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8 Medieval Castles You Can Actually Visit
Journey into the past.
By Audrey Webster
Despite our wildest dreams, it’s safe to say none of us will be living in a medieval castle anytime soon. However, you can visit one.
Many of the world's greatest medieval castles open their doors to the public. Some of these spectacular structures are said to be haunted by the ghosts of their past owners. Others bear the battle scars of ancient war. A few are even inhabited by descendants of the original founding family. They all deserve a spot on your next globetrotting expedition. Here are eight of the best medieval castles to stop by on your next trip.
Hohensalzburg Castle
Hohensalzburg Castle, one of the largest in Europe, was first built by an Archbishop who staunchly apposed King Henry IV of the Germans—the king who would eventually be excommunicated a total of five times by three different popes. As such an outspoken dissident, the Archbishop wisely built his castle with strong military defenses in mind. But a strong castle does not mean an ugly one, despite many other examples.
The Hohensalzburg Castle became a tourist attraction as early as the 1890s, thanks to a newly opened railway station and its beautiful design. Thanks to its long history as a tourist attraction, Hohensalzburg Castle remains one of the best preserved medieval castles in the world.
Related: 8 Strange Places from Around the World That You Won't Find in Your Average Guidebook
Its attraction includes furniture, interior decorations, and instruments that originated as early as the 15th century. Most notable among these items is the Salzburg Bull, an early mechanical organ that remains in use today, over 600 years after its creation.
Visitors will also get to spend time in the Golden Hall, which connects state apartments on the third floor. Look up to see gold buttons adorning the ceiling, mimicking stars in the sky.
Eilean Donan is one of the most famous castles in Scotland. The picturesque castle sits on a small tidal island where Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh meet in the Western Highlands of Scotland. It’s believed that a small monastery named for Donnan Eigg was established on the isle in the 6th or 7th century. The island still takes its name from Donnan Eigg, who was a Celtic saint.
The castle that stands today was built sometime in the 13th century, when it and the land surrounding belonged to the Mackenzies, a powerful family in the Western Highlands. Later, during the Jacobite rebellion, the original castle was destroyed. Luckily, a drawing of the castle had been made before its ruin, allowing its restoration in the early 20th century.
Along with the castle’s restoration, a footbridge to the island and a memorial to locals who died during the First World War was built. Eilean Donan was opened to the public in 1955, and became one of Scotland’s most popular attractions. Today, the castle is a national icon, often appearing on packaging for shortbread, whiskey, and other products.
The Château de Chambord arose at the very end of what we consider the medieval era. Thanks to its period-defying construction, the architecture is a blend of classic medieval forms and traditional French Renaissance structures. Construction started in 1519; the château was originally built to serve as a hunting lodge for King Francis I of France. From its very first years, the château remained largely neglected. This trend continued after the French Revolution, when its furnishings were sold off and many of the wood panelings in the building burnt by locals.
Restoration work was finally undertaken after World War II. Today, the château’s claim to fame are its beautiful buildings, lovely gardens, double helix staircase, and the elaborate decorations on its roof. Located two hours outside of Paris, the Château de Chambord is one of France’s most visited tourist sites.
Himeji Castle
Photo Credit: David Sanz / Flickr (CC)
For our next castle, we leave the European continent and travel to medieval Japan. Built in the early 1300s under the ruler Akamatsu Norimura, Himeji Castle is located on a hill towering over Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. It was under construction for nearly 300 years, and remained continuously in use until 1868. Originally merely a fort, by the time of Himeji Castle’s completion, it included 83 buildings, a highly advanced defense system, and three moats.
Abandoned in 1871, the castle nearly faced demolition. Luckily, it was instead bought by a local resident for 23 yen—the equivalent of about $2,000 today. Although the new owner wanted to tear down the castle and develop the land, it became clear that doing so would cost far more than it would make. And so, the building remains standing.
Related: 12 Historical Places You Need to See in Your Lifetime
That is despite a number of rather extreme circumstances. Himeji saw extensive bombing during World War II, and its surrounding city was seriously damaged after a massive earthquake in 1995. In 1993, Himeji was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Often called the White Egret or White Heron Castle for its beautiful white exterior, the Himeji Castle remains one of the most striking sights in the world—especially after the restoration undergone in 2015 which restored its roofs to a pristine white.
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Alcázar of Segovia
In a country filled with beautiful castles, the Alcázar of Segovia stands out thanks to its strange shape—it comes to a point like the bow of a ship. Initially built as a fortress, the Alcázar has since served as a royal palace, a state prison, a Royal Artillery College and a military academy. Strangely, no one knows exactly when the structure was first built: A reference to the Alcázar exists from 1120, but many believe that its first iteration was built before that time.
The word alcázar itself points to the castle’s origins. An alcázar is a Moorish castle, meaning a castle built in Spain or Portugal between the eighth and 15th centuries, during Muslim rule of the Iberian peninsula. Although built during as early as the eighth century, it was not fully developed until it became the favorite residence of Alfonso VIII in the late 12th century.
As new kings took to the Alcázar, they added new wings, resulting in an awe-inspiringly large castle today. Some claim that Disney took inspiration from the sprawling castle to create the iconic Cinderella Castle, but that honor is usually and more correctly given to Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle. Regardless, visitors have much to see and be inspired by, from the Hall of Kings to the art and stained glass windows.
Krak des Chevaliers
In Syria, you’ll find one of the most important and well-preserved medieval castles in the world. The Krak des Chevaliers’ history is intimately connected with that of the Crusades: It served as a fort to protect Tripoli, which was founded after the First Crusade. Over the next few centuries, Krak des Chevaliers served as a hospital, a garrison, and home to both conquerors and conquered.
Despite its tumultuous past, the castle’s eight-plus meter thick walls have never truly been breached. During its peak years from the 11th century to the end of the 13th century, it could house up to 2,000 knights at one time. Located in Tartus, Syria, the castle is now a recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although nearby shelling during the Syrian Civil War led to fears that the castle would be severely damaged, the Krak remains open to the public.
Eltz Castle
Nestled comfortably between Koblenz and Trier in Germany is the striking Eltz Castle. This castle, unlike any on this list and many in the world, is still owned by a branch of the family that originally built it. In fact, the Count and Countess Eltz still live in one portion of the castle, 33 generations later, leaving the remaining two thirds open to the public. Construction on the castle began in the early ninth century, the height of elaborate castle construction. The castle features eight beautiful towers, adorned in red and white trim, arising from the surrounding forest.
Related: The Strangest Battle of WWII: The Fight for Castle Itter
Today, visitors have the opportunity to see the original furnishings, while experiencing the natural beauty around it. A number of oddities remain in the castle, including a Goddess of Hunting mechanical toy which was used as part of a drinking game in the 1600s. They knew how to party in ye olden days. Whether you visit to soak up the scenery or learn about Germany in the medieval ages, Eltz Castle is a must-see.
Photo Credit: David Stanley / Flickr (CC)
Widely known for its association with the British royal family, Windsor Castle was originally built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Henry I, son of William, was the first king to use Windsor as a residence—it has been in continuous use by the monarch since, making Windsor the longest occupied royal residency in Europe.
Upon visiting Windsor, you’ll find the glorious Crimson Drawing Room, St. George’s Chapel (resting place of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour), and one of the grandest collections of art in the country.
Related: London’s Ancient Outcast Graveyard
Despite many tumultuous years—the rise and fall of numerous dynasties, two world wars, a severe fire in 1992—Windsor retains its status as the most iconic medieval castle of England to this day.
Featured photo of Eilean Donan: Martin de Lusenet / Flickr (CC); Additional photos: David Sanz / Flickr (CC); David Stanley / Flickr (CC)
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Minor Red Cell Antigens and Fetal Hemolytic Anemia
Author: Patricia A. Smith, MD
Mentor: Nancy D. Gaba, MD
Editor: Julie DeCesare, MD
There are more than 300 recognized blood-group antigens, of which the Rhesus (Rh) blood-group system is the most common cause of maternal alloimmunization. It is comprised of the c, C, D, e and E antigens. Anti-Rh D antibody was the major cause of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) until the 1970s, when widespread use of antenatal and postpartum Rh immune globulin resulted in a major reduction in the incidence of Rh D alloimmunization in pregnancy.
Non-Rh D antigens expressed on erythrocytes are often referred to as minor or atypical antigens. Since no prophylactic immune globulins are available to prevent the formation of non-Rh D antibodies, maternal alloimmunization to non-Rh D red cell antigens is becoming a more frequent cause of HDFN. Overall, antibodies to minor antigens occur in 1.5–2.5% of obstetric patients.
The most frequently encountered atypical antibodies are Lewis and I antibodies. Lewis and I antigens do not result in antibodies that cause HDFN because they predominantly consist of immunoglobulin M, which does not cross the placenta. In addition, these antigens are poorly expressed on fetal and newborn erythrocytes.
Among the more than 50 minor antigens, only three are commonly associated with antibodies that cause severe fetal disease. They are anti-Kell (K1), anti-Rh c and anti Rh E. Duffy and Kidd antibodies are a less common cause of HDFN among the atypical antigens.
The incidence of the Kell (anti-K1) antibody has been increasing in the United States. Kell has surpassed anti-RhD as the leading antibody associated with HDFN in many countries where anti-D immunoglobulin is routinely used. Kell alloimmunization is often caused by prior transfusion because Kell compatibility was not considered during cross-matching blood.
Once a maternal antibody associated with HDFN is detected, an indirect Coombs titer should be obtained. Care of patients with sensitization to atypical antigens that are known to cause HDFN should be the same as that for patients with D alloimmunization. Similar titer levels should be used to guide care except in in mothers who have previously had an affected fetus or neonate and in Kell-sensitized patients because Kell antibodies do not correlate with fetal status.
Management also includes determination of paternal erythrocyte antigen status. If the biologic father is negative for the antigen and there is no question of paternity, no further testing is warranted as the fetus will not be at risk for HDFN. If paternal testing returns positive, zygosity testing should be requested from the blood bank as a heterozygous state can be detected through serologic testing. Cell-free fetal DNA testing is only clinically available for Rh (D) in the United States, while in Europe assays are available for c, E, and Kell antigens.
Fetal ultrasound evaluation of the middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity (MCA-PSV) should be the primary method of diagnosis and management of fetal anemia. The use of delta optical density 450 (ΔOD450) to detect fetal anemia is primarily of historic interest and no longer routinely used except in rare circumstances.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 192: Management of Alloimmunization During Pregnancy. Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Mar;131(3):e82-e90. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002528.
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Electronic address: pubs@smfm.org, Mari G, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Clinical Guideline #8: the fetus at risk for anemia--diagnosis and management. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Jun;212(6):697-710. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.01.059. Epub 2015 Mar 27.
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List of places referred to as the Center of the Universe
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See also: Center of the universe and List of cities nicknamed Hub of the Universe
New York City, Manhattan, and Times Square are commonly referred to as "The Center of the Universe".
Several cities have been given the nickname "Center (or Centre) of the Universe". In addition, several fictional works have described a depicted location as being at the center of the universe.
Modern models of the Universe suggest it does not have a center, unlike previous systems which placed Earth (geocentrism) or the Sun (heliocentrism) at the center of the Universe.
1 Nicknames of places
1.4 Astronomy
Nicknames of places[edit]
Wudaokou, Beijing (a nickname)[1]
Perpignan (France) : Salvador Dali considered its train station as the center of the Universe[2]
Wolverhampton, UK : Sir Terry Wogan referred to Wolverhampton UK as the centre of the Universe because there, the bathwater goes straight down the plughole[citation needed]
Hammersmith, UK : local historian Keith Whitehouse claimed it as the centre of the universe due to its history of radical politics and invention[citation needed]
Kirmington, UK : Home of Guy Martin referred to as ‘Center of T’ Universe’[citation needed]
Fremont, Seattle A suburb of Seattle is the official Center of the Universe - Sign at the Center of the Universe
New York City (a nickname)[3]
Manhattan is often referred to as the Center of the Universe.
Times Square (a nickname)[4][5]
Toronto, a term used derisively by residents of the rest of Canada in reference to the city;[6] see also nicknames for Toronto
Ashland, Virginia (the actual, cosmological center of the Universe, as declared by former Mayor Dick Gillis)[7]
Sign outside of the John B. Lindale House proclaiming Magnolia, Delaware as "The Center of the Universe around which the Earth revolves"
John B. Lindale House in Magnolia, Delaware displays a sign proclaiming "This is Magnolia, the Center of the Universe around which the Earth revolves"[8]
Alumni Hall (University of Notre Dame), South Bend, Indiana[citation needed]
The center of the Great Dome on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[9]
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a large sculpted-hallway structure with short corridors aligned to north-south, east-west, and up-down, at the main campus of the University of New Mexico is known as "The Center of the Universe"[citation needed]
A concrete circle at the apex of a rebuilt span of the old Boston Avenue viaduct, between 1st and Archer Streets, in Tulsa, Oklahoma is known as "The Center of the Universe". The spot produces an acoustical anomaly and it is for which the Center of the Universe Festival and Ms. Center of the Universe Pageant are named[citation needed]
A site near Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada has been referred to as a spiritual "Centre of the Universe"[10]
Teotihuacan, in modern-day Mexico was considered the center of the universe by many Mesoamerican tribes, including the Aztecs, and was a model city for the later indigenous civilizations. It was called the "birthplace of the gods" and heavily influenced the region despite being abandoned for centuries[citation needed]
Bon Aqua, Tennessee Hickman county referred to as the center of the universe by country singer Johnny Cash[citation needed]
Astronomy[edit]
Plaque at the Space Flight Operations Facility of the Deep Space Network proclaiming the site to be "The Center of the Universe"
Space Flight Operations Facility, the operations control center of the Deep Space Network[11]
The former interpretive centre of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada was once called the Centre of the Universe.[12]
Fiction[edit]
Depictions of a "center of the universe" in fiction include:
Azathoth, "The Blind Idiot God", in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
Eternia, the planet that is home to the Masters of the Universe
Oa, a planet at the center of the DC Comics Universe
Terminus, in the Doctor Who serial Terminus
San Dimas, California, in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Nibbler's home planet Eternium, in Futurama
Anyplace other than The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
In the game Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii, Mario travels to the final area, named the Center of the Universe
In the game Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time for the PS3, The Great Clock was said to be constructed at the exact center of the universe (give or take fifty feet)
^ "Ten Chinese Cuisines Packed into Wudaokou". China.com. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
^ Cf. article La Gare de Perpignan
^ "Why is New York City known as "the Big Apple" and "Gotham?"". Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
^ Sarah Moore (March 22, 2011). "Explore Manhattan Neighborhoods: The Center of the Universe (aka Times Square)". Her Campus Media. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
^ "Times Square The Crossroads of the World". TimesSquare.com. October 30, 2009. Archived from the original on August 13, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
^ Rayburn, Alan (2001). Naming Canada: Stories about Canadian Place Names. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8293-0.
^ "Randolph-Macon College at 'center of the universe'". Retrieved June 11, 2014.
^ "Welcome to the Town of Magnolia, Delaware". Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
^ Patrick Henry Winston. "Nightmare at the Center of the Universe". Retrieved July 19, 2011.
^ "Centre of the Universe". tourismkamloops.com.
^ Edidin, Rachel (14 November 2013). "Inside a NASA meetup, where science fans become space ambassadors". Wired. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
^ "Centre of the Universe - National Research Council Canada". Archived from the original on 2015-05-08. Retrieved Jan 9, 2014.
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Magnetostriction
Property of materials that causes them to change their shape during magnetization
Magnetostriction (cf. electrostriction) is a property of ferromagnetic materials that causes them to change their shape or dimensions during the process of magnetization. The variation of materials' magnetization due to the applied magnetic field changes the magnetostrictive strain until reaching its saturation value, λ. The effect was first identified in 1842 by James Joule when observing a sample of iron.[1]
This effect causes energy loss due to frictional heating in susceptible ferromagnetic cores. The effect is also responsible for the low-pitched humming sound that can be heard coming from transformers, where oscillating AC currents produce a changing magnetic field.[2]
1 Explanation
2 Magnetostrictive hysteresis loop
3 Magnetostrictive materials
3.1 Mechanical behaviors of magnetostrictive alloys
3.1.1 Effect of microstructure on elastic strain
3.1.2 Compressive stress to induce domain alignment
Internally, ferromagnetic materials have a structure that is divided into domains, each of which is a region of uniform magnetic polarization. When a magnetic field is applied, the boundaries between the domains shift and the domains rotate; both of these effects cause a change in the material's dimensions. The reason that a change in the magnetic domains of a material results in a change in the materials dimensions is a consequence of magnetocrystalline anisotropy, that it takes more energy to magnetize a crystalline material in one direction than another. If a magnetic field is applied to the material at an angle to an easy axis of magnetization, the material will tend to rearrange its structure so that an easy axis is aligned with the field to minimize the free energy of the system. Since different crystal directions are associated with different lengths this effect induces a strain in the material.[3]
The reciprocal effect, the change of the magnetic susceptibility (response to an applied field) of a material when subjected to a mechanical stress, is called the Villari effect. Two other effects are thus related to magnetostriction: the Matteucci effect is the creation of a helical anisotropy of the susceptibility of a magnetostrictive material when subjected to a torque and the Wiedemann effect is the twisting of these materials when a helical magnetic field is applied to them.
The Villari reversal is the change in sign of the magnetostriction of iron from positive to negative when exposed to magnetic fields of approximately 40 kA/m.
On magnetization, a magnetic material undergoes changes in volume which are small: of the order 10−6.
Magnetostrictive hysteresis loop[edit]
Magnetostrictive hysteresis loop of Mn-Zn ferrite for power applications measured by semiconductor strain gauges
Like flux density, the magnetostriction also exhibit hysteresis versus strength of magnetizing field. The shape of this hysteresis loop (called "dragonfly loop") can be reproduced using the Jiles-Atherton model.[4]
Magnetostrictive materials[edit]
Cut-away of a transducer comprising: magnetostrictive material (inside), magnetising coil, and magnetic enclosure completing the magnetic circuit (outside)
Magnetostrictive materials can convert magnetic energy into kinetic energy, or the reverse, and are used to build actuators and sensors. The property can be quantified by the magnetostrictive coefficient, Λ, which may be positive or negative and is defined as the fractional change in length as the magnetization of the material increases from zero to the saturation value. The effect is responsible for the familiar "electric hum" ( Listen (help·info)) which can be heard near transformers and high power electrical devices.
Cobalt exhibits the largest room-temperature magnetostriction of a pure element at 60 microstrains. Among alloys, the highest known magnetostriction is exhibited by Terfenol-D, (Ter for terbium, Fe for iron, NOL for Naval Ordnance Laboratory, and D for dysprosium). Terfenol-D, TbxDy1−xFe2, exhibits about 2,000 microstrains in a field of 160 kA/m (2 kOe) at room temperature and is the most commonly used engineering magnetostrictive material.[5] Galfenol, FexGa1-x, and Alfenol, FexAl1-x, are newer alloys that exhibit 200-400 microstrains at lower applied fields (~200 Oe) and have enhanced mechanical properties from brittle Terfenol-D. Both of these alloys have <100> easy axes for magnetostriction and demonstrate sufficient ductility for sensor and actuator applications.[6]
Schematic of a whisker flow sensor developed using thin-sheet magnetostrictive alloys.
Another very common magnetostrictive composite is the amorphous alloy Fe81Si3.5B13.5C2 with its trade name Metglas 2605SC. Favourable properties of this material are its high saturation-magnetostriction constant, λ, of about 20 microstrains and more, coupled with a low magnetic-anisotropy field strength, HA, of less than 1 kA/m (to reach magnetic saturation). Metglas 2605SC also exhibits a very strong ΔE-effect with reductions in the effective Young's modulus up to about 80% in bulk. This helps build energy-efficient magnetic MEMS.[citation needed]
Cobalt ferrite, CoFe2O4 (CoO·Fe2O3), is also mainly used for its magnetostrictive applications like sensors and actuators thanks to its high saturation magnetostriction (~200 parts per million).[7] Having no rare-earth elements, it is a good substitute for Terfenol-D.[8] Moreover, its magnetostrictive properties can be tuned by inducing a magnetic uniaxial anisotropy.[9] This can be done by magnetic annealing,[10] magnetic field assisted compaction,[11] or reaction under uniaxial pressure.[12] This last solution has the advantage of being ultrafast (20 min) thanks to the use of spark plasma sintering.
In early sonar transducers, during World War II, nickel was used as a magnetostrictive material. To alleviate the shortage of nickel, the Japanese navy used an iron-aluminium alloy from the Alperm family.
Mechanical behaviors of magnetostrictive alloys[edit]
Effect of microstructure on elastic strain[edit]
Single crystal alloys exhibit superior microstrain, but are vulnerable to yielding due to the anisotropic mechanical properties of most metals. It has been observed that for polycrystalline alloys with a high area coverage of preferential grains for microstrain, the mechanical properties (ductility) of magnetostrictive alloys can be significantly improved. Targeted metallurgical processing steps promote abnormal grain growth of {011} grains in Galfenol and Alfenol thin sheets, which contain two easy axes for magnetic domain alignment during magnetostriction. This can be accomplished by adding particles such as boride species [13] and niobium carbide (NbC) [14] during initial chill casting of the ingot.
For a polycrystalline alloy, an established formula for the magnetostriction λ from known directional microstrain measurements is:[15]
λs = 1/5(2λ100+3λ111)
Magnetostrictive alloy deformed to fracture.
During subsequent hot rolling and recrystallization steps, particle strengthening occurs in which the particles introduce a “pinning” force at grain boundaries that hinders normal (stochastic) grain growth in an annealing step assisted by a H2S atmosphere. Thus, single-crystal-like texture (~90% {011} grain coverage) is attainable, reducing the interference with magnetic domain alignment and increasing microstrain attainable for polycrystalline alloys as measured by semiconducting strain gauges.[16] These surface textures can be visualized using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) or related diffraction techniques.
Compressive stress to induce domain alignment[edit]
For actuator applications, maximum rotation of magnetic moments leads to the highest possible magnetostriction output. This can be achieved by processing techniques such as stress annealing and field annealing. However, mechanical pre-stresses can also be applied to thin sheets to induce alignment perpendicular to actuation as long as the stress is below the buckling limit. For example, it has been demonstrated that applied compressive pre-stress of up to ~50 MPa can result in an increase of magnetostriction by ~90%. This is hypothesized to be due to a “jump” in initial alignment of domains perpendicular to applied stress and improved final alignment parallel to applied stress.[17]
Electromagnetically-excited acoustic noise and vibration
Inverse magnetostrictive effect
Wiedemann effect a torsional force caused by magnetostriction
Magnetomechanical_effects for a collection of similar effects
Magnetocaloric effect
Electrostriction
Piezoelectricity
Piezomagnetism
SoundBug
FeONIC—developer of audio products using magnetostriction
Terfenol-D
Galfenol
Electronic article surveillance – using magnetostriction to prevent shoplifting
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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
Conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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To look after Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty permanently for the benefit of the nation across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Heelis, Swindon, Wiltshire
Region served
England, Wales and Northern Ireland
5.6 million (2019)
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
(President)
Hilary McGrady
(Director-General)
(Chairman)
Main organ
£494 million (2014–15)
12,000[1]
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, commonly known simply as the National Trust, is an independent charity and membership organisation for environmental and heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The trust describes itself as "a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces—for ever, for everyone".[2] The trust was founded in 1895 and given statutory powers, starting with the National Trust Act 1907. Historically, the Trust acquired land by gift and sometimes by public subscription and appeal, but after WW 2 the loss of English country houses, resulted in many such properties being acquired either by gift from the former owners, or through the National Land Fund later the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Lottery. Country Houses and Estates still make up a significant part of its holdings, but it is also known for its protection of wild landscapes such as in the Lake District and Peak District, historic urban properties, and nature reserves such as Wicken Fen. In Scotland, there is an separate and independent National Trust for Scotland.
The National Trust has a unique special power to prevent its inalienable land being sold off, although this can be over-ridden by Parliamentary procedure.[citation needed]
The National Trust has been the beneficiary of many large donations and bequests. It owns over 500 heritage properties, which includes many historic houses and gardens, industrial monuments, and social history sites.[1] Most of these are open to the public, usually for a charge. Others are leased to tenants on terms that manage to preserve their character whilst providing for more limited public access. The Trust is one of the largest private landowners in the United Kingdom, owning over 248,000 hectares (610,000 acres; 2,480 km2; 960 sq mi) of land,[1] including many characteristic sites of natural beauty, most of which are accessible to the public free of charge.[citation needed]
The Trust, one of the largest UK charities financially, is funded by membership subscriptions, entrance fees, legacies, and revenue from gift shops and restaurants within its properties. It has been accused of focusing too much on country estates, and in recent years, the Trust has sought to broaden its activities by acquiring historic properties such as former mills, early factories, workhouses, and the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon.[3]
In 2015, the Trust undertook a governance review to mark the 10th anniversary of the current governance structure.[4] The review led to the downsizing of the council and limitation of tenure to two terms.[5]
2 Governance
3 Funding
4 Membership and volunteering
5 National Trust properties
5.1 Historic houses and gardens
5.2 Paintings and sculpture collection
5.3 Coastline and countryside
5.4 Protection of National Trust property
6 Most visited properties
The National Trust was incorporated in 1895 as an "association not for profit" under the Companies Acts 1862–90, in which the liability of its members was limited by guarantee. It was later incorporated by six separate Acts of Parliament: The National Trust Acts 1907, 1919, 1937, 1939, 1953, and 1971.[6] It is also a charitable organisation registered under the Charities Act 2006.[7]
Its formal purpose is:[citation needed]
“ The preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest and, as regards lands, for the preservation of their natural aspect, features and animal and plant life. Also the preservation of furniture, pictures and chattels of any description having national and historic or artistic interest. ”
The trust was founded on 12 January 1895 by Octavia Hill (1838–1912), Sir Robert Hunter (1844–1913) and Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920), prompted in part by the earlier success of Charles Eliot and the Kyrle Society.[citation needed]
Wicken Fen, the National Trust's first nature reserve, acquired with help from Charles Rothschild in 1899
In the early days, the trust was concerned primarily with protecting open spaces and a variety of threatened buildings; its first property was Alfriston Clergy House, and a decorative cornice there may have given the trust its sprig of oak symbol.[citation needed] The trust's first nature reserve was Wicken Fen, and its first archaeological monument was White Barrow.[citation needed]
The trust has been the beneficiary of numerous donations of property and money. From 1924 to 1931, the trust's chairman was John Bailey, of whom The Times said in 1931, "The strong position which the National Trust now occupies is largely due to him, and it will perhaps never be known how many generous gifts of rural beauty and historic interest the nation owes, directly or indirectly, to his persuasive enthusiasm."[8] At the same time, a group of anonymous philanthropists set up the Ferguson's Gang; they wore masks and carried sacks of money, and their use of unusual pseudonyms such as Bill Stickers and Red Biddy caught the public's attention, bringing awareness to the increasing threat of urbanisation.[9]
The focus on country houses and gardens, which now comprise the majority of its most visited properties, came about in the mid 20th century when the private owners of many of the properties were no longer able to afford to maintain them. Many were donated to the trust in lieu of death duties. The diarist James Lees-Milne is usually credited with playing a central role in the main phase of the trust's country house acquisition programme, though he was in fact simply an employee of the trust, and was carrying through policies already decided by its governing body.[10]
One of the most visited National Trust properties is Stourhead, with its classic landscape garden.
Sir Jack Boles, Director General of the Trust between 1975 and 1983, oversaw the acquisition of Wimpole Hall, Cragside, Canons Ashby, Erddig and Kingston Lacy. (the last is a particularly notable asset as it comprises an art collection), Corfe Castle, Studland Bay, Badbury Rings and a host of commercial and domestic buildings and land.[11]
One of the biggest crises in the trust's history erupted at the 1967 annual general meeting, when the leadership of the trust was accused of being out of touch and placing too much emphasis on conserving country houses. In response, the council asked Sir Henry Benson to chair an advisory committee to review the structure of the trust. Following the publication of the Benson Report in 1968, much of the administration of the trust was devolved to the regions.[citation needed]
In the 1990s, a dispute over whether deer hunting should be permitted on National Trust land caused bitter disputes within the organisation, and was the subject of much debate at annual general meetings, but it did little to slow the growth in its membership numbers.[citation needed]
In 2005, the trust moved to a new head office in Swindon, Wiltshire. The building was constructed on an abandoned railway yard, and is intended as a model of brownfield renewal. It is named Heelis, taken from the married name of children's author Beatrix Potter, a huge supporter of, and donor to, the trust, which now owns the land she formerly owned in Cumbria.[12]
Governance[edit]
The Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the Trust's most popular site
The trust is an independent charity rather than a government institution. Historic England and its equivalents in other parts of the United Kingdom are government bodies that perform some functions which overlap with the work of the National Trust. At an operational level, the trust is organised into regions which are aligned with the official local government regions of the UK. Its headquarters are in Swindon. [13]
It was founded as a not-for-profit company in 1895 but was later re-incorporated by a private Act of Parliament, the National Trust Act 1907. Subsequent acts of Parliament between 1919 and 1978 amended and extended the trust's powers and remit. In 2005, the governance of the trust was substantially changed by the Charity Commission.[6]
The trust is governed by a twelve-strong board of trustees, appointed and overseen by a council of twenty-six people elected by the members of the trust, and twenty-six appointed by other organisations whose work is related to that of the trust, such as the Soil Association, the Royal Horticultural Society and the Council for British Archaeology.[14]
The members elect half of the council of the National Trust, and periodically (most recently, in 2006) vote on the organisations which may appoint the other half of the council.[15] Members may also propose and vote on motions at the annual general meeting, although these are advisory and do not decide the policy of the trust.[16][citation needed]
Funding[edit]
The National Trust's headquarters in Swindon
In 2017 the National Trust had 5.2 million members,[1] who enjoy free entry to open NT properties. For the year ended 28 February 2015, the trust's total income was £494 million, up from £460 million in 2013–14, making it one of the largest UK charities by income and assets. The largest sources of income were membership subscriptions (£161 million), direct property income (£145.1 million) and legacies (£50.5 million). In addition, the trust receives money from its commercial arm, National Trust Enterprises Ltd, which undertakes profit-making activities such as running gift shops and restaurants at NT properties. The organisation has cash and financial investments of £1.127 billion, a 7.5% increase on the previous year.[17]
Membership and volunteering[edit]
The trust is one of the largest membership organisations in the world, and annual subscriptions are its most important source of income. Membership numbers have grown from 226,200 when the trust celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1970 to 500,000 in 1975, 1 million in 1981, 2 million in 1990, and by 2015, membership had reached 4.24 million.[17] Members are entitled to free entry to trust properties that are open to the public for a charge.[18] There is a separate organisation called the Royal Oak Foundation for American supporters.[19][citation needed]
The trust is heavily supported by volunteers, who, as of 2013, numbered approximately 70,000, contributing 3.77 million hours of work, worth an estimated £29.2 million.[20] Volunteering experiences are wide and varied, ranging from helping in its historic houses and gardens, to fund-raising and providing specialist skills.[21] The trust is a member of NCVYS in recognition of its work for the personal and social development of young people.[22]
National Trust properties[edit]
Historic houses and gardens[edit]
Barrington Court, one of the first two historic houses owned by the Trust.[10]
The trust owns 200 historic houses that are open to the public. The majority of them are country houses, and most of the others are associated with famous individuals. The majority of these country houses contain collections of pictures, furniture, books, metalwork, ceramics and textiles that have remained in their historic context. Most of the houses also have important gardens attached to them, and the trust owns some important gardens not attached to a house. The properties include some of the most famous stately homes in the country and some of the key gardens in the history of British gardening.[citation needed]
The trust acquired the majority of its country houses in the mid 20th century, when death duties were at their most punitive and many houses were being demolished. James Lees-Milne was secretary of the trust's Country House Committee in the key period either side of World War II. The arrangements made with families bequeathing their homes to the trust often allowed them to continue to live in the property.[10] Since the 1980s, the trust has been increasingly reluctant to take over large houses without substantial accompanying endowment funds, and its acquisitions in this category have been less frequent.[10]
In recent years, the trust has sought to broaden its activities and appeal, mainly by acquiring historic properties such as former mills (early factories), workhouses and the childhood homes of Paul McCartney and John Lennon.[10]
Some properties have individual arrangements, so for example Wakehurst Place is managed by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew and Waddesdon Manor by a private foundation; both are open to the public.[23]
Paintings and sculpture collection[edit]
The Rembrandt self-portrait at Buckland Abbey, painted 1635, formally attributed to him in March 2013
Since its founding in 1895, the trust has gradually expanded its collection of art, mostly through whole property acquisitions. Since 1956, there has been a Curator of Pictures and Sculpture.[24] The first was St John (Bobby) Gore, who was appointed "Adviser on Paintings" in 1956. He published catalogues of the pictures at Upton, Polesden Lacey, Buscot, Saltram, and Ascott.[25]
His successor in 1986 was Alastair Laing, who cared for the works of art at 120 properties and created the exhibition In Trust for the Nation, held at the National Gallery in 1995–96.[24] Since 2009, the curator has been David Taylor, who has approved photos of the trust's 12,567 oil paintings to be included in the Public Catalogue Foundation's searchable online archive of oil paintings, available since 2012.[26] Use of the publicly available website was probably instrumental in the discovery[citation needed] of Rembrandt's Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet which is now displayed at Buckland Abbey near Yelverton in Devon.[citation needed]
This discovery is the second Rembrandt to have found its way into the collection; the first was the portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet at Penrhyn Castle, which was added to the collection after the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands failed to acquire it in 2007.[27]
In 2015 the National Trust launched its contemporary art programme entitled Trust New Art with the idea of reaching new audiences who may not visit art galleries, museums or stately homes. One of the opening exhibits was “One and All – a digital voyage through sight, sound and sea”, making use of a virtual, interactive experience.[28]
Coastline and countryside[edit]
Cliffs and Worm's Head at Rhossili
The National Trust is the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom.[29] The trust's land holdings account for more than 610,000 acres (250,000 ha), or 985 square miles (2,550 km2), mostly of countryside, and covering nearly 1.5% of the total land mass of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.[30] A large part of this consists of parks and agricultural estates attached to country houses, but there are many countryside properties which were acquired specifically for their scenic or scientific value. The trust owns or has covenant over about a quarter of the Lake District;[29] it has similar control over about 12% of the Peak District National Park (e.g. South Peak Estate and High Peak Estate).[29] It owns or protects roughly one fifth of the coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (780 miles (1,260 km)),[1] and has a long-term campaign, Project Neptune, which seeks to acquire more.[30]
Protection of National Trust property[edit]
The National Trust Acts grant the trust the unique statutory power to declare land inalienable. This prevents the land from being sold or mortgaged against the trust's wishes without special parliamentary procedure. The inalienability of trust land was over-ridden by Parliament in the case of proposals to construct a section of the Plympton bypass through the park at Saltram, on the grounds that the road proposal had been known about before the park at Saltram was declared inalienable.[31]
The Acts also give the trust the power to make bylaws to regulate the activities of people when on its land. All photography at National Trust properties, other than that for private and personal use or for entry into approved competitions, is strictly prohibited,[32][33] except for social networking sites such as Flickr.[34] Visitors are instead directed to request images from the National Trust Photo Library.[35]
In 2017, the National Trust was criticised by members for supporting the government's intention to build a 1.8-mile long tunnel under the Stonehenge World Heritage Site as part of the plans to upgrade the A303 motorway. The trust was accused of prioritising government criteria like cost effectiveness and deliverability over cultural heritage and environmental preservation.[36]
Most visited properties[edit]
Cliveden, the third most visited National Trust property for which an admission charge is made as of 2018
The 2017–18 annual report lists the National Trust properties for which an admission charge is made that attracted more than 50,000 visitors. The 10 most visited properties are:[1]
1 Giant's Causeway County Antrim 693,312
2 Clumber Park Nottinghamshire 653,065
3 Cliveden Buckinghamshire 490,708
4 Attingham Park Shropshire 470,688
5 Belton House Lincolnshire 445,821
6 Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge County Antrim 435,330
7 Waddesdon Manor Buckinghamshire 467,756
8 Fountains Abbey Estate North Yorkshire 413,513
9 Anglesey Abbey Cambridgeshire 392,646
10 Calke Abbey Derbyshire 392,581
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American actress
Film still of de Havilland, circa 1945
Olivia Mary de Havilland
(1916-07-01) July 1, 1916 (age 103)
Livvie
Marcus Goodrich
(m. 1946; div. 1953)
Pierre Galante
Parent(s)
Walter de Havilland
Lilian Fontaine
Joan Fontaine (sister)
Hereward de Havilland (cousin)
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (cousin)
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (/dəˈhævɪlənd/; born July 1, 1916) is a British-American-French retired actress whose film career spanned from 1935 to 1988.[1] She appeared in 49 feature films, was one of the leading actors of her time, and is among the last surviving movie stars of the "Golden Age" of Classical Hollywood. Her younger sister was actress Joan Fontaine.
De Havilland came to prominence as a screen couple with Errol Flynn in adventure films such as Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of her best-known roles is Melanie Hamilton in the film classic Gone with the Wind (1939). De Havilland departed from ingénue roles in the 1940s and later won awards for her performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949), including two Academy Awards for Best Actress. She was also successful in work on stage and television. De Havilland has lived in Paris since the 1950s, and received honours such as the National Medal of the Arts, the Légion d'honneur, and the appointment to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
In addition to her film career, de Havilland continued her work in the theatre, appearing three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), and A Gift of Time (1962). She also worked in television, appearing in the successful miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979), and television feature films such as Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. During her film career, de Havilland also won two Golden Globe Awards, two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2.1 Early films, 1935–1937
2.2 Movie stardom, 1938–1940
2.3 War years, 1941–1944
2.4 Vindication and recognition, 1945–1952
2.5 New life in Paris, 1953–1962
2.6 Later films and television, 1963–1988
2.7 Retirement and remembrance, 1989–present
3.1 Relationships
3.2 Marriages and children
3.3 Religion and politics
3.4 Relationship with Joan Fontaine
4 Career assessment and legacy
5 Honors and awards
6 Filmography (partial)
8.2 Citations
De Havilland's father, Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), served as an English professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo before becoming a patent attorney.[2] Her mother, Lilian Fontaine (née Ruse; 1886–1975),[3] was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a stage actress.[2] Lilian also sang with the Master of the King's Music, Sir Walter Parratt, and toured England with the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.[4] Olivia's paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965),[5] an aircraft designer and founder of the de Havilland aircraft company.[6]
Lilian and Walter met in Japan in 1913 and were married the following year;[7] the marriage was not a happy one due in part to Walter's infidelities.[8] De Havilland was born on July 1, 1916.[2] They moved into a large house in Tokyo, where Lilian gave informal singing recitals for the European colony.[7] Olivia's younger sister Joan (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland)—later known as actress Joan Fontaine—was born fifteen months later, on October 22, 1917. Both sisters became citizens of the United Kingdom automatically by birthright.[9]
In February 1919, Lilian persuaded her husband to take the family back to England to a climate better suited for their ailing daughters.[8] They sailed aboard the SS Siberia Maru to San Francisco,[9] where the family stopped to treat Olivia's tonsillitis.[10] After Joan developed pneumonia, Lilian decided to remain with her daughters in California, where they eventually settled in the village of Saratoga, 50 miles (80 km) south of San Francisco.[11][Note 1] Her father abandoned the family and returned to his Japanese housekeeper, who eventually became his second wife.[11][15]
Lundblad's Lodge, in Saratoga, where the family lived for a while
Olivia was raised to appreciate the arts, beginning with ballet lessons at the age of four and piano lessons a year later.[16] She learned to read before she was six,[17] and her mother, who occasionally taught drama, music, and elocution,[18] had her reciting passages from Shakespeare to strengthen her diction.[16][Note 2] During this period, her younger sister Joan first started calling her "Livvie", a nickname that would last throughout her life.[16] De Havilland entered Saratoga Grammar School in 1922 and did well in her studies.[13] She enjoyed reading, writing poetry, and drawing, and once represented her grammar school in a county spelling bee, coming in second place.[13] In 1923, Lilian had a new Tudor-style house built,[13] where the family resided until the early 1930s.[20] In April 1925, after her divorce was finalized, Lilian married George Milan Fontaine, a department store manager for O. A. Hale & Co. in San Jose.[21] Fontaine was a good provider and respectable businessman, but his strict parenting style generated animosity and later rebellion in both of his new stepdaughters.[22][Note 3]
De Havilland in the stage play Alice in Wonderland, 1933
De Havilland continued her education at Los Gatos High School near her home in Saratoga.[22] There she excelled in oratory and field hockey and participated in school plays and the school drama club, eventually becoming the club's secretary.[24] With plans of becoming a schoolteacher of English and speech,[22] she also attended Notre Dame Convent in Belmont.[25]
In 1933, a teenage de Havilland made her debut in amateur theatre in Alice in Wonderland, a production of the Saratoga Community Players based on the novel by Lewis Carroll.[24] She also appeared in several school plays, including The Merchant of Venice and Hansel and Gretel.[26] Her passion for drama eventually led to a confrontation with her stepfather, who forbade her from participating in further extracurricular activities.[27] When he learned that she had won the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet in a school fund-raising production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, he told her that she had to choose between staying at home, or appearing in the production and not being allowed home.[27] Not wanting to let her school and classmates down, she left home forever, moving in with a family friend.[27]
After graduating from high school in 1934, de Havilland was offered a scholarship to Mills College in Oakland to pursue her chosen career as an English teacher.[28] She was also offered the role of Puck in the Saratoga Community Theater production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.[24] That summer, Austrian director Max Reinhardt came to California for a major new production of the same play to premiere at the Hollywood Bowl.[28] After one of Reinhardt's assistants saw her perform in Saratoga, he offered her the second understudy position for the role of Hermia.[28] One week before the premiere, the understudy Jean Rouverol and lead actress Gloria Stuart both left the project, leaving 18-year-old de Havilland to play Hermia.[28] Impressed with her performance, Reinhardt offered her the part in the four-week autumn tour that followed.[28] During that tour, Reinhardt received word that he would direct the Warner Bros. film version of his stage production, and he offered her the film role of Hermia. With her mind still set on becoming a teacher, de Havilland initially wavered, but eventually, Reinhardt and executive producer Henry Blanke persuaded her to sign a five-year contract with Warner Bros. on November 12, 1934, with a starting salary of $200 a week, marking the beginning of a professional acting career which would span for more than 50 years.[29]
Early films, 1935–1937[edit]
De Havilland made her screen debut in Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream,[30] which was filmed at Warner Bros. studios from December 19, 1934 to March 9, 1935.[31] During the production, de Havilland picked up film acting techniques from the film's co-director William Dieterle and camera techniques from cinematographer Hal Mohr, who was impressed with her questions about his work. By the end of filming, she had learned the effect of lighting and camera angles on how she appeared on screen and how to find her best lighting.[32] Following premieres in New York and Beverly Hills, the film was released on October 30, 1935.[31] Despite the publicity campaign, the film generated little enthusiasm with audiences.[30] While the critical response was mixed, de Havilland's performance was praised by The San Francisco Examiner critic.[33] In his review in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Winston Burdett noted that she "acts graciously and does greater justice to Shakespeare's language than anyone else in the cast".[34] Two minor comedies followed, Alibi Ike with Joe E. Brown and The Irish in Us with James Cagney.[35] In both films, she played the sweet and charming love interest—a role into which she would later become typecast.[36] After the experience of being a Reinhardt player, de Havilland felt disappointed being assigned these routine heroine roles.[30][37] In March, de Havilland and her mother moved into an apartment at the Chateau des Fleurs at 6626 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood.[38]
Publicity photo, 1935
Although Warner Brothers studio had assumed that the many costumed films that studios like MGM had earlier produced would never succeed during the years of the Great Depression, they nonetheless took a chance by producing Captain Blood in 1935.[39]:63 The film is a swashbuckler action drama based on the popular novel by Rafael Sabatini and directed by Michael Curtiz.[39]:63 Captain Blood would star a little known contract bit actor and former extra, Errol Flynn, alongside the little-known de Havilland.[40][41] According to film historian Tony Thomas, both actors had "classic good looks, cultured speaking voices, and a sense of distant aristocracy about them".[42] Filmed between August 5 and October 29, 1935,[43] Captain Blood gave de Havilland the opportunity to appear in her first costumed historical romance and adventure epic, a genre to which she was well suited, given her beauty and elegance.[44] In the film, she played Arabella Bishop, the niece of a Jamaica plantation owner, who purchases at auction an Irish physician wrongly condemned to servitude. The on-screen chemistry between de Havilland and Flynn was evident from their first scenes together,[44] where clashes between her character's spirited hauteur and his character's playful braggadocio did not mask their mutual attraction to each other.[45][Note 4] Arabella is a feisty young woman who knows what she wants and is willing to fight for it.[46] The bantering tone of their exchanges in the film—the healthy give-and-take and mutual respect—became the basis for their on-screen relationship in subsequent films.[45] Captain Blood was released on December 28, 1935,[43] and received good reviews and wide public appeal.[47] De Havilland's performance was singled out in The New York Times and Variety.[48][49] The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[50] The popular success of the film, as well as the critical response to the on-screen couple, led to seven additional collaborations.[44]
In 1936, de Havilland appeared in Mervyn LeRoy's historical period drama Anthony Adverse with Fredric March.[51] Based on the popular novel by Hervey Allen, the film follows the adventures of an orphan raised by a Scottish merchant, whose pursuit of fortune separates him from the innocent peasant girl he loves, marries, and eventually loses.[52] De Havilland played a peasant girl, Angela, who after being separated from her slave-trader husband, becomes opera star Mademoiselle Georges, the mistress of Napoleon.[53] The film earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.[54] It garnered de Havilland good exposure and the opportunity to portray a character as she develops over time.[55] Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune found her later scenes as Mademoiselle Georges "not very credible",[56] but Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times called her "a winsome Angela".[57] That same year, she was re-united with Flynn in Michael Curtiz's period action film The Charge of the Light Brigade, set during the Crimean War[58][59] which became a box office success.[60]
During the film's production, de Havilland renegotiated her contract with Warner Bros. and signed a seven-year contract on April 14, 1936, with a starting weekly salary of five hundred dollars (equivalent to $9,000 in 2018).[61][Note 5] Toward the end of the year, 20-year-old de Havilland and her mother moved to 2337 Nella Vista Avenue in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.[63]
In Call It a Day, 1937
In 1937, de Havilland had her first top billing in Archie Mayo's comedy Call It a Day,[64] about a middle-class English family struggling with the romantic effects of spring fever during the course of a single day.[65] De Havilland played daughter Catherine Hilton, who falls in love with the handsome artist hired to paint her portrait.[65] The film did not do well at the box office and did little to advance her career.[66] She fared better in Mayo's screwball comedy It's Love I'm After with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.[67] De Havilland played Marcia West, a young debutante and theater fan enamored with a Barrymore-like matinee idol who decides to help the girl's fiancé by pretending to be an abominable cad.[68] The film received good reviews, with Variety calling it "fresh, clever, excellently directed and produced, and acted by an ensemble that clicks from start to finish", and praising de Havilland.[69]
That same year, de Havilland made two more period films, beginning with The Great Garrick, a fictional romantic comedy about the 18th-century English actor's encounter with jealous players from the Comédie-Française who plot to embarrass him on his way to Paris.[70] Wise to their prank, Garrick plays along with the ruse, determined to get the last laugh, even on a lovely young aristocrat, de Havilland's Germaine Dupont, whom he mistakenly believes to be one of the players.[71] With her refined demeanor and diction,[66] de Havilland delivers a performance that is "lighthearted and thoroughly believable", according to Judith Kass.[72] Variety praised the film, calling it "a production of superlative workmanship".[73][74] Despite the positive reviews, the film did not do as well at the box office.[74][Note 6] Her final film that year was Michael Curtiz's romantic drama Gold Is Where You Find It,[77] a film about the late 19th-century conflict in the Sacramento Valley between gold miners and their hydraulic equipment and farmers whose land is being flooded.[78] De Havilland played the daughter of a farmer, Serena Ferris, who falls in love with the mining engineer responsible for the flooding.[79] The film was released in February 1938,[80] and was her first appearance in three-strip Technicolor.[77]
Movie stardom, 1938–1940[edit]
In September 1937, de Havilland was selected by Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner to play Maid Marian opposite Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).[81] The Technicolor production was filmed on location between September 26, 1937, and January 14, 1938, at Bidwell Park, Busch Gardens, and Lake Sherwood in California.[82] Directed by William Keighley and Michael Curtiz, the film is about the legendary Robin Hood, a Saxon knight who opposes the corrupt and brutal Prince John and his Norman lords while good King Richard is away fighting in the Third Crusade.[83] The king's ward, Maid Marian, initially opposes Robin, but later supports him after learning his true intentions of helping his oppressed people.[84] [85] No mere bystander to events, Marian risks her life to save Robin by providing his men a plan for his escape.[86] As defined by de Havilland, Marian is both a beautiful fairy-tale heroine and a spirited, intelligent woman "whose actions are governed by her mind as well as her heart", according to author Judith Kass.[87] The Adventures of Robin Hood was released on May 14, 1938,[82] and was an immediate critical and commercial success, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. It went on to become one of the most popular adventure films of the Classical Hollywood era.[88][89]
The popularity of The Adventures of Robin Hood brought de Havilland a new level of fame as a movie star, but this new status was not reflected in her subsequent film assignments at Warner Bros.[66] Her next several roles were more routine and less challenging.[66] In the romantic comedy Four's a Crowd (1938), she played Lorri Dillingwell, a ditzy rich girl being romanced by a conniving public relations man looking to land an account with her eccentric grandfather.[90] In Ray Enright's romantic comedy Hard to Get (1938), she played another ditzy rich girl, Margaret Richards, whose desire to exact revenge on a gas station attendant leads to her own comeuppance.[91] While de Havilland was certainly capable of playing these kinds of characters, her personality was better suited to stronger and more dramatic roles, according to Judith Kass.[92] By this time, de Havilland had serious doubts about her career at Warner Bros.[93][94]
Some film scholars consider 1939 to be the high point of the golden age of Classical Hollywood,[95] producing classics in many genres, including the Western.[96][Note 7] Warner Bros. produced Michael Curtiz's sprawling Technicolor adventure Dodge City, Flynn and de Havilland's first Western film.[96] Set during the American Civil War, the film is about a Texas trailblazer who witnesses the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City, Kansas, and becomes sheriff to clean up the town. De Havilland played Abbie Irving, whose initial hostility towards Flynn's character Wade Hatton is transformed by events, and the two fall in love—by now a proven formula for their on-screen relationships.[97] Curtiz's action sequences, Sol Polito's cinematography, Max Steiner's expansive film score, and perhaps the "definitive saloon brawl in movie history"[96] all contributed to the film's success.[98] Variety described the film as "a lusty western, packed with action".[99] For de Havilland, playing yet one more supporting love interest in a limited role, Dodge City represented the emotional low point of her career to that point.[100] She later said, "I was in such a depressed state that I could hardly remember my lines."[97]
Studio publicity portrait for Gone with the Wind, 1939
In a letter to a colleague dated November 18, 1938, film producer David O. Selznick wrote, "I would give anything if we had Olivia de Havilland under contract to us so that we could cast her as Melanie."[101] The film he was preparing to shoot was Gone with the Wind, and Jack L. Warner was unwilling to lend her out for the project.[102] De Havilland had read the novel, and unlike most other actresses, who wanted the Scarlett O'Hara role, she wanted to play Melanie Hamilton—a character whose quiet dignity and inner strength she understood and felt she could bring to life on the screen.[103]
De Havilland turned to Warner's wife Anne for help.[104] Warner later recalled, "Olivia, who had a brain like a computer concealed behind those fawn-like eyes, simply went to my wife and they joined forces to change my mind."[105] Warner relented, and de Havilland was signed to the project a few weeks before the start of principal photography on January 26, 1939.[106] Set in the American South during the 19th century, the film is about the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner in love with the husband of her sister-in-law, Melanie, whose kindness stands in sharp contrast to those around her. According to film historian Tony Thomas, de Havilland's skillful and subtle performance effectively presents this character of selfless love and quiet strength in a way that keeps her vital and interesting throughout the film.[107] Gone with the Wind had its world premiere in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939, and was well received.[106] Frank S. Nugent of The Times wrote that de Havilland's Melanie "is a gracious, dignified, tender gem of characterization",[108] and John C. Flinn, Sr., in Variety called her "a standout".[109] The film won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and de Havilland received her first nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[110][111]
Melanie was someone different. She had very, deeply feminine qualities ... that I felt were very endangered at that time, and they are from generation to generation, and that somehow they should be kept alive, and ... that's why I wanted to interpret her role. ... The main thing is that she was always thinking of the other person, and the interesting thing to me is that she was a happy person ... loving, compassionate.[13]
— Olivia de Havilland
Studio publicity portrait for Santa Fe Trail, 1940
Within days of completing her work in Gone with the Wind in June 1939, de Havilland returned to Warner Bros. and began filming Michael Curtiz's historical drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.[112] She had hoped her work on Selznick's prestige picture would lead to first-rate roles at Warner Bros., but instead, she received third billing below the title as the queen's lady-in-waiting.[113] In early September, she was lent out to Samuel Goldwyn Productions for Sam Wood's romantic caper film Raffles with David Niven,[114] about a high-society cricketer and jewel thief.[115] She later complained, "I had nothing to do with that style of film."[116]
In early 1940, de Havilland refused to appear in several films assigned to her, initiating the first of her suspensions at the studio.[116] She did agree to play in Curtis Bernhardt's musical comedy drama My Love Came Back with Jeffrey Lynn and Eddie Albert, who played a classical music student turned swing jazz bandleader. De Havilland played violinist Amelia Cornell, whose life becomes complicated by the support of a wealthy sponsor.[116][Note 8] In his review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther described the film as "a featherlight frolic, a rollicking roundelay of deliciously pointed nonsense", finding that de Havilland "plays the part with pace and wit".[118] That same year, de Havilland was re-united with Flynn in their sixth film together, Michael Curtiz's Western adventure Santa Fe Trail, set against the backdrop of abolitionist John Brown's fanatical antislavery attacks in the days leading up to the American Civil War.[119] The mostly fictional story follows West Point cadets J. E. B. Stuart, played by Flynn, and George Armstrong Custer, played by Ronald Reagan, as they make their way west, both vying for the affection of de Havilland's Kit Carson Halliday.[119] Playing Kit in a provocative, tongue-in-cheek manner, de Havilland creates a character of real substance and dimension, according to Tony Thomas.[120] Following a world premiere on December 13, 1940, at the Lensic Theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico—attended by cast members, reporters, the governor, and over 60,000 fans [121] — Santa Fe Trail went on to become one of the top-grossing films of 1940.[122] De Havilland, who accompanied Flynn on the well-publicized train ride to Santa Fe, did not attend the premiere, having been diagnosed with appendicitis that morning and rushed into surgery.[121]
War years, 1941–1944[edit]
Following her emergency surgery, de Havilland began a long period of convalescence in a Los Angeles hospital during which time she rejected several scripts offered to her by Warner Bros., leading to another suspension.[123] In 1941, she appeared in three commercially successful films, beginning with Raoul Walsh's romantic comedy The Strawberry Blonde with James Cagney.[124] Set during the Gay Nineties, the story involves a man who marries an outspoken advocate for women's rights after a rival steals his glamorous "strawberry blonde" girlfriend, and later discovers he ended up with a loving and understanding wife.[125] The film was a critical and commercial success.[126] In Mitch Leisen's romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn with Charles Boyer for Paramount Pictures, she transitioned to a different type of role for her—an ordinary, decent small-town teacher whose life and sexuality are awakened by a sophisticated European gigolo, whose own life is positively affected by her love.[127] Leisen's careful direction and guidance appealed to de Havilland—much more than the workman-like approach of her Warner Bros. directors.[128] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that the actress "plays the school teacher as a woman with romantic fancies whose honesty and pride are her own—and the film's—chief support. Incidentally, she is excellent."[129] For this performance, she garnered her second Academy Award nomination—this time for Best Actress.[130]
In July 1941, de Havilland was re-united with Flynn for their eighth movie together, Raoul Walsh's epic They Died with Their Boots On. The film is loosely based on the courtship and marriage of George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon.[131] Flynn and de Havilland had a falling out the previous year—mainly over the roles she was being given—and she did not intend to work with him again.[132] Even Flynn acknowledged, "She was sick to death of playing 'the girl', and badly wanted a few good roles to show herself and the world that she was a fine actress."[133] After she learned from Warner that Flynn had come to his office saying he needed her in the film, de Havilland accepted.[123] Screenwriter Lenore Coffee was brought in to add several romantic scenes, and improve the overall dialogue.[123] The result is a film that includes some of their finest work together.[134] Their last appearance on screen is Custer's farewell to his wife.[135] "Errol was quite sensitive", de Havilland would later remember, "I think he knew it would be the last time we worked together."[135] Flynn's final line in that scene would hold special meaning for her: "Walking through life with you, ma'am, has been a very gracious thing."[136] They Died with Their Boots On was released on November 21, 1941, and while some reviewers criticized the film's historical inaccuracies, most applauded the action sequences, cinematography, and acting.[137] Thomas M. Pryor of The New York Times found de Havilland "altogether captivating".[138] The film went on to earn $2,550,000 (equivalent to $43,400,000 in 2018), Warner Bros' second-biggest money-maker of that year.[139]
In 1942, de Havilland appeared in Elliott Nugent's romantic comedy The Male Animal with Henry Fonda, about an idealistic professor fighting for academic freedom while trying to hold onto his job and his wife Ellen. While her role was not particularly challenging, de Havilland's delineation of an intelligent, good-natured woman trying to resolve the unsettling circumstances of her life played a major part in the film's success, according to Tony Thomas.[140] The film was a critical and commercial success, with Bosley Crowther of The Times noting that de Havilland "concocts a delightfully pliant and saucy character as the wife".[141] That year, she also appeared in John Huston's drama In This Our Life with Bette Davis. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Ellen Glasgow, the story is about two sisters whose lives are destroyed by the anger and jealousy of one of the sisters.[142] Crowther gave the film a negative review, but noted de Havilland's "warm and easy performance".[143] During production, de Havilland and Huston began a romantic relationship that lasted three years.[144]
According to de Havilland, one of the few truly satisfying roles she played for Warner Bros. was the title character in Norman Krasna's romantic comedy Princess O'Rourke (1943), with Robert Cummings.[145] Filmed in July and August 1942,[146] the story is about a European princess in Washington, DC, visiting her diplomat uncle, who is trying to find her an American husband. Intent on marrying a man of her own choosing, she boards a plane heading west and ends up falling in love with an American pilot, who is unaware of her true identity.[147][Note 9][147] The film was released on October 23, 1943,[146] and did well at the box office.[149] Bosley Crowther called it "a film which is in the best tradition of American screen comedy", and found de Havilland's performance "charming".[150]
I wanted to do complex roles, like Melanie for example, and Jack Warner saw me as an ingénue. I was really restless to portray more developed human beings. Jack never understood this, and ... he would give me roles that really had no character or quality in them. I knew I wouldn't even be effective.[151]
After fulfilling her seven-year Warner Bros. contract in 1943, de Havilland was informed that six months had been added to her contract for the times that she had been suspended.[152] At the time, the studios had adopted the position that California law allowed them to suspend contract players for rejecting a role, and the period of suspension could be added to the contract period.[153] Most contract players accepted this, but a few tried to change the system, including Bette Davis, who mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Bros. in the 1930s.[154] On August 23, 1943, acting on the advice of her lawyer, Martin Gang, de Havilland filed suit against Warner Bros. in California Superior Court seeking declaratory judgement that she was no longer bound by her contract[155][156] on the grounds that an existing section of the California Labor Code that forbade an employer from enforcing a contract against an employee for longer than seven years from the date of first performance.[157] In November 1943, the Superior Court found in de Havilland's favor, and Warner Bros. immediately appealed.[158] A little over a year later, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District ruled in her favor.[156][Note 10] The decision was one of the most significant and far-reaching legal rulings in Hollywood, reducing the power of the studios and extending greater creative freedom to performers.[160] California's resulting "seven-year rule", also known as Labor Code Section 2855, is still known today as the De Havilland Law.[160] Her legal victory, which cost her $13,000 (equivalent to $190,000 in 2018) in legal fees, won de Havilland the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her own sister, Joan Fontaine, who later commented, "Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal."[161] Warner Bros. reacted to de Havilland's lawsuit by circulating a letter to other studios that had the effect of a "virtual blacklisting".[155] As a consequence, de Havilland did not work at a film studio for nearly two years.[155]
At the Naval Air Station in Kodiak, Alaska (March 20, 1944)
De Havilland became a naturalized citizen of the United States on November 28, 1941, ten days before the United States entered World War II militarily, alongside the Allied Forces.[162][163] During the war years, she actively sought out ways to express her patriotism and contribute to the war effort. In May 1942, she joined the Hollywood Victory Caravan, a three-week train tour of the country that raised money through the sale of war bonds.[164] Later that year she began attending events at the Hollywood Canteen, meeting and dancing with the troops.[165] In December 1943 de Havilland joined a USO tour that traveled throughout the United States, Alaska, and the South Pacific, visiting wounded soldiers in military hospitals.[153][13] She earned the respect and admiration of the troops for visiting the isolated islands and battlefronts in the Pacific.[166] She survived flights in damaged aircraft and a bout with viral pneumonia requiring several days' stay in one of the island barrack hospitals.[13][166][Note 11] She later remembered, "I loved doing the tours because it was a way I could serve my country and contribute to the war effort."[167]
Vindication and recognition, 1945–1952[edit]
After the California Court of Appeal[168] ruling freed her from her Warner Bros. contract, de Havilland signed a two-picture deal with Paramount Pictures.[169] In June 1945, she began filming Mitchell Leisen's drama To Each His Own,[170] about an unwed mother who gives up her child for adoption and then spends the rest of her life trying to undo that decision.[171] De Havilland insisted on bringing in Leisen as director, trusting his eye for detail, his empathy for actors, and the way he controlled sentiment in their previous collaboration, Hold Back the Dawn.[171] The role required de Havilland to age nearly 30 years over the course of the film—from an innocent, small-town girl to a shrewd, ruthless businesswoman devoted to her cosmetics company. While de Havilland never formally studied acting, she did read Stanislavsky's autobiography My Life in Art and applied one of his "methods" for this role.[172] To help her define her character during the four periods of the story, she used a different perfume for each period. She also lowered the pitch of her voice incrementally in each period until it became a mature woman's voice.[173] Her performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946—her first Oscar.[174] According to film historian Tony Thomas, the award represented a vindication of her long struggle with Warner Bros. and confirmation of her abilities as an actress.[173]
Olivia de Havilland with the first of her two Oscars, this one for To Each His Own, March 13, 1947
Her next two roles were challenging. In Robert Siodmak's psychological thriller The Dark Mirror (1946), de Havilland played twin sisters Ruth and Terry Collins—one loving and normal, the other psychotic.[175] In addition to the technical problems of showing her as two characters interacting with each other on screen at the same time, de Havilland needed to portray two separate and psychologically opposite people.[176] While the film was not well received by critics—Variety said the film "gets lost in a maze of psychological gadgets and speculation"[177]—de Havilland's performance was praised by Tony Thomas, who called her final scene in the film "an almost frighteningly convincing piece of acting".[178] In his review in The Nation, James Agee wrote that "her playing is thoughtful, quiet, detailed, and well sustained, and since it is founded, as some more talented playing is not, in an unusually healthful-seeming and likable temperament, it is an undivided pleasure to see".[179][180] Later that year while appearing in a summer stock production of What Every Woman Knows in Westport, Connecticut, her second professional stage appearance, de Havilland began dating Marcus Goodrich, a Navy veteran, journalist, and author of the 1941 novel Delilah. They were married on August 26, 1946.[181]
De Havilland was praised for her performance as Virginia Cunningham in Anatole Litvak's drama The Snake Pit (1948), one of the first films to attempt a realistic portrayal of mental illness and an important exposé of the harsh conditions in state mental hospitals, according to film critic Philip French.[182] Based on a novel by Mary Jane Ward and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, the film is about a woman placed in a mental institution by her husband to help her recover from a nervous breakdown.[183] Virginia Cunningham was one of the most difficult of all her film roles, requiring significant preparation both mentally and physically—she deliberately lost weight to help create her gaunt appearance on screen.[184] She consulted regularly with psychiatrists hired as consultants for the film, and visited Camarillo State Mental Hospital to research her role and observe the patients. The extreme physical discomfort of the hydrotherapy and simulated electric shock therapy scenes were especially challenging for the slight 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) actress.[185] In her performance, she conveyed her mental anguish by physically transforming her face with furrowed brow, wild staring eyes, and grimacing mouth.[186]
I met a young woman who was very much like Virginia, about the same age and physical description, as well as being a schizophrenic with guilt problems. ... What struck me most of all was the fact that she was rather likable and appealing. It hadn't occurred to me before that a mental patient could be appealing, and it was that that gave me the key to the performance.[185]
According to author Judith Kass, de Havilland delivered a performance both "restrained and electric", portraying varied and extreme aspects of her character—from a shy young woman to a tormented and disoriented woman.[187] For her performance in The Snake Pit, de Havilland received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup.[188]
In 1949, de Havilland appeared in William Wyler's period drama The Heiress (1949), the fourth in a string of critically acclaimed performances.[189] After seeing the play on Broadway, de Havilland called Wyler and urged him to fly to New York to see what she felt would be a perfect role for her. Wyler obliged, loved the play, and with de Havilland's help arranged for Paramount to secure the film rights.[190] Adapted for the screen by Ruth and Augustus Goetz and based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James, the film is about a young naïve woman who falls in love with a young man, over the objections of her cruel and emotionally abusive father, who suspects the young man of being a fortune seeker.[186] As she had done in Hold Back the Dawn, de Havilland portrayed her character's transformation from a shy, trusting innocent to a guarded, mature woman over a period of years.[191] Her delineation of Catherine Sloper is developed through carefully crafted movements, gestures, and facial expressions that convey a submissive and inhibited young woman. Her timid voice, nervous hands, downcast eyes, and careful movements all communicate what the character is too shy to verbalize.[186] Throughout the production, Wyler pressed de Havilland hard to elicit the requisite visual points of the character. When Catherine returns home after being jilted, the director had the actress carry a suitcase filled with heavy books up the stairs to convey the weight of Catherine's trauma physically instead of using a planned speech in the original script.[192] The Heiress was released in October 1949 and was well received by critics. For her performance, she received the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress—her second Oscar.[193]
After giving birth to her first child, Benjamin, on September 27, 1949, de Havilland took time off from making films to be with her infant.[194] She turned down the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, later explaining that becoming a mother was a "transforming experience" and that she could not relate to the character.[195] In 1950, her family moved to New York City, where she began rehearsals for a major new stage production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; it was her life-long ambition to play Juliet on the stage.[194] The play opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 11, 1951, to mixed reviews, with some critics believing the 35-year-old actress was too old for the role.[194] The play closed after 45 performances.[194] Undaunted, de Havilland accepted the title role in the stage production of George Bernard Shaw's comedy Candida, which opened at the National Theatre on Broadway in April 1952.[194] While reviews of the play were mixed, de Havilland's performance was well received, and following the scheduled 32 performances, she went on tour with the company and delivered 323 additional performances, many to sold-out audiences.[194] While de Havilland achieved major accomplishments during this period of her career, her marriage to Goodrich, 18 years her senior, had grown strained due to his unstable temperament.[196] In August 1952, she filed for divorce, which became final the following year.[197]
New life in Paris, 1953–1962[edit]
Of course the thing that staggers you when you first come to France is the fact that all the French speak French—even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.[198]
— Olivia de Havilland in Every Frenchman Has One
With Pierre Galante and daughter Gisèle, 1956
In April 1953, at the invitation of the French government, she traveled to the Cannes Film Festival, where she met Pierre Galante, an executive editor for the French journal Paris Match.[199] Following a long-distance courtship and the requisite nine-month residency requirement, de Havilland and Galante married on April 12, 1955, in the village of Yvoy-le-Marron, and settled together in a three-story house near the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris' 16th Arrondissement.[200][201][202] That same year, she returned to the screen in Terence Young's period drama That Lady (1955), about a Spanish princess and her unrequited love for King Philip II of Spain, whose respect she earned in her youth after losing an eye in a sword fight defending his honor.[203] According to Tony Thomas, the film uses authentic Spanish locations effectively, but suffers from a convoluted plot and excessive dialogue, and while de Havilland delivered a warm and elegant performance as Ana de Mendoza, the film was disappointing.[203] Following her appearances in the romantic melodrama Not as a Stranger (1955)[204] and The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)[205]—neither of which were successful at the box office—de Havilland gave birth to her second child, Gisèle Galante, on July 18, 1956.[202]
De Havilland returned to the screen in 1958 in Michael Curtiz's Western drama The Proud Rebel,[206] a film about a former Confederate soldier, Alan Ladd, whose wife was killed in the war and whose son lost the ability to speak after witnessing the tragedy. De Havilland played Linnett Moore, a tough yet feminine frontier woman who cares for the boy and comes to love his father.[207] The movie was filmed on location in Utah, where de Havilland learned to hitch and drive a team of horses and handle a gun for her role.[208] The Proud Rebel was released May 28, 1958, and was well received by audiences and critics. In his review for The New York Times, A. H. Weiler called the film a "truly sensitive effort" and "heartwarming drama", and praised de Havilland's ability to convey the "warmth, affection and sturdiness needed in the role".[209]
One of de Havilland's most noted performances during this period was in Guy Green's romantic drama Light in the Piazza (1962) with Rossano Brazzi.[210] Filmed in Florence and Rome,[210] and based on Elizabeth Spencer's novel of the same name, the film is about a middle-class American tourist on extended vacation in Italy with her beautiful 26-year-old daughter, who is mentally disabled as a result of a childhood accident.[210] Faced with the prospect of her daughter falling in love with a young Italian, the mother struggles with conflicting emotions about her daughter's future.[211] De Havilland projects a calm maternal serenity throughout most of the film, only showing glimpses of the worried mother anxious for her child's happiness.[212] The film was released on February 19, 1962, and was well received, with a Hollywood Reporter reviewer calling it "an uncommon love story ... told with rare delicacy and force", and Variety noting that the film "achieves the rare and delicate balance of artistic beauty, romantic substance, dramatic novelty and commercial appeal". Variety singled out de Havilland's performance as "one of great consistency and subtle projection".[213]
In early 1962, de Havilland traveled to New York, and began rehearsals for Garson Kanin's stage play A Gift of Time. Adapted from the autobiographical book Death of a Man by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker, the play explores the emotionally painful struggle of a housewife forced to deal with the slow death of her husband, played by Henry Fonda. The play opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway to positive notices, with de Havilland receiving her best reviews as a stage actress.[202] Theater critic Walter Kerr praised her final scene, writing, "As darkness gathers, the actress gains in stature, taking on the simple and resolute willingness to understand."[214] The New York World Telegram and Sun reviewer concluded, "It is Miss de Havilland who gives the play its unbroken continuity. This distinguished actress reveals Lael as a special and admirable woman."[214] She stayed with the production for 90 performances.[202] The year 1962 also had the publication of de Havilland's first book, Every Frenchman Has One, a lighthearted account of her often amusing attempts to understand and adapt to French life, manners, and customs.[202] The book sold out its first printing prior to the publication date and went on to become a bestseller.[215][201]
Later films and television, 1963–1988[edit]
In 1964, de Havilland appeared in her last two leading roles in feature films—both psychological thrillers. In Walter Grauman's Lady in a Cage, she played a wealthy poet who gets trapped in her mansion's elevator and faces the threat of three terrorizing hooligans in her own home.[216] Critics responded negatively to the graphic violence and cruelty shown on screen.[214] A. H. Weiler of The New York Times called it a "sordid, if suspenseful, exercise in aimless brutality".[217] That same year, de Havilland appeared in Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte with her close friend Bette Davis.[218] After Joan Crawford left the picture due to illness, Davis had Aldrich fly to Switzerland to persuade a reluctant de Havilland to accept the role of Miriam Deering, a cruel, conniving character hidden behind the charming façade of a polite and cultured lady.[219] Her quiet, restrained performance provided a counterbalance to Davis. Film historian Tony Thomas described her performance as "a subtle piece of acting" that was "a vital contribution to the effectiveness of the film".[220] The film was well received and earned seven Academy Award nominations.[221]
As film roles became more difficult to find, a common problem shared by many Hollywood veterans from her era, de Havilland began working in television dramas, despite her dislike of the networks' practice of breaking up story lines with commercials.[222] Her first venture into the medium was a teleplay directed by Sam Peckinpah called Noon Wine (1966) on ABC Stage 67,[222] a dark tragedy about a farmer's act of murder that leads to his suicide.[222] The production and her performance as the farmer's wife Ellie were well received.[223] In 1972, she starred in her first television feature film, The Screaming Woman, about a wealthy woman recovering from a nervous breakdown.[224] In 1979, she appeared in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations in the role of Mrs. Warner, the wife of a former Confederate officer played by Henry Fonda. The miniseries was seen by an estimated 110 million people—nearly one-third of American homes with television sets.[225] Throughout the 1970s, de Havilland's film work was limited to smaller supporting roles and cameo appearances.[226] Her last feature film was The Fifth Musketeer (1979).[226] During this period, de Havilland began doing speaking engagements in cities across the United States with a talk entitled "From the City of the Stars to the City of Light", a program of personal reminiscences about her life and career. She also attended tributes to Gone with the Wind.[227]
In the 1980s, her television work included an Agatha Christie television film Murder Is Easy (1982), the television drama The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) in which she played the Queen Mother, and the 1986 ABC miniseries North and South, Book II.[1] Her most notable performance of the decade was in the television film Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) as Dowager Empress Maria, which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film.[228] In 1988, de Havilland appeared in the HTV romantic television drama The Woman He Loved; it was her final screen performance.[1]
Retirement and remembrance, 1989–present[edit]
De Havilland at the Smithsonian Institution in 2001
In retirement, de Havilland has remained active in the film community. In 1998, she traveled to New York to help promote a special showing of Gone with the Wind.[229] In 2003, she appeared as a presenter at the 75th Academy Awards, earning a six and a half minute standing ovation upon her entrance.[228][230] In 2004, Turner Classic Movies produced a retrospective piece called Melanie Remembers in which she was interviewed for the 65th anniversary of the original release of Gone with the Wind.[231] In June 2006, she made appearances at tributes commemorating her 90th birthday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.[195]
On November 17, 2008, at the age of 92, de Havilland received the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the people of the United States. The medal was presented to her by President George W. Bush, who commended her "for her persuasive and compelling skill as an actress in roles from Shakespeare's Hermia to Margaret Mitchell's Melanie. Her independence, integrity, and grace won creative freedom for herself and her fellow film actors."[232][233] The following year, de Havilland narrated the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint (2009),[234] a film about the importance of art in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.[234]
In 2010, de Havilland almost made her return to the big screen after a 22-year hiatus with James Ivory's planned adaptation of The Aspern Papers but the project was never made.[235][236] On September 9, 2010, de Havilland was appointed a Chevalier (knight) of the Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in France, awarded by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who told the actress, "You honor France for having chosen us."[237] In February the following year, she appeared at the César Awards in France, where she was greeted with a standing ovation.[Note 12] De Havilland celebrated her 100th birthday on July 1, 2016.[239]
In June 2017, two weeks before her 101st birthday, de Havilland was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama by Queen Elizabeth II.[240] She is the oldest woman ever to receive the honour. In a statement, she called it "the most gratifying of birthday presents".[241][242] She was unable to travel to London to attend the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace due to health issues concerning her advanced age. Therefore, she received her honor from the hands of the British Ambassador to France at her Paris apartment in March 2018, 4 months before her 102nd birthday. Her daughter Gisèle was by her side.[243]
Relationships[edit]
Although known as one of Hollywood's most exciting on-screen couples,[228] de Havilland and Errol Flynn were never involved in a romantic relationship.[244] Upon first meeting her at Warner Bros. in August 1935, Flynn was drawn to the 19-year-old actress with "warm brown eyes" and "extraordinary charm".[245] In turn, de Havilland fell in love with him,[244][Note 13] but kept her feelings inside. Flynn later wrote, "By the time we made The Charge of the Light Brigade, I was sure that I was in love with her."[245] Flynn finally professed his love on March 12, 1937, at the coronation ball for King George VI at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where they slow danced together to "Sweet Leilani" at the hotel's Coconut Grove nightclub.[246] "I was deeply affected by him", she later remembered, "It was impossible for me not to be."[247] The evening ended on a sobering note, however, with de Havilland insisting that despite his separation from his wife Lili Damita, he needed to divorce her before their relationship could proceed.[247] Flynn re-united with his wife later that year,[248] and de Havilland never acted on her feelings for Flynn.[244][Note 14]
In July 1938, de Havilland began dating business tycoon, aviator, and film-maker Howard Hughes,[249] who had just completed his record-setting flight around the world in 91 hours.[13] In addition to escorting her about town, he gave the actress her first flying lessons.[249] She later said, "He was a rather shy man ... and yet, in a whole community where the men every day played heroes on the screen and didn't do anything heroic in life, here was this man who was a real hero."[13] In December 1939, she began a romantic relationship with actor James Stewart. At the request of Irene Mayer Selznick, the actor's agent asked Stewart to escort de Havilland to the New York premiere of Gone with the Wind at the Astor Theater on December 19, 1939. Over the next few days, Stewart took her to the theater several times and to the 21 Club.[250] They continued to see each other back in Los Angeles, where Stewart provided occasional flying lessons and romance.[251] According to de Havilland, Stewart proposed marriage to her in 1940, but she felt that he was not ready to settle down.[251] Their relationship ended in late 1941 when de Havilland began a romantic relationship with film director John Huston while making In This Our Life.[252] "John was a very great love of mine", she would later admit, "He was a man I wanted to marry."[253][Note 15]
Marriages and children[edit]
With her son Benjamin, c. 1952
On August 26, 1946, she married Marcus Goodrich, a Navy veteran, journalist, and author of the 1941 novel Delilah.[181] The marriage ended in divorce in 1953.[197] They had one child, Benjamin Goodrich, who was born on September 27, 1949.[194] He was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 19,[228] but was able to graduate from the University of Texas. He worked as a statistical analyst for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California, and as an international banking representative for the Texas Commerce Bank in Houston.[228] He died on October 1, 1991, in Paris at the age of 42 of heart disease brought on by treatments for Hodgkin's disease, three weeks before the death of his father.[255][256]
On April 2, 1955, de Havilland married Pierre Galante, an executive editor for the French journal Paris Match.[199] Her marriage to Galante prompted her relocation to Paris. The couple separated in 1962, but continued to live in the same house for another six years to raise their daughter together.[202][229][257] Galante moved across the street and the two remained close, even after the finalization of the divorce in 1979.[229] She looked after him during his final bout with lung cancer prior to his death in 1998. They had one child, Gisèle Galante, who was born on July 18, 1956.[202] After studying law at the Université de Droit de Nanterre School of Law, she worked as a journalist in France and the United States.[228] Since 1956, de Havilland has lived in the same three-story house near Bois de Boulogne park in the Rive Droite section of Paris.[201]
Religion and politics[edit]
De Havilland was raised in the Episcopal Church and has remained an Episcopalian throughout her life.[258][Note 16] After moving to France, she became one of the first women lectors at the American Cathedral in Paris, where she was on the regular rota for Scripture readings. As recently as 2012, she was doing readings on major feast days,[258] including Christmas and Easter. "It's a task I love", she once said.[195] In describing her preparation for her readings, she once observed, "You have to convey the deep meaning, you see, and it has to start with your own faith. But first, I always pray. I pray before I start to prepare, as well. In fact, I would always say a prayer before shooting a scene, so this is not so different, in a way."[258] De Havilland prefers to use the Revised English Bible for its poetic style.[258] She raised her son Benjamin in the Episcopal Church and her daughter Gisèle in the Roman Catholic Church, the faith of each child's father.[260]
As a United States citizen,[163] de Havilland became involved in politics as a way of exercising her civic responsibilities.[195] She campaigned for Franklin D. Roosevelt's re-election in 1944.[195] After the war, she joined the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, a national public policy advocacy group that included Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, Groucho Marx, and Humphrey Bogart in its Hollywood chapter.[195] In June 1946, she was asked to deliver speeches for the committee that reflected the Communist Party line—the group was later identified as a Communist front organization.[261] Disturbed at seeing a small group of Communist members manipulating the committee, she removed the pro-Communist material from her speeches and rewrote them to reflect Harry S. Truman's anti-Communist platform. She later recalled, "I realized a nucleus of people was controlling the organization without a majority of the members of the board being aware of it. And I knew they had to be Communists."[195]
She organized a fight to regain control of the committee from its pro-Soviet leadership, but her reform efforts failed. Her resignation from the committee triggered a wave of resignations from 11 other Hollywood figures, including future President Ronald Reagan.[195][Note 17] In 1958, she was secretly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and recounted her experiences with the Independent Citizens' Committee.[195]
Relationship with Joan Fontaine[edit]
Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper at the Academy Awards, 1942
De Havilland and her sister Joan Fontaine are the only siblings to have won Academy Awards in a lead acting category.[265] According to biographer Charles Higham, the sisters always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood when Olivia had trouble accepting the idea of having a younger sister, and Joan resenting her mother's favoring Olivia. Olivia would rip up the clothes that her sister was given to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to stitch them together again.[266] This tension was made worse by Fontaine's frequent childhood illnesses, which led to her mother's overly protective expression, "Livvie can, Joan can't."[16] De Havilland was the first to become an actress, and for several years Fontaine was overshadowed by her sister's accomplishments. When Mervyn LeRoy offered Fontaine a personal contract, her mother told her that Warner Bros. was "Olivia's studio" and that she could not use the family name, "de Havilland".[267]
In 1942, de Havilland and Fontaine were both nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress—de Havilland for Hold Back the Dawn and Fontaine for Suspicion. When Fontaine's name was announced as winner, de Havilland reacted graciously saying, "We've got it!"[268] According to biographer Charles Higham, Fontaine rejected de Havilland's attempts to congratulate her, leaving the other offended and embarrassed.[269]
Their relationship was further strained in 1946 when Fontaine made negative comments to an interviewer about de Havilland's new husband, Marcus Goodrich. When she read her sister's remarks, de Havilland was deeply hurt and waited for an apology that was never offered.[270] The following year after accepting her first Academy Award for To Each His Own, de Havilland was approached backstage by Fontaine, who extended her hand to congratulate her; de Havilland turned away from her sister.[270] The two did not speak for the next five years after the incident.[Note 18] This may have caused an estrangement between Fontaine and her own daughters, who maintained a covert relationship with their aunt.[269]
Following her divorce from Goodrich, de Havilland resumed contact with her sister,[270] coming to her apartment in New York and spending Christmas together there in 1961.[270][271] The final break between the sisters occurred in 1975 over disagreements over their mother's cancer treatment—de Havilland wanted to consult other doctors and supported exploratory surgery; Fontaine disagreed.[272] Fontaine later claimed her sister had not notified her of their mother's death while she was touring with a play—de Havilland in fact had sent a telegram, which took two weeks to reach her sister.[266] The sibling feud ended with Fontaine's death on December 15, 2013.[270][Note 19] The following day, de Havilland released a statement saying she was "shocked and saddened" by the news.[274]
Career assessment and legacy[edit]
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6762 Hollywood Blvd.[275]
De Havilland's career spanned 53 years, from 1935 to 1988.[1] During that time, she appeared in 49 feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She began her career playing demure ingénues opposite popular male stars, including Errol Flynn, with whom she made her breakout film Captain Blood in 1935. They would go on to make eight more feature films together, and became one of Hollywood's most popular romantic on-screen pairings.[228] Her range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. Following her film debut in the Shakespeare adaptation A Midsummer Night's Dream, de Havilland achieved her initial popularity in romantic comedies, such as The Great Garrick and Hard to Get, and Western adventure films, such as Dodge City and Santa Fe Trail.[1] In her later career, she was most successful in drama films, such as In This Our Life and Light in the Piazza, and psychological dramas playing non-glamorous characters in films such as The Dark Mirror, The Snake Pit, and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte.[228]
During her career, de Havilland won two Academy Awards (To Each His Own and The Heiress), two Golden Globe Awards (The Heiress and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna), two New York Film Critics Circle Awards (The Snake Pit and The Heiress), the National Board of Review Award, and the Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup (The Snake Pit), and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination (Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna).[276]
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, de Havilland received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6762 Hollywood Boulevard on February 8, 1960.[275] Since her retirement in 1988, her lifetime contribution to the arts has been honored on two continents. In 1998, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire in England.[277]
Receiving the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush, 2008
In 2006, she was inducted into the Online Film & Television Association Award Film Hall of Fame.[278]
The moving-image collection of Olivia de Havilland is held at the Academy Film Archive, which preserved a nitrate reel of a screen test for Danton, Max Reinhardt's never-produced follow-up to A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).[279]
De Havilland, as a confidante and friend of Bette Davis, is featured in the series Feud: Bette and Joan, portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones. In the series, de Havilland reflects on the origins and depth of the Davis-Crawford feud and how it affected contemporary female Hollywood stars. On June 30, 2017, a day before her 101st birthday, she filed a lawsuit against FX Networks and producer Ryan Murphy for inaccurately portraying her and using her likeness without permission.[280] Although FX attempted to strike the suit, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Holly Kendig ruled in de Havilland's favor, and granted de Havilland an advanced court date in November 2017, where the judge ruled in her favor.[281] An appeal of the judge's ruling was argued in March 2018.[282] The three-judge panel decided against the defamation suit brought by De Havilland, in a ruling that affirmed the right of film-makers to embellish the historical record and that such portrayals are protected by the First Amendment.[283] De Havilland appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in September 2018, but a review was denied.[284][285]
Honors and awards[edit]
1940 Academy Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role Gone with the Wind Nominated [276]
1941 Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role Hold Back the Dawn Nominated [276]
1946 Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role To Each His Own Won [276]
1948 Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role The Snake Pit Nominated [276]
1948 National Board of Review Award Best Actress The Snake Pit Won [188]
1948 New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress The Snake Pit Won [188]
1949 Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role The Heiress Won [276]
1949 Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Actress The Heiress Won [286]
1949 New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Actress The Heiress Won [188]
1949 Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup Best Actress The Snake Pit Won [188]
1952 Grauman's Chinese Theatre Hand prints and footprints — Honored [287]
1953 Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Actress My Cousin Rachel Nominated [286]
1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Motion Picture at 6762 Hollywood Blvd, February 8, 1960 — Honored [275]
1986 Golden Globe Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Won [286]
1986 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Nominated [276]
1998 Honorary Doctorate University of Hertfordshire — Honored [277]
2006 Online Film & Television Association Film Hall of Fame — Honored [278]
2008 National Medal of Arts — — Honored [232]
2010 Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur — — Honored [237]
2016 Oldie of the Year — — Honored [238]
2017 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire — — Honored [288]
Filmography (partial)[edit]
Main article: Olivia de Havilland filmography
Alibi Ike (1935)
The Irish in Us (1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Call It a Day (1937)
The Great Garrick (1937)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
Wings of the Navy (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
My Love Came Back (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
The Male Animal (1942)
In This Our Life (1942)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Government Girl (1944)
To Each His Own (1946)
Devotion (1946)
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Snake Pit (1948)
The Heiress (1949)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
That Lady (1955)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Libel (1959)
Light in the Piazza (1962)
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
The Adventurers (1970)
Pope Joan (1972)
The Screaming Woman (1972)
Airport '77 (1977)
The Swarm (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
I Remember Better When I Paint (2009)
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^ After living in an apartment near Golden Gate Park while the sisters were being treated, the family moved to San Jose and stayed at the Hotel Vendome.[12] Soon after, they moved to the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, where they stayed at a boarding house called Lundblad's Lodge on Oak Street owned by a Swedish family.[13][14]
^ Olivia was named after a character in Twelfth Night.[19]
^ Lilian and George were introduced to each other in 1920 by four-year-old Olivia who noticed him sitting on a park bench and referred to him in Japanese as "Daddy".[23]
^ The on-screen attraction of the characters reflected the actual feelings of the actors at the time.[44] De Havilland would later admit that she had a crush on him through the entire production, and he would later acknowledge the same.[44]
^ De Havilland hired the Ivan Kahn Agency to represent her in the contract negotiations with Warner Bros.[62] The contract she signed provided for yearly increases in her weekly salary, starting at $500, and then increasing to $750, $1000, $1250, $1500, $2000, and $2500 in her last year (equivalent to $46,800 in 2018).[61]
^ During the production, Brian Aherne found de Havilland "young and entrancing" and organized her 21st birthday party on the set. They also dated during the making of the picture.[75] He later wrote, "I little thought that I would one day marry her younger sister, Joan Fontaine."[74] Aherne and Fontaine married two years later, on August 19, 1939.[76]
^ Following the success of Cecil B. DeMille's epic adventure The Plainsman (1937), studios began investing their top talent and budgets to produce films such as Stagecoach, Union Pacific, and Destry Rides Again—all released in 1939.[96]
^ The performance sequences in My Love Came Back were accomplished by placing a professional female violinist behind the actress to perform the complicated left hand fingering while the actress played the bow with her right hand.[117]
^ The plot and several story devices—including the princess waking up in the bed of an honorable bachelor—would be resurrected a decade later in Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn.[148]
^ Two months later, the Supreme Court of California refused to review the case.[159]
^ In 1957, in appreciation of her support of the troops during World War II and the Korean War, de Havilland was made an honorary member of the 11th Airborne Division and was presented with a United States Army jacket bearing the 11th's patch on one sleeve and the name patch "de Havilland" across the chest.[166]
^ In February 2016, de Havilland was named "Oldie of the Year" by the satirical magazine The Oldie. Unable to travel to the ceremony in London, she recorded a message saying she was "utterly delighted" the judges deemed "sufficient snap in my celery" existed to win the accolade.[238]
^ In a 2009 interview, de Havilland acknowledged, "Yes, we did fall in love and I believe that this is evident in the screen chemistry between us. But his circumstances at the time prevented the relationship going further. I have not talked about it a great deal, but the relationship was not consummated. Chemistry was there, though. It was there."[244]
^ During the making of Robin Hood in November 1937, de Havilland playfully decided to tease Flynn who was being watched closely on the set by his wife. In a 2005 interview, de Havilland said, "And so we had one kissing scene, which I looked forward to with great delight. I remember I blew every take, at least six in a row, maybe seven, maybe eight, and we had to kiss all over again. And Errol Flynn got really rather uncomfortable, and he had, if I may say so, a little trouble with his tights."[249]
^ On April 29, 1945, at the home of producer David O. Selznick, Huston, who knew about de Havilland's three-year crush on Flynn, confronted the Australian actor—who suffered from tuberculosis—about his not serving in the military during the war.[254] When Flynn responded by alluding to his former "relationship" with de Havilland, Huston initiated an extended fistfight with the expert amateur boxer which landed them both in the hospital.[254]
^ In a 2015 interview, de Havilland stated that her religious beliefs had lapsed in her adult years, but that she regained her faith when her son was ill. Her renewed faith inspired her sister to return to the Episcopal Church.[259]
^ Reagan was a relatively new board member when he was invited to join 10 other film-industry colleagues, including MGM studio head Dore Schary, for a meeting at de Havilland's house where he first learned that Communists were trying to gain control of the committee.[262] During the meeting, he turned to de Havilland, who was on the executive committee, and whispered, "You know, Olivia, I always thought you might be one of them." Laughing, she responded, "That's funny. I thought you were one of them." Reagan suggested they propose a resolution at the next meeting that included language reaffirmed the committee's "belief in free enterprise and the Democratic system" and repudiated "Communism as desirable for the United States"—the executive committee voted it down the following week.[263] Shortly afterwards, the committee disbanded, only to resurface as a newly named front organization.[262] Despite organizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet influence, de Havilland was denounced later that year as a "swimming-pool pink" in Time magazine for her involvement in the committee.[264]
^ In 1957, in the only interview in which she ever commented on her relationship with her sister, de Havilland told the Associated Press, "Joan is very bright and sharp and has a wit that can be cutting. She said some things about Marcus that hurt me deeply. She was aware there was an estrangement between us."[270]
^ Fontaine once remarked, "I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!"[273]
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Awards for Olivia de Havilland
Academy Award for Best Actress
Janet Gaynor (1928)
Mary Pickford (1929)
Norma Shearer (1930)
Marie Dressler (1931)
Helen Hayes (1932)
Katharine Hepburn (1933)
Claudette Colbert (1934)
Bette Davis (1935)
Luise Rainer (1936)
Vivien Leigh (1939)
Ginger Rogers (1940)
Joan Fontaine (1941)
Greer Garson (1942)
Jennifer Jones (1943)
Ingrid Bergman (1944)
Joan Crawford (1945)
Olivia de Havilland (1946)
Loretta Young (1947)
Jane Wyman (1948)
Judy Holliday (1950)
Shirley Booth (1952)
Audrey Hepburn (1953)
Anna Magnani (1955)
Joanne Woodward (1957)
Susan Hayward (1958)
Simone Signoret (1959)
Elizabeth Taylor (1960)
Sophia Loren (1961)
Anne Bancroft (1962)
Patricia Neal (1963)
Julie Andrews (1964)
Julie Christie (1965)
Katharine Hepburn / Barbra Streisand (1968)
Glenda Jackson (1970)
Jane Fonda (1971)
Liza Minnelli (1972)
Ellen Burstyn (1974)
Louise Fletcher (1975)
Faye Dunaway (1976)
Diane Keaton (1977)
Sally Field (1979)
Sissy Spacek (1980)
Shirley MacLaine (1983)
Geraldine Page (1985)
Marlee Matlin (1986)
Jodie Foster (1988)
Jessica Tandy (1989)
Kathy Bates (1990)
Emma Thompson (1992)
Holly Hunter (1993)
Susan Sarandon (1995)
Frances McDormand (1996)
Helen Hunt (1997)
Gwyneth Paltrow (1998)
Hilary Swank (1999)
Halle Berry (2001)
Nicole Kidman (2002)
Charlize Theron (2003)
Reese Witherspoon (2005)
Helen Mirren (2006)
Marion Cotillard (2007)
Sandra Bullock (2009)
Julianne Moore (2014)
Brie Larson (2015)
Emma Stone (2016)
Olivia Colman (2018)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Rosalind Russell (1946)
Gloria Swanson (1950)
Leslie Caron (1963)
Samantha Eggar (1965)
Anouk Aimée (1966)
Edith Evans (1967)
Geneviève Bujold (1969)
Ali MacGraw (1970)
Liv Ullmann (1972)
Marsha Mason (1973)
Gena Rowlands (1974)
Mary Tyler Moore (1980)
Sally Kirkland (1987)
Jodie Foster / Shirley MacLaine / Sigourney Weaver (1988)
Michelle Pfeiffer (1989)
Sharon Stone (1995)
Brenda Blethyn (1996)
Judi Dench (1997)
Felicity Huffman (2005)
Jessica Chastain (2012)
Isabelle Huppert (2016)
Glenn Close (2018)
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Gail Fisher (1970)
Sue Ane Langdon (1971)
Ruth Buzzi (1972)
Betty Garrett (1974)
Hermione Baddeley (1975)
Josette Banzet (1976)
Polly Holliday (1978)
Valerie Bertinelli / Diane Ladd (1980)
Valerie Bertinelli (1981)
Shelley Long (1982)
Barbara Stanwyck (1983)
Sylvia Sidney (1985)
Katherine Helmond (1988)
Amy Madigan (1989)
Piper Laurie (1990)
Amanda Donohoe (1991)
Miranda Richardson (1994)
Shirley Knight (1995)
Faye Dunaway / Camryn Manheim (1998)
Nancy Marchand (1999)
Rachel Griffiths (2001)
Kim Cattrall (2002)
Mary-Louise Parker (2003)
Anjelica Huston (2004)
Sandra Oh (2005)
Emily Blunt (2006)
Samantha Morton (2007)
Laura Dern (2008)
Chloë Sevigny (2009)
Jacqueline Bisset (2013)
Joanne Froggatt (2014)
Maura Tierney (2015)
Patricia Clarkson (2018)
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Celia Johnson (1947)
Jean Simmons (1953)
Dorothy McGuire (1956)
Kim Stanley (1964)
Irene Papas (1971)
Cicely Tyson (1972)
Isabelle Adjani (1975)
Kathleen Turner (1986)
Lillian Gish / Holly Hunter (1987)
Mia Farrow (1990)
Geena Davis / Susan Sarandon (1991)
Helena Bonham Carter (1997)
Fernanda Montenegro (1998)
Janet McTeer (1999)
Annette Bening (2004)
Carey Mulligan (2009)
Lesley Manville (2010)
Tilda Swinton (2011)
Amy Adams (2016)
National Medal of Arts recipients (2000s)
Benny Carter
Lewis Manilow
National Public Radio, cultural programming division
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation
Judith Jamison
Florence Knoll Bassett
Philippe de Montebello
Lawrence Halprin
Al Hirschfeld
Ming Cho Lee
William "Smokey" Robinson
Beverly Cleary
Rafe Esquith
Leonard Slatkin
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Carlisle Floyd
Frederick Hart
Anthony Hecht
John Ruthven
Vincent Scully
Louis Auchincloss
James DePreist
Leonard Garment
Ollie Johnston
Tina Ramirez
William Bolcom
Roy DeCarava
Wilhelmina Holladay
Erich Kunzel
Gregory Rabassa
Viktor Schreckengost
Ralph Stanley
Morten Lauridsen
N. Scott Momaday
Craig Noel
Roy Neuberger
Henry Z. Steinway
George Tooker
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival (University of Idaho)
Jesús Moroles
Ford's Theatre Society
Fisk Jubilee Singers, (Fisk University)
José Limón Dance Foundation
The Presser Foundation
Joseph P. Riley, Jr.
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Greta Garbo (1935)
Margaret Sullavan (1938)
Ida Lupino (1943)
Tallulah Bankhead (1944)
Deborah Kerr (1947)
No Award (1962)
Elizabeth Taylor/Lynn Redgrave (1966)
Norma Aleandro (1985)
Linda Fiorentino (1994)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (1995)
Emily Watson (1996)
Cameron Diaz (1998)
Laura Linney (2000)
Diane Lane (2002)
Hope Davis (2003)
Imelda Staunton (2004)
Sally Hawkins (2008)
Saoirse Ronan (2015)
Regina Hall (2018)
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Paula Wessely (1935)
Annabella (1936)
Luise Ullrich (1941)
Kristina Söderbaum (1942)
Eleanor Parker (1950)
Lilli Palmer (1953)
Maria Schell (1956)
Dzidra Ritenberga (1957)
Madeleine Robinson (1959)
Suzanne Flon (1961)
Emmanuelle Riva (1962)
Delphine Seyrig (1963)
Harriet Andersson (1964)
Annie Girardot (1965)
Natalya Arinbasarova (1966)
Laura Betti (1968)
Darling Légitimus (1983)
Pascale Ogier (1984)
Valeria Golino (1986)
Kang Soo-yeon (1987)
Isabelle Huppert/Shirley MacLaine (1988)
Peggy Ashcroft/Geraldine James (1989)
Gloria Münchmeyer (1990)
Gong Li (1992)
Juliette Binoche/Anna Bonaiuto (1993)
Maria de Medeiros/Vanessa Redgrave (1994)
Sandrine Bonnaire/Isabelle Huppert/Isabella Ferrari (1995)
Victoire Thivisol (1996)
Robin Tunney (1997)
Catherine Deneuve (1998)
Nathalie Baye (1999)
Rose Byrne (2000)
Sandra Ceccarelli (2001)
Katja Riemann (2003)
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (2005)
Dominique Blanc (2008)
Kseniya Rappoport (2009)
Ariane Labed (2010)
Deanie Ip (2011)
Hadas Yaron (2012)
Elena Cotta (2013)
Alba Rohrwacher (2014)
Charlotte Rampling (2017)
Cannes Film Festival jury presidents
Georges Huisman (1946)
André Maurois (1951)
Maurice Genevoix (1952)
Jean Cocteau (1953)
Marcel Pagnol (1955)
Maurice Lehmann (1956)
Marcel Achard (1958)
Georges Simenon (1960)
Jean Giono (1961)
Tetsurō Furukaki (1962)
Armand Salacrou (1963)
Fritz Lang (1964)
Alessandro Blasetti (1967)
André Chamson (1968)
Luchino Visconti (1969)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (1970)
Michèle Morgan (1971)
Joseph Losey (1972)
René Clair (1974)
Jeanne Moreau (1975)
Tennessee Williams (1976)
Roberto Rossellini (1977)
Alan J. Pakula (1978)
Françoise Sagan (1979)
Kirk Douglas (1980)
Jacques Deray (1981)
Giorgio Strehler (1982)
William Styron (1983)
Dirk Bogarde (1984)
Miloš Forman (1985)
Sydney Pollack (1986)
Yves Montand (1987)
Ettore Scola (1988)
Wim Wenders (1989)
Bernardo Bertolucci (1990)
Roman Polanski (1991)
Louis Malle (1993)
Clint Eastwood (1994)
Francis Ford Coppola (1996)
Martin Scorsese (1998)
David Cronenberg (1999)
Luc Besson (2000)
David Lynch (2002)
Patrice Chéreau (2003)
Quentin Tarantino (2004)
Emir Kusturica (2005)
Wong Kar-wai (2006)
Stephen Frears (2007)
Tim Burton (2010)
Robert De Niro (2011)
Nanni Moretti (2012)
Steven Spielberg (2013)
Jane Campion (2014)
Joel and Ethan Coen (2015)
George Miller (2016)
Pedro Almodóvar (2017)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (2019)
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Cole, Christopher (DNB01)
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement
Cole, Christopher
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Cole, ChristopherEdward Irving Carlyle1901
COLE, Sir CHRISTOPHER (1770–1837), post-captain, born at Marazion in Cornwall on 10 June 1770, was the youngest son of Humphrey Cole of Marazion. He entered the naval service in 1780 as mid-shipman on board the Royal Oak, commanded by Sir Digby Dent, where his second brother, John Cole (afterwards rector of Exeter College, Oxford), was chaplain. In the same year he was removed to the Raisonnable, and he subsequently served in the Russell and the Princessa, the flagship of Sir Francis Samuel Drake [q. v.] The Princessa formed part of the fleet under Sir Samuel Hood (afterwards Viscount Hood) [q. v.] in the actions off Martinique and the Chesapeake on 29 April and 5 Sept. 1781. She also had a share in Hood's manoeuvres off St. Christopher's in January and February 1782, and in Rodney's battles of 9 and 12 April.
At the peace of 1783 Cole joined the Trepassey of 12 guns, commanded by his brother, Captain Francis Cole, and accompanied him from the West Indies to Halifax, where he removed into the sloop Atalante, under Captain Thomas Foley, with whom he continued on that station until 1785. In the following year he proceeded to Newfoundland in the Winchelsea of 32 guns, under (Sir) Edward Pellew (afterwards first Viscount Exmouth) [q. v.] In this vessel he remained until 1789, when, in consequence of the recommendation of Sir Francis Samuel Drake, he was placed on the Crown of 64 guns, under Commodore (Sir) William Cornwallis [q. v.], with whom he proceeded to the East Indies.
In 1793 he was promoted lieutenant, and in October 1794 appointed first lieutenant of the Cerberus, a new 32-gun frigate, at the particular request of the captain, John Drew. In the following year he joined the Sanspareil of 80 guns, bearing the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour [q. v.] In 1799 he accompanied Seymour to the West Indies as his flag-lieutenant. On the surrender of Surinam in August 1800, Cole was appointed commander of one of the prizes, the Hussar, a corvette of 20 guns, which was rechristened the Surinam. In this command he distinguished himself by his activity in pursuing the enemy's privateers and his good care for the health of his men, which Seymour made the subject of an official recommendation to the admiralty. He gained the good opinion of Seymour's successor, Sir John Thomas Duckworth [q. v.], who promoted him into his flagship, the Leviathan of 74 guns, and afterwards appointed him to command the Southampton frigate. His post commission was confirmed by the admiralty on 20 April 1802.
After the conclusion of the treaty of Amiens in 1802, the Southampton was ordered home and paid off in September. In June 1804 Cole was appointed to the Culloden of 74 guns, the flagship of his old friend and commander, Sir Edward Pellew, who had been appointed commander-in-chief in the East Indies. On 25 Sept. 1806 he captured the French corvette, 1'Emilien, and on 27 Nov. assisted to destroy thirty Dutch sail in the Batavia Roads. In April 1808, in command of the Doris and two other frigates, he escorted Colonel (Sir) John Malcolm [q. v.] to Bushire on his mission to the Persian court, and remained at Bushire for the protection of the embassy. On his return he received the thanks of the governor-general in council and a present of 500l. During 1808 and 1809 he was principally employed in cruising in the Straits of Malacca and the China seas. Upon the arrival of the news of the political changes in Spain, he was despatched by Pellew's successor, Rear-admiral Drury, to conciliate the governor of the Philippine Islands, a mission in which he was completely successful.
In 1810 Cole was removed at his own request into the Caroline of 36 guns, and was soon after despatched to relieve the garrison at Amboyna in command of a small squadron, consisting of the Caroline, the Piemontaise of 38 guns, the 18-gun brig sloop Barracouta, and the transport brig Mandarin. Leaving Madras on 10 May he arrived on the 30th at Prince of Wales Island, where he conceived a project of extraordinary daring the capture of Neira, the chief of the Banda Islands. He had on board a hundred officers and men of the Madras European regiment, who were destined to relieve the Amboyna garrison, and he obtained from the Penang government twenty artillerymen, two field-pieces, and twenty scaling ladders. He arrived off Neira on 9 Aug., but owing to unfavourable weather he was compelled to make the attempt with less than two hundred men. The Dutch had a garrison of nearly seven hundred regular troops, besides militia; but, undeterred, Cole landed under cover of the tempest, stormed a ten-gun battery, and carried by escalade the citadel Belgica. which was considered impregnable. The town and the rest of the garrison surrendered on the following morning. On his return to India Cole received the thanks of the governor-general in council, the commander-in-chief, and the lords of the admiralty. He was awarded a medal by the admiralty, and his action was the subject of a public order from the governor-general to the three presidencies. In the House of Commons Spencer Perceval [q. v.] described the enterprise as ' an exploit to be classed with the boldest darings in the days of chivalry.'
In 1811 Cole joined Drury on the Malabar coast, where an expedition against Java was being prepared. On the death of Drury, Cole was left in command for some months until the arrival of Captain William Robert Broughton [q. v.] The expedition sailed in June, and on its arrival at Java Cole again distinguished himself by promptly landing troops on his own responsibility before the enemy was prepared to receive them, and thus avoiding considerable loss. In 1812 the Caroline was paid off, and on 29 May Cole was knighted and presented with a sword by his crew. On 10 June he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the university of Oxford, and subsequently was presented with a piece of plate of the value of three hundred guineas by the East India Company.
Early in 1813 he was appointed to the Rippon, a new vessel of 74 guns. He continued cruising in the Channel until the end of 1814, when he was put out of commission. On 2 Jan. 1815 he was nominated K.C.B., and on Dec. 1817 he was returned to parliament for Glamorganshire. He did not sit in the parliament which met in 1818, but he was again returned on 16 March 1820, and retained the seat until 1830. In 1828 he was appointed to command the yacht Royal Sovereign, and in 1830 he was nominated colonel of marines. He died at Killoy, near Cardiff, on 24 Aug. 1836. On 28 April 1815 he married Mary Lucy (d. 3 Feb. 1855), daughter of Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, second earl of Ilchester, and widow of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam Park, Glamorganshire. He was a knight of the Austrian order of Maria Theresa, and of the Russian order of St. George.
[Marshall's Naval Biogr. 1824, ii. 501-17; Gent. Mag. 1811 ii. 165-6, 1836 ii. 543-4; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1715-1886; Osier's Life of Lord Exmouth, 1835, pp. 226, 230, 407-12; Kaye's Life of Malcolm, 1856, i. 417; James's Naval Biogr. 1886, pp. 194-202; Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornub.; Official Returns of Members of Parliament.]
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Eliot Engel, Ed Royce Write Egyptian President Morsi Regarding Draft NGO Law
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joined by Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) wrote Egyptian President Morsi on Friday expressing serious concern regarding a draft NGO law currently being discussed and circulated by the Morsi government.
The letter signed by Engel and Royce appears below:
The Honorable Mohamed Morsi Isa El-Ayyat
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
c/o Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
3521 International Ct. NW
Dear President Morsi:
We are writing with concern to the Civil Associations and Institutions Act, or “NGO Law,” recently drafted and distributed by your cabinet.
In countries all over the world, including here in the U.S., independent civil society organizations are integral to the creation and maintenance of vibrant and strong democratic systems. Independent civil society, free of government interference, is one of the fundamental checks and balances necessary for building a healthy democratic society. It is therefore crucial that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are able to function in countries in transition, as well as in established democracies. In December 2011, as Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party, you stated that "(t)he FJP supports immediate lifting of restrictions on the establishment and registration of NGOs, so interested groups can work legally and transparently…(i)ndeed, Egypt needs the support of NGOs especially in the areas of human development, education, technology transfer and public administration."
With this in mind, we write to express our serious concerns regarding the draft NGO law. As we understand the draft law, it would codify some of the historically unjust practices of the previous regime related to civil society, specifically:
• Limiting the purposes and activities of associations and foundations, (Articles 1, 9, and 11), and granting the security-related “steering committee” the power to approve or deny funding to an association based on the specific activities for which it would be used, (Article 57).
• Allowing government officials to dissolve an organization at their discretion. An NGO can be dissolved, for example, if the government determines that it is unable “to achieve the purposes for which it was created” or has received "funds from a foreign entity in violation of the provisions" of the law (Article 42).
• Requiring an organization to possess 250,000 Egyptian pounds -- more than $35,000 -- to be formed, making it even more difficult than before to establish new NGOs in Egypt (Articles 1(2) and 1(5)).
• Making it virtually impossible for international NGOs to work independently in Egypt, (Articles 57-60).
• Prohibiting Egyptian NGOs from receiving financial assistance without the prior approval of four government ministries, (Article 58).
Rather, it is our hope that your government will enact an NGO law that allows international and Egyptian civil society groups to play a constructive role in the transition to democracy, freely and without interference, as they work to expand respect for human rights and help the Egyptian people in their efforts to form a more just, open, and equitable political system.
We urge you to review and revise the draft law to ensure that the freedoms of assembly, association, religion, and expression are fully protected.
EDWARD R. ROYCE ELIOT L. ENGEL
Chairman Ranking Member
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Project acronym A-DATADRIVE-B
Project Advanced Data-Driven Black-box modelling
Researcher (PI) Johan Adelia K Suykens
Host Institution (HI) KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Summary Making accurate predictions is a crucial factor in many systems (such as in modelling energy consumption, power load forecasting, traffic networks, process industry, environmental modelling, biomedicine, brain-machine interfaces) for cost savings, efficiency, health, safety and organizational purposes. In this proposal we aim at realizing a new generation of more advanced black-box modelling techniques for estimating predictive models from measured data. We will study different optimization modelling frameworks in order to obtain improved black-box modelling approaches. This will be done by specifying models through constrained optimization problems by studying different candidate core models (parametric models, support vector machines and kernel methods) together with additional sets of constraints and regularization mechanisms. Different candidate mathematical frameworks will be considered with models that possess primal and (Lagrange) dual model representations, functional analysis in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, operator splitting and optimization in Banach spaces. Several aspects that are relevant to black-box models will be studied including incorporation of prior knowledge, structured dynamical systems, tensorial data representations, interpretability and sparsity, and general purpose optimization algorithms. The methods should be suitable for handling larger data sets and high dimensional input spaces. The final goal is also to realize a next generation software tool (including symbolic generation of models and handling different supervised and unsupervised learning tasks, static and dynamic systems) that can be generically applied to data from different application areas. The proposal A-DATADRIVE-B aims at getting end-users connected to the more advanced methods through a user-friendly data-driven black-box modelling tool. The methods and tool will be tested in connection to several real-life applications.
Making accurate predictions is a crucial factor in many systems (such as in modelling energy consumption, power load forecasting, traffic networks, process industry, environmental modelling, biomedicine, brain-machine interfaces) for cost savings, efficiency, health, safety and organizational purposes. In this proposal we aim at realizing a new generation of more advanced black-box modelling techniques for estimating predictive models from measured data. We will study different optimization modelling frameworks in order to obtain improved black-box modelling approaches. This will be done by specifying models through constrained optimization problems by studying different candidate core models (parametric models, support vector machines and kernel methods) together with additional sets of constraints and regularization mechanisms. Different candidate mathematical frameworks will be considered with models that possess primal and (Lagrange) dual model representations, functional analysis in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, operator splitting and optimization in Banach spaces. Several aspects that are relevant to black-box models will be studied including incorporation of prior knowledge, structured dynamical systems, tensorial data representations, interpretability and sparsity, and general purpose optimization algorithms. The methods should be suitable for handling larger data sets and high dimensional input spaces. The final goal is also to realize a next generation software tool (including symbolic generation of models and handling different supervised and unsupervised learning tasks, static and dynamic systems) that can be generically applied to data from different application areas. The proposal A-DATADRIVE-B aims at getting end-users connected to the more advanced methods through a user-friendly data-driven black-box modelling tool. The methods and tool will be tested in connection to several real-life applications.
Project acronym ABACUS
Project Advancing Behavioral and Cognitive Understanding of Speech
Researcher (PI) Bart De Boer
Host Institution (HI) VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
Summary I intend to investigate what cognitive mechanisms give us combinatorial speech. Combinatorial speech is the ability to make new words using pre-existing speech sounds. Humans are the only apes that can do this, yet we do not know how our brains do it, nor how exactly we differ from other apes. Using new experimental techniques to study human behavior and new computational techniques to model human cognition, I will find out how we deal with combinatorial speech. The experimental part will study individual and cultural learning. Experimental cultural learning is a new technique that simulates cultural evolution in the laboratory. Two types of cultural learning will be used: iterated learning, which simulates language transfer across generations, and social coordination, which simulates emergence of norms in a language community. Using the two types of cultural learning together with individual learning experiments will help to zero in, from three angles, on how humans deal with combinatorial speech. In addition it will make a methodological contribution by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the three methods. The computer modeling part will formalize hypotheses about how our brains deal with combinatorial speech. Two models will be built: a high-level model that will establish the basic algorithms with which combinatorial speech is learned and reproduced, and a neural model that will establish in more detail how the algorithms are implemented in the brain. In addition, the models, through increasing understanding of how humans deal with speech, will help bridge the performance gap between human and computer speech recognition. The project will advance science in four ways: it will provide insight into how our unique ability for using combinatorial speech works, it will tell us how this is implemented in the brain, it will extend the novel methodology of experimental cultural learning and it will create new computer models for dealing with human speech.
I intend to investigate what cognitive mechanisms give us combinatorial speech. Combinatorial speech is the ability to make new words using pre-existing speech sounds. Humans are the only apes that can do this, yet we do not know how our brains do it, nor how exactly we differ from other apes. Using new experimental techniques to study human behavior and new computational techniques to model human cognition, I will find out how we deal with combinatorial speech. The experimental part will study individual and cultural learning. Experimental cultural learning is a new technique that simulates cultural evolution in the laboratory. Two types of cultural learning will be used: iterated learning, which simulates language transfer across generations, and social coordination, which simulates emergence of norms in a language community. Using the two types of cultural learning together with individual learning experiments will help to zero in, from three angles, on how humans deal with combinatorial speech. In addition it will make a methodological contribution by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the three methods. The computer modeling part will formalize hypotheses about how our brains deal with combinatorial speech. Two models will be built: a high-level model that will establish the basic algorithms with which combinatorial speech is learned and reproduced, and a neural model that will establish in more detail how the algorithms are implemented in the brain. In addition, the models, through increasing understanding of how humans deal with speech, will help bridge the performance gap between human and computer speech recognition. The project will advance science in four ways: it will provide insight into how our unique ability for using combinatorial speech works, it will tell us how this is implemented in the brain, it will extend the novel methodology of experimental cultural learning and it will create new computer models for dealing with human speech.
Project acronym ABC
Project Targeting Multidrug Resistant Cancer
Researcher (PI) Gergely Szakacs
Host Institution (HI) MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA TERMESZETTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT
Summary Despite considerable advances in drug discovery, resistance to anticancer chemotherapy confounds the effective treatment of patients. Cancer cells can acquire broad cross-resistance to mechanistically and structurally unrelated drugs. P-glycoprotein (Pgp) actively extrudes many types of drugs from cancer cells, thereby conferring resistance to those agents. The central tenet of my work is that Pgp, a universally accepted biomarker of drug resistance, should in addition be considered as a molecular target of multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer cells. Successful targeting of MDR cells would reduce the tumor burden and would also enable the elimination of ABC transporter-overexpressing cancer stem cells that are responsible for the replenishment of tumors. The proposed project is based on the following observations: - First, by using a pharmacogenomic approach, I have revealed the hidden vulnerability of MDRcells (Szakács et al. 2004, Cancer Cell 6, 129-37); - Second, I have identified a series of MDR-selective compounds with increased toxicity toPgp-expressing cells (Turk et al.,Cancer Res, 2009. 69(21)); - Third, I have shown that MDR-selective compounds can be used to prevent theemergence of MDR (Ludwig, Szakács et al. 2006, Cancer Res 66, 4808-15); - Fourth, we have generated initial pharmacophore models for cytotoxicity and MDR-selectivity (Hall et al. 2009, J Med Chem 52, 3191-3204). I propose a comprehensive series of studies that will address thefollowing critical questions: - First, what is the scope of MDR-selective compounds? - Second, what is their mechanism of action? - Third, what is the optimal therapeutic modality? Extensive biological, pharmacological and bioinformatic analyses will be utilized to address four major specific aims. These aims address basic questions concerning the physiology of MDR ABC transporters in determining the mechanism of action of MDR-selective compounds, setting the stage for a fresh therapeutic approach that may eventually translate into improved patient care.
Despite considerable advances in drug discovery, resistance to anticancer chemotherapy confounds the effective treatment of patients. Cancer cells can acquire broad cross-resistance to mechanistically and structurally unrelated drugs. P-glycoprotein (Pgp) actively extrudes many types of drugs from cancer cells, thereby conferring resistance to those agents. The central tenet of my work is that Pgp, a universally accepted biomarker of drug resistance, should in addition be considered as a molecular target of multidrug-resistant (MDR) cancer cells. Successful targeting of MDR cells would reduce the tumor burden and would also enable the elimination of ABC transporter-overexpressing cancer stem cells that are responsible for the replenishment of tumors. The proposed project is based on the following observations: - First, by using a pharmacogenomic approach, I have revealed the hidden vulnerability of MDRcells (Szakács et al. 2004, Cancer Cell 6, 129-37); - Second, I have identified a series of MDR-selective compounds with increased toxicity toPgp-expressing cells (Turk et al.,Cancer Res, 2009. 69(21)); - Third, I have shown that MDR-selective compounds can be used to prevent theemergence of MDR (Ludwig, Szakács et al. 2006, Cancer Res 66, 4808-15); - Fourth, we have generated initial pharmacophore models for cytotoxicity and MDR-selectivity (Hall et al. 2009, J Med Chem 52, 3191-3204). I propose a comprehensive series of studies that will address thefollowing critical questions: - First, what is the scope of MDR-selective compounds? - Second, what is their mechanism of action? - Third, what is the optimal therapeutic modality? Extensive biological, pharmacological and bioinformatic analyses will be utilized to address four major specific aims. These aims address basic questions concerning the physiology of MDR ABC transporters in determining the mechanism of action of MDR-selective compounds, setting the stage for a fresh therapeutic approach that may eventually translate into improved patient care.
Project acronym ACCOPT
Project ACelerated COnvex OPTimization
Researcher (PI) Yurii NESTEROV
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
Summary The amazing rate of progress in the computer technologies and telecommunications presents many new challenges for Optimization Theory. New problems are usually very big in size, very special in structure and possibly have a distributed data support. This makes them unsolvable by the standard optimization methods. In these situations, old theoretical models, based on the hidden Black-Box information, cannot work. New theoretical and algorithmic solutions are urgently needed. In this project we will concentrate on development of fast optimization methods for problems of big and very big size. All the new methods will be endowed with provable efficiency guarantees for large classes of optimization problems, arising in practical applications. Our main tool is the acceleration technique developed for the standard Black-Box methods as applied to smooth convex functions. However, we will have to adapt it to deal with different situations. The first line of development will be based on the smoothing technique as applied to a non-smooth functions. We propose to substantially extend this approach to generate approximate solutions in relative scale. The second line of research will be related to applying acceleration techniques to the second-order methods minimizing functions with sparse Hessians. Finally, we aim to develop fast gradient methods for huge-scale problems. The size of these problems is so big that even the usual vector operations are extremely expensive. Thus, we propose to develop new methods with sublinear iteration costs. In our approach, the main source for achieving improvements will be the proper use of problem structure. Our overall aim is to be able to solve in a routine way many important problems, which currently look unsolvable. Moreover, the theoretical development of Convex Optimization will reach the state, when there is no gap between theory and practice: the theoretically most efficient methods will definitely outperform any homebred heuristics.
The amazing rate of progress in the computer technologies and telecommunications presents many new challenges for Optimization Theory. New problems are usually very big in size, very special in structure and possibly have a distributed data support. This makes them unsolvable by the standard optimization methods. In these situations, old theoretical models, based on the hidden Black-Box information, cannot work. New theoretical and algorithmic solutions are urgently needed. In this project we will concentrate on development of fast optimization methods for problems of big and very big size. All the new methods will be endowed with provable efficiency guarantees for large classes of optimization problems, arising in practical applications. Our main tool is the acceleration technique developed for the standard Black-Box methods as applied to smooth convex functions. However, we will have to adapt it to deal with different situations. The first line of development will be based on the smoothing technique as applied to a non-smooth functions. We propose to substantially extend this approach to generate approximate solutions in relative scale. The second line of research will be related to applying acceleration techniques to the second-order methods minimizing functions with sparse Hessians. Finally, we aim to develop fast gradient methods for huge-scale problems. The size of these problems is so big that even the usual vector operations are extremely expensive. Thus, we propose to develop new methods with sublinear iteration costs. In our approach, the main source for achieving improvements will be the proper use of problem structure. Our overall aim is to be able to solve in a routine way many important problems, which currently look unsolvable. Moreover, the theoretical development of Convex Optimization will reach the state, when there is no gap between theory and practice: the theoretically most efficient methods will definitely outperform any homebred heuristics.
Project acronym AcTafactors
Project AcTafactors: Tumor Necrosis Factor-based immuno-cytokines with superior therapeutic indexes
Researcher (PI) Jan Honoré L Tavernier
Host Institution (HI) VIB
Call Details Proof of Concept (PoC), ERC-2015-PoC, ERC-2015-PoC
Summary Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) is a homotrimeric pro-inflammatory cytokine that was originally discovered based on its extraordinary antitumor activity. However, its shock-inducing properties, causing hypotension, leukopenia and multiple organ failure, prevented its systemic use in cancer treatment. With this proof-of-concept study we want to evaluate a novel class of cell-targeted TNFs with strongly reduced systemic toxicities (AcTafactors). In these engineered immuno-cytokines, single-chain TNFs that harbor mutations to reduce the affinity for its receptor(s) are fused to a cell- specific targeting domain. Whilst almost no biological activity is observed on non-targeted cells, thus preventing systemic toxicity, avidity effects at the targeted cell membrane lead to recovery of over 90% of the TNF signaling activity. In this project we propose a lead optimization program to further improve the lead AcTafactors identified in the context of the ERC Advanced Grant project and to evaluate the resulting molecules for their ability to target the tumor (neo)vasculature in clinically relevant murine tumor models. The pre-clinical proof-of-concept we aim for represents a first step towards clinical development and ultimately potential market approval of an effective AcTafactor anti-cancer therapy.
Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) is a homotrimeric pro-inflammatory cytokine that was originally discovered based on its extraordinary antitumor activity. However, its shock-inducing properties, causing hypotension, leukopenia and multiple organ failure, prevented its systemic use in cancer treatment. With this proof-of-concept study we want to evaluate a novel class of cell-targeted TNFs with strongly reduced systemic toxicities (AcTafactors). In these engineered immuno-cytokines, single-chain TNFs that harbor mutations to reduce the affinity for its receptor(s) are fused to a cell- specific targeting domain. Whilst almost no biological activity is observed on non-targeted cells, thus preventing systemic toxicity, avidity effects at the targeted cell membrane lead to recovery of over 90% of the TNF signaling activity. In this project we propose a lead optimization program to further improve the lead AcTafactors identified in the context of the ERC Advanced Grant project and to evaluate the resulting molecules for their ability to target the tumor (neo)vasculature in clinically relevant murine tumor models. The pre-clinical proof-of-concept we aim for represents a first step towards clinical development and ultimately potential market approval of an effective AcTafactor anti-cancer therapy.
Project acronym ActiveWindFarms
Project Active Wind Farms: Optimization and Control of Atmospheric Energy Extraction in Gigawatt Wind Farms
Researcher (PI) Johan Meyers
Summary With the recognition that wind energy will become an important contributor to the world’s energy portfolio, several wind farms with a capacity of over 1 gigawatt are in planning phase. In the past, engineering of wind farms focused on a bottom-up approach, in which atmospheric wind availability was considered to be fixed by climate and weather. However, farms of gigawatt size slow down the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) as a whole, reducing the availability of wind at turbine hub height. In Denmark’s large off-shore farms, this leads to underperformance of turbines which can reach levels of 40%–50% compared to the same turbine in a lone-standing case. For large wind farms, the vertical structure and turbulence physics of the flow in the ABL become crucial ingredients in their design and operation. This introduces a new set of scientific challenges related to the design and control of large wind farms. The major ambition of the present research proposal is to employ optimal control techniques to control the interaction between large wind farms and the ABL, and optimize overall farm-power extraction. Individual turbines are used as flow actuators by dynamically pitching their blades using time scales ranging between 10 to 500 seconds. The application of such control efforts on the atmospheric boundary layer has never been attempted before, and introduces flow control on a physical scale which is currently unprecedented. The PI possesses a unique combination of expertise and tools enabling these developments: efficient parallel large-eddy simulations of wind farms, multi-scale turbine modeling, and gradient-based optimization in large optimization-parameter spaces using adjoint formulations. To ensure a maximum impact on the wind-engineering field, the project aims at optimal control, experimental wind-tunnel validation, and at including multi-disciplinary aspects, related to structural mechanics, power quality, and controller design.
With the recognition that wind energy will become an important contributor to the world’s energy portfolio, several wind farms with a capacity of over 1 gigawatt are in planning phase. In the past, engineering of wind farms focused on a bottom-up approach, in which atmospheric wind availability was considered to be fixed by climate and weather. However, farms of gigawatt size slow down the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) as a whole, reducing the availability of wind at turbine hub height. In Denmark’s large off-shore farms, this leads to underperformance of turbines which can reach levels of 40%–50% compared to the same turbine in a lone-standing case. For large wind farms, the vertical structure and turbulence physics of the flow in the ABL become crucial ingredients in their design and operation. This introduces a new set of scientific challenges related to the design and control of large wind farms. The major ambition of the present research proposal is to employ optimal control techniques to control the interaction between large wind farms and the ABL, and optimize overall farm-power extraction. Individual turbines are used as flow actuators by dynamically pitching their blades using time scales ranging between 10 to 500 seconds. The application of such control efforts on the atmospheric boundary layer has never been attempted before, and introduces flow control on a physical scale which is currently unprecedented. The PI possesses a unique combination of expertise and tools enabling these developments: efficient parallel large-eddy simulations of wind farms, multi-scale turbine modeling, and gradient-based optimization in large optimization-parameter spaces using adjoint formulations. To ensure a maximum impact on the wind-engineering field, the project aims at optimal control, experimental wind-tunnel validation, and at including multi-disciplinary aspects, related to structural mechanics, power quality, and controller design.
Project acronym AD-VIP
Project Alzheimer’s disease and AAV9: Use of a virus-based delivery system for vectored immunoprophylaxis in dementia.
Researcher (PI) MATTHEW GUY HOLT
Summary Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the Western World, representing an economic and social cost of billions of euros a year. Given the changing demographics of society, these costs will only increase over the coming decades. Amyloid plaques, composed of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta), are a defining characteristic of AD. Evidence now suggests that Abeta is central to disease pathogenesis due to its toxicity, which leads to cell loss and eventual cognitive decline. Abeta is generated by proteolytic cleavage of amyloid precursor protein, a process that involves the protein BACE1. Knock-down of BACE1 is sufficient to prevent amyloid pathology and cognitive deficits in transgenic mouse models of AD, so BACE1 is an attractive target for therapeutic intervention. Although many small molecule inhibitors of BACE1 have been developed, many have problems with imperfect selectivity, posing a substantial risk for off-target toxicity in vivo. In contrast, antibody-based therapeutics provide an attractive alternative given their excellent molecular selectivity. However, the success of antibody therapies in AD is limited by the blood brain barrier, which limits antibody entry into the brain from the systemic circulation. Recent studies have shown that adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) effectively crosses the blood brain barrier. Here, we propose evaluating the use of AAV9 as a delivery system for a highly specific and potent inhibitory nanobody targeted against BACE1 as a treatment for AD.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the Western World, representing an economic and social cost of billions of euros a year. Given the changing demographics of society, these costs will only increase over the coming decades. Amyloid plaques, composed of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta), are a defining characteristic of AD. Evidence now suggests that Abeta is central to disease pathogenesis due to its toxicity, which leads to cell loss and eventual cognitive decline. Abeta is generated by proteolytic cleavage of amyloid precursor protein, a process that involves the protein BACE1. Knock-down of BACE1 is sufficient to prevent amyloid pathology and cognitive deficits in transgenic mouse models of AD, so BACE1 is an attractive target for therapeutic intervention. Although many small molecule inhibitors of BACE1 have been developed, many have problems with imperfect selectivity, posing a substantial risk for off-target toxicity in vivo. In contrast, antibody-based therapeutics provide an attractive alternative given their excellent molecular selectivity. However, the success of antibody therapies in AD is limited by the blood brain barrier, which limits antibody entry into the brain from the systemic circulation. Recent studies have shown that adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) effectively crosses the blood brain barrier. Here, we propose evaluating the use of AAV9 as a delivery system for a highly specific and potent inhibitory nanobody targeted against BACE1 as a treatment for AD.
Project acronym ADAPTEM
Project Adaptive transmission electron microscopy: development of a programmable phase plate
Researcher (PI) Johan VERBEECK
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Summary Adaptive optics, the technology to dynamically program the phase of optical waves has sparked an avalanche of scientific discoveries and innovations in light optics applications. Nowadays, the phase of optical waves can be dynamically programmed providing research on exotic optical beams and unprecedented control over the performance of optical instruments. Although electron waves carry many similarities in comparison to their optical counterparts, a generic programmable phase plate for electrons is still missing. This project aims at developing a prototype of a programmable electrostatic phase plate that allows the user to freely change the phase of electron waves and demonstrate it to potential licensees for further upscaling and introduction to the market. The target of this POC project is the realization of a tunable easy-to-use 5x5-pixel prototype that will demonstrate the potential of adaptive optics in electron microscopy. Its realization will be based on lithographic technology to allow for future upscaling. It is expected that such a phase plate can dramatically increase the information obtained at a given electron dose, limiting the detrimental effects of beam damage that currently hinders the use of electron microscopy in e.g. life sciences. As such, it has the potential to disrupt the electron microscopy market with novel applications while at the same time reducing cost and complexity and increasing the potential for fully automated instruments.
Adaptive optics, the technology to dynamically program the phase of optical waves has sparked an avalanche of scientific discoveries and innovations in light optics applications. Nowadays, the phase of optical waves can be dynamically programmed providing research on exotic optical beams and unprecedented control over the performance of optical instruments. Although electron waves carry many similarities in comparison to their optical counterparts, a generic programmable phase plate for electrons is still missing. This project aims at developing a prototype of a programmable electrostatic phase plate that allows the user to freely change the phase of electron waves and demonstrate it to potential licensees for further upscaling and introduction to the market. The target of this POC project is the realization of a tunable easy-to-use 5x5-pixel prototype that will demonstrate the potential of adaptive optics in electron microscopy. Its realization will be based on lithographic technology to allow for future upscaling. It is expected that such a phase plate can dramatically increase the information obtained at a given electron dose, limiting the detrimental effects of beam damage that currently hinders the use of electron microscopy in e.g. life sciences. As such, it has the potential to disrupt the electron microscopy market with novel applications while at the same time reducing cost and complexity and increasing the potential for fully automated instruments.
Project acronym AEROSOL
Project Astrochemistry of old stars:direct probing of unique chemical laboratories
Researcher (PI) Leen Katrien Els Decin
Summary The gas and dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) drive the chemical evolution of galaxies, the formation of stars and planets, and the synthesis of complex prebiotic molecules. The prime birth places for this interstellar material are the winds of evolved (super)giant stars. These winds are unique chemical laboratories, in which a large variety of gas and dust species radially expand away from the star. Recent progress on the observations of these winds has been impressive thanks to Herschel and ALMA. The next challenge is to unravel the wealth of chemical information contained in these data. This is an ambitious task since (1) a plethora of physical and chemical processes interact in a complex way, (2) laboratory data to interpret these interactions are lacking, and (3) theoretical tools to analyse the data do not meet current needs. To boost the knowledge of the physics and chemistry characterizing these winds, I propose a world-leading multi-disciplinary project combining (1) high-quality data, (2) novel theoretical wind models, and (3) targeted laboratory experiments. The aim is to pinpoint the dominant chemical pathways, unravel the transition from gas-phase to dust species, elucidate the role of clumps on the overall wind structure, and study the reciprocal effect between various dynamical and chemical phenomena. Now is the right time for this ambitious project thanks to the availability of (1) high-quality multi-wavelength data, including ALMA and Herschel data of the PI, (2) supercomputers enabling a homogeneous analysis of the data using sophisticated theoretical wind models, and (3) novel laboratory equipment to measure the gas-phase reaction rates of key species. This project will have far-reaching impact on (1) the field of evolved stars, (2) the understanding of the chemical lifecycle of the ISM, (3) chemical studies of dynamically more complex systems, such as exoplanets, protostars, supernovae etc., and (4) it will guide new instrument development.
The gas and dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) drive the chemical evolution of galaxies, the formation of stars and planets, and the synthesis of complex prebiotic molecules. The prime birth places for this interstellar material are the winds of evolved (super)giant stars. These winds are unique chemical laboratories, in which a large variety of gas and dust species radially expand away from the star. Recent progress on the observations of these winds has been impressive thanks to Herschel and ALMA. The next challenge is to unravel the wealth of chemical information contained in these data. This is an ambitious task since (1) a plethora of physical and chemical processes interact in a complex way, (2) laboratory data to interpret these interactions are lacking, and (3) theoretical tools to analyse the data do not meet current needs. To boost the knowledge of the physics and chemistry characterizing these winds, I propose a world-leading multi-disciplinary project combining (1) high-quality data, (2) novel theoretical wind models, and (3) targeted laboratory experiments. The aim is to pinpoint the dominant chemical pathways, unravel the transition from gas-phase to dust species, elucidate the role of clumps on the overall wind structure, and study the reciprocal effect between various dynamical and chemical phenomena. Now is the right time for this ambitious project thanks to the availability of (1) high-quality multi-wavelength data, including ALMA and Herschel data of the PI, (2) supercomputers enabling a homogeneous analysis of the data using sophisticated theoretical wind models, and (3) novel laboratory equipment to measure the gas-phase reaction rates of key species. This project will have far-reaching impact on (1) the field of evolved stars, (2) the understanding of the chemical lifecycle of the ISM, (3) chemical studies of dynamically more complex systems, such as exoplanets, protostars, supernovae etc., and (4) it will guide new instrument development.
Project acronym AEROSPACEPHYS
Project Multiphysics models and simulations for reacting and plasma flows applied to the space exploration program
Researcher (PI) Thierry Edouard Bertrand Magin
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUT VON KARMAN DE DYNAMIQUE DES FLUIDES
Summary Space exploration is one of boldest and most exciting endeavors that humanity has undertaken, and it holds enormous promise for the future. Our next challenges for the spatial conquest include bringing back samples to Earth by means of robotic missions and continuing the manned exploration program, which aims at sending human beings to Mars and bring them home safely. Inaccurate prediction of the heat-flux to the surface of the spacecraft heat shield can be fatal for the crew or the success of a robotic mission. This quantity is estimated during the design phase. An accurate prediction is a particularly complex task, regarding modelling of the following phenomena that are potential “mission killers:” 1) Radiation of the plasma in the shock layer, 2) Complex surface chemistry on the thermal protection material, 3) Flow transition from laminar to turbulent. Our poor understanding of the coupled mechanisms of radiation, ablation, and transition leads to the difficulties in flux prediction. To avoid failure and ensure safety of the astronauts and payload, engineers resort to “safety factors” to determine the thickness of the heat shield, at the expense of the mass of embarked payload. Thinking out of the box and basic research are thus necessary for advancements of the models that will better define the environment and requirements for the design and safe operation of tomorrow’s space vehicles and planetary probes for the manned space exploration. The three basic ingredients for predictive science are: 1) Physico-chemical models, 2) Computational methods, 3) Experimental data. We propose to follow a complementary approach for prediction. The proposed research aims at: “Integrating new advanced physico-chemical models and computational methods, based on a multidisciplinary approach developed together with physicists, chemists, and applied mathematicians, to create a top-notch multiphysics and multiscale numerical platform for simulations of planetary atmosphere entries, crucial to the new challenges of the manned space exploration program. Experimental data will also be used for validation, following state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification methods.”
Space exploration is one of boldest and most exciting endeavors that humanity has undertaken, and it holds enormous promise for the future. Our next challenges for the spatial conquest include bringing back samples to Earth by means of robotic missions and continuing the manned exploration program, which aims at sending human beings to Mars and bring them home safely. Inaccurate prediction of the heat-flux to the surface of the spacecraft heat shield can be fatal for the crew or the success of a robotic mission. This quantity is estimated during the design phase. An accurate prediction is a particularly complex task, regarding modelling of the following phenomena that are potential “mission killers:” 1) Radiation of the plasma in the shock layer, 2) Complex surface chemistry on the thermal protection material, 3) Flow transition from laminar to turbulent. Our poor understanding of the coupled mechanisms of radiation, ablation, and transition leads to the difficulties in flux prediction. To avoid failure and ensure safety of the astronauts and payload, engineers resort to “safety factors” to determine the thickness of the heat shield, at the expense of the mass of embarked payload. Thinking out of the box and basic research are thus necessary for advancements of the models that will better define the environment and requirements for the design and safe operation of tomorrow’s space vehicles and planetary probes for the manned space exploration. The three basic ingredients for predictive science are: 1) Physico-chemical models, 2) Computational methods, 3) Experimental data. We propose to follow a complementary approach for prediction. The proposed research aims at: “Integrating new advanced physico-chemical models and computational methods, based on a multidisciplinary approach developed together with physicists, chemists, and applied mathematicians, to create a top-notch multiphysics and multiscale numerical platform for simulations of planetary atmosphere entries, crucial to the new challenges of the manned space exploration program. Experimental data will also be used for validation, following state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification methods.”
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1. North America. No. 1. (1865.) Correspondence respecting the attack on St. Albans, Vermont; and naval force on the North American lakes. With appendices
Accounts and papers.
Cambridge [eng.] : Proquest LLC, 2006.
2. Cattle, &c (United Kingdom). Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 15 August 1878;-for, return of quantities and values of imports of the undermentioned articles in each year from 1858 to 1877, in several groups
3. National debt. Account of the gross amount of all bank annuities and long annuities transferred, and money paid to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt and expenses incurred.--(Pursuant to act)
4. National debt (annuities). Account of the gross amount of all bank annuities and long annuities, and any other annuities for terms of years transferred, and of all sums paid to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; and the gross amount of annuities for lives and for terms of years which have been granted for the same, under the provisions of the Acts 10 Geo. IV. c. 24, 3 Will. IV. c. 14, and 16 and17 Vict. c. 45, within the year ending 5th January 1876.
5. An account showing the gross amount received and expended on account of the telegraph service during the year ended 31 March 1886, and the balance of the receipts over the expenditure; prepared in pursuance of section 4 of the 39th Vict. c. 5; and a statement additional to the above account, prepared in pursuant of the same section
6. An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1863. With a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a prčis of the special inquiries instituted into the causes of such wrecks and casualties, by order of the Board of Trade. With charts
7. An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1864. With a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a prčis of the special inquiries instituted into the causes of such wrecks and casualties, by order of the Board of Trade. With charts
8. An abstract of the returns made to the Board of Trade, of wrecks, casualties, and collisions which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1866, with a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; a preacute;cis of the special inquiries instituted, by order of the Board of Trade, into the causes of wrecks, casualties, and collisions on the coasts of the United Kingdom; and a preacute;cis of inquiries abroad instituted by consular and colonial officers and others into the causes of wrecks, casualties, and collisions to British ships, reported to the Board of Trade during the year 1866. With charts
10. An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom. From the 1st January to the 31st December 1862. With a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a prčis of the special inquiries instituted into the causes of such wrecks and casualties, by order of the Board of Trade. With charts
11. An abstract of the returns made to the Board of Trade, of wrecks, casualties, and collisions which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1868, with a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a prčis of the special inquiries instituted, by order of the Board of Trade, into the causes of such wrecks, casualties, and collisions during the year 1868. With charts
12. An abstract of the returns made to the Board of Trade during the year 1868 of the wrecks, casualties, and collisions which occurred on the shores of the Channel Islands, and on the shores of Her Majesty's possessions abroad, also of the wrecks, casualties, and collisions to British ships at sea, and of wrecks, casualties, and collisions to British ships reported by Her Majesty's consuls; together with a statement of the inquiries abroad, instituted by consular and colonial officers and others, into the causes of wrecks, casualties, and collisions to British ships, of which the reports were received at the Board of Trade during the year 1868; with a chart
13. An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1860. With a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a prčis of the special inquiries instituted into the causes of such wrecks and casualties, by order of the Board of Trade. With charts
14. An abstract of the returns made to the Board of Trade during the year 1865 of wrecks and casualties which occurred on the shores of the Channel Islands, on the shores of Her Majesty's possessions abroad, and to British ships at sea, and of casualties reported by Her Majesty's consuls during the same period. With a chart
15. An abstract of the returns made to the Board of Trade during the year 1866 of wrecks, casualties, and collisions which occurred on the shores of the channel islands, on the shores of Her Majesty's possessions abroad, and to British ships at sea, also of wrecks, casualties, and collisions to British ships reported by Her Majesty's consuls during the same period. With a chart
21. An index to the statues, public and private, passed in the several years from the union with Ireland to the termination of the seventeenth Parliament of the United Kingdom: 41 Geo. 3. (1801) to 22 Vict. (1859). In two parts. Part II. The local and personal acts, local acts, and private acts, in classes
22. An index to the statutes, public and private, passed in the several years from the union with Ireland to the termination of the seventeenth Parliament of the United Kingdom: 41 Geo. 3. (1801) to 22 Vict. (1859). In two parts. Part I. The public general acts; with a chronological list of acts repealed
23. An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1859; with a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a precis of the special inquiries instituted into the causes of such wrecks and casualties, by order of the Board of Trade. A wreck chart of the United Kingdom is appended
24. An abstract of the returns made to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st January to the 31st December 1858; with a statement of the number of lives lost and saved; of the amounts granted out of the Mercantile Marine Fund as rewards for the salvage of life, for contributions towards the maintenance of life boats, and for expenses in connexion with the mortar and rocket apparatus for saving life, during the same period; and a prčis of the special inquiries instituted into the causes of such wrecks and casualties, by order of the Board of Trade
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On July 20th 1969, 600 million people around the world gathered to witness a historic moment of human achievement broadcast live from the Moon.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Neil Armstrong.
The world celebrated as the astronauts took their first steps on the Moon. But few people were aware of just how huge an effort it had taken to get them there.
These Apollo 11 astronauts were just 2 of nearly 400,000 people who had worked over ten years towards this goal.
But how did they do it?
What did it take to put humans on the Moon?
A fulldome show for planetarium and digital dome theatres.
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Future Focus: Ty Smith
Austin Broad February 6, 2018 2018 Draft Center, WHL
Photo by Larry Brunt | Spokane Chiefs
The first thing you’ll notice about Ty Smith is his size.
The second thing is how big he plays.
Smith, seventh in Future Considerations Winter ranking for the 2018 NHL Draft, has built his way into one of the best defensive prospects available in late June.
Dan Lambert, his coach with the Spokane Chiefs, thinks very highly of the prospect.
“He plays in every key situation for us,” Lambert said. “He’s our quarterback on the power play and five-on-five. He wants ice time and he demands it.”
While he doesn’t have impressive size (5-10, 174) he makes up for it with slick skating and offensive capabilities.
He’s shown that at every level.
In 2013-14, Smith played for the Lloydminster Heat AAA Bantam team, scoring 16 goals and adding 44 assists in 33 games played.
He followed that year by scoring nine goals and 19 assists in 16 games for the Delta Hockey Academy Prep team in 2014-15. A season that helped cement Smith’s status as the No. 1 selection in the 2015 WHL Bantam Draft.
He played one year of midget in 2015-16 for the Lloydminster Bobcats, appearing in 28 games and managed to score 23 points. He also played two games as a 15-year-old with Spokane, where he notched two assists.
The resume left plenty to be excited about.
Smith put up impressive numbers during his first full season with Spokane. He scored five goals and added 27 assists for 32 total points in 66 games.
But this year Smith has taken his game another level. And he’s really separated himself from some of the other defensive prospects in the upcoming draft.
In 49 appearances he has score eight goals and added 42 assists for 50 points.
“Thanks to Smith’s speed and offensive acumen he is always a player who is a threat to push pace from the back end, whether it be the long pass to a streaking teammate or going for a skate through the neutral zone,” said head western Canada scout Justin Froese.
By looking at his numbers, it’s evident that his offensive game is developing at a rapid pace. He’s already eclipsed his WHL high in every offensive category after just 49 games.
While some may question his strengths as a defender, Froese doesn’t seem to think that Smith has any drastic problems on the defensive side of the game.
“He is great at keeping gaps tight and although plays offensive defense, he only takes calculated gambles and seldom gets turned around by his opponent in a match up,” said Froese.
The 17-year old defenseman has some work to do, but scouts have long taken notice.
He is currently slated to be an early first round pick in 2018.
“He’s a guy who I would take a top-10 pick on as he has the potential to be a top-four blueliner in the NHL for years to come,” said Froese.
As Froese said, Smith should be a top-10 pick in the upcoming NHL Draft.
The game is shifting to a focus on speed and skill, and the need for puck-moving defenseman who have the abilities that Smith has is at an all-time high.
A player with Smith’s capabilities has the potential to be a top-4 puck moving defenseman for years to come. For most teams, Smith will probably need another season in junior, but once he is ready to make the leap to the NHL he will be making a big impact from the blue line for years to come.
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Magna sharpens focus on camera production for autonomous vehicles
Looks to grow car camera income to US $1 billion from US $450 million
Greg Layson
Rearview cameras, lane and pedestrian detection and automatic breaking, for example, are highly accepted by both the public and lawmakers.
Magna International sees onboard cameras as a significant segment for growth in the supply chain.
The Canadian parts giant has been supplying automakers with cameras for about a decade but projects it to be an increasingly bigger piece of the supply chain as autonomous vehicles gain acceptance and eventually, government approval.
Magna CEO Don Walker said in February at the Automotive News Canada Congress in Toronto that “we’re not known as an electronics company,” but that the company does US $450 million annually in electronic components and plans to grow that to US $1 billion.
Magna Electronics Vice-President Joel Gibson said the total market value for camera-based driver assistance systems is “growing very quickly” and he expects it to be worth about US $10 billion per year by 2020.
“It’s a very large growth area for Magna,” he said.
Magna made two camera announcements in March alone, one exterior and one interior. It said it will supply camera-based driver assistance systems in the new Maserati Levante luxury SUV. The company also developed an interior camera that gives parents a view of what’s going on in the back seats of their minivans, a signature feature in the redesigned 2018 Honda Odyssey.
Gibson said the company is focused on three areas of electronics: autonomous driving systems, secure connectivity within vehicles and electrification of vehicles.
Potential demand unknown
“The vehicle is becoming more and more electronically controlled,” Gibson said. “When you move toward automated driving systems the camera is a necessity. It will be on every vehicle. It’s a very important part of safety and [advanced driver assistance] systems.”
Gibson said that because autonomous vehicles are still quite new, it’s unclear when they will be produced in any real volume.
Rearview cameras, lane and pedestrian detection and automatic breaking, for example, are highly accepted by both the public and lawmakers. That’s because “there’s strong evidence that camera data systems make the vehicle safer,” Gibson said.
“The market acceptance of highly automated vehicles, that’s what’s really unclear right now,” Gibson said.
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Parents arrested in death of 5-week-old baby girl in California
Posted 12:32 pm, March 14, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire Service
MENIFEE, Calif. – The parents of a 5-week-old baby have been arrested in connection with the girl’s death earlier this year in Menifee, police said Wednesday.
Gregory Brandt and Jasmine Rugga brought their daughter from the family’s home to a local hospital Jan. 26, the Menifee Police Department stated in a news release.
Despite the medical staff’s efforts to resuscitate the girl, she was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Evidence led authorities to believe foul play may have been involved in the child’s death and an investigation began, the news release stated.
Brandt, 33, was arrested on suspicion of homicide on March 11. Rugga, 27, was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment the same day.
Brandt is being held on $1,000,000 bail, according to the Police Department. Rugga’s bail was set at $35,000.
No further details about the evidence or the injuries to the child were released.
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Utah infant taken off life support; charges expected for teen babysitter next week
Baby died after suffering nearly 100 fractures, blows to the head, autopsy reveals
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Great-grandmother says California boy who died suspiciously begged not to be reunited with birth parents
Dehydrated 6-month-old found in Michigan hotel room with her dead parents
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California man on parole for child sex crimes accused of sexually assaulting girl on playground
Ex-NFL player charged with murder in beating of former girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter
Kenosha police: 23-year-old man charged, accused in death of 2-year-old boy
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Mighty No. 9 Crack/Patch
Mighty No. 9 is an all-new Japanese side-scrolling action game that takes the best aspects of the 8- and 16-bit era classics you know and love, and transforms them with modern tech, fresh mechanics, and fan input into something fresh. You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages (or more, via stretch goals) you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet. Once, you worked together, side-by-side but now, your fellow Mighty No. robots have lashed out, taking over key strategic locations across the globe and infesting them with their minions. You have no choice: the other Mighty Numbers...Must. Be. Destroyed.
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Released date Jun 21, 2016
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Mighty No. 9 reviews ( 7 )
Thunka, Jun 23, 2016
The game is really good. Not megaman X good but it is really good. People are just butt-hurt because it's too hard and not living up to their view of megaman. The worst part about the game is the explosion. But who **** care. The game is fun, it's hard and it's good. It does not deserve all the trash. Will I play this game for a long time : no, it is 2 hard for me. But did I play it 5 hour straight on my first play through : Yes. Giving it a 10 to balance those score.
Magmaboy1, Dec 29, 2017
I really enjoyed the difficulty of each level and while I heard the characters weren't fleshed out I really enjoyed each of their quippy dialogues. I played through most of the game on xbox one and got to the final boss. I never played megaman before this but tried the first game afterwards, and I see similar difficulties and well it felt like they had some similar playstyles, but Mighty no. 9 is its own game similar, but very different. Don't play it comparing it to what a Mega Man game is, you won't enjoy it. I enjoyed the challenge of the game, of having to bring the game into the realm of muscle memory succeed in some levels. It felt like if you were good you could get through it in a smooth and fast pace. My favorite part was finding out how the powers could be used in different ways. The challenges and achievements create replayability and adds even more tough goals after completing the story. They aren't easy, but it's fun in a masochistic way to try and complete them all. (I haven't gotten them all yet).
Panda-s1, Jun 24, 2016
Definitely not perfect, and definitely lacks polish. Still, it is a platformer of moderate to high difficulty with somewhat intuitive controls. Character designs in of themselves are still fun, and the English voice acting is actually of rather good quality. That being said, the game does look graphically lazy. It feels like I'm playing a recent 3D rendered game with the graphics settings on low so I can play it on an old computer. Characters barely move around when speaking, which is definitely not the standard these days (though this would be in line with older Mega Man and X titles....). The promotion for this game has also been somewhat lackluster, and in some cases just terrible, which may not have helped its case. And of course, the development of the game itself has been rocky from the start. I still find myself enjoying the game. Sure it's not the best, but gameplay-wise it still feels solid. Level design is what I'd expect out of a Megaman game. Some people complain about pixel perfect jumps and unintuitive design, but I suspect many of these people only say they're Megaman fans but really only played a game once or twice. The dash mechanic is certainly a source of controversy, but I do actually like how it forces me to deal with enemies in a way that isn't just standing from a long distance and shooting them until they're dead. One of the things that did surprise me was defeating bosses means they will help you out in a different stage. That's definitely retake of the "defeating bosses causes changes in other levels" thing from the Mega Man X series, and one I really like as it does add depth to what would normally be completely one dimensional characters in old Megaman games. Hell, the dialogue between Beck and bosses that happens throughout the level and boss fight are a welcome addition (did I mention the voice acting is pretty good?). The art book released to Kickstarter backers does show that at the very least the team put a lot of thought into the design of characters and bosses for this game (which to me at least is the heart of the old Megaman games). If anything, the biggest sin this game commits is being released as-is in the year 2016. If this game came out as-is ten years ago, it would probably receive a lot of praise and be hailed as a successor to Megaman. Instead we get a half-baked product that took 3 years to make. But, y'know, I still like the game, and I don't see it as something to be crapped all over because it wasn't the second coming of Megaman. I'm giving this game an 8 out of 10. This is, admittedly, generous, but I feel compelled to tip the score away from reviews that are mostly hot air. Disclaimer: this author was a Kickstarter backer, and contributed enough to get physical items (which he still waiting to hear about, and is actually upset, but still doesn't see this as an excuse to give the game a rating it doesn't deserve).
AdamMaticGaming, Aug 10, 2016
This game is really not as bad as everyone claims it is. I can understand that the game is underwhelming in some departments (graphics for the most part, and some of the sound design) but I for one found it rather entertaining about 70% of the time (hence the 7/10). There were only a few levels that I did not enjoy (at least partially) and for the most part it's very fast paced, requiring the player to make great use of the various dashes as well as powerups absorbed from the other mighty numbers. I can only think of two spots where I felt as if I did not know what to do (mechanically, some areas in levels did stump me at times) and those were the regenerative blocks in the final level along with the turbines in number 3's stage. This was simply from lack of communication and teaching from the game, and it's something that could have been improved from time to time. Now for the graphics. They work. That's kind of it. I haven't experienced any crashes or anything like that (though I am on PC, and I recommend anyone looking to buy gets it there as it seems to be the most stable build) but there is a considerable bit of slowdown from time to time. Other than that the game runs at 60 with "ultra" settings (ultra in quotes because even though it works and can be rather pleasant sometimes, it often comes off as lazy in its execution). Essentially, if you want an alright platformer and are willing to drop 20 bucks on it then you might want to consider Mighty No. 9. It isn't great by any stretch of the imagination but I had fun with it for the most part. I've beaten it twice, by the way, and I did this before writing this review as I thought maybe some of the more glaring issues would hit me the second time through. Nothing to note though really. I'd recommend everyone separate themselves from the hype and from the bashing before playing this game and really give it a try. If you like it then good, and if you still hate it... well, that's fine too.
powermad80, Jun 21, 2016
Eh, despite all the atrocious issues with the kickstarter and distribution and delays, the game itself isn't a total disaster. Now it's still not very good, but still not terribly bad. Just kind of that middle ground of mediocrity. The soul of Mega Man is almost completely absent aside from a few design nods like falling down a big sequence of screens dodging instant death walls. Graphics suck, voice acting and writing are abysmal, but really the core gameplay is, well I don't want to say it's good but there's some fun to be had. I guess most of the time it's inoffensive with some peaks into fun land but also no shortage of dips into crap town. I guess if I had to sum it up, if you stripped away all the hype, the kickstarter, the promises, the delays, the budget, and the expectations of a mega man successor, what we have left is a half-decent but ultimately forgettable 2.5D action platformer if it were judged as a $10 release on steam by a random unknown indie dev.
aditya1101, Jan 26, 2018
It wasn't quite as bad as I was led to believe from some of the reviews I saw of this game, but there's not really much to like about this game. It's a pretty simple megaman clone that doesn't control particularly well (although not terribly either), with a really low effort plot and mechanics that don't feel particularly interesting or fun to play with. It also feels really unfinished, whether that's due to the poor level design (where sometimes it feels like enemies are just randomly strewn about rather than placed purposefully), the less than stellar voice acting, or even just the random errors with transcription or other small things like that. Overall, it just feels like a game that could've been a solid platformer, but it just didn't have enough work put into it.
noOLT, Aug 21, 2016
Still waiting for my steam key or a reply from my emails and messages sent. Extremely disappointed to see it cheaper on steam right now then what I spent. Inspired me to tell everyone to never give money on kick starter.
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Why GCC
Investing in a Challenging World - Session Summary
A long-term, disciplined approach to investing is still critical in this era of fast-paced news cycles.
Taking risk into account is part of investment decision-making, but overreacting in the short term is counter-productive.
Good corporate governance and transparency are key criteria for deciding where to invest.
A long-term, disciplined approach to investing remains critical in the current era of fast-paced news cycles. “You have to define your criteria, think about the long term, keep emotion out of it, give things some time and don’t react immediately to news,” said Farouk A. Bastaki, Managing Director (Group Chief Executive Officer), Kuwait Investment Authority, Kuwait, “Think about the long term – about 10 years, not two hours.” It is important to be disciplined, and to have a strategy and a view, he said.
Taking risk into account is part of investment decision-making, but overreacting to it in the short term is counter-productive. When investing globally in all kinds of assets, the major risk may be geopolitical – for example, issues concerning North Korea and Iran, cross-border cyberattacks and the US–China trade dispute. “These are the things that keep us up at night,” said Bastaki.
Accounting for risk but with a long-term view can pay dividends, according to Yong Kwek Ping, Chief Executive Officer, Inventis Investment Holdings, China, as when his company invested in China in 2000, an experience that proved so fruitful that it may lead his company to invest in Russia. Taking risks when no one else does – as in 2009 during the financial crisis – can also yield dividends.
When focused on long-term objectives, investors who are constantly in the market can minimise excessive risks. “We don’t chase yield,” said Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer, Osool Asset Management, Bahrain. Geopolitics is not considered a risk as it affects every investor in some way. Geopolitics “is all noise to us”, he said, adding, “As long as you have a clear strategy and asset allocation, you’re fine.”
Others may have a more conservative strategy, such as the Kingdom of Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund, where “we work for the people of Bahrain”, said Mahmood H. Alkooheji, Chief Executive Officer, Mumtalakat, Bahrain. Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund sees healthcare and education as two interesting sectors – healthcare because 2 billion people will reach the age of 60 by 2050, and education because of the country’s need for educated and trained workers. In any case, being disciplined and following a strategy will be critical, as well as answering the question: what are we doing for stakeholders?
For the Kuwait Investment Authority, investments in private equity began 35 years ago; currently, it has 200-250 funds worldwide, in multiple sectors. It invests in the public market as well as directly in technologies, such as alternative energies and electric buses.
Good corporate governance and transparency are key criteria when deciding where to invest. “We like to invest in things where we have visibility of the cash flow,” said bin Khalifa Al Khalifa. Political stability and private company growth rates are important, and private markets can provide more opportunities than public markets, especially in infrastructure.
Some investors take into account a country’s gross domestic product when making investment decisions. Thus, investments in the United States would be proportionally higher, as would investments in China in times to come. Government may not be a critical factor in deciding whether to invest in a country; the question may rather be: what is needed in a region? However, it is important to remember that governments have a role to play in public-private partnerships, in concession agreements that influence the cash flow, and as regulators.
Going ahead, “[w]e have a hundred challenges investing globally,” said Kwek Ping, citing for example the issues of how to link investments to the smartphone and the digital world, requiring a more concentrated look at technologies; how to help China’s companies as the country becomes a large importer; and how to supplement the Chinese Belt and Road strategy. “We’re putting different funds into the region,” he added.
Session panellists
Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer, Osool Asset Management, Bahrain
Mahmood H. Alkooheji, Chief Executive Officer, Mumtalakat, Bahrain
Farouk A. Bastaki, Managing Director (Group Chief Executive Officer), Kuwait Investment Authority, Kuwait
Yong Kwek Ping, Chief Executive Officer, Inventis Investment Holdings Ltd, China
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10.15 : See Regional
17.00 : THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
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21.30 : 6BM and 5PY
A Farewell Programme
Arranged by Felix Felton and W. Farquharson Small
This is the last day of service of the Plymouth and Bournemouth local transmitters, though their studios will continue to be used in conjunction with the new transmitters at Start Point and Clevedon which open tomorrow. Bournemouth was opened on October 17, 1923, Plymouth on March 28, 1924; and tonight a gathering of artists, listeners, and members of the staff in each studio will give their reminiscences of the early days, and will recall some of the old programmes radiated from 6BM and 5PY.
The programme will open at Plymouth and go over to Bournemouth at approximately 21.45.
5PY Plymouth is a radio service which began broadcasting on 28 March 1924 and ended on 13 June 1939. It was replaced by Regional Programme London.
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Big Thompson Canyon
Pulling away from the pack
One of the best parts about writing about sports is listening to people talk about, well... um... sports. The insight, the nuance, the behind-the-scenes details are far better than anything that ever gets printed or turned into a movie. As someone who sometimes is willing to drive far distances just to hear or conjure up a story, hanging around the press folks at the ballpark is like Shangri-la. And that's coming from a guy who once drove to Wyoming just because it might be fun to tell the story to people later... well, that and the fact that now I get to say that I've been to Wyoming. Yep, Wyoming. The best part of the drive to Wyoming? It was when I found an old copy of the Lewis and Clark diaries in a used bookstore on Capitol Street and buying chokecherry jelly from a roadside stand in the Big Thompson Canyon. Weren't Lewis & Clark the ultimate when it came to rolling around the countryside looking for a good story or two? I thought the diaries -- especially an old copy in great condition -- was an apt purchase considering the circumstances. Also, there is nothing in Wyoming. In some parts all you can see is the ground meet the sky. The landscape wasn't polluted with strip malls, over-commercialization, unsustainable growth or other tackiness related to suburban sprawl. Anyway, it's always funny to listen to sports scribes talk about their athletic prowess from "the old days." It's funny because a lot of sportswriters were as good at baseball or basketball as James Frey was at detailing his arrest record. Sure, there might have been an "arrest," but then that's just a matter of semantics, isn't it? Surely the preponderance of B.S. about athletic prowess is not just a phenomenon of the press box. Oh no. Men in general love revisionist history because it always ends the way it should - kind of like a big-budget Hollywood movie. But like Hollywood movies there is always those scenes where one thinks to himself, "There's no way that could have happened... just look at him. He makes Pat Burrell look like Ben Johnson!" when hearing those sports hero stories. Actually, when hearing some stories I often wonder, "So, were you held back in school and much bigger than your classmates? Is that how you hit all of those home runs after you got popped in the eye with a No. 2 pencil?" Look, I'm as prone to exaggeration as the next guy, but is the pure, unadulterated truth really the story? Of course not. The point of the story is the story. This isn't journalism, it's B.S.! Be that as it is, I brought up my days as a really, really, really (really, really) poor hitter during high school. The fact is that I was such a bad hitter that I just decided that I would stop wasting everyone's time in waiting for my three strikes by bunting every time I went to the plate. Though I was told it was just as easy to hit a ball as it was to catch one, I could never make threatening contact with a full cut. However, if I squared around to bunt I could make the ball go where I wanted as long as that was a few feet in front of home plate, not past the pitchers' mound and on either the first-base or third-base lines. My bunting got to the point that one of my teammates came up to me after a game and asked: "Why does the coach keep giving you the bunt signal?" "No one gave me the bunt signal," I answered. "We have a bunt signal?" By that point I had stopped looking down the third-base line at the coach, though during one point I remember him yelling, "Knock the cover off it, Johnny!" with a few claps after it was established that I was deep into the throes of my "Bunt Period." The reason why my poor high school hitting ability came up pertained to Ryan Howard and, no, it had nothing to do with bunting. Though I'm sure Ryan Howard never looked down the third-base line to get the bunt signal, either, I doubt he ever needed to drop one down. But Ryan Howard might have made a mistake by swinging (and hitting) the first pitch from Edison Volquez in the Phillies last loss (last week!). With the bases loaded and two outs in the fifth inning of the 2-0 defeat, Howard harmlessly popped out to left field to end the Phillies' threat. Strangely, Howard swung at the first pitch even though Volquez had walked Shane Victorino and plunked Chase Utley on the foot as the immediate preceding hitters. In other words, it appeared as if Volquez - the National League's top pitcher with a 9-2 record, 1.56 ERA and 96 strikeouts - were about to unravel. Rather than allow Volquez to throw a pitch or two or even to make a mistake, Howard took a big cut and helped the young pitcher out of the jam. As a result, Volquez settled down and the Phillies got just two more base runners in the final four innings. So that brings us to the conversation about hitting. During the elevator ride back to the press box after the post-mortem in the clubhouse, Howard's pivotal at-bat was discussed in a silly and unrealistic manner used to poke fun at an exaggerate the situation. By swinging at that first pitch Howard was the antithesis of the "Money Ball" player who was afraid that other players would make fun of him for "looking to walk." After a few more seconds of silliness, I jumped in with the idea that I was a "Money Ball player before Money Ball even existed." "I was always looking to walk. I was a looker," I said. "People yelled that at me all the time and the truth is I didn't even try to make it look good. Someone could have placed the ball on a tee and I would have taken it." Or bunted. Then I mimicked my high-school batting stance by holding an imaginary bat as if it were a light saber that suddenly went on without warning. As the imaginary pitch approached, I cowered as if being attacked by a grizzly bear. But after the pitch safely passed, I celebrated. "Ball One!" OK, it wasn't that bad, but it may as well have been. And it's a little more interesting than saying, "I hit .273 my senior year. In a game against Hempfield I went 2-for-4 with a double and scored a run. I also made a running catch in foul ground, but we lost, 6-3. We got two on in the seventh but couldn't push any across." Booooooring. Besides, in backyard wiffle ball there were few at my level. In that sport I'd make Ryan Howard look like Pat Burrell. *** The one thing I was pretty good at during school sports was running. And by running I don't mean anaerobic capabilities or endurance, though I'm pretty good at those, too. Truth is, I'm probably the best distance runner of any of the mainstream sports sportswriters, but that's not saying much. Actually it's kind of like saying Brad Pitt is a better looking dude than Ernest Borgnine. What I mean by running is that during the rare instances where I took the court or field I ran. When it was time to come off the field/court, I also ran. When I bunted one fair, I ran all out to first and if I ever walked and got to first, I ran as hard as possible to second, third or home. Somewhere along the line I was told that to do anything other than to run on the field was a sacrilege. Walking or jogging was never permitted - ever. You walked or jogged only when you were hurt, otherwise, you ran or you came out of the game. Maybe the reason why I ran all the freaking time was because I didn't want to give anyone more excuses to take me out of the game. Playing time was scarce enough as it was so maybe I figured I wasn't going to waste it by not trying. Watch Scott Rolen, Chase Utley or Pat Burrell - they run on and off the field, too. They don't lope or jog... they run. When it comes to effort, those guys aren't kidding around - ever. Just the same, I doubt Jimmy Rollins kids around when it comes to effort, too. However, unlike other players, Rollins sometimes worries about style points. The weird thing about style is that it sometimes makes perfectly good things look bad. At least that was the case for Rollins last week when he dropped his head after a harmless pop up and casually rolled to first in anticipation of the out. But because he wasn't hustling and had his head down, Rollins couldn't make it to second base when the pop fly was dropped by shortstop Paul Janish. After the half inning ended, manager Charlie Manuel rightly assumed the lack of hustle meant that Rollins needed a breather and sent him to the bench. Here's the thing about Rollins - he's won games for the Phillies because of his hustle. In fact, his hustle and quickness have kept him out of trouble in a lot of instances. One, of course, was when he won a game by "stealing" home against the Cubs when he faked out the catcher by running hard toward the plate before hitting the brakes as if he were going to change direction and go back to third. When he got the catcher to fall for the fake and throw the ball to the third baseman, Rollins quickly changed direction again and sprinted home to score the winning run. It was a move only smart, hustling players make. The one where he didn't hustle to first base wasn't. "It's my fault," Rollins said. "I can't get mad at him. That's like breaking the law and getting mad when the police show up. You can't do that." Here's the thing about that, though ... if any other player did what Rollins failed to do, Manuel probably wouldn't have come down on him as hard. Manuel knew that his message would resonate more if he punished Rollins, the league's reigning MVP. Manuel also knew that Rollins wasn't going to overreact and that he was smart enough to understand the message the manager was sending not just to his MVP, but also the entire team. The message? You guys haven't won anything yet. Manuel has been around long enough to know that sometimes even the best teams get complacent. And sometimes even those really good teams have a tough time shaking out of the doldrums when the games really mater. So with the Phillies on the verge of taking three out of four from the Reds with a big, nine-game road trip looming, Manuel sent his streaking, first-place club a little love letter that they are all accountable and that there is no time to take the foot off the accelerator. Rollins got it immediately. "With this team you don't get away with anything anyway, but he's the manager and that's what he's supposed to do when a player isn't hustling," Rollins said. "He has to take the initiative to make sure you play the game the right way." The message seems to have been received loud and clear. When Rollins was "benched," the Phillies went on to finish off the Reds before jetting off to Atlanta where they swept the Braves. With 12 wins their last 14 games and a four-game lead over the Marlins in the NL East, the Phillies could bury the rest of the division with another sweep in Miami. Maybe if that happens Manuel should toss the post-game spread.
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Cruising right along
The Marlins posted another run as Jamie Moyer cruised through the fifth. It looks as if it’s safe to say that the Mets are cooked against the Marlins. But the question remains: Will the Phillies hold on? If they don’t, is it really so bad? After all, the Phillies were trailing the Mets by seven games on Sept. 12. The fact that they were able to crawl back into this thing is victory enough, right? Are we being too greedy by asking the Phillies to go all the way? Um… no. No we are not. For the Phillies to blow it now, just 12 outs away from the NL East title, would almost be as bad as the Mets’ colossal collapse into oblivion. Notice I wrote almost because I believe the Mets’ demise is worse than the 1964 Phillies’ late-season collapse. And how about those kids in the picture… are they going to be scared for life? Maybe they should just switch to being Yankees fans. Meanwhile, Carlos Ruiz left the game with a right elbow contusion. Chris Coste is the catcher and will likely be on the field when (if) the Phillies clinch. That just adds on to the pile of extraordinary occurrences in the career of Coste. Crazy.
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They're crying in the stands at Shea...
Three outs to go in Philly. A long, stark winter ahead for the Mets.
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OK, so which is it that is most impressive? Is it the Phillies surge in which they have won 12 of their last 15 games in which they overcame a 7-game deficit on Sept. 12 and now hold a 1-game advantage with two games to go? Or is it the Mets’ stunning collapse/choke job/freefall that has conjured up remembrances of the 1964 Phillies? It should, because obliterating a 7-game lead with 17 games to play is a much bigger collapse than the one by the ’64 Phillies. Sure, in ’64 the Phillies lead the National League by 6½ games with 12 to go to miss out on the World Series. But in those days, of course, there were no divisional playoff berths and no wild card. There was just the regular season and then straight to the World Series. The ’64 Phillies had nothing to fall back on to give them a chance to regroup in the playoffs. The Mets’ collapse has come in an age where if they did not win the division, they could focus their attention on the wild-card berth. But then again, who worries about the wild card when a team is leading the division by 7 games with 17 to go and has been in first place for 135 straight days? Maybe the Mets should have. Needless to say the big “Freak Out” has begun in New York. A story in the Times about the Mets’ team poet had this great quote:
“As a fan, my world is caving in because the Mets are collapsing.”
Maybe we should compose a few couplets about the Mets’ collapse, too. If anyone has anything good, send them in and we’ll try to cobble together a poem called, “An Ode to the Mets’ Collapse.” What rhymes with “choke?” *** If the season were to end today (it will end tomorrow instead), the Phillies would host the San Diego Padres in the first round of the NLDS and the Cubs and Diamondbacks are set in the other side. It’s also set up for Cole Hamels to pitch in Game 1 against his hometown team… How is that for a coincidence? More from the ballpark this afternoon...
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Are they trying to lose on purpose? Part deux
I heard David Wright, the third baseman, on the radio this morning talking about how his Mets’ teammates haven’t “made off-season plans yet.” At least I think it was the radio – at this point it’s really hard to decipher the voices in my head from the ones coming out of mechanical devices. I wish I was being funny, but I’m not… I feel like Apu Nahasapeemapetilon at the end of a 36-hour shift at the Kwik-E-Mart. Remember that? He thought he was a hummingbird.
Anyway, I don’t think Wright was trying to be funny about the plans for the off-season quote, either. However, he might feel like he and the Mets are caught in a swarm of hummingbirds as those little bleepers dive in and out with the hearts and wings racing a hundred-miles per second as they try to poke his eyes out.
In this scenario the Phillies are the hummingbirds. They are ravenous and beatific all at the same time. They are also tied for first place in the NL East with just three games to go in the season because the Mets just can’t win a game when it matters.
I just can’t get over the fact that if the Mets had been able to beat the lowly Washington Nationals at home in just one of the three games this week, this would all be over. The Mets would be making plans for where to stay on the road in the NLDS instead of hearing manager Willie Randolph tear into them like a wolverine on greenies in a post-game tirade following the team’s loss to the Cardinals last night. Heading into tonight’s action, the Mets have won just three of their last 13 games and they have lost seven games in a row at cranky old Shea Stadium.
It was also during those 13 games that the Mets’ lead over the Phillies shrank from seven games to nothing. Imagine that… seven to zero in two weeks! It's like those ads for those crazy diet pills in which they claim a person can lose 25 pounds in four hours. But, if one day you’re hanging out with some friends and the topic of rock-solid, sure-footing in the NL East standings is broached, you can say, “Yeah, well, I once saw the Mets blow a seven-game lead with just 16 games to go.
“It was ridiculous. It was like they were waiting around to lose[1].”
Stunning. It's all so stunning.
Anyway, I also heard an announcer proclaim on the radio this morning[2] like and antebellum preacher that, “This isn’t a choke… This is a COLLAPSE!”
Unlike Wright, the announcer was trying to be funny. At least I think he was trying to be funny. But he seemed like one of those types of people that believed everything he said. He measured every word so that it would be significant, though you could hear it in his voice – he was worried. The hummingbirds were diving in like little, tiny P-51 Mustang fighter planes and a rolled up newspaper used to swat the pests away was hardly a defense.
So this is what it has come down to for the Phillies and Mets. The three games this weekend determine which team will play on in the post-season and which team will have to scramble to cobble together some off-season plans. Interestingly, too, is that that the Mets and Phillies are matched up against the two worst teams in their division. The Phillies host the Nationals this weekend, who are fresh off a three-game sweep over the Mets at Shea and are feeling pretty groovy because they did not lose 100 games this season. Everyone thought the Nats (72-87) would drop 110; instead they have a chance to not lose 90.
Meanwhile, the Mets entertain the Florida Marlins, which, coincidentally enough, is the only team they have managed to beat in the last two weeks. Like the Nats, the Marlins won’t lose 100 either. But unlike the Nats, this feat isn’t going to go down as any type of success. Heading into the season, the Marlins thought they had what it took to challenge the Mets, Phillies and Braves atop the division standings, but things just kinda didn’t work out.
Who will things work out for this weekend? Or, will things work out so well (or badly) for both teams that they will have to come back a day after the season ends to sort it all out?
Talked to Aaron Rowand, the center fielder, after last night’s game and offered a query whether this Phillies’ club had any similarities with the World Champion 2005 Chicago White Sox. Rowand, of course, was an integral player on that team, which was known for having fun and being colorful in the press. It also seems as if that White Sox team was a lot like a college fraternity, but not like the one that held toga parties or socials with the sororities. No, this frat was more like the one that held illegal off-campus keggers, built bonfires that weren’t easy to extinguish, and had a member who knew how to make home-made M-80s if he could ever locate the 50 milligrams of flash powder.
So when asked if this tight-knit Phillies bunch was like the 2005 champs, Rowand didn’t hesitate.
“No doubt,” he said emphatically.
“This is the second team I’ve been on where the group comes together. We all have the same goal and it’s special,” he said. “Whether we win or not it’s a special season.”
But all things being equal, he’d rather win.
[1] This is part of quote from Mets’ catcher Paul Lo Duca, who told reporters after Wednesday night’s loss that, “Seems to me like we’re all waiting to lose.” I’m using it to be clever. I think it worked, but I haven’t gone back to re-read any of this yet. Perhaps I’ll just finish writing this and go off to take a nap without the re-read? Hey, it was funny once – why ruin a moment for myself?
[2] At least I think it was this morning… does the post-1 a.m. drive back to Lancaster count as this morning? Technically, yes, it was this morning. But I always played by the rule that the day wasn’t over until I had gone to bed. Is this a common train of thought?
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Phillies vs. Mets on Monday?
Cole Hamels is in the bullpen warming up, the fans are filtering into the sold-out ballpark and the oppressive humid has finally broken and given way to a decidedly autumnal tinge.
It feels like playoff baseball time[1].
Meanwhile, the word filtered down from New York City that despite all of the bluster to the contrary, the Mets have resigned themselves to participating in a playoff game in Philadelphia on Monday. If such an event were to occur, people will need tickets for the game. So when and if a playoff game is scheduled for Monday and/or Tuesday, the Phillies announced they will sell tickets.
Here’s the Phillies’ announcement:
In order to prepare and plan, the Phillies are announcing that tickets will go on public sale once the tie-breaking game has been deemed necessary.
Full season ticket holders (81 games) have been mailed their locations. Season ticket holders and E-Mail Club members will be offered the opportunity to purchase tie-breaker tickets in advance of the public sale.
Tickets may be purchased on Sunday (once a game has been deemed necessary) via the following outlets:
ONLINE: www.phillies.com.
When ordering via the internet, the Phillies suggest choosing the convenient “print at home” option. Access to the internet is available 24 hours a day.
PHONE CENTER: (215) 463-1000. Again, once the game has been deemed necessary, the Phone Center will be open Sunday until 10:00 p.m. . . . Phone lines will open again at 8:00 a.m. on Monday.
The Phillies suggest fans choose the “print at home” option or pick up their will call tickets well in advance of the game, either Sunday night or early Monday morning.
IN PERSON: Two Citizens Bank Park locations: (1) First Base Gate ticket windows (on Pattison Avenue) and (2) West ticket windows (on Citizens Bank Way, adjacent to the Majestic Clubhouse Store). Hours: Sunday until 10:00 p.m. The ticket windows will reopen at 8:00 a.m. on Monday.
Speaking of the New York Mets, there was a helluva quote in the Oct. 1, 2007 edition of the New York Observer from a story written by John Koblin. In the story headlined, “Gutsy Mr. Metsie,” all about how Mets’ skipper Willie Randolph is dealing with his team’s “September Swoon,” veteran lefty pitcher Tom Glavine is on the record saying:
“Sometimes when you’re a team as talented as we are—I don’t know if I’d use the word ‘bored,’ but I guess you can get complacent sometimes. You don’t pay attention to details every now and then because you do have a ton of talent and think you can on most days do everything you wanna do.”
So the Mets are collapsing because they are so good? They haven’t been paying attention to details?
I wonder if their curiosity has been piqued now?
[1] Not that most of us in the Phillies’ writing press corps actually knows what “playoff baseball” feels like. A lot of us have floated out into unchartered waters.
[2] a.k.a: a choke job of epic proportions
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Are they trying to lose on purpose?
“Seems to me we’re all waiting to lose.” - Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca Yes, Paul we all noticed that, too. Actually, it doesn't look like the Mets aren't waiting to lose, it looks like they are trying to lose. I could live to be 100-years old and I’ll never figure out how the first-place Mets – the team that most said had to go to the World Series or the season would be considered a failure – could not beat the Washington Nationals in one game at home this week. This is the same Washington Nationals’ club in which the manager is being considered for Manager of the Year honors because he didn’t lose100 games. You know, like that’s an accomplishment. One win against the Nats and all of this hassle could have been over for the Mets. Just one stinkin’ game and the Phillies aren’t pounding on the door with a battering ram like a bunch of DEA agents. Two wins against the 72-87 Nationals, and the Mets could have had some champagne on ice for tonight’s game against Tony La Russa’s Cardinals. “Seems to me like we’re all waiting to lose.” So watching the end of the Mets-Nats game on the TV hung over my seat in the press box, I saw the Mets roll over and expose their perfectly round, pink bellies for everyone to thrash away at. Better yet, they were like a picture of the dead bug on the old cockroach-killing ads where they were flat on their backs, with legs dangling in the air and Xs where their eyes should have been. I also saw a few players who would have preferred to have been anywhere else but Shea Stadium. Yeah, he’s a “gamer” and all of that stuff, but did anyone really think that Billy Wagner wanted to be in for the ninth inning of a game that the Mets were losing? Worn down by a long season and maybe even a little too much use, Wagner promptly hucked that low-90s fastball up there and gave up a pair of runs with his team trailing by one. Is this the end for the Mets? Can Willie Randolph get his reeling team together to hold off the Phillies? Can the genius that is Tony La Russa do a favor for the Phillies by coming up with something just clever enough to deal the Mets yet another loss? Maybe he'll have his pitcher hit eighth again... yeah, that always works. Maybe he'll run the fumble-ruski or State of Liberty play? Oh sure, those are football plays alright, but La Russa will figure it out. *** Then again, the Phillies have to face a beyond-desperate Braves club tonight, who can’t lose any more games (and then hope for help) this season in order to cling to the flicker of a playoff chance. To keep hope alive the Braves will rally behind John Smoltz, one of the best big-game pitchers of his generation. The Phillies will counter with 23-year old rookie Kyle Kendrick and 40,000 screaming fans. *** Our good friends Mike and Michelle Wann welcomed their second son into the world this morning at 1:47 a.m.. Daniel Kingston Wann came in easily at a slick 7-pounds, 8 ounces and 19½ inches and all reports are that Michelle and big brother Christopher are doing great. But Mike… that’s a different story. A little background: Mike and Michelle delivered Christopher in the comforts of their home here in the School Lane Hills neighborhood of Lancaster, Pa. Rather than go to the hospital and be subjected to all of the stuff that goes on at those places, the kids had a midwife come in while Mike did his best to stay out of trouble. And since he was at home, he could putter around in the yard while Michelle was upstairs delivering the baby. It’s how I imagine our pioneer forefathers did things. But this time, well, perhaps I should just turn it over to Mike: Interesting Point: Admittedly, it was in this space I planned to be clever and funny as I told our story, but sometimes, when a tale is so outrageous and unbelievable, a well crafted build-up actually takes away from the drama. So here it goes; Michelle and I birthed this little rascal at home, by ourselves, with no assistance (this is no joke). Let me be clear, that was not our intention. It went down like this: 1. We wanted to do a home-birth, like our first one 2. We called the midwife when Michelle started labor at 10:30 PM 3. The midwife planned to come when the contractions reached 1 minute in length 4. Michelle’s water ruptured at 1:15 AM (we were still waiting for the 1 minute contractions) 5. The baby exited Michelle at 1:47 AM 6. The midwife entered the house at 1:55 AM So what did we learn? It’s true, the second birth is quicker than the first. Oh, yeah, and you never know what you can do until the occasion presents itself. Yeah, how about that?!?! I received a phone call from Mike this morning and he asked me what I had done so far today. I told him that I had brushed my teeth, eaten a banana and I was about to go out for a run before I got into my car for the drive to Philadelphia to go to work. All things being equal, that’s a pretty busy day for a guy like me. “Yeah, well I birthed a baby,” he said. Top that.
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Someone cue Tom Petty
WASHINGTON – the first thing I thought of as I pushed myself out of bed this morning was, “OK, where do I get coffee?” The second thought was, “Look, there’s the Starbucks. Could a place that sells Gatorade be nearby?” After that I wondered if Courier Post columnist Kevin Roberts had made it back to Philadelphia OK. Kevin, you see, came to The District last night to write all about the Phillies’ comeback victory over the Nationals, which pushed them to 1½ games of the lead in the NL East. After going down to the clubhouse to discuss matters with the winning team and then back to the press box to compose his story, Kevin was scheduled to take the 3 a.m. train from Union Station back to Philadelphia. And since he wrapped things up a little after midnight, a few of us thought we’d take Kev into town to help him wile away the time until his train arrived. Who would have guessed there was no all-night bingo parlor in all of Washington, D.C.? Nevertheless, Kevin made it to Union Station with time to spare. But the really big question that was baffling me the most this morning is one that supporters of the Philadelphia Phillies are not asking themselves – at least they aren’t asking themselves with any great concern (nor am I). The question: What in the Sam Hill is wrong with the New York Mets? In the midst of a freefall of monumental proportions, the Mets, as Phillies’ fans are well aware, have lost six of their last seven and seven of their last nine. During that span, the Mets’ lead over the Phillies in the East has shrunk from 6½ games to 1½ heading into Friday’s games. Mets’ skipper Willie Randolph delivered one of the understatements of the season when talking about the latest loss with reporters last night. “We're definitely making it tough on ourselves, huh?” Indeed. But not without some help. Last night’s game – as viewed from the press box at RFK on MLB.com’s Gamecast – seemed as surreal as it was dramatic. The Mets rallied to take a three-run the lead in the ninth when Marlon Anderson hit a bases-loaded triple with two outs, only to give those runs back in the bottom of the ninth when reliever Jorge Sosa could not close it out. What? No Billy Wagner? Nope, according to reports ol’ Billy had back spasms and couldn’t take the ball. Could Wagner finally be helping the Phillies get to the playoffs? Anyway, it looks as if the Mets are getting a little tight and even the front-office types are feeling it. According to a story in Sports Illustrated, owner Jeff Wilpon is casting the blame for the Mets’ recent play on… well, everyone. “I'm disappointed with the way the team is performing overall, and that's everyone, top to bottom,” Wilpon told Sports Illustrated. “I'm disappointed in Omar (Minaya), Willie, the players ... that's everyone. We shouldn't be in this position. But we are. We've got to fight our way out and pull this out.” But no one has been able to explain the basic, simple question: What in the Sam Hill is wrong with the New York Mets? To figure it out, I put in a call to Mets’ pre- and post-game host on SNY, Matt Yallof. When Matt and I get to the bottom of this issue, I will report back right here. The ‘pen is mighty? While the Mets are preparing to roll over and expose their pink, rounded belly for the Phillies to claw apart, it’s interesting to note that the Phils are making their sprint for the finish line thanks largely to the bullpen. Yes, the Posh Spice-thin bullpen. To follow up Tuesday’s 14-inning victory in which the relievers tossed 11 frames one-run ball, the ‘pen went seven scoreless innings last night against the Nats. Of course the memory of Monday night’s near debacle where the relievers almost coughed up an 11-run lead, but since then they have been pretty good. In the last three games the bullpen has allowed just two runs in 21 2/3 innings. Nevertheless, 21 2/3 innings is a lot of work in just three games… especially at this point of the season. Closing up shop In the past on these pages, I have opined about Washington’s RFK Stadium and the time I spent there in my youth. Though we could never go to see the Redskins play in the ol’ ballpark (the waiting list for tickets was something like 155 years), I can recall in vivid detail of watching the Grateful Dead and the NASL’s Washington Diplomats. But not to bore any with more rhapsodizing over the last weekend of major league sports at RFK, I’ll turn that chore over to The Washington Post’s Tom Boswell, who writes about the lovable dump. And it is a dump. Finally… Chris and Julie Stover of Lancaster, Pa. finally added a girl to the Stover/Gerfin/Finger brood. The little lady arrived this morning and has yet to receive a name, but her uncle (me!) and the rest of the clan are giddy about her birth and hope that she can show her big brothers and boy cousins who the boss is. And here we thought Chris couldn’t make a girl. Good work, big guy!
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Choking in the Big Apple
So here’s the question: Are the Mets choking or are the Phillies about to take the NL East away from them?
How about both?
What about the Padres? Can they keep up their winning ways in order to fend off the Phillies in the wild-card race?
Will the Phillies ever lose again?
Who knows.
We’ll attempt to answer some of those questions, but first let’s figure out what in the hello is going on with the Philadelphia baseball team. Last night’s 7-4 victory in 14 innings[1] over the nearly-X’d out St. Louis Cardinals pushed the Phillies to 1½ games behind the Mets in the East and kept them 1½ games behind the Padres in the wild-card race. What makes this crazy is that the Phillies have picked up five games in five days against the free-falling Mets, who, as they begin to feel their drawers bunch up, called a team meeting prior to going out and getting whacked by the Nats at RFK last night.
Needless to say, that meeting could not have been fun. Anyone who has seen the visitors’ clubhouse at RFK can report that it is a very unpleasant room. First of all, the stench of laundry, sweat and shower mold permeates through the dank and cramped hallways. Then there is the feeling that the walls are going to close in on you kind of like that trash compactor scene in Star Wars. I swear I’ve seen a big, futuristic-looking snake slither out of the shower area and into the make-shift kitchenette.
The worst part about that clubhouse at RFK, of course, is how cramped it is. A player can barely get changed into his uniform without knocking over the buffet perched precariously on a small ledge near the big-screen TV and fake-leather couch. Being in that room is almost as bad as sitting in coach of a trans-continental flight with the sudden, screaming urge to take a leak. Only you can't get up because the two clowns sitting next to you on the left are fast asleep. And because they have banned water bottles on flights, you are SOL in trying to find relief that way.
So imagine having a team meeting in such a place. How bad must it make a team feel that while in the throes of a crippling losing streak, they have to sit in such a place and talk about how awful things are going? It's like psychoanalysis with Ted Nugent. No wonder the Nationals whipped them again to extend the Mets’ freefall.
Meanwhile, in the posh new space in St. Louis at ballpark that was opened just last year, the Phillies reportedly spent the time before the 14-inning victory over the Cardinals watching Wedding Crashers.
There is no truth that after the game, Aaron Rowand proclaimed: “Cheesesteaks and baseball… THAT’S WHAT PHILADELPHIA DOES!”
But such a thing wouldn’t be extraordinary.
Anyway, according to the math wizards at Sports Club Stats, the Phillies have a 42.9 percent chance to make the playoffs this season. If I had to guess (and my guessed change with the wind) it will take 90 wins for the Phillies to get into the playoffs.
With seven of the final 11 games against the Nationals and six of that 11 at the cozy hometown bandbox, 90 could be very doable.
Gone and probably forgotten The Phillies will play the Nationals in the final baseball games at RFK Stadium this weekend, which is a pretty good thing. Clearly, as mentioned above, the old ballpark on the banks of the muddy Anacostia River has seen better days.
Next season the Nationals will play in a new ballpark near the DC Naval Yard along the banks of the Potomac River, which, friends report, will offer stunning views of the city’s skyline and will be a major upgrade from RFK.
As if a shoebox isn’t an upgrade.
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll wax on about RFK this weekend because that’s kind of what I do. Apparently the plan is to demolish the old stadium as soon as the DC United builds its new arena.
[1] this was a game in which the Phillies finally decided to hit the ball at 1 a.m. … come on guys, help us out. We have to stay up late and watch these games. How about an early big lead so that we can… wait, you guys already did that. OK. Never mind. Just do whatever it is you do and I'll get back to my late-night channel flipping.
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Sweeping in D.C.
WASHINGTON – If there was ever a time for the Phillies to want to head to The District, right now would be the perfect time. After dropping four straight in Houston as well as five out of their last six while scoring just three runs in two victories over the Giants last week, the lowly Nationals are the perfect foil for the Phillies to take out some frustrations.
Certainly manager Charlie Manuel took some of his pent up frustration after the Astros swept out the Phillies on Monday afternoon. After spending more than half of his life in pro ball, Manuel knows when a team needs to be aired out.
Essentially, Charlie told the troops it’s time to put up or shut up.
“You can go around and talk to them. You can talk to them in batting practice. But what is today? September 9th? Damn, if we ain’t got it by now, we ain’t never gonna get it. We were in good position coming in, and we’re still in good position. We’ve got to play. We’ve got to win some games. It’s been kind of leading up to this. It’s got to bottom out sometime. We’ve got some wins. We beat the Giants two games, and we got real good pitching, tremendous starting pitching, when we scored three runs and got two wins. Over in Pittsburgh, we didn’t hit at all. Actually, we played real bad there. Homers are great when one or two guys are on base. When you hit three solos and the other team scores three, four, five runs, and you lose, it’s not so great.
“I don’t know. I hear some of them talk. I hear some of them say, ‘We play better when we have to or when there’s more pressure.’ I find that hard to believe when I see us play like we did today. I find that hard to believe. I played 20 years. I like my chances ofbeing relaxes when we have a nice lead. That don’t register for me.
“Bleep the last couple years. That don’t mean bleep. We’re playing today. Last year is dead and gone. Having to win? No, I don’t get that. I think when you have a lead, you’re sitting better than you are when you absolutely have to win a game that day. I think having a lead’s got to be better than that. I’ll take the lead. That’s what I’m trying to say. Last year, what happened in the past, that’s gone. We played tremendous baseball last year the last five, six weeks. Best baseball we’ve ever played. I’m not going to give our lead up and say, ‘We’ll start here.’ No, I’m not going to do that because I don’t know if we can come through or not. I like our chances better where we’re at, but at the same time, we have to win some games. That’s what I’m trying to say.”
The thing about Charlie’s tirade is they generally work. Moreover, he hit on a message that he has been dropping all season long, which is the 2008 season is over. The World Series is history. It’s September and the Phillies are in a weak division and if they don’t snap to it quickly, this season can be over as quickly as the ’07 playoff run.
That’s the tough part. If the season were to end today, the Phillies would be matched up against the Dodgers in the NLDS. That’s a hornets’ nest right there considering the Dodgers have had the best record in the league all season long. Plus, there’s a score to settle and you know what they say about paybacks.
Think the Dodgers are still smarting from last season? Think the Dodgers don’t want another piece of the Phillies with home field advantage?
So yeah, Nationals Park is a pretty good place for the Phillies to be right about now. That’s especially the case considering the Phils are 10-2 against the Nats, who are inching closer to a second straight 100-loss season. At 47-90 the Nats not only have the worst record in baseball with losses in seven of their last eight mixed in, but also they have been a veritable laughingstock of pro sports.
If only it could be chalked up to one of those years for the Nats. But simply having some bad luck doesn’t begin to describe it.
First, the season began with general manager Jim Bowden resigned amidst a federal investigation that the longtime GM allegedly had been skimming of signing bonuses earmarked for Latin American prospects.
The Nats also fired manager Manny Acta because he couldn’t figure out how not to lose games with John Lannan and his 17-25 record as the staff ace. Just last week they fired the director of player development, Bobby Williams, because he had ties with Bowden. On top of that, the club’s second-year ballpark is underwhelming with the view of the DC skyline blocked out by construction and parking garages, which has resulted in the fifth-worst attendance in the Majors.
Only Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Oakland and Florida have drawn fewer fans than the Nats.
Luckily, the Phillies still have six more games against Washington this season. Those are six games Manuel likely won’t be happy with unless they end with wins. After all, the Nationals are last in every notable pitching statistic.
That could make it more fun for the fans from Philly who make the trek down I-95 to sterile Nationals Park. Better yet, for those fans who get shut out when hoping to get some tickets at CBP, the drive might be worth it.
After all, the Phillies have Pedro Martinez and Cliff Lee lined up for the first two games and Joe Blanton set for Thursday’s series finale. Plenty of good seats still available.
Yes, the Phillies better sweep this one.
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Ryan Howard's long bomb
WASHINGTON - According to the dusty old archives stashed back in the vaults at Nationals Park, Ryan Howard's home run in the fifth inning of yesterday's 12-2 victory over the Nats was not only the first ball to reach the upper deck at the stadium, but also it was the longest fair ball ever struck in The District's Southeast quadrant. Apparently the homer went 441 feet. That's like Tiger Woods taking a three-quarters swing with a 9-iron. Anyway, here's Howard's bomb: [redlasso id="578480d6-85dc-4dab-a1b6-4d8399f3ee97"] It should be noted that there is no happier room in the country than a big-league clubhouse following a win on the road just before they leave to go to another city. The Philadelphia ballclub was downright giddy after pasting the Washington Nine for 12 runs last night. Jimmy Rollins even interjected into Shane Victorino's post-game deconstruction of his 3-for-5 performance (double, HR, 3 runs, 2 RBIs) with some members of the local press. "Anything Ryan can do, I can do," Jimmy said, mimicking Victorino. "I hit a double, he hits a double..." But... "I hit a home run," Rollins laughed, still imitating his teammate "but he hits a BOMB!"
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WASHINGTON - Washington, D.C. is an industry town. And in most industry towns, the matters of business are all encompassing. Generally, the folks who work in The District are on the clock 24/7 even when Congress is not in session and the Congressmen and their staffs are back in their home districts. Of course, this year is different. The Industry here in Washington is diving into its quadrennial pageant complete with costumes and hype and everything else that goes with the thing called a presidential election. As a result they force the rest of us to follow along, too, which is good. Who doesn't want to understand and participate in the nation's sovereignty? Because Congress is busy at the work of making laws and whatnot just a short little drive up Capitol Street from the brand, spanking new Nationals Park, and because the candidates for president are positioning themselves just so, big crowds have been few and far between for Nats' games this season. Last night the announced attendance was a little more than 25,000, which is below the season average of 28,983. That average is 17th in Major League Baseball (better than Baltimore) and is higher than only three teams in the National League (Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Florida). If you build it and bilk the taxpaying citizens of The District, they will come? Nope, not likely. Anyway, one of the more noticeable traits of the new taxpayer-funded ballpark in Washington is the open space. In the left-field portico, the corridors and even on the streets circling the park, the plazas are wide and open. That's nice. It also mirrors Pierre Charles L'Enfant's and Andrew Ellicott's vision of The District with its wide avenues, open spaces and parklands, and low buildings that don't suffocate the city and its landmarks. The view of the city from left field with the monuments along The Mall with the Capitol as an anchor is as good as it gets and is a stark reminder of exactly where you are. Yet a good indicator at how encompassing the industry is in D.C. was pretty evident within seconds of walking into the new Nationals Park. For instance, in the spacious visitors' clubhouse one of the half dozen or so high-definition televisions hanging from the ceiling was tuned to Chris Matthews' "Hard Ball." Nope, that's not a show about baseball. More telling, sadly (or not depending upon one's perspective, I guess), was that the largest advertisement visible on the outfield fence was one from Exxon/Mobil. There are a couple of D.C. axioms that explain a lot. One explains the only ways in which a political career can be destroyed, such as "being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl." The other established truth is that in order to find the basis of something, one must "follow the money." For now there is no corporate naming rights slapped on Nationals Park, which is refreshing and, frankly, awesome. But is it just a matter of time until the Nats games are played at Exxon/Mobil Field? That would suck. Anyway, my knee-jerk reaction o the park was that it was "flavorless." I was wrong. It's quintessentially D.C. based on some of the reasons listed above. Plus, it's really easy to get to and drive away from - 295 is right there. It's kind of like the South Philadelphia sports complex in that regard, only there is no Schuylkill Expressway to fight with and there is more to do in Washington before and after the games and when the team is in the off-season for that matter. However, Nats Park cribbed some of the ideas from Citizens Bank Park with the local fooderies selling the concessions. Ben's Chili Bowl, Five Guys Burgers and Hard Times Café have stands, which is like Tony Luke's and Chickie's & Pete's at CBP. In a nutshell, Nationals Park is a good place to watch a game. It's also just another place to work. Better yet, it's easier to get to than Philly. Otherwise, the Phillies haven't hit as many home runs in D.C. Actually, the Phillies haven't done a whole lot of hitting, period, lately. Yesterday's loss to extend the season-worst losing skid to three games was exacerbated by the team's inability to hit with runners in scoring position when they went 0-for-12. Silver lining time: the team might not be all that bad if it loses three games for the first time on May 19. Anyway, for more on Nationals Park, check out the primer in The Washington Post. They have a lot of good stuff there.
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HOW GAME OF MONOPOLY HELPED ALLIED POWS ESCAPE
This is one of the British made silk maps tightly folded and inserted into one of the playing pieces of the games of Monopoly which were distributed to POW’s in Germany by the International Red Cross. The maps helped many among the some 34,000 odd Allied POW’s who managed to escape their Axis Prisons in Europe during WWII.
This story is thanks to a submission by Roger Nichols, former Flight Captain of the El Paso Daedalians, and a long-time FASF enthusiast and member. The following is from an Internet Fact-Checking group, “Truth or Fiction,” which ascertained the truthfulness of a number of similar fact-based stories about this interesting aspect of WWII. This summarizes their own research into the tale:
The Monopoly board game was created in 1933 by Charles Darrow who approached Parker Brothers regarding the marketing of the game. At first, Parker Brothers turned him down but two years later purchased the game from Darrow and today it is one the most popular board games in the world.
Silk maps of Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden did exist during the Second World War, according to an article written by Debbie Hall for the Map Forum magazine in 1999. Debbie Hall has a special interest in silk maps and was the Map Curator at the British Library, where some of these silk maps are currently on display.
According to the article, The Waddington PLC company in England manufactured playing cards and game boards including the ones for Monopoly that were marketed in Great Britain. Monopoly games were sent to British prisoners of war in Germany by the International Red Cross. According to Hall, Silk maps of the area were hidden in the games along with special features such as a file and compass, made to look like game pieces, along with real currency hidden in the monopoly play money to aid the prisoners in their escape.
Silk map of Holland, Belgium and France
This was not the plan of MI-5 , however, but rather an idea from another branch of the British secret service. Hall explained that in 1939, the British government had set up an agency designated as MI-9 whose primary mission was to assist resistance fighters behind enemy lines and recover Allied troops being held prisoner.
MI-9 developed the military policy of escape and evasion and that it was the “duty of all those captured to try to escape if possible.” Hall said, “One man who was behind many of M19’s most ingenious plans, including the Waddington project, was Christopher Clayton-Hutton.” This agency found out that the Waddington Company had the technology to print maps on on silk and made a special request of the company. Silk maps made no noise, took up very little space and could be folded into a garment or hidden in a package of cigarettes. A tiny compass was also hidden in uniform buttons and used as a tool for escape in case a pilot was shot down behind enemy lines.
Truth or Fiction recently spoke to Bill Knowles, a former Canadian pilot who flew with the RAF on D Day. Knowles told us that, druing the latter days of the conflict in Europe, any escape routes and safe house information were generally memorized by pilots, by the time he was flying missions, and that no un-coded information would have been printed on anything that could have been intercepted by the enemy as that could have endangered all involved in these types of operations.
The British Official Secrets Act is what bound everybody involved to secrecy and we have sent an inquiry to the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the UK to verify if this story has truly been de-classified and no longer confidential.
Here’s one of most popularly circulated stories about this Monoply game scheme on today’s Internet, and it actually appears to be fact-based and essentially true:
Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the authorities were casting-about for ways and means to facilitate their escape. Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not only where-stuff-was, but also showing the locations of ‘safe houses’, where a POW on-the-loose could go for food and shelter. Paper maps had some real drawbacks: They make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear-out rapidly and if they get wet, they turn into mush.
Someone in MI-5 (actually, the project ended up in a new branch of the spy agency: MI-9) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It’s durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise what-so-ever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd.
When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort. By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, ‘games and pastimes’ was a category item qualified for insertion into ‘CARE packages’, dispatched by the International Red Cross, to prisoners of war.
Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington’s, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were located (Red Cross packages were delivered to prisoners in accordance with that same regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.
As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington’s also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass,
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together.
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of
Monopoly money!
British and American air-crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a ‘rigged’ Monopoly set by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square! Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an
estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets.
Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy Indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful use in still another, future war.
The story wasn’t de-classified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington’s, as well as the firm itself, were finally honoured in a public ceremony. Anyway, it’s always nice when you can play that ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card.
**** Your editor feels that any listing concealed in the “CARE” packages distributed via the Red Cross would NOT have included any lists of “Safe Houses,” since doing so would expose those who kept such safe havens open and active could be far too easily revealed, thereby posing a direct threat to their lives, not to mention terminating their underground activities.
Here is a fascinating site, almost exclusively dedicated to those famous escape maps from WWII.
If you have any other information about this piece of WWII history, please let us know and we’d be glad to print it here. Or, if you have any information to add to this story, please do share it with us. Thanks!
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Rough Justice: Days and Nights of a Young D.A.
tzs · 2015-05-03 · Original thread
It's out of print and kind of hard to find, but if you can get a copy of "Rough Justice: Days and Nights of a Young D.A." by David Heilbroner [1], it is well worth it. (Don't confuse it for the at least 10 other books whose titles start with "Rough Justice"...).
Heilbroner was a fresh law school graduate who took a job as a New York D.A., and then wrote this book about his time there. He started out handling misdemeanors, and there are a LOT of those. There's basically an assembly line, running all day and all night, to bring in those who have been arrested, get their paperwork to a D.A. for charging, get the arresting officer in to make a statement, and getting a hearing before a judge where the defendant usually pleads guilty and gets a fine.
The Public Defender has a similar assembly line going.
When his shift would start, he describes walking into the office, stepping over or around all the officers sleeping in the hall waiting to have their statements taken, then picking up all the cases that the previous shift was working on when their shift ended. Often he'd end up in court with a stack of cases he'd never seen, and have to frantically work to read the notes from the previous shift and skim the officer's statement as the case was being called.
When his shift ends, the cases he's working on are handed off to someone on the next shift, and almost always will be resolved by the time his next shift comes around. So there is no engagement with the case, he's just a cog in the machine, processing his pieces of paper as the pass through, and occasionally taking statements from officers, and reading from these pieces of paper in front of a judge.
Eventually he gets to handle felony cases, which for both the D.A.s and the Public Defenders are more like what they had in mind when they were in law school imagining what their jobs would be like--taking a case all the way from charging through to a trial, and actually making serious legal arguments.
It's quite an eye opener.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Justice-Nights-Young-D/dp/039458...
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Israel Hamas Forces Kerem Shalom Crossing to Shut Down
Hamas Forces Kerem Shalom Crossing to Shut Down
By Hamodia Staff
Monday, March 4, 2013 at 11:36 pm | כ"ב אדר תשע"ג
YERUSHALAYIM -
Attempts by Hamas to replace the current contractor at the Kerem Shalom Crossing on the Israel-Gaza border has resulted in a closure of the checkpoint.
Hamas has been actively trying to push the Palestinian Authority out and take charge of the management of Kerem Shalom so that they may collect revenue from goods that enter Gaza.
The crossing was closed after the Palestinian contractor responsible for the Palestinian side decided not to open the crossing Monday.
Over 70 trucks laden with food and other goods were stalled on the Israeli side of the crossing.
An Israeli government statement said that “these actions by Hamas endanger the current security arrangements and threaten the operability of the crossing.”
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major General Eitan Dangot, spoke this morning with senior officials in the Palestinian Authority to keep them informed of events as they unfolded and to emphasize that Israel cannot allow the operation of the crossing under such circumstances, given the security risks.
Kerem Shalom is the primary site for commercial goods crossing into the Gaza Strip and is therefore a vital portal for Gaza. It is located on the southern border between Israel and Gaza. An average of 300 trucks with food and other essentials transfer there every day. The crossing has been the site of numerous terror attacks in the past that have forced the crossing to close temporarily; today’s events, however, are the first time that Hamas has closed Kerem Shalom in this manner.
This article appeared in print on page 6 of the March 5th, 2013 edition of Hamodia.
Analysts: Hamas Burned Down Kerem Shalom Over Money Issues
Israel Re-Opens Kerem Shalom Border Crossing With Gaza
Kerem Shalom Crossing to Reopen After Tunnel Blasted
Israel Foils Attempts to Smuggle Explosives Via Kerem Shalom Crossing
Hamas: Kerem Shalom Closure ‘A Crime Against Humanity’
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Another interesting contract that was awarded on the 24th August 1899 was for the manufacture of a water pump for the Longford Water Trust. This was part of Longford’s earliest reticulated water supply and was first located downstream on site at Affleck’s water mills and driven by water turbine. The original contract price was £1500.
An excerpt from the Examiner Monday 19 March 1900:
The new pump for the supply is of the Anderson type, and was planned by Mr. R. Gould to suit the speed of the turbine gearing, and to give the requisite quantity of water. It was made by Messrs. Bogle and Clark, of Launceston, and reflects great credit upon them. It is built upon a concrete foundation, on which is fixed a heavy cast iron bed. The pumps and gearing are attached to this. They are three in number, and so arranged that if desired one or two could be worked without the other, and in addition to this a contrivance is made by which the quantity of water coming into the pumps may be regulated. The plungers of the pumps are made of brass, so as to prevent corrosion. The connecting rods, slipper guides, and crank shaft are all made of steel and beautifully finished. The geared wheels are of the helical pattern, which makes the cogs 50 per cent, stronger. The maximum speed is 60 strokes per minute, but the average speed at which it will be worked will be about 45. This will give at least 10,500 gallons per hour. There is a gauge to indicate the pressure on the pipes, and also a safety valve to prevent them from bursting. In addition to this there is also an air vessel of an entirely new pattern, which is a great improvement. The whole of the machinery is enclosed in a neat and substantial building, from the gable of which the Union Jack was floating in the breeze.
The pump after restoration
To celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, a lamp was erected on 23 June 1887 in front of Mr. Whitfield’s dispensary on the corner of Wellington and Marlborough Streets in Longford. Mr. Whitfield subsequently donated ornamental fixtures for the electric light in 1911. In 1896, Mr. J. Smale secured public subscriptions to erect a fountain at the site of the Jubilee lamp to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The structure was manufactured by Bogle & Clark Engineers for Longford Water Trust. The circular cast iron basin was 2 ft. 6 in high and 4ft 6 in in diameter with a depth of 10ins. It was supported by a central fluted column and four legs in the form of horses’ hooves. The column rising from the basin supported the lamp. Yoke maintenance arms were positioned beneath the lantern. The structure having been built to accommodate cattle was no match for the arrival of the motor car. In May 1924, a resident backed his car into it with such force that the fountain was dislodged and the lamp-post broken. Five years later in 1929 the drinking fountain was again repaired after being badly damaged in a collision only to suffer the same fate in 1939 when another motor vehicle collided with it in the early hours of the morning. It was moved 10 feet by the impact and badly damaged. At that time, it was decided to disconnect the water supply to prevent cows from gathering to drink as a separate water source was available for cattle a short distance away. The trough was restored in 1988 by Glasgow Engineering (previously known as Bogle & Clark) as part of Australia’s bicentennial celebrations. It is located in the area known as Heritage Corner.
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Acting to protect royalty payments BY JAMES LOEWENSTEIN (The Daily Review)
Posted by Robert Goodfellow on June 1, 2013 at 12:05am
For the complete article go to ---> http://thedailyreview.com/news/acting-to-protect-royalty-payments-1...
Review Photo/JAMES LOEWENSTEIN Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko says he is very upset with the size of deductions being taken out of many local residents' royalty checks. At left is Bradford County Chief Clerk Michelle Shedden, and at right is county commissioner Daryl Miller.
TOWANDA - Smithfield Township Supervisor Jackie Kingsley says that a gas company is deducting anywhere from 0 to 50 percent of her family's gas royalty payments for post-production costs.
Another Bradford County resident says that Chesapeake Energy Corp., which is the primary lease holder on her property, has been deducting anywhere from 35 to 50 percent of her gas royalty payments for post-production costs.
Five different Bradford County residents had a 12 1/2 percent royalty rate written on their lease, but, due to deductions for post-production costs, their most recent royalty payments actually ranged from 1.47 percent to 3.11 percent, according to Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko.
The Bradford County commissioners on Tuesday passed a resolution aimed at helping to address what they are calling unreasonably large deductions from royalty checks for post-production costs.
The resolution asks the Legislature to address the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's March 2010 ruling in the Kilmer vs. Elexco Land Service Inc. case, which allowed deductions for post-production costs to reduce royalty payments below the state's 12 1/2 percent guaranteed minimum royalty rate.
Specifically, the resolution asks the state legislature to take action that would prevent deductions for post-production expenses from reducing royalty payments below 12 1/2 percent.
"Just about everyone knew that with every lease, we were guaranteed a minimum of a 12 1/2 percent royalty," said Eric Matthews, chairman of the Bradford County Republican Party. "Then the state Supreme Court made a decision that changed that interpretation. We want the Legislature to correct that."
McLinko said there are "hundreds and hundreds" of cases in Bradford County where unreasonably large deductions are being taken out of gas royalty checks.
"I'm very upset about this," McLinko said. "This (cases where unreasonably large deductions are being taken out of royalty payments) is out of control."
The deductions are being taken out for various expenses, such as transporting the gas to market, processing the gas and transporting the gas to market.
McLinko said he has talked to county commissioners from other gas-producing states who are "shocked" when they find out the size of post-production deductions that are being taken out of the Bradford County property owners' checks.
McLinko said that gas companies differ on the extent to which they deduct post-production costs from royalty payments.
One company might make "unreasonable" deductions, another might make "reasonable" deductions, while a third might make no deductions at all, he said.
Pickett said that she has received complaints from her constituents who are shocked at how large the deductions for post-production costs are. A large number of those complaints, she said, are against Chesapeake Energy. However, Pickett quickly pointed out, the large number of complaints against Chesapeake may be related to the fact that the company has drilled the most wells in Bradford County, and is presumably is the largest producer of natural gas in the county.
Pickett said there are other issues related to post-production costs, including the fact that many people can't determine the specific expense that is being deducted from their royalty check and have no way of knowing whether the gas company is overcharging them for the deductions.
The resolution passed by the commissioners on Tuesday is simply a "starting point" for addressing the issues related to post-production costs, McLinko said.
McLinko said that royalty payments can be crucial to a family's budget.
For example, an elderly couple's monthly royalty payment of $500 to $600 could be a "game changer" for them, because it might enable them to pay their property taxes so they can stay in their home, or buy medications.
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Jupiter is the fifth planet by distance from the sun and the sixth by movement speed, making it the second slowest among the visible planets. Despite its vast distance from the earth, the fact that it is the largest planet in our solar system means that it does have some direct physical influence on our lives. For example, it’s most famous influence is that of a cosmic shield, which partially defends us from the asteroids and comets getting trapped in its gravitational field.
While its role as a defender doesn’t get much fanfare in our daily lives, most ancient cultures gave it far more importance and even considered it the embodiment of great deities such as Zeus and Thor. And while the true reason for such admiration has become lost in history, its critical role in guarding us from extinction definitely adds to its importance.
The great reverence towards Jupiter was also paralleled in its astrological symbolism. In western astrology, Jupiter represents luck and hope, growth and prosperity, wealth and generosity, happiness and abundance. This symbolism can also be found in vedic astrology, where it also represents the husband instead of Mars. It also represents marriage, children, wisdom and education, faith and religion, and anatomically the liver and body fat.
So how come he is the one representing happiness and luck?
Jupiter became the main significator of growth and abundance as the result of simply being the largest of the planets. With growth and abundance being viewed very positively, especially in ancient societies that were subject to scarcity and famine, its association with happiness and luck became almost automatic. Other examples of increase which were universally seen as a blessing, such as financial success and childbirth, also helped to cement this association.
Inversely, luck and growth are seen as positive forces in their own right, and the ones bringing about the aforementioned growth and prosperity. As an example, career growth requires the presence of opportunities that would allow it to happen, and marriage is directly dependent on the luck a person has when it comes to finding an appropriate match. Even pregnancy, despite the huge advances in modern science, is still largely a draw of the luck, and requires quite a bit of it to occur at a time when it is actually wanted and to progress without any major issues.
So to be lucky one has to be religious?
At its most basic, the connection between Jupiter and religion stems from his association with some of the most important deities in most cultures. But in reality, the connection stems from the expansion of belief required for its existence. In addition, when we pray to a higher power it is an expression of hope, and the prayer itself contains a request for improvement and prosperity.
The connection of Jupiter to education and wisdom also stems from association with expansion, as education requires the growth and expansion of knowledge while wisdom requires the growth and expansion of experience. Both of these are also considered a blessing in their own right, as the expansion of education often brings about financial improvement through better jobs, while wisdom allows one to advance more easily in life by avoiding pitfalls.
And how is all of this connected to a husband?
Traditionally, it was the role of the husband to provide food, shelter and other necessities for his wife, hence the connection to Jupiter who represents abundance, and in many families this role is maintained even today.
The connection of Jupiter to marriage however stems from it originally being a religious ceremony, performed by the local representatives of the faith. In addition, in the majority of cultures it is the husband’s role to propose the marriage. Another important connection to Jupiter is the fact that the purpose of marriage is the expansion of the family, both through the addition of the spouse and through the later addition of children.
It should however be noted that while the marriage itself is represented by Jupiter, the relationship between the partners both before and after marriage remains the domain of Venus.
I always said that one can spot a married man by his beer belly, but why the liver?
As mentioned before, Jupiter is the largest of the planets and represents expansion, hence its connection to fat is quite self explanatory. But the true reason why Jupiter ia connected to fat lies in the fact that fat deposits are only formed by the body when it receives a surplus of nutrition. Such a surplus is only possible when the person has access to an abundance of food, and as previously mentioned Jupiter represents abundance and plenty.
The connection between Jupiter and the liver also stems from its size, as the liver is thr largest and heaviest of the internal organs just as Jupiter us the largest and heaviest of the planets. It is also the organ responsible for absorbing, storing and distribution of the nutritious elements extracted by the digestive system, giving him the role of provider. It is also responsible for storing vitamins and minerals, hence the connection to prosperity and abundance, as well as for the processing of fats into energy for the body.
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Home>Press Release>Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Health and Children publishes the Report of the Independent Review Panel concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone
Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Health and Children publishes the Report of the Independent Review Panel concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone
Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Health and Children this evening (December 20, 2002) published the Report of the Independent Review Panel concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone. The Minister also published the Report of the North Eastern Health Board and all other relevant documentation and appendices.
The Minister again wishes to convey his deepest sympathy to the Livingstone family on the death of baby Bronagh.
The Minister notes that the conclusions of the Independent Review Panel are at variance with the findings of the North Eastern Health Board´s Report. Having reviewed the NEHB Report and interviewed the relevant parties, the Independent Review Panel concluded that Bronagh Livingstone’s birth was imminent shortly after she arrived at Monaghan General Hospital. Consequently no attempt should have been made to transfer Ms Livingstone to Cavan General Hospital prior to delivery. Instead a team from CGH or our Lady of Lourdes,Drogheda should have been requested to come to MGH as quickly as possible. In conjunction with this request; personnel such as the Consultant Anaesthetist on call should have been brought in, and the equipment existing in MGH should have been mobilised to stabilize the baby in the event of its delivery and prior to its transfer to a tertiary care facility. A similar event had occurred previously at MGH and is common practice in such obstetric emergencies in hospitals where a maternity service is not available.
The Report of the Independent Review Panel suggests that there are a range of factors in Monaghan Hospital which may influence the actions of individual practitioners in a way not conducive to optimal care. A number of management and /or organisational weaknesses have also been identified. The Report points to the need for a more active and participative approach in the management of the hospital.
The Minister has appointed a Management Consultant, Mr. Kevin Bonnar (former Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise and Employment) to work with the Board in addressing this requirement. The terms of reference for Mr. Bonnar are:
To assist and work with the Board in implementing the findings of the Report of the Independent Review Panel
To recommend an appropriate management structure for Monaghan Hospital and assist the Board in implementing the structure
To facilitate the resolution of outstanding issues pertaining to the provision of services at Monaghan Hospital, with particular references to emergencies
This project will embrace conflict resolution processes, addressing internal relationships between key staff and external relationships with the local community and other stakeholders. The Minister will be meeting with the North Eastern Health Board to discuss the Report.
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Ethical Questions For Healthcare Professionals
Today’s physicians are subject to numerous competing pressures, rooted in both time and money, perhaps to an extent they’ve never experienced before. Medical Economics consulted doctors and healthcare experts to explore the push-pull of four ethical, financial, and logistical dilemmas that doctors must navigate in 2014--and beyond.
Consider the trends. Patients newly insured through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), some with long-ignored medical needs, will be flooding the system, with slightly more than eight million people signed up by late April, according to federal officials. Medicaid eligibility also expanded in 26 states. Meanwhile, the U.S. health system is rapidly evolving. Hospitals are consolidating and building networks, many doctors are moving away from independent practice, and everyone from federal officials to the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s “Choosing Wisely” campaign are targeting ever-rising treatment costs.
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August Sustainer Saturday at UNC-TV Delivers Results and Engages Sustainers
The University of North Carolina’s public television network, UNC-TV, has recently been experimenting with its approach to pledge. It has reduced self-help programming and the number of days devoted to pledge drives. As a result, it has been looking for more mission-driven fundraising options to counter the expected decrease in pledge revenue.
Monique Edwards
One approach has been a successful digital campaign (UNC-TV Sees Revenue Rise: Ups Digital Investment & Reduces On-Air Fundraising). Another has been a fresh focus on sustainers.“We wanted to be creative and think of a way to offset that revenue loss by using our most effective sustainer acquisition tool – on-air – to bring new members onto the file as sustainers.” says Monique Edwards, UNC-TV’s annual giving manager. “We wanted something that worked in conjunction with our mission –to talk impact and what we do—and sustainers tie into that.”
Giving Sustainers Their Own Identity
To start, Edwards began rebranding the network’s sustainers with a dedicated “Sustaining Circle” logo. “I wanted to give them an identity. There’s something special in the individuality that sustainers value,” she says. More than just getting a gift, the feeling of being part of a special segment of the audience makes a difference. Beginning in late 2016, UNC-TV began using the new logo every time it referenced sustainers on-air, in print and digitally through emails.
To personalize the donor experience, we reached out to our sustainers and asked them to tape testimonials for us, about their experience being a sustainer and why being this type of member was important to them. The testimonial that resonated the most on social media was one that connected with that specific demographic – someone who was a millennial herself, mother of two and fan of PBS children’s programming.
Then, the network planned a June Sustainer Saturday event to coincide with that month’s drive. “It was a last-minute decision,” Edwards admits. “Maybe we did a week’s worth of planning. We decided to dedicate one day that was sustainer-focused. We didn’t pledge or preach to premiums. We only talked about sustainers, impact and mission.” Edwards and crew saw the day as an opportunity to educate their audience about how vital sustainers were to the station’s goals—and to weed out those who gave with a transactional mindset. “We wanted to retrain them to look at sustainers differently. They were looking at it as an installment option in which they would pay for a gift over 12 months,” Edwards explains. Instead, the on-air segments promoted the mission-driven value of sustainers apart from premiums.
“There was very little structure,” she says about June’s Sustainer Saturday. “The only place it was communicated was on-air. We created a bumper for it but didn’t have a spot.” No digital or social media components supported the campaign.
But during that one day, UNC-TV was able to bring on 43 new sustainers who provided $5,703 in annualized revenue. Sustainers accounted for 47 percent of the revenue on that day, with 91 percent originating on-air. Because the planning had been so limited, the results were encouraging. UNC-TV saw potential. Could putting more effort into another Sustainer Saturday bring even better results?
Strategy Pays Off
Edwards and other staff members began strategizing about another Sustainer Saturday in August. “We decided to anchor a Sustainer Saturday with a sustainer challenge to see if it could drive even more participation,” she says. The network began promoting the event almost two weeks ahead of time. “We circulated information about the event through all our channels – digitally, on-air, the website, and print.” They also used this opportunity to cut new recapture and information spots – used as roll-ins during Sustainer Saturday. Rather than premium gifts, sustainers at any level received a branded UNC-TV Sustaining Circle kit plus a sustainers-only t-shirt unveiled on-air during the event. “I just wanted to see if we could drive new sustainer participation,” says Edwards.
A key part of the strategy was ensuring the phone volunteers on the day of the event were sustainers themselves. “They interacted on-air and gave testimonials on-air,” she says. “On the phones, they were able to educate viewers calling in. A large number of calls that came in were members contemplating becoming a sustainer and asking what that experience was like.”
The goal for the August campaign was to bring in 200 new sustainers – Sustainer Saturday being the final push to achieve that goal. By the end of the day, the station had 245 brand new sustainers with more than a quarter of them (68) coming in on Saturday – an increase of 37% over the 1st Sustainer Saturday in June. The average gift for the June Saturday was $11.97, compared to an August average of $15.12.
A metric which is sometimes more difficult to measure is the impact of “reason for giving.” We hoped our new approach of mission over premium would decrease the number of transactional donors. We’ve been seeing a steady decline in the number of donors we lose immediately following a drive due to “buyer’s remorse” or bad credit card status. Compared to the 2016 August drive, we had 55% fewer sustainers who came on during the drive revert to bad credit card status or cancel the 1st month following the drive. This resulted in a 43% decrease in the amount of annual lost revenue.
Knowledge = Better Pitching = Higher Engagement
The results caught the attention of Monique’s colleagues at UNC-TV. “I’m the sustaining specialist here and know in-depth about the program, but you’d be surprised how other staff doesn’t know much about it,” she explains. “They aren’t as in the weeds with sustainers as I am.” But it’s important for every member of the team to be educated because they’re the ones helping communicate the message to viewers. As they become more comfortable and confident discussing the value of sustaining members, their on-air pitch will improve. “The more we educate the public, the more we educate our staff, too,” Edwards says. And while the presence of the sustainers on the phones helped drive these positive numbers, Edwards also believes it was a great way to keep those veteran sustainers engaged. “As we cultivate [sustainers] more, I’m seeing a better response and willingness to participate. They want to feel included as opposed to us just corresponding with them.”
She and UNC-TV are already looking forward to the next drive. “As soon as that Saturday ended, ideas for the next one were coming at me,” she says. At the top of her list is a Sustainer Saturday branded around converting check pledges to electronic funds transfer (EFT). “We’re hopeful this is the start of something.”
Questions? Tracy Ferrier I Director I PBS Development Services or Monique Edwards I Annual Giving Manager I UNC-TV
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Part I Overview Information
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), (http://www.nimh.nih.gov)
Title: Novel NeuroAIDS Therapeutics: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program (P01)
Update: The following update relating to this announcement has been issued:
July 8, 2013 - This PAR has been reissued as PAR-13-267.
August 5, 2010 - See Notice NOT-MH-10-029 The purpose of this notice is to correct the Eligibility Information.
Looking ahead: As part of the Department of Health and Human Services' implementation of e-Government the NIH will gradually transition each research grant mechanism to electronic submission through Grants.gov and the use of the SF 424 Research and Related (R&R) forms. For more information and an initial timeline, see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-035.html. NIH will announce each grant mechanism change in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html).
Program Announcement (PA) Number: PAR-10-216
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number(s)
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): August 7, 2010; August 7, 2011; August 7, 2012
Application Receipt Date(s): September 7, 2010; September 7, 2011; September 7, 2012
Peer Review Date(s): November 2010, November 2011, November 2012
Council Review Date(s): January 2011, January 2012, January 2013
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: April 2011
Additional Information to Be Available Date (Url Activation Date): Add Information Here
Expiration Date: September 8, 2012
Additional Overview Content
Purpose. The aim of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to support research focused on accelerating basic and translational scientific discoveries with a plan to advance drug therapeutics for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND). Recent clinical observations indicate that over 50% of HIV infected patients manifest HAND despite receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). These clinical observations inform the need to obtain a better understanding of HAND and to develop novel therapeutic drug candidates to prevent or interfere with progression of HAND. Applicants are invited to develop a multidisciplinary program with a minimum of three highly integrated research projects and one Administrative Core focused on research and development of novel therapeutics for HAND. At least one component (research project) may be derived from industry (i.e., pharmaceutical, chemical, bioengineering or biotechnological companies). A Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) for each award under this FOA will be constituted within 6 months of the award.
Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH Program Project (P01) award mechanism.
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary.
Budget and Project Period. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed five years. Budget limitations for individual applications are specified in Section II.2.
Application Research Strategy Length. The P01 Research Strategy section may not exceed 6 pages for each Project and 6 pages for each Core, including tables, graphs, figures, diagrams, and charts. See Table of Page Limits.
Eligible Institutions/Organizations. Institutions/organizations listed in Section III.1.A are eligible to apply.
Eligible Project Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs). Individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research are invited to work with their institution/organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.
Number of PDs/PIs. More than one PD/PI, or multiple PDs/PIs, may be designated on the application.
Number of Applications. Applicants may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
Resubmissions. Applicants may submit a resubmission application, but such application must include an Introduction addressing the previous peer review critique (Summary Statement). See new NIH policy on resubmission (amended) applications (NOT-OD-09-003, NOT-OD-09-016).
Renewals. Applicants may submit a renewal application.
Special Date(s). This FOA uses non-standard due dates. See Receipt, Review and Anticipated Start Dates.
Application Materials. See Section IV.1 for application materials.
Hearing Impaired. Telecommunications for the hearing impaired are available at: TTY (301) 451-5936
Part II Full Text of Announcement
1. Research Objectives
1. Mechanism of Support
2. Funds Available
A. Eligible Institutions
B. Eligible Individuals
2. Cost Sharing or Matching
3. Other - Special Eligibility Criteria
1. Address to Request Application Information
A. Receipt and Review and Anticipated Start Dates
1. Letter of Intent
B. Sending an Application to the NIH
C. Application Processing
4. Intergovernmental Review
6. Other Submission Requirements
Section VII. Agency Contact(s)
1. Scientific/Research Contact(s)
2. Peer Review Contact(s)
3. Financial/ Grants Management Contact(s)
Section VIII. Other Information - Required Federal Citations
Part II - Full Text of Announcement
The aim of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to support research focused on accelerating basic and translational scientific discoveries with a plan to advance drug therapeutics for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND). Recent clinical observations indicate that over 50% of HIV infected patients manifest HAND despite receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). These clinical observations inform the need to obtain a better understanding of HAND and to develop novel therapeutic drug candidates to prevent or interfere with progression of HAND. Applicants are invited to develop a multidisciplinary program with a minimum of three highly integrated research projects and one Administrative Core focused on research & development of novel therapeutics for HAND. At least one component (research project) may be derived from industry (i.e., pharmaceutical, chemical, bioengineering or biotechnological companies). A Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) for each award under this FOA will be constituted within 6 months of the award.
This funding opportunity follows RFA-MH-09-040 issued by NIMH, and RFA-AI-06-009 issued jointly by NIAID and NIMH, to stimulate further research on the consequences of HIV infection of the central nervous system (CNS) in order to foster the development of drug therapeutics specifically directed toward HIV–associated neurologic and neuropsychiatric complications. Despite the widespread use of anti-retroviral therapy the prevalence of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND) remains significantly high. The recently updated definitional criteria for HAND identified categories for classifying various stages of disease in the post-HAART era. The categories of HAND include Asymptomatic Neurocognitive Impairment (ANI), Mild Neurocognitive Disorder (MND), and HIV-Associated Dementia (HAD). In the current treatment environment MND is more prevalent, yet recent studies demonstrate that even mild neurocognitive deficits can interfere with activities of daily living and reduce quality of life in long-standing aviremic HIV-positive patients. Thus, there is a vital need to develop novel therapeutic strategies to treat the consequences of HIV infection in the CNS.
Another critical issue that is of emerging interest is the interaction of chronic HIV infection, living with HAART long term, and aging associated neurodegenerative processes. The Center for Disease Control has indicated that the number of persons aged 50 years and older living with HIV/AIDS is increasing and derives from two subpopulations: (1) HIV-diagnosed cases of a “younger group” surviving into older age because of the efficacy of HAART in reducing mortality; and (2) newly HIV-infected cases of an “older group.” As a result of this major demographic shift there is an urgent need to better define the underlying pathophysiology of neurological complications and neurocognitive decline in the HIV infected aging populations. Novel therapeutic interventions aimed at improving or preserving neurocognitive function in HIV patients should enable successful aging with HIV.
Translation into the clinic of novel drug candidates for patients with HAND will involve a concerted effort to identify and validate novel host and viral targets, identify immunological approaches to contain HIV infection, and drug agents or strategies to eliminate viral reservoirs. The NIMH proposes to foster the Novel NeuroAIDS Therapeutics: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program (IPCP) to open new research directions and support translation of new drug candidates to the clinic which have the potential to prevent or interfere with progression of HAND.
The objectives of the Novel NeuroAIDS Therapies: Integrated IPCP are to support: (1) basic research on HIV pathogenic mechanisms in the central nervous system (CNS) that address the evolving disease phenotypes resulting from long term HAART treatment and aging events; (2) discovery research to identify clinical biomarkers linked with HAND progression and response to HAART; (3) preclinical research focused on novel targets and drug candidates: and (4) pilot clinical proof-of-concept studies (10-30 subjects) to facilitate translation of novel drug candidates for HAND to clinical settings. Successful programs will develop a new treatment concept that can be translated to clinical practice and/or open a new research direction.
Applications may propose: (a) basic research exclusively; (b) basic research that transitions to preclinical research during the award; and (c) preclinical research that transitions to pilot clinical research during the award.Appropriate applications will involve creative and original research that will address the unmet medical need of patients with HAND by moving new treatment concepts to the clinic. Although not required, applications may include at least one component (a research project or core) headed by, and derived from, the private sector, e.g., a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company.
Examples of research relevant to this FOA include, but are not limited to:
Development and validation of new therapeutic targets to treat HAND;
Discovery, development, and evaluation of small molecule inhibitors of viral, cellular proteins, or pathways critical to HAND progression;
Discovery research to identify clinical biomarkers linked with progression of HAND and response to HAART across the lifespan;
Establishment of animal models of HAND in acute infection, chronic infection, and aging;
Identification of the viral and host genetic factors contributing to HAND which may lead to the development of CNS targeted drug therapeutics;
Strategies to improve the interacting nervous system and immune system responses which show promise in improving immune and/or neurobehavioral functioning;
Research on mechanisms of HIV persistence within the CNS and development of strategies or drug therapies to eliminate CNS viral reservoirs;
Gene transfer strategies to interfere with the replication, spread, or secondary damage of HIV-1 in the CNS;
Development of anti HIV-1 therapeutic drugs capable of penetrating the blood-brain barrier and decreasing the viral load in the CNS;
Development of therapeutic strategies for increasing the effective concentration, or activity, or entry of HAART and other agents into the CNS;
Development of adjunctive therapies, including neuroprotective strategies, to treat HAND;
Strategies to prevent HAND.
Applications that propose research on non-targeted random screening of potential inhibitors or research on AIDS-associated pathogens or malignancies are not considered relevant to this FOA.
Each application must be composed of a minimum of three interrelated research projects and an Administrative Core. In addition, one or more Scientific Cores may be proposed. An integrated strategy for accomplishing the stated program objectives is required. Applications not meeting the above described requirements, with regard to the number and types of projects/cores, will not be reviewed.
One component of this initiative is the option to form partnerships between academia and the private sector to facilitate the movement of new discoveries in basic and preclinical research toward therapeutic drug strategies for HAND that can be evaluated in animals or humans. For the purpose of this FOA, the term “private sector” comprises large and small, domestic and foreign, for-profit and non-profit pharmaceutical, biotechnology, bioengineering, and chemical companies. At least one research project may be contributed by the private sector partner if the applicant institution is from academia; conversely, at least one research project may be contributed by an academic partner if the applicant institution is from the private sector.
The private sector partner must: propose a research plan that integrates into the overall program objectives and contributes materially and intellectually to the overall goals, must contribute expertise and/or resources not generally available in academia, and include investigators who have a track record of past successes in moving concepts to practical applications. Relevant expertise that might be provided by this type of partner includes assay development, set up and implementation of high throughput screening, medicinal chemistry, or any of the activities involved in drug discovery and development. Projects from a private sector partner proposing to provide only resources or services, even if unique, will be deemed non-responsive, and the application will not be reviewed.
Applications are encouraged to reach early consensus with any proposed partners regarding intellectual property, data sharing, and other legal matters that may arise during the project in order to ensure that the goals of this program will be met. In addition, applicants are expected to exercise their Bayh-Dole rights in a manner that is consistent with meeting the goals of the award and the intent of the Bayh-Dole Act to promote the utilization, commercialization and availability of U.S. Government-funded inventions for public benefit. Finally, applicants are expected to make new information and materials known to the research community in a timely manner through publications, web announcements, and reports to NIMH consistent with laws, regulations, and NIH policies.
PD/PI Time Commitment
Due to the complexity and time required to maintain a well coordinated and productive research effort, a minimum effort of 2.4 person months by each PI and Project leader is suggested.
Each application must include an administrative core headed by a Core Leader with experience in program project management. The Core Leader may also be the Principal Investigator of the application. The Administrative Core is a resource to the program project, providing for the overall management, coordination and supervision of the program. As part of the administrative core section of the application, a plan should be provided that addresses the structure of the core, the roles of core staff and lines of authority, coordination of program components into an integrated scientific strategy, problem identification and resolution to ensure ongoing management of an integrated scientific program, fiscal accountability, and the establishment of a strong collaborative environment for the program. Funding for the overall administrative efforts, including secretarial, and other administrative services, expenses for publications demonstrating collaborative efforts, communication expenses, and travel expenses related to the annual meeting should be requested in the administrative core budget.
Scientific Cores
One or more scientific cores may be proposed. A scientific core is a resource to the multi-project grant as a whole and must support at least two of the proposed research projects. The application must indicate the specific projects to be served by the scientific core(s). Typically a core performs a service-type activity rather than hypothesis-driven research. Examples of services that could be provided by such cores include: routine in vitro assays, cell processing and preparation, standard pharmacology and toxicology tests. The placing of clinical trials or other significant clinical activity in a core is not appropriate; applications structured in this manner will be deemed as non-responsive and will not be reviewed.
Leverage Existing Government Resources
It is expected that applicants leverage existing government-funded resources, such as Clinical and Translational Science Awards, Centers for AIDS Research and NIH Roadmap programs, whenever possible. For more information see, http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/initiativeslist.asp. Provide documentation in the application that such services and resources will be available to the program.
Scientific Advisory Panel
The Project Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) will constitute a Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) of 2-3 investigators not affiliated with any of the institutions comprising the group within six months of the award. The SAP will attend the awardee’s annual meeting to review program activities and evaluate progress, adherence to the benchmarks and timelines, and the continued relevance of each project and core to the overall goals. The SAP will recommend new directions as appropriate and will provide the PI and NIMH with a comprehensive written evaluation of the group’s activities following each annual meeting.
An annual meeting is required which should be held at the NIH in Bethesda, MD: the NIMH Project Officer, NIMH Program Staff, Scientific Advisory Panel, Principal Investigator and Co-Investigators will participate in this meeting. During this meeting presentations will be expected to include summaries of all goals, benchmarks achieved during the review period, and a description of all problems encountered that may have an impact on the future direction of the scientific hypotheses. The goal is to ensure NIMH has a coherent view of the advances, to provide an opportunity for collective problem solving among investigators and to reinforce the program goal of maintaining an integrated scientific approach. Applicants should include in their budgets the cost of travel for the PI, Co-Investigators, and any proposed costs for the to-be-named members of the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to attend these annual meetings.
NOTE: The SAP may NOT be constituted prior to award and names of potential members are NOT to be provided in the application.
See Section VIII, Other Information - Required Federal Citations, for policies related to this announcement.
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will use the NIH Program Project (P01) award mechanism. The applicant will be solely responsible for planning, directing, and executing the proposed project.
Program project grants support integrated multidisciplinary research programs that are broadly based and have a well-defined, central research focus or objective. An important feature is that the interrelationships of the individual scientifically meritorious projects will result in a greater contribution to the overall program goals than if each project were pursued individually.
Certain Program Projects may propose a clinical trial component. Since the clinical research to be carried out under this program may pose more than minimal risk to study subjects, the P01 will be converted to a cooperative agreement (U19) when the project transitions to the clinical mode. Terms of agreement will be negotiated with the PI and the applicant institution at the time of the transition.
This FOA uses “Just-in-Time” information concepts. It also uses non-modular budget formats described in the PHS 398 application instructions (see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html).
The total project period for an application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed five years. For applications proposing basic research exclusively throughout the 5 year term, up to $675,000 direct costs may be requested yearly. Applications proposing the use of large animals (e.g., non-human primates) may request up to $800,000 direct costs in any year(s) that such large animals will be needed and, for applications proposing pilot clinical studies, the budget may include up to $950,000 direct costs in any year(s) in which clinical studies are being conducted.
Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. Although the financial plans of the IC(s) provide support for this program, awards pursuant to this funding opportunity are contingent upon the availability of funds.
Facilities and administrative costs requested by consortium participants are not included in the direct cost limitation, see NOT-OD-05-004.
1.A. Eligible Institutions
The following organizations/institutions are eligible to apply:
Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organizations
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations)
Faith-based or Community-based Organizations.
1.B. Eligible Individuals
Any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research is invited to work with his/her institution to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.
More than one PD/PI, or multiple PDs/PIs, may be designated on the application for projects that require a “team science” approach and therefore clearly do not fit the single-PD/PI model. Additional information on the implementation plans, policies and procedures to formally allow more than one PD/PI on individual research projects is available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/multi_pi. All PDs/PIs must be registered in the NIH eRA Commons prior to the submission of the application (see http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/preparing.htm for instructions).
The decision of whether to apply for a grant with a single PD/PI or multiple PDs/PIs is the responsibility of the investigators and applicant organizations and should be determined by the scientific goals of the project. Applications for grants with multiple PDs/PIs will require additional information, as outlined in the instructions below. When considering multiple PDs/PIs, please be aware that the structure and governance of the PD/PI leadership team as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the individual PDs/PIs will be factored into the assessment of the overall scientific merit of the application. Multiple PDs/PIs on a project share the authority and responsibility for leading and directing the project, intellectually and logistically. Each PD/PI is responsible and accountable to the grantee organization, or, as appropriate, to a collaborating organization, for the proper conduct of the project or program, including the submission of required reports. For further information on multiple PDs/PIs, please see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/multi_pi.
This program does not require cost sharing as defined in the current NIH Grants Policy Statement.
3. Other-Special Eligibility Criteria
Resubmissions. Applicants may submit a resubmission application, but such application must include an Introduction addressing the previous peer review critique (Summary Statement). Beginning with applications intended for the January 25, 2009 official submission due date, all original new applications (i.e., never submitted) and competing renewal applications are permitted only a single amendment (A1). See new NIH policy on resubmission (amended) applications (NOT-OD-09-003, NOT-OD-09-016).
The current PHS 398 application instructions are available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html in an interactive format. Applicants must use the currently approved version of the PHS 398.
For further assistance contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301) 710-0267, Email: GrantsInfo@nih.gov.
Telecommunications for the hearing impaired: TTY 301-451-5936.
Prepare all applications using the PHS 398 application forms in accordance with the PHS 398 Application Guide (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html).
Applications must have a D&B Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number as the universal identifier when applying for Federal grants or cooperative agreements. The D&B number can be obtained by calling (866) 705-5711 or through the web site at http://www.dnb.com/us/. The D&B number should be entered on line 11 of the face page of the PHS 398 form.
The title and number of this funding opportunity must be typed in item (box) 2 only of the face page of the application form and the YES box must be checked.
Foreign Organizations [Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entity]
NIH policies concerning grants to foreign (non-U.S.) organizations can be found in the NIH Grants Policy Statement at: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/NIHGPS_Part12.htm#_Toc54600260.
Applications from foreign organizations must:
Request budgets in U.S. dollars.
Contain detailed budgets. See NOT-OD-06-096.
Not include charge back of customs and import fees.
Comply with the format specifications, which are based upon a standard U.S. paper size of 8.5” x 11” within each PDF.
If appropriate, funds for up to 8% Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs (excluding equipment) may be requested. (See NOT-OD-01-028)
Comply with Federal/NIH policies on human subjects, animals, and biohazards.
Comply with Federal/NIH biosafety and biosecurity regulations. See Section VI.2., “Administrative and National Policy Requirements.”
Proposed research should provide special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions in other countries that are not readily available in the United States or that augment existing U.S. resources.
Applications with Multiple PDs/PIs
When multiple PD/PIs are proposed, use the Face Page-Continued page to provide items 3a – 3h for all PD/PIs. NIH requires one PD/PI be designated as the “contact PD/PI” for all communications between the PD/PIs and the agency. The contact PD/PI must meet all eligibility requirements for PD/PI status in the same way as other PD/PIs, but has no special roles or responsibilities within the project team beyond those mentioned above. The contact PD/PI may be changed during the project period. The contact PD/PI should be listed in block 3 of Form Page 1 (the Face Page), with all additional PD/PIs listed on Form Page 1-Continued. When inserting the name of the PD/PI in the header of each application page, use the name of the “Contact PD/PI, et. al.” The contact PD/PI must be from the applicant organization if PD/PIs are from more than one institution.
All individuals designated as PD/PI must be registered in the eRA Commons and must be assigned the PD/PI role in that system (other roles will not give the PD/PI the appropriate access to the application records). Each PD/PI must include their respective eRA Commons ID in the eRA Commons User Name field.
Multiple PD/PI Leadership Plan: For applications designating multiple PDs/PIs, the section of the Research Plan entitled “Multiple PD/PI Leadership Plan”, must be included. A rationale for choosing a multiple PD/PI approach should be described. The governance and organizational structure of the leadership team and the research project should be described, and should include communication plans, process for making decisions on scientific direction, and procedures for resolving conflicts. The roles and administrative, technical, and scientific responsibilities for the project or program should be delineated for the PDs/PIs and other collaborators.
If budget allocation is planned, the distribution of resources to specific components of the project or the individual PDs/PIs should be delineated in the Leadership Plan. In the event of an award, the requested allocations may be reflected in a footnote on the Notice of Award.
Additional information is available in the PHS 398 grant application instructions.
See Section IV.3.A. for details.
3.A. Receipt, Review and Anticipated Start Dates
Letter of Intent Receipt Date(s): August 7, 2010; August 7, 2011; August 7, 2012
Council Review Date(s): January 2011, January, 2012, January 2013
Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s): April 2011, April 2012, April 2013
3.A.1. Letter of Intent
Prospective applicants are asked to submit a letter of intent that includes the following information:
Descriptive title of proposed research
Name, address, and telephone number of the Principal Investigator
Names of other key personnel
Number and title of this funding opportunity
Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows IC staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.
The letter of intent is to be sent by the date listed in Section IV.3.A.
Jeymohan Joseph, Ph.D.
Division of AIDS Research
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6219, MSC 9619
Email: jjeymoha@mail.nih.gov
3.B. Sending an Application to the NIH
Applications must be prepared using the research grant application forms found in the PHS 398 instructions for preparing a research grant application. Submit a signed, typewritten original of the application, including the checklist, and three signed photocopies in one package to:
6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 1040, MSC 7710
Bethesda, MD 20892-7710 (U.S. Postal Service Express or regular mail)
Bethesda, MD 20817 (for express/courier service; non-USPS service)
Personal deliveries of applications are no longer permitted (see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-040.html).
At the time of submission, two additional copies of the application and all copies of the appendix materials must be sent to:
Shuang-Bao Hu, Ph.D.
Division of Extramural Activities
Bethesda, MD 20892-9609
Rockville, MD 20852 (for express/courier service)
3.C. Application Processing
Applications must be received on or before the application receipt date(s) described in Section IV.3.A. If an application is received after that date, it may be delayed in the review process or not reviewed.
Upon receipt applications will be evaluated for completeness by CSR. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
The NIH will not accept any application in response to this funding opportunity that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial merit review unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. The NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed. However, the NIH will accept a resubmission application, but such application must include an Introduction addressing the critique from the previous review.
Information on the status of an application should be checked by the Principal Investigator in the eRA Commons at: https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/.
Pre-award costs are allowable. A grantee may, at its own risk and without NIH prior approval, incur obligations and expenditures to cover costs up to 90 days before the beginning date of the initial budget period of a new or renewal award if such costs: 1) are necessary to conduct the project, and 2) would be allowable under the grant, if awarded, without NIH prior approval. If specific expenditures would otherwise require prior approval, the grantee must obtain NIH approval before incurring the cost. NIH prior approval is required for any costs to be incurred more than 90 days before the beginning date of the initial budget period of a new or renewal award.
The incurrence of pre-award costs in anticipation of a competing or non-competing award imposes no obligation on NIH either to make the award or to increase the amount of the approved budget if an award is made for less than the amount anticipated and is inadequate to cover the pre-award costs incurred. NIH expects the grantee to be fully aware that pre-award costs result in borrowing against future support and that such borrowing must not impair the grantee's ability to accomplish the project objectives in the approved time frame or in any way adversely affect the conduct of the project (see NIH Grants Policy Statement https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/NIHGPS_Part6.htm).
Test-of-concept studies in humans are within the scope of this FOA if they are directly linked to basic and/or preclinical research to be performed under the award. A brief description of how a study might test a proposed therapeutic concept should be placed in the project research strategy section. Applicants must address the following elements: study design, rationale for the design, study objectives, study population, statistical design and analysis, management and quality control of data, receipt and storage of human samples, proposed clinical sites and investigators. Recognizing that the details of the study will change as a result of scientific progress and as a function of review by various institutional and governmental bodies, a formal protocol is not requested. However, applicants must address all NIH-required human subjects’ issues, including protection against research risks and gender, minority, and child representation in the human subjects section of the application as described in the PHS 398 application instructions. Applications that do not include a clinical study plan (if applicable) will not be reviewed.
Supplemental Instruction for Preparing Multi-Project Applications
Additional instructions are required because the Form PHS 398 is designed primarily for individual, free-standing research project grant applications, and has no specific instructions for multi-project applications consisting of research projects interrelated by a common theme.
The supplemental instructions for multi-project applications below are divided as follows:
A. General Instructions – addresses collaborative efforts among research projects, the administrative and organizational structure as well as the overall facilities and environment, and the overall budget.
B. Specific Instructions for Individual Projects – describes modifications to PHS Form 398 instructions on selected items to address the collaborative or interactive role of the project.
C. Specific Instructions for Core Units – Describes modifications to PHS Form 398 instructions on selected items to address the collaborative or interactive role of the project.
A. General Instructions
All applications must be submitted on Form PHS 398. The multi-project grant application should be assembled and paginated as one complete document.
1. Form Page 1 - Face Page
Items 1 - 14: complete these items as instructed. This should be the first page of the entire application and all succeeding pages should be numbered consecutively.
The Contact PI should be listed on block 3 of Form Page 1-Face Page, with additional PDs/PIs listed on the Form Page 1-Continued.
2. Form Page 2
Using Page 2 of Form 398, provide a description (abstract) of the OVERALL multi-project application addressing the major, common theme and integrated nature of the program. Do not exceed the space provided. List the performance sites where the research will be conducted.
Under "Key Personnel", list the PD(s)/PI(s) of the multi-project application, followed by the Project and Core Leaders of the component research projects and cores, and other key personnel and then other significant contributors.
3. Form Page 3 - Table of Contents
Do not use Form Page 3 of the PHS 398; a more comprehensive table of contents is needed for a multi-project application.
Bearing in mind that the application will be scientifically reviewed as an integrated program; prepare a detailed Table of Contents that will enable reviewers to readily locate specific information pertinent to the overall application as well as to each component research project and core. A page reference should be included for the budget for each project and each core. Further, each research project should be identified by number (e.g. Project 1), title, and responsible Project Leader, and each Core should be identified by letter (e.g. Core A), title, and responsible Core Leader. The page location of a COMPOSITE BUDGET should be indicated in the "Table of Contents."
4. Composite Budget
Do not use Form Page 4 of PHS 398. Instead, using the suggested format presented below to prepare a Composite Budget for All Proposed Years of Support. (Justification for budget elements should not be presented here but in the individual budgets of the projects and cores.)
SAMPLE: Consolidated Direct Cost Budget for All Proposed Years of Support
Project 1. Invest.
Project 2. Study
Project 3. Develop.
Core A. Admin. Core.
Core B. DNA
Complete the Total Direct Cost line entries for all requested budget periods (years) and the Total Direct Cost for Entire Period of Support entry. Detailed budgets are required within the descriptions of each project and core (see below).
6. Biographical Sketch Format Page
Biographical sketches of all professional personnel for all components should be placed at the end of the application with the PI(s)/PD(s) first, followed by those of other key personnel in alphabetical order.
7. Resources Format Page
Do not complete. Essential information is to be presented in the individual research project and core sections of the application.
8. Program Overview (Research Objectives and Strategic Plan) (12 pages)
This narrative section summarizes the overall research plan for the multi-project application and is limited to 12 pages. The multi-project application should be viewed as a confederation of interrelated research projects, each capable of standing on its own scientific merit, but complementary to one another. The Program should reflect the required integration of scientific projects and expertise in support of the discovery and advancement of novel NeuroAIDS therapeutics. An overview of: the synergistic interactions that will be achieved through the establishment of multi-disciplinary teams; the utilization of novel approaches; and the integration of the individual projects and cores should be included. This important section provides the group of investigators an opportunity to give conceptual wholeness to the overall program. A statement of the general problem area should be provided as well as a broad strategy for addressing the problems as an integrated group. In the Strategic Plan each project and core should be explained briefly and justified as to its place in the overall scheme. The plan should also summarize how the following factors make the program strong and unique: the interrelationships between the individual projects, the partnerships, synergy, and the environment and resources .
Provide a development/implementation plan outlining the short and long term goals of the multi-project IPCP, with a time table for achieving them and benchmarks for assessing progress. For projects with a proposed clinical component, these will be converted to a cooperative agreement U19 when the program transitions to a clinical mode. Decisions to proceed to the clinical phase, or any changes in the protocol design after the clinical phase has been initiated, will be made in consultation with NIMH and will involve the Scientific Advisory Panel and/or other consultants identified by NIMH, and will be based on preclinical data generated to support the clinical study, the clinical protocol, and the budget. Applications that do not include a development plan (if applicable) will not be reviewed.
9. Multiple PDs/PIs Leadership Plan (required if applicable)
Applications designating multiple PDs/PIs for the overall program must include a new section, entitled “Multiple PD/PI Leadership Plan”, as part of the Program Overview. This Plan must describe: a rationale for choosing a multiple PD/PI approach; the governance and organizational structure of the leadership team and the research projects and cores; communication plans, processes for making decisions on scientific direction as an integrated team, and procedures for resolving conflicts; the administrative, technical, and scientific roles and responsibilities for the PDs/PIs and other collaborators. If budget allocation is planned, the distribution of resources to specific components of the project or the individual PDs/PIs should also be delineated. In the event of an award, the requested allocations may be reflected in a footnote on the Notice of Award.
Please note: A separate leadership plan is not required within individual project(s) and core(s) that designate multiple Project/Core Leaders.
10. Checklist
One Checklist Form Page, placed at the end of the application, is to be submitted for the entire application.
11. Appendix Materials
Refer to Section IV.6. “Appendix Materials” below, for instructions on submitting appendix materials.
For each project or core in the multi-project application, 3 publications plus other approved material are allowed.
B. Specific Instructions for Individual Research Projects
Except for the requirements below, follow the PHS 398 Specific Instructions found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html in preparing each research project.
For each individual Research Project, include:
Cover page (see special instructions, below)
Description & Key personnel (PHS 398 Form Page 2)
Table of Contents (PHS 398 Form Page 3)
Budget Pages (PHS 398 Form Pages 4 and 5); with budget justifications
1. Cover Page
For individual research projects within a multi-project application use the PHS 398 Continuation Format Page to create a “Cover Page” containing selected data about each individual research project. (PHS 398 Form Page 1: Face Page should not be used as a cover page.) The PHS 398 Continuation Format Page should demarcate each individual research project and should contain the following information items (these are a subset of the information provided on a PHS 398 Face Page).
Project Number and Title: (e.g., 1. Preclinical Evaluation of HIV Microbicides)
Name of Project Leader: (e.g., Jones, Roberta A.)
Human Subjects: (Yes or No)
If Yes:
Exemption number, -or-
IRB Approval Date (e.g., 12/13/2006, or "Pending"), and Federal wide Assurance (FWA) number
Vertebrate Animals: (Yes or No)
IACUC Approval Date (e.g., 11/17/2006, or Pending) and Animal welfare assurance number:
Proposed Period of Support:
From: (mmddyy - e.g., 07/01/2007)
To: (mmddyy - e.g., 06/30/2112)
Costs Requested for Initial Budget Period: (e.g. 07/01/2007-06/30/2008)
Direct Costs: (e.g., $ 150,000)
Total Costs: (e.g., $162,000)
Costs Requested for the Entire Budget Period: (e.g., 07/01/2007-06/30/2112)
Direct Costs: (e.g., $700,000)
Applicant Organization (full address)
Provide a Description (abstract) of the research proposed in the project according to the instructions PHS 398 Form Page 2. In addition, the abstract should contain a brief description of how the research project will contribute towards attainment of the multi-project program objectives.
List the performance sites where the research will be conducted.
Under "Key Personnel", list the Project Leader, followed by other key project personnel, and then other significant contributors.
Prepare a Table of Contents for the research project using PHS 398 Form Page 3.
4. Budget Pages (PHS 398 Form Pages 4 and 5)
Prepare a detailed budget and justification for the research project using Form Pages 4 and 5 of the PHS 398.
5. Research Plan
Specific Aims (Limited to 1 page for each project)
List in priority order, the broad, long-range objectives and goals of the proposed project. Concisely and realistically describe the hypothesis or hypotheses to be tested. In addition, state the project's relationship to the multi-project program goals and how it relates to other projects or cores.
Research Strategy (Limited to 6 pages for each project)
Use this section to also describe how the proposed research will contribute to meeting the program's goals and objectives and explain the rationale for selecting the methods to accomplish the specific aims. In addition to stating the biological significance of the research, indicate the project's relevance and required integration into the primary theme of the application.
Organize the Research Strategy in the specified order as stated in the PHS 398 Instructions, Section 5.5.3. Make sure to start each section with the appropriate section heading in order, Significance, Innovation, Approach, and include the appropriate information. The Preliminary Studies for new projects may be included in any section of the Research Strategy, not just the Approach section. Given the limitations inherent in a 6-page research strategy, only key experimatal details should be included. References that provide links to further experimental detail may be cited, however, peer reviewers are not obliged to view these references.
Provide information on resources available for the project. Describe how the scientific environment in which the research will be done contributes to the probability of success (e.g., institutional support, physical resources, and intellectual rapport.) For Early Stage Investigators, describe institutional investment in the success of the investigator. If there are multiple performance sites, describe the resources available at each site. Describe any special facilities used for working with biohazards or other potentially dangerous substances.
7. Biographical Sketches
Do not repeat the biographical sketches of participating investigators since this information will be included at the end of the overall application (and therefore will be referenced in the Overall Table of Contents).
C. Specific Instructions for Core(s)
Except for the requirements below, follow the PHS 398 Specific Instructions found at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.doc#_Toc130797900 in preparing each proposed core.
For each individual Core, include:
Resources Format Page
1. Cover Page. The Face Page of the 398 Form should not be used as a cover page for cores within a multi-project application. Instead, use the 398 continuation page to create a "Cover Page" containing selected data about each individual core. This Cover Page will demarcate each core and should contain the following information items (which are a subset of the information provided on a Face Page - see PHS 398):
Core Letter and Core Title: (e.g., A. Monoclonal Antibody Production Core)
Name of Core Leader: (e.g., Smith, Robert A.)
Human Subjects (Yes or No)
If Yes,
IRB Approval Date (e.g., 5/14/06, or Pending), and Federal wide Assurance (FWA) number
Vertebrate Animals (Yes or No)
IACUC Approval Date (e.g., 4/15/07, or Pending), and Animal welfare assurance number
Proposed Period of Support
From: (mmddyy, e.g., 07/01/2007)
To: (mmddyy, e.g., 06/30/2012)
Costs Requested for Initial Budget Period
Direct Costs (e.g. $50,000)
Total Costs (e.g. $70,000)
Costs Requested for the Entire Budget Period
Direct Costs (e.g. $212,323)
Total Costs (e.g. $297,252)
Applicant Organization (ABC University; 111 Main Street; Anywhere, Else 99999)
The following are specific instructions for sections of the PHS 398 application form that are to be completed differently than usual. For all other items in the core application, follow the usual PHS 398 instructions.
2. Form Page 2. Provide a Description (abstract) of the core activities and services according to the instructions on Form Page 2 of the PHS 398. In addition, the abstract should contain a brief description of how the core services will contribute towards attainment of the multi-project program objectives.
List the performance sites where the core activities and services will be conducted.
Under "Key Personnel", list the Core Leader, followed by other key core personnel, and then other significant contributors.
3. Form Page 3. Prepare a Table of Contents for the core using page 3 of Form PHS 398.
4. Budget Pages (PHS 398 Form Pages 4 and 5) Prepare a detailed budget and justification for the core using Form Pages 4 and 5 of the PHS 398.
5. Research Plan (Combine Research Plans for all the Cores)
Specific Aims (Limited to 1 page for All Cores)
List in priority order, the broad, long-range objectives and goals of the proposed core. Concisely and realistically describe the specific services to be provided. In addition, state the core’s relationship to the multi-project program goals and how it relates to the research projects or other cores in the application.
Core Research Strategy (Limited to 6 pages for All Cores)
Use this section to describe how the proposed core activities will contribute to meeting the program's goals and objectives. Explain the rationale for selection of the general methods and approaches proposed to accomplish the specific aims. In addition, this section should indicate the relevance and required integration of the core into the primary theme of the multi-project application.
Organize the Research Strategy in the specified order as stated in the PHS 398 Instructions, Section 5.5. Make sure to start each section with the appropriate section heading in order, Significance, Innovation, Approach, and include the appropriate information. With a 6 page limitation for all Cores, experimental details must be very limited. Include most crucial details for understanding the approach.
Provide information on resources available for the core. Describe how the scientific environment in which the research will be done contributes to the synergy of the program and the probability of success (e.g., institutional support, physical resources, and intellectual rapport.) For Early Stage Investigators, describe institutional investment in the success of the investigator. If there are multiple performance sites, describe the resources available at each site. Describe any special facilities used for working with biohazards or other potentially dangerous substances.
PHS398 Research Plan Sections
All application instructions outlined in the PHS 398 Application Instructions are to be followed, with the following additional requirements:
Introduction (required for a resubmission or revision application) is limited to 1 page to address the prior review of the Program Overview, 1 page to address the review of the Projects, and 1 page to address the review of the Cores. These Introduction pages are to be placed before the Overall Program Overview.
Specific Aims is limited to 1 page for each Project and 1 page for the Cores.
Overall Program Overview is limited to 12 pages.
Research Strategy, including tables, graphs, figures, diagrams, and charts, is limited to 6 pages for each Project and 6 pages for all the Cores.
This FOA uses non-modular budget formats described in the PHS 398 application instructions (see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html).
Appendix Materials
All paper PHS 398 applications submitted must provide appendix material on CDs only. Include five identical CDs in the same package with the application. See https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-031.html.
Do not use the Appendix to circumvent the page limitations. An application that does not observe the required page limitations may be delayed in the review process.
Resource Sharing Plan(s)
NIH considers the sharing of unique research resources developed through NIH-sponsored research an important means to enhance the value of, and advance, research. When resources have been developed with NIH funds and the associated research findings published or provided to NIH, it is important that they be made readily available for research purposes to qualified individuals within the scientific community. If the final data/resources are not amenable to sharing, this must be explained in Resource Sharing section of the application. See https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_faqs.htm.
(a) Data Sharing Plan: Regardless of the amount requested, investigators are expected to include a brief 1-paragraph description of how final research data will be shared, or explain why data-sharing is not possible. Applicants are encouraged to discuss data-sharing plans with their NIH program contact. See Data-Sharing Policy or https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html.
(b) Sharing Model Organisms: Regardless of the amount requested, all applications where the development of model organisms is anticipated are expected to include a description of a specific plan for sharing and distributing unique model organisms and related resources, or state appropriate reasons why such sharing is restricted or not possible. See Sharing Model Organisms Policy, and NIH Guide NOT-OD-04-042.
(c) Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS): Regardless of the amount requested, applicants seeking funding for a genome-wide association study are expected to provide a plan for submission of GWAS data to the NIH-designated GWAS data repository, or provide an appropriate explanation why submission to the repository is not possible. A genome-wide association study is defined as any study of genetic variation across the entire genome that is designed to identify genetic associations with observable traits (such as blood pressure or weight) or the presence or absence of a disease or condition. For further information see Policy for Sharing of Data Obtained in NIH Supported or Conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies, NIH Guide NOT-OD-07-088 and https://grants.nih.gov/grants/gwas/.
Foreign Applications (Non-domestic [non-U.S.] Entities)
Indicate how the proposed project has specific relevance to the mission and objectives of the NIH/IC and has the potential for significantly advancing the health sciences in the United States
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process.
Applications submitted for this funding opportunity will be assigned on the basis of established PHS referral guidelines to the ICs for funding consideration.
Applications that are complete will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate peer review group convened by (NIMH) and in accordance with NIH peer review procedures (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/peer/), using the review criteria stated below.
As part of the scientific peer review, all applications will:
Undergo a selection process in which only those applications deemed to have the highest scientific and technical merit, generally the top half of applications under review, will be discussed and assigned an impact/priority score.
Receive a written critique.
Receive a second level of review by the National Advisory Mental Health Council.
The mission of the NIH is to support science in pursuit of knowledge about the biology and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. As part of this mission, applications submitted to the NIH for grants or cooperative agreements to support biomedical and behavioral research are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
Reviewers will provide an overall impact/priority score to reflect their assessment of the likelihood for the project to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field(s) involved, in consideration of the following five scored review criteria, and additional review criteria (as applicable for the project proposed).
Reviewers will consider each of the five review criteria below in the determination of scientific and technical merit, and give a separate score for each. An application does not need to be strong in all categories to be judged likely to have major scientific impact. For example, a project that by its nature is not innovative may be essential to advance a field.
Significance. Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field?
Do the overall goals address a significant area from the development and evaluation of innovative therapies for HAND, or address HIV infection of the central nervous system? Do the overall program goals address the problem of HAND in HIV-infected persons treated with suppressive antiretroviral drug regimens? Do the overall program goals demonstrate a capacity to be translated into clinical practice and merit evaluation in Investigative New Drug-directed clinical trials for safety and proof-of-concept?
Investigator(s). Are the PD/PIs, collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or New Investigators, or in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project?
Does the PI possess the leadership skills and scientific expertise to develop and maintain a program of integrated research projects with a coordinated approach appropriate to meet the overall goals of the program? Do the collaborating investigators and private partners have adequate experience in the appropriate area to lead their individual efforts as well as work in an integrated, collaborative way to meet the overall goals? Have the PI and the key personnel committed adequate time and effort to the program? The program should be composed of independent investigators from diverse research settings, e.g. from different academic departments within the same institution, from different institutions, or from the private sector.
Innovation. Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to one field of research or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, improvement, or new application of theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed?
Approach. Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project? Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed?
Is the approach of the component elements justified and integrated into a multidisciplinary program such that it is likely to contribute to meeting the goals of the overall program? Is there synergy in the relation of the projects to the overall program objective? Has the applicant described plans for leverage existing Government funded resources and provided documentation that these resources will be available?
Do the program management plans include short and long term management components such as communication; group meetings; sharing and transmission of information and reagents; ongoing meetings to discuss the integration of scientific approaches and input into scientific direction as appropriate; problem resolution, and decision making? Are there proposed benchmarks for determining the transition to clinical research; iterative research plans to develop and optimize the strategy; protocol design; contingency plans; plans to ensure the safety of research subjects; plans to evaluate outcome even if unanticipated.
Environment. Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements?
In addition to the above review criteria, the following criteria will be applied to applications in the determination of scientific merit and the impact/priority score.
Does each project make an important contribution that synergizes with the program as a whole?
Is each project original and innovative and does each address an important research problem?
Is the synergy of the component project clearly defined and appropriate to the overall program goals?
Does the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success?
Does each project make effective use of the integrated program environment?
Is the PI at the forefront of the area of science proposed?
Did the private sector partner propose a research plan that integrates and contributes materially and intellectually to the overall goals and objectives of the program? Is the private sector partner committed to the preclinical/clinical development of the proposed therapeutic entity or modality? Does the private sector partner have a track record of past successes in moving therapeutic concepts to practical applications?
Core(s)
Does the proposed plan for each core adequately indicate that it will effectively and efficiently support the research of the program in a manner that cannot be supported through other available (institutional or outside) resources?
Does the proposed plan demonstrate that the activities of the core are well-integrated with those of the projects and that the investigators within the projects are working synergistically with those of the core to meet project objectives?
Is the quality of the relevant facilities or services provided strong (including procedures, techniques, and quality control) and are the criteria for prioritization and usage appropriate?
Does the proposed plan address the qualifications, past performance (if applicable), and time commitments of the Core PI(s)?
Benchmarks and Timeline
Are the proposed benchmarks and timelines appropriate for each project and for the program as a whole?
Are the proposed benchmarks measurable?
Are appropriate intermediate goals addressed and monitored?
Each of these review criteria will be addressed and considered by the reviewers in assigning the overall score, weighting them as appropriate for each application. Note that the application does not need to be strong in all categories to be judged likely to have a major scientific impact and thus deserve a high priority score. For example, an investigator may propose to carry out important work that by its nature is not innovative but is essential to move a field forward.
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will consider the following additional items in the determination of scientific and technical merit, but will not give separate scores for these items.
Protections for Human Subjects. For research that involves human subjects but does not involve one of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR Part 46, the committee will evaluate the justification for involvement of human subjects and the proposed protections from research risk relating to their participation according to the following five review criteria: 1) risk to subjects, 2) adequacy of protection against risks, 3) potential benefits to the subjects and others, 4) importance of the knowledge to be gained, and 5) data and safety monitoring for clinical trials.
For research that involves human subjects and meets the criteria for one or more of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR Part 46, the committee will evaluate: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human subjects involvement and characteristics, and 3) sources of materials.
Inclusion of Women, Minorities, and Children. When the proposed project involves clinical research, the committee will evaluate the proposed plans for inclusion of minorities and members of both genders, as well as the inclusion of children.
Vertebrate Animals. The committee will evaluate the involvement of live vertebrate animals as part of the scientific assessment according to the following five points: 1) proposed use of the animals, and species, strains, ages, sex, and numbers to be used; 2) justifications for the use of animals and for the appropriateness of the species and numbers proposed; 3) adequacy of veterinary care; 4) procedures for limiting discomfort, distress, pain and injury to that which is unavoidable in the conduct of scientifically sound research including the use of analgesic, anesthetic, and tranquilizing drugs and/or comfortable restraining devices; and 5) methods of euthanasia and reason for selection if not consistent with the AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia. For additional information, see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/VASchecklist.pdf.
Biohazards. Reviewers will assess whether materials or procedures proposed are potentially hazardous to research personnel and/or the environment, and if needed, determine whether adequate protection is proposed.
Resubmission Applications. When reviewing a Resubmission application (formerly called an amended application), the committee will evaluate the application as now presented, taking into consideration the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group and changes made to the project.
Renewal Applications. When reviewing a Renewal application (formerly called a competing continuation application), the committee will consider the progress made in the last funding period. In a competitive renewal, the concept must be new, substantially improved, or represent a new opportunity/direction originating in the previously funded program.
Revision Applications. When reviewing a Revision application (formerly called a competing supplement application), the committee will consider the appropriateness of the proposed expansion of the scope of the project. If the Revision application relates to a specific line of investigation presented in the original application that was not recommended for approval by the committee, then the committee will consider whether the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group are adequate and whether substantial changes are clearly evident.
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will address each of the following items, but will not give scores for these items and should not consider them in providing an overall impact/priority score.
Applications from Foreign Organizations. Reviewers will assess whether the project presents special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions that exist in other countries and either are not readily available in the United States or augment existing U.S. resources.
Select Agents Research. Reviewers will assess the information provided in this section of the application, including 1) the Select Agent(s) to be used in the proposed research, 2) the registration status of all entities where Select Agent(s) will be used, 3) the procedures that will be used to monitor possession use and transfer of Select Agent(s), and 4) plans for appropriate biosafety, biocontainment, and security of the Select Agent(s).
Resource Sharing Plans. Reviewers will comment on whether the following Resource Sharing Plans, or the rationale for not sharing the following types of resources, are reasonable: 1) Data Sharing Plan (http://grants.nih/gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm); 2) Sharing Model Organisms (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-042.html); and 3) Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-088.html).
Budget and Period Support. Reviewers will consider whether the budget and the requested period of support are fully justified and reasonable in relation to the proposed research.
Applications submitted in response to this funding opportunity will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications submitted in response to this FOA. The following will be considered in making funding decisions:
Scientific merit of the proposed project as determined by scientific peer review.
If the application is under consideration for funding, NIH will request "just-in-time" information from the applicant. For details, applicants may refer to the NIH Grants Policy Statement Part II: Terms and Conditions of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart A: General.
Selection of an application for award is not an authorization to begin performance. Any costs incurred before receipt of the NoA are at the recipient's risk. These costs may be reimbursed only to the extent considered allowable pre-award costs. See Also Section IV.5. Funding Restrictions.
A formal notification in the form of a Notice of Award (NoA) will be provided to the applicant organization. The NoA signed by the grants management officer is the authorizing document. Once all administrative and programmatic issues have been resolved, the NoA will be generated via email notification from the awarding component to the grantee business official.
All NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards include the NIH Grants Policy Statement as part of the NoA. For these terms of award, see the NIH Grants Policy Statement Part II: Terms and Conditions of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart A: General (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/NIHGPS_Part4.htm) and Part II Terms and Conditions of NIH Grant Awards, Subpart B: Terms and Conditions for Specific Types of Grants, Grantees, and Activities (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/NIHGPS_part9.htm).
When multiple years are involved, awardees will be required to submit the Non-Competing Continuation Grant Progress Report (PHS 2590) annually and financial statements as required in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
A final progress report, invention statement, and Financial Status Report are required when an award is relinquished when a recipient changes institutions or when an award is terminated.
We encourage your inquiries concerning this funding opportunity and welcome the opportunity to answer questions from potential applicants. Inquiries may fall into three areas: scientific/research, peer review, and financial or grants management issues:
1. Scientific/Research Contacts:
2. Peer Review Contacts:
David Armstrong, Ph.D.
Email: armstrda@mail.nih.gov
3. Financial or Grants Management Contacts:
Rita Sisco
Email: siscor@mail.nih.gov
Required Federal Citations
Use of Animals in Research:
Recipients of PHS support for activities involving live, vertebrate animals must comply with PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/PHSPolicyLabAnimals.pdf) as mandated by the Health Research Extension Act of 1985 (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/hrea1985.htm), and the USDA Animal Welfare Regulations (http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/usdaleg1.htm) as applicable.
Human Subjects Protection:
Federal regulations (45CFR46) require that applications and proposals involving human subjects must be evaluated with reference to the risks to the subjects, the adequacy of protection against these risks, the potential benefits of the research to the subjects and others, and the importance of the knowledge gained or to be gained (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm).
Data and Safety Monitoring Plan:
Data and safety monitoring is required for all types of clinical trials, including physiologic toxicity and dose-finding studies (phase I); efficacy studies (Phase II); efficacy, effectiveness and comparative trials (Phase III). Monitoring should be commensurate with risk. The establishment of data and safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) is required for multi-site clinical trials involving interventions that entail potential risks to the participants (NIH Policy for Data and Safety Monitoring, NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not98-084.html).
Sharing Research Data:
Investigators submitting an NIH application seeking $500,000 or more in direct costs in any single year are expected to include a plan for data sharing or state why this is not possible (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing).
Investigators should seek guidance from their institutions, on issues related to institutional policies and local IRB rules, as well as local, State and Federal laws and regulations, including the Privacy Rule.
Policy for Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS):
NIH is interested in advancing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify common genetic factors that influence health and disease through a centralized GWAS data repository. For the purposes of this policy, a genome-wide association study is defined as any study of genetic variation across the entire human genome that is designed to identify genetic associations with observable traits (such as blood pressure or weight), or the presence or absence of a disease or condition. All applications, regardless of the amount requested, proposing a genome-wide association study are expected to provide a plan for submission of GWAS data to the NIH-designated GWAS data repository, or provide an appropriate explanation why submission to the repository is not possible. Data repository management (submission and access) is governed by the Policy for Sharing of Data Obtained in NIH Supported or Conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies, NIH Guide NOT-OD-07-088. For additional information, see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/gwas/.
Sharing of Model Organisms:
NIH is committed to support efforts that encourage sharing of important research resources including the sharing of model organisms for biomedical research (see https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/model_organism/index.htm). At the same time the NIH recognizes the rights of grantees and contractors to elect and retain title to subject inventions developed with Federal funding pursuant to the Bayh Dole Act (see the NIH Grants Policy Statement https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/index.htm). All investigators submitting an NIH application or contract proposal, beginning with the October 1, 2004 receipt date, are expected to include in the application/proposal a description of a specific plan for sharing and distributing unique model organism research resources generated using NIH funding or state why such sharing is restricted or not possible. This will permit other researchers to benefit from the resources developed with public funding. The inclusion of a model organism sharing plan is not subject to a cost threshold in any year and is expected to be included in all applications where the development of model organisms is anticipated.
Access to Research Data through the Freedom of Information Act:
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-110 has been revised to provide public access to research data through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) under some circumstances. Data that are (1) first produced in a project that is supported in whole or in part with Federal funds and (2) cited publicly and officially by a Federal agency in support of an action that has the force and effect of law (i.e., a regulation) may be accessed through FOIA. It is important for applicants to understand the basic scope of this amendment. NIH has provided guidance at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/a110/a110_guidance_dec1999.htm. Applicants may wish to place data collected under this funding opportunity in a public archive, which can provide protections for the data and manage the distribution for an indefinite period of time. If so, the application should include a description of the archiving plan in the study design and include information about this in the budget justification section of the application. In addition, applicants should think about how to structure informed consent statements and other human subjects procedures given the potential for wider use of data collected under this award.
Inclusion of Women And Minorities in Clinical Research:
It is the policy of the NIH that women and members of minority groups and their sub-populations must be included in all NIH-supported clinical research projects unless a clear and compelling justification is provided indicating that inclusion is inappropriate with respect to the health of the subjects or the purpose of the research. This policy results from the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 (Section 492B of Public Law 103-43). All investigators proposing clinical research should read the "NIH Guidelines for Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-001.html); a complete copy of the updated Guidelines is available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/women_min/guidelines_amended_10_2001.htm. The amended policy incorporates: the use of an NIH definition of clinical research; updated racial and ethnic categories in compliance with the new OMB standards; clarification of language governing NIH-defined Phase III clinical trials consistent with the new PHS Form 398; and updated roles and responsibilities of NIH staff and the extramural community. The policy continues to require for all NIH-defined Phase III clinical trials that: a) all applications or proposals and/or protocols must provide a description of plans to conduct analyses, as appropriate, to address differences by sex/gender and/or racial/ethnic groups, including subgroups if applicable; and b) investigators must report annual accrual and progress in conducting analyses, as appropriate, by sex/gender and/or racial/ethnic group differences.
Inclusion of Children as Participants in Clinical Research:
The NIH maintains a policy that children (i.e., individuals under the age of 21) must be included in all clinical research, conducted or supported by the NIH, unless there are scientific and ethical reasons not to include them. All investigators proposing research involving human subjects should read the "NIH Policy and Guidelines" on the inclusion of children as participants in research involving human subjects (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/children/children.htm).
Required Education on the Protection of Human Subject Participants:
NIH policy requires education on the protection of human subject participants for all investigators submitting NIH applications for research involving human subjects and individuals designated as key personnel. The policy is available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-00-039.html.
Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC):
Criteria for federal funding of research on hESCs can be found at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp and at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-116.html. Only research using hESC lines that are registered in the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry will be eligible for Federal funding (http://escr.nih.gov/). It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide in the project description and elsewhere in the application as appropriate, the official NIH identifier(s) for the hESC line(s) to be used in the proposed research.
NIH Public Access Policy Requirement:
In accordance with the NIH Public Access Policy (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html), investigators must submit or have submitted for them their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts that arise from NIH funds and are accepted for publication as of April 7, 2008 to PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/), to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after publication. As of May 27, 2008, investigators must include the PubMed Central reference number when citing an article in NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports that fall under the policy, and was authored or co-authored by the investigator or arose from the investigator’s NIH award. For more information, see the Public Access webpage at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/.
Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information:
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued final modification to the "Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information", the "Privacy Rule", on August 14, 2002. The Privacy Rule is a federal regulation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 that governs the protection of individually identifiable health information, and is administered and enforced by the DHHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Decisions about applicability and implementation of the Privacy Rule reside with the researcher and his/her institution. The OCR website (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/) provides information on the Privacy Rule, including a complete Regulation Text and a set of decision tools on "Am I a covered entity?" Information on the impact of the HIPAA Privacy Rule on NIH processes involving the review, funding, and progress monitoring of grants, cooperative agreements, and research contracts can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-025.html.
URLs in NIH Grant Applications or Appendices:
All applications and proposals for NIH funding must be self-contained within specified page limitations. For publications listed in the appendix and/or Progress report, internet addresses (URLs) must be used for publicly accessible on-line journal articles. Unless otherwise specified in this solicitation, Internet addresses (URLs) should not be used to provide any other information necessary for the review because reviewers are under no obligation to view the Internet sites. Furthermore, we caution reviewers that their anonymity may be compromised when they directly access an Internet site.
Healthy People 2010:
The Public Health Service (PHS) is committed to achieving the health promotion and disease prevention objectives of "Healthy People 2010," a PHS-led national activity for setting priority areas. This FOA is related to one or more of the priority areas. Potential applicants may obtain a copy of "Healthy People 2010" at http://www.health.gov/healthypeople.
Authority and Regulations:
This program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance at http://www.cfda.gov/ and is not subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of Executive Order 12372. Awards are made under the authorization of Sections 301 and 405 of the Public Health Service Act as amended (42 USC 241 and 284) and under Federal Regulations 42 CFR 52 and 45 CFR Parts 74 and 92. All awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement. The NIH Grants Policy Statement can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/policy.htm.
The PHS strongly encourages all grant recipients to provide a smoke-free workplace and discourage the use of all tobacco products. In addition, Public Law 103-227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994, prohibits smoking in certain facilities (or in some cases, any portion of a facility) in which regular or routine education, library, day care, health care, or early childhood development services are provided to children. This is consistent with the PHS mission to protect and advance the physical and mental health of the American people.
Loan Repayment Programs:
NIH encourages applications for educational loan repayment from qualified health professionals who have made a commitment to pursue a research career involving clinical, pediatric, contraception, infertility, and health disparities related areas. The LRP is an important component of NIH's efforts to recruit and retain the next generation of researchers by providing the means for developing a research career unfettered by the burden of student loan debt. Note that an NIH grant is not required for eligibility and concurrent career award and LRP applications are encouraged. The periods of career award and LRP award may overlap providing the LRP recipient with the required commitment of time and effort, as LRP awardees must commit at least 50% of their time (at least 20 hours per week based on a 40 hour week) for two years to the research. For further information, please see: http://www.lrp.nih.gov/.
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Apple invests millions in a carbon-free aluminum smelting method
under clean tech, Green Technology, News
by Lacy Cooke
For over 130 years, aluminum has been produced in the same dirty, greenhouse gas-releasing way. That could all change soon: Apple is partnering with the Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto to commercialize technology that, according to Apple, “eliminates direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process.” Fast Company reported the tech giant is investing $10.1 million in research and development.
Rio Tinto and Alcoa are coming together to form Elysis, a joint venture company, with the goal of packaging the technology for sale in 2024. Not only is Apple betting big on the venture, the governments of Quebec and Canada are investing around $47 million. Elysis will be based in Montreal and will employ 100 people to work towards commercialization of what Alcoa called the world’s first zero-carbon aluminum smelting technology. Apple said they’d be offering technical support.
Related: Apple’s new recycling robot can disassemble 200 iPhones in a single hour
Alcoa said in Canada, “the technology could eliminate the equivalent of 6.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, if fully implemented at existing aluminum smelters in the country. That represents an amount roughly equal to taking nearly 1.8 million light-duty vehicles off the road.”
Apple chose eight materials to zero in on to seek cleaner production methods, and aluminum is one of those. The company said back in 2015, three of their engineers started a search for an improved method of mass-producing aluminum, and they found it at Alcoa. The company’s founder, Charles Hall, pioneered the old method in 1886, but it uses a carbon material that smolders throughout the process, so greenhouse gases are released. But then Alcoa developed a new process that utilizes an advanced conductive material rather than carbon. The smelting process releases oxygen, not carbon dioxide. Rio Tinto brings smelting technology development experience to the joint venture, which will work towards larger scale production.
Alcoa CEO Roy Harvey said in the company’s statement, “This discovery has been long sought in the aluminum industry, and this announcement is the culmination of the work from many dedicated Alcoa employees. Today, our history of innovation continues as we take aluminum’s sustainable advantage to a new level with the potential to improve the carbon footprint of a range of products from cars to consumer electronics.”
+ Alcoa
Via Fast Company
Images via Apple
Elysis
Apple is investing $10 million in a carbon-free aluminum smelting process.
Aluminum Production
The new smelting process releases not carbon dioxide, but oxygen.
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Happy Birthday, Elvis!
By Nick Thomas Last updated May 31, 2018
Elvis Presley would have celebrated his 80th birthday on Jan. 8, 2015.
Although best known as the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis also lives on through a phenomenal number of appearances in scripted motion pictures — 31 in all — beginning with “Love Me Tender” in 1956 and ending 13 years later with “Change of Habit” in 1969. His movies provide a glimpse into another dimension of one the 20th century’s greatest entertainers.
Although his films were often dismissed due to weak and predictable scripts, critics generally regarded Elvis as a surprisingly good actor. But what did costars think about working with Elvis?
In 1966, 10-year-old Donna Butterworth costarred in “Paradise, Hawaiian Style,” the second Elvis film set in Hawaii.
“My mom and dad took me to see ‘Blue Hawaii’ when I was just a little girl, and I fell in love with him right then and there,” Butterworth says.
She recalls filming her first scene on the cliffs of Makapuu, on Oahu.
“I had to run up into his Elvis’s arms and call out ‘Uncle Rick, Uncle Rick,’ ” she says. “But I had only met him a few minutes before that. So when the director called, ‘Action,’ I ran up and got in his arms, and his face was about four inches from my face. After all the anticipation of meeting Elvis Presley and working with him, I just froze. I couldn’t believe I was so close to this beautiful man! All the crew cracked up because they knew I was so enamored. In fact, Elvis laughed the hardest — he just loved to laugh.”
Unlike Butterworth, 7-year-old Susan Olsen wasn’t an Elvis fan when she briefly appeared in the talent contest audition scene in Elvis’s second-to-last film, “The Trouble with Girls” (1969).
“I didn’t even think he was good-looking!” says Susan, who went on to play youngest daughter Cindy on the popular ’60s TV show “The Brady Bunch.”
That changed after their first brief encounter.
“I remember that a bunch of the kids’ mothers suddenly started screaming,” Olsen says. “Elvis had come out of his dressing room, and they crowded around him for autographs. So I thought, ‘What the heck! I’ll get one too.’ So I went up to him — and I’m not making this up — when he looked at me, I thought: ‘Oh, I get it! I see why they like him so much.’ He had this special aura about him. I was just dumbstruck; I couldn’t say anything. He signed the photo, handed it to me, and said ‘Here ya go, darling.’ ”
Elvis’s leading lady in “The Trouble with Girls” came away with more than just an autograph. Marlyn Mason snagged an on-screen kiss, albeit a comedic one. She took an unusual approach to get the required reaction from Elvis. The kiss came just after a fireworks scene: Elvis comes up behind her and starts rubbing her shoulders.
“I just turned around, off camera, and started undoing Elvis’s belt and trousers!” Mason recalls. “Well, I didn’t get very far because it wasn’t a long scene. Elvis got this funny look on his face, which you can see in the film. He was great fun to work with because I could throw anything at him and he’d just throw it right back.”
She also recalls a private moment when Elvis shared thoughts about his acting.
“The saddest thing Elvis said to me was, ‘I’d like to make one good film because I know people in this town laugh at me.’ But he was always down-to-earth and comfortable with himself. Some of that dialogue was so corny, but he managed to bring a realness to it. And I think that’s just how he was in real life. He was a natural comedian, and his timing was just impeccable. I just found him to be a very genuine person.”
Will Hutchins, who first worked with Elvis in “Spinout” (1966), says Elvis didn’t play the celebrity, although he was usually accompanied on most of his films by pals — the so-called Memphis Mafia.
“On the set, Elvis was like a host — a Southern gentleman — making sure everyone was having a good time,” Hutchins says.
Hutchins also costarred with Elvis in “Clambake” (1967), which featured a lot of ad-libbing and fooling around on the set.
“It was more-or-less a de facto stag party because Elvis was getting married soon after the filming was finished,” Hutchins says. “Elvis and his buddies would set off firecrackers. It was pretty wild but a lot of fun. For the director’s birthday, they had a cake and pushed it right in his face!”
Wilda Taylor appeared in three Elvis Presley films, strutting into Elvis movie history as exotic dancer Little Egypt in “Roustabout” (1964).
“[Elvis] knew his material and music well, and I grew to admire him a great deal,” she says. “Oddly enough, I really didn’t know much about Elvis before we worked together, but I found him to be a lovely, darling person, and I was just pleased to be a small part of his life.”
With each passing decade since his death at age 42 in 1977, the Elvis legend and legacy continue to expand, and the memories he gave grow ever more cherished.
Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns and interviews for more than 450 magazines and newspapers.
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Ethnic History Materials
Hoosiers from around the world
We established the Ethnic History Collection Project to collect, preserve and make available for research materials which illuminate the history of the various ethnic groups that have played an important role in Indiana’s development.
While the Germans have by far been the largest group statewide, the presence of other groups has been significant as well. Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans and most recently, Vietnamese, Cambodians and Hispanics, have settled in the state over the years. Since its inception in the early 1980s, the Ethnic History Collection Project has obtained business records, letters, photographs and other items representing many ethnic groups with ties to Indiana.
This guide highlights some of the manuscript collections we hold, arranged into groups based on geographic location. Please note that some are listed by ethnicity alone for those that are too large to incorporate within the other groups, for example Germans and English. Not all the items listed in this guide deal exclusively with ethnic groups. In some instances, ethnic groups form a component of a larger collection. When this occurs, we indicate the relationship to the specific ethnic group.
Ethnicity can be complex and therefore to avoid any confusion collections are separated based on geographic factors and the country of origin of the person in question. This may or may not be in line with the way a person would ethnically self-identify.
Updated to Summer 2016.
Arnold Family Notebook, 1802-1815. M 0007. One box, one microfilm. Photocopies. Collection guide in library. John Arnold came from the Isle of Wight. Contains notations from gazetteers on what to take to America and good places to settle.
Barker, John Family Papers, 1856-1864. SC 2385. Two folders. Photocopies. Collection guide online. Barker was a native of Lincolnshire, England, and moved to the United States in 1853, settling near Connersville but later moving about the state. His children who appear in the correspondence are Thomas, William, Barton, Frances and Mary. The family worked as blacksmiths and farmers. The collection consists of letters written by Barker and his family in Indiana to relatives in England. Topics include family news, the price of goods, rates for blacksmithing, master-worker relations in the U.S. and England, and freeing slaves during the Civil War.
Bethell-Warren Papers. M 0018, OM 0148, BV 0945-0956. Three manuscript boxes, twelve bound volumes, one oversize folder. Collection guide in library. The collection contains a letter from William Willmore, London, England, to brother, C. Harrison Willmore, Evansville, December 25, 1859.
Bevan, Philip Papers, 1836–1915. M 0019, BV 0957-0960. Three manuscript boxes, four bound volumes. No collection guide available. Bevan was an English carpenter and sailor. He was an immigrant to Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana (1843). He attended the Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio (1846-1849) and was a Presbyterian minister in Leavenworth (Crawford County), Byrneville (Harrison County), Martinsburg (Washington County), and other towns in southeastern Indiana. The papers include Bevan’s letters, official documents, and financial papers, principally relating to his ministerial career (1846-1890). Also present in the collection is a diary (1836-1881), Bevan’s poems, novels and other unpublished writings.
Clowes Family Collection, 1842–1998. M 1028. Seventy-one manuscript boxes, one oversized manuscript box, one bound volume, seven photograph boxes, five color photograph boxes, two OVA photograph boxes, one folder OVA color photograph, one OVA Glass Plate, one OVB photograph box, one OVB graphics box, one folder OVB color photograph, one OVC photograph box, eleven oversize folders, four boxes 35 mm slides, one box 35 mm negatives, one box 120 mm negatives, four VHS tapes, 50 reels 35 mm film, four boxes 16 mm film, seven cased image photographs, one box PAA photograph albums, three boxes PAB photograph albums, four boxes PAC photograph albums, artifacts. Collection guide online. George Henry Alexander Clowes (August 26, 1877-August 25, 1958) was a native of Ipswich, England. After graduating from the Royal College of Science in London and earning a Ph. D. in chemistry from the University of Gottingen, Germany, Clowes completed six months of post graduate studies at the Sorbonne, France. In 1901, he moved from England to Buffalo, New York, where he served as co-director of what was then the Gratwick Cancer Research Laboratories. In 1919, Clowes left Buffalo for Indianapolis and accepted a position with Eli Lilly and Company. After two years as a research associate with Lilly, Clowes was named research director. Following the discovery of insulin in 1921, Dr. Clowes was responsible for the mass production of the drug for the Eli Lilly Company. At the time of his retirement in 1946, Dr. Clowes was credited with directing research that developed protamine insulin, liver extract, hypnotic drugs, local anesthetics, antiseptics, and sulfonamide (organic sulfur compounds). The Clowes Family Archives is divided into twelve series ranging in date from the late 1800s through the 1990s.
Clowes Family Collection Addition, 1895-1963. M 1177. Four manuscript boxes, four photograph boxes, one color photograph box, one OVA photograph box, one PAA photo album, one PAB photo album. Collection guide online. This collection represents an addition to the original Clowes Family Collection. (M 1028).
Cranstone, Lefevre J. Watercolor Paintings, circa 1861. P 0432. Five watercolor paintings. Collection guide online. Lefevre James Cranstone was a nineteenth-century English artist known primarily for genre-style landscapes in watercolor and oil. (Genre is a style of art that depicts scenes from everyday life.) He was born March 6, 1822, in Hemel Hempstead, England. From September 1859 to July 1860 Cranstone traveled to America with his younger brother Alfred for a stay of ten months. During his stay he documented his trip with a series of pen-and-ink and wash sketches. He and his brother visited relatives in Richmond, Indiana, from December 1859 to January 1860. Upon his return to Hemel Hempstead, Cranstone used his sketches to produce detailed watercolor and oil paintings.
English-speaking Union of the United States, Indianapolis Branch Records, 1922-2002. M 0644, OM 0304. Seven manuscript boxes, two oversize folders. Collection guide online. The English-Speaking Union was founded in New York in 1920 to strengthen relations between the U.S. and other English-speaking nations. Charles J. Lynn founded the Indianapolis branch in 1949. Lynn was followed as president by his wife Dorothy B. Lynn and Robert S. Ashby. The branch provides scholarships for British Commonwealth students to attend Indiana University and for Marion County teachers to study at British universities. The collection contains correspondence, programs, menus and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Records from Dorothy B. Lynn’s presidency form the bulk of the collection. Topics include program speakers, exchange students and teachers, visitors and scholarship drives. Also included are Charles J. Lynn’s materials on his founding of the local branch.
Emigrants Notebook. SC 0546. One folder. No collection guide available. The notebook contains clippings and copies of letters from English emigrants, one of whom is from Evansville.
Evens, William Henry Letter, March 11, 1846. SC 0556. One folder. No collection guide available. Autobiographical letter from English born Evens, who was living in Fayette County, to uncle George Andrews, in Dover, New Hampshire.
Foster, Matthew Materials. SC 0587. One folder. Photocopies and typed transcripts. No collection guide available. The collection contains the paper, Pike County Indiana Ancestors of John Foster Dulles, by Ruth Miley McClellan. It also includes photocopies of letters of Matthew Foster to relatives in England, 1821-1824, and their typed transcripts.
Green, William Collection, circa 1911-1936. SC 2934. One folder. Collection guide online. William Green (1812-1912) was born on April 17, 1812, and grew up on a farm in Summerson, Huntingtonshire, England. Discouraged by low wages and conflict in Europe, Green immigrated to the United States at the age of 19. He departed from Liverpool on the ship Ceres and arrived in New York (bound for Evansville, Indiana) on June 6, 1831. Upon arriving in Indiana, Green cleared land in exchange for board, and soon after found work as a stage driver. In 1855, Green purchased land on the corner of Busseron and 2nd streets in Vincennes, Indiana and built the town’s first opera house. Though it burned down in 1885, the opera house was rebuilt later that year. Over the course of his life, Green also worked as a fire chief, a U.S. mail contractor and ran a successful livery stable in Vincennes. He died on December 24, 1912, at the age of 100.
Hill, Richard Notebook, 1829-1840. SC 0750. One folder. Collection guide in library. Most of the notebook was kept in England. There are mentions of Kirton Parish, Bush Village, and Ludborough. A few entries were written in Madison, Indiana, in 1840.
Hodgson, Thomas Book. SC 0764. Two folders. Collection guide in library. The book contains accounts of Thomas Hodgson of Cumberland County, England, 1755-1786 with notes of Thomas Patterson who was born in England and immigrated to Virginia and Harrison County. The last entry is dated 1855.
Hornbrook, Saunders Richard Diaries, 1864-1865. SC 0783. Two folders. Typed Transcripts. Collection guide in library. Though the collection is predominantly two Civil War diaries of Saunders Richard Hornbrook, there are five letters from an earlier Saunders Hornbrook, likely his ancestor. One of the letters was written from Fairstock, England to Connersville, Indiana.
IMA Clowes Collection, Ca. 1885-2000. M 1199. Eight manuscript boxes, one black-and-white photograph box, one color photograph box, one OVA photograph box, one OVA color photograph box, one OVA graphics box, one OVB graphics box, one PAB photo album, two PAC photo albums, two boxes 35mm slides, artifacts. Collection guide online. George Henry Alexander Clowes (August 26, 1877 – August 25, 1958) was a native of Ipswich, England. After graduating from the Royal College of Science in London and earning a Ph. D. in chemistry from the University of Gottingen, Germany, Clowes completed six months of post graduate studies at the Sorbonne, France. In 1901, he moved from England to Buffalo, New York, where he served as co-director of what was then the Gratwick Cancer Research Laboratories. In 1919, Clowes left Buffalo for Indianapolis and accepted a position with Eli Lilly and Company. After two years as a research associate with Lilly, Clowes was named research director. Following the discovery of insulin in 1921, Dr. Clowes was responsible for the mass production of the drug for Eli Lilly. At the time of his retirement in 1946, Dr. Clowes was credited with directing research that developed protamine insulin, liver extract, hypnotic drugs, local anesthetics, antiseptics, and sulfonamide (organic sulfur compounds). This collection consists of items transferred to the Indiana Historical Society from The Indianapolis Museum of Art on August 6, 2015. The bulk of the items pertain to Allen W. Clowes, although a small number of items relate to other members of the Clowes Family.
Ingle, John Correspondence, 1813-1868. M 0167, OM 0040. One manuscript box, one oversize folder. Collection guide online. John Ingle (1788-1874) immigrated from Somersham, England, to America in 1818. He settled near Saundersville (now Inglefield) in Vanderburgh County where he farmed and served as the town’s postmaster from 1823-1869. The collection consists primarily of correspondence of Ingle and his wife, Martha, with their family in England, 1813-1869. The letters discuss a variety of subjects including the differences between life in America and England, the development of Southern Indiana, conditions in England, the family business, and economic, religious, and political matters. Also included is John Ingle’s description of his trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Indiana, and his visit to Morris Birbeck’s Illinois settlement in 1818. There also are letters from the Ingle’s son, John Jr., to his English relatives, 1834-1837.
MacMillan, Harold Letter, 1951-1968. SC 2947. One folder. Collection guide online. Maurice Harold Macmillan, First Earl of Stockton, was born to parents Maurice Crawford Macmillan and Helen Belles on February 10, 1894, in London. A graduate of Eton College (1912), his schooling at Balliol (1912-1914) was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. Macmillan first joined the 60th Rifles (KRRC), and then was transferred to the Grenadier Guards. In 1940, Churchill became the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and appointed Macmillan to the position of Junior Minister to the Ministry of Supply. Two years later, Churchill appointed Macmillan to the Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers, and he served in this position until the end of the war. Afterwards he lost his third bid at Stockton, and eventually represented Bromley in the House of Commons. The collection consists of correspondence and newspaper clippings dating from 1951 to 1968 pertaining to Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister of Britain and Oxford University chancellor. Correspondence includes a personal, typewritten letter sent from Macmillan to Allen Beville Ramsay, then Cambridge University Vice-Chancellor and Magdalene College professor. Macmillan’s mother, Helen Belles was raised in Spencer, Owen County, and his grandfather, Dr. Joshua T. Belles, is buried in Riverside Cemetery there.
Maidlow Family Papers, 1762–2005. SC 3054. Two folders. Collection guide online. The Maidlow Family migrated from Hampshire, England to the Evansville, Indiana area beginning in 1818. Farmer James Maidlow (1764–1851) left the town of Blendworth in 1818 with the intention of joining an English settlement in Illinois. In Blendworth he had also been a churchwarden and school charity trustee. This short collection consists of photocopied documents related to the Maidlow family.
New Harmony, Indiana Collection, 1814–1884, 1920, 1964. M 0219. Three manuscript boxes, three photograph folders, three OVA graphics boxes, one oversize graphics folder. Collection guide online. New Harmony, in Posey County in southwestern Indiana, was the site of two utopian experiments in the early 19th century. The first, the Harmony Society, was a group of German Pietists who had come to Pennsylvania in 1804 and founded a communist society. Led by George Rapp and his adopted son Frederick, they settled at New Harmony from 1815 to 1825, but then moved again, to Economy, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh. In 1825, the New Harmony settlement was sold to the British industrialist and philanthropist, Robert Owen. There Owen attempted to put into effect his theories of socialism and human betterment. These were based on absolute equality of property, labor and opportunity, combined with freedom of speech and action. The Owenite community failed within two years, but Owen and his family continued both their ownership of the land at New Harmony and their interest in social reform. Many who believed in the ideals of these communities came to New Harmony. William Augustus Twigg, who was born in London, England, eventually settled in New Harmony and was appointed postmaster after the Civil War.
Stockdale, William Letters, 1865-1910. SC 1412. Five folders. No collection guide available. Stockdale immigrated to America during the Civil War, served in the Union Army, and lived in Henry and Hancock counties. The collection consists of letters to Stockdale from his family in Manchester, England.
A.D. Cook, Inc. Records, 1890–1955. M 0393. Eight manuscript boxes, 28 bound volumes, one photograph. Collection guide online. August D. Cook was born near Bremen, Germany, on November 18, 1847, and immigrated to the United States with his family who settled in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. He founded the A.D. Cook Company in 1881 to manufacture tube well supplies and steam pumps.
Baum, Bernard Recollections, 1903. SC 1745. One folder. Collection Guide online. Bernard Baum was born on November 7, 1822, in Simmern under Dhaun, Germany. He was married on May 15, 1850. Baum immigrated to the United States in 1852, where he became a traveling merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, In 1854, Baum opened his first store. In 1856, Baum and his family moved to Henderson, where he set up a second dry goods store. In 1863, Baum moved his family to Evansville in order to escape the danger that Civil War fighting presented. He kept the store in Henderson, opening another in Evansville. In 1873, business was bad and Baum sold his store in Henderson. On May 10, 1888, Bernard and his wife moved to San Francisco. This collection is contained in one legal-sized manuscript folder, which contains a typed transcript titled “Recollection of Bernard Baum.” This manuscript is written as a letter by Bernard Baum addressed to his children. Written from Oct. 15, 1902, to Jan. 18, 1903, this letter covers all of the main events of Bernard Baum’s life up to 1903.
Bieberich, Heinrich Papers, 1841-1904. SC 2324. Three folders. Collection guide online. Born in Germany, Bieberich served in the Bavarian army. In 1843, he immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in Adams County. Living in Preble Township, he married and had nine children. This collection includes genealogical materials; a Bavarian army discharge; a notebook with birth and death records of Bieberich’s children; and deeds concerning three generations of the family. Materials are in German.
Bohlen Architectural Firm Records, Ca. 1867-1978. M 1204. Fifty-six manuscript boxes, two oversized manuscript boxes, one photo negative folder, 98 architecture file folders. Collection guide online. Diedrich August Bohlen was born January 17, 1827, in Cadenberge, Germany; he studied in Holzminden, most likely at the University of Applied Sciences and Art. Faced with service in the Hanoverian army of King George V, Bohlen decided to travel to the U.S., probably leaving from Hamburg in 1851. After arriving in New Orleans, he traveled to Cincinnati where he stayed for a short time before traveling onward to Indianapolis. Once there he joined the architectural firm of Francis Costigan, who while also new to the state, soon became a well-known and respected architect in the capital city. Bohlen remained with Costigan for about a year before establishing his own architectural firm in 1853. Materials are organized by the individual project then ordered chronologically. This was done so that projects on the same building or campus over a span of years were grouped together, instead of imposing a chronological-only order. A few projects span a wide range of time but are listed in the order of their earliest date.
Breitwieser Family Papers, 1848-1981. M 0059, OM 0284. One manuscript box, one oversize folder, two folders of photographs, artifacts. Collection guide online. The Breitwieser family immigrated to the United States about 1836 from the Grand Duchy of Hessen (Germany) and settled in Dubois County. Thomas J. Breitwieser (1886-1970) attended Central Normal College, Danville, Indiana, and Indiana University, and was a teacher in Indiana. The collection contains records and correspondence of the Breitwieser, Baitz and Hotmanns families. Included is a passport from the Grand Duchy of Hessen for Kunigunde Hotmanns (1848), naturalization papers for Valentine Baitz from Ohio (1851), a copy of a letter in German from Valentine Baitz to his daughter (1890) and the marriage certificate of John C. Breitwieser and Katherine E. Baitz (1882). There is also a typed history of the Breitwieser family and a genealogical chart as well as Breitwieser family correspondence from 1944-1970. Also included are papers and photographs regarding Thomas J. Breitwieser’s education and teaching. Additional items include Edna Ruth Breitwieser’s (1918-) school photographs and a report card from the Muncie Public Schools, 1923-1926.
Brucker, Magnus Papers, 1861-1868. M 0324. One manuscript box. Collection guide online. A native of Germany, Brucker studied medicine before immigrating to the U.S. in 1849. He settled in Troy, Perry County. Brucker was elected to the Indiana House in 1860 and 1866, and served as a surgeon with the 23rd Indiana Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War. The collection consists primarily of letters written (in German) by Brucker to his wife during the Civil War, and 12 letters written while he was serving in the state legislature. Topics include the Battle of Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg and the Georgia campaign. The donor of the collection compiled supplementary materials to the letters, and these are included. Supplementary material includes typed transcripts and translations of letter extracts; photostats of correspondence relating to the 23rd Indiana Regiment held by the Indiana State Archives; biographical information about Brucker; and photostats of his military records from the National Archives.
Evansville Medical Record Book. M 0075. One half-size manuscript box. No collection guide available. Medical record book with illnesses and treatments, partially in German.
Feil, Catharina Schulte Letters, 1861-1893. SC 2227. One folder. Photocopy. No collection guide available. Born in Germany, Feil immigrated to U.S. and settled in Indianapolis where she worked in a bakery. Letters from Feil to family in Germany describe everyday life and family experiences.
Fetty, Arnold H., JR. And SR. Collection, 1897-1926. SC 3011. One folder. Collection guide online. Arnold Henry Fetty Sr. was born on December 13, 1838 in Bloomberg, Germany. As a resident of Indiana, he enlisted with Company K of the 47th Indiana Regiment on December 13, 1861. During the 1862 New Madrid Campaign on the Mississippi River, he took ill and, after returning to Indianapolis, was discharged on disability that same year. His son, Arnold Henry Fetty Jr. was born on August 18, 1864 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He enlisted as a Private in Company C of the 27th Battery Indiana Light Artillery on June 13, 1898 at age 33, serving honorably in the Spanish-American War until being discharged on November 25, 1898. After his service, he joined the Indiana Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization. This collection includes papers relating to Arnold H. Fetty Jr. and Sr.’s respective military services.
Fleming, Mary Lou Robson Research notes about Jacob Schnee, 1807-1984. SC 1951. Four folders. No collection guide available. Fleming was Schnee’s great-granddaughter. See entry for Schnee, Jacob for additional information.
Foerster, Charles Papers. SC 0584. Four folders. No collection guide available. A native of Germany and manager of the German Literary Bureau, Foerster was also a Democratic Party politician and Consul General to Calcutta. The collection contains citizenship papers, biographical news clippings and material regarding the German Literary Bureau.
Folk, Christian Letter, July 28, 1849. SC 2225. One folder. Photocopy. No collection guide available. Folk was born in Württemberg, Germany, and settled in Clinton County. The letter to Folk is from an immigrant group in Wheeling, West Virginia., asking him to come and pick up his sister whom he had asked to come to U.S. The letter is in German with an English translation.
Frauer, Hermann E. Apothecary Records, 1875-1901. SC 2373. Three folders. Collection guide online. Born in Germany, Frauer came to Indianapolis with his father in 1855. In 1869, the senior Frauer took over an apothecary shop founded by Charles Roesch; Herman Frauer took over the business in 1876. The apothecary was still operating in 1905 on East Washington Street in Indianapolis. The collection contains two notebook formularies and two folders of loose apothecary formulae. Many of the formulae are in German, with the remainder in English and Latin, most items are undated.
Fried, Frederick G. Civil War Memoir, 1862-1865. SC 2034. One folder. Photocopy of typewritten memoir. No collection guide available. Born in Württemberg, Germany, Fried immigrated to America in 1854 and settled in Noble County. He served in 74th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War.
Gardeners Benefit Society Of Indianapolis Photographs, 1901–1962. P 0136. Four oversize composite photographs, two panoramic photographs. Collection guide online. The Gardeners Benefit Society of Indianapolis was founded by a group of German immigrants on July 6, 1867. Originally called “Deutscher Gartner Unterstutzungs Verein zu Indianapolis,” it was one of many cultural and economic organizations that sprang up among immigrants to Indianapolis in the nineteenth century. By 1900 Indianapolis had over 50 “vereins” or clubs. These clubs provided social, cultural and, educational opportunities. In the case of the gardeners there was financial support for its members as well. The club was made up of Germans who settled close to the White River on the southwest side of Indianapolis in the area bounded by Raymond, Banta, Madison, and Harding streets. The collection contains four composite photographs and two panoramic photographs of members of the Gardners Benefit Society of Indianapolis. The images span the years from 1901 to 1962.
Gehring, Beatus Papers, 1850s-1860s. SC 2017. Two folders. Photocopy. No collection guide available. Born in Baden, Germany, Gehring immigrated to Oldenburg, Indiana. Materials in the collection include Gehring’s soldier’s question-and-answer book from the Badish Army. He discusses the role of the military in society. An account of the Oldenburg brick yard is also included. The materials are in German.
Geiger, Gottlob Papers, 1885-1914. SC 3057. One folder. Collection guide online. Gottlob Geiger was born in Germany in 1863. It is unclear what his town of origin was, but he embarked from Battenberg in 1883, landing in New York and eventually settling in Indianapolis. In 1885, he applied for United States citizenship, and in the following year enlisted in the U.S. Army for a period of five years. He served as part of an ordnance detachment, and spent at least part of his enlistment at the Indianapolis Arsenal. This short collection comprises six documents relating to Gottlob Geiger after his migration to Indianapolis from Germany: naturalization and citizenship documents; military furlough, discharge, and pension documents; and a purchase contract. They trace the life and career of a working class German immigrant in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
German-American Boating Club (Indianapolis, Ind) Letter and Title Receipt, 1938. SC 1936. One folder. No collection guide available. The collection contains a letter and title receipt from 1938 related to the German American Boating Club in Indianapolis.
German-American Collections Materials, 1873-2000. M 1061. One manuscript box, one oversized manuscript folder. Collection guide online. The Indianapolis Liederkranz is a singing society that was formed in 1872 and is still in existence today. The society was initially only for men, but a Damenchor (women’s choir) was added in 1997. The organization puts on concerts, hosts dances, and has its own building near the Holy Cross neighborhood. The Germanistic Society of Indianapolis was founded January 21, 1916 to promote the study of German civilization by arranging public lectures and publishing literature for distribution. The Verband Deutscher Vereine (Federation of German Societies) of Indianapolis was organized on November 13, 1899 as an umbrella organization for other German cultural and social organizations in the city. The organization is still present today and is run out of German Park, a property the organization purchased in 1934. The Evangelical Brotherhood Bowling League in Indianapolis was formed in 1921 in order to promote fellowship between the members of the Brotherhoods of the Evangelical Churches in the city. The German-American Klub has been at their Indianapolis Southside location since 1979, where they operate the Edelweiss Restaurant and host a variety of cultural events and festivals for their members. The Klub is still active today with annual Oktoberfest events, picnics, Volksmarch, and other activities to preserve and promote German culture. The Indianapolis Saenger-Chor was founded in 1885 by 10 men who had recently immigrated to the United States from Germany to celebrate through song the freedoms of America and the labor movement. The Saenger-Chor is still active today and is headquartered in Old Northside neighborhood in Indianapolis.
Gerresheimer Glass, Inc. Materials Ca. 1946-1972. SC 2863. Five folders. Collection guide online. Gerresheimer Glass Inc., an international company based in Dusseldorf, Germany, specializes in pharma and life sciences glass and plastic ware. They have 42 locations with plants in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The company was founded in 1864 by Ferdinand Heye and began becoming more specialized in the 1980s. This company acquired the Kimble-Kontes Company from Owens-Illinois, Inc. in 1997. This collection contains information about the purchase of land from Mr. and Mrs. Boggs in Warsaw, Indiana by Owens-Illinois, Inc. for a manufacturing plant that would make containers. Included in this collection are: warranty deeds and corporate deeds for the purchase, correspondence that took place before the purchase dealing with issues of building a bridge, zoning, and availability of utilities, as well as purchasing agreements. Also, two oversized surveyor drawings are included that show the Industrial Park as well as the specific property being sold.
Gloesslein, George Michael Papers, 1839-1850. SC 0630, F 0205. Two folders, one reel of microfilm. Collection guide in library. Gloesslein was a German native who settled in Jackson and Lawrence counties. The collection contains nine letters from relatives in Germany as well as typed transcripts and translations.
Gotsch, Clemens Iren Papers, 1861-2004. SC 3002. One folder. Collection guide online. Clemens Iren Gotsch was born March 29, 1836 in Muhlau, Saxony. At the age of 16, he immigrated with his family in 1852 to America and was naturalized in 1858. Sometime before the war, he and his family were living in Olean, Indiana and on May 12, 1861, Iren enlisted as a Private in Company “D” of the 17th Indiana Infantry. Known as the Grand Old 17th, the 17th Indiana participated in many harrowing battles throughout the war, including Elkwater and Greenbrier in Virginia, Corinth in Mississippi, Thompson’s Cove, McMinnville, Farmington and Hoover’s Gap in Tennessee, and Chickamauga, Coosaville and Flat Rock in Georgia. Iren and his comrades were among the few Union cavalry units equipped with the Spencer Carbine in May 1863, and the unit’s speed and stopping power earned them much renown. After engaging in several battles, Iren was wounded in Cleveland, Tennessee on November 27, 1863 and died a month later on December 24 in a Chattanooga hospital. This collection contains a short biographical sketch of Gotsch and the 17th Indiana Infantry compiled by Cheryl Ratz Gross in 2004.
Guedelhoefer, John Wagon Company (Indianapolis, Ind.) Records, 1925-1935. M 0122. One manuscript box, three boxes of photographs, one box of OVA photographs, one Cirkut photograph. Collection guide online. The John Guedelhoefer Wagon Company was founded in 1873 by John Guedelhoefer. John was born in Germany on December 26, 1832, to John and Anna Guedelhoefer. He was trained in carriage-making from about the age of seventeen. In 1869, he came to Indianapolis. His first shop was opened in 1873 on South Street. In 1886, he bought a triangular lot at the corner of West Georgia Street and Kentucky Avenue, and there built a factory of considerable size. By 1893, he had added an additional building to his blacksmith shop, wagon factory and paint & finish shop. All operations were conducted under John’s personal supervision. John married Magdalina Schmidt and together they had 7 children: William, Julius, August, Mary, Paulina, Otto and Bernard. He died in 1905 in Indianapolis. John’s son August became owner and president of the wagon company after his father’s death. Bernard was treasurer. August and his wife Ella had four children: Bertha, John O., Marie and Loretta. John O. Guedelhoefer became owner of the company after his father died, retiring in 1962. The company specialized in delivery wagons. By the 1930s, they were building special truck bodies to suit various customers and then mounting them on chassis supplied by manufacturers like General Motors. Control of the company remained in family hands through the third generation. Finally in 1970, when surviving family members were in their 70s, the company went out of business. The collection pertains primarily to the John Guedelhoefer Wagon Company, though there are some family photographs included as well.
Hagerstown, Indiana Collection, Ca. 1900–Ca. 1920, n.d. P 0226. One half-size box of copy photographs, one box of 4×5 Glass Plates, four boxes of 5×7 Glass Plates, four boxes of 7×9 Glass Plates, two 5×7 Acetate Negatives in cold storage. Collection guide online. Hagerstown, Indiana, is located in the far eastern portion of the state in Wayne County. The town was platted in 1832 and has a population in 2015 of 1,787. Early on religious groups organized in the area, the Salem Baptists being the first in 1816. By 1820, the German Baptists, also called Dunkards, settled near Hagerstown. They came from Germany to escape religious persecution and wore distinctive dark clothing similar to the Quakers. They farmed, built mills and started businesses. The Teetor family was part of this group.
Harwarth, Alfred E. Papers, 1866–1955. M 1082. One half-sized manuscript box, one oversized folder, one box of photographs, seven tintype photographs. Collection guide online. Alfred E. Harwarth (1895–1968) was born in Newark, New Jersey, son of German immigrants, Alfred F. and Emma Kuhn Harwarth. After studying mechanical engineering and mathematics at the Technical University, Charlottenburg (Berlin) Germany he returned to the United States where he was employed as an engineer and draftsman in Florida, Georgia and Virginia before coming to Indianapolis in the early 1950s. He also sold real estate and had several business connections with firms in Germany. He died while visiting in Germany and is buried there. The collection contains Harwarth’s family and professional records along with a large number of photographs, 1866–1955.
Hellekson, Ruth Scrapbooks. BV 0575-0576. Two bound volumes. No collection guide available. The collection contains a copy of the 1908 Saengerfest Program, Indianapolis.
Heppner, Ernest G. Collection Ca. 1962-2001. M 0978. One manuscript box, one oversized manuscript box, two folders of black and white images, two folders of color photographs, and ten VHS videos. Collection guide online. Ernest Heppner was born in Breslau, Germany in 1921. In 1939, amidst persecution of the Jewish people in Germany, he and his mother fled to Shanghai, China. He was interned in the Shanghai Ghetto by Japanese armed forces after Pearl Harbor and liberated by U.S. troops at the end of WWII. From 1945 to 1947 Heppner was a civilian employee of the U.S. Advisory Group to the Chinese Armed Forces. Then, in 1947 he came to the U.S. and settled in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1954.
Heuring, Frederick A. Papers, 1861-1907 (bulk, 1861-1864). M 0590, F 1290. One manuscript box, one reel of microfilm. Collection guide online. Born in Germany, Heuring was living in Rockport by 1861. He enlisted with the 25th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War as a chaplain, and served mainly in Missouri and Arkansas. Thirty years later, he seems to have been living in Oklahoma, and he died sometime after 1907. The collection contains a journal (1861-1864), discharge and G.A.R. papers, and clippings. The journal, kept during Heuring’s Civil War service, deals with his duties as chaplain and his concerns about getting wounded soldiers home to recuperate instead of sending them to military hospitals. The journal, kept on a day-to-day basis, also gives Heuring’s personal feelings on a number of military topics.
Hoferer, Martin Letter, August 25, 1875. SC 0766. One folder. No collection guide available. One letter from Hoferer in Ripley County to Mr. Muller which contains agriculture-related news. The letter is in German with transcription and translation.
Hofmann, William Papers, 1840-1888. SC 1995. Three folders. Collection guide in library. Hofmann, a native of Kaiserlauten, Rhinepfalz, came to U.S. in 1850. He settled in Posey County. Hofman was a farmer and also operated a brewery. The collection contains letters to his parents describing the voyage across the Atlantic, life in America, and family information. The letters are in German with English translations.
Hotz, Joseph Civil War Letters, 1861-1865. M 0710, F 0079. One manuscript box, one reel of microfilm. Collection guide online. Joseph Hotz (1832-65) was born near Kinsing (Kinzig) Baden, Germany, and immigrated to Seymour, Jackson County, where he was a farmer. On Oct. 31, 1861, he enlisted in Company A of the 50th Indiana Regiment. Hotz was transferred to the 50th Reserved Battalion, Company E, on March 2, 1864, and was killed at Spanish Fort, Ala., on March 28, 1865. Hotz had a wife named Maria and daughter named Karolina. The collection is comprised of 25 letters written in German by Joseph Hotz while he served with the 50th Indiana Regiment to his wife, Maria, November 1861 to February 1865. These letters apparently are part of a larger collection of original letters. Also included in the collection are two sets of typed translations. The first set contains transcriptions and translations of 112 letters from Hotz to his wife. Written while serving as a private in the 50th Indiana, the letters were written from Bedford, Ind.; Kentucky; Tennessee; Camp Morton (Indianapolis), Arkansas; Louisiana and Alabama, November 1861 to March 1865. Hotz writes of his loneliness and is often disappointed with his wife’s lack of comfort and support. He also inquires about friends and family at home, the health of his daughter, and gives financial instructions regarding the running of the family farm as well as relating the regiment’s engagements and the death of friends. Also included are translations of three letters to Mrs. Hotz from Corporal V. Wicker of the 50th Indiana, Company E, in Mobile, Alabama. Wicker discusses Hotz’s death and his financial accounts with soldiers in the company. The collection also contains a reel of microfilm of approximately 108 of Hotz’s letters to his wife in German and a printed copy of a second set of typed translations of these letters.
Huckenbeck, Karl Heinz–Lee W. Dickey Correspondence, 1944–1947. SC 2996. One folder. Collection guide online. Lee W. Dickey (1919–2003) was born in Indiana and was living in South Bend in the mid- 1930s. He later moved to Indianapolis where he lived with his uncle and worked as a telephone and telegraph linesman. On May 12, 1941, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was assigned to the Warrant Officers at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Dickey remained in Indianapolis for the remainder of his life. Karl-Heinz Huckenbeck (b. circa 1920) was from Krefeld, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. He served in the German Afrika Korps during World War II and was taken prisoner by the Americans. He was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison along with approximately 300 others to provide maintenance on the buildings and perform various other duties at the post. When Ft. Harrison became an Army Disciplinary Barracks for American prisoners in February 1945, Huckenbeck and the other Germans were sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky due to military regulations segregating POWs from American military prisoners. In February 1946, Huckenbeck was moved to a POW camp in England. He remained in England as a POW until at least September 1947. The collection consists of nine letters exchanged between Dickey and Huckenbeck from December 31, 1944 until February 2, 1947.
Iglehart, John E. Papers. M 0153. Nine manuscript boxes. Collection guide online. The papers contain a letter to Richard Barthold, St. Louis, 22 September 1916, expressing gratitude for his support of German-American rights.
Indiana Circuit Court (Marion County) Records, 1821-1868. M 0553. Four manuscript boxes. Collection guide in library. The collection includes suits and documents regarding naturalization, mainly of German and Irish immigrants.
Indianapolis German Freethinker Society, Translation of Minutes, 1870-1890. SC 2060. One folder. Photocopy. No collection guide available. The Freethinkers were members of a religious rationalist organization that attacked Biblical infallibility and advocated natural religion based on man’s moral freedom, this collection contains a translation of their minutes from 1870-1890.
Katterhenry, Christina Letter, November 25, 1861. SC 0896. One folder. No collection guide available. Letter contains lengthy comments about Civil War written from Huntingburg in German with typed translation.
Kerz Family Photographs, 1895–Ca. 1910. P 0127. One OVA photograph box. Collection guide online. Nickolas Kerz (1845–1907) immigrated from Germany in 1869. He settled in Indianapolis and married another German immigrant, Philippina Bernd (1852–1919) in November 1874. The couple had seven children; Katie, Phillip, Annie, Sadie, the twins Lillie and Tillie, and the youngest Elvira. The collection is comprised of photographs of Kerz family and friends, and school groups.
Klemm, Gerhard Oral History Interview, January 3, 2012. SC 3116. One folder, three DVDs. Collection guide online. Gerhard Klemm was born in Wüstenrot, Germany, in 1940. As a youth in post-World War II Germany, he learned the butchering trade. Then, in the late 1950s, he immigrated to the United States, where he worked for an uncle, Karl W. Klemm, who had already established a meat market known as Klemm’s Meats in Indianapolis, Indiana. Upon Karl W. Klemm’s death in 1967, Otto Straub, nephew of Karl’s wife, Mina, inherited Klemm’s Meats and operated the business until Gerhard Klemm bought this same business in 1969 and renamed it Klemm’s German Sausage and Meats. Gerhard Klemm produced Old Worldstyle sausages, which he sold at Indianapolis’s City Market and then at a shop on the city’s Near South Side until 2003, when he sold the business to Claus Muth and retired. In 1969, he married Evelin Stark. They have three children. Throughout his years in Indianapolis, he has been active in various organizations, several of which are associated with the city’s German community. This manuscript was transcribed from a digitally recorded interview conducted on January 3, 2012, at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, by Kendra E. Clauser, Indiana Historical Society’s oral history archivist for the project from 2011 to 2013.
Kolyer, Silvia, Art History Term Paper. SC 0933. One folder. No collection guide available. The paper is on the German contribution to Indianapolis architecture.
Lange, Albert Autobiographical Letter, March 25, 1858. SC 0955. One folder. Photostat. No collection guide available. The letter contains a description of early life and coming to America from Germany in 1830 after five years of imprisonment for treason.
Law, William H. and John Papers. SC 0963. One folder. No collection guide available. Collection contains a letter of November 5, 1838, from J.B. McCall to John Law concerning the hiring of immigrants to work on Wabash and Erie Canal through Lamasco.
Lieber, Meta Papers, 1896-1922. M 0183. Two manuscript boxes. Collection guide in library. The collection contains printed items such as programs from plays, concerts, etc., including many from German-related organizations and events.
Mayer, Charles Papers, 1838-1895. SC 1055. Five folders. Typed transcripts. Collection guide in library. The collection tells of the voyage to U.S. from Germany, coming to Indianapolis and going into business.
Mayer, Charles And Company, Ca. 1930. SC 2429. One folder. Collection guide online. This collection contains two short typed histories of Charles Mayer and Company, dating from about 1930; and an 11-page mimeographed account of reunions of the company’s employees which began in 1923. It also gives a history of a number of employees, some going back to the 1880s.
Megganhoffer, Charles William Genealogy Notebook, ca. 1900-1975. SC 2021. One folder. No collection guide available. Charles Megganhoffer worked on the Monon Railroad. He lived in Lafayette and Indianapolis in Indiana but he was a native of Chilicothe, Ohio. His father was born in Frankfort, Germany.
Mueller Family Collection, 1900s-1980s. SC 3022. One folder, two PAA boxes, two PAB boxes. Collection guide online. The collection contains one folder of genealogical materials relating to the Mueller family (and its extended relations to the Vonnegut, Schnull, and Schramm families) and four photograph albums. The first photograph album is of unidentified people, presumably relatives of the Mueller family. The remaining three photograph albums pertain directly to the Mueller family. One photograph album features photographs of Clemens Otto Mueller and his immediate and extended family members from 1907-1910, and two photograph albums feature photographs of Clemens’ daughter, Marjorie Jean Mueller: one album of her early childhood from 1918–1921 and the other album from 1935-1944. The later album of Marjorie Jean Mueller’s life contains many photographs of her time at DePauw University and John Herron School of Arts. The photographs in albums directly pertaining to the Mueller family are generally well-labeled, which would allow identification of many family members via reference materials in the genealogical folder.
Orndorff, James Marriage License, June 2, 1880. OM 0184. One oversize folder. No collection guide available. The marriage license is in German.
Ostermeier-Buesking Family Papers, 1849-1979 (bulk 1885-1927). M 0665, OM 0335. One box, one oversize folder. Collection guide online. The papers in this collection center around Sophie Luise Eleanor (Ellen) Schwartz, Christian Ostermeier and Frederick Buesking. Sophie (Ellen) Schwartz (1849-1921) was born in Frille, Westphalia, Germany. She and her two siblings immigrated to the United States with their parents, Antoine and Caroline, around 1850 and planned to settle in Indianapolis. Two days after the family’s arrival in Indianapolis, Antoine was dead of typhoid. With the assistance of other family members who had arrived in the area earlier, Caroline and her children settled and farmed a plot of land in Buck Creek Township, Hancock County. In 1871, Ellen Schwartz married fellow German immigrant, Christian Friedrich Anton Ostermeier (1842-1874), and they had two children, Charles Gottlieb and William Henry. After Christian Ostermeier’s death, Ellen worked at the Anton Schildmeier farm where she met and married Frederick Buesking (1855-1936), originally from Neunknick, Germany, in 1878. They returned to farming on her homestead in Hancock County, which she had settled with her first husband. Frederick and Ellen Buesking produced four children, Albert, Edward, Caroline and Julia. The collection consists of letters sent to Frederick Buesking and his family from relatives in Neuenknick, Depenbrock and Seelenfeld, Germany, 1885-1927. Topics include family news, local happenings, farming information exchanges, the military draft in Germany and World War I. The tone of the letters are very religious and optimistic in nature. They included English translations by Ilse Edwards of Indianapolis. Also included are family documents such as birth certificates, wedding licenses, naturalization papers and certificates, 1849-1930. There is also a copy of the Ostermeier/Buesking family history by Jacqueline K. Johnson, 1979, and other related genealogical information.
Palmer Family Papers, 1865; 1918–1948. M 1018. One manuscript box, two oversize folders, artifacts. Collection guide online. The collection contains papers relating to three individuals: Carl Klinefelt; Roy W. Palmer; and Roy M. Palmer. Carl Klinefelt was born in Germany in 1839 and was married to Roma Klinefelt and immigrated to LaPorte County, Indiana. He enlisted as private in the 21st Battery, Indiana Light Artillery in September 1862, and was mustered out in June 1865. Roy W. Palmer was born in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana; in 1897, he was a farmer and a teacher in LaPorte County. In April 1918, he was drafted into the U. S. Army, promoted to corporal in July and discharged on November of the same year apparently due to health reasons. Roy M. Palmer, son of Roy W., was born in LaPorte County in 1921. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1943, was promoted to staff sergeant and served as a member of the 879th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force as a radio operator on a B-29 bomber in the Pacific, 1944-1945. After the war, Palmer returned to LaPorte County and married Noreen Mae Schultz (1924-2008) in 1947 and they had three sons and one daughter. Palmer died on April 19, 1997. Collection includes Carl Klinefelt’s Civil War discharge, June 26, 1865.
Paul Harris Stores, Inc. Collection, 1971–2001. M 1021. One half-width manuscript box, one OMB box, one folder photographs, two folders color photographs, one bound volume, two cassette tapes, one OVA graphic. Collection guide online. Paul Harris Stores, Inc. was incorporated by the company’s co-founders, Gerald Paul and Earl Harris, on 8 April 1952. Born 28 September 1924, Paul and his family fled from Nazi Germany to Indianapolis in 1937, where his cousin was president of the Real Silk Hosiery Co. Here Paul spun and shaped stockings and established a store for employees that sold apparel that failed to meet quality standards. After this successful endeavor, Paul became merchandise manager at Real Silk, where he met Earl Harris, an employee of Huntington Manufacturing Co. After becoming friends, Paul and Harris established their first company, Packaged Apparel, in 1952. The company sold prepackaged merchandise to other manufacturers, but afforded the men little creativity, so in 1954 Paul and Harris opened their first store in a strip mall in Plainfield, Indiana. The store offered clothing for the entire family and gradually expanded. Paul and Harris opened a second location in a strip mall located in Indianapolis, eventually expanding within Indiana and adjacent states. The collection centers around the retail company, rather than its two owners.
Paul, Dorit Oral History Interview, 2011. SC 2930. Collection guide online. One folder, two DVDs. Dorit Paul (1928- ), nee Selig, was born in Mannheim, Germany to Bertha and Rudolph Ludwig Selig. In response to Hitler’s anti-Semitic campaign, her family moved to Switzerland and then to New York City in 1938. She attended public school until transferring to a private high school where she enjoyed studying history, math, English literature, and biology. She attended Radcliffe College and continued on to Columbia University to complete graduate studies in English Literature. Folder 1 contains the transcript of an oral history interview with Dorit Paul and a life history form. The DVDs contain a WAV file audio recording of Paul’s oral history interview.
Paul, Gerald Oral History Interview, 2011. SC 2929. One folder, two DVDs. Collection guide online. Gerald Paul was born on 28 September 1924 in Witten, Germany where he lived with his mother and father, Leopold and Selina Paul. Gerald Paul faced many challenges growing up a Jewish child in the 1930s Germany. While attending the Gymnasium, a classical, college-preparatory school, Paul was one of two Jewish students. His teachers constantly demanded he answer questions and then whipped him if he didn’t know the answers. When life for German Jews became increasingly difficult, Paul’s family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana because his father had family there. Folder 1 contains the transcript of an oral history interview with Gerald Paul and a life history form. The DVDs contain a WAV file audio recording of Mr. Paul’s oral history interview
Peppertown, Indiana Cemetery Records, 1986. SC 2139. Four folders. Photocopy. No collection guide available. The collection includes German Lutheran Cemetery records and burial records of German immigrants that were compiled by Helen Moore.
Pertuch Family Photographs, Ca. 1880–1884. P 0554. One folder photographs. Collection guide online. Richard Pertuch (pronounced per-too) was born October 24, 1855 in Saxony, Germany. He immigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1871. He worked as a clerk for various companies in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for a few years in the mid-1870s, and while there he became a U.S. citizen in 1876. Eventually he attended a school in Milwaukee for gymnastics instruction. He was then assigned to Evansville, Indiana, where he married Ella Lohse on August 31, 1879. This collection consists of photographs of members of the Richard Pertuch family, the Lockerbie Street house where they lived, and a souvenir booklet from the Lockerbie Street Fair.
Pleasant Run Children’s Home (Indianapolis). 1867-1987. M 0227, OMB 0016, BV 1700-1708, BV 1884-1885, BV 1920-1922. Six boxes, fourteen bound volumes, two oversize boxes. Collection guide online. The Deutschen Allgemeinen Protestantischen Waisenvereins was founded in 1867 as an orphanage by a German-American fraternal organization. In 1918, the association changed its official language from German to English and its name to the General Protestant Orphan Association. In the 1960s, neglected and pre-delinquent children became the focus of the home. The name was changed to the Pleasant Run Children’s Home in 1971. In the 1980s, the focus changed to a group home setting. By 1993, there were five group homes serving children who were mostly wards of the court. Most records before 1918 are in German. The collection contains minutes of the board (1867-1985); historical and financial records; histories of the home; superintendent reports; tax reports and audits; records of the ladies’ auxiliary (1902-1918); and records of children in the home (1873-1952). There are also three 1948 photographs and two bronze plaques are stored in the Artifacts collection. There are materials in the collection that are restricted until all items in those folders and/or bound volumes are at least 75 years of age.
Pleasant Run Children’s Home (Indianapolis) Records Addition, 1974-2001. M 1228, OMB 0016. Sixteen manuscript boxes, one half manuscript box, one oversize folder, one large framed item, two artifacts. Collection guide online. See previous entry for historical information on the organization. This collection represents an addition to the original Pleasant Run Children’s Home manuscript collection (M0227). It primarily consists of board and committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and related material. Some folder contents are in reverse chronological order, as this is how they were kept by the organization. There are materials in the collection that are restricted until all items in those folders are at least 75 years of age.
Rapp, Frederick Papers, 1816-1827. SC 2441. Two folders. Collection guide online. Frederick Rapp was the adopted son of George Rapp and founder of the Harmony Society, which left Germany in 1803, and settled in Pennsylvania before moving to 20,000 acres in southwest Indiana in 1814. He served as the society’s leader and spokesman, was a delegate to the 1816 Indiana Constitutional Convention and was a member of the 1820 commission to locate a new state capital. The collection consists mostly of letters written to Rapp from Shawneetown and Edwardsville, Ill., and Vincennes. Many are introductions for individuals visiting or passing through New Harmony. There is also an invoice of goods received, a cash account and letters regarding financial matters. Two letters are in German script.
Rauh, Samuel E. and Charles S. Papers, 1900-1948. M 0406. Two manuscript boxes. Collection guide online. Samuel E. Rauh immigrated from Germany to Dayton, Ohio, as a child. After working in the family business there, he moved to Indianapolis in 1874 and ran a number of businesses in the areas of tanning, fertilizer production, meat packing, railroads, stockyards, banking, realty and public utilities. His son Charles S. joined him in business and succeeded him upon his death. The collection includes personal and business correspondence and documents dealing with family businesses in Indianapolis and Dayton. Businesses include the Indianapolis Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Company, E. Rauh & Sons, Rauh Realty Company, Bedford Stone and Construction Company, Kahn Tailoring Company, Peoples Light and Heat Company, and the family’s hide business. Family papers contain correspondence, estate documents for Samuel Rauh’s brothers, home finances, Charles Rauh’s Christmas cards, clippings, cards from his wallet, insurance documents, and materials concerning donations to Jewish charities.
Recker Family Photographs, 1880s-1890s. P0433. One folder photographs. Collection guide online. Gottfried Recker was born ca. 1835 in Prussia. He was in the furniture business with Theodore Sander at their company, Sander & Recker, at 103-107 East Washington Street in Indianapolis in the 1880s. Gottfried’s wife, Lena, was born circa 1842 in Baden. In 1880 they lived in Indianapolis at 238 New Jersey St. This collection consists of two cartes-de-visite, three cabinet cards, and one panel card (8 ¼” x 4”) photograph of members of the Recker family of Indianapolis. The photographs date from the 1880s to the 1890s. The portraits included are of the following members of the Recker family: Armin W., Camilla, Gustav, and Max. Max is shown with a violin in two of the photographs.
Reichmann, Eberhard Papers, 1910-1988 (bulk, 1910-1928). M 0438. One manuscript box. Collection guide online. Born in Germany, Reichmann immigrated to the U.S. in 1953, took a doctorate in languages and taught German Studies at Indiana University from 1959-1989. He is the author of numerous books and articles on German immigration and Indiana German Americana. The collection contains musical and theatrical programs from Indianapolis theaters and other locations in Indiana and other states from the 1910s to the 1920s collected by Reichmann. Most of the programs are from the Murat Theatre and English’s Opera House, both in Indianapolis. Also included are programs from the Walther League Convention, a Lutheran singing society, 1916-1921. Many items deal with productions by German composers or German Americana. About 20 percent of the collection is in German.
Sahm, Louis (Ludwig) Diary, 1856-1858. SC 2341. One folder. Collection guide online. Born Ludwig Sahm in Germany, Louis immigrated with his wife to Texas in 1844; they moved to Indianapolis ca. 1848. Sahm assisted in the construction of Union Station and owned a grocery store from 1862 until his death. He also helped organize the first German Reformed Church in Indianapolis. The collection consists of a personal diary written in Indianapolis from October 9, 1856, to January 1, 1858. The entire volume is in German.
Saint Peter’s German Reformed Church (Saint Peter, Ind.) Records, 1860-1926. SC 2010. One folder. No collection guide available. The collection contains a photocopy of records from the church for the years 1860-1926.
Salem Evangelical Church Register, 1869-1950. M 0341. One manuscript box. Photostats. No collection guide available. The materials are for the Salem Evangelical Church in Wanatah, LaPorte County. Most of the records are in German.
Schliemann, Heinrich Papers, 1869-1960 (bulk 1869-1870). M 0378. One manuscript box. Photostats. Collection guide online. Born in Germany, Schliemann lived in several European countries and made his fortune working in international commerce and the export business. Schliemann had no formal training in archaeology, but he is best remembered for his excavations of Troy. In 1852, he married a Russian woman, Catherina Lishin, who later refused to leave St. Petersburg or to allow their three children to leave, to travel with Schliemann on business or archaeological pursuits. In 1869, he decided to divorce his wife and moved to Indianapolis to take advantage of Indiana’s lax divorce laws. The collection contains photostats of Schliemann’s letters in English, German, Greek, French and Russian, 1869-1870, written while he was in Indianapolis, and translations and notes made circa 1950-1960. The letters deal with business matters and the progress of Schliemann’s divorce.
Schnee, Jacob Biography, 1784-1938. By Mary Lou Robson Fleming. SC 2052. One folder. No collection guide available. Schnee was a Lutheran Minister, utopian community pioneer, publisher and one of the earliest German printers in America. Founded communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and leased 800 acres of land east of New Harmony in 1827.
Schramm Family Papers, 1842-1930 (bulk 1851-1911). M 0248, BV 1736-1738, BV 2107-2108, F 0286-0292. Five manuscript boxes, five bound volumes, seven reels of microfilm. Collection guide online. Jacob Schramm came to the United States from Germany in 1835 and settled on a farm in Sugar Creek Township, Hancock County, in 1836. His son, Wilhelm August Schramm, farmed and was an insurance agent in Hancock and Marion counties. The collection contains August Schramm’s diaries (1851-1908); the early volumes are in German and the remainder are in English. Topics include family, farming, social life, travel, politics, business conditions and the German community in central Indiana. Also included are farm cashbooks in German kept by August and Gustav Schramm; Anna Schramm’s writing book; correspondence; a draft of An Account of the Journey of Jacob Schramm, translated by Emma Vonnegut; and The Life of Jacob Schramm, handwritten in German by August Schramm with an English translation.
Schramm-Schnull-Mueller Family Collection, 1868-1992. M 1085. Seven manuscript boxes, two photograph boxes, one color photograph folder. Collection guide online. Jakob (Jacob) Schramm was born in 1805 on a hops farm in Bavaria. In 1835 he left Germany and sailed to America with his wife, Johanna (Junghans) and daughter, having previously arranged the purchase of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Sugar Creek Township through a friend. The Schramm’s proceeded from New York to Hancock County, Indiana. Mr. Schramm was a successful farmer and business man. He was the first man in Hancock County to engage in the manufacture of drain tile. Jacob’s second daughter, Matilda, (1835-1902) married Henry Schnull on December 11, 1856 in Hancock County. Henry Schnull (1833-1905) was born in Hausberge, Porta Westphalica, Germany. Schnull began as a farm produce buyer and became a successful retail grocer. A & H Schnull (later named Severin, Schnull & Co.) was the first wholesale grocery on Meridian Street in Indianapolis. Henry Schnull was the founder and first President of Merchants National Bank, as well as one of the originators of The German House (Das Deutsche Haus) one of the leading German clubs in the west. Henry and Matilda had 4 children. Their two eldest daughters, Emma (1857-1939) and Nannie (1860-1929) married Clemens and Bernard Vonnegut, brothers from Indianapolis. Emma and Clemens were married on September 4, 1878 in Indianapolis. Clemens, of Clemens Vonnegut Hardware, was also the president of the Indianapolis Coffin Company. Nannie and Bernard Vonnegut were married on September 19, 1883. Bernard studied architecture in Hanover, Germany, and became a partner in the Vonnegut-Bohn Architecture Firm in Indianapolis. The firm designed such well known Indianapolis landmarks as the Athenaeum, The Fletcher Trust Bank Building, Shortridge High School, and both the L.S. Ayres and Wm. H. Block Store Buildings. Bernard was the father of architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and the grandfather of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Shambaugh, Adam, “Early Days on the Wabash River, Indiana.” SC 2152. One folder. Photostats.No collection guide available. Contains chapter on many of the United Brethren preachers active in Indiana.
Speyer, Hanswerner Papers, 1920-1956. M 0534. Three manuscript boxes. Collection guide online. A native of Freiberg, Germany, Speyer immigrated to the U.S. in 1921. Trained in mechanical engineering, he worked as a toolmaker for several companies, including the Ford Motor Company in Detroit (circa 1923-1928). Speyer came to Indianapolis as a representative of the Dual Duty Company, a truck transport firm, and in 1931, he acquired his own trucking business. Initially called Contract Carriers Inc., the company went through several name changes including: Transportation Fuel and Supplies Inc.; Cincinnati, Eastern Indiana, and Indianapolis Motor Express Company; and the AAA Transportation Inc. Company. The operation continued into the 1950s. The collection contains Speyer’s correspondence, business records, literary articles and translations. Personal correspondence is from family and friends in Germany (Freiberg, Berlin and Freital) and Forbach, France. Topics include family news and general conditions in Germany and France from 1920 until after World War II. There is also correspondence from family and friends in the U.S., including requests to help relatives in Germany obtain visas and advice to new immigrants. Also included is correspondence to U.S. officials concerning developments in post World War II Germany and efforts to locate his sister. Speyer’s business and financial papers include records from his trucking business; a legal suit against the Indiana Public Service Commission; and charges regarding the sale of coal below minimum price. Other items include his patent drawings, and his literary writings and translations for magazines. Most of the collection is in German, including some correspondence in Fraktur.
Stein, Theodore. SC 1404. One folder. No collection guide available. Clothing Account of German Co. A, 60th Indiana Regiment, December 20, 1862.
Verein Bavaria, 1888-1951. OM 0542, BV 2249-2250. One oversize folder, two bound volumes. Collection guide online. Verein Bavaria (the Bavarian Society) was one of the dozens of German cultural clubs that arose in nineteenth-century Indianapolis. Such societies provided support for immigrants, sought to preserve German culture and language, and served as general social clubs. They often even provided health and death benefits. While many were organized by trade, others like the Verein Bavaria were based on the region from which members or their ancestors had emigrated. Verein Bavaria disbanded in the latter half of the twentieth century and in 1994 was no longer listed among the clubs belonging to the Indianapolis Federation of German Societies. Included in this collection are two bound volumes, comprising the Verein Bavaria minutes for the years 1888 through 1950. All the minutes are written in German. Also included is a poster advertising the Cincinnati Bavarian Society’s “A Night in Munich” event, held July 14, 1951.
Voigt, Lucille Winkler Collection, circa 1897. P 0019. One box OVA photographs. Collection guide online. Frederick Fahnley was a German immigrant and milliner. Mr. Fahnley was president of the Fahnley & McCrea Millinery Company and was a leader in the wholesale millinery trade in Indianapolis for nearly half a century. Fahnley was a native of Wurttemberg, Germany, born in 1839; he immigrated to America in 1854 when he was 15 years old. He worked several years in Ohio and began an independent business career in 1860 with the opening of a general store. In 1865 he moved to Indianapolis and organized the wholesale millinery firm of Stiles, Fahnley & McCrea. The collection consists of 12 interior photographs of the Frederick Fahnley home at 350 North Meridian St., four portraits of the Fahnley family, and a note about an oral history interview with Mrs. Bowman Elder of Pike Township concerning the preservation of two fireplace mantels from the Fahnley home
Vonnegut And Bohn Architectural Renderings, 1896, 1911. P 0160. Two oversize folders. Collection guide online. Both Vonnegut and Bohn, acclaimed local architects, came from immigrant German families. Bernard Vonnegut (1855-1908) and Arthur Bohn (b. 1861) acquired their architectural training in Germany. They first worked together as teachers in 1884 at an industrial training school. By 1888 they formed their architectural firm and their first major project was Das Deutsche Haus (now the Athenaeum) constructed between 1893 and 1897. Bernard Vonnegut died in 1908 and his son Kurt joined the firm and the partnership continued. It was during this later period that the William H. Block Company building was designed and built. Over the years the firm was responsible for several outstanding buildings throughout the state. Arthur Bohn retired in the 1940s and since then the firm acquired new partners and changed its name. The collection contains two watercolor renderings of buildings designed by the architectural firm of Vonnegut and Bohn: the Athenaeum (Das Deutsche Haus) and the William H. Block Company. The renderings are in color and show the finished buildings as conceived by the architects.
Breidenbach, Heinrick Materials, 1828-1837. SC 0130. One folder. Collection guide in library. Photocopy. This collection contains a traveling journeyman’s book for papermaker Heinrick Breidenbach. Born in Germany, he lived in Orange and Dubois counties in Indiana. In addition to the book, the collection also contains a naturalization certificate, and a marriage record.
Weber, Gottfried Autobiography, 1877. SC 2290. Two folders. Photocopy. No collection guide available. Born in Hanover, Germany, Weber worked on the canal in Ohio and Indiana.
Wied, Maximilian Prinz Von Letter And Portrait, 1832, 1837. SC 1675. One folder, one OVB graphic folder. Collection guide online. Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, German aristocrat, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer was born September 23, 1782. Wied, accompanied by two companions traveled to the United Sates and visited New Harmony, Indiana. It was there that his portrait was drawn by local artist Virginia Poullard Dupalais. The collection is comprised of one 3 page letter written by Maximilian Prinz von Wied and his portrait sketch. The letter was translated by Miss Florence Venn, Indiana Historical Society librarian 1934-1939. The letter is fragile so a handwritten translation and a typed version are available for patron use.
Williams, Mary Dean Papers, 1850-1986. M 0460, OM 0181. One manuscript box, one oversize folder. Collection guide online. Williams, born Mary Dean Whitmer, was born in Shelby County. She worked in Indianapolis and married businessman Russell Williams in 1925. The collection contains family correspondence, diary and letter excerpts, a scrapbook, memoirs, a list of heirlooms and a birth certificate. The 1850 birth certificate is of Maria Louisa Witmer, Shelby County, and is in German. The scrapbook contains clippings of a newspaper series about Indianapolis from 1836-1936. The correspondence is between Williams and Whitmer family members, 1922-1943. There are also photocopies of diary and letter excerpts of Williams and her female relatives (1901-1928), Williams’ memoirs, and an heirloom record.
Wolter, Adolph Gustav Collection, Ca. 1900–1981. M 1112. Two manuscript boxes, one bound volume, one color photograph box, one photographs box, eight graphic boxes, one OVA graphic box, two oversize graphic folders, two photograph albums stored in one PAB size box, one bin of 35 mm acetate negatives, three artifacts. Collection guide online. Adolph Gustav Wolter von Ruemelin, transplanted sculptor in Hoosierland, was born on September 7, 1903, in Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg), Germany, in the southern region of that country. The second of three sons, he was educated in the local schools and confirmed in the town’s Roman Catholic Church where his father Karl Wolter was chief sculptor. He graduated from the local school, and as a teenager attended the community’s technical school (a Gewerbeschule) serving a three-year sculpturing apprenticeship with his father where he studied architecture, stone and metal. In due course he matriculated to the Academy of Fine Arts (now called Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste) in Stuttgart where students enjoyed a reputation for their self-motivation and initiative. Before his twentieth birthday Wolter immigrated (1922) to the United States and dropped the von Ruemelin following his arrival to this country. Wolter stopped first in Minneapolis, and later resided for varying lengths of time in Milwaukee and Chicago where he was commissioned to do stone carving and sculpture for churches and buildings in Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati and Hew Haven, Connecticut. Finally settling in Indianapolis in 1933, when the Indiana State Library hired him to carve symbolic relief sculptures for the library exterior. The collection includes drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, slides, architectural drawings, photograph albums and manuscript material made and collected by Indiana sculptor Adolph Gustav Wolter.
Zur Oeveste, Johann Heinrich Papers, 1834-1939. SC 2042, OM 0188. Two folders, two oversize folders. Photocopies. No collection guide available. Zue Oeveste was a farmer in Bartholomew County and in Kansas.
Ancestors and Descendants of John Walker by Charles M. Andrews. F 0369. One reel of microfilm. No collection guide available. Information on a family from Ulster County, Ireland, who came to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then moved to Indiana.
Baird, Emily J. Letter, 21 June 1859. SC 2410. One folder. Collection guide online. The collection contains a letter from Baird in Cloverdale to William J. Koons, Bethel, Kentucky. Topics include Baird’s garden and farm, visitors, bigotry and the intermarriage of Dutch and Irish.
Caldwell, David Letters, 1835-1838. SC 2099. One folder. Typescript copies. No collection guide available. Two letters from David and Alexander Caldwell in Wheeling, Virginia. (now West Virginia), to their parents in Ireland.
Caven, John Speeches and Poems. SC 0184. One folder. Collection guide in library. The collection contains several speeches and poems, including one speech on the Irish and Ireland.
Erskine, Andrew Letters. SC 0552. Two folders. Collection guide online. The William and Mary Erskine family was the second white family to settle in McCutchanville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. They arrived there in 1819 from Antrim County, Ireland. The couple had four children: John, Andrew, William, and Mary. Andrew Erskine was born in Ireland in 1799 and immigrated to the United States with his family. He married Abigail Ewing in 1825. These two folders contain photocopies of correspondence with the Andrew Erskine family of McCutchanville, Indiana, between 1823 and 1917. John Molyneux, Henderson, Ky., 29 December 1823, tells of news of relatives in Ireland; letter of Amelia Fox McCutchan, Johnston County, Longford, Ireland, to Charles Johnstone near Evansville, 29 March 1824, lists troubles in Ireland and desire to come to America.
Hamilton, Allen Family and Legal Papers, 1814-1924. M 0608. Fifteen manuscript boxes. Collection guide online. An Irish immigrant and resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Allen Hamilton was a banker, Indian agent and local developer. He held various positions in the city’s government and established a business with Cyrus Taber based on Indian trade. He later served on Indian treaty commissions, and served one term in the Indiana state senate. The collection contains legal papers, title papers, correspondence, property assessment lists, land papers and deeds, Miami Indian treaties, an autograph book and a ledger. The legal papers (1828-1924) comprise half of the collection and are concerned with land grants. Title papers belong to Allen Hamilton and Cyrus, Phoebe, and Charlotte A. Taber. Correspondence between Hamilton and John Tipton deals with treaties with the Miami Indians and efforts to profit personally from the treaties. William Marshall is often referred to in these letters as a negative influence. Also included are Tipton’s estate papers, business and estate papers of Hamilton, and George C. and Stephen C. Taber. A ledger of lots in Rochester, Ind., and an autograph album are also included.
Hewitt, Joseph Letters, 1851-1872. SC 0745. Five folders. Typed transcripts. No collection guide available. Letters were written from Franklin County to Hewitt’s father in Ireland.
Indiana Circuit Court Records (Marion County), 1821-1868. M0553. Four manuscript boxes. Collection guide in library. The records include suits and documents related to naturalization, mainly Irish and German.
Kidd Family Papers, 1815-1887. M 0487. One manuscript box. Photocopies. Collection guide online. The Kidd family originated in Ireland. Samuel Kidd was born in County Armagh in 1782. He immigrated to the United States by 1808 and married Pamela A. Sampson in Baltimore, Maryland. They had three sons: James Hargrave, b. 1808; Samuel Cummings, b. 1813; and George Hugh, b. 1815. George moved to Texas and served in the army; he died of yellow fever in 1844. Samuel married Sarah Chauncey in Madison, Indiana in 1839. They had three sons; only one, John Dorsey (b. 1845) survived past age 6. In 1849, the family moved to Brewersville, Jennings County. When the Civil War began, Samuel Cummings Kidd and his son John enlisted. Samuel served with the 137th Indiana Volunteers and John with the 120th. Samuel was discharged in September 1864 due to ill health – he was 51 when he enlisted. After the war, John returned to Jennings County and married. He served as township treasurer and assessor for a number of years, his last term ending in 1890. The collection consists of correspondence, business papers, documents, contracts, genealogical materials and correspondence of three generations of the Kidd family. The earliest items are letters of Samuel Kidd dealing with property in Ireland (1815-1838). The letters of George Hugh Kidd, 1837-1844, discuss the situation between Mexico and Texas, and two letters from his widow to Samuel Kidd. The largest portion of the collection contains the letters of John Dorsey Kidd to his parents during the Civil War. The letters detail his experiences as his company traveled through Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Letters to Samuel Kidd Sr. come from family members in Kentucky, Texas, Ohio and Indiana. Also included in the collection is a folder of various documents, and a folder of genealogical information and miscellaneous correspondence.
Knox, William Letter, 18 February 1792. SC 0932. One folder. No collection guide available. Letter to H. Remsen from Dublin, Ireland informing of public news, the Catholic business is the only subject of importance in agitation.
McClelland, Beattie Papers, 1835-1867. SC 2387, OM 0305. Two folders, one oversize folder. Collection guide online. McClelland was born in Ireland and came to America in 1827. He settled first in Pennsylvania, then in 1839, he moved to Winchester, and finally Columbus, Indiana in 1852. A lawyer by training, McClelland held many posts and positions, including director of the State Bank of Indiana, a commissioner of the Sinking Fund, and a judgeship. The collection contains official papers, including documents, deeds, commissions and licenses for McClelland. Included are his naturalization papers, commissions as deputy attorney general, judge, colonel, justice of the peace and commissioner of the Sinking Fund, law and teaching licenses, and deeds.
Ryan, John Military and Pension Records, 1861-1905. SC 2019. One folder. Photocopies. No collection guide available. Born in Kelly County, Kilenoy, Ireland. He immigrated to Richmond, and served in 36th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War. Ryan died of typhus in 1862. The collection contains Ryan’s military records and pension records filed by his wife, Sarah Ryan.
Indianapolis Caledonian Club And The Scottish Society Of Indianapolis Records, 1915–2008. M 1173. One half-size manuscript box. Collection guide online. The Caledonian Club of Indianapolis was created in 1879 by six men, among whom were W. W. Howie, William Wallace, John & R.L. Jenkins (brothers), and John McGaw (who became the first president of the club). The first meeting was called on January 29, 1879. The club honored Scottish heritage and kept memories of Scotland in the hearts of those who had left it. Two of the ways in which club members honored their Scottish heritage were playing Scottish games and singing traditional Scottish songs. The Scottish Society of Indianapolis was created by founder and president, Carter Carlisle Keith, on Dec. 31, 1983. The collection is arranged in chronological order. Folder one contains the Caledonian Club materials which includes lists of members, correspondence, poems, programs and obituaries of former club members. The balance of the collection pertains to the Scottish Society of Indianapolis. The founding documents folder contains articles of incorporation, a certificate of incorporation, correspondence, drawings of crests and flags, a membership application, an International Festival ’84 program, an informational pamphlet, and stationery. There is also a Scottish Society of Indianapolis confederation agreement with Clan Na Gael Pipe Band.
Lockerbie, George Correspondence. SC 0979. Two folders. Collection guide in library. The collection contains Lockerbie’s correspondence with his daughter, Mrs. Thomas McOuat, and granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann McOuat, between 1830-1838. Lockerbie was a Scot.
New Harmony, Indiana Collection, 1814–1884, 1920, 1964. M 0219. Three manuscript boxes, three photograph folders, three OVA graphics boxes, one oversize graphics folder. Collection guide online. New Harmony, in Posey County in southwestern Indiana, was the site of two utopian experiments in the early nineteenth century. The first, the Harmony Society, was a group of German Pietists who had come to Pennsylvania in 1804 and founded a communist society. Led by George Rapp and his adopted son Frederick, they settled at New Harmony from 1815 to 1825, but then moved again, to Economy, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh. In 1825 the New Harmony settlement was sold to the British industrialist and philanthropist, Robert Owen. There Owen attempted to put into effect his theories of socialism and human betterment. These were based on absolute equality of property, labor, and opportunity, combined with freedom of speech and action. The Owenite community failed within two years, but Owen and his family continued both their ownership of the land at New Harmony and their interest in social reform. Many who believed in the ideals of these communities came to New Harmony. William Maclure who was born in Scotland founded the New Harmony Working Men’s Institute. New Harmony also attracted Scottish born Frances Wright. Wright wrote articles for the New Harmony Gazette and concurrently established a settlement at Nashoba, Tennessee where slaves could work out their liberty. The experiment by Frances Wright in Tennessee failed.
New Harmony, Indiana Collection, 1814–1884, 1920, 1964. M 0219. Three manuscript boxes, three photograph folders, three OVA graphics boxes, one oversize graphics folder. Collection guide online. New Harmony, in Posey County in southwestern Indiana, was the site of two utopian experiments in the early nineteenth century. The first, the Harmony Society, was a group of German Pietists who had come to Pennsylvania in 1804 and founded a communist society. Led by George Rapp and his adopted son Frederick, they settled at New Harmony from 1815 to 1825, but then moved again, to Economy, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh. Robert Owen, who was born in Wales and had limited formal schooling, purchased New Harmony from Rapp in 1825 and attempted to put into effect his theories of socialism and human betterment. These were based on absolute equality of property, labor, and opportunity, combined with freedom of speech and action. He had the idea of establishing an industrial democracy and a model educational system attracting notable scientists and educators and many who believed in the ideals of these communities came to New Harmony. The Owenite community failed within two years, but Owen and his family continued both their ownership of the land at New Harmony and their interest in social reform.
Southern Europeans
Greek Civil War Correspondence, 1947-1948. SC 2757. Three folders, one photograph folder. Collection guide online. Annette Savage served as the chairman for the Daniel Wertz Elementary School PTA World Relief Program from 1947-1948. The Evansville woman coordinated relief efforts to Greece during the final phase of the Greek Civil War (1942-1949). Greece suffered throughout World War II and in 1944 Germany invaded the country. A coalition of several Greek factions, including communists, fought off the invaders but internal conflict proved to be just as dangerous. The coalition that defended Greece against Germany was never united and infighting between the left-wing and right-wing forces resulted in civil war. The official administration fled the country during the world war years, and after the liberation from Germany, the conservative government returned to Greece. It was met with the Greek Communists, who wanted power after successfully defending their homeland. The bloody civil war lasted until 1949. This collection consists of twenty-one letters to George and Annette Savage from three families in Greece during 1947-1948, as well as notes from the men who translated the letters into English.
Bova Conti, John Account Book, 1924-1927. BV 2180. One bound volume. No collection guide available. Bova Conti was Sicilian native who came to the United States and operated an Italian grocery store in Indianapolis.
Buennagel, Freda Correspondence, 1924-1964. SC 2002. Three folders. No collection guide available. Buennagel was the housekeeper for Monsignor Marino Priori of Holy Rosary, Indianapolis. The collection contains cards and notes thanking her for her charitable donations in Italy.
DePalma, John Letter, October 22, 1935. SC 2886. One folder. Collection guide online. DePalma was born in Apulia, Italy and came to the United States to race cars. He participated in the 1915 Indianapolis 500 which was won by his brother, Ralph DePalma. The letter, October 22, 1935, was written on Hollywood Athletic Club letterhead by former race car driver John DePalma to Eddie Rickenbacker, principal owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway who was residing in New York City. The typewritten letter discusses the proposition to have Indianapolis Speedway general manager T.E. “Pop” Myers attend a race in California.
Gioscio, Giovanni Account Books, 1892-1923. F 0635. One reel of microfilm. No collection guide available. The account books for Giovanni Gioscio, an Italian Fresco painter who came to Indianapolis. He worked in several churches in the area. The materials are in Italian and English.
Loggia Colonia Italiana, Wayne County, no. 933. Record books, 1919-1950. BV 2044-2047. Four bound volumes. No collection guide available. The record books contain meeting minutes, dues, etc., which were written in Italian until January 1942.
Montani Family Papers, 1883-1988. M 0377, BV 2219-2235, BV 2541-2542, OM 0236. Ten manuscript boxes, 19 bound volumes, one oversize folder. Collection guide online. The Montani family immigrated to the U.S. from Italy in 1878 and moved to Indianapolis in 1881. Gaetano (Guy) Montani worked in the family businesses (grocery stores and an orchestra) and was a violinist with the Indianapolis Symphony. The collection contains family and business correspondence and records of the family businesses. Correspondence includes letters to Gaetano (Guy) Montani, World War II letters from brother Anthony (Tony), and service letters from the 1920s and 1930s from John Yacopino while he served in the Navy. There are also letters in Italian to family members in Indianapolis dating from 1883 to 1926. The financial records of Montani and Co. grocery (1880s-1977), including ledgers, invoices, receipts, correspondence and import records, and records of the Montani Brothers orchestra (1884-1957), including engagement books, programs, correspondence and materials from the Indianapolis Protective Musicians Union Local #3 are all part of the collection.
Priori, Monsignor Marino Correspondence, 1922-1939. OMB 0029. One oversize box. No collection guide available. Born in Montefalcene, Italy, and ordained a priest in Rome in 1901, Priori immigrated to the United States in 1909 and founded Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Indianapolis. The collection includes letters to Priori from various cardinals and Catholic Church officials, many in Rome.
Vigo, Francis Papers, 1751-1873 (bulk 1785-1820). M 0289, OM 0060, F 0655-0657. Three manuscript boxes, one oversize folder, three reels of microfilm. Collection guide online. Born in Mondovi, Italy, Vigo served with the Spanish Army in New Orleans. In 1772, he became a fur trader in St. Louis and later had a secret business partnership with the Spanish lieutenant Fernando de Leyba and aided George Rogers Clark with financial assistance and intelligence. In 1783, Vigo moved to Vincennes, continued in the fur trade and assisted Anthony Wayne and William Henry Harrison in negotiations with Native Americans. The collection contains Vigo’s business and personal papers. Topics include the fur trade at Vincennes, Fort Wayne, Detroit and Montreal; John Askin and the Miami Company; business dealings with the Piankeshaw and other Native Americans; land transactions at Vincennes, including lands donated by Congress to the original French settlers; Vigo’s work on behalf of Anthony Wayne and William Henry Harrison; and his efforts to collect repayment from Congress for loans to George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution. Also included is the inventory of Fernando de Leyba’s
Sebastian, Benjamin (1745–1834) Papers, 1795–1807. SC 1728. Four folders, one oversize folder. Collection guide available at Library. Sebastian was a Kentucky attorney and judge of the Kentucky Appellate Court (1792-1806). He participated in the intrigues with Spain to break Kentucky and the western country away from the United States (1796); received a pension from Spain; and resigned his judgeship after public disclosure of his Spanish ties (1806). The collection consists of documents and letters relating to Sebastian’s involvement in the Spanish Conspiracy. Included are documents relating to the 1796 meeting between Sebastian and Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet, Spanish governor of Louisiana; letters of Sebastian and his attorney, James Brown, regarding the accusations against Sebastian; and letters regarding Sebastian’s efforts to have his pension from Spain continued after 1806. Correspondents include James Brown, Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet and Henry Clay.
The Americas and The Caribbean
Hispanic Indianapolis: Personal Histories From An Emerging Community Oral History Project, 1990. BV 3516-3525, CT 1991-2007. Ten bound volumes, seventeen cassette tapes. Collection guide online (https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/hispanic-indianapolis-personal-histories-from-an.pdf). This collection contains the transcripts and cassette tapes of ten oral history interviews conducted with members of the Hispanic community in Indianapolis, Indiana. The interviews were undertaken by Dr. Charles C. Guthrie in 1990. Participants with Mexican Heritage include: Maria Espinoza, Alfredo T. Garcia, Estela Martinez, Monica A. Medina, Jesus Quintana, Consuelo Quiroz, and Jesse B. Quiroz.
Testimonios: Documenting The Lives And Faith Of Latino Immigrants, Transcripts Of Oral Histories, 2002. M 1234. One half-size manuscript box. Collection guide online. Transcripts of audio oral histories conducted by Ethan Sharp for the Study of History and Memory. Those interviewed include participants with Mexican heritage: Norberto and Maria Teresa Aguayo, Javier Amezcua, Vincente Aguilera, Ricardo Imán, Evangelina ‘Eva’ Morales, Consuelo Quiroz, Angela and Gerardo Valdez, and Maria Tapia.
Columbians
Testimonios: Documenting The Lives And Faith Of Latino Immigrants, Transcripts Of Oral Histories, 2002. M1 234. One half-size manuscript box. Collection guide online. Transcripts of audio oral histories conducted by Ethan Sharp for the Study of History and Memory. Those interviewed include a participant of Columbian heritage: Luiz Sánchez.
Hispanic Indianapolis: Personal Histories From An Emerging Community Oral History Project, 1990. BV 3516-3525, CT 1991-2007. Ten bound volumes, 17cassette tapes. Collection guide online. This collection contains the transcripts and cassette tapes of 10oral history interviews conducted with members of the Hispanic community in Indianapolis, Indiana. The interviews were undertaken by Dr. Charles C. Guthrie in 1990. Participants with Cuban heritage include Delia Diaz and Orencio Diaz.
Puerto Ricans
Hispanic Indianapolis: Personal Histories From An Emerging Community Oral History Project, 1990. BV 3516-3525, CT 1991-2007. Ten bound volumes, seventeen cassette tapes. Collection guide online. This collection contains the transcripts and cassette tapes of 10 oral history interviews conducted with members of the Hispanic community in Indianapolis, Indiana. The interviews were undertaken by Dr. Charles C. Guthrie in 1990. One person interviewed was of Puerto Rican heritage, Elba Cecelia Gonzalez.
Western and Northern Europeans
Belgians
Gilles, John Francis Civil War Diaries, 1861-1865. SC 2392. One folder. Collection guide online. Gilles, a native of Antwerp, Belgium, served in the 33rd Indiana Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War. Gilles enlisted from Knox County and saw action in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. The collection contains two small diaries kept by Gilles during his entire four years of service in Company B, 33rd Indiana Volunteer Regiment. The entries, in pencil and pen, are very small and badly faded.
Barkhimer, Dorothy Olsen Photograph Collection, Ca. 1918, 1919. P 0050. Two photograph folders. Collection guide online. Dorothy Olsen Barkhimer married Robert Barkhimer in August 1938. The 1940 census records show the couple living with her parents; he was an inspector for a fire insurance company and Dorothy was working as a clerk in a department store. Dorothy was born about 1914 to Edwin L. and Freda D. Olsen. Edwin’s father, Jens J. Olsen was born in Denmark in July 1858. He immigrated to the United States in 1880 and settled in Indianapolis. By 1900 census records show him married to Mary H. Olsen and the couple had three children, Rudolph O., Edwin L. and Alma M. Olsen. By 1910 Edwin was the only one found living in the Indianapolis area. Census records record him as seventeen and living with his aunt and uncle, Edward and Helena W. Olsen. By 1920, Edwin was married to Freda D. Olsen and the couple had two daughters, Dorothy and Helen. The collection contains early cartes de visite and photographs of men in military uniforms that were made at photographic studios in Denmark. There are also World War I era black and-white snapshots of unidentified American soldiers and postcard photographs of soldiers taken in Denmark. There are also crowd scenes on Monument Circle celebrating Armistice Day November 11, 1918, Welcome Home Day celebrations, and aerial views of Indianapolis. Finally there is an undated group portrait of the Indianapolis Newsboys Band.
Baird, Emily J. Letter, June 21, 1859. SC 2410. One folder. Collection guide online. The collection contains a letter from Baird in Cloverdale to William J. Koons, Bethel, Kentucky. Topics include Baird’s garden and farm, visitors, bigotry and the intermarriage of Dutch and Irish.
Ten Brook, Andrew Autobiography, 1888-1889. SC 2162. One folder. Typed transcript. No collection guide available. The autobiography of Andrew Ten Brook written in 1888-1889 in Rockville.
Badollet, John Papers, 1768-1901. F 0032-0033. Two reels of microfilm. No collection guide available. Though Badollet was born in Switzerland the collection includes letters of Louis Salomon, 1807-1835.
Berthier, Alexandre (1753–1815) Papers, 1800. BV 2578. One bound volume. No collection guide available. Berthier was an officer in the French army (1770–1814) who fought in the American Revolution with Lafayette. He was chief of staff under Napoleon Bonaparte (1795–1814), and Ambassador Extraordinary to Spain, responsible for negotiating the retrocession of Louisiana from Spain to France (1800). The collection consists of Berthier’s papers relating to his negotiations with Spain for the return of Louisiana to France (August–October 1800). Included are retained copies of Berthier’s letters to Napoleon, Prince Talleyrand, General Menou, and the Spanish Secretary of State, the Chevalier Urquijo; Berthier’s copies of his instructions from Talleyrand. A copy of a letter sent to Urquijo by French ambassador Alquier outlining the French argument for retrocession, and preliminary drafts of a treaty written by Berthier and Urquijo, as well as letters of Urquijo explaining the Spanish position are also present.
Coupin, Claude Antoine Gabriel Papers, 1790-1805. M 0416. One manuscript box. Collection guide in library. Coupin came to America from Sevres, France, in 1790. The collection contains legal documents, letters, and bills.
Edwards, Abraham of Detroit, Account Books, 1817-1823. F 0005. One reel of microfilm. Collection guide in library. General store of Abraham Edwards used by residents of Michigan, Northern Indiana and elsewhere.
Fretageot Family Records. F 0242. One partial reel of microfilm. Collection guide in library. This collection comprises a portion of the New Harmony materials collection on microfilm. Achilles Emery Fretageot was born in France in 1813. He moved to New Harmony in 1826 and lived there until his death in 1873. The collection contains one day book and one account book but also materaisl related to his sons Alexander and Achilles H. Fretageot.
Haldimand, Frederick Papers. SC 0667. One folder. Photocopies. No collection guide available. Ten documents, 1766-1774, longhand copies from Public Archives of Canada.
Julian Family Papers, 1861-circa 1971. SC 3037. Four folders, one folder photographs. Collection guide online. The Julians are among the more historically prominent families in eastern Indiana. The first Julians, then known as St. Juliens, arrived in the Carolinas from France in the seventeenth century, and made their way to Indiana in the early nineteenth century. A number of them were Quakers and abolitionists, and several were involved in Henry County’s initial organization in 1821. Rene Julian was elected as the first County Clerk and Recorder in 1822, and his name appears repeatedly in local histories. Another individual active in Henry County’s founding was Shubal Julian, on whose land Prairie Township’s first schoolhouse was built in 1824 or 1825. Other notable individuals include J.B. Julian, listed as Circuit Prosecutor for the year 1844, and Emsley Julian, who served as Treasurer for the county in the 1860s. The Julians are also associated with Wayne County, where Isaac Julian served as the area’s first schoolteacher in 1808-1809. The same Isaac Julian won a seat in the Indiana State House of Representatives in 1822. This short collection is devoted to Julian family history.
Lasselle, Hyacinth Accounts List, 1816. SC 0958. One folder. No collection guide available. List of debts due to A. Marchall’s estate recovered by Lasselle as administrator.
Lasselle, Hyacinth Collection Transcripts and Translations, 1713-1908. M 0435. Three manuscript boxes. Collection guide online. Hyacinth Lasselle was a French trader and officer in the Indiana militia. He married Julia Bosseron, the daughter of a Vincennes fur trader. The couple’s children were Charles B., a lawyer and politician of Cass County; Stanislaus, a dry goods merchant and newspaper publisher; Hyacinth Jr., a merchant, lawyer, and newspaper publisher; and Jacques Magloire, a Cass County lawyer and judge. The collection contains transcripts and translations of about 800 French language documents from the Lasselle Collection of the Indiana State Library. The documents are the personal and business papers of the family and deal with French traders, the early military history of the state, and the business and political activities of Lasselle’s sons.
New Harmony, Indiana Collection, 1814–1884, 1920, 1964. M 0219. Three manuscript boxes, three photograph folders, three OVA graphics boxes, one oversize graphics folder. Collection guide online. New Harmony, in Posey County in southwestern Indiana, was the site of two utopian experiments in the early nineteenth century. The first, the Harmony Society, was a group of German Pietists who had come to Pennsylvania in 1804 and founded a communist society. Led by George Rapp and his adopted son Frederick, they settled at New Harmony from 1815 to 1825, but then moved again, to Economy, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh. In 1825 the New Harmony settlement was sold to the British industrialist and philanthropist, Robert Owen. There Owen attempted to put into effect his theories of socialism and human betterment. These were based on absolute equality of property, labor, and opportunity, combined with freedom of speech and action. The Owenite community failed within two years, but Owen and his family continued both their ownership of the land at New Harmony and their interest in social reform. Many who believed in the ideals of these communities came to New Harmony. Charles Alexandre LeSueur was born in LeHavre, France. He came to America in 1816 and moved to New Harmony in 1826 staying until 1837. His niece, Virginia DuPalais married William Augustus Twigg in 1828. An account of a flatboat trip to New Orleans in 1833-1834 made by Achilles Fretageot who was born in France in 1813 is also present in the collection.
Northwest Territory Papers and Documents, 1721-1802 (bulk 1780-1801). M 0367. Three manuscript boxes, ten oversize folders. Collection guide online. The Northwest Territory was created by the Ordinance of 1787 and consisted of land between the Ohio River, the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. In 1800, the Indiana Territory was separated from the Northwest Territory and two years later, the present state of Michigan was added to the Indiana Territory. In 1803, the Northwest Territory ceased to exist with the admission of Ohio as a state. The collection contains miscellaneous papers in English, German and French; some French materials have been translated into English. The papers relate to the exploration, settlement and administration of the Northwest Territory. Topics include the U.S. Army in the west; the campaigns against Native Americans by Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; the Ohio Company and land settlement; the French and British in the Northwest Territory and in the American Revolution; territorial court records; territorial politics and government; French fur trading expeditions; government relations and treaties with Native Americans; Clark’s expeditions against Vincennes and Kaskaskia; and military actions in the west during the American Revolution.
Rivet, Adrian Papers, 1840-1864. M 1032. One manuscript box, two oversized folders. Collection guide online. Adrian Rivet was born in France around 1822 and came to the United States where he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844 at Greenfield, Hancock County, Indiana. He became prominent businessman in Hancock and Marion Counties, Indiana in the 1850s living in Cumberland in Hancock County. In 1855, he was named to the Indiana delegation for the Paris Exposition. Rivet was listed as living in Rensselaer, Jasper County, in 1860. The bulk of the collection consists of Rivet’s business records including receipts, indentures, and two pocket journal account books relating to Rivet’s various business ventures in Hancock, Marion and Jasper counties, 1840-1864. Also included are letters to Rivet in French from friends primarily in the Cincinnati, Ohio region, 1848-1860. Additional items include Rivet’s naturalization paper in Greenfield, Hancock County, September 18, 1844, his appointment as a delegate from Indiana to the Paris Exposition, 1855, handwritten poetry in French and English and documents regarding his membership in the Masonic Lodge.
Vacelet, Jean Désiré Passport. OM 0211. One oversize folder. No collection guide available. Passport from 21 February 1865 (in French) written in French for Vacelet who lived in Vincennes.
Badollet, John Papers, 1768-1901. F 0032. One reel of microfilm. No collection guide available. John Badollet was born in Switzerland. The collection also includes three letters of L. Gex Obussier, 1836-1837.
DuFour, John James et al. SC 1687. One folder. No collection guide available. Covenant d’association pour l’etablissement des terres de Suisserland fur le fleuve de l’Ohio. January 20, 1803. The document outlines the establishment of a colony of Swiss vintners in what would become Switzerland County, Indiana. Translation printed in IHS Publications, vol. 13.
Gay, R. Henry Letters. SC 0617. One folder. No collection guide available. Two letters of R. Henry Gay, written from Cannelton, Indiana December 23, 1857, and January 9, 1858. It is noted in the letters that the Swiss Colonization Society is settling here, buying land and provides a description of land and location.
Heberhart Family Collection, 1874, Cs. 1890s–Cs. 1910, 1922. P 0445. One manuscript box, one bound volume. Collection guide online. Francis C. Heberhart Sr. was born in Switzerland and was married to a woman named Anna Elizabeth (b. March 25, 1797 in Switzerland, d. February 5, 1881), and had two daughters, Rosalie and Elizabeth, and a son, Francis C. Heberhart Jr. Francis “Frank” Heberhart Jr. married Matilda V. Childs. Frank was born in Ohio, and Matilda was born in Switzerland. According to the census, they lived in Madison, Indiana, in 1870 and 1880 and had four children living with them, all born in Indiana: Charles E., Mary, Emma H., and William G. Frank was working as a clerk in a brewery, and Charles was working as a clerk in a store. Charles E. Heberhart married Jennie McClure (b. October 28, 1855, d. May 15, 1893) on October 14, 1873 in Jefferson County, Indiana. By 1874, Charles was in partnership with Ben Abberger, running Heberhart and Abberger’s Drug Store on Mulberry Street in Madison. Charles’s younger brother, William, also worked at the store. This collection consists of 26 mounted black-and-white photographs, one diary, one small pharmacy log book, and one theater voucher.
Hirshbrunner, John Caspar Autobiography, 1900-1997. SC 1666. One folder. Collection guide online. A native of Berne, Switzerland, Hirshbrunner worked as a journeyman tanner until he immigrated to New York in 1851. In 1853, he married and moved to Indianapolis. The family moved to Terre Haute in 1856, then to Parke County in 1859, settling in Lusk Springs and then Rockville. The collection contains a photocopied 16-page typescript of Hirshbrunner’s 1900 autobiography, and a 1997 edited and bound version of the typescript, including photocopies of family photographs. There are also two pages of notes by Hirshbrunner’s great-granddaughter, Melita J. Campbell. Topics include Hirshbrunner’s childhood and youth in Switzerland; his years as a journeyman tanner; his immigration to the U.S.; and life in Indiana.
Martin, Jacques Coorespondence and Journal. M 0345. One manuscript box. No collection guide available. Translation of the book, Le Rendex-vous Americàin, Correspondence et Journal Inédits de Jacque Martin, 1853-1868. Swiss immigrant who owned a ferry in Spencer County and served in 6th Ohio Regiment during the Civil War, 1861-1864.
Obussier, Louis Gex Papers, 1803–1843. SC 0620. Four folders. Collection guide online. Louis Gex Obussier (1761–1845) was born in Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. He married his first wife, Lucille, sometime before 1790 and they produced six children. Gex Obussier came to the United States in the early 1800s on behalf of Swiss merchant Jean Mennet to manage land he had supposedly purchased in Virginia. The land proved non productive and Gex ended up joining John Dufour’s Swiss settlement at Vevay, Switzerland County in Indiana Territory where he was a farmer and wine maker. The papers primarily deal with Louis Gex Obussier’s business operations and are mainly in French, 1803-1843.
Perry County Microfilm. F 0180. One reel of microfilm. Swiss Colonization Society Papers, 1852-1859. Collection guide in library.
Scherrer, Adolph Papers, 1853–1928. M 0245. One manuscript box, two bound volumes, two OVB size photograph folders. Collection guide online. The architect Adolph Scherrer (1847-1925) designed many important public structures and residences in the city of Indianapolis during the late 19th century. He was born in Switzerland and studied in Vienna and Budapest before coming to the United States about 1870. Practicing first in New York City and Chicago he moved to Indianapolis about 1873. His first position here was as a draftsman for Indianapolis’ leading architect Edwin May. In 1878 May was commissioned to design the new state capitol but died in 1880 soon after the project began. The building was completed by Scherrer in 1888. By 1891, he was appointed to the first Indianapolis Board of Public Works. Scherrer’s sons, Anton and Herman, were also architects and worked in collaboration with their father and continued after his death as Adolph Scherrer and Sons.
Zulauf, John Papers. M 0308, BV 1769-1772. One box, four bound volumes. Collection guide in library. Zulauf came from Thurgan, Switzerland, to Clark County. He operated a lace and silk importing store in Louisville, Ky., and employed Swiss heirs of John Fischli (d. 1838). The bulk of the letters are in German to Zulauf from family and employers in Switzerland, 1835-1866.
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Volvo’s electric car brand Polestar unveils first hybrid model
Volvo Cars' performance electric car brand, Polestar, unveiled a four-seat coupe in lightweight carbon fiber as its first model Tuesday, adding to competition in a market dominated until now by Tesla.
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Volvo Cars’ performance electric car brand, Polestar, unveiled a four-seat coupe in lightweight carbon fiber as its first model Tuesday, adding to competition in a market dominated until now by Tesla. (Image Source: AP)
Volvo Cars’ performance electric car brand, Polestar, unveiled a four-seat coupe in lightweight carbon fiber as its first model Tuesday, adding to competition in a market dominated until now by Tesla. The hybrid Polestar 1 promises a range of 150 kilometers (95 miles) on a charge, with a gasoline-powered engine to supplement that if needed. It is due to be produced at a factory in western China and released in 2019.
Volvo, owned since 2010 by Chinese automaker Geely Holding, announced in July that it would make only electric and hybrid vehicles starting in 2019. The Swedish brand, known for comfort and safety, launched Polestar to allow a different identity based on “really sporty performance cars,” said its chief executive, Thomas Ingenlath.
“There will be a clear difference between the two brands that add to each other in a very good way,” Ingenlath, a former Volvo senior vice president for design, said in a phone interview ahead of the model debut in Shanghai. The company says it will follow up with an all-electric model in 2019 and an SUV in 2021. All manufacturers are moving toward more hybrids, but industry analysts say a transition to full-electric vehicles is years away.
Volvo has announced plans to release three all-electric models under its own brand by 2021. The next Polestar model, the mid-size Polestar 2, is intended to compete with Tesla’s Model 3, the company says. Ingenlath declined to give a price, but the Tesla starts at $35,000. Polestar will use an internet-based sales system with a monthly subscription fee, Ingenlath said. The company says that service will include the ability to rent other Volvo and Polestar models.
The market also faces competition from General Motors Co’s Chevrolet Bolt and BMW AG’s electric brand, BMW i, which has released four electric models. Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit plans an electric SUV next year. Sales of fully electric and hybrid vehicles have risen but last year’s total was only 2.6 million, or about 3 percent of the global market. Navigant, a research firm, forecasts that will rise to about 3.7 million in 2018 and to more than 9 million by 2025, or about 9 percent of sales.
Polestar expects China, where the government is promoting electric car development, to account for about one-third of global sales, according to Ingenlath. China is the world’s biggest market for electrics and hybrids. It accounted for 40 percent of last year’s global demand with sales of 336,000 units — more than double US sales of 159,620. Geely also launched another new brand, Lynk & Co, in 2016.
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Zekun Mao uses editing to create a thrill for audiences
January 27, 2019 pressva Leave a comment
Zekun Mao still remembers the first time she truly noticed film as a form of art, beyond a simple form of entertainment. She was watching Christopher Nolan’s 2000 blockbuster Memento, and she was fascinated by not just the story, but how it was being told. She began to immerse herself in movies, making her realize a passion that she never knew she had. She knew from then on that she was meant to go into filmmaking, and now, as an award-winning editor, she is living her dream.
“Whatever style the story requires, I will cut the film in that way. I would describe my style of editing as naturalism. I came from a documentary background. Being natural, or being real, is the most important thing. When I am editing, I like to stick to the style of the footage and stick to the tone of stories. I love showing the story as it should be. If it should be emotional, then I will make sure the way I cut the movie will make audiences feel that particular way,” she said.
Becoming an industry leader in her home country of China and abroad, Mao knows just what it takes to captivate an audience. This is exemplified with her work on films like Jie Jie, And The Dream That Mattered, Janek/Bastard, and American Dream, to name a few.
Last year, Mao also saw worldwide success with her film Our Way Home. The dramatic thriller tells the story of Chinese-American James, who picks up his older sister Barbara from college for Thanksgiving 1962. After a racist encounter in a diner, they think they’re being followed, but it’s not someone they expected. The story spoke to Mao, who has experienced similar forms of racism in her own life, which is why she felt compelled to work on the film.
“The story is about racism, especially at this moment when a lot of similar things are happening in the world. A lot of the feelings that immigrants have are painful, confused and embarrassing. Through this story, I want to tell the world that racism is a terrible thing and it shouldn’t happen to anyone. Moreover, the story is about Chinese immigrants. I want to highlight stories that are about my own community and about our history. As a Chinese filmmaker, I see that as one of my responsibilities. I think it is very important to show the difficulties and struggles that Chinese immigrants have even today,” said Mao.
Our Way Home had its world premiere at the Hollyshorts Film Festival 2018 where it was an Official Selection and is expected to continue its film festival run this year. Mao was pivotal to the film’s success. As it is a thriller, creating tension and uneasiness is key to captivating the audience, and editing is a vital tool to achieve this. Her work created the tone, bringing the audience into this dark world, making the thriller just that: thrilling.
“I am really happy that our film has been such a success. I feel really rewarded. All the hard work that we put in was really worth it. I am so happy that the story let the world pay attention to racism that still exists today. I am happy that through this film, I speak out loud what a lot of people want to say. I am also happy that I highlighted the story from my own community,” she said.
When editing, Mao made the decision of using fast cuts. During one crucial scene where the characters are being chased, Mao used her skills to create a feeling of danger, using jump cuts. The cuts are constantly jumping between cars and between the inside and outside of the car.
Mao thoroughly enjoyed her time working on Our Way Home. Everyone she worked with was dedicated to making the best film possible, and it shows in the final cut. Mao formed great professional relationships on set, which was almost the best part of working on the film. The best, she says, was sharing the story with a worldwide audience.
“The story is the reason why I worked on this project, and telling the story is the most enjoyable part of this process. I am very happy that I was able to tell this story, because I believe a lot of people experience racism in different ways. And a lot of Chinese-Americans had the confusing moment of figuring out who they really are. I hope after watching this film, audiences can think about all these problems,” she said.
Be sure to check out Our Way Home to see a telling and timely story, and just what Mao is capable of as an editor.
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Roma Kong takes audiences behind the scenes with Nickelodeon
September 11, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
Roma Kong has always been a big movie fan. Growing up in Lima, Peru, Kong’s favorite childhood pastime was taking in the latest flick, whether at the local cinema or on her couch at home. Even from that young age, she knew she wanted to eventually go on to make films like the ones she enjoyed so much.
“The moment I truly decided I wanted to make movies for the rest of my life was back in 2001 when I went to see Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on opening night. To see these iconic literary characters and worlds come alive on the screen was mesmerizing. I remember how mind-blowing and epic the film was, and I just thought, I want to do that. I want to be one of those people who make magical worlds be a reality before the audience’s eyes,” she said.
Now, Kong is an industry leading editor in both her native country and abroad. Having worked on several prolific projects for none other than Disney, Kong has established her reputation with her versatile talent.
One of Kong’s other long-standing professional relationships is with Nickelodeon. Working on several projects for the company since 2016, Kong’s work has been appreciated by audiences all around the world. Earlier this year, she embarked on a new project for the celebrated production company, taking viewers behind the scenes of their favorite Nickelodeon shows, featuring some of the shows’ biggest creators and cast members.
“I think these videos give the audience an idea of what it’s like to work in the industry. It shows them that we are all human and not this kind of over the top industry where everything is super glamorous. That people that are part of this industry also do all the silly things everyone else does at work, we all joke and we all work incredibly hard to make the content that everyone loves watching. It grounds the industry for the audience and makes it more accessible for everyone,” said Kong.
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The online video series includes a behind-the-scenes look into the Fairly Odd Phantom, Butch Hartman’s new crossover animated short, and has exclusive interviews with the casts of The Fairly Odd Parents, T.U.F.F. Puppy, Danny Phantom, and Bunsen is a Beast. They were all published through Nickelodeon’s Social Media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Together they are some of the most viewed social media videos published by the studio, amassing over 400,000 views.
“I’ve always loved working on BTS projects. They’re always fun because not only are you looking to give the audience a glimpse of how their favorite shows and movies are made but also, you’re looking to catch those extra special funny moments that only happen behind the scenes. Making these for Nick and editing videos with some of their biggest creators at work really stood out for me,” said Kong.
Kong was the sole editor for every one of the BTS Nickelodeon videos. As the videos were very time sensitive, the production company needed an editor that was effective working at a fast pace. Even working quickly, Kong excels at catching great moments that not only are humorous and entertaining, but that look good on camera. On top of this, she has a unique ability to edit to the rhythm of the music in the video, making them that much more captivating. The use of music was essential to each videos success, which could not have been achieved without Kong’s touch.
“I loved these because it was awesome watching the footage and seeing these people in action. Being able to catch great moments of their personalities and how much they love what they do and being able to tell a story with those moments was fantastic. It was great watching the action go on and then something completely unexpected and funny would happen and I would just burst out laughing and call my teammates and we would have a great team moment. They were incredibly fun to work on,” she said.
Storytelling was a fundamental element for Kong when editing the videos. Even though they were just going behind the scenes of a show, she knew she still needed to tell the audiences a story. She was given all the footage and went through everything to find the best moments and tell a coherent story. Because they were behind the scenes videos, at the beginning, it was difficult to figure out how to structure it for everything to make sense and not just be a series of funny bits or bloopers. Kong therefore decided to first separate sections of the video, parts where everyone was laughing, parts where they were recording voices, etc., and then, depending on the video, she would either keep the sections separate or intercut them, jumping from one section to the other. She then added small sections from the actual show to help the audience make the connection between the part that was being made and the exact moment in the piece.
“Nickelodeon is one of the big ones. Every kid grows up watching Nickelodeon and adults my age all had their lives impacted by them. Everyone knows them and what they stand for and their great reputation. It fills you with a sense of pride knowing that you’re working for a company that so many consider part of their lives. Whenever I talked to my friends about the shows they used to watch growing up, 90 per cent of those shows are Nickelodeon shows. It feels amazing to work for a company that has been so influential for so long,” she said.
Kong worked on BTS Nickelodeon from January to May of this year. Every video she did provided a new learning experience for the editor, which is why she loves what she does so much. Every time she steps into the editing studio, she remembers what it was like as a child, being so captivated with movie magic, and she strives to engages her audiences the way she was once so engaged. That drive is what makes her such a tremendous editor, and for those looking to follow in her footsteps, she encourages you to never give up.
“Never ever think that you can’t be a part of this industry, you absolutely can. It’s a very intense industry. It’s not glamour and glitz as they like to show, it’s long hours, very short deadlines, hard work and lots of different personalities to deal with. So, you have to be sure this is what you want to do for a living. Really sure. Once that’s settled, educate yourself. Filmmaking is a creative line of work but it’s also very technical. You need to learn how to do it. Watch all the content you can, no matter how good or bad you think it might be. You’ll be surprised how much one learns from bad movies. Learn the tools of writing and storytelling, your job is to tell stories, so learn how to properly tell them. Lastly, talk to people, reach out to people already in the industry, ask for their advice, ask if you can meet up for a cup of coffee. We all started somewhere and we all know how much talking to people already working helped us,” she advised.
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Colorist and Editor Cynthia Chen artistically portrays grief and loss in ‘The Last Page’
September 7, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
“To me, filmmaking is like making a delicious meal. The process of shooting is like gathering the ingredients for the food, whereas post editing is like cooking. Editors reorder the different materials, and create different dishes through proper dressing and seasoning,” she said.
Chen is recognized around the world for what she does. Having edited highly successful films such as Slingshot Prince, Offsprung, and most recently, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Chen is an industry leading editor in China with her work celebrated both there and abroad.
Chen is also a celebrated colorist, often combining her roles on many films. She has enhanced many films through color with her work, including Maskand The Last Page. The latter was a motivational project for the Chinese native, as she was telling a true story about another artist.
The Last Page is a short film that follows the story of a once famed comic book writer Emanuel Delgado. After a long career of award winning comics, and a mega fan base, it’s been nearly a decade since Emanuel abruptly ended his career because of the death of his brother. He is living in a house littered by the drunken debris of his depression until one of his fans show up who is the same age as his brother and encourages him to restart drawing comic books.
“I like this film because it carries positive energy and is both motivating and encouraging. It’s a story about a person coping after the big mental trauma of losing everything to picking himself up and changing his miserable life. It encourages people to never give up on their dreams, reminding them there are always other people supporting and caring about them. We need to cherish our own lives and do more meaningful things in the limited time that we have. I was totally touched when I finished watching this film. It is not only about remembering the people we’ve lost, but also encourages those people who lost their hope from losing the one they love to get out of the deep sorrow and tell them that there is always somebody else supporting and caring about them,” said Chen.
The film premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Awards 2017, where it took home the top prize. Chen was both happy and surprised when she heard that The Last Page was an award-winning film, knowing that it touched audiences the same way it touched her.
“I remembered those countless nights that I was talking with the director about the color grading ideas and how we could make this film into a better piece of art. And right now, we can all be proud of ourselves that we made it to the end, although it was just a small step on a long road ahead of me, I will keep up and be more creative as a filmmaker,” she said.
Chen was in charge of all the color grading for this project. The director described what kind of color effects he wanted for each scene after showing her the editing. Chen marked down every detail he mentioned and spent weeks turning his vision into a reality.
There are a lot of scenes in the film that express a decadence and hopeless feeling, and Chen used color to enhance these emotions. She used a heavy yellow and green color tune for showing the messy house environment. After the character’s internal emotion changed, she used some bright and clean color tunes to represent the delightful changes in his life. The whole color tune changed from cold to warm. Her color grading works highlighted the transitions of the moods and echoed the arc of the story, different color rhythms made this whole film vivid and lifelike. Her work took the film to a new level.
“The film had a big creative space for me to do the color grading, through the discussion with the director, I understood what he wanted and started to do the individual color design. Throughout the whole process I had a chance to use the color analyse from other different film types and apply them to this film project. I like the color tunes from Fight Club very much, and I was always trying to get a chance to apply them into my film projects. This short film fulfilled the wish for me by using the Fight Club dirty color tunes to highlight the messy house when the main character was at his lowest point. Also, it created a big comparison later when the main character was back into his normal life,” she said.
Be sure to watch The Last Page to see Chen’s outstanding work and be moved by Emanuel Delgado’s story.
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Editor Yun Huang introduces China to rest of the world in compelling docuseries
July 9, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
When Yun Huang was just a young child, growing up in China, her passion for film was born. Her grandmother was a movie projectionist and would share stories of her job with her granddaughter. She encouraged Huang to not only watch films, but to appreciate them. Since then, film has been an important part of Huang’s life, and she knew it was more than a hobby. Now, as a seasoned editor, Huang works in filmmaking every day, living her childhood dream.
Having worked on several successful projects, Huang is an internationally sought-after editor. Earlier this year, her commercial “Choice” amassed millions of views online, and her work on the film Stardust led the project to many awards at several prestigious international film festivals, including Huang herself being honored with Best Editing at Festigious International Film Festival.
“It’s important as an editor not to have one specific style. Your job is to help the director to create their own style. You can provide different editing styles that you think can be used, but you must respect the director’s thoughts. That is what makes a great editor,” said Huang.
One of Huang’s ongoing projects is Unveil China Outside China, a documentary series that allows her to share her country with the rest of the world. The series is distributed on people.cn, a large-scale news platform built by The People’s Daily. The People’s Daily is the biggest newspaper group in China. The paper is an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, published worldwide with a circulation of 3 million.
“Yun was our video editor when we were doing the post-production of this documentary series. I have known her for a couple of years and always like her work. Yun works effectively and always has a good attitude for communicating with the crew. I believe her talent in editing will bring even more fancy artwork to the world,” said Leiqi Lin of The Oriental Vision, Inc.
While making the series, Huang and her team have conducted many interviews with foreigners, from American politicians to ordinary people in the streets of San Francisco, from the founder of international think tanks to the engineers of Silicon Valley. The idea of this, from an overseas perspective, is to let them tell the story of China. What kind of role does China play in today’s world? How does the world see the development of China? What is the expectation of the future of China? Through their narration, the audience can find different answers.
“The documentary series include aspects of Chinese achievements, innovation in China, ‘Made in China’, Chinese diplomacy, China’s economic globalization, important meetings of the Chinese government, reform and opening-up, and so on. We interviewed many foreigners who told stories of China in overseas perspectives. I like to know more about China in different angles. I’m so proud that I can introduce China to the world by editing this series,” said Huang.
Having had previous documentary experience, Huang knew she was up for the task of creating and launching Unveil China Outside China. The monthly series involves a lot of work, and when Huang receives the footage, she only has a few days to turnout a compelling installment. At first, she found this to be a challenge, but now she finds it exhilarating.
“I only have three or four days to finish an episode, which was a challenge for me in the beginning, because I also have to work on the stock footages and special effects, find the background music, and more. However, after I had edited two episodes, I knew that I enjoyed such high intensity work. It let me have a sense of accomplishment. I believe resilience is a skill that all editors should possess,” she said.
The first episode premiered in October of 2017 and was published on both people.cn and People’s daily app. The premiere received over 810 thousand views in its initial month of being live, and Huang knew then and there that they were making something special. Now, they have ten episodes, each more successful than the last.
Unveil China Outside China is just one of the many projects that exemplify what a versatile and talented editor Huang is. She knows that the most fundamental aspect of her job is storytelling, and she encourages all editors that are looking to follow in her footsteps to make sure they know just how to do so.
“Try to learn more things rather than simply editing, such as fine art, music, literature and so on. These are extremely important skills and knowledge while you are editing videos with various subjects,” she advised.
You can watch one of Huang’s most recent episodes of the series, Unveil China Outside China: Riding on a bullet train is fabulous, here.
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Editor Ran Ro tells her personal story in acclaimed film ‘In Between’
May 16, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
Korea’s Ran Ro remembers the first time she fell in love with the idea of filmmaking. It was when watching the iconic French film Amelie. As she took in the film, it was a different experience than simply watching a movie. In one scene in particular, the narrator lists out what Amelie, the protagonist, likes, as audiences see the visuals depicted by the narration. That moment sparked a fire inside Ro. She took in how the “mundane” aspects of a film could easily be ignored by the masses but can be captured so beautifully and significantly. It was then when Ro decided she wanted to be an editor. She loved the power that such small decisions could have over the telling of powerful stories, and she was ready to become a master of the artform.
Now, Ro is known for doing just what she admired when watching Amelie. Her attention to detail creates visual masterpieces, whether she be working on a minute long commercial or a feature film. Her work with brands such as Tastemade, BackBeatRags, and Elite Model Management captivated worldwide audiences, and when she embarked on her most personal project ever, the film In Between, she once again impressed.
“The underlying concept of the project was developed when I stumbled across a memorial park in Honolulu. I was supposedly at a place that represents the end of life, but all there was in front of me was empty scenery. Observing the sunlight landing on the unmoving landscape, I couldn’t help but feel oddly at peace. In comparison, I began to think about the emotional turbulence that one goes through in life. The script was written shortly after this experience, as a means of unravelling the curiosity that arose that day at the memorial park. My childhood experience of being raised by my grandmother became a central plot line of the main character of the film,” said Ro.
In Between tells the story of Tina, who in the middle of a suicide attempt on New Year’s Eve discovers a mysterious path inside her duvet cover, leading her to an ethereal space filled with an infinite number of lights. Not only did Ro edit the film, but she also wrote, directed, and produced it.
After premiering last year, the film saw immense success at several prestigious international film festivals. It won the Award of Excellence at Best Shorts Competition and was a semifinalist at the Los Angeles CineFest, the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, and the Hollywood Screenings Film Festival, to name a few.
“It is rewarding and also very encouraging to have seen the audience resonate with a story that involved my personal experience. It motivates me to create stories that are meaningful and that challenge me to be more curious and observant about things around me and about human emotions,” said Ro.
Music played a large part in the film, from the writing process all the way to editing. One of the music scores titled “Reoccurence” greatly inspired Ro, and she played it repeatedly throughout the production, allowing it to stimulate the rest of the cast and crew.
“During rehearsals with actors, I played the same music to match the pace of their dialogue and the rhythm of the music, knowing that I would be using that score when editing. Once the actors were tuned into the music, the whole scene fit into it – the very last dialogue ended with the last beat of the music,” she described.
Filming went very smoothly, which made the editing process almost effortless for Ro. She knew the exact pace and tone that she wanted for each scene after being involved in the writing and directing processes.
The film uses otherworldly places to visually portray metaphors on time and space. In one scene, this is exemplified when the protagonist crawls through an endless path underneath a duvet cover when time freezes during the New Year’s countdowns. She encounters a little girl who guides her to another otherworldly place, “The Gap”, a realm in between life and death where the souls reside.
The Gap was instrumental to the film, and it was conceptualized when Ro imagined an unperceivable place that exists in between every second. She thought of it as a place where all past moments exist. The main character in the film, who keeps her dear memories of her grandmother, reunites with a younger self of the grandmother in The Gap. This was Ro’s favorite scene in the entire film, and the one she felt the deepest connection with.
“I enjoyed seeing my vision come to life every step of the way from writing, casting to production. It was surreal but also very exciting to see what I envisioned actually happen right in front of me. I felt very grateful that the crew that I was working with truly understood my vision and used their talent to materialize it,” she concluded.
Be sure to watch the beauty of Ro’s work on In Between here.
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‘The Ballerina, The Shoemaker and His Apprentice’ takes audiences back in time with help of Meibei Liu’s editing
April 7, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
As a film editor, Meibei Liu sees herself almost as the conductor of an orchestra. She puts together endless footage and turns it into a piece of art, transforming a script into a true visual masterpiece. In many ways, she is like the doctor of a film; she removes what is unnecessary and replaces what needs work. Editing is putting the final pieces of the director’s puzzle together, and Liu not only understands that, but she also thrives because of it, and that is what makes her a good filmmaker.
Having worked on a variety of projects that have made their way to many prestigious film festivals around the world, Liu has made quite a name for herself as an editor. Such films include Dear Mamá, Headshot, Faith Need Not Change Her Gown, Pumpkin and Fried Noodle, and more. Recently, her film The Ballerina The Shoemaker and His Apprenticereceived nominations at the Oscar-Qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest, Maryland International Film Festival, and Ouchy Film Festival in Switzerland, New Port Beach Film Festival where it was nominated for Short Film Award, The Grand Jury Award and Best College Film at The Next Generation Filmmaker Film Festival.
“I’m happy to hear that the film went all over the world for festivals and awards. I was glad that my changes made it into the film and was shown to people who speak different languages. It confirmed that emotions expressed and enhanced by editing can be identified by everyone, which made me believe that I should continue doing what I did for the film. I was glad that Eva asked me to go on board and be part of the project. That gave me a chance to show my attitude towards editing to people,” said Liu.
The film takes place in 1963 Hackney, England, and follows George Arkwright, a young man down on his luck, who must navigate the refined world of ballet pointe shoe making and redeem his value as the apprentice under the shadow of Mr. David Traynor, a talented but stuffy point shoemaker. George’s imagination turns into a reality when he becomes smitten with the Ballerinas the shoes are built for, one named Sylvia particularly, but soon learns this magical and seemingly distant world is not beyond the reach of affliction. Liu came on board half way through editing the film when the Director, Eva Ye, realized she needed expansive editing talent to turn her vision into a reality.
“Working with Meibei was great. She has a strong sensibility for impactful storytelling through an editing perspective. She often provides new perspectives to the story and is invested in trying different ways of getting the emotion across. Sometimes she is more willing to dig deep into the materials just to find something I didn’t even know existed. Her passion and dedication to editing is something I’ve seen rarely. And in many ways, she makes my work better,” said Ye.
Liu is able to address the problems of cuts quickly. When she reviewed the first cut that was made before she was brought on, she realized exactly how to transform the footage into what the director wanted and what audiences would connect with. She took what was a half-finished film and reworked it, making it better. She realized that the scenes were dragging; all of them could end earlier by cutting out some of the lines and actions. She stopped in the middle of the first scene and started the second scene earlier, helping to show the main character’s eagerness. Sometimes, however, she chose to extend a scene and have it linger longer to show the apprentice’s feeling of loss and disappointment. This film has very subtle emotions, and an editor’s vision and eye on digging out the emotions, and enhancing them by editing is vital. Being a very emotional person who is strong at noticing the emotional changes of people, Liu was the ideal candidate to take over as editor.
“It’s a story of dreaming. I believe this is a film that speaks to everyone in spite of when and where it happened. It’s a worldwide emotion that people all over the world can understand. I believe it is important to tell this kind of story, giving the audience a short period of time to experience something they can relate to,” Liu concluded.
The Ballerina, The Shoemaker, and His Apprentice is currently available on Amazon Prime Videos.
Written by Sara Fowler
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Editor Xiaodan Yang creates visual masterpiece with ‘It’s Not Just About a Film’
March 14, 2018 pressva Leave a comment
Xiaodan Yang knows being a film editor isn’t always the most glamorous job in the industry. When she goes to a film premiere, she will see the cast and crew and feel like she knows them so well after seeing their faces on her screen for the past few months. However, it is often the premiere where they first meet her. Editing isn’t a front-and-centre job, and often involves many isolated hours going through the same five seconds of footage trying to decide how best to use it. That being said, she absolutely loves what she does.
“I enjoy every moment during editing. I’m glad to be a participant and witness of the whole journey. Editing is my tool to communicate with audiences. It is how I put my emotions into the story. When people connect with the film, that’s my favorite moment, and I know I’ve done my job,” she said.
Born and raised in China, Yang has now taken the world by storm. Her work on films such as Witness and Sixteen received international recognition, and audiences can expect the same from her upcoming films Kayla and Summer Orange, which makes its world premiere at the renowned Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner in May. All those she collaborates with not only appreciate what she is capable of, they admire it.
“Xiaodan is a very talented editor. We know each other because of film Snatching Sword (a.k.a Wang Shan). Snatching Sword is an action film, and over half of the scenes are action scenes. As we all know, editing action scenes is like a big trial for an editor. When Xiaodan delivered her first cut, I saw her talents instantaneously. She is sensitive to the pace of the film and knows how to use sound design to tell a story. I think that’s really important for a film editor. What’s more, she has a very collaborative attitude and the ability of responding promptly, which make her an excellent team player. My other crew members and I all enjoy working with her,” said Rachel Zhou, Director and Writer.
One of Yang’s most impressive works was her film It’s Not Just About a Film. After spending the beginning of 2017 editing the project, it premiered on May 13th, and then made its way to several film festivals. Yang herself was awarded with Best Editing at the Top Shorts Film Festival and the Award of Merit in Editing at the Accolade Global Film Festival. Needless to say, the film could never have seen the success that it did without her.
“It still feels so exciting, knowing my work was recognized on a global scale. Winning those two awards, it means so much to me. To be honest, this is not that kind of regular ‘Hollywood film’. The way we decided to tell the story breaks the routine. I’m so glad there are people that can understand our intention and like it,” she said.
It’s Not Just About a Film tells the story of Max, an actor. To get the lead of a film, Max seduces and has an affair with Cameron, the lead actress and wife of the film’s investor Fabrizio. However, as the shooting goes on, Max realizes that Fabrizio is a violent person with a gangster background. Max wants to end the affair but finds himself unable to break away from it. It is a pretty stylish story, ironic and funny, but also extremely suspenseful.
“Working on It’s Not Just About a Film was a very creative process. The director and I had reached a consensus that we had to break the rules. It’s a wild story that needs wild ways to edit. That’s actually not an easy thing to do, but I was ready to try. It was like a brand-new experience for me. When I was working in the editing suite with Chen, the Director, he always encouraged me to try whatever felt good. I could forget about any editing rules in my mind, and it made for an amazing experience. I still feel so lucky that I got to be part of it. All the cast and crew were amazing,” said Yang.
Knowing he wanted Yang on board right away, the director sent her the script. At the time, it was not even completed. The first time she read the script, the story impressed the editor a lot. It was completely different from the films she had edited previously, and Yang is always looking for something new and unique challenges to get her creative juices flowing.
The film follows three different timelines all happening at the same time and includes several dream sequences. These three timelines revolve around the leading character in the story, reality, his dream and the film within the film. This makes for entertaining watching, but immensely challenging editing. With so much going on, Yang knew she had to put the scenes together in not just a creative way, but also one that was logical for audiences not to get lost and confused in the different storylines. She spent a good deal of time on the first cut. Almost every scene in the film had a different location, or even different time and space. Therefore, Yang decided to use different aspect ratios to present different timelines. However, after a few cuts, she still had the concern as to whether or not the audience could understand everything. She then tried to simplify the story by losing minor details, which made the film more relaxed and funny. Yang’s understanding of storytelling proved vital.
“Since the structure of this story was so complicated, editing played an even more important role. I kept reminding myself about one thing, “What am I trying to convey to the audience here?”. Once I was sure about the answer, every decision I made should serve this purpose. Otherwise, it’s easy to get off track under this situation. That’s why my work is particularly essential for this project. I had the responsibility to control the direction of the film, and at the same time to make it interesting,” Yang described.
In addition to editor, Yang took on the role of post-production coordinator for the film. As an editor, she cares about the sound and color correction a lot, and she always sticks to the end until everything is done, making her the perfect fit for the position. She also likes to give her input to the sound designer and colorist, knowing what would work best while editing.
Undoubtedly, Yang’s contributions to It’s Not Just About a Film made the film what it is today. Her commitment to the project was evident with every decision she made. However, the awards and accolades are not important to this editor, who remains humble. For Yang, she just focuses on the story she is telling.
“As the director said, “It’s a story about dream and subjective perception of the world.” And there is always a saying that “dream is the reflection of reality”. I don’t know if there’s scientific evidence to prove it, but it makes sense to me. Based on this concept, we developed this wild, dramatic, even absurd story. For me, it’s fantastic. It stimulated my full potential as an editor,” she concluded.
Be sure to check out Yang’s outstanding work in It’s Not Just About a Film.
By Sean Desouza
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Demand Note payable
The Company had an outstanding note payable (“Notes”) of $Nil at March 31, 2019 ($51,479 – March 31, 2018), which was acquired from IMT on April 21, 2016. The Note and interest was repaid during the year ended March 31, 2019.
Balance March 31, 2017
Balance, March 31, 2018
Interest expense incurred on the Note totaled $1,496 for the year ended March 31, 2019 (March 31, 2018 - $8,497), which was included in accrued liabilities until it was paid off.
Promissory Notes Payable
In February 2014, the Company borrowed $200,000 for an existing investor under the terms of a secured promissory note (“Promissory Note”). The Promissory Note bears interest at a simple interest rate equal to 10% per annum and interest is payable quarterly. Interest expenses incurred on the Promissory Note totaled $Nil for year ended March 31, 2019 (March 31, 2018 - $12,957). The Promissory Note was paid in full during the year ended March 31, 2018.
In December 2017, a company controlled by a Board member made a short-term loan to the Company of $400,000 with interest at 1.5% per month. Interest expenses totaled $Nil for the year ended March 31, 2019 (March 31, 2018 -$3,200). The Company repaid this note with interest of $3,200 during the year ended March 31, 2018.
Convertible Loans Payable
(1) In December 2016, several shareholders of the Company agreed to advance the Company $1,500,000 of convertible notes in three tranches: $500,000 upon origination of the convertible loans and $500,000 on each of January 15, 2017 and February 15, 2017. A further $500,000 was advanced in March 2017 to bring the total of these convertible loans to approximately $2,000,000. The convertible loans bore interest at 6% until the original due date of March 31, 2017 and $17,488 was accrued and expensed as interest on these loans for the year ended March 31, 2017.
The convertible loans contain the following terms: convertible at the option of the holder at the price of the equity financing or payable on demand upon the completion of an equity financing greater than $5,000,000; automatically convertible at the price of the equity financing upon completion of an equity financing between $3,500,000 and $5,000,000; if no such equity financing is completed by November 15, 2017, then the loans shall become secured by a general security agreement over all assets of the Company; and, upon a change in control would either be payable on demand or convertible at the lesser of a price per share equal to that received by the parties in the change in control transaction or the market price of the shares. These conversion features were analyzed and determined to be contingent conversion features, accordingly, until the triggering event no beneficial conversion feature is recognized.
On August 14, 2017, the Company entered into an amendment to these convertible loans, whereby the interest was changed to a fixed rate of 12% per year from April 1, 2017 to August 14, 2017, and 3% per month from August 14, 2017 to maturity, which was extended to the earlier of March 31, 2018 or consummation of a qualified financing. The conversion feature was modified to contain the following terms:
upon the consummation of an equity or equity-linked round of with an aggregate gross proceeds of $7,000,000, without any action on part of the Holder, the outstanding principal, accrued and unpaid interest and premium amount equal to 25% of the principal amount less the accrued and unpaid interest, will be converted into shares of new round stock based upon the lesser of (a) the lowest issuance (or conversion) price of new round stock in case there is more than one tranche of new round stock or (b) $0.25.
Further, the Company issued warrants to these debt holders amounting to 20% of the aggregate principal of the convertible loans divided by the exercise price, which would be determined as the lowest of a new round stock in a qualified financing, the average volume weighted average price for the sixty trading days prior to January 31, 2018 or $0.25. The warrants have a term of five years. These amendments were treated as an extinguishment of the original debt; however, there was no gain or loss recognized and the new and amended debts were recognized as shown below.
An additional $2,999,975 was received from these shareholders during the year ended March 31, 2018 for a total of $4,999,975. For the year ended March 31, 2018, an additional $1,037,067 of interest was accrued and expensed on these convertible loans.
The Company has recognized a discount against the convertible loans for the relative fair value of the warrants and is accreting the discount using the effective interest rate method. The assumptions used in valuing the warrants using the
binomial valuation model
were as follows: exercise price of $0.25, volatility of 114%, risk-free interest rate of 1.91% and a term of
years. The Company evaluated the fair value of the warrants attached to the convertible notes as $548,178 and recorded $548,178 of accretion expense in the year ended March 31, 2018.
Additional principal investment
Fair value of warrants
Accretion expense
Conversion of principal and interest
Balance, March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2019
(2) In May 2017,
the Company’s Chinese joint venture partners loaned the Company $500,000 at an interest rate of 8% convertible into the Company’s common shares upon a capital raise (“Qualified Financing”) where gross proceeds exceed $3,000,000 at the lesser of $0.50 and the quotient of the outstanding balance on the conversion date by the price of the Qualified Financing. Additionally, the holders are entitled to warrants equaling 25% of the number of conversion shares to be issued at conversion.
During the year ended March 31, 2018 $33,556 of interest was accrued and expensed on these convertible loans.
In December 2017, investors of the Company advanced funds under a new convertible loan offering. These convertible loans bear interest at a fixed rate of 3% per month until the earlier of (a) January 31, 2018 and (b) the consummation of a qualified financing defined as gross proceeds of no less than $7,000,000 and up to $14,000,000 raised in one or more tranches.
On the maturity date, without any action on the part of the Holder, the outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest under the notes will be converted into shares of new round stock based upon a (15%) discount to the lesser of (i) (A) the VWAP average of the last 30 days ending on the closing of the qualified financing (or, in the event of multiple closings, the lowest VWAP average of the last 30 days ending on each closing of a qualified financing) in the event of a maturity date referred to in clause (b) of the definition thereof, or (B) the VWAP average of the last 30 days before the maturity date in the event of a maturity date referred to in clause (a) of the definition thereof, and (ii) ($0.18)
In January 2018, the terms of the new convertible loan offering were amended to extend the maturity date until March 31, 2018 and in March 2018 the terms of the loans were amended to change the definition of qualified financing as gross proceeds of no less than $2,000,000 and up to $14,000,000 raised in one or more tranches.
$3,611,400 was received from these investors during the twelve months ended March 31, 2018 and $201,928 of interest was accrued and expensed on these convertible loans for the twelve months ended March 31, 2018.
Conversion of Notes Payable
Convertible Notes Payable (December 2016 to December 2017)
Chinese Convertible Loan
Convertible Notes Payable (December 2017 to March 2018)
Between April 1, 2018 and July 20, 2018, the Company received loans totaling $4,708,306 (which is inclusive of $31,673 that was capitalized interest which carried an interest rate of 1% per month) and of which $2,297,928 came from related parties. $4,732,853 of the loans and accrued and unpaid interest thereon were converted into 683,396 common shares as of July 20, 2018 at a 10% discount to the 30-day volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of the Company’s stock price.
The tables below reflect the fair value and anti-dilution features of the convertible loans, which resulted in accretion expense related to the loans:
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Fair value of
Convertible promissory note
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Balance allocated to equity on conversion
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(6) Between October 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019, the Company received $4,650,000 in new convertible loans (“New Loans”), which carry an interest rate of 1% per month and of which $1,050,000 came from related parties.
The schedules below reflect the accretion expense of $1,162,500 and interest expense of $198,117 being expensed in relation to the New Loans for the year ended March 31, 2019. The loan and accrued interest of $
was converted into 1,247,099 common shares on March 28, 2019 based on a
% discount to the 30-day VWAP of the Company’s stock price.
Ending Balance
(7) During the year ended March 31, 2019, the Company received loans totaling $9,326,633 (
March 31, 2018 - $7,111,375) noted in (5) and (6), which carry an interest rate of
1% per month and of which $3,347,928 came from related parties. An accretion expense of $3,266,918 and a fair value adjustment of $337,923 was expensed for the year ended March 31, 2019 (March 31, 2018 - $1,937,308 accretion and $Nil and $Nil fair value adjustment).
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"Guys with Kids" is a new comedy from Emmy Award-winning executive producer Jimmy Fallon about three thirty-something dads who try to hold on to their youth as they face the responsibilities of having kids. Thankfully, Gary (Anthony Anderson, “Law & Order”), Chris (Jesse Bradford, “The West Wing”) and Nick (Zach Cregger, “Friends with Benefits”) have each other to help navigate the highs and lows of fatherhood -- while still trying desperately to remain dudes. Balancing work or staying at home, happily married or happily divorced, taking care of the “littles,” while maintaining a social life is a daily challenge. Whether it’s hosing down their babies in the kitchen sink or hitting the bar strapped with “babybjörns,” these guys are taking on fatherhood in ways no one has ever seen before. Nick and Gary’s wives -- Emily (Jamie-Lynn Sigler, “The Sopranos”) and Marny (Tempestt Bledsoe, “The Cosby Show”)--as well as Chris’s ex-wife Sheila (Erinn Hayes “Children’s Hospital)--also offer their own parenting advice. Dads today are more involved in their kids' lives than ever, and these guys are no exception. No tantrum is too loud, no diaper is too dirty -- Nick, Chris and Gary are up to the challenge.
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Kate Gukeisen October 8, 2013 Afghanistan, education, military life, Reading for Pleasure, Technology
Children’s Stories & Resources: Afghanistan
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The first time my Vagabond Soldier deployed to Afghanistan, resources about the country were hard to find, out of date, and seemed to reveal little about the true spirit and culture of the Afghan people. Even though my son was a baby at the time, I wanted to find stories to share with him that would help us both develop an understanding of the culture and values of the Afghan people with whom my husband would end up spending so much of his time (though, when that first deployment began, I had no way of knowing just how much of our family’s next decade would be invested in Afghanistan).
Although the last ten years have given rise to a broad and deep collection of literature and resources about Afghanistan, its history, and its people’s varied and rich culture, it remains a challenge to find politically unbiased and informative resources appropriate for children. In this blog post, I am sharing resources from two of my library science courses–one is a resource we explored that will connect you with stories from around the world, and one is a resource I created in an effort to collect reliable information to share with my son to gain a better understanding of Afghanistan. The first is a wonderful site called the International Children’s Digital Library, whose mission “is to support the world’s children in becoming effective members of the global community — who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas — by making the best in children’s literature available online free of charge.” I have included links to, and a brief description of, two Afghan stories from the ICDL site below. The second resource is a Pathfinder (resource guide, available by clicking the link provided) I created that contains information about a variety of stories, blogs, recipes, videos, music, and other resources to explore with your children in elementary and middle school to learn more about Afghanistan–whether for a school project or to prepare for a deployment.
I hope these resources help you connect with this country and culture that holds a special place in my heart.
Two children’s stories, available on the International Children’s Digital Library:
The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal
Written by Idries Shah and illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago. Hoopoe Books, ISHK. Available on ICDL (click title above) in English, Spanish, Dari, and Pashto. Audio available in English and Spanish.
Idries Shah shares this tale that has been passed for years in the oral tradition in Afghanistan in Dari and Pashto.
This tale is the story of a young boy who visits another village and finds the people there terrified of a dangerous animal the likes of which they had never seen before. Through bravery, and a willingness to share knowledge and understanding, the boy helps the village people overcome their fears and discover something new and wonderful.
The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water
Written by Idries Shaw and Illustrated by Ingrid Rodriguez. Hoopoe Books, ISHK. Available on ICDL (click title above) in English, Spanish, Dari, and Pashto. Audio available in English and Spanish.
Idries Shah shares one version of this tale that was originally told by 13th century Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi and has been passed down in oral storytelling tradition in Afghanistan in Dari and Pashto.
This is the tale of a kind and happy lion who faces a frightening surprise when he goes to the reflection pool for a drink of water and learns that things may not always be what they appear.
And, one Pathfinder, full of carefully chosen information, stories, and resources:
Afghanistan: Resources for Learning
This guide will help parents and teachers find current, quality resources to use with children from 3rd to 8th grade to enhance their cultural understanding of the people of Afghanistan and to learn more about the country of Afghanistan.
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Marilyn Arnone on October 13, 2013 at 10:51 am
I think it is wonderful that you made your family’s military experience a tremendous learning opportunity for your son. In the spirit of a true librarian, you have provided readers with a rich compilation of resources for gaining a better understanding of Afghanistan. Thank you!
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Lecture Review – “In Flew Enza: The 1918 Flu Epidemic in Philadelphia and New Jersey” by Mikey DiCamillo
2018 marks the hundredth anniversary of one of history’s most horrific years. With the bloodbath of the First World War, it’s easy to forget that 2018 also commemorates the centenary of another catastrophe. This one also caused massive loss of life. Unlike the war, this one affected people well beyond the battlefields. It even made a tremendous impact in our region. This disaster caused eight to 12 thousand deaths in Philadelphia and another 2,600 in Camden County. This malady made no noise, had no smell and couldn’t be detected by the naked eye. Today we know that killer as the influenza virus.
Historian Mickey DiCamillo enhanced my understanding. He presented a lecture on the 1918 flu pandemic this July 11th. It took place in the May Barton Memorial Garden located at the Historical Society of Moorestown.
While a somber topic for a summer lecture, I welcomed the opportunity to learn more about it. I have a personal connection to this subject. My great-grand aunt and Philadelphia resident Edith Bishop Clark succumbed during the 1918 flu pandemic on October 13, 1918. Mrs. Cark was only 27 years old. Since her sister, my great-grandmother Violet Bishop Connelly, lived to be 80, I wondered how someone so young could be struck down by something as common as the flu.
Mr. DiCamillo didn’t disappoint. He provided a thorough overview of the outbreak. The historian performed copious research on the topic. It gave him a solid understanding of the subject matter.
The lecture focused on several key areas: the epidemic’s origin, why it spread so quickly and how society responded to it.
I’d often heard the pandemic referred to as the “Spanish Flu.” Mr. DiCamillo explained that this is a misnomer. He explored the historiography of how scholars analyzed the outbreak’s roots.
During the First World War a myth spread that the pandemic originated with German POWs. Interestingly, during the 1940s and 1950s, historians then theorized that it began among Russian POWs. Mr. DiCamillo noted that in both cases, the historians of the day attributed it to America’s main adversary.
Contemporary historians theorize that the virus originated in Haskell County, Kansas around February of 1918. A physician named Loring Miner observed young, strong people becoming ill and dying. They experienced regular flu like symptoms that quickly developed into pneumonia. Dr. Miner published his findings. He ominously warned: “the public should be alarmed.”
In March of the same year this flu strain affected Camp Fungsten, a military base in the Haskell County area. Within three weeks medics reported 1,100 cases there. Many soldiers from this facility landed in Brest, France. Mr. DiCamillo described that city as “ground zero” for the European’s flu’s outbreak.
The Haskell County origin is a hypothesis, Mr. DiCamillo noted. Modern researchers can document the Kansas outbreak because Dr. Miner published his findings in a Federal Government journal. The epidemic struck all over the world. That makes it very difficult to identify its precise beginning.
The scourge spread to the Northeast beginning in late summer. Soldiers at military bases became its first victims. The close quarters common to barracks allowed for the illness’ easy transmission.
Mr. DiCamillo then focused his remarks on the Camden County and Philadelphia areas. He cited a “voice from the era”, to describe events. A local newspaper, the Camden Daily Courier, reported that the flu had passed the region on 9/20/1918. Then between 9/20 and 9/24, Camp Dix experienced 1,000 cases of it.
The speaker referenced another voice from the era in the person of Alton W. Miller. While stationed at Kentucky’s Camp Taylor, he wrote letters to his sister stating he felt “sick.” He didn’t report his illness at the base because, “Everybody who goes into the hospital doesn’t come out.” His concern proved prescient. When he could no longer hide his symptoms, he was sent there. He passed away shortly afterwards.
Mr. DiCamillo presented his own theory as to how the epidemic spread through the area. On September 28, 1918 a Liberty Loan Rally was scheduled to take place at Willow Grove Park. With flu raging through the Northeast, the organizers debated whether or not to hold the event. Philadelphia’s public health officials adhered to the specious belief that they had a vaccine to combat the illness. They gave permission for the gathering to take place. On that date 200,000 people gathered in Willow Grove Park.
Three days later the number of flu cases in Philadelphia leapt from 100 to 635. Around this time news of the flu appeared on the front page of the Camden Daily Courier for the first time.
So why was this flu so contagious? Mr. DiCamillo provided two explanations. He estimated that 75% of the area’s trained medical personnel went overseas to support the war effort. He added that the conflict “sped everything up.” Factories operated 24 hours a day.
People of the day used some modern methods to treat the malady. The patient would be isolated. The sick person’s body temperature would be carefully monitored. Cathartics would be used to “rid the patient off poisons.” The patient would be encouraged to breathe fresh air, keep their windows screened and to drink plenty of fluids.
Mr. DiCamillo shared some amusing stories as to how people responded to the crisis.
By the first week of October, officials in Camden and Philadelphia took measures to control the illness’ spread. They ordered schools, churches and social clubs closed. Philadelphia even took the added step of shutting down saloons. Camden did not. This led to an influx of people from the City of Brotherly Love into the South Jersey area. Residents described their behavior as failing to give credence to the city’s nickname.
At the time doctors prescribed whiskey to treat the epidemic. Historians doubt that’s what led so many Philadelphians to swarm into South Jersey’s taverns, though.
During the crisis the Philadelphia Inquirer made an editorial decision not to print articles about the flu on the front page. Unlike modern media that thrives on sensationalism the newspaper didn’t want to start a panic.
Remember that “vaccine” Philadelphia public health officials figured would defeat the illness? It was designed to fight a bacterial malady: not a viral one. Even if it had been, it wouldn’t have had much impact. The epidemic passed around the third week of October.
Mr. DiCamillo opened his remarks by saying that talking about the subject, “Makes me nervous to be around people.” After listening to his lecture, I could understand why. If Mr. DiCamillo ever becomes interested in making a career change, he’d make a great salesman for flu shots.
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Infusing traditional Irish folk influences with the chaotic energy of punk rock, Dropkick Murphys have gained a loyal following over the past 14 years for writing music in their own unique way. Armed with an arsenal of instruments including bagpipes, whistles and accordions along with a spot on the upcoming No Sleep Til festival, drummer Matt Kelly took time out to talk writing, touring and what they have in store for Australian audiences.
G’day mate. To get the ball rolling, can you please tell us your name, role in Dropkick Murphys and favourite pastime while on tour?
Hi Jack, my name is Matt Kelly and I am the drummer. Fave pastime? Record hunting.
A little while back, it was announced that the band was writing material for a new studio album, which you plan to release in conjunction with your St Patrick’s Day tour next year. Can you give an update on how the new material is coming along?
That was all lies, Jack. No, but really, we’re in the studio putting down some final guitar ditties and close-miking cannon fire and nuclear explosions. Next up, we’re making Jeff swallow a microphone and we’re going to record him digesting a sandwich, and then play it at 10 times the normal speed, and use it as a backwards message on the vinyl version. Well, we’ve recorded so many songs that came out so well that we can’t decide what to leave off the record. Yeah, we’re really frigging psyched about this record, it sounds big, the guitars sound amazing, and there are some awesome songs on it. We hope the punters agree!
And seeing as you will be reaching Australian shores very soon to play the No Sleep Til festival in December, can Australian fans expect to hear some new songs from you guys?
Quite possibly, my friend. We actually played a one-off gig a couple of weeks ago and opened the encore with an unheard tune from the upcoming album, and it got the best reaction of the night.
What bands on the No Sleep Til festival line-up are you looking forward to sharing the stage with?
Yeah, I’m pretty psyched to see lesser-known bands like the Shitrippers and some of the other true hardcore punk bands on the bill.
How would you describe the band’s song writing process? Is it a matter of consciously trying to balance the Irish folk music influences with the punk rock influences or does it occur more naturally?
Nah, there’s no real conscious effort to blend the styles. We used to have songs like "A Few Good Men" or "The Gauntlet" that were two separate styles, but after years of playing and (hopefully) getting better at what we do, things just ended up occurring naturally. Songs like "The State of Massachusetts" or "Famous For Nothing", both of which are punk rock songs which wouldn’t be the same or as good without the traditional instruments in there. As far as song writing goes, one of the guys will just write a riff, a melody, a vocal line, or bring the skeleton of a song to the table. We then just each interpret it in our own styles, make sure it gels together, and just try to make the best song possible.
Will you be trying anything dramatically different for the new studio album?
Yeah, half the band has taken great influence from Hungarian Wolf Metal and the other guys have really gotten Paraguayan shepherding music, so obviously there’s a lot of blood involved.
In the past, you’ve collaborated with members of Celtic folk punks The Pogues and Irish folk legend Ronnie Drew from The Dubliners. Do you have any guest musicians lined up for the next album? Or perhaps a wish list of collaborators?
Well, that would ruin the surprise, wouldn’t it?!
You released the CD/DVD Live on Lansdowne earlier in the year, which captured one of your legendary St Patrick’s Day performances. Can Australian fans take this as a reasonable indication of what to expect at your upcoming shows?
Yeah, but we won’t be dressed as snappily. Also, we made a conscious effort to put songs on it that either weren’t included on the first live album or weren’t written yet, so if you go and buy both albums, you’re gonna get completely different songs…aside from "Forever", but they’re two completely different versions. More bang for your buck, y’know?
How come it’s taken nearly nine years between Live on Lansdowne and your last live album, Live on St Patrick’s Day?
To warrant a whole new live album, we had to write some new tunes! We just figured we had all these other new songs and everybody knows that hearing a band in the live setting is the best… so give ’em a listen to how the stuff sounds when you’re at the gig.
In the past, you’ve been very open about your opinions on a range of subjects, from contributing to the Rock Against Bush compilations to more recently throwing your support behind blue collar workers in Boston’s healthcare industry. Therefore, do you intentionally try to influence your fans’ awareness and opinions on issues you feel strongly about?
Yeah, we’re pretty sketched out about those in power, including the current regime. Do we try to influence our fans’ awareness of certain subjects? Maybe. Being in a band, you usually broach subjects you’re passionate about in your lyrics. Do we try to influence their opinions? No. If you need your favourite band, TV commentator, or athlete to tell you how to think, you’re a sad case. If you’re interested in what we say, then get edumacated and make up your OWN mind.
According to your website, Dropkick Murphys recently made history with the pro-union “Tomorrow’s Industry” video by becoming `the first national recording artists in the United States to adopt a labour organising cause as the main theme of a rock music video’. How important was this achievement for the band?
It’s definitely a milestone. We’re just surprised we’re the first band to do something like that.
You state that much of your success has come down to old-fashioned hard work and extensive touring. Do you think it’s still the case these days for new bands given the exposure music on the internet and blogs can generate?
It’s a different world. POTENTIAL exposure is WAY easier for bands now with the internet, but the market is probably a thousand times more over saturated than it was when we got started. Every niche genre has a trillion bands, and then you have to take into account the instant gratification and information at one’s fingertips that the World Wide Web provides; you have 10 million kids who are totally jaded before they reach the age of 12. I think it’s a double-edged sword, and the wrong blade is doing the cutting. For a while, the net was a great tool for bands, but I think since so many bands use it, it ends up being just as tough to stay afloat as it was without the internet. Funny how things come full circle.
Having been together as a band for 14 years, what do you think of the current punk scene today?
Just like back when we started, there are hundreds and hundreds of bands, but the cream rises to the top. The trends have changed but the kids stay the same. It’s just as unhealthy and healthy as it was in ’96, but for the most part not to my liking. Speaking of jaded, huh?? *laughs* oh well…
And given the time you’ve been together, coupled with the recent success of songs including “I’m Shipping Up To Boston’’ – which has even been featured in a popular Australian football ad campaign- have you noticed changes to the demographic of fans that come to Dropkick Murphys shows?
Well, originally our fan base was skinheads and punks, a smattering of hardcore kids, and a few random regular guys. That was the core for about 8-10 years, but as more people got into the band, the regular kids began to outnumber the original supporters. Some of the originals stopped coming to gigs due to getting out of our style, getting out of going to gigs, or not liking the new fans and just sticking to listening to our albums. What I find funny is when people…sometimes even in New England… think of or refer to us as a new band and think "I’m Shipping…" is the be-all end-all of what we sound like. That just shows that with all the internet exposure, etc., there really still is an underground music scene. Just like 20 years ago, if you digged deep enough you’d know about all these underground bands, now you still have to do the same but the difference is the info is at your fingertips, not down your local record shop, bar, or town square.
Aside from your music, do you think your strong Celtic background and values have attracted fans?
I think a bit. What we do is different in the fact that you don’t have too many bands who incorporate pride in their background/ancestry/neighbourhood into their music and lyrics. I think there are millions of people out there who can identify with that and not just people of Irish descent. I think maybe those people find parallels in their own backgrounds and family history, traditional values, customs, and even foods…I know, it’s a stretch.
Who are some bands you’ve been enjoying lately that we should be listening to?
Superyob, The Tampoffs, Rival Mob, Tommy And The Terrors, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, T.H.U.G, The Rifles, The Corps, A.V.O, Marching Orders and Plan Of Attack. A few Aussie bands in there, look ’em up!
What were the benefits of creating your own label, Born and Bred Records?
Completely being able to oversee our destiny as a band and having the main office in the Northeast of the U.S.
What do Dropkick Murphys have planned for 2011?
A hell of a lot of touring, maybe hitting places we’ve never been like South America if we’re lucky!!
Any parting word of advice?
Yeah, think for yourself. Voice your opinion. Don’t be ashamed if it isn’t the same as everybody else’s. The worst thing that could happen is you could be wrong.
Thanks a lot for the interview, Jack. We’ll see you around fella.
Thanks for your time Matt.
Dropkick Murphys will play the No Sleep Til festivals on the following dates:
No Sleep Til Auckland
ASB Showgrounds
No Sleep Til Perth
Sunday 12 December
Arena Joondalup
No Sleep Til Adelaide
Wednesday 15 December
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
No Sleep Til Melbourne
Melbourne Showgrounds
No Sleep Til Sydney
Entertainment Quarter, Hordern Pavilion and Surrounds
No Sleep Til Brisbane
RNA Showgrounds Brisbane
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Posted on May 1, 2017 November 6, 2017 by Jesse Yancy
Levee Press: The Delta Imprimatur
“For reasons best known to ourselves,” Hodding Carter, Ben Wasson and Kenneth Haxton decided “one low-water night some time back” to organize “still another addition to the multiplicity of publishing houses whose directors dream of an America that will some day read instead of write.” Their brainchild, Levee Press, ranks among those small publishing enterprises—the Woolfs’ Hogarth and the Webbs’ Loujon, for instance—that are distinguished by the quality of their production. Though its output was miniscule by any standards—only four publications in roughly that many years totaling somewhat less than 3000 copies (2635 “official” count)—Levee Press imprints command a significant price among an elite of discerning bibliophiles because the names of the four authors—Foote, Welty, Faulkner and Percy—resonate in the state, the region and the world. Had Levee Press maintained production at such a level of quality, the Greenville publishing house could very well in time have become one of the premiere imprints in the nation, but indifference, dissent, certainly some combination of the two—melded to bring an end to it.
In the late 1940s, during the “golden age” of Mississippi literature, the output was phenomenal, with Welty and Faulkner as cynosures in a stellar flurry of belles lettres including works from Carter himself, who had commandeered the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times—as he had the Hammond Daily Courier—into a newspaper of integrity and distinction, an achievement acknowledged by the Pulitzer jury that awarded him the prize for editorial writing in 1946. Hodding was at the peak of his career; his reputation as a capable spokesman for a progressive South was solidly entrenched across the nation. Ben Wasson, who had worked in New York theater with Leland Hayward and acted as Faulkner’s first literary agent, wrote on the arts and as a literary critic for the newspaper. Kenneth Haxton, a composer and husband of National Book Award nominee Josephine Ayers Haxton, who wrote under the surname Ellen Douglas, worked full-time at his family’s department store, Nelms and Blum’s (his mother was a Blum), where he had installed a bookstore. Carter also had young Shelby Foote working for him at the Delta Democrat-Times then, and while Hodding can dryly drawl about the enterprising intentions of him and his cronies in their cups, it was Foote who came up with the idea to publish a book using the resources of the Delta Democrat-Times.
Shelby Foote grew up in Greenville alongside his fraternal friend Walker Percy under the patriarchal wing of planter/poet William Alexander Percy. Foote, like Walker, had literary ambitions which in time both realized, but in early 1947, Foote had just turned 30, had only one major work in progress (Tournament), and his expenses were mounting. Apparently quite on his own initiative, he decided to print and publish his own work with the limited resources of the Delta Democrat-Times print shop. Since his enterprise just happened to mesh with their own previous plans to publish books in the hub of the Delta, Ben Wasson, representing Hodding Carter and Kenneth Haxton, asked Foote if he would add the name “Levee Press” to the pamphlet they had heard he was planning to print. “We gonna call it the Levee Press,” Wasson said, nodding out the window at the earthworks against the river.
From within the Tournament manuscript, Foote excised the grim story of Abraham Wisten, the tragic story of an ambitious Jewish immigrant, entitled it The Merchant of Bristol and hired co-worker Bill Yarborough to typeset and print 260 copies of the 20-page novella on June 2, 1947.
Foote stapled them together himself and—with considerable pluck—signed, numbered and marketed his work in the book section of Nelms and Blum’s at $1.50 a copy. More than one wit remarked that just as much would buy a good dress shirt, and sales were predictably disappointing, not only perhaps because of Foote’s perceived pretentions but more likely because as a publication, The Merchant of Bristol is nothing more than a pamphlet, reminiscent of the blue essay books used for university examinations. Wisten’s tragedy was reprinted in Foote’s first work of fiction, Tournament, in 1949.
Writing in the Commercial Appeal on July 6, 1947, columnist Paul Flowers announced, “Freshest literary venture in the South today is the Levee Press at Greenville, Miss. (there’s always something going on among the literati of Washington County.) The Levee Press is the idea of a group of writers, for the perpetuation of stories, essays, and other literary material which may not have enough general interest for publication on a national scale, but too good to be forgotten… Shelby Foote broke the ice with a short story, published in pamphlet form, and 250 copies, each one numbered and autographed, went out to persons who had subscribed. The project is non-profit and there’s no incentive except to keep alive bits of writing which ought to live. More small volumes will be coming from the Levee Press. It will not be commercial, and no one connected with it is looking for material gain (except Foote, of course: JY) However, most, if not all of its insiders are welling manuscripts in the open market, but they will publish at home, just for collector’s items some of the pieces nearest their hearts.” Flowers doubtless received this description of the Levee Press’s objectives from Hodding Carter himself by way of promotion, and perhaps this is an echo of the “reasons best known to ourselves” that he referred to some six years later in Where Main Street Meets the River, where he claimed—again, after the fact—that the purpose of the Levee Press was to “publish limited, signed editions of new, relatively short books—“novella” sounds better—by established Southern writers.”
With the publication of A Curtain of Green (1941) and The Wide Net and Other Stories (1943), Welty had garnered three O. Henry awards and a Guggenheim fellowship, which made her a clear candidate for publication with the Levee Press. Wasson “brazenly” asked Welty if she would permit the new publishing firm to issue one of her manuscripts as a book and had told her the plans for the new press. In Count no ‘Count, Wasson recounts, “The great and gracious lady replied that she approved of such a venture, that Mississippi needed a limited editions press, and that, as it happened, she did have a manuscript. It was a novella, Music from Spain.” In December, 1946, Welty traveled to San Francisco to visit her friend and ofttime paramour John Robinson, rented her own apartment there in January and between then and March wrote a lengthy story, “Music from Spain”. The story stands at somewhat of a distance from the body of Welty’s oeuvre because it is set outside of Mississippi, in San Francisco, its narrative is stream-of-consciousness and it is distinctly erotic—indeed, homoerotic— a daring element in a work for publication in Greenville, Mississippi in the late 1940s. After contacting Welty’s agent, Diarmuid Russell, Carter and company contracted Welty for 750 copies was agreed to give her 25 per cent of the $2.50 price—Wasson claims $4—in exchange for non-exclusive rights to “Music from Spain”.
When Ben Wasson proposed that Levee Press “do a Faulkner”, the other two laughed. Even though Faulkner in 1946 was one of three finalists for the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award (second to Rhea Galati), he was by most other standards the single most important Southern American writer of his day, but Wesson had a card up his sleeve. Not only had he been Faulkner’s agent when Faulkner was struggling to publish Flags in the Dust, but it was Wesson who for fifty dollars a week pared down Faulkner’s novel for the demands of Harcourt, Brace. For two weeks, while Faulkner sat nearby writing The Sound and the Fury, Wasson cut almost a fourth of the book, and Harcourt, Brace published the truncated version on January 31, 1929, as Sartoris. Some might say that Ben Wesson was calling in a debt, but for whatever reason, in late February, 1948, Wesson traveled with Carter to Oxford for an evening at Rowan Oak. Faulkner, “at-first-reticent”, gradually warmed his visitors, who left with an original manuscript, a “horse race piece” Faulkner suggested they call “A Long Dangling Clause from a Work in Progress.”
On March 1, Faulkner reported his commitment to his agent, Robert K. Haas: “Hodding Carter and an old friend of Mine, Ben Wasson, have what they call the Levee Press, at Greenville, Miss. Three times a year they get out an issue, which is sort of a colophon thing: a single story or article, limited number. I am letting them have the section of the big mss. Which Ober offered to Partisan Review and was declined. It will resemble a special edition pamphlet, bound of course, signed by me, to sell at $2.50. I get 25%. This is all right with Random House, isn’t it? The section is about 80-100 pages typescript. They will call it Section (of from) Work in Progress. I think. I want to do it mainly to confound the people who say nothing good out of Miss. The Press is less than a year old, is already getting known even though in slightly precious circles, like Yale reviews etc. Its foundation is Carter’s Greenville daily newspaper. His name is familiar to you, probably: lecturer, liberal, champion of Negro injustice though no radical, no communist despite Bilbo and Rankin.”
So it was with these commitments an announcement was made in the Commercial Appeal on May 2, 1948: “The Levee Press probably will be doing some celebrating about that time also (2nd week in May with publication of Cohn’s Where I Was Born and Raised), announcing books by Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, to be issued by the Greenville house. That won’t hurt the Levee Press, either, starting off with a pair of names such as Welty and Faulkner, for those are two writers highly esteemed in the English speaking world. The Levee Press may turn into an important venture in the American publishing world. It got off to a modest beginning about a year ago with a short story by Shelby Foote.”
For the Welty book, Carter stepped up his game considerably. Always the consummate newspaperman, he purchased a Jansen type plate that he had admired in certain Knopf publications. With no local bindery available, he contracted that job to a publishing company in Texas Dickens.
Carter also hired local artist Elizabeth Calvert to design the colophon, a stylized “L” bracketing a river steamer, which was ensconced beneath those of Welty and Faulkner (Percy died in 1943). Ken Haxton designed and drew the Picassoesque/art deco guitar for the terra-cotta cover and chose for each of the seven section headings musical motifs from the Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz, Recuerdos de viaje, “En la Alhambra”. Writing in The New York Times Book Review in 1949, Charles Poore called the volume a “handsome example of bookmaking”. Music from Spain was incorporated into Welty’s third collection of short stories, Golden Apples, published by Harcourt, Brace in 1949. Welty’s 25 per cent of the $2.50 take was the price of literary notoriety in Mississippi at the time, but on the current market a (quality) copy of Music from Spain published by the Levee Press sells for $1000, a distinguished association copy, inscribed and signed by Eudora Welty, to authors Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon: “To Caroline + Allen/ with love/ from Eudora”.)
Though Levee Press’s relationship with Eudora Welty is undocumented, Faulkner’s exchanges are unsurprisingly high-profile, with vibrant accounts provided by both Carter, in Where Main Street Meets the River and Wasson, in Count no ‘Count, given that the author was awarded the Nobel Prize during the publishing process. Carter, Wasson and Haxton shortened the title of the Faulkner manuscript to Notes on a Horsethief. “It was good,” Carter claimed, “even though a few readers have since complained that they never before had read thirty thousand words divided into only three sentences.” Again, Levee Press extended its resources for Notes on a Horsethief. Elizabeth Calvert’s flowing, linear artwork for the rich, Sherwood green cover and the endpapers, described by Jean Stein as “horses in flight”, are striking and dramatic. Horsethief is arguably Levee Press’s highest achievement both in terms of art and letters.
Notes on a Horsethief was printed on November 4, 1950, and the following January, on the 23rd, Estelle Faulkner phoned Carter, telling him that her husband had decided that there was no sense in unpacking the nine hundred and fifty books he had received the month before for signing only to ship them right back, and he had put the unopened crate in his station wagon early that morning and was on his way to Greenville.
Carter alerted Wasson, who “smuggled” Faulkner into Hodding’s office at the Delta Democrat-Times, sent out for the crate of books, and an ad hoc assembly line was organized with Wasson opening the books for a signature, Faulkner—standing, in a half-crouch—signing and numbering them and a young woman from the bindery took it from him to blot the signatures and replace them in the box. Carter sent out to Al’s Café for beer. “Hospitality dictated that I do something for a man who had driven one hundred and twenty miles just to stand in my office and sign his name to copies of a book for which he could have received far more than our limited edition’s twenty-five percent royalty could bring him at six dollars a copy,” Carter wrote, recording “for the factual-minded” that Faulkner’s ration of signed books to beers turned out that day and the next morning to be “sixty volumes of Faulkner to one bottle of Budweiser.”
Notes on a Horse Thief was published scarcely a month before Faulkner accepted the Nobel Prize Stockholm’s City Hall on December 10, 1950. The nine hundred copies sold out quickly, and soon copies were selling for as high as $25 in. Irving Howe, reviewing this “privately printed and fabulously pieced story” in The Nation, said it was “a bad piece of writing,” but Charles Poore in the New York Times Book Review, called it “at once a brilliantly told story of a manhunt and a subtly woven allegory on man’s fate.” Notes later became a section in Faulkner’s much-belated Pulitzer winner, A Fable, with gracious thanks from the author to Levee Press for permission to reproduce the material.
Choosing the next work to be published proved problematic; Carter, Wasson and Caxton intimated later that it had been their intention to publish Mississippi writers exclusively, but in the end it just turned out that way. In fact, Carter was considering publishing a book of poems by John Gould Fletcher of Arkansas that had been turned down by his New York publisher, but at the last minute the decided to print them after all. Wasson wrote to Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers and Robert Penn Warren, but none had a manuscript of suitable length ready for publication. Writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, who Gertrude Stein had appointed her literary executor, sent some unpublished works by her, but the three principals of Levee Press found them so mystifying that they returned them, regretfully, to a subsequently indignant Van Vechten. Unknown writers (including Greenville son Howard Mitcham jly) submitted hundreds of manuscripts, but none of them seemed good enough.
The shadow of William Alexander Percy looms large in Greenville, and Carter, Wasson and Haxton all knew the man well and admired him immensely. Percy died in 1942, and Knopf published The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy in 1943, with a second edition the following year. Yet Ann Stokes, who claimed to have worked with Percy in editing the poems for the collection, claimed that she had variant forms of some of the published poems that should be printed, and insisted with no small degree of persistence that Hodding Carter publish these poems as well. Carter felt some degree of obligation to Stokes, who sold him the land on which he had built his new Feliciana house. Ben Wasson thought publishing Percy’s poetry was redundant and the book would not sell, and Carter, while engaged in a lengthy and complicated correspondence with Alfred Knopf, whose company held the copyright to the Percy poems, actually went so far as to ask Knopf to deny him permission to reprint the poems, Knopf consented, giving Carter no excuse to refuse Stokes’ nagging.
Of Silence and of Stars, with a forward by Carter, edited by Anne Stokes, decorations by Elizabeth Calvert, was issued in mid-1953, the title taken from the poem “Home” (“I have a need of silence and of stars…”). It is a handsome volume, with a deep blue cover featuring a sketch of herons somewhat similar but not as striking as the horses on the Faulkner cover, and the end papers are illustrated with drawings of cypress in a bayou. A note on the dedication page is a quote from Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech. Stokes dated each poem and divided them into three groups: those written before 1915, those written between 1915 and 1920 and those completed after Percy’s World War I experiences. Six hundred and fifty copies were printed, and while each copy was numbered, of course they are unsigned.
Although Ben Haxton placed “The Levee Press” on the title page of his 1997 work The Undiscovered Country as a tribute to the spirit of the enterprise he shared with Carter and Wasson, Of Silence and of Stars proved to be the last book issued by Levee Press. Carter toyed with the idea of publishing “lost literature” of the South, particularly a stirring antebellum courtroom plea that Natchez lawyer Sargent S. Prentiss made in a Kentucky court to save the lives of three Mississippi planters involved in a bloody brawl while attending a wedding, this idea never came to fruition, and after failing to get a manuscript from Tennessee Williams, the Levee Press passed out of existence. Carter, Wasson and Haxton all had other, more pressing involvements, and Wasson, evidently the principal behind the publishing venture, clearly lost interest after the Percy work was foisted on the press. Still, the output of the Levee Press is a high-water mark in the publishing history of Mississippi and a notable achievement that’s likely never to be duplicated in this state or any other.
CategoriesArtists, History, People TagsBen Wasson, Delta Democrat-Times, Eudora Welty, Faulkner Notes on a Horse Thief, Greenville, Hodding Carter II, Kenneth Haxton, Levee Press, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi publishers, Mississippi writers, Shelby Foote, The Merchant of Bristol, William Alexander Percy Of Silence and Stars, William Faulkner
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Margaret Ann Niven says:
I became interested in reading about my mother’s Greenville friend, Kenneth Haxton, and his family business, Nelms & Blum. I happened upon this blog post and enjoyed it immensely. Upon seeing the name Jesse Yancey, I realized I know your name at Nejam Properties! Small world!
I misspelled your last name. Sorry.
Jesse Yancy says:
Oh, don’t be so picky. You help take care of me up there, you hear?! Good to hear from you, honey.
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Clare Lallow’s was established in 1867 and has traded continuously ever since. In that time the company has built many different types of boat including dinghies, scows, Jolinas, SCODs and dragons. Early Boats The company built ‘Britannia’, the double ended row boat designed by Uffa Fox and used by John Fairfax when he became the first person to row across an ocean (the Atlantic) in 1969. ‘Brittania’ is now on view at the Classic Boat Museum in Newport, Isle of Wight. The boatyard also built many well known boats including Clarion of Wight, Tiller Girl, Ambition a 5.5metre class, and many X Boats. Lallow's is 1 of only 2 boatyards left with a licence to build X boats. The Daring class of boats was formed in 1960, based on a 5.5 metre hull. The company has fitted out more than thirty boats over the years and continues to look after the fleet throughout the year. Morning Cloud / Opposition In 1970 the yard was commissioned to build a yacht for the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath. Morning Cloud II was launched in 1971 and was so successful that his next boat was also built by Lallow’s. The company carried out a complete renovation of Morning Cloud II over an eight month period in 2008 involving some 10,500 man hours. Painter Alex Nash who helped with her original construction in the 1970’s came in to help with the work and the boat continues to sail on a regular basis under the name of ‘Opposition’. Restoration - part 1 Restoration - part 2 Erida Erida is one of the windfall boats, an ex-German navy boat taken over by the occupying forces in 1945 and sailed to England for training purposes. The 30m2 was allocated to the Hamble and eventually fell in to disrepair. She was rescued by Bob Gatehouse who found her in a derelict condition and after some initial work in Poole, the boat was fully restored at the Clare Lallow boatyard in 2009. Refit Video - part 1 Refit Video - part 2 Virgo Virgo was stripped back to bare timber and comprehensively restored by the boatyard in 2014. Renovation work included steaming in several new oak frames, fitting transom and bow sections, new deck beams, new bulkheads and extensive mechanical and electrical work. She is now a regular sight on the Solent and its associated riverways and harbours. For more information, see http://www.virgopettersson.com/restoration.html Splash Splash is a great example of the sort of work we can do to restore beautiful boats to their former glory. We removed and replaced the original teak deck of the boat using traditional techniques. River Boats As one of its latest projects, the boatyard has been working on an exciting new venture building bespoke river boats designed at the boatyard by the current owner, Laurie Boarer. These have been designed to offer a very high level of quality and space at a realistic and affordable price. The boats are fully compliant with the rigorous design standards for Thames-based craft and other waterways and interest in the craft has been high since they were first announced. If you would be interested in commissioning a new river boat, please get in touch. About the Owner The boatyard is owned by Laurie Boarer and managed by him and his wife, Pat. Laurie first started work in the yard when he was an apprentice and was one of 28 employees at the time. In 1978 he left the yard to further his career but couldn’t resist the opportunity to buy the yard when it was put up for sale in 1996. In addition to turning around the marine part of the business, securing jobs and developing traditional craftsmanship skills through an effective apprenticeship scheme, Laurie has developed a high quality joinery service as an important and integrated part of the business. The joinery service carries out all sorts of high quality work and produces custom made doors, windows, conservatories and staircases as well as bespoke marine and other furniture. The company also supplies timber of all kinds. For more information, please contact us directly or see http://www.islandspecialisthardwoods.co.uk/
Clare Lallow’s was established in 1867 and has traded continuously ever since. In that time the company has built many different types of boat including dinghies, scows, Jolinas, SCODs and dragons. Early Boats The company built ‘Britannia’, the double ended row boat designed by Uffa Fox and used by John Fairfax when he became the first person to row across an ocean (the Atlantic) in 1969. ‘Brittania’ is now on view at the Classic Boat Museum in Newport, Isle of Wight. The boatyard also built many well known boats including Clarion of Wight, Tiller Girl, Ambition a 5.5metre class, and many X Boats. Lallow's is 1 of only 2 boatyards left with a licence to build X boats. The Daring class of boats was formed in 1960, based on a 5.5 metre hull. The company has fitted out more than thirty boats over the years and continues to look after the fleet throughout the year. Morning Cloud / Opposition In 1970 the yard was commissioned to build a yacht for the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath. Morning Cloud II was launched in 1971 and was so successful that his next boat was also built by Lallow’s. The company carried out a complete renovation of Morning Cloud II over an eight month period in 2008 involving some 10,500 man hours. Painter Alex Nash who helped with her original construction in the 1970’s came in to help with the work and the boat continues to sail on a regular basis under the name of ‘Opposition’. Restoration - part 1 Restoration - part 2 Erida Erida is one of the windfall boats, an ex- German navy boat taken over by the occupying forces in 1945 and sailed to England for training purposes. The 30m2 was allocated to the Hamble and eventually fell in to disrepair. She was rescued by Bob Gatehouse who found her in a derelict condition and after some initial work in Poole, the boat was fully restored at the Clare Lallow boatyard in 2009. Refit Video - part 1 Refit Video - part 2 Virgo Virgo was stripped back to bare timber and comprehensively restored by the boatyard in 2014. Renovation work included steaming in several new oak frames, fitting transom and bow sections, new deck beams, new bulkheads and extensive mechanical and electrical work. She is now a regular sight on the Solent and its associated riverways and harbours. For more information, see http://www.virgopettersson.com/restoration.html Splash Splash is a great example of the sort of work we can do to restore beautiful boats to their former glory. We removed and replaced the original teak deck of the boat using traditional techniques. River Boats As one of its latest projects, the boatyard has been working on an exciting new venture building bespoke river boats designed at the boatyard by the current owner, Laurie Boarer. These have been designed to offer a very high level of quality and space at a realistic and affordable price. The boats are fully compliant with the rigorous design standards for Thames-based craft and other waterways and interest in the craft has been high since they were first announced. If you would be interested in commissioning a new river boat, please get in touch. About the Owner The boatyard is owned by Laurie Boarer and managed by him and his wife, Pat. Laurie first started work in the yard when he was an apprentice and was one of 28 employees at the time. In 1978 he left the yard to further his career but couldn’t resist the opportunity to buy the yard when it was put up for sale in 1996. In addition to turning around the marine part of the business, securing jobs and developing traditional craftsmanship skills through an effective apprenticeship scheme, Laurie has developed a high quality joinery service as an important and integrated part of the business. The joinery service carries out all sorts of high quality work and produces custom made doors, windows, conservatories and staircases as well as bespoke marine and other furniture. The company also supplies timber of all kinds. For more information, please contact us directly or see http://www.islandspecialisthardwoods.co.uk/
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Newmont Mining: A Safer Bet on Gold Mining
Posted on September 4, 2018 by Stephen Percoco
Based in the Denver, Newmont Mining Corporation (NEM) is the largest publicly-traded gold miner by equity market capitalization. Its geographic segments include North America (the U.S.), South America (Peru and Surinam), Australia and Africa (Ghana). Newmont’s share price rebounded sharply in 2016, outperforming its peer group, as new, more profitable mines came into production replacing those that were sold in 2014 and 2015. The company continues to execute on its plan to increase production (mostly so far to replace developed reserves) and reduce production costs through targeted mine and mill expansion projects.
In 2017, Newmont produced 5.65 million ounces of gold and 113 million ounces of copper. 93.3% of total gold production, equal to 5.27 million ounces, was attributable to Newmont; the remaining 0.38 million were allocated to non-controlling interests (i.e. joint venture partners). 2017 sales were $7.35 billion and pre-tax profit was $1.09 billion; but the company recorded a net loss from continuing operations of $49 million, due primarily to tax remeasurements and restructurings associated with the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA).
On a GAAP basis, Newmont recorded a 2017 loss of $0.18 per share, including a loss of $0.11 per share from continuing operations. That compares with a 2016 loss of $0.41, including a loss of $1.18 per share from continuing operations. Adjusted (non-GAAP) EPS, which excludes discontinued operations and certain unusual items, such as the TCJA tax costs, was $1.46 per share, up from $1.17 in 2016.
2018 YTD Results. For the first half of 2018, NEM’s gold production fell 8.6% to 2.53 million ounces. Copper production was declined 5% to 57 million pounds. The declines were due in large part to stripping campaigns (i.e. removal of the overburden to expose the ore) at four mines (Carlin and Twin Creeks in the U.S., Boddington in Australia and Yanacocha in South America). Partially offsetting the production decline, the average realized price of gold increased 3.4% to $1,292 per ounce. Average copper prices were also up 21.5% to $2.99 per pound. As a result, net sales declined by only 2.4% to $3.48 billion.
In this same period, Newmont’s weighted average cost applicable to sales (CAS) for gold increased 10.8% from $677 per ounce to $750 per ounce. The sharp increase in CAS, which was in line with management’s full year guidance, was due primarily to the stripping campaigns. Newmont’s copper CAS per pound increased as well, by 23.2% to $1.90.
Although CAS increased, other expenses and costs declined slightly. Newmont also booked gains on the sale of royalty interests and its stake in Maverick Metals. With less debt outstanding, its interest expense declined sharply.
Those factors helped Newmont overcome the modest decline in net sales, allowing its 2018 first half pre-tax income to rise 11.2% to $588 million. Net income jumped 82% to $477 million, due to a sharp TCJA-related decline in its effective tax rate. GAAP EPS was $0.91 compared with $0.42 in 2017, with $0.84 from continuing operations, up from $0.49. On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes the asset sales gains and TCJA tax cuts, adjusted first half EPS was $0.61, down from $0.72 last year.
2018 Projections. Despite the first half production decline, Newmont reaffirmed its full year gold production guidance of 5.3-5.8 million ounces, with attributable production of 4.9-5.4 million ounces. That is a fairly wide range. Based upon first half production, management’s guidance implies that 2018 second half production could range from 2.8-3.3 million ounces, which in percentage terms would be down 4% to up 13.3% against prior year levels.
My current projections assume 2018 second half production of about 3.0 million ounces, which would represent an increase of 2.9% over the prior year. According to the company’s guidance, the rebound in 2018 second half production will come from productivity gains and start-ups of new mines and extensions, which will allow it to reach higher ore grades in Africa and the Americas.
Similarly, Newmont has affirmed its guidance for gold CAS of $700-$750 per ounce in 2018. Actual gold CAS for the 2018 first half was $750; so it seems likely that full-year CAS will be somewhere in the top half of the guidance range. My projections assume a second half gold CAS of just over $700 per ounce, which is a substantial improvement over the first half. That translates into a full-year gold CAS of $725 per ounce.
Given the recent decline, the gold price outlook for the balance of 2018 is in question. Newmont realized an average price of $1,310 per ounce in the 2018 first half. The company does not hedge its gold (and copper) production; choosing instead to sell its gold in the spot market, which gives investors full exposure to any price fluctuations. Assuming that the price of a gold ounce continues to hover around $1,200 for the balance of the year, I estimate an average full year realized gold price of $1,250 per ounce.
Taken all together, the combination of production at the low end of the range, CAS at the high end of the range and a gold price of $1,200 per ounce for the 2018 second half translates into full year projected GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $1.31 and adjusted (non-GAAP) EPS of $1.11, which is below the current range of $1.18-$1.50 of analyst estimates.
2019 Projections. For 2019, I anticipate 5.7 million ounces of gold production (and sales), an average price of $1,240 per ounce and CAS of $650 per gold ounce (which is within management’s guidance range of between $620 and $720 per ounce). Those major assumptions produce GAAP and adjusted EPS of $1.53 per share. The increase in 2019 EPS over 2018 is due entirely to lower CAS and a 3.6% projected increase in unit volume.
2020-2022 Base Projections. At its investor day in December 2017, Newmont’s management also provided base assumptions for 2020 to 2022. These included average annual attributable production of between 4.6 and 5.1 million ounces, all in sustaining costs of between $870 and $970 per gold ounce and annual capital expenditures of between $580 and $680 million (more than 90% of which represents expenditures intended to sustain existing production levels). The company also indicated that it has basing its project investment decisions on a $1,200 gold price.
All-in sustaining costs per ounce are defined as CAS plus other costs and expenses (e.g. reclamation, development, exploration and general & administrative) plus sustaining capital expenditures. Newmont sees all-in sustaining costs of between $965 and $1,025 per ounce in 2018 falling to between $870-$970 per ounce in 2019 and beyond. In recent years, all-in sustaining costs have been about $230 per ounce higher than CAS.
Using these base assumption ranges, I calculate that Newmont would generate free cash flow (defined as net income plus depreciation and amortization minus capital expenditures) of between $700 million and $1.3 billion annually during the 2020-2022 forecast period.
Assuming that management can achieve these targets, Newmont would generate a significant free cash flow, even if gold stays at $1,200. The company would probably not let this free cash flow pile up on its balance sheet. It would use that free cash to invest in or acquire additional mines or mining projects or it might return some of that cash to shareholders (hopefully through higher dividends).
Over the past year, Newmont’s Board of Directors has raised its dividend twice, from $0.20 annually to the current level of $0.56 annually, an increase of 180%. At the current level, the stock offers a dividend yield of 1.9%, the highest in its peer group. If gold remains near $1,200 and Newmont still generates free cash flow, I expect that the company would increase the dividend further to provide a more competitive return and compensate long-term investors for the lack of appreciation in gold prices.
Financial Strength. While a $1,200 per gold ounce assumption seems conservative, it is entirely possible that the price of gold could fall below $1,200 per ounce for some period of time, which might wipe out earnings and cash flow. Accordingly, Newmont has also been working over the past several years to strengthen its balance sheet. Since the end of 2014, the company has reduced its total debt by 38% from $6.6 billion to $4.1 billion at mid-year 2018. Its ratio of debt-to-total capitalization has improved from 47.9% to 32.2%. With $3.1 billion of cash on the balance sheet at mid-year, its net debt is about $1.0 billion.
Debt Maturities. Newmont’s debt is rated Baa2 by Moody’s and BBB by Standard & Poor’s. The next bond up for repayment is the 5.125% Notes due October 2019. There are $626 million of these notes still outstanding, down from $900 million at issuance. The notes, which are subject to a make-whole call, recently traded at 101.87 to yield 3.332%, which represents a spread of about 85 basis points over the comparable maturity Treasury.
After the 5 1/8s, the next bond up is the 3.50% Notes due March 2022. There are $992 million of the 3 1/2s outstanding, down from $1.5 billion at issuance. The notes are callable at par and recently traded at 99.62 to yield 3.614%, which is a spread of about 90 basis points over the comparable maturity Treasury.
With its $3.1 billion of cash and no borrowings under its $2.5 billion credit facility, Newmont has ample liquidity to fund its operations and meet these upcoming debt payments. Still, it would not be imprudent for the company to issue debt within the next year or so to take out both the 5 1/8s and the 3 1/2s in order to extend debt maturities. In its previous two bond issuances in 2009 and 2012, the two tranches of 10-year and 30-year notes. At current yields and prices, Newmont would have to be willing to incur a higher interest expenses on new issues in a refinancing.
Stock Valuation. At the current price of $30.11, Newmont’s stock trades at 23 times the 2018 consensus estimate of $1.31 and 20 times the 2019 consensus estimate of $1.50. Those multiples are in line with the averages for the company’s peer group, which consists of ABX, AEM, AU, AUY, BVN, GFI, GG and KGC. The company’s implied 2018-2019 EPS growth rate of 14.5% also supports forward multiples in the low 20s (from a price-to-earnings growth perspective).
Beyond 2019, management’s guidance and an assumed average realized gold price of $1,200 would result in a sharp decline in EPS (even though the company would generate positive free cash flow). As noted, this represents a base case looking at the company solely on a sustainable production basis and does not factor in future growth projects, acquisitions or returns of cash to shareholders.
Gold Price Sensitivities. Although it is possible that the price of gold may fall below $1,200, it is unlikely to remain there for long because that would eventually trigger a supply response. At an industry average all-in sustaining cost of say $1,000 per ounce, gold miners would begin to curtail their exploration and development activities as the price of gold approaches $1,000. If the price of gold were to approach the industry average CAS of say $800 per ounce, gold miners would eventually be forced to curtail current production activities (a process that would likely be facilitated by bankruptcy filings).
In this pricing environment, Newmont seems very well-positioned to wait for a rebound in the price of gold. Its focus on productivity and cost control combined with its strong balance sheet gives it the staying power to weather lower prices for a considerable period of time.
Accordingly, Newmont seems like a good choice for investors who expect that the price of gold will go up eventually and are willing to be patient. The stock’s current 1.9% dividend yield, which will likely be increased over time, provides an acceptable rate of return for what is ultimately a hedge against a quick pick-up in inflation and financial market volatility.
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Ilhan Omar’s dictionary is missing
Apparently, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s dictionary is either missing or it’s worthless. Based on this article, it’s apparent that Rep. Omar’s dictionary isn’t used much. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that it’s used as often as her diplomatic capabilities.
According to the article, “Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), went on a rant against President Trump and his administration for calling illegal immigrants ‘aliens’ and ‘dehumanizing’ them. ‘No one is an ‘alien,’ she tweeted. ‘Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe,’ Omar also said.”
Dictionary.com’s definition of alien is “a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen).” If Rep. Omar wants to throw an emotional hissy fit over the dictionary’s definition of a word, that’s her right, though it isn’t the action of a thoughtful person.
Accurately portraying people “who haven’t acquired citizenship” as people “who haven’t acquired citizenship” is simply being faithful to the English language. People who weren’t born in the US and who didn’t go through the naturalization process haven’t acquired citizenship. I get it that Rep. Omar doesn’t like that definition. That’s tough.
If she wants to strip this terminology out of immigration code, she’s free to write a bill that would eliminate that term from US immigration statutes. When her Democrat colleagues in swing districts join with Republicans in the House in defeating the legislation, I’ll ridicule Rep. Omar. She deserves it.
Thursday night, Newt Gingrich spoke about how insane today’s Democrats have become. I’ve seen tons of proof that says many of today’s Democrats are anti-American. Why would people think that today’s United States are racist and hate immigrants? What proof do these people have that verifies their paranoia? Seriously, watching Sen. Spartacus almost burst into tears about how awful today’s US is makes me want to regurgitate.
It’s difficult to imagine a congresscritter more anti-American than Ilhan Omar. That’s because it’s difficult to imagine a congresscritter who doesn’t defend the Constitution more than she does. When she got sworn in, she swore to uphold the Constitution. What proof do we have that Rep. Omar understands basic constitutional principles like federalism, separation of powers or the Bill of Rights?
Rep. Omar might understand those principles but I don’t know what I can’t prove. Right now, I can’t prove that Rep. Omar understands or agrees with the Bill of Rights. She might but she might not.
No one is an “alien.”
This is family separation on a massive scale.
Dehumanizing immigrants and tearing apart families will not make us any stronger. It will only destroy lives, traumatize children, and make our country less safe. https://t.co/a8q9YV3AGX
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MEPs to back end to AIDS discrimination - Ludford
In time for World Aids Day, MEPs are set to endorse a resolution on HIV/AIDS, calling on the EU Commission and Member States to formulate a comprehensive strategy for early diagnosis and care. The resolution also calls on Member States to outlaw discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS and allow their free movement.
London's Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford, a persistent campaigner against discrimination towards people with HIV/AIDS, said: "Reports from health experts confirm that the number of new HIV infections reported continues to rise at an alarming rate in EU and neighbouring countries. But a large proportion remain undiagnosed, and cross-border cooperation is essential to identify all sufferers, offer free and anonymous testing and provide prompt care and treatment."
She added: "I'm delighted that my campaign to end the exclusion of HIV/AIDS persons from US visa waiver through EU pressure is being won. But there is still a lot of work to do to ensure that individuals with HIV/AIDS are not discriminated against in travel, visas or free movement within Europe's borders and across the world. This European Parliament call for EU states to outlaw second class treatment must be acted on."
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Griswold Library At-a-Glance
Library's History
Griswold Library At-a-Glance: Library's History
History of Griswold Library
The history of the library at Green Mountain College is one of continual growth and improvement. The library was for many years located in the basement of Moses Hall until it became obvious in the late 1940s that a larger facility was needed. According to an item printed in the May 2, 1950 issue of, Alumni News, a new library building would represent the first major construction project on campus since Dunton Hall was completed in 1922.
The money was raised for on October 21, 1950 a new library cornerstone was put in place. Placed within the cornerstone was a copy of, The Leavenworth Case, a mystery novel by Anna Katherine Green, Class 1868, who is known as the nation’s first woman mystery writer. The new library building, now known as Surdam Art Building, was opened in 1951.
By the mid-1960s it was apparent that this library building was no longer adequate as there was insufficient space for students and for the rapidly increasing book collection. A new library building committee was formed and began meeting in 1965.
The College employed Crandall Associates, of Glens Falls, NY, as the building’s design architect. The John A. Russell Corporation, of Rutland, VT, was the contractor. The Library was planned to be a state-of-the-art facility. Open stacks, large and small study tables, individual and private study carrels, and private study rooms were designed to permit unrestricted access and usage by library patrons. A large and open staircase contributed to the building’s welcoming atmosphere. When it opened in 1970, the 34,892 square foot building was designed to hold 100,000 volumes. In 1989 the library was named Griswold Library in honor of Steele Griswold, Class 1941, on the occasion of his retirement as Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Beginning in 1998, the Library underwent a thorough remodeling. Among the elements of the Library remodeling program undertaken in the summer of 1999 included the following: opening up the entrance and foyer area by means of glass windows and doors; the installation of the Robert W. Dickgiesser Electronic Classroom; construction of two computer classroom / laboratories on the 2nd floor; dedicating a room in the basement to IT/Computer Services; and, moving the Jose Calhoun Learning Center from the basement of Moses to the 3rd floor of the Library. Problems with climate control were remedied with the renovation of the heating and air conditioning equipment, and the roof was replaced.
The Library remodeling project was undertaken in conjunction with a plan to provide Internet and cable connections in each residence hall room and in buildings throughout the campus. In 2000, the Library acquired Voyager software, a Unix-based integrated library catalog, circulation, and acquisition system. The following year the Library’s electronic catalog, ‘Quarry,’ came on-line.
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Category Archives: Kansas City
For new urban rail — Modern streetcars now lead light rail revolution
Streetcar under testing in downtown Kansas City. Streetcar systems can readily be upgraded into full-performance light rail transit. Photo: Michael Leatherman.
For the first time since the advent of the USA’s modern light rail transit (LRT) revolution in the mid-1970s, the modern streetcar — a scaled-down version of higher-performance LRT — has emerged as the leading form of LRT development for launching urban rail in American cities. Characterized by typically shorter stop spacing, somewhat slower speeds, more reliance on sharing road space with motor vehicle traffic, and often slightly smaller rolling stock, streetcars seem to be perceived as a more financially accessible path to initiate a new local urban rail system scaled to the needs of communities previously dependent only on buses for their public transit.
However, because its technology is nearly identical to high-performance LRT, streetcar starter lines may offer the basis of a system that can be upgraded to “full” LRT via affordable and reasonable modifications.
While several major cities with rail rapid transit and/or LRT systems (e.g., Washington DC, Atlanta, Seattle, Sacramento, St. Louis) are also adding streetcar operations with new streetcar systems, this article focuses on new modern streetcar projects that represent the first installation of any form of urban rail for their communities. Thus, projects now well under construction (with route-miles and total investment cost) include:
► Cincinnati — 1.8 miles, $148 million
► Kansas City — 2.2 miles, $102 million (see photo at top of post)
► Detroit — 3.3 miles, $140 million
Modern streetcar projects in planning and preparatory stages of development are also under way in Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, and Ft. Lauderdale, leading the inauguration of urban rail for those communities as well.
In most cases, streetcars are being introduced initially as circulator modes, typically for the CBD or a single major corridor. Even when routed in mixed (shared) traffic, streetcars offer faster, more attractive service to comparable bus operations together with additional benefits for urban livability and economic development.
However, the possibility of upgrading this mode into a cost-effective, higher-performance form of LRT is raised by the rapid streetcar concept, originally proposed in 2004 by Lyndon Henry, a nationally known public transport planner and a technical consultant to Light Rail Now. The concept has generated interest within the rail transit planning profession; see, for example:
• The Rapid Streetcar
• Rapid Streetcar: Rescaling Design And Cost for More Affordable Light Rail Transit
• Rapid Streetcar concept gaining ground
Henry and other public transport professionals and advocates emphasize that it’s critical to upgrade streetcar operations by converting shared-traffic street alignments into dedicated lanes free of other traffic, implementing traffic signal prioritization for streetcars, and expanding these new lines into other city sectors and suburbs.
Posted in Cincinnati, Detroit, Kansas City, Streetcars
Tagged cincinnati, detroit, kansas city, Light rail, lrt development, rapid streetcar, streetcars, Urban rail transit
New streetcar startups bringing rail transit to more U.S. cities
Tucson’s new Sun Link streetcar passes sidewalk cafe during opening day festivities in July 2014. Photo: Ed Havens.
Light rail transit (LRT) continues to sprout across the USA, driven especially by the lower cost and easier implementation of streetcar-type LRT technology. Listed below are several U.S. cities where new streetcar systems either have recently opened, or projects are under way, bringing the first rail transit in the modern era to these metro areas. Links to helpful articles providing further information are provided, as available.
• Tucson
This medium-sized Arizona city’s 3.9-mile streetcar line, branded Sun Link, opened this past July, at an investment cost of $198.8 million. The starter line route links up the University of Arizona campus with important activity points like Main Gate Square, the Fourth Avenue business district, and downtown Tucson, continuing westward to the Mercado area west of Interstate 10. Ridership (averaging over 4,700 on weekdays) has already surpassed projections. See: Tucson Sun Link streetcar opens, meets ridership goal.
• Cincinnati
This midwestern city’s streetcar project, now in the advanced stages of construction, will install a 3.6-mile loop (1.8 miles of route from one end to the other) in the CBD. The $133 million starter line will stretch from The Banks to Findlay Market, and is projected to open for service in the fall of 2016. See: CincyStreetcar Blog.
• Kansas City
This 2.2-mile starter streetcar line will operate mostly along Main Street through the CBD, connecting River Market with Union Station. Budgeted at $102 million in 2012, the project is well under way. Construction began in May 2014, and the line is expected to open for passenger service in late 2015. See: Kansas City — Another new downtown streetcar project starts to take shape.
• Oklahoma City
A 4.6-mile streetcar starter line, now in advanced planning, will bring rail transit to this major city. The project, currently estimated to cost $128.8 million, will circulate through the CBD, and will feature wireless operation beneath the BNSF Railway overpass linking the city’s MidTown area with the historic and adjoining Bricktown district. Opening is projected for late 2017 or early 2018. See: Oklahoma City Rail Transit and Public Transport Developments.
The City has a 2.1-mile streetcar starter line project under way with a budgeted investment cost of $64.6 million. Extending from Ogden & Prospect on the northeast of the CBD to 4th & Wisconsin, completion has been targeted for 2016. However, the City may have to find an additional $20 million to cover the cost of utilities relocation, under a recent ruling by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. See: Milwaukee aiming to start streetcar line construction in 2014.
• Detroit
In September, tracklaying finally began for this 3.3-mile, $136 million streetcar starter line, financed from both public and private sources. Designated M-1, the line will operate on busy Woodward Avenue, from Grand to Congress. See: Detroit’s M-1 modern streetcar project gets under way. Opening is projected for 2016. See: Detroit’s M-1 modern streetcar project gets under way. ■
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Cases where voters okayed rail transit after first rejecting
Rail transit ballot measures are critical events. But if one is rejected, is it a “catastrophic” setback for the community? Graphic: RochesterSubway.com.
Voter rejection of a rail transit project is almost always unfortunate.
But is it catastrophic? Does it signal that the majority in a community will persistently and permanently reject any rail project, or does it represent a more temporary setback, with remaining hope that a better plan, a better presentation to voters, at a better time, could have a chance to win approval?
This issue often arises not only in communities where a rail transit project has unified support from transit advocates, but even in cases where an official plan has faced strong opposition from rail transit supporters. In an effort to mobilize support, proponents of the given project may argue that it may be the community’s “only chance for rail”, that, no matter its deficiencies, a given plan cannot be allowed to fail, because it would be a “disaster”, setting back rail development for decades, perhaps forever.
To evaluate the validity of this argument, and assess the actual delay between the failure of rail ballot measures and the ultimate passage of support for a subsequent rail transit ballot initiative, the LRN Project team examined available cases since 2000 where an initial rejection of rail was followed by a successful later vote. LRN’s approach has examined this issue strictly from the standpoint of attracting voter support — in other words, if the issue of rail transit is re-voted, how long does it take to win approval?
It should be noted that this study has examined the sequence of events only in cities where, after the failure of an initial measure, a new measure for rail transit (often with a somewhat different plan) was offered to voters. In other cases, poorly prepared or presented rail plans were rejected by voters, but rail planning was subsequently dropped (e.g., Spokane, Columbus) or has proceeded without needing a public vote (e.g., San Antonio).
Thus this study has sought to address the question: If rail has previously been rejected by voters, but a new rail measure is subsequently presented for a vote, how long does it take to achieve successful voter approval for rail?
Since 2000, there have been six cases where such re-votes have occurred:
• Austin — A plan for a light rail transit (LRT) system was very narrowly defeated in 2000; rail transit was subsequently repackaged as a light railway using diesel-multiple-unit (DMU) rolling stock, and passed in 2004 (now branded as MetroRail). Delay between votes: 4 years.
• Kansas City — An officially sponsored LRT plan was defeated in 2001; a different LRT plan initiated by a citizens’ referendum was subsequently approved in 2006. (However, the successful vote was annulled by the city council; implementation of an officially sponsored streetcar project is now underway without a public vote.) Delay between votes: 5 years.
• Cincinnati — An LRT plan was rejected in 2002. Rail transit was subsequently repackaged as a streetcar plan that was forced to a public vote, and ultimately was approved in 2009. (A re-vote, forced by opponents’ referendum, was held in 2012, and the streetcar project again passed.) Delay between votes: 7 years.
• Tucson — An LRT plan was rejected in 2002; rail transit was subsequently repackaged as a streetcar plan, then submitted for a public vote and approved in 2006. (The new system, branded as Sun Link, is due to open later this year.) Delay between votes: 4 years.
• Seattle — A multi-modal transportation proposal, Roads and Transit, including LRT expansion, was defeated in 2007 (with opposition from environmental organizations and other traditional pro-transit groups, dissatisfied with the plan’s heavy highway element). A new package, Sound Transit 2, was prepared, with much heavier transit emphasis, and presented and approved by voters in 2008. Delay between votes: 1 year.
• St. Louis — Proposition M, including funding for the region’s MetroLink LRT system, was defeated by voters in 2008. A new package, Prop. A, aided by an improved campaign, and including funding to improve and expand LRT, was subsequently approved in 2010. Delay between votes: 2 years.
From these experiences, it’s plausible to conclude the recent re-votes on rail transit have taken from one to seven years to succeed. This would not seem to suggest that initial loss of a vote results in a “catastrophic” delay of “decades” before a rail transit project can muster approval.
On the contrary, the average delay, on the basis of these cases, is 3.8 years. However, the data seems to suggest a pattern, whereby the delay before a successful rail transit re-vote is less in cities already operating some form of rail transit (Seattle, St. Louis), in contrast to cities where rail would be a totally new addition to the transit mix (Austin, Tucson, Kansas City, Cincinnati). This differential in average delay is illustrated graphically in the chart below:
Left bar: Average years of delay in cities already operating rail transit. Right bar: Average delay in cities with no current rail transit.
Other than to infer that the loss of a vote does not inevitably represent a “catastrophic” setback for rail transit in a given city, this study with its very small data set does not offer a basis for strong conclusions. However, there is opportunity for plausible speculation:
• Conditions for a more speedy re-vote and approval of a rail transit ballot measure may be more propitious in communities that already have experience with successful rail transit systems.
• The process of re-submitting a rail transit measure to a vote may depend not so much on public attitudes but on the determination of sponsoring officials, their responsiveness to public input, and their willingness to re-craft specific project details to more closely conform to public needs and desires.
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Kansas City — Another new downtown streetcar project starts to take shape
Simulation of streetcar southbound on Main St. at 19th St. [Graphic: Downtown Corridor Alternatives Analysis]
[This article has been reprinted with permission from the Urban Rail Today website.]
Kansas City, Missouri — At a March 6th public meeting, city planners presented details of their construction schedule for Kansas City’s proposed 2.2-mile, $102 million streetcar project, approved by voters in late December (2012). The details may be instructive for streetcar advocates in other cities, giving them an idea of what’s typically involved in this kind of project.
The line is planned to run through the city’s Central Business District from River Market to Union Station, also serving Crossroads and Crown Center. According to a Dec. 28th report in the Kansas City Business Journal, “Proponents of the plan say the line … will spur development along Main Street while helping to attract young, creative residents to the city’s urban core.” The system is currently projected to open for service in 2015.
[Map: Downtown Neighborhood Association of Kansas City]
Particularly for transit supporters in other cities considering a streetcar or large light rail transit (LRT) system, it’s instructive to look at the elements of this kind of project. A more recent report (March 7th) in the KC Business Journal provides an opportunity for this kind of examination, laying out the three main phases of the project.
At more than $46 million a mile, KC’s streetcar line will be far less costly than, say, a subway or monorail, or even many busways — but that per-mile price tag also buys a lot more than just the rail transit infrastructure, as we’ll see. First, let’s itemize the railway components themselves, some of which will occur over several of the phases:
• Streetcar rolling stock — to be selected, ordered, delivered.
• Tracks installation along Main Street from the River Market to Union Station.
• Rolling stock maintenance facility in the River Market to be designed.
• Underground utilities to be relocated.
That last item — relocating utilities — is not directly part of the rail infrastructure, but it’s a task that usually has to be done (although there are some ways to minimize or avoid it). In many cases, the utilities may have actually needed replacement for years, but the municipality or private utility owner holds off, hoping that the rail project will pick up the tab. There’s also wide divergence from city to city in terms of who the law specifies should be responsible for paying for such relocation — the agency sponsoring the rail project, or the utility owners.
Phase 1 (from 2013 until early 2014) will mainly focus on utility relocation and the construction of the maintenance facility. Utilities work will include:
• Opening trenches to remove and relocate utility lines.
• Suspending temporary overhead lines for temporary utility relocations.
According to the news report, this work will be done in three-block sections and taking two to eight weeks. “During the work, Kansas City residents can expect partial lane closings and temporary service interruptions.”
Work on the maintenance facility, lasting 12 to 18 months, will include:
• Clearing the site for the facility and starting construction of the building’s foundation.
• Commencing civil engineering work startup of actual shop construction.
Phase 2 (from late 2013 to late 2014) includes track installation (in pavement), station construction, and rebullding of streets and sidewalks. It’s debatable whether this last item, street and sidewalk reconstruction — routine for most urban rail projects — should be considered an indispensable component of the rail transit and assigned as a cost totally to the rail project.
To some extent, as with utilities, public works planners often realize that the streets and sidewalks need to be rebuilt anyway, and often wait to let the cost be picked up by the rail project. Also, these kinds of upgrades might be considered as more in the category of “urban amenities”, and some rail advocates argue they should be tallied separately as something like “urban renovation”.
On the other hand, it’s arguable that effective access to the new line requires good pedestrian facilities. Furthermore, for federal funding the Federal Transit Administration usually requires it (along with other amenities not directly essential to the transit operation, such as artwork at the stations).
In any case, both for track installation and the street/sidewalk reconstruction, the project schedule calls for closing “two city blocks … for three to four weeks to accommodate construction of the streetcar’s tracks and stops.” This will include:
• Removing existing pavement and sidewalks.
• Reconstructing sidewalks, curbs, and gutters.
• Installing railway hardware on track slabs with drainage facilities and special trackwork (switches, crossovers, etc.).
• Rebuilding existing curbs, gutters, and sidewalks near stations.
• Building concrete platforms and canopy foundations, and installing “amenities and finishes at the streetcar stops.”
As the Business Journal report indicates,
Construction of each station is expected to last three to four weeks. Track installation will require a 20- to 25-foot work zone and will close multiple lanes or entire sections of Main Street, depending on the width of the street at the work location.
Phase 3 (from late 2013 to late 2014), the final phase of construction, will focus mainly on the power system and traffic signals, with some replacement of street lighting (again, this last item may be one of those “urban amenity/renovation” elements not strictly essential to the urban rail project). There’s an advisory that “Temporary closures during non-peak hours are expected at each two-block section for the three to four weeks it will take to complete this phase of the work.” This last phase will include:
• Installing the overhead contact system (OCS) — i.e., the support poles and wiring for the electric propulsion system (this is often erroneously referred to as “catenary”, which is actually a somewhat heftier type of OCS; however, many streetcar lines and even some larger LRT lines use much simpler single-contact-wire OCS to minimize its visibility).
• Installing new traffic signals and street lighting (again, see the discussion above about “urban renovation” and whether the cost of these project elements should be assigned to the urban rail project).
• Installing power substations (these are just relatively small power booster units to maintain adequate voltage on the OCS, which tends to drop because of the resistance of the OCS wire).
“After construction is complete,” notes the Business Journal report, “the city expects to take four to six months for testing and startup work between late 2014 and early 2015.”
That, then, is what this relatively small KC urban rail project will involve. Hopefully, this information will be helpful to those of you contemplating similar projects for your own cities.
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Greetings Fellow Travelers,
By now we know I am a fan of things on four wheels, but I have been known to cut down to just two. I like anything of the bygone era, especially when related to transportation.
Today, I bring you a picture of a Native American who was a horse wrangler for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, sitting atop of an Indian motorcycle. How do I know this? My grandpa, who you all have met, knew him and worked with the man behind the inspiration as a wrangler as well.
Pat Fitzsimmons, to me, Grandpa Pat, was a shirttail relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. His sister was married to Ed Cody, Buffalo Bill’s half-brother. Pat befriended Buffalo Bill, who asked him if he wanted to join up with the show and participate. My Grandpa decided to help by wrangling the horses and livestock for the show.
As a young man, Grandpa traveled to many different states with the show, curious about new places and new experiences. By this point in the story of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, the show stayed in the mainland of the good ol’ USA and did not travel abroad as it once had. My grandpa told me of a story of a Native American who worked as a fellow wrangler. As he had a form of dwarfism, he stayed behind the scenes. Grandpa always said the Indian’s facial features were stoic and reminded him more of a Native American Chief than some of the other Indians who were in the show. This fellow told my grandpa that he was saving his hard earned money up to buy a motorcycle, an Indian Scout. To this, my Grandpa replied earnestly that he figured he would have one someday soon.
Several years down the road, after Grandpa had left the show, and went back to farming and ranching in Vail, IA, he took a trip to Omaha with his cattle. During this trip, he came upon a rare sight, an Indian riding an Indian motorcycle. The man on the motorcycle recognized Pat and pulled alongside, stating triumphantly that he had bought his Scout. They shared the rest of the afternoon, talking of old times and enjoying a few brews.
This picture is dedicated to Grandpa’s friend and his accomplished dream of an Indian Scout motorcycle.
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1 Introduction Focus group is a qualitative technique used mostly in marketing research and also other areas of research. This technique is used to collect primary data. This document consists of information about focus group.
The main objective of this assignment was to investigate how focus groups techniques are used to collect primary data about the phenomenon at hand in the real world. The research method used was Google scholar for academic journals. The campus library database was also used for more academic journals and textbooks from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) different libraries.
The main problem experienced in the completion of this document was that most textbooks about this studied topic were outdated in the author’s campus. Hence, different campuses of NMMU were visited and the right textbooks were found. This document presents a review of the literature on focus groups. It continues with an empirical study on organisational corruption in secondary schools. Also included, is the reference list of all cited sources as well as an annexure.
2 FOCUS GROUPS In the collection of primary data there are two research methods that can be of use, quantitative and qualitative methods, which can both be subdivided into idiosyncratic primary data collection methods. Because the main focus of this document is on focus groups, therefore only qualitative techniques will be mentioned which are in-depth interviews, projective techniques and focus groups.
Seymour (2004:04) defines focus groups (F.G) as “group of interacting individuals having some common interest or characteristics, brought together by a moderator, who uses the group and its interactions as a way to gain information about a specific or focused issue”. This technique has been utilised in many fields to collect primary data as mentioned above and its characteristics are discussed in the following section.
2.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF FOCUS GROUPS When F.G are considered to be used in a certain research study then there are characteristics which have to be taken into account, which are: group size, group composition, physical setting, moderator, recording tools and length of group discussion. Below it is a detailed review on each of the above mentioned characteristics of F.G. 2.1.1 Group size
When determining to embark on F.G one has to think about the size (number) of that certain F.G. Despite the confusion that can be created by different sources stating a different number of possible group sizes. The research of F.G can be undertaken with a group of 4- 12 people (Tong, Sainsbury & Craig 2007:351). Large F.G group size can jeopardise the discussion as it may be difficult to handle the discussion, even so the group size depends on the complexity of the research study. 2.1.2 Group composition
After the group size had been decided then the group composition must be considered as well. All participants taking part in a F.G must be homogeneous in the interest of the studied phenomenon (Malhotra & Birks 2006:160). Participants with similar characteristics, which the study is about, make the discussion easier and nicely flowing. 2.1.3 Physical setting
When choosing the venue to carry out a F.G it is imperative that the chosen venue must also meet the aspects of the phenomenon at hand and of the participants. Daymon and Holloway (2002:194) state that “choosing the right environment for traditional focus groups plays a vital role as it can attract freely expressed opinions from the participants”.
2.1.4 Moderator In the success of F.G moderators play a vital role. It is of crucial role that moderators in F.G keep the environment safe so participants can freely express their opinions and most importantly must use probe questions; such requires a great experience from the moderator (Hague, P., Hague, N. & Morgan 2004:53). Therefore, the moderator ought to possess skills such as creating chemistry with the participants, keep the flow of the discussion and analysing the data collected. 2.1.5 Recording tools
No person can be able to cram exactly a discussion of over 20 minutes by his head; some points will certainly be missed. Wiid & Diggines (2009:90) express that “sessions should preferably be recorded (both visual and audio) so that the researcher can review the sessions later in order to gain further insights”. These tools therefore, assist to keep the already realised needed data and the data that the moderator was unaware of during the discussion. 2.1.6 Length of group discussion
When planning F.G it is essential to plan the duration precisely as it may play an impact on the data collected. However, just like group sizes, length of F.G depends on the complexity of the issue at hand. The more complex of the issue is the more the duration of the discussion is required, but if so then breaks must be taken in between to let the participants to enliven and produce successful F.G (Malhotra & Birks 2006:161).
While on the hand, Seymour (2004:05) being unambiguous reveals that “most focus groups encompass 90 minutes to three hours of discussion”. With the above discussed characteristics of F.G considered, then one has to scrutinise the advantages and disadvantages of F.G. The following section discusses the advantages and disadvantages of F.G.
2.2 ADVANTAGES F.G has its own advantages which can attract this technique to be used. These advantages are discussed individually beneath. Cost- because discussions are done simultaneously then it reduces the cost (Wiid & Diggines 2009:91). Speed- because a number of individuals are being interviewed at the same time, data collection and analysis proceeds speedily (Gerber-Nel, Nel & Kotze 2003:104). Synergy- a discussion with a number of participants can also be of help by generating more information than one-on-one interviews (University of Toronto [UT] 2002:02).
Snowball- Malhotra & Birks (2006:162) state that “a bandwagon effect often operates in a group discussion in that one person’s comment triggers a chain reaction from the other respondents”. In elaboration, a comment from one of the participants may reveal an idea to some other participant(s). Scientific scrutiny- because the moderator is also in the venue of discussion with participants, it also gives the moderator the opportunity to also observe (Malhotra & Birks 2006:162). However, disadvantages investigated by the author are more than the mentioned above but the above mentioned are those anticipated as most important.
2.3 DISADVANTAGES Focus groups have advantages which can jeopardise the collected data or the data collection process itself. These advantages are explained below. Misjudgement- Gerber-Nel et al (2003:104) utter that “results are misinterpreted due to bias”. Non representative sample- because of the small number of participants in total as compared to quantitative, therefore participants in F.G cannot represent any population (Wiid & Diggines 2009:91).
Inconclusive results- the results of F.G only retort to ‘what’ but not ‘why’ which can sometimes make the narrow and create a need for a quantitative research study (Gerber-Nel et al 2003:104). Difficulty in analysing- this method mostly consists of words which make it more difficult to analyse (Grudens-Schuck, Allen & Larson 2004:¶9).
2.4 WHEN TO USE FOCUS GROUPS With the above discussed sections it is also vital for one to know when to utilise F.G. Focus groups are mostly used to discover behaviour, perceptions, attitudes and processes (Hague et al 2004:50). These traits that F.G are used to discover which responds to the question of ‘when to use focus groups?’, which in respond will be, F.G can be used in; stand alone method, supplementary to a survey and as a part of multi method design (Daymon & Hollower 2002:188).
The following section will discuss the use of F.G in the study of organisational corruption in secondary schools in Turkey and the information provided is based on annexure A. 3 FOCUS GROUP STUDY ON ORGANISATIONAL CORRUPTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANKARA In Turkey after it was seen that the level of corruption in secondary schools is high, it was then seen important that a study on this problem should be undertaken. The moderator and his assistant decided to use F.G study to identify the perceptions of teachers in Ankara (a city in Turkey).
The group sizes of the study were eight and nine respectively, which in total consisted of 17 participants (12 males and 5 females). These participants were chosen due to homogeneous attributes meeting the studied problem, because this study is about secondary schools therefore the participants were critically recruited due to their profession of teaching. Thereafter, the moderator and his assistant held the F.G in a cosmopolitan city of Turkey known by the name Ankara. Apaydin & Balci (2011:821) state that in the study “audio and video recordings were taken informed consent”.
Which helped to later on even realise information shared which the researchers were not aware of. The duration of each focus group was 90 minutes, which the researchers felt the time it was the right time, for each group discussion. The fact that F.G were held made it less costly for this study than any other possible study because a large number of people participated in this study at a time which also made it quite quicker. Some points in this study were raised up by addition or revealing of another idea by some other participant’s comment.
On the other hand, the researchers also saw that because at first the participants were suppose to represent secondary schools of Turkey as a nation then later converted to the cosmopolitan city Ankara but still the researchers saw that the number of total participants is quite diminutive to represent such large population. On the findings of this study it was seen of importance that further study should be carried out on different groups so the findings can be generalised.
4 CONCLUSION This study has been a great study which can be improvised in a way. Such way is that the researchers must carry on with the focus groups and compare findings, if even after several discussions same findings are gathered then it would be a point where the findings can be generalised for the secondary schools in Ankara.
Apaydin, C. & Balci, A. 2011. Education. Organizational Corruption in Secondary Schools: A Focus Group Study, 131(4):818-829. Daymon, C. & Holloway, I. 2002. Qualitative research methods in public relations andmarketing communications. London: Routledge. Gerber-Nel, C., Nel, D. & Kotze, T. 2003. Marketing research. Claremont: New African Books. Grudens-Schuck, N., Allen, B.L. & Larson, K. 2004.
Focus group fundamentals. Methodology Brief: 9. Hague, P., Hague, N. & Morgan, C. 2004. Marketing research in practice: A guide to the basics. London: Kogan Page. Malhotra, N.K. & Birks, D.F. 2006. Marketing research: An applied approach. 2nd rev ed.Harlow: Prentice Hall. Seymour, A. 2004. Focus groups. An Important Tool for Strategic Planning:1-32.
Tong, A., Sainsbury, P. & Craig, J. 2007. International journal for quality in health care.Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ): a 32-item Checklist for Interviews and Focus Groups, 19(6):349-357.
University of Toronto. 2002. The health communication unit. Using Focus Groups, 02:1-59. Wiid, J. & Diggines, C. 2009. Marketing research. Cape Town: Juta.
ANNEXURE A: ORGANIZATIONAL CORRUPTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: A FOCUS GROUP STUDY
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Barry Shoults is a graduate of Lapeer Public Schools. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan - Flint and then received in 1981 his Juris Doctorate from the Detroit College of Law, now the Law School at Michigan State University. He was admitted to the practice of law in Michigan Courts in 1981 and in Federal Court in 1984.
He worked his way through college and law school at various jobs including selling building supplies for Church’s Lumber. He started his legal career working for Legal Services of Eastern Michigan in Flint which provided legal aid to the poor of Genesee and Lapeer counties before starting this law firm in Lapeer in 1982.
Barry Shoults is a member of various sections of the Michigan State Bar Association as well as the Lapeer County Bar Association of which he was President from 2004 - 2005. He is one of the few Lapeer County attorneys who is a member of the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan. He is also a member of the Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce, the Lapeer Downtown Business Association and Calvary Bible Church.
Barry Shoults was the Mayor of Lapeer between 1981 - 1989 during which he was on the Downtown Development Authority and the City Planning Commission. Prior to that he served on the Lapeer County Planning Commission, the Genesee-Lapeer-Shiawassee County Regional Planning Commission, and the Genesee-Lapeer-Shiawassee County Health Systems Agency. He was elected City Commissioner in 1973 and served one term as an elected County Commissioner (1977-78) during which he influenced the decision to build the current court house in downtown Lapeer.
Barry Shoults has taught seminars on the state regulations regarding the use of the evidentiary breath test called the "Breathalyzer" and on "How to Get Along with the Friend of the Court" He has also appeared on the television program, "Ask a Lawyer" when it was being produced by Channel 28 in Flint.
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Verisimilitude ~ A Short Story by Allen Kopp
Irene Gribble hit her mother in the head with an iron and sent the old lady sprawling. She hit the far wall of the room, head first, and fell to the floor like a hundred-pound sack of flour. Irene, observing from the ironing board that she wasn’t moving, figured she was pretending, as she had always been a great one for self-dramatization.
“You can get up now, mother,” Irene said. “I know you’re not hurt.”
No sound issued from the recumbent old woman.
“If you don’t get up now and stop pretending, I’m going to pour a pitcher of water in your face. That’s what they always do in the movies.”
She went and stood over her mother, hands on hips, and nudged her with her foot. “Well, at least I got you to shut up for a while,” she said.
She finished her ironing, washed some dishes, threw away some rotten vegetables in the refrigerator, and in another few minutes she checked on her mother again. This time she knelt down beside her and put her ear to the old woman’s chest. She heard no sound of a beating heart but, then, she had always been certain there was no heart there, anyway. When she saw that her mother wasn’t breathing, though, she knew she was dead.
“Well, what do you know about that?” she said.
She stood up and took a deep breath. She felt surprisingly calm, considering that she had just killed her own mother. She sat down at the kitchen table, lit a Lucky Strike and thought about the phone call she needed to make.
“A song came on the radio that she liked and she was dancing,” Irene would tell the police. “She always loved to dance. Her eyes were closed and she had her arms around her imaginary partner. She didn’t see the rip in the carpet, caught her foot in it, and fell backward against the wall.”
No, that didn’t sound quite right. Whoever heard of anybody getting killed while they were dancing?
“I was outside in the back yard,” the story might go. “I found her like this when I came in from outside. She must have taken a terrific fall.”
Or this: “I don’t really know what happened. I was upstairs and I heard a crash. When I came running down, I saw that she had climbed on a chair to change a bulb in the ceiling fan. She must have fallen over backwards off the chair and hit the wall. She was taking a new medication that caused her to black out when least expected.”
A little better. I have to make it sound convincing. Give it verisimilitude. I always liked that word. That will be my word.
As she stubbed out her cigarette, she realized her hands were shaking and she erupted into a torrent of pitying tears, not for her mother but for herself. What if they don’t believe me? What if they suspect I killed her? I can’t let them think that. My own mother. It makes me sick just to think about it.
She felt more alone that she had ever felt before in her life. She had only one living relative, her brother Ernest, and, although the two of them had never been on the best of terms, he might help her to figure out the best way to handle the situation.
She called his number and was relieved that he was available; he answered his phone on the second ring.
“Ernest!” she said. “Something terrible has happened!”
“It’s mother! I need you to come over right away!”
“Are you two fighting again? I told you I refuse to get involved.”
“No, it’s not that! It’s more than that! She’s down on the floor and I don’t think she’s breathing.”
“Call an ambulance.”
“I think it’s too late for that. I need some help.”
“Just come over and see for yourself.”
“I’ll be there in half an hour.”
An hour later he walked calmly into the house, removing his sunglasses. Irene was sitting on the couch in her bathrobe.
“Where is she?” he asked.
“In the kitchen.”
He went into the kitchen and a couple of minutes later came back into the living room. “She’s dead,” he said.
“I know she’s dead,” Irene said. She had taken tranquilizers, twice the recommended dosage, and felt calm, at least for the moment.
“Are you going to tell me what happened? The two of you were fighting, weren’t you? You think you might have killed her and you want me to help you cover it up.”
“That’s not quite true!” she said defensively. “You’re right about one thing, though. We were fighting.”
“I always said it would come to this. The two of you would end up killing each other.”
“Well, now she’s dead and I’m alive,” Irene said.
“You need to call somebody,” he said. “Call an ambulance, even if she is already dead.”
“How’s Malcolm?” she asked.
“Malcolm. Isn’t that his name?”
“His name is Martin and this is no time for small talk.”
“Are you two of you still living together?”
“Yes! And it’s not a crime!”
“Well, you don’t need to yell at me! I’ve had enough of that from her!”
“I knew it was a mistake for you to move in with her after your divorce.”
“She said she wanted me to. She said she was lonely.”
“The two of you have been fighting your entire lives.”
“I know, but it’s all over now. I feel a deep sense of relief, don’t you?”
“Well, at this moment, I can’t say relief is what I feel,” he said. “I’ve just seen my mother dead on the kitchen floor. That’s rather a shock in the middle of an uneventful day.”
“What do you think I should do?”
“Call somebody and tell them what happened. Call the police.”
“I’m scared!”
“I’m afraid they’ll think I was somehow responsible for what happened.”
“Weren’t you?”
“Well, in a way I suppose I was.”
“You’d better tell me exactly what happened.”
“She was a horrible person!”
“Yes, we’ve been through all that many times.”
“She always had to have somebody to fight with. Daddy or Aunt Jo, grandma when she was still alive, you, or me. Of course, now it’s me because I’m the one living with her.”
“Tell me what happened.”
“Well, a person can only take so much. She found fault with everything I did. I stay up too late at night and sleep too late in the morning. I smoke too much and I make slurping sounds when I eat soup. I’m not clean enough. I leave grease spots on the stove. I’m lazy. I don’t do my share of the housework. I’m a terrible daughter and a terrible person. I let my marriage fail. I take dope and I’m a shoplifter. I’m not a real woman because I never had any children. It goes on and on.”
“Same story, different day,” he said.
“I can take just about anything she heaps on, but when she accuses me of stealing money from her purse, that’s beyond the pale!”
“She said you stole money from her?”
“Two hundred dollars. Out of her purse when she while she was taking a nap.”
“All right. The two of you came to blows over two hundred dollars that she said was missing from her purse.”
“I was ironing a blouse. She started screaming at me about the money. She called me a thief and whore and she said if I didn’t give it back she was going to call the police. When I told her I didn’t take the money and that she probably spent it and didn’t remember, she pulled a steak knife out of the drawer and threatened me with it. She held it to my stomach and said she was going to gut me like a fish and that it’s what she should have done the day I was born because I had always been a terrible curse to her. She kept on and on in that way and I hit her in the head with the iron to get her to shut up.”
“A hot iron?”
“It was on medium.”
“Then what happened?”
“I guess I hit her harder than I thought. I was so mad. It stunned her and she started falling backwards. It was really kind of funny, like the witch in The Wizard of Oz.”
“I don’t remember any witch falling over backwards in that movie.”
“For a few seconds it was like she was running backwards and then she slammed head first into the wall.”
He groaned and put his hands over his eyes. “What did you do then?”
“She didn’t move for a while. I figured she was all right and only pretending to be hurt to scare me. I finished my ironing and washed the dishes and then I went over to her and nudged her with my foot.”
“And nothing happened?” he asked. “She was already dead?”
“Well, I didn’t believe at first that she could really be dead. You know how melodramatic she’s always been and always making a play for sympathy.”
“When you realized she was dead, why didn’t you call an ambulance?”
“I was going to call, but then I thought how odd the whole thing must look to people who didn’t know what really happened. I was afraid they would come in and take a look around and just naturally assume that I killed her.”
“And you didn’t kill her?”
“No, it was an accident.”
“You have to call the police and let them decide if it was an accident or not. If she was threatening you with a knife, that’s self-defense, isn’t it? Weren’t you defending yourself?”
“It depends on what you choose to believe,” she said.
“I’d like to believe the truth,” he said.
“You know mother was always disappointed in you.”
“I know and I don’t care.”
“She wanted grandchildren,” she said.
“Tough,” he said.
“She called you all kinds of names. Not to your face, of course, but behind your back. To anybody that would listen.”
“Are you going to call the police or do you want me to do it?” he asked.
“She was a terrible person. Aren’t you at least a little bit glad she’s dead?”
“Right now the only thing I’m glad of is that I got away from home before it was too late.”
“You hate me for what happened, don’t you?”
“No, I don’t hate you. I’m worried about what’s going to happen to you.”
“I won’t go to jail,” she said. “I’ll kill myself first.”
“I’m going to call the police and tell them what you told me.”
“I have a better idea.”
“We can wait until the middle of the night and drive down to the river and dump her in. Of course, we’d have to figure out a way to weight her down first.”
“Are you crazy? Do you think I want to be involved in covering up a murder?”
“I’d do it for you.”
He laughed. “Somehow I don’t think you would,” he said.
“There’s a space below the basement floor that has a metal covering over it,” she said. “Big enough to hide a body in. Nobody would ever find her there until long after we’re gone.”
“You should hear yourself! I can hardly believe what I’m hearing. You’re talking about hiding your mother’s body? What do you tell people when they come looking for her? That she just ‘stepped out’ and you don’t know when she’ll be back? I don’t think people are going to accept that.”
“Always such a pessimist!” she said.
“I’m going to call the police and try to explain what happened without sounding like a lunatic,” he said.
“No, you go on about your business,” she said. “I want to be alone for a while, to sit and think. To grieve for the lady who gave me life. I’ll call the police when I’m ready.”
“So you’re going to handle it on your own?”
“And you’ll do what’s right?”
“Don’t I always?”
“I’m going to leave now. I’ll come back tonight around dark. I hope you’ll have called the police by then and tell them the truth about what happened.”
“Of course. You don’t have a thing to worry about. You’re the guiltless one, as ever.”
“Tomorrow I have a funeral to arrange,” he said, and then he was gone.
She drank a couple of vodka martinis and took a bath, her first in four days. When she was dressed again and her hair clean, she backed her car into the driveway, as close to the back door as she could get.
Taking the two spare tires out of the trunk—new and old—along with a jack and other tire-changing tools, some assorted rags, a flashlight, and other junk, she set them on the ground beside the car.
In the bottom of her trunk was a compartment underneath a panel held in place with thumb screws. She removed the screws and lifted out the panel and after she had done this she went back into the house.
She had thrown a blanket over her mother’s body, but it wasn’t enough. Thinking fast, she went upstairs to the walk-in closet and pulled down a large garment bag containing coats and dresses that hadn’t been worn in twenty years. She emptied the stuff out onto the floor and took the bag back downstairs.
Getting her mother’s body inside the bag and the bag zipped was easier than she anticipated. She dragged the bag to the back door and then, checking to make sure the woman next door was not snooping around in the back yard, she dragged it out the door and the few feet to the car. With one great heave and a shooting pain in her back, she lifted the bag off the ground and into the compartment, quickly replacing the panel with the thumbscrews and putting the spare tires and other stuff back into the trunk. She felt much better now, having removed the body from view.
Going back into the house, she sat down at the kitchen table and, cigarette in hand, wrote a note to Ernest, which he would see when he came by later. The note read, in part: Mother and I are going away for a while. I don’t know when, if ever, I’ll be back. The deed to the house, in your name, is in the safety deposit. Do what you think is right.
She packed a bag containing enough clothes for a few days, locked the doors, turned off the lights, and got into the car and drove away.
She drove all night and all day the next day, into the next state and then the next one after that. At dusk on the second day, she stopped in a small city that seemed like another world and spent the night in a beautiful old hotel on the bank of a river. In the morning, after a restful night’s sleep and a wonderful breakfast, she drove around for a while until she found a place where used cars were sold.
The car didn’t bring as much money as she thought it was worth, but she didn’t care to argue about price and accepted the first offer. She drove away in a newer model, only two years old, in almost perfect condition as if it had hardly been driven at all.
In her not-quite-new car, she continued driving in a westerly direction. She had always wanted to see the Grand Canyon, so she spent a couple of days there, enjoying the solitude and the wide-open spaces.
From the Grand Canyon, she drove to Las Vegas, a place she had heard about and dreamed about but never visited. She had a feeling of excitement to be there, just as she felt as a child when the whole family used to go to the beach or the amusement park.
In Las Vegas she checked into a hotel room with a magnificent view and locked herself in, ordering lavish meals from room service, charging all to a credit card. At night she would lie on the bed in her room, turn off the lights and open the curtains, drinking from a bottle of chianti. Looking out at the millions of other-worldly lights, she couldn’t remember ever feeling so contented and free from care in her life.
When she went out among the crowds, in the casinos or on the streets, she felt safe and anonymous. Nobody paid any attention to her. Everybody was there to enjoy themselves, just as she was.
On her fourth day in Las Vegas, she was walking on a crowded street when she saw an old woman up ahead in a bright yellow dress. It was the same stiff-jointed limp, the left shoulder lower than the right one, as her mother; the same hair tinted the color of apricot jam. She didn’t know how it could be, but she was sure it was her mother. She wasn’t dead after all! She had somehow got herself out of the trunk of Irene’s car and here she was, same as always! Just like a miracle!
In her happiness at seeing her mother alive, Irene started at an almost-run to catch up with her, but still she was two blocks away. With all the people milling about on the street, she lost sight of her for seconds at a time, but the yellow dress was like a beacon that she could not lose sight of.
Abandoning all caution, she stepped off a curb into traffic. She didn’t see the taxi cab that knocked her down and ran over her. The driver screeched his brakes and jumped out. A crowd gathered. Traffic became snarled. An ambulance came to take her away, but there was nothing to be done. She didn’t have any identification on her, so it took a while to piece together who she was and why she was running. Nobody had seen a thing out of the ordinary.
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Eamonn Fingleton is a Tokyo-based author whose most recent book is In Praise of Hard
Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future
Prosperity.
Germany's Economic Engine
For years, economists said Germany was doing everything wrong. But today it's thriving, even in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Eamonn FingletonJan 31, 2010
(AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)
Editors' Note: This piece has been corrected . American and British commentators have told three stories about the German economy over the past decade, all of them derogatory. Articulating a standard conservative view, Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 2006 characterized Germany's performance as "lastingly poor." In a similar vein, Jude Blanchette, blogging for the libertarian Mises Institute, predicted in 2003 that nothing but "rot and indolence" lay ahead. Another version of the indictment states that even though Germany was once an economic powerhouse, its best days are over. Thus in 2003, Larry Elliott of The Guardian reported that the German economy had "sputtered to a virtual halt" and, in the view of many, had succeeded to Britain's 1970s-era role as the "sick man of Europe." A third story holds that, to the extent Germany is surviving at all, it is only by giving up the distinctive elements of its economic model and embracing American norms...
Who Glossed China?
Eamonn FingletonOct 22, 2006
After the economist Nicholas Lardy visited China in the mid-1980s, he came away distinctly skeptical. While Chinese leaders were gearing up for a huge export drive, Lardy predicted “a marked slowing in China's trade expansion in the years ahead.” In particular he questioned Beijing's reported plan to boost total Chinese trade (imports plus exports) to more than $200 billion by 2000. In a monograph published by the Asia Society in 1987, China's Entry into the World Economy , Lardy suggested the target was implausibly high. In the event, Chinese policy-makers far exceeded their goal. China's exports alone in 2000 came to $249 billion and its imports came to $225 billion, making a grand total of $474 billion, more than double the ambitious target. Economists' predictions are often wrong, of course, not least about East Asia. But Lardy's errors are systematic. For two decades he has almost invariably undershot in predicting China's economic trajectory. Yet, despite these...
Innocents (Not) Abroad
Eamonn FingletonAug 13, 2006
The size of the trade deficit with China is one of the hottest potatoes in American economic policy these days. It is about to get a little hotter, thanks to Beijing's highly provocative, if hitherto largely overlooked, controls on outbound tourism. In theory the United States should be a major beneficiary -- perhaps the major beneficiary -- of a recent trend for Chinese tourists to travel abroad. In practice, however, the United States ranks low on the list of Chinese tourist destinations. On the most recent figures available, it received only one-quarter as many Chinese tourists as, for instance, Italy. Of the 49.4 million foreigners admitted to the United States in 2005 on all non-immigrant visas, nearly 300,000 came from China. By comparison 383,400 came from tiny Ireland and about 319,000 from Taiwan, countries that boast respectively 0.3 percent and 1.7 percent of mainland China's population. Clearly there are cultural and economic reasons for the differential. But it is Chinese...
Life After Wartime
Eamonn FingletonApr 16, 2006
In all the public bickering recently between Japan and China, one fact has received remarkably little attention: Japan's continuing refusal to pay compensation to victims of its militarist-era brutality. Ever since Japan surrendered in August 1945, one of the Japanese government's key policy objectives has been to slough off all such compensation claims. Japanese officials seem never to have discussed their argument against compensation publicly, but it would appear to amount to no more than the sotto voce invocation of the old saw that all's fair in love and war. Any defense lawyer taking Japan's case would no doubt argue that there was a distinction in principle between Japan's atrocities and Germany's program of mass extermination of the Jews and other minorities. (For the most part, Japan's atrocities were committed in the general pursuit of war, though this defense can hardly do much to excuse, for instance, the massacre at Nanking in 1937 or the truly gruesome activities of Unit...
Sun Still Rising
For those who claim to understand the global economy, here's a pertinent question: Which East Asian economic powerhouse recently announced the largest current-account surplus in world history? The answer is Japan, although very few readers of the American press are likely to have noticed. Given the continuing media obsession with China, little news about East Asia's other giant economy makes it into print or onto television these days. Yet in most of the ways that matter to current U.S. economic policy, Japan remains far more important than China. To be sure, China is growing very fast. But misinformed American commentary to the contrary, China remains many years away from displacing Japan as Asia's largest economy. Still less is China any sort of benchmark against which a high-wage economy like the United States should be measuring itself. Japan, by contrast, is a useful benchmark. One important fact ignored by the American media is that Japanese industrial wages are now among the...
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Where the Grass Is Blue
Michael Cleveland in Carlsbad
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'I started playing the fiddle at the age of four," says Michael Cleveland. "I went to the Kentucky School for the Blind in Louisville, where they taught the Suzuki method -- this guy from Japan, he invented this method of playing where it is taught mostly by ear." Cleveland, who was recently named the International Bluegrass Music Association's "Fiddle Player of the Year" for the fourth time, will perform with his band at the Carlsbad Village Theatre on Sunday, January 28.
"The first music I remember ever hearing was bluegrass," says Cleveland. According to the bluegrass association, this music has two defining characteristics: instrumentation, in that it is "played on acoustic stringed instruments, including the mandolin, banjo, guitar, fiddle, string bass, and resophonic guitar [which is made of metal and produces a much louder sound]" and vocal style, often including "multipart, high, lonesome harmony." The name was taken from the popular bluegrass band of the late 1930s, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
"My grandparents started taking me to these open-stage events and jam sessions in Indiana," Cleveland recalls. "When I first heard a fiddle, I knew that's what I wanted to play." The only difference between a violin and a fiddle, he says, is the style of music played. "Classical players [on violin] are very precise when it comes to bowing. Every bow has to be in a certain place for the down bow and the up bow -- you can't just play it at random."
In his article "Is That a Violin or a Fiddle?" for stringsmagazine.com, Gordon Swift writes that although fiddle music is sometimes faster than classic violin music, it is "technically less complex." However, the simple AABB structure, he continues, "opens up room for variations and impromptu embellishments; the fiddler's artistry lies in the nuance bowing and subtle variety with which these deceptively simple tunes are spun out."
Cleveland developed his fiddle-playing style by participating in jam sessions. "I went to all the festivals I could possibly go to around school," he remembers. His big break was when he was asked by Pete Warnick, banjo player for the band Hot Rize, to perform at an International Bluegrass Music Association awards show as one of the Bluegrass Youth All Stars. It was 1993 and Cleveland was 13 years old. That same year he was invited to play as country music star Alison Krauss's guest at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Much of Cleveland's inspiration comes from musicians who were before his time. "I'm a big fan of Benny Martin's fiddle playing. Chubby Wise was also a good fiddle player that I listened to a lot. I tried to incorporate a lot of their licks into my playing."
Benny Martin's "licks" include "a lot of fifths and double stops" -- fifths meaning five notes apart on a scale. Double stops are two notes that are played at the same time. Martin was also a "long-bow player," which means he used all of his bow, rather than playing to the middle only, as did most "old-time fiddle players." Cleveland believes Martin and Wise were two of the first long-bow-style fiddle players.
"Chubby didn't play as many double stops, but he had a great tone and when he would play, he could make a note swell -- he could play one note and make it sound full and rich and big as anything."
Cleveland has no other musicians in his family -- his father is a truck driver and his mother is a nurse -- but he attributes his success to his parents and grandparents. They made sure that he was able to attend every festival and jam session in which he was interested.
"I remember my dad telling me one time, 'Okay, we can do this as long as you want to do it, but when you get tired, you can quit.' My classical teacher would say, 'You need to make him practice three or four hours a day.' Of course I would practice, but it was not a consistent daily routine; I'd play for maybe five hours one day and none the next day. My dad would say, 'Well, if he wants to learn, he'll practice.' They were supportive, but if I ever said I was getting tired of it, that's it." -- Barbarella
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, featuring Audie Blaylock Sunday, January 28 5 p.m. Carlsbad Village Theatre 2822 State Street Carlsbad Cost: $15 in advance, $18 at the door Info: Theatre, 760-729-0089; tickets, 858-679-1225 www.carlsbadvillagetheatre.com/Calendar.htm
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When most people hear the phrase “Austin City Limits” they assume someone’s talking about the boundaries of the city of Austin – not two weekends of back-to-back concerts from more than 130 musical acts.
On the weekends of Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12, the 12th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival will be held in Austin’s Zilker Park, and a few of McKinney High’s own will be attending the festivities.
Sophomore Reed Waterman will be visiting the festival on the second weekend.
“While I’m there,” he said, “I’m gonna see Eminem, Lorde, Foster the People, Chvrches, a few no name bands, and Beck because he’s like at everything.”
Waterman also said how this isn’t his first festival.
“About three years ago, I went to Edgefest and I saw Blue October and I saw Rush and Puddle of Mud and it was a lot of fun.”
He also said that there are a few acts that he wished he could’ve gone to while he was there.
“On Sunday,” he said, “I’m gonna miss Fitz and the Tantrums and Pearl Jam.”
Senior Kathy Millar will be attending the festival on the second weekend.
“I am going to see Beck, Foster the People, and…Bleachers,” she said.
She said how she’s excited to go because of her past experience at music festivals.
“The only music festival I’ve been to was Edgefest, last year.”
Scheduling conflicts at the festival have made her miss out on a show.
“Some of the times overlap,” she said, “so I’m going to miss Phantogram.”
Freshman Alexis Pezeshki will be visting the festival on October 10th – 12th.
“I’m really excited to see Childish Gambino, Skrillex, Pearl Jam, and Lorde,” she said.
Pezeshki is also having trouble working out all the shows she wants to see.
“There’s a few conflicts with the time with like Skrillex and I think Outkast, and I guess I will just have to go back and forth because it’ll happen.”
If you’re wondering who you should go see at the festival here’s my top 5 must-see acts:
Lana Del Rey – http://www.aclfestival.com/2014-artist/lana-del-rey/
Jenny Lewis – http://www.aclfestival.com/2014-artist/jenny-lewis/
Beck – http://www.aclfestival.com/2014-artist/beck/
Lucius – http://www.aclfestival.com/2014-artist/lucius/
Bleachers – http://www.aclfestival.com/2014-artist/bleachers/
And be sure to check out the celebratory Primetime Special airing Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. on PBS Arts Festival.
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which song is coming out of your speakers right now?
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Re: which song is coming out of your speakers right now?
Postby folderol » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:49 pm
Barry Gibb's Glastonbury 2017 set.
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Postby jonetsu » Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:32 pm
A bright and "funny" song. Les Brigandes, "Démocratie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ-js5CcX0E
(my quick translation)
In democracy we should not worry
Everything is allowed, there are deals to be done
The elected, they hold us spellbound
And if it's not by the dog, you're eaten by the 'female of the dog'
A hit to the right, business is restarting
A hit to the left, no jobs
When we were young we were told at school
There's nothing more beautiful than democracy
On election day France is spellbound
But the biggest liar remains the champion
His face is put on the newspapers' first page
Since he has bought the medias and the polls
When I'm tired to go for nothing
Now I send my dog to vote
He can guess the candidate
That will be president
By the smell of crap
It's Plato who said
That when democracy
becomes too rotten
then anarchy will follow
We call a tyran
the providential man
who no matter how
has fallen from the sky
There'll be repression and immigration
Always more problems and few solutions
Whatever the trend is
The new president will
Certainly give France the finger
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Postby jonetsu » Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:13 pm
And another bright and funny one, this time published on December 14th 2018.
Sorry no translation. Although bright music and visuals that should to many political figures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuuJXTih2wM
Postby jonetsu » Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:05 pm
The two songs above are no longer available on youtube. The people writing those songs were criticizing strongly the French government, they were increasingly popular (millions of views in total) and so, their youtube account was terminated by youtube.
There is an alternative source from Germany (with German subtitles) :
"Demokratie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCtb6Jr3zw
"Nennt mich Bitte nicht den Präsidenten"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJsLhOhwap0
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Postby davephillips » Mon Feb 25, 2019 3:13 pm
Recently I finished re-reading Mind Models by Roger Reynolds, the original 1975 edition. At the end of the book he presents analyses of a series of pieces that were unique in that day, at least one of which - Penderecki's Threnody - has become a "modern classic". Among the others I was especially captivated by Robert Ashley's "in memoriam... Esteban Gomez". Although I couldn't find Hornpipe by Gordon Mumma, I did find other works of his that I enjoyed. So I've spent a lot of the week listening to music by Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, Salvatore Martirano, and Ben Johnston. Unusual music by some unusual suspects.
Postby Spanner » Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:47 pm
4'33" by John Cage
Postby davephillips » Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:13 pm
Spanner wrote: 4'33" by John Cage
The version for piano or the one for solo guitar ?
Postby Gps » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:35 pm
Wu Tang Clan - A better tomorrow.
Postby Spanner » Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:43 pm
davephillips wrote:
I have never heard the version for solo guitar.
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Postby Michael Willis » Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:01 pm
Snarky Puppy is a jazz/rock fusion band. Half the fun of this album is the videos of them performing the whole thing in a studio; you can tell these folks are really into their music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... 1IA_VeFBoo
Postby jonetsu » Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:28 pm
Yep, Snarky Puppy is pretty good. At least those clips.
People who like Snarky Puppy might like also Jaga Jazzist from Norway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIT8mMdZAU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJPplqqZBqE
Set to animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mr8aauO1EY
A few years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40lqREiOfwg
Do you like big, jazz bands ? Here's Shibusashirazu, an eccentric, colourful, and jazzy, 'big band' from Japan. Often combining live various artistic expressions such as dancers and painters:
Short clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQmNVxm7nTs
Full concert, indoors, 2 hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCfjRu1o7E
Postby jonetsu » Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:15 pm
The Hungarian progressive rock icons After Crying in a live performance with orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpHp1hNY3Lo
Another live one from AC, out of their 25th anniversary concert, in which we also find Ravel's "Bolero" modulated in nice ways, as well as a famous King Crimson riff.
The music starts after the monologue about the life of the soul, at 02:45.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD28qLYJG5E
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Postby MattKingUSA » Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:43 pm
The theme song of Dora the Explorer.
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Postby milo » Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:33 pm
Kit Watkins and Coco Roussel - In Time. Here are three tracks from the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y63Aa3BcdVo
I found this album years ago by accident, at a public library sale. Apparently no one ever checked out the CD, so they put it up for sale. I had never heard of it, or the artists, but I read through the liner notes and saw that they were using midi and synthesizers in the early 80's and decided to give it a listen. When I got it home I was amazed, and it has been one of my favorite albums ever since.
Kit Watkins and Coco Roussel used to play together in a progressive rock band called Happy the Man, and apparently this album was a spin-off from that collaboration. There are some videos online of the two playing live together, but as far as I know "In Time" is their only studio album. It is completely instrumental.
The album is musically and rhythmically complex, as you might expect from two former members of a prog rock band, but it it extremely listenable and at times really beautiful and moving. The sound engineering and synth work is absolutely fantastic, but as good as the album is technically, this is overshadowed by the strength of the composition and virtuosity of the performance. And Roussel plays acoustic drums, which gives the album a really nice, organic feeling despite the fact that all of the other instruments are electronic.
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The Force is Strong with Disney
October 13, 2015 October 13, 2015 andrewnsmith
By: Mark Lindquist
The Forbes.com article “The Force Is With Them: Three Companies That Will Make Big Money From Star Wars”, by Lauren Gensler discusses how the Walt Disney Company, Hasbro, and Electronic Arts will heavily profit from the release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Purchasing LucasFilm in 2012 for $4 billion, Disney acquired the company that created Star Wars, one of the most popular movie brands ever created. Now in 2015, Disney is producing a continuation of the story beginning in December with the release of Episode VII. Star Wars: Episode VII appeals to a wide range of target markets because it is designed for the younger generations, yet provides powerful nostalgia to many adults, parents, and science fiction enthusiasts that grew up with the original Star Wars movies.
Marketing for a movie brand that has had an immensely loyal fan-base for over 30 years globally, Disney had high expectations placed on its shoulders the moment that the dotted line was signed. Disney has been a well-known entertainment juggernaut for decades and has been very successful at selecting marketing and promotion techniques. Partnering with Hasbro toys, Disney launched the campaign “Force Friday” to promote the newest Star Wars toy-line to be sold beginning midnight Friday, September 4th, 2015.
When I thought of the words “Force Friday” I felt the message of a special sales holiday such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday, which differentiated Force Friday as an extraordinary day of the year. Two days prior on September 2nd, Disney created a line of YouTube videos using Star Wars fans and famous internet personalities to introduce the new merchandise for 18 consecutive hours. The online event concluded with a global toy-opening celebration on Force Friday. Star Wars is one of the few brands that receive such profound star treatment on a global scale. Electronic Arts is to further promote Episode VII when Star Wars Battlefront is released on XBOX One and PS4 gaming consoles this November.
With its very effective utilization of integrated marketing communications, Disney focused on a more personal approach utilizing direct and interactive marketing techniques. Using YouTube as its social-media channel, Disney made an effort to create a personalized relationship with the Star Wars fan-base and allowed the fans to self-market the movie while enjoying the new products. The YouTube videos served as a conduit for online direct marketing from the seller to the potential customer, but in this case Star Wars fans communicated directly to fellow Star Wars fans. The videos also inherently produced integrated marketing because the fan-base was allowed to be in control of the content. Disney also made AIDA marketing look easy, when in just 18 hours it went through the process of attention, interest, desire, and action, enticing the Star Wars fan-base.
Star Wars is a perennial powerhouse movie brand, and Disney is already generating millions in profits because it took a personal interactive approach with its loyal fan-base. Beginning in 2015, Hasbro’s sales from Star Wars toys are expected to double to from $200 million to $400 million annually, due to the Force Friday promotion. Electronic Arts is expected to sell a minimum of 9 to 10 million copies of Star Wars Battlefront just weeks prior to the Episode VII release. For Disney, Star Wars is capable of making its owner an additional $500 in revenues from merchandise and Episode VII could possibly reach $1 billion in revenues. According to Disney’s CEO Bob Iger, “the excitement around the film was unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” It is uncertain at this time if the Star Wars movie and merchandise excitement will continue after Episode VII is released, but for now the fans can conclude that the Star Wars movie brand is in very capable hands.
Gensler, Lauren. “The Force Is With Them: Three Companies That Will Make Big Money From Star Wars.” Forbes. Forbes-Investing, 3 Sept. 2015. Web. 04 Oct. 2015.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2015/09/03/the-force-is-with-them-the-3-companies-that-will-make-big-money-from-star-wars/
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13 thoughts on “The Force is Strong with Disney”
Ziwei Feng October 15, 2015 / 10:14 am
Disney’s marketing strategies are always brilliant and creative, and always help their audiences experience the “brand story”in a fresh new way. There another article I read recently from Forbes says that your brand needs a story in order to give your products context, meaning, and emotion. Because a compelling brand story increases revenue and it was inspired by Disney.
I am impressed the way how Disney promote their product. I think using the social media is a lower advertising spending but widely publicity.
Melissa Santos October 16, 2015 / 6:07 pm
I am genuinely impressed with Disney’s tactics in order to promote this new Star Wars film. Not only was it genious, it was also so creative. They mimicked the concept of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” and used these two “internet holidays” to their advantage. Additionally, they even saved on expenses and went through the social media outlet, YouTube. With a strong brand name like Disney backing Star Wars, I think the Star Wars will continue to be extremely successful in the upcoming years. Disney, time and time again, has successfully marketed and pushed all of its projects out with high levels of success globally. Disney marketing is always innovative, and hands on, which entices Disney’s audience, stimulates enthusiasm, and gets people talking. Disney, much like Star Wars, appeals to all generations and all ages. With the Star Wars take off, fortunately for Disney, they are able to market to, reach and appeal to an audience of all ages, and diverse all backgrounds.
veloniss November 12, 2015 / 5:22 pm
I am really happy with the personal approach that Disney is taking, utilizing both direct and interactive marketing techniques. The line of YouTube videos is genius, as it almost doublings as a forum for Star Wars fans across the world to discuss the series and hype up the release of the new film. We’ll have to wait and see what happens in December but I am anticipating great things from Disney with the new Star Wars installment.
Gautham Vamshi Podila November 14, 2015 / 8:15 am
Disney is always creative with its new ideas. The kind of marketing they do no one can do like them, they got a big fan base all over the world, what ever they do is just creating a huge impact on audiences and creating curiosity for their upcoming project STAR WARS. This is an impressive publicity strategy which attracts the Star Wars fans and grab their curiosity towards the film and gain profits.
Patrick Coskren December 3, 2015 / 12:20 am
Disney is one of those companies that contently innovates and inspires. It’s those qualities that make Disney something that can be seen as timeless. As mentioned, with the addition on Star Wars in combination with the many franchise they already own they are creating a customer base to stretch over centuries. Although their main market may be concentrated towards children, the addition on not only Star Wars but Marvel as well shows me Disney is expanding to appeal to its customers over all ages. They have found and targeted these topics that are primarily inhabited by the older generation and reminded them of a brand they knew as children.
Andrew Lak December 3, 2015 / 4:20 am
I feel that Disney, haveing been to the parks, really touches the consumer on personal levels that most companys really strive for. With that said it is almost safe to say when a new file or story is released I feel that consumers are more willing to take notice because of the company behind the scenes. Disney has created such an enourmus fantastic brand that as consumers we know great stories such as Star Wars will never disappoint. Their marketing plan was definatly unique and made fans be more interactive which again is genius. Something different that consumers and Disney fans will remember.
Adam Chadbourne December 5, 2015 / 11:16 pm
Disney has always seemed to be a company that focuses on personal interaction to help market what they have to offer. Years ago, they had a series of commercials where people sent in the reaction of telling their family that they were going to a Disney park, and then showing some of the families actually being at the park. Disney tries to specifically bring fans into the commercial because they want to relate to their target: other fans, and using them for their series of commercials seems to be successful. Also, by using a media site such as YouTube, they have an easy way of getting the commercials to their audience, along with giving the audience the ability to watch the videos on their schedule. Also, fans could share the videos with their friends on other social media sites so Disney could get more awareness of Force Friday. Overall, Disney always seems to have innovative ways of marketing.
Emily Koba December 8, 2015 / 2:54 am
Regardless of the marketing, Star Wars has such a cult-like following that the movie’s success is almost guaranteed. However, it is the job of companies such as Disney and Hasbro to increase awareness beyond the franchise’s core fans. The integration of YouTube was a great mechanism to engage fans while also giving them the power to self-market. When it comes to attention to detail and dedication to consumer experience, I can’t think of a better example than Disney. By them acquiring the company that created Star Wars, they will surely lend the franchise their creativity to ensure the success of Star Wars’ marketing strategy.
Ashleigh Sargent December 9, 2015 / 2:07 pm
I am always very impressed that Disney has been able to maintain its appeal across generations for decades. Even as technology has changed and new trends develop, the Disney parks are still a destination for family vacations and Disney products are sold in stores throughout the world. I think the acquisition of Star Wars is smart move for Disney because it expands their already large consumer base. The Star Wars franchise also benefits from the brand equity of Disney and the innovative, personalized marketing strategies that the company has used throughout its history.
Owen Jarem December 9, 2015 / 3:16 pm
Disney has always been able to appeal to such a wide audience. By teaming up with a movie franchise as large as Star Wars, Disney has definitely set themselves up for major success. I know that Star Wars fans who may be skeptic of this marriage between Star Wars and Disney are still going to see the movie, strictly based off the fact that it is another Star Wars film. In turn, because the movie is being turned out by Disney, I feel that more people who may not have previously been interested in Star Wars will have much more incentive to see the film. People watch Disney movies for the overall experience it provides, and the partnership between these two should make for a box office hit.
Tyler Berube December 9, 2015 / 7:02 pm
For years, Disney has always been the forerunner in marketing success, because of their ability to appeal to people of all ages. Many of us millennials grew up with the classic Disney stories, and our parents certainly with the Star Wars saga. So in essence, Disney is avoiding a niche market of catering only to children (and children at heart), and expanding their clientele to reach an even broader scope. Kudos to Disney!
Brad Daly December 10, 2015 / 2:47 am
Disney has obviously always used their creative expertise to their advantage. This is no different. Their acquisition of the Star Wars brand and everything associated with it will pay off immensely. This could also be one of their biggest moves they have ever made. Not only will they make money from whatever movies they do, but they will make money the toys, licensing, and the additions and attractions to their parks as well. Disney is truly a company for everyone because so many people have grown up with it and has the ability to cater to the older generations and the generations that are yet to come. I believe that this is easily one of the best things that Disney as a company could do.
MIchael Arcidi December 10, 2015 / 6:58 pm
The acquisition of Star Wars a power move for the timeless entertainment firm Disney. The legacy of Star Wars has captivated the minds child and adult alike since it original release in the 70s. What truly makes the Star Wars franchise valuable is this timeless appeal, years since the final move was released merchandise can still be seen at major retailers in the forms of toys and movies. This vast public interest and deep penetration into society has made Star Wars a multi-billion dollar brand, which disney has been wise to capitalize upon. I believe that there is still plenty of money to be made from the franchise, as the possibility for another saga is a viable option for Disney.
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Justice Reinvestment Act seems to be working, but changes proposed on expunging criminal records
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After a comprehensive law overhauled the state’s criminal justice system, Maryland has seen a decline in the state’s prison and jail populations and more streamlined treatment for addicts who are charged with crimes. But advocates want to add to the law to keep inmates from returning behind bars.
Signed into law in 2016, the Justice Reinvestment Act is a criminal justice system reform that focuses on increasing supervision and treatment and decreasing incarceration rates in Maryland prisons.
Described by Sen. Bobby Zirkin, D-Baltimore County, as the “most comprehensive reform” he’s seen while serving in the Senate, the law has significantly reformed many criminal justice policies since becoming fully effective on Oct. 1, 2017. But some of its provisions are up for review by the legislature.
The law aims to keep spots in prison beds open for serious, repeat violent offenders while also enforcing mandatory minimum sentences for high-level drug dealers.
It also places caps on maximum sentences for nonviolent offenders who violate probation on a technicality.
About 700 inmates have been screened for administrative release since the legislation went into effect, with 21%, or 147 inmates, being found eligible. Of those, 60% have been released and the rest are fulfilling their minimum length of stay, according to a report from the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention.
The state’s prison population dropped 1.8% in fiscal year 2018, and the local detention population dropped 10%, according to the report.
Treatment over incarceration
The law also emphasizes treatment over incarceration for individuals struggling with addiction and has sparked a drastic drop in wait times for psychiatric beds.
Between fiscal years 2012 and 2014, placement times averaged around 167 days, dropping to 91 days in fiscal year 2017.
With the Justice Reinvestment Act’s new 21-day deadline adding pressure, average placement times dropped to just 10.6 days for the 788 individuals placed in treatment in fiscal year 2018, according to the report from the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention.
For those returning to life outside the correctional system, the law states that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services must issue a certificate of rehabilitation to specified individuals.
Professional licensing boards then can’t deny occupational licenses or certificates to former convicts solely based on the fact that the individual had previously been convicted of a crime.
But for some individuals, return to life outside is complicated by how the state categorizes and links related charges.
Expungement issues
Under the Justice Reinvestment Act, expungement is permitted after 10 years of good behavior, including any parole, probation or supervision, for misdemeanor charges.
After 15 years of good behavior, expungement is permitted for second degree assault, felony theft, intent to distribute controlled, dangerous substances and burglary in the first, second and third degrees.
Before the law was enacted, only nuisance crimes such as public urination or other activities not normally done in public were eligible for expungement.
Under current state law, a charge is not eligible for expungement if one conviction in a group of convictions is not eligible for expungement.
However, HB13, sponsored by Del. Erek Barron, D-Prince George’s, seeks to repeal that provision, and would authorize a person to file a petition for partial expungement of certain criminal records under certain circumstances.
The bill, previously introduced in the 2017 General Assembly, has been a topic in the legislature since 2012. The Senate version, SB238, is scheduled to be heard in the Senate on Thursday.
Alphonso Smith of Baltimore wrote to lawmakers this year that he has been working at the Maryland Transit Administration as an operations instructor for 20 years. He submitted written testimony that he is an ex-offender, and described the 34 years following his conviction, which he did not detail, as “somewhat successful.”
“There are many limitations and road blocks in place due to prior, non-expungeable convictions preventing any further advancement in law enforcement, child care and many other career paths,” he said Jan. 22 in a written testimony supporting the bill. He added that the bill’s passage would clear a path for himself and others to begin the expungement process and to advance in his career without convictions weighing them down.
Along similar lines, HB19, sponsored by Del. Cheryl Glenn, D-Baltimore, seeks to authorize individuals to file a petition for expungement if the person was convicted of a nonviolent crime.
For former convicts entering the workforce again, employers also don’t often understand the difference between conviction and non-conviction dispositions, said Del. Darryl Barnes, D-Prince George’s, the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.
Non-conviction dispositions are standard police records listing an individual’s involvement with courts or law enforcement, and conviction dispositions are criminal records with formal penalties.
Even if a charge receives a non-criminal disposition, under the Justice Reinvestment Act, if it’s in the same unit of charges as a criminal one, it can’t be expunged.
“Even when they understand these differences, employers often draw negative impressions about job applicants who have been involved with the criminal justice system, regardless of case outcome,” Barnes stated in his written testimony supporting HB13.
Another factor to consider is race, Barnes said. Black residents make up 28% of the state population, yet they comprise over 70% of the people imprisoned.
With higher conviction rates for persons of color, these individuals face exclusion from the job market, challenges finding stable housing, and other cyclical problems affecting communities of color, according to testimony from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland.
Ex-offenders who are employed are much less likely to commit new offenses than those who are unemployed, according to a 2017 Greater Baltimore Committee report that described employment as the “single largest determinant of re-arrest and reconviction.”
Judges, police oppose proposals
The expungement legislation faces opposition from the Maryland Judicial Conference, Maryland Chiefs of Police Association and the Maryland Sheriffs’ Association.
Law enforcement officials generally oppose legislation that increases categories for expungement because it could interfere with access to prior criminal information and be a safety factor for law enforcement personnel, according to written testimony from Chief David Morris of the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association and Sheriff Darren Popkin of the Maryland Sheriffs’ Association.
Technological roadblocks are also a reason for opposition, according to representatives of the Maryland court system.
Online access to case records in Maryland are available through the Maryland Judiciary Case Search website, which currently has no functionality to remove single records at the charge level from the website, according to written testimony from the Maryland Judicial Conference.
Each charge is also assigned an individual number for each case. If a partial expungement is granted for one charge of a two-charge case, the system can’t renumber the charges to appear as if only one charge exists, according to written testimony from a Maryland court system representative.
“A missing numbered charge could raise more questions and red flags, therefore, nullifying the purpose of the expungement,” the Legislative Committee of the Maryland Judicial Council, the main policy advisory body to the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, said in written testimony opposing the bill.
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Dragon Moray Eel
Scientific Name: Enchelycore pardalis
Hawaiian Name: Puhi Kauila
The dragon moray eel has long nasal tubes over its eyes giving the appearance of horns. The jaws are full of sharp needle-like teeth with curved jaws that cannot completely close. Vividly marked with streaks and spots, this unusual and secretive creature feeds primarily on fish and octopus, and like most eels, hunting after dark when its brown markings become less colorful and noticeable providing this predator with an advantage.
This specie of eel is rarely seen in the main Hawaiian Islands and is more common in the northwestern chain. Alternate Hawaiian names are puhi ‘o‘a and puhi ao. The species name translates to “leopard”. They grow to 3 feet in length and are seen as deep as 80 feet.
Within the moray family, males and females are usually separate, according to research. However, some species change sex or are hermaphroditic. Pairs have been witnessed leaving their dens and approaching each other, mouths wide agape, flared dorsal fins and entwining. While still wrapped around each other they may either fall back, or hover over the reef for awhile before pressing abdomens together, releasing gametes and separating. Other species have been observed spawning in groups, some while at the surface.
Morays have no scales or paired fins to hamper them in tight spaces. They have two pairs of nostrils, the first set being tubes at the snout tip. In some eels the second pair is either in tubes or at openings above or behind the eyes. To respire, their necks may swell and rhythmically pulse while holding their mouths open and displaying impressive teeth. Their bodies are muscular and thick culminating in a ribbon-like tail. Morays have a long lasting larval stage, which explains why they are well represented in Hawai‘i, with 42 species, making them more numerous than any other Indo-Pacific location. This could be possibly due to the lack of native shallow water groupers and snappers, both of which are known to compete with them.
Worldwide there are 200 known species.
*Due to the constant rotation of animals back to the ocean, the presence of any specific animal cannot be guaranteed.
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Home News VODAFONE UK TEAMS UP WITH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL COUNCILS (NALC) AND COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE TO ENCOURAGE RURAL OPEN SURE SIGNAL APPLICATIONS
VODAFONE UK TEAMS UP WITH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL COUNCILS (NALC) AND COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE TO ENCOURAGE RURAL OPEN SURE SIGNAL APPLICATIONS
Vodafone UK has teamed up with the National Association of Local Councils and Countryside Alliance to encourage more communities to apply to its Rural Open Sure Signal programme
The national programme gives 100 rural communities across the UK the opportunity to have mobile coverage for the first time
Applications close on 14 October, 2014
Vodafone UK is spending more than £1 billion on its network and services this year
Vodafone UK has received the support of the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), the national representative body for 9,000 parish and town councils in England and 80,000 councillors responding to the needs to local people, and Countryside Alliance, the major British campaigning organisation on rural issues, for its Rural Open Sure Signal Programme. The programme is a community led initiative, which is giving 100 rural communities, in poor mobile coverage locations across the UK, the opportunity to receive 3G mobile access.
Vodafone UK is encouraging small businesses and community councils to actively engage with their local villages to apply for the installation of Vodafone’s innovative Open Sure Signal technology. The national programme closes for applications on 14th October 2014.
Using ‘open femto’ technology, Vodafone Open Sure Signal provides a Vodafone 3G signal in areas which traditional mobile coverage has been unable to reach. About the size of a domestic broadband box and in a range of colours, the units use existing broadband services to deliver the Vodafone 3G mobile signal. The units can be installed on any number of buildings including village halls, pubs, shops and homes across the community to ensure widespread mobile coverage.
The benefits of mobile connectivity in rural communities are enormous – from all important calls to family and friends to local enterprises having mobile signal to help make their businesses work better. Vodafone’s initial Rural Open Sure Signal trial has seen the connection of 12 rural communities across the UK, from Walls in the Shetland Islands to Newton St Cyres in Devon. Communities connected so far have been enjoying social media using mobile internet whilst businesses, from GPs to a mussel farmer, now have mobile signal to help make their businesses work better.
Jeroen Hoencamp, Vodafone UK Chief Executive Officer, said: “The Vodafone Rural Open Sure Signal programme has received a tremendously positive response since its launch in July 2014. However, now that the summer holidays are behind us we are keen for more communities across the UK to get involved and I am very pleased that the NALC and the Countryside Alliance are supporting our major programme to improve rural mobile coverage. We are now three weeks away from the closing date and I encourage those who have not yet put in their applications to take up this opportunity to bring mobile access to communities in their local village.”
Cllr Ken Browse, Chairman of the National Association of Local Councils said: “We see fast broadband access as an essential need for the social and economic well-being of neighbourhoods in rural areas as well as urban areas. So we support Vodafone’s Rural Open Sure Signal programme and encourage local councils and communities to commit to citizen-led action by entering this scheme, which could help eventually to protect local assets and services, and deliver responsive services to meet the needs of communities.”
Sarah Lee, Head of Policy for the Countryside Alliance commented: “The importance of good mobile phone and broadband coverage to those who live and work in rural areas cannot be over emphasised. Mobile phones are an essential part of modern life, but many rural businesses and families cannot be sure that they will be able to access their network when they need it most. Vodafone Rural Open Sure Signal is a good example of the innovative systems that can fill in reception gaps in the more remote and difficult to reach areas.”
As well as using Rural Open Sure Signal to plug 100 rural “not-spots”, Vodafone is spending more than £1 billion on its network and services across the country this year, including extending its 4G coverage to 319 cities and towns and thousands of smaller communities across the UK. Vodafone have pledged to provide coverage using 2G, 3G or 4G services to 98% of the UK population.
Applications for the Rural Open Sure Signal programme close on 14 October 2014 with the first communities to be connected by the end of the year. For more information on the programme and to see how Cranborne in Dorset has been transformed visit www.vodafone.co.uk/rural
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Settlers ‘wanted’
Michael Jansen
At long last the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has prepared a list of 50 names of Israeli extremists it wants the Israeli government to detain. Among them are Naom Arnon, the spokesman for Jewish settlers in Hebron, Noam Federman, a leader of the banned Kach movement, and Baruch Marzel, a right-wing militant. Better late than never.
The Palestinians claim they have evidence connecting the men with settler terrorist activities. If Israel does not act, then it will be “held responsible” for their fate, is the attitude taken by Palestinian security chiefs.
Israeli intelligence has warned the men listed and other prominent settler figures that they could be targeted by Palestinian fighters in precisely the same way Palestinian activists are eliminated by Israel. Could the Palestinians be learning from Israel’s evil example?
But PNA “hits” on killer settlers are unlikely to solve the problems of settler extremism and settler terrorism against Palestinians. This is because the settlers, although deeply unpopular with most ordinary Israelis, are honoured members of the Israeli politico-military establishment. They are planted in communities in occupied Palestinian land by the Israeli government which grants them tax breaks, subsidies and other inducements to “pioneer” in the “wild” West Bank and the even “wilder” Gaza Strip. Settlers are given military training and are armed by the Israeli army which also assigns thousands of soldiers to protect the settlers. Many settlers are soldiers or members of various Israeli security agencies operating in the occupied territories. Since settlers belong to the 15-odd party factions in the Knesset and take part in both Likud and Labour coalition governments, as a bloc, they wield considerable political clout, particularly with small extreme right-wing groupings.
Over the years the settlers have become a state within a state: the manifestation of the Jewish state within the Palestinian-state-to-be. And their supporters within Israel “proper” have become a Trojan horse for the extremists amongst the settlers.
Since the Intifada erupted 10 months ago, the settlers have been encouraged by the government to establish their own security arrangements: they have set up regional headquarters and communications networks, armed units man roadblocks and patrol the perimeters of their colonies and roads frequented by settlers and the so-called “settler underground” is fielding its own hit squads.
It is not surprising, therefore, that Shin Bet, Israel’s highly rated internal intelligence agency, has, so far, “failed” to come up with the names of the settlers who killed three members of the Palestinian Tmeizi family. The PNA claims it knows who the culprits are. Will it really follow Israel’s example and mount revenge attacks against them?
Israel will never exert the “100 per cent effort” to thwart “terrorism” it demands of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. If Israel did make the “100 per cent effort” needed, the resurgent “Jewish terror underground” would have been rounded up and put in prison or preventive detention long ago.
Israel will never act decisively against settlers because all Israelis are “settlers” in fact and at heart. Israeli colonists have systematically attacked Palestinians and appropriated their property since the Zionist colonisation of Palestine became the policy of Britain after World War I. Today’s “Jewish terrorist underground” is nothing but an extension of the “night squads” trained by the British and of the right-wing terrorist groups founded by Menachem Begin and Yitzak Shamir, the first two Likud prime ministers.
Post-state Jewish settler “terrorism” surfaced in 1980. Two West Bank mayors, Karim Khalaf and Bassam Shakaa, were seriously injured by bombs planted by the underground. Half a dozen suspects from the militant Gush Emunim movement were investigated, but no arrests were made. There was no full-scale inquiry. An officer attached to Israel’s military administration was reportedly implicated in the underground: Shin Bet arranged a cover-up. Today the son of a founder of Gush Emunim, Tzahi Hanegbi, is a minister in the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
While the most violent right-wing settler movement, Kach, has been banned in Israel, its members are heavily represented amongst the 400 Jewish settlers at the centre of the West Bank town of Hebron and in the nearby hilltop settlement of Kiryat Arba. While enjoying police and army protection, settler extremists harry and harass Palestinians living and working in the city centre. Baruch Goldstein, the settler physician who murdered 29 Palestinians in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in 1994, was a member of Kach, which calls for the expulsion of all Palestinians from “Greater Israel”. Kach operates freely and collects funds for settlements in the US, leader of the campaign against “international terrorism”.
The unit of the organised “Jewish terrorist underground” which killed the Tmeizis is known as the “Halhoul Brigade”, named for the Palestinian village adjacent to Hebron. Units of the new “terrorist underground” carried out at least three shooting attacks against Palestinians prior to the assault on the Tmeizi family. The movement considers “revenge” for Palestinian assaults on Jews to be “holy” and blames the Israeli authorities for not mounting a major military offensive against the Palestinians with the aim of wiping out all resistance to the occupation.
In spite of the fact that a considerable amount of information has been made public about the terrorists a few days before the Tmeizi shooting, Israel’s security boss, Avi Dichter, told a Knesset committee that the “underground” had not yet reached the level of organisation of the early 80s. According to Palestinian human rights monitors, seven Palestinian civilians were killed by settlers between October 2000 and March 2001; as many have died since then. No one has been detained or charged in connection with these murders. On the rare occasion when settler murderers are apprehended and tried, they serve minimal sentences. Moshe Levinger, the militant rabbi who initiated settlement activity in Hebron, served a sentence of a few months for shooting a Palestinian child standing in the door of a shop.
Israeli settlers model themselves on the first East European colonists who “pioneered” in Palestine. Settler militants believe they are fighting an ongoing “war of independence”. Settlers, who missed out on these experiences see themselves as “heroes”, recreating the great days of the founding of the state. The Israeli politico-military establishment, which is still committed to the “Greater Israel” project, exploit the illusions of the settlers to help achieve this objective.
Mr. Michael Jansen contributed this article to the Jordan Times.
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BIOFUEL AIRCRAFT: INDIA DEVELOPMENT IN AVIATION INDUSTRY
For the first time, India has achieved a new position in aviation industry by flying aircraft from biofuel. Spice jet successfully tested this flight between Bombayardi Q-400 from Dehradun to Delhi. Along with this, India joined the category of those countries, which have flown a plane with biofuel. Its development has been going on for more than a decade but it is expected to accelerate after the trial. Developed countries such as Canada, Australia and America have done so, but in developing countries, India has become the first country to achieve this achievement. Let’s say that earlier this year; the world’s first biofuel flight flew to Melbourne from Los Angeles.
Spice Jet said that he successfully completed the successful flight of Flight from Biofuel. The fuel used for this flight was a mixture of 75 percent aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and 25 percent of biofuel. In the statement in the airline, the advantage of using biofuel compared to ATF is that it reduces carbon emissions as well as fuel efficiency increases. Spice Jet said that this fuel made from jatropha crop has been developed by the CSIR-Bhatia Petroleum Institute, Dehradun. About 20 people boarded the test flight. These included the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Spice Jet officials. An airline official said that the flight was about 25 minutes.
Spice Jet Chairman and Managing Director Ajay Singh said that the cost of bio-jet fuel is low and at the same time it significantly reduces the carbon emissions. He said, ‘In this, our dependence on each flight on our conventional aircraft fuel can be reduced by around 50 percent. This will also reduce the rental. Bio Jet Fuel is accredited by the American Standard Testing System (ASTM) and it meets the standards of commercial Pratt & Whitney and Bombardier commercial applications.
What will be the advantage of biofuel?
Biofuel is made from vegetable oils, recycled grease, moss, animal fat etc. It can be used instead of fossil fuels. In fact, the Global Association, named by the airlines International Air Transport Association (IATA), has targeted that the carbon generated from their industry will be reduced by 50 percent by 2050. According to an estimate, the carbon emitted in the aviation area can be reduced by 80 percent due to the use of biofuel.
What is the plan of India?
India wants to reduce its dependence on oil imports. PM Modi also recently released the ‘National Policy for Biofuel 2018’. It aims to increase the production of ethanol by 3 times in the next 4 years. If this happens then the oil imports can be saved up to Rs 12,000 crore.
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Photo of police at the Pittsburgh G20 summit by Cory Cousins
Why automated journalism will save lives
Sep 9, 2014 · 6 min read
The case for a less human process
“You know who dies in the most population-dense areas? Black men. You know who dies in the least population dense areas? Mentally ill men. It’s not to say there aren’t dangerous and desperate criminals killed across the line. But African-Americans and the mentally ill people make up a huge percentage of people killed by police.”
How might the discourse surrounding police brutality differ if we had access to comprehensive historical data and statistics, instead of just perceptions?
Several weeks ago, D. Brian Burghart, editor of the Reno News & Review in Reno, NV, wrote about his two-year old attempt to compile a database of fatal encounters with police. He set out in response to the total non-existence of any comprehensive public data about killings by police in the United States, a fact he believes to be intentional.
It’s sadly easy to see why governments might hide this information — there’s little incentive to collect and report this data beyond a 1994 law that has been almost completely ignored (there was one report issued in 2001).
Burghart argues, however, that journalists have played a role in this problem too, by failing to report on police use of force and by letting the use of force, especially against minorities, seem normal. One of the key functions of journalism is agenda setting, what is essentially public conversation shaping. Just because the problem has existed for a while doesn’t mean it’s any less of a problem, and it’s journalists who are in place to remind us that these things are still happening, not somewhere else but down the street, in our own neighborhoods. Sadly, this doesn’t happen nearly often enough.
There have been a number of high-profile areas around the country where this problem has actually come to light — Albuquerque, NM and Ferguson, MO are obvious examples — but it doesn’t seem that there’s been any change in the way these areas are policed even once the use of force is in the spotlight. Albuquerque has been in the news for use of force more than once; first in 2011 when the Police Executive Research Forum issued a study regarding use of force and again this year when the Albuquerque Police Department shot and killed a homeless man for illegal camping. The Department of Justice issued a report after the incident stating that the APD’s use of excessive force is “a pattern…not isolated or sporadic.”
What’s shocking about Albuquerque is that after each time the police continued to use excessive force, sometimes the same week. The status quo of little oversight and non-existent data is simply not working. But this raises another question—why did we have to wait for the issuance of a government report to learn this? I’m confident that many of these findings would have all but jumped out of the data.
The root of the problem is that these incidents are not well documented by police departments themselves, but matters are compounded by a lack of good reporting on the issue. Nearly every daily paper has a crime beat reporter, but few seem to be tracking statistics and fewer still track them in any centralized repository.
The APD’s use of excessive force is “a pattern…not isolated or sporadic.”
Here’s where I think part of the problem lies — the current system of police reporting relies too much on human effort, the effort of crime reporters getting police reports and deciding what’s newsworthy. I think that the real story, the trends and aggregate statistics, are hidden in the individual reports and just aren’t visible when all we get is singular stories about incidents. There’s a darker side to this as well—crime reporters often can’t say everything they want to for fear of damaging their professional relationship with police departments.
What’s more, I think that a lot of bias and racism can hide in decisions about what is newsworthy. But what if we had software doing the grunt work of this job instead of reporters and editors? The hard truths of the American law enforcement system might be more obvious.
One change in the legal process could enable this on a large scale — a requirement that police departments release daily briefs in a machine-readable format.
The same reasoning can be applied to all kinds of local data, from traffic data to road maintenance spending to community events. The data is already there, it just needs to be machine readable.
I think it’s important that this change happen from the bottom up—at the level of local government and police—for a number of reasons. One is that raw, local data is simply more transparent. But more importantly, local municipalities can simply act faster and get more done than state and national governments can.
The specifics of the format don’t matter at all, only that software can ingest the data and do much of the legwork of reporting automatically, sans human intervention. At minimum the software should be simply logging and tracking data, however there’s no reason at least a preliminary story couldn’t be generated for any offense more serious than, say, a traffic violation.
This kind of robot journalism is already becoming commonplace in other, more mundane beats. In L.A., a story is published automatically every time there’s an earthquake above a given magnitude. The same thing has been done successfully with business reporting and local sports, even fantasy sports. Kevin Roose wrote an article for New York Magazine about this phenomenon arguing emphatically that robot journalism is a good thing for journalists and readers alike , and I place myself squarely in the pro-robot (probot?) camp as well.
However, Roose barely touches on a deeper reason that robot reporting will benefit us all. Journalism has only ever incidentally been about the hard work of fact gathering — the point of it all has always been the distinctly human labor of sense making and story telling, and about facilitation — of the flow of information and of the public conversation. The more we can offload aspects of the process of journalism onto machines the more journalists can focus on the interesting, truly creative part and the more we can eliminate the human bias that keeps some of the stories from surfacing.
In short, we ought be using software to amplify journalists’ ability to affect social change.
All the attempts at automation in journalism so far have centered on the conversion of structured data into small, human-readable reports. The next step is to think about ways to automate the gathering and synthesis of information for deeper story telling.
I suspect that there’s a whole class of issues that could, at least in part, be covered by machines, and I suspect that we’d all be better off if they were. Issues of crime, government spending and the environment all come to mind. It’s not unimaginable to have software scraping public spending records looking for patterns indicative of corruption or pulling publicly available oil spill reports and keeping track of which companies are the worst offenders. None of this is infringing on any meaningful human activity, only the grunt work that enables it.
A lot of what I’m suggesting is technologically feasible right now, today, given enough resources. However, I don’t think it will truly enter the mainstream until a lot more data is released in machine-readable formats. PDF reports ought to be considered insufficient, and thankfully, increasingly they are.
This brings us back to the original question — how might the discussion be different if we had comprehensive data about police use of force? I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that, at least indirectly, data could and would savelives. If the facts of police brutality had been staring us in the face all along, then I’d like to think that we would have been forced to have this conversation long ago, and a continuous stream of new data would force us to keep having the conversation until police stop killing so many black men and mentally ill people.
The beauty of an approach that focuses on machine-readable data at the lowest levels of government, I think, is that it will most enable change to happen from the ground up, within communities.
It’s time to let the machines take over; we’ll all be better off for it.
Software Engineer at Pulselocker. Former journalism student, news hacker, internet foolosopher. http://www.scottogle.net
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Mike Gray October 10, 2017 October 12, 2017 film, horror
One of the best parts of October after you get too old to dress up for Halloween (unless you feel that you’re never too old to dress up, in which case, good for you!) is getting into the spirit of the season by watching horror movies. Whether you’re a through-and-through aficionado that could watch a gory flick on Christmas Day or only watch scary fare at the witching hour on All Hallow’s Eve, October is a month made to settle in and watch a good horror movie.
And thanks to the futuristic world we now live in, it’s never been easier to watch a violent, explicit film made to spook the bejesus out of you. Instead of travelling into that part of the video store that was filled with misshapen box art that was three-dimensional or for some other reason three sizes larger than a normal video box, or else whose primary color scheme was black and featured disturbing artwork that leaned into just how gruesome the film it was advertising is, now it’s just neatly arranged columns and rows under a genre label on your preferred streaming service.
Of course, actually picking a movie is still something we all struggle with. In a world with so many options to choose from, it can feel like there are just too many options to pick your evening’s entertainment. Here at Me Like Movies, we’re big fans of the horror genre (in fact, this site is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month, having started as a horror movie recap blog) and are more than happy to give you suggestions of the best horror movies streaming this month on the “Big Three” streaming services–Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. So scroll down (if you dare!) and check out our favorites on offer for the month of October 2017 to give you a fright–or maybe just turn your stomach a little bit.
Hellraiser & Hellbound: Hellraiser 2: One of the first articles ever written for Me Like Movies was a recap of the original Hellraiser, and for good reason: it’s an excellent horror flick. Opening with a degenerate named Frank who opened the door to an alternate dimension, which led to the decimation of his body, years pass and his brother Larry moves into the supposedly abandoned home in which Frank once lived. Along with Larry’s new wife Julia and daughter Kirsty, Frank–who had an affair with Julia years earlier–unexpectedly regains corporeal form in the room he died due to some spilled blood. He plots with Julia to murder men so he can use their flesh to reconstitute completely. Meanwhile, Kirsty discovers the puzzlebox that originally summoned the otherworldly hellish beings–the Cenobites–in the first place, finding herself similarly tormented while trying to figure out a way out of her predicament.
Directed by Clive Barker, this film is based on a novella he wrote and was his directorial debut–and it’s a stunner. Visually explicit and even iconic in the creation of the Cenobites, Hellraiser is a horror fan’s horror flick. Its equally top-notch sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 is also streaming on Netflix this month, which makes for a great double feature option that offers “pain and pleasure, indivisible” one dark and stormy night this month.
V/H/S & V/H/S 2: Another great double feature option for a spooky evening is V/H/S and V/H/S 2, two anthology movies whose framing device is that the short films that comprise its running time are filmed “real life” scenarios that were taped on VHS and watched by some hapless character, who are themselves in a fair amount of danger. Alternately fun, interesting, and at times truly horrifying, the V/H/S series features a solid high-concept framing device with a nice variety of horror shorts within each film.
The ABCs of Death: Yet another anthology horror series, The ABCs of Death pushes the anthology concept even further, with a full 26 horror shorts that make up its running time, each one made by a different director. Filled with a great amount of variety, fun, and the unexpected (and often gruesome), The ABCs of Death is for the horror fan that’s looking for something quite different this Halloween. They may not all be gems, but if you don’t like the short film you’re watching, just wait a few minutes: another new one will be following it directly.
Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell: Does any other genre produce better trailers than the horror genre? Tantalizing, bizarre, and tinged with gore and hinting at even more to come in the main feature, horror trailers are sometimes even better than the actual movie–mostly because they get right to the point (and the scary part) without having to wade through a plodding movie. Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell is just one long collection of horror movie trailers, featuring gory and forgotten trailers from grindhouse and exploitation horror films of the past. With a wraparound frame of a deranged projectionist showing a theater full of zombies his horror trailer collection, Bloody Disgusting has recommended this a perfect feature “ to have running in the background of your next Halloween party.” So keep this one in mind for just that purpose this year!
Donnie Darko: Richard Kelly is a filmmaker who has (so far) only made three films before seemingly retiring forever from making movies. Which is unfortunate, since his work–although wildly uneven (The Box) or outright inexplicable (Southland Tales) showed a real talent for creating indelible, memorable, and mysterious narratives. Case in point is his first film, Donnie Darko, which quickly became a midnight movie and a cult favorite.
Following the increasingly strange experiences of the eponymous main character (played by Jake Gyllanhaal), a high school student who seems to suffer from some psychological issues but may also have some undefined superpowers due to time travel (or tempting fate, or…well, it’s unclear), Donnie Darko is an entertaining, spooky, and fascinating sci-fi thriller dramedy. Set in the 1980s around Halloween, it’s also a perfect movie that captures the feel of the first blush of autumn and the tingly nervousness of adolescence.
Pontypool: Perhaps the most truly unnerving horror film streaming on Netflix, Pontypool is about a radio DJ who finds himself at ground zero of some unknown event that’s affecting people, turning them into mindless, violent shells of their former selves. As he raps along on-air as the situation grows increasingly out of control, he also discovers that it’s some sort of virus that’s spreading via language. This low-budget indie packs a punch, set in mostly one location and driven by dialogue and the unseen horrors occurring outside. But it’s not a film that scares you with gore or violence: it gets you with its concept and how it plays on the increasing paranoia of the viewer as they slowly begin to realize just how far (and how bad) the situation has become. A must-see this Halloween season.
From Dusk Till Dawn: Two fugitive bank-robbing brothers take a family hostage while trying to get across the Mexican border to freedom. They stop at a bar to rest for a while, only to discover that it’s a vampire bar. From there, they have to survive until dawn while battling against a horde of vampires, with the film never shying away from detailing the gore and dismemberment such a survival gambit would entail. Gritty, violent, and filled with more lurid sleaze than most horror films from the 1990s, it should come no surprise that the screenplay was written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez in a sort of precursor to their Grindhouse team-up. It’s often completely nuts and completely over-the-top–which makes it a perfect movie to watch in this, the most insane popular holiday celebrated in the Western world.
High Tension: French horror in the 21st century has stepped up its game, entering a new level of brutality and graphic violence that few would have expected from the same country that brought us the whimsy of Jacques Tati and haute cuisine. 2003’s High Tension has built a reputation since its release for its explicit violence and NC-17 rating, for which it deserves. Alex and Marie travel to Alex’s parents’ house for the weekend, only to be awoken that night by an intruder who murders Alex’s family and chains and abducts Alex. Marie gives chase, trying to find a way to save her friend–but only after a long, ultra-violent battle to survive is the disturbing truth revealed.
High Tension is a horror film that justly deserves its notoriety for being a bloody, savage horror film, but its twist ending is what makes the film. If you’ve never seen this film before, please do not look up any more information before watching it. Not only is it more satisfying not knowing the ending but it makes the film ultimately all the more disturbing.
Hostel & Hostel 2: Hostel did not invent the so-called “torture porn” subgenre, but it sure did popularize it in the US. With a bare-bones story that follows a group of young American tourists who take a recommendation in Amsterdam to visit a hostel in Slovakia that is apparently filled with beautiful–and available–young women. They can’t believe their luck when it turns out to be true, but if it sounds too good to be true…
Indeed, young men begin disappearing from the hostel until only one is left. As he tries to leave, however, he is tricked by two women his friends had been partying with just a few nights before and is taken to what appears to be a complex where wealthy businessmen pay large sums of money to mutilate and murder human beings. Just as his friends were, the young man is a new acquisition of this enterprise, and he’s about to fight through hell on earth to try and escape.
Hostel is not a horror film for the squeamish–or the relatively well-adjusted. Instead, it’s an unrelenting barrage of graphic torture scenes being applied to the innocent by the sadistic for their shallow pleasures. Kind of sounds like horror films in general, doesn’t it? This film put director Eli Roth on the map and inspired a wave of copycats in its wake, but none as truly unnerving as the original. The sequel–which features more of the same- is also available on Hulu this month for you to have one long, disquieting night watching people torturing other people.
Pet Sematary: One of the most horrifying films ever made, Pet Sematary still hasn’t really ever found a successor to its unbelievably dark and disturbing story. Based on a novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows the increasing tragedies and disturbances that befall a doctor after his family moves to rural Maine. After being told of the mysterious pet cemetery that local legend says can bring beings back from the dead, he encounters a jogger who is gravely injured in a car accident, warning the doctor of the cemetery before dying. Soon after, his son dies after being hit by a truck (which is monstrously depicted on-screen), and the doctor–stricken with grief–begins considering using the pet cemetery to bring his son back. Despite warnings from his elderly neighbor, who says that those who come back aren’t right anymore, and that “sometimes, dead is better,” the doctor digs up his son’s body and buries it in the pet cemetery. However, what comes back isn’t quite the boy he remembers…
Chilling, disturbing, and surprisingly graphic considering it involves a dead child, Pet Sematary is one of those movies that fucks you up for life after watching it. But if that’s what you’re looking for in a horror film (and really, aren’t we all?), then please do watch Pet Sematary. Also available on Amazon Prime.
Carrie: A classic horror movie, and adapted from Stephen King’s book of the same name, Carrie is a familiar enough film among horror fans: an isolated young woman, who’s been traumatized by her overbearing religious zealot mother and an outcast at school, also finds that she has powerful psychic powers. Invited to the prom as part of a cruel joke from a group of popular kids, she’s humiliated in front of the school when she’s named prom queen. So she does what so many of us wished we could have done at one point or another in our high school days and kills every single person in the school in a horrific manner by unleashing her telekinetic powers.
Directed by Brian de Palma, Carrie was the first film adapted from a Stephen King story and remains one of the best among them. A gigantic hit upon release and recognized as one of the best horror movies ever made, for those who have never seen it before–or haven’t seen it in a while–it’s a worthwhile horror film that holds up even over 40 years since its release.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: Sure, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a stone-cold classic, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a whole lot of fun and even more nuts than the first. Leatherface and the rest of the family are back in action and have expanded their barbeque operations (whose meat source shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody who’s seen the first film). Buckets of blood and plenty of mutilations follow as Lt. “Lefty” Enright (Dennis Hopper), the uncle of Sally and Franklin from the first film, decides to take down the cannibal clan from the Lone Star state.
Unlike the first film, which was light on gore, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 decides to go all-in with the viscera and graphic eviscerations to great effect. With Hooper’s signature sly satire in play, this time commenting on 80s excess, and a game performance by Hopper, the kind of brutal violence that would become the franchise’s signature truly started with this, a worthy sequel to a great American horror classic.
The Witch: The Witch (or The VVitch) is a truly unique horror film that has both found its fans and detractors. Even this humble writer disliked the film the first time he watched it, only to find an appreciation for it upon viewing it a second time. Set in the 17th century, a Puritan family goes into self-exile after the father has a disagreement with an interpretation of the New Testament with the village they inhabit. Moving to a remote farm in the seemingly desolate woods, the family struggles to survive and stay together as a stable unit during trying times. Then one day, the baby of the family disappears during a game of peek-a-boo with the daughter of the family. From there, the situation goes from bad to worse as the son falls ill after an encounter with a witch in the forest and the twins claim to speak to the billy goat. Events spiral out of control, with the daughter accused of being a witch and a mysterious ending that leaves the viewer questioning what exactly they had just watched.
Unique in taking place in the now-distant past and with the dialogue spoken in the argot of the time, the clothing, housing, farming, and technology period-appropriate, and even being filmed only with natural light and candlelight, The Witch is a horror film unlike you’ve ever seen before. Now, whether or not you like the film–or even think of it as a “good” horror film–is left open to your own interpretation.
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Towards a Purposeful Accident: Elements of Performance Art via The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes
Jason E. Bowman with Anthony Howell
Jason E. Bowman is an artist with a curatorial practice. He is MFA Fine Art Programme Leader at the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. He was a co-researcher on the Swedish Research Council funded project Trust and Unfolding Dialogue (with Principal Investigator Esther Shalev-Gerz), for which he edited the volume, Esther Shalev-Gerz: The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainty and Unfolding Dialogues (Stockholm: Art and Theory, 2013). He curated the inaugural European career survey of the practice of Yvonne Rainer in live dance, film, teach-ins and public readings (Tramway, Glasgow, 2010) and in 2017 will curate a survey of the work of the Theatre of Mistakes in live performance, artefact and document at Raven Row, London. He is currently Principal Researcher (with co-researchers Mick Wilson and Julie Crawshaw) on Stretched, a three-year long enquiry into artist-led cultures, also funded by the Swedish Research Council.
A former dancer with the Royal Ballet, Anthony Howell was an editor of Wallpaper Magazine and founder of The Theatre of Mistakes, which performed at the Paris Biennale, the Theater for the New City and the Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. He is editor of Grey Suit: Video for Art and Literature. His solo performances have been seen at the Hayward Gallery and at the Sydney Biennale. He teaches Tango for Balance—for people with Parkinson’s Disease. His book The Analysis of Performance Art was published by Routledge in 1999. He is also a poet whose first collection, Inside the Castle, was published in 1969. His novel In the Company of Others was published by Marion Boyars in 1986. His articles on visual art, dance, performance and poetry have appeared in many publications. He is a contributing editor of the Fortnightly Review.
This writing and these images describe an ongoing curatorial enquiry by artist and curator Jason E. Bowman with the artist group The Theatre of Mistakes, founded in London in 1974 by writer, dancer and performer Anthony Howell. For the 2015 PARSE conference on Time, Bowman invited Howell to deliver a workshop based on the Theatre of Mistakes’ self-published volume Elements of Performance Art (1976), co-authored by Howell and Fiona Templeton. Practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds gathered to reconstruct, then perform games-based and instructional exercises originally distilled by the company between 1974 and 1976.
Bowman’s writing considers the temporalities processed when curating the works and practices of a disbanded performance collective. The still images are of a performance at the conference derived from the workshop and the entire videoed event is available via the online publication.
Working without a watch and without a tape-measure, the performance artist may come to rely on a sense of “performance time”—where yards are expressed by strides and feet by paces, where minutes are expressed by counts and, where time and space are expressed by any means that may be devised. 1
Having moved home in 2006 I unpacked books that had been in storage. I re-discovered a slim, A5 format, comb-bound publication with silver embossed text on black card covers entitled Elements of Performance Art by Anthony Howell and Fiona Templeton. 2 Consequently a curatorial enquiry began on how to research, conceptualise and realise a survey of the practices and artworks (of which this publication is an early exemplar) of a disbanded interdisciplinary art collective, active from their base in London and internationally from 1974 until 1981, known initially as The Ting, then subsequently as The Ting: Theatre of Mistakes, and finally as The Theatre of Mistakes.
Writer and dancer Anthony Howell instigated The Ting in 1971 through an initial set of interdisciplinary experiments, which by 1974 had become The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes, a collaborative itinerant platform for co-devising performances from a series of instructions and game-based exercises co-authored at advertised open sessions between 1974 and 1976. Contributions (“soundings”) were recorded in written notes in what is referred to as The Gymnasium. In 1975 core members Anthony Howell, Fiona Templeton, Michael Greenall and Patricia Murphy performed The Street, which drew from the exercises of The Gymnasium and was structured by additive triggering, which would become an implicit method also in future works. 3
In 1976 The Soundings logged in The Gymnasium were refined, edited and introduced by Howell and Templeton and self-published by The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes as Elements of Performance Art in an initial edition of 60 (1976) and in a revised edition of 800 (1977). Designed as an instructional manual with an introductory manifesto, Elements of Performance Art explicates The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes’ ethos and methods of production against six convergent elements: conditions, body, aural, time/space, equipment and manifestation, with a total of 42 exercises to be structured via chance, allowing for multiple formations and focalised structures. From 1976 the collective became less concerned with instigating open events and happenings, and thus began a further five years of collaborative works devised by a core membership of Michael Greenall, Anthony Howell, Glenys Johnson, Miranda Payne, Peter Stickland and Fiona Templeton towards formalist performances that were highly structured by internalised systems and rules yet incorporated the potential for mishaps and slip-ups. This included what is seen to be their signature performance work, Going (1977), in which each performer seeks to be the others through a complex structuring of aural mimicry and physical mirroring.
The multiple processes and forms of research conducted to date have included locating both consistent members and sporadic affiliates of the collective in order to gain a multi-perspectival narration, but also access to personal and institutional records. Unlike many of their peers working in performance at that time, this collective laid great emphasis on documentation and kept exhaustive records, which has led to the cataloguing of almost 4,000 pieces of ephemera, such as correspondence between the members of the collective, institutions, curators, funding bodies and other artists and practitioners; drafts of and notations on prefatory manifestos, scripts and instructions for works; promotional materials and reviews; diagrams for performances outlining the temporal-spatial dynamics of durational works; video, audio and photographic documentation and objects, props and costumes. 4
This material—possibly less of an archive and more a collection—describes the collective’s organisational impulses and its incremental decision-making procedures both in terms of actual production and also preparation, including years of peer-working and intermittent experimentation at a rural farm in Hampshire, and through a cultural milieu in which it interfaced with artist-led spaces, such as The Dairy (also the home of London Film-makers’ Co-op), Artslab and studio complexes, and institutional frameworks, including Arts Council and galleries such as the Serpentine, the Hayward and Arnolfini. Work was also developed internationally, including at the Biennale de Paris, the Stedelijk Museum, The Belgrade Student Centre, and at commercial galleries such New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery, as well as in unexpected situations such as the Pittsburgh State Penitentiary.
An abundance of residual material is available that will shape my curatorial intercession, not only documentation of finalised art works but also of the methods and procedures of The Theatre of Mistakes’ collectivised practices. Knowledge being produced includes the designation of a vivid turn within curating towards the restaging and remediation of performance and temporalised practices of the era shared by the company; a commitment to discursive and apperceptive processes and approaches between myself as curator, ex-members and associates of the collective, the director and representatives of Raven Row (the gallery where the exhibition, Accidentally on Purpose: The Theatre of Mistakes will occur in Summer 2017). A further repercussion is also at play, one that we may think of less as related to exhibition-making and more in terms of making an exhibition “happen”.
The happenstance, coincidence or accidental nature of finding Elements of Performance Art has become a generative spoor for ten years of intermittent research, the sporadic nature of which has demanded a heterochronic curatorial methodology that weaves between the engrossment of the people involved, heterogeneously interrogating the records of their art to uncover criss-crossed patterning of processes over the collective’s lifespan, and the temporal complexities of the programme and working practices of the gallery in which the project is to be sited (as Raven Row has, since 2009, been dedicated to unearthing and exhibiting like-minded, obscured or purposefully marginal practices and art works).
An implication of an approach such as heterochronic curating is that it acts in contrast to the teleological impulses that seek a chronological narrativisation, an approach that is often sui generis to how institutions organise and delineate the notion of retrospection when making survey exhibitions. The approach towards making Accidentally on Purpose happen has, until now, temporally traversed concepts such as art historian Michael Baxandall’s thesis on “the periodic eye” as a means to consider how visuality is formed and perceived within social relations and cultural practices of a given time; the implications of conducting ethnographic research via cultural theorist Irit Rogoff’s conceptualisation of “gossip as testimony”, a route towards recognising multi-perspectival complicities and contradictions of fact, sensibility, opinion and concept as productive of exchange; and curator Beatrice von Bismarck’s notion of exhibiting as a temporalised “type of action” that produces multiple relations between the actors involved, physical materials and objects and in this case a recurrent spectre of erstwhile performances. 5 Hence, the happening towards this exhibition has sought neither to follow a linear chronology nor backtrack through one. The interrogation of things and people has not been sequential. New things appear, discussions continue, complicities and disagreements arise and logistics permeate—each providing filters through which the exhibition becomes consequential.
In 2015, however, I clarified that I was about to curate an exhibition including live works for which I was actually too young to have seen and so an interstice in the research process was prompted and a reoccurrence put into play with Theatre of Mistakes founder Anthony Howell. We returned to Elements of Performance Art where he and the collective had more or less begun, and where I had also started (though with three decades in between). Over two days we revisited and work-shopped the exercises gathered in the publication with a group of volunteers. The findings of working with the soundings were made public at Time, the 2015 PARSE conference, and a subsequent decision was made to then include such a venture in the exhibition at Raven Row. Another curatorial coincidence will become consequential.
Jason E. Bowman and Anthony Howell in conversation regarding the impetus for Elements of Performance Art. Photograph by Kjell Caminha.
Jason E. Bowman interrupted by Anthony Howell responding to an initial triggering of exercises from Elements of Performance Art. Photograph by Kjell Caminha.
Jason E. Bowman and Anthony Howell responding to and creating triggers of exercises from Elements of Performance Art. Photograph by Kjell Caminha.
Workshop participants responding to and creating triggers of exercises from Elements of Performance Art. Photograph by Kjell Caminha.
Workshop participants responding to and creating triggers of exercises from Elements of Performance Art, continued. Photograph by Kjell Caminha.
See the recording from the workshop here.
End Notes:
Howell, Anthony and Fiona Templeton. Elements of Performance Art. London: The Ting: Theatre of Mistakes. 1976. p. 7. ↑
Ibid. ↑
As if a game were at play, the mediation of elements of choice or chance would allow for “mistakes” to occur. Accordingly, the recognition of a mistake would then activate (trigger) another series of choices, rules or instructions. ↑
Research on this process was conducted collaboratively, in 2008-2009, with art historian Dr. Marie-Anne Mancio. ↑
Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1988; Rogoff, Irit. “Gossip as Testimony: A Postmodern Signature”. In Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings, Griselda Pollock (ed.). London: Routledge. 1996. pp. 58-65.; Von Bismarck, Beatrice. “Introduction”. In Cultures of the Curatorial 2 Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting, Beatrice von Bismarck, Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press. 2012. pp. 7-10. ↑
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Review - The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent
Hachette Audio, 2008
Jan 6th 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 2)
This is an historical novel that weaves fact with invented narrative, told from the point of view of Sarah Carrier Chapman, daughter of Martha Carrier, who was hung as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Sarah tells her story looking back sixty years later, with an adult point of view, writing to her own granddaughter. The novel spends much of its first half setting the context, starting in 1690, showing the religious devotion of the Carrier family, the hardship of the weather, the difficult of living off the land, the suspicion of New Englanders for each other, and the ravages of the small pox. Kent sticks closely to the known facts of Martha Carrier's life, but of course she invents most of the details of her interactions with her family and neighbors. It's a well-crafted work; in interview, Kent, who is a descendent of Martha, says she did a great deal of reading in preparing for her project, and this comes out well in the novel. Being narrated from the perspective of Sarah with a straightforward plot, relating events when she was just a girl, the book has a feel of being a young adult novel, and it certainly may appeal to young readers.
The unabridged audiobook is read by Mare Winningham, who does a great job giving a slightly historical tone to the words and accents. Unfortunately, in her performance of Martha's Welsh husband Thomas, she proves unable to do anything like a Welsh accent, and Thomas sounds as if he were from Ireland. Fortunately, this is only a slight fault, and makes little difference to the overall listening experience.
Kent's novel shows how the difficulty of the times combined with people's readiness to believe supernatural nonsense gave rise to the readiness to believe the accusations of witchcraft. In Kent's portrayal of the events, the Puritanism of the people had little do with their beliefs in witches, especially because they had little understanding of religions, being more concerned with survival. But when one person resented another, they were ready to make accusations of witchery without even really thinking about it. It is only with the combination of the legal system and the religious beliefs, with the shrill demonization of ordinary people by religious leaders such as Cotton Mather, that these ordinary grumblings about one's neighbors and competitors turn into a means to kill them. With such a perspective, the book makes a strong case for keeping religion and political power as separate as possible.
As a reader who normally avoids historical novels like the plague, I can report that I really enjoyed The Heretic's Daughter. The writing is strong and the story is gripping.
Heretic's Daughter Website
History of American Women: Martha Carrier
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Miami Heat/NBA Professional
Heat Week: Jan. 7th-13th
Posted on January 12, 2018 January 15, 2018 Author J.T. Wilcox Comment(0)
After only playing two games this past week (December 31-January 6), the schedule makers gave Miami three games in seven days for the second week of the new year. The Heat continue to be one of the league’s hottest teams in recent weeks – as winners of seven of their last eight and sitting atop the Southeast Division. However, the team was dealt a huge injury blow this week that could end up having huge long-term ramifications.
Jan. 7 – Heat 103, Utah Jazz 102
After trailing by eight (93-85) midway through the fourth quarter, Miami finished the game on an 18-9 run – including the game-winning layup by Josh Richardson with five seconds remaining – as the Heat topped the visiting Jazz for their fourth straight win.
Six players scored in double figures for Miami, led by Goran Dragic and Tyler Johnson – who each finished with 16 points. The game’s hero, Richardson, added 14 points – as did Hassan Whiteside, who recorded his 10th double-double of the season by also pulling down 10 boards.
Utah’s sensational rookie Donovan Mitchell led the team in scoring with 27. , but couldn’t put his team back on top after Richardson’s layup – missing a contested jumper at the final buzzer.
Jan. 9 – Heat 90, Toronto Raptors 89
Thanks to Wayne Ellington’s go-ahead layup with less than a second remaining, Miami snapped Toronto’s 12-game home winning streak and captured its fifth straight victory Tuesday.
Ellington poured in 15 points off the bench, rookie Bam Adebayo recorded a career-high 16 points while also pulling down 15 rebounds, and Goran Dragic led with a team-high 24 points, 12 rebounds and four assists.
The Raptors, who were without All-Star guard Kyle Lowry due to injury, got a game-high 25 points from DeMar DeRozan.
Things got heated in the third quarter when Miami forward James Johnson and Toronto forward Serge Ibaka traded punches and were both ejected. Tempers flared again after the game when DeRozan took a swipe at Dragic before the two were separated as the teams were leaving the floor.
Jan. 10 – Heat 114, Indiana Pacers 106
Goran Dragic led six Miami players that scored in double figures Wednesday as the Heat topped the host Pacers for their sixth straight win.
Dragic dropped 20 points on a much-improved Indiana team, while Bam Adebayo; Tyler Johnson and Wayne Ellington each added 15 points off the bench to lift the Heat to a victory on the second night of a back-to-back.
Record: 24-17; 1st Southeast Division
Week’s Best: Goran Dragic – “The Dragon” recorded 60 points, 19 assists and 18 rebounds in Miami’s three wins this week. The 31-year-old guard continues to be the Heat’s top scorer (17.0) and distributer (4.9) this season.
High: Back to back one-digit wins thanks to late go-ahead baskets. One thing that hurt the Heat and kept them out of the playoffs this past season was the inability to pull out close games. Miami was 7-10 in games decided by four points or less last season. The Heat are already 4-2 in such games this season.
Low: Getting the news that Dion Waiters will have season-ending surgery on his injured left ankle. Waiters first suffered the left ankle injury last season, causing him to miss the final 13 games of the season. He opted not to have surgery last summer but instead elected to rehab and treat the injury. The 26-year-old Waiters signed a four-year, $52 million deal with Miami in July and has rubbed some fans the wrong way given his decision to have the season-ending surgery now. According to league sources, Waiters’ recovery time is said to be between four and six months.
Injury Report: Aside from Waiters, both Justise Winslow (knee) and Rodney McGruder (leg) remained sidelined with injuries.
Winslow injured his knee on December 13 and remains questionable as to when he’ll return while McGruder is targeting a return to the court shortly after the NBA All-Star break since his October surgery to repair the stress fracture in his left tibia.
This & That: Heat forward James Johnson will return from his one-game – without pay – suspension Sunday. Johnson and Toronto Raptors forward Serge Ibaka each received one-game bans following their on-court fisticuffs Tuesday.
Given that it is well-known that Johnson is well-trained in mixed martial arts, it was weird to see any player – even the 6-foot-10 Ibaka – want engage in any hand-to-hand combat with Johnson.
Next Week: The Heat have their work cut out for them, with five games in seven coming up between January 14 through January 20. Worse yet, after Jan. 14’s home game against Milwaukee, Miami will hit the road for four straight – including a pair of back-to-backs, against the Bucks and Bulls (Jan. 15) and then Brooklyn (Jan. 19) and Charlotte (Jan. 20)
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Heat Hold Off Hawks, Clinch Playoff Berth With 101-98 Win
Posted on April 4, 2018 April 5, 2018 Author MST Staff
Goran Dragic had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Josh Richardson blocked a potential go-ahead shot in the final moments, and the Heat closed the game on an 11-0 run to defeat the Atlanta Hawks 101-98 and clinch a playoff berth on Tuesday night.
Ball Wants Son’s “Big Baller Brand Shoe” To Sell For $200
Posted on May 2, 2017 December 15, 2017 Author J.T. Wilcox
LaVar Ball just won’t shut up.
Olynyk & Dragic Lift Push Heat Past Pistons
Posted on January 4, 2018 January 15, 2018 Author MST Staff
Kelly Olynyk had game-highs in points and rebounds, which was easy to see in the box score. The play of the night wasn’t so obvious. Olynyk scored 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, Goran Dragic added 24 points and 13 assists and the Miami Heat held off the Detroit Pistons 111-104 on Wednesday — moving three games over .500 for the first […]
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Travis Barker's quotes
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.
I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.
We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.
I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
It takes two hands to clap.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
Randy Neugebauer
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.
Pauline Hanson
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman
Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Alors on danse (Radio Edit)
Cheese (Deluxe Edition) 2009
Cheese 2009
La pluie (feat. Stromae)
Orelsan 2017
Formidable - Single 2013
Tous les mêmes
Racine carrée 2013
Essential Album
Artist Playlists
About Stromae
Stromae's thought-provoking lyrics and danceable productions have served him well since the release of "Alors on danse" (2009). That global hit led to the equally colorful number one albums Cheese (2010) and Racine Carrée (2013), which combined influences as diverse as Jacques Brel, Cuban son, Congolese rhumba, house, and hip-hop, as well as the late-'80s new beat sound of the artist's native Belgium. The vocalist, songwriter, and producer has used his platform to write about topics such as AIDS, cancer, and absent fathers, and he has capitalized upon international success to collaborate with the likes of Kanye West and Lorde. Known for his clean-cut look and trademark bow tie, Stromae has approached music and fashion as indivisible creative forms, exemplified by "Défiler" (2018), one of his several Belgian Top Ten pop hits.
Born Paul van Haver in Brussels on March 12, 1985, Stromae was raised by his Belgian mother. His father, a native of Rwanda, was killed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Stromae developed an interest in music at an early age. When he was 11, he became a student at L'Académie Musicale de Jette, and started playing the drums. In 2005 he took up rap music, and after briefly performing as Opmaestro, he took the stage name Stromae (an anagram for "Maestro") and launched a short-lived hip-hop combo named Suspicion.
By 2007, Stromae was back to working as a solo act, and he recorded his first single, "Juste un Cerveau, un Flow, un Fond et un Mic...." It was in 2009 that he got his big break -- while working at a Belgian radio station, he created the song "Alors on dance" using his home-recording setup, and the manager of the station was impressed enough with it to play it on air. Response from listeners was enthusiastic, and Stromae struck a deal with PolyGram. "Alors on dance" became a number one hit in Belgium, and went on to repeat that success in over a dozen countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, and Denmark.
As "Alors on dance" climbed the charts across Europe and Stromae's videos became a sensation on YouTube, he released his first album, Cheese, in 2010. In August 2010, after the album had topped the Belgian chart, Stromae's career got a major boost in the United States when Kanye West collaborated with him on a remix of "Alors on dance." His follow-up, Racine Carrée, appeared in August 2013. Distinguished by his integration of African and Caribbean influences, and lyrics regarding disease, discrimination, and absentee fathers, the album was an immediate success in Belgium and France, spending virtually the rest of the year at number one in each country. Ultimately, Racine Carrée went platinum eight times in Belgium and sold over 1.5 million copies in Europe. That November, Stromae won the Best Belgian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Racine Carrée's success continued into 2014. The song "Ta Fête" became the official song for Belgium's national football team at that year's World Cup, and Stromae made his U.S. debut that June, performing his first live dates as well as appearing on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers. He also appeared on the Lorde-curated soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1 on "Meltdown," a track featuring Pusha T, Q-Tip, HAIM, and Lorde. He continued to play live in 2015, performing at festivals such as SXSW, Coachella, and Lollapalooza, and embarked on an African tour. During the next few years, Stromae released a handful of singles highlighted by the compelling nine-minute ballad "Défiler." Issued in 2018 as the soundtrack for a fashion show dedicated to his Mosaert clothing brand, the song became his seventh Belgian Top Ten pop hit. ~ Mark Deming & Andy Kellman
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Helena Wood
Leader of the RTE Symphony Orchestra
About Helena Wood
As one of the finest violinists of her generation Helena Wood is in great demand as a soloist, chamber musician, leader and director.
Helena began playing the violin at the age three. She attended the Royal College of Music in London as a scholar from the age of 8 studying under Professor Pamela Spofforth and Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky and later studied in New York with Professor Joey Corpus.
Making her debut as a soloist at the age of twelve with the Mendelssohn concerto, Helena has been received with great acclaim as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed chamber music with musicians such as John Lill, Freddy Kempf, Finghin Collins and Nigel Kennedy and her international tours as a soloist include concerts in Israel, Romania, France, Switzerland and Germany, as well as tours of Italy and Spain.
Helena has given numerous recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and the Royal Festival Hall and has performed many concertos at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Barbican Hall and St Martin-in-the-Fields.
As a soloist Helena has performed with such orchestras as the BBC Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and English Sinfonia and frequently appears as a soloist on live television and radio in the UK and Ireland.
In great demand as an orchestral leader and director, she frequently guest leads many of the world’s leading orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Cape Town Opera. In 2012 she lead the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms and spent two months in Sydney as Concertmaster of Australian Opera.
For four years Helena was Principal Violin at English National Opera and is now the Concertmaster of the RTE Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
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Westfield, the Jewish people, and the Six-Day War
By Special to NJJN June 2, 2017, 12:00 am 0 Edit
It was Tuesday evening, June 6, 1967. Eleven hundred women, men, and children — Jews and non-Jews alike — were gathered in the sanctuary of Temple Emanu-El of Westfield to support the State of Israel.
Three weeks prior, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had ordered the United Nations Emergency Force out of Sinai, blockaded the Straits of Tiran to prevent ships from reaching Israel’s southern port of Eilat, and declared on Cairo radio, “The existence of Israel has continued too long. The battle has come in which we shall destroy Israel.”
I cannot exaggerate the sense of doom that had descended upon the Jews of North America. Would the 19-year-old Jewish state survive the impending onslaught of the Arab world? Were we confronting a second Holocaust?
Our loudspeaker system piped in the stirring address of Israel’s Ambassador Abba Eban to the United Nations. The hushed crowd hung on every word.
When Eban concluded his defense of Israel’s pre-emptive attack on the Egyptian air force, a middle-aged woman, her voice shaking, rose to her feet. “I have very little money,” she announced, “but I went to my bank today to withdraw the balance of my savings account. Here it is. I want to contribute to Israel in her time of need.” The next speaker declared that he had taken a mortgage against his home to contribute to the cause.
The outpouring of gifts that night amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions in 2017 dollars). We sang “Hatikva” like never before. This scene was repeated in synagogues and Jewish community centers across North America.
That week not only demonstrated Israel’s ability to defend itself. It also transformed our synagogue and Jews worldwide into an Israel-centric community. From that moment on, Jewish pride in Israel soared, and non-Jews acquired new respect for the fledgling state. It seemed as if every Jew I knew walked with his or her head a foot higher.
Tourism took off as Jews and Christians alike flocked to visit a united Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai. Even in the USSR — where the Soviet government severely repressed Jewish life — Jews were emboldened to learn as much as possible about Israel and Jewish tradition. That renewal culminated several decades later in the stunning aliyah (immigration) of a million Russians to Israel, transforming the face of the Jewish state.
The Six-Day War breathed new life into the Jewish world. Courses in Jewish studies, especially modern Hebrew, sprang up; Israeli flags adorned Jewish institutions; Hebrew songs burst forth; and Israeli dance took center stage. Pro-Israel advocacy in Washington garnered wide support.
Meanwhile, in Israel, secular and Orthodox Jews began to settle the West Bank. Non-religious Israelis flocked to less costly housing in the occupied areas while devout Jews built settlements as an act of religious faith. They believed then — and now — that they could hasten the coming of the Messiah by settling all of the territory from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.
From my teenage years in the Zionist youth movement, Young Judaea, through my more than 40 visits to Israel, right up to this week’s historic anniversary of the Six-Day War, I have been a passionate ohev Yisrael, lover of Israel.
I believe that the establishment of the Jewish state in our time is one of the most transformative events in all of Jewish history. I believe that its security and moral value system are indispensible to our Jewish future.
We American Jews are blessed not only to enjoy the fruits of the Jewish state in our time, but also to be able to contribute to her strength.
What does it mean to support Israel today? For me, it means that we should do three things:
1. Become strong advocates for a two-state solution. The occupation has eroded Israel’s moral fiber and undermined its standing among the nations. History demonstrates that one people cannot dominate another indefinitely without profoundly disastrous consequences.
Familiarize yourself with the group known as “Commanders for Israel’s Security.” You’ll discover a plan advocated by 270 former senior security officials from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Mossad, and Israel’s security agency known as the Shin Bet, that enables Israel to disengage from most of the West Bank while ensuring Israel’s security and territory for its national aspirations. They argue that until conditions ripen for a final status agreement, Israel must take independent action to restore security and preserve conditions for a future agreement.
Consider the advice of Brigadier Gen. (Ret.) Uzi Eilam, who commanded the 71st Battalion, 55th Paratroopers Brigade, which liberated Jerusalem. (It was Eilam who, upon reaching the Western Wall, sounded the shofar on behalf of the chief military rabbi, Shlomo Goren, who was too overcome with emotion to do it himself.) “If we want our children and grandchildren to remember the war as a victory,” said Eilam, “we must be honest about the destructive path Israel is currently on.”
2. Support religious pluralism in Israel. Israel must not become a theocratic state whose government is the captive of religious extremists. If that were to happen, Israel’s economic and military strength would collapse under the weight of zealots who would seek to impose their brand of Judaism on all citizens. Israel’s vaunted hi-tech startups would become a thing of the past because entrepreneurs and hi-tech wizards will have fled for more receptive lands. Women would have a bleak future because their status as second-class citizens would be enshrined into law.
Don’t let this happen. For starters, become familiar with and support the Israel Religious Action Center and the New Israel Fund. Empower the work of Mercaz, the Zionist arm of the Conservative movement, and the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA). They fight for religious pluralism in Israel every day.
3. Celebrate Israel. Celebrate the country’s achievements. Extol the Six-Day War as a heroic, miraculous event in our history. Celebrate with Israel as you would members of your own family, but don’t hesitate to offer constructive criticism whenever you feel that your critique addresses issues central to your family’s future. Remember that you can be passionately supportive of friends or family without agreeing with every decision.
Every day I recite the blessing, “Shehecheyanu,” thank you, God, for enabling me to be part of the renewal of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. Long may it prosper: Jewish, democratic, and at peace.
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NBC kills the already-undead Awake, Bent, Best Friends Forever, and Are You There Chelsea, picks up Dane Cook sitcom
For every blessedly saved show there must be some blood spilled, and so NBC has made its Sophie's Choice to cull the herd to make room for the new, the good stuff it's hanging onto, and Whitney. Fortunately, these final blows on the killing floor are softened a bit by pretty much knowing well in advance that Bent and Best Friends Forever—the shunned, unwanted series the network had already been starving to death—weren't long for this world. Anyway, their cancellation is now official, as it is for Awake and Are You There Chelsea, two different visions of parallel universes: one in which a cop deals with the mysterious deaths of different members of his family, and one in which Chelsea Handler's fictionalized life makes for good comedy. Likely you've long ago said goodbye and/or "What the hell is this? Well, I'm not watching it" to most of these, so the news comes as somewhat less of a shock.
And in finishing up, NBC also sounded the death knell for all remaining pilots that have not yet been picked up to series—including Kari Lizer's multicamera comedy with Minnie Driver, and the Scott Bakula-starring Daddy's Girls—making as its final selection for its bold new future Next Caller, the sitcom in which Dane Cook is a chauvinistic asshole and also plays a DJ on television. This marks the ostensible last of the NBC scheduling news, except for that official renewal of The Office that is still expected to go through sometime soon. At this point, that may be the only bit of remaining news to make it to next week's upfronts, which are now pretty much devoid of all surprise. Hopefully they have some good snacks or something.
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Culture 18:00, 17-Aug-2018
Chinese granny helps husband 'heal' Alzheimer's in live stream
Updated 17:19, 20-Aug-2018
At the same time every day, 77-year-old Cao Xuemei sits in front of the camera with her husband Cui Xingli and they begin their live video streaming.
"How old are you?”
“Eight."
"Do you go to kindergarten?”
“Yes."
"Which class?”
"Senior class."
Cao Xuemei and her husband. /By CGTN
Sometimes, Cui unintentionally sings: "With pairs of birds singing on the trees…”
"Been living with him for decades, yet I didn't know he could sing," Cao grinned.
Their channel is called Happy Grandma, where the couple share their happy life with the fans. They seem like a "funny old duo." The truth is, Cui was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years ago. Cao was told that her husband has to talk to people, in order to slow the deterioration of the disease.
CGTN Photo
However, the old couple didn't talk that much at home. Thus their granddaughter suggested them open a livestream channel.
Cao agreed instantly and was eager to try it. Despite her age, she has always been decisive since the time she married Cui.
They fell instantly in love after their photos were sent to each other by a matchmaker. They spent their first date chatting and strolling along the riverbank. Cao was impressed by Cui's demeanor, so she had made up her mind.
Cui was working at China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., which requires a lot of traveling around the country. His family background wasn't satisfying, either. The relationship was strongly opposed by Cao's family, who had both her hukou (household registration) and her job changed. Under such pressure, Cao had to write a break-up letter to Cui.
from Cui Xingli's photo album
On receiving her letter, Cui immediately asked for leave and came all the way to Cao's home with presents. Every day during the precious one-month leave, he went some 30 km on foot to the rural area just to see Cao, who was convinced that he was a reliable man.
After dating for two years, Cao went to east-central China's Nanjing City by herself in 1963 and got married with Cui, who was at the time constructing the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. For decades, her family refused to contact her. The couple traveled with the construction team everywhere. And then their children were born, they had to live separately for over 20 years, before they finally settled down in central China's Wuhan City in 1994.
For many years, Cao had to take care of their four children all by herself, while helping out in the factories and on construction sites for extra money. Even in the toughest times, she'd always cherish Cui's love for her: "He wrote to me every week when he was working in Myanmar. And he always bought me clothes and presents he returned from a trip." She still wears the red sweater that Cui bought her for 100 yuan in 1993.
When his Alzheimer's struck, Cui began to lose his memory. Things got worse when he forgot how to dress or eat. He doesn't even recognize his own children, only murmuring words that nobody could understand. Cao felt heartbroken and insisted on taking care of him 24/7 in person. During the worst time, Cao could barely sleep at night. She was afraid that she might die first.
Cui got lost many times, yet still tried to get out at midnight. When asked about the reason, he'd always say: "I'm looking for Cao Xuemei.”
"Who is Cao Xuemei?”
"My wife.”
It seemed that he remembered nobody but his beloved wife.
Every day before live streaming begins, Cao dresses Cui up carefully in fashionable clothes. "He's always neat and clean," she said. They are very happy at the netizens' compliments.
They interact with their fans by singing and performing. Sometimes Cao tests Cui with simple questions. If he answers correctly, she kisses him as a reward. The Q&As are good to help him talk and think.
"Now my grandparents are much more out-going," the granddaughter said. Cui seems to have recovered well. He can now speak more clearly and do some simple things.
The Happy Grandma channel has more than 20,000 fans, some of whom would reach out to Cao for advice about problems in their relationships. "Love is not about money. It's about mutual support and encouragement," she said. It is indeed the true answer to their lifetime love.
The story is one in The 1.3 Billion series exploring the diverse lives that make up China.
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Suffering in Afghanistan Hits Record High -- for Any Country
by Steve Crabtree
Afghans' life ratings sink to new low
Suffering rates are higher in western than eastern Afghanistan
Two-thirds say local economic conditions are getting worse
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As delegates from around the world depart the United Kingdom following Thursday's London Conference on Afghanistan, a new Gallup World Poll underscores just how bleak life is for most Afghans. Already the worst in the world in 2013, Afghans' ratings of their lives declined even further in 2014. More than six in 10 Afghans evaluate their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering" -- the highest figure ever recorded for any country since Gallup started tracking life evaluations in 2005. As in 2013, no Afghans rate their lives highly enough to be considered "thriving."
Gallup classifies people as "thriving," "struggling" or "suffering" according to how they rate their current and future lives on a ladder scale with steps numbered from zero to 10 based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale. Gallup considers people to be suffering if they rate their current lives a 4 or lower and predict that their lives in five years will be at a 4 or lower. Respondents do not label themselves as suffering, struggling or thriving.
Afghans living in rural areas (representing about three-fourths of the total population) are more likely to be suffering than those in urban areas -- 64% vs. 49%, respectively. Though poverty is common throughout the population, it is most prevalent among rural Afghans: 44% say there were times in the past year when they didn't have enough money to buy food for themselves or their families, versus 32% among urban residents. Rural Afghans are also far less likely than their urban counterparts to be satisfied with vital infrastructure such as schools, healthcare services and roads.
Regionally, life evaluations tend to get better moving from western to eastern Afghanistan. A number of possible factors may influence this pattern: Afghans in some western and southern areas are particularly vulnerable to drug addiction, as opium cultivation is most prevalent in these regions. Fears about deteriorating security conditions in the absence of Western troops may also be especially damaging to Afghans' optimism in southern provinces such as Helmand, which were Taliban strongholds prior to the U.S. troop surge in 2010.
Suffering Rates Highest in Western Afghanistan
With the Taliban and other insurgent groups still actively recruiting new members in Afghanistan, lack of hope among young men is a particular concern. In many countries, younger people give more positive life evaluations, particularly when rating their future lives. In Afghanistan, however, there are few differences in suffering by gender or age. Among men between the ages of 15 and 24, 58% are suffering, not far from the figure for the overall population (61%).
Optimism About Local Economic Conditions Hits Record Low
Given that the 13-year NATO-led combat mission in Afghanistan ends this month, security concerns were top of mind for many delegates at Thursday's conference in London. However, the country's dire economic situation, which has been further strained by recent terror attacks as well as the departure of foreign troops, is also a major concern. Afghans' suffering rate has surged as their economic situation has deteriorated.
Currently, 6% of Afghans say economic conditions in their city or area are getting better, while 67% say they are getting worse. Frustration with the lack of progress toward poverty reduction has climbed dramatically; 86% of Afghans now say they are dissatisfied with efforts to deal with the poor, up from 32% in 2008.
Afghans' record-low life evaluations come as residents are poised to start a different chapter in their country's history, with a new president facing rising economic distress in an already blighted environment. Further, ongoing economic insecurity has made it all but impossible to wean Afghan farmers off opium poppy cultivation, which reached a record high in 2014.
It's difficult to see how Afghans' life evaluations could get much worse -- but the current combination of violence, drug addiction and intractable poverty makes it equally difficult to envision any improvement, at least over the short term. In the meantime, rampant hopelessness among the population makes concerns about the growth and influence of extremist groups in Afghan society as real as ever.
Results are based on face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults per year, aged 15 and older, conducted 2008-2014 in Afghanistan. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±3.8 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
For more complete methodology and specific survey dates, please review Gallup's Country Data Set details.
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by Jon Clifton
The answer is still far from understood, but Gallup's latest Global Emotions Report gives global thinkers an idea of who is living the best and worst lives.
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Professor Joseph Sussman
Photo: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Joseph Sussman, expert in complex engineering systems and revered mentor, dies at 79
Leader in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society was the inaugural JR East Professor.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Carolyn Schmitt
Email: ces23@mit.edu
Retired MIT Professor Joseph Sussman passed away on Tuesday, March 20, at the age of 79 following a long illness. An MIT alumnus and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Sussman is fondly remembered for his dedication to his students and to the MIT community.
Sussman received a bachelor’s in civil engineering from City College of New York in 1961, a master's of civil engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1963, and his PhD from MIT in 1967. Shortly after completing his doctoral program, Sussman became a professor in CEE.
Sussman was a professor for over 50 years and served as department head in CEE from 1980 to 1985. In 1991 he was awarded the inaugural JR East Professorship, an endowed chair that spurred the establishment of a long-standing partnership between the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and MIT. He was awarded the CEE Distinguished Service and Leadership Award in 2017 for his devotion to encouraging a culture of diversity, inclusiveness, and innovation and for embodying the department mission and vision of MIT. At the ceremony, Sussman was honored for his friendship and mentorship to both students and fellow faculty members and for his support of all CEE community events.
“Joe was a special person and colleague. He never hesitated to lend a hand, offer advice, and support students and colleagues,” says Markus Buehler, the McAfee Professor of Engineering and head of CEE. “I vividly remember when I first met Joe during my interview, and later for coffee shortly after I joined the faculty at MIT. His passion for mentoring and teaching, and focus on students, was evident in everything he did during his long tenure at MIT. We will all miss him dearly and are deeply grateful for the time we could spend with him, and what he has taught us.”
“I first met Joe on Engineering Council when he was serving as an interim director of [the Engineering Systems Division]. He introduced himself jokingly as being part of a recycling program at MIT; given that he was a department head almost 30 years before. Since that day, I really enjoyed our interactions,” recalls Munther Dahleh, director of IDSS and the William A. Coolidge Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Joe was always collegial irrespective of the context. I got to know him well during the launch period of IDSS. He always took the time to give thoughtful and constructive comments and was always supportive of the outcomes. He cared a lot about students and their experiences at MIT and emphasized that during the formation of IDSS. We developed a friendship in the last few years that I will always cherish. It is people like Joe that make MIT a special place. I will miss him dearly.”
Sussman taught and mentored many undergraduate students and advised over 120 master's theses and over 20 doctoral dissertations during his tenure, and maintained relationships with a number of his former students. He led the Regional Transportation Planning and High-Speed Rail Research Group (R/HSR), a close-knit community of scholars who frequently held get-togethers and convened for reunions at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
Sussman took great pride in mentoring students and spoke affectionately of his relationships with his students and research group members, a sentiment reciprocated by those who worked with him. Many of his former students and mentees laud his leadership and dedication to both their research and to their personal development.
“Joe’s research accomplishments were numerous and extraordinary, but he has so many other lasting legacies,” says Joanna Moody, a graduate student in R/HSR and mentee of Sussman. “I think that one of the most often mentioned — and for me very personally important — was how much he connected with his students. He cared as much about how your personal life was progressing as he did your research.”
Sussman’s research focus was on large scale complex engineering systems, which he applied to freight rail, intelligent transportation systems, and market selection processes.
As a graduate student at MIT, Sussman worked on the application of computing to engineering processes, a project called Integrated Civil Engineering Systems (ICES). He later worked on intelligent transportation systems (ITS), the use of advanced technology to make transportation networks operate efficiently. Sussman was a member of a small group who developed the first national strategic plan for ITS in the United States. In 2015, Sussman was inducted into the Intelligent Transportation Society of America Hall of Fame.
In recent years, Sussman led the development of complex, large-scale, integrated, open, sociotechnical (CLIOS) systems and the CLIOS Process, a theoretical framework that can be applied to complex systems. Sussman and members of his group applied the CLIOS Process to complex systems including ITS, wind energy (Cape Wind), air defense, and the introduction of broadband access in Kenya.
“I was privileged to work with Joe Sussman for over 50 years,” says Daniel Roos, professor emeritus of engineering systems and CEE and longtime friend of Sussman. “He had an unmatched dedication and commitment to MIT and his students, winning three teaching awards in CEE, the Technology and Policy Program, and the Engineering Systems Division.”
Sussman also led the first 25 years of the JR East-MIT partnership, resulting in a number of joint research projects. Over the years Sussman collaborated with professionals at JR East, staff members from the company came to study at MIT, and MIT students interned with JR East in Japan. At the 25th anniversary of the program, Sussman noted that “the greatest honor in my professional career has been to serve as the first JR East Professor.”
“Joe was a wonderful human being, a great and caring mentor to his students, and a wonderful colleague. He will be truly missed,” says Ali Jadbabaie, a professor of CEE, associate director of IDSS, and the second recipient of the JR East Professorship.
A memorial service at MIT will be held in the near future. In lieu of flowers, the Sussman family requests that donations are made to the Joseph and Henri-Ann Book Fund at the Lincoln Public Library.
Topics: Faculty, Obituaries, Civil and environmental engineering, IDSS, School of Engineering, Alumni/ae, Systems engineering
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UN kicks off preparations for upcoming summit on oceans, launches voluntary commitment website
Healthy oceans have a central role to play in solving one of the biggest problems of the 21st century – how to feed 9 billion people by 2050.
The world dumps the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute, the United Nations heard today at the start of a two-day meeting to prepare for this June's Ocean Conference that will aim to help safeguard the planet's oceans and help them recover from human-induced problems.
“When leaders from across Governments, international organizations, civil society, the private sector, and the scientific and academic communities, gather together in New York, from 5-9 June for The Ocean Conference, we will be witness to a turning point,” the President of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson, told the participants, who also included the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and the Minister for Fisheries of Fiji, the countries co-hosting the conference.
“We will witness the point in history when humanity truly began the process of reversing the cycle of decline that accumulated human activity has brought upon the Ocean,” Mr. Thomson added.
The high-level Oceans Conference aims to get everyone involved in conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas and marine resources, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically Goal 14.
The UN has called for voluntary commitments to implement Goal 14 and today launched an online commitment registry which has its first three commitments – the Swedish Government, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Peaceboat, a non-governmental organization. The site will be up through the end of the Conference, which starts on World Environment Day, marked annually on 5 June, and includes 8 June, celebrated as World Oceans Day.
Photo: CITES
The voluntary commitments “underscore the urgency for action and for solutions,” said Under-Secretary-General Wu Hongbo, who heads the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs and serves as the Secretary-General of the Conference.
Addressing participants today, Mr. Wu said preparations for the Conference are “on track.”
“The health of our oceans and seas, and the future wellbeing of our planet and our society, demand no less,” he said.
In addition to pollution, The Oceans Conference and SDG 14 address overfishing, as well as acidification and increasing global water temperatures linked to climate change.
Discussing the problems ahead of today's preparatory meeting, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Isabella Lovin said in a video log on Twitter that the Conference could be a “chance of a lifetime” to save the oceans under enormous stress.
“We don't need to invent or negotiate something new, we just need to have action to implement what we already agreed upon,” she said in reference to the expected 'Call to Action' that will result from the Conference in connection with stopping illegal fishing, stopping marine pollution and addressing the special circumstances of small island developing States.
Representing one of the many small island nations struggling with these issues, the Minister for Fisheries of Fiji, Semi Koroilavesau, urged Conference participants to make voluntary contributions, saying the oceans are of “utmost importance” to his country.
French voyager named UNESCO Spokesperson for the Oceans
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African island nations at UN spotlight ‘blue’ economy, ocean’s ‘transformative power’ as key to survival
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, two small island nations in Africa today stressed that among the many challenges they face, harnessing the transformative power of the seas and building the ocean-based economy is of fundamental importance for their countries’ survival and sustainable growth.
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UVA Law Dean, Vice Dean Team Up to Launch ‘Common Law’ Podcast
Eric Williamson, ericwilliamson@virginia.edu
“Common Law,” a podcast about the law’s everyday impact, sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law and hosted by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick, launches today with help from two stars in the law world.
Best-selling author John Grisham and Professor Deirdre Enright of the Innocence Project at UVA Law are the first guests of the season, which is focused on “The Future of Law.”
“It’s fairly easy to send an innocent person to prison,” Grisham says in the debut episode. “And it’s virtually impossible to get them out once they’re there.”
Grisham is the author of numerous blockbuster novels, including “The Firm,” eight of which have been adapted into films. He also wrote a nonfiction book, “The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town,” published in 2006, which was recently made into a documentary series for Netflix. He is a board member of the original Innocence Project.
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Enright, who founded the Innocence Project at UVA Law in association with the national Innocence Network, rose to national prominence as a no-nonsense commentator on wrongful convictions during the first season of the hit podcast “Serial.”
Grisham and Enright discuss the many reasons for wrongful convictions, talk about the future of criminal law and delve into the specifics of some of the cases they’ve shined a light on.
“I think transparency could change a lot of things,” Enright said. “So much of what happens to people in the criminal justice system is hidden.”
Goluboff and Kendrick, in addition to their hosting duties, introduce themselves and their goals for the podcast in what they call “Episode 0.” “Common Law” is unique for its pairing of a law school dean and vice dean as hosts.
“We’re here to talk about all the ways law affects people’s everyday lives,” Goluboff says. “Law – it really lurks behind everything.”
Other episodes this season, which will be released on a biweekly schedule, feature:
Blockchain technology and its potential effect on vast areas of law and business, with professor George Geis and attorney Mayme Donohue from the Richmond office of Hunton Andrews Kurth.
The challenge of combating discrimination in health care, with professor Dayna Bowen Matthew.
The law and ethics of the “Game of Thrones” HBO series and books, with professors Toby Heytens (also the Virginia solicitor general) and Mila Versteeg.
The liability and ethical issues involving the adoption of self-driving cars, with professor Kenneth Abraham and guest Michael Raschid of Perrone Robotics.
International efforts to tax corporate giants like Apple, and the future of tax under recent changes to U.S. tax code, with professor Ruth Mason.
Technology’s impact on lawyering, the courts and legal scholarship, with professor Michael Livermore.
Legal challenges at the intersection of technology and national security, with professor Ashley Deeks.
Science, the courts and judging, with U.S. Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York.
The podcast is produced with help from Tony Field, founding producer of the popular American history podcast “BackStory” and a longtime public radio producer.
“Common Law” is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, YouTube, Spotify and other popular places you can listen to podcasts. You can play it on Amazon Alexa by saying, “Alexa, play ‘Common Law’ podcast.”
You can follow the show on the website commonlawpodcast.com or Twitter at @CommonLawUVA.
Eric Williamson
Associate Director of Communications and Senior Writer University of Virginia School of Law
ericwilliamson@virginia.edu 434-243-5716
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150 Year Celebration
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Media Advisory: Washburn University Homecoming Parade Tomorrow
WHAT: Washburn’s annual Homecoming Parade will take place Saturday, Oct. 29. The parade route is around and through Washburn’s campus.WHEN: Saturday, October 28, 2016 Beginning at 10:00 a.m.WHERE: Around Washburn University’s campus- parade will begin at 19th and MacVicar, travel down 17th St., south on Washburn Ave., and turn on 19th St. to travel back through campus on Durow Drive.Traffic that will be affected by the parade route:Beginning at 6:00 pm Friday, Oct. 28, all of Parking Lot 7more...
Washburn University crowns Homecoming king and queen
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Washburn University re-dedicates Morgan Hall with unveiling of new Ichabod statue at the university's "Front Door"
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Washburn University 2015 Grand Homecoming candidates
Editor’s note: Photos of the candidates are available upon request. TOPEKA, Kansas – Ten Washburn University students have been selected as candidates for 2015 Homecoming king and queen. After an all-student vote this week, the Homecoming king and queen will be crowned on Saturday, Oct. 24 at halftime of the football game vs. University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos, Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl. The football game begins at 2 p.m. Selected as Homecoming queen candidates:Alexa Bowen,more...
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Tag: why should we care about national monuments
Five Reasons to Love National Monuments
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Reasons to Love National Monuments
Many national monuments across the west are currently under fire from the federal government, but I think there are plenty of good reasons to support the continued protection of these areas, no matter what side you’re on. Here are some of mine:
Monuments keep the American culture alive. National monuments (and the US’s many other protective parks) are a great way to maintain a beautiful country for ourselves and future Americans. Ours was a country built on the frontier and exploration, and national monuments play a key role in keeping that culture alive through the ages.
Natural Arches NM, Utah (c) ABR 2017
Monuments provide a long-term source of economic growth. Many of the alternative uses of monument land only provide short-term gains. Let’s take uranium mining as an example. This is a finite resource, and once it is removed, there is no way to renew its value to the communities involved. Furthermore, the land left behind is permanently (in the scope of a human lifespan) degraded (an example from Navajo lands). Alternatively, an industry like tourism does not consume a finite resource, and while it can degrade the environment in a variety of ways, these effects can be mitigated by policy and repairs are possible.
Agua Fria NM, AZ (c) ABR 2017
Monuments are a source of American pride. Did you know that the concept of national parks were developed in the United States? The system of land protection that we have has been one of our most successful legacies around the world. National monuments are a part of that, and it is something to be proud of. People travel from ALL OVER THE WORLD to see our beautiful country.
Sunset Crater NM, AZ (c) ABR 2017
Monuments protect American history. The Antiquities Act was designed to protect relics of the past, and landscapes are a part of that. Some of the best stories from our history, especially in the West, comes from the harrowing tales of women and men trying to make their way in an unforgiving and wild environment. Having the opportunity to see those landscapes as our ancestors did keeps our history alive and helps us appreciate what it took to build our country.
Cabrillo NM, CA (c) ABR 2017
Monuments provide many different services and resources to local people and visitors alike. I’m going to go back to the uranium example here (just because it is relevant to several of the western monuments). Mining provides jobs to miners, can support a community while the resource holds out, and it provides taxes as well. It is unlikely that many other services (e.g. clean water, recreation, etc.) will come from land used for this activity, and the companies selling this resource will take the lion’s share of benefits from uranium’s extraction. Monuments, on the other hand, provide jobs through tourism and management, revenue from fees, recreational opportunities, and a variety of services that support human health and happiness.
Wupatki NM, AZ (c) ABR 2017
If you’d like to let the government know what you think about national monuments, public comments are open until July 10th, 2017. You can comment here or through Monuments For All.
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Mind the Gap … Between Grad Skills and Employer Expectations
Much has been written in both the business and higher education press about the gap between today’s jobs and the skills presented by those seeking work. The fact that U.S. Department of Labor statistics show 9.6 million people out of work with 4.8 million jobs still unfilled (August 2014) suggests a problem. However, little agreement exists as to the source of this disparity or what needs to be done about it.
Headlines were created earlier this year by a Lumina Foundation-sponsored Gallup Poll, which reported that only 11% of business leaders strongly agreed with the statement that college graduates had the necessary skills and competencies to succeed in the workplace. This contrasted with the finding that 96%of chief academic officers believed their institutions are effectively preparing students for employment. Since its release in February 2014, these findings have been widely cited as proof that higher education is not doing its job.
A different point of view is presented by Inc. Magazine’s Cait Murphy in April articles: “Why the skills gap ‘crisis’ is overblown” and “Is there really a skills gap.” Citing the Federal Reserve’s finding that “current skill mismatches are limited” and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Murphy finds no evidence of a widespread “gap” between employer needs and applicant skills. She does acknowledge BCG findings of skill shortages in five specific geographic regions, but finds little connection between such shortages and college preparation, noting that some of these are for welders, electricians and machinists.
Murphy underscores her arguments by pointing to 2013 BCG research findings that four times as many employers are now seeking to bring offshore jobs back to the U.S. as are seeking to send work abroad. The reason: the quality of the American workforce.
Paul Krugman has written that the skills gap is a “zombie idea that refuses to die,” and his employer, the New York Times wrote in September 2014 that this concern is “mostly a corporate fiction” trumpeted to pressure government into providing training formerly offered by employers.
The Times editorial board may have a point. National Bureau of Research findings show that employer-sponsored training has fallen from an average of 2.5 weeks per year, per employee in 1979 to 11 hours in 1995. Data for 2011 reveals that 21%of those surveyed had received no training in the past five years.
The NBER report’s author, Peter Cappelli, also notes: “There is very little evidence consistent with complaints about skills and a wide range of evidence suggesting that they are not true. Indeed, a reasonable conclusion is that over-education [emphasis added] remains the persistent and ever-growing situation of the U.S. labor force with respect to skills.”
James Bessen, writing in the Harvard Business Review (“Employers Aren’t Just Whining–the ‘Skills Gap’ is Real”) in August 2014 points out some of the reasons why this issue “refuses to die.” He notes that different observers mean different things when they use the term skills gap. Close examination of the surveys conducted by Gallup, Manpower, the Small Business Majority, Inc., and Adecco find that there is little consistency in the construction of the questions from which conclusions are drawn. Some refer to “skill and knowledge,” while others include such qualifiers as “background,” “experience” and, in the Gallup poll, “competency.” There is also little or no differentiation between skills that might be developed through “education” and those resulting from “training.”
Bessen believes that the skills gap does exist, but to differing degrees in different industries and, as Murphy pointed out, in different geographic areas. He does not see this gap as a problem of “schooling.” The problem, he concludes, is that of fast-moving technologies that require new or different skills on a more frequent basis than can be provided through traditional educational programs alone. While there is an expectation that college graduates will have communication and other “soft skills,” the “hard” technical skills must come from job-specific training. As one, Inc. article noted in February 2014, college is “not looking to open the doors to any job for any student.”
So, given the reports of the Federal Reserve, the Boston Consulting Group, the National Bureau of Economic Research and various publications, is higher education off the hook in regard to the employment readiness of its graduates? Not necessarily. Anyone in higher education and the hiring managers of most law firms (to name only one employment sector) knows that the academy continues to graduate way too many who can’t write. Imagine the employer who finds that 90%of their new hires, after 16 to 18 years of schooling, cannot develop clear declarative sentences, spell or use punctuation appropriately.
Other soft skills found lacking include knowledge of how to make effective presentations, problem solving, critical thinking and teamwork. These are areas that higher education can address.
For its part, the academy is attempting to respond to the criticisms directed toward it. In reaction to the call for experience, in addition to skills, more institutions have incorporated internships and work-study opportunities into their curricula. Additionally, there has been a groundswell of interest in “competency-based education” (CBE), partially driven by the employer expectations discussed here. These CBE programs are requiring demonstrations of the ability to apply knowledge in a skillful way, as well as to pass more traditional forms of assessment such as multiple-choice exams.
Business is also responding. A recent report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce titled “Managing the Talent Pipeline,” acknowledges that “the nation’s current approach to skills development is no longer capable of meeting the needs of a rapidly changing business environment.” It goes on to say that “education and training providers are unable to respond quickly enough to changing workforce needs.”
In addition to calling for greater attention to workforce readiness by educators, the Chamber also asks the employer community to do a better job of making its skill and knowledge needs known, and to work collaboratively with education and training providers, much as they do in supply-chain processes with other suppliers.
To summarize, there is a skills gap, highly localized at present, but likely to grow quickly as technology continues its unrelenting expansion. Providing the skills needed to deal with this phenomenon is not the job of the academy alone. As the Chamber of Commerce study outlines, new relationships and new forms of collaboration are needed, both to enhance the CBE effort and to maintain the competitiveness of a high-tech workforce. Higher education’s unique contribution will be to ensure that its graduates know how to learn.
John F. Ebersole is the president of Excelsior College in Albany, N.Y.
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Neno is a non-governing board of volunteer members who share a mutual love of their neighborhood and a desire to see it improve in any manner possible and who oversee the non-profit organization.
Members are not employed by the city of Saint Paul and act as a non-binding advisory council for some city decisions or initiatives that occur in the North End.
SE Quadrant (1)
Alison Warford
‟I have lived in the North End since 2000 and have enjoyed making a home here. I was elected to the NENO board in 2017 after looking for ways to get more involved in my neighborhood. As a health care professional, I know how much one’s environment affects one’s health. Having safe streets, access to healthy food, green spaces, adequate housing, educational and recreational opportunities, and most of all, having strong connections to the people around us make us healthier people and, in turn, create a healthier community.”
Chloe Rizzo
Alan Richardson
‟Life-long resident of St. Paul, recent member of the Rice Street/North End Community. Proponent of affordable housing, pathways to home ownership, expanding commute options, bolstering parks and recreation opportunities, and strengthening youth and elder relationships. Find me around Rice Street, I’m always up for a good conversation.”
4th seat vacant
SW Quadrant (2)
Karin Groening (Chair)
‟I moved to the North End from Dayton, Ohio 15 years ago. I became involved with NENO because I was looking for ways improve the neighborhood and to build stronger community connections. I love the North End’s diversity where roaming with my dogs can mean hearing mariachis on one block, Vietnamese karaoke on another, and seeing friends from all backgrounds. Since joining the NENO board, I’ve worked to engage and empower young people through the new Youth Committee and to build more connections with our immigrant and refugee populations. ”
Steven Struhar (Secretary)
‟My wife Amanda and I moved here in the spring of 2007 (peak housing market). We fell in love with the neighborhood, and have been working to improve it by being members of various committees and on the district council. We plan to be here for a long time and look forward every week to meeting new neighbors.”
James Berka (Vice Chair)
NW Quadrant (3)
Richard Holst
Ethan Osten
Katheryn Schneider (Treasurer)
‟I am originally from Colorado and moved to Minnesota in 1998. I have lived in the North End since 2006. I bought a home and a year later I bought the 4plex that sits right next to my house. I joined the board after being on the Friends of the North End committee. I volunteer for many organizations including the MN Tool Library. I am an avid gardener. I am very proud of my rain garden and my front yard, which has more perennial plants than grass.
I enjoy being on the board of the North End Neighborhood Organization. I especially like organizing events like the Marydale Festival which brings neighbors together.”
Andrea Lovoll
NE Quadrant (4)
Matt Sletten
‟Matt has lived in the North end since 2004. He is active in his childrens’ school, neighborhood issues, and the North End Neighborhood Organization. He has served on the Land Use and Housing committee, and served as the Chair of the North End Neighborhood Organization. He has worked on the Marydale Festival, the 168 Front Avenue Community Garden, numerous community engagement projects, block club meetings and the building that houses the office.”
“I appreciate my neighborhood, how it has grown and for the future growth.”
2nd seat vacant
3rd seat vacant
Melissa Michener
‟Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Melissa moved to Saint Paul to attend Hamline University. Melissa has been an active citizen in Saint Paul for almost 10 years but is new to the North End. She is passionate about many things including food, gardening, dogs, biking, and staying active and engaged. She plans to stick around in North End for the long haul and welcomes anyone to contact her to chat about anything. Contact her for details. Melissa, her husband, and dog can be found exploring the nooks and crannies of the North End on their long walks and adventures. ”
Youth Seats
Garrett McDermott
Business/Institution Seats
Tyrone Maxwell
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“Throwback Thursday” featuring Annie Dillard by Amanda Husak
30 April 2015 30 April 2015 Ruby Nerio Barron Leave a comment
Weasel of Memories
In light of our Bicentennial Creative Writing and Literature Conference June 11-13, 2015, I’d like to introduce a piece from one of our very own contributors, Annie Dillard. Annie is best known for her narrative prose in fiction and nonfiction.
Her piece “Five Sketches” explores the notions of religion, behavior, and the perception of self. This piece is featured in the North American Review Vol. 260, No. 2, Summer, 1975. Dillard also published “At Home with Gastropods,” Vol. 263, No. 1, Spring, 1978. (Below is the original piece “Five Sketches” which was published in 1975.)
Dillard’s honest narrative and memoir won her the Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and An American Child (1984).
Dillard’s personal essay “Living Like Weasels” found its way into my nonfiction class this semester. This was the first time I had read any of her work. I was captivated by the way Dillard developed scene and held the reader’s attention with her simple language over her encounter with nothing other than a weasel. Her description of the way weasels slaughter their prey by “either splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull,” came alive. The weasel does not seem to release its grip.
I first encountered a real weasel when I was eleven. A family friend had given us four adult yellow and black ducks to accompany the other animals on my family’s farm. We had only had them for a week when a midnight visitor squeezed its way into one of the holes of the old building the ducks were temporarily housed in. When my father awoke the next morning to check them, he found not a single survivor. My father warned me not to look. I snuck open the door anyway to find the chewed and bloody necks of four ducks.
However, Dillard’s essay is not just about weasels. It’s also about not letting go. About finding something to sink our teeth into. To gnaw on just for a bit. It’s about your deceased grandmother’s cubic zirconia ring or that coveted Boston Celtics jersey you can not seem to let go. It’s about attachment. It’s realizing your current life is partially married to the things of the past. As Dillard writes, life is about either living in necessity or in choice. We can’t help but become like the weasel—holding on to what we think will sustain us but only leaves us searching for more. Therefore, our whole lives become shaped upon what changes us and what we change ourselves. Are we more like the weasel or what the weasel latches onto? Do we cling to things, like I do to my grandmother’s ring? Are we okay with giving that jersey away to someone who claims to be an even bigger fan?
What parts of our past are we going to divorce and let go of? What parts are we going to marry and remarry again and again? If it were up to me, I’d divorce my thumb from that cubic zirconia ring. I’d get rid of the physical proof that seems to weigh me down. Instead I’d travel back in time and remarry that memory of my grandma showing me her jewelry collection. That is where the true beauty lies. So marry your memories. Remarry them again and again.
Annie Dillard’s writing appeared in the North American Review in 1975, the year she won the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. In both “Five Sketches” and “Living Like Weasels,” she reveals much larger truths than what the reader finds explicitly on the page. I hope you, as future readers of Dillard’s insightful work, can appreciate the same.
Below is the original piece “Five Sketches” which was published in 1975, Vol. 260, number 2.
Amanda Husak is a volunteer for the North American Review and is earning her undergraduate in English Education at the University of Northern Iowa. Amanda’s work has been published in the 2014 issue of Timber Creek Collections.
Illustrations are by Anthony Tremmaglia. HE is an Ottawa-based illustrator, artist, and educator. His clients include WIRED, Scientific American, Smart Money, HOW, and San Francisco Weekly.
Coincedently, it is also Annie Dilliard‘s birthday today and we here at the North American Review would like to wish Annie a very, merry, Happy Birthday. Thank you again for your contribution and becoming apart of our editioral family.
The Personal is Confessional by Metta Sáma
29 April 2015 6 May 2015 Ruby Nerio Barron 1 Comment
& so what.
This is personal. In 1993 and again in 1994 I was pregnant. By two different guys. One was my guy (’93) and one belonged to someone else (’94). Before I knew I was pregnant – pregnancy one and pregnancy two – my parents knew. My dad dreamt about fish and my mother looked into my face. By pregnancy two it didn’t affect me, that someone could dream my pregnancy into reality (not existence, just into the speakable & spoken word), that someone could look into my face and see a pregnancy. Pregnancy 1, however. . .
A friend who had been pregnant and had a child said of her pregnancy that her body became a publicly consumable object. An object. For consumption. Of consumption. A free-to-consume body. Think of all of the times your own hands have reached towards a pregnant woman’s stomach. Without her permission. How many times your mouths opened to form the obvious pronouncement: you’re pregnant. How many times your eyes rested on a pregnant woman’s stomach and had thoughts travel from your brain to the woman’s body? How many of those pregnant women were strangers?
Pregnancy 1: my mother said to me: you need to go ahead and tell us. What could I tell them that I didn’t know? She said: your father has been waiting for you to tell him. She said: he thinks you’re trying to hide it. She said: your father’s been dreaming of fish again. And this is how I discovered my own pregnancy. My father dreamt of fish. My mother looked into my face. Who else could see it? Who else had seen it? How long did I have before the side-eying strangers would see it? Before the baby bump? That little bump that gives permission to say it, to see, it to touch it.
When l think of the monster Argus, I think of the man, the young man, the teenager, the adolescent, the child, the toddler, the infant, the fetus, Argus. How easily my eyes travel to the interior. The uterus that provided shelter for the fetus. All of the eyes forming inside of the body. The eyes outside of the body. The fetus’s eyes. The community’s eyes. The storm of eyes. The congress of eyes. The rumor of eyes. The gaggle of eyes. The murder of eyes. Mine. Theirs. His. Yours. What is it like to be the pregnant woman? The body of consumption. For consumption. The free–to-consume body. The woman who is hyper woman. The woman who is no longer woman. Who is object. Objectified. Pedestaled. Whose pedestal is burnt while she teeters on it. The pregnant woman who is made Mother before she becomes a mother. The pregnant woman who is judged, castigated, brandished, branded before she becomes a mother.
What is the story of Eve before Cain and Abel? The story of a fallen woman. What is the story of Eve before The Fall? The story of a rib. Who was Mary before her body was burdened with the body of Christ. No imagined being. Who was Mycene before the monster Argus was slain? No imagined being.
What a tragedy. To bear the body of a child whose 100 eyes will be the death of him. Whose 100 eyes will watch her imagine her construct, her deconstruct, her reconstruct, her deconstruct. Whose 100 eyes will overshadow the woman who bore him. The woman who was no one until after the making of the monster. Life in reverse.
My eyes, your eyes, the community’s eyes, the fetus’s eyes, the writer’s eyes.
Here is a different title to this piece: To Dream Mycene I Became Mycene.
Metta Sáma is author of Nocturne Trio (YesYes Bøøks2012) and South of Here (New Issues Press 2005 (published under her legal name, Lydia Melvin)). Her poems, fiction, creative non-fiction, & book reviews have been published or forthcoming in Blackbird, bluestem,Bone Boquet, Drunken Boat, The Drunken Boat, entropy, Esque, hercricle, Jubilat, Kweli, The Owls, Pebble Lake Review, Pyrta, Reverie, Sententia, Transitions among others. le animal & other strange creatures will appear from Miel Books later this year. Sáma is Assistant Professor & Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Center for Women Writers at Salem College.
On Aging by Maceo J. Whitaker
28 April 2015 6 May 2015 Ruby Nerio Barron Leave a comment
For the second straight night, I had a basketball dream. I was playing in the Final Four. In my dream, I scored a basket for the second straight game. Just one basket in each. A statistician might note my crisp 2.0 PPG average—not exactly Hall of Fame numbers.
Scoring in the Final Four is a delightful dream (especially when compared with my recurring zombie-gator apocalypse dream) but a decidedly modest one.
Some people achieve impressive feats in their dreams. My wife, for example, flies whenever she wants in her dreams. Why must my ceiling be one field goal per game?
Why couldn’t I hit a game-winning buzzer beater to spoil Kentucky’s undefeated season?
Why couldn’t I dunk over Jahlil Okafor?
In my younger days, I’d have been the tournament MVP; now, I’m happy to earn a spot in the box score.
I guess time humbles us even in our dreams.
On Sunday, I ran my first half-marathon. It was the “Fallen Comrades Run” at the United States Military Academy. West Point. Featuring views of the Hudson River, the Hudson Highlands, and the historic campus, the scenery was beautiful. Each mile marker commemorated a fallen soldier.
I finished, but my leg bothered me throughout the race. By the tenth mile, my balky knee failed me. Unable even to jog, I limped the final three miles. My early-morning euphoria had worn off completely.
When younger, I never had knee pain.
Aging sucks.
My poem in this issue of the North American Review features a woman named Althea. I don’t believe in breaking down my poems for others, but I’ll say that some people* found the poem sad. And perhaps it is.
The titular character’s best days are behind her, but she has lived a long life. This poem merely attempts to capture one late moment of it.
Our words all too often fall short of evoking true poignancy.
On Sunday, feeling sorry for myself, I hobbled to the twelfth mile marker. As I approached, I saw a woman cheering runners on, encouraging them before they embarked on their final mile. She stood next to the mile marker, which honored a young man who sacrificed his life for our country.
I realized she was the fallen soldier’s mother. Our eyes locked, we thanked each other, and my heart grew heavy. Needless to say, I felt foolish for bemoaning my knee’s misfortune.
Aging sucks, true, but aging is also a gift.
Althea lived a long life, a life with an inevitable end. Yet, we must be content with the miracle that we experience moments at all, even when they involve frivolities such as running, writing poems, or making wide-open layups in dreams.
If you read “Althea,” feel free to listen to Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five play “Gut Bucket Blues”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgxQQk1vadw
* It’s proper etiquette to force all of your friends and acquaintances to stop whatever they’re doing to read your published work immediately, right?
Recommended Poems by Maceo J. Whitaker
I love sharing poetry. In February, I wrote a guest post for Tahoma Literary Review with links to some of my favorite poems. Here are four more poems I’ve enjoyed recently:
“Dinosaurs in the Hood,” by Danez Smith
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249154
Powerful, energetic, humorous—this will be one of your favorite poems.
“Dear 2Pac,” by Jonathan Moody
http://www.thecommononline.org/dear-2pac
A poem about Tupac’s lasting effect on how we live and imagine.
“In Two Seconds,” by Mark Doty
http://aprweb.org/poems/in-two-seconds
A moving tribute to Tamir Rice by the Whitman devotee.
“Fix,” by Alice Fulton
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/04/poetry-alice-fulton-fix/39669/
This poem was first published in The Atlantic in 2000. I love lines like “count cricket beats to tell the temp, count / my breaths from here to Zen.” Fulton’s new book, Barely Composed, is a wonderful read that I recommend highly.
Maceo J. Whitaker’s poems appear this spring in The Pinch, PANK, The Florida Review, The Paterson Literary Review, and Juked (online). Maceo’s poem “Althea” is featured in issue 300.2, Spring 2015.
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NAR Flash Fiction Twitter Contest
24 April 2015 6 May 2015 North American Review 1 Comment
Early in the century, Ezra Pound got off a train in the underground metro station in Paris. He suddenly saw a beautiful face, and then another and another and another, a sight that moved him significantly. He tried to write about it, but could not find the words. On his way home, he was struck with not words, but what he describes as an equation “not in speech, but in little splotches of colour.” From there he wrote a quintessential Imagist text called “In a Station of the Metro” that simply reads, “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.”
Years later, Ernest Hemingway sat in fine dining restaurant, hunched over a late lunch, surrounded by his friends, and bets the table ten dollars each that he can craft an entire story in six words. After the group threw in their money, Hemingway simply writes “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” on a napkin, shows it to everyone at the table, and collects the pot.
What both of these writers understood is the power of brevity and conciseness. Their ability to construct powerful stories or beautiful imagery in less than fifteen words speaks volumes to the command of their craft, and it is for this reason we are feeling particularly inspired by them on this dreary April afternoon. Starting today, we are hosting a Flash Fiction Contest on Twitter. What does this mean? It means that we ask our Twitter followers to show off their writing skills by writing us a story in 140 characters or less and tweeting it with #NARFlash. The contest will go on until Monday, May 4th, and winner will receive the most up to date copy of our magazine. We will be retweeting our favorites as the competition progresses, and from those favorites a winner will be chosen. Our Twitter handle is @NorthAmerReview
So put your thinking caps and your nicest writing jackets on, and start tweeting some flash fiction!
Prize Winning Literary Math (or 3rd place & $3.75 will buy you a moccha frappuccino) by Laurie Frankel
24 April 2015 6 May 2015 Zach McGill Leave a comment
I’ve been sending out a lot lately—submitting my work like wet spaghetti flung hot onto a wall—seeing what sticks. Recently, I learned I was a contest finalist—whoot. First prize was publication in a top-notch lit mag, one thousand dollah-make-you-hollah, and the opportunity to read at a conference. Did the website detail 2nd- and 3rd-place prizes? Yes. Did I read them? No. I figured (wrongly) that if they were giving $1000 for the 1st place then, like every other contest I’d ever read about, 2nd- and poor-slob 3rd-place would simply receive a lesser amount . . . of money (not that I write for money. It’s so much more satisfying to write for journal copies—two of them).
Yesterday I received an email. It read:
Subject: RE: [Name of Contest] Story Title
Dear Meredith,
Congratulations! Editor X selected your manuscript as 3rd place winner in the Y Competition! (names have been redacted because I’m classy that way.)
Have I shared my theory that exclamation points are for the sixth graders and those lacking a brain stem? Have I shared my second theory that addressing a congratulations email to the wrong person is beyond lame on the lame-o-meter? Because who the hell is Meredith?
Just so we’re clear, my name is not Meredith, my middle name is not Meredith. I don’t even like the name Meredith. If I have to be incorrectly addressed I’d much prefer to be called Gretchen or What’s Up Your Highness (which is what I taught Siri to call me).
My closest association to a Meredith is a tall, zitty, frizzy-haired babysitter I once had named, you guessed it, Meredith-Ann Fouty. Picture a giraffe with a skin condition sporting a ‘fro and you have Meredith-Ann. When Meredith-Ann was around me she would speak Gibberish with her friends—gibber gee, gibber gah—to throw me off the trail of juicy band-practice gossip. As far as fake languages go, Gibberish was a close competitor to Pig Latin but harder to understand. Meredith-Ann was smart like that.
The email went on to say:
Please contact Person at Person’s email for instructions on how to redeem your award. Blah, blah, blah.
Another Person, with an MFA who teaches poetry (I looked her up thinking this twit must be an intern but no, she’s just your inner-circle careless twit, weak on proofing skills. My sincerest apologies to all interns).
Redeem my prize? What’s there to redeem? Just show me the money, people. A bit confused I went to the website and learned, get this, there is no money for the poor slob who places 3rd, only a discount on the conference fee. I put this through my de-coder ring and got:
Meredith, for the 40+ hours of your life you spent writing/re-writing your 3rd-place “winning” story you effectively have “won” the honor of paying us! In other words, after writing for ten gazillion years, if you weren’t already clear on this fact, we’re here to let you know your hourly writing wage = minus$$$. And, oh, Congratulations!
Author, short-story writer, and humorist, Laurie Frankel knows pain is the root of all comedy and is thrilled her life is so damn funny. Her books include I Wore a Thong for This?! and There’s a Pattern Here & It Ain’t Glen Plaid, about which Kirkus Reviews has this to say: “. . . laugh-out-loud funny . . . great practical suggestions . . . A quirky, earnest guide to regaining self-esteem for the modern woman.” Frankel’s literary work has appeared in Shenandoah, The Literary Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Pedestal Magazine. She is the winner of the 2014 Time and Place Prize in Brittany, France. Contact her at: LauriesLoveLogic.
The illustrations are by John F. Malta. He is a Kansas City based illustrator and educator. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and VICE.
Flashback Friday featuring Devi Laskar from issue 294.2
Necessity breeds invention!
I was in an online poetry boot camp and had a few hours to come up with that Tuesday poem. Everything I had written that day stunk like raw fish baking on a dry dock. I overheard my children discussing their favorite movies at the time. My oldest said “Little Mermaid” and my middle said “Sleeping Beauty” and my youngest said “Snow White.” When I asked my youngest why, she said the wicked stepmother had the best laugh. And a poem was born.
“Cackle like a Wicked Stepmother” first appeared in issue 294.2, March-April 2009. Here is a flaskback of the poem as well as link to purchase your very own issue.
How to Cackle like a Wicked Stepmother
First you’ll need the accessories,
dazzling with mischief and ill-
intent: poisoned apples, floor-length
mirrors that talk back in iambic
rhyme; sinuous black evening
gowns, eye-shadow the color
of a bruise, lips too crimson to
be kissed, a castle with a working
dungeon; stone stairs always in need
of mopping, henchmen, preferably
hunchbacked, a charcoal forest whose
trees disappear into the abyss
of moonless nights, a thunderstorm
thick with jagged rain; oh, and a man
with a charmed life standing before
you, confessing his abiding
love for your sister, or best friend
since the second grade. The rest
is easy, look into the glass, bite
through to the core, delicious,
forbidden down to the guttural,
and feel the crows’ wings fluttering
in your belly finally rise.
DEVI S. LASKAR was born and raised in Chapel Hill, N.C. She holds a BA in journalism and English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. Ms. Laskar is a photographer and writer—and a former crime reporter in Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, North Carolina, and Illinois. Her poems have been published in the Atlanta Review, the Squaw Valley Review, Pratichi, the Tule Review, and the North American Review, where her poems were finalists for the James Hearst Prize in 2009 and 2011.
CLAIRE STIGLIANI (b. 1983) is a drawer and painter known for her works inspired by paintings, photographs, magazines, posters, YouTube clips, literature, performance and plays. These works explore the act of watching and being watched and blur fiction with reality. Her recent shows include The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, (WI), The Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, (WI), RussellProjects, Richmond (VA), and the Jenkins Johnson Gallery (NY). She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Photography in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
History Several Millennia in the Making: Writing about the Boxing Day Tsunami by Amanda Morris
The 2004 massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean topped the charts as one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded. What grabbed my attention was not the heartbreaking aftermath, but the unbelievably long buildup to the event. As a science writer, I regularly meet with scientists and engineers who are doing fascinating work. Several years ago, I spoke with an Earth scientist who had measured the size of the earthquake that caused the tsunami. In order to help me better understand it, he showed me a computer simulation of events that occurred nearly 200 million years ago.
The events eased into motion when a sleeping supercontinent named Gondwana began to shake awake. After having been settled at the bottom of the Earth near Antarctica for millennia, its subcontinents started to pull against their sutures. A hot rock mantle plume pushed up against the Earth’s crust, its bulbous head piercing through the overlying rock. The intrusion formed a fissure between what is the current-day India landmass and the rest of Gondwana. The crack deepened into a canyon and then a gulf so wide that India pulled away and floated freely. The liberated landmass budged northward, 20 centimeters per year through the Tethys Ocean.
Moving at glacial pace, the slow-floating zeppelin shoved everything out of its way during its travel before being halted by the Burma Plate in the northern hemisphere. With nowhere to go, the Indian Plate slid and settled beneath the Burma Plate. The dipping plate created a trench in the seabed, 25,344-feet deep. At the bottom of this trench, ancient fungus chomped on carbon in millions-of-years-old mud. Long, bony fish stood upright on their fins, waiting for movement in the abyss to scoop up prey. The Indian Plate pushed deeper everyday, creeping farther beneath the Burma plate, creeping at a rate of growing fingernails. It creeped like this for 50 million years. The continents crunched together, crinkling at the interface like rumpled tin foil. The bedrock raised up and the edges of the landmasses folded over onto themselves, growing into mountains. The peaks grew two inches per year, its tallest one becoming Mount Everest.
The tension of these two plates grinding together eventually became more friction and pressure than the Earth could handle. On December 29, 2004, over the course of several minutes, the Indian Plate slipped, charging beneath the overriding Burma Plate. The sea floor jolted upward by several meters, displacing 30 cubic kilometers of water to trigger the tsunami. It amazed me that an event, several millennia in the making, could suddenly rupture and forever change the Earth’s surface within a matter of minutes.
When writing about the events that occurred directly after the earthquake, I wanted to convey the sensation that a lot of actions were happening at once. I chose to overwrite the text, in order to help give that feeling. After the tsunami hits land, I implemented off-rhymes and assonance to help pull the reader through the somewhat dense text. I wanted to make the sentences a little slippery, to pull the readers frictionlessly through the action, propelling them forward, hurtling toward the end result.
Through climate change, deforestation, draining rivers, reef destruction, and farming, humans are steadily altering the face of the planet and its atmosphere. But some alterations are rooted in a history deeper than humans. Some events were fated long before a word such as “fate” existed. Some events are unavoidable. The 2004 earthquake and tsunami were written into a destiny that we have been inescapably hurtling toward for millennia.
Amanda Morris is a science writer in Chicago. She received a master’s degree in creative writing from Northwestern University, where she previously served as managing editor of TriQuarterly. She also has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Illinois. Her work can be found in TriQuarterly, CenterPiece magazine, Northwestern Engineering magazine, LiveScience, the website for the National Science Foundation, and elsewhere. She lives with her handsome husband Mark, who is also a writer, and their deliciously fat cat Oliver, who cannot write but wishes he could.
Pictures are linked to their online credentials.
IS RISK-TAKING ADVISABLE IN WRITNG POETRY? ALWAYS. by Robert Nazarene from issue 300.2
10 April 2015 13 May 2015 Ruby Nerio Barron 1 Comment
I am especially pleased to appear again in America’s oldest literary review. With respect to my poem, “A Day in the Life”, I want to express my view that poetry which does not take risks is of insignificant value. Having served as an editor and publisher for a decade, I came to believe a distinctive voice is the most prized attribute of any poet. Witness the likes of cummings, Berryman, Plath, Wier and Eliot–just to mention a few. No cookie cutter poems here.
I feel that all too often poets tend to hold their work at some distance from themselves. And mindless abstraction in poetry is poetry’s greatest enemy. (You know who you are.) As human beings, it is my firm belief we are connected not so much by our strengths, but rather, by our woundedness. (Here my spell-checker tells me I may be guilty of yet another neologism.) I believe as well that there are only two purposes of poetry: to disturb and to console. And, on rare occasions, to achieve both. I am always impressed by the quality of work found in North American Review.
Last whenever I suffered a major stroke
it’s caused me to gain 15/1000ths
of a second on my 440-relay time
the druggist at Sam’s Club asked
if I had any questions? yes would it hurt
to give half to my dog for her high
blood pressure she loves anything
with speed in it in the checkout line
my ATM card was approved
for the amount of purchase that’s
a first and the receipt checker
at the door made me turn my jacket
pockets inside out something about
cans of chick peas disappearing
from the store and after 26 years
of continuous sobritety I got kicked
out of AA. they said they were
more after “fresh” meat and that
last whenever I got locked up
in the nuthouse faster than
you can say Jackie Robinson
and also people with bipolar
disorder aren’t worth a fast fucking
glance in the rearview mirror.
ROBERT NAZARENE founded MARGIE / THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POETRY and INTUIT HOUSE POETRY SERIES where he was the recipient of a publishers’ National Book Critics Award in poetry. His first book of poems is CHURCH (2006). A second volume of poetry, Puzzle Factory, is new in 2015. His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse The Iowa Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, North American Review, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Salmagundi. Stand and elsewhere. He was educated at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Thursday Throwback blog featuring Ted Kooser’s “The Corpse of an Old Woman” by Michael Jackson
9 April 2015 9 May 2015 Ruby Nerio Barron 1 Comment
Ted Kooser’s poem “The Corpse of an Old Woman” can be found in Vol. 251, No. 6 (Nov., 1966), p.14, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25116500.
THE CORPSE OF AN OLD WOMAN
It has been lying on a braided rug
with a teacup in its hand since yesterday
at supper-time, and the neighbor-ladies shrug
and say “She lets the lights burn night and day.”
Its cat sits in the window, watching birds,
and the phone rings now and then, mistakenly;
the mailman bangs the box-lid to be heard;
Someone may stop this afternoon for tea.
– Ted Kooser
Some years ago, on a typically freezing Iowa February morning, I went out to start my car, in order that it could warm up a tad in the 20 below weather. Doing so at 6:00 a.m. in the morning was nothing unusual for me at that time as I started my cubical-based life by 6:30 am every morning. Returning to the car a few minutes later, not having paid heed to the icy conditions overnight, I slipped in my dress shoes and fell straight back. The only thing that saved me from a concussion was the back pack I had slung over my right shoulder which provided enough of a cushion between me and the unforgiving cement that I was able to avoid smashing my head. However, by that time in life, I had developed back problems and everything immediately went into what felt like a full body spasm, driven by the wreck that is my back. As I lay there, a morbid thought did more than just cross my mind: I was going to lay there in the pre-dawn darkness and freeze to death before anyone found me (I doubt I was wearing a jacket).
This was more than just a random thought as I knew not one of my neighbors beyond saying hello occasionally if we happened to cross paths entering and exiting our apartments, and anyone I have a personal relationship with lives at least a hundred miles away. After laying on the ground for a minute trying to regain my senses, I realized the car was still running and I needed to get it turned off before I went back into the house. Unfortunately my ability to stand up was compromised by the back spasms, and I had to crawl from the sidewalk to the car and drag myself into the driver’s seat far enough to reach the ignition, shut it off, and pull out the keys. Somehow I managed to crawl, drag, walk myself into my apartment where I collapsed on the couch and lay in pain for the next four hours waiting for my back to shut the hell up.
The good news, at least partially, is that had I failed to show up for work, remained laying there in that parking lot, someone would have noticed my absence and eventually found me before the day was over. Whether or not I would have frozen to death by the time my neighbors started their day is doubtful, but still a powerful enough memory that I’m still holding onto it years later. What isn’t good news is that were I to fall in my apartment now, coffee mug in hand like Kooser’s corpse, I shudder to think how long I would lay there before I was found. I still don’t know any of my neighbors save one, and I only speak to him on a highly sporadic basis, and I no longer have a job to show up for at a strict, regulated, cubical-based time.
Because of this possible scenario, and the morbid thoughts it conjures up, I am immediately drawn to the use of the word “it” in Kooser’s poem. The corpse is not a person, a man, or a woman, but rather an “it,” a non-entity that serves only for gossip for the nosey, but not compassionate, neighbors. There “it” lies, burning those lights like “it’s” made of money. I wonder then if I am an “it,” a thing in a place, rooted to nothing. Will my neighbors complain about my lights burning? Doubtful. Would they notice a smell if I dropped dead and lay unclaimed for weeks? Maybe. What’s more absurd is that for a time period of about eight or nine months, I lived without a phone of any kind; no landline, or cell phone. 911 for me during that time would have consisted of pounding on the wall of my neighbor’s apartment, hoping to hell they called security to come scoop me off the floor, assuming of course I hadn’t had a heart attack and was incapable of dragging myself to the thin and poorly constructed wall.
Such thoughts also lead me into ruminations on death itself, outside of thoughts of my own demise. Having buried a few too many family members already, including my father, it’s odd to observe the grieving process we all have as individuals. Or the dying process for that matter. My father, for example, spent his last few weeks acting childish and immature. Though this is not particularly surprising if you knew him, it was still odd to watch his behavior through what was then my thirty-two years of experience with him. I vowed then, and still do, that should I know my time is coming, whenever it does, that I will maintain dignity until the end. But perhaps I am lying to myself, perhaps I will act even more ridiculous, decrying all the wrongs that have been done to me in the past, cursing God as my father did, defiant until the end. But who’s to say, who can tell the future?
The corpse of the old woman, it appears based on the teacup in her hand, died suddenly. Perhaps then this idea of sudden death is the one to hope for, should it be that one has the option. Or not, as she, or “it,” clearly lacks dignity after her death, left to rot on her living room floor, apparently missed by no one.
The problem with death, apart from death itself, is that it is such a difficult topic to discuss. Not as a concept necessarily, but as a more concrete and personal thing. Some people outright refuse to discuss the topic, perhaps out of fear that it will come true, perhaps out of immense sadness and a lost love one, you can never tell. They simply won’t discuss it. Others see the topic as morbid, judging those who would discuss it (I’m sure if you’ve read this far you’ve formed an opinion on my opinion of the subject).
And yet death remains a fact of all of our lives, the one absolute inevitability that we all must face at some point or another. On occasion I like to fool myself and act as if I’ve come to terms with it, not as a concept, but as a reality. For example, with recent news of a purposely crashed commercial airplane, I tell myself that had I been on that flight, I would have had my brief moment of panic at the realization of what was occurring, before taking a deep breath and accepting the circumstances at hand. My last thoughts would be that this was okay, that I have already made my peace with death and the universe, that my dignity would remain intact, and that my acceptance would be absolute.
But here I am, writing about my fears of dying alone in my apartment, not to be found for weeks until I’ve rotted into a nuisance smell, something for the neighbors to complain about. Clearly I am not yet at peace with the reality, though I’ll still pretend to be with the concept. I’ll also assume that Kooser had similar thoughts, at least in some manner, before writing this poem, which is what led him to the concept of using “it” instead of “she” to describe the corpse. Maybe the fear is death, maybe not. Maybe, more likely, the fear is that once we die we no longer exist to the outside world, the one we try so hard, for so long, to get to understand us.
Michael Jackson is a graduate student of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is also an intern here at NAR. Other work can be found at hobopancakes.com.
The first and third image are from wikimedia commons.
The second and final illustration are by NAR’s very own contributor Anthony Tremmaglia.
Illustrations by: Anthony Tremmaglia, an Ottawa-based illustrator, artist, and educator. His clients include WIRED, Scientific American, Smart Money, HOW, and San Francisco Weekly. Anthony is featured in issues 299.1, Winter 2014 & 299.4, Fall 2014 and his most recent work (featured above) in upcoming 300.2, Spring 2015. Find more of Anthony’s work at http://www.tremmaglia.ca/
At Home in the Pauses by Brian Fitch
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I’ve been thinking lately about fiction and nonfiction, how they can merge and separate until one becomes the other. Especially I’ve been thinking about the technique of pause in nonfiction, a liberal stepping outside, pausing the narrative, to pursue a possibly fictional what if this had happened?
Fiction writing has as one of its compelling qualities the possibility of being real. When the narrative is paused, fiction and nonfiction can become intermixed as a writer finds herself or himself stepping back from fiction to the real, to actual stories, the unembellished past. When the edges of imagination become too thin to keep a writer aloft, s/he can just let go. What really happened may provide a sort of reorientation. When the writer’s imagination is recharged by the real, or at least the remembered real, another pause to follow a fictional path will present itself.
After enough years, these pauses can become quite lengthy and take on the appearance of actual story. In other words, the pause may become the story and the return to the nonfiction frame may become the fiction.
Once the paused fiction has become the dominant narrative, the next step is another pause from the now functioning narrative to a newer fiction – a pause within a pause, within a pause and so forth. If you live long enough, you may find yourself far from the original home with no maps back, even if you want them. Another question might be who would want them, but that is for another discussion. Making the attempt to find your way forward in these new narratives will keep you writing and attempting to answer the questions who am I? and/or how did I get here? Whether or not you can answer these questions does not matter. You are writing fiction, the pauses are infinite, and the converted narrative may very well be the superior one.
Brian Fitch lives in western Wisconsin with his wife the poet Jennifer Brantley and their cat Moxie. His fiction or poetry has appeared in North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, Helsinki Quarterly, Ars Interpres, Bark, and others. Brian appears in issue 296.3, Summer 2011 as well as the current issue 300.2 with his story “Nothing Is Always the Same”.
Illustrations by Clay Rodery, an illustrator who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Clay’s illustrations have been featured in the North American Review issues 298.4, 299.1, 299.3 and the most recently is in issue 299.4, Fall 2014 and most recently 300.2, Spring 2015.
Between the Personal and Political: Writing the Stories of Gay Liberation by Bradford Tice
6 April 2015 Ruby Nerio Barron 3 Comments
I am very grateful to North American Review for publishing the poem “I Heard They Were Queer for One Another,” featured in the spring issue of NAR, as it is part of a project that is very near and dear to my heart. In the introduction to Carolyn Forché’s landmark anthology Against Forgetting, Forché advocates for a space between the categories of the personal and political poem—a space that she calls “the social.”[1] I have always liked the implications of this. That between the personal and the political there is conversation, gossip, culture, socializing. A fertile ground for poetry indeed! That space Forché describes is where I wanted this poem to reside.
The personal: I came out of the closet in high school, so I feel intimately the desire of individuals to carve out a space that is private, separate from politics and the media’s glare. I’m also aware that the act of carving out such a space can be a political gesture. That’s perhaps why I became so fascinated with the story of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. It wasn’t until I was a junior in college that I learned about the Stonewall, the efforts of Gay Liberation, and I remember being shocked at the time that I had lived as long as I had having never caught a whiff of any of these narratives or histories. It wasn’t even in a classroom or book that I learned about them, at least not at first, but rather through word of mouth, interactions with older gay men in the community who knew a thing or two about gay history. At the time (the late 1990s) it seemed that gay and lesbian history was an idea that was still trying to take shape. The commotion made by this silence (and silence can indeed make a lot of noise) propelled me into this project. I wanted to make sense of these stories, and perhaps more importantly, I wanted to make sense of what they meant to me. How was I a part of this history? How much of my life did I owe to these men and women?
The political: So a word on the Stonewall. The Gay Liberation movement is said by many to have started on a hot summer night in 1969 in New York City’s Greenwich Village when a group of street kids with few options and nowhere else to go chose to resist police harassment of known homosexual establishments. The poem “I Heard They Were Queer for One Another” is a piece included in my most recent poetry collection What the Night Numbered (Trio House Press, 2015), wherein the myth of Cupid and Psyche—their epic account of love discovered, lost, and eventually reunited—is re-envisioned and threaded with the accounts of the Stonewall Riots. The voices that speak within these poems are those of the oppressed and unnamed, those who live between the traditional categories of sex, gender, and sexuality in a time when the only names given to such individuals were slurs. Many are the voices of street kids and queer youths, hustlers, panhandlers, and survivors who have come to New York in search of both the city’s great anonymity and the promise of a space, however meager, to meet and love one another. The spirit of these youths are vocalized in the character of Psyche, the name given to a transgendered runaway from Nebraska who comes to the urban streets at the age of thirteen with only the clothes on her back, a fist full of faux jewelry, and a desire for a new kind of love.
The poem featured in this issue of North American is set at the moment when the crowd and commotion outside the Stonewall Inn became a riot. On June 28, police raided the bar. The riot trucks idled outside waiting to be loaded with the patrons, all of whom would be arrested, their names published in the paper, which meant jobs would be lost, marriages would implode, and lives would be ruined. This was nothing new. Raids were a part of life during this era in gay culture, but for whatever reason, on this night the patrons, many of them those street kids mentioned above, had decided enough was enough. The poetic speaker in the poem is a kind of collective voice—the voice of those street kids gossiping about what happened, speculating, but the poem watches the police. Once the riot started, the police were forced inside the Stonewall, barricaded inside. There was only one exit, and they were ordered by their superior to wait for help to come.
The social: I wanted this poem to tie the experiences of those officers to the lives of those rioters beating on the doors of the Stonewall. I wanted to show a point of connectedness in the midst of chaos, the one side reflecting the other. Brutality is always easier when we deny our commonalities, and so I chose to make everyone present bound and intimate, even as it all came apart. As this brotherhood of officers stands together facing their fears of what might await them on the other side of that door, they effectively mirror the fears of the Stonewall’s patrons who often faced daily homophobia and potential police harassment. Effectively, in that moment the police are queered. They are made strange, or perhaps more accurately, they are brought into the strange—that liminal and uncertain space at the margins. They feel their power slipping away, and they are oppressed. I would like to think that for a moment the two groups psychically approached one another, perhaps recognized themselves in each other’s faces, and I’d also like to think that it was indeed the queerest thing.
[1] Carolyn Forché, introduction to Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 31.
Bradford Tice is the author of two books of poetry: Rare Earth (New Rivers Press, 2013), which was named the winner of the 2011 Many Voices Project and a 2014 Debut-litzer finalist, and What the Night Numbered (Trio House Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Trio Award. His poetry and fiction have appeared in such periodicals as The Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, The American Scholar, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Epoch, as well as in Best American Short Stories 2008. His poetry was also selected as the winner of Prairie Schooner’s 2009 Edward Stanley Award. He currently teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln.
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October 17, 2014 by nossaorchids
2014 September Winning Photograph
The winning picture was a single flower of Thelymitra epipactoides (Metallic Sun Orchid) taken by Rosalie Lawrence. This picture was cropped from a photograph taken on a mobile phone. Phones have come a long way since the days of Alexander Graham Bell!
T. epipactoides is a special orchid both in its beautiful colourings and that it is one of our rarest orchids. This endangered species has been well studied in an effort to prevent its demise with the result that there is an abundance of information about it. Recently, with the knowledge gained, Dr Nouska Reiter of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC) and her team have managed to cultivate 3,000 plants with the plan to re-introduce them back into the bush in the Wimmera area.
Following are some interesting points from two good sources, which are the
Biodiversity Information Resources Data page (quotes in blue)
Species Profile and Threats Database page (quotes in brown)
(2)……can remain dormant as a tuber in the soil for up to nine years ……….
(But once a plant has flowered)
(2)…….Plants can produce flowers from their second year of growth onwards for up to four consecutive years, but no more. Individual plants can remain dormant for up to two years then grow to produce flowers, but if dormant for four years or more, plants generally do not reappear. …..
(2)…… Detailed monitoring suggests that mature plants only live for about 10 years before dying (Cropper 1993). ……..
(2)……..flowers open when the relative humidity is lower than 52%, air temperature is above 15 °C, and there are clear skies ………….
(2)……..Flowers remain for up to four weeks but wither a week after pollination ……
(2)……. fungus is required to initiate successful seed germination (Calder et al. 1989) and seeds cannot survive more than two weeks without associating with the fungus ………
(1)…….Flower colour is highly variable, brown, copper, blue and green being the main colour groups which are determined by the proportion of red, blue and green epidermal cells, some of which are reflective giving a metallic appearance. …….
(2)….The leaf is loosely sheathing ………
(2)…Mature non-flowering plants have slightly narrower leaves to 51 cm long and not sheathing …
(1)………Flower colour is highly variable, brown, copper, blue and green being the main colour groups which are determined by the proportion of red, blue and green epidermal cells, some of which are reflective giving a metallic appearance. ………
(2)…. is undulating plains, crests of hills, gentle slopes of low broad ridges and at the bottom of broad, shallow swales (Obst 2005). It grows in sandy soils over a clay subsoil, with these soils having a tendency to become waterlogged in winter and spring, and drying out in summer and autumn ……
(2)…..This species is a post-disturbance coloniser, utilising early successional stages after disturbance events such as human activities, fire, animal activities such as scratching of the soil, or associated vegetation disturbance. ……
(2)……..requires open sites for flowering and seedling recruitment (Calder et al. 1989). ………
(1)……Population estimates vary from about 1050 plants in Australia (DEH 2006), to less than 3,000 plants (Coats et al 2002). More recent assessments suggest the population could be less than 1500 plants in the wild …….
(2)……In the Murray Darling Basin and South East Regions of South Australia there were ten populations of the Metallic Sun-orchid recorded in 2004 by Obst ……..
Reminder – November theme is Orchids and Insects (Spiders and other such critters are honorary insects)
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Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Treatment
Edmund Barton (Editor)
Series: Audiology and Hearing Research Advances
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ISBN: N/A Categories: Audiology and Hearing Research Advances, Upcoming Publications, Auditory and Speech, Otolaryngology, Medicine and Health Tags: 9781536144765, 9781536144758, auditory and speech
Hearing loss in the pediatric population is often a source of anxiety both for families and health professionals, with current rehabilitation options mainly consisting of hearing aids and cochlear implants. As such, the authors of Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Treatment present an overview of the causes of progressive hearing loss (both congenital and acquired) and explore the management of this condition.
Sensorineural hearing loss, if not properly treated, may likely compromise speech and, consequently, the psychosocial development of the affected child. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment has a significant impact on the likelihood of hearing rehabilitation and on social development. The authors provide an analysis of the prevalence, stratification of risk factors, and the most appropriate treatment for sensorineural hearing loss.
The authors go on to review the role of the gender medicine in the field of audiology. Currently, there is growing interest on the effects of gender differences on the pathophysiology and pharmacology of several disorders; however, there is still few data about the relationship between gender-related factors and hearing loss.
This compilation also proposes hyperbaric oxygenation as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss. The authors take into consideration the physiologic, biochemical and cellular effect of oxygenation on the human brain and body.
The authors discuss congenital cytomegalovirus infection, the most common cause of nonhereditary sensorineural hearing loss during childhood worldwide. It affects 0.2% to 2.5% of all live-born neonates and the highest incidence occurs in developing countries, where 1% to 5% of all live births can be infected.
An overview of hearing loss caused by the Zika virus infection (both congenital and adult) is provided and a discussion on the management of this condition is explored. First isolated in 1947, Zika virus rose to prominence after its outbreak in Latin America in 2015. Due to a high incidence of microcephaly in the Brazilian northeast, the correlation between Zika virus infection during pregnancy and this congenital malformation was recognized.
With 30-35% of people suffering from presbycusis, also known as “age-related hearing loss”, it is the leading cause of hearing impairment among the elderly. Even though it is a multifactorial disease, its prevalence increases with aging and is higher among men. The authors propose that once age-related hearing loss has been diagnosed, the possibility of benefiting from conventional hearing aids should be taken into account according to hearing test results.
Chapter 1. Progressive Hearing Loss in Childhood
(Alice Lang Silva, Letícia P. S. Rosito and Natalia Silva Cavalcanti, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 2. Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children
(Letícia S. Rosito, PhD, Marina Faistauer, MD, Ingrid Silveira and Luiz Felipe Schmidt Birk, Department of Otolaryngology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil)
Chapter 3. Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Gender Differences
(Virginia Corazzi, Claudia Aimoni, Chiara Bianchini, Stefano Pelucchi and Andrea Ciorba, ENT and Audiology Department, University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy)
Chapter 4. Hyperbaric Oxygenation in Treatment of Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
(Dorota Olex-Zarychta, PhD, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland)
Chapter 5. Cytomegalovirus Sensorineural Hearing Loss
(Alice Lang Silva, MD, Letícia Petersen Schmidt Rosito, PhD, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 6. Hearing Loss Due to Congenital Zika Virus Infection
(Alice Lang Silva, MD, Letícia Petersen Schmidt Rosito, PhD, and Luiz Birk, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery from Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 7. Presbycusis: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Histopathological Findings, Diagnosis and Management
(Pietro Salvago, MD, Francesco Dispenza, PhD, Francesco Martines, PhD, Bio.Ne.C. Department, Università Degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, and others)
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Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Nitrite Drinking Water Studies in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice
CASRN: 7632-00-0
Chemical Formula: NaNO2
Synonyms/Common Names: Diazotizing salts; nitrous acid, sodium salt
Report Date: May 2001
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Sodium nitrite is used as a color fixative and preservative in meats and fish. It is also used in manufacturing diazo dyes, nitroso compounds, and other organic compounds; in dyeing and printing textile fabrics and bleaching fibers; in photography; as a laboratory reagent and a corrosion inhibitor; in metal coatings for phosphatizing and detinning; and in the manufacture of rubber chemicals. Sodium nitrite also has been used in human and veterinary medicine as a vasodilator, a bronchial dilator, an intestinal relaxant, and an antidote for cyanide poisoning. Sodium nitrite was nominated by the FDA for toxicity and carcinogenesis studies based on its widespread use in foods. Male and female F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice were exposed to sodium nitrite (99% pure) in drinking water for 14 weeks or 2 years. Genetic toxicology studies were conducted in Salmonella typhimurium, rat and mouse bone marrow, and mouse peripheral blood.
14-Week Study in Rats
Groups of 10 male and 10 female rats were exposed to 0, 375, 750, 1,500, 3,000, or 5,000 ppm sodium nitrite (equivalent to average daily doses of approximately 30, 55, 115, 200, or 310 mg sodium nitrite/kg body weight to males and 40, 80, 130, 225, or 345 mg/kg to females) in drinking water for 14 weeks. Clinical pathology study groups of 15 male and 15 female rats were exposed to the same concentrations for 70 or 71 days. One female exposed to 3,000 ppm died before the end of the study. Body weights of males exposed to 3,000 or 5,000 ppm and females exposed to 5,000 ppm were significantly less than those of the controls. Water consumption by 5,000 ppm males and 3,000 and 5,000 ppm females was less than that by the controls at weeks 2 and 14. Clinical findings related to sodium nitrite exposure included brown discoloration in the eyes and cyanosis of the mouth, tongue, ears, and feet of males exposed to 3,000 or 5,000 ppm and of females exposed to 1,500 ppm or greater. Reticulocyte counts were increased in males and females exposed to 3,000 or 5,000 ppm. The erythron was decreased on day 19 but increased by week 14 in males and females exposed to 5,000 ppm. Methemoglobin concentrations were elevated in almost all exposed groups throughout the 14 week study; a no-observed-adverse-effect level was not achieved. The relative kidney and spleen weights of males and females exposed to 3,000 or 5,000 ppm were significantly greater than those of the controls. Sperm motility in 1,500 and 5,000 ppm males was significantly decreased. Increased erythropoietic activity in the bone marrow of exposed males and females was observed. The incidences of squamous cell hyperplasia of the forestomach in 5,000 ppm males and females were significantly increased.
14-Week Study in Mice
Groups of 10 male and 10 female B6C3F1 mice were exposed to 0, 375, 750, 1,500, 3,000, or 5,000 ppm sodium nitrite (equivalent to average daily doses of approximately 90, 190, 345, 750, or 990 mg/kg to males and 120, 240, 445, 840, or 1,230 mg/kg to females) in drinking water for 14 weeks. Body weights of males exposed to 5,000 ppm were significantly less than those of the controls. Water consumption by males exposed to 1,500 ppm or greater was slightly less than that by the controls at week 13. Relative spleen weights of 3,000 and 5,000 ppm males and absolute and relative heart, kidney, liver, and spleen weights of females exposed to 3,000 or 5,000 ppm were greater than those of the control groups. Sperm motility was decreased in 5,000 ppm males, and the estrous cycles of 1,500 and 5,000 ppm females were significantly longer than in the controls. There were increased incidences of squamous cell hyperplasia of the forestomach in 5,000 ppm males and females, extramedullary hematopoiesis of the spleen in 3,000 and 5,000 ppm males and 1,500 ppm or greater females, and degeneration of the testis in 3,000 and 5,000 ppm males.
2-Year Study in Rats
Groups of 50 male and 50 female rats were exposed to 0, 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm sodium nitrite (equivalent to average daily doses of approximately 35, 70, or 130 mg/kg to males and 40, 80, or 150 mg/kg to females) in drinking water for 2 years. For toxicokinetic studies of plasma nitrite and blood methemoglobin, 10 male and 10 female special study rats were exposed to the same concentrations for 12 months. Survival of exposed groups was similar to that of the controls. Mean body weights of males and females exposed to 3,000 ppm were less than those of the controls throughout the study. Water consumption by males and females exposed to 3,000 ppm was less than that by the controls throughout the study, and that by the other exposed groups was generally less after week 14.
The incidences of hyperplasia of the forestomach epithelium in males and females exposed to 3,000 ppm were significantly greater than those in the control groups. The incidence of fibroadenoma of the mam mary gland was significantly increased in females exposed to 1,500 ppm, and the incidences of multiple fibroadenoma were increased in 750 ppm and 1,500 ppm females; however, these neoplasms occur with a high background incidence, and no increase was seen in the 3,000 ppm group. The incidences of mononuclear cell leukemia were significantly decreased in males and females exposed to 1,500 or 3,000 ppm.
2-Year Study in Mice
Groups of 50 male and 50 female B6C3F1 mice were exposed to 0, 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm sodium nitrite (equivalent to average daily doses of approximately 60, 120, or 220 mg/kg to males and 45, 90, or 165 mg/kg to females) in drinking water for 2 years. Survival of exposed groups was similar to that of the controls; mean body weights of 3,000 ppm females were less than those of the controls throughout the study. Exposed groups generally consumed less water than the control groups.
The incidences of squamous cell papilloma or carci noma (combined) in the forestomach of female mice occurred with a positive trend. The incidence of hyperplasia of the glandular stomach epithelium was significantly greater in 3,000 ppm males than in the controls.
Genetic Toxicology
Sodium nitrite was mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA100, with and without Aroclor 1254-induced hamster and rat liver S9 enzymes; no mutagenicity was observed in strain TA98. Results of acute bone marrow micronucleus tests with sodium nitrite in male rats and mice by intraperitoneal injection were negative. In addition, a peripheral blood micronucleus assay conducted with mice from the 14-week study gave negative results.
Under the conditions of this 2-year drinking water study, there was no evidence of carcinogenic activity of sodium nitrite in male or female F344/N rats exposed to 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm. There was no evidence of carcinogenic activity of sodium nitrite in male B6C3F1 mice exposed to 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm. There was equivocal evidence of carcinogenic activity of sodium nitrite in female B6C3F1 mice based on the positive trend in the incidences of squamous cell papilloma or carcinoma (combined) of the forestomach.
Exposure to sodium nitrite in drinking water resulted in increased incidences of epithelial hyperplasia in theforestomach of male and female rats and in the glandular stomach of male mice.
Decreased incidences of mononuclear cell leukemia occurred in male and female rats.
TECHNICAL REPORT PATHOLOGY TABLES AND CURVES
Sodium nitrite: Target Organs and Levels of Evidence for TR-495
Summary of the 2-Year Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Nitrite
Male F344/N Rats
Female F344/N Rats
Male B6C3F1 Mice
Female B6C3F1 Mice
Concentrations in drinking water
0, 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm 0, 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm 0, 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm 0, 750, 1,500, or 3,000 ppm
Body weights
3,000 ppm group less than the control group 3,000 ppm group less than the control group Exposed groups similar to the control group 3,000 ppm group less than the control group
29/50, 38/50, 36/50, 36/50 33/50, 31/50, 36/50, 33/50 39/50, 45/50, 42/50, 39/50 40/50, 34/50, 37/50, 41/50
Nonneoplastic effects
Forestomach: epithelial hyperplasia (12/50, 9/50, 10/50, 44/50) Forestomach: epithelial hyperplasia (8/50, 6/50, 8/50, 40/50) Glandular stomach: epithelial hyperplasia (0/50, 0/50, 2/50, 10/50) None
Neoplastic effects
None None None None
Uncertain findings
None None None Forestomach: squamous cell papilloma or carcinoma (1/50, 0/50, 1/50, 5/50)
Decreased incidences
Mononuclear cell leukemia: (17/50, 12/50, 7/50, 3/50) Mononuclear cell leukemia: (15/50, 10/50, 1/50, 1/50) None None
Level of evidence of carcinogenic activity
No evidence No evidence No evidence Equivocal evidence
Genetic Toxicology of Sodium Nitrite
Test System
Bacterial Mutagenicity Salmonella typhimurium gene mutations: Positive in strain TA100 with and without S9; negative in strain TA98
Micronucleated erythrocytes Male rat bone marrow in vivo: Negative
Micronucleated erythrocytes Male mouse bone marrow in vivo: Negative
Micronucleated erythrocytes Male and female mouse peripheral blood in vivo: Negative
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I am very proud to be Chairman of ORT UK, a position I’ve held since January 2009. I decided to become involved with ORT because I believe education is so essential, particularly in these straitened times. ORT helps young Jewish people to learn skills to become self-sufficient and secure their future livelihoods. I don’t take my children’s education or future for granted, and, as the Jewish people are a worldwide family, I also don’t take for granted the education and livelihood of our students in Israel, the Former Soviet Union, Latin America and other countries around the world. I hope you enjoy browsing our website.
Having spent time with hundreds of IT Directors, working on their technology strategies, I believe that I can apply my knowledge to the next generation and even re-educate people on how to use IT to better enhance their lives and careers. Education in certain parts of the world is the only path to follow to counteract a vicious circle with no way out. ORT UK gives me the opportunity to make a difference; it’s a fantastic charity with a long heritage in education.
My personal and philanthropic experience has powerfully demonstrated to me that education is the cornerstone of empowerment of the individual. It is also central to the Jewish ethos. Ort is a leader in this sphere, and with its deeply committed, passionate and experienced professionals, successfully delivers an unparalleled educational and training resource to communities around the world. It is a privilege, and humbling, to be able to contribute to such a wonderful endeavour.
Most of my professional life has been spent in Jewish education, including time spent as a Headteacher of two Jewish schools and also founder and first co-ordinator of Limmud. I first came across ORT in my role as a teacher of modern Jewish history, when I became fascinated by its pioneering work around vocational education in the 19th century. Indeed, every time I walk into the building in Camden Town, I am struck by those wonderful photographs with their peculiar juxtaposition of monochrome images that immediately say the past, while the faces within are of generations proudly looking forward to brave new futures. I had the opportunity to be involved with ORT in the development of cutting edge projects, when I was Headteacher of King Solomon High School. I was also exposed to their international work through seminars and training. Most recently I have seen the impact ORT’s ideas and expertise can bring to European Jewish educators and schools, through my work in running seminars for European Jewish educators. It seems to me that ORT, more than any other charity, continues to build a practical vision of the Jewish future across the Jewish world. I now work outside the Jewish community and was looking for some genuinely positive ways to still stay involved and offer something and I am honoured and delighted that this can be within the framework of ORT UK. I hope I can now play my small part in contributing to the work they support and the power and depth of change it brings to shape so many young Jewish futures.
Yorai Linenberg
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Growing up in Israel I remember that only the best and brightest got to go to an ORT school there – and since apparently I wasn’t one of them, I’m glad I managed to circumvent the system and join ORT in a different capacity, albeit several decades later. It is a privilege to be part of an organisation that helps people define their own future and whose top three priorities have always been “Education, Education, Education” – nothing can be more important.
ORT has been a major part of my life for more than 40 years and ORT is a charity whose aims are as relevant today as they were not only in 1980 but in 1880. To help others to help themselves – quietly and effectively ensuring that they no longer need to rely on charity is the ultimate level of giving. What better reward than be a part of this mission.
ORT’s primary objective is to enhance people’s lives through education and for this to be the foundation for their future. The heritage of ORT started from dealing with education in a very different world to the one in which we live today and as a charity it has had to adapt to an ever changing environment in which education is as crucial a factor today as was when the charity was founded. Being able to play a role in the future development of this charity is hugely important and I am looking forward to the future with this wonderful organisation.
ORT gives those most in need, opportunities to improve their lives through education. Having such a clear objective was immensely attractive to me and why I wanted to become a trustee. Many of us frequently interrogate ourselves about our own children’s education: are they at the best school for them? how good are their teachers? are they doing enough after school activities? are they doing too many after school activities?
ORT is rare because it allows us to ask these questions – and most importantly provide meaningful answers – to those who otherwise have few choices. As a new trustee I look forward to working with ORT to help it continue to grow and flourish and keep caring about the education of others and ensuring they have the opportunities they deserve.
I grew up in a very heterogenic neighbourhood, with quite a lot disadvantaged families. I have seen kids and youths who grew up and turned to be unemployed or criminals. It all started with their basic lack of decent education. I am a strong believer that with creating more opportunities for better education to the less fortunate families, we can improve our society.
I am very proud to be a member of the ORT family. To me, there is nothing more rewarding than being part of a team which contribute to educating people and equip them with positive social values and life skills. Hopefully, they will become better individuals, independent and supporting members of their family and community.
It is amazing to think that over a decade has rushed by since I joined the Friends of ORT Committee as a favour to the then resigning President. I became Chair almost immediately to fill the gap and having begged my friend Susan Caplan to help me with this task, she thankfully agreed and so we became Co-Chairs from 2002 to 2012. I became a Trustee of ORT UK shortly thereafter. Over the years my work with ORT and my understanding of the huge importance of our work has grown as I visited our ORT Schools and attended ORT meetings worldwide. Educating our Jewish children is vital for their future success to enable them and their families to become independent and it is indeed very rewarding to meet these young people from all corners of the world and see and feel their gratitude at the opportunity they have been afforded. I do enjoy being part of the ORT Family and witnessing the difference ORT continues to make.
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PROFILE: Avi Caplan, dean of Awesome Ottawa, talks dance parties and cadaver machines in the pursuit of awesome
BY Drew Gough
POSTED November 1, 2012 8:45 am
Every month, members of the local chapter of the Awesome Foundation get together to present $1,000 to a creative endeavour that will — they hope — make the city a little more awesome. Avi Caplan is one of those benefactors on a mission. By Drew Gough
Money talks: Avi Caplan sees the Awesome Foundation movement as "an interesting experiment in philanthropy" — a way to connect with people more directly. Photo by Luther Caverly.
There wasn’t any money lying around anywhere. Not a penny. Not on the table, not on the floor, not even — I’d bet, if I’d had the nerve to check — under the couch cushions.
This was more than a little disappointing. I was standing in the living room of Avi Caplan, a philanthropist who refuses to see himself as a philanthropist. Every month, Caplan just gives some of his money away.
I figured him to be a careless spendthrift, a man without a bank account, a man with piles of coins stacked to the ceiling that he idly let fall between his fingers while talking. But no. The apartment is modest, neat, tidy. Caplan too. There’s no air of madcap millionaire, probably because that’s not his angle.
The 30-year-old is the new dean of Awesome Ottawa, the local chapter of the Awesome Foundation. Awesome Ottawa hands out $1,000 each month to a project it deems “awesome,” with each of its trustees ponying up $100 a month of his or her own money to contribute to the grant.
By January 2013, Awesome Ottawa will have contributed $30,000 to our city’s general awesomeness. Yet even though he’s a person who has made a hobby of giving away money, Caplan doesn’t like being called a philanthropist. “What’s interesting about the Awesome Foundation movement globally is that it’s an experiment in new models of philanthropy,” he explains. “I’m not thinking of myself as a philanthropist because, really, it’s a very small amount of money. I’m thinking of it, instead, as an interesting experiment in philanthropy. I’m seeing it as an experience in connecting with people more directly.”
The experiment has been manifested in a diversity of projects, from August’s dance party along Sparks Street (Dance Dance Office Revolution) to a cadaver machine to train dogs for the Ottawa Valley Search and Rescue Dog Foundation. Caplan grimaces while recalling that one. It’s one of the few times he gets emotional about the projects. Mostly, his is a cool amusement, a social scientist’s happy tinkering. “It is just fun. It was an experiment,” he says of his motivation to get involved. “It’s entertaining and useful at the same time. I certainly don’t believe that everything we have given money to has been universally a great investment, but that’s not the way to think of it. It’s not an investment. It’s a way of sewing some chaos and irreverence.”
Caplan was drawn to Awesome Ottawa from the moment of its inception, answering a Twitter call-out for people interested in awesomeness to meet to see if a chapter might fly in Ottawa. He met with nine other would-be philanthropists who aren’t philanthropists. They jointly decided, on the spot, to give their first award to an art flash mob. That was in May 2010, and Ottawa became the first Canadian city to have an Awesome chapter. It has since given money to The Capital Reading Garden, the University of Ottawa’s Quidditch Team (a real thing), the Hello Ottawa blog, a bus yarn-bombing, Hidden Harvest Ottawa, and about two dozen other projects.
The group meets once a month and debates projects until they reach a consensus. On average, they receive 15 applications a month. No votes are cast when deciding to fund a project. Instead, “It’s an exercise in negotiation,” says Caplan. Their idea of awesomeness is fairly subjective, but Caplan offers a basic outline of the types of projects the group awards. “It should be some, but not all of, these things,” begins Caplan. “Something that probably wouldn’t happen otherwise. Something that touches a lot of people, that reaches a lot of people. Something that makes you think about Ottawa or the world or something in a different way or leaves you smiling or entertained in some way. But there are no rules. All of these things are flexible on a case-by-case basis.”
He has a particular zeal for projects that are quirky and irreverent, schemes that add a splash of zany to Ottawa, his hometown. (Caplan grew up in the city, then left for university — first to Waterloo and then to Sussex in England — before returning in 2005 to work for Environment Canada.) But Awesome Ottawa isn’t seeking to correct a perceived absence in the city. Nor does it highlight an abundance of awesomeness that’s hidden from view. No, it just looks to support people for the good work they’re doing. “Part of the purpose of the money is that it’s an affirmation,” he says. “It’s kind of a big deal for some of the award recipients — a bunch of strangers wants to give them their money. It’s not coming out of some mysterious foundation. It’s just 10 people who want to give them money.”
This year Caplan attended a global summit in Boston — the originating city of the Awesome Foundation — and returned with a firm conviction in the spirit of the project. “One of the ideas that grabbed me is that everybody should be a trustee or member of an Awesome Foundation chapter. Everybody should be encouraging people to do things that they want to see in the world.”
This story appears in the Winter edition of Ottawa Magazine. Buy the magazine on newsstands or order your online edition.
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Cancer Hurts, HUGS Helps
By Elka Peterson
Close your eyes. Imagine you’re sitting in a doctor’s office waiting for the results of a medical test. You’re scared. Your heart is beating fast and your hands are trembling. You then hear those words the words that nobody wants to hear. “It’s cancer.”
Imagine for one moment that this is your reality. What’s going to happen to me? How am I going to get through this? It’s difficult to deal with a diagnosis like cancer. So many emotions come into play: anger, sadness, fear, desperation. You have to muster up all the courage you can to fight. The good news is that Heartfelt Unconditional Giving to benefit cancer patients (HUGS Charities) of Ocala is there to help when you need them.
Local resident and businessman, Michael Koontz, felt a call to action when his nephew died of abdominal cancer. It was a very difficult time for the family and Koontz felt helpless. It was at that time that he began to examine the resources available to those affected by cancer in our community.
“I felt like here in Ocala, cancer was pushed to the backburner. I wanted to do something that would bring it to the forefront,” he says. “Although the American Cancer Society existed, the funds raised were used outside of Marion County. I wanted to keep the funds here and help the local people.”
County Commissioners and members of HUGS announce Colon Cancer Awareness Month
Then serendipitous events began to happen. One evening in 2006, Koontz happened to be at the same event as philanthropist Manal Fakhoury, a member of the Royal Dames for Cancer Research.
“This is the perfect example of having an idea, putting it out into the universe, and having it manifest,” Fakhoury says.
Together, she and Koontz devised a plan to start an organization that would not only raise funds for cancer but would also work with local organizations to create an alliance that would benefit those affected by cancer.
In 2008, the non-profit HUGS Charities Inc. was founded by Koontz and Fakhoury. “We brought in more people that shared the same passion,” shared Koontz. “It’s enriching to see people’s altruistic tendencies.”
Fakhoury says, “The original plan was to start an umbrella organization, but it has become so much more than that.”
Shortly thereafter, the Cancer Alliance of Marion County was founded by Koontz’s daughter-in-law, Linda Koontz. The Cancer Alliance unites other organizations dedicated to cancer prevention and treatment.
Through the Cancer Alliance, the team discovered there was so much more to do in the community and thus created HUGS for Heroes, comprised of members of local law enforcement, firefighters, and HUGS members. The goal for them is the same: to help those affected by cancer.
Many local residents and members are wholeheartedly dedicated to the cause. One of them is Amanda Brown, Marketing Chair of HUGS. She shares, “I got involved with HUGS about four years ago. My family is personally going through the ‘rollercoaster ride.’ We have a young adult battling the disease. He is in his early thirties, a newlywed with a new baby.”
She continues, “HUGS is made up of volunteers, no paid employees. We provide support for patients to physically get to cancer treatments, keep their homes and lights on during treatments, and make ends meet in a time of financial and emotional crisis. A good charity responds to the needs of its community, and HUGS works hard to meet reasonable needs requested.”
To give a bit of perspective, Michael Koontz shared the story of a breast cancer patient who missed a treatment because it was raining. It was raining and she couldn’t drive herself to the appointment because she didn’t have windshield wipers on her car. “This is exactly why we do what we do,” he says.
Three years ago, Robert Boissoneault Oncology Institute (RBOI) joined HUGS Charities of Ocala as their Signature Sponsor.
Rhoda Walkup is the Director of Community Relations for Robert Boissoneault Oncology Institute, the Leadership Committee Member for Cancer Alliance of Marion County, and the Vice President of HUGS Charities. “As the Director of Community Relations for RBOI, I quickly became aware that cancer affects our community in many more ways than simply being a health concern. A cancer diagnosis affects every area of a patient’s life, as well as their loved ones,” she shares.
“I was immediately drawn to volunteer with HUGS when I saw how simple acts of generosity could change a patient’s and their loved ones lives forever—even playing a role in keeping them alive. When a patient is able to put gas in the car, miss some work, get to treatment, and still buy groceries, have a home, and pay bills—that can make all the difference.”
One of the questions that is frequently posed to members of the organization is, How can I make a difference? “There are a few ways that people can get involved and help us in our mission,” says Amy Roberts, who is a HUGS Board Member, Chair of the Cancer Alliance of Marion County (CAMC), as well as a clinical social worker and patient navigator at RBOI. “Of course, we are always looking for volunteers. You could donate gas cards. Those are used to provide rides for patients to treatments and appointments. You could volunteer to be a driver through the American Cancer Society Transportation Road to Recovery program. Many people are facing cancer alone, the volunteers who drive patients help people know that other’s care about them and that they are not alone. Every year, during the holidays, HUGS provide Thanksgiving and Christmas meals for families in need. We can always use help from volunteers to deliver those meals.”
In March, HUGS Charities held their 11th Annual Fundraising Event at the One Health Center in Ocala, FL. This year they honored Leo Smith, a retired officer from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office who was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 and continues to live with the disease.
Approximately 150-200 people attend the prestigious event every year. An average of $25,000 is raised each year, not including generous annual donations from the Robert Boissoneault Oncology Institute. The event has grown, giving HUGS the opportunity to help more patients, as well as funding the Cancer Alliance of Marion County. All the funds donated stay right here in Marion County. Thousands of people from the community have been helped through HUGS and the Cancer Alliance. So yes, cancer hurts! But HUGS definitely helps.
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Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.
The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Aronnax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. When the ship is sunk by the mysterious creature, he and two other survivors discover that the monster is in fact a marvelous submarinethe Nautiluscommanded by the brilliant but bitter Captain Nemo. Nemo refuses to let his guests return to land, but instead taking them on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice andmost spectacular of allthe magnificent lost city of Atlantis!
Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at the Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.
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Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.
Place of Death:
Nantes lycée and law studies in Paris
From Victoria Blake’s Introduction to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“There can never be another Jules Verne,” wrote Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a dedicated reader of Verne, “for he was born at a unique moment in time” (quoted in Teeters, p. 112). Verne was present at the birth of phosphorus matches, detachable collars, double cuffs, letterheads, and postage stamps. He saw the introduction of Loire river steamboats, railroads, trams, electricity, the telegraph, the telephone, and the phonograph. He was born into the age of Alexander Graham Bell, the Industrial Revolution, Karl Marx, Darwin, the colonization of Africa, and wars of independence around the world. In his lifetime the Suez Canal opened, the Hyatt brothers invented celluloid film, an electric generator was built in the Alps, the electromagnetic theory of light was proven, and scientists for the first time ordered elements by the number of their electrons, which paved the way for the modern periodic table.
Science was, for Verne, humankind’s greatest hope. At his best, he approached science with awe and naivete, making grandiose statements like, “When Science speaks, it behooves one to remain silent” (quoted in Evans, p. 48). Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not consider the unknown aspects of the natural world beyond human understanding. “Let’s reason this out,” he wrote in The Mysterious Island (Evans, p. 52), displaying his faith in science as the great, organizing force. Verne was an optimist; he believed in the ability of the human mind to perceive and to eventually gain mastery over earth’s untamable mysteries through the discoveries of science.
His books accurately predicted many modern-day inventions, including the fax machine, the automobile, pollution, and even chain bookstores. In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, he predicted batteries, searchlights, and the tazzers used by America’s police force. He foresaw the importance of electricity as a source of energy and suggested methods for air travel that later helped the first pilots get their feet off the ground. He anticipated the discovery of Darwin’s “missing link” between humans and apes. He even provided the technical details of the first manned trip to the moon. When the Apollo 8 mission returned from its voyage, one of the astronauts wrote Verne’s great-grandson a letter that praised the author’s predictive abilities in From the Earth to the Moon: “Our space vehicle was launched from Florida, like Barbican’s; it had the same weight and the same height, and it splashed down in the Pacific a mere two and a half miles from the point mentioned in the novel” (quoted in Teeters, p. 62).
In the more than 150 years since Verne’s first novel came off the press, seven generations of scientists and explorers have read his books. “It is Jules Verne who guides me,” wrote Antarctic explorer Richard E. Byrd (Teeters, p. 50).Jean Cocteau re-created Phileas Fogg’s round-the-world journey, completing his itinerary in eighty-two days. Walt Disney was a Verne reader. So was Robert Goddard, the American physicist known as the father of rocketry, who stated in 1919 that humans would one day put a man on the moon. Auguste Piccard, the Swiss physicist who in 1932 ascended 55,500 feet into the stratosphere in a balloon, and his son Jacques, who in 1960 descended to the deepest depression in the Pacific Ocean in a diving bell, read Verne. “Everybody read Jules Verne and felt that tremendous power to dream, which was part of his erudite and naïve genius,” wrote the author Ray Bradbury. “I consider myself as the illegitimate son of Jules Verne. We are very closely related” (quoted in Lynch, p. 113).
Though the accolades come in waves—and millions of readers worldwide have dreamed, traveled, and soared alongside Verne’s pen—it would be a mistake to close the book on Verne so quickly. Verne was more than a talented writer, a crafter of adventure plots, and a master of the scientific imagination. Like his noble and tragic Nemo, Verne cannot be defined so easily.
After his death, Verne willed a half-ton bronze safe to his son. The safe stayed in the family from generation to generation, until his great-grandson, Jean Verne, discovered it in a dusty corner of a storage shed. In all that time, the safe had never been opened. When Jean Verne opened it, he discovered one of Verne’s lost manuscripts. Paris in the Twentieth Century was published for the first time in 1994; it sold 100,000 copies and rose to the top of the French best-seller list.
True to style, the last of Verne’s published books accurately forecast twentieth-century life. But instead of Verne’s characteristic optimism—“All that’s within the limits of the possible must and will be accomplished” (quoted in Evans, p. 48). Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century) presents the future as tragic instead of hopeful, and science as the great destroyer instead of the great hope. In the book, Verne’s hero—this time a poet, not a scientist—wanders the streets of Paris looking for a publisher. But the citizens of Paris have forgotten the humanities and turned instead to the sterile comforts of life lived through science. Jobless and homeless, Verne’s hero walks the perfect streets of the city destitute and alone. He spends his last penny buying a flower for his beloved, but when he delivers it he finds the house empty, the family gone. The book concludes with the hero lost in a winter graveyard amid tombs of forgotten novelists before he collapses and dies on the frozen, snowy ground.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) 3.9 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 688 reviews.
If you're going to read one of the great classics of literature¿and you should¿don't pick up this edition. It is a reprint of a version that dates back to the 1870s and was exposed more than 40 years ago for cutting nearly one-quarter of Verne's story and mistranslating much of the remainder. Lewis Mercier was the man responsible for this travesty, yet the publisher tries to conceal what they've done by claiming the translation is by an anonymous hand. An attempt is made to give the volume respectability by adding an introduction and notes by Victoria Blake¿who has no particular credentials for the task. And that leads to goofs¿for instance, she claims Verne never wrote a novel about invisibility, so she mustn't know about the author's Secret of Wilhelm Storitz. In fact, Blake's simply used the better editions that readers are advised to consult. If you want to read Verne's novel, pick up the elegant Naval Institute Press edition, in a modern, complete, updated translation, with commentary by the leading American Verne expert today, Walter James Miller. That book also comes with many of the artistic engravings that illustrated the original French first edition (no illustrations are to be found in the B&N Mercier reprint). Less attractive but more academic is the Oxford Classics version of Twenty Thousand Leagues. Either way, pick one of these to discover this novel, and don't be fooled by the appearance of respectability this book provides. This review is posted on behalf of the North American Jules Verne Society by Jean-Michel Margot, president NAJVS.
I truly thought that the book had one of the best plot lines I've ever seen, reguardless of the fact that there is only slight building up to the climax. The only thing that I didn't think was that good about the book was that about every other page, Jules Verne would go into a paragraph description of the animals. For example, he would say something like: "I just saw a tuna. But not the normal tuna, it was yellow-bellied, had dorsal fins that went at a downward angle, etc." Otherwise, I thought it was a great read and well worth the money. I will be purchasing more of Jules Verne's books very soon. I highly suggest for you to read this book. Another thing, if you enjoyed watching the 1954 "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Film," I highly suggest the book because the movie only gives a small picture of what actually occurred during their submarine venture and the book tells you everything, and the occurrences are just amazing.
The novel basically tells the story of Professor Arronax, Ned Land and Conseil who get taken aboard the Nautilus and experiences many adverntures, such as going to Atlantis, an underwater hunt, getting trapped in an ice block and much more. This book is and, IMO, always will be a true classic.
I am only 11 Iove it this is my favorite book of all time!!!!!!!!
This version contains foot and end notes that are easy to navigate and well formatted. Great ebook!
A greatbook if you like classics. It has good end notes at in the back. It loaded quickly, too.
Nazire More than 1 year ago
I usually love the B&N collections. The introductions included are great many of the times (not always), the annotations are a great saver for the modern reader to be able to decipher most of the "dense" paragraphs that without a background knowledge cannot understand. The questions, inspired by and such sections are usually a great addition as well. And finding all of this in one neat little package is great that my library at home is filled with them. Now with that out of my chest, It's really not worth to read this version of such a great story. Jules Verne is known as one of the fathers of science fiction genre and justice was not done to such a great master of words in this edition. The story is creative, innovative and breathtaking. There are extremely long descriptions but which really allows the writer to imagine what is on the paper into a reality very clearly. The plot is interesting and the characters develops nicely, always amply supplied by mystery and intrigue. The ending is open-ended which leads to the writing of another novel, which is a must read for any science fiction lovers. Invest your money in buying a proper edition of this book without any omitted chapters, scenes, paragraphs and a better translation which will serve you better both personally and academically.
Nautilus More than 1 year ago
The book, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows the travels of Professor Pierre Aronnax and the mysterious Captain Nemo through the only frontier on Earth that though sailed by man for thousands of years, but yet unknown to us to this day, the sea. The wonders that Professor Aronnax witnesses on this under sea voyage may only be found in the realm of our imaginations, but still may for a good story that will endure for generations to come.
CJM42 More than 1 year ago
If you have not been fortunate enough to have read Jules Verne in school, you MUST do so now. I have read this book several times, and I enjoy it each time I do so. The brilliance of Jules Verne comes through in his writing of the future. It's hard to imagine the vision necessary to portray future technology so accurately.
Mysidia More than 1 year ago
This was the first Jules Verne book I've ever read, and I eagerly look forward to tackling his other works. My imagination was whisked away from the moment the hypothesized narwhale began its assaults through the final conclusions of Professor Aronnax. Certainly on more than one occasion, I was so immersed in Verne's world pictured so exquisitely, I found myself staying up late at night just so I could complete my push through events and circumstances from which I wouldn't simply walk away for the night. Honestly, while I understand the purpose of its inclusion, I could have gone for less of the scientifically-focused classification of the various fauna and flora: these passages seemed a bit tedious for my liking, and I found myself moving hastily through them. That said, the predominant bulk of this novel captured all senses as though I, too, found myself a fortunate captive of the Nautilus.
RMak More than 1 year ago
The one regret I have in reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is that I did not read it sooner. I turned to it later in life, not having read it during my school years and have found it to be exceeding well written, inspiring, informative, and entertaining. Captain Nemo is a character not soon forgotten as it his submarine craft, the Nautilus. The descriptions of the ship, its inner cabins, and its mechanics is quite remarkable even today. The ability to generate electricity from the sea is something worth exploring more fully even in today’s world of natural gas, oil, wind, and solar power. The entire concept was way ahead of its time. I image that is why it is a classic. I not only recommend this selection as a must read, I advocate its being required reading at the high school or middle school level. It will spark the imagination of those who read and think about it and quite possibly motivate young people to explore their natural world through the studies of math and science. Overall, this is a wonderfully exciting book that is an excellent foundation for writers, thinkers, and would be scientists and adventures.
A very good book, suprisingly. Does not have spelling and grammar issues, and the plot is good and not very boring. Lots of scientific facts make this book very detailed and realistic. I would recommend this book to anyone who is an adept reader with an expanded vocabulary and who loves classics. As an eleven-year-old, I feel comfortable in saying that most kids in seventh grade and up would enjoy this classic.
I LOVE THIS BOOK ! DON'T LISTEN TO THE INSULTS OF THIS BOOK BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO IMAGINE THINGS WHILE READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book is so awesome. It is one of my favourite jules verne's books. I only read the first part, and Iam crazy to read the second one. The first time I read it I was just nine years old, and now I am twelve and read it again. I am a fan of jules verne, though he was such a smart person, and besides he described a lot of thibgs in his books that were done in a future: the submarine in this book. Besides, I love how this book is narrated, though it contains a large quantity of descriptions. My favourite character in this story is ned land. The character I hate the most in the whole book is captain nemo. He is so mean with ned land!!! The only thing I would have changed was the servant of aronax; I would have put a woman so she could stay with ned land, like in one of this book's movies. You need to read this awesome narrative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awsome you really feel like your there. One for my favortive books. I love this book!!!!!!
This is one of my favorite classic books. Jules Vern was definitely ahead of his time. The plot was outstanding which made you feel you were one of the main characters, who by the way, were delightful. If u read this, read Mysterious Island next! I highly recommend this book. Vallie
bg_63 More than 1 year ago
If you think about when this was written it boggles the mind. This classic tale predicts so many technologies that would be developed decades later. The story is excellent, I've re-read the book so many times that I've lost count. The only downside of the Nook edition is the unfortunate layout. So many quotes and a biography of Mr. Verne would have been better as an addenda.
This book is above awsome and I didn't finish the book
I am glad l finally got around to reading this great novel. I am looking forward to reading more of Verne's novels.
I recomended this to my dad and told him its an excellent read. If you love classics by Jules verne you won't be dissapointed. Even though it has its occassional monotony it kept me on the edge of my seat. If you enjoyed this book try reading the lord of the rings saga its slighting more tedious not that it is tedious but you understand. Woo hoo for the Hobbit im watching it in theater
Is this an abridged version?
Shut up about ur stupid cat books or games!!! I have seen many books that u nerds were talking about stupid games like pokemon n how to battle other pokemon!!! The auther would like to see what people thought about their books not what u nerds have to say about ur games n entierly different books!!! Shut up already!!!!!
It is such a great book! I think everyone should read this. It id also useful for science projects
I think that this is a great book for middle schoolers and up. It can be a little hard to follow at times, because it is language that I am not used to. It all starts in the begining, when there is a monster roaming the seas. It crashes in to the sides of ships and causes great damage. Then a ship goes out to hunt it, bringing a french scientist who claims that it is a giant narwhale that uses its horn to crash ships. But when the "narwhale" hits there ship, it throws of the scientist, his assistant, and a harpooner, and they relise how wrong there guesses were.
I really liked the book and see no reason to criticize it
Epicly Awsome
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Dr. Kate Bishop
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Dr. Bishop’s background in environment-behaviour research underpins her teaching and research and her particular area of interest: children, youth and environments. She specialises in the research and design of environments for children with special needs; child and youth-friendly urban planning and design; and participatory methodologies with children and young people. Kate worked in private industry and government before becoming an academic.
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Tim holds degrees in philosophy and psychology from Oxford University and London University, and an honorary doctorate from Edge Hill University. He is a former director of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England). In 2002 he was seconded to Whitehall to lead the UK government’s first comprehensive review into children’s play. He writes for the mainstream media, trade, and academic publications, and appears regularly on radio and television. His website is www.rethinkingchildhood.com.
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Dr. Russell has worked in the field of children’s play since the mid-1970s, first on adventure playgrounds and then in a wide variety of development, research, training and education roles at local, national and international levels.
Her research focuses on supporting children’s right to play, particularly in terms of the politics of space, policy, and ethics. She has worked on a number of research and development projects into the Welsh Government’s Play Sufficiency Duty, positioning children’s right to play as a matter of spatial justice.
Much of her work has been carried out in collaboration with Dr. Stuart Lester, including Play for a Change: Play, Policy and Practice -a review of contemporary perspectives (2008), commissioned by Play England to inform the English 2008 Play Strategy; Children’s Right to Play: An examination of the importance of play in the lives of children worldwide (2010), commissioned by the International Play Association as part of their campaign for a General Comment on article 31 of the UNCRC; Leopard-Skin Wellies, a Top Hat and a Vacuum Cleaner Hose: An analysis of Wales’ Play Sufficiency Assessment duty (2013), Towards Securing Sufficient Play Opportunities (2014); and Practice-Based Research in Children’s Play (2017), co-edited with Stuart Lester and Hilary Smith.
She is a co-founder of the biennial international Philosophy at Play conference along with Dr. Emily Ryall and Dr. Malcolm MacLean, co-editing The Philosophy of Play (2013), Philosophical Perspectives on Play (2015), The Philosophy of Play as Life (2017) and Play, Philosophy and Performance (forthcoming).
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He is the author of Policy for Play: responding to children’s forgotten right (Policy Press, 2015). In 2016 he was elected president of the European Network for Child Friendly Cities and in 2018-19 set up Playful Planet, a community interest company dedicated to advocacy for children’s rights to play, mobility and to enjoy the built and natural environment. He was awarded the OBE in 2011, for services to children.
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New Album from BTS Continues to Impress
The Korean Pop group from Seoul is soaring in popularity in the United States.
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Even for people who are unfamiliar with K-pop, it’s hard to miss the presence of BTS, aka Beyond the Scenes, due to their growing popularity both in the states and around the globe.
Since their debut in 2013, BTS have grown within the K-pop industry. However, it wasn’t until the release of their EP, WINGS, that they became the first K-pop act to win a Billboard Music award, “Top Social Artist” in 2017.
According to Billboard, they topped the charts for 31 weeks in the past year, and their fans retweeted the #BTSBBMAs hashtag more than 320 million times.
We tried to apply new grammar and perspectives…it’s very different from our previous music, technically and musically.”
Released in late September, their new album Her surpassed a record breaking 1,050,000+ pre-orders without any details of the track list, contents or even the album cover. According to Vogue Magazine, this album is a musical and visual evolution of their previous themes of “young boyish love.”
According to Iloen.com, fans did not have to wait too long for details as BTS posted a surprise music video of the intro song, Serendipity, onto YouTube 14 days before the release of the album.
Since its release, the group’s song “DNA” is ranked No. 1 in 73 countries, and is the first K-Pop music video to breach 60 million views in a week.
Her is also the first Korean album to reach the top of the the U.S. iTunes chart, surpassing their previous album which became the highest ranked K-Pop album on the chart last year, peaking at No. 26.
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“We tried to apply new grammar and perspectives…it’s very different from our previous music, technically and musically. I believe it’s going to be the starting point of a second chapter of our career,” said Namjoon.
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“For ‘Best of Me,’ they gave us several tracks and samples months ago, we and our producers picked one sample, like, ‘Okay, this is fit for our next album.’ So we worked on it, we sent it to them, we asked them what they think of the track we developed and got their opinions,” said Namjoon.
No other Korean artists in recent memory have been able to affect the U.S. market in the way BTS has. Her also carries a deep message for fans to love themselves and in turn love the world around them.
“In this album, we cover a wide range of songs: There are high-energy ones, very hip-hop ones. It’s quite diverse,” said Namjoon.
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Trump, Obama, Clinton and Carter, all in a row at Bush funeral
Dylan Stableford
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In a remarkable scene inside the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday, President Trump joined all four living former presidents at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush.
Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, shook hands with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama before taking a seat on the aisle in the first row along with former President Bill Clinton, former first lady and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
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Trump did not extend a hand to the Clintons, who were seated next the Obamas, though Melania Trump shook hands with Bill Clinton as Trump gave his coat to their military escort.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as they join other former presidents and vice presidents and their spouses for the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
It was the first time since his inauguration that Trump encountered the Obamas and Clintons — who have been highly critical of his presidency — in person.
George H.W. Bush, who voted for Hilary Clinton over Trump in the 2016 president election, didn’t attend Trump’s inauguration.
The president did not attend the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush in April, although first lady Melania Trump did, and was photographed in a group with both former presidents Bush, the Obamas and the Clintons, raising some eyebrows when she warmly greeted Barack and Michelle Obama.
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This photo provided by the office of former President George H.W. Bush shows Bush, center, with past presidents and first ladies at the funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush in Houston on April 21, 2018.. From left: Laura Bush, former President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and first lady Melania Trump. (Photo: Paul Morse/Courtesy of Office of George H.W. Bush via AP)
Trump was not invited to the funeral in September of Sen. John McCain, who he repeatedly criticized for voting against his health care plan to replace Obamacare. George W. Bush and Barack Obama both delivered eulogies at McCain’s funeral, and Bush jokingly gave Michelle Obama a mint during the service — a gag he repeated upon arriving at the Washington National Cathedral Wednesday.
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The Significance (?) of Obscure Species
Posted on January 29, 2013 by Chris Helzer
I’m curious to know whether any of you can identify this plant species.
I know what it is, but don’t know much about it. I doubt anyone really does. In the United States, it is found as far east as Massachusetts and as far west as Arizona. More broadly, it’s found throughout much of the western hemisphere, from Canada to Argentina. However, I’m not sure it’s really common anywhere – it certainly isn’t often seen in Nebraska. Just an obscure little species living an insignificant little life.
This plant can grow up to 3 feet tall or more, but I’ll bet there aren’t many people who live within its range who have ever noticed it. Thanks to Bill Whitney of Prairie Plains Resource Institute for introducing it to me back in the mid 1990’s.
I was talking about endangered species with some high school students the other day. That led to a discussion about the value of species in general. Why does it really matter if any particular species goes extinct? We talked about interconnections between species and the impact the loss of one species could have on others and their environment. We talked about the famous analogy of removing rivets from a plane. And, of course, we talked about the potential value of species to science and human lives (curing cancer and the like).
I wanted the students to experience the surprising difficulty of defending the value of most individual species, especially when your audience is not well versed in ecology. We can promote the idea of complex ecological webs and the potential damage the loss of a species might mean, but the truth is, the absence of most species would be fairly readily compensated for by the rest of the ecosystem. Sure, there are notable exceptions, but they are only notable because they are unusual. Eventually, of course, the loss of too many species, or particularly significant ones, can lead to sudden and cascading impacts in an ecological system. It’s why the rivet analogy is so good. But arguing for the importance of any particular individual rivet is challenging.
To me, the “cure for cancer” argument is particularly dangerous. If we start using it, we’re forced into a corner and have to come up with equally viable justifications for all species. Ok, so Species A will cure cancer – we’ll save that one. But what does Species B or C do for us? It’s a slippery slope.
Recently it was discovered that giant pandas have peptides in their blood that could help humans fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Not that pandas needed extra rationale for their conservation – they’re cute. This is not a photo of a giant panda. Surprisingly, not everyone thinks short-horned lizards are cute. Does that mean we have to find a human health issue they can help us with in order to justify their existence?
Of course, the preservation of species is also a moral issue. For various reasons, most of us feel a responsibility for other life forms on earth. Unfortunately, morals are often nice in theory, but surprisingly easy to rationalize away in specific instances. Agreeing that a little brown slug species should be preserved is great until it stands in the way of a landowner’s ability to make the money he or she had counted on to send their kids to college. Then one’s moral certainty depends upon whether one is the landowner or not!
I told the high schoolers that I usually try to shift a discussion away from trying to place value on one species or another, and instead talk about how the loss of a species can be an indication of much larger problems in an ecosystem. Since ecosystems are more complex than we can grasp, the disappearance of species should trigger a vigorous effort to figure out what’s wrong before we start losing more. It doesn’t often happen that way, but it should. If we’re at the point where the choices made by a couple landowners could spell the extinction of a little brown slug, we’ve already screwed up pretty badly, and we’ve got bigger issues than just saving the last of those slugs.
…and that brings us back to the plant in the first photo. If it disappeared tomorrow, most of us wouldn’t even know it was gone, let alone notice any ecological impacts. There might be some microorganisms or herbivorous insects that specialize on it. Maybe it’s even got its own specialist pollinator. But the ripples caused by the loss of those species would go largely unnoticed by the larger ecosystem. Does that make the plant insignificant?
So – can you identify the plant? I’ll even give you three clues.
1. It’s an annual.
2. It’s a legume.
3. The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station released a registered variety of this species in 1995. Apparently, the species is significant to someone…
Good luck! I’ll put the answer in the comments section below.
(If you don’t see a comments selection below, click on the title of this blog post and then look again. Those of you who read this via email will have to do that for sure.)
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45 thoughts on “The Significance (?) of Obscure Species”
Chris Helzer on January 29, 2013 at 8:25 am said:
The species is Dalea leporina. Common names include foxtail prairie clover, foxtail dalea, and hare’s foot dalea.
Oh, and I’m betting someone will comment and tell me how abundant and important Dalea leporina is in their neck of the woods. I hope so – I’d be curious to know where it really thrives. However, even if that happens, it doesn’t change the larger point of my post. I think conservation of individual species is really important. It’s just hard to explain to someone who starts out on the other side, or who just doesn’t understand enough of ecology to see the context.
I also think species conservation is less important than ecosystem conservation. A prairie can survive even if it loses some of its species. No prairie species can survive without a prairie.
Pete Schaefer on January 29, 2013 at 10:55 am said:
Chris, 1-29-13
With this broader thinking of ecosystem conservation, maybe the Federal Endangered Species Act could be amended to read as the Endangered Ecosystem Act and truly protect the whole system, rather than lose one species at a time while our natural resources slowly dismantle.
Chris Helzer on January 29, 2013 at 11:27 am said:
Pete, I think a lot of people would agree with you. I think the reason that hasn’t been tried so far is that there’s a lot of fear that opening up the Act for changes could go in some unpredictable ways… So far, people have been unwilling to open the can of worms.
Carol Rice on January 30, 2013 at 5:42 am said:
Would it be possible to keep the Endangered Species Act as it is and propose we create an additional protection for endangered ecosystems?
Absolutely, Carol. Though there might be some interesting conflicts between the two. That would take some thought. I’m not sure the political climate is such that an endangered ecosystem bill would fare well in congress at the moment… : )
Dave Jungst on January 30, 2013 at 11:42 am said:
Chris, I think your assessment of the current “political climate” is spot on, but…I caught on the radio yesterday that the current public approval rating for congress is 12%. He said “you can’t get much lower than that”. So I’m guessing after the next election go-around it will probably swing the other way.
Mike on January 29, 2013 at 8:06 pm said:
“A prairie can survive even if it loses some of its species. No prairie species can survive without a prairie.” — Well said Chris. Thanks!
I knew it was a dalea, but also knew that I wasn’t sure if I had ever actually seen it before. This is a good way to play – stump the chump.
Chris Helzer on January 29, 2013 at 8:35 pm said:
Thanks Mike. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
prairiebotanist on January 29, 2013 at 8:42 am said:
Chris, that plant was present just south of my common garden plots along the Platte. I hadn’t seen it before and thought it worthy of identifying.
I think global change is the reason why species conservation is most important. Rare species today may be the common species of a stable system tomorrow, and we are messing things up so badly in so many interacting ways, that it is difficult to predict precisely what traits (and species possessing them) we’ll need to patch up the holes in communities and ecosystems.
Dan, I’m glad to hear you saw it there. We include it in our seed mixtures as often as we can, but there’s really only one site at which it has persisted. Even there, because it’s an annual its abundance fluctuates quite a bit. At least in our prairies, it appears to have a very specific and restricted habitat requirement AND a need for some kind of disturbance and moisture regime to allow it to grow. Fascinating species.
Pat Halderman on January 29, 2013 at 9:04 am said:
Chris, thank you for this thoughtful and insightful article! I tend to focus on “a species” but you are correct, it is the health of the ecosystem that should be addressed and the loss of a plant or animal is the red alert that something is terrible wrong with the ecosystem and those issues must be addressed. Ideas to think about. Thank you.
Obscure species are also often the ones that captivate us at first. When I discovered obscure prairie species at a young age, not knowing previously that they even existed, it set me on a course of caring deeply first about those species and then about the environments that sustain them. There is simply great value in the human experience of being struck by things in nature, and we we lose complexity-species, communities, or landscapes-we lose some of what makes us human, of what stands behind things like art, love, and simply being.
Katy on January 29, 2013 at 11:23 am said:
This post perfectly coincides with a book I just finished reading – Eric Dinerstein’s The Kingdom of Rarities, which is all about the causes and implications of rare species in nature. You might like it! I found that the concept of “ecosystem engineers” is particularly helpful in explaining how grasslands are complex and why human-caused rarity can have lots of impacts beyond a single species.
Dave Jungst on January 29, 2013 at 1:38 pm said:
My work involves wetland and upland restoration as part of the USDA Program called WRP (Wetland Reserve Program). People promoting WRP often emphasize the wildlife benefits, which are great, but not everyone relates to or values wildlife. I believe wetland restoration can be financially justified on just the flood reduction benefits alone. Flooding costs billions annually. The example I use is a wetland I restored on my own land. It is about 12 acres and not very deep but when it is full it holds 7 million gallons of water. That is 7 million gallons less water going down stream to worsen a flood. It makes a difference and is easy for almost anyone to relate too. I also work on restoring uplands around the wetlands to native prairie and strive to achieve a diverse mix of species. But I struggle to find an equally relatable and practical way of pointing out the importance of prairie restoration. Any ideas?
Dave, I think about this a lot too. I actually worry just as much about ascribing ecological services values to ecosystems as I do about ascribing “curing cancer” value to species. If we say we need wetlands because they filter water or reduce flooding, we have to then justify why a floristically diverse wetland is better then a bunch of reed canarygrass and cattails for those functions. I don’t think I can make that argument.
In terms of the value of high-diversity prairie restoration, I like to talk about reconnecting remnant prairies to restore function. It’s not as easy to talk about with a general audience as flood reduction, of course, but restoring ecological function does require our restoration work to include diverse plant and invertebrate communities. Another good argument for diverse prairie restorations are that more diversity increases stability and resilience. Why invest in planting grassland if it’s going to fall apart ecologically because the complexity that holds it together isn’t there? And aesthetics are important too – who wouldn’t want to look at a diverse prairie instead of a field of brome or switchgrass?
Still – not great answers in terms of something very simple and easily translatable. Unfortunately the easy answers are the ones that lead down rabbit holes (flood reduction, curing cancer).
You might have read Doug Ladd’s guest essay on the value of prairies. He had some things worth using too…
https://prairieecologist.com/2012/04/04/why-prairie-matters-a-guest-essay/
Thanks Chris for the link to Doug Ladd’s essay, I enjoyed reading it and the points he makes.
I don’t see flood reduction as a rabbit hole but rather a base for being able to justify and promote more wetland restoration. And from there I would continue on to emphasize that not only do we need to do it, but we need to do it well. Which is where, as you put it, “a floristically diverse wetland is better than a bunch of reed canarygrass and cattails” comes in.
Deanna Demory on January 29, 2013 at 1:41 pm said:
Thanks for this article! The “cure for cancer” point was well taken. Some of us that reside on the bridge between environmental concerns and human health need this type of discussion.
tomkoerner on January 29, 2013 at 2:10 pm said:
This reminds me of a recurring conversation I had with a rancher friend of mine over the years. I got permission for future leadplant harvest from stands I had spotted on his winter grazed pastures when helping him with calving in the spring. He asked me what good leadplant was for, as his cows did not seem to like it and thought he should spray it. I explained that most of the research indicated it was a preferred livestock forage and many called it an ice cream plant because cows liked it so much. It was a native legume that helped to fertilize the other plants, had wildflowers that attracted many insects, was one of the most abundant forbs in prairies near the turn of the century but was much less common now, cost X $’s per pound to buy the seed, etc. etc. We had a number of other pasture walks while doing some other work such as fixing fence or moving cows, and he was interested to learn more of the plants in his pastures. Some were common species and some were obscure species. After going over what the plant was, how to identify it, etc. he would always end with , “whats it good for” I understood it to mean does it have an economic value, will cows gain weight if they eat it, and other things that related to his ability to make a living from it. For some species I could rattle off what the research showed for livestock benefits. Eventually, he just asked “good or bad?”. I was frustrated with having to put my subjective opinion on the value of each species, Knowing he was a very spiritual person and had a strong faith in God, I finally asked him during one of these conversations if he thought God made junk? I could see he made the connection, that was my answer “God does not make junk”. So even though my small mind, and all of the smart brains and researchers out there don’t have all of the answers, far from it, every species has intrinsic “value” in its existence. I don’t know if I changed his mind, but it helped me answer it for myself. We could go off on a tangent on invasives and exotics here, but will leave that for one of your future posts…………….
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Tom, I think you gave a fantastic answer. Thanks for sharing it.
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brvogt on January 29, 2013 at 2:11 pm said:
There IS an economic benefit to having native wild habitats — you and others in the comments have stated this. Why it’s so hard to espouse this and convince those in power to see and make these changes to management policies is beyond me. And I think it always will be beyond me. I look at satellite images of western Oklahoma and see farm pond after pond, dammed areas where runoff occurs. I think about how unnecessary that could be. I’ve been reading about dry farming, something we might have to do more in the Plains. I’m rambling. I’m working on a memoir about Oklahoma, and trying to find rare plant species in a certain county to write about, but finding it nearly impossible. I suppose I could choose any prairie grass or wildflower and call it rare. (And see you Friday in Lincoln!)
I heard a politician say “show me the dead bodies”. In other words, if people weren’t dying from a disaster, then it wasn’t top priority. That is part of why it is difficult to get attention for long range issues like conservation and ecosystem integrity, because there is so often some disaster grabbing the headlines.
Carl Wing on January 30, 2013 at 1:07 pm said:
I am wondering why brvogt says it is unnecessary the farm ponds are? I grew up just north of the South Canadian river and remember our area without what we called spreader dams and without terracing farmland. My dad farmed a field before terracing and after a big rain there were ditches washed out two feet wide and almost a foot deep about five apart. This top soil finally reached the river and washed on down stream. The reason the dams and terraces were build as everyone knows is to stop erosion and it did. Before the erosion control and the big rains came the South Canadian river would be half mile wide and so muddy with runoff that swimming it in and going under would be like turning off the light in total darkness.
Rebecca on January 29, 2013 at 3:17 pm said:
This is a really fantastic post. As an environmental educator, I’ve run into this question before, of explaining to people (particularly kids) why preserving ecosystems (and by extension species) is important. Yes, we can talk about economic value etc., but intrinsic value needs to be part of the conversation too.
timupham on January 29, 2013 at 5:41 pm said:
The foxtail prairie clover is essential to prairie ecology. It is a favorite food for green-striped grasshoppers, and the grasshopper is the food for migratory and non-migratory birds. In fact, prairie chickens will eat them in huge numbers.
Thanks Tim. Interesting to know that about the grasshopper. If I was feeling ornery, I’d argue that because the green-striped grasshopper eats other plants as well (I assume) the foxtail prairie clover isn’t really “essential” to the grasshopper’s survival. Regardless, I’m glad to learn that tidbit of info. Is foxtail prairie clover really abundant where you’re at?
Jarren on January 29, 2013 at 5:48 pm said:
My grandfather once told me that the most abundant animals on his eastern SD farm when he was a kid was the flickertail or Richardson’s ground squirrel, which formed large colonies in the pastures. He said the farm kids would hunt them constantly without denting the populations. I grew up in the same area a few decades later and failed to see a flickertail until I moved from home at age 18, I often think that if he had not mentioned that little tidbit, I would have never have known that they once existed in that area. It just did not fit my baseline. Who knows, perhaps flickertails were superabundant in his time only because of pastures were grazed short by livestock. Still, if the right conditions for flickertails returned, they would likely not be able to fill the role they once filled, and that can only diminish the stability of the system. Once a species is gone, it’s hard to understand its role in the system.
Thanks Jarren. I wonder what animals have slid into the role(s) of the flickertails in the meantime? Do you thirteen-lined groundsquirrels up there (I assume so)? I don’t know Richardson’s well enough to know their habitat preferences and contrast them with the thirteen-liners.
I agree that once a species is gone, it’s hard to understand its role. On the other hand, we’re not doing very well at understanding the role of most species while they’re around either!
Carl Wing on January 30, 2013 at 12:44 pm said:
Is a Richardson what we called Prairie Dogs? I grew up in western Oklahoma where Prairie Dogs were everywhere in what we called Prairie Dog towns. They have completely disappeared and I have always wondered what effect it had by there disappearance? Eastern Colorado has thousands of them, even though they seem to try to eradicate them. Surely they are good for something rather than eating the grass that cattle graze on.
No, Richardson’s ground squirrels are different than prairie dogs. Prairie dogs certainly do have great value. In fact, they’re a species that would include in the “exceptions” I noted in my blog. Their disappearance from a landscape has a noticeable impact on a large number of other species that rely on them as a food source, but even more on their burrows.
benjamin vogt on February 1, 2013 at 9:28 pm said:
Prairie dogs are still in westerrn oklahoma–i’m writing a book on that region. Of course, you have to go to the wichita mountains to see them, and in lawton.
Carl Wing on February 4, 2013 at 12:17 pm said:
I don’ see the wichita mountains as being in western Oklahoma. I mean the Woodward, Elk City area.
Cyndi Trail on January 29, 2013 at 6:30 pm said:
I know this as rabbit’s-foot clover; noticed a couple of individuals at a tiny prairie at Blue Lake/Lewis and Clark Lake in Iowa last summer.
James C. Trager on January 30, 2013 at 8:53 am said:
Chris, your excellent post, and fellow readers, your array of thoughtful responses, exemplify why I keep coming back to read this blog. It’s truly one of my favorites, and sometimes, like right now, my favorite among the favorites.
Oh yeah, and … Dalea leporina doesn’t grow around here, but we have “sandy soil deficit disorder” in this area, which may explain its absence.
Thank you sincerely, James. Be sure to share the post with others! It’d be interesting to get more responses.
John Clayton on January 30, 2013 at 8:15 pm said:
What if anything should be done about disappearing plant species? An arboretum could function like a zoo. Pandas and many other wild animals are being perpetuated not through habitat restoration, but by frequent caretaking within a relatively small confined zoo space. Doing this with prairie plants would not require anywhere near the financial costs. Sawtooth Sunflowers might occupy a 4’X10’ raised bed. Prairie Dock could be displayed on a neighboring 4’X10’ raised bed, etc. that sees hundreds of prairie species on view to the public. Plus, we save these plants for a future that may someday witness those plants reintegrated into our landscape. Consider our inventive progress. Today we have no-till native planters and chemicals; such as, Round-up, Plateau, and Max Select. Our ability to establish native plants has been enhanced by these innovations. In a hundred years the techniques available to establish native plants may be of such low cost and performed with such ease that today’s threatened plants could again been planted in large numbers. The actions we take each day right now, those activities form the future. We need to save each species.
John, another option is the seed banking option. There are numerous attempts around the world to preserve not only species, but also the broadest possible genetic variety of each species, by harvesting and storing seed in long-term storage facilities. An example is the Millenium Seed Bank http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/save-seed-prosper/millennium-seed-bank/index.htm
Craig on January 30, 2013 at 11:29 pm said:
Quite a wily species, too – the USDA PLANTS database map has a source that says it occurs in Wisconsin, but neither the UW-Madison or UW-Stevens Point herbariums list a record for it! Maybe all of the patient botanists have overlooked this one! It occurs on the Minnesota/Mississippi River in Minnesota and also in northern Illinois, so perhaps it’s lurking on some sandy Mississippi River terrace or along Lake Michigan….
Hal Mann on January 31, 2013 at 10:58 am said:
Awesome article Chris. I’ve been struggling with explaining the importance of biodiversity. Your sound focus on what the loss means really struck home with me. Thank you.
Patrick Swanson on January 31, 2013 at 9:22 pm said:
Great thoughts and discussion. It is difficult to convey the importance of biodiversity when you can’t see or experience them directly. Cases in point. Five years ago I started clearing cedar on a Loess Hills prairie remnant. Among the wonderful flush of native flowers that have appeared is ground plum…a lovely spring perennial legume. Good for what? Well, this winter, for the first time, I’ve seen extensive damage of these plants by voles. I confess that sometimes I think of voles as no better than locusts, but I realize that the voles that survive the winter on the ground plum will, in turn, be feeding the badgers, coyotes, bobcats and other critters that inhabit the place. As another example, there is a nice population of slender false foxglove that has appeared, which is a hemiparisitic annual plant. Well, two summers ago I saw many of these plants almost infested with caterpillars that I found later to be Ohio buckeyes, a host plant for these lovely butterflies. These stories persuade me there is no “junk” in a native prairie, to use Tom’s terminology. The earth is a watch that moves with hands moved by mechanisms that remain unseen by all but the watchmaker.
Steve Parsons on February 4, 2013 at 1:16 pm said:
I know it’s fabaceae and not paoceae, but this reminds me of teosinte..which turned out to be awfully important. When we cull material, we cull possibility and potential regardless of the usefulness of its current form. And I don’t mean to say that in an anthropocentric way either.
Brian Teeter on August 20, 2013 at 8:26 pm said:
Hi Chris, I was just doing a quick Google search on this species and ran across your post. I get the meaning of the post and that its not about this species or any single species, but I noticed that you had predicted that someone would comment and tell you how abundant and important this species was. Well, I aim to please and will comment on both for you.
This spring I was working with a landowner in Seward County on a CRP conversion from smooth brome to natives and we decided to experiment with the chemical imazapic (panoramic 2sl). We ended up with about 15 of the 130 acres covered in a thick stand of Dalea leporina (hence the Google search). On a side note; not only did this species like the conversion but a host of remnant plants came up. Anyway, your post triggered some memories of other projects that I had seen it on and of course overlooked. When I thought of the locations it seemed that they were all located on CRP being converted from brome to natives and been in the program since its inception (I am sensing a pattern of USDA policy and agricultural history) all found on the rocky ridges in the Bohemian ridge north of branched oak lake. So it’s at least common enough that its still stored in my memory.
As to the importance/value, I can’t speak for whether its an insects exclusive host or cures cancer, but when driving home I wondered if the seed was commercially available for its potential use/value on CRP for firebreaks with other opportunistic native annuals or even just another early successional wildflower for brood rearing. Of course the answer is yes, it has that value and far beyond just wildlife management and CRP, but just like everything in our unfortunate society we need to create value and importance if we plan on keeping it around, you never know, maybe it will cure cancer or is the exclusive host to an underappreciated and overlooked insect that cures cancer :)
P.S. – I heard a college professor once tell a student “what’s the importance and valve of you” when asked why we should care about an endangered species.
Brian – Great story! That’s really interesting to hear. I assume the Dalea seed was in the seed bank, not in the seed mix that was planted? Thanks for sharing this.
Brian Teeter on August 20, 2013 at 11:08 pm said:
The only wildflowers we seeded were the ones listed as tolerant on the imazapic label. I considered it may have been planted in the past but no seeding sheet found had it listed. The fact that other remnant species showed up leads me to believe its all from the seed bank. It was supposed to be a typical conversion of former cropland seeded to brome for last 25 years and although its not exactly a high diversity prairie, its like striking gold in terms of dealing with CRP. I just wish that I would have not used the imazapic on part of the site as we probably knocked out some other treasures, but if we could predict the future life would be boring.
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‘Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photographs’
On view at Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA) until 03/03/19. Featured image: Roger Minick’s “Woman with Scarf at Inspiration Point, Yosemite National Park, California” from Sightseer Series, 1980.
By Joel Howe
Local photography teachers would be well-advised to arrange a class field trip over to the Addison Gallery in Andover to catch the current exhibition: “Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photographs”.
Drawing deep from the Addison Gallery’s stellar permanent collection, the exhibit presents a thoughtful overview of the history and trends of American landscape photography, as well as its more contemporary manifestations. Spanning four rooms, the exhibit starts out with a largely chronological presentation, and develops into more thematic groupings.
First Room: Earliest Work
The earliest work is simply astounding. Pioneers such as Eadward Muybridge, Carlton Watkins, and William Henry Jackson represent here the unbridled enthusiasm for exploration and documentation of the vast Western landscape, starting in the 1860s and ’70s. Well before Ansel Adams’ time, Yosemite Valley is already showing up as the quintessential landscape subject in “Mammoth Plate” albumen prints by Muybridge and Watkins.
While these early prints evoke a sense of the sublime awe that must have been felt by early explorers unaccustomed to the vast scale of the Western landscape, they also provide some early glimmers of the ecological devastation that later landscape photographers addressed in earnest. Watkins’ images of gravel-mining operations, and the construction debris in Jackson’s railroad photos, hint at the darker side of the Westward expansion.
Gravel-mining operations by Carlton Watkins
These Mammoth Plate prints also represent incredible technical feats—they were created by using huge view-cameras that produced glass plate negatives up to 18”x22”, which were then contact-printed onto albumen paper. These enormous glass-plate negatives had to be hand-coated with light-sensitive emulsion in the dark, quickly exposed in the camera, and then developed in the dark again, all while the emulsion was still wet. This required the photographer to haul a portable darkroom tent, in addition to the massive camera, tripod, and sheets of fragile glass. Despite these logistical challenges, the prints themselves are near perfect—massive, yet with no visible grain and virtually unlimited detail.
While Yosemite may be the ultimate American landscape subject, I was pleased to see that the Addison has also included several very early works by more local photographers. Examples are an 1858 salt-print of Mt. Washington by Franklin White, and an albumen print from the 1880s by Charles Hibbard of “The Flume,” a popular White Mountains destination.
Second Room: Early 20th Century
The second room of the exhibition illustrates how, in the early 20th century, photographers started to become interested in the possibilities of the medium as “Fine Art”, rather than just documentation. Work from this period became more emotive—softer-focus, more painterly—and acquired the moniker “Pictorialism.” Landscape photographs were often taken intentionally out of focus, or using special “soft-focus” lenses, and printed on hand-coated textured paper, using gum-printing, or platinum-printing to give a painterly or hand-drawn look. One 1919 photograph by George and Hebe Hollister, “Elms by the River,” is so impressionistic that I would have sworn it was a charcoal drawing.
“Elms by the River” by George and Hebe Hollister, 1919
The room also shows work by Alfred Steiglitz, who started his career in the Pictorialist tradition before realizing that emulating painting didn’t take advantage of photography’s innate strength, which is crisp realism. Stieglitz helped direct the medium back towards “straight photography.” The exhibit includes like-minded photographers such as Edward Weston, who belonged to the f64 Group—so-called because of its advocacy for using the smallest camera-lens aperture, f64, which resulted in maximum sharpness of focus.
Just as the Pictorialist photographers were influenced by the impressionist painters of the era, in the 1940s and ’50s, abstract expressionism influenced photographers such as Harry Callahan and Minor White, who began to explore the possibilities of abstraction in landscape photography. Callahan’s “Sunlight on Water” from 1943 is a standout example from this period.
“Sunlight on the Water” by Harry Callahan, 1943
In the 1960s and ’70s, some photographers began to re-evaluate our relationship to the landscape. Rather than idealizing the view, they opted for a more realistic representation of the typical American experience landscape. Robert Frank includes the less romantic side of the Western landscape in his 1955 “Santa Fe (Gas Station)” and Robert Adams includes tract-home subdivisions in the foreground of his mountain landscapes. Adams was a founding member of the “New Topographics” school of landscape photography, where man-made features are intentionally included in the view.
Of course, there’s another well-known photographer named Adams, and Ansel is represented in this room as well, with several photographs made in Yosemite and the Sierra Nevadas. I found it interesting that while Ansel Adams may be one of the first photographers to come to mind when thinking of “American Landscape Photography,” his photographs seemed out of step with the historical movements of the medium. His work expresses an innocent awe of the landscape, but was made far later than those early pioneers. It is emotional and expressive, but crisply focused and not connected to the Pictorial movement. The work is contemporaneous with the New Topographers, but he refuses to allow the man-made into his viewfinder. Ansel Adams seems off on his own track, successful and influential, but also disconnected from the cultural conversation about the meaning of landscape photography.
Room Three: The 1970s and ’80s
The third room of the exhibit follows landscape photographers of the 1970s and ’80s, veering into conceptual and postmodern territory. The photographer becomes no longer an objective documentarian, but rather an active participant in the landscape, and self-reflective about the act of photographing itself.
Mt Rushmore by Lee Friedlander, 1969
For example, rather than photographing Mt. Rushmore directly, Lee Friedlander chose to photograph the reflection of the mountain in the gift-shop window, commenting on how we “consume” the landscape. The 1980 image (the feature image of this post) by Roger Minick depicts a grand view of Yosemite Valley, but with a woman in the foreground wearing a gift-shop head scarf imprinted with the exact same view. With his “Altered Landscapes” series, John Pfahl intervenes directly in the landscape, placing objects into the scene and playing perceptual tricks based on perspective.
Room Four: Contemporary Work
The final room of the exhibit covers more contemporary work and suggests the many different directions of current photography. Several of the themes that emerged earlier in the exhibition are re-examined here.
The environmental destruction first suggested by Watkins is further explored in Joel Sternfeld’s images of suburban homes on the edge of a sinkhole, or Katherine Wolkoff’s documentation of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
Considerations of “man-made” versus “natural” landscapes and ideas about beauty that were first explored by the New Topographics photographers are further investigated in Lewis Baltz’s “Candlestick Point.” It is a wall-covering installation of 8”x10” prints of overgrown parking lots and trash-strewn urban edge-conditions.
“Cul de Sac: Failed Development West of Phoenix” by Mark Klett, 1990
In his 1990 “Cul de Sac: Failed Development West of Phoenix,” Mark Klett builds upon the earlier work of Robert Adams with his image of suburban development gone awry.
Concerns raised by the postmodern movement, about oppression, racism, and under-represented minority perspectives, are further examined in works by John Willis documenting Native American gravesites, and Debbie Kaffery’s images of New Orleans neighborhoods still languishing a year after Hurricane Katrina hit.
“Cell Phone on Venice Beach” by Matthew Pillsbury, 2006
This final room of the exhibit, with its multitude of different photographic approaches, suggests a fracturing in the linear narrative of the history of landscape photography. Are the images of death and destruction (gravesites, battlefields, hurricanes, burning houses) meant to suggest a collapse in the traditions of American landscape photography, hastened along by the ubiquity of smart-phone photography posted to Instagram? One photograph near the end of the exhibit seemed to embody the current state of affairs: Matthew Pillsbury’s 2006 “Cell Phone on Venice Beach,” a ten-minute long exposure of the ocean at dusk, with the glow of a cell phone glimmering like a ship’s navigation lights upon the horizon.
Have we all turned inward, captivated by our little devices, or can we still connect with the sublime, with the vast ocean and sky in the gloaming? Offering hope for the latter, an adjacent photo by Barbara Bosworth, “Fireflies in a Jar, Mentor, Ohio” (1995), is a beautiful image of natural wonder and beauty close at hand.
Joel Howe is an architectural and fine-art photographer based in Cambridge, MA. He also edits and maintains the Call for Entries feature of the PRC website.
“Fireflies in a Jar, Mentor, Ohio” by Barbars Bosworth, 1995
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Ineffective and in dire need of reform: South Korea’s Anti-Sex Trade Law
“The biggest contributor to pushing sex work underground are the authorities.” A banner – previously used at the press conference by the Hanteo National Union of Sex Workers – hangs forlorn between two brothels in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul, as the red light district is closed on Korean Sex Workers’ Day 2012. (Photo by Matthias Lehmann)
Report on Public Opinion of Anti-Trade Sex Law
In 2011, the Hyundai Research Institute published the findings of a survey commissioned by the Hanteo National Union of Sex Workers. It examined “the changes in public opinions on sex trade after the enactment of the Anti-Trade Sex Law” in South Korea based on interviews with 1,000 adults from different age groups and all walks of life in a nationwide telephone survey.
The report, a copy of which I had received by Hyun Joon KANG, Director-General of Hanteo, has now been translated into English from the Korean original by Yeon Ju OH, Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Yeon Ju OH is a co-editor of Cyberfeminism 2.0 and has been researching women in technology, the relationship between gender and new media technologies, and feminist knowledge production. Her interests include the transnationalisation of feminist knowledge.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Ms Oh who volunteered to translate the report to make it accessible to a wider audience and help to further a better knowledge exchange between the global south and north.
Please click here to download the translated report incl. annotated tables in English. Click here, if you wish to download a scanned version of the original report in Korean.
South Korean Model: The Anti-Trade Sex Law
In September 2000, the notorious Gunsan Brothel Fire killed five women who had been held captive. Their tragic deaths exposed the conditions in Korea’s sex industry and triggered a campaign by women’s rights activists to reform the country’s prostitution laws. Their proposals became the blueprint for the Special Laws on Sex Trade (성매매 특별법, Seongmaemae tteukbyeol beob), enacted in 2004, which include a Protection and Prevention Act and a Punishment Act, which penalises both buyers and sellers of sexual acts with up to one year in prison or fines up to 3 million won (approx. £1,715/€2,075/$2,825), except for those who were coerced into selling sex. Those who force others to sell sex are subject to up to 10 years in prison or fines of up to 100 million won (approx. £57,000/€70,000/$94,000).
The Anti-Sex Trade Law of 2004 replaced the Law Against Morally Depraved Behaviours (Prostitution) of 1961 (윤락행위등방지법, Yullak haengui deung bangji beob). Interestingly, the new law replaced the term “prostitution” (윤락) with “sex trade/sex trafficking” (성매매) as the former was found to imply the “moral corruption of the engaged women” while the latter was deemed to be neutral in value. What this illustrates, however, is the law’s disregard of sex work as an act of self-determination and the definition of transactional sex, i.e. the receipt of monetary or other material benefits in exchange for sexual acts, as inherently exploitative.
By passing the Anti-Sex Trade Law, the government vowed to eliminate prostitution and protect victims of exploitation and violence in the sex industry, drawing inspiration from the so-called Swedish Model that criminalises the buyers of sexual acts. Although representatives of the Swedish government continue to claim that the law successfully reduced prostitution and human trafficking, a 2011 report by the Swedish police found that between 2008 and 2010, all those criminal offences the Sex Purchase Act from 1999 was supposed to tackle had actually increased, including a number of human trafficking offences, the purchase of sexual services and even the purchase of sex acts with children. In November 2013, Equality Minister Maria Arnholm voiced her concern that “prostitution in Sweden today is more affected by trafficking, compared to seven years ago” and announced to further examine the effects of Sweden’s prostitution law.
The Ministry of Gender Equality celebrated the Anti-Sex Trade Law legislation as a milestone achievement that would “vigorously strengthen the protection of the human rights of women in prostitution”. However, others criticised the legislation’s discriminatory attitude towards sex workers, who remain criminalised unless they claim to be victims. This “distinction between victims and those who [voluntarily] sell sex is actually one between protection and punishment” and categorises women into “good women who are worthy of help” and “bad ones who need to be punished”, thus continuing the stigmatisation of women who sell sex.
Challenges of the Anti-Sex Trade Law
In June 2006, the Korean Constitutional Court ruled 8:1 to uphold the law in the “So-called Brothel Building Provider Case”. A complainant who owned buildings in a red light district had argued that since his properties could not be leased out for any purpose other than brothels, regulating and punishing the leasing out as thus excessively infringed upon his right to property. The judges dismissed his complaint arguing that “the public good that may be achieved by preventing the deep-seated abuse and infringement of human rights of sexual traffic in the brothel area, and ultimately closing down the brothel area itself” was of greater importance “than the short term private losses suffered by the complainant”.
In January 2013, Criminal Law Judge OH Won Chan from the District Court in Northern Seoul accepted the request of a 41-year-old sex worker, surnamed Kim, for the legal examination of the Anti-Sex Trade Law and referred the case to the Constitutional Court for judgement. Kim had been fined 500,000 won (approx. £285/€345/$470) for selling sex in violation of the laws. The request is based on the premise that in the absence of coercion or exploitation, sex work should fall within an individual’s right to self-determination and that adults have the right to engage in consensual sexual acts without the state’s interference.
Korean legal experts appear to agree with that notion. According to HAN Sang Hee, professor at Konkuk University Law School in Seoul, “the policy approach to sex work in South Korea has centred on regulation [punishment], viewing it simply as an ‘evil’. The significance of this constitutionality review request is that it positions sex work as a matter of women’s rights and provides a starting point for a debate on expanding women’s rights to self-determination.” And according to HOH Il Tae, professor at Dong-A University Law School in Seoul, “criminal punishment should be a last resort. The state needs to refrain from interfering in personal matters that do not involve sexual acts with minors. The responsibility of the state is to monitor, protect, and/or provide appropriate education for the women who engage in sex work to earn money and the men who purchase their services.”
Public Opinion: An ineffective law in dire need of reform
The survey by the Hyundai Research Institute revealed that 23.2% of respondents believed sex trade* had increased since the enactment of Anti-Sex Trade Law, while 8.9% thought it had declined. The highest percentage (49.9%) thought the law had made “no difference”. While 29.3% of the respondents thought, the abolition of red-light districts had a positive impact on efforts to eradicate sex trade, in most respondent groups, the percentage of those who felt it had neither a positive nor a negative impact was higher. In addition, 58.8% believed that covert sex trade had increased since the enactment of the Anti-Sex Trade Law, while 7.4% said it had decreased (No difference: 24.9%). 46.1% of respondents answered that the number of sex workers travelling to work abroad had increased since the enactment of law, while 3.3% said the number had decreased. (No difference: 21.3%, Do not know/Unanswered: 29.3%)
These answers clearly indicate that the majority of respondents did not view the implementation of the Anti-Sex Trade Law as effective in reducing sex trade. It comes as no surprise then that 39.6% of the respondents did not agree that the law had been implemented in accordance with its original purpose and that 73.3% said the law should be reformed, mirroring what sex workers in South Korea have been campaigning for ever since the law was introduced. The constitutionality review of the Anti-Sex Trade Law was scheduled to conclude six months after the submission of the request. A year on, however, no decision has been announced and the persecution of sex workers continues.
*These passages are quoted and paraphrased from the English translation of the report. As mentioned above, the term “성매매 (seongmaemae)” can be translated as either “sex trade” or “sex trafficking”. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family uses the translation “sexual traffic”.
1. Jordan, Ann “The Swedish Law to Criminalize Clients: A failed experiment in social engineering”
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This entry was posted on January 10, 2014 by Matthias Lehmann. It was filed under Special, Update and was tagged with Anti-Sex Trade Law, Han Sang Hee, Hanteo, Hoh Il Tae, 성매매 특별법 관련 국민의식 조사결과 보고서, 한터전국연합회, Oh Won Chan, Oh Yeonju, Prostitution, prostitution law, Sex Work, south korea.
paulcarr1974
I was listening to a podcast of a speech (link below) given by Janice Raymond recently in which she was singing the praises of the South Korean Sex Purchase Act. She omitted to mention that the sale of sex is also criminalized under this model.
http://feministcurrent.com/8263/podcast-prostitution-not-a-job-not-a-choice-a-talk-by-janice-raymond/
Matthias Lehmann
Of course she omitted it. Thanks very much for the link. I had received information about that talk, incl. a detailed quote, from another person who follows Research Project Korea but I wasn’t aware that there was a podcast around.
Here’s what I replied to that person before. (I added Janice Raymond’s claims below.)
I had one of my assistants look at the (November) 2007 report that was published by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF) of South Korea, but produced by KWDI, the Korean Women’s Development Institute. Their research methodology seems questionable, to put it mildly.
The report, that’s only available in Korean, is titled: “National Survey on the current conditions of the Sex Trade in Korea”. They picked altogether 8 business types from government registries of businesses they suspected as most likely to facilitate transactional sex. Those were: serviced pubs, clubs, smaller pubs, tea and coffee houses, noraebangs (karaoke places), barber shops, massage parlours, and beauty shops/wellness places.
They went and interviewed people living or working in the red light districts and based their findings on the impressions that those people had. That’s of course entirely random and unscientific.
The 56% decrease only refers to the number of red light districts they managed to locate. Not even the number of businesses – just the number of red light districts, some of which disappear because of gentrification, not because of the law.
And the numbers don’t always add up either.
It states: 39 red light districts, 1443 brothels, 3644 sex workers, 2,510,000 clients; 5.8 clients per brothel/per day on average.
But if you multiply 5.8 x 1443 x 365 (1 year), you get over 3 million client visits
It probably explains why MOGEF doesn’t take any responsibility for the figures in the report.
They also got lots of information from interviewing people in counselling centres for sex workers and from what I know, only women who exit prostitution go there.
With regards to the assistance package from the government, I can tell you – having lived in Korea and knowing prices and the rent situation – that the bare minimum for a single person are about 800,000 won per month, and 1,080,000 Won is what a person would earn (before taxes) on minimum wage.
According to the government, the bare minimum to live on in South Korea are 600,000 won for a 1 person household. If it’s 3 person household (e.g. single parent + 2 kids), it’s 1,300,000 won. Bear in mind, however, that people who are on those 600,000 government benefit deals also receive medical and educational support as well as TV license fees.
This 400,000 won subsidy is a joke. If people were willing to exit prostitution/sex work, they still wouldn’t be able to with that kind of “assistance”.
Excerpt from “Prostitution: Not a Job, not a Choice” by Janice Raymond (Coalition Against Trafficking of Women) at the Vancouver Public Library Montreal Massacre Memorial on Saturday, November 30, 2013.
“I just want to say a few things about the South Korean model, because I think in this area of legislation, we always look to Western models for our examples. And I think a lot of you may have heard about the Nordic model but you may not have heard about the South Korean Model. Basically, the Republic of South Korea in the year 2004 passed a zero tolerance law, that’s what it was called, targeting, among other things, the demand for prostitution. And included in that legislation were added resources to assist the women in prostitution. When I met with service organizations in Korea that provided this assistance to women, they told me that the most gratifying part of the law was the 56% decrease of women in prostitution that was reported several years after the law was passed. That was from a government study, that was the ministry of gender equality that conducted that study in Korea. So a 56% decrease in women in prostitution, and that the number of sex districts had decreased also, by about 40%.”
The entire transcript by El Feministo can be found here.
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