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Diplomatic presence in Iraq shrinking
-- Associated Press
BAGHDAD - A decade after the start of the war in Iraq, the American diplomatic footprint here is shrinking fast.
As recently as a year ago, the immense U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and other sites around the country were staffed by more than 16,000 personnel. Today, the number has fallen to about 10,500, U.S. Ambassador Robert Stephen Beecroft said this week.
By the end of the year, Beecroft said he expects to have 5,500 employees in Iraq. Most of them will be security personnel and other outside contractors assigned to support the fewer than 1,000 remaining diplomats. More cuts are expected beyond the end of the year.
"That number will continue to go down. ... And they'll go down largely on the contracting side," Beecroft said in his residence on the heavily guarded compound on the banks of the Tigris River.
The sprawling, fortress-like U.S. Embassy officially opened in early 2009 at a cost of more than $730 million as the largest American mission in the world.
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See the First Photos of Royal Baby Sussex!
TOPICS:Meghan MarklePrince Harryroyal baby
WINDSOR, ENGLAND - MAY 08: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose with their newborn son during a photocall in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle on May 8, 2019 in Windsor, England. The Duchess of Sussex gave birth at 05:26 on Monday 06 May, 2019. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
By: Emily Platt 05/08/2019 at 8:16 AM
The photos you’ve all been waiting for are here—the first baby Sussex pictures! Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s new son was born at 5:26 a.m. on May 6, weighing 7 pounds and 3 ounces. But instead of taking traditional portraits outside the hospital right after birth, the couple chose to make tradition. They waited two days before stepping out publicly as a family today.
WINDSOR, ENGLAND – MAY 08: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose with their newborn son during a photocall in St George’s Hall at Windsor Castle on May 8, 2019 in Windsor, England. The Duchess of Sussex gave birth at 05:26 on Monday 06 May, 2019. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The newly-minted parents were glowing as they cradled their newborn, whose name they’ve yet to reveal. When reporters asked Meghan what she thought of motherhood, she gushed, “It’s magic. It’s pretty amazing.” She also gave her husband a sweet shout out: “I have the two best guys in the world, so I’m really happy.”
According to his mother and father, little Sussex “has the sweetest temperament.” As for who he takes after? “We’re still trying to figure that out,” Meghan shared. But Harry did joke that, like dad, “he’s already got a little bit of facial hair, as well. Wonderful!”
Meghan and Harry posed for a few quick photos before heading off to meet Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. “It’ll be a nice moment to introduce the baby to more family,” Meghan explained of the visit with their firstborn’s great-grandparents. Harry was happy to add that the royals now have “another great-grandchild!”
Watch NBC’s special report video here, which documents their adorable outing. Fingers crossed the happy parents share Baby Sussex’s name soon.
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Classic Full English threatened by health-conscious Brits
Published: 06:00 Sunday 27 March 2016
The famous full English breakfast is being threatened by the increasingly health conscious young, a new survey has found.
More than a quarter of people aged between 18-24 say they no longer include bacon in the traditional fry-up.
The move away from bacon comes after the World Health Organisation linked the consumption of processed meat such as sausages and bacon to cancer.
Sales of bacon have fallen by four per cent since the report late last year.
A poll of the breakfast eating habits of 2,000 people suggests that Brits are looking for healthier options when it comes to the most important meal of the day.
The survey also found that while nearly a quarter of Brits (22.6%) still “go to work on an egg”, trends in egg cooking show scrambled slowly overtaking fried as the egg of choice in a full English among the more health-conscious.
Ursula Philpot, dietitian and senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University said: “There is a link between packaged meats like bacon which are cured and wrapped and bowel cancer which is why we ask people to avoid and reduce their consumption when possible.
“We wouldn’t tell people to never eat bacon or sausages but to look at their consumption.
“If they’re eating it three or four times a week it might be worth reducing your intake but if it’s once a fortnight then it’s nothing to worry about.”
The survey for kitchen appliance retailer and repairer Glotechrepairs.co.uk also asked what time people are having their breakfast.
It found that women are much more likely to pick it up on their way to work rather than eating before leaving home and as a result over a quarter of women admit to snacking throughout the morning.
However, even though women claimed to buy their breakfast during their commute more often than men, they manage to spend 55p less on breakfast foods than men do each week.
Anna Daniels of the British Dietetic Association said: “With the growing emergence of social media teens and adolescents are becoming increasingly aware of their eating habits.
“There is a worry that this can be taken to the extreme as a little bacon in a full English occasionally as part of a balanced diet would be perfectly harmless.
“I think a slightly more concerning finding from the study is that more and more people are eating on the go. Picking up breakfast en route to work and not eating it at home.
“This leaves the consumer more likely to eat pre-packaged and processed breakfasts that may be higher in sugar and salt.
“A good breakfast will set you up for the day and ensures that you don’t reach for the biscuit tin mid-morning.”
The survey found that the average Brit spends £6.88 a week on breakfast - comparatively low when it is supposed to be the most important meal of the day.
It also discovered that a bowl of cereal is still the most common breakfast with 59% of people regularly choosing it, followed by toast (51%), porridge (34.8%) and an egg (22.6%).
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"Business as usual?"—Paul Mason and the graduate without a future
A young generation of digital natives are "revolting against...the processing of information", according to Paul Mason in a recent interview with New Scientist, and it is having global repercussions, shaking both tyrants and the world economy.
The revolts of the Arab Spring, as well as uprisings in Greece and angry protests against austerity across Europe, are different in their make-up from earlier political rebellions and revolutions, says Mason, and this is largely due to the technological developments which are allowing rapid communication and non-centralised organisational opportunities.
Mason recognises that the shift technological development has engendered is more than an organisational issue, however. It is also changing popular demands for the forms of organisation people want, and enabling self-organisation to help, for example, aid charities provide services more effectively, or build sustainable, tech-aware slums. Technology is leveling power and access to information simultaneously:
The reason that this horizontalism is such a prevalent ideology is because the technology and the expanded power of the individual allow you to create something in between: areas of autonomy, either in your personal life, online, or among a smaller community.
Reviewing Mason's new book in the New Statesman, George Eaton suspects that, whilst non-hierarchical decision-making processes may have taken off and launch groups like UK Uncut and Occupy into the lime-light, they are failing to produce any concrete results in terms of policy:
It was the National Trust that forced the biggest U-turn of the coalition government's first year in office, over the attempted privatisation of forests.
Despite that, Eaton is thrilled by Mason's "compulsively vivid style" and the renewed upsurge in popular social movements it depicts:
After years in which the parameters of political debate narrowed, however, there is something thrilling about the chance to have such discussions again.
It's a position that Dan Hancox, writing in Frieze, picks up, with perhaps a little more enthusiasm:
This can be an optimistic moment. New definitions of democracy, and entire new political economies can be forged from the ashes of Lehman Brothers, and from the ashes of the London riots – shaped from the ground up.
Hancox draws on Paul Mason's conception of a "graduate with no future" being a common trope of protests from the UK to Egypt, arguing that such a generation is having it's political horizons shaped by being bought up in a "post-political" era, where hope for social change was cashed-in, in return for a promise of a gradual improvement in living standards over a lifetime. That promise is gone, Hancox says; "‘Business as usual' has created this proto-Utopian generation: because it will leave them worse off than their parents". Mason
...has argued that the primary catalyst connecting 2011's global crises and uprisings was exactly these people... What he might have gone on to say is that well-educated young people with no future are liable to create one for themselves - and perhaps, for everyone.
Visit the New Scientist to read the interview in full.
Visit the New Statesman to read George Eaton's review in full.
Visit Frieze to read Dan Hancox's article in full.
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Jail Where Sandra Bland Died Now Authorized to Detain Undocumented Immigrants
Despite the jail failing two recent state inspections, the federal government will allow Waller County deputies to act to a certain degree as immigration officials.
by Kimberly Lawson
Jul 21 2017, 7:46pm
Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
In 2015, Waller County Jail in Texas garnered national attention after the controversial death of Sandra Bland. The 28-year-old, who was seen on video being brutally slammed into the ground by a state trooper—she was initially pulled over for failing to use a signal light—was found dead in a jail cell three days after her arrest. Her death was ruled a suicide, but a subsequent investigation found that Waller County guards falsified records and failed to do timely checks on inmates.
The jail came under the spotlight again earlier this year when a female inmate filed a complaint that she'd been sexually assaulted by a male inmate there. State records also show that Waller County Jail failed two recent state inspections with the Texas Commission on Jail Standards—on March 21 and on December 12, the Houston Chronicle reports.
Read more: ICE Detained Undocumented Trans Woman When She Sought Domestic Abuse Protection
Yet the Waller County Sheriff's Office was recently authorized by the federal government to begin questioning people they suspect are undocumented immigrants, reports Colorlines. The agreement, signed in May and in effect through June 30, 2019, allows appointed Waller County deputies to act to a certain degree as immigration officials under the 287g immigration enforcement program. Local authorities will now be able to question anyone they've arrested about their citizenship status, and take subsequent action if they see fit.
"There is little oversight and little accountability over how these agreements happen," Astrid Dominguez, a policy strategist with the ACLU of Texas, told Colorlines. "In places like Waller County, where they don't have the best track record, this impacts not just immigrants, but also communities of color."
Some critics say 287g programs open the door to widespread racial profiling and the unfair targeting of people of color—which may be particularly worrisome for a law enforcement agency in a place once called "the most racist county in the state of Texas" by a former Waller county judge. In 2011, the Department of Justice released a report that found one Arizona sheriff's office in a 287g partnership had reportedly engaged in "unconstitutional policing," including "racial profiling of Latinos," unlawful stops and detentions of Latinos, and discrimination against inmates who didn't speak English well.
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Moreover, Michelle Ortiz, the deputy director of Americans for Immigrant Justice, told Broadly recently, if immigrants don't feel comfortable reporting crimes in their communities for fear of detention or deportation, "that makes us all less safe." The International Association of Chiefs of Police agrees: In a 2007 report focused on immigration issues, the association wrote: "One of the central benchmarks of a well-commanded police department is establishing good relationships with the local communities, including those composed of immigrants. Working with these communities is critical in preventing and investigating crimes."
The news of Waller County's newly formed 287g partnership comes to light as the federal government appears to be ramping up immigration enforcements. The Washington Post recently reported that the Trump administration is considering expanding the Department of Homeland Security's authority to expedite deportations of undocumented people in the US. And earlier this week, ICE acting director Thomas Homan pledged to funnel more resources and agents to so-called sanctuary cities because, as he put it, "In the America I grew up in, cities didn't shield people who violated the law. What I want to get is a clear understanding from everybody, from the congressmen to the politicians to law enforcement to those who enter the country illegally, that ICE is open for business."
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Lee Carey - strong form Stateside
Brighton 10k, 15 November
THE men’s event was won by Chris Davies (Telford) in a time of 29:04, which moves him to fifth in the Power of Ten rankings, with World Half Marathon representative Phil Wicks (Belgrave) taking the runners-up spot in 29:32 and Jean Ndaysenga (Birchfield) finishing in third with 30:07. In the women’s race, Jo Wilkinson (Bedford & County) was victorious with a time of 33:48 and Carolyn Hoyte (Arena 80) 34:04 took second with Gemma Steele (Charnwood) 34:34 in third place.
NCAA Division I Great Lakes Regional Championships, Bloomington IN, USA, 14 November
The men’s 10km event saw five British athletes running for Butler University and Andy Baker (Yeovil) finished in 8th place in a time of 31:19.52.
NCAA Division I Midwest Regional Championships, Springfield MO, USA, 14 November
THE men’s 10km race had four British athletes competing including GB Cross Country representative John Beattie (Winchester) competing for Tulsa University finished in 8th place in a time of 31:00.4; Daniel Watts (Peterborough U23) competing for Oklahoma State University was 16th in 31:07.9; Lewis Timmins (Gosforth U23) competing for Tulsa University was 24th in 31:37.1 and Matthew Graham (Kirkintilloch U20) competing for DePaul University was 26th in 31:43.1.
NCAA Division I Mountain Regional Championships, Albuquerque NM, USA, 14 November
THE women’s 6km race had five British athletes competing for New Mexico University and Ruth Senior (City of Norwich U23) led the way finishing in 11th place in 21:17.2;
In the men’s race Rory Fraser (Owls Leicester U23) finished in 7th place in 30:35.5.
NCAA Division I North East Regional Championships, Boston MA, USA, 14 November
The men’s 10km event featured Lee Carey (Nuneaton U23) competing for Providence College finishing in a fine second place in 30:46.
NCAA Division I South Regional Championships, Tuscaloosa AL, USA, 14 November
IN the women’s 6km event there were two British athletes competing for Florida University and Charlotte Browning (Aldershot, Farnham & District U23) had a good run finishing in 2nd place in a time of 20:12.49 while Stacey Johnson (Cannock & Stafford U23) also had an excellent run finishing in 4th place in 20:28.21.
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Home Football Premier League Raheem Sterling has set standard on combating racism, says Andre Gray
Raheem Sterling has set standard on combating racism, says Andre Gray
Watford striker Andre Gray says it is down to players to help combat racism in football after years of it being “brushed under the carpet”.
Gray, speaking to BBC Football Focus about Saturday’s FA Cup final with Manchester City, praised their forward Raheem Sterling for helping “set the standard” on what needs to be done.
England winger Sterling has scored 23 goals for the Premier League and Carabao Cup winners this season, and has become a role model for speaking out about racism. He criticised the media for the way they report on black players after being allegedly racially abused by Chelsea fans.
In 2016, Gray criticised some fans of his then team Burnley as being from the “stone ages” after they allegedly made racist comments to a Bradford player.
Citing modern players’ influence on social media platforms – Sterling has more than five million Instagram followers – Gray said: “I feel like we are in a modern day era now where we are more powerful than the media and I think Raheem Sterling showed that with the backing he’s got from it.
“He’s set the standard now for what needs to be done and gave it the exposure it needs.”
Gray says he agrees with Sterling that walking off the pitch is not the answer to racist abuse.
“If it is fans we are getting abuse from they win because they laugh and we get looked at differently,” he said.
“We live in a world where it’s never going to go, it’s always going to be there, it’s just about fighting against it. Probably for us in our situation the biggest way to do that is through success. But I’d back any of my team-mates for whatever they wanted to do.”
Gray, 27, faces the biggest game of his career on Saturday, having been a non-league player with Hinckley and Luton until joining Brentford in 2014.
Watford have never won a major trophy, having finished second in the top flight in 1982-83 and losing the FA Cup final in 1984.
When asked how he would feel if they win in the FA Cup, he said: “I haven’t even thought that far. I don’t think you can put it into words.
“I am just focusing on the game for now and hopefully I’ll walk out with that medal and then I can start to think about how I feel. We know it’s our last game and our only chance to do something special.”
Watford almost lost the FA Cup semi-final to Gray’s hometown club Wolves, needing an injury-time Troy Deeney penalty and two Gerard Deulofeu goals to come from 2-0 down and win in extra time.
“I was getting a bit of stick in the first half,” he said. “I really wanted to shove it back up them but it’s part of football. It was sweet because it is my hometown and it’s a bit of bragging rights with family and friends but it didn’t matter who we played, it was about getting to the final and we did that.
“It’s surreal. It wasn’t until after the game when you have to sit down and think how far we’ve come. It’s the oldest cup in football and we’ve got a chance of winning it.
“I don’t think we will appreciate it as much until we retire and look back at how special these days were, because not everyone gets to do it.”
Opponents Manchester City are looking to win the first English domestic treble, having won the Carabao Cup in February and Premier League at Brighton on Sunday.
“If anyone has watched our games against the top six teams, we have played well against them,” said Gray. “We’ve probably just not taken our chances as ruthlessly as we can.
“You’ve just got to look at it as one game, completely different to the league game. It’s a weird thing that goes through your head in a league game in our position [Watford finished 11th]; you can sometimes write certain games off knowing that you’ve got bigger games to come against teams around us. But this is one game.
“They’re beatable, they’ve obviously been beaten this year. They are the best team in the league and they have proved that for two years now and we know what we’re in for but the longer we can contain them the better it is for us.
“We watched the Brighton game and they did well even after scoring so early. We believe if we were in that position we’d be able to kick on and get the goal so I don’t think there is any specific plan.
“You have to go in and it’s just pure belief and desire, just to not give up and that’s one thing we do well and we’re just going to keep fighting. They might score, they might not, it’s just about keeping our heads up if they do score and just staying in the game as long as possible.”
You can watch the full Football Focus interview on Saturday at 13:00 BST, which leads straight into the FA Cup final build-up – all on BBC One. Kick-off is at 17:00
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Looming Wave of Sex Abuse Cases Poses Threat to Boy Scouts
FILE - A detail of a Boy Scout uniform in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas, Feb. 4, 2013.
NEW YORK - The lawyers' ads on the internet aggressively seeking clients to file sexual abuse lawsuits give a taste of what lies ahead this year for the Boy Scouts of America: potentially the most fateful chapter in its 109-year history.
Sexual abuse settlements have already strained the Boy Scouts' finances to the point where the organization is exploring "all available options,'' including Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But now the financial threats have intensified.
The reason: States have been moving in recent months to adjust their statute-of-limitations laws so that victims of long-ago sexual abuse can sue for damages. New York state has passed a law that will allow such lawsuits starting in August. A similar bill in New Jersey has reached the governor's desk. Bills also are pending in Pennsylvania and California.
In New York and elsewhere, lawyers are hard at work recruiting clients to sue the Boy Scouts, alleging they were molested as youths by scoutmasters or other volunteers.
Plaintiffs' lawyers "recognize that this is a very unique and lucrative opportunity,'' said attorney Karen Bitar, who formerly handled sex-crime cases as a prosecutor in Brooklyn before going into private practice.
Attorney Tim Kosnoff, a veteran of major sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church, said Tuesday that he and his team have signed up 186 clients from dozens of states in just the past few weeks who want to be part of litigation against the Boy Scouts. Kosnoff said 166 of them identified alleged abusers who have not been named in any of the Boy Scout files made public in past years.
Bankruptcy Risk
Boy Scouts spokeswoman Effie Delimarkos said the organization continues to evaluate its financial situation, and she defended its current abuse-prevention policies. The organization serves more than 2.2 million youths.
A bankruptcy by the Boy Scouts could be unprecedented in its complexity, potentially involving plaintiffs in virtually every state, according to several lawyers. It would be national in scope, unlike the various Catholic Church bankruptcy cases in the U.S., which have unfolded diocese by diocese.
"A Boy Scout bankruptcy would be bigger in scale than any other sex abuse bankruptcy,'' said Seattle-based attorney Mike Pfau, whose firm is representing more than 300 victims in New York state.
Jeffrey Schwartz, a New York-based bankruptcy expert with the firm McKool Smith, said the Boy Scouts don't have a particularly large flow of cash and might be forced to sell off property in bankruptcy. The Boy Scouts have extensive land holdings, including camping and hiking terrain.
"They'll play for time,'' Schwartz said. "If their defense costs and settlement costs are greater than their membership fees, it could be a death spiral.''
However, Dallas-based trial attorney Michelle Simpson Tuegel, part of a team representing numerous sex abuse survivors, said bankruptcy might benefit the Boy Scouts and reduce any payouts to plaintiffs.
"It can be a tool that these institutions use to shield assets and avoid having to reveal some information,'' she said. "In many ways, it's a disservice to victims.''
Illustrating the depth of its problems, the Boy Scouts filed lawsuits last year against six of its own insurers, saying they have improperly refused to cover some of the sex abuse liabilities incurred by the organization. The insurers say the coverage obligation is voided because the Boy Scouts failed to take effective preventive measures such as warning parents that scouts might be abused. The suits are still pending.
The intensifying pressures on the Boy Scouts coincide with the mounting threats to the U.S. Catholic Church in regard to its own long-running sex abuse scandal. Catholic bishops will be meeting in Baltimore in June to discuss the next steps.
Both the church and the Boy Scouts are iconic, historically well-respected institutions now known as having been magnets for pedophiles trying to exploit the trust of boys and their parents.
"When you cloak people in badges of respect, you create the perfect opportunity for bad people to get access to children,'' said Chris Hurley, whose Chicago law firm is representing 11 former scouts in sex abuse trials scheduled on a monthly basis this year.
Another common denominator for the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts: Both kept voluminous secret files with names of suspected abusers, yet balked at sharing the information with the public.
'Ineligible Files'
Since the 1920s, the Boy Scouts have been compiling "ineligible files,'' which list adult volunteers considered to pose a risk of child molestation. About 5,000 of these files have been made public as a result of court action; others remain confidential.
Delimarkos said when any BSA volunteer is added to the database for suspected abuse, "they are reported to law enforcement, removed entirely from any Scouting program and prohibited from re-joining anywhere.''
Minnesota-based attorney Jeff Anderson, who had led many lawsuits against the Catholic Church, released a court deposition in New York on Tuesday in which an expert hired by the Boy Scouts said she tallied 7,819 individuals in the "ineligible files'' as of January, as well as 12,254 victims.
Anderson expressed hope that litigation triggered by New York's new Child Victims Act would increase pressure on the Boy Scouts to make public more of the still-confidential files.
Some of the files were ordered released after a 2010 sexual abuse case in Portland, Oregon, that led to a nearly $20 million judgment against the Boy Scouts on behalf of a man molested by a Scout leader in the 1980s.
Paul Mones, the plaintiff's lawyer in that case, said there are no overall figures on Boy Scout abuse settlements because the details are kept confidential.
Both the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church say they now have policies in place to sharply curtail abuse that abounded in past decades. In the Boy Scouts ' case, the steps included requiring criminal background checks for all staff and volunteers, and requiring two or more adult leaders be present with youth at all times during scouting activities.
Boy Scouts Exploring 'All Options' to Address Fiscal Woes
The Boy Scouts of America says it is exploring "all options'' to address serious financial challenges, but is declining to confirm or deny a report that it may seek bankruptcy protection in the face of declining membership and sex-abuse litigation.
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As part of the high-profile Migrant Caravan, Valentina a transgender woman, and three friends make it to the U.S. Boarder and successfully request asylum.
A Documentary about four transgender women on the Migrant Caravan making it to the border and seeking asylum.
Walking to Broadway is a documentary film following a group of four young transgender women traveling across Mexico within the high-profile migrant caravan in late 2018. Teaming up in Southern Mexico with a goal of reaching the U.S. Border and claiming asylum, they jump trucks, hitch rides and use whatever means available to travel north; all while struggling to get enough food every day and stay safe and well, as well as managing the specific hostility aimed towards them as part of the LGBTQ community.
Migration into the U.S., especially from Central America, is an extremely “hot button” topic and concern in the United States, forming a key part of the current political discourse. As a counterpoint to common rhetoric which dehumanizes and demonizes migrants; this story demonstrates the very human motivations behind the movements. In addition to the relevance of sharing stories of migrants in this current period, the question of LGBTQ rights is also extremely pertinent in America today. The President’s recent ban on transgender persons serving in the American military suggests a very significant roll-back on respecting the rights of transgender persons; placing transgender migrants in a particularly precarious situation.
Working with topics of humanitarian aid and migration, Director Timothy Wolfer has experience telling stories of migration. Arriving while the caravan was still in southern Mexico allowed him to film the majority of the journey to the U.S. border.
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Apple's latest OS is slick and logical
By - The Washington Times - Monday, October 22, 2001
There's a new operating system in town, it's just arriving in stores, the cost is around $100 a copy and it's very, very cool.
No, I'm not talking about Microsoft Windows XP, which is to be introduced in New York this Thursday. Rather, I'm thinking of Mac OS X v.10.1 an unwieldy name for Apple's latest OS that can now be found in area stores. It is, in many respects, what an operating system should be.
First of all, it's slick. After working with personal computers since 1983, I've come to the conclusion that as interesting as a command-line interface is (i.e., "Type this at the C/prompt"), it's better to be graphical. And while graphical is better, best of all is a graphical interface that makes sense. This Mac OS X v.10.1 does: its menu structure is more logical than its predecessors (system commands such as "shut down" are under the Apple menu now, where they should be) and the menus "tree out" in sequences that make logical sense.
The new Mac OS X v.10.1 sports the "Aqua" interface, much ballyhooed in Mac circles and a rather elegant interface it is. It's blue, of course, and water-like in the transparency of elements such as the "dock" that pop up to show which programs are active. There is a "coolness" to the look of this software that is pleasing, even restful.
Second, it works. Built on the Unix operating system, Mac OS X v.10.1 is extremely stable. I was not able to "crash" it despite several tries. Moreover, on machines which are capable of handling the OS, an upgrade from, say, Mac OS 9.2 is quick, easy and seamless.
It took well under an hour to do an upgrade on a (borrowed) Macintosh PowerBook G4 where similar upgrades from, say, Microsoft Windows ME to Windows XP took the better part of 90 minutes. Now, these are two different operating systems and two different computing architectures, not to mention that this is a task normally performed only once. But it is a testimony to Apple that the upgrade is quick here.
It is also nice to see that wireless communications under Mac OS X v.10.1 are reliable and easily available. The built-in Airport card in the PowerBook G4 recognized and work with my Linksys wireless access point without a hitch; the operating system displays an icon indicating wireless signal strength in the right side of the menu bar that's always across the top of the screen. Indicators for system volume, battery strength (for portables) and time/date are also present in the menu bar.
Third, it has some neat extras. Sherlock, a rather nifty "finder" that searches files and the Web to find information, is back with Mac OS X v.10.1, and it is the equal (if not superior) to the find features of Windows XP. You can search folders on a hard disk drive, or Web resources with ease and speed.
Also welcome is iTunes, a media player that handles music and Internet radio stations. The program is a fast performer when it comes to "ripping" tracks from a CD, as well as in logging on to a range of radio stations that broadcast online. There is also iMovie, a program for creating movies and slide shows of pictures, which I have not been able to test fully, yet. It is, however, a nice thing for Apple to add to the basic package.
While there are several mail management programs for Mac OS X v.10.1, the basic "mail" program which ships with the software is an extremely capable bit of software that could easily handle your e-mail needs.
Most of all, the Mac has momentum again. Earlier this year, I had lamented the "state" of the Macintosh platform, given that things were a bit stale. Now, the arrival of Mac OS X v.10.1 has presented the Mac user community with a cool new bit of software, while it has also given developers a huge incentive to bring forth new applications. In one case, Microsoft Corp., some 76,000 people have already downloaded a trial version of Word v.X, part of the next-generation Microsoft Office suite for Mac OS X which will hit stores later this year. It is an amazing word processor and offers a lot of nice features. Intuit has released a new version of Quicken for OS X as well.
These developments and a host of others presage a revival for the Mac as a home and office productivity tool. No, it probably won't displace the Windows platform as a leader in business, but it certainly offers a powerful alternative that deserves careful consideration.
In fact, I'm going to keep using a Mac on my desk, along with Mac OS X v.10.1, for a while and plan to report just how some of these new applications work under this winner of an operating system.
Write to Mark Kellner in care of The Washington Times, Business Desk, 3600 New York Ave. NE, Washington, D.C. 20002; send e-mail to [email protected], or visit the writer's Web page, www.kellner2000.com. Talk back live to Mark every Thursday from 8 to 9 p.m., Eastern time, on www.adrenaline-radio.com.
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Andrew Percy checks in on £6 million project to reduce the risk of flooding in Goole
Member of Parliament for Brigg and Goole, Andrew Percy, visited Yorkshire Water’s project to protect around 30 homes from sewer flooding in and around the Attlee Drive area of Goole.
The project is well underway with new, larger sewers already laid in Kennedy Drive and parts of Attlee Drive and Churchill Walk. However, the most significant part of the project, a new storage tank capable of holding the equivalent amount of water in an Olympic sized swimming pool was the focus of the visit.
Once built, the tank which was started in February will be 20 metres in diameter and 11 metres deep and will stores storm water in times of heavy rainfall, before releasing it safely back into the sewerage system when it’s safe to do so. Built near the medical centre, the work is being done close to homes and has required some localised road closures which will remain in place until the scheme is completed.
Mr Percy saw first-hand the extent of the project and met with representatives from contract partner, Mott MacDonald Bentley, who are carrying out the work and following his visit commented: “I’m pleased to see the progress on what is a vital project for Goole which will reduce the risk of flooding to dozens of homes. The sheer scale of the work going on behind the hoardings is incredible and I hope to return again once it’s finished later this year.”
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Cowboys, Shockers Agree to Four-Year Hardwood Series
October 29, 2018 by OSU Athletics
(STILLWATER, Oklahoma / October 29, 2018) – Head coach Mike Boynton and the Oklahoma State basketball team have agreed to a four-year hardwood series with regional-rival Wichita State.
The Shockers will visit Gallagher-Iba Arena in 2019 and 2021 and the Cowboys will make return trips to Wichita in 2020 and 2022. The 2020 matchup will take place at Intrust Bank Arena, a 15,004-seat venue in downtown Wichita. The site of the 2022 matchup in Wichita will be announced at a later date.
Only 125 miles separate the two schools, which have shared a rivalry dating back to 1934. The Cowboys lead the series, 30-9, including a 15-3 edge in Stillwater. OSU has taken five of the last seven meetings dating back to 1991.
The two teams have met in each of the last four seasons, including closed-door scrimmages in 2015 and 2018. OSU knocked off the Shockers in Intrust Bank Arena, 93-76, in 2016, and Wichita State returned the favor in Stillwater in 2017 with a 78-66 victory over the Cowboys.
Oklahoma State will host an exhibition game against Ouachita Baptist at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4. The Cowboys will open the 2017-18 season at Charlotte on Nov. 10.
Season tickets are on sale now starting at just $150. Visit okstate.com/tickets or call 877-ALL-4-OSU for more details.
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Japanese Spacecraft Touches Down on Asteroid to Get Samples
FILE - This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 approaching on the asteroid Ryugu.
TOKYO - A Japanese spacecraft touched down on a distant asteroid Friday on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth.
Workers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency control center applauded Friday as a signal sent from space indicated the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had touched down.
In this photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Expl
In this photo provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, staff of the Hayabusa2 Project react as they confirm Hayabusa2 made a maneuver at the control room of the JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, Feb. 22, 2019.
During the touchdown, Hayabusa2 is programmed to extend a pipe and shoot a pinball-like object into the asteroid to blow up material from beneath the surface. If that succeeds, the craft would then collect samples to eventually be sent back to Earth. Three such touchdowns are planned.
Japanese Education Minister Masahiko Shibayama said the space agency had concluded from its data after the first touchdown that the steps to collect samples were performed successfully.
This Oct. 25, 2018, image provided by the Japan Ae
This Oct. 25, 2018, image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows asteroid Ryugu.
JAXA, as the Japanese space agency is known, has likened the touchdown attempts to trying to land on a baseball mound from the spacecraft's operating location of 20 kilometers (12 miles) above the asteroid.
The asteroid, named Ryugu after an undersea palace in a Japanese folktale, is about 900 meters (3,000 feet) in diameter and 280 million kilometers (170 million miles) from Earth.
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A rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, which aims to make history twice: as the first private-sector landing on the moon and the first from the Jewish state. The 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) Beresheet, which means "Genesis" in Hebrew, is to lift off at 8:45 p.m. (0145…
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Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared with those of his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday. Scientists don't know if the changes were good or bad, but results from a unique NASA twins study are raising new questions for doctors as the space agency aims to send people to Mars. Tests of the genetic doubles gave…
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The Impact of Diasporas
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A conference on the extent and impact of Immigration in Medieval England
Professor Joanna Story is running a major interdisciplinary conference on the theme of Aliens, Foreigners, and Strangers in Medieval England, c. AD 500-1500 at the British Academy on 26-27 March 2015, in collaboration with Professors Mark Ormrod and Elizabeth Tyler at the University of York.
The conference will explore the extent and impact of immigration in Medieval England in the 'long millennium' of the Middle Ages, c. AD500-1500.
Immigration, its causes and its consequences, is a contentious topic with profound political, social, economic and cultural effects both for individual migrants and for the host and donor communities. It is not a new phenomenon. This conference will take a multidisciplinary approach to the presence and treatment of foreigners in England across the medieval millennium. It will provide deep historical and cultural context to discussions among policy-makers and the general public about ethnicity, multiculturalism and the evolution of national identity in modern Britain.
The conference arises from three major research projects being run at Leicester and York, including the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions which is a 5 year programme award funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2011-2016).
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Hold Your Horsepower: For Mobility Industry, “Reality Is Sinking In”
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Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles. It sounded like pretty big news, but to understand company announcements about the commercial viability of driverless cars, one must first parse the semantics.
Because there is no legal framework in place at either the state or federal level for fully autonomous vehicles to operate on the nation’s roads, there would presumably be human “safety attendants” on board in GM’s ridesharing fleet. “The vehicles can currently run safely at speeds of up to about 30 miles per hour, and the service will be limited to a small geographical area,” Barra said at the DealBook event, according to the New York Times. Now that we’ve examined the details, the whiz-bang rideshare service starts sounding more like a glorified golf cart.
GM may be preparing to launch a semi-autonomous rideshare service which has features that others currently don’t, but the automaker is not entering fundamentally uncharted territory. There are already commercial self-driving shuttles and pilots underway, equipped with human attendants and navigating “geofenced” areas.
May Mobility is running them in Detroit and Columbus, OH; Waymo is doing it in Phoenix; Navya has shuttles in Las Vegas and on the campus of the University of Michigan; Drive.ai is operating a driverless service in Frisco, TX; and Boston’s Optimus Ride this week said it will build the world’s first “fully autonomous fleet service for geofenced deployments” in 2019. And this list hardly represents all the driverless deployments underway across the country and world.
But as autonomous vehicle pilot programs grow, the industry is simultaneously pulling back from some of its early timeline hubris that had both auto and tech execs claiming that they’d have AVs out on the road, at least in fleet deployments, by 2021.
Mobility has so far undergone an interesting hype cycle. First there was mass skepticism that AVs were even possible or that car manufacturers had much of a role in their design. But as the artificial intelligence technology underpinning them got more sophisticated and the projected profits grew, breathless prognosticators predicted that we could hand off many driving duties to robotic chauffeurs within the decade.
Now, industry insiders that we’ve been talking to lately have swung back around to estimating full autonomy—vehicles with no human intervention navigating the open road in all types of weather—is closer to 30 years away than 10. And, as the self-driving Uber fatality earlier this year demonstrated, more caution is well-placed.
Chris Mentzer oversees autonomous vehicle research at the nonprofit Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) in San Antonio, TX. He remembers his organization’s first demonstration of “unmanned ground vehicles,” which took place in Manhattan in 2008.
“At that time, automakers were literally declaring bankruptcy,” he recalls. Back then, much of the SWRI’s autonomous research work was being done for the military, but since then, researchers have slowly shifted to developing more auto industry applications for the technology. Describing the 2,600-person organization’s work, Mentzer says it provides components or expertise for companies that don’t have those capabilities in-house. And that process takes time.
“People [in the mobility industry] are starting to coalesce around the idea of slowing things down,” Mentzer maintains. “The realists—the people working on [AVs] a while—have been thinking along these lines the whole time. The new people are spending a ton of money, but at the end of the day, it’s a really hard technical problem to solve.”
You can make lots of progress early and pull off a good-looking demo, he says, but there might not be much “there” there.
“The thing holding all of us back from Level 5 autonomy are all these edge cases—it’s impossible to know and test everything. It used to be that with machine learning, you could teach it to recognize images of a car, but not if they were hand-drawn. The new technology is better at generalization and knows the hand-drawn picture is a car, but it’s still not enough.”
He says a major challenge is that the neural networks and A.I. involved in AVs is essentially teaching itself—and researchers can’t get a clear picture of what’s happening inside the car’s brain until it’s been tested over tens or hundreds of millions of miles.
The idea of extending the AV development timeline “was coalescing before the Uber accident—there’s been a lot of talk over the past few years,” Mentzer says. “The early service dates are hitting now and we’re closer, but not where we said we’d be. The reality is sinking in of how hard this is.”
Sven Beiker, founder and managing director of Palo Alto, CA-based Silicon Valley Mobility consultancy (and a Stanford professor), agrees that it’s becoming more acceptable to have a conservative approach to mobility, which he partially attributes to the Uber fatality and Tesla’s fatal Autopilot accidents earlier this year.
“It’s become a good story if someone says they want to get this right and make sure the system is safe,” he says. At one time, he adds, they might have been looked at as innovation-killing naysayers, but now they seem prescient.
“People are also realizing more and more how long it takes” to teach a car to think, anticipate threats and hazards, and discern driver and pedestrian intent like a human. “For a tech company to go from 0 to 60 [on autonomous vehicles] in two years is just not credible,” Beiker says.
Beiker is a self-described admirer of Barra, yet he doesn’t expect a GM vehicle will pick him up at his house without a human safety attendant in the next few years. However, he does see a limited AV deployment within a constrained location, with perhaps pre-registered riders, as a “next sensible step.”
Sensibility is exactly what the SWRI’s Mentzer is advocating.
“People are trying to sell hype with no true accountability for the words they put out there,” he laments. “There’s not a lot of risk in making bold predictions. Level 4 autonomy has a lot of caveats you can throw in there—like a highly constrained scenario where they still claim Level 4, but it’s not high-level autonomy. We probably need a better way to describe it.”
Still, Mentzer is bullish overall on the potential societal benefits that AVs could offer. “It’s a fun industry and a good, interesting challenge,” he says. “The problem is hard, but self-driving cars could benefit a lot of people and really change how we live our lives. We’re seeing AVs come, but probably not as widespread or the way we expected.”
Sarah Schmid Stevenson is the editor of Xconomy Detroit/Ann Arbor. You can reach her at 313-570-9823 or sschmid@xconomy.com. Follow @XconomyDET_AA
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Perspective: Lawmakers should make learning primary focus of education
By The Whittier Daily News |
PUBLISHED: September 25, 2011 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 7:56 am
It would be wise for our federal lawmakers to consider this phrase from the Hippocratic Oath — “First, do no harm” — as they consider the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), formerly referred to as No Child Left Behind, specifically as it relates to student testing and school accountability.
Although the premise of the federal education legislation is well intentioned — that all students will be proficient — the timeline by which proficiency is to be attained (2014), the manner by which proficiency is measured, and the methods by which schools and districts are held accountable are, in my view, seriously flawed and have been detrimental to what should be our primary focus, which is student learning.
It has become very clear to all of us who work in public education and has been publicly stated by the U.S. secretary of Education that the goals of the current legislation will not and cannot be met.
By placing an unrealistic emphasis on testing, rather than on assessment for the purpose of diagnosing learning and using the data from these assessments to develop a learning plan for each and every student, we have done our students a disservice and, in fact, may have indeed done some harm; certainly not irreparable harm, but harm in the sense that our focus has been on the accountability target instead of whether our students have actually learned the adopted content standards and can apply them.
Any discussion about reauthorizing ESEA must center on assessments that measure student growth over time and any accountability model must take into consideration all of the challenges that our students bring to school with them every day.
Most importantly, any discussion about reauthorizing ESEA must include accountability for not only teachers and administrators, but for students, parents and anyone else that has a vested interest in the education of our children.
Any discussion about reauthorizing ESEA must center on eliminating punitive actions against schools and districts that do not meet established goals, and instead provide the support and resources that these schools and districts so desperately need.
And finally, any discussion about reauthorizing ESEA must focus on eliminating arbitrary “targets” and timelines by which students must magically become proficient. New legislation must take into consideration what we know about student learning, or for that matter, learning in general – that all students do not learn in the same way or on the same day.
The future of our nation and the success that we, as a nation, have come to expect rests solely on the success of our public school system. None of us that work in public education are afraid of accountability, but accountability in public education looks very different from in any other profession. Our working material, children, are dynamic, no two are the same and no two respond in the same way. Accountability as it applies to public education must take this into consideration.
Public education has been called upon to raise academic achievement to levels that were unimaginable to previous generations, to close achievements gaps that have persisted throughout American history, and to attain this challenge with shrinking resources on a very short timeline.
Any discussion about the reauthorization of ESEA must ensure that we “do no harm” to our most precious commodity, our children.
Regardless of how this plays out at the federal level, we, as teachers and administrators, have a moral obligation to make our students’ success our responsibility — an obligation we take very seriously.
Jeffrey Ellingsen is the director of assessment, research and GATE for the Chaffey Joint Union High School District.
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Fifth Harmony to continue with only four members
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Machine Gun Kelly, left, and Camila Cabello perform at Y100’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2016 on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, in Sunrise, Fla. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Cabello has left Fifth Harmony. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
PUBLISHED: December 19, 2016 at 10:14 am | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 4:16 am
Fifth Harmony has announced that Camila Cabello has decided to leave the girl group.
The group released a statement on Twitter early Monday confirming Cabello’s departure and wishing her well.
• PHOTOS: Camila Cabello leaves Fifth Harmony
The group will continue on as a quartet. The statement says, “We are four strong, committed women who will continue with Fifth Harmony as well as our solo endeavors.”
Fifth Harmony was formed on the second season of the “The X Factor” in 2012 and scored its biggest hit last year with “Worth It.”
Cabello has been branching out on her own over the past year. She collaborated with Shawn Mendes on “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and her duet with Machine Gun Kelly, “Bad Things,” reached the No. 10 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Washington Bankruptcy Court Holds that Insurance Proceeds Are Property of the Estate; Refuses to Lift Automatic Stay
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington has held that proceeds of separate D&O and E&O policies issued to the debtors are property of the bankruptcy estate. In re Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., Inc., 325 B.R. 851 (Bankr. E.D. Wash. June 20, 2005). In so determining, the court explained that the debtors and the other insureds have "undivided, unliquidated interests in the identical asset, i.e., the policy proceeds" and refused to lift the automatic stay to allow reimbursement of defense costs of certain co-insureds from policy proceeds.
The debtors were named insureds under two D&O policies and two E&O policies, each of which provided for payment of defense costs within policy limits. During the bankruptcy case, non-debtor co-insureds sought to lift the stay and to be reimbursed for defense costs from the policy proceeds in order to defend themselves in underlying lawsuits and arbitrations.
The debtors then filed the current action for injunctive relief, asking the court to stay the underlying litigation and arbitrations. The court entered a preliminary injunction enjoining litigation by third parties against the named insureds and between the named insureds. As the preliminary injunction lapsed, the debtors again argued that the insurance proceeds were property of the estate and sought to stay the litigation and arbitrations.
The court first noted that Ninth Circuit law is unsettled with respect to whether policy proceeds are "property of the [bankruptcy] estate." The court then stated that the status of the debtors as named insureds under the policies provided them with the right to receive policy proceeds in a variety of situations, including to satisfy judgments and to indemnify defense costs incurred by the debtors' directors and officers.
The court then concluded that "the proceeds are [ ] property of the estate because the estate is worth more with [the insurance proceeds] than without them and because the debtors hold claims payable from the proceeds." The court so held even though "[r]ealization of the debtors' legal interest is contingent upon the debtors meeting conditions established by the policy for the bringing of claims and these legal interests are not yet in the form of monetary recovery."
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WRF's Insurance Group, working together with the firm's Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Group, has represented insurers in numerous policyholder bankruptcy proceedings and in coverage litigation and counseling relating to insolvent insureds.
For more information, please contact us at 202.719.7130
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GLEN BURNIE, MD (May 10, 2016) – Window Nation, one of the country’s leading replacement window companies, has been recognized as one of the top 10 door and window dealers according to a recent study conducted by Door and Window Market (DWM).
The publication recognized Window Nation as the 7th highest ranked company in the country and second in the eastern region. The company has been previously named the 9th largest home improvement and home remodeling company in the U.S. via Remodeling Magazine as well as Dealer of the Year in 2015 for its use of social media by Window & Door Magazine.
The DWM list is comprised of the top 125 companies in the nation specializing in doors and windows and ranks each based upon annual sales, field surveys and product offerings. The monthly publication focuses on the fenestration industry, serving as a go-to resource for manufacturers, fabricators, dealers and distributors.
“Our team is dedicated to continually improving our business model which is almost entirely customer-centric,” said Harley Magden, co-founder and owner of Window Nation. “This model has afforded us the opportunity to grow our business by adding new showrooms and markets. It’s simple; if our customers are happy, then they become an extension of our sales team and we’re able to help more and more people thanks to their word-of-mouth.”
As a replacement contractor, Window Nation’s total revenue is expected to increase 30% this year. Early in 2016, Window Nation opened their 8th showroom location in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, keeping the northeast presence going strong.
The list highlights the percentage of revenue that comes from windows and doors, where Window Nation’s total percentage is a generous 95%. The full list can be viewed here.
About Window Nation:
Window Nation was started in 2006 by two brothers who literally grew up in the window business, learning about home improvement, customer care and the difference a quality window can make. The company provides an unsurpassed selection of premium windows, doors and siding installed by highly skilled, licensed professionals. The company has replaced over 225,000 windows in Maryland, Washington, D.C., northern Virginia, Philadelphia and northeast Ohio. Learn more here.
Buying new windows for your home can be a big investment. So it is important to choose the right company. But how do you do that? Well, in this modern age of high-speed internet and customer reviews, it is as easy as a click of a button. With the help of websites like Angie’s List and Houzz, you can find out the good, the bad, and the ugly. So, what do customers think of us?
Before your new windows are installed, Window Nation sends a representative to your home to give you a free, no obligation estimate. The goal is to help you find the perfect windows for your home, within the budget you have to work with. Finding the right person for this job is no easy task. So, what do our customers think of their onsite representative? Check out the following reviews: “She was able to get us into the package that we wanted at a price we could afford.” “Most of all I liked her ability to know everything about windows. She knocked all the competition out of the box!”
When you have windows installed, you will have to open your home to technicians you don’t know. What kind of workers do you want in your home? Here are what our customers say about our technicians. “Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!” “courteous.” “hard-working.” “on time.” “cleaned up their mess.” “very satisfied!” “very professional.” “Respectful of our home and our property.”
At the end of the day and after the workers have finished their job and gone home, what matters most is how good the product is. After all, you have to live with those windows for years. What do our customers say about the products we install? “We already feel the difference in the room where the windows were installed.” “The noise reduction from street noise was unexpected.” “It is a very hot day here; it is probably a hundred degrees out. Within 45 minutes after installation we noticed a marked difference in the temperature. How cool it had gotten. It is the first time the upstairs in my house has felt that comfortably cool, in years.”
So, what are people saying about Window Nation? One customer said it best, “If you are wondering whether Window Nation is worth the incrementally higher cost, stop wondering. They are worth it.”
If you’re looking for a company that puts an emphasis on quality, service, and professionalism–and one that never cuts corners to make a profit–Window Nation is the right choice. Our focus has always been on offering superior products and superior service at the best possible price.
When you’re ready to make that big step, you can trust Window Nation to do the job right. Don’t take our word for it. Just ask our customers.
Have you heard about the new glass system in town? R-5 windows may become the new standard, surpassing the already highly efficient, ENERGY STAR glass. So, what’s different about this new R-5 technology? Better efficiency and more savings for you!
Nearly 30% of heating and cooling costs literally go out the window, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That is a lot of wasted money and wasted energy, which makes energy efficient windows a must. For homes in cold environments that need to keep the heat in and also homes in hot environments that need to keep the heat out, installing energy efficient windows is the ticket to achieving a more comfortable indoor temperature.
Features of the R-5 window technology:
30% reduction in heat loss
25% more insulation
Lowest possible U-values (insulation values)
Highest possible R-values (resistance to the weather)
This new window technology goes beyond the ENERGY STAR window technology which was already a major advance in efficient window designs. Though the R-5 windows cost a little more to purchase, over time you will enjoy significant savings in heating and cooling costs.
If your home has drafty windows, foggy windows, or if they create hot and cold spots throughout the home, now is the time to take advantage of a more efficient window replacement. Please contact us today at Window Nation to learn more about how R-5 windows would work in your home and our energy efficient window replacements.
At Window Nation we are window retailer serving Cleveland, Columbus, South Central Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, DC, Northern Virginia, and all of Maryland. Find a location nearest you or simply give us a call today!
Source: REPLACEMENT CONTRACTOR Magazine
By Jim Cory
Aaron and Harley Magden, co-owners of Window Nation, in Glen Burnie, Md., grew up working for Regency Windows, in Cleveland. Regency was founded by their grandfather, Melvin Magden, and was owned for many years by their father, Mike Magden.
The Magden family sold Regency Windows in 2005 to an investor group, and in 2006 the Magden brothers moved to Maryland and opened Window Nation. Since that time, Window Nation has expanded to four branch locations, including Cleveland. The company recently purchased the assets of Regency Windows, which went out of business in February 2012.
Replacement Contractor: Rumor has it that selling windows is a tough business right now. Any truth to that?
Harley Magden: There’s a little truth to that. It’s definitely challenging now, for multiple reasons. A mild winter, along with the economy and the election, has repressed demand. We had a similar situation four years ago. People sat back waiting to see who would be elected. In Maryland, a lot of them could lose their jobs one way or the other. But it’s slow in all the markets where we are. So it’s more the industry than anything else.
RC: Why did you and your brother decide to open Window Nation?
HM: We grew up in the business and knew it well and wanted to take what we learned on the street with my father and grandfather. I’m a college graduate, but I wanted to take window replacement to the next level. We looked at it less as a family business than as entrepreneurs. We started from scratch and set out to build something new.
RC: You must have learned a lot working with your father at Regency. In running your own company, what turned out to be the biggest surprise?
HM: I like to think we were prepared for almost everything. The only thing you can’t prepare for is the economy tanking. We opened up in 2006, and two years later the stock market crashed.
RC: Were you having second thoughts about your career choice at that point?
HM: We didn’t look at it as discouraging. We looked at it from the standpoint of what we needed to do to make growth, and sales, happen. We knew people needed windows, and we knew they would buy them from somebody, so we set out to be the company that they would buy them from.
RC: What would make those customers buy them from you?
HM: Well, without giving away the secret sauce, we sell a good-quality product at a reasonable price and we make customers happy. We won the REPLACEMENT CONTRACTOR Service Excellence Award because we make them happy. We’ve won awards from Angie’s List and the BBB.
But we also offer a fair price, and selection. We’re not pricing ourselves out of the market. And they don’t have to go to four places to look at four different kinds of windows. They can buy vinyl, wood, fiberglass, or metal from us.
Branch Location Strategy
RC: You started your operation in Maryland and now have three branches operating in five states. What’s key to making a branch operation succeed?
HM: The only thing that will make it succeed is having the right person running it. Take someone working for you for a while who is willing to move. You have to grow with them. If you don’t have that right person — someone you trust, who understands the company and its systems — you can have all the leads you need, the best salespeople, it doesn’t matter.
RC: How do you monitor what’s going on at the branches and how often do you monitor it?
HM: You have to have a good software package, a system that can produce Readers Digest version reports, so you can track things. We use ImproveIt 360. That allows us to keep our eye on the important metrics in each office. We also do video conferencing once a week with all the branches.
RC: How has your marketing changed since you opened Window Nation?
HM: It’s been a roller coaster. One reason is the tax credit. All you had to do with the tax credit was say you were selling windows and they’d call.
Our ad costs fell because so many people wanted windows. Of course, today a lot of our marketing — this is no shock — is based on the Internet. Living Social and Groupon are media sources we use on a monthly basis. They weren’t even around seven years ago. We were doing none of those.
Rising Lead Costs
RC: Dave Yoho Associates says a survey of its members found that leads — issued appointments — are costing $299. Have your lead costs gone up in the last year or two?
HM: Yes, they’re up. We have tried to analyze why. It’s not because of the cost of advertising. A lot of our advertising costs have fallen, like with print, for instance. But our actual lead cost has gone up. It’s actually because there are fewer buyers out there right now.
RC: You launched a canvassing operation about a year ago, right? How have you done with that?
HM: That’s a small part of our marketing. We launched a canvassing operation in Virginia. And we now have one in Ohio and one in Maryland. It’s met our expectations. But we don’t do shows and events.
RC: How do you make canvassing work?
HM: You have to find the right person to manage the program. It’s all about finding and training new people. And it’s a tough job. Without an experienced canvass manager, it’s very tough to get it started. And with an organization the size of ours, it’s not like you can send a few people out and come back with four or five leads. We need a lot of leads.
RC: Are you finding the canvassing field overcrowded? Are people in neighborhoods starting to react negatively?
HM: Yes, definitely in certain areas. We try to avoid them. Places where you knock and people say: Hey, there was somebody here last month canvassing. We feel it’s best to canvass around your installs rather than throwing a dart in some area.
RC: What other kinds of marketing have been successful?
HM: In Charlotte we find the customer who is really happy and feature them on a piece of print material. So it’s a little more personable. We are trying different things to see what works. We experiment. We advertise in everything from high school sporting events to online, church events, community newsletters … Everything but home shows.
RC: Does social media generate leads for Window Nation?
HM: It does bring in leads, but those leads take longer to develop. It’s more about branding than a call to action. Contests generate activity. We have 4,000 fans on Facebook. Not as many as Hansons, but not bad for a window company.
Why Buy Regency Windows
RC: You recently bought up the assets of Regency Windows, in Cleveland, the company your father and grandfather once owned. Why did you feel that was a smart business move?
HM: Regency had been around for such a long time, and there were assets that had value. I mean, intellectual property and the customer list of 50,000 names. We felt that the purchase of Regency would help us toward our goal of being the No. 1 window company in Cleveland. If we hadn’t bought it, someone else would have.
RC: Does your father ever offer you advice, or does he stay out of what you’re doing?
HM: Both. He’s always there to answer questions. He called me today to tell me he’d gotten something of ours in the mail and he’d also gotten a coupon book with advertisements from all these other window companies.
He’ll go through the book and discuss the offers and what we should do. He is as active as we want him to be. We do ask him for advice every now and then, and he’s always willing to offer his opinion.
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21st Belfast Children's Festival launches
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Behind the scenes at the #BCF19 official launch 9 Jan 2019
From Friday 8 to Wednesday 13 March, the Belfast Children's Festival promises a wonderful mix of theatre, dance, comedy, music, visual arts and literature for families.
A roller-skating soldier, a magic bear, and dancing aliens are a snapshot of some of the delights that will appear at this year’s festival, where the theme is ‘Our Place in the World’.
International artists, along with home-grown talent, will be presenting over 90 shows and interactive experiences in venues and locations across the city.
Belfast Children’s Festival has become one of the largest children’s arts festivals on the island of Ireland and the UK, attracting over 31,000 people last year.
There's lots to choose from, so whether you have a toddler or a teen, it’s worth checking out the full programme. Ticket prices vary £3-£10, with many events free.
Listen to interview with Marie-Louise Muir BBC Radio Ulster Arts Show
Eibhlín de Barra, Director Young at Art, unveiled the packed programme at Belfast Cathedral.
‘The 2019 Belfast Children's Festival is a wonderful mix of theatre, dance, comedy, music, visual arts and literature for families. From the powerful Oorlog (War), to the madcap exploits of Expedition Peter Pan, and from Cahoots NI’s charming adaptation of Jon Agee’s Milo’s Hat Trick, to the hilarious The Alien’s Guide To Dance Gone Wrong, there really is something for everyone. On top of it all we're creating an inSPIREd family programme of events and activities in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter."
Young at Art are delighted to be presenting several world, UK and Irish premieres, including Oorlog (War), Loo, Removed, and The Alien’s Guide to Dance Gone Wrong.
Opening the festival at the festival hub, The MAC, on Friday 8 March, Oorlog (War) (ages 7+), by award-winning Theater Artemis (The Netherlands), explores the challenging subject of the effects of conflict and the chaos that this has on people and their surroundings, and ultimately, how the human spirit endures.
Removed (ages 11+) is a funny yet moving and shocking insight into the experiences of a young man sharing his story of life in the care of the state, and will have its world premiere at BCF19. For three years, Prime Cut Productions and writer Fionnuala Kennedy have collaborated with VOYPIC (Voice Of Young People In Care), working with looked after young people across Northern Ireland to explore their experiences and learn from them.
Closing the festival on Wednesday 13 March is the high energy and playful Expedition Peter Pan (ages 7+) by Het Laagland (The Netherlands). This production promises a wild adventure of imagination, hilarious surprises, and rediscovery of the child in all of us.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Deirdre Hargey, said:
“Once again, Young at Art has lined up an incredible programme of quality cultural entertainment for families at the Belfast Children’s Festival this Spring - animating our great city and inspiring creativity, joy and curiosity in children and young people through affordable, accessible and energising events.
Belfast City Council is proud to invest in the Belfast Children’s Festival – it’s a true highlight of the city’s family cultural calendar, bringing magical moments and experiences which will be fondly remembered for years to come by audiences of all ages. I wish all the Young at Art team and performers every success and hope to get the opportunity to enjoy one or two of the shows and events with family and friends myself.”
On Saturday 9 March the inSPIREd family fun day will be bursting with exciting activities across the Cathedral Quarter including a one-off special Baby Rave ‘Rave in the Nave’ in Belfast Cathedral, free children’s art workshops exploring home and the urban landscape around us, DJ workshops with Bounce Culture, Acoustic Picnic in Oh Yeah Music Centre, digital animation with Can Do Academy, augmented reality workshops with Art Cart, theatre workshops with Northern Ireland Opera, and more, all supported by new sponsor Destination CQ BID.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is principal funder of Young at Art, and thanks to public and National Lottery funds, Young at Art is able to programme and deliver a wide range of artistic content, education and engagement programmes, and professional development throughout the year.
Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive Arts Council of Northern Ireland commented “As Young at Art’s main funder and its longest running partner, the Arts Council is pleased to support the 2019 festival programme. Now in its 21st year, the Belfast Children’s Festival continues to produce fresh, innovative and entertaining events tailor-made for young audiences. We know that inspiring the imagination at a young age can provide the building blocks for a creative and fulfilling life and there is no better way to introduce children to the arts than by offering them access to quality arts experiences from a young age.”
Ponten Pie and El Mes Petit de Tots (Spain) make their Irish premiere with the visually stunning Loo (ages 2-5). The Loo is a hot, dry wind from Asia. Set around the bow of a sunken boat, in a sea of sand, this production uses evocative music and stunning visual effects, inviting young audiences to explore how this wind can change its surroundings.
Another incredibly powerful performance is We Come From Far, Far Away (ages 10+), presented by NIE (Norway/UK/Czech Republic), which tells the story of 2 boys who have travelled alone from Syria to Norway and is based on true stories. Thanks to support from Belfast City Council’s Good Relations Unit and Community Relations Council, Young at Art have designed an accompanying education programme and will be working with 360 school children in areas where Syrian families are settling.
Thanks to support from the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Young at Art are delighted to again be hosting the TYANI (Theatre for Young Audiences NI) Showcase. The 4-day showcase will profile some of the finest performance work for young audiences being created right here and features performances, a unique work-in-progress from the Belfast Ensemble, a ‘scratch’ performance platform featuring four emerging individual artists, discussions and networking events. The festival will also welcome a group of international programmers and producers to the city.
Kicking the showcase off will be Cahoots NI, who have been selected to appear at the IPAY showcase (International Performing Arts for Youth) in Philadelphia this month. They return to BCF with Milo’s Hat Trick (ages 3+), based on the book by Jon Agee. Expect magic, music and mischief in this charming tale, following a struggling magician on the search for a sensational new trick.
Maiden Voyage Dance return with a new show having enthralled previous BCF audiences with Quartet for 15 Chairs and Pause & Effect. The Alien’s Guide to Dance Gone Wrong (ages 4+), created by world-renowned choreographer Lea Anderson, promises to be a fun feast for the senses, as aliens attempt to rediscover a thing humans used to do called dancing.
The festival features more home-grown talent in the shape of the irrepressible Paul Currie with a new Family Comedy Club (ages 6+), and three events for early years. Baby Daddy, by Replay Theatre Company, combines sensory theatre, live music and play and has been specifically designed for babies aged 6-18 months. Back by popular demand is Young at Art’s Baby Rave for under 4’s and their adults. A special edition ‘Rave in the Nave’, takes place in the impressive surroundings of Belfast Cathedral on Saturday 9 March. There’s also a special festival edition of Babaithe Cultúir (Culture Babies) for 0-4 year olds and their adults, delivered in Irish and everyone is welcome regardless of fluency. Cultúrlann McAdam Ó’Fiaich in partnership with Young at Art successfully piloted two seasons of these interactive creative sessions in 2018.
Belfast Children’s Festival is supported by Tourism NI to drive visitor numbers, increase spend in the local economy and raise the profile of Northern Ireland as the home of great events. Last year, BCF welcomed families from across NI and beyond: 94% of festival bookers came from Northern Ireland, 54% of that audience coming from the Belfast and Greater Belfast area and 40% from the rest of NI. The remainder of 6% came from outside NI.
The festival will present several relaxed performances, for children and families with additional sensory and communication needs including learning difficulties and autistic spectrum conditions, audio-described performances for those with sight loss and, on Sunday 10 March, the Black Box will host a Mini Moon Disco, which has been specially created for children aged 0-7 with any kind of disability.
The Right Twig Showcase (ages 14+) will be the first outing of new plays created through an exciting new young playwrights’ programme (14-18 years old) with Fighting Words Belfast and the Lyric Theatre. The rehearsed readings take place on Sunday 10 March. The teens can also check out Volume Control (ages 13+), a music gig organised by young people for young people, taking place in Oh Yeah Music Centre on Friday 8 March.
Young at Art’s visual art engagement project, HOME, will culminate in an exhibition in the MAC featuring the work of pupils from eight primary schools, in West, East and North Belfast. It is part of Belfast City Council’s ‘(Y)Our Home’ programme, which allows young citizens to explore what it means to feel at home in Belfast. Visual art is also at the heart of Da Vinci Day, a day of interactive activities at the Ulster Museum, on Sunday 10 March, to connect families to the much-awaited exhibition of the great master’s works from the Royal Collection Trust.
Young at Art continues to build on a strong partnership with Translink, and is encouraging families across NI and beyond to take a creative journey with Translink into Belfast city with special discounted family travel tickets. The guarantee of lots of amazing free fun coupled with fantastic performances makes for an easy decision for a big family day out over the festival weekend.
Translink’s Ursula Henderson said: “Translink is pleased to support Belfast Children’s Festival again this year! Young at Art have created a fantastic line-up of fun family entertainment and we want to bring more people into Belfast to enjoy all the action with discount travel options including our popular Family & Friends tickets along with convenient bus, Glider, coach and train services for a special day out.”
Belfast Children’s Festival boasts a specially selected Schools Programme of international and local performances, which take place during school time. With subsidised ticket deals and classroom resources linked to the curriculum, it promises to be the perfect outing for children aged 2 and upward.
The festival also offers a diverse Industry Programme aimed at grown-ups, and those working, performing or studying in arts and education.
Festival tickets are on sale at www.youngatart.co.uk. The maximum ticket price is £10, and adults pay the same price as children. Many events are free.
The 21st Belfast Children’s Festival will once again be nourishing the creative minds of children and young people and proving why arts and culture are so important for the social, emotional and educational well being of our children and young people.
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Work has begun to renovate Sowerby Bridge’s old Swimming Pool & Fire Station. The disused swimming pool will be transformed into a 250-seat theatre. Clearance work has started on the future arts centre in the former fire station and swimming pool, which has been transferred to the community by the local council. The Fire and Water project aims to covert the disused buildings in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, with help from the local community. Plans include a 250-seat theatre in the pool area and a rehearsal space. The group behind the development is applying for funding to complete the £2.5m project. Parts of the building have been unused for five years and volunteers are clearing the interior before building work can commence. Emma Woods-Bolger, one of the project’s organisers, said community spirit was high in the town.
“I think people in Sowerby Bridge want to see these buildings brought back to life,” she said. “At least 20 people were on site this morning and lots more people signed up.”
If funding is secured, the centre is scheduled to be fully open in five years’ time.
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Movies/TV Shows
Stranger Things Season 2 Will Be Darker And Have More Horror, Cast Reveals
2 May 2017, 8:29 am EDT By Aaron Mamiit Tech Times
The second season of Netflix series Stranger Things will be darker and have more horror, according to one of its stars.
Stranger Things season two will be released on Halloween, as revealed in a teaser that was aired at Super Bowl LI.
'Stranger Things' Season 2: Darker With More Horror
"I think this season will be a lot [darker]. A lot more horror oriented," said Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike in the show, in an interview with Emmy Magazine.
"I think people are going to like it more than the first season," he added. This should excite Stranger Things fans even more, as the first season has already been described as an instant classic.
Wolfhard also said that his character, along with friends Dustin (played by Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (played by Caleb McLaughlin), Will (played by Noah Schnapp), and Eleven (played by Millie Bobby Brown), will go through some challengers that are "real" and "disturbing."
Wolfhard's answers in the interview coincide with the overall feel of the second season's teaser. After hinting that Eleven will be back in Stranger Things after vanishing at the end of the first season, the video reveals that the five friends will be seeing a lot more of not just the Upside Down, but also the monsters that live in the alternate dimension.
The first season focused on the friends going on a quest to rescue Will from the Upside Down. In the second season, it seems like Will is once again in trouble, as the teaser video showed him in some kind of laboratory or hospital with his mother Joyce, played by Winona Ryder.
'Stranger Things' Season 2: More Dustin And Lucas
One of the few criticisms against the first season of Stranger Things was that while the story focused a lot on Mike, Will, and their families, not much was revealed about Dustin or Lucas.
This will change in the second season, with Matarazzo claiming that viewers will be able to see insights on each of the show's characters on their own.
"You're going to see a lot more into the lives of how the characters are coping with what's been going on," he said, adding that Mike, Dustin, and Lucas will all feel alone because Will, despite being back, has seemingly changed.
More Details For 'Stranger Things' Season 2
The second season of Stranger Things will pick up a year after the events in the first season, which ended with Will vomiting slugs into a sink. This hints that Will somehow brought back a piece of the Upside Down into the real world after spending so much time in the alternate dimension before being rescued.
The returning characters from the first season will be joined by several new faces, including Sean Astin as Bob Newby, the nerdy new boyfriend of Joyce; Paul Reiser as Dr. Owens, who works for an organization tasked with cleaning up the events from the previous year; Linnea Berthelsen as Roman, a mysterious young woman; and Sadie Sink and Dacre Montgomery as step-siblings Max and Billy.
Stranger Things season two will be available to stream on Netflix on Oct. 31.
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Bobby Fischer's final bizarre act
Marriage mate: Miyoko Watai
Neil Tweedie
12:01AM GMT 25 Jan 2008
The American chess prodigy's eccentricities didn't end with his death. As Neil Tweedie discovered in Reykjavik this week, the reclusive genius had arranged his own secret 'guerrilla' burial. Now its legality is being questioned
The grave was dug in secret as darkness descended over the white frozen landscape around the village of Hraungerdi, ready for Bobby Fischer's last getaway. Not even the minister whose churchyard it was knew of the funeral planned for the following morning.
Only five people attended the brief service early on Monday, conducted in the half-light before the short Icelandic day had properly begun. Among them was Gardar Sverrisson, Fischer's closest friend of the last few years and the man who had organised the digging of the grave without seeking the permission of Iceland's Lutheran Church or of the state authorities.
Sverrisson had also secured the services of a Roman Catholic priest from Reykjavik, some 30 miles to the west. Fischer was not a Catholic but must have been content with the arrangement - Sverrisson would have followed the American's instructions to the letter. The fifth mourner may or may not have been Fischer's wife, a Japanese woman named Miyoko Watai.
So much about Bobby Fischer was a mystery. He liked it that way, keeping people guessing. No way would the fallen angel of world chess have allowed the media a feeding frenzy. Hence the unauthorised "guerrilla" funeral uncovered by the Telegraph this week; a strange secret end to a strange secret life.
Bobby Fischer was 64 when he died last week of kidney failure - one year on earth for each square on a chessboard. Arguably the greatest chess player ever, he ended his life as a recluse, obsessed about his privacy, trusting in virtually no one. Subject to bouts of paranoia, he was vehemently anti-Semitic and convinced the CIA was out to get him. But he was also capable of kindness, gentleness and humour, and commanded loyalty among those who knew him.
He was an exile, too, a fugitive sought by the US government (he had broken sanctions against playing chess in Milosevic's Yugoslavia) but protected by the tiny country that had offered him a passport and a haven. His death made headlines around the world. There was much that Fischer kept to himself: his marriage, if marriage it was, and his daughter, a little girl living far away in the Philippines who may inherit all or part of his still considerable fortune.
The manner of his burial is now the subject of controversy in Iceland, an intimate society of just 300,000 people. Some of Fischer's friends believe the burial is unlawful. If Miss Watai was not his wife, they argue, then she and Sverrisson had no right to carry out the burial without seeking the permission of his estate's legal representatives. There is the additional matter of money: Fischer's Swiss bank account is thought to have held about £1.5 million, and there may be more in gold deposits.
Kristinn Fridfinnson is the Lutheran minister in Hraungerdi. He first knew that Fischer had become a permanent resident of his graveyard through the local media.
"I didn't believe it at first," he says, standing in the still cold air of the small church. "No one had asked my permission. It was a great surprise. Maybe it was a mistake to bring him here, so far from where he lived, but we are honoured to have him here now. The great Bobby Fischer."
Most of Fischer's public life is well documented, but his final years in Iceland are less well-known. Icelanders pride themselves on not being seduced by celebrity, preferring to leave famous visitors in peace. Fischer arrived in March 2005 and found a haven in Reykjavik, where he was supported by a small circle of friends. Some have broken their silence for the first time to talk of Fischer.
"Bobby could be such fun," said Einar Einarsson, one of those who helped get him into Iceland. "I remember him singing My Way as I drove him in the car. He could be gentle and kind, particularly to children. In many ways he was a quite normal person. But there was always that dark side - he believed that dark forces were out to get him."
Was he mad?
''I think that he was an angry man rather than a mad man."
Mr Einarsson was upset by his exclusion from Fischer's funeral and is concerned about its legality.
Saemi Palsson was another close friend. Fischer's police bodyguard during the Spassky match in 1972, he remained in contact with the chess player and was central to securing his release from custody in Japan, after he was arrested by immigration officials. He retains a great affection for the maverick American but admits to being disturbed by some of his more unpalatable views.
"Bobby was a genius, he could have been a great doctor, scientist - anything. But he was not emotionally intelligent - he didn't know how to behave with people. He did not trust many people. He did not trust doctors and that is why he did not want treatment for his condition."
Fischer's life in Reykjavik was a simple one. He was to be seen in the coffee shops and book stores of the Icelandic capital's bohemian quarter, reading and avoiding eye contact. In particular, he frequented the Bokin bookshop, which he would visit twice a week, occupying for hours a chair set aside especially for him in the corner. He devoured everything from history to biography, and was also fond of reading Dennis the Menace comic books imported for him from the US. People asking for autographs were greeted with stern silence.
Fischer's need for privacy was all consuming. Often he would arrive late at a restaurant so as to avoid unwelcome attention. But he was also to be spotted dining with friends, enjoying jokes.
His mercurial streak never left him, though. Friends fell in and out of favour depending on whim. Speaking to the media was a capital offence requiring immediate exclusion from his circle. And there was always potential for the explosive, irrational rant.
Miss Watai was based in Japan but visited Iceland frequently, especially as Fischer's health began to fail, doing his laundry and tending to him at his apartment in the capital. Some in the Fischer circle refer to Miss Watai merely as a "friend" of Fischer. The Japanese embassy in Reykjavik encouraged speculation about the couple's marital status this week when a spokesman questioned the validity of their civil wedding ceremony in Japan, alleging it may have been unlawful because of Fischer's lack of a valid passport at that time.
But another friend of Fischer came to Miss Watai's defence. She told the Telegraph: "There is simply no question that Miyoko was the closest person to Bobby and by far the most special person in his life. She is a woman of absolute integrity who will undoubtedly ensure his daughter is taken care of, should she inherit his estate. She met Bobby in the 1970s and there was probably a relationship from that time. She was passionate about him and is devastated by his death. She promised never to betray his confidences and she will observe that promise."
Robert James Fischer was a phenomenon. There has probably never been a more talented chess player. US junior champion at 13 and a grandmaster at 15, his winning streak of 21 games at top level will probably never be equalled. When so many players aimed for the draw, he went for the throat. He didn't beat opponents, he annihilated them.
Good-looking in his youth, and with a taste for sharp suits, he was saleable in a way that other chess players could only dream of, commanding multimillion-dollar offers in exchange for appearances. But he was mercurial and prone to anger.
It was in Iceland in 1972 that he attained worldwide notoriety, playing in the world championship against Boris Spassky. The match was a metaphor for the Cold War: American kid versus the might of the Soviet chess machine.
It would be 20 years before he played again. In the meantime, he descended into a kind of madness, donating money to a pseudo-religion promising Christ's return in 1975 and developing a loathing for Jews. That his mother Regina was Jewish mattered not. Fischer may even have had a Jewish father, a Hungarian scientist who had an affair with his mother. His legally recognised father, a German-born scientist, left home when his only son was two.
In 1992, a multimillion-dollar pot lured him back into the limelight, again against Spassky in a tournament in Milosevic's Yugoslavia, then the subject of US sanctions. From then on he was an exile, circling the globe. While in the Philippines he met a young woman called Justine. In 2000 she gave birth to a daughter, who could now inherit his estate.
Fischer took to the radio to denounce the US and Israel. The rant celebrating 9/11 was the last straw. In 2003 the US retaliated by revoking his passport. In 2004 Fischer was arrested at Tokyo airport and detained for eight months. It was then that he is said to have married Miyoko, president of the Japanese chess federation. Shortly after, Iceland granted him citizenship and he was released.
Lilja Gretarsdottir, president of the Icelandic chess federation, explains: "Icelanders have always had a soft spot for outlaws. It goes back to the sagas.
"Fischer was exiled from America but he was always an American - in his manner, everything. I think he must have found it hard to know that he could not return to his country."
In the churchyard at Hraungerdi yesterday, the red and white roses on Bobby Fischer's grave appeared as fresh as the day they were laid down upon it, frozen by the cutting Arctic wind. Driving snow obscured the last resting place of the most celebrated exponent of the art of chess.
The press didn't get their feeding frenzy. To the end, Bobby Fischer did it His Way.
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How Taylor Swift has taken back her Reputation
If you’ve seen a Taylor Swift concert, you’ll know she doesn’t do half measures
By Frederika Park
Taylor Swift Agencies
After two years away from the public eye, snaky superstar, Taylor Swift is Shaking It Off in Style. The country-pop singer has kept a noticeably low profile since the scrutiny of her feud with Kanye West in 2016. Her silence was broken in August 2017 as she announced her latest album, Reputation, with a video of a hissing snake. Soon the Look What You Made Me Do video was released, Swift-ly causing a stir. The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now? Why? Oh, because she’s touring Reputation in stadiums all over the world.
It turns out she’s not dead — she’s doing better than she ever was and Swifties everywhere are loosing their cool. What seemed like another sensational pop album is proving also to be Taylor’s most Gorgeously raw and real era, like ever.
If you’ve seen a Taylor Swift concert, you’ll know she doesn’t do half measures. Well, the Rep’ Tour is everything we’ve seen her do before, on steroids. With snakes. And sparkles. The production is insane: The gigantic X-shaped stage and flashing screens only provide a backdrop for the larger-than-life snakes and disco balls, a working fountain, flying cages, a seesaw, fireworks and flames.
Don’t get me started on the costume changes, dancers, backing singers and newspaper confetti. Tay Tay herself is a force to be reckoned with from the word go. Or rather, the words “Are You Ready For It?”, as her silhouette is revealed onstage, a tower of strength in a hooded, sequined black unitard, fishnets and knee-high black boots. We’re as ready as we’ll ever be, Taylor.
Taylor Swift's Reputation tour is everything we’ve seen her do before, on steroids Agencies
Every night during the Reputation tour, Taylor Swift performs an acoustic version of a song that didn’t make the set list, just her and a guitar Agencies
The next two hours pass in a second, a Swift one. We are treated to an explosive set list of Rep’ bangers, 1989 hits and old faves from albums passed. Love Story is followed by You Belong With Me, a double whammy of nostalgia for long-time fans. Throughout her performance, everything about the singer screams confident and happy, giving her all to the sassy choreography and giggling and chatting between songs. Despite the spectacle happening around her, she single-handedly keeps the audience captivated from start to finish. Even when everything doesn’t go as planned, she rises to the occasion. When it poured throughout the New Jersey concert, she not only made sure the show went on, but made it even more memorable by incorporating Clean and Fearless, two songs about rain. We all know Taylor loves to dance in a storm.
Although this is her biggest show to date, it is the most intimate she has ever been with us, and we are living for it. Half way through, Taylor flies to a second stage in a glowing cage, reminiscent of the Love Story balcony days, giving the fans in the stalls a chance to see her up close. She walks to the next stage, hugging fans who got floor seats at the back. Every night she performs an acoustic version of a song that didn’t make the set list, it’s the moment we wait for, just her and a guitar, just how we like it. A fresh wave of excitement fills the room as we wonder what it is tonight. Even fans at home check Twitter avidly.
Throughout her performance, everything about the singer screams confident and happy Agencies
Recently Taylor has been digging up older and more obscure numbers like Breathe and Tim McGraw Agencies
Recently Taylor has been digging up older and more obscure numbers like Breathe and Tim McGraw. These are the songs us original Swifties used to listen to on the bus or sing in front of the mirror and we never thought she’d bring them back in 2018, not in our Wildest Dreams. I repeat, she isn’t dead.
Later, the superstar sits at a piano and speaks to the crowds as if everyone there is her best friend, explaining the origin of Reputation.
“A few years ago somebody called me a snake on social media and then a lot of people started calling me a lot of things on social media and I went through some really low times for a while because of it,” she said, playing chords from Long Live, a song dedicated to her fans.
“You shouldn’t care so much if you feel misunderstood by a lot of people who don’t know you as long as you are understood by the people who do know you. So thank you, thank you, thank you for taking the time to get to know me, for showing up for me, for seeing me as a human being. You did that for me.” Despite the wow-factor of the whole show, this quiet moment is when everyone is most Enchanted.
Any serious Swiftie knows that Taylor has always been about the narrative. She may have become a multi-millionaire mega pop star sensation but at the root of everything she is a storyteller, which is why we were so worried when she stepped away from the spotlight.
Reputation is about Taylor taking back control of her narrative, telling stories from her perspective to the people to know her and using the media’s insults to create her biggest, most badass tour yet. Pretty Fearless if you ask me.
Half way through, Taylor flies to a second stage in a glowing cage, reminiscent of the Love Story balcony days, giving the fans in the stalls a chance to see her up close Agencies
I saw her Reputation concert from the ‘Snake Pit’ in Manchester on June 8 and again from the stalls in London on June 23 this year. Don’t judge me, I had to see it from both angles!
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NHRC notice to UP government over lynching in Shamli
The rights panel noted that the police had done nothing to protect the victim
By PTI in Lucknow
The incident triggered potshots at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath by Opposition parties. The Telegraph file picture
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the reported lynching of a man after pulling him out of a police van in Shamli district.
The notice was issued to the state chief secretary and director general of police (DGP), calling for a detailed report in the matter within four weeks, a press release from the NHRC said on Friday.
"There cannot be any denial that it was the solemn duty of the police personnel to keep the arrested man in safe custody so that he could not be denied his infallible right to get justice in accordance with law," the commission said.
In the reported incident, it appeared that not protecting the victim from the clutches of hooligans or an inciting mob resulted in his death, it noted.
The commission took suo motu cognisance of media reports that Rajendra alias Manu (28) was pulled out of a police van and beaten to death by a mob in the presence of constables in Hathchoya Village of Shamli district on November 26.
It observed that the contents of the media reports, if true, amounted to violation of the human rights of the victim.
The NHRC release mentioned a video clip of the purported incident circulated on the social media showing the victim sitting in a police vehicle. A man in a blue shirt opened the door of the van and slapped the victim repeatedly. A policeman seated next to the victim held him by the arm. The man was then seen pulling Rajendra out of the vehicle.
The victim's family has alleged that six villagers, with whom he had quarrelled the previous day, beat him to death with lathis.
The Shamli superintendent of police (SP) was reported as saying that the victim did not die in police custody as he had escaped from the police van and was beaten up by the crowd later. The SP had also reportedly said that after about two hours, the victim suffered a fall from the roof of his house and died due to head injuries, the release noted.
However, on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim's brother, an FIR under various Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, including 302 (murder) and 148 (rioting with armed weapons), was lodged at the Jhinjhana police station against six persons and one of them, identified as the "main accused", was arrested, the NHRC said.
The Opposition Samajwadi Party and the Congress took potshots at the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in the state, accusing it of "carrying out fake encounters".
"This government is carrying out fake encounters and we have been highlighting this. There is no law and order in the state and the police are using encounters to pat their own back. All encounters in the present regime should be thoroughly probed," SP MLC Rajpal Kashyap said.
The Congress refrain was similar.
"The state government has failed on all fronts. Police encounters are done with a political agenda and these tantamount to violation of human rights, which need in-depth probes," Congress spokesperson Mukesh Singh Chauhan said.
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Predators staring down history after Game 1 loss to Stars
Predators have to get their act together after losing home-ice advantage in Stanley Cup playoffs after Game 1 loss to the Stars.
Predators staring down history after Game 1 loss to Stars Predators have to get their act together after losing home-ice advantage in Stanley Cup playoffs after Game 1 loss to the Stars. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nhl/predators/2019/04/11/nhl-playoffs-predators-in-hole-vs-stars-game-1/3403987002/
Paul Skrbina, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:30 a.m. CT April 11, 2019 | Updated 10:10 a.m. CT April 11, 2019
The Predators are going to have to take their act off Broadway.
They'll have to bring their show on the road. History is going to have to be their story.
Lose Game 1, like the Predators did 3-2 to the Stars on Wednesday night when they also lost the home-ice advantage they earned on the last day of the regular season, and Nashville has been done.
The Predators are 0-9 in playoff series in which they've lost the first game.
If they don't come back to defeat the Stars — and history in the process — in this first-round matchup, that number will increase by one.
And they'll have to play more than a period-plus of good hockey to do it, unlike Wednesday when their big beginning had disappeared by the second period and spelled the end.
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And they'll have to do it against one of the stingiest defensive teams with one of the best goalies in the league beginning with Game 2 on Saturday (5 p.m., CNBC) in Nashville.
"We’re not going to go undefeated all the way in the playoffs," said defenseman P.K. Subban, whose third-period goal pulled the Predators to within one Wednesday. "It’s a good learning experience to make sure that we play every shift like it’s our last. You have to give them credit. They came into our building, it’s a tough place to play in, and they got one game."
NHL Playoffs: Nashville Predators vs. Dallas Stars in Game 1
The Stars celebrate the second goal by defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) as Nashville Predators centers Colton Sissons (10) and Nick Bonino (13) look away during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Predators fans reach for the players after they leave the ice after the team's 3-2 loss to the Dallas Stars in the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) and defenseman Ben Lovejoy (21) celebrate the win over the Nashville Predators in the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) celebrates his goal during the third period of the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) lets a Dallas Stars goal slip past during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Predator fan Zachary Kirby reacts to the hockey game against Dallas at the Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Predators lost to Dallas 2-3. Shelley Mays/ Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars left wing Roope Hintz (24) tries to shoot past Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
A shot from Dallas Stars center Mats Zuccarello scores past Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars defenseman Roman Polak (45) is called for tripping as Nashville Predators center Mikael Granlund (64) hits the ice during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) defends against a Dallas Stars shot during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Referees separate Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg (3) during a fight in the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) takes a drink after giving up the tying goal during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) gathers the puck as Nashville Predators center Calle Jarnkrok (19) tries to get past Dallas Stars defenseman Ben Lovejoy (21) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) tries to get the puck past Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) and Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) collide during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars center Mats Zuccarello (36) celebrates his goal with his teammates during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
A Predators fan yells during the third period of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars center Mats Zuccarello (36) scores on Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
The goal by Dallas Stars center Mats Zuccarello (36) gets past Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) and center Nick Bonino (13) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) and defenseman Roman Josi (59) battle Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn (14) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) and Dallas Stars left wing Blake Comeau (15) battle for the puck during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Brian Boyle (11) plays the puck in front of Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) defends against Dallas Stars right wing Alexander Radulov (47) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) and Dallas Stars left wing Blake Comeau (15) battle for the puck in front of the Predators' bench during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin (91) and Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) battle for the puck along the boards during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
About 200 fans gather to watch the game at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays/ Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) and Dallas Stars left wing Blake Comeau (15) battle for the puck during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) moves the puck defended by Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Kyle Turris (8) tries to shoot past Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) looks to score on Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm (14) moves the puck defended by Dallas Stars center Mattias Janmark (13) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) blocks a shot by Dallas Stars left wing Roope Hintz (24) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
The Stars congratulate goaltender Ben Bishop (30) after the team's win over the Nashville Predators in the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Wayne Simmonds (17) moves the puck in front of Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) late in the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) celebrates his goal during the third period of the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) scores on Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) skates in with the puck on his way to his goal during the third period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg (3) knocks Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) to the ice during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) and Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin (91) watch the puck go wide during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars left wing Blake Comeau (15) and Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) battle for the puck during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Predators fan Nicole Morosco watches the game at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays/ Tennessean.com
Predators fan Julia Fleming watches the game at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Predators fans cheer during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) and Dallas Stars left wing Jamie Benn (14) battle for the puck during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) and defenseman Ben Lovejoy (21) defend against Nashville Predators center Kyle Turris (8) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Calle Jarnkrok (19) and Dallas Stars defenseman Taylor Fedun (42) battle for the puck during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) stops a puck during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
The Predators and Stars mix it up during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
The goal by Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) bounces out of the net behind Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis (4) and right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) confer during a break in the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) stretches before the second period against the Nashville Predators of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) shoots a goal past Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, April 10, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) and Dallas Stars right wing Alexander Radulov (47) battle for the puck during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Dan Hamhuis (5) and Dallas Stars center Tyler Pitlick (18) battle for the puck along the boards during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg (3) and Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) mix it up during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) moves the puck as Dallas Stars center Radek Faksa (12) trails during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) celebrates his goal as Nashville Predators left wing Austin Watson (51) reacts during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) celebrates his goal with center Justin Dowling (37) and left wing Roope Hintz (24) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) celebrates his goal during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars celebrate the goal by defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Mikael Granlund (64) tries to shoot past Dallas Stars center Radek Faksa (12) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) stops the puck during the seccond period of the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) and Dallas Stars center Mats Zuccarello (36) battle for the puck behind Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) makes a stop during the second period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) blocks a Dallas shot during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
The goal by Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) goes into the net behind Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) celebrates his goal during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars center Jason Dickinson (16) falls after a hit by Nashville Predators center Brian Boyle (11) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Viktor Arvidsson (33) moves the puck in front of Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Brian Boyle (11) and Dallas Stars center Radek Faksa (12) battle for the puck during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) takes a drink during a break in the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Wayne Simmonds (17) and Dallas Stars defenseman Esa Lindell (23) battle for the puck during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
The goal by Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) sails into the goal behind Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis (4) and left wing Austin Watson (51) celebrate the goal by defenseman Roman Josi (59) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi (59) celebrates his goal during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Mikael Granlund (64) looks on during a break in the first period of the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) keeps an eye on the puck during the first period of the divisional semifinal game against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis (4) and Dallas Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen (4) battle for the puck during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Dallas staff tends to Stars center Jason Dickinson (16) as left wing Blake Comeau (15) watches after a hit by Nashville Predators center Brian Boyle (11) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
The Predators watch action during the first period of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
A shot by Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) clanks off the goal defended by Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Kyle Turris (8) battles for the puck with Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg (3) in front of Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) sets up for a shot on Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators right wing Craig Smith (15) moves the puck defended by Dallas Stars defenseman Ben Lovejoy (21) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Calle Jarnkrok (19) moves the puck defended by Dallas Stars center Tyler Pitlick (18) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) defends against Dallas Stars left wing Roope Hintz (24) during the first period of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) is introduced before a divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Predators fans show their spirit during the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Fans wearing light lanyards light up the Bridgestone Arena before the Predators' divisional semifinal Stanley Cup playoff game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Predators mascot Gnash enters the arena during pregame festivities before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) waits for the start of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Pregame festivities before the Predators' divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) leads his teammates onto the ice for the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Predators mascot Gnash enters before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Big and Rich perform the National Anthem before the start of the Predators' divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Debi and Jim Murphy of Belvidere, Tenn. cheer as the Predators take the ice during divisional semifinal Stanley Cup playoff game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays/ Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban (76) warms up before the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators center Nick Bonino (13) and goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) warm up before the divisional semifinal game against Dallas at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) warms up before the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
A Dallas fan is surrounded by Nashville fans watching warmups before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators left wing Filip Forsberg (9) and defenseman Roman Josi (59) skate during warmups before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators left wing Austin Watson (51) warms up before divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Predators fans show their spirit before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Fans watch as the Predators take the ice for the divisional semifinal Stanley Cup playoff game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) and defenseman P.K. Subban (76) warm up before the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm (14) skates during warmups before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Nashville Predators fans watch warmups before the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Fans cheer as the Predators take the ice for warm ups during divisional semifinal Stanley Cup playoff game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays/ Tennessean.com
Scott Barry, known as "The Ultimate Predator," stands outside before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
PETA volunteers hand out 500 catfish squeeze toys outside Bridgestone Arena before the Predators' divisional semifinal game Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
The Hilton is decked out with Predators spirit before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena against the Dallas Stars in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Predators Energy team members wear their team spirit before the team's divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
T.J. Faust holds his dog Carter while posing with Gnash before the Predators' divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
A Predators fan decked out in full catfish costume walks around before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Home, not so sweet home
Except recent playoff history suggests Bridgestone Arena has been a tougher place for the Predators to play. And if the Predators aren't careful, their last shifts of the 2018-19 season could come sooner than they'd like.
They've lost five of their last six postseason games on home ice, an act that's tough to sell when the stakes are so high for a team that was confident the right pieces were in place for a long run.
An act that seems almost fictional considering Bridgestone Arena was voted toughest place to play in a poll of NHL players.
"I’m confident that we’re going to turn it around and come back and even the series here at home — that’s what we’re looking to do — and then go on the road," Subban said.
Subban was fired up after his goal at 13:24 of the third. But the extinguishing of the Predators' fire began long before that. Fans began to exit the building after Mats Zuccarello made it 3-1 at 6:10 of the third.
The 1-0 lead Roman Josi gave the Predators with a backhanded beauty gave the Predators hope. After all, they were 35-4-1 during the regular season when scoring first and 22-2-1 when leading after one period.
But a 19-year-old rookie named Miro Heiskanen erased that lead with the first two postseason goals of his career — one of which bounced off Mattias Ekholm. He became the youngest defenseman in the history of the Stars/North Stars to score more than one in a playoff game.
NHL Playoffs: Predators fans cheer their team against the Dallas Stars
Riley Campbell and his father Jonathan gasp as the Stars score a goal in the first period during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Kurt Oberstealf and Mark England high five after the Predators score in the first period during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Elizabeth Faria tries to stay warm in chilly weather during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Michelle Dicken cheers on her team during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Families turn out to watch the game during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Everyone wears their jerseys during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Fans line up their chairs to watch during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Robyn Patterson tries to stay warm in the chilly weather during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Fans go wild as the Predators score in the first period during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Families turn out to see the game during the watch party of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Fans dress in all kinds of costumes before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Bryan Roberts holds up the bumper of the Smash Car after knocking it off before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. \\ / The Tennessean
Tyler Murcko takes a swing at the Smash Car before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Allison Maltby takes a photo of her husband Alan Neely and son Alex before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Fans pour in before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Baker Avinger wears his catfish hat before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone ArenaSaturday, April 20, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Pam Pegram wears her Easter glasses before the start of the Predators' divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 20, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
A young Predators fan watches warmups before the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 20, 2019. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Predators fans watch warmups before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 20, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Kayleigh McGovern swings at the Smash Car before the Predators' divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 20, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Predators fan Wayne Hutton waits for the start of the divisional semifinal game against the Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 20, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Angie Manning cheers during the third period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Lori Cunningham (center) celebrates the Nashville Predators' goal against the Dallas Stars during the second period at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Pam Pegram and Becca Conrey celebrate the Nashville Predators' goal against the Dallas Stars during the second period at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Fans watch the second period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Mark Painter, Shirley Painter and Carrie McCormick celebrate the Nashville Predators' goal against the Dallas Stars during the second period at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Pam Pegram and Becca, Jared, and JD Conrey (from right) celebrate the Nashville Predators' goal against the Dallas Stars during the second period at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Hadley Willis, 6, looks up while attempting to keep her hair dry during the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Sisters Kelly and Sophia Campbell watch the second period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Fans try to stay warm and dry during the second period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Fans share an umbrella during the second period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Arvid, 4 months, cries while being held by his mother Andrea Borg before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Fans cross Broadway before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Sisters Kelly and Sophia Campbell watch the first period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
JD Conrey, 4, struggles under a rain poncho during the second period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Lily, 6, covers her mom, Chante Bennett's face as she tries to watch the first period during the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
McKenna Craighead, 7 months, stays warm before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Riley Bolt, 6, dances before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Fans enter before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Nolan, 5, sits on his father Jason Farr's shoulders before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Fans watch the first period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Kevin Hopkins smashes the car before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Angela Garton wears her Predators support on her face before the divisional semifinal game against Dallas at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 13, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Hayden Brown, 11, plays air hockey before the start of the Predators' divisional semifinal game against Dallas at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 13, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Fans take a selfie before the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Kyle Miller is decked out in Preds' gear for the divisional semifinal game against Dallas at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 13, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Fans show their Predators spirit before the divisional semifinal game against Dallas at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 13, 2019. George Walker IV / Tennessean.com
Fans watch the third period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
People pack up their belongings after a severe weather warning caused the cancelation of Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park during the third period of the Nashville Predators game against the Dallas Stars Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean
Predators fans gather to watch the game at Preds Party in the Park at Walk of Fame Park in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Fans wearing light lanyards light up the Bridgestone Arena before the the Predators' divisional semifinal Stanley Cup playoff game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Chris Harris of Lebanon nabs a catfish squeeze toy from PETA volunteers outside Bridgestone Arena before the divisional semifinal game Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Branson Hughes, 10, of Lebanon, takes a whack at the Predators' smash car before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
A Predators fan awaits the start the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Predators fans hit Lower Broadway before the divisional semifinal game against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
A young Predators fan gets his face painted before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Emily Cochran of Nashville poses for a photo taken by her husband, Alan, at the melting ice sculpture before the divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
Hayden White of Murfressboro slugs the Smash Car before the Predators' divisional semifinal game at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Shelley Mays / Tennessean.com
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Close calls
Predators coach Peter Laviolette said there was nothing encouraging about Wednesday's loss, because it was a loss.
But the Predators did survive a brief scare after their leading scorer, Viktor Arvidsson, was sent to the ice with a hit with just under 12 minutes left in the second. Before he could get up, Arvidsson was hit again by John Klingberg, igniting several shoving matches and resulting in a two-minute roughing penalty and an Arvidsson walk down the tunnel.
The Predators' power play, which finished dead last during the regular season, failed to capitalize again on a night during which it was 0-for-4.
Arvidsson, whose wraparound attempt during the first period when the Predators were shorthanded was stuffed by Bishop, soon returned.
No small deal considering injuries cost him 24 games this season.
The puck also rolled off his stick during the third period while the Predators had a 6-on-4 advantage.
"I thought we could have had a couple in the first. I think some of it was unlucky bounces, but we obviously have to stay out of the (penalty) box," Subban said. "That’s going to be one thing that we’re going to want to improve on next game. ... I think we just got out of our groove a little bit and just didn’t put the puck in the right places."
Reach Paul Skrbina at pskrbina@tennessean.com and follow him on Twitter @PaulSkrbina.
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Jdt Task 2 Wgu
Submitted By nananeva
TO: Prez E. Dent September 19, 2013 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) The Toy Company FROM: Elementary Division Manager
Memorandum in response to the recent notification that a large shipment of whistles scheduled to ship to elementary schools in South America at the end of week has failed to meet the U.S. requirements of lead limits by a slight margin.
A1. Decision Alternative The primary market for the elementary toy collection is elementary schools. The metal whistles in question did not pass testing due to the small traces of lead. The amount of lead included in the whistles was slightly above the U.S. legally acceptable limits for children ages 7 and younger. The approximate cost to reproduce the product and repackage the toy collections is $100,000. There are a few more questions to pose and/or further data to collect in determining the best alternatives to pose. Are the standards for lead content changed if the market is adjusted for adults? We will assume that since we are a toy manufacturer that that loophole is not even a consideration for us regardless of the possible change in requirement. Another question would be; do we have a market in areas that do not require lead testing? For decision alternative presentation we will move forward in assuming that the answer to that question is yes. Decision Option 1: Go ahead and ship!
As a company we must keep our profit margin in mind at all times. If we do not ship the product out on time as scheduled we run the risk of losing the customer. Not to mention the loss of money from product loss and man hours wasted if the product is scrapped and not shipped out.
The shipment is going to South America and not the U.S. so we can “overlook” the test results since the…...
Jdt Task 2
...units from Shuzworld H and Shuzworld H will still have an excess of 500 units. After this, the lowest cost after the first is looked for. Warehouse 3 is already taken care of so none of the costs need to be looked at in that column. The next most efficient cost is Shuzworld H to Warehouse 1 and Shanghai to Warehouse 2. Shanghai can only produce 1,300 units so Warehouse 2 will take those units and still have a demand for 300 more units. Warehouse 1 only needs 300 more units to complete its demand so it will take those units from Shuzworld H leaving Shuzworld H with and excess of 200 units. At the end of this, Warehouse 2 still needs 200 units so the warehouse will get those units from Shuzworld H. The graph showing this is again on the excel sheet. Overall, when the costs are added up, the total cost of shipping the units this way will cost the company $13,600. What will be the lowest costs of transportation when Shanhai expands its production from 1,300 to 2,800? Will there be a more advantageous transportation schedule? According to the Intuitive Lowest-cost Method, there will be a more advantageous transportation schedule. Instead of Warehouse 2 having to receive units from two different factories, it can receive all of the units it need from the lower cost, Shanghai. Shanghai will still have 1,300 units left over and Shuzworld H with have 200 extra units but it will decrease the transportation costs by 200 dollars. I chose to use the Intuitive......
...the elementary toy division and were made to complete an order that would be shipped to South America at the end of the week and the cost of remaking the product would be $100,000. Three solutions were proposed: cancel the shipment to South America, ship the half completed order and then send the final parts after they are fixed, or ship the toys to an area with less strict criteria. A1. Present 3 possible decision alternatives A1a. Alternative Process Human Resources has taken the best interest of the company and has concluded on three decisions to resolve the issue presented by quality control. This company understands that making a good decision does not end with making the decision, but also needs follow-up. As presented in the Task 2 Webinar there are Decision Models that can be used to aid in identifying, processing and evaluating any decision (Jewell, 2011). The Third Decision Model was used to aid HR in the three options presented in this memo. The toy company has lost revenue on a shipment of toy whistles. The company has to decide how to resolve the loss in revenue while keeping stakeholders and clients the priority. The company needs a resolution that minimally affects the overall budget, but also retains current clients. The three options available display an area of considerations that affect the budget, the stakeholder perception of the company and the reputation between the Toy Company and clients. The first option of canceling the whole order to South......
Wgu Qat Task 2
...QAT1– TASK 2 (version 1.1) Competency 309.3.1-03, 11, 12 Your Name Western Governor’s University Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed xxxxxx, care of Western Governors University. E-mail: xxxxx@wgu.edu QAT1 Task 2: Competency 309.3.1-03, 11, 12 Determine the equations for each of the three constraints. Nutrient C : 4x + 4y ≤ 30 Flavor A : 12x + 6y ≤ 72 Color : 6x + 15y ≤ 90 Identify each constraint as Minimum or Maximum. Nutrient C constraint is a Maximum Flavor A constraint is a Maximum Color is a Maximum Determine the total contribution to profit that lies on the Object Function as plotted on the graph. By visual observation the objective function line indicates shows Brand X = 3 and Brand Y = 4. Using these values and the objective function of 30y + 40x = 30*4 +40*3 = 240 Determine how many cases of each type should be produced to generate the greatest profit. Solving for the intersection of Color (4x + 4y = 30) and Nutrient (6x + 15y = 90) yields the values of Y = 5 case and X = 2.5 cases for a total of 7.5 Cases. Entering these values into the objective function: 30y + 40x = 30*5 + 40*2.5 = 250 Solving for the intersection of Flavor (12x + 6y = 72) and Color (4x + 4y = 30) yields the values of Y = 3 and X = 4.5 cases for a total of 7.5 cases. Entering these values into the objective function: 30y + 40x = 30*3 + 40*4.5 = 270 Solving for the intersection Flavor (12x + 6y = 72)......
...JDT Task 2 Carol Gore 4-10-14 A1. Decision Alternative The whistles that were scheduled to be shipped to schools in South America at the end of the week contained a higher amount of lead than the U.S legally acceptable limit will allow for children ages 7 and younger. The cost that will be extensive to reproduce the product and repackage the whistles in order to reduce the traces of lead. The decision must be made as to what the next course of action will be to meet quality requirements as well as the ethical concern that would be present if we shipped the whistles with the problem that has been identified. I believe there are a few options to consider. 1) The first action would be to immediately re-test the product to ensure the quality assurance test was accurate. This might involve additional dollars spent, but would be worth the risk if the quality controls were calibrated incorrectly, or performed inadequately. If the re-evaluation reveals similar results then we will proceed with additional alternatives. 2) If the retesting reveals similar results, we can sell the current shipment to an older age population. The lead testing, and acceptable levels are very specific to a certain age population. The lead level was too high for the children 7 and under but might be acceptable for children over the age of 7. If this alternative is not an option then we will be forced to reproduce additional products to meet the demand for this toy. 3) Reproduction of......
Wgu Jdt Task 1
...Rjdt Task 2a By saltzmachine | Studymode.com Human Resources RJDT Task 2a Mitchell Shaneman February 12, 2013 Memorandum To: CEO; Executive Team From: Eric Saltzman, Manager Elementary Division Date: February 11, 2013 Subject: Alternatives for the decision regarding the high lead found in the whistles. The situation of determining how to handle the recently discovered high lead content in the large whistles order is a difficult one that will in some way affect the company. Three alternatives have been made to allow options for this decision. Alternative 1: Say nothing; allow the whistles shipment to go without notifying the customer. Alternative 2: Replace the customer’s order by providing whistles that meet the appropriate company standards. Alternative 3: Contact the customer and explain the situation, offer them a discount for on the whistles that are lower than the company standard. Decision Process The process for choosing the three alternatives began by identifying the decision to be made. The decision at hand is what to do with the information discovered about the order of whistles going to a school in South America. This is a big decision that will affect the company in each alternative. The next step of the process is listing options possible for the situation, and then studying those options by listing advantages and disadvantages of each. Then the decision was made by choosing the best overall solution......
...Appeals granted the EEOC’s motion for summary judgment on 2 issues regarding religious service attendance of employees. But they denied summary judgment on constructive discharge on behalf of a former employee. Townley Engineering and Manufacturing is a company borne out of faith and required its employees to attend religious services. All employees are made fully aware of this requirement at their time of hire. The former employee made a complaint that this requirement was a conflict with his own religious beliefs. Undue hardship was one of the defenses Townley used. The courts did not see excusing the former employee from attending the mandatory services as causing undue hardship. In our company’s situation proving undue hardship will be much easier and clear cut. Without the schedule change our business will not be able to grow with the demand. This is a valid reasoning for undue hardship. The shift change is not abusive or hostile as to make people with similar beliefs to those of our former employee leave the company or we would have had a mass exodus of employees. Only this former employee has had an issue with the new shift schedule change. Steps recommended to avoid issues in regards to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: 1. Schedule employee meetings when major changes are to be implemented. Include the employee’s in the decision process so that they can take ownership of changes to be made. 2. During the interview process the company......
Wgu 1 Task 2
...Running Head: EBT TASK 2 1 Research Integration EBT Task 2 Western Governor’s University EBT TASK 2 2 Review and Classification of Evidence Source Type Appropriate Type of (American Academy of Pediatrics; American Academy of Family Physicians, 2004) or inappropriate Filtered Appropriate: This article establishes diagnosis and management guidelines for the treatment of AOM. Additionally, the authors make recommendations regarding treatment options for the symptoms of AOM and address the concept of watchful waiting as opposed to immediate antibiotic therapy. Recommendations are provided for clinical practice and were created using a systematic review of clinical research, ......
Wgu Ltt1 Task 2
...Intro to task two: The Indian Health Service (IHS): The IHS is a health care system for nearly 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to the 566 different, federally recognized, tribes in 35 states. 1 IHS is an agency within HHS, which is the Department of Health and Human Services. 2 The Indian Health Service was established in 1955 taking over from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It is based on Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and the relationship developed from numerous treaties, Executive Orders, and Supreme Court decisions 3. The IHS is the primary health care provider for the American Indian people 4, and it’s dedicated to raise their health and well-being to the highest level. Health Information Exchange(s): A Health Information Exchange is the virtualization of healthcare information electronically, and access to said information exchanged between HIE members. This data spans across organizations within a community, or hospital system, or even whole regions. HIEs facilitate transmitting protected health information to other organizations and government agencies according to national standards. HIEs often include collaboration among physicians, home health, nursing homes, hospitals, and mental health facilities. 5 Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: The FEHB Program is for Federal employees present and retired as well as their survivors. Members have the widest selection of health plans in the country. With the ability to choose...
...lead problem has been identified in the manufacturing process and has been corrected; new whistles being produced are within acceptable limits of lead. The cost estimate to replace the whistles in the ETC units with defective whistles is roughly $100,000. A decision will have to be reached quickly in order to get the first shipment out to the schools in time for school to start. Recommendations: As stated earlier three possible alternatives have been created, each can be accomplished in the time frame necessary to avoid a late shipment, which would mean a breach of contract. Each idea will be discussed in detail; however they are outline in brief here: Option 1. Ship ETC as they are, resolve lead issue in future ETC releases. Option 2. Repackage ETC with new Whittles and market high lead whistles to different target group. Option 3. Repackage ETC with new whistles and dispose of high lead whistles. These three ideas are presented as the only options that are available to us with the time frame we have to work within. Each has a financial risk to the company through either direct costs or indirect loss via decreased sales from poor company image. Option1: Ship ETC as they are, resolve lead issue in future ETC releases. This option was developed as a fast, low immediate impact resolution. The following steps were taken during the decision make process for this option. First the standards in the country to which the ETC’s will be shipped were reviewed to ensure......
Wgu Rtt Task 2
...Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS 1 Organizational Systems RTT1 Western Governors University Pam Turner Septemer29, 2014 Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS 2 A). Nursing-sensitive indicators reflect the structure, process, and outcomes of nursing care. (Nursing-Sensitive, 2014.) The skill level of the nursing staff, the supply of nursing staff, and the education or certifications of the staff are all used to measure the structure of nursing care given to any given patient. Patient outcomes, which are improved by a greater quality of care, are said to be nursing sensitive. Some examples of these are: pressure ulcers, intravenous infiltrations, falls, nosocomial infections, restraints, the mix of RN’s, LPN’s and CNA’s, total nursing care hours provided per patient day, patient satisfaction with pain management, educational information, overall care, nursing care, and nursing saff satisfaction. (ANA, 2014.) Nurses need to know and understand these indicators in order to be able to care for their patient appropriately. For example, an elderly patient who is bed bound will be more prone to pressure ulcers than a young, mobile adult. The elderly or confused patient will also be more prone to falling than the young mobile adult. A confused patient might not notice when his IV infiltrates. In the scenario given, Mr. J. is an......
...(JDT) Task 1 September 6, 2014 JDT2 Task 1 To: CEO From: Elementary Division Manager Date: September 6, 2014 Subject: Response to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 claim made by former employee. A. Constructive discharge is defined as when a worker resigns due to a hostile work environment created by the employer (elaws, 2014). This can occur when an employer makes significant changes to the terms or conditions of worker’s employment (elaws, 2014). In the case of the employee who filed a claim, the work hours were changed to 12-hour shifts, with four days on and then four days off. The four workdays can occur any of the days of the week. The former employee claimed that the workday could be on a religious holy day. In this case, there is cause to claim constructive discharge. The work hours changed significantly from when the employee was hired. To determine whether constructive discharge was used in this employee’s resignation, there are two tests. First, a reasonable person in the employee’s position would find the working conditions intolerable, and second, the employer created an offensive work environment with the intent to force the employee to quit (Constructive Discharge, 2014). B. Title VII: Section703 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that applies to employment decisions; mandates that employment decisions not be based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Gomez et al, p. 92). Protected class theory states......
Wgu Fxt2 Task 2
...encrypt network traffic to and from the human resources system and prevent eavesdropping. It would also properly authenticate the host to prevent spoofing. Task: A. Perform a postevent evaluation of how the organization’s IT staff responded to the attack described in the scenario by doing the following: 1. Describe the nature of the incident. 2. Identify who needs to be notified based on the type and severity of the incident. 3. Outline how the incident could be contained. 4. Discuss how the factor that caused the incident could be removed. 5. Describe how the system could be restored to normal business practice. a. Explain how the system could be verified as operational. B. Perform a followup of the postevent evaluation by doing the following: 1. Identify areas that were not addressed by the IT staff’s response to the incident. 2. Outline the other attacks mentioned in the scenario that were not noticed by the organization. a. Describe the nature of the attacks not noticed by the organization. b. Describe how these additional attacks can be prevented in the future. 3. Recommend a recovery procedure to restore the computer systems back to their original state prior to such attacks. C. When you use sources, include all intext citations and references in APA format. Note: When bulleted points are present in the task prompt, the level of detail or support called for in the rubric refers to those bulleted points.......
Wgu Efp1 Task 2
...River and the Tigris River (Hollar, 2011). Mesopotamia is recognized as the first civilization. Mesopotamia hand many geological factors that contributed to its success as a society. I believe that Mesopotamia’s location on the globe was its greatest attribution for forming a successful community. This great attribute in addition to the proximity to water sources, the fertileness of the ground and the tempered climate. The location offered for a thriving agricultural community. Farming days had longer hours and seasons lasted longer. Although this land was not perfect it had the makings for what it would take to be a self-sufficient area. Many settlers came to the area do to the large amounts of natural resources (Soomo, 2013). Prompt 2: Potatoes were a great source of diffusion between early human societies. Potatoes were first found in the in the Andes South American mountain area. When potatoes were first discovered there were only two hundred and –thirty five species. News of this new super food began to spread around the world. They were deemed just as important as the major kitchen staples rice, maize or wheat. They were easy to grow and very good for you and were considered to have many healing properties as well. This new super food made its first major debut in Europe and was then transported throughout the world by trading companies, sailors and Conquistadors. It took nearly forty years for word of the potatoes to make it around the world. This......
Wgu Task 2 Gke
...THEMES IN U.S. & WORLD HISTORY GKE1 Task 2: Individuals and Institutions as Mechanisms of Social Change Part A Martin Luther was a monk who lived in Wittenberg, Germany. The two most significant changes that he made were challenging Church policies and he sparked the Protestant Reformation, a religious movement. Both of these changes are political and social changes. Luther wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses”, in the Ninety-Five Theses” he listed the reasons why he believed the church was corrupted due to their abuse of power. Luther posted his “Ninety-Five Theses” all around the city and on the church. His “Ninety-Five Theses” reached people and the pope as well. Through this act Luther gained many followers, but he was eventually excommunicated from the church and declared an outlaw. Being excommunicated meant that you would be cut out from contact with the church. If you were declared and outlaw this meant that it was against the law to do any service for Luther. Despite Luther being declared an outlaw, his teachings and ideas lived on. Luther’s work rapidly spread because he was able to use the movable type printing press to create copies of his “Ninety-Five Theses”. As Luther’s “95 Theses” spread, more people began questioning the power of the Church and questioned its policies. This lead to the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant reformation was a time where people decided to stop following church policies and norms. Nuns left their monasteries and convicts.......
Biochemistry Task 2 Wgu
...Biochemistry Task 2 Brandy McDowell 000499302 November 30, 2015 A. (Lyman, 2013) B. (Wolfe, 2000) (Wolfe, 2000) B. (Wolfe, 2000) (Wolfe, 2000) C. (Hudon-Miller, 2012) D. (Hudon-Miller, 2012) E. The four forces that stabilize a protein. * Hydrophobic interactions which are interactions by nonpolar amino acids. The weakest of the four types of bonds. * Hydrogen bond made up of interactions of polar or charged amino acids. The amino acids share their hydrogen. This is also a weak bond, but it is stronger than the hydrophobic interaction. * Ionic bonds are made up of charged amino acids. A positive charge of an amino acid attracts to a negative charge of another amino acid. This bond is a little stronger than the hydrogen bond, but not as strong as the polypeptide bond. * Disulfide bond only occurs between two cysteine amino acids. Two cysteine amino acids form a sulfa-sulfa bridge. This is a strong covalent interaction. (Borges, 2014) F1. Explain the role of prions in BSE, including each of the following: ●How prions are formed – Prions are malformed proteins. Instead of reproducing, the prions cause normal proteins to change to the malformed version. The normal prion (PrPc) is bound to the surface of neurons. PrPc can be altered and become misfolded taking on a different conformation which is then known as PrPsc. ●The connection between misfolding and aggregation – Because the misfolded prions are......
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"Awful Need" - single
(Wichita) NACC, FMQB
Post Earth
(Wichita Recordings) NACC, FMQB
(Castle Face Records )
“Wake up…the world needs you"
Post Earth, the second full-length album from Los Angeles’ melodic noise punk quartet FEELS, is a call to arms, interspersed with frustration and hope.
It’s in the title track, a riff-heavy dispatch from a near future when billionaires flee the dying Earth, only to find their own comeuppance. It’s in the tuneful, ’70s punk of opener Car and its dismissal of “one nation under fraud.” It’s in the jittery “Find A Way,” which demands “Burn all the money, all the flags, all this stupid pride.” It’s in the entreaties to resist of “Tollbooth:” “the world needs you and you and you.”
“It wasn’t intentional to write a politically charged record,” says bassist Amy Allen, who constitutes FEELS with Laena Geronimo (guitar/vocals), Shannon Lay (guitar/vocals), and Michael Perry Rudes (drums). “But the way the world is functioning right now made it impossible to write about anything else. We all need to figure it out; we’re running out of time. The golden age is over.”
Maybe FEELS did not start their second album with a conceptual agenda, but they definitely intended to speak out: “If you have any kind of platform, you should use it for good,” Lay states. Geronimo continues, “If our wildest dreams came true, the album would sound exciting to people while also inspiring awareness and action against hate, prejudice, greed, the destruction of our environment…apathy's not cool and toppling oppression could be fun if we do it together!"
With that steadfast proportion of heavy and light, Post Earth never completely wallows in despair: look for The Simpsons references—courtesy of superfan Lay—in goofy rave-up “Deconstructed.” The atmospheric jam “Sour” finds Geronimo defiantly proclaiming “This land is our land” to the people in power who exploit division. The understated melodies of “W.F.L. (Work For Love)” sing of dirt under fingernails “to remind us why we do what we do.”
FEELS do what they do thanks to a bond that stretches back to adolescence. Geronimo, Allen, and Rudes have known each other since high school, when the Rudes’ garage served as the hangout and nexus for their musical projects. Rudes and Lay played in Geronimo’s solo project, Raw Geronimo, for years before it morphed into FEELS with the addition of Allen. Their shared history makes for a rare chemistry among collaborators.
After recording their 2016 eponymous debut – which earned the band press attention from outlets including The FADER, SPIN and The Los Angeles Times -- with Ty Segall in one marathon daylong session, FEELS decamped to Northern California in August 2017 for a comparatively luxurious eight days with Tim Green. The former guitarist of punk iconoclasts Nation of Ulysses, Green has worked with Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Joanna Newsom and Jawbreaker among others. “His studio was an ideal experience to be able to escape day-to-day tasks, lock ourselves away, and focus,” ruminates Rudes.
“I think the first album was very much like how we were live,” Lay says. “It was just this barrage of noise and energy, and with this one we were able to give it some breath and take our time—and also just think about what we were trying to say with this record and how we didn’t necessarily want to constantly scream it at you.”
On Post Earth, FEELS strike this perfect balance with a mix of angular, interweaving guitars, lush vocal harmonies, heavy bass and pummeling drums — at times hearty and loud, and at others stunningly harmonic and calm. “We feel comfortable not having to power through everything now,” Geronimo adds. “And for the more subtle things to be heard versus glossed over with noise. Not that noise is a bad thing, but we’re doing all of these weird, interesting things—maybe we should hear them.”
For Geronimo -- the daughter of legendary Devo drummer Alan Myers who grew up playing in a wide variety of projects with (and without) him – interesting is ingrained. The interlocking components of Anyways reveal her classical training: “I wrote it to be these really specific parts that had to layer over each other exactly, which is a real sheet-music kind of bullshit thing,” she says, laughing. “Luckily everyone was down to humor me.”
But that’s the modis operandi of FEELS: “There’s no point in being like, ‘That’s not going to work,’” Geronimo says. “Just try it—who knows?”
“Who knows?” is also the central question of Post Earth. “It’s more of a questioning than a telling kind of album,” Geronimo says. “I guess that’s the bottom line. It’s a questioning: What’s gonna happen?”
There’s no easy answer to that one. But if the good old days are over, Post Earth shows FEELS’ golden age is just beginning.
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WORDS by Brian Kayser
is a collection of interviews with some of the most influential figures in hip-hop.
Brian Kayser has built a body of work as editor-in-chief of HipHopGame.com and a variety of other hiphop journalism projects.
Words is an expanding multi-volume series of self-published books compiling his collection of conversations with the most legendary and established artists of the last 20+ years.
It’s not just a book or even a series of books. It’s Kayser’s contribution to hip hop’s cultural archive. He’s taking the work that’s been done documenting these artists over many years and he’s publishing it to make it available to anyone that wants to know.
Most art forms are about pushing forward while knowing what came before — especially music as an artform and especially hip hop as a culture. The work Kayser is doing with this series feeds that process.
“informative and worthwhile”
“I like my interviews to be informative and worthwhile reads. And you took time out to find some incredible questions and some dope questions that will make you think. The last thing you want to do is deal with an interviewer that’s going to ask you everything that’s on your bio.”
— LORD FINESSE
“respect the craft”
“As both a journalist and a musician, I respect the craft of knowing your sh*t. I call it a craft because as a musician, once you’ve been around for awhile, people tend to ask you questions solely about your most popular record, or the one they personally like the most. That’s fandom, not journalism. And as a journalist, there’s nothing like showing the artist you’ve done your homework and they open up to you. In this era of overnight craftsmen and blurred lines between fandom and journalism, Brian has paid his dues and understands that conducting a good interview is an art – and a lost one at that.”
— J ZONE
“funny, full of depth, and most of all, informative”
“Brian is one of the pioneers of post-millennial hip-hop journalism. Brian exhibited his sardonic wit and endearing descriptions of hip-hop’s development from the basements of the underground to the boardrooms of the mainstream. He was the first to have a blog speaking about weekly developments in hip-hop. It was funny, full of depth, and most of all, informative. His mission has never wavered since then. He gives a voice to the voiceless and is a treasure in hip-hop literature. I am honored and privileged to call him a friend.”
— JUNCLASSIC
“100% comfortability in his Q and A and genuine interest.”
“I really believe some people have ulterior motives when they conduct interviews but in my experience talking with B, it’s 100% comfortability in his Q and A and genuine interest. He’s not a journalist talking to me about being an artist but a vibe of two human beings having life conversation.”
— O.C.
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Michigan sees human Eastern equine encephalitis case
Posted: 8:19 AM, Sep 18, 2018
<p>A female mosquito begins to bite the photographer's hand.</p>
Health officials say a resident of western Michigan has been infected with Eastern equine encephalitis.
State confirms one death attributed to West Nile Virus in Wayne County
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Allegan County Health Department announced Monday that the person was hospitalized in late August.
Eastern equine encephalitis is one of the most dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in the U.S. It can be fatal and often leaves survivors with brain damage.
Southwestern Michigan has experienced outbreaks of the disease in people and horses in the past, with the most recent outbreaks occurring in the early 1980s, mid-1990s and 2010. Health officials say it's the first human case reported in Michigan since 2016, when three people were infected.
Eastern equine encephalitis can cause neurologic illness in horses. Vaccination can protect horses from infection.
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*http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor
Plenty more quality software listed in the panel below...
Plenty more quality software listed in the [[#Some major free and open source software projects|panel below]]...
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The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called [http://wwww.MediaWiki.org MediaWiki]; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian Debian] which in turn is running the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server Apache http server] program (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php PHP] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql MySQL] database.
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Free software foundation (FSF) website
Open Source Initiative (OSI) website
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FSF Free software definition
OSI Open source definition
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - an interesting essay on why the 'bazaar' model of open-source software development works well.
Wikipedia list of open source software packages
http://www.ubuntu.com Free and open-source linux-based operating system
http://www.OpenOffice.org Free and open-source office productivity software - word processor, spreadsheer, presentation software, database etc.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Free and open-source web browser
http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor
The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called MediaWiki; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called Debian which in turn is running the Apache http server program (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), and PHP and the MySQL database.
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One Mile Fun Run
4th Annual 30A 10K, Annual Events, Danny Margagliano, Donations 4 Danny, donations for danny, General, News, Ocean Reef Vacation Rentals & Resorts, One Mile Fun Run, Rosemary Beach Cottage Rentals, Sandcastle Escapes, St. Joe Club and Resorts June 28, 2016
Thankgiving Day 30A 10K and Free Community Events!
Need an incentive to get the family to lace up those running shoes this fall? Join us for the 5th annual 30A 10K Thanksgiving Day race in Rosemary Beach for three days of family fun, fast racing and the chance to help fundraise a record-breaking donation for local charities. The race featured three days of activities — and you don’t have to be a registered racer to participate! Sign up for the 30A 10K, ranked one of the top 5 Thanksgiving Day races in America! The 2016 30A 10K features three days of events including a race expo at 30Avenue, a Thanksgiving Day 10K race & 1 mile fun run down scenic highway 30A, and the inaugural 30A 10K Black Friday Shopping Spree Contest with special deals and prizes for our runners. The fun before the run starts on Wednesday, November 23, at 30Avenue, with a fall festival and packet pick-up. The event is free and open to the public. The festival runs from noon to 7 p.m. Forrest Williams Band plays from noon to 3 and Chris Alvarado takes the stage from 3:15 to 6:15 p.m. The party includes lawn games, a silent auction, photo opportunities with Lucky the Turkey. We’ll also have the 30A Gear truck out with great race gear and other fun items. After the race, join local shops and businesses for the inaugural 30A 10K Black Friday Shopping Contest, which is also free and open to the public. All you have to do is snap a photo where you are eating, shopping or working out on Black Friday. Post it on Facebook and tag the 30A 10K. Winners will be randomly selected for a bunch of cool prize packs (including one from 30A Gear!). All proceeds from the race are donated to the annually selected charity partners. “We are so excited to celebrate our 5th anniversary and expand our event with a new expo venue and the Black Friday Shopping Spree Contest,” said Race Director Karen Meadows. “We love that so many families make our event their Thanksgiving Day tradition and celebrate the spirit of the holiday by helping us give back to those in need.” This year the 30A 10K is raising money to help four charity partners including: the South Walton Fire District, the Walton County Sheriff’s Department’s Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Anchorage Children’s Home and the Northwest Florida Guardian ad Litem Foundation, Inc. The race expects more than 6,000 runners, volunteers, vendors and spectators in three days of events. “We have something for everyone,” said race organizer Craig Baranowski. “Runners of all ages and paces are welcome. And now, with our expanded race expo and the Black Friday Shopping Contest, we have exciting events for our non-runners as well.” In the past four years, the race has raised more than $150,000 for local 501c3s. This year, the event’s goal is to top that grand total and exceed the $200,000 mark. “It’s been an honor to help so many needy organizations in our area,” said race organizer Amy Stoyles. “The success of this race is a reflection of the support of our local business sponsors and race participants.” Find us online at 30A10K.com or on Facebook and Instagram for more information about the race! Read More
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Indonesia presidential race pits heavy metal against the general
By Admin on 15/04/2019
(PICTURE) CLOCKWISE: Joko Widodo (top, left), Prabowo Subianto, Tommy Suharto, Ifan Seventeen, Krisdayanti and Ricky Subagja.
A record 245,000 candidates are running for public office from the presidency down to local legislator positions, including an Olympic gold medallist, a pop diva, a frontman who lost his bandmates and wife in a killer tsunami and even a late dictator’s son
INDONESIA’S heavy metal-loving leader Joko Widodo faces off against ex-military general Prabowo Subianto in the race to lead the world’s third-biggest democracy Wednesday, a re-run of the 2014 election contest narrowly won by Widodo.
A record 245,000 candidates are running for public office from the presidency down to local legislator positions, including an Olympic gold medallist, a pop diva, a frontman who lost his bandmates and wife in a killer tsunami and even a late dictator’s son convicted of masterminding a judge’s murder.
Widodo’s landmark 2014 victory capped a remarkable rise for the down-to-earth outsider in a political scene dominated by political dynasties from the era of Indonesia’s late dictator Suharto.
A one-time furniture exporter, the 57-year-old shot to prominence when he was elected governor of the capital Jakarta in 2012 after a successful stint as mayor of his hometown Solo.
Raised in a bamboo shack in a riverside slum, his humble demeanour and love for headbangers Metallica proved a hit with voters fed up with a graft-prone elite.
But the father of three — popularly known as Jokowi — carries a mixed track record into the polls.
He championed an ambitious drive to build much-needed roads, airports and other infrastructure across the sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, including Jakarta’s first mass rapid transit system.
He also ushered in or expanded popular health and social development schemes, including cash for the rural poor.
But his rights record has come under scrutiny, with an uptick in discriminatory attacks on Indonesia’s small LGBT community during his tenure, and high-profile cases of intolerance directed at religious minority groups in the Muslim majority nation.
He has also been accused of creeping authoritarianism following arrests of opposition campaigners and a revised law that let Jakarta ban mass organisations.
Viewed as weak and out of his depth in his first year in office, Widodo consolidated power in part by appointing Suharto-era army generals with chequered pasts to key posts.
He has further isolated moderate voters by picking conservative Islamic cleric Ma’ruf Amin — known for his disparaging views of minorities — as his vice presidential nominee.
Widening inequality and a slump in the rupiah currency have sparked criticism of Widodo’s economic stewardship, despite annual growth of about five percent and low inflation.
His big-ticket infrastructure projects have also been knocked for offering little benefit to tens of millions of poor Indonesians.
Subianto lost by a whisker five years ago, cutting Widodo’s once-huge lead to just a few points by polling day.
The ex-general — and ex-husband of one Suharto’s daughters — faces another uphill battle in 2019, trailing by double digits in most opinion polls.
Prabowo has tried and failed to win high office several times over the past 15 years, including an unsuccessful 2009 run for the vice presidency.
But his ambitions have been dogged by ties to the Suharto family and a dark past — Subianto ordered the abduction of democracy activists in the dying days of the dictator’s rule in 1998 and has been accused of committing atrocities in East Timor.
He was dismissed from the military over the kidnappings.
This time round Subianto has sought to portray himself as a defender of the nation who will boost military spending, and has accused Widodo of selling the mineral-rich country to foreign interests, including China.
He has courted hardline Islamist groups and — despite being vastly wealthy himself — railed against the country’s elites, claiming they are exploiting the poor.
Some commentators say that the overseas-educated 67-year-old believes he is destined to lead Indonesia.
Others have questioned his hunger for the job, suggesting he is running to help his Gerindra party at the polls and to supply a platform for younger running mate Sandiaga Uno.
Uno, a 49-year-old former financier who is reported to have spent about $100 million of his own fortune on the campaign, has been popular with millennials and housewives, possibly paving the way for a tilt at Indonesia’s top job in 2024.
Tommy Suharto
The dictator’s youngest son served just four years of a 15-year prison term for hiring hitmen to murder a supreme court judge who had sentenced him to jail for corruption.
Known as a playboy with a taste for flashy cars, the younger Suharto is running for a legislative seat in Papua, which his father annexed in the late Sixties following a UN-backed referendum widely criticised as a sham.
Ricky Subagja
Considered one of badminton’s greatest doubles specialists, the 48-year-old and his partner Rexy Mainaky won over 30 international titles together, including a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Krisdayanti
Pop music star and actor Krisdayanti is taking her first run at public office after a successful career that saw the former teen model shoot to fame at home and also in neighbouring Malaysia and Brunei.
Ifan Seventeen
Frontman of pop-rock band ‘Seventeen’, Ifan 17, lost his bandmates and wife when a towering tsunami slammed into a beachside resort at a concert last year on Java island.
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Opinion: An Unequal Battle
18 November 2018 by bes-reporter
Former Commissioners Charles Woodley (left) and Derrick Simmons (right), assisted by their lawyer Jason Rogers, in first instance won the court case against the acting Island Governor.
By Harald Linkels
The two deposed commissioners on St Eustatius for the PLP/Merkman Coaltion, Charles Woodley and Derrick Simmons have lost the appeal sought by former acting Island Governor Julian Woodley against an earlier verdict, which stated that the Island Governor had the obligation to sign decisions by a majority in the Executive Council, even if he disagreed with those decisions or considered them unlawful. The appeal by Woodley and Simmons was not lost based on legal arguments: The Court ruled against them on formal grounds.
Woodley and Simmons did not proceed with the legal process as to them it seemed futile, given the present circumstances. The commissioners were forcibly removed from office by The Hague months ago, while the acting Island Governor of the time, is by now enjoying a well-deserved pension. The position of Island Governor on St. Eustatius was, as history shows, never a very enviable one.
The bill for the “lost” court case is for Woodley and Simmons who -let us not forget- in first instance WON the injunction against the Island Governor.
The bigger question, however, is whether this is a fair battle. Former minister Ronald Plasterk at the time immediately exclaimed that the legal costs of the interim Governor would be borne by the Public Entity St. Eustatius, but that Woodley and Simmons had to pay the lawsuit out of their own pockets. In the opinion of Plasterk, the legal costs from the deposed commissioners did not fit into the regular expenses that could borne by the Public Entity.
The opponents of the PLP/Merkman coalition are of course exuberant because of the fact that the former commissioners “lost” the appeal and they do not shy away from ridiculing them. According to these opponents, the ex-commissioners never stood a chance anyway and the legal battle -according to them- was a frivolous one at best.
The latter, by the way, still remains to be seen. What is obvious however, is that the “fight” between the two deposed commissioners -or in a larger context between the ousted coalition- and The Hague is not a battle of equals. After all, the war chest of the State is almost inexhaustible. The Hague could literally litigate, till it has financially worn out their ‘opponents’. Which, in this case, would not take a very long time.
One can reason that ‘what goes around comes around’. But is it that simple? Especially in the present case it – if only from a legal/theoretical point of view – it would be fairer if the legal costs made by all parties, would be paid for out of public funds. Woodley and Simmons were commissioners at the time and litigated out of their position; not as private citizens.
Although it is obvious that political the Hague and the opponents of PLP/Merkman wholeheartedly disagreed with the legal argument put forward by Woodley and Simmons, it is not yet a foregone conclusion that the two ex-commissioners would -in the end- have been unsuccessful in further litigation.
Should substantive legal discussion or even litigation on administrative laws in our Kingdom depend on the question who has the deepest pockets? Perhaps this is most practical for the State, but not necessarily fair.
Another point is this: even after civil wars, there are always movements which try to achieve a ‘national reconciliation’. Examples are the efforts in the post-apartheid era in South Africa and more recently, the negotiations between the rebel movement FARC and the government of Colombia. Fighting in a country or on an island in this case, at some point in time, must come to an end.
The financial wrecking, taunting and public disparagement of the “defeated” opponent certainly do not contribute to this conciliatory process.
The three BES islands also lost the opportunity to have objective legal ruling on the question what do in those cases where an Island Governor is unwilling to sign majority decisions of a governing coalition. We would, by awaiting the legal outcome, have known for the future what the boundaries are of the ‘power’ of the island governor versus the ‘power’ of the local government.
That question will, due to the actions and decisions of both political The Hague and the ex-commissioners, remain unanswered.
Filed Under: Kingdom News, Opinion, Politics, Statia
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Davins Goal with 20 Seconds to Play Lifts Mens Soccer to Dramatic Win Over Penn; Second Straight 2OT Victory; Watch Video Highlights
Jamie Davin's game-winning goal with 20 seconds to play in double overtime gave the American's University men's soccer team a thrilling 2-1 victory over Penn on Tuesday afternoon at Reeves Field. The Eagles are unbeaten in their last six contests, including five wins during the stretch, and have won back-to-back matches in double overtime.
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After a strong defensive start to the match by both teams, American (7-3-1, 3-0 Patriot League) began to control the action. The Eagles were able convert first with a goal in the 41st minute by sophomore Jack Scott. On the play, Cameron Petty passed the ball to teammate David Menzie, who connected with a streaking Scott down the middle of the field. Scott was able to outrun the Penn defense and put a shot past Quaker goalkeeper Ben Berg.
In the opening 45 minutes, American outshot Penn (4-5-3, 0-1-1 Ivy League) by a 9-2 margin, and did not allow a shot on goal.
The beginning of the second half seemed to cause a shift in momentum, as the Quakers became the aggressors on the pitch. In the 57th minute, Penn was able to take advantage of its solid play to tie the score at one on a goal by Loukas Tasigianis. AU goalkeeper Matt Makowski nearly made the play on the shot, catching a piece of the ball, but it got past him, finding the back of the net.
Penn continued to apply the pressure on the Eagles for the remainder of the half, earning several good scoring opportunities. In the second stanza, the Quakers outshot American, 9-3.
The 1-1 tie through 90 minutes sent the match to sudden-death overtime, where the Eagles picked up their play and controlled the action on the field. The best scoring chance for either team in the first 10 minute overtime period came by American's Daniel Shannon, who fired a shot just high of the goal with 4:12 to play.
The match went to a second overtime period, where the Eagles had a golden opportunity to convert the game-winner on a beautiful cross by Colin Zizzi to the foot of Davin, who was stationed in front of the goal. Davin's shot sailed high, however, and it appeared that the match was destined for a 1-1 final score.
With under a minute to play, the Eagles moved the ball in Penn's side of the field for one final attack. American fired a cross into the center of the field, where numerous players were clustered, and Penn's goalkeeper Berg punched the ball out of the goalbox. Davin, a junior, was right there for the Eagles, and fired a long-range shot, which got through the traffic in front of the goal for the thrilling sudden death game-winner.
American outshot Penn, 18-13, in the match, including a 5-0 advantage in the second overtime period. Both teams recorded eight shots on goal in the nearly 110 minutes of play.
For the second consecutive match, American has displayed a flair for the dramatic in a late match situation. Last Saturday versus Lafayette, Nick Kapus' game-tying goal with 54 seconds left in regulation sent the match to overtime, where Mike Worden converted the game-winner in double overtime.
The Patriot League-leading Eagles will return to action this Saturday, October 17 with a conference matchup at Navy at 7 p.m. American will return to Reeves Field a week later on October 24 for a 3 p.m. showdown versus Lehigh.
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Cities at the forefront of climate action – Achieving the Paris climate goals through the Effort Sharing Regulation
Executive summary Cities and regions are critically important for meeting and overachieving Europe’s climate targets. More than a third of the EU’s 2020 climate target will be delivered by cities, equivalent to 240 million tonnes of CO2 emission reductions (JRC, 2016). The numerous co-benefits of climate and energy measures have motivated thousands of local and […] more »
Putting a price on carbon, based on the polluter pays principle, has the potential to be a powerful policy tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the fight against climate change. A carbon price can come in the form of a tax or a cap and trade system. With a tax, the price of polluting stays constant, while a cap and trade system allows prices to fluctuate based on emissions. more »
Policy Brief PDF (English)
FOREWORD 2016 was a year that shook the world and the European Union in particular. The new hope for multilateral climate cooperation under the 2015 Paris agreement received a blow with the election of a climate denier to the White House. The European Union, as an ongoing project for peace and prosperity, was shaken by a Brexit referendum […] more »
Annual Report PDF Webview (English)Annual report PDF Print (English)
Policy Brief: A Fair EU ETS Revision
The EU is currently finalizing the implementation of its 2030 climate framework. This work includes a revision of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), the EU’s flagship climate instrument. The European Parliament (EP) and the Council adopted their positions on the EU ETS revision earlier this year and are currently holding talks to reach an agreement on how to design the system for the 2021-2030 period. more »
POLICY BRIEF PDF (English)STEEL Infographic PDF (English) Subsidies by sectors infographic (English)
Policy Brief: A Clean Fit: The role of the EU ETS in the energy policy landscape
Executive Summary Around the world, governments are establishing carbon pricing systems to put a price-tag on greenhouse gas emissions and incentivize more climate friendly practices. The EU launched its own Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in 2005. While the ETS is a necessary instrument to decarbonise the power and industry sectors in Europe, experience shows […] more »
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Policy Brief: Too big to fail? Environmental responsibilities of the UNFCCC and ICAO processes for aviation’s new carbon market
Last year, states created an offsetting scheme to compensate for aviation’s pollution growth above 2020 levels. The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is supposed to contribute to the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. However, compensating for growing emissions does not reduce emissions overall, nor put the sector on a pathway to do so. ICAO will finalize details for the CORSIA by the end of 2017. Crucial elements include the type of credits allowed, registry design, and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) rules. more »
Policy Brief: Building blocks for a robust Sustainable Development Mechanism
The Paris Agreement marks a new era for international climate action in general, and specifically for international carbon markets. Though the agreement does not mention markets per se, Article 6 paragraph 4 establishes what has become to be known as the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM) which builds on and shares some features of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms namely the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI). more »
Policy Brief PDF (English)Crossword puzzle PDF (English)
Policy Brief: Good-Bye Kyoto: Transitioning away from offsetting after 2020
The 2015 Paris Agreement, which sets out the framework for global climate action after 2020, includes the establishment of the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM). The goals of the SDM are to promote higher ambition that contributes to emission reductions and sustainable development, and deliver an overall mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. more »
Policy Brief PDF (English)Crossword Puzzle (English)
EU Climate Leader Board – Where countries stand on the Effort Sharing Regulation
EU Member States are currently negotiating Europe’s key legislation for climate action, known as the Effort Sharing Regulation. Covering 60% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions, the law will set binding national emission reduction targets for the 2021-2030 period for sectors such
as transport, buildings, agriculture and waste. In July 2016, the European Commission published the proposal for an Effort Sharing Regulation setting the basis for negotiations between EU ministers and Members of the European Parliament. more »
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Policy Brief: Addressing aviation emissions under the EU Emissions Trading System
In February 2017, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal regarding coverage of aviation emissions by the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). In response to the offsetting agreement reached in the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in October of 2016, the Commission proposes to cover only intra-European flights with the EU ETS and to exclude flights entering and leaving Europe. more »
Policy Brief PDF (English)Infographic Inflight Map PDF (English)Infographic Inflight Menu PDF (English)
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Found 3 collections related to Tracy, Spencer, 1900-1967
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003
Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 [bulk 1928-1994]
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2007-009
30 linear feet (65 boxes)
The Katharine Hepburn papers consist of correspondence, scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, contracts, financial papers, production materials, notebooks, and clippings documenting the theatrical career of the legendary actress. A few items... more
The Katharine Hepburn papers consist of correspondence, scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, contracts, financial papers, production materials, notebooks, and clippings documenting the theatrical career of the legendary actress. A few items from radio, television, and motion picture performances are also included. There are also a number of materials from her files relating to the theater, such as books, programs for performing arts events she attended, and memorabilia relating to 19th and early 20th century actors. less
Merrill, Phyllis, 1908-
Phyllis Merrill papers, 1933-1956
Phyllis Merrill, writer of scripts, speeches and advertising copy. Her papers include her writings from the J. Walter Thompson Co. Commercials for RCA, as well as scripts from radio and television programs form the bulk of the collection. There is... more
Phyllis Merrill, writer of scripts, speeches and advertising copy. Her papers include her writings from the J. Walter Thompson Co. Commercials for RCA, as well as scripts from radio and television programs form the bulk of the collection. There is also a small amount of memos and documents from the J. Walter Thompson Co. less
Series III: Scripts » Sub-series 5 - Lux Video Theatre » Dark victory (Radio script)
Benney, Robert, 1904-2001
Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978
The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of... more
The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period. less
Series I: Research files » Sub-series 1 - Production photographs » The last mile / John Wexley
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New Boxset with 5 cd's from Virgin Steele released on 23 November 2018
Freedom Call Performs At DOKK'EM OPEN AIR Festival (Video)
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PURE NOISE RECORDS SIGNS ROCK BAND CAN’T SWIM: NEW EP COMING FEB 26TH
Bay Area independent label Pure Noise Records welcomes New Jersey based rock band Can’t Swim to the label. The band will release their EP “Death Deserves A Name” on February 26th. Can’t Swim’s upcoming “Death Deserves A Name” blends elements of alternative rock, pop-punk and indie rock that are anchored by Chris “Krier” Loporto’s superb songwriting and standout vocals as heard on the band’s first new single “Your Clothes”.
Based out of Keansburg New Jersey, Can’t Swim was founded by Krier in the spring of 2015. After spending most of his life playing drums in various bands, Krier decided to step focus on songwriting. The songs were contagious from the start and grabbed the attention of his good friends Chez, Danny and Greg who would eventually round out the line-up.
“I never really pictured myself being a singer or a songwriter, it was just something I started doing recently to pass the time” says Krier “I was sending demos to friends (who later became members of the band) just to bounce ideas off them and get their opinion on different parts of the songs. After they got involved, it started to feel real and not just something I was doing in my bedroom. Shortly after that, the guys over at Pure Noise heard the songs and wanted to be apart of it. From the first conversation we had with them, everything just feels right. It’s a great fit”.
The band has revelead a video for their brand new song “Your Clothes” available by clicking on the image below.
Slechtvalk Released A Teaser For Their Upcoming Album “Where Wandering Shadows and Mists Collide”
Interview Pink Floyd Tribute band from Germany, Echoes
Gene Simmons Opens The Vault on Kiss…..
MAYAN Performs At DOKK’EM OPEN AIR Festival (Video)
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Chow Down in Cowtown
By Martha Uniacke Breen On Aug 3, 2018
Despite its small size relative to other Canadian cities (with a population of slightly over one and a half million, according to the most recent figures), Calgary’s restaurant scene has a level of sophistication that rivals international cities many times its size. From tiny boîtes to hotel lounges and high-end restaurants that offer up every kind of cuisine you might desire (and a sizeable number of innovative or simply offbeat concepts you may never have thought of), hospitality has become one of the most competitive and dynamic industries in the city.
Great restaurants ultimately live or die by the quality of their food, of course, but great design is a key part of what makes it a place you’ll want to try, stay in, and come back to. And no less than the cuisine, the design of some of the best restaurants here could compare favourably with those in New York or London.
What does it take to design a memorable interior in this demanding atmosphere? We asked three of Calgary’s top restaurant design specialists to describe their process, and offer some insights on how the city attained its rep as one of the trendiest restaurant destinations in Canada.
McKinley Burkart
“Nowadays in town, if you don’t have a great restaurant design you’re in trouble,” says Walker McKinley, who with partner Mark Burkart launched McKinley Burkart about 20 years ago. McKinley believes that at heart, what’s driving the city’s hospitality industry is a population that’s overwhelmingly white-collar, well-educated and well-heeled. “Because of the oil and gas industry, which drives a lot of the city’s economy, it’s always been a wealthy city, and a well-travelled one. So they’re very international, and have well-developed tastes.”
A mix of a sophisticated ‘60’s lounge and your uncle’s eclectic basement, rich wood paneling, textured plaster, mixed metals and luxurious textiles create a distinctly residential feel in the Wednesday Room, by McKinley Burkart. Photo by Michelle Johnson.
McKinley Burkart is one of the elder statesmen of the Calgary restaurant design scene, despite the relative youth of its proprietors. The partners started working together while still undergraduates, and began specializing in resto design at the very start: one of their first commissions, while still in school, was to design a couple of new restaurants for some friends. The friends’ enterprise eventually morphed into the Concorde Group, today one of Calgary’s largest and most successful restaurant groups, and continues to work with the designers as the fortunes of both firms have advanced.
The Wednesday Room. Photo by Michelle Johnson.
“A restaurant is really a form of theatre, where you can set up a whole experience,” observes McKinley. Creating an entire narrative inside the world of the restaurant is in some ways as complex as dramaturgy, he says. “We are really very collaborative with the clients from the beginning, at every level: from the owners to the front of house people, the chefs, everyone who will be involved. We get into the entire program, with the geography, the cuisine, the site, the overall atmosphere, in order to develop a cohesive theme.”
Eve Café, the first café of its kind for major retailer La Maison Simons, has nod to French style and charm with an injection of rich, textural finishes and residential-inspired accents that creates an entirely different experience from shopping. Photo by Michelle Johnson.
One the firm’s newer projects, The Wednesday Room, illustrates this immersive approach. “We wanted to take a ‘nostalgic approach to something never experienced,’” says McKinley. “That may sound strange, but it’s a typical experience for many Millennials, who have been deeply exposed to the past, but never actually lived it.” Located in the basement of an older office block, the lounge evokes a’60s rec room, or a clandestine hideaway where Don Draper might rendezvous with a mistress, midweek. Exposed-stone and wood-panelled walls, furnished with retro groupings next to a fireplace, make it feel like a mid-century home – or, as he says, your uncle’s basement, complete with Stanley Kubrick movie memorabilia. “But it’s also a celebration of the whole idea of the lounge,” says McKinley. “This kind of ‘mashup’ is very typical of our work.”
With subtle retro influences, McKinley Burkart settled on a restrained palette of simple, unassuming materials like wood panelling and black marble tile for the third instalment of the Village Ice Cream brand. Photo by Jamie Anholt.
Along with the design proper, the company operates three in-house supplementary divisions that work with the clients and the design team to build a complete, self-contained package encompassing every aspect of a restaurant’s visual presentation. Little Sister, an in-house branding and graphic design department, produces the imagery, logos, menus and physical manifestation of the theme; Tableau, its furniture procurement, design and manufacturing arm, manifests the physical creation of the interior.
Village Ice Cream Britannia. Photo by Jamie Anholt.
There’s also a third division called Black Chamber, which McKinley describes as a “think tank,” focused on the softer, blue-sky aspects of design theory, which conducts research across an eclectic range of sources: from international design and other influences to chefs, deejays, economists, and even lawyers, seeking to find clues to the future in ideas, trends and tastes. “It’s very experimental, seeking new ideas from wherever they may be,” he says. The collective result is a strong narrative that resonates with target patrons from the moment they step inside, or perhaps even from the moment they alight from a cab out front.
Sarah Ward Interiors
Designer Sarah Ward acknowledges that Calgary’s general population, which skews towards young, energetic and well-educated restaurant patrons, tends to attract restaurateurs who are interested in pushing the envelope in both cuisine and design, and who find a ready, and demanding, audience. “The scene has quite rapidly exploded; we have a very sophisticated group of restaurant owners here who are really interested in advancing the level of design in the city.”
For Two Penny Chinese, the Sarah Ward team drew inspiration from 1920’s Shanghai, a period known for blending traditional Chinese architecture and streamlined Art Deco, or “Chinese Deco.” Photo by Phil Crozier, Photophilco.
Ward spent the early years of her career working in every aspect of design from retail to residential to commercial design, excellent groundwork for her eventual focus on hospitality. “Once you get started in this area, it’s hard to pull away,” she says. “They’re fantastic projects to get consumed by.”
A palette of teal and dusty rose are brought into the interior in the form of sumptuous velvets and textured leathers, alongside terracotta red, reminiscent of temple shingles and the Chinese terracotta army. Photo by Phil Crozier, Photophilco.
The initial approach from the client may consist of a fully-fledged concept, or merely samples of an atmosphere or idea that needs development. The first and most critical stage happens long before Ward and her team begins to sketch out ideas, with a series of in-depth interviews and brainstorming sessions with the client. “You have to be very aware at this stage. We spend a lot of time just listening.” Germs of ideas begin to emerge, and are developed further through wide-ranging research from a variety of sources: inspirations from cuisine, design history, and cultural and iconographic details that will help the concept coalesce into a visual theme.
The library inspired bar is the focus of Proof, while a trio of glass and brass clamp lights by Lindsay Adelman are suspended over the leathered black marble bar top.Photo by Phil Crozier, Photophilco.
“Sometimes it’s guided by a regional cuisine, or it might be a certain narrative. A good example of this is Proof Cocktail Bar, where we wanted the space to feel like a local bar on a street corner, or even the basement of a home.” With its concrete walls and floor, exposed ducts and moody, industrial-inspired lighting, Proof looks the way Miles Davis’ trumpet sounds.
The design of Donna Mac focuses on strong, geometric forms and material rawness of hickory, leather, cork, and brick: textures that give the space warmth. Photo by Phil Crozier, Photophilco.
Implementing the concept of a new restaurant is at least as closely controlled a process as developing the theme in the first place, she explains, even down to details such as the design of the tableware. “In hospitality, you expect to work more closely with trades and millworkers because of the nature of the interiors, but sometimes it might even be to the point of re-educating the trades to certain textures or details that we want: installing tiles just slightly crooked, or finishes that are slightly rougher, to make it feel less perfect, more relaxed.”
Donna Mac. Photo by Phil Crozier, Photophilco.
Frank Architecture
“When you’re a young, fresh firm, you bring a lot to the table,” says Kelly Morrison, who along with Kristen Lien and Kate Allen, form the three-woman team of Frank Architecture and Interiors. Morrison dates the genesis of Calgary’s blossoming restaurant scene to a cultural shift that coincided with the economic downturn of 2008-9. “There was a big drop in oil prices, which of course affected us directly, so smaller restaurants became very chef-driven. They had to try and push harder, just to survive. So they became seen as not just a food experience, but a whole experience.”
A clearly unpretentious tone of Bridgette, completed in the fall of 2016 by Frank Architecture, is conveyed through the use of vintage furniture oriented around a suspended wood-burning fireplace, exposed construction material and an unusually low green marble bar. Photo by Jamie Hyatt
Around the same time, adds Lien, Calgary began to become aware of — and to celebrate — its entire local culture, spurred by its energetic and charismatic young mayor, Naheed Nenshi. “It’s become a city of mostly young entrepreneurs, bringing a strong influence to the local culture. And a lot of these young entrepreneurs are seeking out smaller design firms like ours, since we’re young entrepreneurs ourselves.”
Bridgette. Photo by Jamie Hyatt.
Architecture school classmates, the three partners cut their teeth on early Concorde Group projects such as Model Milk, National and Clive Burger, getting an early sense of the restaurant-as-stage-set and a wholly conceived experience. “Model Milk is a great example of that,” explains Morrison. “The open kitchen at one end is like the stage, with all the seating like the audience, where you can look over at any time and watch the chefs in action.”
Located along the busy 17th Avenue corridor and evoking a Parisian brasserie aesthetic, Royale employs leather and velvet for the banquettes, and marble table tops and polished brass accents for the 50-ft. long cast zinc bar. Photo by Jamie Hyatt.
Like designers in every idiom, the trio aver that the concept starts with the client’s idea — “We have a very open door when it comes to new ideas” — but in practice sometimes that requires imagination and a bit of sleuthing as well as a keen sense for what will bring in an audience. “We like to take an idea and dive down into it to see what we can relate it to. A good example would be Bridgette [another Concorde Group project, which opened last year]. The client came to us wanting an approachable space where people would feel welcome, enjoy good food, great music, a friendly atmosphere.” An inviting idea for a new restaurant perhaps, but not much for a designer to hang her hat on. “So we thought, what can we compare that to? We kept coming back to the idea of a backyard barbecue, so we conceived the idea of a neighbour’s house. It’s in a great older building with lots of character, so we set that off with a soft mid-century colour palette, casual furnishings and materials, and a welcoming character generally.”
Royale. Photo by Jamie Hyatt.
The designers also note that in the competitive Calgary scene, innovation and a keen awareness of what’s happening internationally is compulsory. “Hospitality is a very dynamic industry; we do a lot of research on projects all over the world to keep current on what’s going on elsewhere,” Morrison observes. “Our clients in the hospitality field have been to restaurants and hotels everywhere internationally, so they expect that level of design from us.”
“We’re also constantly researching new products and new materialities,” says Lien. “There are so many new types of cooking, customer experiences, and design innovations. That’s actually what keeps our jobs fun and constantly interesting.
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Posted on August 6, 2018 by Msgr. Charles Pope
Who Was Jeremiah the Prophet?
Jeremiah, Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome
God called Jeremiah a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall (Jer 1:18); a tester and refiner of metals, a tower and fortress (Jer 6:27); a man through whom He would speak against false prophets and shepherds who mislead their sheep. Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? (Jer 23:29) Jeremiah would be the voice of that word. Hated and feared by many, yet secretly sought by the king, He belonged to no one but God, was indebted to no one but God. He was totaliter aliter (totally other).
Indeed, Jeremiah was the best kind of prophet, a reluctant one (Jer 1:6). Beware the eager prophets, the self-appointed ones who seize the mantle as a pretext for their anger and opinions. They claim to speak for God, but He says of them, I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied (Jer 23:21).
God had always known Jeremiah and had laid the foundation for his ministry: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations (Jer 1:5).
Jeremiah ben Hilkiah was born in 640 B.C. in Anathoth, a small town just three miles north of Jerusalem. At age twelve or thirteen he had a mystical experience in which God spoke to him:
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.” Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant” (Jer 1:5-10).
Jeremiah’s early years were his happiest and it was of these that he likely wrote, When I found your words, I devoured them; your words were my joy, the happiness of my heart, Because I bear your name, LORD, God of hosts (Jer 15:16). The rediscovery of the Book of Deuteronomy and the sober example of the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel (721 B.C.) had spurred a religious revival led by King Josiah, beginning in 622 B.C. Foreign entanglements and the religious errors that accompanied them were eliminated. These days of reform would be brief, but for this short time there would be one Lord, one temple, one worship. It was a kind of Jewish renaissance, the best since the days of King David.
But then came disaster. Instead of trusting God, Josiah engaged in a foolish war against King Neco of Egypt, who was marching to assist Assyria against Babylon. Josiah was killed at Megiddo in 609 BC. The kings that followed were puppets of Neco, and foreign entanglement and religious syncretism resumed.
Jeremiah wrote of Israel’s infidelity and Judah’s failure to learn from Israel’s poor example:
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce.
Yet her treacherous sister Judah does not fear, but she too went and played the whore. Israel took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord (Jer 3:6-10).
Jeremiah’s next forty years would be spent laboring under four different Kings (Jehoiakim, Johoiachin, Zedekiah, and Gedaliah). None of them would trust God, instead compromising with the world for a false peace. For them, Jeremiah had only scorching denunciations about a coming catastrophe for their religious laxity and political cowardice.
Even as a boy he had seen disaster coming from the north:
I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north. Then the Lord said to me, “Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land. … each king shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah. And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me (Jer 1:13-16).
Against the priestly class who trusted merely in the location of the Temple and in sacrifices offered without obedience of the heart, Jeremiah railed:
Do not trust in your deceptive words, chanting, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.” For only if you really change your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another and no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, only then I will allow you to live in this place, in the land I gave to your fathers forever and ever. But look, at you, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My name, and say, “We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations”? Has this house, which bears My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD. But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My name and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel (Jer 7:4-12).
An even greater source of distress to Jeremiah were the court prophets and priests who lost their way in the halls of power and told the king what he wanted to hear and what was expedient rather than what God had to say. To them he said,
All are greedy for gain; from the prophet to the priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wounds of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all, not even enough to blush. … But the snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it (Jer 8:10-12, 16).
Such talk, such an action, is sure to generate a reaction. Jeremiah was soon assailed by foes, family, and friends alike as an enemy of the state and of the Temple. He was labeled a doomsayer and “no friend of Judah.” A prophet’s lot is not a happy one.
Was Jeremiah simply an angry man, unpatriotic and hypercritical of his people and the leaders of the day? Time would tell. Too often people and cultures that are heading toward ruin become locked in avoidance, lies, denial, self-deception, and half-truths; they cannot envision a love that is anything other than approval. Dysfunction and disordered drives become the norm.
Jeremiah loved his people and sought their repentance. The medicine they needed was reality, not the smoke and mirrors of lies and half-truths. Jeremiah would pay dearly for his disclosure of the truth. To a people used to darkness, the light is obnoxious.
The king’s officials, including Pashur the priest, convinced King Zedekiah that Jeremiah should be put to death because his prophecies were discouraging the soldiers as well as the people. Zedekiah did not oppose them, and so Jeremiah was thrown into a cistern, where he sank down into the mud. They intended to starve him to death, but Ebed-melech the Cushite rescued Jeremiah by pulling him out of the cistern. However, Jeremiah remained imprisoned until Jerusalem fell to the Babylonian army in 587 B.C.
The tide had turned against Jeremiah:
And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds. For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name will be remembered no more” (Jer 11:18-19).
Pursued and opposed, Jeremiah went into a dark place and lamented his role and the constant pain of hatred directed against him. He was isolated and sensed no consolation from God:
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me (Jer 15:10).
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail. For I have heard the whispering of many, “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.” But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior (Jer 20:7-11).
Prophets suffer because they love and care for the ultimate well-being of God’s people, not merely their present comfort. They suffer because they do not fit into tidy political or tribal categories. They speak for God, who transcends such groups. Yes, although the prophet is totaliter aliter (totally other), the human cost is high, and he comes to resemble Christ on the cross. The prophet’s own notions of grandeur must be crucified. The idea that most people will ultimately accept the truth must be crucified. (I have written more about Jeremiah’s struggle here.)
Just before the end of Judah, King Zedekiah summoned Jeremiah from prison and asked for a prophecy regarding the war he proposed against the Babylonians. Jeremiah prophesied against it, implying that the present Babylonian oppression was punishment for Judah’s sin. He told the king that God would spare Judah the worst if they accepted this and did not take matters into their own hands.
This is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive. But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be handed over to them. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp (Jer 38:17-18).
Zedekiah did not listen, and the end came swiftly:
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city. And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was broken through. … [The] king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah. Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon. The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they tore down the walls of Jerusalem (Jer 39:1-8).
Jeremiah was freed from prison and likely spent the remainder of his days in Egypt (against his will). The remnant of Judah refused his prophecy and made alliances with Egypt. Jeremiah spent the rest of his life there trying to dissuade the Jewish people in Egypt from foreign alliances and from being enamored of the Egyptian gods. His warnings went unheeded and the remnant in Egypt received the following condemnation from God through him:
The Lord says, “Those who escape the sword to return from Egypt to Judah, will be few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs (Jer 44:28).
It was likely in Egyptian exile that Jeremiah died, although there is no certain account of his death. He died preaching and warning.
Yes, he was a pillar of brass against a stubborn people. He suffered greatly for his work; he had the often-thankless task of summoning people away from worldly thinking and political alliances that compromised their devotion to God.
This work must continue both in and out of the Church. In our world there is a great darkness, but Jeremiah would warn us that the problem should be seen within before we look outside. We can surely hear the echoes of warning to shepherds who mislead their flock. Collectively, we are compromised; we are too politically aligned with secular agendas and prone to giving God lip service rather than wholehearted obedience.
From the depths of Jeremiah’s dark period come some of the most beautiful promises of all from God:
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion. Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing. Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit. For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, “Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God” (Jer 31:3-6).
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. … “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. … For I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more (Jer 31:31-34).
Yes, Jeremiah, you were like a brass wall and a pillar of iron among a shaky people. Your name means “The Lord founds.” May the Lord who has founded us find us again in His word through you.
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RAY - PORTSMOUTH - UK says:
“All are greedy for gain; from the prophet to the priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wounds of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all, not even enough to blush. … But the snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.” Jer 8:10-12,16
My, oh My!!
Why does this sound to me so much like the church and the whole world we live in, in this present age?!
I have tried repeatedly to echo Jeremiah’s words to the church and people here in the UK for over 50 years. I was told repeatedly by clergy and people alike to ‘keep quiet’, to ‘mind your own business’, ‘What do YOU know about anything – you are just an ordinary catholic convert!’, ‘Leave it to the Bishops!’
Well – I believe we have now seen what happens when it is indeed ‘left to the bishops’!!
Anyway – I have tried – and now I see not just the church, but the whole world (including Israel!) teetering on the brink of disaster once again.
I see a great punishment coming from God, much sooner than we may think, in which ALL, this time, will be purged!
The love and forgiveness of God in rebuilding His people – Jew and Gentile – still remains, but – re-establishing us all as Jeremiah wrote about in his chapter 31, may well, this time, be only after the emergence of a new Heaven and a New Earth, at the end of time – NOT ‘business as usual’ as we know it today, on this planet Earth!
It is time for much prayer and meditation upon each of our own lives – from Popes to clerics to the people in the pews – and to change whatever is needed before it is too, too late.
God bless us and forgive our foolish ways.
Kevin Kenney says:
In all generations it has been as you say, I”m reminded of the story of the Frog and slowly boiling the water. How many times has God chastised the Jews, and the Gentiles.
I am speechless that Israel allows the largest parade ever of Gays in their streets. If WW2 didn’t make them wonder What did I do to deserve this?, nothing will.
A book “Sent to Earth” by Michael Brown details natural disasters from ancient times to present.
In ancient times as the Bible says, I sent Prophets and you killed em all – paraphrase. In our days, The Blessed Mother and others have told us countless times, repent while there is still time. St Faustina says, Now is the time for Mercy, and followed by the time of Justice. By the time the Church decides She really means it, it will be too late, and too late for the Clergy too. Just like the Ancient Jews and the Temple. The old saying; There will be Hell to pay, will come to roost.
Susan de Marcellus says:
Thank you for this reflection. We are so thankful for your obedience and love for Jesus; your holiness (I know, by the grace of God!) brings healing and hope to more sheep than you know.
Julianne Wiley says:
I am afraid. And probably not afraid enough.
harrisok (UK) says:
You are quite right Ray,
We in the UK as elsewhere are in a mess. As Ven Fulton Sheen said. the laity will rescue the Church but we have not got long to go. About 40 months at some reckoning. You have a good and faithful Bishop in Portsmouth and he needs support and encouragement and an offer of practical help.
Trust in the Lord and His Holy Mother always.
I am currently researching the veneration of OT figures as saints, and I was wondering if there was a particular reason you chose to write about Jeremiah on August 6? Is it simply because it was topical? Is August 6 his current feast day? I have it listed as May 1 (appropriate!) but also as July 21.
Caroline Walker says:
“Too often people and cultures that are heading toward ruin become locked in avoidance, lies, denial, self-deception, and half-truths; they cannot envision a love that is anything other than approval. Dysfunction and disordered drives become the norm.”
Thank you, Msgr. Pope, I hear you.
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Report: Yankees sign Logan Morrison to minor league deal
Nicholas Delahanty· 3 months ago
The New York Yankees made a rather surprising signing on Friday morning.
First baseman Logan Morrison and the New York Yankees are in agreement on a minor league deal, sources tell ESPN. He’s got an opt-out date of July 1 and will make $1 million if he’s added to the major league roster.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 19, 2019
According to multiple sources, the Yankees have agreed to a minor league deal with Logan Morrison. The 31-year-old will reportedly head to extended Spring Training before being added to the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster.
Last season, Morrison was hampered by injuries, and was forced to miss an extended period of time due to surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip. Over 95 games, the left-handed hitting first baseman/outfielder posted a slash line of .186/.276/.368.
Just a year prior, Morrison had a breakout campaign with the Tampa Bay Rays. Morrison posted career-highs in homers (38) and RBIs (85), and was a steady force in the Rays everyday lineup.
Yankees fans will remember Morrison as the guy who criticized Gary Sanchez‘s selection into the 2017 MLB Home Run Derby.
Morrison was critical of Gary Sanchez being chosen for 2017 HR Derby over him. Took a shot at #Yankees fans. Hit 38 HRs for #Rays in ‘17, signed during spring with #Twins last season and had a poor season (.644 OPS).
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) April 19, 2019
After Morrison was heckled at Yankee Stadium last season, the veteran took aim at Yankees fans, saying that, “You can’t fix stupid.”
The move makes sense for the Yankees, as they look to add additional depth, especially at the first base position. With Greg Bird injured again, it doesn’t hurt to have insurance in case the big league club eventually needs another bat.
In his report, Passan noted that Morrison will have an opt-out date of July 1. He will make $1 million if he is added to the Yankees big league roster at some point this season.
If Morrison does, in fact, make it to the big leagues, it will be interesting to see how Yankee fans react. Morrison will very likely have to win over Yankees fans if he does eventually land in the Bronx.
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Coding for SSDs – Part 2: Architecture of an SSD and Benchmarking
tags: architecture, benchmark, coding, Optimization, performance, programming, solid-state drives, ssd, structure
by Emmanuel Goossaert
This is Part 2 over 6 of “Coding for SSDs”, covering Sections 1 and 2. For other parts and sections, you can refer to the Table to Contents. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting myself on SSDs, and on how to make code perform well on SSDs. If you’re in a rush, you can also go directly to Part 6, which is summarizing the content from all the other parts.
In this part, I am explaining the basics of NAND-flash memory, cell types, and basic SSD internal architecture. I am also covering SSD benchmarking and how to interpret those benchmarks.
Translations: This article was translated to Simplified Chinese by Xiong Duo and to Korean by Matt Lee (이 성욱).
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1. Structure of an SSD
1.1 NAND-flash memory cells
A solid-state drives (SSD) is a flash-memory based data storage device. Bits are stored into cells, which are made of floating-gate transistors. SSDs are made entirely of electronic components, there are no moving or mechanical parts like in hard drives.
Voltages are applied to the floating-gate transistors, which is how bits are being read, written, and erased. Two solutions exist for wiring transistors: the NOR flash memory, and the NAND flash memory. I will not go into more details regarding the difference between NOR and NAND flash memory. This article only covers NAND flash memory, which is the solution chosen by the majority of the manufacturers. For more information on the difference between NOR and NAND, you can refer to this article by Lee Hutchinson [31].
An important property of NAND-flash modules is that their cells are wearing off, and therefore have a limited lifespan. Indeed, the transistors forming the cells store bits by holding electrons. At each P/E cycle (i.e. Program/Erase, “Program” here means write), electrons might get trapped in the transistor by mistake, and after some time, too many electrons will have been trapped and the cells would become unusable.
Limited lifespan
Each cell has a maximum number of P/E cycles (Program/Erase), after which the cell is considered defective. NAND-flash memory wears off and has a limited lifespan. The different types of NAND-flash memory have different lifespans [31].
Recent research has shown that by applying very high temperatures to NAND chips, trapped electrons can be cleared out [14, 51]. The lifespan of SSDs could be tremendously increased, though this is still research and there is no certainty that this will one day reach the consumer market.
The types of cells currently present in the industry are:
Single level cell (SLC), in which transistors can store only 1 bit but have a long lifespan
Multiple level cell (MLC), in which transistors can store 2 bits, at the cost of a higher latency and reduced lifespan compared to SLC
Triple-level cell (TLC), in which transistors can store 3 bits, but at an even higher latency and reduced lifespan
Memory cell types
A solid-state drives (SSD) is a flash-memory based data storage device. Bits are stored into cells, which exist in three types: 1 bit per cell (single level cell, SLC), 2 bits per cell (multiple level cell, MLC), and 3 bits per cell (triple-level cell, TLC).
Table 1 below shows detailed information for each NAND-flash cell type. For the sake of comparison, I have also added the average latencies of hard drives, main memory (RAM), and L1/L2 caches.
P/E cycles 100k 10k 5k * * * *
Bits per cell 1 2 3 * * * *
Seek latency (μs) * * * 9000 * * *
Read latency (μs) 25 50 100 2000-7000 0.04-0.1 0.001 0.004
Write latency (μs) 250 900 1500 2000-7000 0.04-0.1 0.001 0.004
Erase latency (μs) 1500 3000 5000 * * * *
Notes * metric is not applicable for that type of memory
Sources P/E cycles [20]
SLC/MLC latencies [1]
TLC latencies [23]
Hard disk drive latencies [18, 19, 25]
RAM latencies [30, 52]
L1 and L2 cache latencies [52]
Table 1: Characteristics and latencies of NAND-flash memory types compared to other memory components
Having more bits for the same amount of transistors reduces the manufacturing costs. SLC-based SSDs are known to be more reliable and have a longer life expectancy than MLC-based SSDs, but at a higher manufacturing cost. Therefore, most general public SSDs are MLC- or TLC-based, and only professional SSDs are SLC-based. Choosing the right memory type depends on the workload the drive will be used for, and how often the data is likely to be updated. For high-update workloads, SLC is the best choice, whereas for high-read and low-write workloads (ex: video storage and streaming), then TLC will be perfectly fine. Moreover, benchmarks of TLC drives under a workload of realistic usage show that the lifespan of TLC-based SSDs is not a concern in practice [36].
NAND-flash pages and blocks
Cells are grouped into a grid, called a block, and blocks are grouped into planes. The smallest unit through which a block can be read or written is a page. Pages cannot be erased individually, only whole blocks can be erased. The size of a NAND-flash page size can vary, and most drive have pages of size 2 KB, 4 KB, 8 KB or 16 KB. Most SSDs have blocks of 128 or 256 pages, which means that the size of a block can vary between 256 KB and 4 MB. For example, the Samsung SSD 840 EVO has blocks of size 2048 KB, and each block contains 256 pages of 8 KB each. The way pages and blocks can be accessed is covered in details in Section 3.1.
1.2 Organization of an SSD
Figure 1 below is representing an SSD drive and its main components. I have simply reproduced the basic schematic already presented in various papers [2, 3, 6].
Figure 1: Architecture of a solid-state drive
Commands come from the user through the host interface. At the moment I am writing this article, the two most common interfaces for newly released SSDs are Serial ATA (SATA), PCI Express (PCIe). The processor in the SSD controller takes the commands and pass them to the flash controller. SSDs also have embedded RAM memory, generally for caching purposes and to store mapping information. Section 4 covers mapping policies in more details. The packages of NAND flash memory are organized in gangs, over multiple channels, which is covered in Section 6.
Figure 2 and 3 below, reproduced from StorageReview.com [26, 27], show what SSDs look like in real life. Figure 2 shows the 512 GB version of the Samsung 840 Pro SSD, released in August 2013. As it can be seen on the circuit board, the main components are:
1 SATA 3.0 interface
1 SSD controller (Samsung MDX S4LN021X01-8030)
1 RAM module (256 MB DDR2 Samsung K4P4G324EB-FGC2)
8 MLC NAND-flash modules, each offering 64 GB of storage (Samsung K9PHGY8U7A-CCK0)
Figure 2: Samsung SSD 840 Pro (512 GB) — Pictures courtesy of StorageReview.com [26]
Figure 3 is a Micron P420m Enterprise PCIe, released late 2013. The main components are:
8 lanes of a PCI Express 2.0 interface
1 SSD controller
1 RAM module (DRAM DDR3)
64 MLC NAND-flash modules over 32 channels, each module offering 32 GB of storage (Micron 31C12NQ314 25nm)
The total memory is 2048 GB, but only 1.4 TB are available after over-provisioning.
Figure 3: Micron P420m Enterprise PCIe (1.4 TB) — Pictures courtesy of StorageReview.com [27]
1.3 Manufacturing process
Many SSD manufacturers use surface-mount technology (SMT) to produce SSDs, a production method in which electronic components are placed directly on top of printed circuit boards (PCBs). SMT lines are composed of a chain of machines, each machine being plugged into the next and having a specific task to perform in the process, such as placing components or melting the solder. Multiple quality checks are also performed throughout the entire process. Photos and videos of SMT lines can be seen in two articles by Steve Burke [67, 68], in which he visited the production facilities of Kingston Technologies in Fountain Valley, California, and in an article by Cameron Wilmot about the Kingston installations in Taiwan [69].
Other interesting resources are two videos, the first one about the Crucial SSDs by Micron [70] and the second one about Kingston [71]. In the latter, which is part of Steve Burke’s articles and that I also have embedded below, Mark Tekunoff from Kingston is giving a tour of one of their SMT lines. Interesting detail, everyone in the video is wearing a cute antistatic pyjama and seems to be having a lot of fun!
2. Benchmarking and performance metrics
2.1 Basic benchmarks
Table 2 below shows the throughput for sequential and random workloads on different solid-state drives. For the sake of comparison, I have included SSDs released in 2008 and 2013, along with one hard drive, and one RAM memory chip.
Samsung 64 GB
Intel X25-M
Micron P420m
Brand/Model Samsung (MCCDE64G5MPP-OVA) Intel X25-M (SSDSA2MH080G1GC) Samsung (SSD 840 EVO mSATA) Micron P420m Western Digital Black 7200 rpm Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Memory cell type MLC MLC TLC MLC * *
Release year 2008 2008 2013 2013 2013 2012
Interface SATA 2.0 SATA 2.0 SATA 3.0 PCIe 2.0 SATA 3.0 *
Total capacity 64 GB 80 GB 1 TB 1.4 TB 4 TB 4 x 4 GB
Pages per block 128 128 256 512 * *
Page size 4 KB 4 KB 8 KB 16 KB * *
Block size 512 KB 512 KB 2048 KB 8196 KB * *
Sequential reads (MB/s) 100 254 540 3300 185 7233
Sequential writes (MB/s) 92 78 520 630 185 5872
4KB random reads (MB/s) 17 23.6 383 2292 0.54 5319 **
4KB random writes (MB/s) 5.5 11.2 352 390 0.85 5729 **
4KB Random reads (KIOPS) 4 6 98 587 0.14 105
4KB Random writes (KIOPS) 1.5 2.8 90 100 0.22 102
Notes * metric is not applicable for that storage solution
** measured with 2 MB chunks, not 4 KB
Metrics MB/s: Megabytes per Second
KIOPS: Kilo IOPS, i.e 1000 Input/Output Operations Per Second
Sources Samsung 64 GB [21]
Intel X25-M [2, 28]
Samsung SSD 840 EVO [22]
Micron P420M [27]
Western Digital Black 4 TB [25]
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM [30]
Table 2: Characteristics and throughput of solid-state drives compared to other storage solutions
An important factor for performance is the host interface. The most common interfaces for newly released SSDs are SATA 3.0, PCI Express 3.0. On a SATA 3.0 interface, data can be transferred up to 6 Gbit/s, which in practice gives around 550 MB/s, and on a PCIe 3.0 interface, data can be transferred up to 8 GT/s per lane, which in practice is roughly 1 GB/s (GT/s stands for Gigatransfers per second). SSDs on the PCIe 3.0 interface are more than a single lane. With four lanes, PCIe 3.0 can offer a maximum bandwidth of 4 GB/s, which is eight times faster than SATA 3.0. Some enterprise SSDs also offer a Serial Attached SCSI interface (SAS) which in its latest version can offer up to 12 GBit/s, although at the moment SAS is only a tiny fraction of the market.
Most recent SSDs are fast enough internally to easily reach the 550 MB/s limitation of SATA 3.0, therefore the interface is the bottleneck for them. The SSDs using PCI Express 3.0 or SAS offer tremendous performance increases [15].
PCI Express and SAS are faster than SATA
The two main host interfaces offered by manufacturers are SATA 3.0 (550 MB/s) and PCI Express 3.0 (1 GB/s per lane, using multiple lanes). Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is also available for enterprise SSDs. In their latest versions, PCI Express and SAS are faster than SATA, but they are also more expensive.
2.2 Pre-conditioning
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
— Ronald Coase
The data sheets provided by SSD manufacturers are filled with amazing performance values. And indeed, by banging whatever random operations for long enough, manufacturers seem to always find a way to show shinny numbers in their marketing flyers. Whether or not those numbers really mean anything and allow to predict the performance of a production system is a different problem.
In his articles about common flaws in SSD benchmarking [66], Marc Bevand mentioned that for instance it is common for the IOPS of random write workloads to be reported without any mention of the span of the LBA, and that many IOPS are also reported for queue depth of 1 instead of the maximum value for the drive being tested. There are also many cases of bugs and misuses of the benchmarking tools.
Correctly assessing the performance of SSDs is not an easy task. Many articles from hardware reviewing blogs run ten minutes of random writes on a drive and claim that the drive is ready to be tested, and that the results can be trusted. However, the performance of SSDs only drops under a sustained workload of random writes, which depending on the total size of the SSD can take just 30 minutes or up to three hours. This is why the more serious benchmarks start by applying such a sustained workload of random writes, also called “pre-conditioning” [50]. Figure 7 below, reproduced from an article on StorageReview.com [26], shows the effect of pre-conditioning on multiple SSDs. A clear drop in performance can be observed after around 30 minutes, where the throughput decreases and the latency increases for all drives. It then takes another four hours for the performance to slowly decay to a constant minimum.
Figure 7: Effect of pre-conditioning on multiple SSD models — Pictures courtesy of StorageReview.com [26]
What is happening in Figure 7 essentially is that, as explained in Section 5.2, the amount of random writes is so large and applied in such a sustained way that the garbage collection process is unable to keep up in background. The garbage collection must erase blocks as write commands arrive, therefore competing with the foreground operations from the host. People using pre-conditioning claim that the benchmarks it produces accurately represent how a drive will behave in its worst possible state. Whether or not this is a good model for how a drive will behave under all workloads is arguable.
In order to compare various models coming from different manufacturers, a common ground must be found, and the worst possible state is a valid one. But picking the drive that performs best under the worst possible workload does not always guarantee that it will perform best under the workload of a production environment. Indeed, in most production environments, an SSD drive will serve one and only one system. That system has a specific workload due to its internal characteristics, and therefore a better and more accurate way to compare different drives would be to run the same replay of this workload on those drives, and then compare their respective performance. This is why, even though a pre-conditioning using a sustained workload of random writes allows for a fair comparison of different SSDs, one has to be careful and should, whenever possible, run in-house benchmarks based on the target workload. Benchmarking in-house also allows not to over-allocate resources, by avoiding using the “best” SSD model when a cheaper one would be enough and save a lot of money.
Benchmarking is hard
Testers are humans, therefore not all benchmarks are exempt of errors. Be careful when reading the benchmarks from manufacturers or third parties, and use multiple sources before trusting any numbers. Whenever possible, run your own in-house benchmarking using the specific workload of your system, along with the specific SSD model that you want to use. Finally, make sure you look at the performance metrics that matter most for the system at hand.
2.3 Workloads and metrics
Performance benchmarks all share the same varying parameters and provide results using the same metrics. In this section, I wish to give some insights as to how to interpret those parameters and metrics.
The parameters used are generally the following:
The type of workload: can be a specific benchmark based on data collected from users, or just only sequential or random accesses of the same type (ex: only random writes)
The percentages of reads and writes performed concurrently (ex: 30% reads and 70% writes)
The queue length: this is the number of concurrent execution threads running commands on a drive
The size of the data chunks being accessed (4 KB, 8 KB, etc.)
Benchmark results are presented using different metrics. The most common are:
Throughput: The speed of transfer, generally in KB/s or MB/s, respectively kilobytes per second, and megabytes per second. This is the metric chosen for sequential benchmarks.
IOPS: the number of Input/Output Operations Per Second, each operations being of the same data chunk size (generally 4 KB/s). This is the metrics chosen for the random benchmarks.
Latency: the response time of a device after a command is emitted, generally in μs or ms, respectively microseconds or milliseconds.
While the throughput is easy to understand and relate to, the IOPS is more difficult to grasp. For example, if a disk shows a performance for random writes at 1000 IOPS for 4 KB chunks, this means that the throughput is of 1000 x 4096 = 4 MB/s. Consequently, a high IOPS will translate into a high throughput only if the size of the chunks is the largest possible. A high IOPS at a low average chuck size will translate into a low throughput.
To illustrate this point, let’s imagine that we have a logging system performing tiny updates over thousands of different files per minute, giving a performance of 10k IOPS. Because the updates are spread over so many different files, the throughput could be close to something like 20 MB/s, whereas writing sequentially to only one file with the same system could lead to an increased throughput of 200 MB/s, which is a tenfold improvement. I am making up those numbers for the sake of this example, although they are close to production systems I have encountered.
Another concept to grasp is that a high throughput does not necessarily means a fast system. Indeed, if the latency is high, no matter how good is the throughput, the overall system will be slow. Let’s take the example of a hypothetical single-threaded process that requires connections to 25 databases, each connection having a latency of 20 ms. Because the connection latencies are cumulative, obtaining the 25 connections will require 25 x 20 ms = 500 ms. Therefore, even if the machines running the database queries have fast network cards, let’s say 5 GBits/s of bandwidth, the script will still be slow due to the latency.
The takeaway from this section is that it is important to keep an eye on all the metrics, as they will show different aspects of the system and will allow to identify the bottlenecks when they come up. When looking at the benchmarks of SSDs and deciding which model to pick, keeping in mind which metric is the most critical to the system in which those SSDs will used is generally a good rule of thumb. Then of course, nothing will replace proper in-house benchmarking as explained in Section 2.2.
An interesting follow-up on the topic is the article “IOPS are a scam” by Jeremiah Peschka [46].
Part 3 is available here. You can also go to the Table of Content for this series of articles, and if you’re in a rush, you can also directly go to Part 6, which is summarizing the content from all the other parts.
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[2] Parameter-Aware I/O Management for Solid State Disks (SSDs), Kim et al., 2012
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[6] Design Patterns for Tunable and Efficient SSD-based Indexes, Anand et al., 2012
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[27] http://www.storagereview.com/micron_p420m_enterprise_pcie_ssd_review
[28] http://www.storagereview.com/intel_x25-m_ssd_review
[29] http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_momentus_xt_750gb_review
[30] http://www.storagereview.com/corsair_vengeance_ddr3_ram_disk_review
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dan permalink
In section 1.2, you have pictures of an 840 pro SSD, and describe that one of the components on it is 8 TLC modules. I thought that while the regular 840 used TLC, then 840 pro used MLC. Could be mistaken about that, though.
Emmanuel Goossaert permalink*
You are right, the 840 PRO is MLC, I just fixed the article! Thanks for catching this and taking the time to report it 🙂
Michael Barker permalink
Possible typo, “data can be transferred up to 8 GT/s”, should that be “data can be transferred up to 8 Gbit/s”.
This could have been a typo indeed, all the more so given the obvious conversion factor between bits and bytes. GT/s stands for Gigatransfers per second, which is a common metric for data channels. Thanks for pointing it out, I have added more precisions to the article to avoid confusion. Also, here are some references that I think you will find interesting:
http://www.tested.com/tech/457440-theoretical-vs-actual-bandwidth-pci-express-and-thunderbolt/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_(computing)
Ratnadeep permalink
This is a very good article series!
Andrey Lomakin permalink
Fascinating article, thank you for your work. But you wrote that “At each P/E cycle (i.e. Program/Erase, “Program” here means write), electrons might get trapped in the transistor by mistake”. It seems unlikely as far as you know floating gate transistor has a limited cycle of writes because electrons loose energy during injection by damaging of an oxide layer, so electric characteristics of a transistor changes and as result transistor becomes unusable. Of course, that is a very minor difference, and I can be mistaken. Also, probably may be good to mention that in general NAND flash memory has more capacity but also bigger latency, but NOR flash more has a lower capacity but lower latency too.
Just read links which you provided. “Stored charge” is one of the reasons of flash memory wearing off . Sorry for correction.
No worries at all, thanks for reading the full article in details, and also for taking the time to write a comment!
Abhijit Rao permalink
Could you please tell us, regarding Table 1, what is the data size that is being requested ? (Latency with respect to the data size).
Sunil Semwal permalink
nice article, thanks for this information.
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Act of Treason Design Journal - Part 2
To see Part 1: Design Journal Part 1
Note: I think the most useful application of this document is as an example, to assist in making your own Design Journal for your own game. There are many benefits to making a 'Design Journal' as described in Part One.
While this document does give some impression of what it would be like to play Act of Treason, this is not the purpose of this document. I'll have 3rd party reviewers for that purpose - their reviews are coming soon. The most accurate impression of Act of Treason comes from playing the game yourself.
Why 5 to 10 players?
5 is the minimum number of players required to play Act of Treason, while 10 is the maximum. 5 to 8 is a good player range in my opinion, with 6 or 7 being the best.
With 9 or 10 players, the game becomes a little harder to manage, and takes a little longer to play. The game still works of course, but playing a nine or ten player game with all new players is a tad difficult, as new players add additional chaos and length to the game. The player limit stops at 10 for this reason. I think the game would become too unruly, especially for new players, if the player count was 11 or more. And lowering it to 8 or 9 players would cheat experienced groups that wish to play with more people, and can do so comfortably.
Lowering the minimum number of players would be good, but is difficult without warping how Act of Treason currently works. Even if it could be done, Act of Treason is a social game and doesn't suit well to so few players. With only 4 players, there is not much room for social interaction and figuring out who is who. For these two reasons, Act of Treason is just not well suited for less than 5 players.
While a minimum of 5 players might be difficult for some groups to pull together, the player count can be seen as a great opportunity to meet new people. Socializing is often easier if you have a catalyst to help facilitate conversation. Act of Treason would make a great catalyst, as it provides an opportunity to socialize via the game as well as just casual conversation - swapping back and forth between the two as the game progresses. It would make me happy knowing that people were running games of Act of Treason at their local game stores around the world and using Act of Treason to meet new people.
Not only that, but playing Act of Treason with a batch of experienced players who you don't know that well is my favorite way to play. This is because the dynamic at the table changes with the players, much like how the social dynamic changes when you have different people in a room. This can provide you with a whole new play experience. Playing with new players adds another level of unexpected outcomes that you may have to navigate - a new landscape that you need to explore if you want to win.
How does the game usually play?
Each game will start off slow with the players organizing the group and focusing on passing Quests for the most part. This early stage of the game is mostly about gathering evidence on who is who based on their actions. It's giving the players an opportunity to set themselves up for mid and late game. As the Kingdom Strength drops, so will the players suspicions rise. Players will be eyeing each other up and taking note of every action and word. As we near the late game, Players will use their evidence gathered and their suspicions to weaken potential threats while securing the positions of themselves and their so-called "allies". Assassinations tend to hold out until the last round or two where many players will likely die in a bloodbath - a last ditch attempt to root out the Traitors. The Loyals attacking the suspected Traitors, while the Traitors try to influence the carnage so that they are not in the firing line, and perhaps taking a pot shot or two of their own if it doesn't increase suspicion against them! All the while Traitors will be keeping an eye out for the Heir. They may need to make a last ditch attack on the Heir if it comes down to it!
Note that the Traitors can win if Kingdom Strength hits '0'. This rarely happens as Loyals will try to win by killing those they suspect before this will happen. The Loyals can win by completing 5 Quests successfully. This rarely happens as the Traitors will place negative cards into Tribute to try ensure this does not happen. This is why most games always end assassinations.
Experienced players tend to play differently when compared to new players. It's exceptionally difficult to describe all the tiny things that goes into the difference between these two sets of players. However, One of the biggest differences is that experienced players develop a 'social contract', of what's good for the group. With familiarity of the game the players develop an understanding of how all players should act for the good of the realm, and deviating from this raises suspicion. New players cannot capitalise on this, as they don't know what good for the realm entails. New Players will often try act in self interest as there is no penalty from their peers in doing so. One of the toughest things with designing Act of Treason was to correct for this so that the mechanics encouraged the development of a social contract early, and didn't penalize the players too heavily for not having a social contract among the group. This was done by limiting the total available court cards on player count, Adjusting the cost of the Court cards to acquire based on Kingdom Strength, Rewarding players for leaving cards in court, and lastly, having ordered quests (optional) that reinforce the social contract in the early game. Each one of these small tweaks helps to encourage players to be more invested in what players are doing - or these tweaks act as 'caps' so that players can't screw up things for their team too much.
New players tend to focus on themselves and acquiring personal power - this masks the traitors who would be smart to also make use of this tactic. New Loyal players do not yet know what is best for the realm, and thus do not make any demands of the group. It was interesting to try and fix this mechanically - to smooth out the learning curve for new players and to assist in them realizing where they may be going wrong. Loyals have a better chance of winning in an experienced group because of the social contract. This is one reason why the rulebook has tips on how to play - Unfortunately, one cannot just add in a social contract as part of the rules - at least not without some costly negatives. This would effectively null out many of the interesting strategies as it would override player choice. For example, If you couldn't buy Court cards early on in the game, then no social contract would be needed. Nothing would be learned or could be used as evidence to draw suspicion when a player capitalizes on this opportunity, as there is no opportunity there - no need to make a choice.
The game has been balanced with this in mind, so that even with an experienced group playing optimally, the Traitors should have enough room to work with so that they have a good chance to win. And this chance of winning improves with good tactics and skill. In a group with all new players, the Traitors should have a much easier time.
Why is there a Steward?
The Steward ensures that turn order is fair and balanced, with little to no luck involved.
Player turn order is decided upon by the Steward.
The choice of a new Steward is determined by the old steward, but can be heavily influenced by the group.
Making an 'untrustworthy' choice for the next Steward will potentially hurt your trustworthiness and standing among the group.
Because of the above, even though the Steward picks the next Steward, it is better considered as a group decision. Thus, "the group" (who may or may not be influenced by traitors) picks the individual who will decide turn order.
Turn order has a significant effect in Act of Treason. Essentially deciding who can attack first. Attacking first is a big advantage in Act of Treason. Because of this, turn order cannot be randomized as this would mean the victor is decided by random chance rather than player skill and choice. As you can see, the concept of a Steward or something similar becomes almost a requisite in a game like Act of Treason, where Player turn order is so critical to winning.
I personally dislike games where arbitrary turn order, or seating position can have an effect on your chances of winning. I've managed to mitigate this by having a Steward who picks turn order. There is no randomization, there are no ties. All is fair - and determined in a very social way.
Is the Steward Role too powerful?
In my opinion the Steward is only as powerful as the knowledge that each team controls, and it can easily be misused. Either team can successfully use or misuse the Steward role. Each individual can subvert or lie to the Steward about what they will do. If giving the Steward role to the other team loses the game it for your team, then you deserve to lose. If giving the Turn to a player who turns around and stabs you in the back loses it for your team, you deserve to lose.
Yes the Steward role is powerful, but it is easy to misuse power and lose just as easy as it is to use it and win. For this reason, I do not think it is overpowered. Anyone can whisper in your ear and have you harm your own team.
The real power is in being able to correctly figure out who to trust and not trust. Or persuading others to trust you. Once you have that, you don't need a Steward Role. In fact if you were the most trusted player at the table, the Steward Role is mostly useless to you. Players will protect you and kill those who try to attack you.
My conclusion is that, yes, the Steward Role is powerful - but not by itself - it is certainly not overpowered to the point of imbalance.
Are the Quest effects necessary? Can Quest effects cheat players out of a win?
Quest cards have an effect that come into play as soon as they are picked as the Active Quest. The Quest effects give for a changing landscape that the players must adapt to. There are some positives and negatives to this, but I took Act of Treason in this direction as it creates for a more interesting strategic game in my opinion. The cost is that there is a slight increase in complexity.
Quests can provide some powerful effects at times, however, they are known well in advance. As such there isn't luck involved. A Quest that allows the first assassination of the round to be unblockable is known in advance, and can be accounted for. If you suspect a player suspects you are the Heir, you can take actions to prevent them actioning this Quest Effect.
I wouldn't say that a Quest effect can cheat you out of a win, only that it can provide the opportunity for a win/loss if you let it.
What stops the Steward Role from 'bouncing' between two players?
There is no rule against this as this should be self correcting.
Early game this is inconsequential and a fix would only serve to add more rules without significant benefit. Late game, this can be a balanced and valid strategy.
Most players dislike it when two players pass the Steward back and forth early game. The bouncers aren’t buying themselves any favors as this usually results in some animosity towards them. These bouncers are likely hobbling themselves for late game when they will have to rely on their teammates to win.
Furthermore, only the Traitors know who are on their team in the early game. What benefit is it to bounce the Steward back and forth when you cannot be sure of who you can trust?
Needless to say that 'Steward bouncing' is not a great strategy, and the Steward usually gets passed to other players in time.
Lastly, while this could be corrected for in the rules, this would restrict player choice. Perhaps a situation could arise where only two players are seen as most trustworthy early game, and this decision is echoed by the group. eg: during the first Quest, two players put in a hefty four knowledge cards each, and this wins the Quest for the group. In this example, should the two players be allowed to pass the Steward back and forth? I certainly think so.
Ultimately, Act of Treason is about group dynamics. I don't want to restrict how the group interacts unless it can't be helped.
Tune in next time for the following:
Why aren’t there more Examinations in the game?
Why are there lots of ways to get Examination Blocks?
Why do players gain Examination Blocking if they Examine?
Why does the Steward get to reward a Court card if the Quest passes?
Why are the Quests ordered?
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Jorge the Enabler of Every Kind of 'Ism Except Catholicism
Although we are less only hours away from the beginning of the Christmas season, which starts with First Vespers tonight, Monday, December 24, 2018, it is not inappropriate to offer a brief commentary on the rise of paganism in our world today that declined, although not without a struggle, in the years and centuries after the Incarnation, Nativity, Hidden Years, Public Ministry, Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and then the beginning of Holy Mother Church’s missionary work of evangelization on Pentecost Sunday.
We see the rise of paganism right here in the United States of America, which is entirely unsurprising as the heresy of “religious liberty” that made it possible for Catholics to practice their faith in a pluralist nation has also made it possible for paganism and outright satanism and witchcraft to gain a respected place in what some “neoconservative” Catholics within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have called the “public square.” A Catholicism that is not militant its opposition to religious and philosophical errors simply is not Catholicism as untold millions of martyrs have shed their blood rather than burn even one grain of incense to false ideas, false religions, idols or other “movements” that have risen to try to take the place of the true Faith as the “glue” that holds the world together.
Conciliarism’s “official reconciliation” with the “world” has meant a total surrender to every false religion and to almost every false “‘ism” extant in the world today.
To wit, whereas the Catholic Church stood as the uncompromising foe of all forms of paganism, the lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism bow their knees in pagan temples and sing the praises of those who believe in nothing other than a projection of their own beliefs onto some kind of deity. Countless are the examples of the conciliar “popes,” including the supposed “restorer of tradition,” Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who have personally esteemed the symbols and books of pagan vanities, thus showing themselves to be serial violators of the First and Second Commandments and veritable Anti-Apostles and prophets of Antichrist.
Ratzinger/Benedict’s own much-vaunted “hermeneutic of continuity” is nothing other than an attempt to make mutability an attribute of God, Who is immutable, and Jorge Mario Bergoglio shamelessly projects every single one of his own heretical and ideological predilection onto the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, God the Holy Ghost. Bergoglio’s shamelessness is such that he has no compunction whatsoever about appointing pagans and pantheists to various positions, including the so-called “Pontifical” Academy for Life and the Pontifical Academy for the Sciences:
December 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Professor Marie-Jo Thiel, a new member of the revamped Pontifical Academy for Life, recently said that the Church's teaching on sexuality and family should be thoroughly reconsidered. She pointed to Pope Francis’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia as having given Catholics more freedom.
The Church’s teachings on sexuality have been a “complete failure,” she said. Thiel rejects the Church’s teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and can never be approved. She also firmly rejects the Church’s ban on contraception.
As Katholisch.de reported: "Additionally, she rejected magisterial statements, according to which homosexual acts are [in her own words] 'pathological and always sinful.'" Katholisch.de also reported that Thiel criticized "opponents of Francis" who claimed that homosexuality was pathological and who cited Benedict XVI for evidence.
Professor Thiel made her comments at an event at the Catholic Academy in Freiburg, Germany, according to Katholisch.de, the German bishops’ news website. She was speaking in her capacity as the President of the European Society of Catholic Theology. Thiel is a French medical doctor and theologian and currently teaches theology at the University of Strasbourg, France.
According to the report, Thiel claimed that one should comprehensively reconsider the Church’s teaching on sexuality and the family. Pope Francis, she added, has given new impulses with his document Amoris Laetitia and thus offered more freedom. These opportunities should now be used. Additionally, there is much scope for regional initiatives, she explained, without always immediately looking for a solution that is applicable for the Universal Church. It is about a “wholesome decentralization,” as Pope Francis called it.
Thus, Thiel rejects a “universalistic intransigence” and proposes an attitude that fosters much more the sense of self-determination and the individual conscience, according to Katholisch.de. The theologian added that it is time for the Church to end her “reign over body and souls.”
A Christian morality, Professor Thiel continued, has to be guided by the principle of mercy: “The forgiveness which we received in love and in the faith liberates us and thus leads us to a path of return.”
Speaking about the ongoing sex abuse crisis in the Church, Thiel claimed that it shows “the failure of the heretofore sexual morality” of the Church. The crimes of “sexual abuse of power and conscience” (in the words of the German report) have been committed by those who were meant to live out the Church's morality in an exemplary manner. Thus, she added, the clerical sexual offenders destroy “the [Church’s] entire teaching edifice of the sexual and family ethics and thereby undermine both the absolutist and authoritarian norms, as well as the centralized and obscure structures of power and their inherent possibilities of obfuscation.”
The theologian also decidedly turned against the Church’s ban on contraception. “Is there any inner connection between a sexual union and procreation in nature?” she asked. “No!”
Thiel also spoke about what she considers the “culpable naivëté” of the Church when bishops argue that the use of condoms has contributed to moral decay and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
In 2017, Pope Francis named Thiel a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), a term that will last five years. Another newly appointed member of the PAV is Father Maurizio Chiodi who, at the end of 2017, said that there are some circumstances that “require” contraception.
At the end of 2016, Pope Francis dismissed all members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, among them the Catholic philosopher and famous critic of Amoris Laetitia Professor Josef Seifert. Seifert subsequently founded, together with other former faithful members of the PAV, a new academy in defense of traditional Catholic moral teaching, called the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family (JAHLF). Seifert also publicly criticized the views of Father Chiodi, saying, “Chiodi’s position constitutes an unequivocal defense of the consequentialist and proportionalist ethics that attacked Humanae Vitae from the first day of its publication on, and not only took issue with its teaching that contraception is intrinsically wrong, but [also] claimed that there are no intrinsically evil acts at all.” (Pontifical Academy for Life Member Questions Catholic teaching on Sodomy and Contraception.)
A "complete failure" for whom?
Not for the true God of Divine Revelation, He Who gave us the Ten Commandments, He Who is the Author of the Natural Law, He Who has always guided Holy Mother Church's pronouncements on Faith and Morals infallibly.
A "complete failure" in the eyes of those who want to sin and/or enable or excuse those who refuse to reform their lives.
Ignoring Professor Josef Seifert’s defense of Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria/Paul the Sick’s Humanae Vitae, July 25, 1968, which is a revolutionary document that overthrew the ends proper to marriage and introduced a variety of excuses for married couples to avoid having children by natural means, the fact that Mary-Jo Thiel and “Father” Maurizio Chiodi enjoy the confidence of Jorge Mario Bergoglio demonstrates once again that the currently presiding apostate of the counterfeit church of conciliarism is using others as his “canaries” to see how far he can go in advancing his revolutionary agenda of theological and moral relativism. Mary-Jo Thiel, Maurizio Chiodi and Jorge Mario Bergoglio do not believe that the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, has revealed anything definitively and that it is up to each succeeding generation to determine how to define Faith and Morals in the context of their contemporary circumstances. These pagans have no regard at all for dogmatic declarations on any matter, including on the doctrine of the Faith itself as summarized by the Fathers of the [First] Vatican Council on April 24, 1870 (see Appendix A below). Such pagans would scoff at the prayer that believing Catholics pray every morning upon arising:
O my God, I firmly believe that Thou art one God, in three Divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost: I believe that Thy Divine Son became Man, and died for our sins, and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived. Amen. (The Act of Faith.)
For the likes of Angelo Roncalli, Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, Albino Luciani, Karol Josef Wojtyla, Joseph Alois Ratzinger, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Mary Jo-Thiel and Maurizio Chiodi to be correct, God had done nothing but deceive Holy Mother Church until the dawning of the conciliar “Age of Aquarius,” if you will. Heretics always they are on a mission to “find” what God has revealed without accepting the simple fact summarized by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928, that the Catholic Church gives her children a doctrine that is clearly understood and very secure in its meaning:
But the Only-begotten Son of God, when He commanded His representatives to teach all nations, obliged all men to give credence to whatever was made known to them by "witnesses preordained by God," and also confirmed His command with this sanction: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned." These two commands of Christ, which must be fulfilled, the one, namely, to teach, and the other to believe, cannot even be understood, unless the Church proposes a complete and easily understood teaching, and is immune when it thus teaches from all danger of erring. In this matter, those also turn aside from the right path, who think that the deposit of truth such laborious trouble, and with such lengthy study and discussion, that a man's life would hardly suffice to find and take possession of it; as if the most merciful God had spoken through the prophets and His Only-begotten Son merely in order that a few, and those stricken in years, should learn what He had revealed through them, and not that He might inculcate a doctrine of faith and morals, by which man should be guided through the whole course of his moral life. (Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928.)
There is nothing imprecise or exact about the truths contained in the Sacred Deposit of Faith, which is why our true popes have spoken in measured terms and written with great precision. None of our true popes were incessant babblers as is the current universal public face of apostasy, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who is preparing the way to yield on contraception and, in “extraordinary” cases, you understand, even surgical abortion. Doubt my word? None other than Reinard “Cardinal” Marx says that his “pope” is, as if we did not know this before now, “flexible” on matters of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, including sodomy and its related vices (see Reinard Marx Says Jorge is very flexible when it comes to Catholic Morality.) The late, great Frank Kelly, who was the founder of Virginia Right to Life, which has no relation to the ever-compromising tool of the fake, phony, fraud "pro-life" Republican National Committee named the "National Right to Life Committee, had a word for men such as Reinard Marx: "Swineherd."
Relativists believe that nothing is absolutely true, and they are absolute in their conviction that nothing is absolutely true. Relativists are thus absolutists who believe dogmatically in their promotion of relativism and positively evangelical in their effort to impose relativism upon Catholics, doing so blasphemously in the name of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself. Relativists must believe that nothing is false except Catholicism as it has been taught from Pentecost Sunday to the time that the corpulent glutton named Angelo Roncalli usurped the Throne of Saint Peter on October 28, 1958, the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, and they have a special affinity with those in believe in false religions and with those who believe in no religion at all, including Communism.
Bergoglio, of course, made his peace with Communism in his youth and is never more at home than he is when meeting with Communist dictators and thugs (see, for example, “He Speaks Like A Leftist"). His recent “reconciliation” with the murderous Communist thugs of Red China was nothing other than a total sellout of the faithful Catholics in the underground church, who have been persecuted even before the creation of the rump “Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association” in 1957, and a total capitulation to the demands of the Chicom dictators (see Bergoglio the Red Surrenders Faithful Catholics to Their Persecutors and Neville Bergoglio's Appeasement of the Chicom Monsters).
There is a not-so-funny reality about Communists, however, that Bergoglio chooses to ignore: agreements they make mean nothing after the ink is dry. Xi Jinping is hellbent on eliminating the “seditious” influence of all religions, including the true one, Catholicism, and the voice of “Pope Francis,” who thunders about “climate change” and the “evil” done by men such as “Archbishop” Carol Mario Vigano (who has done much evil in his life prior to his justified criticism of the president of the conciliar assembly: Opus Dei’s Role in the Vigano Affair.)
Beijing (AsiaNews) - A nunnery in the city of Qiqihar (Gannan County, Heilongjiang Province) was semi-destroyed by law enforcement agencies. This morning, the bishop of the diocese, Msgr. Wei Jingyi, said that the nuns were able to convince the authorities to save a part of the building used as a chapel and as a residence. Other parts have been destroyed.
The demolition began two nights ago. At about 11 pm, the police entered the convent and ordered the nuns to leave in an hour. At Qiqihar the temperature in the evening drops to below zero. Meanwhile, some policemen and workers began to destroy window frames, doors, etc. The nuns had received the eviction notice in the morning and had managed to warn Msgr. Wei.
Demolition work continued throughout the day yesterday, while the bishop, some priests and faithful of the diocese tried to dialogue with the authorities to find a solution and a compromise. The nuns sent messages asking for prayers and support, along with videos showing the progress of the destruction.
According to the government, the whole building is an illegal construction and in addition it houses illegal religious gatherings. The community of nuns is in fact part of the underground community; the same bishop Wei Jingyi is not recognized by the government, although he has good relations with the authorities.
Some faithful point out that instead of seeking compromise, the police came with the immediate intention of destroying everything. They suspect the operation is designed to put pressure on the underground community to register under the government.
This morning, Msgr. Wei announced that "the problem is solved" and that the sisters have found another place to live. Only a part of the semi-destroyed building will remain the property of the nuns. (Half of Religious Sisters' Convent Destroyed by Peace-Loving, Tolerant Chicom Police.)
“Bishop” Wei Jingyi’s pronouncement that the “problem is solved” ignores the fact that the Chicom authorities are using pressure to enforce the “agreement” that Bergoglio made with them on September 22, 2018, the Feast of Saint Thomas of Villanova and the Commemoration of Saint Maurice and his Companions. Bergoglio, who has plenty to say in support of George Soros’s “open borders,” climate control as an excuse to increase government power and decrease legitimate human liberties, “palliative care” and other evils, will say as much about the destruction of half of the convent in the city of Qiqihar as he has about other evils perpetrated by Communist regimes. What is that? Nothing, of course, nothing at all.
For his part, however, Xi Jinping is deadly serious about crushing all opposition to Communism in order to bring back the “good old days” of Mao Zedong, particularly as regards the necessity, as Xi sees it, of fostering his own cult of personality and making all religions, including Catholicism, the tool of Chinese Communism, which is atheistic of its nature:
Facing deepening tensions abroad and anxieties at home, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, delivered an unabashed defense of his policies on Tuesday, using a key anniversary to argue that his recipe of guided growth under strong Communist Party control must not waver.
Mr. Xi made his case to some 3,000 officials and guests gathered in the imposing Great Hall of the People in Beijing to commemorate 40 years since China embarked on far-reaching economic changes after decades of upheaval and malaise under Mao Zedong.
The resonant date had inspired expectations among some analysts and investors that Mr. Xi would give clearer priorities to counter economic headwinds and trade tensions that have flared with the United States. But he offered none, referring only obliquely to the economic and diplomatic challenges confronting China.
Instead, he used the meeting, broadcast live on Chinese television, to stress that only the party’s dominance would allow China to continue its stunning transformation into the decades ahead. The first lesson from 40 years of reform, he said, was the need to maintain party leadership “over all tasks.”
Mr. Xi called for revitalizing Marxist-Leninist doctrine, a reflection of the party’s fears that it could lose its grip over a younger, increasingly wired and well-traveled generation. “Let contemporary Chinese Marxism shine even more brilliant rays of truth,” he said.
According to Julian B. Gewirtz, a scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, who watched the speech while visiting Beijing, “This was a speech about the party more than anything else.” (Xi Jinping Says Communism and Nothing Else must prevail in the Prison Land Known as Red China.)
Part of “revitalizing Marxist-Leninist doctrine” for Xi Jinping is to crack down on Protestant “pastors” (see Red China Cracks Down on Religion) and upon Catholics who are outside of the rump church that supports the Chicoms’ “population control” policies, which still include forced abortions in many instances:
XINJIANG, China, December 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Chinese Government, operating under the Two-Child Policy, has forcibly aborted a woman’s third child, according to NPR and Radio Free Europe reports.
The woman, an ethnic Kazakh, was a widow with two children, living in the Xinjiang region. She married a Kazakh citizen, living in Kazakhstan, across the border. She was told that, in order to cancel her Chinese citizenship to become a citizen of Kazakhstan, she would need to return to China.
On this return trip, Chinese cadres invited her to the hospital for a “health check-up.” They discovered that she was pregnant and demanded an abortion, because this third pregnancy violated the Two-Child policy – even though she told them, “my husband is a Kazakh citizen and I am carrying a Kazakh citizen.”
When she resisted the abortion, they threatened that her brother “would suffer the consequences.” She knew this meant he would be detained in an internment camp. To protect her brother she agreed to the abortion.
After the abortion, the police took her brother to the internment camp anyway.
The fact that forced abortion continues under China’s Two-Child Policy is further documented in the Population Control section of the 2018 Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) Report, which states that regulations “include provisions that require couples to be married to have children and limit them to bearing two children...Officials reportedly continued to enforce compliance with family planning policies using methods including heavy fines, job termination, detention, and abortion.”
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, stated: “The forced abortion of this woman’s third pregnancy is an outrage. It proves that the Chinese Communist Party still functions as womb police. When China instituted the Two-Child Policy, it announced that it had ‘abandoned’ the One-Child Policy, implying that the Chinese government had ceased all coercive population control. I immediately stated that single women and third pregnancies could still be aborted under the new rule.”
“To avert demographic disaster,” Littlejohn continued, “China has stated that it is considering letting all couples have as many children as they want. This would be a great step in the right direction, but it would still leave open the forcible abortion of single women. The new rule should state that all women can have as many children as they want.” (Red China forcxibly Aborts Third Baby of a Single Woman.)
What does this matter to Jorge Mario Bergoglio?
“Pope Francis” has made his deal with the Chicoms, who are satisfied that the supposed “pope” will give them no problem as they continue their crackdown on anyone who does not toe the Marxist-Leninist-with-a-Chinese-face that that is the sine qua non for social advancement in a country held hostage by the forces of evil since May 1, 1949.
After all, Bergoglio believes that it is only the Catholic Church of the “past,” meaning the Catholic Church, which is not the same thing as her counterfeit ape, the counterfeit church of conciliarism, that has done “evil” in the past, which is why he has been using every opportunity in the past six years, nine months, eleven days to disparage the true Catholic Faith and anyone and everyone who holds to even vestigial remnants in a corrupted form within such things as the so-called Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Make no mistake about it, good readers, the Communism of Red China is our future. It will be imposed not by armed force as the Red Chinese have their fifth columns already in place in universities, “think tanks,” the media and even amongst members of the United States Congress whose stock portfolios are heavily invested in multinational corporations who make handsome profits from the sweat of virtual slave-laborers working in inhumane and unsafe conditions, to say nothing of how Chinese “investors” have bought up farms, factories and even prime real estate properties throughout the United States of America or how so much of the national debt is owed to Chinese interests.
The rise of a “soft, democratic” Communism in the West is already happening by means of the rise of paganism, witchcraft and outright satanism, including the placement of a satanic sculpture in the Illinois statehouse in Springfield, Illinois:
In the Illinois Capitol rotunda this month, several traditions are being celebrated. There's a Nativity scene for Christmas, a menorah for Hanukkah, and then something a little different: an arm holding an apple, with a snake coiled around it.
It's a gift from the Chicago branch of The Satanic Temple. Called "Snaketivity," the work also has a sign that reads "Knowledge Is The Greatest Gift."
Nearby stands a sign in which the state offers a civics lesson — and explains it didn't have much of a choice:
"The State of Illinois is required by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution to allow temporary, public displays in the state capitol so long as these displays are not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Because the first floor of the Capitol Rotunda is a public place, state officials cannot legally censor the content of speech or displays. The United States Supreme Court has held that public officials may legally impose reasonable time, place and manner restrictions regarding displays and speeches, but no regulation can be based on the content of the speech."
llinois Secretary of State spokesman Dave Druker told The State Journal-Record the temple has the same rights as religious organizations. "This recognizes that."
The Satanic Temple calls itself a "non-theistic organization" in its application to install the display.
In a GoFundMe campaign to raise $1,500 for the display, the group explains its mission: "The Satanic Temple—Chicago will no longer allow one religious perspective to dominate the discourse in the Illinois State Capitol rotunda during the holiday season. ... Please consider what you may do to help us bring Satan to Springfield!"
The group has installed similar displays in other states in recent years. A more snake-prominent version of the display has been a part of the holiday scene on the lawn of the Michigan Capitol. Outside the Arkansas State Capitol in August, the temple presented a statue of a goat-headed creature named Baphomet, flanked by two children looking up at him, to protest a display of the Ten Commandments. (Satanic Sculpture Installed at Illinois Statehouse Just in time for Christmas.)
The "knowledge" that the adversary has to offer led Adam and Eve into Original Sin and wounded human nature, leaving even the souls of baptized with its vestigial after-effects, namely, the darkened intellect, the weakened will and the overthrow of our higher rational faculties in favor of our lower sensual passions. Original Sin is the remote cause of all human problems bar none, and its effects were felt even in the elements of the earth itself as the delicate balance God established during Creation was rent asunder by man's prideful rebellion against Him at the tempter's urging to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil from which God Himself had instructed him to refrain from ending.
Worshipers of the devil are really an ignorant lot as the master of lies and prince of darkness has been in Springfield, Illinois—and in every other state capitol building as well as the Capitol in Washington, District of Columbia, from the outset. The adversary must wind up with “equal time” when men and their nations fall prey to the tempter’s lie of “religious liberty” that leads in due course to open worship of all that it is evil and to the suppression of the true Faith in a manner worthy of what Joseph Stalin did in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and what Xi Jinping is doing at this time.
Has Jorge Mario Bergoglio protested these displays of the adversary?
Well, some of his “bishops” have done so from time to time. He has not done so.
No, Bergoglio is too busy comparing, however obliquely “Archbishop” Carlo Mario Vigano to the “great accuser” to be concerned about the openly display of devil worship or, for that matter, the rise of witchcraft and other occult practices (Withcraft Moves Into the Mainstream as Christianity Declinese in the void that has been left by the false doctrines and sacramentally barren liturgical rites of the counterfeit church of conciliarism that helped to expedite the triumph, albeit temporary, of the forces of darkness in a world where men have as little room in the “inns of their hearts” today as there was room for the Holy Family at the inn in the City of David, Bethlehem, this very night, December 24.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his band of revolutionaries are enablers of every “ ‘ism” except Catholicism.
Take heart, however, as, to call to mind the words of Pope Leo XIII when dealing with the lords of the world in his own day, these “forgettable men” will be vanquished by the Blessed Mother of the little Baby Who was born in a cradle in a stable in a cave in Bethlehem at Midnight and in the piercing cold. He Who was warmed by the breath of the animals in the stable and the tender caresses of his Immaculate Mother, Our Lady, gave her to us to be our Mother as she stood so valiantly beneath His Holy Cross, and He sent her to Fatima one hundred one years ago to institute devotion to her Immaculate Heart and to renew devotion to her Most Holy Rosary as the two final remedies that must be used to stop the spread of the errors of Russia.
This is certainly an hour of darkness in human history as boldness of the Chinese Communists and the shameless rise of paganism in nations that were once proudly Catholic and in those lands, such as the United States of America, founded on the lie that men can know personal happiness and social order absent an open adoration of Christ the King and a due submission in all that appertains to the good of souls to His Sacred Deposit of Faith as He has entrusted It exclusively to His Catholic Church for Its infallible explication and eternal safekeeping.
We must, therefore, intensify our own devotion to Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary and to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, praying in reparation for our own sins and those of the whole world so that the time will come when a true pope will be restored to the Throne of Saint Peter and that he will fulfill her Fatima Request for the collegial consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart with all of the world’s true bishops.
We may not be alive when this occurs. However, we can certainly plant a few seeds for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary by our patient endurance of our daily crosses in the performance of the duties allotted to us by our state-in-life as we seek to offer up everything we have and everything that we are required to suffer in a spirit of joyful equanimity as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
We should take our encouragement from the following words that Our Lady spoke to the Venerable Mary of Agreda as recorded in The New English Edition of Mystical City of God:
My daughter, the silence which the soul must maintain when the invisible enemies advance with their specious reasonings does not prevent it from commanding them with imperious authority in the name of the Most High in order to silence them, turn them away, and confound them. Therefore I desire this to be thy prudent behavior on the occasions when they persecute thee, for there are no other weapons so powerful against the malice of the dragon than for the human creature to show himself as imperious and superior in the faith which he has as a child of his true Father who is in heaven (Mt. 6:9), from whom he receives that virtue and confidence against the dragon. The cause of this persecution of Lucifer is because all of his care after he fell from heaven is in turning souls away from their Creator and in sowing discord (Mt. 13:25) between the heavenly Father and his adopted children, and between the spouse and the Bridegroom of souls. Whenever he perceives anyone is united with his Creator and in living communion with his head Christ, he tries to surpass himself in his furious attempts at persecuting him; his envy arouses the utmost exertion of his deceitfulness and malice for his destruction. But as soon as he sees he cannot succeed in his attempts, because the soul takes refuge in the unfailing and unassailable protection of the Most High (Ps. 17:3), he weakens in his attempts and begins to writhe in exquisite torments. If the soul thus strengthened with the authority of the truth of God despises and casts him out, there is no creeping worm or ant so weak as that giant of iniquitous pride.
373. By this most true doctrine thou must comfort and strengthen thyself when according to the decree of the Almighty thou dost encounter tribulations and art surrounded by the sorrows of death (Ib. 5) in temptations such as I have suffered, for they give thy Spouse the best occasion of verifying thy fidelity by experience. Therefore love must not be satisfied with mere protestations of affection without looking for more valuable fruit, for the desire which costs nothing is not a sufficient proof of love in a soul, nor of his proper esteem of the good which he pretends to hold dear and love. If thou dost desire to give such a demonstration of love and please thy Spouse, the greatest way shall be that when thou art the most afflicted and forsaken by human aid, thou show thyself more invincible and confident in thy Lord and God, and hope in Him against hope if necessary (Rom. 4:18), for He neither slumbers nor sleeps who calls Himself the protection of Israel (Ps. 120:4). In due time He shall command the waves and the wind and restore tranquility (Mt. 8:26).
374. Thou must be much more wary, my daughter, in the beginning of the temptations, for then there is greater danger lest the soul, yielding to the concupiscible or the irascible passions by which the light of reason is obscured and darkened, allows itself to be thrown into confusion. As soon as the demon notices such a state of mind he will raise a whirlwind of dust in the faculties. His fierceness is so immeasurable and implacable that it will then increase in fury. He will add flame to flame, thinking the soul has no one to defend and rescue him from his hands (Ps. 70:11). With the force of his temptations increases also the danger of failing in the necessary resistance, since the soul has begun to yield in the very beginning. All this I make known to thee so thou mayest fear the danger of being remiss in guarding against the first approaches of the demon; do not incur this danger in what is so important. Thou must continue in the even tenor of thy duties in every temptation. Keeping up the sweet and devout union with the Lord, and preserving thy prudent and loving dealings with thy neighbor, thou must forestall by prayer and by restraint of thy feelings the disorder which the enemy seeks to bring about in thy soul. (New English Edition of The Mystical City of God, Book Three: The Incarnation, Chapter XXVIII .)
May we prepare for the celebration of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by refusing to be agitated by the distractions of a world gone mad.
The Prince of Peace has been born for us.
Let us remember that no soul can be at peace when it is at war with Him by means of unrepentant sin and/or an open rhetorical rebellion against all that He has revealed to us.
May Our Lady help us to be at peace with her Divine Son this Christmas and every day of our lives by making efficacious use of the Sacrament of Penance to reform our lives and to live always as befits redeemed creatures who desire to be ready at all times to meet Him, Christ the King, at the fearful moment of the Particular Judgment.
Viva Cristo Rey!
Isn't it time to pray a Rosary now?
Our Lady of Divine Providence, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, Patron of Departing Souls, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
The Catholic Church's Condemnation of the Evolution of Dogma
For the doctrine of the faith which God has revealed is put forward
not as some philosophical discovery capable of being perfected by human intelligence,
but as a divine deposit committed to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully protected and infallibly promulgated.
Hence, too, that meaning of the sacred dogmas is ever to be maintained which has once been declared by holy mother church, and there must never be any abandonment of this sense under the pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding.
God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever be in opposition to truth.
The appearance of this kind of specious contradiction is chiefly due to the fact that either: the dogmas of faith are not understood and explained in accordance with the mind of the church, or unsound views are mistaken for the conclusions of reason.
Therefore we define that every assertion contrary to the truth of enlightened faith is totally false. . . .
3. If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the church which is different from that which the church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.
And so in the performance of our supreme pastoral office, we beseech for the love of Jesus Christ and we command, by the authority of him who is also our God and saviour, all faithful Christians, especially those in authority or who have the duty of teaching, that they contribute their zeal and labour to the warding off and elimination of these errors from the church and to the spreading of the light of the pure faith.
But since it is not enough to avoid the contamination of heresy unless those errors are carefully shunned which approach it in greater or less degree, we warn all of their duty to observe the constitutions and decrees in which such wrong opinions, though not expressly mentioned in this document, have been banned and forbidden by this holy see. (Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council, Session III, Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Chapter 4, On Faith and Reason, April 24, 1870. SESSION 3 : 24 April 1.)
Hence it is quite impossible [the Modernists assert] to maintain that they [dogmatic statements] absolutely contain the truth: for, in so far as they are symbols, they are the images of truth, and so must be adapted to the religious sense in its relation to man; and as instruments, they are the vehicles of truth, and must therefore in their turn be adapted to man in his relation to the religious sense. But the object of the religious sense, as something contained in the absolute, possesses an infinite variety of aspects, of which now one, now another, may present itself. In like manner he who believes can avail himself of varying conditions. Consequently, the formulas which we call dogma must be subject to these vicissitudes, and are, therefore, liable to change. Thus the way is open to the intrinsic evolution of dogma. Here we have an immense structure of sophisms which ruin and wreck all religion.
It is thus, Venerable Brethren, that for the Modernists, whether as authors or propagandists, there is to be nothing stable, nothing immutable in the Church. Nor, indeed, are they without forerunners in their doctrines, for it was of these that Our predecessor Pius IX wrote: 'These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.' On the subject of revelation and dogma in particular, the doctrine of the Modernists offers nothing new. We find it condemned in the Syllabus of Pius IX, where it is enunciated in these terms: ''Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to continual and indefinite progress, corresponding with the progress of human reason'; and condemned still more solemnly in the Vatican Council: ''The doctrine of the faith which God has revealed has not been proposed to human intelligences to be perfected by them as if it were a philosophical system, but as a divine deposit entrusted to the Spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted. Hence also that sense of the sacred dogmas is to be perpetually retained which our Holy Mother the Church has once declared, nor is this sense ever to be abandoned on plea or pretext of a more profound comprehension of the truth.' Nor is the development of our knowledge, even concerning the faith, barred by this pronouncement; on the contrary, it is supported and maintained. For the same Council continues: 'Let intelligence and science and wisdom, therefore, increase and progress abundantly and vigorously in individuals, and in the mass, in the believer and in the whole Church, throughout the ages and the centuries -- but only in its own kind, that is, according to the same dogma, the same sense, the same acceptation.' (Pope Saint Pius X, Pascendi Dominci Gregis, September 8, 1907.)
Fourthly, I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical' misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously. . . .
Finally, I declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition; or what is far worse, say that there is, but in a pantheistic sense, with the result that there would remain nothing but this plain simple fact-one to be put on a par with the ordinary facts of history-the fact, namely, that a group of men by their own labor, skill, and talent have continued through subsequent ages a school begun by Christ and his apostles. I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of the Fathers in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and always will be in the succession of the episcopacy from the apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be tailored according to what seems better and more suited to the culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed to be different, may never be understood in any other way.
I promise that I shall keep all these articles faithfully, entirely, and sincerely, and guard them inviolate, in no way deviating from them in teaching or in any way in word or in writing. Thus I promise, this I swear, so help me God. (The Oath Against Modernism, September 1, 1910; see also Nothing Stable, Nothing Secure.)
In theology some want to reduce to a minimum the meaning of dogmas; and to free dogma itself from terminology long established in the Church and from philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to bring about a return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of speaking used in Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church. They cherish the hope that when dogma is stripped of the elements which they hold to be extrinsic to divine revelation, it will compare advantageously with the dogmatic opinions of those who are separated from the unity of the Church and that in this way they will gradually arrive at a mutual assimilation of Catholic dogma with the tenets of the dissidents.
Moreover they assert that when Catholic doctrine has been reduced to this condition, a way will be found to satisfy modern needs, that will permit of dogma being expressed also by the concepts of modern philosophy, whether of immanentism or idealism or existentialism or any other system. Some more audacious affirm that this can and must be done, because they hold that the mysteries of faith are never expressed by truly adequate concepts but only by approximate and ever changeable notions, in which the truth is to some extent expressed, but is necessarily distorted. Wherefore they do not consider it absurd, but altogether necessary, that theology should substitute new concepts in place of the old ones in keeping with the various philosophies which in the course of time it uses as its instruments, so that it should give human expression to divine truths in various ways which are even somewhat opposed, but still equivalent, as they say. They add that the history of dogmas consists in the reporting of the various forms in which revealed truth has been clothed, forms that have succeeded one another in accordance with the different teachings and opinions that have arisen over the course of the centuries.
It is evident from what We have already said, that such tentatives not only lead to what they call dogmatic relativism, but that they actually contain it. The contempt of doctrine commonly taught and of the terms in which it is expressed strongly favor it. Everyone is aware that the terminology employed in the schools and even that used by the Teaching Authority of the Church itself is capable of being perfected and polished; and we know also that the Church itself has not always used the same terms in the same way. It is also manifest that the Church cannot be bound to every system of philosophy that has existed for a short space of time. Nevertheless, the things that have been composed through common effort by Catholic teachers over the course of the centuries to bring about some understanding of dogma are certainly not based on any such weak foundation. These things are based on principles and notions deduced from a true knowledge of created things. In the process of deducing, this knowledge, like a star, gave enlightenment to the human mind through the Church. Hence it is not astonishing that some of these notions have not only been used by the Oecumenical Councils, but even sanctioned by them, so that it is wrong to depart from them.
Unfortunately these advocates of novelty easily pass from despising scholastic theology to the neglect of and even contempt for the Teaching Authority of the Church itself, which gives such authoritative approval to scholastic theology. This Teaching Authority is represented by them as a hindrance to progress and an obstacle in the way of science. Some non Catholics consider it as an unjust restraint preventing some more qualified theologians from reforming their subject. And although this sacred Office of Teacher in matters of faith and morals must be the proximate and universal criterion of truth for all theologians, since to it has been entrusted by Christ Our Lord the whole deposit of faith -- Sacred Scripture and divine Tradition -- to be preserved, guarded and interpreted, still the duty that is incumbent on the faithful to flee also those errors which more or less approach heresy, and accordingly "to keep also the constitutions and decrees by which such evil opinions are proscribed and forbidden by the Holy See," is sometimes as little known as if it did not exist.What is expounded in the Encyclical Letters of the Roman Pontiffs concerning the nature and constitution of the Church, is deliberately and habitually neglected by some with the idea of giving force to a certain vague notion which they profess to have found in the ancient Fathers, especially the Greeks. The Popes, they assert, do not wish to pass judgment on what is a matter of dispute among theologians, so recourse must be had to the early sources, and the recent constitutions and decrees of the Teaching Church must be explained from the writings of the ancients. (Pope Pius XII,Humani Generis, August 12, 1950.)
Pope Pius XII's Specific Condemnation of the "New Theology's" Disparagement of the Scholastic Method
27. Some say they are not bound by the doctrine, explained in Our Encyclical Letter of a few years ago, and based on the sources of revelation, which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing.[6] Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian faith.
28. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of Our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science. To them We are compelled with grief to repeat once again truths already well known, and to point out with solicitude clear errors and dangers of error.
29. It is well known how highly the Church regards human reason, for it falls to reason to demonstrate with certainty the existence of God, personal and one; to prove beyond doubt from divine signs the very foundations of the Christian faith; to express properly the law which the Creator has imprinted in the hearts of men; and finally to attain to some notion, indeed a very fruitful notion, of mysteries[7] But reason can perform these functions safely and well, only when properly trained, that is, when imbued with that sound philosophy which has long been, as it were, a patrimony handed down by earlier Christian ages, and which moreover possesses an authority of even higher order, since the Teaching Authority of the Church, in the light of divine revelation itself, has weighed its fundamental tenets, which have been elaborated and defined little by little by men of great genius. For this philosophy, acknowledged and accepted by the Church, safeguards the genuine validity of human knowledge, the unshakable metaphysical principles of sufficient reason, causality, and finality, and finally the mind's ability to attain certain and unchangeable truth.
30. Of course this philosophy deals with much that neither directly nor indirectly touches faith or morals, and which consequently the Church leaves to the free discussion of experts. But this does not hold for many other things, especially those principles and fundamental tenets to which We have just referred. However, even in these fundamental questions, we may clothe our philosophy in a more convenient and richer dress, make it more vigorous with a more effective terminology, divest it of certain scholastic aids found less useful, prudently enrich it with the fruits of progress of the human mind. But never may we overthrow it, or contaminate it with false principles, or regard it as a great, but obsolete, relic. For truth and its philosophic expression cannot change from day to day, least of all where there is question of self-evident principles of the human mind or of those propositions which are supported by the wisdom of the ages and by divine revelation. Whatever new truth the sincere human mind is able to find, certainly cannot be opposed to truth already acquired, since God, the highest Truth, has created and guides the human intellect, not that it may daily oppose new truths to rightly established ones, but rather that, having eliminated errors which may have crept in, it may build truth upon truth in the same order and structure that exist in reality, the source of truth. Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.
31. If one considers all this well, he will easily see why the Church demands that future priests be instructed in philosophy "according to the method, doctrine, and principles of the Angelic Doctor,"[8] since, as we well know from the experience of centuries, the method of Aquinas is singularly preeminent both for teaching students and for bringing truth to light; his doctrine is in harmony with divine revelation, and is most effective both for safeguarding the foundation of the faith, and for reaping, safely and usefully, the fruits of sound progress.[9]
32. How deplorable it is then that this philosophy, received and honored by the Church, is scorned by some, who shamelessly call it outmoded in form and rationalistic, as they say, in its method of thought. They say that this philosophy upholds the erroneous notion that there can be a metaphysic that is absolutely true; whereas in fact, they say, reality, especially transcendent reality, cannot better be expressed than by disparate teachings, which mutually complete each other, although they are in a way mutually opposed. Our traditional philosophy, then, with its clear exposition and solution of questions, its accurate definition of terms, its clear-cut distinctions, can be, they concede, useful as a preparation for scholastic theology, a preparation quite in accord with medieval mentality; but this philosophy hardly offers a method of philosophizing suited to the needs of our modern culture. They allege, finally, that our perennial philosophy is only a philosophy of immutable essences, while the contemporary mind must look to the existence of things and to life, which is ever in flux. While scorning our philosophy, they extol other philosophies of all kinds, ancient and modern, oriental and occidental, by which they seem to imply that any kind of philosophy or theory, with a few additions and corrections if need be, can be reconciled with Catholic dogma. No Catholic can doubt how false this is, especially where there is question of those fictitious theories they call immanentism, or idealism, or materialism, whether historic or dialectic, or even existentialism, whether atheistic or simply the type that denies the validity of the reason in the field of metaphysics.
33. Finally, they reproach this philosophy taught in our schools for regarding only the intellect in the process of cognition, while neglecting the function of the will and the emotions. This is simply not true. Never has Christian philosophy denied the usefulness and efficacy of good dispositions of soul for perceiving and embracing moral and religious truths. In fact, it has always taught that the lack of these dispositions of good will can be the reason why the intellect, influenced by the passions and evil inclinations, can be so obscured that it cannot see clearly. Indeed St. Thomas holds that the intellect can in some way perceive higher goods of the moral order, whether natural or supernatural, inasmuch as it experiences a certain "connaturality" with these goods, whether this "connaturality" be purely natural, or the result of grace;[10] and it is clear how much even this somewhat obscure perception can help the reason in its investigations. However it is one thing to admit the power of the dispositions of the will in helping reason to gain a more certain and firm knowledge of moral truths; it is quite another thing to say, as these innovators do, indiscriminately mingling cognition and act of will, that the appetitive and affective faculties have a certain power of understanding, and that man, since he cannot by using his reason decide with certainty what is true and is to be accepted, turns to his will, by which he freely chooses among opposite opinions.
34. It is not surprising that these new opinions endanger the two philosophical sciences which by their very nature are closely connected with the doctrine of faith, that is, theodicy and ethics; they hold that the function of these two sciences is not to prove with certitude anything about God or any other transcendental being, but rather to show that the truths which faith teaches about a personal God and about His precepts, are perfectly consistent with the necessities of life and are therefore to be accepted by all, in order to avoid despair and to attain eternal salvation. All these opinions and affirmations are openly contrary to the documents of Our Predecessors Leo XIII and Pius X, and cannot be reconciled with the decrees of the Vatican Council. It would indeed be unnecessary to deplore these aberrations from the truth, if all, even in the field of philosophy, directed their attention with the proper reverence to the Teaching Authority of the Church, which by divine institution has the mission not only to guard and interpret the deposit of divinely revealed truth, but also to keep watch over the philosophical sciences themselves, in order that Catholic dogmas may suffer no harm because of erroneous opinions. (Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis, August 12, 1950.)
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Original Frank Miller artwork for the Marvel comic book "Daredevil" / Image: Chez Chesak // Published: 7.1.19
A Museum Holding Millions of Comics & Cartoons Awaits You 2 Hours North
by Chez Chesak
300,000 original cartoon strips...
67,000 serials and comic books...
45,000 books of, on, or about cartoons...
2.5 million comic strip clippings and newspaper pages...
Together, this massive collection of comic artworks comprises the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and it’s all just up the road in Columbus.
The 30,000-square-foot museum of archives, located on Ohio State University's (OSU) campus, contains collections of work by Will Eisner (creator of The Spirit comics and the man credited with popularizing the format of the graphic novel), Pulitzer Prize-winning political Washington Post cartoonist, Nick Anderson, Walt Kelly (creator of Pogo), and Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes). There’s also an extensive collection of Japanese manga comics and an online blog just for that particular collection.
“Cartoons hold a mirror to American society,” notes Caitlin McGurk, the museum’s Associate Curator. “You can see elements of our society reflected in them, from politics and equality issues to fashion, generational shifts, sexuality, and so much more. Cartoonists are able to illuminate the concerns of the people and allow us to understand them—often through the lens of humor—from a new angle or perspective.”
With the museum as its heart, Columbus is in many ways the epicenter of the nation’s comic culture. Milton Caniff, the founder of the museum and creator of the comic strips Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon, grew up in Hillsboro and was an OSU grad. Billy Ireland, for whom the facility is dedicated, grew up in Chillicothe and penned the famed, early comic feature, The Passing Show, which ran in The Columbus Dispatch from 1908 to 1935.
Columbus is the annual host to the multi-day Cartoon Crossroads Columbus conference, which allows traders and passionate comic consumers alike to come together to network and share ideas and information. Further, the state of Ohio is home to many more current and past comic creators.
“Ohio is a hotbed of cartooning,” says Jeff Smith, creator of the comic series Bone and a Columbus native. “I can list literally dozens of great cartoonists from the state. It’s unbelievable.”
The museum offers a variety of rotating exhibits which currently include an exhibit of comics about medicine called Drawing Blood and various political cartoons in Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment.
The library sponsors a variety of educational exhibitions, catalogs, lectures, seminars, workshops, and conferences. Tours of the stacks are available by appointment, but note that items from the collections are available only on site and may not be borrowed. No photography or videography is permitted without prior permission. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database is searchable and includes portions of the collection of original art.
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum exhibition galleries are open to the public and admission is free. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday 1-5 PM.
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Maternal age of menarche is not associated with asthma or atopy in prepubertal children
Maitra, A., Sherriff, A. , Northstone, K., Strachan, D., Henderson, A.J. and ALSPAC Study Team, (2005) Maternal age of menarche is not associated with asthma or atopy in prepubertal children. Thorax, 60(10), pp. 810-813. (doi:10.1136/thx.2004.037093)
Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thx.2004.037093
Background: Maternal sex hormones in pregnancy can theoretically influence the developing fetal immune system and modulate the subsequent development of atopic disorders. Early onset of menarche has been linked to increased oestrogen levels in adult women. A study was undertaken to examine the association between early onset menarche in pregnant women and asthma and atopic status of their children at 7 years of age.<p></p> Methods: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a longitudinal birth cohort study in which pregnant women, resident in Avon (UK), were recruited on the basis of an expected date of delivery between 1 April 1991 and 31 December 1992. Maternal age at menarche was assessed from prenatal questionnaires administered to the women. Clinical outcomes in the children were based on mothers’ responses to self-completion questionnaires and included asthma, eczema, and hay fever. The atopic status of the child was objectively assessed by skin prick tests to a panel of common aeroallergens at the age of 7 years. Analyses used multivariable logistic regression with a diverse range of possible confounders.<p></p> Results: Complete data were available on 5765 woman and child pairs. The prevalence of ever reported asthma to 7 years was 20.4%, eczema 58.6%, hay fever 12.1%, and atopy (defined as any positive (>2 mm weal) response) was present in 20.6%. There were no significant differences in mean age of menarche between mothers of children with and without each of the primary outcomes. Adjusted odds ratios (95% CI) for the latest age of menarche (16+ years) compared with the lowest (<12 years) reference group were 1.41 (1.00 to 1.99) for asthma, 0.98 (0.73 to 1.91) for eczema, 0.95 (0.62 to 1.44) for hay fever, and 0.98 (0.68 to 1.42) for atopy.<p></p> Conclusion: No consistent association was found between maternal age at menarche and asthma, eczema, hay fever or atopy in their children during early childhood.<p></p>
Sherriff, Dr Andrea
Maitra, A., Sherriff, A., Northstone, K., Strachan, D., Henderson, A.J., and ALSPAC Study Team,
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Xi Jinping kicks off UK visit to seek closer EU ties
The street leading from Buckingham Palace has been lined with Chinese flags in preparation for Xi Jinping's state visit to the UK. It is showing the UK's strong will to welcome Xi Jinping./ Source from Xinhua News Agency 1
By Hong Soon-do, Beijing correspondent, AsiaToday - Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun a five-day state visit to the United Kingdom along with his wife Peng Liyuan from Monday at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II. It is the first visit by a Chinese president for a decade since Hu Jintao visited in 2005. It seems clear that his visit will serve as a stepping stone for new ties with European countries.
According to Chinese state media outlets including Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, China actually needs development experience of the United Kingdom, Germany, and France more than ever as its economic development is adjusting to the new normal, which refers to more realistic and sustainable expansion with emphasis on the quality of growth rather than its sheer speed. It seems China considers the UK as a stepping stone for establishing ties with European countries to acquire the experience.
In fact, the UK, unlike Japan or the US, is not holding back China, who is aiming to become the G1. It even seems that the UK is driving forward the strategy of pursuing practical interest by taking advantage of China's economic growth. The fact that UK joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member, shows the situation well.
In the same vein, Xi is expected to sign a large-scale cooperation agreement in the field of nuclear power plant, high speed railway, banking, and scientific technology during his visit. If things work out well, China could make an official announcement of its plan of building a nuclear plant in Bradwell, Essex, with its own technology. Furthermore, China could join the first phase of the "High Speed 2" (HS2) project promoted by the UK. Perhaps, the agreement could be made during Xi's visit.
This is why Britain is expected to afford a royal welcome to Xi, who will attend the official welcoming ceremony and welcome dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace. Xi will then get a carriage ride to Buckingham Palace. He is also invited by Prime Minister David Cameron for dinner at the official UK Prime Minister's country residence Chequers. It's not an exaggeration to say that such welcome shows clearly the status of China as well as the UK's will that it won't consider the US.
#Xi Jinping #UK visit #Europe #Queen Elizabeth II
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15,000 Miles in a Ketch
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Captain Raymond Rallier du Baty
Non-fiction Narrative, Sailing, Exploration
Thomas Nelson and Sons
15,000 Miles in a Ketch is a non-fiction book written by French explorer and sailor Captain Raymond Rallier du Baty, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1922. The book describes Captain du Baty's experience on the voyage of the J.B. Charcot, a small French fishing ketch which weighed 48 tons. The aim of this voyage was to chart the subantarctic Kerguelen Islands, which they funded by hunting southern elephant seals in the local area and selling their oil. The crew set out from Boulogne in September 1907. and sailed across the South Atlantic, Antarctic and Indian seas to outside Melbourne Harbour in July 1909. The voyage totalled a distance of 15,000 miles, which is where the name of the novel originates.
Translations[]
Although du Baty's native language was French, 15,000 Miles in a Ketch was first published in English. It was later translated to and published in French in 1991 by Ed. maritimes et d'outre-mer under the title, Aventures aux Kerguelen.[1]
Preface[]
Since Francis Drake went round the world in the Golden Hind there has perhaps been no voyage quite so venturesome as that in a little French fishing ketch, of forty-five tons, called the J.B. Charcot, which set out from Boulogne in September of the year 1907, and, sailing across the South Atlantic, and the Antarctic and Indian seas, lay to outside Melbourne Harbour in July 1909 - a distance of 15,000 miles.
She was commanded by two young French-men hardly more than boys in age, though captains in the French merchant service, named Raymond and Henri du Baty, and she carried a tiny crew of one seaman and three lads.
When a little while ago Captain Raymond Rallier du Baty was welcomed home by the French Geographical Society, Prince Roland Bonaparte, its president, summed up the voyage in the following words:
'You are sixteenth-century adventurers,' he said, 'who have been lost in the twentieth.'
The story of their remarkable trip in the little J. B. Charcot, named after the famous French explorer who has just returned from the Antarctic, as written by the leader of the expion, is a true and vivid tale of romance and adventure which carries one back to the youth of the world, when men first began to venture out into unknown seas in frail craft. With high spirits, full of French gaiety, he tells of terrific storms encountered by his fishing boat, and of the many hardships which they faced with brave hearts.[2]
^ "BnF catalogue général - Notice bibliographique". Bibliothèque nationale de France. ISBN 2-7373-0722-8. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
^ Rallier du Baty, Raymond (1917). 15,000 Miles in a Ketch. Great Britain: Thomas Nelson and Sons. pp. 5, 6. Since Francis Drake went round the world in the Golden Hind there has perhaps been no voyage quite so venturesome as that in a little French fishing ketch, of forty-five tons, called the J.B. Charcot, which set out from Boulogne in September of the year 1907, and, sailing across the South Atlantic, and the Antarctic and Indian seas, lay to outside Melbourne Harbour in July 1908 - a distance of 15,000 miles. She was commanded by two young French-men hardly more than boys in age, though captains in the French merchant service, named Raymond and Henri du Baty, and she carried a tiny crew of one seaman and three lads. When a little while ago Captain Raymond Rallier du Baty was welcomed home by the French Geographical Society, Prince Roland Bonaparte, its president, summed up the voyage in the following words: 'You are sixteenth-century adventurers,' he said, 'who have been lost in the twentieth.' The story of their remarkable trip in the little J. B. Charcot, named after the famous French explorer who has just returned from the Antarctic, as written by the leader of the expion, is a true and vivid tale of romance and adventure which carries one back to the youth of the world, when men first began to venture out into unknown seas in frail craft. With high spirits, full of French gaiety, he tells of terrific storms encountered by his fishing boat, and of the many hardships which they faced with brave hearts.
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Mohammad Karaan
Professor Mohammad Karaan is a member of the South African National Planning Commission and was the former Dean of the Faculty of AgriSciences at the University of Stellenbosch. His areas of specialisation include agribusiness management, supply-chain management, food marketing, informal markets, rural development, small-scale agriculture, urban agriculture, aquaculture, and strategic management.
Prof Karaan was previously the Chairperson of the National Agricultural Marketing Council as well as the President of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa. He serves on the board of the Landbank, and holds non-executive directorships with several agribusiness firms. He was recently appointed to the President’s advisory panel on land reform.
He holds a MSc and PhD in Agricultural Economics from Stellenbosch University.
Andrew Jenner
Andrew Jenner holds an Bachelor of Engineering, BEng (Hons), a Diploma in Law and Intellectual Property, and a Master of Laws. He also holds accreditations as a Chartered Manager, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology.
With a background rooted in intellectual property law and with a Masters in Law from the University of Wales, Jenner was the Senior Policy Advisor of the IP Crime Policy Group for the UK Intellectual Property Office, before becoming its Head of Trade and Development. Here he led the UK delegation within the World Trade Organisation and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He was also the principle IP advisor to the EU on the World Health Organisation’s negotiations on Public Health, Innovation and IP.
He went on to hold the position of Executive Director of Corporate Strategy & Legal Affairs at the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), based in Geneva. With extensive industry experience of global healthcare and legal frameworks, Andrew founded JS Consulting in 2014.
Prof Nick Vink joined the University of Stellenbosch as professor in agricultural economics in 1996 after 11 years at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. He is an agricultural economist specialising in agricultural and agribusiness development policy, land reform and empowerment, agricultural marketing, tax and international trade issues.
Prof Vink has been involved in a range of official government Commissions and Committees of investigation, inter alia in the deregulation of agricultural marketing and the provision of rural financial services. He has consulted widely to national departments (Water Affairs and Forestry, Agriculture, Land Affairs, Labour, Trade and Industry, Cooperative Governance and the Treasury); provincial departments and internationally (among others for the World Bank, IFPRI, FAO, USAID, DFID, etc.). He was the President of the African Association of Agricultural Economics and also editor of Development Southern Africa (1988-1996) and of Agrekon (2002 – 2010).
Scott Nance
Scott Nance serves as consulting counsel to Wiley Rein LLP. He has practiced in the area of international trade regulation and investment law since 1984, focusing largely on compliance with economic sanctions, anti-money laundering, and export control laws. He represents domestic industries and foreign companies in anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases before federal agencies and federal courts.
In addition, Nance is heavily involved in international trade and economic policy, including such issues as currency manipulation, and has advised a variety of foreign governments in Africa and Asia on these issues. In terms of professional experience, he is a visiting lecturer in Global Development Studies at the University of Virginia (2010-present) and was Head of Sanctions Compliance, ING Bank, N.V. (2013-2014)
Ferdi Meyer
Ferdinand Meyer holds the position as director of the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) and associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria.
Meyer holds a PhD from the University of Missouri in the United States, which he completed in 2006. In 2004 he was a founding member of the BFAP.
Some of his professional achievements include his membership of the boards of Protein Research Foundation, Agrico Machinery Pty Ltd; and Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes, and his membership of the National Crop Estimates Committee. He is also a recipient of the Exceptional Young achievers award from the University of Pretoria; a rated researcher at the National Research Foundation; and was named Agriculturalist of the Year 2014 Northern Region by Agricultural Writers SA, while BFAP was awarded the Grain SA Inspiration Award 2014.
Sixteen Masters and four Doctoral students have graduated under his supervision, and he has won seven awards from the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa. He’s published 42 research reports, working papers and peer reviewed articles, and has been invited as a speaker to 103 national and international conferences.
Prof. Meyer remains involved in primary agriculture and lives on the farm with his wife and three boys where he manages the finance, investments and marketing of agricultural produce.
Mike Schüssler
An economist with over two decades’ experience, Mike Schüssler holds a Masters in Economics and is a successful entrepreneur, owner and employer at Economists Dotcoza. Awarded as South African Economist of the Year twice, he has also been named Small Business and Member of the Year by the Johannesburg Chamber of Business (Afrikaans Business Chamber). Well known for his innovative research into areas from employment to education indicators. Mike invented and maintains the Provincial Barometers and fixed investment indices which have been widely published and give insight into economic conditions on a regional basis – the first and only such indices in South Africa.
He presents economics in an understandable and entertaining style. His presentations have impressed international chief executives and South African audiences ranging from farmers to financiers. He also advises and presents to pension funds, local governments and business chambers. A well-known economic commentator in the media and in academic articles, Mike is known the world over for his insights.
Johan Willemse
Johan Willemse is an award-winning economist and writer, and head of Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of the Free State. Aside from his successful academic career, he is also a family entrepreneur who has successfully developed several businesses with his wife, Marlene, and their daughters.
His PhD in Agricultural Economy from the University of Pretoria (1994) was awarded the Protein Research Trust’s award for best PhD. He was also awarded a Cochrane scholarship in 2003 from Illinois University in the USA, and has completed a course in scenario planning at Oxford Management School (2010).He also lectured on Scenario Planning at the UFS business School.
He is consulting to a number of agribusinesses in South Africa on agricultural market trends and also holds a quarterly outlook workshop on agricultural markets.
He has received numerous awards and accolades, including being named agricultural writer of the year and Absa Business Economist of the Year.
He has served as the head economist of the SA Agricultural Union, member of the Maize Board and non-executive director of Absa, among other positions; and currently serves as nonexecutive director on several boards.
Tracy Davids
Tracy Davids holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria and her research focus includes commodity market modelling, market projections, policy analysis, price formation, spatial price relationships, competitiveness, and trade flows. She has been a researcher at the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) since 2012 and presently manages the commodity-market-analysis programme.
Davids contributes to and coordinates the annual Outlook publications of BFAP and the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI). From 2014 to 2017, she collaborated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the publication on the global agricultural outlook and in 2016 she authored the special focus chapter on Sub Saharan Africa in the same publication.
She has presented at various international conferences and has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals which have won several awards.
Kevin Lovell
Kevin Lovell is a consultant scientific advisor to the International Egg Commission (IEC) and an advisor to the International Egg Foundation (IEF). He has served on a number of ad hoc groups for the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), has been part of a disaster planning team for the UN and is also a trade advisor and negotiator.
Lovell’s previous position was that of CEO of the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) for 11 years. Prior to joining SAPA he served in various executive positions for the Royal Bafokeng Nation. He has also been the managing director of the Southern African subsidiary of a multinational dairy equipment company and has also worked as a sales and technical manager for various other agricultural companies. He has over 35 years of agribusiness experience throughout the eastern seaboard of Africa, from Ethiopia to South Africa.
Kevin has a BSc in agriculture from the University of Natal and a B.Inst. Agrar. (Hons) from the University of Pretoria. He has also done postgraduate research work and has acquired a range of business qualifications and skills over the years.
Dr Charlotte Nkuna
Dr Charlotte Nkuna has wide experience in the poultry industry, gained in a career spanning over two decades; and has held several influential positions since she graduated as a veterinary surgeon at the Medical University of Southern Africa in 1997. Before moving to her current position as General Manager of Veterinary Wildlife Services at Sanparks, she worked with various animal health organisation and veterinary services in South Africa and the United Kingdom; held positions at commercial poultry farms and at the South African Poultry Association, eventually becoming SAPA’s interim CEO and Senior Executive Eggs.
Her career highlights include involvement in projects seeking to improve access to vaccines for marginalised farmers with the Global Alliance for Veterinary Medicines. Dr Nkuna has both a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, and a Master in Business Administration. She holds several positions within the South African Veterinary Council, including that of President of the South African Veterinary Association, Vice Chairperson of the National Animal Health Forum and others. She has been twice nominated as one of South Africa’s Most Influential women in Business and Government by CEO Magazine.
Christo Joubert
Christo Joubert is the manager of Agro-food chains at the Market and Economic Division of the National Agricultural Marketing council (NAMC), where he has been involved for almost a decade. He holds several degrees in agriculture, as well as an MBA, and a PhD in Agricultural Economy obtained at the University of the Free State in 2017, that focused on an analysis of the South African broiler industry.
At NAMC Joubert manages research projects regarding the agro food chain and oversees the publication of several annual, quarterly and monthly reports including the Food Cost Review, the Food Price Monitor, the Input cost Monitor and the Food Basket price. His division conducts environmental scans and identifies opportunities regarding agricultural marketing that requires well-researched outcomes, and initiates such research. He also liaises with the the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on matters relating to the marketing of agricultural products.
Aside from serving on several committees, including the JSE Agricultural Product Division advisory committee and the Stats SA Consumer Price Index advisory committee, Joubert is registered as a professional valuer at the SA Council of Property Valuers, and has lectured on the subject at the University of Pretoria. Previous positions include that of senior manager for the Markets and Economic Research Centre (MERC) at the NAMC division. Earlier in his career he was an agricultural advisor. He has published several scientific papers locally and internationally related to the poultry, sugar, grain, soybean and other agricultural industries.
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Arts & Entertainment, Editor Pick A&E
New Works Festival producers prepare for opening night
April 21, 2016 12:00 pm · 0 commentsViews: 42
By: Terrence O'Connor on April 21, 2016.
This weekend, the Theatre and Dance Department will show its fourth biannual production of the New Works Festival. Established in 2009, the event is a celebration of the future of live performance, providing students the opportunity to demonstrate their findings in the fields of theatre, dance, design, stagecraft, and production.
The festival is the culmination of a semester’s worth of work by students and faculty involved in seven classes across both the Theater and Dance Department and the Music Department. The show runs for three nights from April 21-23, featuring one faculty-written theater piece, three student-written theater pieces, and five student-choreographed dances.
To organize such an event has required hours of work by the 69 students and six faculty and staff members involved in the festival. One class in particular is charged with the task of producing the show. Comprised of five students and led by Professor of Theater and Dance Lynne Conner, the New Works Practicum gives participating students a unique opportunity to be involved in all aspects of producing a live performance.
Commenting on the work that the student producers do, Conner said, “The student producers have this incredibly long and always growing list of responsibilities that relate to all of the stuff that has to get done between now and when we start the show.” Part of what that means is that nearly all of the work that goes on behind the scenes is done outside of class time. Conner explained, “We’re heating up now, to where [the students] will all be spending 25 or 30 hours to make it happen.” As for how the class has been dealing with that daunting level of commitment, student producer Elisabeth Chee ’16 said, “We’re trying hard not to count the hours.”
The work that these students have put in go encompass a handful of a variety of different tasks. Student producer Emery Lawrence ’17 said, “The scale of the tasks ranges from making sure that there is a show to make to making sure that people know about it.” Conner elaborated, explaining the long hours as being the consequence of all of the rehearsals, technical preparations, and marketing plans needed to put on a festival of such magnitude. On top of that, each of the five students in her class are either directing and/or performing in at least one of the performances.
Dylan Shaw ’19, for example, is a student producer in charge of managing graphic design and making the show’s promotional video, while also performing in a piece and having written a piece as well. As a first-year, this list of responsibilities may seem particularly impressive. That’s because the mission of the New Works Festival is to encourage this level of engagement from all students. The four theatrical pieces that appear in the show were chosen through the New Play competition, which was a campus-wide event held this past fall semester. Conner said, “Anybody could submit. And in fact we had submissions for the contest last fall from all over the campus; that also included staff members and Professors Emeritus and so forth.”
As for Shaw, he said, “I submitted one and as a first-year I was really surprised that it was accepted. There’s a play by a junior and one by a senior, and they’re all original works that came out of the beginning playwriting course in the first semester.”
While the plays were selected through this competition, student producer Lawrence explained, “The dances came out of a choreography class. So the plays were a contest that any student could enter, but these are students that are taking choreography and it’s an assignment for them to contribute to the show.” Lawrence, who will be performing in one of the dance pieces, continued on to say, “The dances at Colby are very academic and intellectual, in part because of the size of the department. It’s not these huge 30 people numbers,” he continued, “It’s more like two people and a bucket and seeing how that can turn into a dance.”
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the festival is the level of collaboration and communication it has fostered between students and faculty. Chee explained, “It’s been interesting to be student producers working so closely to the managing aspect of the department, kind of trying to organize for our fellow performers and other students.” Furthermore, the festival will include an original piece by Conner called “Opening Will”, which is part of a larger piece called “Eat Cake”, a work that explores language, particularly famous language and words. Conner said that this particular scene “takes Shakespeare, and deconstructs it and reconstructs it. That’s about all I can say. It’s very abstract in a lot of ways, but then it comes together with the performance of three scenes from Shakespeare that will be very familiar to everybody.” Students will be performing the piece, and it will run along side the other student pieces in the show. Of the piece, Conner added, “It’s like a little musical I guess, but an unusual one.”
Though Conner’s piece is about 30 minutes long, the other theater and dance works will each be about ten minutes in duration. Those include theater pieces titled “Your Own Hell,” “Draft Seven,” and “An Aster Blooms in the Fall,” as well as five dance pieces yet to be titled. In reflecting on the role that her class has played in the festival, Conner said, “Producing is its own special skill, and something most students don’t get to do on this scale with this kind of budget and this kind of venue and so forth.” She went on to say, “We expect to see perhaps as many as 750 people over the course of the weekend, so the stakes are fairly high in that we’re doing this thing that’s open to the public and the public has expectations about quality.”
The festival will debut at 7:30 p.m. in Strider Theater on Thursday, April 21, and will continue the following Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets are free and can be reserved at: https://colbytheater- anddance.tixato.com/buy.
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The CW Reveals Premiere Dates for ‘Supergirl’, ‘The Flash’, and More
by Adam Chitwood June 17, 2016
We may still be in the dog days of summer, but it’s already time to start thinking about the fall TV season. The CW has unveiled its full fall schedule, including when you can expect your favorite series to return. It all kicks off on Tuesday, October 4th where the new romantic comedy series No Tomorrow is getting the extra special treatment as it will premieres at 9/8c, directly after the Season 3 premiere of The Flash, which is CW’s most popular series. No Tomorrow revolves around a young risk-averse quality-control assessor—a real Type A personality—named Evie whose life is turned upside down when she meets the freewheeling and charming Xavier Holliday, who just so happens to believe that an asteroid will destroy the earth in a mere eight months. Which is why he’s crafted an “Apocalyst”, which is a list of all the things he wants to do before the world ends.
The CW’s other new series for fall, Frequency—based on the feature film of the same name—gets the second tier spot, as it will debut on Wednesday, October 5th at 9/8c directly after the Season 5 premiere of Arrow.
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Supergirl, meanwhile, will make its network debut on Monday, October 10th at 8/7c, directly followed by an encore of the No Tomorrow pilot (boy they really want this one to take off. The superhero shenanigans conclude on Thursday, October 13th with the Season 2 premiere of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow at 8/7c, followed by the Season 12 (!) premiere of Supernatural.
The critically acclaimed Jane the Virgin kicks off its third season on Monday, October 17th at 9/8c, while Crazy Ex-Girlfriend—fresh off a Golden Globe win for Best Actress in a Comedy Series—debuts its second season on Friday, October 21st at 9/8c, right after the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries.
Check out the full premiere schedule below, followed by the trailers for No Tomorrow and Frequency. As previously announced, the new series Riverdale will premiere midseason alongside returning shows The 100, iZombie, The Originals, and Reign.
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EDDIE THE EAGLE and KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Get Release Dates
by Evan Dickson March 14, 2015
Fox has set release dates for two films on its 2016 slate. First up is Eddie the Eagle, the new film from director Dexter Fletcher (Sunshine on Leith). It stars Taron Egerton (who just made a huge breakout in Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Hugh Jackman (who needs no introduction). The film, which Perri did a nice job of breaking down the other day, is about ski jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards who, though tenacity and charm, managed to succeed by failing upwards. The more Olympic events he lost, the more popular he became. Written by Sean Macaulay, I’m sort of hoping this is a comedy because I don’t know if we need to be giving this one The King’s Speech treatment. Eddie the Eagle is now set to come out on April 29th, 2016.
Also hitting screens in April is Keeping Up With the Joneses. The film stars Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot. It was directed by Greg Mottola who gave us Superbad and Adventureland. Per Deadline the film is “about a suburban couple who become convinced that their new neighbors are government spies.” Sounds kind of like a riff on The ‘Burbs. That film opens on April 1st, 2016.
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Community Voice Method
Motivating Issues
Carla Norwood and Gabriel Cumming in front of a building they are renovating in Warrenton, NC
Gabriel Cumming, PhD
Gabriel co-developed the Community Voice Method (CVM) with Carla Norwood. Gabriel first began experimenting with using documentary media for public engagement in 2001, when he was working as Community Outreach/Program Assistant at Catawba Lands Conservancy in Charlotte, NC. There he launched Perspectives on Land, a project that used interviewing and documentary film to engage rural residents in conversations about land use, conservation, and community. He continued Perspectives on Land at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he completed a doctorate in Ecology (2002-2007). While at UNC, he and Norwood launched Little Tennessee Perspectives, the first fully-realized CVM project (2004-05). All told, Gabriel has designed or co-designed public engagement projects that have directly involved more than 1000 rural North Carolinians since 2001. From 2008-11, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. While at Duke, he has helped introduce CVM to the Turks and Caicos Islands in conjunction with the TCI Turtle Project (2010). Gabriel is now Principal at Community Voice Consulting, where he works with clients domestically and internationally to conduct CVM projects.
Carla Norwood, PhD
While serving as Executive Director of the Little Tennessee Watershed Association in Macon County, NC (2002-03), Carla identified a pressing need for more effective public engagement around land use and planning issues in the face of rapid, amenity-driven development. She entered the PhD program in Ecology at UNC-Chapel Hill (2003-09) with the goal of developing better engagement methods. She and Gabriel Cumming teamed up to design the first CVM project, Little Tennessee Perspectives, which took place in Macon County in 2004-05. In addition to joining Gabriel in conducting interviews and producing documentary films, she developed CVM’s participatory approach to the analysis and presentation of geospatial and other quantitative data. She has since worked on CVM projects across North Carolina—most recently in her home community of Warren County (2010-11). From 2009-11, Carla was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. She is the founding board chair of Working Landscapes, a Warren-based non-profit organization dedicated to rural development, sustainable resource management, and civic capacity-building.
Lisa Campbell and Amdeep Sanghera interview Bruce Jennings in South Caicos
Lisa Campbell, PhD
Lisa is Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment; both Gabriel Cumming and Carla Norwood have held postdoctoral appointments in her lab. She has served as principal investigator on two CVM projects: Change in Coastal Communities: Perspectives from Down East (2008-09) and Turtles in South Caicos: talking about management (2010). She is faculty advisor to the Growing Local/Buying Local project.
UNC SPARC
Starting in 2011, CVM is being used to help launch the UNC SPARC (Sustained Participatory Action Research Collaboration) Program, which is led by Dorothy Holland, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. SPARCs will match community goals and needs with the interests of UNC faculty and students, thus creating new opportunities for community-based research and co-teaching. The first SPARC has been established in Warren County, NC, through Working Landscapes, a Warrenton-based non-profit organization. The initial research/action agenda for the Warren County SPARC was developed through Growing Local/Buying Local, a CVM project conducted in the county during 2010-11.
These are by no means the only contributors to the development of CVM: in designing and implementing each CVM project, we have worked closely with collaborators, including community partners and co-investigators. These collaborators are acknowledged on the pages associated with each project.
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Paraphilias Throughout the World
Ithough there has not been much research documenting the incidence, expression, and treatment of paraphilias outside the United States, there have been limited studies. The majority of information available concerns pedophilia, transvestism, and transsexualism. A limited amount of research exists on other paraphilias, such as sadomasochism. Below, we explore what we do know about paraphilias in a variety of countries.
In Chapter 9 we discussed the conservative and religious background of many Brazilians, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there is not a great deal of acceptance for para – philiac behaviors. Although there are no legal restrictions against transvestism, researchers estimate that there are few who engage in this practice (de Freitas, 2004). Transsexualism is viewed negatively, and it is against the law to undergo sexual reassignment surgery (SRS). In fact, both the patient and surgeon would be charged with a felony if SRS were to take place (de Freitas, 2004). Because of this, some transsexuals travel to Europe to undergo SRS. We do know that throughout history zoophilia has been found to occur in Brazil, and it has been found to be more common in both men and those living in rural areas (de Freitas, 2004).
China has very strict policies against behaviors it deems inappropriate, and paraphilias certainly fall into this category. Sex offenders in China are often charged with "hooliganism," which is a term that includes a wide range of uncivil and sexually unrestrained behavior (Ruan & Lau, 2004). China has very severe penalties for those who engage in such behaviors, and harsh punishments are common. For example, one review reported that the Chinese government enforced the death penalty for certain sexual crimes, including forced sex and pedophilia (Ruan & Lau, 2004).
Although transvestites are considered deviant in Germany, they don’t get much attention (Lautmann & Starke, 2004). Transsexuals, however, are often treated with disdain. Even so, new laws established in 2002 have provided two possibilities of gender change for transsexuals. In the first, often referred to as the "small solution," a transsexual changes his or her name without changing gender. To do so, he or she would need expert opinions from two people, confirming that he or she has been transsexual for at least 3 years. A "major solution" involves sexual reassignment surgery, which is widely available in Germany. This would lead to legal recognition of gender reassignment on official documents, including passports and birth certificates.
Denmark, and many of the Scandinavian countries, have much more liberal attitudes about sexuality, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that they are more likely to see criminal behavior and press appropriate charges. Denmark has high sex crime reporting and treatment of offenders rates (Graugaard et al., 2004). In reaction to increased rates of child sexual abuse, Denmark opened a center for the treatment of sexually abused children at the University Hospital in Copenhagen in 2000, and today many groups actively educate professionals and the lay public about child sexual abuse (Graugaard et al., 2004).
Paraphiliacs in the Czech Republic have many more opportunities for communication and contact with other paraphiliacs than they did in when they were under communist control (Zverina, 2004). This would include clubs, magazines, newspapers, and the Internet. Sadomasochism and fetishes are the most common paraphilias in the Czech Republic (Zverina,
2004) . Sexual offenders who are charged with crimes are referred for counseling and treatments, which are covered under national health insurance plans.
Sadism and masochism are well-known in Japanese art and literature (Hatano & Shimazaki, 2004). Thousands of S&M magazines are sold each month, and many nightclubs cater to the S&M subculture. Like China, Japan has strict laws and punishments for people who engage in child sexual abuse. In 1999, Japan enacted a Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Prohibition Law that prohibits sexual activity with minors and enforces strict punishments for those charged with these behaviors (Hatano & Shimazaki, 2004).
Although transvestism is not illegal in Hong Kong, a transvestite will be arrested if his or her appearance or behaviors disrupts the peace (Ng & Ma, 2004). Transvestites and transsexuals are often eyed with suspicion and treated differently than nonparaphiliacs. Transsexuals are allowed to undergo sexual reassignment surgery, but they are not legally recognized and must continue to use their chromosomal sex (Ng & Ma, 2004). This often leads to a reduction in social rights, such as tax deductions and child adoptions.
Source: Francoeur & Noonan, 2004.
Why should he want to put it to an end just because some other people find it distasteful, perverted, or abnormal? In what sense is such a person sick?
For this reason, paraphilias have become very controversial. Some theorists suggest that the term describes a society’s value judgments about sexuality and not a psychiatric or clinical category (Silverstein, 1984). In fact, some theorists deny that terms like paraphilia really describe anything at all. Robert J. Stoller, a famous psychoanalytic theorist, objected to the idea of trying to create psychological explanations that group people by their sexual habits (Stoller, 1996).
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The Return of the Lone Gunmen
The new X-Files episodes are being shown in the UK (on Channel 5) a few weeks after their US airing. Last week’s episode, called “Babylon”, was notable among other things for a brief cameo by the three Lone Gunmen characters from the original series. Sadly, it really was only a fleeting glimpse – I almost missed it on Monday and had to watch it again on catch-up the next day (I also had to see Agent Einstein again, but that’s another story). The official publicity shot, pictured above, shows the characters more clearly – from left to right: Byers, Frohike, Langly (by coincidence all three of them are wearing bolo ties, which I mentioned in Green-skinned nostalgia two weeks ago).
I have very fond recollections of the Lone Gunmen. Partly this is nostalgia for a time when only a small number of highly eccentric individuals, such as these three, believed in conspiracy theories (as opposed to half the internet today). Also they are among the very few TV stars that I can really identify with (I like to think I combine Byers’s scintillating personality, Frohike’s stunning good looks and Langly’s impeccable fashion sense).
Actually I really do have a rather tenuous connection with Byers – or rather with Bruce Harwood, the actor who played Byers. If you look back at the December 2002 issue of Fortean Times, then on page 52 (the letters page) you will see the names “Bruce Harwood” and “Andrew May” in close proximity to each other. How this came about is a rather long story, but it’s an interesting one – so here it is.
Back in 2001, the Lone Gunmen briefly had their own TV series as a spinoff from The X-Files (see the publicity image at the bottom of this post). I saw most of the episodes when they were shown in the UK the following year on the Sci-Fi Channel – with the exception of the pilot show, which was missing from the UK run. I found a full transcript of that episode online, and it reads like a fictionalized version of a fairly standard 9/11 conspiracy theory… except that it had aired in the US six months before 9/11. This bizarre coincidence wasn’t mentioned when Fortean Times ran their first article on 9/11 conspiracy theories in September 2002, so I sent them the following letter:
The pilot episode of the Fox TV series The Lone Gunmen, which first aired in March 2001, involved a conspiracy theory as persuasive as anything which emerged post-9/11. In that episode, the Lone Gunmen (three characters who will be familiar to viewers of The X-Files) uncovered a plot by a group of Pentagon officials who were unhappy with the decline in defence spending following the end of the Cold War. The plotters seized control of a domestic airliner en route from Washington DC to Boston (not by hijacking it, but by hacking into its flight control computer), and set it on a collision course for New York’s World Trade Center. Their reasoning was that in the wake of such a high-profile atrocity, extremists around the world would be quick to claim responsibility, an outraged government would declare an all-out war on terrorism, and defence budgets would soar. In the TV version, the Lone Gunmen foiled the plotters, saving the plane and the Twin Towers. Tragically, in the real world six months later there was no such happy ending. Whether or not the US military/industrial complex really was behind the attacks, there’s no denying that it’s profited from them. The pilot episode was omitted from the Sci-Fi channel’s UK run of The Lone Gunmen, but a full transcript can be found at http://www.insidethex.co.uk/transcrp/tlg179.htm
As it turned out, Bruce Harwood sent them a letter saying pretty much the same thing. Needless to say, the intimate perspective he was able to offer meant they printed his letter in preference to mine. He concluded by saying “I think it’s safe to say that our pilot … will never be seen on network television anywhere. Ever.” – after which they printed the last sentence of my letter.
I was more than happy with this result. It was only the second time I’d had something of mine printed in Fortean Times – and it linked me with one of my favourite characters from the X-Files!
Labels: Coincidences, Conspiracy theories, Fortean Times, nostalgia
I liked the Lone Gunmen too even though I was getting more and more fed up with the X-Files - all those confusing and convoluted conspiracy theories about alien invasions, bees, black oil, the Cigarette Smoking Man blah, blah. I never saw any episodes of the Lone Gunmen's short-lived spin-off series but weren't they all killed at the end (apparently) ? What a pity they couldn't be part of the X-Files now that it has returned.
I couldn't agree more, Colin. The first four seasons of the X-Files (the ones I talked about in my recent post) were the ones I mean if I tell people I'm an X-Files fan. As soon as they got too deeply into all that nonsense you refer to I lost interest. That sort of crazy, knee-jerk, anti-government conspiracy thinking always sends me to sleep whether it's purveyed as fact or fiction. I was hoping this new series would do something different, so I was horrified by the first episode which was just more of the same old thing. A couple of the later episodes (this one, Babylon, and also the second episode, Founder's Mutation) have been really good ideas, but unfortunately neither the scriptwriters nor the actors are taking their job seriously enough. For me, that just spoils the effect completely.
I think you're right that the Lone Gunmen were "killed off" at one point, but that was after I'd lost interest so it doesn't count as far as I'm concerned!
If there are three of them and they hang around together, they're not exactly 'lone', are they? H'mm.
If I remember correctly, "The Lone Gunmen" was originally the title of a conspiracy themed newsletter the three of them were supposed to edit. You're right that it's an oxymoron, of course, but that's a deliberate joke. The official report on the JFK assassination concluded that it was the work of a "lone gunman", singular, but no conspiracy theorist in the world believes that. Hence "lone gunmen", plural.
I shoulda watched the programme, eh?
We had to rewind three times to spot them. That episode was such a mess. Shaenon Garrity expressed it best:
http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2016/02/29/x-7/
Andrew, in 2003 on the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination there was an excellent programme presented and narrated by Gavin Esler (of Newsnight fame) which recreated the events of the assassination moment-by-moment in precise detail using computer graphics. It also debunked all the myths (the first bullet changing direction, Oswald having no time to fire the second shot etc) - I must admit that I had tended to believe in the "second gunman on the grassy knoll" theory but that programme was a revelation and ever since I have believed 100 per cent that Oswald was the lone gunman - just a tragic event in a country where access to guns is far, far too easy. I'm sure most (if not all) conspiracy theories would equally fall apart if only the facts were presented in such a clear and concise fashion.
Thanks for the link, Peni - that's a nice cartoon!
As I said in my book Conspiracy History, Colin, the biggest mystery of the JFK assassination is not whether or not it was a conspiracy, but why the authorities, on the day of the assassination itself, never even considered the possibility that it MIGHT HAVE BEEN a conspiracy. They made no attempt to secure the crime scene or preserve forensic evidence, completely botched the autopsy, and didn't even look for conspirators or accomplices. Given that this was just a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. came within days of an all-out nuclear confrontation with Russia, you would think the possibility that the President's assassination might have been the first step in a bigger plan leading to a declaration of war would at least have crossed their minds. Maybe not a conspiracy, then, but certainly gross incompetence on a shocking scale.
At the risk of giving someone else an idea for a book that they'll get rich off, I once idly wondered if it was friends of Marilyn Monroe, who, incensed at the way the Kennedy brothers (both of whom were reputed to have had an affair with her) had treated her, had the pair assassinated as an act of revenge. Hey, it'd make a good story.
Interesting thought, Kid. On the assumption that there's no such thing as a new idea, I just did a Google search for "JFK assassination Marilyn Monroe" - but nothing turned up along the lines of your theory. However, the opposite (that the Kennedy family assassinated Marilyn) seems to be a well-established idea in conspiracy-land.
Perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald was Marilyn Monroe's No.1 fan...yes, of course...it all makes sense now !!
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Home International The Gambia’s Eccentric Dictator Is Now Even Forcing His One-Time Supporters To...
The Gambia’s Eccentric Dictator Is Now Even Forcing His One-Time Supporters To Flee
NEW YORK — Fatou Camara thought she was safe. The mother of two had built a successful career on Gambian television and had the president’s ear. Then, on September 15, she was suddenly detained and thrown into a roach infested prison cell and held there for 25 days. The Gambian authorities accused her of sedition for allegedly smearing the president in statements to an opposition website, and eventually set her free on bail. She immediately fled the country, first for Senegal and then settled to the U.S. Camara denies the allegations, and calls the charges a political set up.
“I know some people are tortured, but I was not,” Camara told BuzzFeed by phone from Georgia. “For this to happen to someone like me is what scares people. People were not expecting this. I worked for the president, and we’ve been very close.”
The west African nation of the Gambia, home to just 1.8 million people, is mainly known for its beautiful beaches — but it is also home to one of the world’s most ruthless, and eccentric, dictators, Yahye Jammeh. Opposition activists say Jammeh rules the Gambia with an iron fist. Political opponents are frequently harassed, arrested, tortured, and put through sham trials, while Gambians are kept in a constant state of paranoia through tight media control, according to human rights groups. Jammeh bans most foreign journalists and human rights organizations from operating in the country. He has also claimed he can cure AIDS, and has outlawed homosexuality.
“The world is looking at the Gambia as not very important, but the Gambian people need help,” Camara said. “You cannot speak out in the Gambia. You can be killed. You can be arrested. You can be kept in prison for a long time. You can disappear. Nobody will help. Everybody is too scared.”
Lisa Nikolaus, Amnesty International’s Gambia expert, says that several recent developments indicate an increase in government repression. In June, the government increased its hold on the media by raising the penalty for derogatory statements against the government to 15 years in prison. The summer before, on Aug 23, Jammeh ordered the secret execution of nine death row inmates, reportedly by firing squad. It was the Gambia’s first executions in nearly 30 years. An estimated 38 more prisoners remain on death row, several of whom are reportedly Senegalese nationals. A prominent Gambian Muslim cleric, Imam Baba Leigh, spoke out against the executions in December, calling them “un-Islamic.” He promptly disappeared for five months, and refused to discuss his circumstances upon reappearing.
Reports by political opponents outside of Gambia also describe an increasingly erratic leader. Jammeh has ruled the country since 1994, when he seized power in a military coup, and has since been reelected in four elections, widely criticized by the international community. Jammeh is said to act outlandishly, making statements comparing himself to God. He is also notorious for hiring and firing ministers, and reportedly imprisoning people for the slightest personal offense. In Oct 22, he reportedly ordered three political prisoners to confess to sedition on national TV.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they find he’s had a serious mental problem, but as a leader he’s been able to get away with it,” said Amadou Scattered Janneh, a former information minister who now heads the Coalition for Change-Gambia (CCG) from exile in Georgia. He has been in the U.S. since September 2012.
Gambian police arrested Janneh in June 2011 for distributing T-shirts that read, “End to Dictatorship Now.” At the time, Janneh was an organizer with the CCG in collaboration with Gambians abroad. Janneh told BuzzFeed he was held in the Gambia’s notorious Mile 2 Central prison along with the nine prisoners later executed. He has published an e-book, Standing Up Against Injustice, recounting the horrific atrocities he witnessed during 15 months in prison. Janneh is a U.S. citizen, and his arrest raised international outage. Amnesty International and the Reverend Jesse Jackson ultimately led a successful campaign for his release.
Amnesty International and Gambian diaspora civil society groups, like CCG, have called on the European Union to adopt tougher measures, like targeted sanctions and travel bans, against the Gambian regime and to ensure international access to Gambian prisons. So far, however, the responses have been tepid, with no official announcements on a larger strategy.
“It’s not hard to make a case against the regime,” Janneh said. “But when it comes to action, that’s where we’ve been missing.”
Amnesty International has not been able to work inside Gambia since 2008, according to Nikolaus. Instead, the human rights organization conducts research from Senegal and abroad, where they can work more freely. But Gambians can also face trouble in the Casamance region of Senegal, which lies along the Gambian border and is ripe with anti-Senegalese government rebels, several of whom are supported by Jammeh, according to activists.
Nana Ndow, a 28-year-old Gambian consultant living in Brazil, has started an online campaign for the release of her father, Saul Ndow, who went missing in Senegal last April, along with a Gambian opposition leader, Mahawa Cham. Ndow told BuzzFeed by telephone from Rio de Janeiro that she suspects that agents working for Jammeh in Senegal abducted her father while he was on business in the country and smuggled him through Casamence back into the Gambia. The president, she said, “has always said that he wanted my father dead or alive.” Nana and her family have contacted the Senegalese government regarding her father’s whereabouts. They have so far received no response. Her family now fears he is dead.
Amnesty International has investigated the case, but cannot confirm Ndow’s allegations, Nikolaus said, since collecting and verifying information in the Gambia is a near-impossible task.
“It’s really sad that families feel like they have to go public like this because they are not getting support from the Senegalese and Gambian governments,” Nikolaus said by phone from Senegal regarding Ndow’s case. “The UN and regional African countries need to provide support for getting them information on their loved ones.”
Camara told BuzzFeed she will not go back home as long as Janneh remains in power.
“You cannot have a country where all the people are running away,” Camara said. “There are a lot of Gambians who want to go home.”
The Gambia, a tiny west African nation, is ruled by one of the world’s worst dictators — but opponents feel left in the dark as their stories go largely unnoticed by the international media.
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“Sin City” Sequel Release Date Announced
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Oct. 4, 2013 is the release date announced by Dimension Films for its sequel to “Sin City”; “Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”.
The project is scheduled to start production this summer in Austin, Texas, the home of Robert Rodriguez’s Trouble Maker’s Studios. Rodriquez will share directorial duties with Miller, who also acquired a directorial credit on the original feature.
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A Tale of Two Articles
The main venue for my political writing online is web mag Nolan Chart. I've published between 100 and 200 articles there over the 3 years I've been there. Some were hits, some were flops.
I love it when a NC article of mine that originally flopped suddenly gets new life. The classic examples were my June, 2008 article "Government and Anarchy", and "Health Care vs. Pizza" from that July, both of which received less than 100 reads when first published, but both of which went on to break 1,000 reads the following year. For that I have to thank (1) the anarcho-libertarians who criticized the first article, but also linked to it; and (2) Barack Obama, who turned health care into a major issue in the U.S. last year.
This summer may be seeing two new examples. The first was an article I wrote in October, 2008, "Barr and Nader agree to debate." That one is completely dated, except for one thing: as an update I included a link to the debate, the entire hour of which the Barr campaign had archived on You Tube. The Barr 2008 campaign has taken down its web site long ago; however (I discovered in June) it has left its videos up on YouTube, including the debate video. Accordingly, I rechristened the above article "Barr / Nader / Baldwin debate 2008", rewrote its abstract to describe it as a portal to the debate, and moved it to the "Libertarian History" section of the chart. The result? The article went from 77 reads in the first five months of this year (15/month) to 123 over the next three (almost 3 times as many).
Even more dramatic has been the change in my article "Smokin'" (another June, 2008 article, which was actually a 2000 review of the Fraser Institute book, Passive Smoke). That one has gone from 81 reads in the first seven months of 2010 (12/month), to 64 in August alone; more than 5 times as many. What accounts for that?
In August I became a Wikipedia editor -- one of millions, so that is not a big deal. It has, though allowed me to clean up minor errors in articles when I'm reading Wiki, which I do frequently. One should not edit articles on oneself (or anything else one is personally involved in), so I have not edited the text of the Wiki article on me. However, since that article was flagged for being completely uncited, I've been adding footnotes to some of the claims. One was that I oppose "restrictions on public smoking" (which is close enough; what I oppose is government restrictions on smoking on private property), and I added "Smokin'" as a cite for that.
I also added "Government and Anarchy" as a cite to the claim that I oppose anarchism, which has also given that article a boost: it has 140 reads for August, the most it's ever received in a month -- not bad for a 3-year-old article at all.
Unfortunately neither change can be seen by accessing the widget on the right side of this page; that leads to an older, cached version of the Wiki article. To see the changes, one has to go to the "George Dance (politician)" page on Wikipedia.
Whether those two articles will continue their surges, and end up passing the 1,000-reads barrier, is unknown at this time, but I'm optimistic.
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Central Tongu
Member of Paliament: Gidisu, Kwashie Joe
The people of the central Tongu constituency are mainly Ewe speaking people organized under traditional authorities. The main source of inheritance in the area is partrilineal. The constituency is organized into eight (8) traditional areas and the traditional authorities play a major role in fostering the development of the area by supporting the District Assembly in the areas of revenue mobilization and the mobilization of human resources during communal labour.
Among the festivals celebrated in the area is the Afenorto by the people of Mepe, which serves as a unifying instrument to mobilize resources for development.
In the area of religion, the people of the constituency are mostly Christians (70%), there some practitioners of African Traditional religion (25%) and some Muslims (5%).
Investment And Business Potential
Agriculture is the leading sector in the constituency’s economy, although it is still dominated by small-scale unorganised farmers who depend mainly on simple, labour-intensive production techniques. This creates opportunities for nucleus agricultural sector investor who could use the constituency’s farmers as outgrowers, raising their productivity and ultimately reaping handsome profits.
The major crops cultivated are maize, cassava, groundnuts, cowpea, sugar cane, vegetables oil palm, rice and mangoes. The newly introduced idea of sunflower cultivation has been accepted in the constituency with all seriousness and is expected to become a major source of income to farmers and foreign currency revenues for exporters, since demand is very high abroad.
There are immense industrial opportunities across the constituency, especially for enterprises which may require large parcels of land, as the constituency controls large tracts of land which can be acquired with ease. A vast stretch of the Volta River downstream passes through the constituency and this can be exploited for industrial purposes too. The constituency also has large clay deposits capable of supporting bricks, tiles, pottery and ceramic industries. The demand for such products is very high, both in the central Tongu constituency and the neighbouring constituencies.
Importantly, the constituency’s location is vey strategic in the sense that it has proximity to both Accra, the national capital, and Ho, the regional capital, which assures investors of easy access to the administrative and regulatory centres, as well as the vibrant urban markets.
Though the constituency abounds in tourism potential, especially in the areas of leisure tourism and eco-tourism for those who want to be closer to nature, most of these potential is still undeveloped. The potential includes quite a lengthy stretch of the Volta River with relatively steep banks suitable for the location of lakeside motels and hotels, Trokosi Shrines, a colonial guest house built with stones which served as the official guest-house in the area for Ghana’s first president, Ostrich Farms and Hatchery, extensive low lying plains interspersed with large rock outcrops, which are a delight to watch.
In addition, Agbadza, Atokoe, Awuna and Gadzo traditional dance forms exist in the constituency, which visitors (or tourists) could be treated to. Even more attractive is the fact that some of these dance forms are performed by all-women groups. Most of these tourist attractions are still in their raw state and require some amount of development. Both Ghanaian and foreign investors are therefore invited to assist.
In fact, Adidome, the constituency capital, located within a very natural environment over- looking the Volta River and free from the hustle and bustle of city life, is an ideal place for anyone who wants a change of environment.
Location & Size:
Size:1,460 square kilometres
The central Tongu constituency, which was curved out of the former Tongu District Council in 1989 by Legislative Instrument (L1.15) lies within latitudes 5047°N to 60°N and longitude 005° E to 0045
Topology & Drainage
The topography of the constituency is gentle, ranging from near sea level to about 18 meters (60 feet) above sea level, with slopes less than 5 per cent. The areas near the Volta River are at a higher elevation, falling gradually backwards and rising again into the Adaklu Hills.
The constituency is drained by the Alabo, Kolo, Aklakpa, Gblor, and Nyifla streams and their numerous tributaries into the Volta River, which runs North – South through the constituency. The Todze and its western tributaries drain the eastern part of the constituency into the Avu lagoon. In the rainy season, these streams overflow their banks, causing damage to roads and farms. Channeling, diversion, basin clearing or other means of correction could re-drain large areas of agricultural lands and boost agricultural production.
Climate & Vegetation
The climate of the constituency is Tropical, greatly influenced by the South – West Monosoons from the south Atlantic and the dry Harmattan winds from the Sahara. There are two rainy seasons, the major one from mid – April to early July and the minor from September to November. The average annual rainfall varies from 900mm to 1100mm with more than 50 per cent of it falling in the major season. Rainfall generally is inadequate even during the major season, which adversely affects both crop and cattle production in the constituency.
The constituency lies within the tropical savannah grassland zone. The vegetation is dense along the Volta River and along the stream basins. This is basically due to the presence of more fertile soils and better subsoil moisture.
This vegetation consists of mangoes, oil palms, baobab, silk cotton, acacia etc. Farther from the river the vegetation in sparse, predominantly grassland, interspersed with neem trees and guinea grass, digitaria decumbent and fan palms, which dot the Mafi Kumase and Agohome – Avetakpo areas. The latter are used extensively as timber for housing purposes in the constituency.
There are dominantly medium to moderately coarse textured alluvial soils along the Volta River. Below these are the heavier clay soils that characterize most parts of the District, leading to poor surface and sub-surface drainage, making road development difficult.
These soils are also very difficult to cultivate because they have low water holding capacity. They are also shallow (low effective rooting depth). They are however, suitable for rice and sugarcane cultivation under irrigation. They form the raw material for pottery, brick and tile industries.
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Show Review: Tears For Fears, Hall & Oates, Schottenstein Center, May 22, 2017
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Hall & Oates teamed with Tears For Fears for a North American tour that visited the Schottenstein Center on Monday, May 22. Although the pairing seemed confusing at first, coupling two bands who so thoroughly shaped the landscape of ‘80s rock ultimately made for a stellar, roughly four hour show that had fans of either, or more likely, both bands relishing every second.
Singer/guitarist Allen Stone opened the show with a short, three or four song set that found the guitarist using a looping station to compose his funky sound on the spot. He’s clearly a competent musician who wears a Jason Mraz meets Stevie Wonder vibe well.
Tears For Fears has delivered anthemic rock music that is deeply in the DNA of electronic, rock, and dance artists for over 30 years. Taking the stage to Lorde’s cover of Songs From The Big Chair standout “Everybody Wants to Rule The World,” the band seamlessly slipped into their own version of the chart topper.
The core duo, bassist Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, have always carefully balanced the line between fiery and vitriolic fist pumpers and pristine pop songcraft and their set was comprised of some of the best of those compositions, including the swinging “Sowing the Seeds of Love” and tender “Advice for the Young at Heart” and the edgier “Mad World” and “Change.” Additionally, the band took delivered an ambitious, moody version of the Radiohead hit “Creep.” On a side note, the band is employing back up vocalist Carina Round (also of Puscifer), whose contributions to the overall vocal sound cannot be understated.
Additionally, Orzabal offered some memories about Columbus, including lamenting about being sidelined during the SFTBC tour in middle Ohio with vocal ailments and remarking that the city reminds him of French onion soup, something he ate while in recovery. Distracted from that thought for a moment he surveyed the arena saying, “Look at all the exit signs,” before joking, “they’re beautiful.”
Following the bands note-for-note performance of “Head Over Heels” they left the stage briefly to return for an encore of “Shout.” It is challenging to articulate how absolutely huge this song sounded, but the buzz in the aisle ways when it finished, including during my own discussions with other seasoned music journalists on site, was that it was perhaps one of the best live performances by any band of any song we’d ever seen. An absolutely goosebump-inducing, tear jerking and epic finale.
In the headliner position for the evening, Hall & Oates delivered a longer set (around two hours) comprised of the most recognizable songs from their 40-year cannon, including “Sara Smile,” “Kiss On My List,” and Private Eyes.” The band opened with pop hit “Maneater” before delving in to more soulful R&B and blues oriented material.
Noteably, Hall & Oates’ Charles DeChant demanded attention with his passionate saxophone solos, which proved a highlight of the evening. “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” also shone a spotlight on the band’s back up percussionists who provided a funky backbone that gave the song its considerable groove. The band also delivered a soulful cover of Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost that Lovin Feelin’,” which provided some in the crowd (including the couple in front of me) to snuggle up to (or motorboat in their case) their companions.
The band also played some deeper cuts, including “Is It A Star” from their experimental album War Babies, which was just as enthusiastically received as their classic hits. If anything, Daryl Hall and John Oates proved that they are still sharp musicians who are at the top of their game, even at age 70.
Words by Tim Anderl. Photos by Christopher Corn
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Allen Stone Shares Single/Video For “Naturally”
Videos March 14, 2019
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Global Justice Now Edinburgh and Lothians
andymarks
Global Justice Now and Degrowth
June 30, 2019 by andymarks
Global Justice Now is committed to Climate Justice and Economic Justice. The two are inextricably interlinked.
Unfortunately, global warming is, itself, only one of a network of problems associated with the destruction of the soils, seas, and atmosphere.
Examples of the destruction of the soils include the effects of chemical intensive agriculture, examples of the destruction of the seas include the dumping of plastic and other waste, and examples of the destruction of the atmosphere include atmospheric pollution and space debris.
Basically, picking off any one of these for attention does little to ameliorate the whole.
Worse still, single factor intervention in complex systems always has counterintuitive, and usually counterproductive, effects.
Added to this, it would require 3 to 5 back-up planets engaged in nothing but agriculture for all the world to live as we live.
It follows that, to survive as a species, we have to radically change the way we live.
We have to get rid of our cars, our energy-consuming lifestyles, our chemically-intensive agriculture, international trade as we know it.
It follows that, despite short term benefits, attempts to pursue economic justice and climate justice on their own will have little effect on the network of problems that need to be addressed.
Put another way, it follows that radical degrowth is required.
This is why Global Justice Now needs to give pride of place to activities designed to promote degrowth.
Success in such an endeavour is crucial to our achievement of our espoused objectives.
This need for degrowth has, in fact, come to be widely recognised and resulted in huge international conferences on the topic, culminating in one in the European Parliament building last year.
Unfortunately, few of the participants seem to recognise either the systemic nature of the problem or the seriousness of the situation.
They end up proposing what are, in effect, minor developments which they hope will cumulate.
Unfortunately, the reality is that, as is almost always the case with single factor interventions in complex systems, such small developments will be eliminated by the reactions of the rest of the system.
This step by step philosophy is, however, embedded in even the title of the 50th anniversary “Club of Rome” report Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet.
Despite including much useful information, the report fails to build on the systemic studies embedded in the original Limits to Growth report or challenge that report’s major failing – its reliance on single factor interventions to fix the problem.
If Global Justice Now is serious in its intent to tackle the problems posed by climate and economic injustice it must place the promotion of a radical version of degrowth at the heart of its policy agenda.
By John R
Thoughts from a New Member – Sam!
May 8, 2019 by andymarks
Although we are constantly bombarded with the injustices that are occurring globally, I have always found myself to be reticent to do anything about it.
Whether due to my generations supposed apathy to global justice issues, a certain amount of purposeful ignorance so as to defend against taking off the rose tinted frames that are used to hide many of the inequalities in society, having the feeling common to many of “what difference can one person make?”, or a combination of the above, it led to me condemning events privately whilst doing nothing to challenge it.
Encouraged, a polite term for dragged, by my boyfriend to attend a series of Global Justice Now (GJN) Scotland events, I initially thought this would be a quiet way to pass a couple of hours on a weekday evening (and keep him happy). However, upon being introduced to GJN I realised that this could be a way of trying to make a contribution towards the issues I had spent so much of my time reading about and listening to and to finally break through the bubble of apathy and ignorance which I had spent a great deal of my time being quite happy and contented within.
In the first 25 years of my life I had never been to a protest, community meeting or rally. I had never been to an environmental film screening, sustainability seminar or held up a banner to express the opinions I had previously held to myself. That changed upon my joining Global Justice Now Edinburgh. Having joined the group in the latter half of 2018 I have had the opportunity to be a part of a whole host of events relating to environmental, social and economic injustices hosted by GJN or one of the myriad other fantastic organisations in Edinburgh. Invaluably I have been able to do this with an inviting and enthusiastic group of people with whom I can share and enjoy these experiences, which has only pushed me more in wanting to participate further (up to and including writing this).
I would sincerely encourage anyone who is reading this to pop along to a meeting or attend any of the numerous events/actions that GJN Edinburgh support, or if that’s a little much for now just follow what we’re up to. I hope to be able to carry playing my small part in working against global injustices with as many of you reading this as possible in the future.
Solidarity with the Stansted 15
February 20, 2019 by andymarks
We were outside The Scottish Parliament on 6th February with Edinburgh University Amnesty International making sure the message was loud and clear: preventing a crime is NOT a crime. We stand in solidarity with the brave actions of the #stansted15.
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Climate Alarm Protest – December 2018
On a cold December morning we joined forces with Friends of the Earth Scotland and Extinction Rebellion Scotland, amongst others, to ring the alarm for catastrophic climate change and urgently demand governments and corporations to do more to act to prevent ecological breakdown.
Starting off from the Usher Hall, we journeyed to the First Minister’s residence in Charlotte Square and finished outside RBS – making noise, demanding action and sounding the alarm all the way.
Here are a few images from the day
Global Justice Edinburgh – Back in Action! #10YearsOn
October 16, 2018 by andymarks
Global Justice Edinburgh supporters came together once again on the 15th September 2018 to kickstart their activism within the capital!
The group had a successful meet and greet at the Forest Cafe before moving on to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Global Financial Crash with other local activist groups. This action saw the group mark the 10 years anniversary of the Global Financial Crash and drew attention to the fact that whilst the public bailed out RBS to the tune of £45.5bn, we have seen nothing in return but austerity and billions in losses from government RBS share sales. So, to make the point clear that we believe the taxpayer has been dealt a grave injustice whereas the financial system remains largely unchanged, we decided to help Jubilee Scotland in turning the RBS in St Andrew’s Square into a crime scene (pictures below).
Moving forward, this group will be open to absolutely anyone who wants to join in the movement towards a fairer world. Please follow our Facebook group or Twitter for more information or email gjnedinburgh@gmail.com if you would like to get in contact about joining the group and making an impact in Edinburgh and the Lothians!
Be sure to join us at our next meet-up at The Forest Cafe at 6:30pm on October 29th.
If you would like to get in touch, please contact gjnedinburgh@gmail.com
Global Justice Edinburgh activists host monthly meetings and regularly hold social events alongside these. New members are always very welcome and if you'd like to come along to our next meeting then please feel free to contact us at gjnedinburgh@gmail.com for more info!
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Movie Ratings & Reviews
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Star Wars: Episode III- Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Started by Stephen Speicher, 19 May 2005
Rate this movie 61 votes
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Stephen Speicher 0
imdb.com listing for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
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I saw this movie at 12:45 a.m. and stayed in line for quite some time to do so .
Regardless, I will not be giving away spoilers, and will not be giving a final rating (I'll wait until Sunday to do so after I see it again).
I will be giving first impressions.
This movie is much better than the first two. In fact, oddly enough, this movie made me realize that what I didn't like about the first two was needed and intentional (the child-like feel and the ‘humor’ as opposed to the serious Star Wars ala A New Hope).
The philosophy is a bit jumbled at times, but overall a great and inspiring message.
The graphics are to-die-for! It's that simple...I was amazed at what George Lucas was able to do. It looked FANTASTIC!
The only real thing that hampered the movie was the acting, which was not first class. Being that this movie dealt with amazingly powerful and deep emotions, I would have rather seen an actor who could have portrayed that. But the acting wasn't horrible enough to ruin the movie as a whole.
So overall, I would give this at first an 8-and suggest that all go see it .
We saw the 12:01am show. What a really nice group of people. Star Wars fans are great. Lots of people in costume.
The only real thing that hampered the movie was the acting, which was not first class. Being that this movie dealt with amazingly powerful and deep emotions, I would have rather seen an actor who could have portrayed that.
Who in particular are you referring to? I thought Anakin, Palpatine, and Padme were all terrific. The first two, especially, did a fine job of communicating some complex and powerful emotions.
I'm disappointed that Lucas will not be doing the final three episodes as he originally planned, but seeing this last film brings us nicely to the original 1977 Star Wars film, so there is a sense of completeness in that.
I've been hearing in the news that some are interpreting this movie as an attack on Bush. For those who have seen the movie, I'm interested in hearing if there is any plausibility to this theory.
Here's one example of this in the news: click here.
None that I can see.
I think they have stretched a point beyond the elastic limit.
Location:Westminster, CO (near Denver)
I also saw a 12:01am showing. It is really fun making the viewing of a film an "event". I was looking forward to seeing the movie all day yesterday, I felt like a child on Chistmas Eve.
I thought the acting was fine. The dialogue was a little weak in places, but not enough to take away from the film as a whole.
As soon as I walked out of the theatre I wanted to go pop Episode IV in my DVD player. Then I remembered I only own it on VHS and no longer have a VCR . After seeing the end of Episode III, I really want to rewatch the initial interaction between Obi Wan/Luke in SW and Yoda/Luke in ESB.
piz 0
Location:Pennsylvania, USA
I'm disappointed that Lucas will not be doing the final three episodes as he originally planned...
I just read an interview (not half an hour ago) with Lucas in which he said that he never intended to do nine movies and that that story was invented by the media. I can't find an online version of the interview, but it was in a local entertainment tabloid called Merge (online at www.mergedigital.com).
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I could have sworn that my VHS copies of the original trilogy feature an interview with Lucas in which he himself says that he conceived nine parts to the story. More fully, I recall that he said that he originally planned just ONE film, but that the story was so epic that he split it up into nine parts. Of course, that split would not imply that he intended to make a film out of every part.
Sorry, regardless of what is now reported, it is a fact that Lucas officially stated early on that more episodes than currently made were planned. In fact, in a 1978 issue of Lucas' own Fan Club newsletter, I read that Star Wars was the first of twelve episodes that Lucas' new company planned to make. Then in 1979, when Lucas released Star Wars to the theaters again, the "Episode IV" was added to the title, and in 1980, when The Empire Strikes Back was released, in Lucas' Bantha Tracks, the renamed fan club newletter, I read that Lucas now planned nine episodes, three trilogies. This was straight from Lucas, in his own source. If we still have the old issues around, I could probably dig up the quotes.
Apparently, when Episode I was made, Lucas seems to have stepped back from his original plans, much to the dismay of many of us who followed his intentions from the beginning. I do not question what Lucas might be quoted as saying now, but I know what he said in the past. There are other confirming sources for this, other than his own official newletter, but I cannot give you the references. I recall reading about it in a Star Wars art book (officially released material) around the very early 1980s, and I recall a direct interview with him too. I might even have it on VHS. I'm also sure that quotes were given in popular magazines at the time. Even though it does nt quote Lucas directly, here is a portion of one report from a Time magazine article when Empire was released.
The very first surprise in The Empire Strikes Back comes in the opening credits: the movie is identified as Episode V. Since it is the immediate sequel to the original Star Wars, that opus has been retitled Star Wars: Episode IV, raising a meteor shower of questions. The answers: Lucas has begun his space saga in the middle, and both pictures are the centerpieces of a projected nine-part series. The remaining movies, fore and aft, have not yet been laid out in detail, but Lucas has the framework, a kind of history of what happened in that galaxy long ago and far away.
I have just returned from seeing the Movie and it was great to see how it all comes together.
To think of what it took to invision the whole process. First to start with episode IV, instead of episode I. So that we would all be shocked when Darth Vader says "Luke I am your father". What a mind to conceive of the whole epic.
I witnessed the first Star Wars, and fell in love with the Princess, now almost 30 years later to be watching it with my own children is awesome.
I think its amazing Lucas had all the details planned from the start. I dont know if its added later - but the celebrations accompanying the Empire's defeat at the end of Episode VI show Naboo, as its depicted in the new films, with crowds cheering.
I saw the film yesterday - very impressed. There are a few niggly points I won't make until a spoiler thread is created (unless this is becoming a spoiler thread?). I was especially impressed with Palpatine's early performance.
I thought they closed the gap between the two films well - so much so I'm at a loss to think how there can be further, decent, sequels. I guess it would concern the creation of an academy by Luke, and the children of Han & Leia, but where on earth would the dark side come from again? Of course they could always make more prequels - or set another story from a different time in the Star Wars universe.
On opening day, Thursday, May 19, 2005, Revenge of the Sith set a single day world record take of $50,013,859. Bruce Snyder, 20th Century Fox's head of distribution, was quoted by Box Office Mojo as saying: "When I consider it's a Thursday with kids in school, I'd figure it can't do that. I did not think we could do $50 million. I was thinking maybe we could catch up to Shrek 2 on Saturday. I'm as surprised as the rest of the world."
Read the entire Box Office Mojo story here. (Note that Box Office Mojo is a very successful online movie publication and box office tracking service founded and run by several Objectivists. It is a wonderful resource for those with an interest in movies. Highly recommended.)
joelmarquez 0
So, I just came back from seeing it.
For now, I just want to comment on this:
I have to say that this reaction is one of my pet peeves.
And I can't even blame the viewer for it. It makes sense that if you see actors acting badly, that the reason is a bad actor.
The truth is that there were, in fact, many wooden performances in this movie.
The deeper truth is that the cause of these wooden performances were a result of the writer and the director, in this case, the same person.
The writer failed the actors because the dialogue was breathtaking in its lifelessness. When it didn't serve a utilitarian purpose, such as groaningly obvious exposition, it attempted to convey some sort of emotional meaning, either through maddening Danielle Steel novel cliche ("Hold me as you did back on Naboo"), or by stating it baldly without any kind of subtext. I swear to you that Eleanora Duse or Lawrence Olivier could not make these words real.
But the real crime is the director's. If you're an actor, you're place your trust in the director to manage consistency in the performance. You trust that they'll care enough to shape your performance and integrate it with the overall vision of the movie. You trust, above all, that your director has your back and won't make you look bad.
When i saw the movie, I saw great actors giving heroic effort, trying valiantly to find the reality of their characters with a director who didn't know how to give it to them. Here's one small example. It's in the trailer, so I'm not giving anything away. There's a scene where Natalie Portman's Padme character bursts into tears, which in a good movie would be an emotional high point, the payoff to an earlier setup. In this movie, all we see are the tears. The director does not allow the actor to set up the result (the tears) with the cause (actually experiencing the loss of a value, as opposed to having someone explain what had just happened offstage.)
But don't take my word for it. Look at the history of these actors. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Christopher Lee. These are not bad actors, yet how is it that they enter the Star Wars universe and suddenly lose their humanity? It's not just having to act in front of a green screen. I recall a couple of movies with hobbits that were fairly real, emotionally.
It's not the actors' fault.
But don't take my word for it. Look at the history of these actors. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Christopher Lee. These are not bad actors, yet how is it that they enter the Star Wars universe and suddenly lose their humanity?
Interesting that you do not mention two of the four main characters, Hayden Christensen as Anakin and Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine. As I indicated earlier I thought their acting performances were just fine, as well as the performance of Portman. I can see what you mean in regard to Jackson -- one of most favorite actors -- and a few others, but I hardly see it as fatal a flaw in writing as you do.
It's not just having to act in front of a green screen. I recall a couple of movies with hobbits that were fairly real, emotionally.
Until the last half of the third film, the Rings trilogy left me completely flat, totally uninterested in the characters or the story. I've noticed that these films are the sort that you either love or hate, and other friends with whom I otherwise share such common judgments about films also parted with me when it came to my assessment of The Lord of the Rings.
Never is.
Free Capitalist 0
Just saw this movie, and really enjoyed it. The first half was just as previous two movies, intersting, fun, etc, but the second half was truly moving and very touching. Anakin's fall was very believable and made a lot of sense, meaning that the rationalizations were woven in so expertly that he was actually convincing me at the same time as he was convincing himself! And I love that, when the dark cloud that settles over a character is not trivialized but made as real as possible, in order to make it real to me why resistance to the influence would not be easy even for the best of us.
In short, it's an expertly woven moral tale, just like Kingdom of Heaven, and makes the six-ilogy so complete that I truly recommend it for all to see.
Petter Sandstad 0
Be so kind to correct me, since I have only seen the trailer, but I can't see an attack on Bush from this movie. This trilogy starts by the senate enforcing a new tax, which leads to the trade-federations blockade. The republic is corrupt, much like UN is today, or like Rome was before it became an empire.
So far, one can say that the trilogy is anti-statist and anti-UN.
We see that where force is the means to deal with men, the worst and most evil tyrant wins, and the republic becomes the empire. It is their philosophy that destroys the republic; the siths has understood that it's philosophy that is their method to win. They must spread this philosophy, corrupting everybody.
Now, if Lucas had only managed to present the jedi as egoists, instead of altruists, Star Wars would have been a very good attack on the philosophy most people hold today, and a defence of Objectivism.
I was thinking specifically about Anakin. However, as I said, I saw this movie with very little sleep. Regardless, I still loved it-and only thought the acting wasn't on par in a few scenes.
I will see it again this sunday and give my full evaluation .
Tom Rexton 0
Location:Valley of the Sun, AZ, USA
Interests:I have a wide range of interests, mainly: economics (my major), mathematics (a possibly second major), art (I love drawing and painting human figures and portraits), and skiing (still a novice though). And I also have lesser interests such as philosophy, science, linguistics, and history.
Then boy must that limit be elastic! In critic reviews, blogs, comments, conversations, etc., nearly everyone is mentioning the so-called "parallel" of the rise of the Galatic Empire with Dubya's allegedly fascistic machinations. No doubt they'll draw attention to those lines that supposedly suggest this and conclude that Yoda is Osama and Dubya is Darth Sidious.
I can see what they mean though--provided one takes those lines out of the context of the entire series (in which it makes sense) and replaces that context with today's war (in which it serves as an "attack" on Bush's agenda).
It is not at all anti-UN. It is in fact very pro-UN. Here are some quotes from the movie:
WARNING: There are spoilers about this movie in this post.
Padme states "This war represents a failure to listen" and "Let diplomacy work," and "'So this is how liberty dies—to thunderous applause." Anakin states (in echoe of GWB) that "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."
spoilers end
I was thinking specifically about Anakin.
I do not mean to imply that the acting was great, but I thought it to be decent and to me the role of Anakin was one of the better performances. Hayden Christensen gave me a good sense of the inner conflicts Anakin was feeling.
However, as I said, I saw this movie with very little sleep.
We had little sleep after the movie, getting up at 5:30am after the 12:01 show.
Regardless, I still loved it-and only thought the acting wasn't on par in a few scenes.
I think Joel's comments on the acting were proably correct for portions of the movie, but most noticeable in Samuel L. Jackson. As someone remarked not too long ago, I would enjoy Samuel L. Jackson reading the telephone book. But not in this movie, and I can attribute that more to the points that Joel made than I am willing to attribute to Jackson.
I do not understand how the last and the penultimate quote are taken as being "very pro-UN."
Thoyd Loki 0
Location:Issaquah, WA
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I finally saw it. That was the longest week of my life.
The acting I thought was perfectly fine, and some of it was actually excellect (Ian McDiarmid, Christensen). It sewed up the two trilogies pretty tight, at least I can't think of any holes. The fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan was something I have imagined since I was seven or so years old. This passed my expectations. And Anakin's end was nightmarish. I loved it, and I love Lucas for making the whole series and telling this story.
The only flaw I experienced was the fault of the theater I went to. The sound stunk, and there were even skipped words in the dialogue. No matter, I'll probably see it another dozen times in a different theater in the coming weeks. Although I got a good object lesson on the importance of sound to a film.
I am now, however conflicted (and this is where you can probably stop reading, or I should stop typing, but maybe someone else here knows what I am saying). Because it is now over. I lived this dream, this story (which, I think is one of the best ever) for 28 of my 34 years, waiting for each installment like a hyper-active kid on Christmas Eve. From playing lightsaber duels as a kid (and constantly injured in the process) to pretending my bike had lightspeed (also replete with injuries). It was the direct influence on what I wanted to do with my life which is write science fiction. There will be nothing more to look foward to in this. And I find that very sad.
I'm not even going to attempt to write for the next month.
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Since previews of this movie first appeared, I've been silently whispering the following prayer to the gods of filmdom: please don't suck. please don't suck. please don't...
...too late.
I have to agree with Joel's review, as much as I wish it were otherwise.
This movie is all window dressing. It has all the parts that a Star Wars movie ought to have, but lacks the heart of the original three movies. It has neat special effects (though CGI and Surround Sound has become stock-in-trade), lots of battle sequences, betrayal, etc., etc. And yet it just doesn't work. It doesn't gel together as a whole.
There's no drama and no suspense. Part of the problem is everyone in the audience already knows the beginning and end, since it has to connect episodes 2 and 4. So the only potential for suspense is in the journey between those two points. Instead, Lucas provides just more rudimentary exposition to prepare the audience for the next movie.
The story and dialogue are horrible.
So much of the movie is taken up with fight scenes.
The "philosophy" expressed in this movie is clearly and obviously tacked on to present a political message.
Example: "Only the Sith deal in absolutes." Or the repeated note about Vader fighting for democracy, from his point of view. Please. What dictator EVER honestly thought that?
Anyway, I had hoped that this one would be worth the price of admission, but I didn't learn my lesson from the last two movies. Everything I love about the Star Wars universe comes from the first three movies. I can't think of a single good reason to have made the three new ones. If anything, they will weaken the drama and surprises of the second trilogy for viewers who watch the series for the first time in the order of the episodes. Who can forget hearing Vader reveal that he is Luke's father -- or that Luke and Leia are siblings? Those are great examples of dramatic surprise, twisting our assumptions about the characters 180 degrees, yet making it plausible. That is good writing, and that doesn't exist in episodes 1 though 3.
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As far as I can tell, Joel did not review this movie. He defended its cast against the charge of "bad acting". A charge which Joel rightly redirected at George Lucas.
Joel's complete review, by his words as I remember them, has yet to be published on this forum.
That being said, I loved this movie!
*Spoiler-ish*
I agree wtih Joel that there were a few awful lines in this movie; however I still very much enjoyed it and consider two points: a) these are childrens fantasy films technically and Jedi Knights aren't exactly the most emotive of people...I thought for a knight commited to a path of passive contemplation Samuel L Jackson's Mace Windu did a fantastic job of showing frustration with the Jedi orders failures and in his final fight as he falls into emotion when he decides to finish off you-know-who.
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ناوچه ایرانی سهند
(Wikipedia) - Iranian frigate Sahand For other uses, see Sahand (disambiguation). For Iranian Moudge class ship of the same name, see Iranian frigate Sahand (Moudge class).
A starboard bow view of the Iranian destroyer escort ITS Faramarz (DE 74), redesignated as IRS Sahand (F 74)
Career (Iran)
Name: IIS Faramarz
Namesake: Faramarz
Ordered: 1960
Builder: Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston
Yard number: 1080
Launched: 30 July 1969
Commissioned: February 1972
Renamed: Sahand, 1985
Namesake: Sahand volcano
Homeport: Bandar-Abbas
Fate: sunk in Operation Praying Mantis, 19 April 1988
Class & type: Alvand-class frigate
Displacement: 1,100 tons (1,540 tons full load)
Length: 94.5 m (310 ft)
Beam: 11.07 m (36.3 ft)
Draught: 3.25 m (10.7 ft)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 2 Paxman Ventura cruising diesels, 3,800 bhp (2,830 kW), 17 knots 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM2 boost gas turbines, 46,000 shp (34,300 kW), 39 knots (72 km/h)
Speed: 39 knots (72 km/h) max
Range: 5,000 nmi (9,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 125-146
Armament: 5 x Sea Killer anti-ship missiles 1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mark 8 gun 1 x twin 20 mm AAA, 2 x single 20 mm AAA 2 × 81 mm mortars, 2 × 0.50cal machine guns, 1 x Limbo ASW mortar, 2 x triple 12.75 in torpedo tubes
Iranian frigate Sahand (in Persian سهند), a British-made Vosper Mark V class frigate (also known as Alvand class frigate), was commissioned as part of a four-ship order. The ship was originally called Faramarz, named after a character in Ferdosi''s Shahnameh. However after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it was renamed Sahand, after the Sahand volcano.
The Iranian Navy ship was sunk in Operation Praying Mantis on 18 April 1988. Located by two American A-6E Intruders of Attack Squadron 95 steaming roughly ten miles southwest of Larak Island, she was hit by two Harpoon missiles and two AGM-123 Skipper II laser-guided bombs. A pair of Rockeye cluster bombs from the aircraft and a single Harpoon from the USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) finished off the ship. Left heavily aflame, dead in the water and listing to port, the Sahand burned for several hours before fire reached her ammunition magazines and detonated, sinking the ship in over 200 meters (660 feet) of water southwest of Larak Island.
Iran is building a Moudge class ship named Sahand in memory of the original Sahand.
The Sahand in April 1988.
The Iranian frigate IRS Sahand burns after strikes by U.S. Navy ships and aircraft on April 18, 1988.
^ a b c d e f "Faramarz (6132433)". Miramar Ship Index. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz. Retrieved 9 December 2009. (subscription required)
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This Month in History - July
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July 1, 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the first income tax bill, levying a 3% income tax on annual incomes of $600-$10,000 and a 5% tax on incomes over $10,000. Also on this day, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was established by an Act of Congress.
July 1, 1863 - Beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
July 1, 1893 - President Grover Cleveland underwent secret cancer surgery aboard a yacht owned by his friend, Commodore E.C. Benedict. The surgery was performed on a cancerous growth in his mouth. The entire left side of his jaw was removed along with a small portion of his soft palate. A second, smaller operation was performed on July 17th. Cleveland was then fitted with a rubber prosthesis which he wore until his death in 1908. The secrecy was intended to prevent panic among the public during the economic depression of 1893.
July 2, 1776 - The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the following resolution, originally introduced on June 7, by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: "Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation."
July 2, 1788 - Congress announced the United States Constitution had been ratified by the required nine states and that a committee had been appointed to make preparations for the new American government.
July 2, 1881 - President James A. Garfield was shot and mortally wounded as he entered a railway station in Washington, D.C. He died on September 19th.
July 2, 1917 - A race riot occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, resulting in an estimated 75 African Americans killed and hundreds injured. To protest the violence against blacks, W.E.B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson later led a silent march down Fifth Avenue in New York.
July 2, 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race in public accommodations, publicly owned or operated facilities, employment and union membership and in voter registration. The Act allowed for cutoff of Federal funds in places where discrimination remained.
Birthday - The first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Nominated by President Johnson, he began his 24-year career on the High Court in 1967.
July 3, 1775 - During the American Revolution, George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
July 3, 1976 - The raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda occurred as an Israeli commando unit rescued 103 hostages on a hijacked Air France airliner. The jet had been en route from Tel Aviv to Paris when it was hijacked by pro-Palestinian guerrillas. Three hostages, seven hijackers and twenty Ugandan soldiers were killed during the rescue.
July 3, 1988 - Iran Air Flight 655 was destroyed while flying over the Persian Gulf after the U.S. Navy Warship Vincennes fired two surface-to-air missiles, killing all 290 passengers aboard. A subsequent U.S. military inquiry cited stress related human failure for the mistaken identification of the civilian airbus as an enemy F-14 fighter jet.
July 4, 1776 - The Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress.
July 4, 1863- Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, surrendered to General Grant and the Army of the West after a six week siege. With the Union in control of the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies.
July 4, 1882 - The "Last Great Buffalo Hunt" began on Indian reservation lands near Hettinger, North Dakota as 2,000 Teton Sioux Indians in full hunting regalia killed about 5,000 buffalo. By this time, most of the estimated 60-75 million buffalo in America had been killed by white hunters who usually took the hides and left the meat to rot. By 1883, the last of the free-ranging buffalo were gone.
Birthday - Novelist and short-story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts. His works included; The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.
Birthday - Song writer Stephen Foster (1826-1864) was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. Among his nearly 200 songs were; Oh! Susanna, Camptown Races, Swanee River, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, and Beautiful Dreamer. He died in poverty at Bellevue Hospital in New York.
Birthday - Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) the 30th U.S. President was born in Plymouth, Vermont. He became President on August 3, 1923, after the death of Warren G. Harding. In 1924, Coolidge was elected President but did not run for re-election in 1928.
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July 5, 1775- The Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition expressing hope for a reconciliation with Britain. However, King George III refused even to look at the petition and instead issued a proclamation declaring the colonists to be in a state of open rebellion.
Birthday - Civil War Admiral David Farragut (1801-1870) was born near Knoxville, Tennessee. He is best remembered for his yelling "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" during an attack on his fleet by the Confederates.
Birthday - Promoter and showman P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) was born in Bethel, Connecticut. His American Museum opened in 1842, exhibiting unusual acts such as the Feejee Mermaid, Siamese Twins Chang and Eng, and General Tom Thumb. In 1871, Barnum opened "The Greatest Show on Earth" in Brooklyn, New York. He later merged with rival J.A. Bailey to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Birthday - Cecil J. Rhodes (1853-1902) was born at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. As a South African millionaire and politician, he was said to have once controlled 90 percent of the world's diamond production. His will established the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University for young scholars aged 18-25. Rhodesia was also named for him.
July 6, 1885 - Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies inoculation to a boy who had been bitten by an infected dog.
Birthday - Revolutionary War Naval Officer John Paul Jones (1747-1792) was born in Kirkbean, Scotland. He is best remembered for responding "I have not yet begun to fight!" to British opponents seeking his surrender during a naval battle.
July 7, 1898 - President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing Hawaii. In 1900, Congress made Hawaii an incorporated territory of the U.S., which it remained until becoming a state in 1959.
Birthday - Baseball pitcher Leroy R. (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982) was born in Mobile, Alabama. Following a career in the Negro Leagues, he became, at age 42, the first African American pitcher in the American League. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
July 8, 1776 - The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence occurred as Colonel John Nixon read it to an assembled crowd in Philadelphia.
July 8, 1943 - During the Nazi occupation of France, Resistance leader Jean Moulin died following his arrest and subsequent torture by the Gestapo. He had been sent by the Allies into France in 1942 to unite the fledgling Underground movement. In June of 1943, he was arrested in Lyon, tortured for eleven days but betrayed no one. He died aboard a train while being transferred to a concentration camp.
Birthday - Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979) was born in Bar Harbor, Maine. He served as Governor of New York from 1958 to 1973. He became vice-president under Gerald Ford in 1974, serving until January 20, 1977.
July 9, 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The Amendment defined U.S. citizenship and prohibited individual States from abridging the rights of any American citizen without due process and equal protection under the law. The Amendment also barred individuals involved in rebellion against the U.S. from holding public office.
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July 10, 1943 - The Allied invasion of Italy began with an attack on the island of Sicily. The British entry into Syracuse was the first Allied success in Europe. General Dwight D. Eisenhower labeled the invasion "the first page in the liberation of the European Continent."
July 10, 1973 - The Bahamas gained their independence after 250 years as a British Crown Colony.
July 10, 1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office, becoming the first popularly elected president in Russia's thousand-year history.
Birthday - Theologian and founder of Presbyterianism, John Calvin (1509-1564) was born in Noyon, France.
Birthday - American artist James Whistler (1834-1903) was born in Lowell, Mass. He is best remembered for his portrait Whistler's Mother.
Birthday - French author Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born near Paris. "Happiness," he wrote in The Past Recaptured, "is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Birthday - Tennis player Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) was born in Richmond, Virginia. He won a total of 33 titles including the U.S. men's singles championship and U.S. Open in 1968 and the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1975. As a pioneering African American athlete, he fought against racism and stereotyping and was arrested numerous times while protesting. In 1992, he announced he had likely contracted HIV through a transfusion during heart surgery. He then began a $5 million fundraising effort on behalf of the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and campaigned for public awareness regarding the dreaded disease. He died from pneumonia in New York, February 6, 1993.
Birthday - John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) the 6th U.S. President, and son of the 2nd President, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. After serving just one term as President, he served 17 years as a member of Congress. He died in 1848 while in the House of Representatives in the same room in which he had taken the presidential Oath of Office. He was the the first president whose father had also been president.
July 12, 1943 - During World War II, in the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history took place outside the small village of Prohorovka, Russia. About nine hundred Russian tanks attacked an equal number of German tanks fighting at close range. When Hitler ordered a cease-fire, 300 German tanks remained strewn over the battlefield.
July 12, 1994 - Germany's Constitutional Court ended the ban on sending German troops to fight outside the country. The ban had been in effect since the end of World War II. The ruling allowed German troops to join in United Nations and NATO peace-keeping missions. On July 14, German military units marched in Bastille Day celebrations in Paris, the first appearance of German troops there since World War II.
Birthday - British pottery designer Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England.
Birthday - American philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts. At Walden Pond he wrote, "I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."
July 13, 1787 - Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance establishing formal procedures for transforming territories into states. It provided for the eventual establishment of three to five states in the area north of the Ohio River, to be considered equal with the original 13. The Ordinance included a Bill of Rights that guaranteed freedom of religion, the right to trial by jury, public education and a ban on slavery in the Northwest.
July 14, 1789 - The fall of the Bastille occurred at the beginning of the French Revolution.
July 14, 1791 - In England, the Birmingham riot occurred on the second anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. Mob rule lasted for three days, targeting controversial scientist and theologian Joseph Priestly's home and laboratory as well as the homes of his friends. Priestly, who had expressed support for the American and French revolutions, fled to London with his family and later moved to America.
Birthday - American folk singer and social activist Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. Best known for This Land Is Your Land, Union Maid, and Hard Traveling.
Birthday - Gerald R. Ford, the 38th U.S. President was born in Omaha, Nebraska, July 14, 1913 (as Leslie King). In 1973, he was appointed vice president following the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew. He became president on August 9, 1974, following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. He was the first non-elected vice president and non-elected president of the U.S.
July 15, 1918 - During the Battle of the Marne in World War I, German General Erich Ludendorff launched Germany's fifth, and last, offensive to break through the Chateau-Thierry salient. However, the Germans were stopped by American, British and Italian divisions. On July 18, General Foch, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied troops, launched a massive counter-offensive. The Germans began a retreat lasting four months until they requested an armistice in November.
Birthday - Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was born in Leiden, Holland. Best known for The Night Watch and many portraits and self portraits.
Birthday - The first American saint, Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) was born in Lombardy, Italy. She was the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and established Catholic schools, orphanages, convents and hospitals. She was canonized, July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII.
July 16, 1769 - San Diego was founded as the mission San Diego de Alcala by Father Junipero Serra.
July 16, 1945 - The experimental Atomic bomb "Fat Boy" was set off at 5:30 a.m. in the desert of New Mexico desert, creating a mushroom cloud rising 41,000 ft. The bomb emitted heat three times the temperature of the interior of the sun and wiped out all plant and animal life within a mile.
July 16, 1969 - The Apollo 11 Lunar landing mission began with a liftoff from Kennedy Space Center at 9:37 a.m.
July 16, 1999 - A small plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. took off at 8:38 p.m. from Fairfield, New Jersey, heading toward Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren were passengers on the 200 mile trip. The plane was expected to arrive about 10 p.m. but disappeared off radar at 9:40 p.m. Five days later, July 21, following an extensive search, the bodies were recovered from the plane wreckage in 116 feet of water roughly 7 miles off Martha's Vineyard. The next day, following an autopsy, the cremated remains of John F. Kennedy, 38, his wife Carolyn, 33, and her sister Lauren, 34, were scattered at sea from a U.S. Navy ship, with family members present, not far from where the plane had crashed.
Birthday - British portrait painter Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was born in Plympton, Devon, England.
Birthday - Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) was born near Concord, New Hampshire.
Birthday - African American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was born to slaves at Holly Springs, Missouri. Following the Civil War, as lynchings became prevalent, Wells traveled extensively, founding anti-lynching societies and black women's clubs.
Birthday - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was born near Oslo. He was the first to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via the Northwest Passage. He discovered the South Pole in 1911 and flew over the North Pole in a dirigible in 1926. In June 1928, he flew from Norway to rescue survivors of an Italian Arctic expedition, but his plane vanished.
July 17, 1918 - In the Russian town of Ekaterinburg in Siberia, former Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their five children were brutally murdered by Bolsheviks.
July 17, 1996 - TWA Flight 800 departed Kennedy International Airport in New York bound for Paris but exploded in mid-air 12 minutes after takeoff, apparently the result of a mechanical failure. The Boeing 747 jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island about 8:45 p.m. All 212 passengers and 17 crew members on board were killed.
Birthday - Puerto Rican patriot Luis Munoz-Rivera (1859-1916) was born in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. He worked tirelessly to attain self-government for his homeland.
July 18, 1947 - President Harry Truman signed an Executive Order determining the line of succession if the president becomes incapacitated or dies in office. Following the vice president, the speaker of the house and president of the Senate are next in succession. This became the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on February 10, 1967.
Birthday - American politician Samuel Hayakawa (1906-1992) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is remembered as the college president who climbed atop a sound truck at San Francisco State College in 1968 during student protests, then disconnected the wires thus silencing the demonstrators. This made him popular among conservatives including California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Hayakawa became a Republican and was elected in 1976 to the U.S. Senate, serving just one term. In 1986, he led the successful California initiative to declare English the state's official language.
Birthday - Nelson Mandela was born the son of a Tembu tribal chieftain on July 18, 1918, at Qunu, near Umtata, in South Africa. He became a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944, eventually becoming deputy national president in 1952. In 1964, he was convicted for sabotage as a result of his participation in the struggle against apartheid. He spent the next 28 years in jail, but remained a symbol of hope to South Africa's non-white majority. Released in 1990, he was elected was elected President of South Africa in 1994 in the first election in which all races participated.
July 19-20, 1848 - A women's rights convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York. Topics discussed included voting rights, property rights and divorce. The convention marked the beginning of an organized women's rights movement in the U.S.
July 19, 1863 - During the American Civil War, Union troops made a second attempt to capture Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina. The attack was led by the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who was killed along with half of the 600 men in the regiment. This battle marked the first use of black Union troops in the war.
Birthday - French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was born in Paris. Best known for his paintings of dancers in motion.
July 20, 1715 - The Riot Act took effect in Britain. If a dozen or more persons were disturbing the peace, an authority was required to command silence and read the following, "Our sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king." Any persons who failed to obey within one hour were to be arrested.
July 20, 1954 - An agreement was signed in Geneva, Switzerland, ending hostilities between French forces in Vietnam and the People's Army of Vietnam.
July 20, 1969 - A global audience watched on television as Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first step onto the moon. As he stepped onto the moon's surface he proclaimed, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" - inadvertently omitting an "a" before "man" and slightly changing the meaning.
Birthday - Explorer Edmund Hillary was born in Auckland, New Zealand, July 20, 1919. In 1953, he became first to ascend Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 29,023 ft.
July 21, 1898 - Guam was ceded to the United States by Spain.
Birthday - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. His works included; The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954, he wrote little afterward, became ill and shot himself to death on July 2, 1961.
Birthday - University professor and author Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Best known for stating, "The medium is the message," regarding modern mass communication.
July 22, 1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger (1902-1934) was shot and killed by FBI agents as he left Chicago's Biograph Movie Theater after watching the film Manhattan Melodrama starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Dillinger was the first criminal labeled by the FBI as "Public Enemy No. 1." After spending nine years (1924-1933) in prison, Dillinger went on a deadly crime spree, traveling through the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. He was reportedly betrayed by the "Lady in Red."
July 23, 1952 - Egyptian army officers launched a revolution changing Egypt from a monarchy to a republic.
July 24, 1943 - During World War II in Europe, the Royal Air Force conducted Operation Gomorrah, raiding Hamburg, while tossing bales of aluminum foil strips overboard to cause German radar screens to see a blizzard of false echoes. As a result, only twelve of 791 Allied bombers involved were shot down.
July 24, 1945 - At the conclusion of the Potsdam Conference in Germany, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and China's representatives issued a demand for unconditional Japanese surrender. The Japanese, unaware the demand was backed up by an Atomic bomb, rejected the Potsdam Declaration on July 26.
Birthday - "The Liberator" Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He is known as the George Washington of South America for his efforts to liberate six nations: Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from the rule of Spain.
Birthday - French playwright and novelist Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was born in Villers-Cotterets, France. His works included The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Birthday - American pilot Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) was born in Atchison, Kansas. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and to fly solo from Hawaii to California. She perished during a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island over the Pacific Ocean on July 3, 1937.
July 25, 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico, which was then a Spanish colony. In 1917, Puerto Ricans became American citizens and Puerto Rico became an unincorporated territory of the U.S. Partial self-government was granted in 1947 allowing citizens to elect their own governor. In 1951, Puerto Ricans wrote their own constitution and elected a non-voting commissioner to represent them in Washington.
July 25, 1909 - The world's first international overseas airplane flight was achieved by Louis Bleriot in a small monoplane. After asking, "Where is England?" he took off from France and landed in England near Dover, where he was greeted by British police.
July 25, 1943 - Mussolini was deposed just two weeks after the Allied attack on Sicily. The Fascist Grand Council met for the first time since December of 1939 then took a confidence vote resulting in Mussolini being ousted from office and placed under arrest. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy then ordered Marshal Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
July 25, 1956 - The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm on its way to New York. Nearby ships came to the rescue, saving 1,634 people, including the captain and the crew, before the ship went down.
July 26, 1944 - The U.S. Army began desegregating its training camp facilities. Black platoons were then assigned to white companies in a first step toward battlefield integration. However, the official order integrating the armed forces didn't come until July 26, 1948, signed by President Harry Truman.
July 26, 1945 - The U.S. Cruiser Indianapolis arrived at Tinian Island in the Marianas with an unassembled Atomic bomb, met by scientists ready to complete the assembly.
July 26, 1953 - The beginning of Fidel Castro's revolutionary "26th of July Movement." In 1959, Castro led the rebellion that drove out dictator Fulgencio Batista. Although he once declared that Cuba would never again be ruled by a dictator, Castro's government became a Communist dictatorship.
Birthday - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, Ireland.
July 27, 1953 - The Korean War ended with the signing of an armistice by U.S. and North Korean delegates at Panmunjom, Korea. The war had lasted just over three years.
July 28, 1932 - The Bonus March eviction in Washington, D.C., occurred as U.S. Army troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower and Major George S. Patton, attacked and burned the encampments of unemployed World War I veterans. About 15,000 veterans had marched on Washington, demanding payment of a war bonus they had been promised. After two months' encampment in Washington's Anacostia Flats, forced eviction of the bonus marchers by the U.S. Army was ordered by President Herbert Hoover.
July 28, 1943 - During World War II, a firestorm killed 42,000 civilians in Hamburg, Germany. The firestorm occurred after 2,326 tons of bombs and incendiaries were dropped by the Allies.
Birthday - Jackie Kennedy (1929-1994) was born in Southampton, New York (as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier). She was married to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and after his death later married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
Birthday - Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was born in Dovia, Italy. He ruled Italy from 1922-1943, first as prime minister and then as "Il Duce," the absolute dictator.
July 30, 1975 - Former Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa was last seen outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. His 13-year federal prison sentence had been commuted by President Richard M. Nixon in 1971. On December 8, 1982, seven years after his disappearance, an Oakland County judge declared Hoffa officially dead.
Birthday - Automotive pioneer Henry Ford (1863-1947) was born in Dearborn Township, Michigan. He developed an assembly-line production system and introduced a $5-a-day wage for automotive workers. "History is bunk," he once said.
July 31, 1776 - During the American Revolution, Francis Salvador became the first Jew to die in the conflict. He had also been the first Jew elected to office in Colonial America, voted a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress in January 1775.
July 31, 1790 - The U.S. Patent Office first opened its doors. The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a new method of making pearlash and potash. The patent was signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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Rev. Amy Covington
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Pastor Amy was appointed to First UMC in July of 2013 after serving as Senior Pastor at Fairmount UMC for seven years. She has served in urban, suburban, and rural congregations in Indiana and Texas. Having grown up United Methodist, Pastor Amy had a desire to attend United Methodist related schools, graduating from the University of Indianapolis in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion, and in 1998 from Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University, with a Master of Divinity degree.
Pastor Amy and her husband, Christopher, will be married 22 years in July of 2016. They have three children who are active in the church and in school/community activities. This, as well as the ministry of the church, keep them on their toes.
Pastor Amy has a heart and passion for mission and outreach. She has traveled to Nicaragua, Mexico, and many different states in the US, serving on mission teams.
Pastor Amy’s life verse is John 11:25, “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though they die.” She believes that every person needs to hear these words of Christ and know that he died for them. She tries to live her faith based on Jesus’ call to the disciples in Matthew 25, when doing unto the least, we are doing unto Christ, himself.
Joe Andrews
Pastor of Visitation
Our Pastor of Visitation, Joe Andrews, is a 1958 graduate of Burris High School and a 1964 graduate of Ball State University. Joe served Indiana churches for 40-plus years before retiring in 2008, and has been a chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital for 27 years. He enjoys music, photography and spending time with family.
Clint Knaub
Director of Youth Ministries
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Annette Gower
Director of Children's Ministries
Annette has been a member of FUMC since 2000. After teaching Sunday School and coordinating VBS for years, she came on staff as the Director of Children’s Ministries in 2008. She loves teaching children about God and seeing them grow in their faith. She and her husband Aaron have four children.
Judy Martin
Judy Martin grew up in the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Wren, Ohio, and the Missionary Church in Decatur. She is a 1971 graduate of Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. She traveled throughout Iceland, Greenland and Canada on a USO tour, and taught piano at IPFW and Fort Wayne Bible College for 15 years. Judy has been with First Church for 27 years serving as organist, choir accompanist, and music director.
Judy and her husband, Lowell, are celebrating 47 years of marriage this year. They have two children, a daughter, Melanie, and son, Matthew. They enjoy spending time with and spoiling their five grandchildren. Judy and Lowell own and operate Martin Music, and she enjoys spending time with family, traveling with college friends every summer and giving her grandson, Quincy, piano lessons. Judy’s favorite scripture is Isaiah 40:31, Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Janet Fauhiger
Janet Frauhiger has been the Office Administrator at First Church for 35 years. She and her husband, Ron, will celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary this year. Janet is a member of St. Marks UMC. Her favorite Bible passage is Romans 8:28, And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Tana K. (Ritter) Sheets
Kids First Director
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Tana has been the director of Kid’s First Child Care Ministry for 20 years and has been in the child care field for 29 years. Tana is married to Jeff Sheets (captain of training for the Decatur Fire Department). She is a mother to Justin J. Sheets, a junior at Ball State University studying pre-med and Jimmy D. Sheets, a sophomore at Ivy Tech, in the field of Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
Tana has lived in Decatur all her life and enjoys the small, close family-oriented community. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, and collecting M&M figurines.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Office: Fairbairn 201 (Warden's Hall)
E-mail: mamos@bard.edu
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. New York University. Author, Sharing Absence: Experience and Entretien through Maurice Blanchot (dissertation). Recipient of Andrew Dulau Dissertation Fellowship (2012-2013), Penfield Fellowship (2011). Translator (with Fredrik Rönnbäck), Pascal Quignard's Hatred of Music (Yale University Press, forthcoming). Specialization in the liminality of literature and philosophy in modern French thought.
Assistant Professor of Italian; Director of Italian Studies
On Sabbatical Fall 2019
Office: Seymour 206 (Warden's Hall)
E-mail: baldasso@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Italian Studies
Franco Baldasso (Ph.D, New York University) is the Director of Italian Studies, Assistant Professor of Italian, and Director of the Study Abroad Program in Italy. He published a book on the Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, Il cerchio di gesso. Primo Levi narratore e testimone (Bologna, 2007) and co-edited with Simona Wright an issue of Nemla-Italian Studies titled “Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy: Memory, Fiction, Histories.” His articles appeared in Modern Language Notes, Romance Notes, Context, Nemla-Italian Studies, Poetiche and Scritture Migranti. He is the recipient of many awards, such as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, NYU Humanities Initiative Honorary Fellowship and the Remarque Institute Doctoral Fellowship.
Baldasso collaborates with publicbooks.org and is member of the scientific committee of the Archivio della Memoria della Grande Guerra of the Centro Studi sulla Grande Guerra “P. Pieri” in Vittorio Veneto (TV). He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled: “Against Redemption: The Early Postwar Debate over the Transition from Fascism to Democracy in Italy.”
Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: Hegemon 304
Email: jburns@bard.edu
BA, University of Maine–Orono; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Professor Burns is an educator, poet, translator, and the author of Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age (Cambria Press, 2015). He has also authored books chapters, including “Teaching Infrarrealistas: Using Lesser Known Contemporary Poets in the Undergraduate Classroom” in Teaching Latin American Poetries (forthcoming) and “From Manifesto to Manifestation: The Infrarrealista Movement as an Alternative Latin American Literary Community,” in Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture; and articles and book reviews in publications such as Film International (web), 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada, and Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources. His publications also include translations—of the Chilean poet Raúl Hernández and Galician poet Salvador García-Bodaño, as well as translations of the Beat poets into Spanish—and his own creative work. He has been invited to lecture, read, or present papers throughout the world, including at venues in Japan, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Canada, New York City, and Madison, Wisconsin, among others. He previously taught at Bard High School Early College Queens, Rockford University in Illinois, and Kobe College in Japan, where he served as Visiting Researcher. At Bard: Spring 2019.
Associate Professor of Spanish; Coordinator of Latin American and Iberian Studies; Chair of Languages and Literature
E-mail: caso@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Latin American and Iberian Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Human Rights, Spanish Studies
Academic Expertise: Latin American and Iberian Studies
Area of Specialization: Latin American Literature
A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Areas of specialty: Hispanic languages and literature, Latin American literature. Author, Practicing Memory in Central American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Work published in scholarly journals such as Revista Iberoamericana and Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos; contributions to critical compilations analyzing various novelists such as Manlio Argueta and Rosa María Britton. At Bard since 2004.
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century narrative of Latin America; Central American literature; Subaltern studies; Memory and literature; the cultural production of collective identities; the limits of representation through writing
Teaching Interests: Latin American testimonio; The City in Latin American Fiction; Literature of Human Rights in Latin America; Historical Fiction; Crafting Mayan Identities Other Interests: Literature and Human Rights; Ethics and representation; Theories of Space and Place
Visiting Associate Professor of French
Office: Hopson 101 (Warden's Hall)
E-mail: ochilton@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, French Studies
Licence ès Lettres, Mâitrise ès Lettres, Université du Maine, Le Mans. Teaching assistant, University of Sheffield. At Bard since 1987.
Assistant Professor of Classics
Office: Aspinwall 111
E-mail: rcioffi@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Classical Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
B.A., Harvard University; M.St. Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literatures, University of Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard University. Specialized training in Demotic Egyptian and papyrology. Articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries published in Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies, Ancient Narrative, Mnemosyne, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Cartographic Perspectives, Bryn Maw Classical Review, and The Virgil Encyclopedia, among others. He has presented at conferences throughout the United States on such subjects as Achilles Tatius and the Egytian landscape; longos, mimesis, and the pastoral tradition; and Poliziano’s use of ancient sources and epiphanic language in the Greek novels. Honors and awards include the Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (awarded four times) and Clarendon Fund Fellowship at Oxford, among others. Previously served as lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College. At Bard since 2013.
Research Interests: Greek literature, especially prose fiction of the Roman imperial period; Greek and Roman religion; Greek and Egyptian cultural interactions; travel, ethnography, and identity in the ancient world; cartography and ancient conceptions of space; papyrology
E-mail: lcurtis@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Classical Studies, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
B.A., M.A., University College, Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard University. Research and teaching interests include Latin poetry, especially Augustan poetry; Latin literature’s engagement with performance, religion, music, and dance; ancient book culture, antiquarianism, and cultural memory; and gender and sexuality in the Greco-Roman world. Professor Curtis’s first book, Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry, was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press; articles and reviews have appeared in TAPA, Classical Philology, Vergilius, Arethusa, and Classical Review. She has presented papers and organized panels at the Society of Classical Studies annual meetings in San Francisco, New Orleans, and Seattle; at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, the Villa Vergiliana at Cuma, Italy, and at the University of Lisbon, among other venues. Fellowships and grants include the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship (2006–13); the MOISA Research Prize, awarded for best unpublished dissertation in the field of Greek and Roman music (2014); and a Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study exploratory seminar award (2015–17). She is currently working on Ovid’s exile poetry, as well as an edited volume on the relationship between music and memory in the ancient world. At Bard since 2013.
Research Interests: Latin literature; Greek literature; Hellenistic poetry; performance and writing in Greek and Latin literature; ancient and modern literary reception; translation studies; women and gender in ancient literature
Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic
E-mail: zdallal@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Arabic Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Middle Eastern Studies
Area of Specialization: Modern Arabic Literature
Ziad Dallal is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. His areas of research/interest include nineteenth-century and contemporary Arabic literature and intellectual history, critical theory, translation theory, political philosophy, philology, Marxism and finance, and film theory. His current research project traces the links between civilizational discourse, literary narratives, and the world market in the nineteenth century. He has also written about contemporary Arabic theater and contemporary music in Lebanon. Before joining Bard College, he taught at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, and at the American University of Beirut.
Associate Professor of Arabic; Director, Middle Eastern Studies
Office: Hegeman 303
E-mail: holt@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Fulbright scholar (2006–07); Gerhardt Award of Distinction, American University in Cairo (2006–07). National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2012). Articles, chapters, and reviews in Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures, Arabic Literary Thresholds, Journal of Arabic Literature, Arab Studies Quarterly, Dialectical Anthropology. Contributing translator to The Arab Renaissance: Anthology of Nahda Thought, Literature, and Language. Associate Editor, Journal of Arabic Literature. At Bard since 2008.
Research Interests: Arabic novel; 19th- and early 20th-century Beirut and Cairo; history of the Arabic press; reading publics; Algerian literature; world literature and the CIA
Teaching Interests: Arabic literature; Arabic language; translation; world literature
Other Interests: History of the novel; Beur culture; Francophonie in the Arab world; feminisms and nationalisms
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
E-mail: jkavett@bard.edu
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Spent two years as ‘pensionnaire étranger’ at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), where he had the opportunity to participate in the activities of the unité de recherche Paul-Celan. Has also studied in Regensburg and Konstanz. His research and teaching interests include the German Baroque and 20 th century German literature, with a particular focus on Paul Celan’s poetry and correspondence. His research and teaching interests are also in comparative literary studies and translation studies. His most recent work, a book chapter entitled “A Secret Echo Outside of Time: Paul Celan and the Autumn Crocus,” is forthcoming in Transparent Texts: Self-Referentiality and Self- Reflexivity in Literature (eds. Florian Lippert and Marcel Schmid, Brill/Rodopi). At Bard since 2017.
Professor of German
E-mail: kempf@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, German Studies
M.A. in German, M.A. in Russian, University of Utah; Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Everyone’s Darling: Kafka and the Critics of His Short Fiction (1994), Albrecht von Hallers Ruhm als Dichter: Eine Rezeptionsgeschichte (1986), Deutsche Gegenwart (1985, with Robert E. Helbling). Articles and papers on Goethe, Fontane, Kafka, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, von Haller, Wieland, and language pedagogy. Book reviews for several scholarly journals. Editorial advisory board, Die Unterrichtspraxis and Colloquia Germanica. President, Hudson Valley Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German (1990–92). At Bard since 1985.
Associate Professor of Russian
E-mail: kostalev@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Russian and Eurasian Studies
M.A., Leningrad State Conservatory; Ph.D., Yale University. Lecturer and teaching assistant, Yale University; lecturer, Yale Summer Piano Institute; music instructor, Rutgers University; accompanist and music adviser, Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. Publications include Dostoevsky and Soloviev: The Art of Integral Vision (1997) and articles in Russian Language Journal, Voprosy Literatury, Russian Literature, Transactions of Russian-American Scholars, Pushkin v XX veke, Moskovskii Pushkinist, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. At Bard since 1996.
Assistant Professor in Chinese
Visiting Associate Professor of German; Academic Director, Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures; Coordinator of FLCL
Office: Olin LC 204
E-mail: kufner@bard.edu
Teaching Diploma, Certification for English Language and Business Administration, University of Munich; Diplom-Handelslehrer, University of Munich; M.A. and Ph.D. in German, SUNY Albany. Articles, papers, and talks on Schiller, language acquisition, technology, and language pedagogy. Academic Director, Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures, Bard College (1995– ). At Bard since 1990.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
E-mail: plopezga@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Latin American and Iberian Studies, Spanish Studies
Ph.D. Spanish and Portuguese languages and literature, New York University; joint Ph.D., comparative literature and translation studies (French and Spanish), University of Paris 7 and Autonomous University of Barcelona. She specializes in contemporary Spanish literature, with a strong interest in visual art and comparative literature (Spain, France, Brazil). Her research focuses on theories of the archive, autobiography, translation studies, and historiography. She has been awarded research fellowships and grants from the French and Portuguese Ministries of Education, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Generalitat of Catalonia, and Camões Institute of Portugal. Her work has appeared in the journals Hispania, Quaderns, and Interculturel/Francophonies, and the books Rumbos del hispanismo and Translation and Censorship, among other publications. Her current book project is concerned with “archives of the self,” digital culture, and biographical writing. She previously taught at New York University and Autonomous University of Barcelona. In addition to her teaching and research, she is a corresponding member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. At Bard since 2013.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
E-mail: ominin@bard.edu
B.A., University of Victoria; M.A., University of Waterloo; Ph.D., University of Southern California. Fields of specialization include the literature, visual, and performing arts of the Russian Silver Age and Russian avant-garde; the satirical press of the Russian fin de siècle; Habermas’s social theory and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural production; and language pedagogy. His work has been published in The Russian Review, Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, and Slavic and East European Journal. Co-curator of the exhibition Demonocracy: All Hell Breaks Loose in 1905 Russia at the Doheny Memorial Library, USC, and curator of the Ferris Collection of Sovietica at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture. He previously taught at the University of Southern California; California State University, Northridge; Glendale Community College; and University of California, Riverside. At Bard since 2012.
Professor of Spanish; Director, Spanish Studies
E-mail: nicholso@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Spanish Studies
Area of Specialization: 20th-century Latin American literature
B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Translations and poems in American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Contemporary Women Authors of Latin America, Mundus Artium, Puerto del Sol, and Translation Review. Scholarly publications: Evil, Madness, and the Occult in Argentine Poetry (2002), Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Brenton's Ghost (2013); articles and reviews in Latin American Writers, Latin American Literary Review, Letras Femeninas, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature, and Social Text. Prof. Nicholson is currently working on a book-length study of the bestiary in Latin American literature. Teaching interests include: Latin American poetry, twentieth-century Latin American narrative, literature of the Conquest, and translation studies.
Research Interests: 20th-century Latin American poetry; literary surrealism
Teaching Interests: Latin American 20th-century literature; surrealism; literature of the conquest; the Hispanic presence in the United States; translation studies
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
E-mail: kraizen@bard.edu
Karen T. Raizen (Ph.D., Yale University) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian. Her research focuses on operatic adaptations of Italian classics, particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on the Italian intellectual figure Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bloomsbury, 2018), and has published articles, essays, and reviews in Italica, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, and Senses of Cinema; she has also worked on a number of translations of scholarly articles and operas. She is a recipient of the Yale Elizabethan Club prize for her dissertation, “Adaptations in Arcadia: Orlando furioso on the Eighteenth-Century Operatic Stage.”
Dr. Raizen also has extensive training as a classical violist (B.M., Rice University; M.M., Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana). She has played in a number of ensembles and participated in festivals both in the U.S. and abroad.
Assistant Professor of Arabic
E-mail: dramadan@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Experimental Humanities, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies
B.A., American University in Cairo; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Articles, chapters, and reviews in Arab Studies Journal, Art Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, others. Founding member and secretary, Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey. At Bard since 2010.
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics
E-mail: romm@bard.edu
Area of Specialization: History, esp. Herodotus, Alexander the Great
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Princeton University. Taught at Fordham University, Cornell University. Fellowships and awards: junior fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies; Guggenheim Fellowship; Birkelund Fellowship at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. Books include Herodotus (in the Yale Hermes series, 1998) and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Knopf, 2011). Editor of the volume The Landmark Arrian in the distinguished Landmark Ancient Histories series. (1990–96, 2000–02) Associate Professor of Classics; (2002– ) James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics.
Assistant Professor of Japanese
E-mail: nshockey@bard.edu
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Waseda University, Tokyo; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Teaching interests include modern Japanese literature, intellectual history, and visual culture, media theory and history, representations of urban space of the modern metropolis, and 20th century mass movements and political culture. He is at work on a manuscript tentatively entitled "The Typographic Imagination: Writing, Reading, and Thinking in Modern Japan's Age of Mass-Produced Print Media." Research interests include book history and the economics of literary production, the politics of publishing, language reform and linguistic thought, and the history of advertising. He has published in both English and Japanese, most recently “Words Within Walls: Reading Hayama Yoshiki’s Prison Diaries,” in Tomi Suzuki and Hirokazu Toeda, ed. "Censorship, Media, and Literary Culture in Japan: From Edo to Postwar." At Bard since 2012.
E-mail: wsuzuki@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Asian Studies
B.A., Rikkyo University, M.A., Columbia University, M.A., Stanford University, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Her scholarly interests in Japanese literature range from childhood memories, children’s literature, women’s writing, and literary criticism in 19th-and 20th-century Japan. Teaching interests include gender & sexuality in Japanese literature, Japanese folklore, popular culture, and translation. Publication includes “On the Present Reception of Yokomitsu’s Work in North America—From the Perspective of Shanghai Discussed in the Classroom,” and “Youth,” both in Yokomichi Riichi Studies, and “Sacred or Profane? Representing War Orphans in the Post-war Occupation of Japan: Ishikawa Jun’s The Jesus of the Ruins” in Japan Studies Association Journal, vol. 16, 2018.
Associate Professor of French
E-mail: trudel@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, French Studies, Human Rights, Literature
Academic Expertise: French Studies
Area of Specialization: 20th-Century French Literature
B.A., Concordia University, Montreal; M.A., French literature, McGill University; Ph.D. in Romance languages, Princeton University. Author, La terreur à l'oeuvre: Théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. “L'imaginaire du texte,” 2007). Coeditor of “Tout peut servir”: Pratiques et enjeux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XXe et XXIe siècles (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2011); coeditor of a special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, “Old and New, Avant-garde and Arrière-garde in Modernist Literature” (Fall 2013); coeditor and translator, Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics (University of Illinois Press, 2008); coeditor, Figures et Frictions: La littérature au contact du visuel (Etudes Françaises, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2006). Numerous articles on Jean Paulhan, Chris Marker, Remy de Gourmont, Tanguy Viel, and modern and contemporary French and Francophone poetry. Managing editor of Formes Poétiques Contemporaines (SUNY Buffalo). At Bard since 2002.
Research Interests: Poetic discourse; literary theory; the avant-garde; literature and the arts; French cinema
Other Interests: Comparative literature; French philosophy; literature from Quebec
E-mail: ungvary@bard.edu
B.A. Duke University; M.St., Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard University. Research and teaching interests include Latin poetry and the literature of Late Antiquity; late Roman and early medieval history, especially literary, cultural, and intellectual history; early Christianity and asceticism; ancient and medieval theories and practices of authorship. Professor Ungvary's work has appeared in Early Medieval Europe and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. He is currently under contract with Routledge to produce a translation of and commentary on the complete works of Eugenius of Toledo. He has presented his research at annual meetings for the Society of Classical Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the International Medieval Congress, among other venues. Fellowships and grants include a Presidential Scholar Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Harvard, 2017-18); the William R. Tyler Fellowship (Dumbarton Oaks, 2015-17), the Lionel Pearson Fellowship (2010-11), and a Beinecke Scholarship (2010-2014). He is currently working on a monograph, based on his dissertation, that explores intersections of ascetic Christianity and classical Latin poetry in the post-Roman period.
Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Director, French Studies Program
E-mail: vanzuyle@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): First-Year Seminar, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, French Studies
Area of Specialization: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French, Russian, German comparative literature
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle (Tübingen, 1993); Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art (Cornell University Press, 2005). Recent articles include "The Secret Life of Monsters" in Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon; “Difficulty,” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; “Of Degenerates, Criminals, and Literary Offenders”, “The Importance of Being Lazy,” and "Fatigued" in Cabinet; “Maghreb and Melancholy,” Research in Francophone Literature; “Monomanie à deux,” Etudes Françaises. Awards include Lurcy Fellowship; Council on Research and Faculty Development Grant, Columbia University; Sheldon Fellowship, Whiting Fellowship, Harvard University; Bard Research Grant. (1997– )
Research Interests: History of the novel, representation of private life, philosophies of temporality;; currently writing about neutrality and disengagement in recent criticism; idleness and the work ethic in Franco-American cultural history; history of marriage in the nineteenth century; representation of suffering in psychiatric literature
Teaching Interests: Comparative literature, First-Year Seminar, French literature, and intellectual history; philosophical approaches to the novel; Baudelaire and nineteenth-century aesthetics; German Romanticism; French women writers
Other Interests: Animal Rights; history of boredom; modernist aesthetics; asceticism in art and literature; art in the nineteenth-century novel
Associate Professor of Russian; Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program; Director, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
E-mail: ovoronin@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Russian and Eurasian Studies
B.A., M.A., Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Ph.D., Harvard University. Research topics include ideological paradigms of Soviet political, media, and literary discourse of the Cold War; relationship between rhetoric of power and language of literature in totalitarian societies; Soviet and post-Soviet children’s literature; visual poetics of Vladimir Nabokov; Poem Without a Hero by Anna Akhmatova. Translator, editor, with Brian Boyd, Letters to Vera: Vladimir Nabokov's Correspondence with His Wife, 1923–1976 (Knopf/Penguin, 2013). Director, Information Resource Center, U.S. Consulate General, St. Petersburg, Russia (2001–04); deputy director, St. Petersburg Nabokov Museum (1998–2001). At Bard since 2010.
Associate Professor of German; Research Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities; Director, German Studies
E-mail: twild@bard.edu
M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D., University of Munich. Also studied at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Has taught at institutions of higher learning in Germany, Vanderbilt University, and Oberlin College, and recently served as Alexander von Humboldt / Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests include 20th-century German literature and film; the political dimensions of culture, art, and thought; Hannah Arendt; and contemporary developments in German media and society after 1989. Among his publications are a monograph on Arendt's relationships with key postwar German writers; an intellectual biography of Arendt; and a edition of poetry by Thomas Brasch. He coedited Arendt's conversations and correspondence with the eminent German historian and political essayist Joachim Fest. He is also a literary critic and cultural correspondent for the German dailies Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel. At Bard since 2012.
Associate Professor of Chinese
E-mail: ying@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Asian Studies, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
B.A., Yunnan Normal University, China; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Instructor of Chinese, Southwestern University (1988–90). Executive director, Calligraphy Education (2002– ). At Bard since 1998.
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Newsweek, October 31, 1994:
In Boston, Van Nuys, Calif., and Kansas City, Mo., ... the U.S. Postal Service has removed clocks and other "non-user-friendly items" such as bulletin boards and calendars from 30 lobbies.... This is not about keeping customers from watching their lives tick away while buying stamps, says Postal Service spokesperson Sandra Harding. "Clocks look bureaucratic," she says. "They are not an imperative part of the post-office experience."
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The London Times:
Two men stole a ten-foot pile of rusty scrap steel, not knowing it was a $51,000 environmentally compatible piece of art representing a heap of rusty scrap steel.
An administrator at the University of California at Santa Cruz has started a campaign against racist phrases such as "a nip in the air" and "a chink in one's armor."
In Utah, the Labor Department has barred KRT Drywall-Acoustical from working on any federal contracts because it has no female employees. The government didn't buy KRT's assertion that it was difficult to find women willing and able to lug around 120-pound drywall sheets all day.
Disappointed that the "Goods for Guns" exchange program pulled in only 313 guns one year, one-tenth the number of the previous year's gun exchange program, New York City businessman Fernando Mateo announced that he would go on a hunger strike. Mateo stated "I'm letting people know I don't have much to give them anymore but myself. I'm going to sacrifice until they come through and they deliver the guns to the precincts."
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights found that the Eden School District discriminated against a young woman because the school failed to take action on her sexual harassment complaint. The woman and her harasser are both six years old.
For ten years, Velma Williamson and Theresa Taylor have given free haircuts to people who could not afford them, including men at Duluth, Minnesota's Union Gospel Mission. But the two don't have barber's licenses, so the state Board of Barber Examiners has told them to stop, or else face 90 days in jail and a $700 fine.
The Washington Post:
Frank Georgi wants to build a theme park recreating East German totalitarianism, complete with May Day parades, an Erich Honecker look-alike, secret police, and closed-circuit TV sets showing old propaganda movies. Visitors could apply to leave, but at the risk of ostracism and petty harassment.
Rent control laws in New York have resulted in a number of creative schemes for paying less for an apartment than its actual market value.
In one, a tenant who is renting an apartment for $400, but which is actually worth $1,200, takes in a roommate who is eager to pay the fair market rent of $600 a month. The official tenant is then able to pocket the $200 difference, despite a law that allows tenants only a ten percent increase on the rent they can charge. The roommate has no incentive to report the primary tenant, since the roommate also has a great deal on an apartment. In many cases the roommate does not know how much the tenant is paying, and how much windfall profit is involved.
In another scheme, the roommate manages to pay the landlord directly with his own check, perhaps after convincing the primary tenant to withhold rent for some reason. If the landlord makes the mistake of cashing the roommate's check, rather than that of the primary tenant, the roommate legally becomes the tenant in residence and is entitled to a new lease in his name upon renewal.
In another, the tenant maintains a voter's registration card and driver's license, along with perhaps a credit card or two, at the address of the rent-controlled apartment, while moving elsewhere. This is sufficient compliance with the vague primary residence law, and usually enough to frustrate any private investigator that the landlord hires.
In another, a tenant who was otherwise planning to move out of the apartment demands a large fee from the landlord for doing so.
In another, a tenant in a building that is about to convert to co-op status refuses to buy the apartment from the landlord, instead preferring to continue his advantageous position of paying less than market rent. Another approach is to buy the apartment at the bargain basement prices the law requires of landlords, then turn around and sell it at an immense profit.
In another, a prospective tenant of a professional suite (which, along with other commercial property, are not subject to rent controls) installs a bed or sleep couch and starts living there. Even if the Certificate of Occupancy and the lease calls for professional use only, and even if the residency was achieved through deception, the apartment automatically becomes rent-regulated due to the severe housing shortage in New York, a predictable result of rent control laws.
Four women living in a Hampton, Virginia, public housing project were threatened with eviction because they cleaned up a playground without asking permission.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Public Health Service sponsored a minority AIDS conference that featured a panel titled "Is AIDS Medical Genocide?" According to a Public Health Service official, the panel was included to "address many of the AIDS theories that have gained currency over the years in both ethnic and nonethnic communities." The panel included Abdul Alim Muhammad, the health minister of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, who has some theories of his own. On a radio talk show in 1987, he speculated that AIDS was "perhaps hatched in the international banking community as a means of depopulating Africa ... so that the Europeans and perhaps even the Russians, the South Africans and the Israelis could have a depopulated continent" so they could plunder its mineral resources. "Maybe the Americans and Russians had such a plan or scheme."
When Klaus Matthiesen, environment minister of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia, condemned daily showers as a threat to the environment because they use water and heat unnecessarily, special interest groups reacted swiftly. "Not taking a shower every day in the summer would be crazy," said Hans Joachim Keller, president of the German Public Health Movement. Achim Tilmes of the German Bath Society added: "Some people even need to shower twice a day."
The First National Lesbian Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, officially banned the handing out of leaflets as "inherently coercive." Leafleting, a spokesperson for the conference explained, puts "the woman you're handing something to in a position where she has to say no, and everyone knows how difficult in this culture it is to say no."
A Long Island housing activist instructed some street people: "You are houseless but not homeless because home is wherever you are."
Some feedback from readers of Copy Editor: The National Newsletter for Professional Copy Editors. Readers were asked simply, "What has been your biggest change in style or usage this year?" The replies appeared in the December 1994/January 1995 issue.
Jack Vaughn, copy and slot editor, The Sacramento Bee:
When we had the Mexican Chiapas uprising, readers objected to the phrase peasant uprising or peasant rebellion. So we banned peasant, changing it to rural or another more specific word. The thought was that (a) peasant is a word that has a pejorative meaning as well as a literal one and that (b) it's not very specific....
Pamela Dugan, copy desk chief, The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Our official style is still to use American Indian, but we'll allow Native American when a person prefers it. We make allowances for people's stated preferences with, for example, Hispanic or Latino and black or African American, and American Indian and Native American seem to be in that category.
Kimberly Travis, copy editor, Endless Vacation magazine:
We've changed Native American to American Indian. We wanted to be accurate and correct and still get to the point.
Caesar Andrews, executive editor, Rockland Journal-News (West Nyack, N.Y.):
We're trying to clarify Hispanic and make the distinction that as a Hispanic you can be black or white. That does not always come across clearly in population and demographic-type stories. Where it's appropriate, we don't presume that there's a black and a white and a Hispanic. We're in the process of figuring out how to deal with this issue and do it in an accurate sense that is not too convoluted.
Charlotte Wiggers, managing editor, Essence:
We had been capping black and lowercasing white, and now we are uppercasing white as well. If you do it for one, you need to do it for the other.
Peter Jeffrey, copy chief, Working Woman:
Over the past years we have formalized what had already been a tendency to blend African-American with our use of black. We use African-American on first reference and black thereafter, so as to acknowledge African-American without replacing black. We felt that African-American was gaining currency and had a lot of etymological legitimacy, but since it's rather long and it can be awkward when used exclusively, we decided to mix the two forms.
Bill Fink, copy desk chief, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
We never used to allow the term African American, for most of the usual arguments. Now we have an informal policy of using black and African American pretty much interchangeably. We usually go with what the source that's covered prefers.
Darrell Turner, copy editor, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette:
We no longer use the term the disabled. We now say people with disabilities.
From an Associated Press story from Chicago:
Clarence Notree barely had time to act when a gunman burst into the elementary-school gym. As the bullets flew, the physical-education teacher spread out his arms to shield the children and pushed them out a door to safety. He got shot in the wrist. His school and community lauded Notree as a hero, but the Chicago Board of Education insisted that he wasn't entitled to worker's compensation. They said saving the children's lives was not part of his job.
NBC news analyst and former New York Times reporter Gwen Ifill on "Meet the Press" following the 1994 election:
The Democrats are being blamed more than Republicans because they ran in 1992 saying, "If you elect us we will get all of these things done. We'll have a Democratic White House; we'll have a Democratic Congress; and all of the gridlock you saw in the past will fade away." Instead, they look like the gang who couldn't shoot straight; they couldn't get anything through. Now that's not exactly true, because in fact they've gotten a lot of things through, important things like, uh, uh, I can't think of any right now.
In the interests of protecting the ozone layer, the Air Force announced plans to retrofit all its nuclear missiles with cooling systems that do not use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The ICBMs will continue to carry up to 10 nuclear warheads, each capable of wiping out an entire city.
According to the European, a "girl gang" known as the Lesbian Avengers protested the statue outside Buckingham Palace commemorating Queen Victoria, who, the Avengers believed, had never "acknowledged the existence of lesbians." Gathered around the statue, the Avengers "ate fire, banged drums," and waved placards conveying their disapproval.
A student at an English course at the University of Michigan had her grade reduced for writing "Congressman" rather than the preferred "Congressperson."
Louise Lee in the Wall Street Journal:
Many companies are quite formal about how to be casual. Southland, for example, put on a "fashion show" with employees modeling what is—and isn't—OK to wear on dress-down day. For further reference, the company has compiled a two-inch-thick binder packed with full-color catalog clippings, each pasted into sections marked "appropriate" and "inappropriate." (A photo of a woman wearing black spandex exercise shorts and a tight-fitting tank top fell into the latter category.)
In addition, the Dallas-based convenience-store chain has formed an eight-member "Employee Dress Code Committee" to resolve any future disputes over questionable dress.
Determining what is perfectly casual from what is way too casual can be tricky. At Picadilly Cafeterias Inc., of Baton Rouge, La., bluejeans are forbidden, but not black or green jeans. Shorts are prohibited, so why not the culotte-like "skort," an odd cross between shorts and a skirt? "I don't know how to answer that," confesses Scott Bozzell, a vice president who recently held a special meeting with supervisors to clarify the company's casual-dress rules. "I guess the design of skorts itself isn't distasteful."
For workers at conservative companies, the chance to break free from business suits may be just too much to handle. Houston-based American General Corp. tried a Casual Day Pilot Program, but found "the definition of casual was perceived to be broader" than intended, says John Pluhowski, company spokesman.
On dress-down day, employees of the insurance company wore Santa Claus and Easter Bunny outfits, T-shirts advertising booze and tight pants under oversized baggy shirts hanging to the knees. No one was sent home, not even the worker who dressed as a duck.
"If you came as a duck, you went home as a duck, but you were expected not to return as a duck," Mr. Pluhowski says. After a six-month trial, casual day at American General got the ax.
A spokesman for the NAACP said that a Republican proposal to raise the age of eligibility for Medicare and Social Security benefits "could exacerbate racial divisions" because black life expectancy was shorter than that of whites.
When the European community proposed a code governing sexual harassment in the workplace, a delegation of British women marched to EC headquarters in Brussels to voice their opposition. The women, all models who had posed for British tabloids, feared the measure, which specifically bans nude pinups in the workplace, would cost them work.
After University of Pennsylvania undergraduate Gregory Pavlik wrote a column in the Daily Pennsylvanian critical of affirmative action, he was told he would be investigated for racial harassment by the university's Judicial Inquiry Office. When told that charges would be dropped if he agreed to a meeting with the group of students who had accused him, he refused. In protest, a group of black students stole and destroyed a press run of the newspaper. They reiterated their racial harassment charge, and defended their own actions as an example of free expression.
Faced with First Amendment constraints, the university agreed not to prosecute Pavlik. In fact, the only people punished in the incident were the police who arrested the students who destroyed the papers. One officer was suspended, and a follow-up report by the university recommended that the campus police begin keeping race and sex information on their detainees, "to determine if [arrest policy] has an adverse impact on any groups and if the policy is applied in a consistent, non-discriminatory manner."
Lebanese-born Rashid Baz went on trial in late October 1994, accused of shooting at a van full of Hasidic Jewish students after they cut him off on New York's Brooklyn Bridge. One student was killed in the March attack; three were wounded. His lawyer argued that Baz was suffering from ethnic rage.
Defense attorney Eric Sears argued that his client grew up in Beirut amid civil war, violence and an atmosphere of hatred, all of which rendered him temporarily insane. In Baz's case, argued Sears, the violence in Beirut, "besides being constant and random, was often brutal. The house you left in the morning could be rubble that night," he declared in his opening statement at the trial. "Those years inevitably left scars on his personality."
Michael Perlman in the Valley Optimist Magazine, Northampton, Massachusetts, August 24, 1994:
A friend who recently moved to South Deerfield told me that her roommate did something a little odd while they were jogging together. They had jogged into Sunderland and paused by the monumental sycamore tree—one of New England's largest—that grows near the center of town. On an impulse, my friend's roommate embraced the tree and "gave it a big smackeroo."
Could it be that my roommate's friend's affection for the Sunderland sycamore represented a welling up of the ecological (or, more precisely, arboreal) id?
If you surmise that my question is a leading one, you're right on the money. But what it leads to is another, much larger realm of questions. Why does your average passerby think it's weird to kiss trees? Is there in his or her response to the tree-kisser an analogue to homophobia? Why is it forbidden to make love with trees? Are we (if I may coin a phrase) an ecophobic society? And if, with whatever difficulties and setbacks, American society is coming to realize that bisexuality and homosexuality are in and of themselves as healthy as heterosexuality, why do we lag in recognizing the inherent healthiness of erotic, even sexual, connections with nonhuman nature? Why are we so conflicted about—to broach a concept—our natural ecosexuality?
The vice chairman of the United States Postal Service stated that African Americans are over-represented among postal workers in major cities, often at the expense of Latinos. Tirso del Junco, who is himself Hispanic, said that postal service management in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami "is driven by blacks—they must open the doors of opportunity to everyone," reported the Los Angeles Times. Postal Service officials denied del Junco's accusations and argued that hiring is based on the results of a test open to anyone. "The managers do not control the hiring of employees—the register controls it," said Charly Amos, the Postal Service Manager for Affirmative Action.
Rapper Ice-T, in an interview with Black Elegance magazine, nostalgically reflected on his life as a Los Angeles pimp before he became famous: "Bein' a pimp was real cool, rollin' around with 20 Gs in my pocket, fly perm dipped, and gold jewelry hangin' down, because I was like a psychiatrist to the prostitutes."
A September fundraiser for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1994 reelection bid was held at the house of Brad Whitford, a member of the Boston-area rock group Aerosmith. At the event, Kennedy was asked to name his favorite Aerosmith song. Seeing that his boss was stumped, an aide yelled, "Walk This Way," one of the band's most popular numbers. Kennedy missed the reference and began walking toward the aide.
Missouri attorney general Jay Nixon has compiled a list of the "Top 10 frivolous lawsuits" filed by Missouri prisoners. Included in the list: one prisoner filed a suit claiming that the cost of junk food in a prison commissary is too high; another charged that the limit on Kool-Aid refills is cruel and unusual. A convicted murderer wanted the state to give him an axe so he could build a "sweat lodge" in which to conduct American Indian ceremonies. A prisoner sued the Buchanan County jail for making escape too easy (although he broke his leg during a failed attempt), while another complained that nicotine patches are not provided free to inmates who want to quit smoking. One lawsuit demanded that prisoners be served butter and not just margarine, while another argued that "male inmates should be allowed to wear female apparel such as bras, panties, lipstick, and artificial fingernails. Another lawsuit demanded that convicts working in prison libraries should be paid the same rate as attorneys. The No. 1 lawsuit, and the only one among them not to have been dismissed yet: a complaint that there are no salad bars or brunches on weekends and holidays.
In their book Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies, Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, both university professors and self-described feminists, report on the use of acronyms as a form of shorthand among some academic feminists. IDPOL, or "identity politics," represents the belief that people and their ideas are defined entirely by membership in an oppressed or oppressor group. TOTAL REJ represents the contention that "our culture... is so infused with patriarchal thinking that it must be torn up root and branch if genuine change is to occur." WORDMAGIC signifies the effort to uncover the supposedly masculinist roots of words and phrases most would consider gender-neutral, such as "the thrust of an argument." BIODENIAL represents the idea that biology is completely unrelated to male or female experience, such as the assertion that "the pain of childbirth is socially constructed by patriarchy and would not happen in a feminist society."
Peter Jennings on ABC Radio, November 14, 1994, commenting on the recent election that brought the Republican Party control of the House, Senate, and many governorships:
Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week... Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old.
When Crystal Storm came to Philadelphia to earn a living as a nude dancer, she advertised her measurements as 121-24-36. Officials from the weights and measures division of the Department of Licenses and Inspection came calling to make sure her license was in order, for which they had legal authority ever since nude dancing became a licensed profession. They measured Ms. Storm's bustline and determined that her claims were not true: her bust measured a mere 50 inches. Ms. Storm claimed the quoted measurement was in centimeters, to which Department official Frank Antico said, "That's deceptive advertising."
An electronic message posted to several news groups in the world-wide USENET forum:
From: ...@...psych.berkeley.edu
(Leor Jacobi)
I just found out that the makers of Teva sandals are being
BOYCOTTED by the AFL-CIO for their union-busting activities,
so I am strongly urging all vegans to NOT BUY THIS SANDAL.
I can see no reason why we should support companies who
exploit humans or animals.
If you're interested in other vegan sandals and can't
find them, Aesop, P.O. Box 315, North Cambridge, MA
02140, has a complete catalog of vegan footwear.
The Boston Sunday Herald, November 20, 1994:
A Somerville house painter was weak but still dedicated as he entered the second week of a hunger strike aimed at forcing his cable company to carry a Portuguese channel in Cambridge and Somerville. "I'm tired and cold," Manuel Bonifacio said yesterday. "The doctor is going to check me to make sure everything is OK so far."
Bonifacio, 39, the host of "Here We Speak Portuguese" on local-access stations in Cambridge and Somerville, has subsisted on juice and water since he began his hunger strike. Four other hunger strikers are making the same demand in New Bedford and Fall River. So far, cable officials have only encouraged Bonifacio and the others to eat.
Illinois state motor vehicles officials refused to grant the automobile of a Chicago man a license, because state law requires that all cars pass an emissions test. Since the car was electric and had no emissions, there was no way to test it.
The following letter to the Wall Street Journal (August 31, 1994) concerns the story of Frank Balun, a Hillside, New Jersey man who set a passive squirrel trap for a rat that had been eating his garden vegetables. After the rat became trapped, Balun called the state Humane Society to pick it up. However, the rat started to struggle to escape from the trap, so Balun hit it on the head with a broom handle, killing it.
Balun was then charged with "needlessly abusing a rodent" by the Humane Society, whose director said, "It may only be a rat, but it's a living creature, and there is no reason to abuse a living creature." If convicted, he faced a $10,000 fine.
The charge was eventually dropped following widespread public ridicule and enthusiastic support from Health Board chief Angelo Bonano, who called the charges "absolutely preposterous," adding, "we encourage people to kill rats because they carry disease!"
Note the spurious name at the end of the letter:
With respect to your defamatory editorial that attempted humor over the wanton and vicious murder of a poor defenseless rodent (or the Latin mus as the name "rats" prefer to call themselves) at the hands of a white human male who is 100 times the size of the victim, I must protest ("Oh, Rats!" Aug. 11).
It is well and good that you beat your breasts in justification that the "grandfather" was only protecting his grandchildren, but this is at the expense of another fact. The poor murdered creature was simply foraging for food to feed her own family, certainly less a threat than, say, a raccoon. Would you express a similar satisfaction had farmer MacGregor caught and killed Peter in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"? I rather doubt it. But Peter was a rodent, too.
MUS, or "rats," if you insist, have a particular problem. They are not considered attractive because of their long and hairless tails. Their close cousins, mice on the other hand, receive greater understanding, and even respect. A mouse was responsible for creating a multibillion-dollar international company that trades on the New York Stock Exchange. Sadly, due to human prejudice as exhibited by your editorial, this would not have been the case had he been named "Dickey Rat."
"Oh, Rats" can be said as a curse, but it can also be expressed as a plea for mercy, compassion and understanding. It would be best for all to remember we are all God's creatures, and therefore not editorialize that some exterminations are more justifiable than others.
—Billion Basp
MUS Anti-Defamation League
The Washington Post, November 17, 1994:
[D.C. mayor-elect Marion Barry] is devoting long hours to examining the District's budget, for which deficit projections have worsened dramatically in recent weeks.
Taking the lead in that effort are former city administrator Elijah B. Rogers and former deputy mayor Ivanhoe Donaldson, who pleaded guilty in 1985 to stealing $190,000 in city funds.
The Washington Times, August 26, 1994:
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat, says he owns an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and keeps it in his Washington home....
The AR-15 is classified as a "machine gun" under the D.C. law. In other words, it's illegal to possess such a powerful weapon in the nation's capital....
Mr. Rockefeller was busy working on the crime bill yesterday and had no immediate comment.
Following a year of $500 million in losses and the start of a new year that found the Postal Service running expenses of $215 million more than expected, Postmaster General Marvin Runyon announced the possibility of large cash bonuses for his top managers if the total loss for the current year could be kept to only $1.3 billion.
Under heavy criticism for allowing members of Congress, the Supreme Court, and diplomats to park for free at reserved parking spots at Washington airports, the Senate voted to change this practice. Signs that previously announced reserved parking for Congress, the diplomatic corps, and Supreme Court justices have been replaced by signs reading simply, "Reserved Parking/Authorized Users Only." Still, the only authorized users are members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and members of the diplomatic corps.
Amidst the overall collapse of the Cuban economy, the Cuban government recently began a crackdown on those it believes has have earned too much money in the small private sector. So far, more than 370 people have been charged with "illegal enrichment."
Daimion Osby, a black 18-year-old who shot two unarmed blacks in a Fort Worth parking lot in 1993, got a deadlocked jury after his lawyer argued that he suffered from "urban survival syndrome"—the fear that inner-city residents have of other people in that area.
"Roid rage," mood swings associated with steroid use, was used to defend 19-year-old Troy Matthew Gentzler, who admitted tossing rocks at passing cars near York, Pennsylvania, injuring several.
In Los Angeles, Moosa Hanoukai had his charges reduced from murder to voluntary manslaughter after beating his wife to death with a wrench. His lawyer said that Hanoukai's wife had psychologically emasculated him—calling him names, forcing him to sleep on the floor—thus destroying his self-esteem.
A form used by Michael Hunter during training sessions for dormitory resident advisers and desk attendants at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey:
I, (name), hereby have permission to be imperfect with regards to homophobia and heterosexism. It is O.K. if I don't know all of the answers or if at times my ignorance and misunderstandings become obvious. I have permission to ask questions that appear stupid. I have permission to struggle with these issues and be up front and honest about my feelings. I am a product of this homophobic/heterosexist culture, and I am who I am. I don't have to feel guilty about what I know or believe, but I do need to take responsibility for what I can do now:
Trying to learn as much as I can.
Struggling to change my false/inaccurate beliefs or oppressive attitudes.
Learning what I can do to make a difference.
Landlords in Provo, Utah, who rent apartments to Brigham Young University students are discriminating against non-Mormons in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, ACLU lawyers charged in a lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City's U.S. District Court. By conforming with BYU's off-campus housing policy, which strictly segregates male and female tenants, the landlords are also discriminating on the basis of gender and family status, the complaint charged.
Jonathan Alter in Newsweek, September 19, 1994:
On the day her resignation was announced in the New York Times, Anna Quindlen's column was a perfect illustration of why newspaper readers will miss her so much. The ostensible subject was the Barbie doll. Before Quindlen's 1990 debut, explaining "why there's no PMS Barbie" might have been considered beneath the standards of the Times op-ed page. Now it's another example of the new standard she set.
A television station in Jacksonville, Florida, cancelled the Reverend Jerry Falwell's show after receiving numerous complaints from viewers. In recent months, Falwell has become obsessed with Bill Clinton's sexual improprieties, discussing them in some detail on his show. One woman said that she complained after her 9-year-old son asked what oral sex was after hearing Falwell discuss it.
From Enforcement Guidance on Preemployment Disability-Related Injuries, a set of guidelines issued in May 1994 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The guidelines show employers how to conduct job interviews in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act:
Under the law, an employer may not ask about the existence, nature, or severity of a disability until after the employer determines that the applicant is qualified for the job and makes a conditional job offer. This is to ensure that an applicant's possible hidden disability is not considered by the employer. Employers may ask, however, about an applicant's ability to perform specific job-related functions.
R [interviewer] may ask an applicant questions such as, "Do you regularly eat three meals per day?" or "How much do you weigh?" Such inquiries are not likely to elicit information about a disability because there are a number of reasons why an individual may or may not regularly eat meals or may have a high or low weight. R may not ask questions such as, "Do you need to eat a number of small snacks at regular intervals throughout the day in order to maintain your energy level?" Such inquiries are likely to elicit information about a disability (e.g., diabetes).
R is hiring a word processor and asks an applicant how he broke his arm. This is not prohibited. However, R may not go on to ask how extensive the break is, when the arm is expected to heal, or whether the applicant will have full use of the arm in the future.
R may ask an applicant, "How many Mondays or Fridays were you absent last year on leave other than approved vacation leave?" R may not ask, "How many days were you sick last year?" or "How many separate episodes of sickness did you have last year?"
R may ask an applicant with one leg who applies for a job as a telephone linesperson to describe or demonstrate how she would perform her duties, because R may reasonably believe that having one leg interferes with the ability to climb telephone poles.
Members of the California Psychological Association have agreed to provide free psychotherapy to people who turn guns in at local police stations. Anyone who brings a gun to a Contra Costa County police station through 1994 will receive a coupon entitling the bearer to $300 worth of psychological care—either individual, marital, or group therapy. The program is the brainchild of psychologist David O'Grady, who says the program should appeal to women who feel insecure and "want other means of coping with their fears" and to men "who know hey have problems controlling their anger and want better skills."
National Public Radio reporter Sunni Khalid on C-SPAN's "Journalists Roundtable," October 14, 1994:
I think there's a big difference when people told Father Aristide to sort of moderate his views; they were concerned about people being dragged through the streets, killed and necklaced. I don't think that is what Newt Gingrich has in mind. I think he's looking at a more scientific, a more civil way of lynching people.
Promotional jacket text for Ariel Dorfman's The Emperor's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds. Dorfman is also the author of How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic.
Nothing could seem more innocent than Babar the Elephant, the Lone Ranger, Donald Duck, or the Reader's Digest. Yet, in this daring book, Ariel Dorfman explores the hidden political and social messages behind the smiling faces that inhabit those familiar books, comics, and magazines. In so doing, he provides a stunning map to the secret world inside the most successful cultural symbols of our time.
Dorfman first examines the meteoric rise of Babar the elephant from orphan to king of the jungle and the way stories like his teach the young a rosy version of underdevelopment and colonialism. He then turns to purely American comic-book figures and shows how Donald Duck, the Lone Ranger, Superman, and other heroes offer a set of simple, disarming answers to the deepest dilemmas of our time without ever calling an established value into question. Along the way, with wit and wily style, he raises a series of always provocative questions: Why does the Lone Ranger really have that mask? Why do Disney comics teem with uncles and nephews but no mothers and fathers? How could a comic book help overthrow a government? How does an "adult's" magazine like the Reader's Digest continually transform us into children?
Here is a book that will appeal to those who want to understand the connection between politics and culture, between Ronald Reagan and Mickey Mouse, between economic theories of development and children's literature. It is for those who are fascinated by the mass media, for parents and teachers who are worried about what their children are watching and reading, for anyone who wants to understand the way ideas are produced and manipulated in the twentieth century.
Basketball all-star Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns charged that he was misquoted in a new book about him. The book was his autobiography.
Haywood Burns, a dean and professor at CUNY School of Queens College, from the Empire State Report, April 1994:
In meeting the challenge of diversity, New Yorkers must neither accentuate nor submerge our differences. We need to learn to accept and respect them, with an acceptance and respect that goes beyond mere tolerance, to an appreciation and even a celebration of both the riches and strength we all bring to another, and of the great unity that is possible in diversity.
In Women, Celibacy, and Passion, Sally Cline condemns "restaurant tables automatically laid for two" as a symbol of "society's onerous insistence on coupledom."
In Florida, Hillsborough Country Judge Dan Perry threw out charges of cruelty to animals against Manuel Machin for shooting a possum he treed in his backyard. Assistant State Attorney Jan McDonald had attempted to portray Machin in a very bad light, telling the court, "he raises his rifle into the air and fires a shot—a possum falls. This is a very, very serious case." The judge, though, dismissed the cruelty charge against Machin, agreeing with the defense's claim that "we're not talking about a fuzzy little dog here, we're talking about a varmint, we're talking about a nasty, filthy creature."
Twenty percent of French women, according to a survey reported in the newsmagazine Le Point, do not think an interviewer should be censured for asking a job applicant to disrobe.
Promotional material for Shannon Bell's Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body, published by Indiana University Press:
Bell shows how the flesh-and-blood sexual female body engaged in sexual interaction for payment has no inherent meaning and is signified differently in different cultures or discourses. The author contends that modernity has produced "the prostitute" as the other within the categorical other woman.
A Maine professor who was fired when he kissed a female student filed a court suit, arguing that the incident was the result of "sexual obsessiveness" that amounted to a disability under the Federal Rehabilitation Act.
Garrett Redmond, a school board trustee in Half Moon Bay, California, has proposed to eliminate homework in the Cabrillo Unified School District because it's "inherently unfair." Some kids, apparently, have more time than others to spend on homework, plus not everyone has a computer or a good place in which to work. Redmond explained:
"We have students who can tap into the Internet and CD-ROMs in their own bedroom, and have a vast array of information at their fingertips. But the unfortunate people who live in hovels with the entire family sharing one or two rooms—how is that kid supposed to do their [sic] homework?"
To bolster his case, Redmond has even claimed that homework is contrary to "family values": since kids can spend up to five or six hours on their schoolwork, it means "goodbye to any time to spend with their parents."
When a Los Angeles city agency proposed allocating $175,000 for three street paintings on Hollywood Boulevard, critics attacked the move as wasteful. They noted that the artworks, which would be painted directly onto the road bed, would fade under the tire treads within a couple of days.
The Kentucky Commission on Women rejected South Central Bell's plan to gradually phase out discriminatory "Men Working" signs, insisting instead that there be immediate and remedial change. Furthermore, even if the telephone company decided to abandon written signs in favor of a symbol of a person working, the commission would still object. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokeswoman Laura White declared that the symbol would be gender-biased because "it looks like it has pants on," a statement that is itself biased.
After serving a six-month prison sentence for cocaine possession, Marion Barry sought re-election for the office of mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry was assisted in this endeavor by the 75-member Coalition of Ex-Offenders, a group of felons who went door to door campaigning for him. According to organizer Rhozier "Roach" Brown, a convicted murderer, drug dealer, and thief, the Coalition members were especially helpful because they went into the toughest neighborhoods to register the District's substantial criminal population, most of whom were unaware of a 1976 law that gave them voting rights.
Following Mayor Barry's successful re-election campaign, a federal judge transferred parole supervision of Mr. Brown from the D.C. parole board to a federal board. This was because Mr. Brown, who was now serving as an assistant to the mayor, had inexplicably been released early by the D.C. board from his prison sentence and, due to a "clerical error," freed of his obligation to repay $45,000 to an orphanage he was convicted of swindling.
In "Toward a Feminist Algebra," a paper presented at a 1993 meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Maryanne Campbell and Randall K. Campbell-Wright concluded that women are discouraged from studying math because word problems used to test students' grasp of mathematical concepts refer to situations fraught with sexist stereotypes.
The authors noted their disapproval of a particular problem in which a girl and her boyfriend run toward each other—even though the girl's slower speed is explained by the fact that she is carrying luggage—because it described exclusively heterosexual involvement. They objected to another problem about a contractor and the contractor's workers—worded so as not to specify their sex—because students would supposedly envision the workers as male. However, they approved of a problem about Sue and Debbie, "a couple financing their $70,000 home."
In conclusion, the authors called for problems "presenting female heroes and breaking gender stereotypes," "analyzing sex similarities and differences intentionally," and "affirming women's experiences."
Colorado federal prison inmate James Howard, who is serving a 10-year sentence for car theft, has brought a lawsuit against the prison for not allowing him to practice his "religion," which is Satanism.
A federal court agreed, with U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham ruling that "we ought to give the devil his due," quoting from another case dealing with Satanism. Prison officials had warned that the materials which Howard said he needed for his devotions—candles, incense, a gong, a black robe, a chalice, and a wooden staff—could threaten prison security, but the judge said the inmate's religious rights had to take precedence.
Howard said he plans to practice "destruction rituals," which he described as a way to visualize people's death, purging anger towards them without doing them any harm. However, Dr. Carl Raschke, an author of a book on Satanism and teacher of religious studies at the University of Denver, said that such rituals are commonly intended to kill people, and he called the judge's decision "reprehensible."
When Carol Bentz of Manchester, Maryland, wanted to have her dying pet, a blue heron named Steve, stuffed and donated to a local high school, she discovered that transporting a dead heron, which is a protected bird, is punishable by a federal fine of up to $5,000 and six months in jail and a state fine of $1,000 and one year in jail. While looking for someone with a permit to transport a dead heron, she also discovered that a special permit was required to "salvage" a dead heron. Once the dead heron is "salvaged," a private citizen is not allowed to possess a stuffed heron. When Bentz finally located a law enforcement agent of the Fish and Wildlife Service, he told her that she should freeze the bird while he started the paperwork moving on her permits. Once he discovered the location of the high school the dead bird would be donated to, that meant more permits. Finally the bird was moved and prepared by a taxidermist specially licensed for preparing protected birds. Said Bentz of the ordeal: "The government made me angry. I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard in my life."
Course description for "Sex Work: The Labor of Pornography," an art history course offered by Kelly Dennis at the University of California at Santa Cruz:
Examines pornography not only as a representational genre but as the representation of class-based labor largely unaccounted for by contemporary pornography debates. Is pornography simply a gender issue?
...and this is from another course from Ms. Dennis, "State of the Art: Aesthetics of Government Patronage and Censorship in the 20th Century":
While Hagel [sic] claimed that the State is founded on Art, U.S. government policy locates the keystone of the nation state in the family, despite the latter's social and economic obsolescence since the nineteenth century. Course examines the moral and political substance and subtext of contemporary arts censorship up to and including recent NEA controversies.
Sentenced to be hanged for murdering two bank tellers during a robbery, Washington state death-row inmate Mitchell Rupe told the court that the state shouldn't hang him because he is too fat. The inmate claimed that because of his 409-pound weight, it was possible that he would be decapitated in the process, thus violating the constitutional ban against "cruel and unusual punishment." Although Washington state law permits the alternative of lethal injection, Rupe said he didn't like that form of execution because it is "morally repugnant."
After three Berkeley residents voiced concern that a proposed subsidized housing project would attract drug abusers, alcoholics and crime (as had several such projects in the past), they were accused of "housing discrimination" against the handicapped and threatened by lawsuits by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD investigators demanded every article, flier and letter to the editor they had written, as well as minutes from every public meeting at which any of the three spoke, or face a $100,000 fine or jail time.
In New York City, HUD launched a similar investigation of the Irving Place Community Coalition, a group opposed to placing another home for the mentally ill in a neighborhood already saturated with such homes. HUD demanded to see membership lists, memos, and even the diaries of the plan's opponents.
Issues debated at the national convention of the National Education Association included abortion, nuclear waste, pesticides, and the economic embargo of Haiti. A motion to limit debate to subjects directly related to education was defeated.
A North Carolina man imprisoned on bank-robbery charges has filed suit against the bank, claiming that it overstated the loss from one of his robberies. In the suit, the bank robber complained that the bank's estimate of $272,000 taken was overstated and caused the judge in his case to sentence him more severely than if the smaller, more accurate figure had been entered into evidence.
Guns sold in Fulton County, Georgia, will now be required to bear warning labels, thanks to an initiative sponsored by county commissioner John O'Callaghan. The ordinance mandates that gun dealers affix labels on all weapons, informing would-be purchasers that guns are a leading cause of murder and suicide; dealers must also post notices to this effect in their stores.
MacArthur Foundation "genius grant"-winner Susan McClary, from Getting Down Off the Beanstalk: The Presence of a Woman's Voice in Janika Vandervelde's Genesis II:
Beethoven's symphonies add two other dimensions to the history of style: assaultive pelvic pounding ... and sexual violence. The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.
[Ed.: McClary comments that the works of Gustave Mahler and Richard Strauss are likewise "filled with themes of male masturbation."]
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) tried to impress visiting constituents with his commitment to the environment by telling them how he had helped dig channels for bull trout at a Montana ranch. When asked by the visitors if he had obtained the needed federal wetlands permit, Baucus admitted that he didn't know. Baucus is the principal sponsor of the bill that reauthorizes federal regulation of wetlands.
Two ex-GIs brought a suit against the Veterans' Administration before the Supreme Court, arguing that they had missed the entire ten-year eligibility period for veteran's educational benefits because they were too drunk to notice the time slipping by.
A Meridian, Mississippi man has filed a lawsuit against "God," claiming that the Bible discriminates against blacks and homosexuals. Joel Ford filed the suit on September 14th and not only wants the Bible changed to eliminate such "racist" and "homophobic" references, but he wants Oxford University Press to pay him $45 million in damages.
To improve safety standards at the Rocky Flats, Colorado, nuclear weapons plant, managers of the facility revised the procedure for changing a light bulb in a criticality beacon, which warns workers of spontaneous nuclear accidents. Replacing the bulb, which used to be a 12-step process that took 12 workers 4.15 hours to complete, became a 33-step procedure that takes at least 43 people 1,087.1 hours to complete.
The steps call for a lead planner to meet with six other people at a work-control meeting; talk with other workers who have done the job before; meet again; get signatures from five people at the work-control meeting; get the project plans approved by separate officials overseeing safety, logistics, environmental, maintenance, operations, waste management, and plant scheduling; wait for a monthly criticality beacon test; direct electricians to replace the bulb; and then test and verify the repair.
After Torrington Hide and Metal of Wyoming was found to be contaminated under the federal Superfund law, the company promptly declared bankruptcy to protect itself from creditors. Searching for a liable party, the Environmental Protection Agency then sued the five largest companies that contributed to the toxic site. To deflect part of the $1.25 million cleanup fine the EPA was demanding, four of these five companies turned around and sued 54 third parties identified as potential contributors to the mess. Since Russ Zimmer's name appeared on two cancelled checks, he was named among the smaller entities and forced to pay $3,500 as part of the court settlement. One bill was for a bag of dog chow, and the other was for a $4.85 bag of seed he sold to the company. Other defendants included the St. Joseph's Children's Home and a South Dakota volunteer fire department.
Men who were carrying refrigerators on their backs during "refrigerator races" sued the manufacturer because the appliances carried insufficient warnings of possible injury from such activity.
A New York man who deliberately leapt in front of a moving subway train was awarded $650,000 because the train had failed to stop in time to avoid mangling him.
The San Francisco Giants were sued for giving away Father's Day gifts to men only.
Two Marines alleged discrimination because the Marine Corps had discharged them for "being chronically overweight."
The Salvation Army has been sued on the grounds that it violated an employee's right to freedom of religion after it dismissed a woman for using agency equipment to copy materials describing Satanic rituals.
A psychic won $986,000 in a suit against her doctor, claiming that undergoing a CAT scan procedure had led to the suppression of her psychic powers, and thus her ability to make a living.
A left-handed postal clerk accused the Postal Service of discriminatory bias in setting up filing cases "for the convenience of right-handed clerks."
A psychology professor complained that she had been the victim of sexual harassment by the presence of mistletoe at a Christmas party. Presumably, the mistletoe constitutes an implied threat of being kissed.
A Michigan man was awarded worker's compensation benefits because he had become an alcoholic while working for the Stroh's Brewery Company. Stroh's did not, of course, require the man to drink, but he nonetheless charged that his drinking problem was aggravated by the job-site availability of free beer, a benefit that had been demanded and won by his union.
In Florida, a man filed a lawsuit as a result of a haircut that he claimed was so bad that it induced a panic-anxiety attack and interfered with his "right to enjoy life."
Douglas Hartman, an air traffic controller from Aurora, Illinois, brought suit against the federal government for sexual harassment after he and other controllers attended a series of "diversity workshops" sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration. Attendance wasn't required, but according to Joseph Bellino, former executive vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, they were told they would be considered racist or sexist if they didn't attend.
According to accounts by participants, men were subjected to a "sexual harassment gauntlet" in which they were required to walk past a line of women who fondled them and made obscene remarks about their sexual prowess. Female employees were prompted to talk about being raped and abused, and to recall their first sexual experiences. Minorities were directed to describe humiliating experiences of racism, and white employees had to sit in on sessions in which black employees verbally attacked them. According to the controllers, employees who refused to play along were coerced by groups of five or six "facilitators" to take part.
Hartman said that many employees were disturbed by the sessions, some seeking professional help, and that after the sexual harassment gauntlet, several women apologized to him.
According to a report issued by the inspector general of the Department of Energy, guards at DOE laboratories earn overtime pay for using exercise equipment as part of union requirements.
Anita Roddick, owner and founder of The Body Shop, comments on her time spent in Cuba in Tatler, October 1993. The Body Shop, which has several hundred retail outlets world-wide, specializes in a variety of natural skin-care products. Company policy forbids the marketing of products that involve animal testing.
In Cuba, on the other hand, a simple bar of soap is bound to be quite scarce. One woman told a foreign journalist that she hadn't been able to wash her daughter properly for over two and a half months. As for animal rights, there are also reports that due to chronic food shortages, the number of cats and dogs in Havana has been dwindling.
Since the "special period" when Soviet investment was suddenly withdrawn, Cubans have lost an average of 20 pounds each. The fact itself reads like the stuff of propaganda. The reality was altogether different. What amazed me was how quickly you could fall in love with the economics of less. There are no ads, no billboards, no graffiti, no shops, no cars. People perch on the sea wall in couples, in groups, and talk. They are affectionate and caring, with a real sense of unity and an honest reverence for Fidel Castro.
Everybody seems to be working for public good rather than private greed. In the morning, I would see clusters of volunteers—government ministers, white- and blue-collar workers—heading out into the countryside to work in the fields. They all do it for 10 days each month.
The threat that Cuba poses to Western business interests is that it is a society that knows how to live without excess, without consumerism or commercialism. That is the revolution America fears. It has the best healthcare system in the world, with one doctor to every 196 citizens (the States manages a 1:405 ratio). It has almost 100-per-cent literacy. If a system that exists under such severe economic restraints can manage such achievements, there is surely a lot it can teach us.
One thing that really struck me was the enthusiasm of the foreign diplomats I encountered. One went so far as to mention Utopia. For myself, I felt there was no horizon I could not get above or beyond in Cuba. I remember with such affection waking up and thinking, "Here I am where I ought to be, because here I could belong."
[Ed.: Note that when people are impoverished in a capitalist economy, it is a vice, but in a socialist economy it is a virtue. Also ask yourself: if we had a 1:1 ratio of doctors to patients, what would that suggest about the quality of our health?]
Former NBC News reporter Bob Herbert discusses proposed funding for midnight basketball leagues in a New York Times column, August 17, 1994:
Programs designed to aid inner city youths... are not pork.... "Pork!" scream the demagogues. "Give us the death penalty!" The next time you or a loved one find yourself trapped in the nightmare of a violent crime, ask yourself if it wouldn't have been better for the "perp" to have been off playing basketball somewhere. You may find yourself suddenly in favor of even an imperfect attempt at prevention.
In Great Britain, hard-core juvenile criminals were sent abroad with social workers, at taxpayers' expense, for such rehabilitative exercises as a boat ride on the Nile, swimming with the dolphins off Ireland, skiing in the Pyrenees, Hiking in Portugal, and bungee-jumping in Australia. Objecting to what critics referred to as "Crooks' Tours," Home Secretary Michael Howard denounced the program's administrators as "having more money than sense."
Lawyer's Weekly USA, June 6, 1994:
"I conclude that [a Postal Service supervisor] became fearful of [an employee] and believed that [he] was mentally imbalanced and capable of" violence, the court said...
The court said it would have been permissible to fire the employee "for his irascibility alone." However, the Post Office tolerated his irascibility for some time and only fired him when his boss became afraid that he was capable of a shooting spree. This was discrimination based on a perceived handicap, the court said.
Former NBC News president Michael Gartner in USA Today, September 27, 1994:
[Hillary's] role has been a success. She awakened the nation. She educated the nation. She enlightened the nation.... For when a nation gets two leaders for the price of one—a Franklin and Eleanor, a Bill and Hillary—it can tackle twice as many problems, find twice as many solutions, make twice as much progress.
At the close of the first year of the Clinton administration, a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget received an envelope that was stamped SPECIAL, PRIORITY, and SPECIAL HANDLING, and that was taped shut. Inside was an envelope stamped PROPERTY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT and VIA COURIER that was taped shut. Inside that was another envelope stamped SECRET three times. Inside the final envelope was a letter from a Cabinet official concerning the appointment of an aide to become a member of the President's Management Council. The council was entrusted with implementing the administration's reinventing government plans.
As part of freshman orientation at the University of Pennsylvania, trained facilitators provide students with, as the Facilitators' Guide calls it, "examples of racial, gender-related, religious, and homophobic incidents of harassment that have taken place at the University over the past few years." The odd purpose of discussing these examples (the more serious of which are listed below) was to show incoming freshmen how pervasive discrimination was at Penn.
A white student punched a black student in an elevator.
"Racist and sexist slurs" were yelled at a fraternity party when "African-American strippers" had been hired to entertain the members.
A lecturer "continually referred to African-American students in his class as 'ex-slaves.' "
Physics professor Michael Cohen protested that, of the three incidents, an investigation had determined that the punching incident simply did not happen. Another investigation determined that the fraternity party involved no racial slurs; the strippers were both black and white. As for the third incident, an investigation had concluded that the lecturer in question had only referred to African-Americans as "ex-slaves" once in his twenty-two years of teaching, and then only to point out that he, too, was an "ex-slave" as part of the same sentence.
Freshmen at Penn are also expected to participate in an ongoing series of seminars held inside residence halls. Among them are Cultural Perspective and Discrimination; Race and Masculinity; The Roots and Manifestations of Racism; Fear of Difference: The Importance of Racial Identity for All Students; Latinos and Bicultural Stress; Preventing Harassment: Everyone's Responsibility; Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals in Protestantism; Gays and Lesbians in the Jewish Community; Who Is a Sexual Minority?—Everyone; Liberating Women Through Religion; Violence Against Women; Acquaintance Rape: A Workshop for Men; Lies I Use to Prove my Masculinity; and The Challenge for the White Male.
When journalist Richard Bernstein visited campus, he was handed a flyer calling on Community House to observe "Gay Jeans Day" as part of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Awareness Week. The flyer was issued by Liz Golden, the program assistant for diversity education, who explained that "I have taken it upon myself to ask all people to show their support for gay civil rights by wearing jeans on March 28." (The number of students who don't wear jeans is ordinarily quite low, of course.) Golden went on, "The purpose of having an In-House version of this campuswide event is to personalize it and make it more visible both to those who do and don't support the notions of Gay pride and personal freedom." Moreover, the week after Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Awareness Week, "there will be a program to deal with what came up for House members in response to the Day. The program will be required for RA's [resident advisers], Managers and the Diversity Board Members."
What actually came up one year was several student protesters who stood near the gay and lesbian participants, and who held out a placard declaring: "Heterosexual Footwear Day—Wear Shoes if You Are a Heterosexual" and "Don't Bend for a Friend." The Penn administration put this on the list of "incidents of harassment" to be read to freshmen in years to come.
A female political science professor interviewed for the book Professing Feminism received a paper from a student consisting of a single sentence: "Freud was a cancer-ridden, cigar-smoking misogynist."
Several weeks after a forty-year-old woman was killed by a mountain lion in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a trust fund set up for the woman's two children had received $9,000, while a fund set up for the cub of the lioness, which was tracked down and killed a week after the incident, had received $21,000.
When the Board of Health of Northampton, Massachusetts, proposed a ban on roosters in residential areas because of their loud crowing early in the morning, some residents objected (half-seriously) that the ban discriminated against males because it did not include chickens.
The Detroit News:
Joanne Flynn, a former vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co., sued the company alleging that she was denied a promotion and then fired because of her gender. The person who got the promotion and who eventually booted Flynn was Doris Smith—another woman. A federal jury found the firm guilty of gender discrimination.
In Port Bolivar, Texas, Marinus Van Leuzen, a 73-year-old immigrant from Holland, decided to build his retirement home on some property he had owned for more than 20 years, less than half an acre of land. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency, however, determined his property to be "wetlands," and that as part of the construction he deposited "illegal fill material" on the property—even though the Corps' authority extends only to the filling of "navigable water" of the U.S. under the Clean Water Act.
As part of the court order, Van Leuzen must post a billboard (six feet off the ground, 10 feet high, 20 feet across) announcing his crime, and must put $350 a month into a special account for eight years. At the end of this eight years the money will be used to move his house. During the intervening years Mr. Van Leuzen must also spend a significant portion of his life savings to "restore" the land to its "pre-adulterated" condition, when it was home to a muddy bait camp: a cross between a campground and a fishing bait store, complete with outdoor latrines and scattered beer cans. Most nearby residents considered the bait camp an eyesore; few, if any, regarded it as an ecologically valuable wetland.
In downtown Boise, Idaho, Hanover Construction Co. needed a permit to fill in 26 square feet of "wetland" caused by a leaking pipe. After waiting 450 days for the Army Corps of Engineers to make a decision, the company gave up and withdrew its application. The town of Tiverton, Rhode Island, had to wait nearly two years for a permit from the Corps to fill in 44 square yards of wetland for a mosquito-control project.
President Clinton's 1994 crime bill included a provision for midnight basketball leagues, which would ostensibly provide the opportunity for inner-city youths to play basketball at late hours rather than commit crimes. Asked whether he would want his own daughters up at midnight playing basketball, Vice President Gore had no comment. The provision also requires that a certain percentage of HIV-positive players be represented on each team.
[Ed.: How do you stop five black guys from robbing a store? Throw 'em a basketball. Ha, Ha, Ha! What previously was an objectionable joke is now law.]
An Arizona woman who was scalded when she spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee on herself as she held it between her legs while driving, was awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages and $160,000 in compensatory damages when she sued the corporation. An Ohio woman sued Burger King eight days later after she, too, scalded herself. She is seeking $65,000 in damages because the coffee was "too hot" and its packaging was defective.
Both companies say they serve the coffee at about 180 degrees—as opposed to the 140 degrees that is typical for home brewing—because it makes the coffee taste better. Ted Lingle, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association, suggests that warning labels are in order—that consumers can no longer be assumed to know that hot things burn.
In New York schools, $24,160 was paid for a consultant, whose expertise was in ethnic music, to evaluate a school math program. The same amount was paid for a New Jersey real estate lawyer to "coordinate community school district activities" in compliance with a federal program. Another consultant was paid $4,000 to determine whether the city's Board of Education needed a consultant. He decided that it did, and gave himself the job.
After New Yorker Alphonso Pecou hacked his wife to death and set her body on fire in front of his four children a decade ago, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental institution. Pecou recently requested spiritual counseling in addition to psychiatric treatment. After Jewish, Catholic and Protestant clergy on the hospital staff failed to make any headway with Pecou, authorities contacted Alpha Omega Bundu, self-described "primate and pastor" of the United Church of Salvation in Brooklyn. The Kingsboro Psychiatric Center paid Bundu the standard fee of $500 for his counseling and "diagnosis" after Bundu declared that Pecou was possessed by a pack of demons and performed an exorcism on the spot. Bundu then presented the state Department of Mental health with an additional bill of $12,000.
In 1990, the Environmental Protection Agency, together with the Army Corps of Engineers, issued a memorandum to all EPA regional administrators to produce a "cluster of new cases... to provide an early deterrent to potential violations which might otherwise occur..."
In Missouri, when corn farmer Rick McGown repaired a sunken levee on his property, he was accused of illegally filling a wetland after an Army Corps official found a "cattail" growing on the land. McGown pointed out that the plant is a strain of sorghum he planted. If the corps wins its suit, the farmer will have to give the government one-third of his farm and pay a $7,500 fine.
After a normal spring thaw, the Idaho transportation department wanted to get rid of the mud-and-gravel mixture that collects on the sides of snowplowed dirt roads. Farmer Bud Koster allowed the department to dump this muck onto a part of his pasture. The Corps later ruled that Koster had illegally filled a wetland and told him to convert other property to a wetland, remove the dirt, or pay a fine.
In Nevada, a rancher who repaired irrigation ditches dug 75 years ago has been accused of "redirecting streams."
Farmers in North Dakota have been charged with illegally destroying habitats for migratory birds when they drained potholes in their fields.
Bernard Goode, the Corps of Engineers' representative while the agency tightened wetlands regulations in 1989, counts the following as "wetlands": corn, wheat, and alfalfa fields in active production; abandoned or fallow farm fields and pastures; dry woods above the 100-year floodplain; weed-covered vacant lots; depressions in sanitary landfills; dredged material disposal areas; moist tundra; pine-palmetto flatlands, and dry desert swashes. The National Law Journal adds, "woody areas, dry desert furrows, corn fields that were once marshy ... prairie potholes ... pools of spring rain or melting snow ... [and] Arctic tundra are wetlands." Under federal wetlands regulations, as much as 60 percent of the total U.S. land area is "wet," as is 40 percent of the state of California and 90 percent of Alaska. An area as small as a coffee table and dry for all but one week out of the year can be declared a wetland.
An Army Corps of Engineers ruling warns property owners that if, in dragging a tree stump from their land, chunks of moist dirt should fall off, that might constitute filling a wetland.
From Math for a Change, a mathematics textbook written by Kevin J. Mistrik and Robert C. Thul, who teach at Catholic high schools in Chicago. The workbook, published by the Mathematics Teachers' Association of Chicago and Vicinity, contains "thirty-one situations of injustice that need mathematics in order to be fully understood":
In 1992 Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs made approximately $7,000,000. He played 158 games. An average Catholic-high-school teacher makes approximately $30,000 per years working eight hours a day over a 180-day school year.
Calculate how much that teacher gets paid per day, and compare that with what Ryne Sandberg was paid per game in 1992.
Assuming that a ballplayer's workday is six hours, compare the average teacher's pay per hour with that of Mr. Sandberg.
How many years would it take a teacher to make as much money as Ryne did?
Is it fair for Ryne Sandberg to make so much more than a teacher? When answering this question, be sure to take into consideration the good each person contributes to society, the amount of time and money each has to invest in order to prepare for work, and other factors that may be pertinent.
Newsweek:
Though the public is not permitted to check books out of the Library of Congress, legislators may remove the library's books for as long as they want. As a result, many volumes have been missing for decades; an estimated 30,000 of the library's 16.4 million books are gone and considered stolen. Among the missing: two $7,500 collections of nineteenth-century Italian architectural drawings, a $6,000 nineteenth-century treatise on cactuses, two $1,500 volumes on Navajo rituals, and Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.
Schools in the Washington D.C. suburb of Suitland, Maryland, have accommodated special classes on "how to behave when getting arrested." The two-hour class includes demonstrations of how to be handcuffed, advice not to resist or complain, and information that students might be expected to be stopped for wearing baggy pants, acting suspiciously, or because "someone may have called to complain about the kids' presence."
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President Clinton's 1994 crime bill included a pro...
An Arizona woman who was scalded when she spille...
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BREAKING NEWS: T.I. RELEASED ON BAIL..!!..ON HOUSE ARREST..!!
October 26, 2007. ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge ordered rapper T.I. released on $3 million bond Friday, but he must remain in home confinement while he awaits trial on weapons charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman said the singer must remain under house arrest at a home in Henry County. He wasn't more specific about the location. T.I. (real name: Clifford Harris) will be monitored 24 hours a day by a private monitoring service that he must pay for. He's restricted to the home except under certain circumstances, including medical appointments and court appearances. He cannot own any firearms and cannot have contact with any witnesses or informants in the case. Noting that T.I has a team of highly qualified attorneys, the judge said: "You shouldn't do anything that will undermine their ability to represent you." Defense lawyer Ed Garland argued that based on the amount of money being put up, there's no reason not to release his client. (READ MORE CLICK NOW) ********************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: WELL, WELL, WELL, IT'S NOT OVER ...IT'S JUST BEGUN. IF YOU PUT UP THAT KIND OF MONEY SERIOUSLY I GUESS YOU NEED TO BE OUT???? I HOPE HE STOP BIG THINGS POPPIN!!...(TO BE CONTINUED)
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50 & AKON WEIGH IN ON T.I. ARREST..T.I. GOES TO COURT TODAY..!!
By now we all know that T.I. is still in jail and has a Bond hearing this morning in Atlanta his team of lawyers are asking for him to be released on a 2.5 million dollar cash bond. The money would be raised from (His Record label, Equity from property he owns & Bank CD's ,cash money). They also are stating if released T.I. will be on house arrest, and will be open to random searches of his home. And the only people who will be able to visit him would be people on a list. He faces up to 10 years if convicted. As soon as his hearing is over I will post the results. 50 weighs in see below video. (Read more click now)
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In this video, 50 discusses the much-publicized arrest of rapper T.I. in a gun sting in Atlanta 2 weeks ago.
"If he gets 10 years, that ain't bad," 50 said, - "If the security person is already telling, it's obvious that's their witness. They got tapes, they got all this. - [If it was me,] I would have to tell the people I did it and sit down for a minute. Nobody wants to hear that you have to stay 10 years nowhere. It's not a good thing, period. It's unfortunate, but he got himself in that space. - I don’t know the real facts. Maybe he didn't do it; let's keep our fingers crossed."
"It's obvious he was set up. But sometimes when you're in a position of that stature and you're that big ... you just don't allow that energy around you. You have to have people around you to let you know or avoid that energy. Even if he was a (gun) collector, naturally, you get a license to collect. That's just common sense. ... At that stage where he's at, he don't need to protect himself. You hire legitimate law enforcement, or you hire people who are licensed to carry (guns). Surround them around you and you'll be safe."
********************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: LIKE I SAID BEFORE WHO WAS T.I. ABOUT TO HURT, HURT PUTEM IN THE DIRT??..WHO WAS AFTER HIM?? A CRIME HAS BEEN COMITTED ...I WILL SAVE THE REST OF MY COMMENTS UNTIL AFTER THE HEARING (TO BE CONTINUED)..!!
4th Annual "Black Ball" Concert for "Keep A Child Alive"
(ALICIA KEYS & BONO) (IMAN & ALICIA KEYS) (IMAN & HUSBAND DAVID BOWIE) (3 THE HARD WAY: JAY, DIDDY, LA REID) (JAY LOOKING PRETTY SUAVE) (RUSSELL SIMMONS & HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND) (GAYLE KING) (GWEN STEFANI) (JACOB THE JEWELER) ********************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: IMAN DRESS IS SLAMMIN..!!
ASHANTI SINGS "GOOD BLESS AMERICA " AT THE WORLD SEREIS..!!
The stalkarazzi caught up with Ashanti without her beau Nelly as she tightend up her sound check at at Fenway Park in Boston for the 2007 World Series. See actual performance below. Ashanti does a fantastic jobs. Unfortunately her album has been pushed back to Feb. 2008 I can't tell you what the first single is because I have never heard it?? So I asked what album??...Anyway check her out...!! (READ MORE CLICK NOW)
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********************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK SHE CAN'T SING BUT THIS PROVES A DIFFER...!!
BIGGIE WAX FIGURE....BABY, BABY.,,.!!
October 25, 2007 [New York, NY] – In a moving tribute to her son, Ms. Voletta Wallace today unveiled a wax figure of legendary rapper Biggie Smalls (born: Christopher Wallace) at Madame Tussauds New York. Many of Biggie’s friends attended the figure unveiling, which also featured a performance by members of the Brooklyn High School of Arts’ choir, who sang “I’ll Be Missing You,” a tribute song composed shortly after Biggie’s death, and gospel classic, “I’ll Fly Away.” Biggie’s figure dons a white three-piece suit, white hat and white shoes and is standing with one hand in its pocket and the other hand resting on a gold and wood cane. Madame Tussauds’ studio artists studied hundreds of photos and hours of video footage of Biggie to create the figure and to ensure that they captured Biggie’s spirit and demeanor, as well as his physical likeness. Madame Tussauds visitors will be able to take photos with and even hug Biggie’s figure, which will be housed in its own room on the attraction’s ninth floor. As guests approach the figure, they can use parts of their body to break moving multi-colored light beams to trigger clips of Biggie’s songs to play. ****************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: Yep..looks just like him..!! .."Young, Black, Ugly as ever"
NEW VIDEO: MARY J BLIGE "JUST FINE"....!!!
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Mrs. Blige is back Check out the new video single Just Fine. This new track comes from her tentatively titled album Growing Pains, that is due for release by the end of this year. You can also view this video all day today on BET am I the only one who see's that although Mary J is trying to look happy she always looks sad??. (I LIKE IT!!) ********************************************************************************* HOUSE OF GLITZ: GLAD MARY STEPPED IT UP AND HIT US WITH A DANCE TUNE..!!
UPDATE ON MUDERED R & B SINGER.. LA LA BROWN FUNEREAL SERVICE...!!!
I reported earlier this week about the death of Yolanda "La La Brown" ...La La "Yolanda Brown" 21 and 22-year-old JeTannue Clayborn boyfriend producer, were found dead inside the basement of a production studio on the city's northwest side. The man's brother, who went to check on him after he couldn't reach him, found the bodies last night. Police believe that the couple had been dead for at least a day. Currently the authorities have no suspects in the slaying. Also La la Brown leaves behind a young 5 year old daughter. Most people remember her from the Lyfe Jennings son S.E.X. click on the myspace at the bottom to view the video. Still no arrest have been made. (To be continued) ************************************************************************************ Lala Brown's family released the details of her funeral and invited any friends, family, and fans to come. Information on the funeral: October 25, 2007 Mason Temple Church of God in Christ Child 6090 N. 35th Street, Milwaukee 11 a.m. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yolanda Brown's family also set up a trust fund for LaLa's 5-year-old daughter Amirrah Airreal Brown. Donations can be sent to: William Lee or Maria Brown 3322 N. 38th Street Milwaukee, WI 53216 __________________________________________________________________________________ Visitation for Clayborn will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at Pitts Mortuary, 2031 W. Capitol Drive. A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mason Temple Church of God in Christ Child, 6090 N. 35th Street, Milwaukee. ******************************************************************************* You can continue to leave messages on her myspace page (CLICK NOW) her family is listening to your condolences (Read More and see Video of Investigation) ********************************************************************************* HOUSE OF GLITZ: I PRAY THERE IS AN ARREST SOON..!!..SO SAD...!!
ROCAWEAR: DAME DASH WIFE IS RACHEL PREGNANT WITH ..BABY #2
Congratulations are in order! Chocolate Ghetto Homer Simpson and designer wife Rachel Roy are expecting their second child together. Rachel confirmed the pregnancy that Roy announced her pregnancy on Tuesday's taping of "Oprah," which airs next week. Roy, 33, met Dash when she worked at his fashion house Rocawear. The two married in 2005 and have a daughter, Ava. "It's number two," she said. "And I am thrilled because number one, Ava, is the best thing in my life, and I have always wanted to have another little Ava—or Ava as a boy! So high fives all around!" Knowing Rachel's crazy fashion sense that child is going to be casket sharp before its first birthday. Way to get her, Dame!!!.(READ MORE CLICK NOW) ******************************************************************************* HOUSE OF GLITZ: HE'S SO GHETTO SO LET ME SPEAK HIS LANGUAGE.."YOU DID IT SON"..!!
DIDDY GET'S MORE CHILD SUPPORT MONEY..INKS A MULTI-MILLION $$$ DEAL..!!!
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I know you are tired of Diddy but Diddy isn't tired of us and his money...The Big Daddy Sean "Diddy" Combs inked a multi-year deal to develop the Ciroc vodka brand — one of Diageo PLC's superpremium lines — for a 50-50 share in the profits. Diageo said the agreement could be worth more than $100 million for Combs over the course of the deal, depending on how well the brand performs. "It is not an endorsement deal," Combs told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. "This is something that will have my daily attention." Combs said he wanted to work with Diageo because the company understood that "I'm not just a celebrity endorser, I'm a brand builder. I'm a luxury brand builder." So when you are asking the bartender for a "screwdriver" no that you have but some more change in Diddy's bank account. (READ MORE CLICK NOW) ************************************************************************************ HOUSE OF GLITZ: I WILL DRINK TO THAT OR AT LEAST TAKE A SHOT..!!
Halle Berry London Film Festival: Things We Lost. In The Fire..!!
Labels: NO BABY MAMA..
Halle Berry looks amazing at the premiere she makes being pregnant a fashion statement. Also check out below Video of Halle on Jay Leono statisfying her preggo cravings ..!! (VIDEO ON HALLE ON JAY LENO THIS WEEK...)
******************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: SHE LOOKS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND HAPPY...!! WHO KNEW PREGNANCY COULD LOOK SO GREAT..!!!
STEVE HARVEY OUT WITH HIS NEW WIFE IN MIAMI...!!
Labels: OLD L, OVE
Steve Harvey and his wife Majorie Bridges were spotted in Maui earlier this week. The newlyweds came with a full entourage. ************************************************************************************ HOUSE OF GLITZ: SHE LOOKS LIKE AN AROUND THE WAY MOM "LOL"
POOR KELLY TOUR CANCELLED DUE TO SLOW TICKET SALES....!!
Labels: NO BEYONCE
Word on the street is that Ms. Kelly upcoming North America tour is in danger of being cancelled due to poor ticket sales. She was previously scheduled to appear in 15 cities, but so far she has cancelled three shows with no ticket refunds. (read more click now) ************************************************************************************ HOUSE OF GLITZ: "LADIES, WALLETS, "LEAVE THEM HOME..!!Span>
Hollywood Film Festival's 11th Annual Hollywood Awards
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FOXY SLAPPED IN THE HOLE 76 DAYS FOR STARTING A FIGHT...!!!
Labels: GO SOMEWHERE AND SIT DOWN...
Jailed rap star Foxy Brown has dug herself deeper into "the hole." The down-and-out diva, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was removed from the general population and locked away in a segregated cell for 76 days beginning Oct. 16 after committing three violations at Rikers Island this month, sources told The Post yesterday. The first incident occurred on Oct. 3 while Foxy and another female inmate were headed to the dining hall for a meal in the Rose M. Singer facility, the sources said. They started shoving each other for reasons that were not immediately clear, prompting correction officers to jump in and separate the two before things turned bloody, officials said. (READ MORE CLICK NOW) **************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: "GO SIT DOWN.."!!
NEW VIDEO: "I WANT YOU" HIS GIRLFRIEND IS IN THE VIDEO
Here’s Common’s new joint for “I Want You” featuring Kanye West, Alicia Keys, and Serena Williams. The video was directed by actress/Common’s girlfriend Kerry Washington. I like this one has some serious acting going on on this video. We hope this single does well for him.
******************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: HOT ONE..!!
DENZEL WASHINGTON COVERS "MEN'S VOGUE"..!!.!
The always sophisticated and classy Denzel Washington covers the November issue of Men’s Vogue Magazine. The mag talks with the 52 year old Oscar winning actor about the diverse roles that he has played and where he is now in his career with his new movie ‘American Gangster’ hitting theaters on November 2nd. He knows how to amuse himself and enjoys the abrupt flourish of his charisma. You know the laugh well, a quick explosion followed by a warm and swaying cackle, his easy demeanor enveloping the righteous core of someone raised by a Pentecostal minister. As you can see Denzel still has it all to read more (CLICK NOW). ********************************************************************************* HOUSE OF GLITZ: DENZEL STILL HAS IT...!!
RUMOUR: LUDA'S NEW BOO ?????....THIS WEEK
(pic from CL) Ludacris was the opening act for the Beyonce concert that was in Ethiopia over the weekend and these photos are from the pre-party. According to Tsion Assefa (our friend from Ethiopia) and CL, that is Luda’s new girl. I guess those Gabrielle Union rumors were just that - rumors. This could be anybody but they are sitting mighty cozy and as you can see Luda waves to the young lady who's taking the pic. I'm not sold on this one. (SOURCE Cl) ********************************************************************************** HOUSE OF GLITZ: WHO CAN REALLY KEEP UP WITH ALL THESE WOMEN HE IS SUSPECTED WITH??...I'M SURE THIS IS THE FLAVOR OF THE WEEK AND THAT'S ALL..!!
Sean John Womens Line Launch Party
(Momma Diddy can we say all together "HOT MESS" and her sis is no better..!!) (Sean John Official Website click now) (Momma know's she's doing two much ..but love the bag!!) (Cassie) Anthony Anderson (Brandy's x-Fiancee)
GARCELLE WELCOMES TWIN BOYS
Actress Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, best known for her role as Fancy on "The Jamie Foxx Show", and her agent husband Michael Nilon welcomed twin boys, Jaid Thomas and Jax Joseph Nilon. This is Garcelle's second pregnancy as she has a fifteen year-old son named Oliver from a previous marriage.
Jax Joseph Nilon was born at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 18 and weighed 4 lbs. 7 oz., and Jaid Thomas Nilon was born at 8:31 p.m. and weighed 4 lbs. 9 oz. "We're so in love with them," Beauvais-Nilon tells PEOPLE. "They boys are just gorgeous." The twins, who were born in Los Angeles, join Oliver, the actress's 15-year-old son from a previous marriage.
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MARIAH PROMOTES "M Fragrance" ON 106 & PARK-Sells out in 35 min
Mariah Carey was on “106 & Park” earlier today to promote her new fragrance called M by Mariah Carey. It reportedly sold out at Macy’s New York in 35 minutes. Mariah will be doing an in-store appearance there tomorrow. I hear the fragrance smells good. I happen to love fake ass Mariah so I probably will check out the smell good.
MOVIE PREMIERES: AMERICAN GANGSTER-NY
Denzel Washington and his beautiful wife Pauletta attended the NYC premiere of “American Gangster” at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem Friday night. Other guests included: Common, Russell Crowe, Ruby Dee, Diddy, and more. American Gangster will be hitting theaters on November 2nd. The movie stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Clifford ‘T.I’ Harris, Common and more. (Click here) to visit the official site.
VIDEO: AWW...DIDDY PLAYS DADDY..!!
These Kids are cute especially those cute litte Twins!!!
************************************************************************************ HOUSE OF GLITZ: 1, 2,, 3, 4, 5, O.K. WE ARE MISSING 1 THE NEW BABY FROM THE CHICK IN ATL #6 I GUESS HE WILL REMIX THE VIDEO SOON..!!
SWAROVSKI FASHION ROCK PARTY 2007
Whitney Houston stunned stars at the Swarovski Fashion Rocks party with a surprise appearance last night in London. The singer amazed guests when she walked on stage at London’s Albert Hall in a stunning diamond-encrusted white Valentino gown to introduce the final catwalk show of the night Other stars at the event included: Alicia Keys, Patti LaBelle, Timbaland, and more. Check the pics.. (NIAOMI & DOLCE GABANA) (ALICIA KEYS W/GIORGI ARMANI) (Joss Stone) (NICOLE) (Donatella Versace & Iggy)-Dosen't this look like a before & after LOL ********************************************************************************* HOUSE OF GLITZ: WHITNEY LOOKS GREAT VERY CRACK FREE..!!
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Westernization, sin and sexuality
Sexual repression is a Christian gift to the world. If we consider art or literature in the pre-Christian era, there is plenty of evidence that sexuality was considered a very normal and natural human impulse.
As Indian films and television increasingly show sexual content there are plenty of commentators extolling this as progress in catching up with the “sexually liberated” West.
But is the West truly sexually liberated? And what does sexual liberation mean in the first place? To understand this question we need to take a look at a sexual history of the West.
Sexual repression is a Christian gift to the world. If we consider art or literature in the pre-Christian era, there is plenty of evidence that sexuality was considered a very normal and natural human impulse. The Greeks certainly had no problem with nudity as seen from their art. Indian art and literature was also clearly very comfortable with sexuality, not only in treatises like the Kamasutra or the extravagant details found in the temples of Khajuraho, but also in other texts such as the Sanskrit dramas or the puranas. We do not find this particular post-Christian shame in talking about the phallus or the vagina, the linga and the yoni. They are dealt with as any other humans organ and both literally and symbolically used for designating procreation and fertility.
Sexuality was both normal, as well as recognized as a powerful energy that could be harnessed with even greater value as a path towards higher consciousness. Indeed, the Divine was often shown as a couple in physical embrace, whether that was Radha-Krisha or Shiva-Parvati. These images were fully sexual and alive, re-iterating the idea the divine union was not a repudiation of the human union; rather human sexuality was a reflection of the divine union on the human plane. Bhakti itself could become an elevated sexuality –Meera could relate to Krishna in terms of sexual longing and various yogas discuss the awakening of the sexual energy.
Christianity’s relationship to sexuality has been far more troubled. Christianity did not understand the idea of different natures of people, with a multiplicity of paths to choose from, as the Indic traditions provided. Secondly, the practices for the proper utilization of sexual energy were absent from the institutional Catholic Church and the very theologians and clergy who were the guides were themselves deeply troubled with their sexuality-something that mere exhortations of faith couldn’t cure. Finally, the sexual shame of the Church patriarchs at their inability to control themselves was projected onto their congregations with an inflated fervor.[i]
In the first century, Paul advocated celibacy for Christians. The early church fathers’ view of sex was closely related to sin. “It was Augustine who epitomized a general feeling among the church fathers that the act of intercourse was fundamentally disgusting. . . . Arnobiur called it filthy and degrading, Methodius unseemly, Jerome, unclean, Tertullian shameful, Ambrose defilement.”[ii]
Perhaps no one has been as influential in defining the relationship of Christian sexuality than Augustine, in the early 4th century. “Augustine interpreted sexuality at the core of each human being, and he interpreted it as the echo of mankind’s original sin, Adam and Eve in the Garden, disobeying God. Through the prism of sexuality, he saw reflected lust, man’s fundamental flaw. Hateful erections were its mark …”
In his Confessions, Augustine describes a life of wanton sexuality, till he decided to become celibate. “He hated coitus with all the passion of a newly converted celibate… But unrequited, uninvited lust still racked him. ” He was racked by sexual fantasies and uncontrolled nightly ejaculations. “He wrote that sexual intercourse was evil if it was corrupted by desire, and his experience suggested that it was always so corrupted, even in old age.”[iii]
Even though it was a Christian duty to marry and beget children, they should do so not with desire but “‘descend with a certain sadness’ into sexual intercourse.”
Augustine wrote extensively on sexuality and his writings were seminal in Christian attitudes towards sexuality over the centuries. Sexual desire came from the devil, was a sign of evil and needed to be combated. The less the clergy themselves were able to follow this advice, with greater fervor they preached hellfire and damnation to their congregation. According to the New York Times, Catholic priests in every single diocese in America were accused of sexually abusing children in their congregations. It is not hard to imagine that abuse by the Christian Priesthood in earlier times was even more-the authority of the clergy was greater as was their power to control information. The religious fanaticism of the Church could well be traced to a deviant use of sexual energy.
This desexualizing of the Christian narrative shows itself in other areas. So “God” becomes solely a He-God, a Father, rather than the image of Ardha-Narishwara or Shiva-Shakti found in the Hindu tradition. The female figure of Catholic worship, in the form of Mary, is itself completely desexualized as the Virgin. Similarly the question of Jesus’ own sexuality and relationship with Mary Magdalene was suppressed. The message is repeated over again: sexuality is sinful and evil. Even in the case of motherhood, the ideal is the virgin, or if not that, at least a woman who does not enjoy the sexual encounter but who merely tolerates it as a necessary evil. To a woman who takes pleasure can thus be designated as a “slut”, a fallen woman. Decrying “Slut-shaming” is the reaction in the West to historic Christian repression, though these memes are mindlessly copied by “modern” Indians.
It was only in the 20th century that sexual “liberation” finally came to be regarded as a goal in its own right. However, the demons of centuries are not easily exorcized. The centuries of sexual repression in the Christian West had created its counterpart of sexual obsession. Sex became a mental construct retaining its sinfulness. By keeping it out of the light, it became darker still. Thus, instead of the open-ness of even extra-marital relations in the India context, or even the much-maligned devadasis, the Western counterpart was always kept in the dark. Pornography flourished, surreptitiously concealed. Sexuality and sin became joined to the extent that the very pleasure of sexuality was derived from the thrill of transgression, of breaking the law, of sinning.
These ideas are retained in “liberated” popular culture of the West. Try to remember some Hollywood sex scene. When is the last time you remember a sexual scene involving a married couple? Can you remember any at all? Is this not surprising given that marital sexuality is still a numerically dominant form of sexual intercourse? Western sexual obsession does not really represent sexual liberation. Its thrill still remains closely tied to the idea of transgression and Western society has still to come to terms with the Christian demons in its psyche where sexual activity is inherently linked to sin.
Western secular materialism, however does no better. Without any ideas of the stages of life or ashramas as present in the Indian tradition and by disavowing any higher purpose, it has left sexuality as the only link to possibly transcendent experience. This has furthered the sexual obsession by making it central to one’s self-definition. This creates the Culture of Viagra, where even seventy year olds need to participate in sexual intercourse for feeling fulfilled.
The same attitude is displayed in relationship to “pornographic” material. The very category again comes from the Western approach to sexuality. In India, paintings showing couples in coitus are commonly found. These did not hesitate to include the phallus or the vagina, but these were considered art, not pornography. The pornography of the West did not exist in India, since pornography in its very nature is concerned with debasement of the sexual act. Porn comes from a culture of sexual repression, not from a culture that can happily put explicit sexual scenes, threesomes and fellatio on its temple walls.
A sculpture from Khajuraho. Image Source: http://www.mygola.com
Unfortunately, like in everything else, Indians schooled in the English-created system of education and in Western thought and literature, have taken on this Western repression-suppression syndrome. Urban-educated women social workers in India, deployed to the villages for sexual “counseling”, were surprised and shocked by how easily the rural women talked about sexuality and referred to male and female sexual organs without shame. On the other hand, “convent-school” educated women in India may have a harder time in being sexually open and responsive. It may be that counseling is needed in the other direction – it is time for the natives to sanskritize the civilizers.
This slavery continues in the popular media when we are importing the same shame into the new Indian films and television soaps in following the “advanced” West. For sexuality to be exciting, it needs to be outside the marital relationship – the mental component of risk, subterfuge and transgression need to be added for appreciating what is a natural physical pleasurable act. This is actually in contrast to older Indian films where, even though sexual activity was rarely depicted, the setting itself was often around the marital bed, especially for newly weds.
It is this pathological state of sexual repression that Freud encountered in the Christian women that were his patients. It is not surprising then that his observations of psychological disorders centered on this sexual repression. It is also why his theories do not generalize well to other cultures. Thus, recent academic attempts to “psycho-analyze” ancient Indian cultural symbols are somewhat meaningless, since in a society that is open about sexuality, such symbolism can be overt rather than needing to be excavated, released and psycho-analyzed from its repressed state.
While in the Indian tradition, there was an emphasis on Brahmcharya for the life of a Sanyasi, this was not because it was sinful, but because sexual energy could be utilized by the sanyasin by yogic means. Sexuality in the context of the grihasta ashram was not classified as sinful and in many cases, sexual relations outside marriage were also recognized as a natural impulse, though restraint and avoidance of recklessness was always upheld.
Indian practices of sexuality changed over the centuries due to its encounter with Islam. However, it was during the colonial rule, when our very system of education was changed that we started to consider Victorian views of sexuality as “normal.” For the British colonizers, brought up on ideas of sexuality as sin, the relative openness of Indian society was yet another reminder of their civilizing mission – the need to change the “corrupt” ways of the natives. A society with natural sexuality, the open society the British encountered, was termed “immoral”, and this diagnosis was parroted by the colonial elite that the British schooled. Women without top-cloths, common in many tropical societies, were turned into a narrative of “caste oppression.” The colonial gaze, internalized by native men, caused campaigns for women to be “allowed” to wear the top-cloth (but none to be “allowed” to be topless). Toplessness became castiest and patriarchal, the colonial gaze created shame where none existed. Contrast this is with the bra-burning and topless protests for “topfreedom” which are a feminist movement in the West against patriarchal restrictions while men can be topless in public[iv]. There are many historic instances of women sanyasis in India being in the nude. All this was abhorrent to Christian (and hence “convent educated” modern) morality.
As a society and in our elite schools, we were slowly trained in Victorian morality to acquire shame about sexuality, about the human form, about sexual organs. The elite made our films, produced our media and books. Note that this inherent shame about sexuality is different from the regulation of sexuality by social custom in traditional society. As the West started to rebel against unnatural Christian repression in the 20th century, the next generation of the colonial elite in India peddled the need for learning “sexual liberation” from the West. We were immoral earlier for being open (using the Western lens), and now backward for being closed (by the Western Lens). A colonized people are doomed to remain backward since all advancement must come from the colonizer’s race. These Indian “liberals”, I call lock-step liberals. The earlier generation of these would no doubt have cheered the Indian Penal Code when gay sex was deemed an “act against nature” and criminalized by the British, just as today’s generation proclaims “gay rights”, once it has become a fashion in the West. An original thought has yet to cross the minds of India’s modern “progressives.”
We are not getting sexual liberation from the West. What we have done is first import Christian ideas of sexual shame, drummed into our heads by over a century of English-based education and by the academics schooled in those traditions. From there we are moving on to copying the Western reaction to sexual repression by turning it into a sexual obsession. The priest’s confessional has been replaced with the psychiatrist’s couch. Yet the pathology remains the same. As we have done in the case of “secularism”, we force“cures” for Western pathologies onto a healthy society; the “cure” induces the disease and we make ourselves ill. Aping the West is then prescribed as the best medicine for that disease. We told you so.
[i] Sexual Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing by Karen McClintock © 2001 Augsburg Fortress Press
[ii] 1 Ray Tannahill, Sex History (New York: Stein and Day, 1980)
[iii] A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbot, DaCapo Press, 2001.
[iv] http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/toplessness004.html
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Sankrant Sanu is an entrepreneur, author and researcher based in Seattle and Gurgaon. His essays in the book “Invading the Sacred” contested Western academic writing on Hinduism. He is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and the University of Texas and holds six technology patents. His latest book is “The English Medium Myth.” He blogs at sankrant.org .
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Column: Muckleshoot Tribe interested in the Sonics
"Sonics owner Clay Bennett says he's "out of ideas." Fortunately, that's a state of being completely foreign to Bob Santos.
The 73-year-old has spent a lifetime plotting the future of Seattle's International District. Now retired, with "nothing much to do," Santos was driving to Auburn one day when he had a new inspiration. "I was going by the Emerald Downs horse track, with those huge parking lots and all that unused land," Santos recalls. "And I thought: 'Why not here?' "
As it happens, Santos was headed to watch a football game with some friends in the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. The same tribe that owns about 200 acres under and around Emerald Downs.
Santos pitched his idea to the tribe: Why not build a new arena for the Sonics? The tribe has the land. It has a casino full of money. It runs a summer-concert venue, the White River amphitheater, and could use that operation to book concerts for an arena in the winter."
Last week, the tribal council asked its staff to pursue the idea, including putting together a financing plan that would likely propose a sharing of costs among the Sonics, the tribe and the state.
It's far from a done deal. The tribe's chairwoman, Charlotte Williams, confirmed the tribe is interested but cautioned, "The matter has not progressed to the point where any serious discussions have taken place.""
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Arts Council of Greater Lansing Announces 2014 Chris Clark Recipients
Fellowships Awarded to Five Area Creative Professionals
LANSING, Mich., August 7, 2014 - The Arts Council of Greater Lansing is pleased to announce the recipients of the Chris Clark Fellowship Program for Creative Professionals. In its third year, the Fellowship provides recipients access to professional development opportunities and business resources through a competitive cash grant reimbursement of up to $1,500.
Currently in its third year, the program was established through a legacy gift from Chris Clark to the Arts Council of Greater Lansing. A Greater Lansing native who was passionate about the arts, Chris envisioned a Lansing where arts and culture were regarded as the tri-county's true wealth. He knew the importance of bringing the arts and cultural communities and local businesses together to create a thriving and prospering city.
In keeping with Chris' vision, the program supports creative capacity building for Lansing-area individuals such as visual, literary, and performing artists; arts administrators; arts educators; and arts students. This year, more than 20 individuals went through the application and selection process, and we are proud to announce that five were chosen to receive awards. Each recipient was selected based upon the merit of his/her proposal and capacity for growth.
The 2014-2015 recipients and their awarded activities are listed below.
Wade MacDonald, of Lansing, is a ceramic and mixed media artist who seeks to explore new methods of art production, enhance his knowledge through critical dialog and develop professional relationships. Wade will receive $1,500 for his awarded residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO from Feb. 4, 2015 - April 16, 2015.
Benjamin Fuhrman, from Lansing, is a music composer who seeks the opportunity to nationally gain exposure, stay abreast of new developments in music and professionally network. Benjamin will receive $1,100 toward travel, accommodations and meals to support his attendance at the College Music Society National Conference, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2014.
Nathaniel Bean, of Bath, is a doctoral student in trumpet performance who seeks to market his abilities as a freelance performer, demonstrate talent to potential clients and gain respect in the international community. Nathaniel will receive $1500 to record a professionally edited CD of classical music for the trumpet and flute, including works by some of the 20th and 21st century's most successful composers.
Sharan Egan, of Lansing, is a fiber and textiles artist who seeks to expand her practice as an artist, create large scale pieces and solicit public and private commissions. Sharan will receive $1500 for capital equipment for a designated studio space for her artistic endeavors, including a large work table, a design wall, shelving units, cart, lighting, chair and mat.
Deborah Fehrenbach, from Saint Johns, seeks to develop her career as a jewelry metal artist by learning filigree techniques and enriching her contemporary designs to offer a rare form of jewelry art. Deborah will receive $900 toward travel costs to Marsaskala, Malta and filgree training with Gaetano Saliba.
For further information on the Chris Clark Fellowship Program for Creative Professionals provided by the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, please contact the Arts Council Program Manager at (517) 853-7582.
Founded in 1965, the Arts Council of Greater Lansing is a non-profit organization whose mission is to lead, advocate for, and advance arts and culture in the capital region. For more information, visit www.lansingarts.org.
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The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the "School of Vision", in Hohensalzburg Fortress, is the oldest of its kind in Europe. Every year, some 300 participants from more than 40 countries attend some 20 courses offered in two fixed locations: Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Kiefer quarry in Fürstenbrunn, as well as in further temporary spaces in the city of Salzburg. Well-known artists, curators and critics from all over the world offer courses focusing on topical questions of art production, as well as curatorial practice and writing about art.
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Charles VIII had been the first king of France who in 1486 took German lansquenets in his service. Since that time and until the Revolution, there has always been German troops in the French army. At the death of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1632, all German regiments of his army were taken in the French service.
At the end of the Thirty Years' War, in 1648, Louis XIV was king of France since five years under the regency of his mother Anne and of Cardinal Mazarin. By the Treaty of Westphalia, the Holy Roman Empire ceded the Landgraviates of Upper and Lower-Alsace to France. However, this new French province spoke German and counted a very important Protestant community. The principle establishing that the religion of subjects must be the same as the one of their prince led to new persecutions against protestants and to forced conversions. Furthermore, the question of suzerainty left open by the ambiguity of the Treaty of Westphalia did not appease tensions. The sovereignty of the king of France was largely contested by the towns and the nobility who wanted to maintain their privileges and the emperor's authority. To make things more complicated, several German princes, among which the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg, still owned fiefs in Alsace.
Immediately after the Thirty Years' War, Mazarin had to face insurrections from the parliament and from the nobility. These troubles known as Frondes lasted till 1653.
On April 16 1656, a treaty was signed between the king of France and Jean Louis de Nassau-Weilburg, Comte de Nassau-Ottweiler and Comte de Nassau-Saarbrück for the creation of Alsace Infanterie. However, even though the regiment wore the name of a province, it was not considered a provincial regiment. In fact, throughout the Ancien Régime, it was considered a foreign German regiment owned by its successive colonels.
In 1667, the Comte de Nassau ceded the regiment to his brother-in-law of the Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken (known as Birkenfeld-Deux-Ponts in France) branch of the House of Wittelsbach-Bayern whose members would command the regiment for more than 100 years until 1776. In December 1667, the first colonel of this house was Christian II de Birkenfeld, Comte palatin de Birkenfeld-Bischweiler.
In May 1696, the eldest son of Christian II, Christian III, Comte palatin de Birkenfeld-Bischweiler succeeded him at the head of the regiment. The latter became Duc de Deux-Ponts in 1731.
During the War of the Polish Succession, the regiment served on the Rhine in 1733 and 1735.
In 1734, Christian III ceded the regiment to his youngest son Frédéric Michel, Comte Palatin de Deux-Ponts-Birkenfeld and Comte de Rappolstein, who was only 10 years old.
During the War of the Austrian Succession, the regiment initially served in Bavaria in 1741 where Frédéric Michel, assumed effective service. In 1742, it was part of the French army which captured Prague. In 1743, its colonel, Frédéric Michel, was promoted maréchal de camp. In 1744, the regiment was stationed in Alsace and in 1746 on the Sarre. In 1747 and 1748, it served in Flanders.
In July 1752, Frédéric Michel ceded the regiment to his eldest son Charles-Auguste, Prince Palatin de Deux-Ponts, aged 6 and too young to assume command.
The regiment counted three battalions.
During the Seven Years' War, the regiment ranked 36th and was under the command of:
since July 4 1752 to November 12 1770: Christian Prince de Deux-Ponts
On January 18 1760, when the German Infantry was reorganised, the regiment incorporated the disbanded Bergh Infanterie which counted a single battalion. Thus, the regiment total strength was brought to 4 battalions.
In 1757, the regiment was supposed to be part of the Auxiliary Corps that should be sent to support Austria. Events in Germany changed this initial plan and the regiment was sent to the Army of the Lower Rhine. From April 27 to June 17, the regiment was part of the Reserve under the Prince de Soubise. On July 26, the regiment was at the Battle of Hastenbeck where it formed part of the right wing under d'Armentières. It attacked a strong redoubt at the outskirt of a forest where one of its captains captured 8 guns and 2 howitzers. After the victory, the regiment was part of the vanguard under the Duc de Richelieu in charge of the conquest of Hanover. In August, it took part in engagements at Rotheburg and Otterberg. On September 3, it was ordered to move to Kloster-Zeven, along with all the grenadiers. On September 4, it was at the combat of Bevern. After the Convention of Kloster-Zeven on September 8, it followed the main body, led by the Maréchal de Richelieu, who encamped at Halberstadt from September 28 to November 5. The regiment was placed in the centre of the second line. When the Allies repudiated the Convention of Kloster-Zeven, the regiment advanced against them and took part in an engagement at Vegesach. It also participated in the capture of Bremen where it finally took its winter-quarters in the first line of the French army.
At the end of January 1758, the regiment was once more assigned to the corps destined for Bohemia to assist Austria. However, in February when Ferdinand of Brunswick launched his winter offensive in West Germany, the regiment retreated towards Düsseldorf and Deutz with the bulk of Broglie's Army. From March 30 to April 4, it was in the first line of Clermont's Army in the camp of Wesel on the Lower Rhine. It passed the Rhine on April 3 and 4. By July, it had joined Soubise's Army assembling near Friedberg in Hesse. On October 10, it was present at the Battle of Lutterberg where it was placed in the centre of the first line.
On April 13 1759, the regiment took part in the Battle of Bergen where it formed part of the second line of the right wing under the command of Prince Camille de Lorraine. The regiment was deployed in column behind the village of Bergen. On August 1, it also took part in the Battle of Minden.
By May 23 1760, the regiment was part of the left reserve of the first line of Broglie's Army, placed under the command of Saint-Germain. On June 17, the regiment was part of a small division, under M. de Leyde, who reached Düsseldorf, on its way to join Saint-Germain. On July 4, as part of d'Auvet's Division, it reconnoitred the area of Arnsberg. On July 31, the regiment was attached to the Corps of Maréchal-de-Camp de la Morlière posted at Welda 6 km to the south of Warburg in support of de Muy. On October 3, Ségur's Corps (including this regiment) was dispatched towards Hachenburg and Cologne. On July 31, the regiment took part in the Battle of Warburg where it was deployed in the first line of the left wing. On October 13, the regiment arrived at Neuss with Castries. On 16 October, it played an active role in the Battle of Clostercamp where it was posted in the first line of the left wing who bore the brunt of the attack of the Allies. At the end of October, the regiment, who had heavily suffered at Clostercamp, was sent back to France.
To do: details for the campaigns from 1761 to 1762
The États militaires of 1758-1759-1760-1761-1762 and La Chesnaye in 1758 all describe the blue uniform illustrated below. Furthermore, the plates in the manuscript of 1757 kept at the Musée de l'armée and in Raspe's publication of 1761 both depict a similar uniform. However, Taccoli's plate dating from 1760 illustrates a white uniform (white collarless coat, white waistcoat and breeches, and red cuffs, lapels and lining, white buttons, horizontal pockets, silver laced tricorne with a white cockade).
This could be a simple mistake in Taccoli's work but the same type of problem arises with Royal Deux-Ponts Infanterie. This tends to suggest that, in some German regiments in the French service, a blue and a white uniforms have been in use during the Seven Years' War.
After the battle of Clostercamp in October 1760, Alsace Infanterie was among the decimated regiments and had to retire to Cologne to replenish its ranks. It would not be combat ready before the campaign of 1762. Could the white uniform be a temporary uniform attributed to the new recruits raised in German territory because blue uniforms were not available at that time? After all, we know that Alsace Infanterie belonged to the nephew of the Duc de Deux-Ponts, just a child in 1757 when his uncle the duke raised Royal Deux-Ponts Infanterie for the French service. Until 1761, this latter regiment had a white uniform with red distinctives. It then changed to a blue uniform after 1761.
Considering these facts, the temporary existence of a white uniform for Alsace Infanterie seems very possible.
Uniform in 1758 - Source: Kronoskaf
Uniform Details as per
Etrennes Militaires 1756 and 1758, Etat Militaire 1758, 1760 and 1761, Abrégé du Dictionnaire Militaire 1759
completed when necessary with information from Raspe's uniform plates and the manuscript of the Musée de l'Armée
Musketeer black tricorne laced silver with a black cockade, fastened with a white and a white strap
Grenadier black tricorne laced silver with a black cockade, fastened with a white and a white strap
towards 1759, bearskins became increasingly common among grenadiers
Coat blue lined red with 2 pewter buttons below each lapel
Shoulder Straps red fastened with a small pewter button (as per Mouillard)
Lapels red with 12 pewter buttons
Pockets horizontal pockets, each with 5 pewter buttons
Cuffs red open cuffs without any button
Turnbacks red (none as per the manuscript of the Musée de l'Armée)
Waistcoat white with pewter buttons
Breeches white
Gaiters white
Crossbelt white leather
Waistbelt white leather
Cartridge Box natural leather
Bayonet Scabbard n/a
Scabbard brown
Armaments consisted of a musket and a bayonet. Fusiliers carried a sword (brass hilt) while the grenadiers had a sabre.
The drummers of the regiment wore the livery of the house of Deux-Ponts.
Colonel colour: white field with a white cross.
Ordonnance colours: a white cross, their first and fourth cantons were red, their second and third green. These ordonnance flags remained unchanged from 1656 to 1791.
Colonel Colour - Source: PMPdeL
Ordonnance Colour - Source: PMPdeL
Anon.: Manuscript Troupes du Roi, Infanterie française et étrangère, année 1757, tome I"; Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Funcken, Liliane and Fred: Les uniformes de la guerre en dentelle
Menguy, Patrice: Les Sujets du Bien Aimé (a website which is unfortunately not online anymore)
Mouillard, Lucien: Les Régiments sous Louis XV, Paris, 1882
Pajol, Charles P. V.: Les Guerres sous Louis XV, vol. VII, Paris, 1891
Rogge, Christian: The French & Allied Armies in Germany during the Seven Years War, Frankfurt, 2006
Rohan Chabot, Alix de: Le Maréchal de Belle Isle ou la revanche de Foucquet, Perrin, Paris, 2005
Service historique de l'armée de terre: Archives du génie, article 15, section 1, §5, pièce 23
Taccoli, Alfonso: Teatro Militare dell' Europa, Part 1, vol. 2; Madrid, March 1760
Vial J. L.: Nec Pluribus Impar
Jean-Louis Vial for the additional information on the origins of the regiment and on its uniforms
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HBT’s 2015 NFL Season Awards!!!!!!!!!
We know your eyeballs are bleeding from all that Super Bowl 50 talk that’s been going on in the last week and a half. Thankfully, we are here to provide you with relief and a pleasant distraction from all that by offering our selections for the NFL’s major individual awards. The hardware will be handed out on Saturday night. This is how that ceremony would go down, had we our druthers.
For a fun compare-contrast exercise, check out our midseason awards from November and see how far we’ve come.
Comeback Player of the Year: Eric Berry, Safety, Kansas City Chiefs
Carson Palmer was our midseason selection for this award because he rebounded from his second torn ACL to be the NFL’s best statistical Quarterback of the first half of the season, but Berry being selected doesn’t require much explanation or justification. Palmer’s achievements this year have been admirable, but returning from a busted knee to be one of the best players at your position is quite one thing. Punching cancer in the face and returning to be arguably the best player at your position is quite another. Berry was the centerpiece of a defense that led the charge from a 1-5 start to a spot in the Divisional Playoff round. He wins.
With apologies to: Carson Palmer
Offensive Rookie of the Year: Todd Gurley, Running Back, St. Louis Rams
This ended up being a much closer race than everyone anticipated after Gurley’s electrifying first few weeks. The Rams’ schedule got tougher and the NFL likely made their first big adjustment to the only real threat that St. Louis’ offense had to offer, and Gurley’s numbers tapered off as a result. There is a case to be made here for Jameis Winston after the way he came on in the second half of the season and both of these guys are going to be SuperDuperStars, but Winston’s high interception total and his occasional disastrous games typical of a rookie QB tip the scale in Gurley’s favor for us.
With apologies to: Jameis Winston, Amari Cooper
Defensive Rookie of the Year: Marcus Peters, Cornerback, Kansas City Chiefs
There are few positions with a steeper learning curve in the transition from college to the pros than the defensive back positions and Peters wasted no time at all becoming one of the NFL’s best cornerbacks. Opposing quarterbacks apparently did not get that memo, as Peters was targeted more than any other cornerback in the NFL this season. His skill in coverage made them pay for it. He tied for the league high with 8 interceptions and led the league with 26 passes defended. Even in a season that featured another very impressive rookie cornerback in Buffalo’s Ronald Darby, Peters is the clear winner here both because he excelled under a greater challenge and because he was a key cog in a better defense.
With apologies to: Ronald Darby. Not much of an argument to be made for anyone else.
Coach of the Year: Ron Rivera, Carolina Panthers
A close examination of the Panthers on paper looks nothing like a 15-1 team that would finish with the top seed in a loaded NFC. Rivera’s ability to coach up a defense has always been underrated and his even-keeled temperament as an overseer of his locker room has accommodated his team’s many personalities perfectly. It’s really hard to quantify what exactly a coach brings to a team, but it’s hard to argue with the choice to award the guy whose teams consistently outperform their projections, made a 7-win jump from 2014 to 2015, and coaches the NFL’s best team of the season.
With apologies to: Bill Belichick, Marvin Lewis, Mike Zimmer, Bruce Arians, Jay Gruden. You could argue for any of those guys and you wouldn’t get too loud an objection from me.
Defensive Player of the Year: J.J. Watt, Defensive End, Houston Texans
The best football player on Earth will make another addition to his infinitely expanding trophy shelf Saturday night. As awful as the Houston Texans have generally been to watch this season, there was one thing about them you could count on: Watt was going to be the best player on the field, no matter who they were playing. Watt’s production and effectiveness tailed off slightly toward the end of the season when he played with a broken hand in a cast, and it still makes no difference whatsoever. Watt played three games with one effective hand and still led the NFL in sacks with 17.5. For those who don’t like to use sacks and sacks alone as a measure of pass rushing effectiveness, Watt added to his 17.5 sacks with 50 QB knockdowns. How much better was that than everyone else in the League? Aaron Donald came in 2nd with 37. J.J. Watt is plainly not of us. He’s going to win this award every year or as long as he wants to.
With apologies to: NO ONE! This isn’t close! But, in the interest of congratulating players for very good seasons – Aaron Donald, Josh Norman, Luke Kuechly.
Offensive Player of the Year: Julio Jones, Wide Receiver, Atlanta Falcons
Unless a Quarterback topples a long-standing NFL record, this award is usually a place to honor a non-QB with the most impressive statistics. This award is very close because Julio Jones and Pittsburgh’s Antonio Brown have had remarkably close statistical seasons. That said, we’re giving Jones just the slightest edge for a few reasons. Brown’s team made the Playoffs and Jones’ didn’t. Brown found the end zone twice more than Jones did, but Jones had Brown beat in receptions in receiving yards. What really swings this in Jones’ favor, though, are two factors. First, Jones faced more double teams than any receiver in football this season according to Pro Football Focus. Second, Brown’s production dipped drastically with Ben Roethlisberger out of the lineup. Brown spent most of this season being thrown to by one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks. Jones piled up his numbers being targeted by one of 2015’s biggest disappointments in Matt Ryan. Advantage, Julio.
With apologies to: Antonio Brown, Russell Wilson (for a monstrous second half)
Most Valuable Player: Cam Newton, Quarterback, Carolina Panthers
My feelings on Cam Newton and the season he’s had are well-documented at this point, but they bear repeating for one reason: he is the obvious choice to receive this award. He’s the quarterback and the leader of the NFL’s best team of the regular season. He’s the first quarterback in history to pass for 30 touchdowns AND rush for 8. But he didn’t stop there and also became the first quarterback to throw for 35 and rush for 10. This has been the best season of his career by a clear mile and it’s the year that we saw him grow from mega-talent to mega-quarterback. It’s resulted in a magical season for Carolina and he has the chance to complete his remarkable season in the best possible way this Sunday. Completely leaving out his rampaging postseason and whatever result is to come on Sunday. 2015 was Cam’s season. Everyone else was just playing in it.
With apologies to: Tom Brady, Carson Palmer
Be sure to keep checking back to HBT all this week in the run-up to the Super Bowl’s Gold Anniversary.
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Janet Napolitano was a participant or observer in the following events:
May 12, 1995: Authorities Find Drifter with Connections to Oklahoma City Bomber, No Evidence of Connection to Bomb Plot
Authorities indict Steven Garrett Colbern on federal weapons charges in Oatman, a small mining town in northwestern Arizona. They describe Colbern as a “drifter” who is wanted on weapons charges in California. Colbern becomes of far more interest to federal authorities when he tells them he knew accused Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (see 8:35 a.m. - 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995 and April 21, 1995). However, authorities say they have no reason to believe Colbern was part of the bomb plot. Colbern attempted to fight off the law enforcement officials who arrested him, even attempting to pull a pistol during the brief melee, and is charged with resisting arrest as well. Investigators search his Oatman trailer and find firearms, ammunition, stolen medical supplies, and a laboratory for making methamphetamine, but no evidence linking Colbern to the bombing. Colbern tells investigators that he knew McVeigh under his alias, “Tim Tuttle” (see October 12, 1993 - January 1994 and February - July 1994), but says he knows nothing about the April 19 bombing. US Attorney Janet Napolitano says she does not want Colbern released on bail just yet. Oatman residents say Colbern came to town about four months ago, and has supported himself as a dishwasher and cook’s helper at a local restaurant. He has a degree in chemistry from UCLA and was a former research associate in DNA studies at Cedars-Sinai Research Institute in Los Angeles. Acquaintances who knew him during his youth in Oxnard, California, say he always had an interest in science and explosives. Dale Reese, who knew Colbern in a school biology club, says of Colbern: “He did talk about explosives. He was just interested in those sorts of things. He just liked making things go boom. He was very strange, very smart, kind of nerdish, kind of lonerish. I didn’t like the guy.” Authorities found a letter in McVeigh’s possession addressed to someone with the initials “S.C.,” and further investigation connected the letter with Colbern. Oatman is only 20 miles southwest of Kingman, Arizona, where McVeigh has frequently lived (see November 1991 - Summer 1992, May-September 1993, February - July 1994, September 13, 1994 and After, October 4 - Late October, 1994, February 1995, February 17, 1995 and After, and March 31 - April 12, 1995). Restaurant owner Daryl Warren tells a reporter that he has heard Colbern express anti-government and pro-Nazi sympathies in the past, and has spoken of the Arizona Patriots, a right-wing paramilitary group (see April 22, 1995). Warren says: “I do recall on two or three occasions politics being brought up, and he would always make references to the Third Reich. I was convinced that he was not too happy with our government.” Warren also says that Colbern was out of town for two or three weeks at the time of the bombing; Lou Mauro, who employs Colbern, says Colbern told him he was going to Los Angeles to visit his ailing mother and did not return until the weekend of April 22. One of Colbern’s roommates, Preston Scott Haney, says he and Colbern were together at the time of the bombing. “They [the FBI] think he is part of the Oklahoma bombing, but he was sitting right next to me when the bomb went off,” Haney says. “And he was here the week before and the week after.” Officials in Washington say they do not believe Colbern is “John Doe No. 2,” the missing man suspected of either being part of the bombing plot or a material witness to the conspiracy (see April 20, 1995). Another of Colbern’s roommates, Dennis Malzac, is also arrested on arson charges, and is suspected of being connected to an explosion behind a house in Kingman last February (see February 1995), along with a second man suspected of being in Connecticut. [New York Times, 5/13/1995] Newsweek will describe Colbern as a “gun-toting fugitive.” [Stickney, 1996, pp. 193] Days later, federal officials will clear Colbern of any involvement in the bombing. They will say that they hope Colbern can shed some light on McVeigh’s activities in the months before the bombing, and may offer him leniency on the charges he faces if he becomes a witness for the government prosecution of McVeigh. Both Colbern and McVeigh frequented gun shows in the northern Arizona area, but no witnesses have come forward to say they ever saw them together. [New York Times, 5/16/1995] Authorities believe McVeigh may have tried to recruit Colbern for his bomb plot (see November 30, 1994).
Entity Tags: Janet Napolitano, Dale Reese, Daryl Warren, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Steven Garrett Colbern, Timothy James McVeigh, Preston Scott Haney, Dennis Malzac, Lou Mauro
Timeline Tags: US Domestic Terrorism
May 26, 2009: Obama Nominates Judge Sotomayor to Supreme Court
Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor during the nomination announcement. [Source: Associated Press]President Obama nominates Second Circuit Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his candidate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter (see May 1, 2009). Sotomayor is a Hispanic woman from an underprivileged background with a stellar academic record and an extensive legal background, having served as a prosecutor, a corporate lawyer, and a judge for 17 years, having been first appointed to the bench by former President George H. W. Bush. She is expected to receive heavy support from Democrats. Republicans say they are waiting for more information to decide whether to mount organized opposition. Political observers say such a move would be chancy for Republicans, who need to attract more support from Hispanic and female voters. Obama calls Sotomayor a judge with an impressive intellect and a great capacity for empathy, and a jurist who renders judgments with “an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.” He notes that Sotomayor has more legal experience than any currently sitting justice had when they ascended to the high court. Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Court. Sotomayor is considered more or less ideologically consistent with the moderate-to-liberal Souter, and thus would not change the court’s ideological makeup. The Obama administration says it wants Sotomayor approved in time for the Court’s October session. In her acceptance speech, Sotomayor says of herself, “I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.” Of her position as a jurist, she says she is driven first and foremost by the rule of law and the principles laid down in the Constitution. “Those principles,” she says, “are as meaningful and relevant in each generation as the generation before.” Sotomayor was chosen over three other short-listed finalists: fellow appellate court judge Diane Wood, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. It is likely that one or more of the people on the list may become nominated to the court as well: Justice John Paul Stevens is 89 years old, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 76, suffers from pancreatic cancer. [Associated Press, 5/26/2009; CNN, 5/26/2009] In response to the nomination, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: “Republicans look forward to learning more about… Sotomayor’s thoughts on the importance of the Supreme Court’s fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law. Supreme Court vacancies are rare, which makes Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination a perfect opportunity for America to have a thoughtful discussion about the role of the Supreme Court in our daily lives. Republicans will reserve judgment on Sonia Sotomayor until there has been a thorough and thoughtful examination of her legal views.” [Think Progress, 5/26/2009]
Entity Tags: Elena Kagan, Barack Obama, Diane T. Wood, Sonia Sotomayor, Michael Steele, David Souter, US Supreme Court, Janet Napolitano
April 20, 2010: Anti-Immigration PAC Leader Accuses Republican Senator of Submitting to Blackmail by Obama Administration over Alleged Homosexuality
William Gheen. [Source: Immigration Clearinghouse (.org)]William Gheen, the head of ALIPAC (Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, an anti-immigration organization), sends a mass email demanding that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) admit his “homosexual lifestyle… in the interest of political integrity and national security.” Gheen’s email is based on remarks he made at an April 17 “tea party” rally in Greenville, South Carolina, where Graham has his state offices. Gheen told his listeners: “US Senator Lindsey Graham is gay and while many people in South Carolina and Washington, DC, know that, the general public and Graham’s constituents do not. I personally do not care about Graham’s private life, but in this situation his desire to keep this a secret may explain why he is doing a lot of political dirty work for others who have the power to reveal his secrets. Senator Graham needs to come out of the closet inside that log cabin so the public can rest assured he is not being manipulated with his secret.” Gheen gives no evidence of Graham’s alleged homosexuality; Graham, a lifelong bachelor, will later tell a New York Times reporter: “I know it’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men… but I ain’t available. I ain’t gay. Sorry.” In the email, Gheen accuses Graham of submitting to blackmail by the Obama administration over his alleged homosexuality and doing the administration’s bidding by “trying to lobby other Republicans to sponsor a Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty bill, which would legalize millions of illegal immigrants and turn them into competitive workers and voters.… ALIPAC considers Graham’s support for Comprehensive Amnesty legislation to be against the wishes of 80 percent of his constituents and against the best interests of the American people.” Gheen goes on to explain why he considers Graham’s alleged homosexuality a security risk: “Senator Graham served in the US military, which adopted a policy of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ regarding homosexuality during the Clinton administration. Prior to the policy change, homosexuality was considered a vulnerability to our national security because those with access to classified information and strategic resources were often blackmailed by foreign powers.” In the April 17 rally, Gheen told listeners: “Barney Frank [a gay House representative] has more integrity and bravery than Senator Lindsey Graham right now. When you are a US senator, the public deserves to know what might influence your decisions. [President] Obama and [Director of Homeland Security Janet] Napolitano know about Senator Graham, now it is time for the rest of the country to know.” Gheen accuses a number of media outlets, including The Guardian, MSNBC, and Metro Weekly of reporting his comments “out of context,” though most reports included video clips of his remarks. Graham will later say that he is unpopular with tea party organizations because he believes they lack “a coherent vision for governing the country” (see July 1, 2010). [Right Wing Watch, 4/20/2010; New York Times, 7/1/2010] The same day as the email is sent, Gheen appears on liberal talk show host Alan Colmes’s radio show to discuss his position on Graham and immigration. Gheen refuses to cite any evidence that Graham is indeed gay except to say that he has experience with homosexuals because he has worked for gay politicians in the past. Gheen tells Colmes that he is trying to free Graham by “outing” him as gay, saying that to force Graham to admit his supposed homosexuality frees him from the blackmail of “corrupt, DC special interests [who will] use that information” to force him to support immigration reform. Colmes says that it seems that Gheen is the one attempting to blackmail Graham to force him to withdraw his support for immigration reform, a position Gheen rejects. Gheen also denies any knowledge of a YouTube video by ALIPAC about Graham being labeled with the tags “queer” and “fag,” saying that someone must have hacked ALIPAC’s YouTube account and placed the tags there. [Alan Colmes, 4/20/2010; Right Wing Watch, 4/22/2010]
Entity Tags: Clinton administration, Alan Colmes, Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, Barney Frank, Lindsey Graham, Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama, Obama administration, William Gheen
August 22-25, 2011: Nativist PAC Leader Calls for ‘Illegal, Violent’ Acts to Overthrow ‘Dictator Obama’ in Military-Led Coup d’Etat, Then Denies Making Statement
William Gheen, the leader of the political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), tells conservative radio host Janet Mefferd that President Obama is a “dictator” who is waging war on “white America,” and recommends “illegal and violent” actions to remove him from office. Gheen has previously labeled Obama a “traitor” and accused him of “replacing many core Americans,” referring to whites. ALIPAC is considered a “nativist,” anti-immigrant organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Gheen and ALIPAC insist that Obama is leading an “invasion” of “white America” by “illegal immigrants” with the ultimate purpose of giving the nation to said immigrants. ALIPAC was instrumental in getting draconian anti-immigration laws passed in Arizona and other states.
Advocacy of Military Coup d'Etat, Calls for 'Illegal and Violent' Actions to Remove 'Dictator Barack Obama' - Gheen tells Mefford: “What Janet Napolitano [the director of homeland security] has spent most of her time doing in the last couple of months has been, one, preparing the new spy network that’s available now, the new data-collecting, see everything you do online, beyond the normal terrorist list that they’re creating, they’re creating a much larger list now of people who might be troublesome here in the country. And putting out videos and propaganda telegraphing what I believe to be a conflict with white America they’re preparing for after they get another 10 or 15 million people in the country to back them up.… We’re no longer referring to him as President Barack Obama, our national organization has made the decision and made the announcement we now refer to him as Dictator Barack Obama. That’s what he is. And basically at this point, if you’re looking for a peaceful, political recourse, there really isn’t one that we can think of, and I’m really not sure what to tell people out there than I guess they need to make decisions soon to just accept whatever comes next or some type of extra-political activities that I can’t really talk about because they’re all illegal and violent.” Gheen goes on to accuse Obama of trying to “integrate” the US economy with those of Canada and Mexico “in a way that bypasses the legislatures,” and says that the military should forcibly remove Obama from office. Later in the interview, Gheen calls on Congressional Republicans to impeach Obama, and says his organization cannot hold marches in Washington, DC, against Obama because he fears Obama has too many supporters among the city’s black and Latino residents. [Right Wing Watch, 8/22/2011; Southern Poverty Law Center, 8/23/2011; Right Wing Watch, 8/24/2011]
'Sharp Rightward Lurch' - The SPLC says that Gheen’s statements “mark a sharp rightward lurch” for him; in recent months, he has pulled ALIPAC out of anti-immigration rallies in Arizona because of the participation of neo-Nazi and skinhead groups in those rallies, and has told group members to have nothing to do with the nativist Minuteman groups after an Arizona Minuteman leader was arrested for the murder of a Latino man and his nine-year-old daughter. However, Gheen and ALIPAC have issued a number of bigoted and racist statements, mostly against Hispanics and homosexuals. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 8/23/2011]
'Clarification' Insists No Call for Violence, Denounces 'Left Wing' 'Attackers' - The day after his appearance on Mefferd’s show, Gheen issues a “clarification” of his statement that accuses “left wing bloggers and groups” of “attack[ing]” him over his comments, and denies making any calls for violence against Obama. “I have always been and remain dedicated to the peaceful political and civic processes to which I have dedicated my life in America,” he writes. “I would never jeopardize my reputation or my cause of securing America’s border by engaging in violent rhetoric or advocacy. I should have been more specific about my comments and indicated that I was reporting the conditions Americans face at the hands of Obama. I should have spoken more like an attorney writing fine print, as I usually have to do. I was asked what people should do now that Barack Obama has bypassed Congress and the US Constitution and instituted the Dream Act Amnesty via dictatorial decree. I mentioned that some groups were looking into lawsuits,” and, referring to his recommendation that groups use “illegal and violent” acts to “depose” the “Dictator Obama,” continues, “I meant that I cannot talk about such things because my job has been to support political campaigns, lobby Congress, do media appearances, send emails, faxes, and educate the public about illegal immigration. I have made it very clear that I disavow any form of violence on many occasions. I cannot delve into the options Barack Obama is forcing on Americans that are concerned about the illegal alien invasion of America.… The only reason I even mentioned that people in America are being forced into a decision between submission or more revolutionary means is because that is the situation that is being created by Dictator Barack Obama, not me.” He boasts that he has “never started a physical fight, but I’ve finished a few in my time and I would never engage in violence against anyone for any reason other than to protect myself and my family from physical harm,” says he has no intention of backing away from any conflicts, and makes more allegations of unfair “attacks” by a number of people and groups, including the SPLC and liberal radio host Alan Colmes. “I never said that any violence was ‘needed,’” he writes, “and I certainly never put the words about anything violent towards Obama. I know clearly that is a violation of federal law. But in the case of many of these supporters of Dictator Obama, they certainly don’t let the truth stop them from going after their enemies.” He goes on to accuse Obama and his administration of shipping thousands of Hispanic immigrants into America for the purpose of attacking white citizens, accuses “illegal aliens” of engineering the “illegitimate” takeover of the US Senate under Democratic leadership, accuses the “left” of “demonizing” the “tea party” movement, and says Obama is using “our stimulus tax dollars” and a number of federal agencies, including “the [B]ATF, DEA, DOJ, FBI, and CIA… to buy thousands of assault rifles for the invading Mexican cartels that are smuggling cocaine, methamphetamine, and illegal aliens into America!” His rhetoric, he writes, is intended to bring America together, not divide it. He concludes by saying that if there is indeed a violent revolution to overthrow the government, he is under too much “scrutiny and hatred” to be able to take part in it, and “will never advocate nor join nor support any violent actions outside of personal self defense because I am committed to the path of peace and nonviolence. I will walk right into the heart of Washington, DC, and confront this dictator unarmed and unafraid with full confidence in my Lord and I will walk as a sheep among wolves. I do not believe that the forces that at are destroying America can be vanquished with the force or arms. I believe this is a spiritual conflict. I believe that only through divine Providence will God save the United States of America.” [Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, 8/23/2011; Right Wing Watch, 8/24/2011]
Denies Using the Words 'Illegal' and 'Violent' - This evening he goes on Colmes’s radio show. Gheen claims he never used the words “illegal and violent” even after Colmes plays that segment of the interview, accuses Colmes of “exploit[ing]” his words, and says that because he advocates non-violence on his Web site, he does not need to do the same on-air: “I should’ve prepared my comments a little bit better so they wouldn’t be exploited by the opposition.” [Alan Colmes, 8/23/2011; Right Wing Watch, 8/24/2011]
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Profile: Orin S. Kerr
Orin S. Kerr was a participant or observer in the following events:
June 5, 2006: Former Justice Department Official Argues Data Mining is Not Electronic Surveillance
George Terwilliger, a former deputy attorney general under George H. W. Bush, argues that the current Bush administration’s controversial data mining program (see Late 1999 and After September 11, 2001) is not illegal. Terwilliger tells the conservative National Review, “I think it’s fair to say that the statutes contemplate the transfer of this generic type of data much more on a case-by-case rather than a wholesale basis,” meaning that the law calls for a court order only in cases when the government is making a targeted request for information. But, he adds, “I don’t see anything in the statute that forbids such a wholesale turnover.” Terwilliger’s argument echoes the arguments of the Bush Justice Department, which argues that the data mining program—part of the NSA’s “Stellar Wind” surveillance program (see Spring 2004 and December 15, 2005)—does not technically constitute “electronic surveillance” under the law. Both the Fourth Amendment and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as interpreted by the courts, define such actions as “electronic surveillance,” according to a number of legal experts, including law professor Orin Kerr. And, Ars Technica reporter Julian Sanchez notes in 2009, “the Stored Communications Act explicitly makes it a crime to ‘knowingly divulge a record or other information pertaining to a subscriber to or customer of such service… to any governmental entity.’” Sanchez will call Terwilliger’s argument “very strange,” but will note that Terwilliger is the attorney for then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and “a prominent defender of the administration’s surveillance policies.” Sanchez will conclude that while the argument “might pass for clever in a high school debate round… [i]t would be deeply unsettling if it [passes] for anything more in the halls of power.” [National Review, 6/5/2006; Ars Technica, 12/16/2008]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, Alberto R. Gonzales, ’Stellar Wind’, Bush administration (43), National Security Agency, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Julian Sanchez, George Terwilliger, Orin S. Kerr
March 10, 2008: House Judiciary Committee Files Lawsuit to Compel White House Testimony
The House Judiciary Committee asks a federal judge to compel two White House officials to testify about the firings of eight US attorneys in 2007. Former White House counsel Harriet Miers and current White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten have both refused to testify, ignoring subpoenas from the Judiciary Committee (see February 14, 2008), and Attorney General Michael Mukasey has refused to enforce the subpoenas (see February 29, 2008). The White House steered the refusals. Judge John D. Bates, a federal district court judge in Washington, is overseeing the case. The suit says that neither Miers nor Bolten may avoid testimony by citing executive privilege, as both they and the White House have asserted. White House press secretary Dana Perino calls the suit “partisan theater,” and adds, “The confidentiality that the president receives from his senior advisers and the constitutional principle of separation of powers must be protected from overreaching, and we are confident that the courts will agree with us.” Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) vehemently disagrees, saying, “The administration’s extreme claim to be immune from the oversight processes are at odds with our constitutional principles.” Conyers warns, “We will not allow the administration to steamroll Congress.” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) calls the suit a waste of time and accuses the committee of “pandering to the left-wing swamps of loony liberal activists.” The case is central to the ongoing tension between the White House and Congress over the balance of power between the two branches. Constitutional law professor Orin S. Kerr says the case raises fresh issues. While the Supreme Court recognized executive privilege in 1974, it acknowledged that executive privilege was not absolute and could be overturned in some instances, such as a criminal investigation. No court has ruled whether a claim of executive privilege outweighs a Congressional subpoena. According to lawyer Stanley Brand, who is involved in the suit for the Democrats, the committee turned to the legal system to avoid the possibility of charging Miers and Bolten with contempt and trying them in Congress on the charges. Such an action, Brand says, would be unseemly. [House Judiciary Committee v. Miers & Bolten, 3/10/2008 ; New York Times, 3/11/2008]
Entity Tags: House Judiciary Committee, Dana Perino, Harriet E. Miers, John Boehner, John Conyers, Orin S. Kerr, John D. Bates, Joshua Bolten, Michael Mukasey, Stanley Brand
March 4, 2009: Law Experts ‘Stunned’ by Bush-Era Justice Department Memos
Legal experts and civil libertarians are “stunned” by the recently released memos from the Bush-era Justice Department which assert sweeping powers for the president not granted by the Constitution (see March 2, 2009 and March 3, 2009). Yale law professor Jack Balkin calls the memos a demonstration of the Bush “theory of presidential dictatorship.” Balkin continues: “They say the battlefield is everywhere. And the president can do anything he wants, so long as it involves the military and the enemy.… These views are outrageous and inconsistent with basic principles of the Constitution as well as with two centuries of legal precedents. Yet they were the basic assumptions of key players in the Bush administration in the days following 9/11.” George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr agrees. “I agree with the left on this one,” he says. The approach in the memos “was simply not a plausible reading of the case law. The Bush [Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC] eventually rejected [the] memos because they were wrong on the law—and they were right to do so” (see January 15, 2009). Balkin says the time period of most of the memos—the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks—merely provided a convenient excuse for the administration’s subversion of the Constitution. “This was a period of panic, and panic creates an opportunity for patriotic politicians to abuse their power,” he says. [Jack Balkin, 3/3/2009; Los Angeles Times, 3/4/2009] Civil litigator and columnist Glenn Greenwald writes that the memos helped provide the foundation for what he calls “the regime of secret laws under which we were ruled for the last eight years… the grotesque blueprint for what the US government became.” [Salon, 3/3/2009] Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger says that, contrary to the memos’ assertion of blanket presidential powers in wartime, Congress has considerable powers during such a time. Congress has, according to the Constitution, “all legislative powers,” including the power “to declare war… and make rules concerning captures on land and water” as well as “regulation of the land and naval forces.” Dellinger, who headed the OLC during the Clinton administration, continues: “You can never get over how bad these opinions were. The assertion that Congress has no role to play with respect to the detention of prisoners was contrary to the Constitution’s text, to judicial precedent, and to historical practice. For people who supposedly follow the text [of the Constitution], what don’t they understand about the phrase ‘make rules concerning captures on land and water’?” [Los Angeles Times, 3/4/2009]
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Franklin Pierce University Campus History: Boice Performing Arts Center / Warehouse Theatre
History of the Black Box Theatre & the Dance Studio
Blackbox Theatre
In 1996, a campus-wide review of major determined that theater was not meeting its goals due to lack of space. The space in the basement of the warehouse was divided between theater and mass comm, and space was renovated for the theater program. In October, a lighting grid was installed by theater students, folding chairs were added, and a paint job were completed. A "theater experience" was planned for the December play. (Pierce Arrow, 10/4/96) By November, the space was under construction, with plans to house a larger audience and performance space. The new theatre also allowed dance students access to a bathroom, and a larger performance space. (Pierce Arrow, 11/15/96)
The Putnam Foundation funded construction of a "black box" theater out of unused warehouse space adjacent to the Fieldhouse. It was 3600 square feet.
By February 1997, the space was being referred to as the "Black Box" theater, as the simple black atmosphere gave the illusion of being in a black box. (Pierce Arrow, 2/7/97)
Phase 1 construction of the black box style, experimental theater was completed in 1998. The theater was designed to contain flexible seating for 150 patrons and state-of-the-art performance technologies and lighting.
In 2002, the roofs were replaced due to water leaks. In 2003, a new classroom, dressing rooms, bathrooms and a new set design area were renovated, due to the loss of Ravencroft Theater. The exterior of the area had new siding, drainage, lampposts, and a granite curb added. In 2004 rehearsal space was renovated in the lower level of the Black box theater.
On May 15th, 2015, the Warehouse Theatre was renamed the "Yvonne S. Boice Performing Arts Center" in honor of Boice, a 2015 honorary degree recipient.
The dance studio was originally in Crestview, but was relocated next to the warehouse in the early 1990s. In 1995, dancers were relocated to the Ravencroft Theater while a new floor was installed. The old floor had bolts and cracks, but the new floor was built by Dion and Son contractors. It was a double plywood floor, with rubber pads, maple on top, and a coat of polyurethane. The overhaul cost about $10 per square foot total. (Pierce Arrow, 10/20/95)
In 1996, the warehouse space next to the dance studio was under construction as a new performance space, allowing dancers more space and access to bathrooms. Removable flooring that the college owned was only large enough for the Ravencroft theater, so suggestions were made to purchase more flooring for performances. (Pierce Arrow, 11/15/96)
The studio was upgraded in 1998.
v.16, no.1, 1998
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lstaples@lorenastaples.ca
Lorena Staples
Honours & Awards
In 1964, after graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School and my call to the bar in Ontario, I joined a small general practice firm serving business and corporate clients in the West End of Toronto. The senior partner, Clive Sinclair, K.C., had been the Reeve (mayor) of the Township of Etobicoke, now part of the mega city of Toronto.
In 1966, I joined the Metropolitan Toronto legal department and began my municipal law career. While there, I was Legal Advisor to the Council’s Parks Committee and the Metropolitan Parks Department, documented property acquisitions – voluntary and expropriated – for Metro Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission, administered leases for summer residences on Toronto Island, and prepared debenture issues for legal review by outside counsel.
In 1970, I worked for three months as the assistant city solicitor and then was promoted to city solicitor for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Over the four years I was at “the Soo”, the files I handled were so varied and extensive that I feel I earned the equivalent of a Masters degree in municipal law and administration.
In 1974, I was appointed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), the first woman appointed to a provincial tribunal. The OMB’s members conducted hearings on applications by municipalities for approval of new and amended zoning bylaws, official plans, and capital works bylaws, zoning variance and subdivision appeals, and municipal restructuring applications.
During my time there, I was seconded from the OMB to the Ministry of Housing to serve as both a hearing officer and legal advisor to the Chief Hearing Officer (also seconded from the OMB who was a former city planning director and private planning consultant who designed Don Mills in Scarborough). The hearing officers conducted hearings and site viewings on appeals from decisions of the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC). Our reports and recommendations on whether to approve or reject the appeals were forwarded to the Minister of Municipal Affairs for his final decision.
In 1979, J. Galt Wilson, Q.C., the “dean” of municipal law in BC, invited me to become a partner in the Victoria branch office of his law firm, together with his partner in the Kelowna branch office, Robert J. Bauman, as he then was, now the Chief Justice of British Columbia. We focused exclusively on local government law and provided legal services to local governments all over British Columbia.
In 1981, Galt and I moved our municipal law practice into the Victoria firm of Harman & Company, which then became Harman Wilson & Company. I built up a sizable clientele in that partnership and was managing partner for a time. In 1988, Galt and I, with two other partners, founded a new firm that, after a few name changes, became Staples McDannold Stewart, where I became the senior name partner of the firm.
In December 2011, I retired from the firm but, at the urging of my clients, continued my local government law practice under the firm name of Lorena P.D. Staples Law Corporation. Some of my current clients have been with me since the early 1980s.
I have had the good fortune to work with many talented individuals from all spheres of life in a variety of workplaces. I have been in a general / commercial law practice, the manager of a city legal department, managing partner in two Victoria law firms, the chief administrative officer of a municipality, a provincial tribunal member, and have sat on a variety of boards.
My various jobs have given me an insider’s knowledge of how local governments function, not only from the legal perspective, but the administrative and political as well.
I learned a great deal about administration, land use planning and development, project management, municipal infrastructure, event planning, local politics and local government financing while working in-house at Metro Toronto and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
My exposure to municipal finance, land use planning and development at Metro and the Soo was complemented by the different viewpoint of those matters I experienced while hearing applications and appeals as a member of the OMB and a Niagara Escarpment hearing officer. Serving clients in BC and Ontario as an independent legal advisor, gave me a global perspective.
Over the 5 decades of my career, I have gained an in-depth knowledge of municipal administration, politics and law. My clients value my focus on insightful and practical advice, coupled with my long experience. I have been lauded for an ability to think ‘outside the box’ and for creative solutions to local government issues.
I believe my practical experience, plus the curiosity that leads me to read extensively about business, politics and world affairs and to closely observe how people interact with one another within their communities, enrich my advice and legal opinions for the benefit of my clients.
Lorena (Lori) Staples, Q.C.
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COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT STEVENS.
Stevens was acquitted on a charge of receiving stolen property but found guilty of unlawfully carrying a pistol (G. L. c. 269, Section 10, as amended through St. 1969, c. 799, Sections 14, 15, 16). The case is here under G. L. c. 278, Sections 33A-33G. The judge denied a motion to suppress a pistol found under the back seat of Stevens's automobile, when the vehicle was searched pursuant to a warrant issued after Stevens's arrest. The affidavit submitted by a police officer as basis for the search warrant alleged only the following facts: Stevens had been seen about 6:30 A.M. on July 31, 1970, stopping his vehicle near a store at 406 Kempton Street, New Bedford. He stepped from his automobile, and permitted or assisted two men who came from the store to place rifles (number not indicated) in the vehicle's trunk. The affidavit did not specifically point out to the clerk who issued the search warrant any criminal aspect of these matters. There had been rioting in New Bedford in July, 1970 (of which we took judicial notice in Matter of Pappas, 358 Mass. 604 , 607, cert. granted 402 U.S. 942). This background was not mentioned in the affidavit, although evidence about it was introduced at the hearing on the motion to suppress. Even taking into account matters of which the clerk could reasonably take judicial notice (e.g. the general location of riots and disorders then in progress in New Bedford) far less information was presented to him as a basis for issuing a search warrant than was included in the application considered in Commonwealth v. Moran, 353 Mass. 166 , 168-169. The affidavit, in the opinion of a majority of the court, was too general and inconclusive to satisfy the statutory rule (G. L. c. 276, Sections 2A, 2B and 2C, each as amended), discussed in Commonwealth v. Monosson, 351 Mass. 327 , 330, particularly in asserting facts having a tendency to show the described conduct to be criminal.
Judgment reversed.
Verdict set aside.
ANTONIO JOAQUIM DE ARAUJO BRITO & others vs. TOWN OF PROVINCETOWN & another.
This is an appeal from a final decree dismissing a bill in equity by which the plaintiff's seek injunctive and declaratory relief in connection with the town's construction of a public comfort station on land southerly and to the rear of their adjoining lots and buildings fronting on the southerly side of Commercial Street in Provincetown. The trial judge made a report of material facts found by him, and the evidence is reported. For the nature and extent of appellate review of findings on such a record, see Hosken, Inc. v. Hingham Management Corp. 328 Mass. 588 , 589. We summarize the grounds on which the plaintiffs rely and the judge's action thereon. (1) They question the need for the station despite the town meeting vote authorizing its construction. The judge found that "the [existing] public toilet facilities . . . are inadequate [and] that . . . the proposed comfort station is necessary, required and desirable to serve the needs of the public at large." (2) They contend that the station will constitute a health nuisance by reason of odors, water pollution and the "hordes of people" it will attract. The plans and specifications for the station have the required approval of State
and town health authorities none of whom are made parties to the suit. The judge found that "without resort to speculation or conjecture" he could not "assume nor . . . conclude that the use of this facility will be injurious, noxious or offensive to the neighborhood by reason of the emission of odors, fumes or other cause, or that it shall constitute a nuisance." (3) They allege in effect that they have acquired title by adverse possession of the land where the station is to be constructed. The judge found and ruled that they "have not sustained the burden of proving by fair preponderance that the location of the comfort station is upon land owned by them or in which they have an interest." These three grounds were fully litigated and were decided against the plaintiffs. The judge's findings thereon are supported by the evidence and are not plainly wrong. His rulings of law were correct. Under its zoning by-law the town was required to obtain a special permit from its board of appeals to build the station. The board granted such a permit which it mistakenly called a "variance." The plaintiffs attempt to question the validity of the permit for alleged failure of the board to comply with statutory requirements as to notice and procedure. General Laws c. 40A, Section 21, as amended through St. 1960, c. 365, provides a special remedy to persons "aggrieved by a decision of the board of appeals," and it further provides that "[t]he foregoing remedy shall be exclusive," See Lincoln v. Board of Appeals of Framingham, 346 Mass. 418 , 420. The remedy in the present case is an appeal to the Superior Court by a bill in equity in which "all the members of the board of appeals shall be named as parties . . . [defendant]." The plaintiffs named no members of the board as parties defendant, and they are therefore not entitled to question the validity of the permit. Because the final decree did not declare the rights of the parties on the issues litigated, it is reversed. Vasilakis v. Haverhill, 339 Mass. 97 , 101. Hannan v. Enterprise Publishing Co. 341 Mass. 363 , 365. A new decree is to be entered declaring that the proposed comfort station is reasonably necessary, that it will not constitute a nuisance, that the land where the station is to be built belongs to the town of Provincetown, and that the validity of the special permit granted by the board of appeals is not at issue in this case.
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Kalutara District Megapolis Ministry hopes to invest Rs. 500 Mn on development projects
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By Sheain Fernandopulle
Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development hopes to invest Rs. 500 million on the Kalutara District development projects, Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said.
He expressed these views at the opening ceremony held to declare open the commercial complex of the Kalutara Station.
“Government has spent Rs.288 million to construct the complex and it comprises of 173 shopping spaces. Kalutara is a city which is highly acclaimed for its historic value and national heritage. Therefore, it is pertinent to develop such a city for it to be more attractive,” the Minister said.
He said they had identified several locations in the Kalutara District where they could launch development projects that would pave the way to generate income to the government.
Meanwhile, he said they had only Rs.800 billion to launch country wide development projects in the long run.
Government would have to focus on constructing houses, roads, providing water and electricity to the people. We have only Rs.800 billion to do everything,” the Minister said.
“We have to allocate Rs.2, 300 billion for loan re-payments. It is in fact three times into what we have allocated for development,” the Minister added.
He said 75% of the loan re-payment is because of the loans obtained during the Rajapaksa regime.
They had identified several locations in the Kalutara District where they could launch development projects that would pave the way to generate income to the government
UDA housing projects in Colombo and suburbs Rs. 55,582 Mn. allocated to uplift housing conditions of low income families
Phase I of Logistics City underway
Over Rs.5bn. income for UDA through land sales
Per capita income of the country is US$13,000 and Our purchasing power is up to the level of developed country: Champika
‘Methsanda Sevana’ Housing Scheme to be vested with public today
Megapolis Ministry embarks on big-time development projects
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Wire Stories > Environmental Commissioner of Ontario > Where is Ontario’s “Cultur... > You Are Here
Where is Ontario’s “Culture of Conservation”?
Tuesday, June 5th 2012 10:34:49am
Toronto, June 5, 2012 - Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner says the Ontario government appears to have forgotten one of the important goals of its own Green Energy and Green Economy Act (GEGEA).
Gord Miller made the observation today as he released the Annual Energy Conservation Progress Report - 2011 (Volume One) which reviews the government’s progress to date on its energy conservation promises and makes recommendations on how the government can fulfill its GEGEA commitments. The Green Energy and Green Economy Act gave the Environmental Commissioner the responsibility for reviewing the progress of energy conservation activities in Ontario.
The Environmental Commissioner says “when the GEGEA was introduced, the government said that fostering a ‘culture of conservation’ was just as important as increasing the amount of renewable energy.”
“But three years after its passage” notes Gord Miller, “many of the bill’s conservation promises remain unfulfilled, or in the case of mandatory energy audits before the sale of a home, completely abandoned. Instead of fostering ‘a culture of conservation’ the Ontario government seems intent on making it an orphan.”
The Environmental Commissioner points to three energy conservation promises that were never acted on by the government:
• The government has not introduced ENERGY STAR® standards for household appliances such as refrigerators, clothes washers, and dishwashers. This would have stopped the sale of less efficient products that consume 20 to 40 per cent more energy.
• It failed to make energy audits mandatory prior to the sale of homes. Homebuyers currently have limited access to information about a home’s energy use. The residential sector accounts for 21 per cent of all energy use in Ontario.
• The government has not yet banned the sale of the ‘inefficient’ screw-in incandescent light bulbs, which it promised to do by 2012. The federal and Ontario governments have now delayed the ban for two years. This delay will cost Canadians as much as $300 million dollars in higher energy costs.
The Environmental Commissioner says the Ontario government does deserve praise for making the Ontario Building Code more energy efficient and for requiring municipalities, school boards, hospitals and colleges and universities to develop energy conservation plans and to report on their organization’s energy usage. But Gord Miller notes this is an arm’s-length approach to conservation “that leaves conservation disconnected from people’s day-to-day lives.”
“You cannot foster a ‘culture of conservation’ in Ontario” states Miller, “unless you take actions that actually engage the individual consumer or homeowner.”
For more information and interviews, contact:
Maria Leung
Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
maria.leung@eco.on.ca
The report is available for download at www.eco.on.ca
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The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario is the province's independent environmental watchdog. Appointed by the Legislative Assembly, the ECO monitors and reports on compliance with the Environmental Bill of Rights, the government's progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its actions towards achieving greater energy conservation in Ontario.
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India to host FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2020
India will host the U-17 Women's World Cup in 2020, International Football Federation (FIFA) President Gianni Infantino announced.
"We are delighted to announce that India has been confirmed as the host of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2020," Infantino said after the FIFA Council meeting in Miami, USA on Friday.This will be the second FIFA tournament India will be hosting, after the U-17 Men's World Cup in 2017.Confirming the development, All India Football Federation General Secretary Kushal Das told PTI: "We are thankful to FIFA for giving the right to host the U-17 Women's World Cup. This will raise the profile of women's football in the country.
"We have been giving a lot of emphasis on the development of women's football in the country. So we bid for the U-17 Women's World Cup and now we have got it."The bidding process for the tournament started last year. France had also expressed interest to host the tournament.
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Command Decision (1948) - Inside Baseball during WWII
"Command Decision" (1948).
The biggest problem with "Command Decision" (1948) is that you can tell, scene by scene, that this was adapted from a stage play. There are a few main sets, and the characters shuttle in and out of them like clockwork. Given a lack of any historical accuracy, as discussed below, the only thing this film is the acting - and we get some true histrionic displays. Whether that is enough to hold your interest, well, is up to you. Do you want to spend the time watching Clark Gable emote, and Walter Pidgeon give a career performance in a show-stopping monologue? Because there really isn't that much else to this film.
I get into some analysis of this below, just like this flick does regarding its subject. It is a good stab at showing the dilemmas faced by the air force during World War II. To do that, just like every other film about the air force made during the 1940s, it mishmashes reality and fiction so that you have to be a true expert to tell them apart. But there are reasons to see this film today despite the confabulations involved. Gable is great, Pigeon is great (especially in his extended monologue that must have been heavy to memorize), and the story holds together. That it isn't true and taken out of the war diary, well, only you can decide if that is important to you.
"No, I mean it, I really do like that scarf." Post-mission debriefings were serious business.
After wife Carole Lombard died and he enlisted in World War II to fly actual missions over Germany, Clark Gable tended to play more serious roles than he had in the 1930s. This is one of his best, a look at American air operations during the critical war year of 1943. Of course, this is Hollywood, so there are a number of factual liberties taken to make the situation appear more dramatic than it really was. Some of these are minor, but a few are quite glaring and reek of gilding the lily and 20/20 hindsight.
"Yes, you really are bald." When a Congressional delegation arrives, some real issues creep into the proceedings.
The fictional raids almost certainly are modeled on the real-life August 17, 1943 raid on Schweinfurt and Regensburg, deep inside Germany. Two targets were chosen instead of just one in order to confuse the defenders, as fighter escort was impossible past Eupen, Belgium. Schweinfurt had ball-bearing factories, Regensburg had ME-109 plants. The raid was a noble effort but in actuality a costly Allied failure. Out of 376 bombers sent out, 60 were lost outright and an additional 87 returned but were lost to future operations due to damage. That is darn near a 50% loss rate. By comparison, the Germans lost a total of 40 fighters. Despite all their other mounting troubles, the Germans still ruled the sky over Germany.
The real history is important because it shows the liberties taken by the script. The core of the movie is a series of nightly decisions made by the commanding generals as to whether to order another raid on the same targets for the next day with the near certainty of heavy losses. Very dramatic, but that never happened. There was just one raid, not a succession of them, at least not one right after the other. No air force could suffer repeated losses day after day of over 20% - in fact, when an actual second raid on Schweinfurt two months later, on October 14, 1943, did occur, another day of such losses (60 out of 291, over 20%) resulted in a suspension of the raids for another five months. The Germans still had air supremacy over Germany in 1943, a fact few people may realize. These raids, in fact, may be seen as the last strategic American air defeats until the present day. Portraying them as moral victories or something is, well, kind of sketchy.
"Four Score and Seven Years Ago.... No wait, that's not it...." Walter Pidgeon gives a dramatic monologue during "Command Decision" to which Clark Gable listens attentively.
So, there is some serious revisionist history going on here. The actual attacks were not made to prevent some super-weapon German jet fighter from becoming operational - those fighters, primarily the ME-262, weren't mass-produced until the following year, and were done so in bomb-proof underground bunkers. The ME-109 wasn't even the best German fighter at that point, the Focke-Wolfe 190 was preferred by many Luftwaffe fighter pilots and had better flight and destructive capabilities except at the highest altitudes. According to the Germans, the raids didn't have much effect at all, as German production recovered quite quickly. German Armaments Minister Albert Speer in fact claimed after the war that the Americans SHOULD have focused their efforts more decisively, as in the movie, but instead wastefully dispersed their attacks against multiple targets and WITHOUT quick follow-ups (well, easy for him to say...). And incidentally, there weren't any B-29s operational anywhere until Spring 1944, so all the talk in the movie about transferring to command them is so much hogwash (can't you just hear Gable saying that - "That's just so much hogwash!").
One could argue that the film actually depicts Operation Argument, the so-called "Big Week" bombing campaign, when the US and British actually did conduct daily raids against the German aircraft industry in order to instigate battle against the German fighter force and wipe it out. But that was in February 1944, not 1943 as the film states, and US bomber losses then were much lower than stated in the film, around 7%. There's a huge difference between 20%+ and 7%, the latter is sustainable, the former, not. By then, the long-range P-51 Mustang fighter was available to shepherd the bombers all the way to Germany and back. It's pretty certain that nobody on the Allied side was fired over the outcome of Big Week, which absolutely crippled the German fighter force and, aside from over-blown fears about the late entry of the ME-262, essentially decided the air war.
Counting bombers as they returned to the airfield was standard practice.
So, "Command Decision" isn't real history. Nobody probably expects it to be. At best, it is a combination of different events. Taken as dramatic fiction "based upon" real events, though, it is quite engaging. The political aspect is brought up nicely - war is too important to be left to the Generals and all that. I think that the real scene-stealer in the movie is Walter Pidgeon, one of his best roles, who articulates the real political conflicts at work in directing thousands of men to commit daily attacks with the certainty of heavy losses. Pidgeon's speech about how he has fought for bomber development and priority over the other services is a classic. He is how I see a real "big picture" guy operating. Gable is Gable, solid and stoic and delivering his usual fine performance. The supporting performances are uneven, some realistic, a few just annoying (such as those of the actors playing the visiting Congressional delegation, who wouldn't have been THAT self-centered and oblivious in the middle of the war).
Recommended for the atmosphere and the fine performances, not the history.
Posted by James Bjorkman at 8:38:00 AM
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Rocky Horror Show Cast Announced For Storyhouse
Kristian Lavercombe,
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Richard O’Brien,
Joanne Clifton,
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James Darch
Philip Franks
The cast for Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show at Storyhouse in Chester this Autumn have been announced.
The Rocky Horror Show continues to play to packed houses as it tours the length and breadth of the UK throughout 2019 featuring a wealth of star performers.
More than 100,000 people have seen the show during the tour and there are no signs of this incredible cast slowing down.
The Rocky Horror Show comes to Storyhouse from Monday 16 September to Saturday 21 September 2019 for eight performances only, including early evening shows on Friday and Saturday at 5.30pm. Tickets are on sale now and group discounts are available.
Strictly star Joanne Clifton continues her role as Janet, and she will be joined by James Darch as Brad.
Joanne Clifton has been delighting audiences and receiving rave reviews as Janet. She will continue to don her corset and fishnets as she extends her role in the musical extravaganza for a further six months until the end of the 2019 tour.
Joanne said: “I absolutely love playing Janet, so I’m delighted to continue with the show throughout the year.”
James Darch joins the cast to play Brad. An accomplished actor with an impressive CV, he is currently starring as Pat Casey in Maggie May at The Finborough Theatre. Other credits include An Officer and a Gentleman (UK tour); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); and Mamma Mia (Novello Theatre).
James said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the cast of the Rocky Horror Show. It’s mad – there is no denying that. But, as the devoted audiences prove, it’s a story that’s got heart and relevance through every generation. Its infectious energy is still standing the test of time and coming out on top. I can’t wait to put my own small stamp on such a well known and loved character as Brad – bring on the madness!”
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In 2015, as part of a sold-out season at London’s Playhouse Theatre, a special star-studded gala charity performance in aid of Amnesty International was broadcast to over 600 cinemas across the UK and Europe. The live screening featured a host of celebrities playing The Narrator, including Stephen Fry, Mel Giedroyc, Emma Bunton, Ade Edmondson, Anthony Head and Richard O’Brien – it smashed box office records and was the biggest grossing film in cinemas across the UK. The performance was subsequently screened on the Sky Arts channel.
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How Community Activists in Kenya are Working Together to End Female Genital Cutting
Kenya banned FGM in 2011, but the practice continues. Due to poor enforcement of the law, community activists have made it their mission to save girls from this harmful tradition.
Shinina Shani can’t remember the last time she turned her cell phone off.
“Everyone has my number, and when I miss a call from a number I don’t recognize, I have to call them back,” she says. There are literally lives on the line.
Shinina, 45, has spent the last 20 years as an activist against female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C). She shares her number with girls in her hometown of Narok, Kenya, who seek support as they attempt to avoid “being cut.” She receives about 20 calls a week.
FGM rates can run this high in Kenya, despite being illegal
FGM, sometimes known as female circumcision, is the cultural practice of cutting some or all parts of the external female genitalia. In some communities, it’s seen as a rite of passage that signifies womanhood and is sometimes followed shortly by marriage. Kenya banned FGM in 2011, but the practice continues, and its prevalence ranges from 1 percent to 98 percent, depending on region and ethnic community. According to the national bureau of statistics, FGM is practiced at a rate of 78 percent among the Maasai, the ethnic community that is the majority of the population in Narok. Due to poor enforcement of the law, Kenyans like Shinina have made it their mission to save girls from this harmful tradition.
“I’ve seen women not get out of bed for three months. I’ve seen them bleed and die.”
Growing up, Shinina witnessed FGM’s devastating impacts in her community.
“I’ve seen the complications from delivering children. I’ve seen women not get out of bed for three months. I’ve seen them bleed and die,” she says.
This has fueled her activism, which keeps her busiest at the end of the year.
“I don’t rest from November. December is our worst month.”
Since schools in Kenya close for the two-month holiday, FGM spikes as parents believe girls will have time to recover from the procedure. In the weeks that follow, girls may experience excessive bleeding, severe pain, and infections, and in the long-term, they can face problems with urination and menstruation, complications during childbirth, and psychological trauma. One WHO study that examined the mental health of women who underwent female genital mutilation showed that 30 percent of survivors had post-traumatic stress disorder and 80 percent had anxiety disorders.
And so she leaves her phone on — for the girls who will inevitably call for help. Sometimes, the girls don’t call, but they show up.
“One day I just came home and found a child [outside my house], and then I made calls to alert authorities and get her to a rescue center,” she says. Another time, she found a girl hiding behind her car, too scared to go home.
Shinina says that people in Narok used to hold lavish parties during the holidays to celebrate girls’ circumcisions. “It used to be a big ceremony with a lot of music. People would witness [a girl being cut] and stand by her and give her presents.”
She says some villages in Narok still publicly celebrate like this, but most of these ceremonies were driven underground when Kenya banned FGM.
This has led girls like Faith to live in fear. When she was 12, Faith heard her parents discuss plans to circumcise her over the holidays. She knew it was dangerous from conversations with girls who’d undergone the procedure.
“They said you’ll be bleeding for four days. They said it’s a wound and it won’t heal that fast, so I was scared,” Faith says.
House of Hope Rescue Centre founder Patrick Ngigi (left) with a student who benefitted from the center’s support system. Photo: Courtesy House of Hope Rescue Centre/Mission With a Vision
That December, she decided to run away. She confided in a teacher, who made the four-hour drive to drop her off at House of Hope Rescue Centre, one of four centres in Narok that takes in girls escaping FGM or early child marriage.
Patrick Ngigi, a 47-year-old pastor and former teacher started the center in 1997 when he was inundated with requests by girls who needed support.
“They would come to my office to ask for help. I realized we needed a place we could keep them [safe].” The first three girls he helped hide from their families stayed at his mother’s house. But he was unable to keep up with the demand and decided to open a support center, which he runs independently.
The House of Hope accepts girls throughout the year but is busiest during the holidays. When Shinina needs a safe place to house girls, even if it’s in the middle of the night, she reaches out to Patrick.
“We make them feel at home as much as possible. We give them counselling and we ensure they continue attending school,” Patrick says. He finds donors who help cover the cost of enrolling the girls in boarding schools. During the holidays, they return to House of Hope. Patrick explains that if the girls attend day schools, their relatives may “snatch them” while they’re on the way to school and make them undergo FGM.
House of Hope is currently home to 67 girls, who sleep in bunk beds in dormitory rooms. All of them have found their way there voluntarily.
“Every girl that comes to us is a girl who wants to be there by herself,” Patrick says. “If we try [to bring them here], we will end up getting killed.”
The center’s goal is to provide a safe space for girls and eventually reunite them with their parents. When a girl arrives at the center, Patrick begins a reconciliation process with the parents, which also involves elders, chiefs and children’s aid workers. The aim is to have parents sign-off on a document declaring they will not force their daughter to undergo FGM so that she can safely return home.
Patrick is currently working to reconcile 26 girls with their parents, a process that can take anywhere from a few months to years.
This was the case with Faith. After running away to the House of Hope, she began the reconciliation process with her parents but it wasn’t going well. For years, they told her that if she returned home, they would force her to undergo FGM, so she stayed put, completing her elementary school, high school and university studies with the support of the rescue center. After graduating from university at age 20, her parents were convinced of the dangers of FGM and finally signed off on the reconciliation paperwork.
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March: 10 things to do for $10 or less
By Leslie King | Emory Report | March 6, 2018
Get a head start on Earth Month with the Emory Earth Festival on March 27. Take a spin with the bike-powered blender, play games and learn about sustainability-related Emory departments, student groups and community organizations.
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Celebrate the beauty of art and science and even a combination of the two during the event-packed month of March. Many activities are free or under $10 and you can choose indoor or outdoor events.
The month features two signature event series, among others, in which the Emory community is heavily involved: the Atlanta Science Festival and Tibet Week. Many of the offerings during both are free. Here is just a small sample of what is available:
1. Take a hike, outdoors or indoors.
Just in time for the Move More Challenge, beginning Wednesday, March 7, at noon, an eight-week walking group will meet every Wednesday through April 25. Walk independently or with a group; fun activities and themes are promised. You can choose the indoor option with walks in the Emory University Hospital Tunnel or the outdoor option of walking in Lullwater Preserve. Choose any or all Wednesdays to walk. This exercise is free.
2. Celebrate the rich connections between Eastern traditions and American poetry.
Come to the Jones Room in the Woodruff Library on March 7 at 6:30 p.m. to hear Emory faculty reading Buddhist poems in their original languages, including Japanese, Marathi, Sanskrit, Pali and Chinese. Students will then read Beat poetry in English responding to the Buddhist tradition. A reception will follow. The event, “This Tank Full of Dreams: Buddhism, Poetry, and the Beats, is free and open to the public.
3. View some “Scandal”-ously pleasurable TV.
Emory Cinemathetique's “Black Lives on the Small Screen” film series features two episodes of the very popular series on Wednesday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m., followed by a discussion with professor Kristen Warner of the University of Alabama. See Season 1, Episode 1 "Sweet Baby" and Season 3, Episode 8 "Vermont is for Lovers, Too." The screenings take place in Room 208 of White Hall and are free and open to the public.
4. Get a grip on the impact of the new tax reform law.
Tax Day looms and though it won’t kick in until next year, the new tax reform law will change how taxes are done. Emory alumnus Jodan Ledford will talk about the impact of tax reform, particularly as it will affect employee benefits. Ledford will speak on “Tax Reform and Its Impact” on Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Williams Hall at Oxford College.
5. Strategize for some self-care via a convenient webinar format.
Caregiver Wellness: Take Time for Nutrition offers information on how to prioritize your physical health, which may take a back seat to demands of caring for older loved ones and/or children. Participants will learn strategies for nutritional self-care, such as tips for grocery shopping, meal planning and eating healthy on the go. The information is useful for anyone looking to improve their nutrition. The link for this webinar will be sent out to registrants the day before. The webinar is Wednesday, March 21, at noon; register by March 20.
6. Learn about the magic of cats and dogs.
The popular “Divine Felines” exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum has inspired a lecture titled “The Magic of Cats and Dogs.” Learn from exhibition curator Melinda Hartwig about why they were so revered in ancient Egypt, their roles in religion and society and why the Egyptians considered them magical. The talk is Wednesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Ackerman Hall of the Carlos Museum.
7. Experiment at the Atlanta Science Festival.
A number of the events will be held on Emory’s campus, and many are free but filling up fast, so sign up soon. Explore the scientific world through visual arts through the Science.Art.Wonder program on Friday, March 23. Meet artists and scientists on this walking tour exhibit on the Quadrangle from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will also be hands-on art and science activities. It’s free and no registration is required.
You can then head over to the Atwood Chemistry Center, where Emory’s cutting-edge research is translated into carnival games like Peptide Jenga and Bacterial Telepathy, complete with prizes. Plus, scientists will be on-site to explain the laboratory research hiding behind each fun game concept. Chemistry Carnival runs simultaneously with Science.Art.Wonder and is also free. And on the same day and time, the ever-popular “Physics Live!” will again feature giant soap bubbles and liquid nitrogen ice cream, among other treats, in the Math and Science Center.
8. Enjoy an evening of beautiful music.
Hear the Vega String Quartet perform quartets by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and the world premiere of Richard Prior’s Quartet No. 3. Prior holds the Edward Goodwin Scruggs Conducting Chair and is conductor of the Emory Symphony Orchestra and Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra. The free concert by Emory’s international award-winning string quartet in residence will be Saturday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
9. Fill your head with ideas, then your stomach with really good food.
The Emory University Earth Festival kicks off Earth Month (in April) with a showcase of sustainability-related student groups, Emory departments and Atlanta organizations. It’s in Asbury Circle on Tuesday, March 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and it’s free. There will be interactive activities including the smoothie-blender bike and a spinning wheel for games.
The Office of Sustainability Initiatives is hosting a raffle for festival patrons who visit a certain number of tables with succulent plants as prizes, and a public recycled-art display and photo booth are also expected. Afterward, head over to the Emory Farmers Market, where with a little — make that a lot of — restraint, you can keep it to under $10.
10. Create a mandala sand painting.
The final day of Tibet Week, Saturday, March 31, features the symbolic, ritual “withdrawing” of the mandala sand painting. From noon to 2 p.m., the public is invited to come to the Michael C. Carlos Museum’s Ackerman Hall and take the opportunity to use Tibetan chak-purs and brightly colored sand to create their own sand paintings. It’s free for Carlos members, $10 for nonmember adults, $8 for children ages 6 to 16, and free for children 5 and under; admission to the galleries is included.
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News Weekly, February 23, 2019
A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING: Six Weeks in World War I that Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
by Diana Preston
Bloomsbury Press, Sydney
Price: AUD$38.40
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
Mention the horrors of World War I, and most people identify trench warfare, and the sheer number of casualties. Author Diana Preston, an Oxford-educated historian whose previous works include Wilful Murder: the Sinking of the Lusitania (reviewed by this reviewer in News Weekly, October 19, 2002), analyses Germany’s adoption of aerial bombing, the sinking of the Lusitania, and first use of poison gas. All of these actions occurred within six weeks of each other in April and May of 1915 and, as Preston argues, changed the nature of warfare.
Preston begins with a survey of the development of just-war theory – which established, among other things, the manner in which nations could morally wage war. In particular, the theory forbids the direct targeting of civilians/non-combatants.
This theory formed the basis for the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907 – which Preston analyses early in the book – at which the signatories, who included the major belligerent powers involved in World War I, agreed not to target civilians or use poisonous gas.
After surveying the outbreak and early phases of World War I, Preston then analyses in detail the three actions in the order they first occurred. The first of these was the use of poison gas by the Germans near Ypres on April 22, 1915.
Although German authorities were aware that the use of poison gas was contrary to the Hague Convention – with some senior military figures initially opposing its use – they had been experimenting with it since late 1914. Research led by Fritz Haber determined which gas to use.
Desperate to break the stalemate on the Western Front by achieving a breakthrough, the plan was to use gas in a sector around Ypres, hoping that it would kill and/or disable enough enemy troops to allow a breach of the front line that would result in a breakthrough, and resumption of a more mobile form of warfare.
Although the allied casualties from the first and subsequent releases of gas in the next few days were high, and the Germans gained some territory in the vicinity of Ypres, they not only failed to capture the town, but did not create the much hoped for breach of the Western Front, with the stalemate continuing.
Having been the victims of a gas attack, the British and French soon came to the conclusion that, as Germany had reneged on her agreement not to use this form of warfare, they were no longer bound by the conventions signed. Accordingly, the British first used gas against the Germans in the Battle of Loos in September 1915.
In the remaining years of the war, both sides developed various poisonous gases, and refined their gas masks and deployment strategies. Ironically, one of the last victims of a gas attack was Corporal Adolf Hitler, who was gassed in 1918. Historians believe that for this reason the Germans did not use gas as a weapon in World War II.
The next event examined is that probably known best to readers, namely, the sinking of the Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German submarine, U-20, off the Irish coast on May 7, 1915. By this stage, Germany no longer required its U-boat commanders to warn crews that they were about to sink vessels – thereby giving the crews the opportunity to evacuate the targeted ship. Instead the Germans attacked without warning.
Germany justified this decision on the basis that the British blockade of Germany was not only depriving it of war materiel, but was also creating hunger and suffering among the civilian population.
Although other British ships had been sunk without warning in the weeks and days before the attack on the Lusitania, it was the first major vessel to be sunk – although it had narrowly avoided being sunk in March 1915.
Its sinking galvanised widespread anger among Americans. This was particularly the case because German authorities placed advertisements in American newspapers on the day of the Lusitania’s departure from New York, reminding them that such vessels were liable to be attacked.
Although the sinking created considerable outrage among Americans, and there was an exchange of protest notes and replies between the German and American governments, it was not sufficient to bring the United States into the war on the side of the allies at this point.
In response to American concerns, Germany suspended its unrestricted warfare. It was only at the start of 1917 after 2½ years of the blockade – when Germany was desperate to end the war – that unrestricted U-boat attacks on shipping was resumed, in the hope that the allies would sue for peace before the U.S. declared war.
The third action the book analyses is that which is probably least remembered, namely the air bombing of London and other British cities. Initially, the Germans used Zeppelin airships, particularly throughout 1915 into 1917.
Although there were earlier raids and attempted raids on British targets, the first bombing of London by a Zeppelin took place on the night of May 31, 1915. These had the advantage of being able to fly at higher altitudes than airplanes, which made attacking them difficult. Furthermore, there was a lack of anti-aircraft batteries in and around London.
The British responses of developing such batteries, as well as airplanes that could fly at similar altitudes to Zeppelins and strike them down with incendiary bullets, forced the Germans to use airplanes rather than Zeppelins.
Although the casualties from Zeppelin and airplane bombing pale into insignificance when compared with those of World War II, such raids succeeded in creating fear and panic. Nonetheless they failed to achieve the collapse of civilian morale the Germans hoped for.
Although, as noted above, poisonous gas was not used as a weapon of war in World War II, Preston notes that U-boat attacks on ships without warning, and airborne bombing of civilian targets – first used in World War I – became common military strategies in World War II.
As with her other works, A Higher Form of Killing is an extremely well-researched book. It is at the same time an engaging book, written for the average reader rather than the professional historian. For this reason, it is highly recommended.
Michael E. Daniel is a Melbourne-based writer.
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Tale of Two Tescos
Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit, May 13, 2008
While in Palm Springs for an industry meeting, we had the opportunity to visit the two Fresh & Easy stores in that area. In the differences between those two stores, we may find the core of Tesco’s struggle to make the concept work.
The store in Indio is a brand new building, in a brand new center. It is light and airy feeling and, although at the far edge of residential development in the region, it was a reasonably busy store with a steady flow of traffic during our weekend visit approaching the dinner hour.
In contrast, we visited a store in Palm Desert. This was a remodel of an existing property. It was across the street from a major shopping mall and shared a center with a 99-cent store.
It lacked the pleasing natural light of the other store. This store was dead. At no point during our visit just after we went to the Indio store did the number of customers exceed the number of employees. The primary job of the employees in the store seemed to be doing mark-downs on perishables that were approaching or were at their “best if used by” dates.
In both stores the staff was friendly; in both stores we saw a number of innovative products, especially in the meat and prepared foods areas. We saw continuing disappointments. Out-of-stocks were still unreasonably high for a small chain that could easily do manual ordering to supplement its computer-driven system. The sampling area continues to sample the most mundane dried grocery items and simple deli or produce items rather than any of the innovative products the store carries, since they don’t sample cooked product.
We saw Tesco beginning to abandon some of the policies that have made it uncompetitive — for example, the first two produce items in the store were branded — bags of Peri & Sons onions and Kern Ridge citrus.
The branded bags are obviously attempts to avoid the enormous cost associated with repacking these items and thus either offer consumers a better value proposition or increase Fresh & Easy margins.
Despite the entry of branded product into produce, we saw no evidence that Tesco was looking to offer well known consumer brands, such as Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte or Sunkist.
As we have studied Tesco’s Journey to America, we have often questioned the decision to start out by building a massive distribution center. The problem with this strategy is that it placed tremendous pressure on the real estate personnel to sign a lot of leases quickly so as to amortize the cost of the distribution center. The almost inevitable result of this is that Tesco wound up with a lot of secondary locations.
As the stores have begun to mature and as Tesco has increased its promotions and discounting — with markdowns on perishables and offers of a $5 coupon on a $20 sale — we are finding some stores selling from $100,000 to $120,000 a week, but we are also finding many stores stuck in that $50,000- to $60,000-a-week range.
The prime difference seems to be real estate — as the saying goes, there are three things important in retail: location, location and location.
That overstates it a bit — and profitability can be difficult to judge as sometimes those high traffic locations are pricey. But an unsuccessful high traffic location can be fixed by changing concepts whereas a low traffic location can be a struggle regardless of concept.
One likely outcome of the Fresh & Easy saga: After two or three years of rapid rollouts, Tesco will take the underperforming locations — perhaps a third of, say, 500 stores opened by then — and close them, declaring a massive write-off attributed to “start-up learning” in which it learned what locations work and don’t for the concept.
Of course, location is not a static thing. Right now that Indio location may be a winner. But this may be due as much to the fact that in this developing area, the competition isn’t yet too tough.
We noted that within walking distance of the store, both a Target Supercenter is under construction and a unit of the uber-competitive, super price-focused, employee-owned Winco Foods is being built.
Perhaps these retailers will attract more shoppers to the area and Fresh & Easy, with its small footprint, will be seen as a convenient alternative to the maddening crowds and larger footprints of these other stores. Perhaps. It is also possible, of course, that these new competitors will win over most of the customers and put such price pressure on Fresh & Easy that it can’t make any money even if it gets some customers.
Here is another wild card. There is an empty lot across the street from the Fresh & Easy in Indio, perhaps just the right size for one of the new small footprint concepts from Safeway or Wal-Mart.
We promise to check back after the SuperTarget and Winco open to see how Fresh & Easy in Indio is doing. But if we were investors in Tesco, we would be thinking about a write-down of subprime real estate somewhere down the road.
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filed this Form 10-Q on 10/31/2017
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FORM 10-Q
(Mark One):
Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2017.
Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION
Incorporation or Organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days: Yes x No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes x No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check One):
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act): Yes ¨ No x
As of October 24, 2017, there were 428,856,376 shares of common stock outstanding.
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
FOR THE QUARTER ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Page Nos.
PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Unaudited Consolidated and Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016
Consolidated Statements of Equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016
Notes to Consolidated and Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Controls and Procedures
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1A.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
(in thousands, except share data)
Restricted cash
Accounts receivable, net
Prepaid and other current assets
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, net
OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS, net
DEFERRED TAX ASSET
DEFERRED RENT ASSET
NOTES RECEIVABLE AND OTHER NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Accrued expenses
Distributions payable
Current portion of long-term obligations
Unearned revenue
LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS
ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS
DEFERRED TAX LIABILITY
OTHER NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES
REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS
Preferred stock: $.01 par value; 20,000,000 shares authorized;
5.25%, Series A, 6,000,000 shares issued, 0 and 6,000,000 shares outstanding; aggregate liquidation value of $0 and $600,000, respectively
5.50%, Series B, 1,375,000 shares issued, 1,374,986 and 1,375,000 shares outstanding; aggregate liquidation value of $1,374,986 and $1,375,000, respectively
Common stock: $.01 par value; 1,000,000,000 shares authorized; 437,510,284 and 429,912,536 shares issued; and 429,243,720 and 427,102,510 shares outstanding, respectively
Distributions in excess of earnings
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Treasury stock (8,266,564 and 2,810,026 shares at cost, respectively)
Total American Tower Corporation equity
Noncontrolling interests
See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated and condensed consolidated financial statements.
Three Months Ended September 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30,
Total operating revenues
OPERATING EXPENSES:
Costs of operations (exclusive of items shown separately below):
Property (including stock-based compensation expense of $476, $426, $1,776 and $1,325, respectively)
Services (including stock-based compensation expense of $189, $172, $613 and $578, respectively)
Depreciation, amortization and accretion
Selling, general, administrative and development expense (including stock-based compensation expense of $23,798, $19,628, $84,034 and $68,309, respectively)
Other operating expenses
Total operating expenses
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE):
Interest income, TV Azteca, net of interest expense of $292, $279, $874 and $846, respectively
(Loss) gain on retirement of long-term obligations
Other (expense) income (including unrealized foreign currency (losses) gains of ($5,344), ($8,321), $30,392 and ($3,544), respectively)
(1,114
Total other expense
INCOME FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS BEFORE INCOME TAXES
Income tax provision
Net (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interests
NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION STOCKHOLDERS
Dividends on preferred stock
NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION COMMON STOCKHOLDERS
NET INCOME PER COMMON SHARE AMOUNTS:
Basic net income attributable to American Tower Corporation common stockholders
Diluted net income attributable to American Tower Corporation common stockholders
WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING:
DISTRIBUTIONS DECLARED PER COMMON SHARE
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Changes in fair value of cash flow hedges, net of tax of $0
Reclassification of unrealized losses (gains) on cash flow hedges to net income, net of tax of $0
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax expense (benefit) of $2,292, ($1,495), $4,714 and $5,388, respectively
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Comprehensive income
Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests
Comprehensive income attributable to American Tower Corporation stockholders
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash provided by operating activities
Stock-based compensation expense
Loss (gain) on early retirement of long-term obligations
Other non-cash items reflected in statements of operations
(Increase) decrease in restricted cash
Increase in net deferred rent balances
Increase in assets
Increase (decrease) in liabilities
Cash provided by operating activities
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Payments for purchase of property and equipment and construction activities
Payments for acquisitions, net of cash acquired
Payment for Verizon transaction
Proceeds from sale of short-term investments and other non-current assets
Deposits, restricted cash, investments and other
Cash used for investing activities
CASH FLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Repayments of short-term borrowings, net
Borrowings under credit facilities
Proceeds from issuance of senior notes, net
Repayments of notes payable, credit facilities, senior notes, term loan and capital leases
Contributions from (distributions to) noncontrolling interest holders, net
Purchases of common stock
Proceeds from stock options and ESPP
Distributions paid on common stock
Distributions paid on preferred stock
Payment for early retirement of long-term obligations
Deferred financing costs and other financing activities
Cash (used for) provided by financing activities
Net effect of changes in foreign currency exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents
NET INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD
CASH PAID FOR INCOME TAXES (NET OF REFUNDS OF $19,832 AND $16,219, RESPECTIVELY)
CASH PAID FOR INTEREST
NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued expenses for purchases of property and equipment and construction activities
Purchases of property and equipment under capital leases
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
Preferred Stock - Series A
Preferred Stock - Series B
Paid-in
Accumulated Other
in Excess of
Noncontrolling
Issued Shares
BALANCE, JANUARY 1, 2016
Stock-based compensation related activity
Issuance of common stock—stock purchase plan
Changes in fair value of cash flow hedges, net of tax
Reclassification of unrealized gains on cash flow hedges to net income
Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of tax
Contributions from noncontrolling interest holders
Distributions to noncontrolling interest holders
Common stock distributions declared
Preferred stock dividends declared
BALANCE, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Conversion of preferred stock
Treasury stock activity
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS, BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
American Tower Corporation (together with its subsidiaries, “ATC” or the “Company”) is one of the largest global real estate investment trusts and a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate. The Company’s primary business is the leasing of space on communications sites to wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data providers, government agencies and municipalities and tenants in a number of other industries. The Company refers to this business as its property operations. Additionally, the Company offers tower-related services in the United States, which the Company refers to as its services operations. These services include site acquisition, zoning and permitting and structural analysis, which primarily support the Company’s site leasing business, including the addition of new tenants and equipment on its sites.
The Company’s portfolio primarily consists of towers it owns and towers it operates pursuant to long-term lease arrangements, as well as distributed antenna system (“DAS”) networks, which provide seamless coverage solutions in certain in-building and certain outdoor wireless environments. In addition to the communications sites in its portfolio, the Company manages rooftop and tower sites for property owners under various contractual arrangements. The Company also holds other telecommunications infrastructure and property interests that it leases to communications service providers and third-party tower operators.
American Tower Corporation is a holding company that conducts its operations through its directly and indirectly owned subsidiaries and its joint ventures. ATC’s principal domestic operating subsidiaries are American Towers LLC and SpectraSite Communications, LLC. ATC conducts its international operations primarily through its subsidiary, American Tower International, Inc., which in turn conducts operations through its various international holding and operating subsidiaries and joint ventures.
The Company operates as a real estate investment trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (“REIT”). Accordingly, the Company generally is not subject to U.S. federal income taxes on income generated by its REIT operations, including the income derived from leasing space on its towers, as it receives a dividends paid deduction for distributions to stockholders that generally offsets its REIT income and gains. However, the Company remains obligated to pay U.S. federal income taxes on earnings from its domestic taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”). In addition, the Company’s international assets and operations, regardless of their designation for U.S. tax purposes, continue to be subject to taxation in the foreign jurisdictions where those assets are held or those operations are conducted.
The use of TRSs enables the Company to continue to engage in certain businesses while complying with REIT qualification requirements. The Company may, from time to time, change the election of previously designated TRSs to be included as part of the REIT. As of September 30, 2017, the Company’s REIT-qualified businesses included its U.S. tower leasing business, most of its operations in Costa Rica, Germany and Mexico and a majority of its indoor DAS networks business and services segment.
The accompanying consolidated and condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The financial information included herein is unaudited. However, the Company believes that all adjustments, which are of a normal and recurring nature, considered necessary for a fair presentation of its financial position and results of operations for such periods have been included herein. The consolidated and condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 (the “2016 Form 10-K”). The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire year.
Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation—The accompanying consolidated and condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and those entities in which it has a controlling interest. Investments in entities that the Company does not control are accounted for using the equity or cost method, depending upon the Company’s ability to exercise significant influence over operating and financial policies. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. As of September 30, 2017, the Company holds (i) a 51% controlling interest, and MTN Group Limited holds a 49% noncontrolling interest, in each of two joint ventures, one in Ghana and
one in Uganda, (ii) a 51% controlling interest, and PGGM holds a 49% noncontrolling interest, in a joint venture (“ATC Europe”) in Europe, (iii) an approximate 75% controlling interest, and the South African investors hold an approximate 25% noncontrolling interest, in a subsidiary of the Company in South Africa and (iv) a 51% controlling interest in ATC Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (“ATC TIPL”), formerly Viom Networks Limited (“Viom”), in India.
Significant Accounting Policies—The Company’s significant accounting policies are described in note 1 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in the 2016 Form 10-K. There have been no material changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.
Accounting Standards Updates—In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued new guidance on revenue recognition, which requires an entity to recognize revenue in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The standard will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance and will become effective for the Company on January 1, 2018. Early adoption is permitted for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2016. The standard permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. Leases are not included in the scope of this standard. The revenue to which the Company must apply this standard is generally limited to services revenue, certain power and fuel charges and other fees charged to tenants. As of September 30, 2017, this revenue was approximately 13% of total revenue. Although the Company is finalizing its analysis of the impact of this standard on its financial statements, it does not expect changes in the timing of revenue recognition to have a material effect on its financial statements. The Company intends to adopt this standard using a modified retrospective approach.
In January 2016, the FASB issued new guidance on the recognition and measurement of financial assets and financial liabilities. The guidance amends certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of financial instruments. This standard is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material effect on its financial statements.
In February 2016, the FASB issued new guidance on the accounting for leases. The guidance amends the existing accounting standards for lease accounting, including the requirement that lessees recognize right of use assets and lease liabilities for leases with terms greater than twelve months in the statement of financial position. Under the new guidance, lessor accounting is largely unchanged. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018. The standard is required to be applied using a modified retrospective approach for all leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented. The Company (i) has established a multidisciplinary team to assess and implement the new guidance, (ii) expects the guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated balance sheets due to the recording of right of use assets and lease liabilities for leases in which it is a lessee and which it currently treats as operating leases and (iii) continues to evaluate the impact of the new guidance.
In November 2016, the FASB issued new guidance on amounts described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents within the statement of cash flows. The guidance requires amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period balances on the statement of cash flows. The guidance is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017. The standard is required to be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material effect on its financial statements.
In January 2017, the FASB issued new guidance that clarifies the definition of a business that an entity uses to determine whether a transaction should be accounted for as an asset acquisition (or disposal) or a business combination. The Company early adopted this guidance during the first quarter of 2017. As a result, the Company expects that more transactions will be accounted for as asset acquisitions instead of business combinations.
In January 2017, the FASB issued new guidance on accounting for goodwill impairments. The guidance eliminates Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test and requires, among other things, recognition of an impairment loss when the carrying value of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value. The loss recognized is limited to the total amount of goodwill
allocated to that reporting unit. The guidance is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material effect on its financial statements.
In May 2017, the FASB issued new guidance on accounting for stock-based compensation. The guidance clarifies when changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award must be accounted for as modifications. The guidance is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company early adopted this guidance during the second quarter of 2017. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial statements.
In August 2017, the FASB issued new guidance on hedge and derivative accounting. The guidance simplifies accounting rules around hedge accounting and the disclosures of hedging arrangements. Among other things, the guidance eliminates the need to separately measure and report hedge ineffectiveness and generally requires the entire change in fair value of a hedging instrument to be presented in the same income statement line as the hedged item. The guidance is effective for fiscal years, and for interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material effect on its financial statements.
2. PREPAID AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS
Prepaid and other current assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
Prepaid operating ground leases
Prepaid income tax
Unbilled receivables
Prepaid assets
Value added tax and other consumption tax receivables
Other miscellaneous current assets
Prepaids and other current assets
3. GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS
The changes in the carrying value of goodwill for each of the Company’s business segments were as follows (in thousands):
Balance as of January 1, 2017
Additions and adjustments (1)
Effect of foreign currency translation
Balance as of September 30, 2017
(1) Balances have been revised to reflect purchase accounting measurement period adjustments.
The Company’s other intangible assets subject to amortization consisted of the following:
As of September 30, 2017
As of December 31, 2016
Estimated Useful
Net Book
Acquired network location intangibles (1)
Up to 20
Acquired tenant-related intangibles
Acquired licenses and other intangibles
Economic Rights, TV Azteca
Total other intangible assets
Acquired network location intangibles are amortized over the shorter of the term of the corresponding ground lease, taking into consideration lease renewal options and residual value, or up to 20 years, as the Company considers these intangibles to be directly related to the tower assets.
The acquired network location intangibles represent the value to the Company of the incremental revenue growth that could potentially be obtained from leasing the excess capacity on acquired communications sites. The acquired tenant-related intangibles typically represent the value to the Company of tenant contracts and relationships in place at the time of an acquisition or similar transaction, including assumptions regarding estimated renewals.
The Company amortizes its acquired network location intangibles and tenant-related intangibles on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives. As of September 30, 2017, the remaining weighted average amortization period of the Company’s intangible assets, excluding the TV Azteca Economic Rights detailed in note 5 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in the 2016 Form 10-K, was 15 years. Amortization of intangible assets for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $203.6 million and $579.0 million, respectively, and amortization of intangible assets for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 was $183.9 million and $521.0 million, respectively. Based on current exchange rates, the Company expects to record amortization expense as follows over the remaining current year and the five subsequent years (in millions):
Remainder of 2017
4. ACCRUED EXPENSES
Accrued expenses consisted of the following (in thousands):
Accrued property and real estate taxes
Accrued pass-through costs
Payroll and related withholdings
Accrued rent
Amounts payable to tenants
Accrued income tax payable
Accrued construction costs
Accrued treasury stock purchases
Other accrued expenses
Total accrued expenses
5. LONG-TERM OBLIGATIONS
Outstanding amounts under the Company’s long-term obligations, reflecting discounts, premiums, debt issuance costs and fair value adjustments due to interest rate swaps consisted of the following (in thousands):
2013 Credit Facility (1)
Term Loan (1)
4.500% senior notes
3.40% senior notes
Total American Tower Corporation debt
Series 2013-1A securities (2)
Series 2015-1 notes (4)
2012 GTP notes
Unison notes
India indebtedness (6)
India preference shares (7)
Shareholder loans (8)
Other subsidiary debt (1) (9)
Total American Tower subsidiary debt
Other debt, including capital lease obligations
Less current portion of long-term obligations
Accrues interest at a variable rate.
Maturity date reflects the anticipated repayment date; final legal maturity is March 15, 2043.
Maturity date reflects the anticipated repayment date; final legal maturity is June 15, 2045.
Denominated in Indian Rupees (“INR”). Includes India working capital facility, remaining debt assumed by the Company in connection with the Viom Acquisition (as defined in note 9) and debt that has been entered into by ATC TIPL.
Mandatorily redeemable preference shares (the “Preference Shares”) classified as debt. On March 2, 2017, ATC TIPL issued the Preference Shares and used the proceeds to redeem the preference shares previously issued by Viom (the “Viom Preference Shares”). The Preference Shares are to be redeemed on March 2, 2020 and have a dividend rate of 10.25% per annum.
Reflects balances owed to the Company’s joint venture partners in Ghana and Uganda. The Ghana loan is denominated in Ghanaian Cedi and the Uganda loan is denominated in Ugandan Shillings (“UGX”). Effective January 1, 2017, the Uganda loan, which had an outstanding balance of $80.0 million and accrued interest at a variable rate, was converted by the holder to a new shareholder note for 114.5 billion UGX ($31.8 million at the time of conversion), bearing interest at a fixed rate of 16.8% per annum. The remaining balance of the Uganda loan was converted into equity.
Includes the BR Towers debentures, which are denominated in Brazilian Reais (“BRL”) and amortize through October 15, 2023, the South African credit facility, which is denominated in South African Rand and amortizes through December 17, 2020, the Colombian credit facility, which is denominated in Colombian Pesos and amortizes through April 24, 2021 and the Brazil credit facility, which is denominated in BRL and matures on January 15, 2022.
Current portion of long-term obligations—The Company’s current portion of long-term obligations primarily includes (i) $499.5 million under the Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2013-1A and (ii) 7.6 billion INR ($116.5 million) of India indebtedness.
Securitized Debt—Cash flows generated by the sites that secure the securitized debt of the Company are only available for payment of such debt and are not available to pay the Company’s other obligations or the claims of its creditors. However, subject to certain restrictions, the Company holds the right to receive the excess cash flows not needed to pay the securitized debt and other obligations arising out of the securitizations. The securitized debt is the obligation of the issuers thereof or borrowers thereunder, as applicable, and their subsidiaries, and not of the Company or its other subsidiaries.
Senior Notes
1.375% Senior Notes Offering—On April 6, 2017, the Company completed a registered public offering of 500.0 million Euros ($532.2 million at the date of issuance) aggregate principal amount of 1.375% senior unsecured notes due 2025 (the “1.375% Notes”). The net proceeds from this offering were approximately 489.8 million Euros (approximately $521.4 million at the date of issuance), after deducting commissions and estimated expenses. The Company used the net proceeds to repay existing indebtedness under its multicurrency senior unsecured revolving credit facility entered into in June 2013, as amended (the “2013 Credit Facility”), and for general corporate purposes.
The 1.375% Notes will mature on April 4, 2025 and bear interest at a rate of 1.375% per annum. Accrued and unpaid interest on the 1.375% Notes will be payable in Euros in arrears on April 4 of each year, beginning on April 4, 2018. Interest on the 1.375% Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date on which interest was paid on the 1.375% Notes and commenced accruing on April 6, 2017.
3.55% Senior Notes Offering—On June 30, 2017, the Company completed a registered public offering of $750.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.55% senior unsecured notes due 2027 (the “3.55% Notes”). The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $741.8 million, after deducting commissions and estimated expenses. The Company used the net proceeds to repay existing indebtedness under the 2013 Credit Facility.
The 3.55% Notes will mature on July 15, 2027 and bear interest at a rate of 3.55% per annum. Accrued and unpaid interest on the 3.55% Notes will be payable in U.S. Dollars semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on January 15, 2018. Interest on the 3.55% Notes is computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months and commenced accruing on June 30, 2017.
The Company may redeem each series of senior notes at any time, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes plus a make-whole premium, together with accrued interest to the redemption date. If the Company redeems the 1.375% Notes on or after January 4, 2025 or the 3.55% Notes on or after April 15, 2027, it will not be required to pay a make-whole premium. In addition, if the Company undergoes a change of control and corresponding ratings decline, each as defined in the applicable supplemental indenture, it may be required to repurchase all of the applicable notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of such notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including additional interest, if any), up to but not including the repurchase date. The notes rank equally with all of the Company’s other senior unsecured debt and are structurally subordinated to all existing and future indebtedness and other obligations of its subsidiaries.
The supplemental indentures contain certain covenants that restrict the Company’s ability to merge, consolidate or sell assets and its (together with its subsidiaries’) ability to incur liens. These covenants are subject to a number of exceptions, including that the Company and its subsidiaries may incur certain liens on assets, mortgages or other liens securing indebtedness if the aggregate amount of such liens does not exceed 3.5x Adjusted EBITDA, as defined in the applicable supplemental indenture.
Bank Facilities
2013 Credit Facility—During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company borrowed an aggregate of $3.4 billion and repaid an aggregate of $2.0 billion of revolving indebtedness under the 2013 Credit Facility. The Company used the borrowings to fund acquisitions, repay existing indebtedness and for general corporate purposes.
2014 Credit Facility—During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company borrowed an aggregate of $200.0 million and repaid an aggregate of $530.0 million of revolving indebtedness under its senior unsecured revolving credit facility entered into in January 2012 and amended and restated in September 2014, as further amended (the “2014 Credit Facility”).
As of September 30, 2017, the key terms under the 2013 Credit Facility, the 2014 Credit Facility and the Company’s unsecured term loan entered into in October 2013, as amended (the “Term Loan”), were as follows:
Outstanding Principal Balance (in millions)
Undrawn letters of credit (in millions)
Current margin over LIBOR (1)
Current commitment fee (2)
2013 Credit Facility
Term Loan
(1) LIBOR means the London Interbank Offered Rate.
(2) Fee on undrawn portion of each credit facility.
(3) Subject to two optional renewal periods.
Repayment of 2012 GTP Notes and Unison Notes and Redemption of Senior Notes—On February 15, 2017, the Company repaid the $173.5 million remaining principal amount outstanding under the Secured Cellular Site Revenue Notes, Series 2012-2 Class A, Series 2012-2 Class B and Series 2012-2 Class C issued by GTP Cellular Sites, LLC, plus prepayment consideration and accrued and unpaid interest. The Company recorded a loss on retirement of long-term obligations of $1.8 million, which includes prepayment consideration of $7.2 million offset by the remaining portion of the unamortized premium.
On February 15, 2017, the Company repaid the $129.0 million principal amount outstanding under the Secured Cellular Site Revenue Notes, Series 2010-2, Class C and Series 2010-2, Class F issued by Unison Ground Lease Funding, LLC, plus prepayment consideration and accrued and unpaid interest. The Company recorded a loss on retirement of long-term obligations of $14.5 million, which includes prepayment consideration of $18.3 million offset by the remaining portion of the unamortized premium.
On February 10, 2017, the Company redeemed all of the outstanding 7.25% senior unsecured notes due 2019 (the “7.25% Notes”) at a price equal to 112.0854% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, February 10, 2017, for an aggregate redemption price of $341.4 million, including $5.1 million in accrued and unpaid interest. The Company recorded a loss on retirement of long-term obligations of $39.2 million, which includes prepayment consideration of $36.3 million and the remaining portion of the unamortized discount and deferred financing costs. Upon completion of the redemption, none of the 7.25% Notes remained outstanding.
On July 31, 2017, the Company redeemed all of the outstanding 4.500% senior unsecured notes due 2018 (the “4.500% Notes”) at a price equal to 101.3510% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, July 31, 2017, for an aggregate redemption price of $1.0 billion, including $2.0 million in accrued and unpaid interest. The Company recorded a loss on retirement of long-term obligations of $14.1 million which includes prepayment
consideration of $13.5 million and the remaining portion of the unamortized discount and deferred financing costs. Upon completion of the redemption, none of the 4.500% Notes remained outstanding.
The repayments and the redemptions described above were funded with borrowings under the 2013 Credit Facility and cash on hand.
6. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
The Company determines the fair value of its financial instruments based on the fair value hierarchy, which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. Below are the three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.
Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
Items Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis—The fair values of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that are required to be measured on a recurring basis at fair value were as follows (in thousands):
Fair Value Measurements Using
Short-term investments (1)
Interest rate swap agreements
Embedded derivative in lease agreement
Acquisition-related contingent consideration
Consists of highly liquid investments with original maturities in excess of three months.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company has made no changes to the methods described in note 11 to its consolidated financial statements included in the 2016 Form 10-K that it used to measure the fair value of its interest rate swap agreements, the embedded derivative in one of its lease agreements and acquisition-related contingent consideration. The changes in fair value during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 were not material to the consolidated financial statements. As of September 30, 2017, the Company estimated the value of all potential acquisition-related contingent consideration payments to be between zero and $47.6 million.
Items Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis
Assets Held and Used—The Company’s long-lived assets are recorded at amortized cost and, if impaired, are adjusted to fair value using Level 3 inputs. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company did not record any material asset impairment charges. There were no other items measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 or 2016.
In October 2017, one of the Company’s tenants in Asia, Tata Teleservices Limited (“Tata Teleservices”), informed the Department of Telecommunications in India of its intent to exit the wireless telecommunications business and announced plans to transfer its business to another telecommunications provider. The Company will continue to monitor the status of these developments, as it is possible that the estimated future cash flows may differ from original estimates. Changes in estimated cash flows from Tata Teleservices could have an impact on previously recorded tangible and intangible assets, including amounts originally recorded as tenant-related intangibles, which have a current net book value of $445.0 million.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments—The Company’s financial instruments for which the carrying value reasonably approximates fair value at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 include cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable. The Company’s estimates of fair value of its long-term obligations, including the current portion, are based primarily upon reported market values. For long-term debt not actively traded, fair value is estimated using either indicative price quotes or a discounted cash flow analysis using rates for debt with similar terms and maturities. As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the carrying value of long-term obligations, including the current portion, was $19.3 billion and $18.5 billion, respectively. As of September 30, 2017, the fair value of long-term obligations, including the current portion, was $19.8 billion, of which $12.0 billion was measured using Level 1 inputs and $7.8 billion was measured using Level 2 inputs. As of December 31, 2016, the fair value of long-term obligations, including the current portion, was $18.8 billion, of which $11.8 billion was measured using Level 1 inputs and $7.0 billion was measured using Level 2 inputs.
7. INCOME TAXES
The Company provides for income taxes at the end of each interim period based on the estimated effective tax rate (“ETR”) for the full fiscal year. Cumulative adjustments to the Company’s estimate are recorded in the interim period in which a change in the estimated annual ETR is determined. Under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the Company may deduct amounts distributed to stockholders against the income generated by its REIT operations. The Company continues to be subject to income taxes on the income of its TRSs and income taxes in foreign jurisdictions where it conducts operations. In addition, the Company is able to offset certain income by utilizing its net operating losses, subject to specified limitations.
The Company provides valuation allowances if, based on the available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Management assesses the available positive and negative evidence to estimate if sufficient future taxable income will be generated to use the existing deferred tax assets.
As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the total unrecognized tax benefits that would impact the ETR, if recognized, were approximately $107.4 million and $102.9 million, respectively. The amount of unrecognized tax benefits during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 includes additions to the Company’s existing tax positions of $1.9 million and $5.7 million, respectively, foreign currency fluctuations of $1.0 million and $3.7 million, respectively, and reductions due to the expiration of the statute of limitations in certain jurisdictions of $0.4 million during each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017. Unrecognized tax benefits are expected to change over the next 12 months if certain tax matters ultimately settle with the applicable taxing jurisdiction during this time frame, as described in note 12 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in the 2016 Form 10-K. The impact of the amount of these changes to previously recorded uncertain tax positions could range from zero to $11.5 million.
The Company recorded the following penalties and income tax-related interest expense during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 (in thousands):
Penalties and income tax-related interest expense
As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the total amount of accrued income tax related interest and penalties included in the consolidated balance sheets was $28.9 million and $24.3 million, respectively.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Ghana Revenue Authority issued a clarification to its income tax law, which resulted in a benefit to income tax expense of $11.6 million.
8. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Summary of Stock-Based Compensation Plans—The Company maintains equity incentive plans that provide for the grant of stock-based awards to its directors, officers and employees. The 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2007 Plan”), provides for the grant of non-qualified and incentive stock options, as well as restricted stock units, restricted stock and other stock-based awards. Exercise prices for non-qualified and incentive stock options are not less than the fair value of the underlying common stock on the date of grant. Equity awards typically vest ratably, generally over four years for time-based restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and stock options and three years for performance-based restricted stock units (“PSUs”). Stock options generally expire ten years from the date of grant. As of September 30, 2017, the Company had the ability to grant stock-based awards with respect to an aggregate of 8.5 million shares of common stock under the 2007 Plan. In addition, the Company maintains an employee stock purchase plan (“ESPP”) pursuant to which eligible employees may purchase shares of the Company’s common stock on the last day of each bi-annual offering period at a 15% discount from the lower of the closing market value on the first or last day of such offering period. The offering periods run from June 1 through November 30 and from December 1 through May 31 of each year.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company recorded and capitalized the following stock-based compensation expense (in thousands):
Stock-based compensation expense capitalized as property and equipment
Stock Options—As of September 30, 2017, total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested stock options was $15.2 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately two years.
The Company’s option activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was as follows:
Number of Options
Outstanding as of January 1, 2017
Exercised
Outstanding as of September 30, 2017
Restricted Stock Units—As of September 30, 2017, total unrecognized compensation expense related to unvested RSUs granted under the 2007 Plan was $115.8 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately two years.
Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units—During the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company’s Compensation Committee granted an aggregate of 154,520 PSUs (the “2017 PSUs”) and 169,340 PSUs (the “2016 PSUs”), respectively, to its executive officers and established the performance metrics for these awards. Threshold, target and maximum parameters were established for the metrics for a three-year performance period with respect to the 2017 PSUs and the 2016 PSUs, and for each year in the three-year performance period with respect to PSUs granted to executive officers in 2015 (the “2015 PSUs”), and will be used to calculate the number of shares that will be issuable when each award vests, which may range from zero to 200% of the target amounts. At the end of each
three-year performance period, the number of shares that vest will depend on the degree of achievement against the pre-established performance goals. PSUs will be paid out in common stock at the end of each performance period, subject generally to the executive’s continued employment. In the event of the executive’s death, disability or qualifying retirement, PSUs will be paid out pro rata in accordance with the terms of the applicable award agreement. PSUs will accrue dividend equivalents prior to vesting, which will be paid out only in respect of shares that actually vest.
Restricted Stock Units and Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units—The Company’s RSU and PSU activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was as follows:
RSUs
Outstanding as of January 1, 2017 (1)
Granted (2)
Vested
PSUs consist of the shares issuable for the 2015 PSUs at the end of the three-year performance cycle based on achievement against the performance metric for the first and second year’s performance periods, or 73,417 shares, and the target number of shares issuable at the end of the three-year performance period for the 2016 PSUs, or 169,340 shares.
PSUs consist of the target number of shares issuable at the end of the three-year performance cycle attributable to the third year’s performance period for the 2015 PSUs, or 23,377 shares, and the target number of shares issuable at the end of the three-year performance cycle for the 2017 PSUs, or 154,520 shares.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company recorded $6.5 million and $18.0 million, respectively, in stock-based compensation expense for equity awards in which the performance goals had been established and were probable of being achieved. The remaining unrecognized compensation expense related to these awards at September 30, 2017 was $27.9 million based on the Company’s current assessment of the probability of achieving the performance goals. The weighted average period over which the cost will be recognized is approximately two years.
9. REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS
Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests—On April 21, 2016, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, ATC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., acquired a 51% controlling ownership interest in Viom, a telecommunications infrastructure company that owns and operates wireless communications towers and indoor DAS networks in India (the “Viom Acquisition”).
In connection with the Viom Acquisition, the Company, through one of its subsidiaries, entered into a shareholders agreement (the “Shareholders Agreement”) with Viom and the following remaining Viom shareholders: Tata Sons Limited, Tata Teleservices, IDFC Private Equity Fund III, Macquarie SBI Infrastructure Investments Pte Limited and SBI Macquarie Infrastructure Trust (collectively, the “Remaining Shareholders”). The Shareholders Agreement provides for, among other things, put options held by certain of the Remaining Shareholders, which allow the Remaining Shareholders to sell outstanding shares of ATC TIPL, and call options held by the Company, which allow the Company to buy the noncontrolling shares of ATC TIPL. The put options, which are not under the Company’s control, cannot be separated from the noncontrolling interests. As a result, the combination of the noncontrolling interests and the redemption feature require classification as redeemable noncontrolling interests in the consolidated balance sheet, separate from equity.
Given the provisions governing the put rights, the redeemable noncontrolling interests are recorded outside of permanent equity at their redemption value. The noncontrolling interests become redeemable after the passage of time, and therefore, the Company records the carrying amount of the noncontrolling interests at the greater of (i) the initial carrying amount, increased or decreased for the noncontrolling interests’ share of net income or loss and foreign currency translation adjustments, and (ii) the redemption value. If required, the Company will adjust the redeemable noncontrolling interests to redemption value on each balance sheet date with changes in redemption value recognized as an adjustment to Distributions in excess of earnings.
The put options may be exercised, requiring the Company to purchase the Remaining Shareholders’ equity interests, on specified dates beginning April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2021. The price of the put options will be based on the fair market value of the exercising Remaining Shareholder’s interest in the Company’s India operations at the time the option is exercised. Put options held by certain of the Remaining Shareholders are subject to a floor price of 216 INR per share.
The changes in Redeemable noncontrolling interests for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 were as follows (in thousands):
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests
Foreign currency translation adjustment attributable to noncontrolling interests
10. EQUITY
Series A Preferred Stock—In May 2014, the Company issued 6,000,000 shares of its 5.25% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series A, par value $0.01 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”). During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, all outstanding shares of the Series A Preferred Stock converted at a rate of 0.9337 per share into an aggregate of 5,602,153 shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to the provisions of the Certificate of Designations governing the Series A Preferred Stock. The Company paid cash in lieu of fractional shares of the Company’s common stock. These payments were recorded as a reduction to Additional paid-in capital.
On May 15, 2017, the Company paid the final dividend of $7.9 million to holders of record of the Series A Preferred Stock at the close of business on May 1, 2017.
Series B Preferred Stock—The Company has 13,749,860 depositary shares, each representing a 1/10th interest in a share of its 5.50% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series B, par value $0.01 per share (the “Series B Preferred Stock”) outstanding, after giving effect to the early conversion of 140 depositary shares at the option of the holder at a conversion rate of 0.8687 per depositary share in May 2017. The Company paid cash in lieu of fractional shares of the Company’s common stock. This payment was recorded as a reduction to Additional paid-in capital. The Series B Preferred Stock was issued in March 2015.
Unless converted or redeemed earlier, each share of the Series B Preferred Stock will automatically convert on February 15, 2018, into between 8.6870 and 10.4244 shares of the Company’s common stock, depending on the applicable market value of the Company’s common stock and subject to anti-dilution adjustments. Subject to certain restrictions, at any time prior to February 15, 2018, holders of the Series B Preferred Stock may elect to convert all or a portion of their shares into common stock at the minimum conversion rate then in effect.
Dividends on shares of the Series B Preferred Stock are payable on a cumulative basis when, as and if declared by the Company’s Board of Directors at an annual rate of 5.50% on the liquidation preference of $1,000.00 per share (and, correspondingly, $100.00 per share with respect to the depositary shares) on February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing on May 15, 2015 to, and including, February 15, 2018.
The Company may pay dividends in cash or, subject to certain limitations, in shares of common stock or any combination of cash and shares of common stock. The terms of the Series B Preferred Stock provide that, unless full cumulative dividends have been paid or set aside for payment on all outstanding Series B Preferred Stock for all prior dividend periods, no dividends may be declared or paid on common stock.
Sales of Equity Securities—The Company receives proceeds from the sale of its equity securities pursuant to the ESPP and upon exercise of stock options granted under its equity incentive plan. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company received an aggregate of $105.7 million in proceeds upon exercises of stock options and sales pursuant to the ESPP.
Stock Repurchase Program—In March 2011, the Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase program, pursuant to which the Company is authorized to repurchase up to $1.5 billion of its common stock (the “2011 Buyback”).
During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company resumed the 2011 Buyback and repurchased 5,456,538 shares of its common stock thereunder for an aggregate of $676.9 million (of which $7.2 million was accrued as of September 30, 2017), including commissions and fees. As of September 30, 2017, the Company had repurchased a total of 11,713,442 shares of its common stock under the 2011 Buyback for an aggregate of $1.1 billion, including commissions and fees.
Under the 2011 Buyback, the Company is authorized to purchase shares from time to time through open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions at prevailing prices in accordance with securities laws and other legal requirements, and subject to market conditions and other factors. To facilitate repurchases, the Company makes purchases pursuant to trading plans under Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which allows the Company to repurchase shares during periods when it otherwise might be prevented from doing so under insider trading laws or because of self-imposed trading blackout periods.
The Company expects to fund any further repurchases of its common stock through a combination of cash on hand, cash generated by operations and borrowings under its credit facilities. Purchases under the 2011 Buyback are subject to the Company having available cash to fund repurchases.
Distributions—During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company declared or paid the following cash distributions:
Declaration Date
Distribution per share
Aggregate Payment Amount (in millions)
Series A Preferred Stock
Series B Preferred Stock
The Company accrues distributions on unvested restricted stock units, which are payable upon vesting. As of September 30, 2017, the amount accrued for distributions payable related to unvested restricted stock units was $8.0 million. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company paid $2.9 million of distributions upon the vesting of restricted stock units. To maintain its qualification for taxation as a REIT, the Company expects to continue paying distributions, the amount, timing and frequency of which will be determined, and subject to adjustment, by the Company’s Board of Directors.
11. EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE
The following table sets forth basic and diluted net income per common share computational data (in thousands, except per share data):
Basic weighted average common shares outstanding
Dilutive securities
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding
Basic net income attributable to American Tower Corporation common stockholders per common share
Diluted net income attributable to American Tower Corporation common stockholders per common share
Shares Excluded From Dilutive Effect—The following shares were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because the effect would be anti-dilutive (in thousands, on a weighted average basis):
Restricted stock units
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Tune - Lucid Moments - 2011
“Art-Rock band Tune introduces the accordion”
Tune is a band from Lodz (Poland) founded in 2009 by Leszek Swoboda and Adam Hajzer. “Lucid Moments” is their debut-album and is mastered by Robert Hadley (who worked with prominent bands as Pink Floyd, Electric Light Orchestra or Korn). You can classify the band's music as Art-Rock. The characteristic sound of the band is accomplished by the use of the accordion. This is unique ... the instrument is more associated with jazz and neo-classical music. Further the band Tune is known for their theatrical atmosphere during concerts and is often accompanied by film projections.
Jakub Krupski - vocals; Adam Hajzer - guitars; Leszek Swoboda - bass, vocals; Wiktor Pogoda - drums; Janusz Kowalski - accordion, piano.
You can find the following nine compositions on “Lucid Moments”; “Dependent”, “Repose”, “Confused”, “Lucid Moments”, “Mip”, “Dimensions”, “Cabin Fever”, “Masquerade” and “Dr. Freeman”.
The overall atmosphere of the album is one of melancholy. Often a composition has a slow start and then the tension of the music is building up towards a climax with aggressive guitar parts. Those aggressive parts reminds me sometimes of the also Polish band Riverside. For me the sound of the Art-Rock music Tune is playing is typical Polish. The vocal parts of singer Jakub Krupski reminds me of the singer of the Polish band Millennium.
A strong point in the music is the accordion of Janusz Kowalski. This gives the music a characteristic sound and is in my opinion unique in progressive rock music. The slow and melodic side of the music, which has a melancholic atmosphere, has more or less a mellow character.
I like the song “Dimensions” which slowly opens with an acoustic guitar that is accompanied by a wonderful and delicate accordion part. After this the bass and an atmospheric electric guitar joins the accordion. A beautiful atmospheric track with a filmic character. Also the accordion intro of the mysterious “Cabin Fever” is great. The accordion is really integrated in the music of Tune. The track develops into a progressive rock track with melodic electric guitar parts and aggressive vocal parts. “Masquerade” has some Doors influences in the first vocal parts. Janusz Kowalski plays now the piano instead of the accordion.
The album sounds great, the compositions are mature and the album is in balance. Tune made with “Lucid Moments” a good debut-album for the lovers of Art-Rock. The band has an unique sound because of the use of the accordion. I'm curious about in which way the music of this new Polish band will develop.
Douwe Fledderus - October 2011
- Independent Release
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Welcome to Canandaigua Orthopaedic Associates' web site. Our group is a thriving practice located in one of the friendliest communities in the Finger Lakes region. We pride ourselves on being good neighbors, as well as skilled professionals. Our surgeons, physician assistants and staff are dedicated to working as a team to provide a high level of medical and surgical care, superior service, and personal attention to you, our patient.
Canandaigua Orthopaedics' medical services are specific to that portion of medicine known as Orthopaedics. Our specialists treat disorders of the musculoskeletal system involving problems with the bones and joints of the arms and legs, as well as related structures, nerves, ligaments, tendons and muscles.
We hope that the website will help to introduce you to our office, answer basic questions you might have, and provide you with valuable information about your musculoskeletal problem or concern. The section on patient information offers access to numerous on-line fact sheets, education booklets, and informational summaries on a wide range of topics from fractures to foot pain to preventing falls. The educational information is provided by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and may contain subtle variations in approaches or recommendations from your individual physician. As always, it's best to use the information as a general guide to a topic and discuss any specific questions or concerns with your care provider.
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Bruce P Klein, MD
Fellow of the AAOS
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David C Grimm, MD
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Robert Willse Meyer, MD
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Joshua Olsen, MD
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Kevin R. Hopson, DPM, Podiatric Physician
Bruce P. Klein, MD
Dr. Klein was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut, and attended Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Connecticut where he received a degree in physical therapy and practiced for nine years. He then earned a masters degree in kinesiology from New York University in 1978, and a Ph.D. in urban services from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia in 1987. He earned his medical degree from the University of West Virginia in Morgantown, WV and completed his orthopaedic residency at West Virginia University Hospital. He has been practicing orthopaedic surgery in Canandaigua, NY since 1992. His special interests are in sports medicine, joint replacement, and fracture care.
David C. Grimm, MD
Dr. Grimm was raised near Rush, N.Y. and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1985. He earned his medical degree with Honors and AOA distinction from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1993, and completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Strong Memorial Hospital. Prior to joining Canandaigua Orthopaedic Associates, he practiced as an Attending Surgeon at Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals in Rochester, and as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Rochester. Dr. Grimm is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. His areas of special interest include shoulder and knee arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery, sports medicine, joint replacement, and fracture treatment.
Robert W. Meyer, MD
Dr. Meyer's practice interests include joint replacement of hips, knees and shoulders; arthroscopic surgery; and fracture care. He is Board Certified in orthopaedic surgery and an active Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Dr. Meyer earned his medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and completed his residency training at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He enjoyed a successful practice in Elmira, New York for ten years before moving to Canandaigua in 2007. He and his family reside in the Canandaigua area and enjoy outdoor activities including skiing, boating, sailing, and hunting.
Joshua R. Olsen, MD
Dr. Olsen was raised in Seneca Falls, NY, and received his undergraduate degree from Messiah College. He earned his medical degree with AOA honors at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in Long Island, NY, and completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Rochester in 2014. He further specialized in Sports Medicine at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, MA, and cared for the Boston Celtics and Tufts University athletes. His special interests include sports medicine, joint reconstruction, and fracture care. Dr. Olsen lives in Canandaigua, and enjoys spending time with his growing family.
Kevin R. Hopson, DPM
Podiatric Physician
Dr. Hopson was raised in Stillwater, NY, and received his undergraduate degree from St. John Fisher College. He earned his podiatric medical degree from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine (now Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine) in Cleveland, OH in 2000. He completed his 3-year podiatric residency at the Yale/VA Connecticut Healthcare System Residency Program in 2003. Prior to joining COA he practiced podiatric medicine/surgery in the Finger Lakes region for 15+ years. Dr. Hopson is board certified in foot surgery and reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. His special interests include medical and surgical care of foot and ankle abnormalities, and diabetic limb salvage and wound care. Dr. Hopson lives in Victor and is an avid sports fan who enjoys spending time with his family.
E. Martin Kenney, RPA-C
Marty was raised in Fairport, New York and received his B.A. degree from Oneonta State University in 1978. In 1981 he received his Master of Education from Western Maryland College, and began working as an in-patient counselor at The Genesee Hospital. He attended Hudson Valley/Albany Medical Center Physicians' Assistant program and graduated in 1986. After working in the FF Thompson Hospital Emergency Department, he joined Canandaigua Orthopaedic Associates in 1993.
Nicholas Cinquino, RPA-C
Nick was born and raised in Rochester, NY. He graduated with honors from Skidmore College in 2010 earning a B.S. degree in Exercise Science. He then continued his education at Daemen College where he earned his M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies in 2013. Nick joined the staff of Canandaigua Orthopaedic Associates in 2013. He is a life-long sports enthusiast with a particular interest in orthopaedic sports medicine.
Ashley Fitzgerald, RPA-C
Ashley was born and raised in Lyons, NY. She graduated from Monroe Community College with an Associate in Applied Science degree in 2007 and became a licensed massage therapist. Her subsequent work in orthopaedics inspired her to further her education. She graduated from the Physician Assistant Program at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2014. Ashley joined the staff of Canandaigua Orthopaedic Associates in 2016.
Kevin Bentley, RPA-C
Kevin was born and raised in Brockport, NY. He graduated with Honors from the University at Buffalo in 2015 earning a B.S. degree in Biomedical Sciences. He then earned his Masters degree in Physician Assistant Studies in 2017 from the Marietta College Physician Assistant Program in Ohio. He enjoys playing soccer, traveling, and downhill skiing. Kevin joined Canandaigua Orthopaedic Associates in 2017.
Kurt Lucas, RPA-C
Kurt graduated from the Physician Assistant program at D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY in 2005 after a career as a Deputy Sheriff and Physical Therapy Assistant. Following graduation he began work in Emergency Medicine at United Memorial Medical Center in Batavia, NY. He transitioned to musculoskeletal care thereafter and joined COA in 2018 after ten years at Genesee Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. He and his wife relocated to Canandaigua from their long-time residence in Nunda, NY. He enjoys the company of his two adult sons, and makes time for cycling and hiking whenever possible.
Canandaigua Orthopaedic Assoc., PC 229 Parrish Street, Suite 100 Canandaigua, NY USA 14424 View map Phone (585) 394-1960 Fax (585) 393-9232
Directly across from FF Thompson Hospital on Parrish Street -- in the Lakeside Professional Park building. Enter in Front, and proceed to the lower level. Canandaigua, NY USA 14424 View map Phone (585) 394-1960 Fax (585) 393-9232
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Allan Jones, Ph.D.
Allan’s background included directing large R&D and Innovation groups in fortune 500 materials companies. Later he founded Robofusion, Inc. a robotics company building kiosks for the ice cream and frozen yogurt vertical, including developing the robotic kiosks and brand Reis and Irvy’s which is now a $100 million brand. Allan is also co-founder and Director at Metrolime, a global entertainment brand. Allan holds over 40 U.S. Patents and his education includes a Ph.D. in Polymer Science from The University of Akron and Executive Management Education from MIT’s Sloan School.
Niko Zalesky
V.P. Sales
Niko has spent his professional career working on marketing agency projects for companies such as Lionsgate Studios as well as marketing for smaller start-ups in the entertainment industry. Niko joined the Racket team at its beginning in 2017 where he managed the initial project development in Hong Kong. His education includes a Master in Management from ESCP Europe in Paris France, and a Masters in International Business from The University of South Carolina.
Michael has been leading software development teams for 20 years. With previous software development leadership roles at People Matter, Blackbaud and Vizbii in Charleston, SC. Earlier in his career he was with AOL. Michael received the B.S. in Computer Engineering from Clemson University.
Luke David Jones
President Racket Latin America
Luke was previously the Director of Operations and Marketing at Robofusion, Inc., the company that developed the $100 million Reis and Irvy’s frozen yogurt robotic kiosks/brand. Luke is co-founder and Director at Metrolime which includes the Summit Trampoline Park group where he has expanded the company into many Latin American countries. Luke is bilingual (English/Spanish).
Russell Bennett
President Racket International
Russell has over 30 years of experience in global business with responsibilities including Sales, Marketing, R&D, Technical Service and General Management. He has worked for both large public corporations and small, venture backed, start-ups, as well as running a consultancy business for the food and beverage packaging industry. Russell has a bachelor degree in chemistry from Thames Valley University in UK.
Joy Reyes
Joy is a Creative Director specializing in digital design, creative strategy and creative leadership. She has over 15 years experience leading creative teams and delivering innovative design and campaigns for non-profit, small business and big companies. Prior to joining RacketStudios, she worked in developing the brand for Robofusion, Metrolime and Summit Trampoline parks. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering.
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