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Home > Fathers of the Church > Fragments (Caius)
Fragments of Caius
From a Dialogue or Disputation Against Proclus.
(Preserved in Eusebius' Eccles. Hist., ii. 25.)
And I can show the trophies of the apostles. For if you choose to go to the Vatican or to the Ostian Road, you will find the trophies of those who founded this church.
(In the same, iii. 28.)
But Cerinthus, too, through revelations written, as he would have us believe, by a great apostle, brings before us marvellous things, which he pretends were shown him by angels; alleging that after the resurrection the kingdom of Christ is to be on earth, and that the flesh dwelling in Jerusalem is again to be subject to desires and pleasures. And being an enemy to the Scriptures of God, wishing to deceive men, he says that there is to be a space of a thousand years for marriage festivals.
And after this there were four prophetesses, daughters of Philip, at Hierapolis in Asia. Their tomb is there, and that, too, of their father.
Against the Heresy of Artemon
(In Eusebius' Eccl. Hist., v. 28.)
For they say that all those of the first age, and the apostles themselves, both received and taught those things which these men now maintain; and that the truth of Gospel preaching was preserved until the times of Victor, who was the thirteenth bishop in Rome from Peter, and that from his successor Zephyrinus the truth was falsified. And perhaps what they allege might be credible, did not the Holy Scriptures, in the first place, contradict them. And then, besides, there are writings of certain brethren older than the times of Victor, which they wrote against the heathen in defense of the truth, and against the heresies of their time: I mean Justin and Miltiades, and Tatian and Clement, and many others, in all which divinity is ascribed to Christ. For who is ignorant of the books of Irenaeus and Melito, and the rest, which declare Christ to be God and man? All the psalms, too, and hymns of brethren, which have been written from the beginning by the faithful, celebrate Christ the Word of God, ascribing divinity to Him. Since the doctrine of the Church, then, has been proclaimed so many years ago, how is it possible that men have preached, up to the time of Victor, in the manner asserted by these? And how are they not ashamed to utter these calumnies against Victor, knowing well that Victor excommunicated Theodotus the tanner, the leader and father of this God-denying apostasy, who first affirmed that Christ was a mere man? For if, as they allege, Victor entertained the very opinions which their blasphemy teaches, how should he have cast off Theodotus, the author of this heresy?
(In Eusebius, as above.)
I shall, at any rate, remind many of the brethren of an affair that took place in our own time — an affair which, had it taken place in Sodom, might, I think, have been a warning even to them. There was a certain confessor, Natalius, who lived not in distant times, but in our own day. He was deluded once by Asclepiodotus, and another Theodotus, a banker. And these were both disciples of Theodotus the tanner, the first who was cut off from communion on account of this sentiment, or rather senselessness, by Victor, as I said, the bishop of the time. Now Natalius was persuaded by them to let himself be chosen bishop of this heresy, on the understanding that he should receive from them a salary of a hundred and fifty denarii a month. Connecting himself, therefore, with them, he was on many occasions admonished by the Lord in visions. For our merciful God and Lord Jesus Christ was not willing that a witness of His own sufferings should perish, being without the Church. But as he gave little heed to the visions, being ensnared by the dignity of presiding among them, and by that sordid lust of gain which ruins very many, he was at last scourged by holy angels, and severely beaten through a whole night, so that he rose early in the morning, and threw himself, clothed with sackcloth and covered with ashes, before Zephyrinus the bishop, with great haste and many tears, rolling beneath the feet not only of the clergy, but even of the laity, and moving the pity of the compassionate Church of the merciful Christ by his weeping. And after trying many a prayer, and showing the weals left by the blows which he had received, he was at length with difficulty admitted to communion.
(In Eusebius, as above)
The sacred Scriptures they have boldly falsified, and the canons of the ancient faith they have rejected, and Christ they have ignored, not inquiring what the sacred Scriptures say, but laboriously seeking to discover what form of syllogism might be contrived to establish their impiety. And should any one lay before them a word of divine Scripture, they examine whether it will make a connected or disjoined form of syllogism; and leaving the Holy Scriptures of God, they study geometry, as men who are of the earth, and speak of the earth, and are ignorant of Him who comes from above. Euclid, indeed, is laboriously measured by some of them. and Aristotle and Theophrastus are admired; and Galen, forsooth, is perhaps even worshipped by some of them. But as to those men who abuse the arts of the unbelievers to establish their own heretical doctrine, and by the craft of the impious adulterate the simple faith of the divine Scriptures, what need is there to say that these are not near the faith? For this reason is it they have boldly laid their hands upon the divine Scriptures, alleging that they have corrected them. And that I do not state this against them falsely, any one who pleases may ascertain. For if any one should choose to collect and compare all their copies together, he would find many discrepancies among them. The copies of Asclepiades, at any rate, will be found at variance with those of Theodotus. And many such copies are to be had, because their disciples were very zealous in inserting the corrections, as they call them, i.e., the corruptions made by each of them. And again, the copies of Hermophilus do not agree with these; and as for those of Apollonius, they are not consistent even with themselves. For one may compare those which were formerly prepared by them with those which have been afterwards corrupted with a special object, and many discrepancies will be found. And as to the great audacity implied in this offense, it is not likely that even they themselves can be ignorant of that. For either they do not believe that the divine Scriptures were dictated by the Holy Spirit, and are thus infidels; or they think themselves wiser than the Holy Spirit, and what are they then but demoniacs? Nor can they deny that the crime is theirs, when the copies have been written with their own hand; nor did they receive such copies of the Scriptures from those by whom they were first instructed in the faith, and they cannot produce copies from which these were transcribed. And some of them did not even think it worth while to corrupt them; but simply denying the law and the prophets for the sake of their lawless and impious doctrine, trader pretexts of grace, they sunk down to the lowest abyss of perdition.
Canon Muratorianus
(In Muratori, V. C. Antiq. Ital. Med. oev., vol. iii. col. 854.)
I. ...those things at which he was present he placed thus. The third book of the Gospel, that according to Luke, the well-known physician Luke wrote in his own name in order after the ascension of Christ, and when Paul had associated him with himself as one studious of right. Nor did he himself see the Lord in the flesh; and he, according as he was able to accomplish it, began his narrative with the nativity of John. The fourth Gospel is that of John, one of the disciples. When his fellow disciples and bishops entreated him, he said, Fast now with me for the space of three days, and let us recount to each other whatever may be revealed to each of us. On the same night it was revealed to Andrew, one of the apostles, that John should narrate all things in his own name as they called them to mind. And hence, although different points are taught us in the several books of the Gospels, there is no difference as regards the faith of believers, inasmuch as in all of them all things are related under one imperial Spirit, which concern the Lord's nativity, His passion, His resurrection, His conversation with His disciples, and His twofold advent, — the first in the humiliation of rejection, which is now past, and the second in the glory of royal power, which is yet in the future. What marvel is it, then, that John brings forward these several things 1 John 1:1 so constantly in his epistles also, saying in his own person, What we have seen with our eyes, and heard with our ears, and our hands have handled, that have we written. For thus he professes himself to be not only the eye-witness, but also the hearer; and besides that, the historian of all the wondrous facts concerning the Lord in their order.
2. Moreover, the Acts of all the Apostles are comprised by Luke in one book, and addressed to the most excellent Theophilus, because these different events took place when he was present himself; and he shows this clearly — i.e., that the principle on which he wrote was, to give only what fell under his own notice — by the omission of the passion of Peter, and also of the journey of Paul, when he went from the city — Rome — to Spain.
3. As to the epistles of Paul, again, to those who will understand the matter, they indicate of themselves what they are, and from what place or with what object they were directed. He wrote first of all, and at considerable length, to the Corinthians, to check the schism of heresy; and then to the Galatians, to forbid circumcision; and then to the Romans on the rule of the Oid Testament Scriptures, and also to show them that Christ is the first object in these — which it is needful for us to discuss severally, as the blessed Apostle Paul, following the rule of his predecessor John, writes to no more than seven churches by name, in this order: the first to the Corinthians, the second to the Ephesians, the third to the Philippians, the fourth to the Colossians, the fifth to the Galatians, the sixth to the Thessalonians, the seventh to the Romans. Moreover, though he writes twice to the Corinthians and Thessalonians for their correction, it is yet shown — i.e., by this sevenfold writing — that there is one Church spread abroad through the whole world. And John too, indeed, in the Apocalypse, although he writes only to seven churches, yet addresses all. He wrote, besides these, one to Philemon, and one to Titus, and two to Timothy, in simple personal affection and love indeed; but yet these are hallowed in the esteem of the Catholic Church, and in the regulation of ecclesiastical discipline. There are also in circulation one to the Laodiceans, and another to the Alexandrians, forged under the name of Paul, and addressed against the heresy of Marcion; and there are also several others which cannot be received into the Catholic Church, for it is not suitable for gall to be mingled with honey.
4. The Epistle of Jude, indeed, and two belonging to the above-named John — or bearing the name of John — are reckoned among the Catholic epistles. And the book of Wisdom, written by the friends of Solomon in his honour. We receive also the Apocalypse of John and that of Peter, though some among us will not have this latter read in the Church. The Pastor, moreover, did Hermas write very recently in our times in the city of Rome, while his brother bishop Plus sat in the chair of the Church of Rome. And therefore it also ought to be read; but it cannot be made public in the Church to the people, nor placed among the prophets, as their number is complete, nor among the apostles to the end of time. Of the writings of Arsinous, called also Valentinus, or of Miltiades, we receive nothing at all. Those are rejected too who wrote the new Book of Psalms for Marcion, together with Basilides and the founder of the Asian Cataphrygians.
Source. Translated by S.D.F. Salmond From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0510.htm>.
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Upon attending only a few meetings, the newcomer is sure to hear references to such things as "the Twelve Steps, "the Twelve Traditions, " "slips, " "the Big Book, and other expressions characteristic of A.A. The following Paragraphs describe these factors and suggest why they are mentioned frequently by A.A. speakers.
What are the 'Twelve Steps'?
The "Twelve Steps" are the core of the A.A. program of personal recovery from alcoholism. They are not abstract theories; they are based on the trial-and-error experience of early members of A.A. They describe the attitudes and activities that these early members believe were important in helping them to achieve sobriety. Acceptance of the "Twelve Steps" is not mandatory in any sense.
Experience suggests, however, that members who make an earnest effort to follow these Steps and to apply them in daily living seem to get far more out of A.A. than do those members who seem to regard the Steps casually. It has been said that it is virtually impossible to follow all the Steps literally, day in and day out. While this may be true, in the sense that the Twelve Steps represent an approach to living that is totally new for most alcoholics, many A.A. members feel that the Steps are a practical necessity if they are to maintain their sobriety.
Here is the text of the Twelve Steps, which first appeared in Alcoholics Anonymous, the A.A. book of experience:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our short-comings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What are the 'Twelve Traditions'?
The "Twelve Traditions" of A.A. are suggested principles to insure the survival and growth of the thousands of groups that make up the Fellowship. They are based on the experience of the groups themselves during the critical early years of the movement.
The Traditions are important to both oldtimers and newcomers as reminders of the true foundations of A.A. as a society of men and women whose primary concern is to maintain their own sobriety and help others to achieve sobriety:
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
What are 'slips'?
Occasionally a man or women who has been sober through A.A. will get drunk. In A.A. a relapse of this type is commonly known as a "slip." It may occur during the first few weeks or months of sobriety or after the alcoholic has been dry a number of years.
Nearly all A.A.s who have been through this experience say that slips can be traced to specific causes. They deliberately forgot that they had admitted they were alcoholics and got overconfident about their ability to handle alcohol. Or they stayed away from A.A. meetings or from informal association with other A.A.s. Or they let themselves become too involved with business or social affairs to remember the importance of being sober. Or they let themselves become tired and were caught with their mental and emotional defenses down.
In other words, most "slips" don't just happen.
Does A.A. have a basic 'textbook'?
The Fellowship has four books that are generally accepted as "textbooks." The first is Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as "the Big Book," originally published in 1939, revised in 1955 and 1976. It records the personal stories of 42 representative problem drinkers who achieved stable sobriety for the first time through A.A. It also records the suggested steps and principles that early members believed were responsible for their ability to overcome the compulsion to drink.
The second book is Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, published in 1953. It is an interpretation, by Bill W., a co-founder, of the principles that have thus far assured the continuing survival of individuals and groups within A.A.
A third book, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, published in 1957, is a brief history of the first two decades of the Fellowship.
The fourth is As Bill Sees It (formerly titled The A.A. Way of Life, a reader by Bill). This is a selection of Bill W.'s writings.
These books may be purchased through local A.A. groups or ordered direct from Alcoholics Anonymous, Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163.
What is 'the 24-hour program'?
"The 24-hour program" is a phrase used to describe a basic A.A. approach to the problem of staying sober. A.A.s never swear off alcohol for life, never take pledges committing themselves not to take a drink "tomorrow." By the time they turned to A.A. for help, they had discovered that, no matter how sincere they may have been in promising themselves to abstain from alcohol "in the future," somehow they forgot the pledge and got drunk. The compulsion to drink proved more powerful than the best intentions not to drink.
The A.A. member recognizes that the biggest problem is to stay sober now! The current 24 hours is the only period the A.A. can do anything about as far as drinking is concerned. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow never comes. "But today," the A.A. says, "today, I will not take a drink. I may be tempted to take a drink tomorrow - and perhaps I will. But tomorrow is something to worry about when it comes. My big problem is not to take a drink during this 24 hours.
Along with the 24-hour program, A.A. emphasizes the importance of three slogans that have probably been heard many times by the newcomer before joining A.A. These slogans are: "Easy Does It," "Live and Let Live," and "First Things First." By making these slogans a basic part of the attitude toward problems of daily living, the average A.A. is usually helped substantially in the attempt to live successfully without alcohol.
What is the A.A. Grapevine?
The Grapevine is a monthly pocket-size magazine published for members and friends who seek further sharing of A.A. experience. The only international journal of the Society, the Grapevine is edited by a staff made up entirely of A.A.s.
Single copies of the magazine are usually available each month at meetings of local groups, but most readers prefer to receive their copies on a regular subscription basis. In the U.S. the cost of annual subscription is $15.00, slightly more - in Canada; single copies are $1.50.
Why doesn't A.A. seem to work for some people?
The answer is that A.A. will work only for those who admit that they are alcoholics, who honestly want to stop drinking — and who are able to keep those facts uppermost in their minds at all times.
A.A. usually will not work for the man or woman who has reservations about whether or not he or she is an alcoholic, or who clings to the hope of being able to drink normally again.
Most medical authorities say no one who is an alcoholic can ever drink normally again. The alcoholic must admit and accept this cardinal fact. Coupled with this admission and acceptance must be the desire to stop drinking.
After they have been sober a while in A.A., some people tend to forget that they are alcoholics, with all that this diagnosis implies. Their sobriety makes them overconfident, and they decide to experiment with alcohol again. The results of such experiments are, for the alcoholic, completely predictable. Their drinking invariably becomes progressively worse.
This is A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature.
The following excerpts are from the A.A. Pamphlet "44 Questions":
Questions and Answers About Alcoholics Anonymous
The Fellowship of A.A.
Newcomer's Questions
Reprinted from the A.A. Pamphlet "44 Questions" with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
Copyright © 1952 by Works Publishing, Inc. (Now known as A.A. World Services, Inc.)
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General Alberta Discussion
Provincial/Federal Politics
Everything you need to know about voting
Thread starter Admin2001
Richard Froese
South Peace News
Voters are being urged to cast their ballots in the federal election set for Oct. 21.
To vote in the federal election, eligible electors must be registered at their current address, says a news release from Elections Canada dated Sept.
All registered voters will receive a voter information card in the mail by Oct. 3.
An Elections Canada office for the Peace River – Westlock riding is located in Peace River in the Midwest Building at 9715 – 100 Street.
The office is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
Assistant returning officer Brenda Brochu can be reached by phone toll-free at (1-866) 754-5450.
Incumbent MP Arnold Viersen of the Conservative Party faces at least three challengers.
Peter Nygaard of Joussard is running for the Green Party.
John Schrader of Westlock carries the banner for the new People’s Party of Canada.
Leslie Penny of Barrhead is running for the Liberal Party.
More candidates may be added to the list.
Voters can also register at advance polls from Oct. 11-14, the Thanksgiving Day long weekend from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
“We are required by the Canada Elections Act to hold advance polls on the 10th, ninth, eighth and seventh days before election day,” Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault says.
To vote, electors must be a Canadian citizen, at least 18 years of age on election day and prove their identity and address.
“By registering, checking and updating your information, you are making sure that you will get a voter information card,” Perrault says.
“I encourage voter to do so as early as possible.
“With a voter information card in hand, electors can be confident that they have accurate voting information directly from Elections Canada.”
Electors can use Elections Canada’s online voter registration service to register, check their voter information and update their address.
Connect to elections.ca.
People can also visit their local Elections Canada office or call 1-800-463-6868 to register or make changes to their voter information.
Elections Canada agents will reach out to voters in certain areas such as new residential developments, high-mobility areas and long-term care facilities, to offer voter registration services.
These agents will be located at public registration desks, and, in some circumstances, may even visit electors door to door.
Information on voting and polling stations will also be posted in local newspapers.
To register or for more information, go to the Elections Canada website at elections.ca.
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15 Fun Facts About Starship Troopers
On November 7, 1997, moviegoers watched as a cast of no-name actors—plus Neil Patrick Harris—went to war against a planet full of giant bugs. Most critics dismissed the splatterfest that ensued as yet another brainless action flick. But in the 20 years since its release, appreciation has grown for director Paul Verhoeven’s film as a clever satire of warmongering civilizations. Here are a few things you might not know about Starship Troopers, on the 20th anniversary of its debut.
1. IT’S A COMMENTARY ON ROBERT HEINLEIN’S PRO-WAR NOVEL.
Released in 1959, Heinlein’s sci-fi adventure follows Juan “Johnnie” Rico as he rises through the ranks of the Mobile Infantry squad and eventually battles giant bugs on the planet Klendathu. Filled with classroom lectures and lengthy dialogue about the virtues of armed conflict and molding men into soldiers, the book struck many readers as more political diatribe than action story. One such reader was Ed Neumeier, co-writer of RoboCop, who decided to give Starship Troopers an over-the-top satirical bent, complete with fascist overtones and wholesome teenagers getting mowed down in droves. Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch filmmaker who directed RoboCop, Total Recall, and Showgirls, and had grown up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, liked the idea and jumped on board.
2. PAUL VERHOEVEN COULDN’T FINISH THE BOOK.
The filmmaker knew he needed to read Heinlein’s book before he began filming, but he only read a few chapters before giving up and asking Neumeier to tell him the rest. “It is really quite a bad book,” Verhoeven told Empire magazine.
3. ITS WORKING TITLE WAS BUG HUNT AT OUTPOST NINE.
Verhoeven and company didn’t secure the rights to Heinlein’s book until well into the filming process, so they used the campy stand-in until then. That didn’t seem to bother the crew; most of them weren’t even aware of the connection, despite the shared names and plot elements.
4. THE FIRST SCENE IS MODELED AFTER TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.
Starship Troopers opens with a recruitment video for the Mobile Infantry unit that recreates Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda film. There’s eagle imagery, flags fluttering, a wide shot of troops in formation and soldiers cheerfully proclaiming they’ll do their part.
5. THE UNIFORMS ARE ALSO MODELED AFTER THE THIRD REICH.
The officer uniforms in particular, with their gray-and-black hues, jackboots and eagle pins, were tailored to resemble those worn by the Nazis. Not convinced? Just check out what Neil Patrick Harris wore.
6. MARK WAHLBERG WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE LEAD ROLE.
No word on why, exactly, he wasn’t chosen, or if he would have accepted the role of Johnny Rico (Juan, a.k.a. Johnnie, was changed to John, a.k.a. Johnny, for the movie), which ended up going to then-unknown Casper Van Dien.
7. VERHOEVEN USED SOME INTERESTING STAND-INS FOR THE CGI BUGS.
The film had an ace visual effects coordinator in Phil Tippett, who also worked on the original Star Wars films and RoboCop. But on set, the computer-generated bugs had to be simulated using some rather unconventional methods. Verhoeven used everything from brooms to poles and even himself as a stand-in. As Clancy Brown (Sgt. Zim) remembers, Verhoeven would be "jumping up and down with a bullhorn going, 'I'm a big f**ing bug! I'll kill you!'”
8. THE SHOWER SCENE WAS BOTH SHOCKING AND EXPECTED.
On the one hand, the scene showing male and female soldiers all showering together was shocking. On the other hand, it was exactly what you’d expect from the director who brought you a three-breasted alien and Sharon Stone’s infamous leg-cross. According to Verhoeven, the cast wouldn’t do the scene unless he and cinematographer Jost Vacano were naked, too. No problemo, he told them. “My cinematographer was born in a nudist colony and I have no problem with taking my clothes off,” Verhoeven told Empire.
9. HANK FROM BREAKING BAD HAD A SMALL ROLE.
Dean Norris plays the commanding officer who reinstates Rico after his home city of Buenos Aires gets destroyed.
10. GERALD FORD’S SON ALSO HAD A SMALL PART.
Steven Ford, an actor who also appeared in When Harry Met Sally... and Heat, plays Lieutenant Willy, a no-nonsense commander who addresses soldiers before landing on Klendathu. “You kill anything that has more than two legs, you get me?!” he yells as their ship prepares to take off.
11. AND DON’T FORGET RUE MCCLANAHAN.
The Golden Girls actress plays a blind biology teacher who oversees a dissection and introduces her students to some of the bugs’ finer qualities. It’s as far removed from Blanche Devereaux as she could possibly be.
12. A REVOLVING DOOR OF STUDIO EXECS HELPED THE FILM GET MADE.
The mid-1990s were a turbulent time for Sony Pictures, as executives were frequently shuffled and replaced as the company attempted to find its footing. According to Verhoeven, this prevented the studio from taking a more critical look at his $105 million sci-fi satire. “All the satire was in the script from the beginning, but they might not have been really aware of it, or had read it precisely,” he said in an interview with The A.V. Club. “By the time one of them might have understood what movie I was going to make, he was already gone.”
13. CRITICAL OPINION OF THE MOVIE HAS SHIFTED.
Many were quick to pan the movie’s squeaky-clean cast, over-the-top violence, and seemingly one-dimensional narrative. But in the ensuing years, critics have picked up on Verhoeven’s intent to portray a so-called “ideal” society that’s lacking humanity and consumed by warfare. “Starship Troopers is satire, a ruthlessly funny and keenly self-aware sendup of right-wing militarism,” Calum Marsh writes in The Atlantic. “The fact that it was and continues to be taken at face value speaks to the very vapidity the movie skewers.”
14. IT INSPIRED SEVERAL SEQUELS AND SPINOFFS.
The first sequel, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, came out in 2004, followed four years later by Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. In the latter, Van Dien reprised his role as Johnny Rico—though apparently not to increased returns, as sequel number four never materialized. In 2012, there was Starship Troopers: Invasion, a CGI feature that hewed closely to Heinlein’s novel, followed by a second CGI feature, Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, which was released in August. Arguably the most popular spin-off was a 1999 animated series called Roughnecks: The Starship Trooper Chronicles that ran for just one season.
15. IT MAY GET MADE INTO A LIVE-ACTION TV SHOW.
For years, there’s been talk of a possible TV series or a movie reboot. A satire-light, less-violent feature seemed to be in the works, but that irked fans of the original film. Earlier this year, Goosebumps producer Neal Moritz seemed to indicate that a TV show is in development. No word yet on timeframe, network, or whether Neil Patrick Harris will reprise his role as telepath Carl Jenkins.
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New US National Intelligence Officer for Iran: Rachel Ingber
The new U.S. National Intelligence Officer for Iran is Rachel Ingber.
Ingber takes over from Jillian Burns, who has moved to Afghanistan to become the new U.S. Consul-General in Herat.
Ingber most recently served as a senior US government Middle East analyst. Earlier in her career, in 1997, she served as a research intern at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and compiled an Iran Research Guide at Columbia University. (Little of her recent writing seems to be available on the Internet.)
“As a member of the National Intelligence Council, the NIO/Iran will oversee Intelligence Community wide production and coordination of the full range of analytic assessments on Iran including strategic analysis on Iran … and, as appropriate and required, more focused, time-sensitive analysis for the most senior decision makers,” the National Intelligence Council job posting for the NIO/Iran position said.
Among the job’s responsibilities, “Provide warning to policymakers on emerging issues that could portend major discontinuities or affect significant US interests and opportunities,” it continued. Ingber is expected to bring on a new deputy.
This entry was posted in Politics, Security and tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Columbia University, Director of National Intelligence, Herat, intelligence, Iran, Jillian Burns, National Intelligence Council, NIC, Rachel E. Ingber, Rachel Ingberg, Washington Institute for Near East Policy by Laura Rozen. Bookmark the permalink.
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A 'Strike'ing Story...
For over a month, we heard rumors of a potential strike by the people in our area who grow the coca plant. These people are called “Cocaleros.” Dependable news from the community was impossible. I don’t know how many times they scheduled the strike, canceled the strike, and then rescheduled it for a future date. It really seemed like the strike would never start. Some in town said it would never happen. Others said it would eventually happen and that it would last three days. And yet others said it would be indefinite. We never received anything close to consistent information.
Finally, we heard that the strike was set for the 7th or 8th of October and that at least we could be certain that it would definitely not start before then! We had received word from one of our church attenders. He’s not faithful to church, but it seemed like he really knew what was going on. Finally we could finally start making some needed travel plans. Our niece and her husband, who are part of our ministry team, were expecting their second child, and she needed to be in Cusco in order to make the preparations for the birth, especially since she would need to have a C-section. We urgently needed to get them to Cusco, in case the strike lasted longer than expected.
In light of what we thought was reliable news, Flor, Alex, their daughter Melody, and Bob planned to leave on Monday, October 5th at the reasonable time of 4am (ha!). They would head to the home of Becky’s sister in Arin, which is located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The trip is a grueling seven hours of jungle and mountain roads. Flor and Alex plan to stay there for about three months, for both the birth and the recovery process.
After the long, hard trip, they arrived in Arin and after unloading Flor and Alex’s belongings, Bob immediately drove another twenty minutes to Urubamba, where he would pick up our funds. Then he drove another hour and a half to the city of Cusco. He spent the day furiously making needed purchases for the jungle. He arrived back in Arin at nine that evening, where he spent the night.
The following morning, Tuesday, he left at 4:30am and drove as hard and fast as he could safely manage, in order to arrive home in Pilcopata, just in case the strike began early. He arrived into Patria, the closest town to Pilcopata, in a record time of 5 hours (usually 7 hours with stops). So, by now, it is only 9:30am and guess what he sees ahead. That’s right…a roadblock. He is only 15 minutes from home. Only 15 minutes from a good breakfast, a nice nap, and a wonderfully, cold shower!
Bob parked and immediately went over to the roadblock. As of yet, everyone was calm. He asked for the church attender who had given us the dates for the strike. He was not at this roadblock but was rather at the roadblock in Pilcopata. Bob spent a few minutes joking with some people in the crowd and told them that he was the pastor of the Baptist church in Pilcopata. He asked if they would make an exception for a preacher of God’s Word and allow him to pass the roadblock and go home. He was met with this response from a large and very vocal Quechua lady, “You’re a pastor? Then pastor us here at the strike!” So he asked her, “Are you ready and willing to obey the Word of God and all that God says in His Word?” She stared at him for what seemed like forever and then replied, “You cannot pass! Nobody can pass!!!” She then stormed off down the street.
After much searching, Bob was able to get the phone number for the church attender, our “reliable source” for the strike and called him. He asked why he hadn’t informed us of the changes, as he knew of the importance of our trip to Cusco. Bob asked for his help, as he had purchased a lot of perishables which are now in the hot truck. These items included a large amount of fresh meat, that he purchased in Cusco. All of this food was going to spoil, if left for too long. The man said he would help get Bob through the roadblocks. Bob would just need to wait. Over an hour later, Bob called him back and heard the words he dreaded once again, “You cannot go through. You will just have to wait with everyone else.” He then hung up on Bob.
So, there’s Bob, stuck with no water and no food and because of all the travels, he hadn’t slept more than three hours over the last two days. He was exhausted. He had to keep reminding himself, “I’m a pastor here. HERE, you are a pastor!”
A few minutes later, a police truck pulled up and five officers got out of the truck. Now, the 50-60 people sitting near the roadblock started getting a little worked up. After five minutes or so of this, the policemen got back into the truck and just sat there. The crowd calmed down and went back to sitting in the shade. Bob decided to approach the police truck and introduced himself as Pastor Roberto of the Baptist church in Pilcopata. He explained his situation to them and that he has responsibilities to his church in Pilcopata. They explained that they, too, are from Pilcopata. The Sr. Officer told Bob, “Pastor, right now, we cannot do anything without causing a riot and people WILL get hurt. We will be back at 6 this afternoon to help get you through. If we can’t get everyone through, we will at least get you through. Please just be patient, Pastor. This situation is going to be hard on everyone.”
So, Bob followed their example, and returned to sit in his truck, only to find that the extreme temperatures of over 100* had converted the truck into an oven! He had to find some way to keep cool! He’s now starting to get hungry, too. So, during one of the many meetings held by the Cocaleros that morning, Bob nonchalantly crossed the roadblock, in order to look for food and water. He walked over two kilometers around the whole town, but each and every store was boarded up and if the store owner happened to be there, he or she wouldn’t sell anything for fear they would be attacked. That’s when he learned that during the strikes, no one is allowed to sell food or water at all.
Finally sick from the heat, Bob convinced one fearful store owner to sell him some water, although she would only do so after a large group of protestors passed by the store. After they passed, she lifted her store door, which looks like a small garage door that raises and lowers like a scroll. She quickly ducked down to tell Bob the price for the water through the small opening. She then threw the bottle of water under the door and reached her hand out to receive payment. It was a stark realization of how serious the situation really was.
Bob and I had been able to talk throughout the day, as the events unfolded. However, I was able to do so from the safety and comfort of our house in Pilcopata. I was able to contact one of our church members and pleaded with him to take Bob a large bottle of water. So, at great risk to himself, this man got on his motorcycle and ran through the roadblock of Pilcopata and made it to Patria, where he had to leave his motorcycle at a different roadblock at the southern end of Patria. He then had to walk a full kilometer to where Bob was waiting at the truck.
After taking a few gulps of water, Bob and this kind man carried the cooler full of meat on the verge of spoiling, all the way back through town, dodging the angry protesters, to the motorcycle. Thankfully, all they received along the way were a few angry shouts. They quickly secured the large cooler to the back of his motorcycle and Bob watched him speed away, as Bob stood in the middle of the street. Suddenly he realized he was not alone but had been standing in front of about 100 protesters, who were keeping cool in the shade. Quickly, and with singular focus, he began his quick return to his truck. He marched right through the middle of the street, all the way through town, almost in an attitude of defiance of the protesters who had already caused so much discomfort both to himself and to the other people in the community.
As he walked through town this time, he realized that the attitude of people was changing. Things were heating up and I don’t mean the weather. People were getting riled up. So, he made a quick, deliberate dash to the ditch and pushed his way through the thick jungle grass that stood about seven feet tall. He made it all the way to the other side of the roadblock before he reentered the road, startling a driver who was sleeping on the side of the road in the shade of the grass.
It was now one in the afternoon and the sun was beating down everyone. One of our other church members, who lives in Patria, emerged from the crowd. She exclaimed, “Pastor, lock up your truck and come with me. My mom (who is also a member of the church, along with her husband) has prepared lunch for you. You are also welcome to take a cool shower to get refreshed!” By this point, Bob was literally at the point of heat exhaustion, so he quickly obeyed her orders! They passed back through town, once again without harm, as her father has considerable pull in the community. This, however, would not protect him during later events.
Bob spent the next three house in the house of some of the dearest believers we know here! They fed Bob so well and allowed Bob to drink all the clean water he needed. He said he probably drank a gallon of water, during his short time at their home. He also stood under the cold shower for well over thirty minutes. He was beginning to feel human again!
Feeling well-fed and refreshed, he returned to the blockade somewhere around four that afternoon. For the next hour and a half, he was able to get to know some of the other people who were also trapped at the same roadblock. He got to ask them about where they lived, what they do for work, and about how each of them got caught at the strike. They all commented about how glad they were that a pastor was with them. Bob remembers thinking that he was not really sure whether he was glad about it but that it was nice to hear that they thought so!
The conversations were good, but they kept getting distracted by the protesters, who were again getting frazzled. Then a few police officers show up from Paucartambo, a town about four hours away from us, traveling toward Cusco. As soon as the policemen saw Bob, they made a bee-line for him. They didn’t know him personally, but recognized that he was a gringo. They wanted to know why he was there and asked to see some identification. Bob showed them his Peruvian ID, called a 'Carnet de Extranjería,' which also states that Bob has a religious visa. Bob quickly told them that he is a pastor in the neighboring town. They, too, agreed that the protesters should let Bob through, so that he can return to his important job of seeing to people’s spiritual needs. The policemen quickly move forward to the mob, who is increasingly growing more angry, because their leader has decided to permit the caravan of vehicles, including Bob, to go through the roadblock. The mob decide to replace the leader with someone else and negotiations between the mob and the police start from scratch.
Much to Bob’s surprise, the police from our town, Pilcopata, returned as promised at six that evening. This time eight officers came, probably the entirety of the police force, and were sporting long rifles and hand guns. The protesters were not happy about this. All of a sudden, out from nowhere, the Sr. Officer cried out, “Where’s the Gringo Baptist Pastor from Pilcopata?” Bob steps out from the crowd, where the officer could see him and waves at him. The officer pushed through the crowd to make it over to where Bob was standing. He took his hand and gave him a firm handshake. The officer asked if Bob was ok, to which Bob could honestly say he was doing well, thanks to our church members. The officer replied, “Give us a few minutes. We are taking everyone through the roadblocks.” Bob quickly spread the word to the other drivers and they slowly retreat, each to their own vehicle.
At about seven, Bob heard one officer loudly exclaim, “Well, there ARE consequences for your actions!” Bob can’t see what is going on, because of the crowd; however, the police suddenly turn on their lights and everyone in the caravan started to move. Slowly but deliberately, the caravan of vehicles crept along, as if in a parade, leaving minimal space between each vehicle. They pass the first roadblock and drove the kilometer through town to the next roadblock, where they were met with a much larger number of people, whom are also much angrier that the first group. The caravan of vehicles had no option but to stop, as the road was full of debris and burning tires. The group quickly realize that the police are no longer there and were replaced by angry shouts by the protesters at their windows. They had to endure this horror for about twenty minutes, each minute wondering whose window would be smashed first. Most of the drivers abandoned their vehicles and retreated together into the darkness of the night.
For some odd reason, the crowd dispersed and returned to the blockade, where a very large and very drunk woman was yelling loudly. Honestly, Bob nor his comrades-in-arms could understand anything she was saying. Moments later, one police truck with two officers appeared to speak with those of who were stuck at the roadblock. They admitted that they were not going to be able to break up this second group of protesters enough to get the caravan of vehicles through the roadblock that night. The crowd was just too crazy!
One of the officers, a small, young negotiator, entered into the middle of the crowd in order to talk to them. Bob thought the large, vocal, angry woman might eat him alive, but he finally emerged from the crowd, about an hour later, shaking his head. He said, “Well, that didn’t go well. We will definitely not be getting through the roadblock tonight. They are already way too drunk to reason with.” The crowd began lighting more tires on fire, this time close to the police truck. Bob asked the officers if it would be safe for him, a gringo, to stay there or should he take his truck to a safer place in town. The officers told Bob that if he decided to stay there, the police would have to stay by his truck the whole night, to ensure that the group would not attack Bob. It was not a safe situation. Bob decided immediately to give the officers an opportunity to sleep that night and drove the truck to the church family’s home where he would park it for the night. He grabbed a few things and headed back down the cross the blockade in order to head home to Pilcopata. He knew his options were walking all the way home or riding a motorcycle with someone, which was a much preferable method!
When he made it to the town center, about half a kilometer from the roadblock, he encountered a group of about 300 people chanting and running through the street. Bob ducked into the shadows and stood next to a man sitting on a park wall, who seemed to trying to be discrete, as well. He briefly looked at Bob and then looked back at the crowd and asked Bob where he was trying to go that night. Bob told him that he was trying to get home in Pilcopata, where he is a pastor. The man grimaced a bit and told Bob to sit down on the wall with him for a minute, so Bob sat down. All of a sudden the crowd decided to attack a store that had opened to sell some food and water to people. The man leaned over and told Bob that he should leave immediately and that he should stay in the shadows. Bob agreed. The man quietly said, “God bless you, Pastor!”
Bob takes the man’s advice and walked against the building to stay as hidden as possible until he reached the point where the other drivers remain trapped. Bob explained to them where he was going and that if he made it home that night, he would return in the morning with food and water. They explained that several of them had tried to cross the blockade in order to purchase food in Pilcopata, but that the protesters would not let them through. Together they decide to create a diversion, in order to help Bob get across. They made a human wall with Bob hidden behind them and a few of them began arguing with the protesters. All the attention was drawn to the two sneaky drivers and the other drivers shoved Bob across the blockade.
As he was briskly walked in the darkness, he realized that someone was following closely behind him. The man quickly caught up with Bob and Bob asked him if he had a motorcycle. He said that he did, to which Bob asked if he was going to Pilcopata. The man shook his head in agreement and Bob quickly pled for a ride home. The man agreed and they headed down to Pilcopata! At this point, Bob has a large flashlight in his hand, his backpack, and a small knife in his pocket. He started to wonder if the man was part of the group of protestors and that he might try to kidnap Bob. So to ease his mind, Bob began to talk with the man. Bob told him that he is the pastor of the Baptist church in Pilcopata and asked the man where he is from. The man replied that he was from Puerto Maldonado. Bob asked if he was in town for the strike and the man immediately exclaimed, “No!!!” He, too, was frustrated because the strike was keeping him from going home. At his moment, Bob felt comfortable enough to put his pocket knife away!
The two weary travelers finally arrive into Pilcopata and were surprised that the roadblock in Pilcopata had been abandoned. The streets were quiet and calm. Bob got home just in time to get a good meal, some cool water, a shower, and finally fell into bed!
Early the next morning, Tuesday, the 6th, Bob went to our friendly neighborhood store owner, who decided to risk opening her store for a few minutes. Bob bought almost all the bread she had. At home, he packed his backpack with the bread, several Bibles, as well as some water and immediately headed back to Patria. As he was on the edge of town, he was met by a group of about 60 people, blocking the road and protesting. They were not letting any motorcycles leave town and as Bob tried to pass, they grabbed him and started yelling, “TOURISTS CAN’T PASS! GRINGOS CAN’T PASS!” Bob pulled arms from their hands and told them, “I live here. I’m your neighbor and I’m the pastor of the Baptist church in town. You will let me pass!” He then walked right passed them.
As he walked out of town, Bob noticed that there were no signs of any motorcycles coming or going. So determined to deliver what he had promised to the other drivers, he began the six kilometer walk to Patria. He arrived about two hours later, exhausted and thirsty himself, and now faced with an even bigger and angrier crowd. Unfortunately, there is no brush to duck into in order to avoid the crowd. Besides, they had already seen him. He quickly prayed and asked God to protect him. He put his head down and head right into the middle of the crowd. He doesn’t even get passed the first person before several people grabbed him. The protesters started pushing Bob and holding onto both arms. They yanked on his backpack, demanding to see what was inside. He knew they would confiscate the bag’s contents, so he refused to show them. He is now fully expecting to be beat for refusing their demands, but praise God that did not happen.
Instead, they continued yelling, as he sternly informed them that he is a pastor and that he has church members in town that he needs to attend to them, as well as others. He says he is there to do his pastoral duties and that they WILL let him pass! Everyone except one person let go of him, but that one man’s grip continued to get tighter and tighter around Bob’s arm. Bob can still smell the foul stench of the homemade liquor on his breath and can see in his eyes that he is still drunk from the night before. Bob looked him straight into the eyes and almost yelled, in order for the whole crowd to hear, “You’re going to attack a pastor, a preacher of the Word of God, a man of God? How dare you! Shame on you!” Bob then yanked his arm from his death grip and with great determination, marched right through the middle of the angry mob. No one else laid a hand on Bob, but rather looked on silently as he passed by.
Right on the other side of the roadblock, Bob encountered the first truck driver and asked if he had eaten anything yet. He quietly answered that he had not yet been able to get anything to eat. So Bob opened his backpack in front of the entire group and handed the driver some food and water. Bob told him to then get into his truck to eat. No one from the angry mob said a word. Bob went from truck to truck until each person had received something to eat and drink.
After eating, the drivers, along with Bob, sat down in a shady area together. The whole time, Bob had been looking for an opportunity to speak about spiritual things and had been praying that God would show him the right time to do so! Out of nowhere, one of the men said, “Well, pastor, you fed us and gave us water. You met our physical need. Now all we are missing is to be fed spiritually.” Smiling, Bob replied, “Well, I came prepared for that, too!” Once again he opened his backpack, but this time, he pulled out the Word of God, the Bread of Life, and gave one to each person there. Before accepting the Bible, one person in the group asked how much the Bible cost. Bob stated that they were a free gift, which was a perfect segue into Ephesians 2:8-10!
Bob spent the next two hours preaching to these ten lost souls on the love of God, about the sacrifice He gave for their sins. He explained how the free gift of God is available to all mankind, if we would only accept it by faith! He talked together with them about how Jesus IS God and how the Bible is our final and ultimate authority. He also shared with them that works cannot save a person. As this special, God-ordained meeting was going on, there were hundreds of protesters behind them who were yelling, marching, and running around chaotically. This did not deter these ten from intently listening. They were glued, fixed, as Bob shared the Word with them. At the end, God saw fit to save seven souls, one a Mormon and one a Seventh-Day Adventist.
A short time after this blessed event, the driver that was first in the line of the caravan was simply at his limit and he jumped in his truck and broke the roadblock. Bob and the other drivers quickly got into their vehicles and followed the first driver. They had been freed. Not only had they been freed physically but for those seven new brothers and sisters in Christ, they had been freed spiritually.
Through this experience, we now have contacts deep into tribal areas of the jungle, where a person must have an invitation in order to enter. We also have contact into our local municipality and police departments. The Lord has already allowed us to have one of them into our home for dinner and we pray we have many more opportunities like this one!
God allowed us to be a part of this amazing experience, to be a part of His great work. This is not Bob and Becky’s doing. This is the work of an Almighty God! As the missionaries of old would give God all the honor and glory for the victories won, may we do the same!
PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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Surrealistic Americana: Devon Nowlin Colorfully Riffs on Nostalgia at Artspace 111
Manuel Mendoza August 30, 2018
ArtDallas/Ft Worth
Devon Nowlin
Off-guard
60 x 40 inches.
For her new solo exhibition, Familiar Strangers, Devon Nowlin returns to the vintage photographs she has been using as source material since 2008. This time, however, Nowlin’s deployment of bold color, as well as her layering of figurative imagery against environmental backgrounds, is more complex, creating canvases that border on the surreal. The last painting completed for the show, which runs Sept. 6 through Oct. 6 at Artspace 111 in Fort Worth, depicts two Korean War-era soldiers horsing around in front of a clapboard building, amid budding flowers and the hands, legs and feet of other men gripping soccer balls. Among her intended effects is a reconsideration of nostalgia in a time of political upheaval, when people are longing for supposedly better times.
“My original attraction to the vintage photos were the ambiguous narratives that really made you wonder, ‘What’s the relationship here between the photographer and the sitter? What happened just before or just after?’ ” she explains in an interview at her Northside studio. “When I started looking back at what I had collected and thinking about what images I would like to seek out, I realized there was a big hole missing in the narrative I had created about that time, which included representations of soldiers that I found were pretty common once I started looking for them, and images of non-white people that are not as common but exist. I started seeking out those narratives to complement what I already had when I realized there was a lack in my own perspective.”
Omniscient Narrator
Along with the tentatively titled Painting for Men, Familiar Strangers includes four other works Nowlin has made this year and last. The most startling is Off-guard. In it, a uniformed soldier, rendered in black-and-white, is draped with the abstractly curling red stripes of an otherwise transparent American flag. Standing next to a beige post and in front of greenery, he stares at the viewer with a side glance. To his right, a maroon-painted soldier is seen from behind in the distance. The suggestion of blood is unmistakable.
Another new work, Omniscient Narrator, depicts a seated woman, her hands folded, posing on a brick walkway next to a flower vase. The layering of muted brownish-pink and aqua-blue paint gives the piece a pastel watercolor feel, even though Nowlin’s medium is oil. The body of a leaning man and a geometric pattern behind the woman, and a water puddle from the vase floating in front of the brick, further abstracts the image. The other two new paintings, Randomized Memory Overlay and Recovering Overwritten Memory, also show women in surreal environments of layered color, partial figures and nature.
As in her first solo exhibit at Artspace 111, Casual Luxury Complex in 2015, Nowlin incorporates contemporary imagery from magazine advertising, but to much subtler effect. The star of the previous show, a stuffed dog named Frank, was wryly covered in black-and-white checkered fabric or more colorful patterns, like a knick-knack from an import store, sometimes depicted in scenes with hot Abercrombie & Fitch models. The artist was having fun with and commenting on consumerism, one of her, er, pet topics. “Why are we so duped?” she asks. “Because I am too.” Also on view were overhead photos of people sitting and looking at magazines with Abercrombie & Fitch print ads against floors with geometric patterns. Part of their appeal is how adept Nowlin is at creating perfectly symmetrical patterns and also subverting them in ways that also highlight her technical mastery.
Randomized Memory Overlay
“My theme or concept that held that group together was the nature of consumerism in relation to art and art marketing, and criticism that has been ongoing about representational paintings being décor and not taken seriously as art by some conceptual artists,” she says.“ I started taking in that criticism and thinking, ‘I’m going to make some of the most decorative work that I can possibly make and put it in a consumerist context,’ which led me to the Abercrombie & Fitch images of Bruce Weber and the odd nature of a corporation that constructs a narrative for its buyers. It’s ever-present but there’s also great design work going on. It’s interesting when it’s done well. Maybe I interject some irony or comedy in places to not take myself so seriously. I do like to be over-the-top.”
For Familiar Strangers, Nowlin felt she had bigger fish to fry. In the description of the show on her website, she writes, “I am investigating the deepening rift between the past and the present; between an era of collective aspirations with an era of corporately manufactured desires…After the election, I felt that the path I was on was a little less meaningful than I wanted it to be,” she says. “Focusing on vignettes of Abercrombie floral design and models seemed very trite. Visually it was an interesting design problem I was working on, but not as of import. Not that I necessarily set out to make political statements, but I wanted to put my effort toward something that had a new meaning for me. So I started looking back at this imagery of that era of American history and our nostalgia for it that is problematic and is being discussed more. I’m not looking at it in a wistfully nostalgic sense, and I hope the viewers take that away…Saying it was a better time raises the question of what type of America do you want to go back to.”
Recovering Overwritten Memory
Part of the installation will include three curtains of quilt-like patterned fabric on which she will display smaller recent paintings derived from the 1950s snapshots. The exhibition also features three large-scale works from 2010, the period during which she first started using vintage photos. Nowlin doesn’t necessarily like being lumped in with the photo-realists, though she acknowledges her connection to them. Born and raised in Fort Worth, where she still lives and works as assistant registrar at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Nowlin grew up going to Modern Art Museum and worshipping at the altar of Robert Bechtel’s ’63 Bel Air.
For her, a painting is about more than the images depicted or the intellectual ideas at play, but “painting as eye candy.” “I just want to make a very good painting. Sometimes that’s a concern that’s separate from the imagery. When I see a great work of art and think about the effort and the cart that the artist put into it, it gives me hope. My efforts aspire to that, beyond the message…The best part of it is sitting down and painting and working through my day.”
—MANUEL MENDOZA
Manuel Mendoza is a Dallas freelance writer specializing in the arts.
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ANCA Survey Indicates Solid Support for Direct LAX-Yerevan Flights
The results of a survey conducted by ANCA-WR showed solid support for a new non-stop flight between LAX to Yerevan
WASHINGTON—A nationwide consumer market survey conducted by the Armenian National Committee of America demonstrates strong and broad support for initiating a new non-stop flight between Los Angeles International Airport and Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, Armenia. The ANCA market survey was conducted from May 3 to June 13, with over 2,200 Armenian American participants, primarily from California.
“The ANCA thanks the public who participated in our market survey exploring the demand for a non-stop airline route between Los Angeles and Yerevan,” remarked Zanku Armenian, the ANCA’s point person on the effort, who has years of professional experience in aviation matters. “We are encouraged by the results of the survey that addressed a number of critical questions that will be vital as the business case for non-stop flights between LAX and EVN is discussed in the months ahead. We expect that this ANCA market survey will draw the attention of airlines and government leaders and regulators in Washington, D.C. and Yerevan, whose leadership and support will be needed to establish such flights in the future,” added Armenian.
Among the key findings of the survey are that 97% of the respondents expressed a willingness to switch from their currently preferred airline to reach Armenia to another airline that offers non-stop flights from LAX to Yerevan. The survey also found that a majority of airline passengers would be willing to pay a premium (anywhere from $100 to $800) for non-stop flights to and from Armenia. The survey documented that a majority (58%) of airline passengers going to Armenia from the United States connect through Moscow (SVO), with the other top two connecting airports being Doha (DOH) and Paris (CDG).
Additional findings of the ANCA travel survey shows that only 7% of travelers to Armenia go with a tour group and that 69% of passengers book their own flights, with 31% going through travel agents. With respect to travel frequency, 58% of survey respondents fly to Armenia only once a year, while 35% take between two to three trips to Armenia annually from the United States. “Other data shows steady year-over-year growth in passenger traffic and tourism spending between the two countries which, when combined with the ANCA’s survey data, indicates it’s time to start having serious bi-lateral discussions about the clear potential for such an aviation link between the U.S. and Armenia,” said Armenian.
A full copy of “Consumer Market Survey Results: ANCA Non-Stop U.S. to Armenia Flights” may be accessed online.
The travel survey is a project of the ANCA, which promotes U.S. to Armenia non-stop flights as part of its campaign to boost tourism, increase business travel, expand cargo traffic, and strengthen the U.S.-Armenia bi-lateral economic partnership.
The ANCA has called on the U.S. Department of Transportation to support a public-private partnership regarding establishing non-stop U.S. to Armenia flights, involving U.S. airlines and relevant government agencies, among them the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and Transportation Security Administration.
The Republic of Armenia, with its world-class Zvartnots airport, has solid tourism infrastructure and is witnessing steady annual tourism growth. It is an increasingly in-demand destination for family, business, healthcare, technology, and education related travel. Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, is a growing financial center, home to a thriving business community with strong ties to Eurasia and the Middle East. Non-stop U.S.-Armenia flights would, in addition to saving travelers time and inconvenience, deliver financial benefits to airline carriers as well as material advantages to business leaders, commercial enterprises, and investors in both countries.
State of Emergency - July 16, 2019 said:
It’s not about support rather more about economics. The carrier will have to make money or else the route will be axed.
Raffi - July 17, 2019 said:
@State of Emergency: I agree with you.
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Science behind the headlines – beyond seven billion people
Written by: Captain Skellett // December 9th, 2011 // Science Communication
We reached a big milestone last month as the world’s population exceeded seven billion people for the first time. Looking behind the headlines was Paul Willis at the RiAus and a panellist of scientists and journalists on Tuesday (event details here.)
In the 20th century we added five billion people to the Earth. Before that, we had only added two billion in total. Part of the reason is a decreased death rate, due to better medical facilities, coupled with an increase of food made possible by the Haber process that produces nitrogen fertiliser from nitrogen in the air. The chemistry makes it possible to, on some level, make food from air.
But population increase is not exponential. The UN expects the population to level off at 10 billion in the next fifty years, after a dramatic decrease in fertility, which no one anticipated.
“It is unconscionable to have a policy to increase mortality!” says Graeme Hugo, Director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre at the University of Adelaide. “The only way forward is to decrease fertility, that’s the only thing on the table.”
The world has done very well to reduce fertility, halving it since the 1970’s.
However, in some areas of Africa and isolated pockets in Asia it is not dropping as fast as expected. Two years ago East Timor each woman was having around eight children. The continued high fertility may be because we’ve taken our foot off the pedal when it comes to efforts like increasing contraceptives, women’s education and emancipation.
Beyond numbers
But it’s not all about the numbers, and that was the key point the scientists spoke about on Tuesday. Population is a complex issue, and has to be considered in connection to age and spatial distribution and consumption of goods.
The cost of looking after an aging semi-majority (the baby boomers) is a worry for some political movements. Balanced age groups are important to ensure the number of dependents and the number of workers is stable.
Migration may not change the global numbers, but it’s important for people are spread out in the right way. That means considering how many people a local environment can sustain in terms of food and water.
Consumption is also critical. One baby born in the United States consumes the equivalent of 30 babies born in Africa according to Udoy Saikia, School of the Environment, Flinders University (here’s a relevant link.) “People in developed countries should limit their consumption,” says Hugo. “In many developing countries, consumption needs to go up because they’re not consuming enough to be healthy.”
One way for more developed countries to limit consumption is to go vego. A more vegetarian diet is able to support more people for the same number of resources. Bring on the lentils!
This Tedx talk on the topic, I can’t recommend it enough.
Magic bullets
Scientists agreed that coverage of the seven billion people story has been pretty good overall, far better than stories about migration.
One issue they mentioned was the trend to look for a magic bullet, fixing just one thing to solve the whole population problem. It’s also hard for journalists with limited inches to talk about all the factors in a complex issue like population science.
Stopping population growth won’t work unless you take consumption into account, as well as the other factors. There needs to be a holistic approach. That doesn’t end (or even start) with policy – everyone needs to make a decision to change their consumption.
How many Australians should there be? There is no magic number where everything will fall into place. There are definite demographic problems regarding aging populations and dispersion (or lack thereof).
The scientists agreed we need a policy that allows for sustainable growth. They said it would devastate Australia if we stopped population growth tomorrow, but it would be also devastating to have uncontrolled growth.
“Every day we waste about 40% of the food (in Australia),” says Saikia. “There is some hope that the 10 billion population can survive very well, depending on distribution and consumption.”
Paul Willis summed up by asking whether Australian’s should “be concerned, not alarmed.” It’s not the end of the world, but we do need major changes and responses to population dynamics, says Hugo. “Be concerned, AND alarmed – about consumption,” says Saikia.
This post was also featured on the RiAus website.
One Response to “Science behind the headlines – beyond seven billion people”
James Byrne says:
Nice post 🙂 Thanks for coming along on the night I think it went over well.
Sorry I couldn’t stop and chat, I was a little all over the place.
I was wondering if you would mind if I reposted this on my Scientific American blog? If you are okay with it send me an email and we can work it out.
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Brazil’s Top Investment Banker Busted; BTG Pactual Chief in Bribe Probe
Andre Esteves, Brazil’s top billionaire investment banker and until this past Sunday, Chairman and CEO of brokerdealer Grupo BTG Pactual SA, submitted his resignation this weekend after being busted last week by federal prosecutors for purported bribery charges.
47 year old Esteves is not only Brazil’s top investment banker, he is one of the top ‘cool kids’ across the global investment banking industry. Esteves, who many have likened to being Brazil’s version of Lloyd Blankfein, is also the controlling shareholder of Brazil’s equivalent of Goldman Sachs. The finance industry star delivered his resignation from a Sao Paulo jail cell, where he is being held without bail consequent to his arrest on purported bribery charges relating to a probe of Petrobas aka Petróleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s largest state-controlled energy company. Though expected to have been released this weekend, the Supreme Court of Brazil ruled to make the arrest “preventative”—which in layman terms means that Esteves will be cooling his Gucci-covered heels for an indefinite period.
Prosecutors suspect the billionaire dealmaker, along with a senior senator, tried to obstruct a long-running graft probe involving Petrobras. Esteves, through his lawyer, has denied the allegations. Shares and bonds in Latin America’s largest independent investment bank were bashed further on Monday, reflecting concerns about the impact of the investigation on operations after the Supreme Court extended the financier’s detention indefinitely.
It was the first time the bank, which has long been synonymous with Esteves, has been directly implicated in the bribery scandal. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot used evidence and other suspects’ testimony to persuade the country’s Supreme Court to extend Esteves’ detention on a preventive basis.
Documents obtained by Brazil prosecutors purportedly suggest BTG Pactual had paid 45 million reais ($12 million) to Eduardo Cunha, speaker of the lower house of Congress, in exchange for passing legislation favoring the bank, the newspapers said.
BTG Pactual denied making such payments in a statement on Sunday, and pledged to cooperate with authorities. Cunha also denied the allegations.
BTG Pactual named two founding partners, Chief Operating Officer Roberto Saloutti and Chief Financial Officer Marcelo Kalim, as co-CEOs. Persio Arida, who became acting CEO after Esteves’ arrest, is now chairman, with Huw Jenkins, head of the bank’s international arm, becoming vice chairman.
The full article from Reuters is at this link
Tagged Andre Esteves, brokerdealer, brokerdealer.com blog, BTG Pactual
China Regulators Ban Derivatives For Financing Stock Purchase
(Bloomberg) — The Securities Association of China will ban brokerages from offering financing for stock market trading using derivatives, the country’s securities regulator said.
Brokerages should provide funding to their clients using margin trading tools that comply with the rules, China Securities Regulatory Commission spokesman Zhang Xiaojun said Friday at a briefing. Swaps offered by some brokerages have deviated from their role as a risk management tool, instead becoming a way to offer unofficial margin loans for investors, Zhang said.
China’s regulators are attempting to prevent another build up of leverage in the stock market similar to the borrowing binge that took place earlier this year and helped propel the boom and then bust in Chinese share prices. Earlier this month, the country’s two mainland stock exchanges doubled margin requirements to 100 percent in another move to limit leverage in the market.
“After the stock market rout, regulators have a new understanding about leverage,” Chen Xingyu, a Shanghai-based analyst at Phillip Securities Research, said by phone. “Their measures have been focusing on deleveraging and reducing risk and this policy stance should continue. The regulators will be more conservative and prudent than before.”
Zhang was confirming a report Thursday in Caixin magazine, which said China’s brokerages were told to wind down the business of offering total return swaps, a type of over-the- counter derivative, for clients who want to trade stocks.
At the end of October, the over-the-counter derivative businesses of 39 brokerages had an outstanding nominal value of 279 billion yuan ($43.7 billion), according to data from the Securities Association of China. Of that, swaps accounted for 44 percent by value, while options contracts accounted for the rest.
The amounts involved in the swaps compare to China’s official margin finance balance of more than 1.2 trillion yuan.
The total return swaps can offer three to five times leverage because the investor pays only a deposit to the broker and then a fixed-interest payment at the end of the contract, in return for receiving a floating return on the stocks.
Tagged brokerdealer.com, china brokerdealers, derivatives to finance stock purchase, financing stock trading, Securities Association of China
BrokerDealers For Sale-Glut Makes Buyers Market
A glut of independent brokerdealers (IBDs) for sale is creating a buyer’s market, putting pressure on prices across the independent broker-dealer space.
While no “Black Friday Sale” signs are expected to appear (that’s right, Black Friday is a negative in the world of Wall Street), according to coverage from InvestmentNews.com, coupled with a further investigation by the curators at BrokerDealer.com, prices for IBDs are going lower, not higher; creating opportunities for new entrants and headaches for rumored sellers that include Cetera Financial Group.
(InvestmentNews.com) November 25 A glut of independent broker-dealer firms (IBDs) for sale is creating a buyer’s market for independent broker-dealers that could put pressure on the prices sellers are able to attract.
Firms for sale include Cetera Financial Group, AIG Adviser Group and Next Financial Group, which collectively represent 15 individual broker-dealers and more than 15,000 registered representatives and advisers.
BrokerDealer.com maintains the world’s largest directory of broker-dealers in more than three dozen countries and a robust database of those interested in buying or selling broker-dealers
“There is a higher number of potential opportunities than we have ever seen before,” said Richard Lampen, president and chief executive of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, which has completed five broker-dealer acquisitions since 2007. “The $64,000 question is, how many deals are going to get done?”
“With so many potential sellers in the market, and rumors of more sellers, I’m curious to see how the market-clearing process will work,” Mr. Lampen said. “There are some willing buyers, but is there a price that’s going to work?”
Mr. Lampen said sellers are going to have a reality check when it comes to offers their properties are likely to attract. He said the industry has put behind it the outsized valuations of independent broker-dealers used in acquisitions by RCS Capital Corp., a brokerage holding company that one-time real estate mogul Nicholas Schorsch put together in a flurry of acquisitions between 2013 and 2014.
“Some sellers still think it’s 2014, and Nick Schorsch price expectations are out there,” Mr. Lampen said. “But it’s hard to imagine any one overpaying at this stage in the process.”
CETERA TOPS THE LIST
The largest of the firms reportedly in play is Cetera Financial Group, the network that Mr. Schorsch put together. It is made up of 10 broker-dealers with about 9,500 reps and advisers. Larry Roth, the CEO of Cetera and its parent company, RCS Capital, told advisers on a conference call recently that a half dozen companies had shown interest in the firm and that a new owner or significant private-equity investor would be in place by year-end.
The full story from InvestmentNews.com is here
Tagged Black Friday, broker dealers, brokerdealer.com, BrokerDealers For Sale, Cetera Financial Group, IDBs, independent brokerdealers, RCS Capital Corp
Re-Branding Asia-Pacific Exchange Now Sydney Stock Exchange
(Traders Magazine)-The Asia Pacific Stock Exchange (APX) is changing its name to Sydney Stock Exchange.
As first reported in Automated Trader, the new Sydney Stock Exchange’s Deputy Chairman George Wang said, “We aim to build the Sydney Stock Exchange as a bridge between Australia and Asia’s capital markets, corporates and investors.
Brokerdealer.com provides a global database of broker-dealers in more than thirty countries worldwide
He added that the new name reflects both the role of Sydney as a major financial center in Australia and the Asia Pacific region and the geographic home of the exchange. It also revives and reminds of the rich heritage of the old Sydney Stock Exchange, which was an important trading place in its own right until 1987.
Sydney Stock Exchange will be a member of Asia Pacific Exchange Group (APX Group), as well as Asia Pacific Finance Institute of Australia, and the Asia Pacific Equity Exchange.
Tagged APX Group, Asia Pacific Finance Institute of Australia, asia-pacific exchange, brokerdealer.com, global directory of brokerdealers, sydney stock exchange
BrokerDealer Leading Crowdfund Bandwagon
As the crowdfund movement picks up more steam thanks to the recent update from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the broker-dealer community is paying close attention to what could be a big pay day. One BrokerDealer leading the crowdfund bandwagon is Seed Equity Ventures, led by finance industry veteran Todd Crosland.
In a recent Forbes.com profile, CEO Crosland talks about his broker dealer, which is already operating and doing crowdfunding type equity raises under the SEC’s Regulation D 506(c) rules for general solicitations, says, “ I believe the SEC passing Title III will be a watershed event for both startups and investors. Startups and the general investing public will be forever changed.”
BrokerDealer.com is the global directory of broker-dealers; the firm’s database covers brokerdealers operating in more than 30 countries across the free world.
Seed Equity Ventures is a registered broker dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of both FINRA and SIPC. Seed Equity Ventures provides investment banking services to startups and growth companies from around the world.
The Forbes piece by Devin Thorpe was excerpted by the curators at crowdfund industry search portal, RaiseMoney.com; here’s the link
Tagged Broker Dealer, crowdfund brokerdealer, crowdfund industry search portal, crowdfunding, RaiseMoney.com, SEC Regulation D 506(c), seed equity ventures, todd crosland
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Today I’m taking you behind the scenes of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, this year’s “It” series in young adult (YA) fiction. The trilogy's editor, Kate Egan, happens to live around the corner from me. She came to my house for coffee to share the publishing story behind this #1 New York Times bestseller series, which has been popular with adults too.
The premise draws on both pop culture and the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur: a despotic ruler selects children from every district to fight to the death. The sole survivor brings back a bounty of food to his or her district. The battle is staged in a nightmare world of mutant hazards and broadcast live as entertainment, the ultimate reality TV. Needless to say, this gory spectacle foments, rather than subdues, rebellion in the districts.
When her younger sister is selected to be a contestant, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Katniss is a skilled archer who has been poaching wild game to feed her family. She is paired with a boy, Peeta, who once saved her from starvation. Katniss owes Peeta her life, but only one contestant is allowed to survive. Peeta loves Katniss, but she also has feelings for her hunting partner, Gale. This love triangle frames a coming-of-age story set in a war zone.
Although the first two books The Hunger Games (2008) and Catching Fire (2009) were more entertaining and better paced, Mockingjay (released last August 2010) has greater philosophical depth and moral ambiguity. The regime is corrupt and evil, but are the revolutionaries any better? In this not-so-distant future, television has become the most effective weapon of war. Despite the violence, this series does not glorify war, rather the opposite. The cost of war is paid by all participants, win or lose.
This dystopian trilogy reminded me more of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm than of books written for teenagers. If you've never read YA, try these. My daughter found the first book too scary at age eleven but returned to the books at age thirteen and really enjoyed them. I loved them too. All three books were hard to put down and impossible to forget. After finishing, I had many questions. Kate Egan had the answers.
photo of Kate Egan by Sarah Laurence
My Interview of Kate Egan
Sarah: how did you first connect with the author Suzanne Collins?
Kate: while working for Scholastic in NYC, I acquired and edited Suzanne’s first book, Gregor The Overlander. It became a five book series. The Underland Chronicles is about a boy who falls through a hole in his laundry room into a world hidden under New York, populated by giant rats and cockroaches and other creatures you might expect to find beneath the city.
Sort of like a modern Alice in Wonderland?
Exactly. The Underland Chronicles is meant for a younger audience but shares a similar central theme with The Hunger Games series.
What is that central theme?
Suzanne’s main interest is “what is a just war?” She’s especially concerned about the effects of war on a person.
What first attracted you to her writing?
The un-put-down-able quality to her writing. Suzanne started her career as a screenwriter. She wrote the adorable Little Bear television program on Nick Junior, among many other shows. She knows how to move a story and how to hold a kid’s attention, although Little Bear and her novels are extremely different in tone.
What was the inspiration for The Hunger Games trilogy?
Suzanne was flipping back and forth between the Iraq War coverage and Survivor on TV when she got the idea for The Hunger Games. Suzanne always writes her books in 3 parts with 9 chapters each so a trilogy was natural. She had the whole story in her head from the start.
When did you first hear about The Hunger Games?
Four years ago I was doing the final edits on the last Gregor book, when my second child was born. It was a month before I was ready to get back to editing. Suzanne used that time to write the proposal for The Hunger Games trilogy. The original proposal had the fight to the death and the intriguing character of Katniss. I realized that this was going to be the biggest book I’d ever worked on.
Why do you think The Hunger Games series has been so successful?
When I started working in publishing in the mid 1990’s, young adult fiction was all but dead. Scholastic, the publisher of The Hunger Games, barely published YA back then. There was no dedicated space for teen fiction in the bookstores. In the past ten years, the publishing pendulum has swung towards YA, even garnering an adult crossover audience. The Hunger Games was impossible to put down, and Katniss was a great character. Suzanne is a terrific storyteller.
Given that Scholastic’s headquarters are in NYC, why did you move to Maine?
My husband worked for the New York City government, and one of the terms of his employment was that we had to live within the city limits. We were living in a basement apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Our daughter’s crib was in the hall! In 2003 my husband was offered the job of running the State Ethics Commission in Augusta. In six weeks we bought a car and a house and moved to Maine.
How did you manage to keep working as an editor after the move?
I switched to working freelance for several publishing companies, mostly for Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan. I kept 3 of my old authors from Scholastic, too. I work in the mornings when both kids are in school, during naptime and late at night.
How did you hold onto Suzanne Collins as your author?
When Suzanne’s agent sold The Hunger Games trilogy to Scholastic, it was agreed that I would remain her editor. We’ve been together for eight books now.
What are Suzanne Collins’s strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and how do you help her as an editor?
Storytelling is Suzanne’s strength. As an editor, I help her develop the characters. For example, I asked her for more of the Peeta-Katniss-Gale love triangle. Suzanne was more focused on the war story. We’ve learned to trust each other. Sometimes Suzanne thinks it’s obvious where she is going, but I tell her I don’t see it. When I need help following, it’s a sign that the manuscript needs some shoring up.
What has happened in the wake of The Hunger Games?
Suzanne wrote the screenplay for the movie of The Hunger Games, which will be produced by Nina Jacobson at Lionsgate Productions. They are in talks with Gary Ross, who directed Pleasantville and Seabiscuit. Suzanne is also busy with the Mockingjay launch and approving licensing products, like a Hunger Games board game.
Is Suzanne Collins working on a new novel?
I think she is starting to think about it, but that’s all I know right now.
I’m struck by how much The Hunger Games has appealed to adult readers as well as to teens. What marks a book as young adult as opposed to adult fiction?
I'd say that there has to be a teenaged protagonist. They are coming-of-age stories. The ending does not have to be happy, but there must be hope. A window is left open.
Thank you, Kate!
Reviewer’s Disclaimer: I bought all three books myself when they were first released. Kate Egan and I were introduced by our neighbor Charlotte Agell, author of another dystopian novel for teens, Shift. This interview was our first meeting. We met up more recently for a walk to enjoy the fall foliage. That first shot is from my front yard, and Kate is standing in my back yard. All photos were taken by me.
Note: Please do not contact me to reach Kate Egan. I am unable to forward e-mails.
Labels: book review club, career and family, interviews, young adult fiction
Cynthia Pittmann said...
How interesting to interview an editor, Sarah! I enjoyed reading about Kate's career path and how she adapted it to family life. Also, her comments about how she edits helped me to see how invaluable an insightful editor can be. About your disclaimer- I've never read anyone confess to a walk with the interviewed. :-)
Very interesting review. When is a war a just war? That made think loads, I can tell you.
And thank you for interviewing the people BEHIND the books! I know that you've already written about your agent but this insight into an editor's mind was very welcome.
Alyssa Goodnight said...
Fascinating interview! I would love to read more interviews of this type, digging deeper into the stories behind books and their authors. Bravo!
Wonderful interview, Sarah! I loved the first Gregor book and am thrilled to know there are four more! Also a huge fan of the HG trilogy.
The computer age has made a huge difference in Maine life, hasn't it? I know more and more people whose employers are far, far away. The possibilities seem endless.
pattinase (abbott) said...
THis sounds terrific. And great for my husband who teaches a course on dystopias.
Great interview, Sarah. Thank Kate again for us. I rarely read YA but I love, love, love the Hunger Games. Can't wait for the movie. :D
Cid said...
My eldest son & I are reading the trilogy. Both of us have been staying up late reading and then lying awake thinking about the characters. I actually just posted my review on the sidebar of my blog. I love when a book can capture the imaginations of both a 12 year old boy and a 44 year old woman. Thanks for a great interview.
Tricia J. O'Brien said...
That was fascinating. I enjoy learning about the author/editor relationship and how it grows. I loved the Hunger Games and the complexity of Katniss and her world.
Fantastic fall photos!
Keri Mikulski said...
Fascinating interview, Sarah! I enjoyed reading about Kate and her journey with Collins. Thanks so much!
Cynthia, I added my “career and family” label to this post after reading your comment. The Hunger Games love triangle sweetens the many bitter moments – it was an excellent editorial suggestion to develop it. Book bloggers have focused especially on that plot string. Reviewing and walking, oh my!
ACIL and Alyssa, the stories behind a book can be almost as good as the book itself.
Ellen, telecommuting has certainly changed the landscape of Maine. I turned to writing because I was looking for work in a remote location, and I’m so happy I did.
Patti, I’d be interested in your husband’s take on these books and how they fit into the dystopian genre. And your opinion too!
Linda, I’m eager to learn more about the movie too although I’m not sure I want to see it. I love the images I have in my head already from reading. Still, it would make an exciting film.
Cid, I read each of the books over a weekend. The cross-generational appeal makes these books special. How nice to share them with your son.
Tricia and Keri, these books are clearly a product of creative genius, expert editing and trust built over time. As I’m sure you know, it’s rare these days to have an editor and an author form a long-term partnership due to the revolving door of publishing.
I came here earlier but wasn't really feel well enough to blog. I'm better now-yeah. I think your author interviews are really neat. You have such a good record for all of posterity for them all. The yellow and red foliage color really caught my eye too!
What a wonderful inteview! I loved learning about the story behind the story. I still have the 3rd book to read. ;)
☆sapphire said...
Thanks so much for your nice review and interview! I'd love to read the trilogy! As I like to read coming-of-age stories very much, I became very intrigued by the three books! The third one "has greater philosophical depth and moral ambiguity"?! How interesting! I'll place an order online. I think Scholastic is really a great publisher!!
Your autumn leaves are awesome. Ours have begun to turn color at last!
I really enjoyed this interview with the editor, Sarah. I've always wondered just what a book editor did, and now I can see how Kate's involvement with these books helped to make them better novels.
These books really do sound intriguing, especially with a mythological premise and similarities to Orwell. Over the last few years I can't but remember 1984's wars with East Asia and then Eurasia as we switch between Iran and Iraq as the "enemy." I've often thought, too, that it's only a matter of time before reality TV starts promoting some kind of fight to the death like this. If I were still teaching, I would be using your reviews for reading suggestions to my ninth-graders!
This is awesome! You have the coolest neighbors! (I know I sound pretty juvenile, but it's true!)
I recently bought the first two books of the trilogy and they're on my reading list for this winter. I'm really looking forward to reading these books, even more so after reading your post and this interview. Thank you Sarah!
We recently had Kate visit the middle school, and she was great. Kids in grades 5-8 soaked up her humor and wisdom. Another great interview, Sarah. Also, I like the leaves which now seem to have largely fallen!
Great interview. I really liked reading what was the inspiration morally for the trilogy because I did not get the feel that they came out so strongly in the first book for me. Decadence, corruption of power, that sort of thing yes, but the individual effects of war on an individual seemed less pronounced. I really enjoy your interviews.
Tina, good to hear that you are feeling better. The bright reds and yellows are now gone but there are still golden brown oaks.
Barrie, pick a free weekend because it will be hard to put down. Thanks for hosting the book review club!
Sapphire, is The Hunger Games big in Japan? I imagine it will be if it isn’t already. Our big storm today is pulling down the last of the colorful leaves. I’m looking forward to seeing yours.
Rose, it’s been fascinating hearing about the writing process from an editor’s perspective. Everyone else I know in publishing is an author or an agent. I agree that these books would be great for classroom discussions, not so much for literary merit (they are commercial fiction) but for the topical issues of war and television.
Donna, I do have the coolest neighbors and blog buddies! Let me know what you think of the books.
Charlotte, thanks so much for introducing me to Kate! We walked again today, and she told me about how much fun she had with your students. I am missing the leaves and sunshine.
Stacy, the first two books were more spectacular and the war was not much more than a small rebellion. By the third book, the horrors of full-blown war take a more personal toll on the main characters. Katniss appears to be suffering from PTSD.
Beth Kephart said...
This is fascinating! Thank you for this.
Maria Padian said...
This was such fun to read, not only to get the "behind the scenes" story from the editor but also ... heck, Kate's our neighbor! Suzanne Collins is lucky to have her: a good editor is a gift!
Beth and Maria, as authors you know the value of a good editor.
Tracy Golightly-Garcia said...
I enjoyed the interview and even though my daughter might be to young for the books--they sound like a good read for me.
The red leaves are beautiful--this year we have more yellow and brown leaves in my area.
Tracy :)
Amanda Summer said...
this book is very intriguing to me, especially because of the greek mythology theme. what a great premise for a good yarn -- and a great interview with the editor to boot! thanks sarah!
Tracy, enjoy the books and your leaves. Ours are mostly down now.
Amanda, you’ll appreciate the Greek myth update.
Wow, I think this interview is my favorite of all the ones you've done. Your questions are excellent and kate's answers gave me so much to think about. I'm surprised that the editor interview is the one that stands out.
And thanks for the leaves....
Cynthia, I found this interview especially interesting too. It was great to get the editor’s perspective. Part of what might have made this one stand out was that I conducted the interview in person instead of via email. It was a lot more work, but made it more of a conversation. It was fun getting to know Kate too.
You have such interesting neighbors! This "interview with" is a great feature, and it's a nice twist to interview the editor instead of the author.
I'm going to check these out for the Book Club I'm organizing for the 13 year olds.
Bee, this series would be a perfect choice for your book club since both kids and parents would enjoy them. It would be interesting to hear the English reaction. I’m lucky to have such interesting neighbors and blog buddies!
nat @book, line, and sinker said...
what a terrific idea for an interview! i loved the insight that kate offered and really enjoyed this trilogy.
Nat, welcome to my blog and thank you! Kate was marvelous. It’s so nice to connect with another book lover.
Loved this behind the scenes look at one of my favorite series!
Lenore, welcome to my blog and thank you!
drSmock said...
I've been trying to find Kate Egan's email address to inform her of an editing error on p. 167 of the trade copy of _The Hunger Games_. There's a noun-verb disagreement in the sentence containing "my heads throbs . . . " which (I think) is somewhere near the middle of the page. I was hoping she could go back and correct her manuscript so that the typo won't appear in future printings.
So . . . If anyone here knows her email, could you please inform her?
Ryan Smock
drSmock, try contacting the publisher, Scholastic, as Kate does not handle details like that.
I thought David Levithan edited HG?
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/10/15/the-hunger-games-movie/
I'm sure I am just missing something super obvious. But, I don't know what.
Al, welcome to my blog! Kate Egan is Suzanne Collins's longtime editor. Kate signed up Suzanne for her first novel and has edited all eight of her books, including the HG series. David Levithan is the editorial director/publisher of Scholastic Press (as noted in the article you linked to), and as such, has contributed a lot of editorial feedback to Suzanne. They all work together as a team. When addressing the press, David speaks for Scholastic. As a freelance editor, Kate cannot represent the company. I hope that clears up the confusion. Thanks for your question!
gotcha! thank you so much! that makes complete sense! thank you for getting back to me! :)
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UNBC Energy Tour
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Great Energy at the U
Posted on September 11, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
The kick-off for UNBC’s 25th anniversary celebrations occurred on Sept 2 and coincided with orientation for hundreds of first-year students. The events of the day have been captured in the news and on various social media channels, but now, one week fake cartier bracelets
after the festivities, it’s easy to see that the kick-off also inspired feelings of pride from people with various associations with UNBC. The Citizen published an editorial, a local CBC radio personality wrote a blog post (both authors are UNBC alumni), and long-time faculty member Todd Whitcombe penned a sincere op-ed, and they have served to magnify the atmosphere that was felt on campus that day. As a “UNBC old-timer,” it was gratifying to see new students truly interacting with people whose association with UNBC is much older than the students themselves.
It’s exactly why one of the themes for the 25th anniversary is energy. There was a real feeling of energy at the University last week, and many commented that they had never witnessed anything quite like it at UNBC. I was on campus the day the Queen visited in 1994. I’ll never forget it, but it has been great to see that level of energy resurrected many times over the years: the annual graduation ceremonies, the start of the medical program in 2004, the opening of the sport centre in 2007, and the visit from Rick Mercer a couple of years ago. Last Tuesday was one of those days.
Last Tuesday also marked the start of a new energy project that will foster the evolution of UNBC as a model for northern and remote communities. The Sustainable Communities Demonstration Project (SCDP) will connect UNBC’s bioenergy systems – especially the wood pellet system – to the residences, daycare, and the I.K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab. The initial phase will be a district energy system that will circulate on hot water, just like the rest of the core campus buildings. But, unlike the rest of the campus, the new SCDP will deliver heat at a lower temperature, serving as a more effective platform for demonstrating multiple renewable energy technologies, including bioenergy, that may be appropriate for deployment in rural communities. Currently, hundreds of communities across Canada burn diesel or propane to meet their energy needs.
Initial funders for the Sustainable Communities Demonstration Project. Back, from left: MLAs Shirley Bond and Amrik Virk, Michael replica cartier love bracelet Weedon of BC Bioenergy Network, and TransCanada Executive VP Alex Pourbaix. Front row: Mayor Stephanie Killam, UNBC President Daniel Weeks, and Brad Bennett of Pacific BioEnergy
The initial funding partners – the Government of BC, TransCanada Corporation, the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition, and the BC Bioenergy Network – announced their participation last week and local wood pellet manufacturer, Pacific BioEnergy, announced their commitment to continue donating wood pellets for the expanded system.
UNBC researcher and graduate, Titi Kunkel
Many communities and businesses care about this project. So do many employees and students. One of them spoke at the announcement. Titi Kunkel is a UNBC graduate and recently defended her PhD dissertation about the relationship between local, renewable energy and the development of Aboriginal communities. When I asked her to describe her interest cartier bracelet size conversion
in the SCDP and its value, she initially responded that it would take a 15-page paper…or two! Titi lives in Quesnel and did her research with 15 First Nations communities in the Cariboo and Chilcotin regions of BC. She’s convinced that rural and remote regions should use their vast, adjacent natural resources to generate energy that will foster their continued sustainability and that the SCDP will help show the way.
It will start on the Prince George campus, and the trailblazers will be the students in residence who will be the first beneficiaries of the new SCDP. They won’t actually feel any difference, except the pride – maybe the “energy” – of being associated with something important cartier bracelet for communities across Canada.
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Three cheers for good ideas
Posted on June 13, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
Bioenergy conference delegates at the opening reception in the Canfor Winter Garden at UNBC.
Over the last two weeks, both UNBC and Prince George have again been front-and-centre regarding energy, and bioenergy cartier love bracelet in particular. Today was the last day, for example, of the International Bioenergy Conference and Exhibition, which is held every second year in Prince George. This was the 10th anniversary of the conference and there were close to 350 people cartier bracelet size conversion
attending from all over the world: Sweden, Finland, China, New Zealand, the United States, etc. It’s the longest-running conference of its kind in Canada.
UNBC’s David Claus leads one of the tours replica cartier during the bioenergy conference
For the last few years, I’ve been a member of the Board for the society that puts on the conference. Its relationship with UNBC goes back to the beginning – in 2004, the University was the site of the first conference. This year, UNBC hosted the opening reception for the conference and provided a number of tours of our bioenergy systems. It’s great exposure to some of the leading bioenergy thinkers and companies from around the world.
One of those leading thinkers is a local person who first had the idea for the bioenergy conference. John Swaan is considered to be a father of Canada’s wood pellet industry. He had his motivation in the beehive burners that were incinerating thousands of tonnes of sawmill residues in Prince George and the region in the 1990s. While some saw a waste product, John saw a business opportunity. He started a pellet-manufacturing operation in the region and was the first to ship pellets from Canada’s west coast to Europe. He was a founder of the Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC) and served as its executive director through much of the 2000s. For all of those reasons, John was the first recipient of a new “Founders Award for Bioenergy Excellence” that was presented by the Board to celebrate the conference’s 10th anniversary.
On behalf of the Board for the bioenergy conference, I presented an award of excellence to John Swaan during the conference
What a lot of people don’t know, however, is that John was also an instigator of UNBC’s bioenergy project…all because of the 2010 Olympics. Seriously. In 2007, the City of Vancouver was planning the construction of the athletes’ village and had proposed that it be heated with wood pellets from northern BC. The idea didn’t garner public support, however, and so the idea wasn’t approved by Vancouver city council. John was visiting UNBC shortly after the decision and was expressing his frustration over the perception of bioenergy in metro Vancouver. The reaction from UNBC was essentially this: “If Vancouver won’t do it, we will.” John was executive director of WPAC at the time and worked with us to acquire federal funding for a small wood pellet system at the I.K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab that would serve as a “prototype” for a future energy system that would tie into UNBC’s existing campus district heating system. Funding was provided by the Federal Government in 2008 as part of its pine beetle recovery program and the rest is history.
Today, the two bioenergy systems on campus – the wood pellet system and the larger biomass gasification system – have offset natural gas consumption for heating by more cartier replica than 70% annually. But maybe even more significantly, the project is serving as a model for northern communities and a platform for education and research.
It also continues to attract awards. The latest was awarded in Toronto last week at the Canadian Green Building Council annual convention. The Bioenergy Plant was one of only eight buildings nationwide to receive a green building award, and the comments of the jury are particularly appropriate:
This project is exemplary for bringing local energy production into view and so elevating public consciousness around ownership and responsibility. An elegant building whose expression is rooted in ’place’; a fabulous example of what more communities in Canada should be doing.
Hear, hear. It’s a story and an opportunity that UNBC is continuing develop and the bioenergy conference provided another opportunity to share it with the world.
“Close your eyes and swing for the fences”
Posted on June 1, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
Honorary degree recipient Michael Green in front of the Wood Innovation and Design cartier bracelet size conversion
Centre he designed
The annual Convocation ceremonies are always the highlights of the UNBC calendar. For hundreds of students every year – this year, more than 800 – Convocation is a time to celebrate accomplishments and transitions. It’s that “transitions” part that serves as a theme of the day, and always lives in the inspirational speech that is delivered to the grad class by honorary degree recipients.
The honorary degree recipients for 2014 were ethnobotanist Nancy Turner and architect Michael Green. Both are exceptional individuals and both gave “words to live by” to the grads: Turner recounted her decades of experiences with BC First Nations and their traditional uses of plants; Green described a personal mantra to take risks and aim to change the world, which started when he broke his back in a climbing accident and barely survived.
The entrance foyer of the Wood Innovation and Design Centre
Green used a baseball metaphor – “keep your eye on the ball” – as the foundation for his speech. But he described that phrase as conventional and too safe, and chose instead to give it a twist. “Close your eyes and swing for the fences,” he told the Class of 2014. “You’ll miss a lot, but when you connect, you’ll feel like you’ve changed the world.”
Green should know. He has made a career out of turning architectural convention on its head. In a profession dominated by people who use concrete, steel, and glass, Green would appear to have made it his life mission to make wood the building material of choice. And not just for houses; for skyscrapers.
Laminated Veneer Lumber is used in the window frames
His Wood Innovation and Design Centre in downtown Prince George is the start. The 30m building is already being touted as the world’s tallest modern wood building, but Green believes it will be prototype for wood buildings that are 20, 30, or even 40 stories tall.
New technologies and new ideas can make it happen. These photos of the Wood Innovation and Design Centre show some of its interesting
The ceiling/floor structure for each floor uses staggered CLT panels
and unique features. From the top, there’s a view from the mezzanine of the entrance foyer. The beams covered with protective plastic are glulam and the floor of the mezzanine as well fake cartier bracelets
as the ceiling and walls is cross-laminated timber (CLT), a product made in BC by Structurlam. The next photo shows www.cartierlovebracelet.co Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) which is used in the staircase leading from the ground level to the mezzanine as well as in the window
Pipes that connect the Wood Innovation and Design Centre to the City’s bioenergy system
frames (as shown here) throughout the building. Finally, there’s a nice photo from the top storey of the building that shows the ceiling structure of alternating CLT panels. This contributes to the building’s strength while also providing space for electrical and telecommunications cables.
On the outside, the white plastic that has covered the building for a few months has finally been removed, once again providing a good view of the building both from the street and the webcams that have been capturing the progress since the first beam was installed. And now that the structure is complete, pipes are being installed that will connect the Wood Innovation and Design Centre to Prince George’s district energy system. This system, which originates at the Lakeland Mill, brings hot water to a number of buildings throughout the downtown core. The outside of the building also features wooden boards that have been slightly burned, releasing the wood’s natural preservative. Click here for a video about how it’s done.
When it’s completed the Wood Innovation and Design Centre will house proposed new master’s degree programming in engineering that will focus on wood design and the use of wood in large structures. It’s a new area for UNBC, and the program’s first professor was just recently appointed.
All in all, with so many developments on site recently, the presentation of an honorary degree to Michael Green came at a perfect time. And he hit the nail replica cartier love bracelet on the head with his message to the grads. Much is said these days of skills and technical expertise and certainly, the Class of 2014 is leaving UNBC with abilities to excel in their chosen careers or professions. But Green’s story – and his experience with the Wood Innovation and Design Centre – proves that passion, creativity, and imagination still count for a lot.
Sensibility About Sustainability
Posted on May 25, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
It’s the largest academic conference UNBC has hosted: nearly 500 academics from 26 countries around the world. They are here www.cartierlovebracelet.co for the eighth congress presented by the International Arctic Social Science Association and the theme is “Northern Sustainabilities.” Through hundreds of research presentations, workshops, lectures, and seminars, the delegates are being exposed to various ideas and perspectives on economic, social, cultural, and environmental sustainability – all from a northern lens. It’s great.
Sverker Sorlin speaks to nearly 350 people at UNBC during the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
I took in a session from Swedish academic Sverker Sorlin, an expert in the notion of “environmental humanities” – the idea that understanding the environment and sustainability is as much social and cultural as it is technical and biological. The Canfor Theatre was packed for his presentation, which examined the history of glacier replica cartier research in Scandinavia and how it has been shaped by local and regional perceptions of place while also contributing to international knowledge about the changing global climate.
His presentation came at the end of a week that also saw a UNBC glacier specialist attract international media coverage. UNBC professor and Canada Research Chair Brian Menounos had been interviewed about a major American climate change report that targeted the rapid melt of glaciers in BC and Alaska as a critical issue. Menounos is a leading researcher on the topic and has been working with researchers from Alaska, Washington State, Alberta, and BC to document the changes among BC’s glaciers. And have the changes been significant? Yes, with an exclamation point, according to the US report, with implications for electrical production, fisheries, and sea level rise.
Brian Menounos (right) and Matt Beedle examine a moraine left behind by Castle Creek Glacier
In 2008, I traveled with Menounos and his PhD student at the time, Matt Beedle, to the Castle Creek Glacier near McBride to photograph their research and make the early results available to the media. Later, we worked with a video crew to produce a story for the Weather Network and UNBC’s YouTube channel. Six years later, the research appears to finally be getting major attention: the story on CBC generated more than 1400 comments, with another 1000 on the National Post website. Part of the reason for the high levels of interest must be the striking data that Menounos and his team present: BC’s 17,000 glaciers are permanently losing 22 billion cubic metres of water cartier bracelet size conversion
per year. That’s enough to fill BC Place Stadium 8300 times! Beyond the striking data is the conclusion that global warming caused by consumption of fossil fuels is largely to blame. “We know what we need to do,” Menounos is quoted as saying by the Canadian Press (and subsequently reprinted). “It’s not an easy decision, but we have to start, I would argue, thinking about changing our reliance on fossil fuels.”
Sverker Sorlin would agree. People do have a role to play. “If we use the next cartier replica generation wisely,” he said at the end of his talk at UNBC, “and use our conscience as much as our brains, we might finally deliver on northern sustainability.”
100 years since the last spike
Posted on April 7, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
The “famous ” last spike at Craigellachie, BC
Most Canadians associate this photo with “The last spike.” The ceremony marked the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Canada’s first transcontinental railway, in 1885.
It was nearly 30 years before a second route to the west replica cartier love bracelet was completed: the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. 100 years ago today (April 7), the Grand Trunk Pacific was completed, connecting Prince Rupert to Winnipeg. The last spike was driven about 137 km west of Prince George, near the community of Fort Fraser.
This other “last spike” ceremony is much less known but it changed northern cartier bracelets BC forever. The GTP went on to become Canadian National and remains a vital transportation corridor linking northern BC to the east cartierlovebracelet.co and, thanks cartier bracelet size conversion
to the Port of Prince Rupert, to the world
The anniversary almost went by without anyone really noticing. Thankfully, deep in the Archives of Northern BC, a photo of the event was discovered and shared. It was shot by Parker Bonney, who had a long history in northern BC as a forester and surveyor before he passed away in 1977. The photo is one of 600 of Bonney’s images that are being preserved by the Archives.
Click here for more information about the story.
UNBC Archivist Ramona Rose shows Parker Bonney’s photo of “the last spike” for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad
When UNBC was first established, it was described by some founders as the most significant development for northern BC “since the coming of the railroad.” 100 years after the coming of the railroad, it’s appropriate that UNBC has a part in preserving that history.
“You could work on this for 10 years and still not have all the answers” – UNBC students host a symposium on LNG
Posted on March 21, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
The expansion of the BC natural gas industry to possibly include LNG terminals for export is one of the biggest topics in northern BC. And when there’s a big economic topic, you can count on UNBC Economics students to talk about it.
For many years now, they’ve presented an annual symposium on the main economic issues of the day: the BC carbon tax (2008), the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics (2005), the Northern Gateway pipeline (2011). Today, it was LNG and students asked “What Should BC Do With Its Natural Gas?” The event was so popular, extra chairs were www.cartierbracelets.co needed.
A good crowd on campus for the Natural Gas Symposium
The symposium was sponsored by Fortis BC and the company took a unique approach to the event. Rather than simply provide the University with funds to attract external speakers, the Fortis sponsorship provided four students with $1500 research grants to explore different parts replica cartier of the natural gas issue. Their papers – covering topics such as the production of natural gas, domestic consumption vs export, and environmental and social impacts – served as the basis for the opening discussion and framed the program for the remainder of the day.
UNBC students Deng Menyang, Joshua Mann, Claire Stechishin, and Adam Vickers
Claire Stechishin provided data on global natural gas consumption and the relationship between producers (Russia, Canada, the US) and consumers (the US, China, Europe) that is based cartier bracelet
on infrastructure such as pipelines. Deng Menyang followed this with data on the global flow of LNG from countries such as Qatar, Malaysia, and Australia to distant markets in Europe and Asia. Clearly, liquefaction technology is changing longstanding relationships between producers and consumers and allowing countries in Asia especially to rapidly increase their natural gas consumption (from 13-19% of global natural gas consumption in the last decade alone). Adam Vickers then showed how an LNG industry in BC might nearly double the natural gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions and he highlighted other social factors: the supply of skilled labour, the housing stock available for workers, and consequences for security and sovereignty. Joshua Mann concluded by focusing on the situation for BC, which cartier bracelet size conversion
ended up being presented as a series of questions:
Are the people in the northern region likely to benefit from the LNG opportunity in terms of employment?
Are the airsheds around proposed LNG terminals able to handle increased industrial emissions?
How will First Nations communities and municipalities be affected?
Are provincial and federal laws appropriate and will they be enforced?
How will we – or should we – invest any royalties from natural gas?
All are good questions and led to Joshua’s statement that “You could work on this for 10 years and still not have all the answers.” True. But all of the students acknowledged that their research project gave them more knowledge than they had before they began five months ago. They also know that there is still much more to learn. Joshua summed it up well: “I know more but I have more questions now than when I started on this research five months ago.”
Ottawa – “Linkages are key”
Posted on February 27, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
Both the governments of Canada and British Columbia have clearly expressed their desire to move landlocked energy (both gas and oil) to the Pacific
Ocean for export to Asia. Northern BC literally sits in the middle of this issue, giving the region unusual prominence in Ottawa. UNBC has never had a high profile in our nation’s capital, but it’s appropriate for that to change if the North is to increase the local pool of skills and add capacity in related cartier bracelet size conversion
research and innovation.
One group replica cartier critical to building the UNBC profile in Ottawa is alumni. Though still relatively small in number, UNBC graduates in Ottawa include Industry Minister James Moore and dozens more. I met with a group of alumni in Ottawa last week to get their ideas on how UNBC can best meet the challenge of responding to the energy issue in ways that respect economic development, environmental sustainability, and community vitality.
UNBC grads in Ottawa. From left: Jamie Campbell, Patrick Sampson, Natalie Vogt, Mike Speakman, Judy Mitchell, Paul Way, and Laura Way.
“Linkages with decision-makers here are key,” said one.
“UNBC could be a knowledge broker,” said another.
“You could be a source of expertise on federal aspects of natural resource developments.”
“UNBC could promote itself as the University of the corridor from northern Alberta to the west coast.”
These alumni have a certain insight, being employed in ministries such as Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and Natural Resources Canada. One is a specialist in cross-border issues. Another is coordinating a national study on First Nations food, nutrition, and the environment. One developed the new strategic framework for the Canadian Forest Service that involved two years of consultation about sustainable forests. Another is a finance specialist. One is a manager for the Treasury Board. The group even had expertise on the oil sands.
Did this group of alumni represent the upper echelon of decision-making in Ottawa? No, but they represent something perhaps more important. They’re bringing cartier replica new ideas and northern perspectives to the capital and contributing to an emerging sense of “open innovation.” It’s rooted in an appreciation that not all of the smart people are in Ottawa. In fact, “the idea of this city being the central source of knowledge is disappearing,” said one graduate. There’s increased appreciation for diffuse and diverse expertise that can contribute to better decisions, he said. It was this statement that offered a glimpse into UNBC’s potential contribution. It may be precisely that UNBC is NOT in Ottawa that makes it most valuable to the national discussion on energy, but also to policy discussions in any number of areas of consequence to Canada and its northern regions. If there’s a greater interest in assembling knowledge from across the country in the pursuit of better decisions in Ottawa, northern BC is well-positioned.
Natural + Human Resources = the New North
Posted on January 25, 2014 by Rob van Adrichem
The annual natural resources forum earlier this week has become cartier bracelet
one of the most anticipated events of the year in Prince George. Launched nearly a dozen years ago by former MLA Pat Bell, the event draws residents from around northern BC to hear the latest information from high-ranking executives of the companies doing business in the region. And they shared a lot of information. Topics covered multi-storey wood buildings (“the future of the industry” according to West Fraser), Liquefied natural gas (“literally transforming the face of our country forever” according to Premier Clark), mining (“BC’s competitive edge is the availability of freshwater and power” said Tony Jensen of New Gold), electricity generation (“It’s delusional to think rates won’t go up” predicted Donald McInnes of Alterra), and bioenergy (“all of the knowledge we have of this sector is going to double in the next 18 months” suggested Ken Shields of Conifex Timber and President of the Canadian cartierbracelets.co Bioenergy Association).
For all the talk of resources, a significant part of the conversation also focused on people. The LNG proponents all talked about the challenge of attracting skilled labour to both construct and operate the export terminals as well as in upstream gas extraction. Leroy Reitsma of Pinnacle Pellet linked the attraction of talent to cost-competitiveness. And Heather Oland of Initiatives Prince George presented two imperatives: training labour for industry and educating citizens for communities.
MLAs and UNBC alumni meet to discuss the future of the North during a breakfast held prior to the start of the Natural Resources Forum
Heather was one of three UNBC alumni who occupied the podium during the forum (the others were Tracey Wolsey of Suncor and Jason Fisher of Dunkley Lumber). She is the head of Prince George’s economic development agency and was also one of 30 graduates who participated in a breakfast with about 25 MLAs immediately prior to the start of the Natural Resources Forum. The MLAs were in Prince George for a caucus meeting the day before and the gathering with grads was literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. When else could a small group of grads have access to so many MLAs, including the Ministers of Health, Education, Advanced Education, Jobs, Aboriginal Affairs, and Community Development? The alumni group included CEOs, Executive Directors, entrepreneurs, and chiefs representing sectors ranging from forestry, energy, and mining to local government, public health, and education.
Gradually, it’s becoming apparent that while alumni may not – yet – be occupying senior positions in the corporations making major investments in the region, it’s easy to find them in influential positions throughout cartier bracelet size conversion
the region. And they’re trailblazers. Derek Baker is one example. Even before he graduated with his Commerce degree in 2011, he was the first-ever economic development intern at the Northern Development Initiative Trust. He was posted in Prince Rupert and since then, the Prince George native has gone on to become the first employee of Pacific Northwest LNG, a proposed natural gas liquefaction facility within the District of Port Edward (just south of Prince Rupert) that would export natural gas extracted by Progress Energy in northeastern BC and delivered by a pipeline to be constructed by TransCanada. The majority shareholder in the project – Petronas – estimates the total investment at $36 billion.
UNBC grad Derek Baker: “The opportunity to learn and work in the North has never been greater”
And this is just one of the proposed projects.
It’s an opportunity not lost on Derek Baker. “Potential investments in the tens of billions of dollars represent significant employment opportunities in a diverse range of professions including engineering, environmental studies, business analysis, and administration to name cartier love bracelet replica a few,” says Baker, who is the company’s community relations advisor. “The education I received at UNBC has been the foundation on which I have built my career. UNBC is the only school that provides education through a Northern BC lens; introducing you to and preparing you for situations, opportunities and challenges unique to working in Northern BC.”
Good luck to all of the UNBC alumni applying their education, skills, and values to the many diverse resource development questions currently being explored in Northern BC. The region depends on them.
“People Feel This” – the effects of natural resource projects explored at UNBC
I remember a conversation that I had early in my UNBC career with a visiting forestry expert. I can’t remember his name or title but he was involved with a national forestry organization. It was probably 15 years ago. He was describing cartier bracelet size conversion
a revolution that he was witnessing in balancing economic, environmental, and social values related to the forest and how this was affecting forest practices, policy, employment, and forest products. His was a call to forestry programs to change what they were doing to reflect this new reality. I didn’t get it – I thought pursuing the balance between all of those things was already happening at UNBC. “Am I missing something?” I asked him. “No,” he acknowledged, and then he impressed upon me how fortunate we were at UNBC to have new programming and to be based in a region that understood cartier bracelet and valued the forest.
UNBC Dean Dan Ryan addresses participants during a workshop on cumulative effects
I was remembering this during a workshop that was held at UNBC this weekend. The workshop was historic in that it brought together three UNBC research institutes – on community development, natural resources and the environment, and health – to host a single event for the first time. But it was the topic – the cumulative effects of multiple natural resource development projects around northern BC – that attracted more than 100 people from throughout the region. The event was financially supported by the BC Oil and Gas Commission.
“Cumulative effects” are generally understood to be the additive and often unpredictable outcomes of multiple development activities over a period of time and in a particular place. Of course, the topic is a big one in northern BC today as multiple projects, such as pipelines and mines, are discussed in places that may also already have active forestry, agriculture, and/or fishing and hunting activities. What might be the consequences of all of these activities? Jobs and economic growth represent part of the answer but attendees also sought to understand the environmental, social, cultural, and health effects.
For those curious about the future consequences of an expanded oil and gas sector in northern BC, for example, the presentations from the Northeast proved to be eye-opening. Fort St John mayor Lori Ackerman was quick to remind the crowd that the “NG” in “LNG” comes from the northeast corner of the province and that for every dollar invested on the North Coast in the form of LNG terminals, six dollars would be invested in her area in extracting, processing, and sending natural gas. She spoke about the deliberate transformation the community has made from being “destitute” in the 1980s and ’90s to the bustling city of 21,000 that it is today, en route to projections of having 40,000 inhabitants before leveling off. Not so fast, suggested Lana Lowe of the Fort Nelson First Nations. She spoke emotionally about elders feeling unwelcome on their own lands, heavy water use for fracking, and ecological disruption for roads to service new well-sites. As noted in my first blog post, the Fort Nelson area is at the frontier of natural gas development in BC and if LNG goes ahead, Lana predicted that there would be a 600% increase in drilling activity over the next 20 years, representing 3,000 new wells and 4,500 km of new roads. The comment was reminiscent of a remark made during a presentation earlier in the day by Chris Johnson, UNBC’s first PhD graduate, who described the general public’s understanding of cumulative effects as “Death by a thousand cuts: a thousand clear-cuts, a thousand roads, a thousand wells.”
Workshop participants share ideas during a break-out session exploring environmental effects of resource developments.
So what to do? Just say no? Just say yes?
After numerous passionate presentations from university and community people alike, UNBC professor Mike Gillingham noted that “People feel this; it’s more than just a research area for us.” Indeed, it’s about the future of the region. And it’s about values and priorities.
It’s also about being educated, and not just in ecological processes. UNBC professor Kathy Lewis gave a fascinating presentation about how economics and politics have become primary forces on the land and how “good things” like local economic development can often bring unintended consequences that greatly reduce the resilience of the forest. One of her examples was the recent cartier love bracelet outbreak of the mountain pine beetle. The beetle’s population explosion has been blamed on climate change; that winters aren’t as cold as they used to be. But lack of species diversity in the forest has also been a major factor. Simply put, on the eve of the beetle infestation, our forests were full of mature pine trees. And mature spruce and Douglas-fir. The forest industry’s preference for those species had the effect, Dr. Lewis says, of gradually reducing the biodiversity of the forest, thereby making it more susceptible to insect outbreaks. A solution would appear to be planting more different kinds of trees, thereby increasing the diversity and resilience of the forest. But doing so would exacerbate a looming post-beetle timber supply shortfall and put local sawmill operations at even greater risk. Many communities that rely on the jobs in the existing forest industry model wouldn’t be able to accept this scenario and so the current cycle continues.
UNBC professor Kathy Lewis says that when thinking about cumulative effects, don’t forget about economics and politics.
But maybe there’s another way. Maybe, just like that conversation I had 15 years ago, UNBC can take advantage of its youth and location to foster a new, modern discussion that truly involves people, brings industry and governments together, and fosters educational experiences for all students within the diverse communities and environments of the region. The results would be enhanced access to information and an army of alumni possessing unique skills and attitudes oriented to addressing the complex social, environmental, health, economic, and cultural issues of the region with respect to resource developments. In this regard, gaining an understanding of cumulative effects and impacts is more than a topic for a weekend workshop; it’s an approach to delivering on the mission of the University.
After all, as UNBC Canada Research Chair Margot replica cartier Parkes identified, words that begin with “eco” have their origins in the Greek word for “house” and the Latin word for “household.” That is, ecosystems and economies aren’t distant; they’re where we live.
And for Lana Lowe, living with the multiple consequences of energy development, “It lifts me up just knowing that there are people like you talking about these things.”
Iceland: opening both eyes and minds
Posted on November 5, 2013 by Rob van Adrichem
I’ve worked at UNBC for more than 21 years now and one of the best parts has been meeting students who have a certain attitude or charisma; you just know they’ll change the world. Over the years, some of these students have become politicians and CEOs but many more have quietly brought their values and smarts to their workplaces and communities and simply made things better.
I hope to use this blog to introduce some of these future leaders to you and have them share some of their perspectives and ideas. Jordan Carlson is the first. He attended a summer school on energy in Iceland over the summer and was really inspired by the experience. Here’s his story, the first of what I hope will be many guest blog posts from UNBC students.
UNBC student Jordan Carlson, recently back from Iceland
In July and August this year, I was lucky enough to attend cartierbracelets.co a renewable energy summer school program at Reykjavik University in Iceland – then known as part of the REYST (Reykjavik University programme in Sustainable Energy), and now a part of the university’s Iceland School of Energy. The reason I say lucky is because the financial support of UNBC’s Green Fund, UNBC’s Department of Physics, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, and UNBC’s Dean of Student Success allowed me to be in Reykjavik from July 26th until August 17th, attending the program.
Now, what most people have asked me about this trip is simple (and you’re probably already thinking it): why go to Iceland to study renewable energy? The answer is equally simple; no other region on the planet gets as much of its energy from renewable sources as Iceland does. Approximately 85% of Icelandic energy comes cartier love bangle from either hydroelectricity or geothermal heat and power; the remaining 15% of their energy consumption is fossil fuels, used for transport both by consumers and by industry. All of the country’s electricity comes from renewables – roughly 75% hydroelectric, 25% geothermal – and more than 95% of the country’s heating requirements are met by geothermal hot water sources, piped throughout homes, businesses, and the rest of the country.
Though a unique situation, what lessons can be learned from Iceland’s energy sector – especially for BC, a region that similarly relies on hydro power? In my opinion, quite a few.
A geothermal heating plant near Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland’s choice of renewable energy sources is primarily due to its geography. Few other regions of the planet have the volcanic activity and water resources that Iceland does, giving Icelanders nearly unrivaled capacity to make use of hydro and geothermal energy sources. Through exploiting the natural bounty of the region, they are able to pump incredibly hot groundwater throughout their towns, cities, and industrial regions to provide the heat they require in their day-to-day lives. The water is then pumped back into the ground to rejoin the geothermal cycle after its heat has been captured and used by Icelanders. As a result, so long as overdrawing is avoided, Iceland’s geothermal resources are entirely renewable and sustainable. The country’s freshwater, glacier-fed rivers, which provide a great deal of hydropower for its citizens, are similarly sustainable cartierlovebracelet.co so long as they are managed properly.
The way that Iceland uses its energy is also instructive. Over 75% of the country’s electricity production is consumed by industry – primarily aluminum smelting. A large portion of Iceland’s energy projects, in fact, are designed from the outset to enable the creation of new industries to strengthen the Icelandic economy. British Columbia has done some of this in the past – such as the dam that was built to provide power for a Rio Tinto Alcan plant – but the choices behind dam location, construction, and other controls can be controversial. Nevertheless, the idea of using a power project to create the necessary grid capacity for new industries is a very powerful one – especially when combined with developing new knowledge in emerging technologies, and using that knowledge as an economic boost through exporting it.
Finally, one of the most surprising things learned while I was in Iceland was the scale of historical ecological devastation the country has seen. Since settlement, Icelanders have (primarily prior to the “Little Ice Age” of the 18th Century) destroyed over 90% of the country’s initial vegetation, whether forest or otherwise. Less than 5% of the birch forest that existed prior to settlement still stands. The result of this massive loss of vegetation has been vast deserts of black, volcanic sand that are not natural: they are a result of settlers cutting forests in order to build their homes and get wood for fuel, and allowing sheep to massively overgraze the local vegetation.
The extent of damage done to the environment was so extreme that, when the local environment suffered between 1700 and 1900, the Icelandic population crashed from over 300,000 to less than 60,000 at the turn of the 20th Century. Over the course of the past hundred years, Iceland’s population has rebounded to 320,000, but this population crash due to lost vegetation is a very clear warning of the danger posed by ecological damages over time. It gradually took place over nearly a thousand years, but the cumulative damage caused by Icelanders to their homeland nearly caused their own extinction.
To me, the primary lesson from all of this is that the best way to approach a sustainable energy system is to look at what resources are locally available – and to make use of them. Through building local expertise in geothermal and hydroelectric energy systems, Iceland has created an industry they are able to export, both through consulting firms and education programs, such as the one I attended. As British Columbia is a region rich in energy resources – natural gas, biomass, wind, hydro, geothermal, and even solar and waste energy – this serves as a potential model. By choosing a sphere in which few other parts of the world currently have expertise, British Columbians could develop a world-leading program in, for example, energy from forest biomass, and then export this knowledge directly through consulting engineering firms and designing energy systems for other parts of the world, and indirectly through attracting students and researchers who wish to investigate that form of energy. As a result, it is possible to look at the choices we make with regards to energy resources as a form of double-investment. First, we will be using those sources for as long as the infrastructure lasts (typically, between 40 and 100 years). Second, we can, by developing specialized knowledge and expertise, create an exportable cartier bracelet size conversion
commodity – knowledge and experience that only our province would have – thus resulting in economic gains for the province as a whole.
Feel free to share your own opinions on Jordan’s conclusions.
About the Energy Tour
Welcome to the Energy Tour. We created this blog in November 2012 to share information and foster dialogue on a unique opportunity for UNBC related to the sustainability of northern and rural communities.
There are lots of reasons for the name of this blog: our energy project, the energy at the University leading up to the 25th anniversary in 2015, and the growth of the energy industry in northern BC as one of the defining features of the region.
We hope you'll join the conversation.
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Give Us a King - 1 Samuel 9-10
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Solving Sin - Ex 32 - 10.06.2019
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Behind the Veil - Ex 34:29-35; 2 Cor 3:7-18 - 9.22.2019
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Lost and Found - Luke 15:1-10 - 8.25.2019
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I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. – 2 Timothy 4:1-2
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Google intends to improve the interaction of a person with AI
Google announced the launch of a new research project, which goal is to study and improve the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and human beings. The phenomenon was named PAIR.
At the moment, the program involves 12 people who will work together with Google employees in different product groups. The project also involves external experts: Brendan Meade, a professor of Harvard University and, Hol Abelson, a professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The research that will be carried out within the framework of the project is aimed at improving the user interface of "smart" components in Google services.
Scientists will study the problems affecting all participants in the supply chain: starting from programmers creating algorithms to professionals who use (or will soon be using) specialized AI tools. Google wants to make AI-solutions user-friendly and understandable to them.
As part of the project, Google also opened the source code for two tools: Facets Overview and Facets Dive. Programmers will be able to check the data sets for machine learning for possible problems using the tools mentioned. For instance, an insufficient sample size.
Google tests a new search results format with ready-made answers
English-speaking users noticed that Google is testing a new format for the search results that would include ready answers.
From now on the website, the content of which was used to generate a response will no longer be displayed in the search results. The reference to it is contained only in the block with the answer.
"Google removed the result from the search on the page that was already shown in the block with the answer for this query. Now the block with the answer is the only result for the page on a specific request, "says The SEM Post blog
It is noted that the new feature is currently available for many users, but not all of them. This can mean a large-scale testing or a gradual launch.
Google will no longer trust WoSign and StarCom certificates
Google reports that in the coming months, it will completely stop cooperation with certificates issued by WoSign and StarCom certification centers. The change will take effect with the release of Chrome 61, which is expected in mid-September. It will affect the certificates issued before October 21, 2016, the period of validity of which has not yet expired.
Last year, Google Chrome 56 stopped trusting the certificates from WoSign and StarCom, released later October 21, 2016. After the release of Chrome 57, the browser partially stopped trusting the old certificates. An exception was made for websites that are among the first million in the Alexa rating. From now on, all certificates from these centers will be banned.
"Starting with Chrome 61, the white list will be removed, which will lead to a complete cessation of trust in the existing root certificates of WoSign and StarCom and all certificates that they have given out. Websites that still use certificates from StarCom and WoSign should urgently consider replacing them, so as to minimize any inconveniences to Chrome users," reports Google.
It should be recalled Mozilla announced about freezing its cooperation with WoSign and StartCom in September 2016. Starting with the Firefox 51 the certificates are considered to be invalid. At the same time, the support of certificates issued before October 21, 2016 is still preserved.
How Google processes pages with the Canonical and noindex attributes
During the last video conference with webmasters, John Mueller answered the interesting question: how does the search engine process pages that both contain the Canonical and Noindex attribute?
The question to Mueller was:
"I once was at a seminar where I was told that if you use rel = canonical and Noindex on a page, then Canonical will transmit the Noindex canonicalized page. Is that true?".
"Hmm. I don’t know. We discussed this issue for a long time, at least inside the team. In particular, what should we do in this case.
Using Canonical, you are telling that two pages should be processes identically. Noindex reports that the page that contains it must be removed from the search. Therefore theoretically our algorithms can get confused and decide that you need to delete both pages. Correct? Or they can process them in different ways, taking into account Noindex attribute.
As a matter of actual practice, it is most likely that algorithms will decide that the rel = canonical attribute was added by mistake."
As of May 2015 more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the US and Japan. (Source: Google)
72% of marketers from enterprises rate search engine optimization (SEO) as successful in achieving marketing objectives like lead generation and increased Web traffic. (MediaPost)
4 in 5 consumers conduct local searches on search engines – 88% on smartphones, 84% on computer/tablet. (Source: Google)
Nearly half of digital marketing budgets are spent on search, with 31% on paid search and 18% on SEO. (MarketingProfs)
In Q3 2015, 727 million of Facebook’s 1.55 billion Million active users were mobile-only, equivalent to 47% of users who have never interacted with Facebook on a desktop computer. (Source: eMarketer)
85% of B2B companies say lead generation is the most important goal for content marketing, with 31% saying lead quality is the most important metric to study. (Source: Content Marketing Institute)
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(Redirected from O.A.R. (band))
This article is about the group. For other uses, see OAR (disambiguation).
O.A.R. (short for Of a Revolution) is an American rock band founded in 1996 in Rockville, Maryland.[1] The band consists of lead vocalist/guitarist Marc Roberge, drummer Chris Culos, guitarist Richard On, bassist Benj Gershman, saxophonist/guitarist Jerry DePizzo, trumpet player John Lampley and keyboardist Mikel Paris. Together, the band has released nine studio albums, including their latest release, The Mighty, in March 2019. The band is well known for their live shows and extensive summer touring, and have released five records of various live performances to date. Four of the band members grew up in Rockville, Maryland and attended Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School. After graduating, they went on to study at Ohio State University. There they met the fifth member, saxophonist/guitarist Jerry DePizzo from Youngstown, Ohio.
O.A.R. (Of a Revolution)
O.A.R. performing at Lincoln Theater in 2015
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Alternative rock, indie rock, roots rock, heartland rock
Vanguard, Wind-up, Lava, Atlantic
Matt Nathanson, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, Brett Dennen, Foxtrot Zulu
www.ofarevolution.com
Marc Roberge
Chris Culos
Richard On
Benj Gershman
Jerry DePizzo
1.1 Formation and early years (1996–2004)
1.2 Mainstream success (2005–present)
2 Charitable endeavors and other appearances
Formation and early years (1996–2004)Edit
O.A.R. was founded in 1996 by lead vocalist Marc Roberge and drummer Chris Culos, inspired in part by Roberge's older brother, who plays drums for the band Foxtrot Zulu. They later recruited Richard On and Benj Gershman. In 1997 they recorded their debut album, The Wanderer, at Gizmo Recording Company in Silver Spring, Maryland with engineer/producer Gantt Kushner. Many songs from the album, including "Black Rock" and "That Was a Crazy Game of Poker", became staples of their live shows and are still played at most of their concerts today.
The four band members attended one semester at Alexander Muss High School in Israel, graduated from Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, then moved to Columbus, Ohio to attend The Ohio State University. While at Ohio State, they met Jerry DePizzo, from Youngstown, Ohio. He joined the band as the saxophonist, completing the current lineup. In 1999, they returned to Gizmo Recording to record their second album, Soul's Aflame.
Unlike other similar bands, O.A.R. did not use much formal advertising/marketing plans to obtain an audience, instead choosing to rely on word-of-mouth alone. Throughout the next few years, the band played as many shows as they could, expanding from the fraternities and sororities of Ohio State to any audiences that cared to listen. One of the first notable sources of exposure outside of Ohio State came from consistent play of The Wanderer and Soul’s Alfame at well known Pi Kappa Phi parties at Clemson University. This exposure paid off; their third album Risen debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard top internet sales chart. The following year, their fourth album In Between Now and Then debuted at No. 156 on the Billboard 200 chart. They received offers from various major labels, but ultimately chose to sign with Lava Records.
Mainstream success (2005–present)Edit
In 2005, O.A.R. released their fifth album, Stories of a Stranger, which debuted at No. 40 on the Billboard 200. It produced the singles "Love and Memories", "Heard the World", and "Lay Down." "Love and Memories" was the band's first single to chart and receive significant radio airplay, peaking at 98 in the Pop 100, at 30 in Modern Rock Tracks, and at 18 in Adult Top 40. The music videos for "Love and Memories" and "Lay Down" received airplay on VH1 and MTV. The video for "Lay Down" received a "Woodie" award from MTV for streaming video. The new partnership with Lava also seemed to mark the beginning of a shift in the band's fundamental style. Many of the tracks on "Stories of a Stranger" and subsequent albums have displayed a willingness by the band to move away from the reggae, ska, and jam band inspired sound of their earlier albums, in favor of songs with shorter run-times, less acoustic instrumentation, and more pop-inspired arrangements.
On January 14, 2006, O.A.R. reached a new peak of popularity by drawing roughly 18,000 fans and selling out New York City's Madison Square Garden, which earned them a review in the New York Times.[2] On October 5, 2006, a press release declared that O.A.R. had officially sold in excess of 1.2 million albums over their career.[3] The band attributes much of its popularity to the recording and subsequent trading and downloading of their live shows.
O.A.R. during 2009 summer concert tour at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York
On July 15, 2008, O.A.R. released their sixth studio album, All Sides. The first radio single for All Sides, "Shattered (Turn the Car Around)", was released for download on June 13. It surpassed "Love And Memories", peaking at 2 in Adult Top 40. In December 2008, VH1 named the music video for "Shattered" as number 18 on their Top 40 Videos of 2008. During the 2008 All Sides tour, the All Sides album was released on USB Wristband along with instant live recordings of their concerts. After the tour, O.A.R. released their fourth live album (Rain or Shine) on January 12, 2010.[4]
In 2010, O.A.R. returned to the studio to record their seventh studio album, King. The band introduced several of their new songs during the 2010 tour, including: "Over and Over", "Fire", "Dangerous Connection", and "Gotta Live." King was released on Wind-up Records on August 2, 2011 and debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200, the highest-charting debut for the band so far. The album's first single, "Heaven", was released on June 7, 2011. The next single, "Gotta Be Wrong Sometimes", failed to chart. On May 8, 2012, O.A.R. released a new single as part of a collaboration with Duracell in support of Team USA in the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The song is called "Champions", and features rapper B.o.B, who contributed the vocals in the verses.
On November 19, 2012, O.A.R. released a live CD/DVD entitled Live on Red Rocks, which consists of footage and music from their performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on their 2012 summer tour.[5]
In an interview with Billboard magazine posted on January 16, 2014, Jerry Depizzo revealed that their eighth studio album would be released in May 2014, and that the lead single would be "Peace"—a new song they played live many times on their 2013 summer tour. On March 21, 2014, the band announced via various social media sites that the new album, titled The Rockville LP would be released on June 10, 2014.
The Rockville LP debuted at number 13 on Billboard's top 200, #1 independent albums, #6 top current rock albums, and #7 current digital albums.[citation needed]
In May 2016, the band announced the release of a career spanning compilation to coincide with their 20th anniversary.[1] Entitled XX, the album was released on August 5, 2016 bundled with a disc of live performances and two new songs "Follow Me, Follow You" and "I Go Through".[6] The band embarked on a two-month tour of North America.[7] Following the tour the band plans to start working on their ninth studio album. Marc Roberge said that he hopes to continue to grow as a songwriter and musician and that he is eager to get into the studio to record the band's next full-length album with all-new material. "We want to write 10 new songs and finish them and record them and put it out. We’re not going to go through the process of a year of demoing … We want to go in and write a band album."[8]
The band saw a resurgence in recognition during the 2018 Winter Olympics, when Russian athletes—banned from competing under their country's banner and name due to a doping scandal—were referred to as Olympic Athletes from Russia, or OAR.[9] Since the Olympics started broadcasting, the band saw a 46% increase in Spotify streaming and the Google searches have also almost doubled.[10]
In 2018, O.A.R. returned to the studio to record their ninth studio album, The Mighty. The first single from the album is "Miss You All the Time", released on October 12, 2018. The Mighty was presented and released to the public on March 29, 2019.
Charitable endeavors and other appearancesEdit
On May 19, 2001, O.A.R. played a show on the football field of Thomas S. Wootton High School, as part of a senior graduation concert series. [11]
The band's Heard The World foundation was founded to support youth, education and sustainable programs both in the U.S. and abroad.[12]
On December 14, 2012, O.A.R. performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Music Center at Strathmore. The concert benefited the Heard the World Foundation.
In December 2009, Jerry DePizzo headlined a charity fundraiser for Music Loves Ohio in Columbus at The Basement.[13]
The band worked with SAIC, a US defense contractor, to raise money for the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a service organization focused on assisting veterans with spinal cord injuries and diseases, through digital downloads of the band's song "Light Switch Sky." Proceeds from downloads of the song through July 22, 2010 supported paralyzed veterans. The song was co-written by O.A.R. and their fans through a competition on Twitter.[14]
In August 2010, members Benj Gershman and Marc Roberge appeared in two videos for Diet Coke's Stay Extraordinary campaign.
On October 4, 2012, the band headlined a "But for Ohio State: Rock the Oval" concert at Ohio State University to help raise money for the school that the band's members attended.
O.A.R. and Phillip Phillips' 2014 Summer Tour benefited Habitat for Humanity.
O.A.R. performed live from Times Square on December 31st, 2014 at Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve.
O.A.R. performed at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games.
MembersEdit
Marc Roberge – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1996–present)
Richard On – lead guitar, backing vocals (1996–present)
Chris Culos – drums, percussion (1996–present)
Benj Gershman – bass guitar (1996–present)
Jerry DePizzo – saxophone, rhythm guitar, percussion, backing vocals (2000–present)
Full-time touring members
Mikel Paris – keyboards, percussion, backing vocals (2006–present)
Jon Lampley – trumpet, sousaphone, backing vocals (2011–present)
Part-time touring members
Evan Oberla – trombone, backing vocals (2011–2014)
DiscographyEdit
Main article: O.A.R. discography
The Wanderer (1997)
Soul's Aflame (1999)
Risen (2001)
In Between Now and Then (2003)
Stories of a Stranger (2005)
All Sides (2008)
King (2011)
The Rockville LP (2014)
The Mighty (2019)
Live From Merriweather (2019)
^ a b Hicks, Robert. "O.A.R. – Biography". www.billboard.com. Rovi. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
^ Sanneh, Kelefa (January 16, 2006). "A Scrappy Jam Band, but Hold the Jam". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
^ Press Release (2006). "O.A.R. Makes History With Over 1 Million Sold" marketwire.com (accessed October 6, 2006)
^ "oarsa.org – ....of a revolution (O.A.R.) setlist archive". oarsa.org. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
^ "Sundance 2014: Watch O.A.R. Rock Park City Live". Billboard. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
^ -. "Exclusive Album Premiere: O.A.R. – "XX" – A Music Blog, Yea?". Retrieved 2016-08-08.
^ "O.A.R. Announces Summer Tour & New Album". 2016-05-10. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
^ Moraski, Lauren (9 August 2016). "O.A.R. Celebrates 20 Years With New Album 'XX'" – via Huff Post.
^ Drehs, Wayne (February 19, 2018). "Rock band O.A.R. gets popularity bump thanks to Pyeongchang's OAR". ESPN. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
^ Root, Tik (2018-02-20). "O.A.R. (the band), OAR (the Russian Olympians) and a sweet surge in Spotify streams". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
^ "O.A.R. at Wootton High School, Rockville, MD, USA". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2017-05-24.
^ "Heard The World Homepage". Heardtheowrld.org. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
^ Kevin Joy. "O.A.R. sax man instrumental in giving youngsters a boost". The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
^ http://www.saic.com/oar/news/062110.html. Retrieved June 24, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)[dead link]
O.A.R. Official website
Billboard.com Band Profile
oarsa.org setlist archive, lyrics, and fan site
O.A.R. The Rockville LP Review
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Beyond Lego – The Next Step for STEM
by Dadsense
K assembling the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D in high school. Both K and I are huge proponents of STEM, and can’t wait to start teaching T.
In 1998 my favourite show went on air – Junkyard Wars. I was 14 at the time, and the show caught my imagination. I started looking at things around me, taking toys apart to see how they work, then building my own gadgets with the parts left over.
Unfortunately Junkyard Wars was short-lived on TV (apparently they continued making episodes until 2009, just not on any channels I could tune in to), and I had to find other shows to inspire my curious mind. While there was a bit of a lull, in 2003 Mythbusters aired. Over the next 13 years Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, and the build team created THE STEM show to watch. But like all good things, in 2016 this great show broadcast its last episode.
That’s when I turned to Youtube. Sure, I’m a 30 something man, but come on – you all get excited for unboxing videos, don’t lie. I came across Adam Savage’s project Tested and I loved the problem solving nature, and the design and build process. While it is lighter on the science the creativity of the projects and the mindset of how to get from A to Z(ed) are fascinating to watch.
On the other side of the coin is Vsauce. Michael Stevens walks viewers through math and science topics, covering everything from “What is infinity plus one?” to one of my personal favourites – “The Napkin Ring paradox”. If only there was a show which combined the science and math from Michael’s Vsauce with the designing, planning, and building of Adam’s Tested…
BUT WAIT! There is! Brain Candy Live is on tour in North America, and they’re coming to Toronto on November 25th! Adam and Michael have teamed up to deliver a STEM show to inspire kids of all ages. What is gravity? But then why, and how, and what does it look like, and did you know…
And the best part? I’ve got 4 tickets for you. Enter below for your chance to see them live, and as Vsauce always says – thanks for watching.
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Disclosure: Brain Candy provided me with 4 tickets to give away. K and I purchased our own tickets for the show and we are so excited to go!
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Grant to be used for purchase, upgrades at Good Shepherd Foundation facility
Bartow County receives $750K CDBG award
From left, Georgia Department of Community Affairs representative Patrick Vickers hands Bartow County Commissioner Steve Taylor a check for a Community Development Block Grant totaling $750,000.
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Posted Friday, November 8, 2019 12:31 am
By JAMES SWIFT
Several representatives of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) were present at the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center Wednesday morning to deliver a $750,000 check to Bartow County officials.
DCA Region 1 representative Patrick Vickers handed off the oversized check to Bartow County Commissioner Steve Taylor at the public meeting. The funding is derived from a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), which the County applied for earlier this year.
Vickers said the beneficiary of the grant will be local nonprofit the Good Shepherd Foundation.
“They do really good work with developmentally-disabled adults,” he said. “It will help purchase and renovate the facility.”
Bartow County Grant Writing Department Director Valerie Gilreath said the CDBG funding will allow the organization to buy the building and land they currently lease off Gilreath Road in Cartersville.
“The renovation will allow them to increase their independent living teaching space,” she said. “They’ll have a couple of classrooms, they’ll have a teaching kitchen and it will also improve the workspace for their existing clients — it is currently not climate-controlled, so they’ll be able to add air conditioning and better heat and a few other improvements.”
Another DCA representative — Brent Allen, who serves as the department’s Office of CDBG Field Services manager — also honored the County government Wednesday morning. He presented Taylor with a framed placard recognizing Bartow for its 2019 National Sterling Achievement Award.
Officially bestowed upon the local government on Sept. 30, the Council of State Community Development Agencies (COSCDA) recognized the County for the Allatoona Resource Center, “for demonstrated positive results in improving the lives of lower-income persons.”
“This is a big deal,” Allen said. “It is a national competition where states all across the country submitted nominations.”
Gilreath said the impetus for the project came from looking at the Glade Road corridor and realizing “nothing had been done in terms of community services for a very long time" in that particular part of the county.
Among other services, staff at the center help residents needing assistance with food stamp renewals and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) enrollment.
The facility, which received a $500,000 CDBG award in 2013, opened in Acworth in 2015.
“Since then, I think it has made a huge impact on the community and continues to do so, and to engage more and more citizens,” Gilreath said.
Site director Nichole Varnell said that the facility served more than 2,000 individuals last year.
“And that’s with medication, utility assistance, doctor visits, prescriptions, GED testing,” she said, “and we have [the Tallatoona Community Action Partnership] there today helping low-income families with energy assistance.”
That southeastern corner of Bartow, Taylor said, is perhaps the most poverty-stricken area in the county.
“This community center is located right smack in the middle of it,” he said. “They really work hard in the community and help a lot of people.”
One of the criteria points for the COSCDA award, Allen said, is project replicability in other communities throughout the country.
“When they saw the gym, they saw the trash compactor," he said, "they saw that ya’ll took a piece of property that was just a couple of pine trees and turned it into this resource center that addressed real, identified needs in that community.”
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