotype of the helpless disabled person completely reliant on the assistance of able-bodied persons to come to their rescue.” Therefore, the court ruled, accessible facilities “must be maintained in a condition that allows a disabled person to actually use them.”
The district court then turned to Pier 1's defense that the barriers were only “temporary,” and so did not violate the ADA. Noting that the applicable ADA regulations exempt liability for “isolated or temporary” interruptions in the availability of accessible features, the district court explained that applicable interpretive authorities indicate that “ ‘[t]emporary,’ as used in this context, is closer to ‘transitory,’ that is, an object that is unavoidably placed in the aisle, but with the intention of removing it as soon as possible.” For instance, Pier 1's defense would be applicable where “boxes [were] temporarily placed in an accessible route while being moved from, say, ‘the hall to the storage room .’ “ The district court found that Chapman's declaration and his expert report sufficiently established that the barriers Chapman encountered at the Store were not “transitory” in this sense.
After determining that Pier 1 failed to establish any other defense or genuine dispute of fact, the district court granted summary judgment to Chapman on his ADA claim and the dependent state law claims. The district court accordingly issued a permanent injunction enjoining Pier 1 from (1) blocking its aisles with merchandise or other items, “except for the unavoidable transitory blockages caused by re-stocking and similar activities”; and (2) cluttering its accessible sales counter with materials other than the “unavoidable transitory clutter resulting from the current use of that counter to check-out merchandise.” Pier 1 timely appealed.
II. Statutory and Regulatory Provisions
The ADA “provide[s] a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with disabilities.” 42 U.S.C. § 12101(b)(1). Title III of the Act, at issue here, “prohibits discrimination against the disabled in the full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations.” Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd., 545 U.S. 119, 128, 125 S.Ct. 2169, 162 L.Ed.2d 97 (2005) (citing 42 U.S.C. § 12182(a)). Retail stores, like Pier 1, are public accommodations. 42 U.S.C. § 12181(7)(E). The general anti-discrimination prohibitions of Title III, id. § 1282(b)(1), are supplemented by various, specific prohibitions, including requirements that entities providing public accommodations must (1) make “reasonable modifications in polices, practices, or procedures, when such modifications are necessary” to provide persons with disabilities full and equal enjoyment, id. § 12182(b)(2)(A)(ii); (2) “remove architectural barriers ․ in existing facilities ․ where such removal is readily achievable,” id. § 12182(b)(2)(A)(iv); and (3) “design and construct facilities ․ that are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities,” id. § 12183(a)(1).
The regulations implementing ADA Title III, see id. § 12186(b), require that a public accommodation “maintain in operable working condition those features of facilities and equipment that are required to be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities by the Act or this part.” 28 C.F.R. § 36.211(a). “Whether a facility is ‘readily accessible’ is defined, in part, by the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (‘ADAAG’),” which “lay out the technical structural requirements of places of public accommodation.” Chapman, 631 F.3d at 945 (internal citations and quotation marks omitted); see 28 C.F.R. pt. 36, app. A (1991 ADAAG Standards).3 “The ADAAG's requirements are as precise as they are thorough, and the difference between compliance and noncompliance with the standard of full and equal enjoyment established by the ADA is often a matter of inches.” Chapman, 631 F.3d at 945–46. “We have held that ‘obedience to the spirit of the ADA’ does not excuse noncompliance with the ADAAG's requirements .” Id. at 945 (quoting Long v. Coast Resorts, Inc., 267 F.3d 918, 923 (9th Cir.2001)).
Three regulatory requirements underlie the current dispute. The ADAAG provide that “[t]he minimum clear width of an accessible route shall be 36 in[ches].” 28 C.F.R. pt. 36, app. A, § 4.3.3. The ADAAG also specify that, “[i]n department stores and miscellaneous retail stores where counters have cash registers and are provided for sales or distribution of goods or services to the public, at least one of each type shall have a portion of the counter which is at least 36 in (915mm) in length with a maximum height of 36 in (915 mm) above the finish floor.” Id., § 7.2(1). Finally, the generally applicable regulations explain that the requirement that public accommodations maintain “readily accessible” facilities and equipment “does not prohibit isolated or temporary interruptions in service or access due to maintenance or repairs.” 28 C.F.R. § 36.211(b) (emphasis added). The parties' disagreement centers on the latter provision as applied to the aisle clearance width and accessible counter requirements.
Fleshing out the import of § 36.211(b), the Technical Assistance Manual (“Manual”)4 published by the DOJ “pursuant to Title III's directive to provide technical assistance to covered entities,” Miller v. California Speedway Corp., 536 F.3d 1020, 1026 (9th Cir.2008), provides that “[w]here a public accommodation must provide an accessible route, the route must remain accessible and not blocked by obstacles such as furniture, filing cabinets, or potted plants,” Manual § III–3.7000.5 It also explains that “[a]n isolated instance of placement of an object on an accessible route would not be a violation, if the object is promptly removed.” Id. DOJ commentaries to the final rule revising Title III's implementing regulations similarly note that “a temporary interruption that blocks an accessible route, such as restocking of shelves,” is permitted by § 36.211(b). 75 Fed.Reg. 56,236, 56,270 (Sept. 15, 2010).6 Like the Manual, the commentaries recognize that “accessible routes” or “other feature[s]” cannot be “built in compliance with the ADA, only to be blocked or changed later so that it is inaccessible,” 73 Fed.Reg. 34,508, 34,523 (June 17, 2008):
A common problem observed by the Department is that covered facilities do not maintain accessible routes. For example, the accessible routes in offices or stores are commonly obstructed by boxes, potted plants, display racks, or other items so that the routes are inaccessible to people who use wheelchairs. Under the ADA, the accessible route must be maintained and, therefore, these items are required to be removed. If the items are placed there temporarily—for example, if an office receives multiple boxes of supplies and is moving them from the hall to the storage room—then § 36.211(b) excuses such “isolated or temporary interruptions.”
Also of some relevance, at least by analogy, is the DOJ's guidance with respect to the maintenance of equipment. The Manual explains that, while mechanical failures in “equipment such as elevators or automatic doors” are bound to happen, “the obligation to ensure that facilities are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities would be violated, if repairs are not made promptly or if improper or inadequate maintenance causes repeated and persistent failures.” Manual § III–3.7000. Likewise, the DOJ commentaries to the rule implementing Title III state that, while “temporary obstructions or isolated instances of mechanical failure would not be considered violations of the [ADA],” “allowing obstructions or ‘out of service’ equipment to persist beyond a reasonable period of time would violate this part, as would repeated mechanical failures due to improper or inadequate maintenance.” 56 Fed.Reg. 35,544, 35,562 (July 26, 1991) (emphasis added).
III. Analysis
A. Aisles
Applying the interpretive aids just summarized, we conclude, as did the district court, that the obstructed aisles Chapman encountered while visiting the Store were not “isolated or temporary interruptions in ․ access” under 28 C.F.R. § 36.211(b).
Chapman encountered several obstructed and blocked aisles on each of eleven separate visits to the Store in 2011 and 2012. The photographs Chapman submitted with his declaration depict a number of aisles that contain merchandise or other items, resulting in a functional width measurably less than the 36 inches required under the ADAAG. Many of the aisles appear inaccessible due to the presence of large items, such as furniture (armchairs and tables), or display racks holding merchandise and ladders. Some of the aisles blocked to wheelchair users would have been accessible to nondisabled customers, who could have walked around or along the side of the blockage.
Additionally, Card's expert report notes that when he visited the Store—on a different day than Chapman's visits—he “witnessed a number of aisles blocked by merchandise or reduced in width below 36 inches.” The photographs Card took during his November 3, 2011, inspection confirm that some of the aisles were blocked to wheelchair users.
To dispute this evidence, Pier 1 submitted, first, an expert report. The report states that, on two inspections of the Store in October and November 2011, the “aisles throughout the store were the required minimum 36″ wide and clear of goods,” and that the expert was “able to navigate the aisles in [his] electric Invacare wheelchair.” That the Store's aisles were clear on two visits by Pier 1's expert does not create a triable issue of fact as to the state of the aisles on the eleven occasions when Chapman visited the Store in 2011 and 2012. If those occasions are sufficient to demonstrate noncompliance with the ADA—as we ultimately conclude they are—it does not matter that there was compliance on two occasions when Pier 1's hired expert inspected the Store.
Pier 1's other factual submission in support of its summary judgment motion is the Snow Declaration. That Declaration, Pier 1 maintains, shows that the Store had “policies and procedures” in place to ensure that the aisles remained unobstructed by merchandise, and so “undisputably established that any items that were in the aisles or on the accessible check-out counter were ‘transitory’ or ‘in transit’ to their proper location.”7
The existence of policies designed to limit obstructions does not establish that the obstructions that Chapman encountered were “temporary.” Instead, Chapman's evidence demonstrates that these policies and procedures were either ineffective in preventing frequent blocking of the aisles or honored in the breach.
Moreover, as the district court observed, “the Snow Declaration ․ did not ascribe the aisle blockages to merchandise stocking,” but to the fact that any obstructions would be moved on request or in time. The DOJ interpretive authorities make clear that the presence of items in aisles is not “temporary” for the purposes of § 36.211(b) just because the obstructing items in the aisles were placed there by customers and would have been moved on request or eventually. The presence of blocking items was fairly frequent during Chapman's visits to the Store, not a single or isolated occurrence. Nor is there any indication that the interruption of access was “due to maintenance or repairs,” id.; Manual § III–3.7000, or occurred in the course of moving the items from one place to another, or during re-stocking, see 75 Fed.Reg. at 56,270; 73 Fed.Reg. at 34,523.
We note in this connection that given its frequency, the aisle access problem must be viewed systemically, not as a series of individual barriers to access. Removing one obstructing object does not assure accessible aisles where it is likely that soon thereafter another item will be moved and create a blockage. Thus, the evidence that Chapman encountered “repeated and persistent failures” in accessing the aisles, Manual § III–3.7000, confirms that the Store failed to remedy the problem “promptly,”—that is, within a “reasonable period of time,” 56 Fed.Reg. at 35,562—rendering its maintenance “improper or inadequate.” Manual § III–3.7000.
To be sure, the “regulations implementing the ADA do not contemplate perfect service.” Midgett v. Tri–County Metro. Transp. Dist. of Or., 254 F.3d 846, 849 (9th Cir.2001). Consequently, “an isolated or temporary hindrance to access does not give rise to a claim under the ADA.” Gilkerson v. Chasewood Bank, 1 F.Supp.3d 570, 589 (S.D.Tex.2014) (citing cases). But the cases so holding have generally concerned truly isolated failures to maintain readily accessible facilities.
Foley v. City of Lafayette, Ind., 359 F.3d 925 (7th Cir.2004), for example, addressed a plaintiff's claim that a train station's failure to clear snow from ramps and repair an elevator after a weekend of significant snowfall violated the ADA. Noting that the “train station is, in the normal course of operation, fully accessible to individuals with disabilities,” Foley determined that the single “weather-related breakdown of elevator service” at issue was not a violation of the ADA. Id. at 928–30. In so holding, the Seventh Circuit explained that “given the conditions, [the elevator] was repaired promptly,” and that “there was no evidence from which a reasonable inference could be drawn that other disabled persons were denied access because of frequent elevator breakdowns.” Id. at 930; see also Tanner v. Wal–Mart Stores, Inc., No. 99–44–JD, 2000 WL 620425, at *6 (D.N.H. Feb.8, 2000) (holding that a store's single “failure to remove shopping carts and failure to properly remove ice and snow from [a] handicapped parking space does not constitute a Title III violation”). Likewise, Sharp v. Capitol City Brewing Co., LLC, 680 F.Supp.2d 51, 59 (D.D.C.2010), denied the plaintiff's ADA claim based on an empty ADA-compliant toilet paper dispenser encountered on a single visit to the defendant restaurant. The court held that the plaintiff “failed to show that this one instance of the dispenser being empty was anything more than an ‘isolated or temporary interruption[ ] in ․ access.’ “ Id. (alteration in original) (quoting 28 C.F.R. § 36.211(b)).
Here, in contrast, the evidence demonstrates that Pier 1 repeatedly failed to maintain accessible routes in its Store. Furthermore, while the defendant did not cause the obstruction of access in Foley, at least some of the obstructions here appear to have resulted from the affirmative actions of Pier 1 and its employees. For example, the large step ladders obstructing the aisles on Chapman's visits, were almost surely placed there by the Store's staff rather than by customers. See also Madden v. Del Taco, Inc., 150 Cal.App.4th 294, 58 Cal.Rptr.3d 313, 320 (2007) (holding that a restaurant's placement of a concrete trash container on entrance ramp, which “appear[ed] to be a result of the affirmative conduct of [defendant],” was not exempted under § 36.211(b)).
In sum, Chapman's evidence establishes that the barriers he repeatedly encountered in the Store's aisles were not “temporary” within the meaning of § 36.211(b). We therefore affirm the grant of summary judgment to Chapman on his claim that the Store failed to maintain readilyaccessible aisles, and affirm the denial of summary judgment to Pier 1.
B. Sales Counter
We reverse, however, the district court's grant of summary judgment on Chapman's ADA claim as to the accessible sales counter.
Chapman offers insufficient evidence that the obstructions on the counter violated his rights under Title III of the ADA. In contrast to the items blocking the aisles for wheelchair users, the items on the otherwise properly accessible sales counter depicted in Chapman's photographs were not a barrier to the use of the counter by persons with disabilities.
For example, the asserted “clutter[ ],” on the sales counter detailed in Chapman's expert report consisted of “a display of books in a basket, three coffee cups, and a movable store telephone.”8 There is no evidence that the presence of these various small items on the otherwise accessible sales counter deprived wheelchair users of “full and equal” access to the use of the counters for their intended use—placing items for purchase and transacting sales. 42 U.S.C. § 12182(a).
Additionally, the record indicates that the clutter Chapman encountered at the accessible sales counter caused, at most, “temporary or isolated interruptions in ․ access” under § 36 .211(b). Notably, unlike the shopping aisles, which were non-ADA-compliant for wheelchair users on all eleven visits Chapman made to the Store in 2011 and 2012, there were items on the sales counter on only two or three visits. Moreover, on those occasions, Chapman was “eventually” able to put the merchandise he wished to purchase on the counter, after the Pier 1 employee behind the counter moved the obstructing items. Thus, unlike the aisle situation, Pier 1 did “promptly remove[ ]” the obstructing items from the sales counter, Manual § III–3.7000, so the difficulty did not “persist beyond a reasonable period of time,” 56 Fed.Reg. at 35,562.
In sum, Chapman was not entitled to summary judgment on his ADA claim concerning the accessible sales counter.
We affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment on Chapman's claim that the Store's failure to maintain accessible aisles violated his rights under the ADA. We also affirm the grant of summary judgment on Chapman's state law claims, which, as noted above, are entirely dependent on establishing an ADA violation. We reverse the grant of summary judgment as to Chapman's claim concerning the Store's accessible sales counter, and remand to the district court to modify the injunction consistent with this opinion.
AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, AND REMANDED.
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
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NEW JERSEY CHAPTER, v. STATE BOARD OF PROF. PLANNERS
LATTIMER v. CRYSTAL CLEAR, INC.(1967)
Argued: Decided: October 9, 1967
Appeal dismissed and certiorari denied.
Leonard P. Henderson for appellant.
The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for a writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied.
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NEW JERSEY CHAPTER, v. STATE BOARD OF PROF. PLANNERS, 389 U.S. 8 (1967)
389 U.S. 8
NEW JERSEY CHAPTER, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS, ET AL. v. NEW JERSEY
STATE BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNERS ET AL.
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY. No. 273.
Decided October 9, 1967.
48 N. J. 581, 227 A. 2d 313, appeal dismissed and certiorari denied.
Roberts B. Owen and John W. Douglas for appellants.
Arthur J. Sills, Attorney General of New Jersey, and Elias Abelson, Deputy Attorney General, for New Jersey State Board of Professional Planners, and Adrian M. Foley, Jr., for Goodkind et al., appellees.
The motions to dismiss are granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for a writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied. [389 U.S. 8, 9]
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Human Rights in the Federal Budget Part 2: The Attorney-General’s Department
Published May 22, 2013 July 29, 2013 by adammcbeth in Australia, Australian Law, Legal Aid, Right to a fair trial
By Adam McBeth
The Attorney-General’s Department has trumpeted the commitment of an additional $130 million in the next year “to improve access to justice for all Australians.” The bulk of that amount will be spent on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse, with a further $23.5 million split between Community Legal Centres, State and Territory Legal Aid Commissions and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. Additional spending for the appointment of three more Federal Court judges and related support staff is also included.
Additional spending on all of those areas is indeed welcome. In the case of the Royal Commission, it provides an opportunity to air and redress past wrongs. In the other areas, the additional spending will improve, to some extent, the possibility of achieving a fair trial. However, a slight improvement in the chance of achieving a fair trial is a very long way short of what the federal government ought to be aiming for in securing a fundamental human right and the bedrock assumption on which the entire Australian legal system is based.
The Legal Aid funding crisis caused Victoria Legal Aid in January to restrict the range of cases eligible for legal aid and to limit the amount of assistance provided for each case, affecting the capacity of vulnerable people to receive adequate representation and a fair trial, particularly in criminal and family law cases. The courts have been so troubled by the reduced availability of Legal Aid, especially when it results in a mismatch of resources between the prosecution and the defence, that at least two criminal trials have already been stayed in Victoria this year on the basis that the under-funded accused would not receive a fair trial. For cases that go ahead, trials with unrepresented litigants are typically longer and more drawn out, as the judge is forced to guide the litigant through the process. The upfront savings in Legal Aid cuts therefore represent a false economy, as courts’ backlogs blow out, costing taxpayers far more in the long run.
Legal Aid is administered through separate Legal Aid Commissions based in each State and Territory. Traditionally, Legal Aid funding has been shared between Commonwealth and State or Territory governments on a 50-50 basis. While the share of funding differs from one jurisdiction to another, the Commonwealth is well short of halfway. In Victoria, the Commonwealth currently funds just a third of Legal Aid, which cannot improve significantly from the paltry additional money, which represents less than one fifth of the amount estimated by the Law Council of Australia as necessary to bring the Commonwealth contribution back to a half share in each jurisdiction.
When challenged before the budget about the need to increase Legal Aid funding, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus blamed the emphasis of conservative State governments on law-and-order campaigns for an increased in demand for Legal Aid, and insisted that since State policies had put more people before the courts, State governments should pay for the legal services. That position is churlish at best and turns a blind eye to the dire situation facing unrepresented individuals. A significant proportion of the increased criminal case load in the lower courts comes from domestic violence cases, which has nothing at all to do with law-and-order campaigns and everything to do with a laudable cultural shift among police and the public in ending the tolerance of violence against women and children in the home.
The focus of commentators on Legal Aid has meant that some crucial cuts in the Attorney-General’s budget have slipped under the radar. Among them is a cut of $5 million from Australia’s contribution to the International Criminal Court, reducing it to the minimum compulsory amount for Australia as a member state of the Court.
The Human Rights Education Program has also been slashed, saving $1.5 million over 3 years, ostensibly to “remove an overlap with programs run by the Australian Human Rights Commission.” The sharpest sting in this cut is not the loss of the education programs that would otherwise have run, but the signal of the Gillard Government’s regard for human rights.
Shortly after the Rudd Government came into office in 2007, it established a National Human Rights Consultation, chaired by Father Frank Brennan, to determine the best way to protect human rights in Australia. The report of the Consultation recommended the adoption of a Human Rights Act for Australia, which would end the shameful situation in which Australia is the only developed country in the world not to have comprehensive constitutional or legislative protection of human rights. However, the government’s response to the Consultation report – known as Australia’s Human Rights Framework, launched in 2010 – rejected the idea of a Human Rights Act. Instead, the government proclaimed its “commitment to positive and practical action in relation to human rights”, reminiscent of Tony Abbott’s “practical action” mantra used to cloak his climate change denialism. The “centrepiece” of the Human Rights Framework, to use the government’s term, was human rights education, facilitated through the Human Rights Education Program. With the Australian Human Rights Framework in 2010, the government sought to paper over a gaping hole. Now, in the 2013-14 budget, it is taking away all but a scrap of the paper.
If the Human Rights Act was unnecessary because the same objectives could be achieved through human rights education, and those human rights education programs have now been decimated, can we please have a Human Rights Act?
On the other side of the budget ledger, $68.4 million is provided over 2 years for increased border surveillance for boat arrivals, making it the third largest commitment in the Attorney-General’s portfolio, after the Royal Commission on Child Abuse and assistance for people affected by floods and natural disasters.
This piece also appeared on New Matilda entitled Cuts to Justice End Up Costing Us
Read the companion piece to this post – ‘Human Rights in the Federal Budget Part 1: Creative Accounting and Overseas Aid’.
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OPINION: In conversation… with Saleemul Huq – Extended Version, Part 3
Part 3: Bangladesh, the iconic country for climate change
Simon Maxwell: We’re interested in the question of what Bangladesh might look like by 2030, say if there were no climate change and what changes we have to make if there is climate change.
Saleemul Huq: Let me look back a generation, since Bangladesh became independent in 1971. I think over that period there’s been several major achievements in Bangladesh. The population growth rate has come down very considerably, from something in the region of 3% a year to less than 2% a year in a predominantly Muslim country without cohesion and that’s the major breakthrough – getting the Muslim Imams on board on family planning, providing mother and child care to the population. At the same time we’ve also improved education of the populous in general, particularly girls education and now women going into the workforce for example in the textile and garment industry.
Simon: Well now here we have Bangladesh a successful country, if we project all that to 2030, I imagine you would say Bangladesh is likely to be much more industrialised, much larger service sector, 2% growth a year still gives us quite a big increase in the population by 2030. Does Bangladesh find its place in the world in that region where you have your Thailands and your Malaysias and of course India growing so fast and China on the other side? Where’s Bangladesh’s niche going to be?
Saleem: Well Bangladesh sees itself in the next 20 years becoming a middle income country maybe in the order of between Thailand and Malaysia – it has the ability to do so. We have a very thriving private sector and very capable entrepreneurs who’ve established themselves in certain sectors in the garments and textiles in particular, they can upgrade to higher technologies; very thriving mobile phone sector for example in Bangladesh; and a very thriving social, entrepreneurial sector. In fact we have, by some accounts, the biggest NGO in the world, BRAC, which is now an international NGO working in Afghanistan and in many countries in Africa,
Simon: And of course Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize Winner?
Saleem: And we have Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen bank in micro finance as well.
Simon: Now if we take that picture which is an optimistic picture for Bangladesh, how does climate change threaten the trajectory?
Saleem: Well climate change threatens the trajectory quite significantly. I mean Bangladesh in the climate change world has become the iconic vulnerable country, we have floods which are going to get worse, we have cyclones which are going to get more frequent or more intense, we have droughts in part of the country during part of the year as well. So most of the climatic impacts other than very dry conditions are going to affect the country and it will affect agriculture, it will affect livelihoods of people, but these are not unknowns, these are things, as I’ve mentioned, we have coped with in the past; they’ll just get worse. So we need to be much, much better prepared than we used to be. A few years ago, when we had a major flood in Bangladesh, I happened to be in the country and the Prime Minister’s Secretary, in the Prime Minister’s office, who was organising the relief effort invited me to a meeting and he asked me, he said – is this what we should expect with climate change, what should we do – and I said – well yes this is the kind of thing you should expect and what you need to do is expect it every year, don’t wait for the next 20 years for the next one in 20 year flood, assume it might happen next year; prepare yourself.
Simon: Tells us a bit about how Bangladesh is addressing that challenge of managing the planning and the politics of climate change.
Saleem: Well I’ll give you my personal take on it, which I think is evolving from having the climate change issue be part in the ghetto of environment. It was seen as an environment problem and the economic pressing issues of development and growth were seen as much more important and environment was a luxury we couldn’t afford, or we worry about later on; that I think has changed dramatically now. Even the highest political levels in the government and in political parties more generally.
Simon: And is that a cross party issue or is it part of the political conversation at large?
Saleem: It’s absolutely a cross party issue, I’ll give you one example – the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan that I mentioned was prepared about a year and a half ago by the previous government, and it was prepared by Bangladeshi national research experts and government people with consultation from civil society, and it was presented to the Cabinet about a year and a half ago, and the finance minister at the time was so taken with this he said – why are we waiting for international assistance to do this, we should do it ourselves – and he allocated $50 million worth of Bangladeshi currency in his own national budget to implement a climate change strategy and action plan. And then that started rolling out and then we had elections and a new government came in. The new finance Minister added another $50 million to the climate change strategy, they adopted it lock stock and barrel and Bangladesh has now put $100 million of its own money into implementing its climate change strategy. At the same time it’s asking for international assistance as well, but it’s not waiting for that to happen.
Simon: How necessary is it for Bangladesh that there be an international climate accord to replace Kyoto and how necessary is it to have the level of international funding – the $100 billion a year that’s been talked about to support the poor and vulnerable countries?
Saleem: Well on the first point I think it’s absolutely essential. There’s only so much that the poor and vulnerable countries can do to adapt to the major impacts of higher temperatures, global temperatures, maybe a degree, one and a half degrees up to possible two degrees they could do it themselves, but if it goes to three, three and a half, four degrees, which is where we’re now projected to go, then they’re not going to be able to manage at all, and not only them the entire globe is going to be in very, very big trouble. And that can only be solved by a global agreement to bring down emissions by the major emitters of the world. At the more, mundane level of how they can cope with themselves, as I said they’re putting $100 million in themselves. Their own cost estimate is in the region of 3 to 5 billion, so they are very far short of reaching that. They have set up something called the Climate Change Resilience Fund, where they’ve invited international donors to provide assistance. The UK’s put in money, Denmark, Japan and a few other countries. They’ve already raised over 100 million in that trust fund as well. So in a sense there is a good example of a country a, being proactive, and b, the donors and the supporters also being proactive in terms of not competing with each other but working together to help the country.
Simon: Saleemul Huq, thank you very much for joining me.
Saleem: Thank you.
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Basque Country and Catalonia: Different Paths to Recognition
Published: 3 June 2019
Author: Centre on Constitutional Change
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Spain’s changing politics cannot be understood without considering its internal, national disputes argues Dr. Ander Errasti-Lopez of the European University Institute, Florence.
Spain’s changing politics cannot be understood without considering its internal, national disputes. The key subjects here are the Basque Country and Catalonia, Spain’s most visible ‘national political facts’. While it may be tempting to see them as equivalent, there are powerful differences:
The first and foremost difference is the nature of the conflict in the two cases. While the Basque case has been, for many years, a history of violence, the Catalan case has been overwhelmingly peaceful. The Basque Country experienced ETA’s terrorist activity as a major defining element of the conflict. This violence also hindered the progression of Basque nationalism from its original ethnic account to a more civic, inclusive and transnational approach. The fact that ETA’s terrorism coexisted with other forms of violence (during Franco’s dictatorship and, also, in democracy: from radical right's violence, GAL’s state-terrorism or the recently proved cases of police violence and torture) led to a social split within the Basque society.
The Catalan case, despite the political tension built up around the controversial decisions made by the independence supporters regarding the October 1st referendum in 2017 and the State’s repressive reaction since 2014, so far has not derived into a social conflict. While in the Basque Country the social conflict is moving towards resolution (mostly in terms of memory, reparation and justice, as well as new transversal civil society grassroot initiatives) since ETA declared the cessation of violence in October 2011 and its final dissolution in April 2018, in the Catalan case the conflict remains political despite the tension and polarisation.
The second key difference are the most recent attempts at channelling the claims from the majority of Basque and Catalan citizens into the Spanish institutional settling. In the Basque case, we may recall Lehendakari (Basque President) Juan José Ibarretxe’s failed attempts of reforming the Basque Statute of Autonomy (2001-2005) and promoting a self-determination referendum in the Basque Country (2008). In both cases, the former Lehendakari faced two main challenges: internally, a slim majority of the Basque Parliament (39 from 75 seats in the new Statute’s proposal, and 34 in favour + 7 abstentions in the referendum’s case). Externally, opposition from the very beginning by the majority of the Spanish Parliament and Constitutional Court. As a result, neither attempt ended on a good note, leaving Basque nationalism in a complicated situation that took a while to recover from.
In the Catalan case, there was a reform of the Catalan Statute of Autonomy promoted by former Catalan President Pasqual Maragall and approved in 2006 by the Spanish Parliament. It was initially approved by the overwhelming majority of the Catalan Parliament (120 from 135 seats) although its final endorsement by Catalans in a referendum showed a low turnout (49,41%). Externally, the document received the support of the Spanish governing party at that time (PSOE) but it also attracted increasing resistance (including from key Socialists) and it was finally and significantly reduced in scope by the Spanish Constitutional Court’s decision in 2010.
While in the Basque case the responsibility for the failed attempt was perceived as being on the nationalist’s side (due to the lack of both internal and external support), in the Catalan case the blame was more focused on the State. As a result of this failed attempt of reforming the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, the majority of Catalan citizens claimed, both through demonstrations and at the ballot box, that they wanted the freedom to decide on their relationship with the Spanish State. In the Basque case, the possibility of reform is still a potential path to explore.
The third and last element is a direct result of the previous ones: the majority of Basque political representatives are endorsing a reform strategy while the majority of Catalan representatives have been supporting a break-up strategy.
The Basque case is focused on the attempt to build internal consensus through three elements:
(i) that the process should not block the post-conflict dynamics and, thus, the internal agreement should also include non-Basque-nationalist representatives (such as the PSE-EE and Podemos);
(ii) that the reform of the Basque Autonomous Community’s Autonomy Statute does not damage the institutional development of the other regions of the Basque Country or Euskal Herria (i.e., Navarra and the French Basque Country or Iparralde);
(iii) and that the attempt to reform the Autonomy Statute should be based on an agreement with the Spanish majority’s representatives as a means to avoid any damage to the already existing self-government institutions, particularly the fiscal arrangements (Concierto Económico).
While there are plenty of issues on which the majority of the Basque representatives agree and may receive a positive response from the Spanish representatives, there are fundamental notions about the Basque nation that still generate significant differences (as explained by Professor Michael Keating). Therefore, the current situation is pretty much deadlocked, and we should not expect any results from the Basque reformist approach until the next term (2020-2024).
In Catalonia’s case, the strategy of the majority of parliamentary opinion has recently been that of a break-up with the Spanish State. A key trigger was the failed reform of the Autonomy Statute mentioned above. The movement has focused mostly on the idea of holding a referendum on whether Catalonia should remain part of the Spanish State. This procedural claim has managed to gather the support of an overwhelming majority of Catalan citizens. Whichever solution ends up applying to the Catalan case (break-up not being, necessarily, the only acceptable one for all nationalists), today it seems hard to conceive that it won’t imply some sort of referendum.
Still, there is a key feature that both cases share: an unsolved search for recognition in a Spanish State that shows all the features of being plurinational de facto while proves incapable of reflecting this plurinational character de jure. The current majority of Basque citizens may want to change this status quo by expressing their will to reform their existing agreement with the State. The majority of Catalan citizens may show it by claiming their right to freely decide their relationship with the State, including the possibility of secession. In both cases, though, the dichotomy seems clear: either Spain is capable of sharing sovereignty downwards the same way it does upwards towards the European Union, or Spain will face eventually the challenge of how to facilitate secession democratically.
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July 1, 2012 July 1, 2012 carolynhelselLeave a Comment on Racial Identity Development and Re-Narrating/”Remember[ing] the Alamo”
Racial Identity Development and Re-Narrating/”Remember[ing] the Alamo”
Janet Helms’ work on Black and White Racial Identity has been very informative for me in describing the process an individual might go through in developing a deeper awareness of what it means to be “raced” in the United States, and how one can become a healthier person even while living a midst an unhealthy racist environment that attributes certain meanings and benefits/disadvantages to a person based on skin color.
Helms does not speak about narrative theory or re-narration; her theory is from the field of counseling psychology and developmental psychology and not from literary theory or philosophy. But I found real similarities between her discussion of persons’ responses to varying interpretations of their own racialization, and the theories of narrativity put forth by old white men such as Alasdair MacIntyre, Paul Ricouer, and H. Richard Niebuhr.
These narrative theorists draw from diverse understandings of “narrative” but connect it to the interpretive process each person goes through in self-understanding. As a self, I am not isolated but am surrounded by a variety of “narratives”–my own understanding of my personal history, the history of my family and their relationships with others, the narrative of the historical context in which I grew up–my neighborhood, my religious affiliation, my self-understanding of my citizenship in a local, regional, and national body.
But what happens when my self-understanding or interpretation of any of these stories changes? What happens when I learn other stories that contradict a dominant narrative I’ve carried with me? After growing up “Remember[ing] the Alamo!”, what happens when I learn the stories of Mexican Americans who continue to experience racism and discrimination in my home town? Does my narrative of the Alamo change? Or do my feelings about the narrative change into something more ambiguous when I see the story played out as “Whites-as-victims” in contrast with the harassment of Mexican Americans that continues in my home town and across the state?
I grew up with the narrative that Hispanics were now “in charge” over the local city government, that affirmative action policies for construction contracts were limiting the success of my father’s business, and that an overly-sensitive-political-correctness was causing chaos in the city by changing the names of certain streets, like from “Durango” to “Caesar Chavez Blvd.”
More recently, the high school I attended was noted in the news last spring for insulting another school at the end of a regional basketball game. Alamo Heights, a predominantly white high school, won the game against a team of all Hispanics from a predominantly Hispanic school. When the team from Alamo Heights received their trophy, fans in the stands began chanting “USA! USA! USA!” The chanting lasted for around ten seconds, but the coach immediately tried to stop it. The other team and school district was deeply offended and filed a complaint against Alamo Heights which issued an apology.
On the web, comments on the news webpages reporting this story showed the deep contrasts in narrative. The majority of comments were from persons who were enraged that this was noted a “racist” chant, citing instead the First Amendment and the lack of patriotism of liberals who in their political correctness would have people not expressing their appreciation for their country. Missing from these comments was the concern of the other team, that chanting “USA” at an all-white team who has won the game excludes the losing team from one’s concept of American citizenship. The implications are that Hispanic team must not be from the “USA.” While comments suggested the other team was being overly sensitive, the fact that there were others who were offended (including the Alamo Heights coach) sends the message to Alamo Heights that: you’re being under-sensitive to the daily challenges these students and their families face to seeing themselves as “American.” Because of their brown skin, they are automatically suspected of being “illegals.”
The high emotions signal a conflict of narratives, and the emotions indicate a certain stage of racial identity within Helms’ theory. Following a stage of “disintegration” where one’s white identity is challenged or one becomes aware of racism, there is a stage called “reintegration” in which one returns to an understanding of being white that denies the reality of racism. In this stage, a person turns any negative feelings that one may have experienced about oneself as a result of learning about racism, back onto persons of color or other “white liberals” as being the source and cause of one’s negative feelings. This stage of reintegration is common as a predictable stage of white racial identity development. White persons who move on to other stages are helped in their process towards a more differentiated and non-oppressive white identity by acknowledging the reality of reintegration as a common stage, being able to identify it in themselves so they can work through those negative emotions without transferring them onto others. It is also helpful for persons to know that these stages are not “static,” that is, a person can cycle back through earlier stages as a result of a negative experience, such as the one cited above, like being charged with racism because of chanting “USA” after basketball game.
Part of the challenge of re-narration is that there are plenty of stories than support one’s current narrative, making it hard for a person to consider other narratives as offering a satisfactory alternative. So returning to the multiple narratives I mentioned above about Hispanics in charge of the city government and pressures on business to hire minority-owned companies in construction contracts, it is easy to see how the basketball game incident would easily be placed within the narrative of Alamo Heights’ whites as being another form of reverse racism or rampant political correctness. If white people in Alamo Heights already felt like they were in the minority in their city, why would they feel the need to be sensitive towards those they deem to be much more powerful than themselves? Especially in town famously known for the Battle of the Alamo in which (white) Texans fought and died for freedom against Santa Ana and his Mexican army?
Are there other stories that need to be told? Are there other experiences that need to be shared for persons to expand their narratives? What are the experiences of students of color in predominantly white schools? What are the experiences of persons of color living in San Antonio attending other schools? Having a conversation with someone with a different experience may help us come to see our own experiences in a different light. Perhaps we need to re-remember the Alamo, not as a lasting narrative that continues to justify whites’ views of themselves as victims, but as one tragic moment in our history, a history full of battles for land and legitimation. Can whites in my home town see themselves as part of a different narrative, one that we can share with persons of color? If so, then we first need to learn a few more narratives to hear what kind of role we have played in the lives of others, perhaps unbeknownst to us.
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