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8 months ago Shady
This Bond’s short story was published in the January 1997 issue of Playboy magazine. It was written by the third main Bond writer, Raymond Benson. The story goes around one of 007’s villains, known as Irma Bunt. Irma made her first appearance in one of Fleming’s novels, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as the main assistant of the chief of Spectre, Ernest Stavro Blofeld. After helping Blofeld assassinate Tracy, Bond’s wife, she reappeared one more time in another Fleming’s book, You Only Live Twice. In this novel James managed to put an end to his arch enemy, Blofeld, by undermining his castle and garden of death in Japan. However, nothing was mentioned about the destiny of Irma, which left the door open for a comeback. The first writer to make this smart move was John Pearson who wrote a wonderful Bond novel called, The Authorised Biography of James Bond. In this chronicle and at the very last chapter, James is told that Irma is still alive and continuing Blofeld’s biological experiments in Australia. He is urged by Bill Tanner, chief of staff to rejoin the service and take on this new mission. The novel ends with Bond hurrying off across the runway to get on the plane to Australia. Now here comes our short story where Benson Decided to build on John Pearson’s ideas.
The author brought in two characters that two whole novels could have been based on: Irma Bunt and Bond’s son. Now let’s talk a bit about Bond’s son here. The whole idea of Bond having a son started in the novel You Only Live Twice when Bond lost his memory and married the Japanese girl who saved his life. We, as readers, were told that James left his pregnant wife and went to Russia and then back to the service in Britain. Thus Fleming added a whole new fresh element to Bond’s life. So yes, his beloved Tracy had been murdered but now a new wife with a baby was there. It was just unfortunate that death took over Fleming before we knew how he would have developed this new aspect. However, John Pearson informed us in his Bond’s biography that it was a baby boy and it was named James and that Bond used to visit and pay the lad’s university tuitions and he left things open for others to develop.
Now back to Blast From The Past, Benson’s short story, simply here is how the man utilised these two precious elements. The short story starts with the assassination of Bond’s son to which James responded in a way that made him look so unbelievably cold and lacking in human feelings. When I was reading, I felt like saying: ‘ Come on Ray, isn’t it enough that you just ended the boy’s life in a short story for the Playboy magazine? Now Bond is depicted as if a normal person died not his own son. There was no good and convincing narrative of how this affected Bond’s feelings. Shame, Bond was even more moved by the death of some of the women he had casual relationships with than his own son’s. Now the tragedy does not stop there because of course Bond had to avenge his son by killing the person who did it; and guess who did it? Of course Irma Bunt, another character that could have been used perfectly for another wonderful Bond’s novel. The man just eliminated two excellent ideas developed by Fleming himself in a short story for the Playboy magazine! Was it really worth it? I believe Ian Fleming’s publications should pass these two characters to an author like Anthony Horowitz to write a third Bond novel and make good use of these characters. The guy really deserves it.
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Premiere: Detroit’s Willa Rae & the Minor Arcana Travels from Heaven to Hell on their Self-Titled EP
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Text by Amanda Silberling
Photo by Miles Marie
Singer-songwriter Willa Rae Adamo starts penning her songs with an acoustic guitar on the floor of her Detroit, Michigan home as she winds down after a long day of waitressing to pay her rent.
But once the classically-trained opera vocalist gets together with her band Willa Rae & the Minor Arcana, a project she started a year ago, her soulful tunes evolve into power-packed, folk with gloomy twists.
On Friday the 13th, Willa Rae will release her debut self-titled EP. It’s a fitting date to unleash her gothic, Americana sound. “This record is a celebration of emotions,” Adamo said. “There is no need to categorize the emotions into good and bad.”
Adamo is active in Detroit’s music scene, linking her passions for songwriting and creating community, and even co-founding the local chapter of Girls Rock Camp. “My role models and best friends are women I’ve met through open mics and the singer-songwriter community here in Detroit,” Adamo said.
With with dark, gritty imagery and sly self-awareness, Adamo distorts common expectations of folk love songs on her three-song EP. On the lustful opening track “Bad Ideas,” Adamo longs for a lover to come home and resists the temptation to call up someone from her “mental list of pretty little boys.” On the next song “Freight Train,” she mourns a lost relationship, comparing the unrelenting memories of a past love to a freight train roaring past her house at 3 AM each night.
“Whatever story I’m telling [on the EP] is transported to the desert, and everyone is suddenly wearing cowboy boots and has a pistol in their pocket,” Adamo said. The Minor Arcana features Craig Adams on electric guitar, Alexandria Berry on bass, Mackenzie Sato on drums, and Kaylan Mitchell on cello. “The music started with me, but has grown into so much more,” Adamo said.
An avid reader, Adamo draws influence from books as opposite as Dante’s Inferno and the Bible as literary texts – a marriage of heaven and hell. “I come from a Roman Catholic family, and I’m a woman, so I experience so much inherent shame and guilt about my sexuality,” Adamo said. “The music exorcizes those demons, acknowledges, and even celebrates the darkness that exists in every human being. You have to acknowledge the bad if you want the good to come through too.”
The EP’s final track “Love’s Wastin’ My Time,” feels like it’s in conversation with the two other tracks on Willa Rae & the Minor Arcana, resigned to the fact that after a tumultuous relationship, pain only lingers if you allow it. “The only goal, the only end-game when I sit down with my guitar, is to tell a story,” Adamo said. “I want to create a tiny glimpse of humanity.”
“You have to acknowledge the bad if you want the good to come through too.”
Willa Rae & the Minor Arcana comes out on Friday, May 13. Learn more here.
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Researchers Use IPET to Capture 3-D Image of an Individual Protein
TOPICS:3-DCryoEMGrapheneImagesIPETLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryMolecular Structure DynamicsNuclear Magnetic ResonanceProteinX-ray Diffraction
By Sabin Russell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory January 27, 2012
3-D images from a single particle (A) a series of images of an ApoA-1 protein particle, taken from different angles as indicated. A succession of four computer enhancements (projections) clarifies the signal. In the right column is the 3-D image compiled from the clarified data. B) is a close-up of the reconstructed 3-D image. C) Analysis shows how the particle structure is formed by three ApoA-1 proteins (red, green, blue noodle-like models)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) produced the first ever 3-D images of an individual protein. Using a technique they call “individual-particle electron tomography,” or IPET, these researchers were able to capture images of a single IgG antibody and apolipoprotein A-1 (ApoA-1.)
When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron microscope, he compares it to fine-tuning the gearshift and brakes of a racing bicycle. But this machine at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is a bit more complex. It costs nearly $1.5 million, operates at the frigid temperature of liquid nitrogen, and it is allowing scientists to see what no one has seen before.
At the Molecular Foundry, Berkeley Lab’s acclaimed nanotechnology research center, Ren has pushed his Zeiss Libra 120 Cryo-Tem microscope to resolutions never envisioned by its German manufacturers, producing detailed snapshots of individual molecules. Today, he and his colleague Lei Zhang are reporting the first 3-D images of an individual protein ever obtained with enough clarity to determine its structure.
Scientists routinely create models of proteins using X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, and conventional cryo-electron microscope (cryoEM) imaging. But these models require computer “averaging” of data from analysis of thousands, or even millions of like molecules, because it is so difficult to resolve the features of a single particle. Ren and Zhang have done just that, generating detailed models using electron microscopic images of a single protein.
He calls his technique “individual-particle electron tomography,” or IPET. The work is described in the January 24 issue of PLoS One, the open-source scientific journal, in an article entitled “IPET and FETR: Experimental Approach for Studying Molecular Structure Dynamics by Cryo-Electron Tomography of a Single-Molecule Structure.”
The 3-D images reported in the paper include those of a single IgG antibody and apolipoprotein A-1 (ApoA-1), a protein involved in human metabolism. Ren’s goal is to produce individual 3-D images of medically significant proteins, such as HDL— the heart-protective “good cholesterol” whose structure has eluded the efforts of legions of scientists armed with far more powerful protein modeling tools. “We are well on our way,” says Ren.
Ren has the credentials of one who knows what he can do. He was recruited to work at Berkeley Lab in August 2010 from the University of California at San Francisco, where he had used a cryo-electron microscope and more conventional averaging techniques to discern the 3-D structure of LDL – the “bad cholesterol” thought to be a major risk factor for heart disease.
His images of single proteins are a bit fuzzy, even after they are cleaned up by complex computer filtering, but very informative to the trained observer. These individual particles are extraordinarily tiny, requiring Ren to zero in on a spot of less than 20 nanometers. He has reported protein images as small as 70 kDa. That’s kilodaltons, a Lilliputian scale (expressed in units of mass) set aside for taking the measure of atoms, molecules, and snippets of DNA. It’s a more useful way to size soft objects like proteins that can be clumped, stringy, or floppy.
Unlike the sculptural images of protein models, a suite of these photographs can convey a sense of these particles in all their nanoscale floppiness. Within the complex structure of these proteins lies the secrets of their function, and perhaps keys to drugs that block the bad ones and promote the good ones. With some additional computer filtering, a high-contrast model of protein can be generated from the images and animated to show its moving parts in 3-D.
Video shows a computer animation demonstrates the flexible dynamics — the moving parts — of human IgG antibody. 3-D images of two individual antibody particles (gray) were generated using EM tomography with IPET. The demonstration shows how the same molecular chains (red, orange, and green noodle-like models) of antibody particle #1 can fit precisely into particle #2, which was found under the microscope in an entirely different pose.
“This allows you to see the personality of each protein,’’ says Ren. “It is a proof of concept for something that people thought was impossible.”
By observing the structure of single proteins, it is possible to understand their flexible, moving parts. “This opens a door for the study of protein dynamics,” Ren says. “Antibodies, for example, are not solid. They are very flexible, very dynamic.”
How did Ren coax so much versatility out of his Libra 120? “It’s not a very high-end model,’’ he concedes. Much has to do with the accessories he bolts on to the machine, and with his own artistry and patience. He’s equipped the microscope with a $300,000 CCD camera, some powerful image-processing software, special contrasting agents, and a device called an “energy filter” that sifts through the digitized camera data and culls weak signals. Thoroughly familiar with his customized machine, he also employs an element of elbow grease, working long hours to draw out the powerful images from a torrent of digital noise.
The multiple angles used to create the 3-D portrait help resolve the faint molecular image. “All images are noisy,” Ren explains. “In physics, the noise is inconsistent among the images, but the signal — the object or protein — is consistent. By using this approach, we find the consistent portion (the signal) can be enhanced, while the inconsistent portion (the noise) will be reduced substantially.”
Electron microscopes focus streams of electrons rather than light to see incredibly tiny things. The short wavelength of an electron beam enables much higher resolution and magnification than visible light. Powerful electron microscopes have been used for decades to probe materials at atomic-scale; and right next door to the Molecular Foundry is Berkeley Lab’s National Center for Electron Microscopy, which houses the most powerful microscopes in the world. The TEAM 0.5 microscope can distinguish objects as small as the radius of a hydrogen atom. But these heavyweight microscopes pull off this atomic-scale resolution with pulses of energy that would obliterate most soft biological proteins. The high power electron microscopes are used primarily for probing atomic structure of strong, solid materials, such as graphene — a lattice of carbon only one atom thick.
Ren’s lab specializes in cryoEM, which examines objects frozen at -180 °C (-292 °F). A bath of liquid nitrogen flash-freezes samples so quickly that no ice crystals form. “It is amorphous, like glass,’’ Ren says. The protein samples are frozen on a disk the size of baby’s fingernail, filled with tiny wells 2 microns across. The disk is inserted into the microscope on a rotating support that can tilt the sample up to 140° inside a vacuum — sufficient camera angles to produce a 3-D perspective. “The challenge is to isolate it from the air, and to turn it without vibrations, even the vibrations from the bubbling of liquid nitrogen,’’ says Ren.
The extremely low temperature fixes the samples and prevents them from drying out in the vacuum needed for the electron scan. It creates conditions favorable for imaging at much lower doses of electrons — low enough to keep a single soft protein intact while more than 100 images are taken over a one-to-two hour period.
Image: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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TV Screened: Scandal (5.1)- Hurting on the Inside
September 30, 2015 by Jason Stanley 1 Comment
“Is he hurting you . . . . on the inside?” -Huck to Olivia
Last week the fifth season of Scandal got under way. After a crazy fourth season of going toe-to-toe with Papa Pope, Olivia is settling in nicely between the White House sheets next to President Fitzgerald Grant. Mellie is the new junior senator from Virginia, Cyrus is unemployed, and Huck is lying on Olivia’s couch.
The fix-of-the-episode centers around the tragic death of Princess Emily of the English-speaking country Caledonia after a state dinner at the White House (that Mellie was not invited to). The whole thing feels a lot like the death of Princess Di. The Queen, the Prince’s mother, even resembles Queen Elizabeth. Olivia is hired to do what she does best: make the problems go away.
As Olivia seeks the truth in the Princess’ death, she discovers that there has been trouble in paradise. The Prince and the Princess have not been spending a lot of time together, which was just enough to spark a relationship between Emily and her bodyguard. Sound familiar?
Prince Richard becomes the number one suspect in Emily’s death. Liv takes it to Fitz, who refuses to do anything about it because he wants a naval base in Caledonia. Liv takes her information to her client, the Queen, where Olivia learns the dark truth of about Emily’s killer.
During the state dinner, Abby and Liv are talking in the restroom about how nice it would be to live the princess’ life, Emily overhears them. She tells them, “To most of the world, I’m not a real person anymore. To them, I’m not human. I’m just a spectacle. I don’t think they’d say half the things they say if they knew they were hurting an actual person.”
And there, friends, we have the sum of the whole story. In the brilliance that is Scandal, this one statement becomes the symbolism for the rest of the episode. The writer of Proverbs says, “Reckless words pierce like a sword,” (12:18a, NIV). The epistle writer James calls for the taming of the tongue (see James 3).
The message is clear. Sticks and stones may break our bones, and so do words! Princess Emily’s killer did not have to kill her in a fake car accident, she had already been pierced a killing stab from the words used against her. These are words used directly to our faces, whispers spoken in the corners of our lives, and degrading phrases about others used only to self-promote.
“Reckless words pierce like a sword.”
Olivia goes home, perhaps for the first time in months, and Huck is lying on the couch. He opened a window, he reports, suggesting that it was the first time he got off the couch. “Did he hurt you?” is the question Huck asks. He is concerned that Liv has returned to her place because Fitz hurt her. She plays it off, and wonders if Quinn hurt Huck on the inside.
Huck is hurting, no doubt. He is hurting because of what happened between him and Quinn at the end of season four, but mostly because the other Huck – the Huck who likes to torture people – has been released, and he doesn’t know how to put him back.
Others are hurting, too.
Mellie is hurting because Fitz kicked her out of the White House, and has refuses to attend her swearing in ceremony. Cyrus is hurting because he lost his job as Chief of Staff and his best friend, Fitz. Abby is hurting because her only friend, Olivia Pope, has been lying to her. Olivia is hurting because she is not ready to go as far as Fitz is with their relationship.
Olivia: “I don’t fix people… not on the inside. If I could fix people on the inside I’d be running a bake sale in Ohio right now.”
Huck begs Olivia to fix him. He feels that she is the only one who can. To Huck, Olivia is his savior, the only one who can redeem him from his past actions. Huck is one of the most complex characters on television right now. He is a deadly killer, and also, apparently, a child. The next time Liv comes home, Huck is no longer on the couch. He has gone to Jake’s seeking help.
Mellie, after being served divorce papers by Fitz (who did attend the swearing in after Olivia told him he should), runs to Cyrus to fix her and her situation. She hopes that Cyrus will be able to redeem her for her actions and return things back to the way they were. Cyrus refuses, though, perhaps for the same reason Olivia does. They cannot fix others when they themselves need to be fixed.
These are all people – real people – who are hurting, but have been treated like Princess Emily said, as “just a spectacle.” Which is exactly what Olivia fears will happen to her once she and Fitz go public with their relationship. She will no longer be a person. She will no longer be Olivia Pope.
The writer of Proverbs goes on to say, “but the tongue of the wise brings healing” (Proverbs 12:18b, NIV). With all the wounded people in this episode, its hard to find the voice of the wise. Olivia comes close when he echoes Princess Emily, perhaps the only voice of wisdom.
Olivia: “I want our business handled. I want our problems fixed. I want to be ready before the world is watching.”
With all the piercing words leaving bloody wounds in the wake, enter former Vice President Sally Langston, who now has her own political talk show. Turns out, Sally has photos of the President and Olivia Pope in the White House. Abby, wounded by Olivia’s actions, walks in on the couple embracing to deliver the bad news. Sally’s missiles of truth are fixed on the White House.
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About Jason Stanley
Jason is a United Methodist clergy person serving as a Minister of Youth and Education. He blogs about film, faith, and other stuff at jasoncstanley.com.
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Birth of Fiona Shaw, Actress & Director
Fiona Mary Shaw, accomplished classical actress and theatre and opera director, is born in Farranree, County Cork on July 10, 1958. She is best known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films and her role portraying Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood.
Shaw attends secondary school at Scoil Mhuire in Cork. She receives her degree at University College Cork. She trains at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and is part of a ‘new wave’ of actors to emerge from the Academy. She receives much acclaim as Julia in the Royal National Theatre production of Richard Sheridan‘s The Rivals (1983).
Shaw’s theatrical roles include Celia in As You Like It (1984), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1987), Lady Franjul in The New Inn (1987), Young Woman in Machinal (1993), for which she wins the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, Winnie in Happy Days (2007), and the title roles in Electra (1988), The Good Person of Sechuan (1989), Hedda Gabler (1991), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1998) and Medea (2000). She performs T. S. Eliot‘s poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York City to great acclaim in 1996, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her performance.
Shaw plays Miss Morrison in the 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode “The Adventure of the Crooked Man” and Catherine Greenshaw in Agatha Christie’s Marple episode “Greenshaw’s Folly” in 2013.
Shaw notably plays the male lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. She has collaborated with Warner on a number of occasions, on both stage and screen. She has also worked in film and television, including My Left Foot (1989), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Undercover Blues (1993), Persuasion (1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), The Avengers (1998), Gormenghast (2000), and five of the Harry Potter films in which she plays Harry Potter‘s aunt Petunia Dursley. She has a brief but key role in Brian DePalma‘s The Black Dahlia (2006).
In 2009, Shaw collaborates with Deborah Warner again, taking the lead role in Tony Kushner‘s translation of Bertolt Brecht‘s Mother Courage and Her Children. In a 2002 article for The Daily Telegraph, Rupert Christiansen describes their professional relationship as “surely one of the most richly creative partnerships in theatrical history.” Other collaborations between the two women include productions of Brecht’s The Good Woman of Szechuan and Henrik Ibsen‘s Hedda Gabler, the latter adapted for television.
Shaw appears in The Waste Land at Wilton’s Music Hall in January 2010 and in a Royal National Theatre revival of London Assurance in March 2010. In November 2010, She stars in Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin alongside Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan. The play is also staged in New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2011.
Shaw appears in season four of American TV show True Blood. Her character, Marnie Stonebrook, has been described as an underachieving palm reader who is spiritually possessed by an actual witch. Her character leads a coven of necromancer witches who threaten the status quo in Bon Temps, erasing most of Eric Northman‘s memories and leaving him almost helpless when he tries to kill her and break up their coven.
In 2012, Shaw appears in the Royal National Theatre revival of Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker.
The world’s largest solo theatre festival, United Solo Theatre Festival, recognizes her performance in The Testament of Mary on Broadway with the 2013 United Solo Special Award.
In 2018 Shaw begins portraying Carolyn Martens, head of the MI6 Russian Desk, in BBC America‘s Killing Eve, for which she wins the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series. Later the same year, she plays a senior MI6 officer in Mrs. Wilson.
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Poem Nominated for Best of the Net
Posted on October 3, 2018 by robert okaji
My poem “Missing Loved Ones,” the first draft of which came to being during the 2016 August 30-30 challenge, has been nominated by Eclectica for Best of the Net. Many thanks to poetry editor Jen Finstrom for her generosity and encouragement, and to my longtime friend, Emily Bailey, for sponsoring the poem and providing the title.
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63 thoughts on “Poem Nominated for Best of the Net”
Wezzlehead on October 2, 2018 at 7:18 am said:
Congratulations. It’s a lovely poem. Well deserved.
robert okaji on October 2, 2018 at 7:28 am said:
Thank you, Robert. These things are always unexpected, and more precious for that.
qbit on October 2, 2018 at 7:20 am said:
That is an amazing poem. A single thread from a small living being to Ganymede and back, via love and death and memory. Beautiful, and well deserved nomination.
Thank you, JRB!
Jazz Jaeschke on October 2, 2018 at 7:26 am said:
Thanks , Jazz. I’m really thrilled about this one. Eclectica was the first online publication I ever submitted to, waaaaay back when.
Ellen Hawley on October 2, 2018 at 7:36 am said:
I’m glad to see you getting the recognition. You deserve it.
Thank you, Ellen. I certainly appreciate the attention. 🙂
ダニエル・ シュネー on October 2, 2018 at 7:54 am said:
Everything you do is the best of the Net!
Ha! And thank you, Daniel. I just write these pieces and then let them go. Of course most of them come back time and again…
short-prose-fiction on October 2, 2018 at 8:54 am said:
Alex M. Fourzan on October 2, 2018 at 9:09 am said:
Wonderful! Congratulations.
Thank you, Alex.
prairiepomes on October 2, 2018 at 9:09 am said:
Wonderful news, Robert, congratulations!
Thank you, Anna Marie. I’m truly honored.
Andrew McDowell on October 2, 2018 at 10:06 am said:
robert okaji on October 2, 2018 at 10:12 am said:
Thanks, Andrew!
The Cheesesellers Wife aka Kim Whysall-Hammond on October 2, 2018 at 10:08 am said:
Thank you, Kim.
Cate on October 2, 2018 at 11:11 am said:
Hurrah! “Missing Loved Ones” is a particular beauty among beauties, Bob. The ending — “This scarf, her love. That shirt, my heart.” — is devastating. I am so glad to see this work thus honored.
robert okaji on October 2, 2018 at 1:31 pm said:
Thank you, Cate. I’m deeply appreciative of this nomination.
charlotteash on October 2, 2018 at 11:15 am said:
Wonderful news! Congrats!
Thanks, Charlotte. You just never know what’ll come of these pieces…
rivrvlogr on October 2, 2018 at 12:09 pm said:
Recognition well deserved. Kudos, Bob.
Thank you, Ken.
memadtwo on October 2, 2018 at 12:51 pm said:
Congratulations! and of course, well-deserved. (K)
Thank you, Kerfe. I’ve had more such success than I’d ever imagined was possible.
memadtwo on October 3, 2018 at 2:59 pm said:
It makes me feel good to see it. You are an inspiration to keep writing too (although much more disciplined and focused than I)
You honor me, Kerfe. I’ve been blessed with the time and energy to devote to something I love!
merrildsmith on October 2, 2018 at 1:10 pm said:
Congratulations, Robert. Wonderful poem!
Thanks so much, Merril!
floweringink on October 2, 2018 at 1:18 pm said:
Such great news!!! Congratulations Robert!
Thank you, Susan. It is an honor.
John Looker on October 2, 2018 at 2:11 pm said:
Bravo Robert. A subtle and sensitive poem.
Thank you, John.
10000hoursleft on October 3, 2018 at 3:23 am said:
It’s beautiful Bob. I was thinking about you today so had to come read what you’re up to.
Thanks, Mek! I was surprised but delighted to receive the nomination. I hope you’re doing well and baking some beautiful, awesome cakes!
10000hoursleft on October 3, 2018 at 7:01 pm said:
I recently baked a butter cake with blue butter cream frosting topped with hundreds and thousands (sprinkles). Loosley representing WaterAid and the colours of the Sustainable Development Goals. It tasted good too! I’m not surprised at all by your nomination!
Now that sounds delicious! I’m so used to laboring in obscurity that any sort if recognition surprises me. 🙂
10000hoursleft on October 4, 2018 at 10:21 pm said:
Might feel isolated in your shed while labouring, but you have a global following! Far from obscure! 😊
Ah, Mek. I feel my head swelling…🙂
Well then it must be time to fo something grounding, like clean up after your chihuahua 💩 😂
Ha! That did it! Uh oh. The head is shrinking…
nananoyz on October 3, 2018 at 10:34 am said:
That’s wonderful! Congratulations!
Thanks, Leslie. I never expect any nominations or awards, so receiving one is such a bonus!
danielpaulmarshall on October 3, 2018 at 5:53 pm said:
Very good news & the best of luck.
Thanks, Daniel. The nomination itself if the honor, as far as I’m concerned.
Tis tis, no quarrel there.
Arbie on October 5, 2018 at 6:20 am said:
Awesome!!! Congratulations and good luck!
All three of the poems on there are fantastic!
I’m so pleased you liked them. Thank you!
Thank you, Arbie!
Sanket Sinari on October 5, 2018 at 6:27 am said:
Congratulations you deserved it
Susi Bocks on October 5, 2018 at 9:33 pm said:
Congratulations! It’s nice to have your work appreciated!
Thank you, Susi!
M.T.Noah on October 6, 2018 at 7:23 am said:
So proud of you, Robert!
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Thanks, Craig!
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CLOTHING CHOICES
On Wednesday, I shall be lecturing about The Apology in my six week introduction to the Dialogues of Plato. In Volume Three of my Autobiography, and again six years ago on this blog, I recounted my faux-heroic moment in a Middlesex County courtroom, where I was defending myself pro se against the misdemeanor charge of Disorderly Conduct during an anti-apartheid protest. Old-timers on this blog will recall that I unsuccesfully sought to channel Socrates when called on to propose a punishment for myself after the jury handed down a verdict of Guilty.
While planning for the trial, the defendants met periodically in my rented Watertown condo. On a lark, I had T-shirts made up for all of us with the legend, in bright red letters, "FREE THE FOGG 19." I still have the shirt thirty-two years later, and on Wednesday, in an act of sartorial piety, I shall wear it to class.
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AND AGAIN, SIGH
The Popish Plot was a late seventeenth century hoax cooked up by Titus Oates and spread by credulous English Protestants, according to which Catholics were plotting to kill the Protestant king so that his Catholic brother would ascend to the throne. I was attempting, quickly and with some feeble effort at wit, to conjure that memory in my snarky account of Representative Mark Walker's expressed desire that Speaker Ryan find a man of the cloth who has a wife and children, presumably to bring comfort to good Protestant Representatives afflicted with a Catholic House pastor.
POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
Some of you may have noticed that the House of Representatives chaplain, Father Connolly, was just summarily fired by Paul Ryan, without explanation. This has caused something of a stir among Catholic members of the House, of whom there are a number on both sides of the aisle, as they say. Two speculative explanations have been offered. One is that on the day the House voted to pass the tax bill, the good Father offered an opening prayer in which, among other things, he expressed the hope that God would guide the members to "guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans," clearly a radical call for revolution worthy of the far left fringes of the Latin American Church.
However, a new explanation has surfaced, and it is at this point that I claim a point of personal privilege, for it was my very own Representative Mark Walker, of the North Carolina 6th CD, who gave voice to it. He expressed the hope that the next chaplain would be a man with a wife and children who could draw on that experience to guide the members of his flock.
And then the scales fell from my eyes. It finally made sense. This was a good old authentically American revolt of the Protestants against the upstart Catholics who had long since seized control of the big city Democratic Party machines and were now bringing their popish heresies to the floor of the People's House.
As an atheist of culturally Jewish heritage, I do not have a dog in this fight [if I may use a Southern colloquialism], so I am free to sit back and enjoy the spectacle. What makes it all the more delicious is that Paul Ryan is a Catholic disciple of Ayn Rand, who hated all religion.
You can't make this stuff up.
OLD MAN IN HIS UNDERSHIRT YELLS AT THE TV
I don’t get it. Politicians seem incapable of doing things that strike me as so obvious as to be no-brainers. Let me give you a case in point. I have now watched Michael Avenatti on television a good many times. Avenatti, for those of you abroad or not paying attention, is the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the porn star who appears in porn films as Stormy Daniels. Avenatti has become the darling of cable news interviewers for one very simple reason: he answers the questions he is asked simply and directly. “Have other women come forward to you with stories about Trump and non-disclosure agreements [NDAs]?” Answer, “Yes.” “Can you identify the man whom Ms. Clifford says threatened her?”” Answer, “Not yet.” “Was Ms. Clifford verbally bullied into signing the NDA?” Answer, “Yes.” “Will you tell us how?” “No.”
The effect, at least on me, is galvanic. You simply never hear a public figure give straight answers to straight questions, even when they are willing to do so. They seem incapable of it, as though they have been programmed by handlers and focus groups to spew tested word salads.
Let me tell you what has provoked this rant. Yesterday or the day before I was watching Tom Perez being interviewed by Chuck Todd on MSNBC. Perez was Obama’s Secretary of Labor for four years and is now Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a Clinton choice. The DNC has launched a civil suit against the Republican National Committee for twenty million dollars in damages to compensate for the Republicans’ role in the hacking of the DNC e-mails. I did not know, or had forgotten, that in the aftermath of Watergate, the DNC actually won a $700,000 civil judgment against the RNC for the break-in at the Watergate Apartment Complex that started the whole affair.
Todd observed that County Democratic branches were upset about the suit, fearing that it would drain away money that ought to be used in the 2018 mid-term elections to support local Democratic candidates. Then he asked Perez, “How much will the suit cost the DNC?” Perez replied with a word salad of talking points that did not answer the question and left me completely unwilling to believe anything Perez said.
Here is what should have happened [figures invented for the purpose of making a point]:
Question: “How much will the suit cost?”
Answer: “4.2 million dollars. Maybe more or less depending on how things go. But not one penny will come from the DNC. We have set up a separate DNC Legal Defense Fund [ed. cf the NAACP Legal Defense Fund] and no expenses of the suit will be paid for by DNC funds that must be used to support local candidates this Fall.”
Just that. Period. Now, to be sure, the answer is somewhat duplicitous, since presumably anyone who would donate to the DNCLDF would also be willing to give to the DNC. But the psychological effect on the listener would be electric.
These people are not stupid. They may be pigs, but they are not stupid. Why can’t they see this?
HOW CAN ONE BLOG ABOUT THESE THINGS?
In just one day, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who is moonlighting as the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tells a gathering of more than a thousand lobbyists that as a Congressman, he had a rule that if a lobbyist contacted his office, he, Mulvaney, would not agree to see him unless he donated money, and he then encourages the lobbyists to spread out across Washington and bribe Republican members of Congress. Meanwhile, the White House physician, who, after examining the President, announced that if he gave up cheeseburgers he could live to be two hundred, is revealed as a "candy man" who would walk up and down the aisles of the President's plane on long overseas flights handing out prescription uppers and downers freely to the press and Presidential aides.
Now look, I am not Jonathan Swift, and never claimed to be, but even the immortal satirist would have a difficult time ridiculing people like this. Who needs satire when a transcript will do quite as well?
I remarked a while back that I had received a praising letter about IN DEFENSE OF ANARCHISM from Murray Rothbard, and one of those signing him/herself "anonymous" asked about it, so I went searching through my piles of papers. It turns out the letter was from Jerome Tuccille, also a stalwart of the Libertarian movement, not Murray Rothbard. Tuccille, Wikipedia tells me, passed away just a year ago. I could not find his original letter, but here is his gracious and friendly reply to my response to it.
Your letter of Dec. 8 is in hand. If you find yourself startled to receive kind words from the Right, you can imagine my own response to the fact that my book has been viciously attacked in the conservative press (National Review, New Guard, Triumph) and generally well received by the Left. Actually, I had somewhat anticipated this; the ms. was bought by a New Left editor after it had been given a cool reception at some of the more conservative publishing houses. It’s fairly indicative of the re-adjustment in political thinking that has been going on over the past two years or so.
By now you must have seen the Widmer review of both our books, along with Guerin’s ANARCHISM in the Nov. 16th Nation. Their new literary editor, Emile Capouya, is very sympathetic to libertarian ideas and this was apparently his inaugural feature. The Guerin book, is, in my estimation, the best short comprehensive history of the subject available.
I’ve done a brief review of your book for the Libertarian Forum, a bi-weekly newsletter, and I’ll send you a copy when it comes out in a few weeks.
I’ll also keep you posted on the progress of my course at the New School. The students who sign up will probably be a mixture of Randian capitalist types and Left Wing communalists; I’m sure to be attacked by the former for “selling out to the commies” and by the Leftists for advocating “greed” and “exploitation.” This exchange usually takes place at every Left-Right conference I’ve been to. If Nixon knew the truth about the so-called radical movement, he’d be sleeping much more soundly. Fortunately, he doesn’t.
Jerome Tuccille
4 Windsor Terrace
White Plains, N.Y. 10601
Despite the tensions caued by the war and the Nixon presidency and the Civil Rights Movement, those were more civil times.
This is exactly right.
TIGGER SNIFFS THE SPRING BREEZES AND REGAINS HIS SUNNY DISPOSITION
The secret to the NRA’s success, we are repeatedly told, is the fact that gun rights advocates are single issue voters, ready to set aside even economic self-interest in pursuit of their obsessive desire to own assault rifles. Fair enough. In a winner-take-all electoral system, single issue voting is one of the few ways to express cardinal rather than simply ordinal preference. I have a dream, and here it is. The only thing that can successfully counter a single-issue voting bloc is another single-issue voting bloc, especially a voting bloc that has not in the past voted at all but is now motivated to get out to the polls. The high school students’ gun control movement has the potential to be just such a counter-weight to the gun rights activists. Using social media, the students can communicate with an extremely broad segment of the 18-21 age population, historically the least likely to vote. If they really do mobilize, the idea of voting, and voting only for pro-regulation candidates, could easily go viral, tilting even solidly red districts blue. We shall see.
I do not speak, read, or write Korean, I have never been to the Korean Peninsula or even to Asia, and in the immortal words of Will Rogers, all I know is what I read in the papers, so take what follows with enough salt to satisfy a chef in a Chinese restaurant. I got my start in political activism sixty years ago with the campaign for nuclear disarmament. I wrote, spoke, marched, and protested in favor of getting rid of nuclear weapons, not merely limiting their possession to America, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Well, we failed big time, and the world is now awash in small, medium, and large fission, fusion, and dirty bombs capable of being delivered by everything from an intercontinental ballistic missile to a suitcase. By my count, there are at least nine countries that have workable nuclear weapons, the most recent of them being North Korea. Only one nation has actually used nuclear weapons in war, namely America, which, I think we can agree, somewhat limits its moral authority in this matter, though not of course, its presumption of moral superiority.
At the moment, one of the most urgent dangers of catastrophic [even if not nuclear] war is America’s bipartisan insistence that North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons is “unacceptable” whereas Pakistan’s, India’s, Israel’s, Russia’s, France’s, Great Britain’s, and China’s is not. [I leave to one side the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.] If America launches a pre-emptive attack on North Korea’s nuclear weapons sites, a million or more men, women, and children could die in the resultant war.
There now seems to be a genuine possibility that Trump will agree to North Korea’s continued possession of nuclear weapons in return for their agreement to discontinue further development of more sophisticated delivery systems and the regularization of relations with South Korea. This would be a triumph for North Korea, giving it everything it has sought for more than sixty years. Trump would trumpet the agreement as proof of his spectacular deal-making, and in all likelihood John Bolton would resign in outrage. One can but hope.
Meanwhile, Michael Cohen is going to be indicted. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
On Wednesday I met my OLLI [Osher Lifelong Learning Institute] class on Plato. About fifteen old folks turned out, including enough retired physicians to staff a small hospital and an Anthropologist. OLLI is a hoot. Preparing for the class I re-read the Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and will in due time re-read the Gorgias, the four Dialogues I am covering. As I think I remarked here earlier, all of us “professional philosophers” [or Sophists, to use the Athenian term] are so familiar with Plato, and have been for so long, that it is easy for us to forget how extraordinary he was and is. I mean, he invented our field [the Pre-Socratics to the contrary notwithstanding.] The distinction between Appearance and Reality, which lies at the foundation of all philosophical thinking, was virtually given to us by Plato, along with the technique of definition by division. On top of which, he was far and away the greatest artist of the entire Pantheon of great philosophers. And he lived TWO THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO!
If I accomplish nothing else, I need to help the members of the class to see and appreciate how truly remarkable he was. It is a challenge.
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Well, I bitched about the screw-up concerning my Columbia course next semester, and the response is extended discourses about bureaucracy and solidarity with the working class. It recalls the old light bulb joke, "How many socialists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer, a dozen. Eleven to debate the hidden injuries of class, and one to go out and find an electrician."
Just to be clear, I am only being paid $8000 to teach the course [$2000 less than UNC Chapel Hill, a state university, pays], so in this situation I count as one of the exploited. And the people I am complaining about are the College Committee on Instruction, which consists of six tenured professors, one untenured professor, and the dean of the College, not underpaid secretaries.
I mean, if we are not going to be able to complain about bureaucratic screw-ups under socialism, I am going to reconsider my commitments.
A MINATORY TALE
I have mentioned that next Fall, I shall be flying up to New York every Tuesday to co-teach a course with Todd Gitlin in the Sociology Department of Columbia University. The course is an undergraduate seminar entitled "The Mystifications of Social Reality." Today begins enrollment for the Fall ["rising seniors" today, in the jargon of the modern Academy.] Out of obsessive curiosity, I went on line to check the course and see how many seniors had signed up. To my distress, I could not find the course in the list of offerings, so I called the Department secretary. She knew from nothing, so I called the office of the Chair, Shamus Kahn and left a message. Todd emailed me to say that he had heard from Kahn who knew nothing about it. Todd and I talked, and agreed that he would get onto the department [where he is a professor] and have someone correct the list of offerings and send a message to students about a "new course."
Now, one could speculate that this is an act of political suppression, but that is clearly untrue. This is by no means the edgiest course being offered in Sociology next semester. No, alas, it is just good old fashioned incompetence, of a sort with which I am too, too familiar in the Academy.
Fortunately, Todd says, students keep signing up all Spring. But it is a good thing I am so obsessive, or we would have had no students at all.
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BACK TO SERIOUS BLOGGING
It is clearly pointless to wait patiently until the political world settles down before turning to the composition of an essay I have been contemplating. Every day, indeed every hour, brings a revelation more provocative and worthy of commentary than its predecessor. So, I have turned off MSNBC and repaired to my computer keyboard, where I shall now spend a quiet hour hunting and pecking.
Let us suppose, arguendo, that we yearn for fundamental changes in America, for an end to its extreme inequality of wealth and income, to its imperial foreign policy, to its brutal treatment of women, African-Americans, gay and lesbian persons, and the poor. Suppose that we are not content simply to restore some of the elements of the social safety net that have been frayed or destroyed, welcome though that would be. Suppose, dare I say it, that we hold, in a secret place in our hearts, the dream of collective ownership of the means of production. How might such a transformation of America come about?
There are, as I see it, three possible avenues to such a future: violent extra-legal revolution, an electoral transformation, or the natural inner maturing, within the current economic order, of new social relationships of production that result in an immanent transformation of capitalism into socialism.
Successful society-transforming violent revolution is, in this country at this time, an old leftie’s wet dream. Seriously, revolution? When there are three hundred million guns in private hands, most of them owned and coddled by the opponents of significant change? I doubt it.
As for the inner natural maturing of new social relations of production, that is in fact happening, as Marx predicted, but I am skeptical that it will lead to the overthrow of capitalism, for reasons I have detailed in my paper The Future of Socialism, available at box.net via the link at the top of this blog page.
Which leaves an electoral transformation. Let us recall that we have a presidential, not a parliamentary, form of government. For well-known reasons, which my fingers are not nimble enough to spell out in detail unless someone really wants an explanation, this means that ideologically homogeneous minority parties rarely are able to achieve much legislatively, save in rather special circumstances, such as those that obtained in New York State, for example. Power comes from gaining leverage within one of the two major parties, which in turn means that a movement must elect Representatives or Senators [or, in rare cases, a President] who share and are responsive to the concerns and demands of the movement.
Now, it does not follow from this that only electoral politics has any chance of changing the country. Not at all. A movement outside the two parties – a Civil Rights Movement, a Women’s Liberation Movement, a Gay Liberation Movement, an Occupy Wall Street Movement, a Poor People’s Movement, can change the political landscape and apply irresistible pressure on ambitious candidates leading them to alter their positions and even their votes in Congress in an effort to win re-election. The key here is, as everyone understands, the astonishingly low turnouts even in Presidential elections. One-vote-one-person winner-take-all elections give no structural expression to intensity of preference, but intensity of preference shapes turnout, which in turn determines elections.
Nor is it at all necessary or even desirable for everyone to do the same thing. A centrist Democrat working to re-elect Joe Manchin or Heidi Heidkamp and an Occupy Wall Street activist putting her body on the line in front of the home office of a multi-national corporation are both, in their very different ways, contributing to the painfully slow process of turning the enormous, bulky ship of state in a new direction. No bill redistributing income can pass the Senate unless the Democrats have at least fifty-one votes in the upper chamber, and no bill redistributing income will ever be sent over from the House to the Senate for debate unless millions, or rather tens of millions, of Americans march in the streets demanding such legislation and vowing not to vote for candidates for the House who do not sponsor and vote for such legislation. Simply to say this is to recognize the height of the mountain we have to climb.
One final observation before my two forefingers give out. Contrary to the nonsense written by Op Ed columnists and repeated by Cable News commentators, people on the far left are not at all less prone to compromise than people positioned roughly where the political landscape changes from blue to red. If we imagine the political spectrum laid out in the familiar left/right fashion we inherited from the French Revolution, legislators on the far left are quite as prepared to compromise with legislators on the left or even the center left as legislators a tad to the left of the middle are to compromise with legislators somewhat to their right. But because these latter are compromising with legislators of the other party, they are held up as saints of political virtue, even though the actual range of their compromise may be narrow than that of their far left colleagues.
BIBLE VERSE FOR THE DAY
Michael Llenos brings up the matter of Ham and slavery. Not Ham as in Ham and Eggs but Ham as in Noah’s three sons, Shem, Japheth, and Ham. The curse laid upon Ham by Noah was a standard justification for slavery in the Old South. Here is the relevant passage from Genesis, Chapter 9:
“19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. 20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”
Africans were traditionally said to be descended from Ham, and hence destined by God for servitude.
In the Fall of 1993, shortly after I joined the UMass Afro-American Studies Department, I offered an undergraduate course on The Political Economy of Race and Class. I was the only White member of the department [not the first, but my predecessor was long retired by the time I showed up] and the students did not know what to make of me. One young Black man from Springfield, who went on to have a distinguished career as a student, sat in on the first lecture to check me out for his four siblings and cousins, all of whom were students at UMass. I passed muster, and the rest of the gang enrolled.
Some while into the semester I got to Franz Fanon’s Black Faces, White Masks, and for some reason [I forget now why], I mentioned the story about Ham, who was, I said, “of course not Black.” One of the cousins raised her hand and said, “But he was Black.” ‘Now look,” I said, “if his brothers were all White, how could he be Black?” “I don’t care,” she said, “he was.” “What makes you so sure?” I asked. “My grandma told me.”
I was the new boy in the department, and White besides, but I was not stupid, and I knew that you did not call out a person’s grandmother, so I just dropped the matter and moved on.
YOUR DAILY BIBLE READING
As you all know, I am a faithful reader of the Bible, for all that I am an atheist, and it irks me when those who claim to be Christians get it all wrong. This morning, the bloviators on Morning Joe were opining that it would be hard for Trump to find someone to take Deputy Attorney General’s position and then to fire Bob Mueller. “Yes,” said Joe Scarborough in his usual know-it-all manner, “he would bear the Mark of Cain,” meaning that he would be in everyone’s crosshairs and would never find another job in Washington.
Well, that may be, but it would not be The Mark of Cain. Quite the contrary. Here is the relevant passage, from Genesis, Chapter 4:
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
In short, the Mark of Cain is a safe passage ticket from God, a warning to others to lay off. I do not understand why the pious and faithful cannot get this right. I mean, it is not buried somewhere in Leviticus or Second Samuel. It is right up front, four chapters into the first Book of the Bible. Even if you do not stick with the Good Book long enough to get to the Flood, you ought to see it.
Young people these days have no respect.
I have been turning over in my mind a post drawing on a book I published just fifty years ago, concerning the reasons why even radicals should support Blue Dog Democrats in the November election, but the events of the past twenty-four hours have consumed my attention. I am now clued in on the complex process required when the FBI seeks a search warrant for a lawyer’s office [something I had somehow neglected to inform myself of in the preceding eighty-four years]. I keep checking the TV to find out whether Trump has done anything precipitous and dangerous. Obviously I am merely a bystander in this affair, but my sense is that we are rapidly approaching some sort of crisis. At this point, our best defense appears to be the patriotism and commitment to the rule of law of people I have been inveighing against my entire adult life. The irony is not lost on me.
THE ARC OF LIFE
Working through my accumulated papers, sorting, filing, reading essays I wrote so long ago I had forgotten them, I have been struck by the contrast between the natural arc of the life cycle, from youth through maturity to old age, and the timeless present of the Internet, in which there is neither memory nor wisdom, but merely novelty. As I re-read essays forty years old, I am reminded of where I sat as I wrote them, how old my sons were then, whether I was in Northampton or Belmont, or Pelham. The essays are for me not fevered responses to the news of the moment but strata in the riverbed of my mind, laid down and then preserved by the passage of time.
I am accustomed to ask, when I read a great philosophical text, Is this an early or a middle Platonic Dialogue; are these the words of the young or the mature Marx; was this written by Kant before or after he encountered Hume’s critique of causal inference? When I pick up my viola to play my part of a Haydn quartet, my first thought is always, is this one of the opus 33’s or is this a late quartet? I love them all, but there is a difference, especially of course in how demanding the viola part will be. But none of this, it seems, pertains to the Internet, which paradoxically preserves everything forever in the cloud but cares only for the most recent post.
My experience these past few days calls to mind a lovely passage from the writings of Michael Oakeshott, in my view the finest English conservative thinker since Burke. In the title essay of Oakeshott’s collection Rationalism in Politics, he says of the Rationalist, “With an almost poetic fancy, he strives to live each day as if it were his first, and he believes that to form a habit is to fail.”
These thoughts are prompted by the fact that I am eighty-four, not forty-eight or twenty-four, and quite irrespective of the world’s judgment, I feel a need to shape, preserve, and reflect upon the unfolding of my mind these past sixty-five years and more.
When I was in my early sixties, I spent a good deal of time transcribing, organizing, and thus preserving the letters written in the first decades of the twentieth century by my grandfather and grandmother. There I found the evidences of my grandparents’ devotion to the cause of socialism and to one another, a devotion captured exquisitely in a line from one of my grandmother’s letters: “I would have loved you even if you were no socialist,” she wrote to my grandfather.
Perhaps in half a century, when my two grandchildren are as old as I was then, they will find in my carefully assembled and organized papers some words to inspire them as I have been by the words of my grandparents.
I now live in the 6th Congressional District of North Carolina, currently served by the reliably execrable Republican Mark Walker. The 6th CD is a plus-7 R district, rather less heavily Republican than the district just win barely by Conor Lamb. At a Candidates' Forum hosted by the Carolina Meadows Democratic Club the other night, I saw Ryan Watts, a pleasant enough twenty-seven year old UNC graduate who is seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Walker.
I have decided to throw my efforts behind Watts. If we could snatch the NC 6th away from the Republicans it would be a great victory.
You do what you can.
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MORE FROM THE PILE
In the Fall of 1951, as a first semester sophomore, I took Henry Aiken’s course on Hume’s Treatise at Harvard. The next year, as a first semester senior, I took Clarence Irving Lewis’ course on Epistemology. For my final paper in Lewis’ course, I wrote a slashing attack on Hume, very sharp and, or so I thought, clever. Lewis, then in his final year of a long and enormously distinguished career, wrote a comment on the paper that has stayed with me over the intervening sixty-six years as the defining statement of how one ought to approach the study of the field I had chosen for myself. For a long time, I simply kept the term paper on the last page of which the comment was written, but as the pages darkened and began to crumble, I carefully cut off the comment and placed it gently in an envelope. As I continue the sorting of my papers, I came across the envelope this morning. Here is Lewis’ gentle rebuke, preserved from two thirds of a century ago. In my defense, all I can say is that I was at the time eighteen.
“The points made are individually acute. In this paper, it would be out of place to ask that they should “add up” to something in conclusion. However, I should hope that the general character of the paper – which is in no way a shortcoming in this case – is not a symptom of that type of mind, in philosophy, which can find the objection to everything but advance the solution of nothing.”
Today, when I am fifteen years older than he was then, I can only hope that my life has to some degree been a fulfilment of Lewis’ hope for me.
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FRAGMENTS FROM THE PILE
I am now awash in offprints, folders, clipped together sets of pages, and all the other detritus of a life of the mind. Among this mass of paper, I have just stumbled on three hand-written fragments, ranging in length from two to eight pages in length, in which, purely for my own edification, I sought to think through questions raised by my work on Marx.
While I await from Amazon the next box of file folders, I think I am going to undertake to transcribe them into my computer. As I do, I shall post them on this blog. They may provoke some interesting responses. Here is the first, a two-page fragment. It is a first and only draft, originally hand-written, some indication of the way my mind works. It is undated, but I would guess is about thirty-five years old.
On Democratic Decision-making in a Socialist State
It is worth considering whether democratic decision-making is feasible in a capitalist state only because the matters of major social importance – viz, capital allocation, organization of production, etc. – are not objects of political decision at all. The pattern of investment never becomes an object of anyone’s decision in a decentralized, private property economy, and even such large-scale decisions as are made – such as G.M.’s decision to retool, say – are not political decisions. A major industrial union may be engaged in contract negotiations with a major industry during a political campaign, but there is no way that the outcome of those negotiations can become an object of political decision in the campaign, despite the fact that their outcome will probably have a wider-reaching and more profound on the lives of the voters than will the outcome of the issues being debated in the campaign.
In effect, the long run economic decision-making which sets the stage for public political choices takes place behind the backs of the public – not secretly, heaven knows, but exempted from inclusion in the political sphere. This fact is, of course, structural, not accidental. Since the corporation is privately owned, and the union is private association, the decisions of the first and contracts between the two cannot directly become the object of political decision.
I say “cannot.” But one thinks of the wealth of government laws and regulations shaping investment decisions, the bargaining process, even – as with wage and price controls – the outcome of the bargaining process. Quite so. But these exceptions demonstrate the truth of my claim, in two ways: first, it is clear, I think, that although the capitalist state can seek to shape investment decisions (by its tax laws, principally_, it cannot make investment decisions – the result is a series [ed. I wrote serious!] of distortions and inefficiencies which frustrate the aims of the state; second, the pluralist character of the private sector defeats the state’s efforts to achieve coherent economy-wide planning.
In effect, I am suggesting that democratic decision-making (as distinguished from the operation and preservation of political liberties) flourishes only because what is decided is not structurally fundamental. Consider: it is feasible to make the size or existence of social welfare programs a matter of political decision, for [i.e., because ed.] the dislocations caused by their expansion or constriction, institution and termination, are structurally insignificant, for all the personal dislocation thereby produced. But it would be utterly impossible to make the social relationships of production objects of periodic democratic choice. No industrial society could oscillate between collective and private ownership of the means of production.
How, then, could social decision-making in a socialist society embody what we ordinarily think of as democratic principles and procedures? First of all, it is clear that freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of the press, private and diversified ownership of at least some means of communication (publishing houses, newspapers, magazines, radio stations [ed. This was written thirty years ago] would be perfectly possible. Only the fears and self-interest of government bureaucrats stand in the way of those freedoms. How can those freedoms be preserved? A major and difficult question, but not in principle impossible to answer.
Secondly, the content, the direction, the broad purposes of the economic plan _can_ be the object of democratic political decision, with one party, say, favoring a lower rate of growth with a higher leisure and consumption trade-off, another party favoring the postponement of present consumption, etc. (this assumes a mature industrialized economy). In large, heterogeneous societies there will certainly be regional interests, and even in a socialist society there will be quasi-class conflicts over the structure of job compensation, etc. But what will not be an object of political decision, in a socialist any more than in a capitalist democracy, is the basic structure itself. Private versus collective ownership of the means of production will not be a political issue.
This, Marx is correct in his claim that the transition from capitalism to socialism must be revolutionary, for all that the transition may be bloodless. The transition is revolutionary just in the sense that it is a transformation of the underlying socio-economic structure within which the political process takes place. We may choose to buy off the private owners of capital, but they money they receive will no longer be capital. It will be spendable or savable, but not investable. Thus, it will not be, as it were, a claim in perpetuity on the resources and output of the society. It is not difficult to see that such wealth, however great initially, will have a rapidly diminishing impact on the new society.
Might a socialist society, by a counter-revolution, transform itself back into a capitalist society? In theory that is possible. But consider why it is so unlikely in practice. In a socialist society, the means of production are collectively owned and labour-power is not a produced commodity. [See Schweickart on this. Ed. David Schweickart, an extremely interesting socialist author.] It is logically possible for a mass movement to seek to re-institute private ownership of the means of production, and thereby to re-impose on themselves wage-labour. But why would they? And whom would they choose as the new private owners? There would, in a socialist society, be no way for private individuals to accumulate self-expanding capital, and thus to repeat, as it were, the history of the 16-19th centuries.
But though a counter-transformation to capitalism seems in practice impossible, there is clearly the possibility for revolutionary transformations, bringing into existence social forms beyond socialism. What they would be, one need not attempt to guess.
I may have mentioned that one of the perks of Carolina Meadows is Saturday night screenings of old and not so old movies, complete with free popcorn. A week and a half ago, Susie and I took in Stranger Than Fiction, a 2001 fantasy/comedy featuring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson, a pretty classy cast. It is a charming little film that raises some really profound philosophical questions [quite possibly unintentionally, although that may be underestimating the author of the screenplay, Zach Helm.] While I await the opening of the stock market to see how big the drop will be, I thought I would talk for a bit about it. It would make a great topic in a Philosophy seminar.
Will Farrell plays a lonely, anal obsessive IRS auditor who one day starts hearing a voice in his head – not voices, but a single voice, that of a woman. She is not talking to him but rather about him, in the manner of the narrator of a novel. Eventually Farrell finds his way to Dustin Hoffman, a professor of literature, who after asking a series of questions [to determine whether Farrell is a character in a comedy or a tragedy, for example], determines that he is a character in a novel being written by a quite successful but writer’s block stuck novelist, Emma Thompson, who has not published anything in ten years. [Thompson’s publisher has sent along a professional writer’s block baby sitter, Queen Latifeh, who assures Thompson that every one of her clients has met the publisher’s deadline.] Thompson, who writes rather dark novels, is stuck trying to figure out how to kill off her main character, Farrell, in an artistically interesting manner. Farrell seeks out Thompson, and gets a copy of the unfinished novel, which he takes to Hoffman. Hoffman declares it a masterpiece that can only be successfully completed with the death of the main character. He advises Farrell to submit quietly to his own death for the sake of art, pointing out that we all die anyway sooner or later.
There it is. The movie ends with an entirely gratuitous and completely incompatible happy ending that unites an alive Farrell with Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose sole function is to provide an irrelevant feel good love interest.
Where to start? I could build an entire Introduction to Philosophy out of this movie, with sections on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, the Philosophy of Language, Social Philosophy, and of course Aesthetics.
Let me begin with the Philosophy of Religion. As I have several times written [including in my essay “Narrative Time,”] the core of Christian theology is the claim that the universe is, as it were, a story told by God, with a beginning [The Creation], chapters [Eden, the Fall, the Old Testament, the Incarnation and Resurrection, the New Testament], and a conclusion [the Second Coming and the Last Trump.] True believers believe that they are characters in this story, and that on occasion, if they are blessed, the Author and Narrator speaks to them, either directly, through a personal revelation, or indirectly through His chosen church. Our divine calling is to play well the role that God has written for us, even if that role calls for our death. So the movie could be viewed as a meditation on the Christian concept of a Calling.
Or Aesthetics: many novelists say that characters come to them and demand that their stories be told. What can we say of characters who say that a novelist comes to them and demands that they submit to the narrative strictures of the plot? Could characters form a united front against the author and demand a different ending for the novel? What if Natasha does not, after all, want to marry Pierre? Or if Elizabeth Bennett, against all authorial pressure, falls in love with Mr. Collins? What if Mitya, Ivan, and Alyosha decide to go into business with old man Karamazov?
Metaphysics: What is the ontological status of a character in a novel? Or of an entire fictional world? Can Phileas Fogg meet Sherlock Holmes? How? Why not? What is the relative time location of the worlds of Gandalf, Ethan Frome, and Obi Wan Kenobe? Should a degree from Hogwarts carry any weight in a Harvard application?
Well, the market is open, so I shall stop. Not bad for an evening with popcorn.
HOW I SPEND MY DAY
I am now spending hours going through mountains of file folders, papers, and offprints in an effort to subdue my life to some sort of order. I am simply astonished to discover episodes in my professional life that I had completely forgotten. For example, it appears that in 2004, I undertook, using my USSAS mailing list, to raise money for an NAACP voter registration campaign. Really? Who knew?
Along the way, I came across one delicious item that I need to share with you, if only to illustrate just how wonderful my colleagues were in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Here are the title and sub-title of a paper delivered at a 1990 panel discussion in Atlanta, Georgia. The author is my colleague Michael Thelwell.
“Cap’n Dey Done Stole De Canon, Best We Bring Up Our Howitzer”
Or, not necessarily more precisely, but in the fashion of the day:
“The problematique of de-situating the re-marginalization of Afro-centric tropistic significations, intertextually, against the ambience of a phallo- and Euro-centric, post-Derridian canonical discourse, mediated by a post-Freudian, pre-coital detumescence and seminal exhaustion, other-ality, and the influential anxieties of race and gender.”
A MIRACULOUS AFFIRMATION [AND QUITE GENTLE CHSTISEMENT]
I had a comment on a recent post that was so wonderful I had to pause and acknowledge it. Here is the comment in full, originally appended to my post entitled “Whew”:
I am a non-white woman from India and I have been reading your blog for more than two years. As a mother pursuing PhD in her early 40s, I could perhaps be the least noteworthy of all your readers. I decided to post a comment because in your previous post you mentioned that your blogs have very low female/non-white readership. Let me point out, I have finished watching your Youtube lecture series on Kant, ideological critique and Marx. Currently, I am on the third part of the Freud series. I can’t thank you enough for taking the effort and putting those videos out in the public domain. As a person, without any training or knowledge of philosophy and with very limited resources at hand, your lecture series, blogs and even the discussions on comments section have helped me immensely. In fact, I have recommended your lecture series to some of my friends and fellow students. So, I hope you will soon see a spurt in your non-white readership.
Also, I can’t help but mention one point. Maybe it is cultural. I know capitalism is not the most rational form of production. But sometimes, in a caste-ridden society like India, where some people (due to their birth status) are condemned to do certain jobs like picking up garbage and cleaning sewage (with no escape at all for generations), money can help transcend barriers. In that case, a man making millions from trash (as you mentioned in your Marx series) is something to be celebrated. For millions of people out there, it gives hope and a modicum of dignity – the dignity of labour, which is hard to come by. Just a thought.”
I am thrilled beyond description by this, and I thank the anonymous writer most warmly. No writer could ever hope for a better audience! Google counts do not really matter, not when Rosanne Barr gets twenty million viewers for her latest TV show. What matters is that miraculously, I have somehow reached out across half the world and found a reader.
I am of course completely aware of the existence of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of men, women, and children around the world whose only way of surviving is by picking over or collecting or sweeping up the garbage left by the more fortunate. For those of you who have not watched the video, I was trying to illustrate the fact that capitalists are motivated solely by a search for the largest available rate of return on invested capital, regardless of the social status of the investment. I mentioned Louis Wolfson, an American who made a fortune after WW II in the garbage collection industry. My failure to point out the existence of people who have no other choice was sheer thoughtlessness and insensitivity, for which the writer of the comment, in the gentlest possible fashion, quite properly chastised me.
I trust that my hardy band of the usual suspects will not be affronted that I have devoted such attention to this comment, coming from an unexpected source. I love you all!
Anonymous, if I may address you thus, dare I ask the subject of your dissertation? I am delighted to be able to acknowledge your presence in the circle of readers of this blog.
Well, the Avery 5160 labels arrived today from Amazon, together with a box of file folders, so, very excited, I undertook to print out the first thirty labels. They came out beautifully, but they were misaligned. The text of each label slopped over to the next label. When I test printed a sheet on regular paper, they came out exactly right. How could this happen? I was using Avery labels and an Avery template.
Many wasted sheets later, I realized the problem. The labels are of course ever so slightly raised above the sheet to which they are attached. My stupid printer "thinks" the sheet of labels begins at the raised labels, because its roller cannot sense the underlying sheet. After deep thought and careful calculation, I concluded that if I cut off 2.5 centimeters from the top of the label sheet, it would print correctly, except that I would lose the last row of three.
I was right! I am deeply and absurdly proud of having solved this problem. It is, I am embarrassed to say, far and away the most complex real world problem that has been presented to me in sixty years of high level philosophical enterprise. Would anyone like to know how to reload a stapler?
A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS [OR MAYBE JUST A MURDER OF CROWS]
The responses to my little pot pourri yesterday were delightful. Professor Pigden, thank you for the bio. I had already googled and read the official department write-up, but the family and personal data were fascinating. Your family includes a wrestler and a croupier!
Jerry, Google gives me all manner of statistics about where my readers are, but they are not much help. For example, it claims, not surprisingly, that most of my readers are in America, but after that it lists the Netherlands as second, which seems wildly implausible. Chile is down the list [thank you, S. Wallerstein], but Russia is nestled in between the UK and Germany. All very odd. At one point, Croatia was popping up.
My sense is that we could put together a rich, exciting, and varied college faculty from the regular readership. I seem to be very low in female readership, alas, and I suspect, with no evidence, that non-White readership is also low, also upsetting. But all I can do is put myself out there and hope readers show up.
I usually draw between 1000 and 1500 page views a day, but that tells me very little, because some people [not all that many] check in several times a day, and some, I suspect, drop in periodically. When Brian Leiter links to my blog, page views quadruple for a day and a half. To the youngsters among you, all of this seems quite natural, but to an octogenarian like myself, it is passing strange.
Equally odd is the response to my posted video lectures. The page views for the Kant series are eight to ten times as large as those for the Ideological Critique, Freud, or Marx lectures. Perhaps George Lucas would like to make a movie called The Return of the Noumena, or The Antinomy Strikes Back.
Meanwhile, the advent of Easter [that phrase is, I fear, a liturgical mishmash] has, as usual, depressed me. Several recent stories in the press have emphasized the enormous mountain that gerrymandering has created for Democrats to climb, and I have started to worry that even a blue wave will simply crash against it and recede without having remade the political landscape, leaving me with nothing save the Mueller probe to pin my hopes on.
But the sun is shining, there was a full moon this morning during my walk, and my natural Tigger is reasserting itself.
TIGGER SNIFFS THE SPRING BREEZES AND REGAINS HIS S...
A MIRACULOUS AFFIRMATION [AND QUITE GENTLE CHSTISE...
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BOKO HARAM: ORITSEJAFOR ADDRESSES US CONGRESS
BOKO HARAM: ORITSEJAFOR ADDRESSES US…
Statement of Ayodele Joseph ORITSEJAFOR,
President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
Oversight Hearing Before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights on “U.S. Policy Toward Nigeria: West Africa’s Troubled Titan
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor
Chairman Smith and Members of the Subcommittee, I want to thank you for the opportunity today to address this committee and for your interest in the situation in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and especially the increase in terrorist attacks targeting Christians and Christian institutions. Just this last weekend, 58 people were killed in Christian villages in Jos, including a federal senator and a state lawmaker. Boko Haram already claimed responsibility for these coordinated attacks against the Christian community in Jos, and they also reaffirmed their earlier position saying that “for Christians in Nigeria to know peace they must accept Islam as the only true religion.” Boko Haram is not only a northern problem, but a Nigerian problem with global implications. Nigeria is not a country divided by North and South, but a country divided between those who support freedom and equality in the eyes of the law, and those who promote persecution and violence as a means to an end.
To an outside observer it may appear as though Boko Haram is not a monolithic group; that it is fragmented and disorganized, but I am here today to give you the Nigerian perspective. Since its creation, the Boko Haram network has never hidden its agenda or intentions. Boko Haram has
openly stated that they reject the Nigerian State and its Constitution and seek to impose Shari’ah Law. To this end, Boko Haram has waged a systematic campaign of terror and violence. They seek an end to western influence and a removal of the Christian presence in Nigeria.This is outright terrorism, not legitimate political activity or the airing of grievances.
By refusing to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization, the United States is sending a very clear message, not just to the Federal Government of Nigeria, but to the world – that the murder of innocent Christians, and Muslims who reject Islamism, and I make a clear distinction here between Islam and Islamism, are acceptable losses. It is hypocritical for the United States and the international community to say that they believe in freedom and equality, when their actions do not support those who are being persecuted.
A non-designation for the group only serves to hamper the cause of justice, and has emboldened Boko Haram to continue to strike out at those who are denied equal protection under the law. The frequency, lethality and sophistication of Boko Haram’s attacks raise disturbing questions regarding training and logistical support they have received from other like minded international terrorist networks. In January 2012 the United Nations Security Council published a report stating that Boko Haram members from Nigeria received training in AQIM camps located in Mali and Chad during the summer of 2011. That same summer Boko Haram carried out a bold terrorist attack against the United Nations building in Abuja. Boko Haram did not hesitate in claiming responsibility for the attack, nor has it ever hesitated in claiming responsibility for its ongoing attacks against police, military, local businesses, and increasingly churches and Christian institutions.
In Nigeria, my people are dying every single day, and it is only a matter of time before the international terrorist links and anti-democratic Islamist agenda of Boko Haram turns its attention to the United States. In fact, this may already be a reality, in April of 2012 the NYPD learned that a U.S. resident living on the East Coast had sent surveillance, including maps and photographs of lower Manhattan and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels to an alleged member of Boko Haram based in Nigeria.
State Department designated Boko Haram’s current leader; Abubaker Shekau and 2 others as “specially designated terrorists”, but fell short of designating the organization. This would be the equivalent of designating Bin Laden as a terrorist, but failing to designate Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization.
Although I am aware that the designation of Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization is not the final solution to all of Nigeria’s problems, yet it is an important first step towards restoring the confidence of those who support freedom and equality in the eyes of the law.
We too, want to have freedom, freedom of religion, freedom to worship as we choose without fear, we want to have justice, based in equality and not driven by discriminatory religious practices. Let me remind us that this is not about economics but about an ideology that has a history of sponsoring genocide across the globe.
As Boko Haram increasingly turns towards genocide through the systematic targeting of Christians and Christian institutions in pursuit of its goals, history will not forget the actions or the inactions of your great nation. I thank you for this opportunity and I look forward to the continuing our strong partnership with America.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Culled from: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/HHRG-112-FA16-WState-OritsejaforA-20120710.pdf
Category: Uncategorized July 11, 2012
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States propose student press protections
Six states have passed student free expression legislation to restore free speech protections in the wake of restrictions set by the Supreme Court in the 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, and six more have introduced similar bills this session.Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, and Massachusetts currently have student free expression laws.First Amendment advocates across the country are hoping to add Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oregon to that list, with new legislation in the works in each of these states. Legislation has been proposed, but not yet introduced, in Maine.ARIZONA — A student free press bill introduced this session was voted down 6-1 by the Senate Education and Judicial Committee.The committee said they wanted to leave the issue in the hands of local school boards instead of enacting a statewide law.The Arizona legislation has been tossed around since 1992, when it was first introduced by Sen. Stan Furman (D-Phoenix) and died in the house after passing the Senate.The bill remained inactive in 1994, and was revised and reintroduced in the House in January by Rep. Eddie Joe Lopez, (D-Phoenix).The proposed bill would place responsibility for determining news opinion, and advertising content in the hands of student editors, and says “No authorized student publication is subject to prior review by school administrators.”There are no exceptions to this protection, but the bill makes clear that this is not to be interpreted as an authorization for expression that under state law is obscene, libelous, slanderous, defamatory, is an unwarranted invasion of privacy, or creates a clear and present danger of substantial disruption.It also offers protections from being fired or transferred for advisers who refuse to suppress the free expression rights of students, and protects school districts and district employees from being held liable for expression made by students.Lopez has said he will be willing to work with students and journalism groups to reintroduce the bill next session, and to muster more support for it.ILLINOIS — H.B. 154, the student free expression bill in Illinois, passed out of the House by a vote of 109-4 in April.The bill now goes on to the Senate Secondary Education Committee. If passed, the bill would grant student journalists in Illinois freedom of the press protections without being subject to prior restraint (with exceptions for libelous expression, expression which is obscene or harmful to minors, or constitutes unwarranted invasion of privacy, or incites “imminent lawless action”) regardless of whether or not the paper is school-sponsored or supported financially by the school. The bill would also shift supervising and advising responsibility away from school principals.MAINE — Legislation for student expression modeled after bills in other states was proposed in Maine this spring by attorney Jed Davis of Augusta. Because the deadline for presenting bills was in December, no bill was introduced before the legislature this session.MICHIGAN — Rep. Kirk Profit (D-Ypsalanti) is hoping to reintroduce the Michigan student free expression bill, and is currently waiting for a hearing on it. The legislation was originally introduced in 1991, and was picked up last year by Profit. The bill never made it out of the House Education Committee last year. Profit has placed it on his list of requests for 1997, but may not know one way or the other about it before the summer recess, according to his aide, Lynn Turcotte. Profit is looking for co-sponsors to boost support for the bill, but it is not expected to go anywhere in the near future.MISSOURI — The Missouri freedom of expression bill has been introduced three times over the last several years by Rep. Joan Bray (D-University City). It has been reintroduced this session and has been heard in committee.Bray is currently waiting to see if the legislation will be voted on this session. On January 16, supporters of the legislation held state-wide rallies in schools, county courthouses and at the state capitol building.The rallies coincided with the 9th anniversary of the Hazelwood decision, and participants wore black armbands “in sad remembrance of the from the Tinker philosophy to that of Hazelwood.”In the rally statement distributed throughout the state, supporters of the Bray bill said, “We are here today to mourn the loss of the freedoms that were outlined in the 1969 Tinker Supreme Court decision by wearing the symbol of that fight for freedom of speech so many years ago. But this armband is also a symbol for the future fight we will continue to wage in Missouri until no student voice is silenced as a result of media fears and misunderstandings.”The bill says that “No student publication shall be subject to prior review by school administrators,” and specifically protects material with political or controversial subject matter.The bill also protects advisers, administrators, and school employees from termination of employment, transfer, or reprimand for “refusal to abridge or infringe upon the right to freedom of expression.”NEBRASKA — The Student Freedom of Expression Act in Nebraska has been introduced three times since 1994, and has been reintroduced this session as L.B. 539.”The Legislature finds that students attending public high schools in the state of Nebraska are students who are entitled to exercise their rights under the federal and state constitutions to express themselves freely in newspapers, yearbooks, and other school publications,” says the bill’s introduction.The legislation is modeled after similar bills which have already passed in other states.The bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Beutler, had a hearing before the Education Committee, but there will probably no action this session, according to Cynthia Odabassi, Beutler’s aide.It will carry over for next session, and its supporters are planning to use that time gap to get more support from student groups and to educate and urge school boards and legislators about its importance, Odabassi said.OREGON — Rep. George Eighmey (D-Portland) has introduced legislation similar to bills introduced in Oregon in 1989 and 1995.”A student publication, whether school-sponsored or non-school-sponsored, is not subject to prior review by school administrators,” the bill says.It offers similar protections and stipulations as bills in other states.”It’s been reintroduced, but I can tell you right now that it won’t go anywhere, because of the current makeup of Oregon’s House Education Committee,” said Eighmey’s press aide.Eighmey has received negative response about the bill from Oregon superintendents, and says a student petition and student lobbying with Oregon superintendents and school boards is probably the best approach for building support for the bill.
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Genre:FICTION
SubGenre:General
by Richard Diedrichs
Fifth Grade teacher, Dick Hammer, feels a profound connection with one of his students. Danilee Kindle is bright,willful, and needy. "A potent mix." The more time he spends with the abandoned girl, and the closer they get, the more scrutiny and disapproval Dick feels from his colleagues, his principal, and his wife.
Fifth Grade teacher, Dick Hammer, feels a profound connection with one of his students. Danilee Kindle is bright,willful, and needy. "A potent mix." The more time he spends with the abandoned girl, and the closer they get, the more scrutiny and disapproval Dick feels from his colleagues, his principal, and his wife. As a forty-seven-year-old, first-year teacher, Dick staggers at the need he finds behind the gates at Cherry Blossom Elementary. He commits himself to educating, nurturing, and protecting every child. When a sexual molester and a murderer enter the sphere of the classroom, Dick rushes his star pupil from danger. He heads toward the border, crossing a line from which he can never return.
Richard Diedrichs grew up in the L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. He edited and wrote for magazines in Seattle, worked as an editor at UC Berkeley, and taught Fourth and Fifth Grades, and Kindergarten, in public elementary schools around the east San Francisco Bay Area. He lives with his wife on the west coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Genre:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
SubGenre:Management
How The Other Sector Survives
Lessons in Non-Profit Management
by Michael H. Zisser
Mixing personal narrative, managerial theories, real-life case studies, classroom lectures, and philosophical musings, Michael Zisser's new How The Other Sector Survives provides a practical and engaging guide to successful management in the non-profit, social service sector. His invaluable expertise comes from nearly 30 years of experience leading the nation's first settlement house, based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, including maneuvering unique mergers and acquisitions with other non-profits. All proceeds will benefit University Settlement Society of New York - serving more than 25,000 individuals and families every year.
Michael H. Zisser, Ph.D., currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of University Settlement and its affiliate, The Door. He held the position of Executive Director of University Settlement from 1988 to 2012, when he then took on the role of CEO. He led the development of the pioneering relationship between The Door and University Settlement in 1999, and is a moving force in New York’s non-profit scene. His current civic affiliations include the President of the Board of Directors for the International Federation of Settlements; Board of Directors for the New York City Human Services Council; Commissioner’s Advisory Group for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services; Member of the New York City Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Runaway and Homeless Youth; and Public Member of the New York City Community Board 3, Land Use, Zoning and Housing Committee. He formerly served as Chairman and Professor in Pratt Institute’s Department of City and Regional Planning from 1980 to 1988. Michael received his Doctoral degree from University of Pennsylvania.
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A blog for students who compete
Bringing science to life with Unity
5:07PM, May 17, 2018
Liana Holmberg discusses how Unity can be used to reinforce STEM concepts at a symposia during Intel ISEF.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRIS AYERS/SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC.
Hands-on learning is one of the best ways to engage students in STEM. But what if these experiences are unable to be replicated in the classroom?
The answer sounds futuristic, but as technology evolves to become more intelligent, virtual reality- based learning systems are becoming more prevalent.
While virtual reality toolkits may seem out of reach for most classrooms, Unity Technologies, a San Francisco based company, is making it possible for anyone, including STEM educators, to create 2D and 3D simulations, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) games, apps and pedagogical tools more accessible.
Liana Holmberg, Product Marketing Manager at Unity, demonstrated how scientists are using Unity's content creation platforms at a symposia at Intel ISEF 2018 titled "Bring Science to Life: Creating Simulations, VR/AR and More with Unity."
The "Bring Science to Life: Creating Simulations, VR/AR and More with Unity" symposia was packed, as participants were eager to learn more about creating games and apps using the program. Photo Courtesy of Chris Ayers/Society for Science & the Public
She explained that although 34% of the top 1,000 free mobile games are made with Unity’s development platform, it also has applications for aspiring young scientists and engineers.
Unity can help bring experiences to the classroom that are out of reach for most kids.
Scientists are using this platform to do research and communicate their results. Some Intel ISEF finalists have used Unity as part of their projects. Unity is being used to simulate environments such as operating rooms or self-driving cars. It has also been used to create simulations to train scientists. Labster, a virtual tool created with Unity, simulates a lab environment and allows students to perform life science, biology and biotechnology experiments right in front of their computer screens. "Unity can help bring experiences to the classroom that are out of reach for most kids," Liana said. In one example, she talked about a marine biologist who created a simulation of an ocean dive using Unity. This allowed students who don't have access to the ocean to experience it virtually.
Liana Holmberg of Unity chats with Intel ISEF finalists. Photo Courtesy of Chris Ayers/Society for Science & the Public
Thanks to the Unity License Grant Program, schools can receive a free license to operate Unity, allowing both educators and students to use the software and create their own 3D, VR and AR experiences.
"I really think everybody in this room will be using virtual reality routinely in their professional lives," Liana said.
Liana also pointed out that Unity has in-person training, as well as free tutorials. Whether you're interesting in creating a game or simulating and solving problems in STEM, Unity makes it possible.
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Almost since the very beginning of the World War II, Poland went completely under control of German Army. About 3 millions of Jewish people were collected in this country in special ghettos and concentration camps, located all around the territory. The Warsaw Ghetto was established in 1940 and became the largest and the most crowded ghetto, which held from 380,000 (Wikipedia) up to 450,000 (Holocaust) Jewish prisoners. Thousands of people died there much before the uprising, mostly from hunger and different diseases.
In 1942 Hitler ordered to begin deportation of ghetto residents in order to liquidate such camps. Till September 1942 about 300,000 Jewish people were transported to another death camp in Treblinka, where the soldiers murdered all the prisoners. Therefore, only about 55,000 – 60,000 people left in the Warsaw Ghetto, and in January 1943 this amount decreased down to 37,000 of exhausted and hardly alive people. (Wikipedia) Nevertheless, it became obvious for the survivors that sooner or later they would be also taken to the other place to be murdered by the Nazis.
First of all, all the residents of the Warsaw ghetto fell into great despair and started living in expectations of death, but soon the idea of resistance appeared among the survivors. Members of Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), which was formed in the ghetto and leaded by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz, started agitation among young people for joining the armed forces for resistance. The first fight took place in January 1943, when German forces undertook one more attempt to direct some “human cargo” to Treblinka.
Jewish rebels, armed with firearms and other weapons, managed to expel the Germans from some areas of the camp and save own lives. This small victory inspired the prisoners a lot, because they could understand that the resistance had been effective. For some following weeks the troops of rebels had some training sessions and worked on creating the strategy of defense in case of future attempts of German Army to take over the ghetto. Later on, in April, Germans gathered more power and human resources in order to crash the resistance, to collect and deport all the rest of the Warsaw Ghetto residents to extermination camps.
Therefore, on the 19th of April, 1943, the long lasting defense of the Ghetto started. Several hundreds of Jewish prisoners, armed with some guns, pistols, riffles and grenades, set off towards German tanks and crowded troops. The great uprising has started. After the first battles, German troops were forced to withdraw. For some days the rebels could control the majority of the ghetto territories, though all the time shooting could be heard here and there. Finally, German army and police managed to round up the ghetto, and this allowed attacking the rebel troops from all the sides.
German General Stroop ordered his army to burn down the ghetto and destroy all the rebels without any delay. Since the end of April German forces started massive attacks on the ghetto: they were ruining all the buildings and capturing more and more prisoners. The troops of rebels continued courageous battles till the end, but the sides in this fight were obviously not equal. Almost all the young people and other members of ZOB, including Mordecai Anielewicz and his closest companions, were killed in the battles. Some people could somehow escape, but sooner or later they were caught by the Nazis and sent to execution.
On the 16th of May the uprising was totally repressed. “Jewish quarter” in Warsaw was completely ruined, all the streets and houses were captured by German forces and everybody alive was gathered and sent to the concentration camps for death. As a result of this fight, about 7,000 Jewish prisoners were killed, 6,000 were burnt alive or destroyed by gas attacks, and about 50,000 of the rest were taken to the Treblinka death camp and ended their lives there. Only about 300 of German soldiers died during the upraise (Wikipedia)
Therefore, the main goal of the uprising was not achieved and all the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto were killed and murdered by the Nazis. But, certainly, the uprising was an act of great heroism and courage. Knowing that the opponent was much better armed and much more crowded, Jewish prisoners still put every effort into this attempt of saving own lives and lives of their families. This dramatic event was a descriptive example of invincible will and belief, and it inspired many similar movements of rebellion and resistance of Jewish people, which took place later on in other ghettos and extermination camps.
• “Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ” AISH Ha Torah. Jewish Educational Center. 23 Dec. 2005 <http://www. aish. com/holocaust/overview/he05n27. htm>. • “The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. ” Socialism Today. Socialist Party Magazine Online. Issue # 75. June 2003. 23 Dec. 2005 <http://www. socialismtoday. org/75/warsaw43. html>. • “Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ” Wikipedia. The Free Encyclopedia Online. 17 Dec. 2005. 23 Dec. 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising>.
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Wife raped, but police torture husband
National | Written by : IANS| Updated: Sun, Jul 07, 2019, 02:14 PM
Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh), July 7 (IANS) In a shocking incident of police brutality, a man was allegedly given third-degree torture by the Uttar Pradesh police personnel after he approached them to file a complaint against kidnapping and rape of his wife.
The incident took place in the district of Mainpuri, which is the parliamentary constituency of Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
According to reports, the incident took place under Bichhwan police station when the victim and his wife were travelling towards Mainpuri on a two-wheeler.
Three miscreants, who were in a car, waylaid the couple, kidnapped the wife and took turns to gang rape her. The husband was beaten till he lost consciousness and the wife was later found a few kilometres from the spot.
When the woman's husband gained consciousness and dialled the police helpline number, the officials only reached the spot to accuse him of filing a false complaint.
They assaulted him and levelled wild allegations against the man.
The policemen also broke two of his fingers. They accused the victim of even "murdering his wife" and calling them to lodge a false complaint.
The wife later managed to reach the police station and narrated her ordeal.
Though police have filed a case of kidnapping and sexual assault on the woman's complaint, no action has been taken against the policemen who assaulted the man.
The senior police officials of the district are shying away from taking responsibility from acknowledging such a shocking incident from their district.
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Bury – St John
The nave and lower tower are C12; the top of the latter is C13, probably later than the south aisle of c1200. The spire is of c1603 and the chancel is mostly of 1855.
The location of Bury church by the Arun has earned it a picture in many guidebooks. From an early date it belonged to the abbey of Fécamp and it is mentioned in Domesday Book (5, 3).
The oldest parts today date from the C12, when the church consisted of a tower, an aisleless nave and a chancel. Though rebuilt, the short dimensions and offset to the south strongly suggest the last has a C12 origin. The rubble-built north nave wall is most obviously C12, with the jambs of the original north doorway under a C15 window and it is unusually far east. The lower part of the unbuttressed tower is late C12 and its pointed arch has a single chamfer and square responds with plain abaci. The long, narrow lancets are round-headed externally, but the rere-arches are pointed, like the plain west doorway, though in accordance with their date, they have no scoinsons.
About 1200, a south aisle was added and its three-bay arcade, despite restoration, is of fine workmanship. The round piers have high bases, water-holding bases and well carved stiff-leaf capitals, supporting arches of two orders, the inner ones chamfered and the outer ones moulded. The unusual responds have three foliage corbels, one for each part of the arch. Little remains of the original windows beyond a filleted roll-moulding on one jamb of the rere-arch of the later west lancet. The tower was built up to its present height shortly afterwards, with pairs of plain pointed bell-openings.
The broad C14 chancel arch has a characteristic hollow-chamfered head, dying into square responds without abaci. In 1849 there was a square-headed south window with two ogee-headed lights (Adelaide Tracy II p44), so there was further work in the chancel at this time, though apparently without altering its dimensions. Other C14 work included a north nave window with an elongated sexfoil in the head, as found at West Chiltington, and the trefoil-headed lancets at both ends of the aisle (the east one now opens into a vestry).
Of later mediaeval work, the nave window over the north doorway (see above) is C15 (partly renewed) like the rood-stair, of which the remains are south of the chancel arch. The sill of the north east nave window has been lowered, possibly also for reasons to do with the screen or roodloft. The masonry south porch looks C16 and the presence of a stoup by its outer arch shows that it is pre-Reformation. The lintel set in its roof has a depressed head and the doorway is of the same date; its similar head is set in a square hoodmould.
The nave roof is dated 1603, just after the survey of the previous year had noted that its precursor was ‘suncke from the steeple to the great danger of the Churche and chauncell’ (SRS 98 p31). It now has crownposts and chamfered tiebeams and is lower pitched than before, as the line of the previous one on the east side of the tower shows. The spire was built or replaced at this time and so was the plain mullioned window in the south aisle. Probably in the later C18, a west gallery was installed. This was lit by a plain window high in the north nave wall.
There was a restoration about 1855 (according to Kelly’s Directory of that year this was confined to the interior, though Peat and Halsted state (p61) the chancel was rebuilt) and another (when a south vestry was built) in 1877 (WSRO Ep I/40/5586). Nothing of the chancel looks old, including the roof. If rebuilt in 1855, it is odd that at a further restoration in 1893 by L W Ridge (WSRO Ep I/40/5692) the east window was replaced. He removed the gallery and planned to replace the north west window and to rebuild the west wall and roof of the south aisle, but there is no sign any of these was carried out. A third restoration said to have been in 1903 (Harrison p81) has left no trace and may result from confusion with that of 1893.
Chest: Early C17.
Font: C15 octagonal. On each side is a quatrefoil containing a rosette. There are more rosettes on the sloping underside of the bowl.
1. (North nave window, formerly) Arms of Richard Earl of Arundel (d1392). Probably contemporary.
2. (South chancel) F A Woodhouse, 1868 (www.stainedglassrecords.org retrieved on 4/2/2013). The drawing by this otherwise unrecorded designer is of quality, though it is old-fashioned for the date.
3. (South aisle window) C E Kempe, 1880. The composition, now worn, is carried across the two lights.
4. (East and centre north windows) J Hardman and Co, dated 1894 and 1889 respectively (Index).
Niche: (By pulpit) Narrow and round-headed with traces of painting. Possibly C12.
Piscina: (Chancel) Trefoil-headed. It looks C19, but probably replaces a C14 one.
Pulpit: Oblong in plan and dated 1628. It was clearly assembled at a later date from genuine panels of that period.
Reredos: 1910 (Peat and Halsted p61), elaborately carved with the Nativity and other scenes.
Screen: C15. Narrow cusped openings with small openings in the base to allow kneeling worshippers to see the altar.
Stoup: See above.
1. Anon: A History of the Church of St John the Evangelist Bury, 1979
Dated plan in 1. inside cover
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How to report a wildlife crime
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Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981
This legislation is the principal mechanism of wildlife protection in Great Britain. It is divided into four parts:
Part I relates to the protection of wildlife
Part II relates to the countryside and national parks (and the designation of protected areas)
Part III relates to public rights of way
Part IV relates to miscellaneous provisions of the Act
This legislation enabled the former Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) to publicly identify Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Great Britain and to negotiate with landowners and managers of these sites to prevent any management that might damage or destroy the 'interest' for which the site had been identified. Within England, English Nature took on the old NCC's role. It, in turn, was subsumed into a new agency, Natural England, in October 2006 as a result of the enactment of the Natural Environment & Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006.
Under Part I of the Act there are 27 sections and several lists of species, known as Schedules. Certain species of plant and animal identified in Schedules 5 and 8 of the Act are afforded special protection, making it an offence to pick, disturb, capture, injure or kill them or to damage, destroy or obstruct access to the their breeding place or place of shelter. Those most likely to be found in Sussex are dormouse, great crested newt, otter, water vole and all species of bat.
Marine species protected include all species of cetacean (whale, dolphin and porpoise) and all species of marine turtle. The harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin are the cetacean species most likely to be encountered off our shores, and leatherback turtles visit the Irish Sea in small numbers every summer.
It is also an offence to take, damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while that nest is being built or in use or take or destroy an egg of any wild bird (with exceptions to birds on Schedule 2). Special penalties are available for offences related to birds listed on Schedule 1, this includes species such as barn owl and kingfisher.
National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act 1949
This legislation enables a local authority (county, city, district and borough councils, plus parish and town councils) to declare areas of land on which they have legal tenure as Local Nature Reserves.
Environmental Protection Act 1990
This broke up the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) which had covered all of Great Britain. The role of advising Government on nature conservation in England was given to a new body, English Nature. English Nature was subsumed into a new agency, Natural England, in October 2006. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) was also created. It coordinates nature conservation matters at Great Britain, UK and international levels and also has overall responsibility for the UK's dependent territories.
Hedgerow Regulations 1997
These regulations require owners and managers of rural hedgerows to notify their local planning authority (city, borough or district council) if they intend to remove a hedgerow. If the hedgerow supports a diverse range of shrubs or rare or specially protected plants or animals then the council may refuse permission for removal or place conditions on the process. Hedgerows in areas covered by a Historic Landscape Characterisation are often protected on the basis of historic importance and cultural significance value.
Protection of Badgers Act 1992
This animal welfare legislation makes it an offence to capture, injure or kill a wild badger; be in possession of a live or dead badger; or damage, destroy or obstruct access to an active badger sett.
Conservation (Natural Habitats &c) Regulations 1994
These regulations translate the EU Habitats & Species Directive into the detail of English law. The Regulations came into force on 30 October 1994, and have been subsequently amended. Containing five Parts and four Schedules, the Regulations provide for the designation and protection of 'European sites', the protection of 'European protected species', and the adaptation of planning and other controls for the protection of European sites.
Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000
The protection of SSSIs, already established in the Wildlife and Countryside Act, is strengthened in this legislation. It gave greater power to English Nature (now subsumed into Natural England) to enter into management agreements, to refuse consent for damaging operations, and to take action where damage is being caused through neglect or inappropriate management. It also allowed for prosecution of third parties that damage or destroy a SSSI. This Act also improved the protection offered to native species listed in Annex II of the EU Habitats & Species Directive.
Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996
This legislation offers a degree of protection to individuals of all wild species of mammal. In essence, it's an animal welfare law rather than one that deals specifically with nature conservation. All mammals are protected from deliberate acts of cruelty by this act. So if, for example, someone kicks a hedgehog they commit an offence under this legislation. Obviously there are some exceptions, such as mercy killing; any lawful hunting, shooting or coursing; or any lawful pest control. Some mammals such as badgers, grey seals and wild deer have their own legislation.
Natural Environment & Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006
This legislation enabled the amalgamation of English Nature with the Countryside Agency and Defra's Rural Development Service to form a new agency called Natural England. Natural England came into existence in October 2006. The importance of biodiversity conservation was given a legal basis, requiring government departments to have regard for biodiversity in carrying out their functions, and to take positive steps to further the conservation of listed species and habitats. Local government was given a statutory duty to further the conservation and enhancement of SSSIs, both in carrying out operations and in exercising decision-making functions.
Find out more about conservation issues in Sussex
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al-Suweida Region
Shahba
شهبا
Shahba (شهبا) is one of the most unique and best preserved Roman cities in the whole of Syria. The modern city largely keeps to the original Roman plan, and there are substantial remains of the Roman baths, amphitheater, a temple and other monuments. Shahba (شهبا) is arguably the most impressive site in the region and shouldn’t be missed if traveling in the area. Getting There: Buses …
Qanawat
Qanawat (قنوات) is perhaps the most impressive site in the region of al-Suweida (السويداء). It was a major city in Roman times and remained important through the Byzantine period, when its most famous monument was constructed. Getting There: There are semi-frequent buses from al-Suweida (السويداء) to Qanawat (قنوات), a trip that takes about 15 minutes. They do not depart from al-Suweida (السويداء) bus station, …
al-Suweida
al-Suweida (السويداء) is the capital and largest city in the province of the same name, and therefore an administrative center and major transportation hub. If you’re visiting Salkhad (صلخد), Qanawat (قنوات), Sia (سيع), Atil (عتيل), Salim (سليم) or al-Qaraya (القريا), you’re likely to pass through here. al-Suweida (السويداء) is the only major city in Syria that is predominantly Druze. Although al-Suweida (السويداء) was a major settlement through …
Shaqqa
شقا
Shaqqa (شقا) is a seldom visited town to the northeast of Shahba (شهبا) which has numerous historic remains from the Roman and Byzantine periods. Many of these remains have been incorporated into modern residences, and a Roman temple today serves as a Druze prayer hall. Getting There: Microbuses travel between Shahba (شهبا) and Shaqqa (شقا) frequently throughout the day. These microbuses depart from the bus station in Shahba (شهبا) which …
Salkhad
صلخد
Salkhad (صلخد), a predominantly Druze town to the southeast of al-Suweida (السويداء), has had a long history dating to pre-Islamic times. The remains visible today date mostly from the 13th century. Most striking of these is the Ayyubid citadel built in 1214-1247, about the same period as the fortification of the amphitheater in Bosra (بصری). Both were to serve as southern defenses of Damascus (دمشق) against …
سليم
Salim (سليم) is a small Druze village located on the main road between al-Suweida (السويداء) and Shahba (شهبا). The settlement, originally Nabatean, was known as Selaema to the Romans. It contains the remains of a Roman temple which now houses a Druze tomb. Most of the temple has been destroyed, though the northeast corner of the structure remains standing precariously to its full height. The temple was richly …
Atil
عتيل
Atil (عتيل) is a small Druze village located just east of the main road between al-Suweida (السويداء) and Shahba (شهبا). The village is located about five kilometers north of al-Suweida (السويداء) and was once the Roman town of Athela. The ruins of a two apparently identical 2nd century Roman temples can be found here, hidden among the homes of the village. The southern temple is better …
سيع
Sia (سيع) was once the site of a significant Roman temple, though what remains leaves much to the imagination. Little remains intact aside from the foundations, though countless Roman carvings can be found scattered around the site. It is located approximately two kilometers southeast of Qanawat (قنوات). The proximity of Sia (سيع) to Qanawat (قنوات), an easy thirty minute walk, makes visiting worthwhile. Getting There: No public transportation runs to …
al-Mushanaf & Busan
المشنف و بوسان
Located about 25 kilometers southeast of Shahba (شهبا), on the western edge of the volcanic wilderness area, the Druze village of al-Mushanaf (المشنف) contains one of the numerous Roman temples found in the region. Although small, the temple is fairly well-preserved and is a good example of the style of the period. It was constructed on the edge of a small artificial lake and was originally …
Heit & Hayat
هيت و هيات
Heit (هيت) and Hayat (هيات) are two neighboring villages about one kilometer apart in the northern part of the al-Suweida region (ريف السويداء). Both villages have scattered remains from the Roman and Byzantine periods. Heit (هيت), associated with the ancient Eitha, has the remains of multiple houses and a tower. Hayat (هيات) has the remains of a large villa and several smaller houses. While the remains are not as substantial as nearby Shahba (شهبا) or Shaqqa …
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When did the President’s Home become the “White House”?
June 6, 2017 September 12, 2018 by Netisha, posted in Presidents
Today’s post is written by David Langbart, an Archivist in the Textual Records Division at the National Archives at College Park.
During the nineteenth century, the residence of the President of the United States was routinely referred to as the “Executive Mansion.” President Theodore Roosevelt changed that in 1901. On October 17 of that year, George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, sent the following note to Secretary of State John Hay. Presumably, a similar missive went to the heads of all other agencies. The note bears the black mourning border in the wake of President William McKinley’s death on September 14 after being shot by an assassin on September 8.
Secretary to the President George Cortelyou to Secretary of State John Hay, 11/17/1901
Since then, the building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been known as the White House.
The White House emblem in the White House Press Room. (credit: C. W. Fitzpatrick, US Department of Defense)
Source: George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President, to Secretary of State John Hay, October 17, 1901, Miscellaneous Letters (NAID 583574), RG 59: General Records of the Department of State. Available on National Archives Microfilm Publication M179.
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Ambition and Anxiety: It’s all part of the journey
Every journey has it's ups and downs.
Nathan Munroe
When I am talking to people and the subject shifts to their careers I often sense a bit of anxiety. Many of my peers are in years 1-5 of their careers and are often too completely focused on “the next milestone”. This milestone could be anything from graduation, finding a job, promotion, wage increase, starting their own business, selling their first business, or switching career paths entirely. However, it has become apparent that this anxiety about their progress against these mentally pre-defined milestones are too often causing them to be blind to the opportunities that are surrounding them in the present.
Going through the motions of daily life, waiting for the next grand milestone.
I spent 6 years in school, going straight from my bachelors to a masters degree while working part-time and full-time throughout. Many of my friends had left home and were working in areas of higher economic standing, making substantial amounts of money and traveling the world during these years. Others were carrying on with continued education much like myself, while others were getting married and starting families. I will be the first to admit that I was envious of those working in the big city and making money while I was a broke student, living on friends couches because I couldn’t afford my own place. My ambition was telling me I had to reach that next milestone, but in fact, unbeknownst to me I was actually making connections and growing a network that would lead me to my first career. The anxiety I had in those days potentially hindered my ability to take advantage of every opportunity in those moments.
Careers which are not progressing as rapidly as you might want can be frustrating, pay attention to what you are learning at the moment. Don’t ignore your day-to-day growth and all the small wins.
Your career pace is a story, whether fast or slow, and you can start editing it today.
For myself, and many others, the biggest cause of anxiety is the unknown. Of course when your career is first starting there are a million things you don’t have answers to… This is normal. A great quote from Eckhart Tolle comes to mind when I catch myself worrying about uncertainty instead of focusing on what I can do in the present.
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. ~Eckhart Tolle
I once told a really good friend of mine to try saying “yes” to everything that presented itself. Having no experience doing this myself, and no grounds to give such advice on, I was curious to see what the outcome would be. This exercise suddenly had my friend learning a new language and volunteering on a board for a local event – opportunities that otherwise may have been disregarded. Being aware of the fact that you must manage your time, and certainly can’t say “yes” to everything – this exercise showed me that by making yourself aware of the present you can put yourself in situations that could change your story.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha
Opportunities presented today could have the potential to drastically change your future.
What do you think will change when you reach that milestone? Do you think you will be able to do more, be more, change more and help others more? What if that milestone was achieved tomorrow, are you suddenly more qualified to do things you could not have started today? It is important when we are chasing our ambitions to not skip past opportunities to use our skills we currently have to help people or organizations today.
Volunteering is a great way to gain valuable experience, develop yourself as a leader and expose yourself to new environments. You can join an already established organization, or get creative and start something yourself. Is your community in need of a networking group for young professionals? Can you hold a workshop for something you’re interested in? Take a look around and I’m sure there are many opportunities for your skill set to fit in where you are now.
Mutar Kent toured the country in trucks selling Coca-Cola after completing his MBA – He is now the chairman and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company.
I’m sure as Mr. Kent was starting his career he was anxious about the unknown, questioning whether he made the right choices after school or contemplating other career opportunities. Pick up a biography of any person who you view as successful and skip to the section where they talk about the very first job they had or the start of their career. For 99% of people, you will notice that their lives hardly went as planned and they still ended up doing alright. Read that biography and highlight the normal hurdles they had to jump over to get to where they are, then remind yourself that those pieces of their story that helped shape their success.
The Swahili words “Hakuna Matata” popularized by Timon and Pumbaa, from Disney’s The Lion King, are literally translated to “there isn’t a problem/trouble”. Great words to think about when it comes to your career path. There is no problem or trouble with a slowly progressing career path, but the problem exists when you are not doing what is within reach. By changing your mindset to allow your ambition to dictate the present, as opposed to creating anxiety about the future, you will start to see some drastic changes take place.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau
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St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
April 7, 2019 January 15, 2019 / Society of St. John Bosco
St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (John Baptist de La Salle) (April 30, 1651 in Reims – April 7, 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen on Good Friday) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of international educational movement who spent over forty years of his life dedicated to education for the children of the poor. In the process, he standardized educational practices throughout France, wrote inspirational meditations on the ministry of teaching (along with catechisms, politeness texts, and other resources for teachers and students), and became the catalyst and resource for many other religious congregations dedicated to education that were founded in the 18th and 19th centuries.
When he was just 16 years-old, he was appointed as canon of the Reims cathedral. He was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 27. Two years later he received a doctorate in theology. He would later leave his position as canon priest at Reims and found a religious community devoted to teaching, distributing his fortune to the poor during a particularly harsh winter.
In 1680 La Salle became involved in an educational venture that led to the founding of a new order, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers, the De La Salle Brothers, or, most commonly, the Christian Brothers, often confused with a different order of the same name founded by Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice of Ireland.
De La Salle became involved in education step-by-step, without really meaning to do so. What began as a charitable effort to help a committed educator of the poor, Adrian Nyel, organize a group of marginally competent teachers in De La Salle”s hometown gradually became his life”s work, as, according to his own words, one decision led to another until he found himself doing something that he had never anticipated. De La Salle wrote: I had imagined that the care which I assumed of the schools and the masters would amount only to a marginal involvement committing me to no more than providing for the subsistence of the masters and assuring that they acquitted themselves of their tasks with piety and devotedness . . . Indeed
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Jimmy Webb live at Country Music Hall of Fame
What an amazing opportunity to listen to Jimmy Webb play the songs he wrote such as “ Galveston” and listen to tall but true tales of a landmark songwriter, one that cannot be duplicated.
Such was the case last Saturday at the Theater inside The Country Music Hall of Fame , packed with Jimmy Webb at the piano playing not only his hits but songs from his just released CD “Just Across The River”.
Jimmy grew up in West Texas, the son of a Baptist Preacher, near an Air Force base famous for the B36 Bomber. They would fly so close to his family home that “the utensils played “Chinese Fire Drill” and were “rearranged” and had to be put back in their place.” While he was still young he quietly prayed to God (so as his parents couldn’t hear his crazy plans) to be a great songwriter and work with somebody as great as Glen Campbell after he heard, um.. Jimmy Webb forgot and Fred Mullins, who happened to be sitting next to me, blurted out “Turn Around “.
Well, Jimmy said you don’t need Stephen Hawking to believe in God. The fact that he was working for Glen Campbell at age 17 was all the proof you need. Glen was able to interpret his songs in such a way that he probably could be considered the first Country crossover artist charting high in the pop charts. It was for the most part, unheard of at that time.
Waylon Jennings was a great friend; Jimmy shared how he was talking to Waylon the day after the Grammys when he won for his song “Highwayman”. He said Waylon would sit laid back on his couch and with his hat tilted forward covering half his face, appeared half asleep most of the time. Jimmy said “I had a good one with that song”. “What song?” I won a Grammy for “Highwayman””. “What for?” “Country”. Waylon then said “What Country?” Waylon was relentless on teasing him that day.
Jimmy said Waylon was one of the most interesting people he had ever met. Waylon had recorded “Macarthur Park” three times. Jimmy wondered why, but then again, if he had asked Waylon he probably would have not given him a straight answer.
Interestingly enough, Jimmy spends fifty percent of his time listening to classical music. To him, it is all the same, what makes a great Classical piece, like repeating a motif later on by another instrument or inverting the motif as you would hear in a good country song to get you to remember the melody are used the same way in great classical music.
He talked about a workshop he attended where Billy Joel dissected “Wichita Lineman” had him red with embarrassment as Billy would talk through a line while playing it and stop and say something like “Why does he need her more than want her?” Finally, at the end, Billy Joel said the song was about” an ordinary man thinking extraordinary thoughts”. Jimmy at that point felt he got it. He knew what he was after. Billy actually performs the song with Jimmy on his new CD, which also features Jerry Douglas on Dobro.
Jimmy was amazed at how different Lucinda Williams interpreted “Galveston”. He didn’t think it was possible, after all the different recordings, to have a new spin on the song. He complimented Lucinda on her ability to bring something new to the song.
He performed “Macarthur Park” I guess as a tribute to Waylon and their friendship.
He finished the hour, leaving the room with a standing ovation without performing “Wichita Lineman”. How could that be? Well, a few calls for “Wichita Lineman” and enough clapping and cheers and he sat back down at the piano and played the best rendition of “Wichita Lineman” I had ever heard. At the end the motif climbed up the piano and repeated in different keys until he hit softly over and over the highest key on the piano almost like Morse code. You could feel that distance as the Wichita Lineman was working his way down the line far away from home. I hate to say this but I was choked up. Music can get me emotional when everything puts me in that space. Jason, who was sitting next to me, visiting the Americana Music Conference from the U.K. said after he finished, “I don’t even know what to say”. I couldn’t say anything, I just nodded and looked away because I was a little misty and felt like I didn’t want to share that.
Jimmy Webb CD signing
It was impossible not to buy the CD and have him sign it in the music store at the Hall of Fame. They say people will buy CD’s to memorialize a show. I bought the CD because there was no way I could not after hearing his music on such a personal level. It felt like a house show with a few guests except there were a couple hundred more behind my second row seat. “Wichita Lineman” has and will continue to be one of my all time favorite songs.
– Brad Hardisty, Nashville, TN thenashvillebridge@hotmail.com
Categories Americana Music, Americana Music Festival, Billy Joel, Country Music, Country Music Hall of Fame, Glen Campbell, Lucinda Williams, Nashville Scene, Uncategorized, Waylon Jennings
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Trump’s latest insulting proposal
Converting SNAP into a Canned Goods Distribution Program is a Revolutionary Idea
Posted on February 14, 2018 by Dave LIndorff
What a truly horrific idea President Trump has come up with in calling for an end to the provision of food assistance money under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which he’d supposedly like to turn into a “surplus food” type operation where people are provided with canned goods and other packaged foods instead of cash.
First off, consider that we’re talking about 45 million people — about one-seventh of the entire population of the United States — who in any given month are receiving this assistance because they have been deemed at risk of being unable to buy enough food to survive on their own.
Just try and imagine the Trump administration, that was and still is unable to provide food to people starving in Puerto Rico in the wake of two back-to-back hurricanes that devastated that island half a year ago, and that’s just three million people. There are over eight million SNAP recipients just in California and Texas alone and they and the rest of the other 38 million recipients are spread across the country, in cities, suburbs and rural regions alike. Getting all these people cash cards that they can use in supermarkets and local shops to buy their own food is a cheap, fast and easy way to get these hard-up individuals and households the food they need, especially as the program is administered not by a federal workforce, but by state agencies close to where the needy people are. Distributing food to that many people, in contrast, would require a colossal effort, a huge bureaucracy, and would entail unimaginable costs.
Switching from offering struggling families SNAP cash cards to distributing canned goods will lead to rebellion by the poor as during the Depression era (USDA and archival photos)
Maybe Trump is thinking of hiring Amazon to do the job, in hopes of winning over the support of the owner of the Washington Post, currently one of his media antagonists.
As things now stand, SNAP costs about $70 billion a year. The cost of administering the program relatively low, with the bulk of the funds going to provide about $125 worth of food assistance per person per month in aid. Because the cards are electronic, when used at computerized stores using bar-code scanners, the system helps keeps spending limited to food items, and not liquor, toys or other unneeded items. That might seem like a lot of money, even it it is keeping 45 million people from starving, but there’s something else to consider: It’s a direct stimulus into the communities using the cash cards, since it is all spent in local stores where it then is turned into actual cash that circulates through struggling economies.
Switching over to actual delivery of food to recipients would reverse the equation, with most of the cost going to actual delivery of the goods, and to a vast bureaucracy to organize the purchase, shipment and delivery of those goods to where they’re needed. And switching to providing surplus food would also have the exact opposite and perverse effect of sucking that much money out of those economies since people getting surplus food wouldn’t be spending money for food in local stores. Brilliant move, right?
Worse yet, instead of letting people buy what they and their families are accustomed to preparing and eating, as SNAP does, a system involving providing foodstuffs to recipients is an open invitation to scammers who will predictably start providing defective goods, products that have passed their sell-by dates, and items that recipients will reject. Just imagine the number of Muslim and Jewish families that will find themselves receiving canned ham, Buddhist families that will receive meat, Hindu families that will get unwanted beef products and families with members who have allergies who will be stuck with foods that cannot be consumed. It’s madness!
Then again, switching from SNAP cash cards — a program that, because the cards include a photograph of the owner, reportedly has virtually eliminated fraud in the program — to providing actual food products offers huge corporations, whether Amazon or Walmart or whatever enterprising enterprise wants to jump in, an extraordinary opportunity to feed at the federal trough. Just wait for it.
As an investigative journalist, I should be salivating at the opportunity for scandals to expose, but I cannot, because this particular program is so critically important for people who are already having a hard enough time getting by.
Interestingly, a lot of those people — perhaps even the majority of them — are the very ones who backed Trump in the presidential election: workers whose employers had moved to Mexico or China, people who haven’t found work in years in their communities because of dying industries, as in Ohio, Michigan and North Carolina, and even Trump’s favorite for photo-ops, the laid-off coal miners of West Virginia, Kentucky and Montana.
There is a fantasy among conservatives, probably including most of the lily-white male Trump cabinet, that SNAP is a program for black people, latinos and “illegal” immigrants — you know, the kind of folks who live in “shithole” slums in America’s big cities. Well, forget immigrants. If they don’t have green cards, they are not likely to be going into social service offices seeking SNAP assistance — especially these days. Meanwhile, if you look at Agriculture Department statistics, it’s more rural states in the South, Midwest and West, and rust-belt states in the North where SNAP use is greatest. Take Alabama: it had 825,000 people getting SNAP assistance last November in a state with a population of 4.8 million. That’s 17% of the state population. Or take West Virginia, a mostly white, working-class state, where 334,000 people out of a population of 1.8 million received SNAP assistance last November, representing 19% of the population.
How are all these 45 million Americans going to react if their cash cards are taken away and instead of going to the local supermarket to get their food supplies, they have to start making weekly trips to some hard-to-reach distribution center to get heavy loads of canned beans, Spaghetti-Os, Spam and bug-infested rice? How will the elderly or infirm even do it?
I’d call this a hare-brained idea (maybe hair-brained?), but that’s giving it too much credit, because it implies that at least some kind of thought went into it. This is really just a racist bit of meat tossed off by Trump to that portion of his base that has decent jobs and thinks that welfare is going primarily to “lazy, shiftless, non-white, drug-addicted neer-do-wells.” When people start to realize it’s some of their own kith and kin who are going to be losing their SNAP cash cards and being forced instead to accept a pile of canned goods, the proverbial shit’s going to hit the fan.
It’s one thing to take Medicaid and subsidized ACA insurance away from people. When people are sick, they’re in no shape to protest. Many who lose access to medical care, sadly, will just die quietly in their homes. But taking food aid away from families, from kids and babies and old folks? As noted activist/sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven documented back in the 1960s, that’s the kind of thing that leads to rebellion and revolution. And we’re talking about 45 million people at any given time who depend on SNAP. Especially since it will bring angry, frustrated people together at the inevitable distribution points.
If the Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress go along with this wacky idea to become law, I predict that they will reap the resulting whirlwind.
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Terry Hulme – 1929 - March 2017
Terry Hulme, a pioneer of urban TBM metro tunnelling in Singapore, died peacefully on Wednesday 15 March 2017, while in hospital in Southbroom, near Port Shepstone, on the Lower South Coast of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. Aged 88, Hulme died after being admitted to hospital after suffering a minor stroke.
Terry Hulme 1929 - 2017
British born and educated, and starting his professional civil engineer career with Transport for London on construction projects for the London Underground, Hulme moved to Singapore in the 1980s to promote and introduce the earliest sections of underground alignment for the city’s now extensive metro system. He was instrumental in the initial studies to lay the groundwork for the implementation and development effort of the a network that now continues to expand and is designed and aligned only underground, building on a hard-earned legacy of underground metro construction.
Hulme mentored scores of young civil engineers in the disciplines of urban soft ground TBM, open face, cross passage tunnelling and open box station excavation for metro development.
Hulme made Singapore his home as well as his professional base and was a founding member and past President of the Singapore Tunnelling and Underground Construction Society (TUCSS). Current TUCCS President, Kulaindran Ariaratnam, said: "Terry would still walk the tunnels with us when he was in his 70s. We had a hard time keeping up with him. He was a very active man. We actually sent him an invitation to the 20th anniversary celebration of the TUCCS in August, but sadly, he is gone."
Hulme with Ow Chun Nam (centre left and right respectively) and other LTA MRT engineers at the face of the North East Line tunnel heading
On retiring, Hulme moved to South Africa and made Southbroom his home.
Former LTA (Land Transport Authority) Deputy Chief Executive T S Low, said Hulme was "much respected and much loved by many in Singapore".
LTA Chief Tunnel Engineer Ow Chun Nam, who was among those mentored by Hulme, said: "He was my guru. I was recruited by him way back in 1983." Many whom Hulme mentored in the early MRT years paid tribute to him on the tribute page of the TUCSS website.
Rajan Krishnan, Chief Executive of KTC Construction Group, wrote: "Terry Hulme was the key person who introduced the engineers who joined the then Mass Rapid Transit Corp in the early and mid-1980s to the world of tunnelling and underground construction. He never failed to continue to provide advice and engineering support over the many years since."
TUCSS established the Hulme Prize in 1999 to honour Terry for his outstanding contribution to TUCSS and tunnelling in Singapore. The annual competition rewards the best of technical papers submitted by young engineers or students below the age of 35 and on any subject related to tunnelling and underground construction.
Hulme with former Transport Minister Raymond Lim (right) at the inaugural Transport Excellence Awards in 2008
Tammie Loke, a recently retired LTA veteran, described Hulme as "a dear friend and a true gentleman". She said, "when I joined the MRT Corporation back in 1983, as a young officer who knew nothing about rail work, I was privileged to work alongside this exceptional man whom many came to call a friend."
Hulme is survived by his wife, who said she was still coming to terms with her husband's death. The couple had two children. Their daughter lives in Australia. Their son died four years ago.
Hulme was also a friend and supporter of TunnelTalk. TunnelTalk Editor Shani Wallis first met Hulme in the early 1980s when he was in London recruiting new engineers for the Singapore metro and kept in contact through the years since then, always arranging to meet up when in Singapore. TunnelTalk echoes a tribute posted on the TUCSS website that Hulme was much respected and that his outstanding career in Singapore will be remembered by all who knew this English gentleman who went to the East a long time ago.
The following are among tributes to Hulme on the TUCSS website
TS Low, TUCSS Hon. Member
“Terry was very much at home in Singapore. He inspired many with his indefatigable energy over the years and his commitment and dedication to his work. Those who came after him and those who worked with him together on the Singapore Metro project carried on the good work that he instituted and the tunnel engineers and civil works professionals benefited much from his legacy.”
Rajan Krishnan, TUCSS Hon. Member and Past President
"For all the engineers who joined the then Mass Rapid Transit Corporation in the early and mid -1980s, myself included, Terry Hulme was the key person who introduced us to the world of tunnelling and underground construction. To all of us, Terry was a true and dedicated guide and friend. The tremendous growth Singapore has seen in its transport infrastructure over the years is a testimony to the planning and development work Terry contributed over the years. He will always be remembered as a gentleman engineer, whose quiet, kind, and yet firm way has nurtured so many engineers and projects. The best tribute we can offer for all the contribution he has made is to continue the path of excellence he set and to always guide and lend a helping hand to all the younger engineers."
Tony Burchell, TUCSS Past President
"I have known Terry since 1984 when I first went to Singapore. Terry was the Project Manager of the Metro and I soon felt tremendous admiration for him. In his quiet way, he commanded incredible respect. A brilliant but self-effacing engineer. Completely honest, always insisting on doing the right thing even if it brought the wrath of the powers that be. He always made time to discuss and advise on issues. A really iconic figure in civil engineering. He will be missed but his legacy lives after him in all the projects he has delivered and personally for me in all the words of wisdom and the example he set as an engineer that have influenced my own life so very much. A truly great man."
TC Chew, President of Global Business & Operations, Samsung C&T Corporation
"I met Terry in the early 1980s. We came through the same professional roots of having worked and served Transport for London in our earlier careers. He had been my truth mentor and friend over the last 30 years. I was a young apprentice when he was leading the early Singapore MRT construction programme. In later years, when I hd the opportunity to lead the extension of the Singapore MRT construction programme, Terry became my greatest advisor and strongest support. His untiring coaching and sharing have enabled me to succeed. He is always there to push me along when I was in doubt. What a terrific spirited and wonderful man. Rest in peace, my dear friend and teacher. You will never be forgotten"
Nick Shirlaw, TUCSS Ex-Committee Member; Senior Consultants, Golder Associates (HK)
"Terry Hulme was hugely influential in the design and construction of the Singapore MRT system. Often described as the ‘father of Singapore tunnelling’, his knowledge and influence were felt in many aspects of the development of the railway, not just underground construction. He brought a clear, simple and practical approach to all that he was involved in. In addition to Singapore, I also worked with him when was a consultant during the design of several lines of the Taipei MRT and then on the review of the design and construction of a line in Shanghai. His advice was greatly valued. He was always courteous and kind, although often visibly in pain from various physical problems. He encouraged the documentation and publication of technical papers summarising the experience gained during design and construction. TUCSS and the work it does in documenting underground construction in Singapore and providing opportunities for professional development are part of his legacy."
Tammei Loke, Pioneer PR Manager in MRTC
“For those of us who knew Terry, it is not just his distinguished career that we remember, but the kind soul, the clever sense of humour, the unflappable temperament, and most of all, his deep humility that we shall miss the most. Our MRT network bears the work of Terry's hand. As the foremost tunnelling expert of the day, he taught so many young engineers the art of tunnelling. These men, under Terry's tutelage, have become experts in their own right and in turn, lead the work that continues today. I am grateful he entered our lives and made us better for it."
Mr Guy Taylor, Samsung C & T Corporation
"With great sadness, I wish to pass on my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Terry. My years with Terry at LTA in Singapore have left lasting memories and fondness and appreciation for the mentoring and friendship Terry offered me. The world has lost a truly great engineer and very genuine and thoroughly decent person. It will be a lesser place without him."
Paul Dixon, Melbourne Metro Rail Authority
"Terry Hulme, with whom I worked in Singapore on the MTRC from 1985 to 1991, was such a gentlemen as well as a great leader and colleague."
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Touched by tragedy, making a difference
by Michael Sharp || AHL On The Beat Archive
Binghamton Senators forward Cody Bass was walking off the ice one November morning, when he caught the attention of a team official just outside the home dressing room at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.
“Hey, can you wait there one second?” Bass asked the team’s director of media relations, Kate Krenzer.
Just days before, Daron Richardson – the 14-year-old daughter of Ottawa Senators assistant coach Luke Richardson – had died from injuries sustained in a suicide attempt. Bass had known her well, having lived with the family for several months during his rookie season.
Now, as he reappeared from the dressing room, he was anxious to do something in her honor.
“He said, ‘Kate, if you had known Daron, I mean, she was a beautiful girl,’” Krenzer recalled recently. “And you could see as he was saying that to me, he was getting a little emotional. His eyes were getting a little teary.”
In the days and weeks since, with the help of a team and the support of a community, Bass has indeed found ways to honor Daron, while also working to sharpen the spotlight on teen suicide.
A fundraising event earlier this month generated more than $4,600. There are plans for an outdoor skate with the public in February. And Bass has been developing a special fund called WINGS.
It stands for When I Need Guidance and Support.
“My first year, when I got called up to Ottawa, I needed a place to live, and Luke Richardson was nice and kind enough to let me come live with him and his family for the last couple months of the season,” said Bass, now 23 and in his fourth professional season.
“I come from a family where I have four sisters, and Luke has two daughters, Daron and Morgan. And I just kind of gained a little relationship with those girls and his family. And with the incident that happened a few weeks ago – Daron, with her and her passing – a lot of people took it really hard. If you knew Luke, (his wife) Steph, and the girls … you’d understand how great of a family they were, and how hard Luke, and Steph, and Morgan would have taken that.
“I think (another) thing is, people don’t really realize how hard it is to be a teenager these days … and we just want to raise awareness, so people really understand what some teenagers are going through.”
Those efforts started with the fundraiser over back-to-back home games in mid-December. Bass helped organize a silent auction, and the team’s wives and girlfriends sold candy canes, complete with player-signed gift tags.
At $2 a candy cane, the women raised more than $1,200 for the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health. “We sold all the ones that didn’t break, and even some broken ones as well,” said Melissa Brodeur, wife of Senators goalie Mike Brodeur, whose voice later cracked with emotion as she talked about the scene, the circumstances, the give-and-take with fans who shared their own stories of children lost too soon.
“I was just extremely touched,” she said. “It’s really nice that, us being in Binghamton, we can be able to support our home team and our parent club as well. It’s just really nice to see everybody get involved, and for everybody to be so passionate about it. … It was just awesome, to be honest with you, to see everybody work together as a team.”
And that spirit shined through in the silent auction as well.
Red Barn Computers in Binghamton donated a mini computer. There was a team-signed Ottawa Senators jersey and a yearlong membership to CNY Mixed Martial Arts. Likewise, a gift basket from Starbucks and an autographed Bass jersey. The city’s Double-A baseball team contributed, as did Johnson City firefighter Mike McCann and so many others.
“How the community has embraced Cody and embraced his cause has been amazing to all of us involved,” Krenzer said. “As the wives were selling their candy canes, they were explaining what the money was going towards, and there were so many people that just gave them outright donations and said, ‘Don’t worry about the candy canes. Just, here, take my money,’ essentially.
“And when folks found out that Cody was doing the auction … there were individuals in the community that stepped up and said, ‘Hey, I have this jersey,’ or ‘Hey, I have this contact.’”
When all was said and done, Bass and the B-Sens had raised an additional $3,400-plus, which was split between the Royal Ottawa Foundation and the Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier.
“It’s amazing, especially around this time of year, around Christmastime,” said Bass, who also credited the help of the logo-design and printing company Hackerthreads, as well as team officials like Krenzer and Christa Reese, plus Jennifer O’Brien, founder and coordinator of the Magic Paintbrush Project in nearby Johnson City.
“It’s a hard time, right?” he added. “It’s a hard time financially and mentally. And for people to really step up and donate stuff like that, (for) businesses around Binghamton to step up and really show their support was amazing. And I can’t thank people enough for really helping out, and understanding where I was coming from, and understanding where I’m trying to go with this as well.”
Looking ahead, the hope is to continue raising funds and awareness with an outdoor skate for children, fans and players sometime in February.
“Who doesn’t love to skate on an outdoor rink with kids?” Bass said.
Or, as Melissa Brodeur put it: “I’m so excited about that one. … Hopefully the weather can participate and stay cold enough that we can keep a lake frozen or a pond frozen.”
After Daron’s death in November, Bass and his B-Sens teammate Jason Bailey made the four-hour drive north to Ottawa to attend a celebration of her life – two of the approximately 5,600 people to turn out for the event at Scotiabank Place.
“It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever had to sit through in my entire life,” said Bass, who remembered Daron – like her sister Morgan – as hard-working in school and heavily involved in sports, another caring member of a “great, great, great” family that has given so much back to the Ottawa community.
Now, as he works in her honor, Bass was asked if there was anything he hoped teenagers would take as they learned about WINGS, or his silent auction efforts, or the outdoor skate.
“The message I’m trying to get across to teens is just that you’re never alone,” he said. “And if you ever feel alone, there’s always somebody there to listen and there’s always help out there, you’ve just got to find it.”
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The Last Ice Merchant
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The music in The Last Ice Merchant was composed for the movie by the fantastic Ecuadorian band, Andes Manta. Comprised of four Ecuadorian brothers – Fernando, Luis, Bolivar and Jorge Lopez – Andes Manta specializes in the traditional instruments and songs of the Andean mountains of South America.
The brothers were born into the cultural tradition of Andean music, making music their entire lives. They play over 35 traditional instruments, from the quena (Andean flute) and the 6-foot-long panpipes, to the bandolin and charango. Much of their music celebrates the cycles of life and mimics the sounds of nature.
The music of Andes Manta carries on an authentic tradition that is thousands of years old and that survived over 500 years of European occupation of South America. It is a cultural folk tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation and can truly be called the voice of the people.
Find out more about Andes Manta on their website.
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Political thunder from Turkey rumbles all the way to New Orleans
Opinion By Orissa Arend with Gültekin Göllü | October 21, 2016
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Gültekin and Merve Göllü, with daughter Zeynep flew Merve's parents to safety in New Orleans after the Turkish coup attempt.
Gültekin and Merve Göllü, with daughter Zeynep, flew Merve’s parents, right, to safety in New Orleans after the Turkish coup attempt in July.
Even with a presidential candidate ignorantly spewing anti-Muslim diatribes and vowing to ban migrants — even tourists — native to parts of the Near East, grim recent developments in Turkey can seem at a far remove from New Orleans.
They aren’t.
Like other members of New Orleans’ small Turkish community, a close friend of mine named Gültekin Göllü, a research fellow in economics at Tulane, has been paying anxious attention to his homeland following the failed military coup last July.
For Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the coup provided the pretext for a vicious crackdown on his enemies, real and perceived, a chance to consolidate his power. Tens of thousands of Turks, in both civilian and military ranks, have lost their jobs or been jailed, press freedoms have been sharply curtailed and the president is seeking extradition of a former supporter of Erdogan’s early pro-democracy policies now in the U.S, Muhammad Fethullah Gulen.
Gulen, 77, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, inspired anti-extremist Muslims worldwide to initiate an inclusive movement called Hizmet. It benefits schools, charities, media outlets, healthcare facilities, relief services, and businesses in Turkey and in more than 160 other countries. Gültekin, like many Turks in the New Orleans area, is a supporter of Hizmet.
And so it was that within days of the aborted coup, Gültekin’s wife, Merve, was on a Skype call from New Orleans to her 60-year-old parents in Turkey, all but screaming at them to get out. In the past year, Merve’s father’s small shop had been attacked because of his association with Hizmet. Merve’s mother mentioned attending a women’s social gathering, a charity event to assist students. One woman who stepped up to help was stopped by another. “We won’t give these Gulenists even water,” she snapped.
Even close friends had cut off communication — and here was Merve’s mother saying all she could think to do was plan to carry on with her life as usual, tomorrow and the day after that.
Gültekin recaps his wife’s response: “What! Forget about plans for tomorrow, Mom! There is no tomorrow for you in Turkey! You are packing up now! We are buying the plane tickets and you are coming here tomorrow!”
Which they did.
As Gültekin puts it, their arrival in New Orleans has meant “leaving behind not only furious Turkish President Erdogan and his ruthless witch hunt against them, but also their belongings, including their house, car, and a refrigerator full of food.” Two days after they left, Erdogan filed a legal case against these elderly, law-abiding, citizens for the crime of being on the board of an educational institution.
Merve’s parents arrived in New Orleans dazed by the trauma and speed of homeland events, but relieved to be with family, including their 3-year-old granddaughter Zeynep. What happens from here — and for Gültekin’s parents, who must also ponder their options — remains uncertain.
I had no clue all this was in the offing when I got off a plane in Istanbul in 2012 as part of a tour. It had been arranged by the Atlas Foundation, which promotes intercultural travel and dialogue in the belief that it’s the road to shared understanding and the abatement of intolerance and religious extremism.
Inspired by Gulen, the exiled imam, the Atlas Foundation of Louisiana was established in 2002 by Turkish-American volunteers and businessmen, with the help of Cathie Eustis, a Roman Catholic. Like Gulen — who is pro-democracy and convinced that government should be secular, not theocratic — Hizmet volunteers try to remain alert to the needs of the community in which they live, and pitch in to help whenever they see a way.
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Author Arend and husband Richard Saxer included a stop at Ephesus as part of their 2012 Atlas tour of Turkey.
From the airport, we were whisked off by our knowledgeable and ever-cheerful guide, Emrah Aktepe. He took us to a comfortable residential hotel. We shared common rooms and kitchens with young girls from Africa attending a Hizmet summer school downstairs.
There our adventure began. We visited Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque and all the major attractions, including the small house/chapel where the Virgin Mary is said to have spent her last days. We were welcomed into the offices of Zaman, Turkey’s biggest daily — since then seized and shut down by Erdogan.
We had dinner with a Turkish family in Kayseri on a balcony overlooking the city at sunset. The grandfather showed us his meticulously tended garden of tomatoes, peppers, and herbs. Ilknur, an 11-year-old, had made a sign for the entrance: “Welcome to the Turkey.” I got to sit next to her at dinner, and she practiced her English with skill and charm.
What a difference four years make! Like the newspaper, the universities we visited have been shut down. Hizmet volunteers, their families and their friends are exiled or in jail. What has become of Ilknur and her family? Atlas has had to call off their tours, which could not have been more hospitable, safe and culturally enriching. Turkey is in the grip of violence not seen for decades.
After the military’s failed attempt to regain control of the government, Erdogan blamed Gulen, though there is no evidence that the aged imam even knew about the impending coup. When we were in Turkey in 2012, Gulen and Erdogan were public allies. But now Erdogan is calling Hizmet a terrorist organization as he seeks Gulen’s extradition and punishment.
Sezgen Tanrikulu, an opposition parliamentarian, accuses Erdogan of going beyond Gulen and Hizmet to “fabricate thought crime and collectively punish people” as a way of wiping out any or all suspected enemies.
Gültekin, meanwhile, remains keenly attentive to the tragedy unfolding in Turkey. In a recent article, appealing for international intervention to prevent Turkey’s accelerating slide toward dictatorship, he reported that since the coup, 32,000 people have been detained. The number has since risen to 72,000. Tens of thousands of teachers, soldiers, police officers, judges, university deans, and prosecutors have lost their jobs.
Erdogan’s tentacles extend all the way to New Orleans and to friends of Gültekin — most of them Hizmet volunteers.
And how appalling that they should now be exposed to the atrocious anti-Muslim diatribes of a U.S. presidential candidate not all that different from Erdogan in his threats and his bigotry.
The one we’ll refer to as “F” was an exchange scholar at UNO. A government employee finishing up his doctorate, he had a job offer from a public university in Istanbul. No more. Blacklisted by Erdogan, he lost his government post and his place in the doctoral program. Today he and his wife, a journalist, would be forbidden to leave Turkey and possibly jailed. So here they are in New Orleans – these two highly educated and competent people – trying to start over.
“H,” an exchange scholar at LSU, was a year away from retirement. Sacrificing job and benefits, he decided to stay here when he learned he was on Erdogan’s blacklist. But his wife and son in Turkey begged him to come home. After an agonizing three weeks, he joined them, only to be arrested. Gültekin doesn’t know where he is now.
S” left Turkey just days before Erdogan banned academics from leaving. He had worked for a university established by Hizmet volunteers. He hastily sold his house and car and went to Bosnia, forfeiting his senior associate professorship and his social security. But Bosnia has uncomfortably close ties with the Turkish government, so he wants to move to New Orleans.
I shudder to think that these educated, able and socially conscious people have been yanked so painfully from their roots and the fruits of their careers.
And how appalling that they should now be exposed to the atrocious anti-Muslim diatribes of a U.S. presidential candidate not all that different from Erdogan in his threats and his bigotry. Bear in mind that these people, so urgently and deservedly in need of asylum, are precisely the refugees from Muslim lands that a President Trump has threatened to ban.
We New Orleanians who are members of Atlas will do everything we can to embrace and help our Turkish Muslim friends. We are indeed blessed, inspired, and humbled by their presence. If I could extend just a fraction of the hospitality I felt from Hizmet volunteers in Turkey, I would thank the Holy Spirit – revered, by the way, in both Christian and Islamist traditions.
Our bonds of friendship with Turkish Muslims have grown in the four years since the trip. We’ve celebrated holidays together, worshiped together, visited in each others’ homes, studied and cooked, watched movies and read books together, played with each others’ kids. We’ve gone to the beach and played tennis. I’ve read some of Gulen’s books and developed a deeper appreciation of my Christianity by studying the Koran.
Chaos in far-away countries used to seem remote to me. Not any more.
Orissa Arend is a psychotherapist, mediator, and writer in New Orleans. Gültekin Göllü is an economics research fellow at Tulane University.
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In 2014, the PLO issued a memo to journalists “advising” them not to use the term “Temple Mount” when referring to the area within Jerusalem’s Old City which houses Judaism’s holiest site and the third holiest site in Islam. Instead, they instructed reporters to refer to the site as the “Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound”, and even bizarrely suggested that using the term “Temple Mount” is a violation of international law.
Though many journalists reporting from the area now note both names (Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound), Financial Times’ Jerusalem correspondent did the PLO one better. In a 2000 word article about Jerusalem’s Old City (Jerusalem: City of Ruins, Oct. 1), he not only referred to the compound as Haram al-Sharif (the Arabic term), but didn’t once note that the Temple Mount (Har Habayit in Hebrew) is located in the holy city.
The Temple Mount is the site where both Jewish Temples stood, and represents nothing less than the epicenter of the Jewish faith.
As CAMERA noted in a backgrounder last year, “Jewish reverence for the Temple Mount long predates the building of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque in the 7th century CE, and even predates the construction of the first Jewish Temple in 954 BCE”.
In addition to the omission in the text, graphics and photos used by FT editors also erase the existence of Judaism’s holiest site.
Note that the caption in this photo fails to mention the Temple Mount.
Now, take a look at this FT graphic map of the area which similarly omits the Temple Mount.
The only passage which even alludes to Jewish history in Jerusalem is in a paragraph which notes that “archaeologists digging in and around the Old City…often find..signs of an ancient Jewish presence…including ruins from the Temple period.”
However, even that passage is “balanced” by citing Palestinian claims that such Israeli archeology is used as a “political tool”.
Of course, denying the Jewish connection to Jerusalem is par for the course for the Palestinians. However, professional journalists who omit such an important component of the Jews’ connection to the holy city are not only commiting a serious distortion of history, but are arguably engaging in a breach of the accuracy clause of the Editors’ Code.
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It is also important to stress that this is also erasing ** Christian** history and sacred territory, since Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth **repeatedly*** came to the Temple on the required pilgrimages, with his parents, and supposedly had discussions with rabbis there as a boy, as well as supposedly chasing out the money changers as an adult (something that he is most unlikely to have been able to do in reality, since there is no way he would have been left to get on with wrecking the money changers’ stalls by the security guards of those days and the crowds of Jewish worshippers who used the money changers to exchange Roman coins with images of their Emperor for shekels suitable for making donations to the Temple). And Jesus referred to the Temple as “my Father’s house” and quoted the Torah quotation of the Almighty referring to the Temple that would be built as “my house”– so it was sacred to him too. This is never mentioned by UK and other western sources, and they need to be regularly reminded of it.
[39] When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. [40] And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
[41] Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. [42] When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. [43] After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. [44] Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. [45] When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. [46] After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. [47] Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. [48] When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
[49] “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. 13And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”
Charlie in NY says:
The “Temple in Jerusalem” is specially referenced in Qur’an 17:7, so either the Palestinians are lying or they believe the Qur’an is not perfect. While for non-Muslims, these options are not mutually exclusive, for Muslims faithful there can only be one answer to avoid cognitive dissonance: the Palestinians are lying for the “cause” thereby excusing their heresy.
The man’s a second rate hack. He arrived in Jerusalem with his pre-conceived ideas and nothing on this earth is going to change them – Israeleveilcolonialnusurpers vs authenticindigenousexoticoppressedbrownpeople.
gerald53 says:
Astonishing!
Perhaps the FT could explain to me that when I walk along the Via Sacra in Rome, the carving on the triumphal arch to Titus shows the Roman Legions carrying back loot and booty (including a Menorah) from where?
Proceeds from the sale of some of the loot and booty were used to build the Colosseum, perhaps the FT can explain how it is possible that both monuments were built long before Islam existed. So, obviously the Temple that was looted, and indeed razed, existed before Islam by many centuries.
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32 Proceedings Summer 2015 www.uscg.mil/proceedings Today's Port of Portland is also involved in aviation, indus- trial, and marine operations; within the latter, river chan- nel maintenance remains a top priority. In fact, the Port of Portland owns and operates the dredge Oregon, which is devoted to Columbia River channel maintenance, under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Close coor- dination among maritime stakeholders, including river and bar pilots, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and lower Columbia River port personnel, ensures ships can transit through the river channel safely, without delay. Challenges The challenges to channel maintenance are many and can depend on varying river fows, tidal infuence, and complex dam release fow rates. Portland's tide range is usually on the order of two feet; this increases to about eight feet near the river's mouth. Minimum water levels (low tide) at the Portland/Vancouver terminals are typically about six feet above Columbia River Datum (see sidebar), during high fow months (December to May/June), and two feet above datum from July to November. River current is typically one to two knots on the food (com- ing from the sea to the shore ) and three to four knots on the ebb (coming from shore and returning to the sea), but can on occasion reach six knots on the ebb in the lower river. In this active environment, accurate river level forecasting tools and navigation systems are crucial. Solutions To this end, the LOADMAX system and the Physical Oceano- graphic Real-Time System (PORTS ® ), form a public informa- tion acquisition and dissemination technology partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- istration (NOAA) and the Port of Portland. LOADMAX consists of seven computer-connected PORTS gauges along the lower Columbia channel, from river mile 17 at Astoria, Oregon, to river mile 106.5 at Vancouver, Washington. These Columbia River ports in Portland, St. Helens, and Astoria, Oregon; along with Vancouver, Kalama, Longview, and Woodland, in Washington state, comprise important eco- nomic gateways for shipping cargo into and out of the U.S. West Coast. About 60 million tons of oceangoing cargo move up and down the Columbia River in approximately 4,000 ship transits each year. 1 The Columbia River Helping shape 21 st century navigation. by Mr. fred Myer Senior Waterways Planner Port of Portland Stakeholders' Perspective Columbia River Datum Users developed the Columbia River Datum (CRD) to defne an accurate baseline in this dynamic river system. CRD, or "zero gauge," is a solution to the problem of a 103-mile channel running down an imperfect inclined plane. CRD provides a worst-case zero state. Simply stated, the Columbia River Datum is the lowest river level that can be expected in an average year. It was established in the 1920s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sent teams of surveyors into the feld to measure the low water profle at a low fow of approx- imately 80,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). Natural low fows rarely reach that level in the river and, with the advent of upstream storage reservoirs, it is even more of a rarity. Since the annual combined fow of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers is approximately 227,000 cfs, water levels in the river above Westport, Oregon, are likely to be above zero datum for most of the year. Fortunately, the river sees negative CRD numbers for only 10 to 30 hours a year. At all other times, there is some amount of water available above this estab- lished baseline. Tracking this water level accurately is critical fuel for the economic engine of Columbia River commerce.
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The Community Foundation of Utah is led by a diverse group of innovative problem-solvers committed to creating positive change in Utah.
Brad Dickson
Brad Dickson joined the Board of the Community Foundation of Utah in January 2017 and was elected Chairman in February 2018. He is an active angel and social impact investor with a mission to help de-risk technology-based start-ups and social entrepreneurship in the State of Utah. Brad is founding board chair of PandoLabs, Inc., a founding member of the Purpose Investment Network, a member of the board of Summit Community Power Works and a member of the executive committee of Park City Angels. Brad previously was a global C-Level executive with Dresser-Rand Company where he served as executive officer on their worldwide new equipment business and chief marketing officer.
Diana George
Diana brings over 20 years of banking, financing, and debt restructuring experience to Crewe Advisors. She specializes in complex financial planning for business owners, high net worth families, real estate investors, and trust beneficiaries in various areas of individual, fiduciary, non-profit, and wealth transfer strategies. Her focus also includes women in transition, philanthropic planning, and generational wealth transfer.
Diana holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Phoenix. She has earned an MBA from Colorado State University and an MS of Taxation from Weber State University. Diana serves as the Chair of the Advisory Council at Weber State University’s Goddard School of Business. She is a member at large of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee member at the Community Foundation of Utah and Chair of its Finance Committee.
Mikelle Barberi-Weil
After 10 years of sales management experience, raising her children and serving in many executive board positions, Mikelle Barberi Weil joined the Department of Professional Sales in May of 2014 as the Assistant Director of the Alan E. Hall Center for Sales Excellence. Mikelle was named Sales Center director in July 2015. Currently, she is serving her second year as President of the Board of Directors for the GOAL Foundation, a non-profit that was founded after the 2002 Winter Olympics. Mikelle, her husband Brent, and their three children enjoy all things outdoors, including trails, rivers, bikes, and skis. She has a BS in Professional Sales from Weber State University and is a current graduate student in Leadership at the University of Southern California.
Lindsey Kneuven
Lindsey Kneuven is the Head of Social Impact at Pluralsight, a fast-growing enterprise technology learning platform. In her role, Lindsey leads all global philanthropic initiatives, implementing strategies that align Pluralsight’s product, culture, community, people and brand to make a meaningful impact on the way the world learns.
Prior to Pluralsight, Lindsey served as chief impact officer at Cotopaxi. She also held senior positions at several notable nonprofit and private organizations, including Salesforce.com Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation—the largest community foundation—and Nuru International.
Lindsey is an active member of the philanthropy community and serves as a member and advisor on several boards. She has been acknowledged for her outstanding work on several occasions, receiving the Leigh Stillwell Award for Excellence, a 2017 Women Tech Award, recognition by Utah Business as one of 30 Women to Watch and Community Foundation of Utah as an Enlightened 50.
Jeramy Lund
Jeramy is interim CEO of the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah and Managing Director of University Venture Funds I&II. He is also Principal Partner for XIII, LLC; a diversified family holding and a partner at Valter's Osteria. Currently, Mr. Lund serves as Board Chair for Symbiot Business Group, Inc., is a member of the Kickstart Seed Fund (I&II) Investment Committees and on the Executive Committee of the Park City Angel Network. Prior to his current employment, Mr. Lund worked for JP Morgan (New York), DLJ International (London) and American Stores Company (Salt Lake City, UT).
Jeramy is also actively involved in the non-profit arena. He is Treasurer of the Lund Foundation, on the Board of PandoLabs and Envision Utah, and on the Advisory Committee for Utah Clean Energy. He previously served as Board Chairman for Recycle Utah, and for the Nature Conservancy, Gen C, University Of Utah Alumni Association and Wild Utah Project Boards.
Jeramy graduated from the University of Utah, Magna Cum Laude, with a BS in Accounting and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jeff Miller is the General Manager and part owner of both the Mark Miller Subaru Stores in Salt Lake City and JCO Financial. He has been with the Mark Miller Organization since 2003. He received his MBA from the University of Utah in 2010 and his Bachelors in Business from University of Southern California in 2002. He is a member of various prestigious corporate boards including: Subaru of America’s National Retailer Advisory Board, Subaru of America’s Regional Dealer Advisory Board, the Cox Automotive National Advisory Board, and the National Roadster Advisory Board. Jeff is also very involved with the community having previously served on the Boards of the Ronald McDonald House of the Intermountain Area and the Boys and Girls Club of Salt Lake City. He works tirelessly to ensure that the Mark Miller Subaru stores make a lasting impact in the community through charitable efforts and community outreach. In fact, Mark Miller Subaru, under Jeff’s leadership, has donated nearly $2,000,000.00 to local charity since 2010. In his free time, he likes volunteering, golfing, playing basketball and spending time with his wife Deanna, daughter Natalie, and his sons, Caden and Miles.
Adam Slovik
Adam Slovik is an active angel investor and board member. Previously, he was a founding team member at Oracle and co-founder of TenFold as well as several other successful software companies.
Marty Tate
Marty is an attorney with Carman, Lehnhof, Israelsen and counsels his clients on various forms of structured finance, securities matters, private and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, real estate financings, venture capital and angel financings, fund formation and compliance, business formation and corporate governance. Over the past five years, Marty has been active in advising clients in the crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending space. He was recently recognized as one of the top crowdfunding attorneys and continues to provide expertise and play a leading role locally and nationally in this evolving area of securities law.
Brent Thomson
Brent Thomson is the CEO of Blip Billboards, a company that provides pay-per-flip billboard advertising. Previously, he founded and was CEO of Jive Communications, a leader in hosted telephony. Brent is an active angel investor and occasional lecturer on the subject of entrepreneurship.
Jensen Warnock
Jensen is passionate about entrepreneurship and technology. Currently, Jensen is the Managing Director for the Lumen Group, which provides staged liquidity and diversification to founders and early investors. He served as the CEO of PcCare Support, a global on-demand service company that provides technical support for consumers and small businesses. Jensen also founded two different investment firms including UA2 Angel Network, which mentors, advises, and invests in great Utah technology startups.
Jensen graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Computer Science and received his M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Later That Same Day
Stories about what the passage of time can do to someone. When each story starts, the world's aligned one way. Years pass—or sometimes just months—and everything's different.
Host Ira Glass plays parts of a speech by George Ryan, former Governor of Illinois. When he was a state senator in 1977, Ryan was part of a successful coalition that voted to reinstate the death penalty in Illinois. Two decades later, he became governor and had to make the final decision in state capital cases—cases which he'd helped bring about 20 years earlier. He found that the death penalty looks a lot different when you're the one who bears final responsibility for whether someone lives or dies. (5 minutes)
The Hiker And The Cowman Should Be Friends
Scott Carrier
Scott Carrier tells the story of how the environmentalist that ranchers hated the most—whom they tried to run out of town and hanged in effigy—came to take the ranchers' side of things. Some funding for this story comes from Hearingvoices.com and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Scott Carrier is the author of the book Running After Antelope. (26 minutes)
“The Hiker and the Cowman” by Jon Langford and John Rauhaus, with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein
Scrapbook, The Verb
Kimberly Meyer
A Houston woman tries to document every day of her four-year-old daughter's life...in preparation for a day far away. Produced by Julie Checkoway and Kimberly Meyer of Story Rodeo. (13 minutes)
A story by John Hodgman about returning to the beach after a very bad year. John Hodgman is the host of the monthly reading series The Little Gray Book Lecture Series. (9 minutes)
61: Fiasco!
Act Three: Car Wars
Wisconsin Public Radio wanted to do something simple: start running Car Talk, the most popular single hour on public radio.
413: Georgia Rambler
Act Seven: Elbert County
Chuck Salter, son of Georgia Rambler Charles Salter, Sr., visits a man named Windell Cleveland, who was interviewed by his father 33 years ago.
521: Bad Baby
Act One: Baby NOT On Board
Ira plays tape from an interview that he did more than 20 years ago, with the author Doris Lessing, about her novel The Fifth Child, which tells the story of a woman who gives birth to a goblin-like baby.
The world redrawn by the five senses.
How a stolen library book got one man into his dream school and changed his life forever. Or at least that's the story he tells himself.
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Twenty years ago, the prime minister of Israel was assassinated. The killer was a lone gunman, Israeli and Jewish, just like the prime minister. Lots of witnesses saw it happen; the assassin confessed immediately, that night, and has never recanted. But today, oddly, lots of people don’t believe it happened that way. And a question hangs over the country: did this act change the fate of the nation?
The assassin re-enacts, for police, the moment of shooting the Israeli prime minister. Courtesy of Nati Harnik, the Israel Government Press Office.
We turn to the accomplice, the interrogator, the pathologist, a gunshot analyst in Carefree, Arizona, and many others.
Reporter Dan Ephron's book, Killing a King, is now available in paperback. Watch a recording of Ira Glass, Nancy Updike, and Dan Ephron discussing the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin at the New York Public Library.
Dan Ephron
Nancy Updike
Ira talks to producer Nancy Updike and reporter Dan Ephron, about their interview with the accomplice, Hagai Amir, who showed them the house where he and his brother plotted the murder and the shed where he machined special bullets. Israelis on the street tell Updike and Ephron they don’t believe the Hagai and Yigal Amir did it.
Updike and Ephron reconstruct the night of the murder, with Ephron describing what he recalls (he reported from Israel at the time and covered the rally where Rabin was assassinated). A police investigator talks about interrogating Amir in the hours after the assassination. The shooter confessed immediately, describing how he killed Rabin to stop peace deals with the Palestinians. The pathologist who performed Rabin’s autopsy says it was a clear cut case, nothing unusual. And then Hillel Weiss, a right-wing activist, lays out his conspiracy theory: Rabin staged an attempt on his own life in order to boost his public standing and smear his opponents on the right. It was supposed to be a thwarted assassination attempt but something went wrong and he died in the process.
Ephron takes the shirt Rabin was wearing on the night of the assassination from Israel to the U.S. to have it examined by a gunshot expert. A right-wing activist describes what the assassination meant to her and her settler movement -- a political victory. Hagai, the accomplice, argues with his mother over the details of the murder, and it becomes clear that even she believes in the conspiracy theories.
“Lincoln Limousine” by Jerry Lee Lewis
137: The Book That Changed Your Life
Act Three: Roger And Me, Lewis And Clark
Reporter Jeremy Goldstein tells the story of a man who had many books change his life, even though he'd never read them.
492: Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde
Benjamin starts to get very curious about the murder Dr Vince Gilmer committed, so he begins asking questions and poking around.
560: Abdi and the Golden Ticket
Leo Hornak's story about Abdi continues.
Petty Tyrant
The rise and fall of a school maintenance man in Schenectady, New York who terrorized his staff and got away with it for decades.
The story of Harold Washington and the white backlash that was set off when he became Chicago's first black mayor.
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January 11, 2019 3:53PM PT
A Way for Netflix to Add to Its Bottom Line: Include Theaters in the Mix (Guest Column)
By John Fithian
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CREDIT: Image by Alfonso Cuarón
Is it possible to disrupt yourself? That’s a question that’s been on my mind a lot as Netflix, hoping to court filmmakers and garner awards recognition for them, has stumbled, reluctantly, haltingly into exclusive theatrical distribution.
Film festivals and the streaming company have traded barbs, Netflix has suggested that movie theaters are killing cinema, pundits have declared that the three-week window for “Roma” in theaters is a game-changer (a claim that’s hard to imagine, when 99.7% of screens aren’t playing it in the U.S.), reporters have asked whether Netflix is killing independent film.
Alfonso Cuarón, backstage at the Golden Globes after receiving two awards for his justly acclaimed film, understandably found the controversy frustrating.
“I just [think] the discussion between Netflix and platforms in general should be over,” he said. “I think those guys, platforms and theatrical, should [get] together and just realize that whatever they are doing to this discussion is hurting cinema.
“My question to you is, how many theaters did you think that a Mexican film in black and white, in Spanish and Mixteco, that is a drama without stars — how big did you think it would be as a conventional theatrical release?
“It was not a cosmetic release. … the movie opened more than a month ago and is still playing. That is rare for a foreign film. Why don’t you take the list of foreign films this year and compare the theatrical release to those things and for how long they’ve been playing.”
Mr. Cuarón’s questions are good ones, and deserve an answer, though perhaps his criteria on the first one are a bit too restrictive. And I would ask a question in return: How many of those films were directed by Alfonso Cuarón?
But to his first question, regarding the number of theaters that might screen a film like “Roma,” I’d suggest a near analogue. “Ida,” directed by Poland’s Pawel Pawlikowski, in Polish, shot in black and white, won the Oscar for foreign language film in 2015. It was released in May 2014 and played for 53 weeks in theaters — 137 at its widest release, comparable to “Roma’s” footprint — and grossed $3.8 million. It had a release window of 130 days. It began an 18-month streaming run on Netflix in November 2014 and no doubt saw an increase in viewership there when it won the Oscar. We can only guess at that of course, because Netflix doesn’t generally release data.
And Mr. Pawlikowski’s latest film will serve as a partial answer to the second question, regarding length of theatrical engagement. “Cold War” was released the week after “Roma” debuted on Netflix, is in theaters now, distributed by Amazon, and is Poland’s official Oscar entry for foreign language film. It, too, is in Polish, and is again in black and white. Amazon intends to broaden the release throughout the award season and has not set a date for when it will reach Amazon’s streaming service.
And that is the crux of what this debate is about. Foreign films, independent films and even films with more commercial potential are finding it difficult to get theatrical runs or even get made because the numbers don’t pencil out. Netflix is doing a service to the industry by buying or financing some films that might not otherwise be made. We applaud them for it. No doubt Netflix believes that those costs can be recouped by increasing subscribers or retaining them by satisfying them with product flow.
Yet some of those titles are by directors, like Alfonso Cuarón, who are passionately interested in a theatrical run. And many exhibitors would like to give those important filmmakers a real and exclusive theatrical run before their movies stream.
Amid the growing buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival of Netflix considering exclusive theatrical releases for “Roma” and a few other titles, I welcomed the possibility, saying at the festival, “The movie theater door is open” to Netflix, but noting that the company needed to respect the business model that theaters operate under.
In order to accommodate those filmmakers, Netflix broke with precedent and its avowed business model to offer some of them limited exclusive runs in theaters; this just two weeks after reaffirming in its Q3 shareholders letter that it was committed to simultaneous release of its theatrical titles. So, clearly, Netflix understands that for some titles, theatrical exclusivity is beneficial. But Netflix’s artificial three-week window unnecessarily hobbled the theatrical potential of “Roma” and failed to attract the interest of most movie theater owners.
It is important to understand why the vast majority of theater owners weren’t interested. While studies have shown that the most active home streamers are also the most frequent moviegoers, that does not mean that a simultaneous, or near-simultaneous release doesn’t suppress the theatrical potential of a particular title. On the contrary, a recent study from Barclays emphasizes that a successful theatrical release enhances consumers’ perception of the value of a streaming title and enhances the long-term value of the film. Moviegoers make their moviegoing choices for a number of reasons: “I have already paid for it and it’s in my Netflix queue” is surely one of them. That doesn’t mean they won’t go to the theater; it means they are less likely to go to the theater to see that film. Theater owners make their booking decisions with that customer behavior in mind.
To entice some theater owners to screen the titles it buys, Netflix has reportedly “four-walled” (rented the theaters) and is rumored to have let theater owners retain all ticket revenues. This is highly unusual: In a traditional four-wall release, the distributor retains all ticket revenue. In short, Netflix bought a theatrical release, which means that not only did theater owners’ disinterest limit the release, but Netflix’s business model did too. The kind of expense that Netflix has incurred for a footprint of roughly 150 screens is not sustainable at any larger scale. It is unimaginable for a movie with greater commercial potential, like Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “The Irishman.”
What theater owners propose is neither radical nor unreasonable. If some of Netflix’s filmmakers want a theatrical release and Netflix wants to accommodate them — and not incidentally attract other filmmakers with similar interests and pedigrees — a traditional release before they go to streaming (which will obviously be exclusive to Netflix) can only be accretive. If Netflix thought “The Irishman” was worth a reported $200 million for streaming only, an exclusive and robust theatrical release would go straight to the bottom line.
What that theatrical release (and window) would look like would be agreed upon among Netflix, its filmmakers and theater owners. But it would be in Netflix’s interest to have those discussions. The company is on the brink of seeing deep-pocketed rivals entering their space who will compete for subscribers, and just as important, for filmmakers. Netflix’s content costs are going to go up, and you might think it would embrace the opportunity for increased cash flow.
In short, in its pursuit of prestige films and filmmakers, Netflix has had to turn to the theatrical space that it has too often denigrated. The manner in which Netflix can take advantage of the opportunities offered there is clear to all, and everybody can come out a winner. The theater door remains open.
John Fithian is president and CEO of the National Assn. of Theatre Owners.
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When Oak Bluffs Seceded: The Gazette’s Fulminations Were Bitter But Unavailing
by Tom Dunlop
Friday, July 5, 1996 - 10:49am
The whininess, contempt and partisanship with which the Vineyard Gazette reported this story over six years is journalism in its brightest rain-slicker yellow - all the more embarrassing and entertaining today because the paper lost the fight.
The tedious, never-ending complaint of Mr. Marchant and his successor Samuel Keniston was that Edgartown men had built Oak Bluffs and that the vassals ought to be grateful. The Cottage City Star, founded in the spring of 1879 to further the secessionist cause, called the Gazette the “hydra-headed Edgartown organ” and when Oak Bluffs finally broke away in February 1880 hooted that “an enemy, shrewd, energetic and tricky, had been met and overcome by means and weapons of a manlike character. And not only overcome, but whipped most severely.”
One searches largely in vain for an objective record of the debate or legislative process.
From the Vineyard Gazette edition of August 31, 1877:
One would think to read the Boston paper that there had been a terrible commotion on the Vineyard in respect to the division of the town of Edgartown. The facts in the case are as follows: On Thursday afternoon of last week, in answer to a call, a number of persons assembled at the Tabernacle, in Vineyard Grove, for the purpose of discussing the propriety of dividing the town. Those present were mostly nonresidents of the Island, who claimed that citizens of the town had no right to participate in the doings of the meeting. The speakers generally thought that the taxes were large and far in excess of what they should be; that the section where the Camp Meeting was located paid most of the tax and received but a very little in return, while Edgartown proper was lightly taxed, and derived most of the benefit from the money raised.
February 19, 1880 Cottage City Star
A more erroneous impression never took possession of an evangelical body. These men in the discussion which took place proved themselves to be as ignorant as men possibly can be of the true state of the affairs of which they complain. They stated that their section paid into the town treasury last year $13,000. The assessors’ books show that the whole amount assessed this year upon the nonresidents on the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Ground was $231,275, on which they paid a tax of only $2,960.32. Let it be remembered that the above includes stores, hotels, shops, ice houses, and everything on which there is one cent of taxation, and it will be seen what a splendid case they have to carry to the General Court.
It was amusing to witness the manner in which the meeting was conducted. A chairman was chosen to preside over the deliberations, and a secretary appointed to record the doings. The latter, who seemed a lordly sort of a fellow, proved to possess a power greater than the head of the meeting, and often took the conduct of the assembly into his own hands. He reminded one at times, when a speaker got a little off the track and said something not in unison with his views, of the southern slaveholder, when cracking his whip over the backs of his slaves. His subjects generally rendered willing obedience to his demands, and the chairman even sank into utter insignificance and cowered like a frightened cur before his sledgehammer blows and windy, frothy appeals to his hearers. He said he was not ignorant of the law which governed towns, the body which he represented was not, and it was the height of impudence to call him and them so. But has he not proved himself an ass in refusing to receive information which would have given him all the facts in the case?
He strutted, and crowed, and grinned, and raved, like one fully mad, or possessed of an evil spirit, and made assertions which every well informed man present knew to be false, and some of which were flatly contradicted on the spot. We are willing to do the secretary exact justice. We learn from those who ought to know, that he is a very good sort of a man, easily excited, and fond of exhibiting a little egotism.
He evidently wished his audience to believe, all the time that his foolishness was getting the better of his wisdom. He will do well in future to remember, that the most ridiculous animal in the world is a proud priest, who cannot use his own tools, outside his own profession, without cutting his own fingers.
These men, these nonresidents, think that they have the right and the power to divide Edgartown, believing as they do that they possess a majority of the taxable property of the town. No other than an ignoramus would suppose, however, that the sum of $231,275 was a major portion of $2,131,350, the total valuation of the town.
A motion was made to appoint a committee, whose duty it should be to petition the General Court for a division of the town. The motion was carried, 15 to 12, five women voting in the affirmative.
While all this fuss about a very small matter is driving the true object for which those religious brothers assembled here entirely out of their heads, the citizens of Edgartown proper look upon the whole affair with the most serene composure, not caring a brass farthing whether the town is divided or not. Certainly there is no man of any influence within our borders who will object to a fair and equitable division Ñ not that our citizens wish it, or care for it Ñ but they are simply willing (knowing as they do that those who think themselves aggrieved have always had more than their share of the offices and the money raised by the town by taxation) that they should go out from among us and fight their own way to freedom and renown. Theirs will be a perfect utopia, enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws and religion. There will be neither weeping, nor wailing, nor gnashing of teeth in all their dominions. No debt shall be known there, and every man’s purse shall be filled with gold all the time and forever. The rulers will be men of wisdom and integrity, who will run the machine at their own expense; taxation, and debt, and distrust, and disease, will all lay aside their robes, and purity, and peace, and love, and friendship, will dwell in the midst of the beautiful city forever and ever; and all the people in the state and the nation, and all the isles of the sea, shall clap their hands and sing praises; for lo and behold, a new town, without spot or blemish, has been born, whose influence shall be perpetual for the good of the race. And the citizens of the new town shall sing, day and night:
“O this heavenly town!
“O this heavenly town, of rare renown!”
January 9, 1880:
The question of resistance to the proposed division of Edgartown is again before the people of the town, and the initial steps towards meeting the exigencies of the situation have already been taken. There are two aspects of this question which commend themselves to the consideration of all thoughtful men, a brief allusion to which may not be out of place here and now.
And first, is the preservation of the town in its present form desirable? We suppose that in the south section, in what is generally styled Edgartown, there can hardly be a difference of opinion on this point. Apart from the consideration of self-interest, which - in view of the present valuation of Cottage City and its immediate promise of substantial advancement, as evidenced by the extensive operations already in progress - obtains in this case to an extent never surpassed in the history of the attempted division of towns - apart from this consideration, there is a sentimental aspect of the case which is well worth considering.
We suppose the native villager who is ready to stand up and say that he has no objection to this old township, which has come down from the dimness of a remote past to the present generation in its present form, which has been “in the family,” so to speak, through so many generations, which in point of population and municipal wealth has held an honorable place among the towns of the commonwealth - we suppose that the man who views with indifference the proposition to cut the territory so bequeathed to him in twain, because a few native malcontents, aided by a numerous company of immigrants and visitors, violently insist that he shall, is surely a rara avis, and there must be something in the circumstances of his case that distinguish him from other men.
Happily, we know of none such. If, however, any faint-hearted brother shall say, “They’re a thorn in the flesh to us - let’s be rid of them,” we have only to suggest that no sane man, certainly no man of spirit, gives away or sells for a song one half his property, because a stranger asserts a claim thereto, and backs his assertion with blasts of billingsgate and abusive treatment. It is sometimes the case that the party to a suit, worn out with protracted litigation, enfeebled in body and shattered in mind, prefers rather to sacrifice his rights than to continue a controversy that is embittering his life and fast bringing him to the grave: but that, we take it, is not the condition of the town of Edgartown.
Assuming, then, that there is but one opinion in the minds of the “respondents” as to propriety of resistance, the query next arises - What is the prospect of success? Never so good as now. For whereas the town’s case last winter was as strong as any litigant could desire, and the first vote was only possible in the fog of misrepresentation which had not had time to clear away, while scores of candid men who continued to stand by the petitioners frankly confessed that they had a pledge to keep, and could do no otherwise Ñ now the conditions are still more favorable to the town, and the promise of success correspondingly greater.
Contrast, for instance, the course of the town and of Cottage City during the past year: the one pursuing its accustomed course of providing impartially for the needs of all its parts, the other using its utmost endeavor to paralyze the constituted authorities in the performance of their legitimate functions, and, like a stubborn child, refusing to be benefited by any provision made for it by the common parent. The rejection of the fire engine and the inexcusable war upon the board of health are sufficient examples in point, and we take it that so far as showing the fitness of the petitioners for self-government is concerned, they will have no more serious difficulty to contend with than their conduct in the above connection.
Furthermore, the authorities themselves, in the exercise of the prerogatives devolving upon them officially, have not been behind in supplementing the laudable intentions and efforts of the town at large. The school question is as good an example of this as any. Three or four years ago the people of the northern section demanded that a teacher “such as you employ in the village” be sent to them in place of one then serving, and upon the expiration of the year the thing was done, and apparently to the satisfaction of everybody. But last year there began to be heard a cry for a “male teacher” and one not “from the village,” and immediately upon the commencement of another school year that request was granted. And so on to the end of the chapter.
In view, then, of the fact that the protracted investigation of the case of last winter tended so largely to correct the one-sided character which it seemed theretofore to have borne, in view of the fact that the “circular-work” of last year can hardly be done over again with effect, estimating justly the attitude of the town toward the disaffected section during the past year - the apportionment of officers and money, and the prompt attention to all reasonable demands - and contrasting therewith the factious and undignified bearing of the petitioning party; remembering, finally, that whatever light talk about “influence” and “money” may be indulged in by thoughtless people, it is no easy task to persuade the majority of a Massachusetts legislature to deliberately commit a flagrant wrong, we cannot help believing that the town will go into the next contest with a stronger assurance of success than ever before.
The bill for the incorporation of the town of Cottage City received the Governor's signature last Tuesday.
Obsequies
We don’t know that any remarks are required of us on this occasion. In fact, we are so uncertain as to whether a majority of the assembled friends regard it as a “melancholy occasion,” or the reverse, that we are in great doubt as to whether words of condolence or of congratulation will be the more acceptable. And perhaps it doesn’t matter. The good old town of Edgartown is certainly divided, and it is not only useless to cry for spilt milk on the one hand, but on the other hand if there are those who extract any considerable amount of comfort from the situation as now presented, and feel that this should be a season of general hilarity on the part of the present Edgartown, we have no disposition to begrudge them whatever of enjoyment the changed conditions afford, and shall interpose no dismal croakings of our own to jar upon the general joy. If what might once have been a doleful funeral has, by the lapse of time and the march of events, succeeded in taking upon itself the characteristics of a jovial “wake,” perhaps so much the better.
There is one thing, however, that should not be lost sight of. The division of Edgartown has not been aided by the men who were ready to contribute generously of their means, and unlimitedly of personal effort, in a manful struggle for the maintenance of their rights and the preservation of their ancient heritage; and the responsibility of the disaster, if such it be, can in no sense he made to rest upon them, while to the honor of having secured the termination of the contest, if it be so regarded, they doubtless make no claim.
The question of division, then, being settled, there remaineth to the town of Edgartown but one course; and that is forgetting the things that are behind, to address itself manfully to the task of improving its condition, by taking advantage of such opportunities as are still presented within its now diminished area, and so prove to its detractors that it has the elements within itself, even as now constituted, for maintaining the creditable position which it has held for two hundred years, and thus compel from all men the respect which is its due.
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Category: Pedagogy
By Wes F. in Morris on May 21, 2015 May 21, 2015
(Yes, that is a boring title.)
I’ve been Tweetstorming quite a lot lately, and someone said, “Don’t you have a blog?” This reminded me that, yes, I do have a blog and should probably start using it more. (There was a time when I wrote a blog post every day.)
Some background:
I love this gig. It’s a great gig with great colleagues, great students, and administrators who more often than not get it. But it is not without challenges. First and foremost is geography. We are 90 – 100 miles from anyplace with more than, say, 25,000 people, and three hours from the Twin Cities. In many fields, that wouldn’t make a whole lot of difference, but since music is so specialized (you wouldn’t want me teaching, say, flute), the six full-time faculty cannot hope to cover all the possible areas of instruction. We rely more on adjuncts than I would like, but we do provide mileage for those coming from more than 10 miles away, and we do also put people up in hotels as necessary.
The problem with this is that it is unsustainable. Not financially, necessarily (though it may be that), but just in terms of building a traditional music program. I wouldn’t want to drive three hours each way every week for no more than four students, but we cannot in good conscience give a student less than the best possible instruction. We have tried some online lessons (through a partnership with MacPhail Center for Music) and that has worked to some extent, but to do that well we would need a large increase in our capital budget to update some rooms with a full spectrum of equipment for those purposes (cameras, microphones, necessary connections). This will be an ongoing challenge.
The other issue we face is somewhat tied to the first issue. Our curriculum is pretty much the Standard Undergraduate Music Curriculum (four semesters of theory, two semesters of history, lessons, a jury, a senior project, and some electives). It is designed to prepare students for graduate study, a teaching career, or a performance career.
But most of our students don’t do that.
We’re a liberal arts college on the prairie. Even though we have a high percentage of first-generation students, who are usually geared more toward music education as a career, most of our students don’t take that path. We have a couple of students who are carving out performance careers, but they are the exception. Same for graduate school. Our students usually end up working outside of music, using the ancillary skills they develop in the program and continuing in music on an amateur or semi-professional basis while paying the bills in some other way. There’s nothing wrong with that. There are days I’d do that. But it doesn’t make sense for our curriculum to reflect an approach that is simply not in line with what our graduates do. Thus, we are making some changes to the curriculum.
They haven’t all been ironed out yet, but when they are, I shall post them for your feedback. Like David Letterman in his Late Night years, the stuff may or may not work, but we’re going to try it anyway. If it doesn’t work, well, it wouldn’t be too difficult to return to the traditional model. But if it does work, we could change the face of music education in a liberal arts context.
Of course, this new curriculum would not likely earn the imprimatur of NASM, but we’re not accredited by them anyway, and many of the top music programs are pulling out. I have nothing against NASM; I worked with them at the last gig, and I think they do what they do very well and they should continue to do it. I just don’t necessarily agree that what they do overlaps much with what we do.
More bulletins as events warrant.
By Wes F. in Morris on January 9, 2014 January 9, 2014
Trying something different. What do you think of this as an assessment plan for a semester-long Theory II class?
I am changing assessment policies from the previous semester. This semester will be divided into four units, and each unit will have a list of ten (10) skills/concepts. These lists will be posted on Moodle. Your grade for each unit will be as follows:
Show mastery of nine (9) or ten (10) concepts A
Show mastery of eight (8) concepts B
Show mastery of seven (7) concepts C
Show mastery of six (6) concepts D
Show mastery of five (5) or fewer concepts F
Each unit will be capped with a written quiz (50 pts) and an aural skills quiz (50 pts).
Homework assignments will be corrected and recorded, but not graded in the traditional sense, and you will still be required to turn in at least 70% of the assignments to get a passing grade.
There will not be a midterm examination, and the final examination will be an oral final. I will give you one or two pieces of music to analyze the Wednesday before final exam week, and you will schedule a 15-minute block of time during final exam week to discuss your analysis with me one-on-one.
By Wes F. in Morris on June 9, 2013 June 9, 2013
I was in Burlington, VT at the Institute on General Education and Assessment sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities last week. Believe it or not, there were some fascinating talks and discussions. I am rethinking how to assess my classes and the music program, as well as some changes in my pedagogy. Yes, there was lots of jargon (my only complaint, actually), but it was an eye-opening experience (especially as I will be serving on the campus’s Assessment of Student Learning Committee next year).
Also, I had the chance to break bread with the legendary NTodd Pritsky, so there’s that. He’s a mensch among men.
you’ll never hear me complain
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – to demonstrate the viio7/ii chord, there’s nothing better than the opening four measures of “Friends in Low Places.”
Pedagogy question
By Wes F. in Morris on July 29, 2011 July 29, 2011
Perhaps it’s a bit old school, but what do you think of teaching arranging/underscore techniques by examining 1970s TV show soundtracks?
Thoughts on education
(NB: This was originally a note on Facebook from last summer.)
I just finished rereading one of my favorite books – Robert Caro’s The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.
That seems like an odd way to start a post on education, since the book is about Moses’s acquisition of power in New York City and the State of New York. Education is barely mentioned, and then only to discuss the schools that weren’t built while Moses was building roads, bridges, and parks. However, there is one striking parallel between Moses’s roadbuilding and modern American education.
The map of New York was irrevocably changed by Moses. He built bridges and roads to lessen the load on existing bridges and roads, then built more bridges and roads to lessen the loads on the ones he built, then built more bridges and roads…well, you get the idea. Everytime he built a new bridge or road, he promised it would reduce traffic on some other bridge or road. However, this never happened. A new bridge would open and almost immediately become clogged, but the bridge which was supposed to get relief never did. Traffic was now horrible on two bridges. So he’d build a third, which would promptly fill up; now there are three congested bridges and no relief. Moses remained convinced that one more bridge would always do the trick, and he used his power to make sure he could keep building those bridges – to the detriment of tunnels, subways, buses (he purposefully built some roads and bridges in such a way that buses could not run on them), railways, etc. His refusal to see anything wrong with a system that clearly did not work – indeed, one that made things worse – not only led to the metastisizing of that system, but also made it impossible for alternatives to develop or flourish.
Let’s take a look at high-stakes testing. Now, this is just me blowing off steam on Facebook, so I haven’t actually done anything real like looking at data, but anecdotally – I’ve been in the classroom since 1998. I’ve seen standards drop right and left as testing has become more important. Anyone else notice this? The oligarchs, anti-teacher types, and “we should run education like a business!” folks looooove tests as the arbiter of funding and status because they remove actual education from the equation. Test scores may go up and down, but I have seen nothing to indicate that learning is any better than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. In my darker, more conspiratorial moments, I believe this is a feature, not a bug. Public education was the great equalizer, and if there’s one thing oligarchs hate, it’s an equalizer.
And so, like Robert Moses with bridges and roads, the all-testing-all-the-time types shut down other means of education reform, tie teacher pay and school support to test scores and not to learning, and use the force of funding and law to make sure a non-testing-based approach to school quality assessment never has a chance to develop, all the while piling more and more tests and clogging up the system further. This system cannot long endure.
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FULL CIRCLE – An Interview with Darin Shapiro (Part 3)
By: Ryan Shimabukuro
25 May FULL CIRCLE – An Interview with Darin Shapiro (Part 3)
Posted at 13:16h in Interviews by Chris Hawkins 0 Comments
WHF: Do you think the current state of Wake is in a good place right now?
DS: No. Wakeboard sales have gotten very soft. The contests, at least here in the U.S., don’t have the spectator crowds that they used to. The types of sponsors that were in our sport, year’s back, aren’t what they are today. I think it’s difficult to be a pro athlete in the sport today and it’s difficult to be a company, strictly based on wakeboarding. That doesn’t include wakesurfing and other things. It’s gotten super technical, and there are amazing athletes in our sport. This is not a knock to them by any means. But trick skiing got so technical that people started to look at it and say, “Well, I’m not really sure what they’re doing?” To participate in a sport like that, it’s so super technical, someone doesn’t want to pick one up and go, “I think I want to do those tricks.” That’s when wakeboarding showed up with something simple and fun like grabs, Raley’s, big air and an easier board to ride rather than a trick ski.
Now, wakeboarding has gotten very technical, very expensive and a lot more dangerous. I think people are looking at it now like they look at somebody who goes
out and does one of these massive runs and they’re not sure if they want their kid doing that, or if I’d ever do that. So, what do they do? They say to themselves, “Oh look, here’s something fun, wakesurfing.” So, I feel like the pattern is very similar with what I’ve watched happen growing up with trick skiing. And then trick skiing fell off. Believe it or not, waterskiing had great crowds when I was growing up. Lots of spectators! I feel like we had that really nice upswing of how the industry of wakeboarding, the riders and the sponsors really grew. Now I feel like it got extremely technical, expensive and people started to look for something different and fun again. So, at the risk of getting punched in the face, I did just compare wakeboarding to trick skiing (laughing). It’s just a similar pattern that you’d see if you watched it all happen the way I watched it happen over those time periods.
Understand where I’m coming from. I wished there were ten million people in the U.S. wakeboarding. It would make my life a lot easier. But what do we get? We get a lot of guys getting banged up, getting older. There is still the younger group of kids who want to go out and blast, and that’s super cool. But the sport has gotten extremely technical. Look at the price of equipment and boats right now? It’s not
quite as fun-looking from someone peering into our sport and saying, “Maybe I’ll just grab the wakesurfer and go out?” No one is getting banged up there and they’re on the boat, and enjoying themselves. That’s the bottom line, right? We’re all in these things to have fun.
WHF: Do you think the prices in the sport, like boats and equipment, have narrowed the market and are pushing the common man out of the sport?
DS: Let’s face it. It’s always been an expensive sport. Now here come the cable parks, making it way more affordable and growing the sport in a different way, to a different group. A different economical situation really, which is great. But I’m not sure where wakeboarding itself, especially boat riding, is heading at the moment. It seems there’s still a lot of excitement in Australia, and I’m stoked for those guys. In the U.S., it seems to be quiet at the moment.
WHF: You started Grind Water a few years back. What is the current status of the company?
DS: We were doing really well for a little while. I think we were a few years too early to the wakesurf market, and it was the first major company that I owned. I could have definitely done things differently and spent our dollars more wisely. But in the end, it was all the other major brands coming in and being so strong with wakesurfing right off the bat, and being able to sell similar products a lot cheaper because they were building in large volume. It’s a very tough industry. We had an awesome product and I think if we had better timing it would’ve been great because nobody knew that wakesurfing was going to explode the way it did. I think we were just a little too early to the party.
Switch Beesting (Photo Joey Meddock)
WHF: Your son Kien is a little ripper. Does he have the same kind of drive and competitiveness as you?
DS: So I have two kids. Kien is nine and Kaia is five. Kaia is more like the spitting image of dad. She’s really strong, a little aggressive and she’s a very determined little girl. My son, Kien, is a little bit more cerebral. He takes a look at things and thinks about it. He’s not your fearless, go charge it and see what happens kind of kid. He’s smart and careful. He’s a great little athlete but he’s a lot more like mom. And my little girl is more like me so we’re going to have to see what’s in store for her.
WHF: Do either of your kids have any of the ambitions that you have/had when it comes to riding? Or do you have different personalities in that aspect?
DS: We haven’t ever pushed our kids into something that they were not interested in. Because if they don’t want to do it, why do we want them to do it? So we’ve introduced him and given him the opportunity. He’s excelled in and loves sports. I can honestly say I don’t know what his favorite sport is (laughing). If he wants to do something, we’re doing it. But it’s his decision. It’s not mom and dad’s decision on what sport he’s going to do. He’s so young that we don’t mind that he hasn’t made a choice yet and we’ll just keep having fun with everything. He’s a little kid, we’re going to have fun, and that’s what matters more than anything.
WHF: Does your wife, Heather, ever wakeboard?
DS: She’ll probably wakeboard once or twice a year, but she’ll wakesurf anytime. We still go to the beach and surf a bunch so when we’re home and wakesurfing, she grabs her board and she’ll ride.
WHF: Has wakeboarding ever come between your relationship?
DS: No. I’ve known Heather since she was thirteen, and I was fifteen. There’s only been the question of a knee surgery here, a shoulder surgery there, “Hey honey, are you sure you really want to do this more?” You know, that kind of conversation, because she takes care of me. She knows if I get hurt it’s more work for her (laughing). But no, I’m so lucky to have a wife, a friend, who embraces these activities and knows that this stuff is life for me. Even if it means skirting on the occasional whatever else, she looks in my heart and she knows this is me. It’s been nothing but support, and she knows sports are just so healthy for all of us.
Family session back in 2015 (Shapiro photo)
WHF: You do a lot of coaching as well. What is your coaching philosophy when working with students, including your own kids?
DS: I think the most important thing for me is to teach people how to learn safely and not to hurt themselves. This is an impact sport, and when people get banged up, the fun stops. If we want to keep people enjoying our sport, sometimes we have to keep them from hurting themselves, even if that means a slower learning curve. Which sometimes is the hardest thing to teach the parents.
WHF: When a lesson is done, what do you, as the coach, like to see or feel when the rider leaves your boat?
DS: A smile is the main thing for me, and to see a light bulb go on for them. Where they understand something that they can take home and build on. You know, the look on their face like they’re getting it? That feels like an accomplishment for me because it’s not cheap for people to train on the boat. So it’s important for me that they really got some value from the experience.
Kien at the 2017 Gravel Tour (Shapiro photo)
WHF: What is your consistent advice to riders or their parents when you meet them for the first time?
DS: It’s so important for parents who have younger kids to understand that most of their learning at a young age needs to happen through play, or needs to be playful and in a social atmosphere. I’ve learned that ultimately, you don’t want to take a little kid, stick him with one coach and tell them we’re training now. It’s not that fun for a young kid. So try to find an environment that there are young kids and more experienced riders as well. That way, it’s not like you’re trying to train this kid but he’s learning through play in the right environment. They’ll learn quicker from wanting to impress their friends than they ever will from a coach trying to tell them that they’re training. That’s just from my experience and I’m not saying that’s always the way it is. But most of the time that seems to be the way a kid stays happy and motivated.
WHF: Have you ever had a disagreement with a set of parents because their motives differed from you with regards to their kid(s)?
DS: It’s real simple. If the parents are pushing their kids into something they don’t want to do, you usually don’t get good results. If I see this happening, I will talk to the parents about it. Or it may be a situation where the parents don’t understand the kid may be in danger, like the parent wanting them to do a flip that maybe they aren’t ready for, and unfortunately sometimes it’s my job to say, “No, we’re not going to do that right now.” Sometimes the look on these parents faces, and they quickly respond by saying, “Well, we’ll go to somebody who does want to teach them that.” I’d prefer they move on, as opposed to being involved when a kid gets hurt.
WHF: The late, Steve Prefontaine (American Olympic long distance runner), once described a running race as a “work of art”. What does wakeboarding mean to you?
DS: I always fall back to a similar theme of “Learn it, and then learn it big!” When I see riders take that philosophy, it makes me feel good about the sport. Because I look at it like a gutsy sport, and when riders embrace that, I look at it like that’s the way it supposed to be done. Everybody learns a trick, but not everybody learns a trick and then says, “Well now how big can I do that?” I have nothing but respect for the gutsier riders who take that approach. Dean Smith is a great example. The guy learns a trick and then he says, “Huh, how hard can I cut at that?” That makes me feel good when they ride with that much heart. I don’t have a single word to describe it, but it makes me smile when somebody embraces the sport with that approach. I like watching the physics of our sport in action. The speed, the height and all these things happening, it all has to be right for a big, beautiful trick to be landed. Just watching that process when it works right, I sit back and go, “Yeah, that’s how it’s supposed to look.”
WHF: Do you ever see yourself on the business side of a wake company again?
DS: I’d always love to be involved in any part of this business. It will always be a part of who I am. That’s a door for me that will never close.
WHF: What moment in your career are you most proud of?
DS: There’s been a list of achievements that have meant the world to me, and it’s hard to pick a specific moment. But a definite peak was winning the X-Games for my first time because I felt like wakeboarding was on its highest platform. I knew winning the X-Games was going to mean a lot to me, so that felt like a major accomplishment.
WHF: Is there a specific rider, past or present, who you really admire?
DS: I admire a bunch of guys for a bunch of different reasons. You’ve always got Murray who has been an excellent face of our sport. Then you have a guy like Danny Harf, who probably could’ve been a pro at anything. And you’ve got Parks. He’s like a chameleon. Whatever you put him on, he’s going to make it work. He’s just got crazy, natural, athletic ability. These days, you’ve got guys like Dean Smith, who’s so aggressive with today’s big wakes and just hangs it out there. Love it! More so lately, I watched an edit of Mike Dowdy, and that for me was the most impressive performance in wakeboarding I’ve ever seen.
Resurgence 2014 (Photo Tanya Pavlis)
WHF: Which rider would you want to emulate and why?
DS: That’s a really tough question because the styles have changed so much over the years. If we were talking about different eras, I’d want to be a different rider. I just see myself taking a small piece from a lot of different riders and then putting them all together. Randall has always been a gutsy rider, and the ballsy riders have always been my favorite. His individuality was always the strongest thing about him. As well as I just love how big he goes!
WHF: What would your epitaph say?
DS: (laughing) I’ve never thought of that before, ever. I don’t know how I’d put this into an epitaph but my greatest risks that I’ve taken have been the biggest successes in my life. I’ve always told people anything short of killing themselves, with big risks come big rewards, but you’ve got to be smart. You don’t want to take stupid risks, but anytime I’ve had great success in this business has been from hanging it out there.
WHF: Anyone you’d like to thank?
DS: For sure! I’d like to thank my wife, first. Of course, my family, which includes Mike Ferraro. Also, I’d like to give a special thanks to Herb O’Brien because my career may not have been possible without him. Finally, thank you to the Wakeboarding Hall of Fame. I’ve had amazing support from different friends and riders over the years, but mostly I’m just thankful to have been a part of the sport.
WHF: Darin currently lives in Orlando, Florida on Lake Mary Jane. If anyone is interested in private, one on one coaching, you can contact him through his website at http://darinshapiro.me.
About the Interviewer: Ryan Shimabukuro was born and raised in Hawaii. He is an avid wakeboarder currently living in Utah with his wife and two children. Ryan has judged at the professional level, including the Gravity Games, U.S. Pro Tour and Malibu Open.
(Header photo: Tanya Pavlis)
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Could Toys R Us be making a comeback?
Could Toys R Us be making a comeback? According to court documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal , a planned auction to sell the brand rights for the company has been canceled.
The auction would have included brand names for Toys R Us, Babies R Us, their websites and signature mascot, Geoffrey the Giraffe.
it appears, according to the court documents obtained by the WSJ, that a reorganization plan is in the works.
“A new, operating Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us branding company that maintains existing global license agreements and can invest in and create new, domestic, retail operating businesses," the documents said.
The business has not yet commented publicly on the possibility of a comeback, and it’s unclear how many previous stores would be a part of the revival, or what that restructuring looks like.
Toys R Us had nine locations in the Valley before the retailer closed all of its stores nationwide earlier this year.
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PSU’s McHugh and Nolf earn Big Ten Medals of Honor
by: Peter Terpstra
Posted: Jun 17, 2019 / 11:11 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 17, 2019 / 11:11 PM EDT
Two Penn State national champions received some more hardware for the trophy case Monday.
The Big Ten announced Penn State wrestling’s Jason Nolf and Penn State swimming’s Ally McHugh earned the conferences’ Medal of Honor.
Both McHugh and Nolf starred in their respective sports.
The Medal of Honor goes to one female and male student at each Big Ten university each year. It goes to the athlete who has extensive accomplishments in sports and also academics.
You can find a transcript of McHugh’s career below courtesy of Penn State athletics:
“McHugh became the first swimmer in Penn State women’s swimming and diving history to win an NCAA individual championship, capturing the 1650 freestyle at the 2019 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. The gold medal was her second NCAA medal overall, as she earned a silver in the same event at the 2018 NCAA Championships. A member of the U.S National team, McHugh also won the women’s 400 IM at the 2018 USA Swimming National Championships.
A two-time All-American by virtue of her two medal-winning performances at NCAA’s, she also was a four-time honorable mention All-America in the 500 free (2018), 1650 free (2017) and 400 IM (2017, 2019). At the Big Ten Championships, McHugh was a four-time champion or runner-up, earning two gold and two silver during her career. She claimed gold in the 2018 and 2019 in the 1650 free, setting a meet record with her 2018 swim (15:43.34), and she brought home silver in the 400 IM in 2017 and 2018. McHugh holds Penn State records in the 500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free and 400 IM.”
You can find a transcript of Nolf’s career below courtesy of Penn State athletics:
“Nolf wrapped up one of the most successful collegiate wrestling careers in NCAA history in March by winning his third consecutive NCAA Championship at 157 pounds. He ended a stellar 2018-19 season with a perfect 31-0 record, including 15 pins, five technical falls and six majors. His sixth and final major of the year was a resounding 10-2 major decision victory in the NCAA title bout over the nation’s second-ranked wrestler. Nolf helped lead Penn State to its fourth straight NCAA team title and eighth in nine years.
From Yatesboro, Pa., Nolf won the 2019 Big Ten Championship and was named the 2019 Big Ten Championship Co-Outstanding Wrestler. He was a first team All-Big Ten selection as well and was the 2019 Big Ten Co-Wrestler of the Year (with teammate Bo Nickal). A May graduate in kinesiology, Nolf leaves Penn State with a stunning 117-3 career record, including 60 falls, 27 tech falls and 16 majors.
Nolf’s collegiate career accolades and accomplishments are numerous and include: Penn State’s third three-time NCAA Champion, second four-time NCAA finalist and 11th four-time All-American; finished second, first, first and first at the NCAA Championships during his career; helped lead Penn State to four straight NCAA team titles; four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree; three-time NWCA First Team National All-Academic and a 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-American (second team). A total of 103 of his 117 wins were for bonus points and he leaves Penn State among the top 20 in all-time wins. Nolf’s 60 falls are the most ever in Nittany Lion wrestling history.”
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Big Ten announces future bowl lineup
by Peter Terpstra / Jun 5, 2019
The Big Ten conference announced a new list of bowl games that will soon include a Big Ten team.
The conference will be in at least 11 bowl games starting in 2020.
Three Nittany Lions on ballot for College Football Hall of Fame class
Three former Penn State football players have a chance to enter the college football hall of fame.
According to a Penn State media release Tuesday, offensive linemen Steve Wisniewski and Jeff Hartings, along with former quarterback Glenn Killinger, are on the ballot for the National Football Foundation's College Hall of Fame Class of 2020. Killinger is on the ballot as a coach after he earned Hall-of-Fame honors as a player already.
Penn State sets date for 2020 spring game
Start planning your return to happy valley for the 2020 spring game now.
Penn State announced the date of its next spring game Friday. The 2020 annual Blue White game will be played on April 18, 2020.
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Another memorandum said the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the conflict in Afghanistan. Mr. Hutson, who is dean and president of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H., said that Mr.
3. Benjamin Pierce (Born April 13, 1841 in Concord, New Hampshire – Died in a train wreck on the way to Washington with his parents on January 6, 1853 near Andover, Massachusetts) 12 years of age. Jane Pierce survived all 3 of her sons – No descendents survive today.
With College Closing, Franklin Pierce University Offers Scholarships. Expert: Paintings Sold By Rindge Family To Collector Are Forgeries. By Todd Bookman.
. the leading Real Estate Company from Monadnock to Sunapee and Keene to Concord, Manning Williams Agency is a leading Real Estate Team formed by the. NH Turnpike, Hillsborough, NH, across from the Franklin Pierce Homestead. you love to do, with people you trust, is one of the greatest experiences in life.
At Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H., trees were cut down. And finally, everything we did during the course of the spring resulted in bigger numbers than ever before.” Old Formulas Did Not.
Pierce has inscribed the book to the Ohio newspaper publisher Washington McLean: “For Washington McLean from Frank. Pierce Concord N.H. Feby. 5. 1853.”.
Dec 16, 2010 · If I can avoid a ton of debt and live in lovely NH and not be thought of as an "untouchable TTT grad" forever that would be wonderful. Franklin Pierce (UNH Law School) Post by androstan » Thu Dec 16, (cold but beautiful Concord, New Hampshire vs. downtown Chicago) ensure that any student considering these two law schools visit them.
Peter is the author of Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire’s Favorite Son and Franklin Pierce:. He chose a Democratic Party rally in Concord, N.H., on July 4, 1863, attended by as many as 25,000. irresponsible power. But we, nevertheless, are free men, and we resolve to live…
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. Mr. Flynn has served on the Board of Franklin Pierce University for 15 years and. Inc. Prior to moving to Dublin, he and his wife Lisa lived in Carlisle MA where he. Concord, NH; Trustee, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Director,
‘It’s probably unlikely that he could pose a serious threat to the president.. However, we live in highly unpredictable. Weld said during a stop last week at Franklin Pierce University in.
The Residential Life Forms Page also contains links to important information that will ensure a safe and enjoyable living experience at Franklin Pierce. Student Conduct Franklin Pierce University, College at Rindge, is committed to creating and maintaining a safe and productive learning environment within our.
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Jul 5, 2008. But for some reason, nobody's mentioned Franklin Pierce. Pierce was denied renomination by the Democratic Party in 1856 (the. periods of his life, and alcoholism contributed to or caused his death. After Lincoln was assassinated, a group of citizens in Pierce's hometown of Concord, N.H., gathered.
Candidate Franklin Pierce Writes About Nathaniel Hawthorne's Campaign Biography of Him. Low politics and high literature would have seemed to have met for the first time in American life in September, 1852, when the first. Concord N.H.
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A military lawyer who attended the court-martial said it appeared that the jury did not believe the. Hutson, dean of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H., and former judge advocate.
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Born in the rural town of Hillsboro, New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce was one of the eight children of Benjamin and Anna Kendrick Pierce. He received his early education at various private schools, first at Hillsborough Center and then at the Hancock Academy and in the fall of 1820, he took admission at the Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
Franklin Pierce died in Concord, New Hampshire on October 8, 1869. He was 64 years and 319 days old. He is buried in the Old North Cemetery in Concord, N.H. President Grant called Pierce one of his "honored predecessors."
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Handsome Frank Pierce was born in a log cabin on Nov. 23, 1804 in Hillsborough, N.H. His father, Benjamin, served as governor of New Hampshire. Pierce first succeeded at law and then parlayed his charm, reputation and family connections into a political.
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Making a survivor feel comfortable and not at fault is essential, especially when reporting is not the norm, she said at the 2nd Annual Halias Safety Symposium in Concord Friday. Plymouth State.
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Eventually they came home to Concord. Piercebecame known as a Southern sympathizer after the Civil War brokeout. Where did Franklin Pierce live as a president? He lived in the White House like every other president since 1800. He lived in New Hampshire before and after he was president.
At Franklin Pierce College, in Rindge, N.H., trees were cut down. Many admissions officers say the formulas they used in the past simply did not work this year. The University of North Carolina,
Oct 8, 2013. Most people don't realize that Pierce's personal life was also very sad. in Concord, New Hampshire to jeer him the day after Lincoln was.
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“I love the constant movement,” the Acton studio owner and Concord resident Handley said last. which bit him about a decade ago while attending Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H., led him.
Do you know what Daddy did to you?"’ What Sarah’s father did was shoot her and her younger brother, Philip, to death in his minivan, investigators say, after they argued at a Fourth of July fireworks.
The couple then moved to Sherwood Forest, where they would live until. after President Franklin Pierce’s inauguration. Pierce Manse in Concord, New Hampshire — Jane Appleton lived in her.
RINDGE, N.H.—Pacing the college auditorium in. craggy-faced governor of Ohio softens his growl into a Midwestern twang. “Did you know that you were made special?” he asks the students at Franklin.
You take second, third and fourth looks," Clinton told supporters during a rally in Concord. "And I hope you. speaks during a campaign stop at the Franklin Pierce University Fieldhouse, Saturday in.
Oct 23, 2017. The Pierces Franklin Pierce was 30 years old when he married in 1834. Good looking. Young Franklin Pierce D-NH. Franklin Pierce. A town house in Concord that the Pierce's lived in prior to his Presidency. She disliked.
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ParkLake Images: Futureal
Nov 29, 2018 09:18
Futureal Group exits Romanian retail project ParkLake shopping centre
Futureal Group has exited its 19 million euros mezzanine financing provided to Caelum Development for the development of ParkLake shopping centre in Bucharest, Romania.
The 70,000 GLA project was developed by a joint venture between Sonae Sierra and Caelum Development. Futureal Group will intensify its activity in Romania through its residential investments subsidiary, Cordia.
ParkLake Image: Futureal
The company has recently announced a 50 million EUR worth of investment plan in Bucharest for the next year, part of a long-term roadmap for the local market. Cordia division plans to deliver about 500 apartments per year, designed for medium and medium high segments.
ParkLake was inaugurated in September 2016, following a total investment of 180 million euros. The shopping centre is 70,000 square meters GLA, with over 200 stores, 23 restaurants, a multiplex cinema and underground parking with a capacity of up to 2,600 cars. ParkLake was developed through a 50/50 partnership between Sonae Sierra and Caelum Development.
“Through our partnership with Caelum we have contributed to the development of a real estate project that has become one of the most important shopping centres in Bucharest. We see significant potential in the real estate market in Romania, for which we have designed a long-term investment program. Parcului20 is a pilot project from our residential portfolio, amounting to 40 million EUR worth of investment, that will unfold over the course of three years”, said Gábor Futó, founder of Futureal Group.
Futureal, one of the largest developers in Central and Eastern Europe, is active on the Romanian real estate market through its residential development subsidiary, Cordia. Futureal portfolio of assets and developments amounts to a total 2.7 billion euros.
Recently, Cordia Romania announced the development of Parcului20, a condominium with 469 apartments located north Bucharest, in Expoziției area. The first phase of the project consists in 260 units. Development will begin by the end of this year, to be delivered in September 2020.
“The investment budget of Cordia Romania for the next year amounts to 50 million euros. Part of it will go to developing Parcului20 condominium, and another part to other investment activities, including the acquisition of new land plots. We have already purchased three plots on which we plan to build 1,300 apartments in the years to come. We are in advanced discussions for two other properties, located Central-North Bucharest. We estimate a sustained pace of 500 apartments per year”, said Mauricio Mesa Gomez, CEO of Cordia Romania.
Cordia’s objective is to become the main regional developer of residential projects and to further develop its impact by creating sustainable projects that highlight existing local communities.
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Alejandra Campoverdi
Alejandra Campoverdi is a champion for women's health, a senior advocacy and communications strategist, the Founder of The Well Woman Coalition, and a former White House aide to President Obama. Currently, Alejandra serves as Senior Advisor to the President of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson. In 2018, Alejandra founded The Well Woman Coalition, an initiative empowering women of color to have agency over their own health and healing through awareness, education, and advocacy. Prior to running for U.S. Congress in California in 2017, Alejandra was founding Managing Editor of #EmergingUS at the Los Angeles Times, a digital content platform focused on exploring the emerging American identity. Alejandra previously served as Senior Advisor for Innovation and Communications Strategy for Univision Network News. From 2009-2012, Alejandra served as an aide in the Obama White House, initially as Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and later as White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media.
Alejandra holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and graduated cum laude from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Alejandra is a former Commissioner for the California Children and Families Commission, also known as "First 5 California."
She currently serves on the Boards of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the California Community Foundation, and Harvard Kennedy School's Journal of Hispanic Policy, and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. In 2017, Alejandra was awarded Penn Medicine's Basser Center for BRCA's inaugural YLC Distinguished Advocacy Award for her vocal advocacy around BRCA-related cancers.
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Life after prison in New York state
Ronald Fraser
With each criminal conviction, the state of New York matter-of-factly tells the defendants how long they will spend behind bars. Hidden from view, in the “fine print,” is a long list of additional penalties attached to these convictions.
Only upon leaving prison and while attempting to rebuild their lives do offenders experience, firsthand, how these non-prison “collateral consequences” limit or deny their basic rights to housing, food stamps, education, voting, employment, child custody and much more.
A 2018 study conducted by the Prison Policy Initiative found that “formally incarcerated people are unemployed at a rate of over 27% –higher than the total U.S. unemployment rate during any historical period, including the Great Depression. … Exclusionary policies and practices are responsible for these market inequities.”
The study concludes: “A prison sentence should not be a perpetual punishment. … States should implement automation record expungement procedures and reform their licensing practices so as to eliminate the automatic rejection of people with felony convictions.”
“The stigma of incarceration and disconnection from the workforce,” according to a Council of State Governments report, “are among the challenges people face when trying to find a job after release from prison or jail. People who have been incarcerated earn 40 percent less annually than they had earned prior to incarceration.”
Researchers at the Council of State Governments have prepared a list of 1,252 separate “collateral consequences” embedded in New York state statutes and regulations — waiting to snare persons convicted of a crime. Some consequences kick in automatically. Others are applied on a case-by-case basis. Some have a set duration, others are indefinite.
Here are examples of how New York’s post-prison penalties make the prison-to-society transition more difficult for ex-offenders.
¯ “Deny/suspend/revoke milk dealer license.” A discretionary penaty with an indefinite duration for conviction of a felony.
¯ “Ineligible for license as a junk dealer.” A mandatory penalty with an indefinite duration for conviction of crimes involving fraud, dishonesty, misrepresentation or money laundering.
¯ “Deny hairdressing/cosmetology license (child support arrears).” A discretionary penalty with a conditional duration for conviction of child support offenses.
Housing/public assistance
¯ “Ineligible for tenancy in public housing authority project.” A discretionary penalty with an indefinite duration for conviction of a felony or misdemeanor.
¯ “Restrict internet use.” A mandatory penalty with an indefinite duration for conviction of sex offenses.
¯ “Ineligible for public assistance.” A mandatory penalty with a time-limited duration for conviction of crimes involving fraud, dishonesty, misrepresentation or money laundering.
Because “One out of five working Americans needs a license to work while one in three American adults has a criminal record,” the Institute for Justice encourages state lawmakers to repeal needless licenses, scale back anti-competitive licensing laws and strengthen the rights of people with a criminal record to gain meaningful employment.
To do so, the institute has prepared, for state adoption, a model legislation titled “Collateral Consequences in Occupational Licensing Act.” And, to date, at least 18 states — but not New York state — have reformed their occupational licensing laws to reduce entry barriers for those with a criminal record.
However, according to the Collateral Consequences Resource Center’s Restoration of Rights Project, a nonprofit organization that tracks legal restrictions on people with a criminal record, New York state has taken steps to remove employment barriers for ex-offenders:
¯ A general non-discrimination law prohibits discrimination in employment and licensing based on a conviction.
¯ Employment denial must be based on a direct relationship and unreasonable risk to property or safety.
¯ By executive order, public employers may not inquire into an applicant’s prior convictions until an initial hiring decision is made.
¯ In New York City under the Fair Chance Act, both public and private employers may not inquire regarding an applicant’s criminal record until an initial offer is made.
When state legislatures erect legal barriers that make life after prison difficult, if not impossible, they are setting people with a criminal record up for failure — and a trip back to prison.
Ex-offenders have a personal responsibility to make the lifestyle changes needed to successfully re-enter society. New York state legislators also have a responsibility to give wrongdoers the opportunity to make these changes and to become productive, law-abiding citizens.
Ronald Fraser, Ph.D., lives in Colden and writes on public policy issues for the DKT Liberty Project, a Washington-based civil liberties organization. Write him at fraserr@erols.com.
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Billboard Adds Chart-Topping Staffers
The sweeping hand of Janice Min is at it again. In a memo to staff, the Guggenheim Media Entertainment Group co-president and chief creative officer announced an impressive roster of Billboard hires.
Starting today, Rob Hewitt is the publication’s new design director. He comes to Billboard after three years with Conde Nast Traveler. Hewitt once worked with Min at InStyle and has also held positions at Premiere, GQ and New York magazine.
Joining Hewitt as Billboard art director is Frank Augugliaro, previously with Esquire, alongside several recognizable new reporter and editor names. It’s great for example to see Frank DiGiacomo back in the front-line entertainment journalism mix.
Full memo after the jump.
Dear Staff:
I’m thrilled to introduce you to some new faces today that are already here or soon to be arriving at Billboard.
I’ll start with some significant and immediate changes to the art and photo departments.
Rob Hewitt will be joining Billboard effective Tuesday as design director. Rob joins Billboard after three years as design director at Conde Nast Traveler, where he was responsible for the design direction of the print version and award-winning digital publication. Prior to Traveler, Rob ran a successful studio where he art-directed clients including Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine and Key: The New York Times Real Estate Magazine, Garden & Gun and Hemispheres. Over the past 14 years, Rob also has held art director and design positions at Premiere, GQ and New York magazine. And a long, long time ago, Rob, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Peter Cury and I all worked together at InStyle, where we all first met while launching — yes — a weddings magazine. Rob will be reporting into Hollywood Reporter/Billboard creative director Shanti Marlar, and can answer all your pressing bouquet questions (not really).
Frank Augugliaro is joining as art director, reporting to Rob. Frank comes to us from Esquire, where he was the deputy art director. He was responsible for designing front-of-book and feature stories, with a focus on larger packages and Esquire‘s “Men at His Best” sections. Before Esquire, Frank freelanced at a variety of places, including Harper’s Bazaar, Rizzoli Books, Club Monaco and Art House Productions.
Carrie Lam is joining as designer. Carrie comes to us from the design studio Nick+Cambell, where she was responsible for designing graphics for social media platforms and websites. Carrie also has been a freelance designer at Glamour, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and W magazine.
Samantha Xu is joining as photo editor at Billboard. Samantha previously worked at Hearst Digital, Guitar World, Revolver and Entertainment Weekly. She will be reporting directly to Jennifer Laski and Jenny Sargent.
We also have some fantastic additions among our editor ranks that I’d like to share with you.
Degen Pener, culture editor of The Hollywood Reporter, adds to his duties by assuming the same role at Billboard. As many of you are aware, Degen has been an essential leader in shaping The Hollywood Reporter‘s distinctive style and lifestyle coverage, which now encompasses fashion, luxury, real estate, automotive, beauty and art. Among his many contributions, he has overseen the Watches special issue, the Most Influential Interior Designers issue and the launch of Pret a Reporter. Before joining THR, he was the editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury’s Angeleno magazine and previously worked at Santa Barbara, InStyle, Details, Elle and Entertainment Weekly. He was a founding columnist of the New York Times Styles section and got his start as a fact checker at New York magazine. He’s from Kansas City and lives in West Hollywood. Thanks to Degen, you can already see in the current Billboard a fashion story about designer money clips, from a $600 Bottega Veneta version to a $5,000 one from Neil Lane.
Eileen Daspin joins Billboard as a lifestyle/business journalist and magazine editor who reports on a broad range of subjects. She has been an editor at ThomsonReuters, Time, W, The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast Portfolio, the New York Post and American Lawyer. She is the author of The Manhattan Diet, about the fitness and eating habits of New York women, and co-author of a number of cookbooks, including Diary of a Tuscan Chef and Le Bernardin: Four-Star Simplicity. Eileen won a National Magazine Award while at Portfolio for its “Briefs” section. Fun fact: At Portfolio, the designer on Eileen’s section was Peter Cury.
Frank DiGiacomo joins Billboard beginning today. Frank has worked as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he profiled Sheryl Crow and John Mellencamp, and, as he says, “smoked a really good cigar with Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett.” Prior to that, he was editor at large at the New York Observer, where he edited the pop-music section and profiled Leonard Cohen. He also has edited and written for the New York Daily News, Page Six and Movieline.com. His musical tastes are broad and range from Springsteen to Pere Ubu to Blood Orange. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, he is currently enjoying Warpaint and Future Islands’ new albums and learning to appreciate Miley Cyrus.
Carson Griffith joins Billboard, having previously worked at the New York Daily News for three-and-a-half years as a gossip columnist (two of which she worked under Frank DiGiacomo). Upon her departure in early 2013, she was a senior editor. She also has written regularly for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Hollywood Reporter and serves as a contributing editor to Town & Country, with a monthly column in the magazine called “Social Network.” She’s originally from Marblehead, Mass. In the current issue of Billboard, you’ll see Carson’s first contributions, from a story about a music industry Black Card, meant to emulate the Amex status symbol, and Vfiles, the hot Soho boutique where Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry get their looks.
Finally, amid all this change, I also would like to take a moment to thank both Andrew Horton and Andrew Ryan from the design team for their tireless work on the Billboard redesign and excellent partnership through the transition. I hope you will all wish them well in their new endeavors. I, for one, am grateful for the work they did in moving forward the Billboard brand already.
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Full Title Name: Code of Massachusetts Regulations. Title 321: Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Chapter 2.00: Miscellaneous Regulations Relating to Fisheries and Wildlife. 2.12: Artificial Propagation of Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians
Country of Origin: United States Citation: 321 CMR 2.12 Agency Origin: Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Last Checked: July, 2017
Massachusetts law prohibits possession of wild animals without a license. Licenses are only given out for limited reasons, none of which include the keeping of animals as pets. The classes for which licenses may be granted are propagator’s licenses, public stocking licenses, dealer’s licenses, possessor’s licenses, and dog training licenses.
(1) Purpose and Scope. The purpose of 321 CMR 2.12 is to establish the procedural and substantive requirements for the licensing, possession, propagation, maintenance, and disposition of wild birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. 321 CMR 2.12 is designed to protect wild animals from unnecessary or undesirable interference and from improper treatment. 321 CMR 2.12 is also necessary for the protection of the public health, welfare and safety when wild animals are possessed, maintained or propagated in Massachusetts.
Wild animals, regardless of whether or not they are born in captivity, often revert to their wild nature when sexually mature and can do considerable harm to persons. Furthermore, wild animals retained in captivity and dependent on humans for care may not be capable of surviving in the wild if problems arise and they are ejected by those who had attempted to care for them. The result is an animal that may suffer a lingering fate prior to death and may be a potential danger to the public. The purpose of 321 CMR 2.12 is to prevent not only the potential public menace, disease, personal injury and property damage which result when the animals are ejected, but to protect the animals from the potential for needless or unnecessary suffering as well. Thus, the scope of 321 CMR 2.12 is to regulate:
(a) the importation, taking from the wild, possession, propagation, purchasing or receipt of protected animals intended to be kept by any person in Massachusetts;
(b) to define specific categories for which licenses may be issued for the possession, maintenance, propagation or cultivation of protected wildlife;
(c) to establish minimum requirements for the possession, maintenance and artificial propagation of protected animals;
(d) to establish administrative procedures for the initial issuance and subsequent renewal of licenses; and
(e) to otherwise implement the licensing provisions of M.G.L. c. 131, § 23.
321 CMR 2.12 is promulgated and effective in addition to and in conjunction with 7 U.S.C. § 2132 et seq. as amended, commonly known as the federal Animal Welfare Act and the licensing program of the United States Department of Agriculture. Compliance with the requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture does not exempt an applicant from compliance with 321 CMR 2.12 or other laws of Massachusetts. Thus, the issuance of the so-called federal exhibitor's permit to any person other than a zoo, as defined in 321 CMR 2.12(2), does not exempt that person from compliance with 321 CMR 2.12 and its licensing provisions.
(2) Definitions. For the purposes of 321 CMR 2.12, the following words have the following meanings:
Animals means any undomesticated bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian, that is not the product of hybridization with a domestic form and not otherwise contained in the exemption list found at 321 CMR 9.01: Exemption List.
Class 4 - Class 8 Licenses means respectively licenses issued under authority of clauses 4 through 8, M.G.L. c. 131, § 23.
Director means the Director of the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, or his or her agents.
Educational Use means a use or uses as contained in a course of training, of any extent or duration, and which pertains to the acquisition, development, or maintenance of a person's moral, intellectual, vocational, and physical faculties, insofar as such course of training shall relate to fisheries or wildlife, and the habitats, ecological relationships, or the environment thereof.
Environmental Police Officer means the Director of the Office of Law Enforcement, deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement deputy chiefs of enforcement, environmental police officers, and such other enforcement officers of the Office of Law Enforcement as may be appointed pursuant to M.G.L. c. 21, § 6.
Person means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association or other private entity or any officer, agent department or instrumentality of the federal government or any state or its political subdivisions, including but not limited to any agency, department board, commission or authority thereof.
Scientific Use means a use or uses concerned with the classification, formulation, verification, and documentation of various natural laws, principles, and events by induction, deduction, hypothesis, and experimentation, including, but not limited to, the collection, analysis, propounding, and display of data, whether written, recorded or otherwise, and of artifacts, specimens, and similar physical samples, and shall further relate generally to the physical world and its associated phenomena, and specifically to those branches of systematized knowledge categorized as zoology, botany, ecology, wildlife management, fisheries management medicine, and veterinary medicine, or such other skills and disciplines which shall require such use or uses.
Wild Animal Farm means a person licensed pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(10)(d).
Zoo means a permanent site or a permanent location where a collection of living nondomesticated animals are maintained for regular exhibition to the public.
(3) Licenses. Unless otherwise provided by law, it is unlawful for any person to possess, maintain, propagate or cultivate, sell or offer to sell any animal without having a valid license issued to them by the Director in one of five classes.
(a) A class 4 propagator's license authorizes a person to possess, maintain, propagate, buy, sell or otherwise lawfully dispose of specified birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians. Class.4 license may, in addition and as a condition of the license, allow the liberation and recapture of bobwhite quail or ring-necked pheasant for the sole purpose of training dogs.
(b) A class 5 public stocking license (including a Class 5 special propagator's license) authorizes any individual, club or association to possess, maintain and propagate birds or mammals for the sole purpose of liberation into covers open for public hunting. A Class 5 public stocking license may be issued as a Letter Permit in accordance with M.G.L. c. 131, § 4(2) and 321 CMR 2.02 but shall otherwise conform to the requirements of 321 CMR 2.12.
(c) A class 6 dealer's license authorizes a person to possess or maintain for food purposes, and to purchase, sell, offer to sell, barter, offer to barter, or conduct commercial transactions of any nature, fish, birds, or mammals which have been lawfully imported into Massachusetts or lawfully propagated within Massachusetts, provided that dealing in fish shall be in accordance with 321 CMR 4.09: Propagation, Culture, Maintenance and Sale of Protected Freshwater Fish. A class 6 dealer's license issued for purposes other than human food shall be issued at the discretion of the director, and the director shall not issue such permit unless, in his discretion, such permit is in the public interest and is not detrimental to the fish and wildlife resources of Massachusetts or the populations of the fish and wildlife proposed for the license, wherever found. When a fish, bird, or mammal, proposed for licensing closely resembles a fish, bird, or mammal not so proposed, or for which a license may not be issued, or which derives from a source not authorized pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(16)(a), the director may consider such similarity of appearance as constituting an adverse or detrimental effect on such protected or non-licensed fish, birds, and mammals, or on the enforcement of laws relating to the conservation and management of the same, and may deny the license on such basis.
(d) A class 7 possessor's license authorizes a person to possess and maintain, but not to propagate, sell or barter, a non-exempt bird or mammal in accordance with 321 CMR 2.12(10)(I); or a non-exempt mammal for the sole purpose of training dogs, when such mammal was lawfully possessed and held under a Class 7 license prior to December 31, 1994; or for the possession of a non-exempt reptile or amphibian. After December 31, 1994, no initial Class 7 license may be issued for the purpose of possessing a non- exempt mammal for the purpose of training dogs. A Class 7 license may be issued as a Letter Permit in accordance with M.G.L. c. 131, § 4(2) and 321 CMR 2.02 but shall otherwise conform to the requirements of 321 CMR 2.12.
(e) A dog training license (including a Class 8 quail license) authorizes a person to possess no more than 25 quail, six ring-necked pheasant and two chukar partridge to liberate and recapture for the sole purpose of training dogs.
(4) Application. A person seeking a license provided for in 321 CMR 2.12(3) shall complete a written application on forms supplied by the Director. Completed applications shall include a self- addressed stamped envelope and be addressed to the Permit Section, Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114.
(5) Information and Requirements. All initial license applications shall contain the following information. Renewal license applications shall include but not be limited to 321 CMR 2.12(5)(a), (c), (f),and (g):
(a) the applicant's name, address and telephone number where he or she can be reached between the hours of 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.;
(b) the applicant's date of birth;
(c) in the event the applicant is a corporation, firm, partnership, institution or agency, either public or private, the name, address and telephone number of the president, director, head or principal officer;
(d) the location or locations where the licensed activity will be conducted;
(e) the specific source or sources from which the animals are to be obtained;
(f) the date of the application;
(g) the applicant's signature executed under the pains an penalties of perjury;
(h) for a class 4 license, accurate diagrams, models or drawings in scale or pictures depicting the precise physical conditions under which the animals will be maintained;
(i) for a commercial license requested pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(10)(c) r(d), a signed affidavit certifying that the applicant has to the best of his or her knowledge paid all state taxes as required by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue; and
(j) a written plan detailing the intended activity for which the animals are to be maintained, the disposition of the animals if relevant, and other information pertinent to a full explanation and justification for the possession of the animals.
(k) for a license requested pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(10)(a), (b), (c), (d), (f), or (g), a copy of the applicant's resume, letters of recommendation, diplomas or certificates, and such other documentary items as shall provide evidence of the applicant's qualifications, training, and experience in the activity which has been applied for.
(6) Fees. All applications and renewals shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee indicated on the application in the form of a check or money order payable to the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Cash may be used only when the application is made in person.
(7) Exception. Payment of fees shall not be required of any federal, state, or municipal agency or official, nor of any person under contract to the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife or otherwise involved in projects conducted or directly supervised by the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.
(8) Abandoned Applications. Upon receipt of an incomplete application, an improperly executed application, or an insufficient fee, the applicant shall be notified of the deficiency. If the applicant fails to supply the requested information, pay the required fee or otherwise fails to correct the deficiency within 60 days following the date of notification, the application shall be considered abandoned and shall be returned to the applicant.
(9) Denials. Applications for a license provided for in 321 CMR 2.12(3), including both initial applications and renewals, shall, unless otherwise provided, be denied when:
(a) the application is for a license to possess, maintain, propagate or cultivate animals as pets except as otherwise provided for in 321 CMR 2.12(10)(h) and (i);
(b) the application is for a class 4 license to possess, maintain, or propagate animals for purposes or intentions based purely on curiosity, impulse or novelty, or to provide for personal amusement or entertainment;
(c) the applicant has within one year preceding the date of application been criminally convicted of a violation of any provision of M.G.L. c. 131, c. 131A, any provision of 321 CMR, or any federal statute or federal regulation which is related to the activity for which the license is sought;
(d) the applicant has failed to disclose material information or has made false statements as to any fact in connection with the application;
(e) a prior inspection of the facilities where the animal will be possessed, maintained, propagated or cultivated by a duly authorized state or federal official has disclosed that the facilities do not meet the requirements found in 321 CMR 2.12(11) and (15) and such deficiencies have not been corrected within 30 days;
(f) the application is for a license to possess an animal in a commercial venture involving amusement or sport;
(g) the applicant for a Class 4 license has imported into or received in Massachusetts any animal without a valid importation license as required by M.G.L. c. 131, §§ 19 and 19A, and 321 CMR 2.15;
(h) the applicant has failed to satisfy the director that his or her qualifications, training, and experience are sufficient to properly maintain, propagate of care for the animals in question, or to adequately provide for the safety and well-being of the public and the environment;
(i) the applicant has failed to satisfy the director that the applicant is actively engaged in the activity granted by the permit;
(j) the application is for a class 6 dealer's license other than for purposes of human food and the applicant has failed to satisfy the director that the application is in the public interest and is non-detrimental to fish and wildlife resources pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(3)(c);
(k) the application is for the commercial farming of more than 100 turtles for the purposes of sale.
(10) Issuance. A Class 4 license may be issued only to applicants who substantially document that the intended possession, maintenance or propagation is for:
(a) an authentic and legitimate scientific use certified by officials of a generally recognized scientific institution such as museums of a zoological or biological nature, zoological or biological departments of an accredited college or university, or a public or private research institute for wildlife population or manegement studies;
(b) an authentic and legitimate educational use certified by zoological or biological officials of a generally recognized educational institution such as an accredited college or university or a public or private school;
(c) a commercial use in conjunction with an applicant's primary existing occupation or livelihood in Massachusetts and for which the animal is an inherently necessary and an essential element;
(d) commercial propagation of protected animals for sale other than sale as pets, which shall be issued only for those species listed in 321 CMR 2.12(11);
(e) an authentic use in conjunction with legitimate sporting events involving the training of dogs;
(f) animals held or propagated under holding agreements or in conjunction with breeding programs of established zoos licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture;
(g) captive propagation of threatened or endangered animals under the auspices of a written captive propagation program approved by both the Director and the Fisheries and Wildlife Board, when such captive propagation is in accordance with the recovery or action plans or recommendations of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, or of the United States or of Massachusetts, and, in the opinion of the director will make a meaningful contribution to the ultimate survival and recovery of the animal. Such captive propagation shall be restricted to genetically pure animals of known lineage unless otherwise specified in the recovery or action plans or recommendations;
(h) the aviculture of non-exempt birds, including federally threatened and endangered species as authorized by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, that are documented to be the product of captive propagation or that were legally held prior to the approval of 321 CMR 2.12 and are members of the following taxonomic groups: Ciconiiformes (e.g., flamingo), Anseriformes (e.g., ducks, geese, swans), Galliformes (E.g., pheasant, quail, grouse), Gruiformes (e.g., cranes, coots), Columbiformes (e.g., pigeons, doves), Psittaciformes (e.g., parrots), Piciformes (e.g., toucans), Passeriformes (e.g., songbirds). The foregoing shall not include the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) or the following potential pest species: Pink Starling (Sturnus roseus), Red-billed Dioch including the Black-fronted and Sudan Diochs (Quelea quelea), and Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus);
(i) the propagation of non-exempt reptiles, including federally endangered and threatened species as authorized by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, that are documented to be the product of captive propagation or that were lawfully held prior to the approval of 321 CMR 2.12 on May 8, 1986, and are members of the taxonomic groups which include turtles and lizards, except venomous lizards in the genus Heloderma;
(j) the training of animals to aid the handicapped; or
(k) any protected animal lawfully possessed prior to July 1, 1980.
(11) Commercial Propagation-- Allowable Species. Only the following species or groups of species may be commercially propagated:
(a) fallow deer (Cervus dama);
(b) red deer (Cervus elaphus);
(c) sika deer (Cervus nippon);
(d) aoudad (Barbary sheep)(Ammotragus lervia)
(e) mouflon (Ovis Musimon);
(f) red fox (Vulpes vulpes), including silver fox, cross fox, and color variants thereof
(g) Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus);
(h) pheasants, quail, partridges (Phasianidae);
(i) waterfowl (Anseriformes); and
(j) federally endangered and threatened species of birds listed in 321 CMR 9.01(11) : List of Birds, when approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service if required, and the Director.
(12) Exemption. Licensed veterinarians temporarily treating sick and injured animals are exempt from the licensing requirements provided that:
(a) accurate records are kept on forms provided by the Director and submitted annually not later than January 31st; and
(b) the Director is notified immediately of the presence of any endangered, threatened or special concern species listed pursuant to the U.S. Endangered Species Act or to 321 CMR 10.60.
(13) Temporary Possession Permit. Persons may temporarily possess animals in Massachusetts provided a temporary possession permit is obtained from the Division. The applicant shall supply the Division with the dates, times and locations where the animals will be possessed, the purposes of the temporary possession, a list of the animals being temporarily possessed and the dates of their removal. For the purposes of 321 CMR 2.12, a temporary possession permit may also be issued to a wild animal farm or a zoo for exhibiting animals off the premises of such farm or zoo.
(14) Grace Period. Persons presently possessing, maintaining, propagating or cultivating animals other than as pets, without a valid license or otherwise unlawfully, will be allowed a 30 day grace period from 6/30/95 in which applications for a license may, if submitted in accordance and in compliance with 321 CMR 2.12 and within the 30 day period, be approved and issued by the Director.
(15) Inspections. Upon submission of a properly completed application for a Class 4 license to be issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(3) or for a wildlife rehabilitation permit issued under authority of M.G.L. c. 131, 4, clause 2, and all required supporting documentation, an Environmental Police Officer or an official of the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, or both, shall inspect the facilities to be used by the applicant for the maintenance of the following animals: any mammal in the order Carnivora (wild cats, wolves, bears, raccoons, weasels, and others); any mammal in the order Proboscidea; any mammal in the families Cervidae (deer, elk, and others) and any venomous reptiles. If, upon receiving a properly completed application for a Class 4 license for any other species, the Director determines that an inspection of the applicant's facilities is in the public interest, he may cause such inspection to be made by an official of the Division or an Environmental Police Officer or both. An applicant's facilities, whether or not inspected as provided in 321 CMR 2.12(15), shall meet the following minimum requirements:
(a) animals shall be kept in approved enclosures under conditions that give the licensee exclusive control over them at all times and at the location(s) to be designated in the license, except as otherwise provided by law or the Director;
(b) approved enclosures shall be designed so as to provide adequate physical comfort to the animal and shall:
1. keep the animal clean and dry, except for those species requiring a moist environment;
2. maintain an ambient temperature compatible with the animal's needs;
3. keep the animal in complete and continuous captivity;
4. restrict the entry of unauthorized persons or predatory animals;
5. provide access to clean food and fresh water in clean containers; and
6. sufficient fresh food and water fulfilling the animal's dietary requirements shall be made available and shall be presented in a manner compatible with the animal's particular eating habits;
(c) maintain all enclosures in a sanitary condition and in good repair
(d) have equipment available for proper storage and disposal of waste material to control vermin, insects and obnoxious odors;
(e) take effective measures to prevent and control infection and infestation of the animal and premises with disease, parasites and vermin;
(f) provide adequate shelter for the comfort of the animal and adequate facilities, when necessary, for isolation of diseased animals;
(g) if animals are group housed, maintain animals in compatible groups without overcrowding; .
(h) ensure the enclosures are adequately designed to minimize any potential danger to the public, or to the licensee;
(i) in the case of venomous reptiles, arrange for antivenin to be readily available through a local hospital, the name, address and telephone number of which shall be affixed to the enclosure; and
(j) provide for the maintenance or disposition of all animals in case of the licensee's absence, illness, or death.
(k) comply with any special conditions or restrictions as stipulated by the Director, pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(16).
(16) Restrictions. Applications for a license issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(3) shall comply with the following restrictions.
(a) Animals may be procured in the following manner only:
1. lawfully propagated, harvested, or taken outside of Massachusetts; or
2. lawfully propagated within Massachusetts; and
3. unless otherwise provided for by the Director, animals taken from the wild within Massachusetts may not be propagated, cultivated or maintained for purposes of sale pursuant to M.G.L. c. 131, § 23.
(b) Birds and mammals possessed and maintained under authority of a class 5 license shall be liberated into the wild within one year under the supervision of and in covers approved by the Director.
(c) Birds and mammals sold for food purposes must first be killed and to each carcass or part thereof shall be attached a tag furnished by the Director at a cost to the licensee established by the Executive Office of Administration and Finance. This tag shall remain on the carcass or any portion thereof until the bird or mammal is prepared for consumption.
(17) Conditions. The Director may at any time, in writing, establish conditions or restrictions to a license issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(3) if, in his or her opinion, the conditions or restrictions are necessary for the preservation and protection of the health, welfare or safety of the citizens of Massachusetts or of the animal.
(18) Agreement. All licenses issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(3) shall be signed by the licensee and such signature shall constitute:
(a) an agreement by the licensee to fully comply with all relevant provisions of law Including but not limited to M.G.L. c. 131, c. 131A, 321 CMR, and all applicable conditions and restrictions of the license;
(b) an agreement by the licensee to allow inspections at reasonable times of the premises where the animals are kept by the Director or by an Environmental Police Officer of the Office of Law Enforcement; and
(c) liability agreement.
(19) Amendments. Class 4 license holders shall submit to the Director in writing any change in protected animal stock covered by a pending application or a current license. No change in protected animals, except in the instance of animals giving birth, held under authority of a class 4 license may be made until an appropriate amendment covering such change in stock is approved by the Director. All such requested amendments and modifications shall be subject to the provisions of 321 CMR 2.12.
(20) Records. Licensees shall keep and maintain for no less than two years accurate records on forms supplied by the Division of all animals possessed and maintained under authority of a license. Said records shall be made available to the Director or to an Environmental Police Officer upon request.
(21) Renewal. Applications for renewal of any license authorized to be renewed:
(a) shall be filed with the Division no later than December 31 of each year
(b) shall contain any change in protected animals to be maintained;
(c) shall be subject to the provisions of 321 CMR 2.12 and relevant provisions of M.G.L. c. 131; and
(d) are subject to M.G.L. c. 30A, § 13, and 801 CMR 1.00 in the event a renewal is denied.
(22) Suspension or Revocation. Licenses issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12 may be suspended or revoked in accordance with the relevant provisions of M.G.L. c. 30A and 801 CMR 1.00 for:
(a) a violation of any provision of M.G.L. c. 131 or c. 131A;
(b) a violation of any provision of 321 CMR;
(c) a violation of any federal statute or regulation which is related to the activity for which the license has been obtained;
(d) a violation of any condition or restriction of the license; or
(e) upon the request of any Environmental Police Officer if it is determined that the licensee's operation causes an unnecessary threat to the public health, welfare or safety or is not in the best interest to the animal.
(23) Effect of Suspension Revocation, or Non-Renewal. the event a license is suspended, revoked or not renewed, the licensee shall dispose of the animals within 60 days in a manner required by the Director or in a manner provided for by the licensee with the approval of the Director.
(24) Prohibitions. It is unlawful for any person:
(a) to import, possess, maintain, propagate or have custody of in Massachusetts any animal without a valid license issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12 or 2.15;
(b) to falsify any license application or renewal, provide false documentation in support of a license application or renewal or fail to provide relevant and material information regarding a license application or renewal;
(c) to refuse to allow reasonable inspections of the premises where the animals are kept at reasonable times by any Environmental Police Officer or by the Director,
(d) who is a veterinarian to fail to keep accurate records of the treatment of an animal or to falsify such records;
(e) who is a veterinarian to fail to notify the Director immediately of the presence of any endangered, threatened or special concern species;
(f) to keep and maintain any animal in a condition or under conditions which do not comply with provisions of 321 CMR 2.12(15)(a) through (k);
(g) to import, possess or purchase any animal which was propagated unlawfully in or out of Massachusetts;
(h) not to liberate into the wild within one year birds and mammals possessed and maintained under authority of a class 5 license;
(i) to liberate into the wild birds and mammals possessed and maintained under authority of a class 5 license without the Director or his agent being present or provided such opportunity, or into covers not otherwise approved by the Director;
(j) to sell a bird or mammal for food purposes which has not been killed first and affixed with a tag furnished by the Director;
(k) to remove any tag which has been affixed to the carcass of bird or mammal sold for food purposes at any time other than immediately prior to preparation for consumption;
(l) to violate any condition or restriction of a license issued prior to 321 CMR 2.12;
(m) not to provide the Director which written notification of a change in protected animal stock which is covered by a pending application or a current license;
(n) not to maintain for at least two years accurate records of all animals maintained and possessed or to falsify any such record or to refuse to provide such records upon request to any Environmental Police Officer or the Director,
(o) to refuse or fail to comply with a disposal order of the Director issued pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(23).
(25) Grandfather Clause. A person licensed as a Class 4 propagator on May 1,1995 who is commercially propagating animals pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12 (10)(d) and, in addition, who is propagating animals not listed in 321 CMR2.12(11), shall be allowed to continue propagation of such animals at the same site and of the same numbers of animals as on May 1, 1995, provided that a person so propagating white-tailed deer shall be allowed to propagate only the individual deer in possession on May 1, 1995, and such deer shall not be replaced when dead. Permittees shall comply with all other provisions of 321 CMR 2.12.
Currency of the Update: June 30, 2017
Mass. Regs. Code tit. 321, § 2.12, 321 MA ADC 2.12
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ANSWER representative visits Japan to build solidarity against U.S. and Japanese imperialism
Between June 16 and June 21, the Asia-Wide Campaign (AWC) hosted a representative from the ANSWER Coalition, Curry Malott, to speak at rallies and serve as the keynote speaker at public forums in southwestern Japan. The June 2017 AWC speaking tour was part of a larger campaign for international people’s solidarity against U.S.-Japanese imperialism.
The ANSWER Coalition thanks the AWC-Japan for extending this invitation, and for your continued solidarity in the struggle against U.S. and Japanese imperialism.
Please see below for a detailed report on an exciting series of rallies and forums:
“Anti-Nuke Struggle” Rally in Kyoto – June 16
Rally Against U.S.-Japanese Imperialism in Kyoto – June 19
Kyoto Forum - June 17
Fukuyama Forum - June 18
Nagoya Forum - June 20
Kobe Forum - June 21
Also: Read detailed articles about Japan's Conspiracy bill and recent Free Trade Agreements (links below).
Kansai Electric and Prime Minister Abe put profit before people: “Anti-Nuke Struggle” Rally in Kyoto – June 16
The first activity of the speaking tour was an anti-nuke rally in Kyoto on June 16.
The “anti-nuke struggle” has been central to the people’s movement in Japan since the United States unleashed the unimaginable horrors of nuclear warfare on Japan, first on the residents of Hiroshima-City August 6, 1945, and then on the people of Nagasaki. The anti-nuclear movement gained a new sense of urgency in 2011 as a result of the accident at Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Station.
Since 2011 the anti-nuke struggle has staged a protest every Friday around the office building of the Kansai Electric Power Company in downtown Kyoto. As a result of the growing outrage, by March of 2012 Kansai Electric had shutdown the last of its 11 remaining Nuclear power stations north of Osaka and Kyoto.
In 2015 the anti-nuclear movement, challenging the Abe government’s move to begin reopening all nuclear power stations, one by one, successfully filed a temporary injunction to halt the restart of the Takahama No. 3 and 4 reactors. However, the Osaka High Court reversed the decision of the Otsu Distract Court and the reactors have since been restarted. Four aging reactors are back in operation and two more are slated for reactivation as early as the fall. The anti-nuclear struggle will surely continue to intensify.
On June 16, the ANSWER Coalition joined more than 100 demonstrators in Kyoto in their chants against the corporate greed fueling the reopening of power stations despite the extremely high risk they continue to pose to the environment, and human health and safety.
Activists challenged the corporate propaganda that blames the Fukushima meltdown on a tsunami, ignoring the reports from independent investigators who have argued that the cause was an earthquake. Protestors therefore challenge the basic premise of the Nuclear Regulation Authority — that it is possible to create a “safe” nuclear power station.
Since Japan is an active earthquake zone, protestors spoke of how none of its nuclear power stations are safe, a conclusion the Kansai Electric Power Company refuses to consider. South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, has vowed to completely phase out nuclear power, noting the inherent danger and disregard for health and safety its production implies.
ANSWER representative Curry Malott spoke to the crowd stressing the importance of international solidarity in the movement against nuclear power as a very important and serious example of capitalism’s drive to accumulate more and more profits regardless of the deadly dangers. Many protestors seemed to embrace the conclusion that for the environment and people to survive, capitalism must end.
Applying this anti-capitalist, environmentalist thinking to an international context, the anti-nuke struggle in Japan has an international orientation. The Asian Wide Campaign-Japan, for example, has demanded that all nuclear power plants be shut down in Japan, Asian and worldwide. AWC-Japan has consistently fought for a nuclear-free world in solidarity with the victims of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. The AWC also opposes exporting nuclear power plants as part of Japan’s export economy.
Kyoto Forum – June 17
The first public forum in the speaking tour against U.S.-Japanese imperialism and military alliance was held on June 17 at the Higashiyama Citizen Center, a union office in Kyoto. The event was sponsored by AWC Kyoto. After opening remarks from AWC-Kyoto, a number of allied organizations offered a few brief reports.
The Kyoto Coalition against the US X-band Radar Base
It was reported the Coalition hosted guests from Seongju and Gimcheon, South Korea, for an assembly on June 3. The South Korean guests were activist struggling against the deployment by the United States and South Korea of the THAAD so-called missile defense system in South Korea.
On June 4, The Kyoto Coalition against the US X-band Radar Base had a demonstration in Kyotango, Kyoto, with the South Korean guests opposing the X-band Radar Base. In closing it was pointed out that because the U.S.-Japan-South Korea military alliance so closely connects those governments to each other, activists also need international solidarity.
The Coalition Paving the Way to Shut Down the Nuclear Power Plants in Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture
On May 17, Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama No. 4 reactor was restarted just over 14 months after it was forced to shut down, and No. 3 reactor was restarted in June. If the reactors meltdown again, over 5 million people could become refugees and the source of water for 14.5 million people could be polluted. The coalition then vowed to keep struggling until all the nuclear power plants are shut down.
AWC Youth
AWC Youth stressed the need to share the hardships young people face in society with sincerity and establish a careful relationship with them to prepare for the time when many youth decide to stand up.
Executive Committee of Anti-War Labor’s Gathering in Iwakuni
It was reported that the carrier-based aircrafts will be transferred from Atsugi to Iwakuni base sometime this year. The Iwakuni base, it was noted, is the biggest US Air force base in the Far East. This autumn, the anti-war activists will have an assembly in Iwakuni to oppose to the Iwakuni base.
Fukuyama Forum – June 18
The second forum, which took place on June 18, was held at another union office, Honjo Community Center, in Fukuyama, the second-largest city in Hiroshima Prefecture. The meeting opened with a few announcements, including statements on the deteriorating conditions of workers in Japan.
For example, in 2015, the primary labor law regulating the employment of part-time workers, the Worker Dispatch Act, was revised in the employers benefit. The length of time an employer can maintain an employee’s status as “temporary” is now unlimited.
As a result, the number of dispatch workers in Japan is growing. Around 40 percent of Japan’s workforce is temporary with high rates of extreme exploitation and other forms of abuse, including sexual harassment.
One outcome of this trend is that the number of families on public welfare assistance more than doubled in the last 20 years. More than 16 percent of children in Japan are living in poverty.
The birth rate has also been declining for decades, leading the traditionally chauvinistic and racist state to encourage immigration; that is, this demand for immigration has been driven by the capitalist desire for low-skill, super exploitable labor. In other words, Japan’s capitalist class has sought to increase profit margins by increasing the number of day laborers.
On June 19 the Asia-Wide Campaign hosted their monthly rally and march in front of Kyoto’s City Hall. The ongoing demonstration is part of a larger campaign against U.S.-Japanese imperialism. A crowd of more than 300 came out to rally and then march through the heart of downtown Kyoto’s tourist shopping district, passing by high-end retail super stores such as Louis Vuitton. The activists successfully attracted the attention of dozens of tourists, temporarily halting their shopping to snap photos and take footage of the anti-imperialist chants and anti-war banners, including large, vertically erected AWC signs.
A primary focus of the rally was to denounce the Abe government’s efforts to rewrite Japan’s Constitution, undermining Article 9 and enabling the Japanese Defense Forces to become a ready for war army, which it began in 1992 against Cambodia and then continued by sending military ships to the Gulf region to refuel U.S. warplanes.
Strong condemnation was also expressed toward the U.S., Japanese, and South Korean government’s recent coordinated nuclear bomb-dropping drill right off of North Korea’s shores. Demonstrators expressed outrage that the UN Security Council would not consider this an act of provocation, but rather impose further sanctions on the DPRK (North Korea) for their testing of an intermediate-range missile as a response to being threatened with nuclear annihilation.
The rally also took aim at the Abe government’s aggressive move to begin construction of the Henoko base in Okinawa, which is a central component of the Japanese-U.S. military alliance and preparedness for a new war in Korea and escalations in Syria and elsewhere.
Activism in Okinawa has been intense. AWC-Japan activists reported that in 2012, 100,000 people came out to protest against the U.S. military’s use of the Osprey aircraft. Osprey are prone to accidents and because U.S. military bases are so close to residential areas, they put civilians at serious risk. In 2015, 35,000 protests came out against the Henoko base construction. In June of 2016, 65,000 people joined the protests against all U.S. military bases, focusing their protest on the sexual assaults committed by U.S. servicemen. The activists, carrying the slogan “No More Patience,” demanded that the U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty not just be revised but revoked.
The Security Treaty, signed in 1951 and revised in 1960, gives the United States access to Japan’s air and land space for military purposes in exchange for “protection.” The activists called for all U.S. servicemembers out of Japan and for the closure of all U.S. military bases. In a national economy marked by neoliberal economic reforms and austerity measures resulting in deteriorating conditions for workers in Japan, especially the large number of immigrant day laborers who not only suffer low wages, but racism and abuse, it is outrageous that Japanese tax payers cover 70 percent of the cost of maintaining U.S. bases.
Student activists, aware that their own shrinking opportunities are directly connected to the U.S.-Japanese military alliance, were also represented at the rally. Inspired by the Fight for $15 movement in the United States, Japanese students in Tokyo launched a campaign called Aequitas with branches in Kyoto and Nagoya.
Clearly understood as a new offensive against all of these people’s movements in Japan, the rally also opposed the Abe government’s hastily deliberated Conspiracy bill, which offers a vague definition of terrorism. The Abe government argues this Conspiracy Bill is a necessary safeguard against next years’ Tokyo Olympics. Activists, however, argue the bill will result in attacks on freedom of expression and intensified surveillance measures. Those at the rally believe that the Conspiracy bill will be used to charge peaceful protestors, blocking the construction of military bases, for example, as terrorists.
Read a detailed article by Curry Malott on the Conspiracy bill published by Liberation News:
Japan’s Conspiracy bill signals new threats to the anti-U.S. base movement
Before the march, ANSWER representative Curry Malott addressed the protestors offering the following statement:
It is an honor to be here in Kyoto with you today struggling against U.S.-Japanese imperialism and military alliance.
We oppose the U.S.-Japanese military alliance. We therefore oppose Trump and Abe taking up the unfinished task of transforming the Japanese Self-Defense Forces into a ready for war army to be deployed, along with U.S. forces, anywhere in the world.
We also reject the racist propaganda against North Korea that is used to justify the U.S.-Japanese military alliance.
Opposing the U.S.-Japanese military alliance also means that we stand in solidarity with the anti-U.S. base movement in Okinawa and throughout Japan.
We also stand in solidarity with the people of Japan opposing the Conspiracy Bill passed by the Abe government that will surely be used against the peoples’ movements in Japan, especially the anti-base movement.
We stand with the people of Japan who are outraged and disgusted by the crimes U.S. soldiers commit against women and young girls near U.S. bases with near impunity.
We therefore stand with the victims of U.S. soldiers’ sexual assaults and demand that they be brought to justice, and that all U.S. soldiers in Japan, the Asian Pacific, and beyond be sent home.
We also oppose U.S. military bases in Japan for the environmental devastation they have created and for the debilitating noise pollution they mercilessly subject the people living around the bases to.
Finally, we oppose U.S. military bases in Japan because they have allowed the United States to launch its imperialist wars of aggression on Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Opposing the U.S.-Japanese military alliance therefore goes hand-in-hand with opposing the presence of U.S. military bases in Japan.
Bring down the Trump regime! Bring down the Abe regime! Build people’s solidarity!
Nagoya Forum – June 20
The Nagoya Forum was sponsored by the Network of No War, Tokai People’s Center, Sasajima Day Labor Union and Tokai Action for Centenary of Japan's Annexation of Korea. The forum was held at E-Able Nagoya on June 20.
Before the forum, ANSWER representative Curry Malott visited the office of the Sasashima Day Labor Union and spoke with day laborers, including Filipino immigrants, preparing a meal for homeless people in Nagoya-city. Immigrants from the Philippines and Indonesia, among other countries, experience racism and super exploitation, often as day laborers in the construction industry.
Immigrant workers spoke of hard times being homeless and collecting recyclable cans before learning of and joining the Sasashima Day Labor Union. Many day laborers in fact are homeless, so Sasashima’s connection to the homeless population is very close.
With the U.S. military occupying 20 percent of Okinawa, including much of the island’s arable land, many Okinawans have been forced out of economic necessity to migrate to the so-called Japanese mainland. Because of anti-indigenous racism, many Okinawans also are forced out of necessity to work as temporary, unskilled day laborers.
Kobe Forum – June 21
The final forum took place on June 21. AWC-Japan hosted ANSWER representative Curry Malott and the president of AWC-Korea, Young Koo Heo, as keynote speakers in Kobe at the Kobe Workers’ Hall. From June 22-24, Heo continued the speaking tour in northeastern Japan.
AWC-Korea
Heo’s report focused on the situation in South Korea and the Candlelight movement, which was the movement that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, and, ultimately, the election of Moon Jae-in.
The movement was driven first by anger against the Park government’s political repression, signaled by the banning of the left-wing Unified Progressive Party in 2014. Anger toward the government for shutting down the people’s political avenues for improving their lives was greatly intensified by a corruption scandal. The scandal exposed an unofficial advisor of Park’s, Choi Soon-sil, for successfully extorting tens of millions of dollars of public and corporate money.
Large numbers of super exploited part-time workers are part of South Korea’s work force. Recent Free Trade Agreements have also reduced international trade and job availability. The deregulation of FTAs has increased capital’s revenue, but it has led to greater impoverishment of workers in South Korea.
Read a detailed article by Curry Malott on recent Free Trade Agreements published by Liberation News:
Free trade agreements and military deregulation in Japan
Outlawing the peoples’ voice combined with the looting of public coffers, situated in the context of worsening economic conditions for workers, pushed the people into the streets to oppose Park.
Within this context of poverty and outrage, Lee stressed the significance of how rapidly the Candlelight movement grew, and in a relatively short amount of time toppled a president. For example, on October 29, 2016, 30,000 people came out to protest against Park. By November 26, that number had grown to 110,000 people protesting the Park government. The demonstrations then quickly rose to 2 million and then 16 million people. In just a few months, by March 10, 2017, the Constitutional Court unanimously upheld parliament’s December vote to impeach.
Given the climate of political repression under Park, Lee stressed the significance of the people holding 20 Candlelight assemblies without any violent activity of the police to crush it. Because of this struggle of direct democracy, people in South Korea are realizing the power they already have.
Lee noted that Moon Jae-in, reflecting the people’s desire, is focusing on creating new jobs. Lee reported that Moon is also looking into reforming the wage differences between regular and irregular workers. Due to the low wages, South Korea also has the longest workday in the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), and unusually high rates of poverty among youth and the elderly.
However, due to many factors, such as the power of the South Korean capitalist class and because of the U.S. government’s control over the South Korean military, Lee noted that the leader of the Candlelight movement could not become the new president.
Offering a wider framework, Lee noted that many previous South Korean presidents promised to reform the unfair military relationship between the U.S. and South Korea, but never moved beyond the realm of promises.
Lee discussed how 100 anti-THAAD protestors were recently met by more than 8,000 police on April 26 to repress and remove them, and move forward with the deployment of a system opposed by the people on that area and nationwide. Moon Jae-in’s election is a clear mandate from the people to stop the deployment of THAAD, but it is yet to be seen whether he will do that or simply slow it’s progress forward with an environmental impact study.
While the election of Moon Jae-in was a major victory of the peoples’ movements, Lee stressed the ongoing need to oppose U.S.-Japanese imperialism, and the U.S.-Japanese-South Korean military alliance.
Despite the repression, the Japanese and South Korean people kept struggling in solidarity in many fields. The speech was concluded by noting that the activists should proceed with their joint struggle.
Read a detailed article by Curry Malott on struggle for justice for women enslaved by the Japanese army during World War Two published by Liberation News: Struggling against imperialism, refusing to forget “comfort women”
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Whining Past is an experiment in historical documentation. It is the transcription of a journal kept by Captain Raymond Earl Hill of the U.S. 365th Infantry Regiment during his service in World War I. The journal recounts Captain Hill’s entire experience in France—from his arrival in June 1918, through the armistice of November 1918, to his return to the States in January 1919.
For much of the past year, I’ve been transcribing this fragile, century-old document so that friends, family, and general history geeks can read, first-hand, the experience of Capt. Hill, my great-grandfather.
Cap, as he was known to my family, died in 1981—six years before I was born. Despite the ripe age of 90, Cap’s official cause of death was listed as a lung infection stemming from an injury suffered during the war. On November 11, 1918—the last day of fighting in Europe—Cap was exposed to a near-lethal volume of mustard gas. The poisonous chemical temporarily blinded him, left him hospitalized for days, and permanently riddled his lungs with emphysema.
Despite this horror, Cap belied not a whit of the physical or emotional toll such an experience musthave taken—not to my grandfather, not to my mother, and most of all not to the journal that was his record.
Out of respect for such a life, and for the countless service members who never had the privilege, my family and I have decided to publish this journal. It is my intent to contextualize the journal with dates, locations, references, and photographs. The result, I hope, will be a thorough record of just one experience in a war that claimed more than 37 million lives, and a testament of admiration for a man I never knew, but with whom I can share the ghostly remains of the written word.
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American Hustle….
I thought I’d start the new year by trying to get to the cinema more, partly because there’s a lot of good stuff around (12 Years A Slave, American Hustle, Anchorman 2, Monument Men) and partly because I live five minutes walk from an independent cinema here in Stratford, so there’s really no excuse. I chose David O’Russell’s new ensemble picture about (in the loosest of terms) about a corruption scandal in New Jersey in the 1970s and 80s. Pedantry check: while it does bear a passing resemblance, in reality it’s only framed around events, the names are changed (to protect the not very innocent).
That out of the way, it’s a hugely enjoyable film. The cast is superb, working very much as an ensemble, even though you’d argue (like The Fighter) the star of the show, while pitched behind Bale’s crack addict (in The Fighter) brother or overweight con-man here, is Amy Adams. She’s proven serious acting chops once again, the driving force behind the men, and the story, and a world away from Disney fare of the last decade. But part of the joy is just how great the film looks, and, more importantly, feels. Yes, there’s been a lot of talk about style over substance, but that’s a lazy criticism. This isn’t Anchorman, it’s pitched fantastically into the late 70s, and there’s little flamboyance above what’s needed to tell the story.
As for the plot, it skirts a little close to pastiche at times, in terms of the Goodfellas-style focus pulls and bar scenes, but it’s all about the characters, staying much in close-up, to get us close to the action, which works especially well in the scenes with De Niro, which crackle with menace (and imminent collapse), and in the second half of the film, as things slowly unravel. There’s no great payoff, even though the ‘real events’ are given a veneer by Russell, reminding us that this is life, and there’s never a happy ending (cue “some of the actually happened” at the start).
Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper in American Hustle.
Bale is in superb, shape-shifted form as Irving. Compare this to The Machinist, and you have to wonder if he’s the actor most willing to destroy his form to inhabit the role. He’s not afraid of walking around, gut out. He also gets the fine line between crafty con artist and flawed human perfect, in fact all the characters interweave really well, whether it’s Adams’ ballsy and strong fellow con, Cooper’s curly-haired and increasingly wayward FBI agent, Penner’s Elvis-haired mayor, and Lawrence’s agoraphobic wife. You can sense how much they’re enjoying themselves in every scene, even when it’s all going to pieces. Despite the fact this is a criminal caper, you still feel sympathy, even though most of the characters are pretty unlikable.
The music is superb – think Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Live And Let Die, A Horse With No Name, I Feel Love, Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone – and adds to the experience greatly, (and as an aside, it’s so great to see attention to a good soundtrack when the film’s so clearly lodged in its time) and it’s one of the many reasons why I barely looked at my watch for the two hours-plus running time.
It’s a classic tale of American life, of crime, corruption, politics (in passing) but more than anything about people. And it could’ve come across as a lazy pastiche, but it was a hugely enjoyable trip, at times almost a romp, that’s carried by its stars and its director. It could’ve been overacted, but actually, there’s a nice understatement it much of it, even when the scenes are being laid on thick (the toilet scene in the casino with Adams and Lawrence for starters). Even O Russell, whose career reached something of a crossroads at the divisive I Heart Huckabees (I thought it was self-indulgent nonsense), where his behind-the-camera antics were both cringeworthy and aggressive, (and widely reported) seems to have righted the ship, and reigned in much of his difficulties (though not all), and since then he’s put out three award-worthy films in The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. This has already picked up nominations for the four main actors, director and screenplay in the Golden Globes.
So forget the criticisms, and just enjoy what’s a beautifully acted, superbly shot, dryly funny film that captures the world-weary transition from the 1970s in New Jersey in all its glory.
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Hasdrubal the Boetharch
Hasdrubal's wife denouncing her husband before Scipio Africanus by Pietro della Vecchia, c. 1650
Hasdrubal the Boetharch (Punic: 𐤏𐤆𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤋,[1] ʿAzrubaʿal) was a Carthaginian general during the Third Punic War. Little is known about him. "Boetharch" was a Carthaginian office, the exact function of which is unclear but which is not to be confused with the Greek boeotarch.
Hasdrubal led the Carthaginian forces at the Siege of Carthage in 146 BC, their defeat by Scipio Aemilianus, proconsul of the Roman Republic, brought the war to a close. Hasdrubal's military skill was not to be doubted, as his army had been well trained and equipped, his work at defending Carthage cost the Romans a difficult campaign to suppress the defenders. His tactical skills, however, were dwarfed by his contemporaries Massinissa and Scipio.
Hasdrubal had a wife and two sons, who, according to Polybius, threw themselves into a burning temple when they witnessed their army's defeat. Hasdrubal had surrendered himself to the Romans prior to his family's deaths, an act possibly provoking their suicide, he was taken to Rome and displayed during Scipio's triumph, but later allowed to live in peace in Italy.[2]
This may be the same general Hasdrubal who was defeated near the town of Tunes (now Tunis) by the Numidian king, Masinissa, just after war was declared (149 BC).
Other Hasdrubals in Carthaginian history
^ Huss (1985), p. 566.
^ Mommsen, p. 54
Smith, p.360
Havell, H.L. (2009), Republican Rome..., BiblioBazaar, p. 321, ISBN 1-115-39574-2 .
Huss, Werner (1985), Geschichte der Karthager, Munich: C.H. Beck . ‹See Tfd›(in German)
Mommsen, Theodor (1870), William Purdie Dickson (ed.), The History of Rome, Vol. 3, New York: C. Scribner & Co, pp. 42–54 .
Book XXXVIII of Polybius's Histories, English trans., 7-8,20
Smith, William, ed. (1849), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. II, C.C. Little & J. Brown, pp. 359–360 .
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Polybius, Fragments of Book XXXVIII, 7
Livius.org: Hasdrubal
William Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Volume 2", C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1849 [1].
Notable Carthaginians
Adherbal (admiral)
Adherbal (governor)
Carthalo
Hamilcar (Drepanum)
Hamilcar Barca
Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Gisco
Hannibal Monomachus
Hannibal the Rhodian
Hanno the Elder
Hanno the Great
Hanno the Navigator
Hanno, son of Bomilcar
Hasdrubal Barca
Hasdrubal Gisco
Hasdrubal the Fair
Hasdrubal (quartermaster)
Himilco
Mago (agricultural writer)
Mago Barca
Maharbal
Sophonisba
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Hanno the Great may refer to any of three different leaders of ancient Carthage, according to Gilbert Charles-Picard and Colette Picard: Hanno I the Great, Hanno II the Great, Hanno III the Great. According to Warmington, there were three elders of Carthage called Hanno who were given the same nickname but he conjectures that it was a family nickname or a term not well understood by the ancient Greek or Roman writers. Warmington discusses only two of them but he does not use Roman numerals for them. Lancel mentions only one Hanno the Great, the Picards' "Hanno I", he references "Hanno II" but calls him "Hanno". Hanno the Great was a politician and military leader of the 4th century BC, his title, according to Justin, was princeps Cathaginiensium. It is considered more that the title signifies first among equals, rather than being a title of nobility or royalty, his rival Suniatus was called the potentissimus Poenorum, or "the most powerful of the Carthaginians", in the year 368. Several years Suniatus was accused of high treason and executed.
In 367 Hanno the Great commanded a fleet of 200 ships which won a decisive naval victory over the Greeks of Sicily. His victory blocked the plans of Dionysius I of Syracuse to attack Lilybaeum, a city allied to Carthage in western Sicily. For about twenty years Hanno the Great was the leading figure of Carthage, the wealthiest. In the 340s he schemed to become the tyrant. After distributing food to the populace, the time for a show of force came and he utilized for that purpose the native slaves and a Berber chieftain. Although not a military threat to Carthage, Hanno the Great was captured, found to be a traitor, tortured to death. Many members of his family were put to death, yet his son Gisgo was given the command of seventy ships of Carthage manned by Greek mercenaries and sent to Lilybaeum, after which peace was negotiated by Carthage with Timoleon of Syracuse, c. 340. Thereafter, this family's prestige and influence at Carthage would tell in generations. Hanno I the Great was an ancestor of Hanno II the Great.
Hanno the Great was a wealthy Carthaginian aristocrat in the 3rd century BC. Hanno's wealth was based on the land he owned in Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, during the First Punic War he led the faction in Carthage, opposed to continuing the war against Roman Republic, he preferred to continue conquering territory in Africa rather than fight a naval war against Rome that would bring him no personal gain. In these efforts, he was opposed by the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca. Hanno demobilized the Carthaginian navy in 244 BC, giving Rome time to rebuild its navy and defeat Carthage by 241 BC. After the war, Hanno refused to pay the Berber mercenaries, promised money and rewards by Hamilcar; the mercenaries revolted, Hanno took control of the Carthaginian army to attempt to defeat them. His attempt failed and he gave control of the army back to Hamilcar, they both cooperated to crush the rebels in 238 BC. His nickname "the Great" was earned because of his conquests among the African enemies of Carthage, he continued to oppose war with Rome, which would involve naval engagements.
During the Second Punic War, he led the anti-war faction in Carthage, is blamed for preventing reinforcements from being sent to Hamilcar's son Hannibal after his victory at the Battle of Cannae. After Carthage's defeat at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, he was among the ambassadors to negotiate peace with the Romans; the third Hanno the Great was an ultra-conservative politician at Carthage during the 2nd century BC. Other Hannos in Carthaginian history Huss, Geschichte der Karthager, Munich: C. H. Beck. Hanno II the Great
Scipio Aemilianus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus known as Scipio Aemilianus, or Scipio Africanus Minor, or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was an important politician and general of the Roman Republic, who served as consul twice, in 147 and 134 BC. He was the natural son of Aemilius Paullus, but was adopted into the Cornelii Scipiones—the most prominent family at the time—by a son of Scipio Africanus. In 147 BC, he besieged and destroyed Carthage. In 134 BC he took over the Numantine War, restored the discipline of the Roman army, defeated Numantia, he was a prominent patron of writers and philosophers, the most famous of whom was the Greek historian Polybius. Scipio Aemilianus was the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, the commander of the Romans' victorious campaign in the Third Macedonian War, his first wife, Papiria Masonis. Scipio was adopted by his first cousin, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the eldest son of his aunt Aemilia Tertia and her husband Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the acclaimed commander who won the decisive battle of the Second Punic War against Hannibal.
This made Scipio Africanus the adoptive grandfather of Scipio Aemilianus. On adoption, he became Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, assuming the name of his adoptive father, but keeping Aemilianus as a fourth name to indicate his original nomen, his elder brother was adopted by a son or grandson of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, another prominent commander in the Second Punic War, whose name became Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus. Lucius Aemilius Paullus took his two older sons with him in his campaign in Greece. Plutarch wrote that Scipio was his favorite son because he "saw that he was by nature more prone to excellence than any of his brothers", he related that during mopping-up operations after the Battle of Pydna, Aemilius was worried because his younger son was missing. Plutarch wrote that "The whole army learned of the distress and anguish of their general, springing up from their suppers, ran about with torches, many to the tent of Aemilius, many in front of the ramparts, searching among the numerous dead bodies.
Dejection reigned in the camp, the plain was filled with the cries of men calling out the name of Scipio. For from the outset he had been admired by everybody, beyond any other one of his family, he had a nature adapted for leadership in war and public service. Well when it was late and he was despaired of, he came in from the pursuit with two or three comrades, covered with the blood of the enemies he had slain..." Scipio Aemilianus was seventeen at the time. In 152 BC, the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus urged the Senate to conclude a peace with the Celtiberians; the Senate rejected this proposal, instead sent one of the consuls of 151 BC, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, to Hispania to continue the war. However, there was a crisis of recruitment due to rumors of incessant battles and heavy Roman losses. Additionally, Marcellus appeared to be afraid of continuing the war. Young men avoided enrollment as soldiers through unverifiable excuses. Men eligible to be legates or military tribunes did not volunteer.
Scipio Aemilianus was thought to have advised for the prosecution of the war. He asked the Senate to be sent to Hispania either as a military tribune or a legate, due to the urgency of the situation though it would have been safer to go to Macedon, where he had been invited to settle domestic disputes; the Senate was at first surprised. Scipio's decision made him popular, many of those, avoiding their duty, ashamed by Scipio's example, began to volunteer as legates or to enroll as soldiers. Scipio served under Lucullus. Velleius Paterculus wrote that Scipio was awarded a mural crown, a military decoration awarded to the soldier who first climbed the wall of a besieged city or fortress and placed the military standard on it. Florus wrote that "having been challenged by king to a single combat, carried off the spolia opima, the armor and arms stripped from the body of an opposing commander slain in single combat; these were regarded as the most honorable of all war trophies." Although the power of Carthage had been broken with her defeat in the Second Punic War, there was still lingering resentment in Rome.
Cato the Elder ended every speech with, "Carthage must be destroyed." In 150 BC an appeal was made to Scipio Aemilianus by the Carthaginians to act as a mediator between them and the Numidian prince Massinissa who, supported by the anti-Carthaginian faction in Rome, was incessantly encroaching on Carthaginian territory. In 149 BC Rome declared war, a force sent to Africa, Carthage's homeland. In the early stages of the war, the Romans suffered repeated defeats. Scipio Aemilianus distinguished himself repeatedly. In 147 BC he was elected consul, while still under the minimum age required by law to hold this office. Without the customary procedure of drawing lots, he was assigned to the African theater of war. After a year of desperate fighting and stubborn heroism on the part of the defenders, he took the city of Carthage, taking prisoner about 50,000 survivors. Complying with the mandate of the Senate, he ordered the city evacuated, burnt it, razed it to the ground and plowed it over, ending the Third Punic War.
On his return to Rome he received a Triumph, having established a personal claim to his adoptive agnomen of Africanus. In 134 BC Scipio was elected consul again because the citizens thought that he was the only man capable of defeating the Numantines in the
Dido was, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources, the founder and first queen of Carthage. She is known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic, Aeneid. In some sources she is known as Elissa. Many names in the legend of Dido are of Punic origin, which suggests that the first Greek authors who mention this story have taken up Phoenician accounts. One suggestion is that Dido is an epithet from the same Semitic root as David, which means "Beloved". Others state Didô means "the wanderer". According to Marie-Pierre Noël, "Elishat/Elisha" is a name attested on Punic votives, it is composed of the Punic reflex of *ʾil- "god", the remote Phoenician creator god El a name for God in Judaism, "‐issa", which could be either "ʾiš" means "fire", or another word for "woman". Other works state. In Greek it appears as Theiossô; this understanding of the chronology related to Dido and her company resulted in the following dates for Dido and her immediate relations, as derived from F. M. Cross and Wm. H. Barnes: Baal-Eser II 846–841 BC Mattan I 840–832 BC 839 BC: Dido was born in Tyre 831 BC: Pygmalion begins to reign 825 BC: Dido flees Tyre in 7th year of Pygmalion, after the death of Acerbas 825 BC and some time thereafter: Dido and companions on Cyprus Between 825 BC and 814 BC: Tyrians build settlement on island of Cothon 814 BC: Dido founds Carthage on mainland 785 BC: Death of Pygmalion 759 BC: Dido died in Carthage The person of Dido can be traced to references by Roman historians to lost writings of Timaeus of Tauromenium in Sicily.
Historians gave both for the foundation of Carthage and the foundation of Rome. Appian in the beginning of his Punic Wars claims that Carthage was founded by a certain Zorus and Carchedon, but Zorus looks like an alternative transliteration of the city name Tyre and Carchedon is just the Greek form of Carthage. Timaeus made Carchedon's wife Elissa the sister of King Pygmalion of Tyre. Archaeological evidence of settlement on the site of Carthage before the last quarter of the 8th century BC has yet to be found. Paucity of material for this period may be explained by rejection of the Greek Dark Age theory; that the city is named at least indicates it was a colony. The only surviving full account before Virgil's treatment is that of Virgil's contemporary Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus in his Philippic histories as rendered in a digest or epitome made by Junianus Justinus in the 3rd century AD. Justin quoting or paraphrasing Trogus states, a king of Tyre whom Justin does not name, made his beautiful daughter Dido and son Pygmalion his joint heirs.
But on his death the people took Pygmalion alone as their ruler though Pygmalion was yet still a boy. Dido married Acerbas her uncle who as priest of Heracles—that is, Melqart—was second in power to King Pygmalion. Acerbas can be equated with the Zikarbaal king of Byblos mentioned in the Egyptian Tale of Wenamon. Rumor told that Acerbas had much wealth secretly buried and King Pygmalion had Acerbas murdered in hopes of gaining this wealth. Dido, desiring to escape Tyre, expressed a wish to move into Pygmalion's palace, but ordered the attendants whom Pygmalion sent to aid in the move, to throw all Acerbas' bags of gold into the sea as an offering to his spirit. In fact these bags contained only sand. Dido persuaded the attendants to join her in flight to another land rather than face Pygmalion's anger when he discovered what had become of Acerbas' wealth; some senators joined her in her flight. The party arrived at Cyprus. There the exiles seized about eighty young women who were prostituting themselves on the shore in order to provide wives for the men in the party.
Dido and her followers arrived on the coast of North Africa where Dido asked the Berber king Iarbas for a small bit of land for a temporary refuge until she could continue her journeying, only as much land as could be encompassed by an oxhide. They agreed. Dido cut the oxhide into fine strips so that she had enough to encircle an entire nearby hill, therefore afterwards named Byrsa "hide"; that would become their new home. Many of the local Berbers joined the settlement and both Berbers and envoys from the nearby Phoenician city of Utica urged the building of a city. In digging the foundations an ox's head was found, indicating a city that would be wealthy but subject to others. Accordingly, another area of the hill was dug instead where a horse's head was found, indicating that the city would be powerful in war, but when the new city of Carthage had been established and become prosperous, Iarbas, a native king of the Maxitani or Mauritani, demanded Dido for his wife or he would make war on Carthage.
Dido's envoys, fearing Iarbas, told Dido only that Iarbas' terms for peace were that someone from Carthage must dwell permanently with him to teach Phoenician ways and they added that of course no Carthaginian would agree to dwell with such savages. Dido condemned any who would feel that way when they should indeed give their lives for the city if necessary. Dido's envoys explained that Iarbas had requested Dido as wife. Dido was trapped by her words. Still, she preferred to stay faithful to her first husband and after creating a ceremonial funeral pyre and sacrificing many victi
Pietro della Vecchia
Pietro della Vecchia, Pietro della Vècchia or Pietro Vècchia incorrectly called Pietro Muttoni was a versatile Italian painter who worked in many genres and created altar pieces, genre scenes and grotesques. He created pastiches of the work of leading Italian painters of the 16th century; the artist worked as an art restorer. Della Vecchia was sought after as an art expert and did expert valuations of artworks, he worked most of his life in its environs except for a brief stay in Rome. The life of Pietro della Vecchia is not well documented and the information available is not always reliable. Pietro della Vecchia is believed to have been born in Vicenza in 1603 as the son of Gasparo, a painter admitted to the Venetian painters guild; some art historians place the artist's place of birth in Venice. Pietro della Vecchia was erroneously called Pietro Muttoni after Luigi Lanzi in the first edition of his Storia pittorica della Italia, mixed up the artist's name with that of a Muttoni collection, which kept one of his paintings.
Authors interpreted de la Vecchia as a nickname as the artist liked to imitate the old masters of the previous century. Pietro was in fact a scion of a well-known Venetian family called'Dalla Vecchia'. Early sources describe Alessandro Varotari, called il Padovanino, as his teacher. On stylistic grounds some art historians have expressed doubt on this traineeship in his early years; the influence of the works of Padovanino is only visible after 1635. So he may have worked with Padovanino at a stage, his earliest known work show a strong influence by Carlo Saraceni and Saraceni's pupil and collaborator Jean Leclerc. This is an important indication; as his work displayed for some time certain Caravaggesque characteristics it is believed that he spent time in Rome after the departure of Leclerc from Venice in 1621 or 1622. Della Vecchia worked in Padovanino's workshop after his return from Rome in 1625 or 1626. Padovanino, whose style was rooted in early 16th century Venetian art played an important role in instilling in della Vecchia a great interest in 16th-century painting in Venice and the Veneto.
The first documents in which the name of della Vecchia appears date back to the period from December 1626 to January 1628. The documents deal with the payment for a banner the artist had made for the Confraternity of the Carmelites in the church of S. Marco in Pordenone. From 1629 to 1640 he was a member of the guild of painters in Venice. In 1626 he married a daughter of the Flemish painter Nicolas Régnier. Clorinda Régnier was a painter in her own right and has been described as "a woman of great spirit, of great stature and of great adherence". Lucrezia Régnier, the elder sister of della Vecchia's wife was married to Daniel van den Dyck, a Flemish painter active in Northern Italy. Della Vecchia, together with his brother-in-law Daniel van den Dyck and their respective spouses, painted wall decorations in the Palazzo Pesaro in Preganziol. Towards the end of the 1630s della Vecchia had established his name as one of the leading painters of Venice of religious works. In January 1640 the procurators of S. Marco de Supra, responsible for the decoration of St Mark's Basilica, commissioned from him two cartoons for mosaics.
These appear to have been well received as della Vecchia was subsequently appointed Venice's "pitor ducal", a position he held until 1674, that is, until four years before his death. In this capacity he was responsible for the design of the new mosaics and the restoration of the old ones in the Basilica. Della Vecchia received a commission to restore Giorgione's Castelfranco Madonna altarpiece in 1643-1644. At the height of his career, della Vecchia was a sought-after teacher with a large workshop employing many assistants. Della Vecchia opened an academy in his house where live drawing classes were organised. Gregorio Lazzarini was one of his pupils shortly after 1667. Gregorio Lazzarini was the teacher of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Della Vecchia taught classes on the theory of art. Della Vecchia enjoyed fame as a connoisseur of ancient paintings. During the latter part of his life he was consulted by collectors and merchants together with his father-in-law Nicolas Régnier. Both he and his father-in-law had business relations with Paolo del Sera, the art agent in Venice of Leopoldo de' Medici, an Italian cardinal, patron of the arts and the Governor of Siena.
Marco Boschini, an engraver, art dealer and author, a great admirer of della Vecchia joined the artist when he was asked to value paintings after 1670. Della Vecchia was close to the humanistic and libertine circle around the Accademia degli Incogniti, a learned society of freethinking intellectuals noblemen, that influenced the cultural and political life of mid-17th century Venice. Many of the subjects of his works were a reflection of the intellectual occupations of this influential Venetian society. For instance the charged eroticism in the Young couple is linked to the libertine attitudes of the Accademia, his son Gasparo Prospero was born on 8 May 1653 and became a minor painter, music theoretician and mathematician. Pietro della Vecchia had four daughters one of whom died young. Della Vecchia was buried in the church of S. Canciano. Pietro della Vecchia was a versatile and prolific painter who worked in many genr
Carthage was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia. The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of a Punic empire dominating the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC; the legendary Queen Dido is regarded as the founder of the city, though her historicity has been questioned. According to accounts by Timaeus of Tauromenium, she purchased from a local tribe the amount of land that could be covered by an oxhide. Cutting the skin into strips, she laid out her claim and founded an empire that would become, through the Punic Wars, the only existential threat to Rome until the coming of the Vandals several centuries later; the ancient city was destroyed by the Roman Republic in the Third Punic War in 146 BC and re-developed as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of the Roman Empire in the province of Africa. The city was sacked and destroyed in the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in 698.
The site remained uninhabited, the regional power shifting to the Medina of Tunis in the medieval period, until the early 20th century, when it began to develop into a coastal suburb of Tunis, incorporated as Carthage municipality in 1919. The archaeological site was first surveyed by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe. Excavations were performed in the second half of the 19th century by Charles Ernest Beulé and by Alfred Louis Delattre; the Carthage National Museum was founded in 1875 by Cardinal Charles Lavigerie. Excavations performed by French archaeologists in the 1920s first attracted an extraordinary amount of attention because of the evidence they produced for child sacrifice. There has been considerable disagreement among scholars concerning whether or not child sacrifice was practiced by ancient Carthage; the open-air Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum has exhibits excavated under the auspices of UNESCO from 1975 to 1984. The name Carthage /ˈkarθɪdʒ/ is the Early Modern anglicisation of French Carthage /kaʁ.taʒ/, from Latin Carthāgō and Karthāgō from the Punic qrt-ḥdšt "new city", implying it was a "new Tyre".
The Latin adjective pūnicus, meaning "Phoenician", is reflected in English in some borrowings from Latin—notably the Punic Wars and the Punic language. The Modern Standard Arabic form قرطاج is an adoption of French Carthage, replacing an older local toponym reported as Cartagenna that directly continued the Latin name. Carthage was built on a promontory with sea inlets to the south; the city's location made it master of the Mediterranean's maritime trade. All ships crossing the sea had to pass between Sicily and the coast of Tunisia, where Carthage was built, affording it great power and influence. Two large, artificial harbors were built within the city, one for harboring the city's massive navy of 220 warships and the other for mercantile trade. A walled tower overlooked both harbors; the city had 37 km in length, longer than the walls of comparable cities. Most of the walls were located on the shore, thus could be less impressive, as Carthaginian control of the sea made attack from that direction difficult.
The 4.0 to 4.8 km of wall on the isthmus to the west were massive and were never penetrated. The city had a huge necropolis or burial ground, religious area, market places, council house, a theater, was divided into four sized residential areas with the same layout. In the middle of the city stood a high citadel called the Byrsa. Carthage was one of the largest cities of the Hellenistic period and was among the largest cities in preindustrial history. Whereas by AD 14, Rome had at least 750,000 inhabitants and in the following century may have reached 1 million, the cities of Alexandria and Antioch numbered only a few hundred thousand or less. According to the not always reliable history of Herodian, Carthage rivaled Alexandria for second place in the Roman empire. On top of Byrsa hill, the location of the Roman Forum, a residential area from the last century of existence of the Punic city was excavated by the French archaeologist Serge Lancel; the neighborhood, with its houses and private spaces, is significant for what it reveals about daily life there over 2100 years ago.
The remains have been preserved under embankments, the substructures of the Roman forum, whose foundation piles dot the district. The housing blocks are separated by a grid of straight streets about 6 m wide, with a roadway consisting of clay. Construction of this type presupposes organization and political will, has inspired the name of the neighborhood, "Hannibal district", referring to the legendary Punic general or sufet at the beginning of the second century BCE; the habitat is typical stereotypical. The street was used as a storefront/shopfront. In some places, the ground is covered with mosaics called punica pavement, sometimes using a characteristic red mortar; the merchant harbor at Carthage was developed, after settlement of the nearby Punic town of Utica. The surrounding countryside was brought into the orbit of the Punic urban centers, first commercially politically. Direct management over cultivation of neighbouring lands by Punic owners followed. A 28-volume work on agriculture written in Punic by Mago, a retired army general, was trans
For the Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola, see Sofonisba Anguissola. For the American activist Sophonisba Breckinridge, see Sophonisba Breckinridge. Sophonisba was a Carthaginian noblewoman who lived during the Second Punic War, the daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco Gisgonis. In an act that became legendary, Sophonisba poisoned herself rather than be humiliated in a Roman triumph; the form of the name Sophonisba is not known until the fifteenth century, in a few late manuscripts of Livy, but it is the better known form because of literature. Dio Cassius tells us that Sophoniba was a great beauty, betrothed to King Masinissa until 206. Masinissa was the leader of the Massylii Numidians. However, in 206, Masinissa allied himself to Rome. Dio Cassius suggests that this was because Hasdrubal found a better ally in Syphax, king of the Masaesyli, as was normal in those days, Hasdrubal used his daughter to conclude the diplomatic alliances with Syphax, who had himself been allied to Rome; because Masinissa meets Sophonisba for the first time after the defeat of Syphax, this account is criticized as being "most improbable" by H. E. Butler and H. H. Scullard.
Syphax was defeated and captured in 203 BC by Masinissa and Scipio Africanus in the Battle of the Great Plains on the Bagradas. Masinissa married her. Scipio, refused to agree to this arrangement, insisting on the immediate surrender of the princess so that she could be taken to Rome and appear in the triumphal parade. Masinissa, upbraided by Scipio for his weakness, was urged to leave her. Masinissa feared the Romans more. Thus, he swore his love to her, he told her that he could not free her from captivity or shield her from Roman wrath, so he asked her to die like a true Carthaginian princess. With great composure, she drank a cup of poison, her story much embellished, is told indirectly in Polybius. Polybius, never refers to Sophonisba by name in his allusions to her marriage to Syphax, in his extensive account of Laelius' maneuvers against Syphax; the historian had met Masinissa. It has been proposed that Polybius' account provides the basis for the Sophonisba story; when Polybius does refer to her, he uses the diminutive in a tone.
In one passage, Polybius ridicules Syphax for being less courageous than his own "child bride". Petrarch elaborated her story in his epic poem Africa, published posthumously in 1396; the playwright John Marston wrote The Wonder of Women a Roman tragedy based on the story of Sophonisba, in 1606 for the Children of the Queen's Revels. There are a number of paintings of Sophonisba drinking her poison, but the subject is very similar to that of Artemisia II of Caria drinking her husband's ashes, the Rembrandt in the Prado and a Donato Creti in the National Gallery are examples of works where the intended subject remains uncertain between the two. Sophonisba became the subject of tragedies from the 16th to the 19th centuries, along with the story of Cleopatra, furnished more dramas than any other; the first tragedy is credited to the Italian Galeotto Del Carretto, written in 1502, but issued posthumously in 1546. The first to appear, was Gian Giorgio Trissino's play of 1515 which, "in codifying the forms of Italian classical tragedy, helped consign Del Carretto's Sofonisba to oblivion."
In France, Trissino's version was adapted by Mellin de Saint-Gelais, may have served as the primary model for versions by Antoine de Montchrestien and Nicolas de Montreux. The tragedy by Jean Mairet is one of the first monuments of French "classicism", was followed by a version from Pierre Corneille; the story of Sophonisba served as subject for works by John Marston, David Murray, Nathaniel Lee, Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein, Henry Purcell, Antonio Caldara, Leonardo Leo, Luca Antonio Predieri, James Thomson, Niccolò Jommelli, Baldassare Galuppi, Tommaso Traetta, Antonio Boroni, Christopher Gluck, Maria Teresa Agnesi, Mattia Vento, François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire, Christian Gottlob Neefe, António Leal Moreira, Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo, Vittorio Alfieri, Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Marcos Portugal, Ferdinando Paer, Vincenzo Federici, Luigi Petrali, Emanuel Geibel, Jeronim de Rada, Giuseppe Brunati, Dimitrie Cuclin, Vasco Graça Moura, others. Sophonisba appears in film, first in Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 silent film Cabiria and again in Carmine Gallone's 1937 epic movie Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal.
Livy, Ab urbe condita libri xxix.23, xxx.8, 12-15.8 Livius.org: Sophoniba
Hasdrubal the Fair was a Carthaginian military leader and politician, governor in Iberia after Hamilcar Barca's death, founder of Cartagena. Livy's History of Rome records he was the brother-in-law of the Carthaginian leader Hannibal and son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca. Hasdrubal followed Hamilcar in his campaign against the governing aristocracy at Carthage at the close of the First Punic War, in his subsequent career of conquest in Hispania. In 237 BC, they parted towards the Peninsula, but around 231–230 BC Hasdrubal interceded in Hamilcar's name making the Numidian tribes from Northern Africa submit to the Barcid family. After Hamilcar's death in 228 BC while besieging Helike, a Greek town in Hispania, Hasdrubal succeeded him in the command, following Carthage's instructions, Hamilcar's sons being too young – Hannibal, the elder, was nineteen, he preferred diplomacy to war campaigns. According to the diplomatic customs of the time, Hasdrubal demanded the handing over of hostages to make himself sure of the submission of their places of origin.
Thus, he extended the newly acquired empire by skillful diplomacy, consolidating it by founding the important city and naval base of Qart Hadasht, which the Romans called Carthago Nova as the capital of the new province, by establishing a treaty with the Roman Republic which fixed the River Ebro as the boundary between the two powers. This treaty was caused because a Greek colony and Iberian Sagunto, fearful of the continuous growth of Punic power in Iberia, asked Rome for help. Hasdrubal accepted reluctantly, as Punic dominion in Iberia was not yet sufficiently established to jeopardise its future expansion in a premature conflict. Seven years after Hamilcar's death, Hasdrubal the Fair was assassinated in 221 BC by a slave of the Celtic king Tagus, who thus avenged the death of his own master. Hasdrubal's successor was the son of Hamilcar, Hannibal Barca. Other Hasdrubals in Carthaginian history Huss, Geschichte der Karthager, Munich: C. H. Beck. Diodorus of Sicily: History Appian: Roman History.
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 84. Polybius: Histories. Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 38 y 43. Titus Livius: History of Rome. Libro de Bolsillo Alianza Editorial 1595 1–2. Livius.org: Hasdrubal the Fair
Pietro della Vecchia [videos]
Pietro della Vecchia, Pietro della Vècchia or Pietro Vècchia, formerly incorrectly called Pietro Muttoni was a versatile Italian painter who worked in many genres and created altar pieces, portraits, genre scenes and grotesques. He also created pastiches …
The fortune teller
A dispute among the doctors
Carthage [videos]
Carthage was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia. — The city developed from a Phoenician …
Baths of Antoninus, Carthage
Archaeological Site of Carthage
View of two columns at Carthage
Roman Republic [videos]
The Roman Republic was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the …
The "Capitoline Brutus", a bust possibly depicting Lucius Junius Brutus, who led the revolt against Rome's last king and was a founder of the Republic.
The Temple of Hercules Victor, Rome, built in the mid 2nd century BC, most likely by Lucius Mummius Achaicus, who won the Achaean War.
Route of Pyrrhus in Italy and Sicily.
Bust of Pyrrhus, found in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, now in the Naples Archaeological Museum. Pyrrhus was a brave and chivalrous general who fascinated the Romans, hence his presence in a Roman house.
Masinissa [videos]
Masinissa, or Masensen, —also spelled Massinissa and Massena—was the first King of Numidia. — During his younger years, before he was king, he fought in the Second Punic War, first against the Romans as an ally of Carthage and later switching …
Silver coin of either Massinisa, 203-148 BC, or Micipsa 148-118 BC, showing a man wearing a diadem on the obverse, and a horse with a palm tree on the reverse
Image: TUNISIA DOUGGA MAUSOLEE LYBICO PUNIQUE 001
Image: Tomb of Massinissa 01
Image: Scipio at the deathbed of Masinissa (C20)
Roman triumph [videos]
The Roman triumph was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state or, originally and traditionally, one who had successfully completed a …
Panel from a representation of a triumph of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius; a winged genius hovers above his head
Scene from the Triumphs of Caesar by Andrea Mantegna (1482-94, now Royal Collection)
Detail from the Arch of Titus showing his triumph held in 71 for his successful Sack of Jerusalem.
Segment XX of the Fasti triumphales, a portion recording triumphs during the First Punic War
Dido [videos]
Dido was, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources, the founder and first queen of Carthage. She is primarily known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic, Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa ( …
Aeneas recounting the Trojan War to Dido, a painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. This scene is taken from Virgil's Aeneid, where Dido falls in love with, only to be left by, the Trojan hero Aeneas.
Dido, a painting by Dosso Dossi.
Aeneid, Book IV, Death of Dido. From the Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican Library, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225).
Dido and Aeneas, from a Roman fresco, Pompeian Third Style (10 BC - 45 AD), Pompeii, Italy
Hannibal [videos]
Hannibal Barca was a general and statesman from Ancient Carthage who is widely considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. His father, Hamilcar Barca, was a leading Carthaginian commander during the First Punic War. His younger …
A marble bust, reputedly of Hannibal, originally found at the ancient city-state of Capua in Italy
A Carthaginian coin depicting Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), one of Hannibal's younger brothers, wearing a diadem
A Carthaginian shekel, dated 237–227 BC, depicting the Punic god Melqart (equivalent of Hercules/Heracles), most likely with the features of Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal Barca; on the reverse is a man riding an elephant
A quarter shekel of Carthage, perhaps minted in Spain; the obverse may depict Hannibal with the traits of a young Melqart; the reverse features one of his famous war elephants.
Sophonisba [videos]
For the Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola, see Sofonisba Anguissola. For the American activist Sophonisba Breckinridge, see Sophonisba Breckinridge. — Sophonisba was a Carthaginian noblewoman …
The Death of Sophonisba, by Giambattista Pittoni (1730s)
Sophonisbe by Corneille, 1663
Image: Mantegna, sofonisba
Image: Georg Pencz Sophonisbe
Ancient Carthage [videos]
Carthage was a Phoenician state that included, during the 7th–3rd centuries BC, its wider sphere of influence known as the Carthaginian Empire. The empire extended over much of the coast of Northwest Africa as well as …
Sarcophagus of a priest, showing a bearded man with his hand raised; ancient Carthaginian funerary art now located in the Louvre, Paris
Calabria, Tarentum, during the occupation by Hannibal, circa 212-209 BC. AR Reduced Nomos (3.70 g, 8h). ΚΛΗ above, ΣΗΡΑΜ/ΒΟΣ below, nude youth on horseback right, placing a laurel wreath on his horse's head; ΤΑΡΑΣ, Taras riding dolphin left, holding trident in right hand, aphlaston in his left hand.
Mediterranean sea nations in 323 BC.
Roman trireme on a mosaic in the Bardo Museum, Tunisia
Third Punic War [videos]
The Third Punic War was the third and last of the Punic Wars fought between the former Phoenician colony of Carthage and the Roman Republic. The Punic Wars were named because of the Roman name for Carthaginians: Punici, or Poenici.This war was a much …
Arrowheads, remains of a dagger and stones for slingshots exhibited at the National Museum of Carthage
Ruins of Carthage
Image: Spqrstone
Tunis [videos]
Tunis is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as Grand Tunis, has some 2,700,000 inhabitants. — Situated on a large Mediterranean Sea gulf, behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette …
Tunis as viewed from space
View of Tunis
The Lady of Carthage mosaic, one of the major surviving pieces of Byzantine art in modern Tunisia
Polybius [videos]
Polybius was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work The Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail. The work describes the rise of the Roman Republic to the status of dominance in the ancient Mediterranean …
The stele of Kleitor depicting Polybius, Hellenistic art, 2nd century BC, Museum of Roman Civilization
Scipio Aemilianus [videos]
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus, primarily known as Scipio Aemilianus, or also Scipio Africanus Minor, or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was an important politician and general of the Roman Republic, who served as consul twice, in 147 and 134 BC. He was the …
Scipio Aemilianus cramming himself for a speech after a hearty supper. Image by John Leech from The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
1797 engraving representing Scipio Aemilianus before the ruins of Carthage in 146 BC in the company of his friend Polybius
Battle of Carthage (c. 149 BC) [videos]
The Battle of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War between the Punic city of Carthage in Africa and the Roman Republic. It was a siege operation, starting sometime in 149 or 148 BC, and ending in spring 146 BC with the sack and complete destruction of the city of Carthage. — History …
Roman villas built on the site of Carthage
Hanno the Great [videos]
Hanno the Great may refer to any of three different leaders of ancient Carthage, according to Gilbert Charles-Picard and Colette Picard: Hanno I the Great, Hanno II the Great, and Hanno III the Great. According to Warmington, there were three elders of Carthage called Hanno …
Hanno II announces to the mercenaries the empty Public Treasury, according to Beckett's The Comic History of Rome.
Hasdrubal the Fair [videos]
Hasdrubal the Fair was a Carthaginian military leader and politician, governor in Iberia after Hamilcar Barca's death, and founder of Cartagena. — Family — Livy's History of Rome records he was the brother-in-law of the Carthaginian leader Hannibal …
Hasdrubal bust in Cartagena, Spain
Getty Center [videos]
The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997 and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The Center sits atop a hill …
The Getty Center Exhibitions Pavilion.
USGS satellite image of the Getty Center. The circular building to the left is the Getty Research Institute. The two buildings at the top are the Getty Trust administrative offices and the rest is the Museum.
Cactus Garden perched on the south of the Getty Center, with West Los Angeles in the background
Terrace between pavilions looking toward Exhibitions Pavilion and Rotunda.
Leonardo DiCaprio [videos]
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Home / Entertainment / Release date for The People’s Department, the first installment of the three-part documentary web series of The Last American Plantation
Miles Edwards 1 week ago Entertainment, Film Leave a comment 79 Views
We’ve had a major distributor expressed interest in the development and a possible distribution deal, but as a precaution, we are moving on going to continue along the path of our original plan of “A” and keep it moving.
After much struggle and delay, Art, Trade & Lifestyle Media Group, it will be releasing its first independent project, “The Last American Plantation.” A three-part documentary web series about the Black Farmers and their troubled relationship over the last 150 years with the United States of America government agency, United States Department of Agricultural (USDA).
Based on Art, Trade & Lifestyle’s founder’s, Miles J. Edwards, short documentary originally produced in 2013, The Last American Plantation, was a southern marvel as it was viewed over 50k times and received invites to be screen at two different film festivals, and more importantly, it helped initiate the conversation about the ongoing struggles of today’s Black Farmers.
These past three years, Edwards has been working to redevelop his Black Farmers short into a full documentary, but with great help and research, he has been able to develop it much greater into a three-part web series. Originally founded in the east Atlanta community of Belvedere Park, GA, we currently now manage a location in San Francisco, CA. As an independent media group, Art, Trade & Lifestyle goal is to publish commercial editorial and video content that has an alternative appeal. We don’t just report what’s trending. We report matters within our community that’s happening.
On Friday, September 13th, 2019, Art, Trade & Lifestyle will be releasing the first installment of The Last American Plantation online series, “The People’s Department,” on A.T.L. SuperStation. A subsidiary of Art, Trade & Lifestyle, A.T.L. SuperStation will exclusively screen all three installments on a 2-3 month release after one another.
As we are also planning a 13-city screening tour, we are currently seeking sponsors to partner with. If you are seeking to promote your product and/or services on a local, regional, national or even on an international level. We have sponsorship packages that begin as low as $100. We have the first 60 minute cut of “The People’s Department” available to view to give you first access of this viable project.
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The lavish double-elephant-size folio of The Birds of America, spectacularly launched John James Audubon’s career as an artist-naturalist and publisher of natural history folios. In Edinburgh, the Scottish engraver W. H. Lizars began to produce the very first plates in 1826. However, after the completion of only ten plates, W. H. Lizars’ colorists went on strike. Work on the folio continued with the London engraver Robert Havell, who engraved and colored The Birds of America from 1827—1838. The completed work comprised 435 hand-colored engravings. Robert Havell also retouched W. H. Lizars’ original efforts, adding aquatint to the engraving and etching. On those plates, Robert Havell’s name appears alongside that of the Scottish engraver’s.
John James Audubon sold 186 subscriptions to the complete folio of The Birds of America, each of which commanded the princely sum of $1,000 — the cost of a substantial home at that time. Published on sheets measuring 26 1/2 by 39 inches, called double-elephant by the printing trade, the aquatint engravings depict each subject in its actual size and are among the largest ever made. Still, John James Audubon often altered the larger birds’ natural postures, creatively composing the figure to fit within the dimensions of the sheet. Of the 186 complete sets produced, more than 100 are intact in library and museum collections worldwide. Since first produced by Robert Havell over 175 years ago, few of the sets have been broken to make individual prints available for sale. Joel Oppenheimer, Inc. specializes in these rare, original engravings, maintaining an extensive inventory, many in exceptionally fine condition.
John James Audubon explored the American backwoods and wilderness to discover, record, and illustrate its avian life. America’s most revered artist-naturalist, John James Audubon (1785—1851), is renowned for his extraordinary undertaking to record The Birds of America. The images he created are icons of 19th-century art. Fascinated by nature since childhood, it was not until 1819, when he was the father of two sons, that John James Audubon fully embraced the life of an artist-naturalist. In 1820, John James Audubon left his family in Cincinnati, embarking with a young apprentice, Joseph R. Mason. Joseph R. Mason worked with John James Audubon from 1820 until 1822, contributing mostly botanical elements to about 55 of John James Audubon’s paintings. Later, the artists George Lehman, Maria Martin, and his sons Victor Gifford Audubon and John Woodhouse Audubon assisted John James Audubon with botanical and landscape backgrounds.
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The traditional architecture of Muharraq, once the capital of Bahrain and pearling capital of the Gulf, contrasts with the skyscrapers of Manama, the island-nation’s capital today, just a couple of kilometers to the west.
Bahrain's Pearling Path
September/October 2017 PDF
Written by Sylvia Smith
Photographs and video by Richard Duebel
It’s 9:30 on a Saturday morning, and already the usual crowd is building up outside Saffron, a café on Muharraq, the second-largest island in the archipelago of Bahrain. Locals and foreigners chat congenially while they wait for tables to open. Parents distract restless children by pointing out to them the 400-year-old date press sunk into the ground that extends under the café, visible through glass panels in the floor.
It’s a typical weekend rush at Saffron, one of the most successful of the restored and repurposed historic buildings on the island that was once the capital of Bahrain during its centuries of pearling prowess. It’s also a fine place to take on sustenance before setting out on the 3½-kilometer “Pearling Path” to view 17 restored historic buildings that celebrate Muharraq’s heritage—part of a string of local sites that in 2012 unesco placed on its World Heritage List.
Visitors sample traditional Bahraini fare in Saffron, a popular eatery in old Muharraq along the island’s 3½-kilometer urban trail called the Pearling Path.
“There is great interest in the food that our ancestors would have eaten,” explains Saffron owner and chef Narise Kamber. “Many Bahrainis have studied and worked abroad and are used to international food. Here they get something local, traditional, but with a contemporary twist.” The mix of old and new is carried throughout the café’s concept from its exterior, which blends with the narrow lanes of the nearby marketplace to its menu, music, and décor that fuses industrial chic with heritage.
The most popular meal, Kamber says, is the eight-dish, “full Bahraini” breakfast, which is served “in small pots all on one tray, tapas-style,” she tells a table of first-timers. And, she adds, “We can easily make it vegan.”
Among the offerings are sweet vermicelli cooked in rosewater, cardamom and saffron; beans slow-cooked in a spicy tomato sauce; thin bread brushed with an anchovy-like fish paste; a vegetarian kebab; and a subtly spiced potato dish served with milk tea. All are enhanced by music playlists Kamber has compiled from childhood memories of hearing folk songs hauntingly sung by local artists. “Youngsters often ask me if they can download,” she says with a laugh.
“We enjoy eating here because of the atmosphere,” says a young regular named Abdulla, who is tucking into a “full Bahraini” breakfast. “And the food tastes great!"
The heavy, 100-year-old wooden door at Saffron’s entrance is another relic of the past, and it is a portal to the future for Muharraq—a link between the island’s rich history and its newfound modern identity as a culture hub.
In the early 1930s, Bahrain had to recalibrate its economy to account for both the discovery of oil and the arrival, from Japan, of the cultured pearl. Together these collapsed the old pearling culture, which had developed over millennia and provided prosperity, social cohesion and identity. Bahrainis—from ship captains to pearl divers, chandlers to knife sharpeners—had to leave pearling behind as Bahrain’s capital moved a couple kilometers west to Manama.
BAHRAIN MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION
The Pearling Path map classifies both onshore and offshore sites. The path winds north from the shore through the oldest part of Muharraq, which lies northeast of Bahrain’s main island.
Muharraq’s residents also gradually abandoned most of the large pearling houses that had been centers of society. Over the years, these structures of timber, faroush (a stone harvested from the sea) and plaster fell into disrepair. In 2002, however, this began to turn around. Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa, a pioneer in the region’s conservation movement and now president of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (baca), inaugurated the old capital’s first major restoration, the Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa Center for Culture and Research. It quickly became a venue for poets, writers and philosophers—and a catalyst for a new Muharraq.
Shaikha Mai’s effort was, she says, born out of her respect for Shaikh Ebrahim, her grandfather, and her determination to keep his memory alive. Born in the mid-19th century, he was recognized in the region as a man with a thirst for knowledge and debate who attracted the best minds to his majlis, or salon, until his death in 1933.
Among his guests were Farida Mohammed Saleh Khunji, one of Bahrain’s most prominent religious and literary intellects; Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, a leading businessman in the Gulf region; Hafez Wahbah, an educator and author who moved to Riyadh and served as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Great Britain during World War ii; and Louis P. Dame, md, a physician at the American Mission Hospital in Bahrain who was known for his work in the region.
The center, Shaikha Mai explains, was never planned in isolation. Her vision was to build on—not over—Muharraq’s pearling past.
The glass-walled visitor’s center near Bu Maher Fort at the southern tip of Muharraq overlooks the historic launching point for Bahrain’s annual summer pearling fleet and marks the southern starting point for the Pearling Path.
Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa, president of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities and the driving force behind the establishment of the Pearling Path, stands alongside Bahraini journalist and poet Hassan Kamal at the inauguration of Al-Khalifiyah Library in the old city center of Muharraq in April.
“The center has a number of strategies when it comes to the old pearling houses,” she explains. “Some of them we can refurbish, as they are still structurally sound. Others have deteriorated to the point where we can only remove the rubble and start afresh.”
In the case of Shaikh Ebrahim’s house, architects, engineers, planners and designers, all mainly from the Arab world, turned the house—for the second time around—into a new kind of magnet for intelligentsia, one featuring a 300-seat auditorium with a research library upstairs. On its walls, photographs portray the hundreds of personalities who have lectured, read poetry, performed music and provided other cultural stimulation since the building’s reopening 15 years ago, including Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s former antiquities minister, and Zeinab Badawi, a British television and radio journalist who was born in the Sudan.
This year’s anniversary provided a chance to assess the area’s changes, and the baca celebrated and promoted it with “15/15,” an art exhibition spread among 15 restored houses. Hala Al Khalifa, director of Culture and Arts at the baca and an artist herself, stepped back in time with an installation called “Light” that projected, on the center’s façade, the names in Arabic of leading figures who had visited the house during Sheikh Ebrahim’s time. “I wanted to highlight the legacy of my great-grandfather on the spot where he met many forward-thinking personalities from countries throughout the world,” she explains.
Visitors to the three-month-long celebration could walk along the new, winding, pedestrian-only “Pearling Path,” which zigs, zags and wiggles through the southwest part of Muharraq. Officially it starts northbound from Bu Maher Fort on the island’s southern tip, which was the historic departure point for pearl divers as they left for a four-month season every summer. Opalescent, pearl-round streetlights guide visitors from a simple pearl diver’s house, Bayt al-Ghus (from ghawwas, Arabic for diver)—now a small museum displaying the basic tools of the trade (a nose clip, a knife and a string bag for the oysters)—to the grand houses of the pearl merchants, several now endowed with new purpose.
This narrow, shaded, traditional Muharraq thoroughfare, built to channel cooling breezes, is one of the main streets on the Pearling Path. Press House, Al-Nuzul Guest House and Kurar House are all in this vicinity.
Other stops include a coffee shop where pearl traders used to chat and play carom, a traditional board game, and the Mohammed bin Faris House for the local, traditional sawt music, where every Friday night there is a free concert. The standard of craftsmanship in all the buildings makes the restorations stand out, says Sophia Delobette, a local guide. “There is imagination in the way each building has been envisaged to suit another era,” she says. “What I really like is the attention to detail and the meticulous finish.”
One of the largest and most elaborate buildings on the trail, the two-story Bin Matar House, reflects the importance of that family in the pearl business, explains its director, Melissa Enders-Bhattia. “This magnificent early 20th-century house was constructed as a family home,” she says. “Now that it’s been fully restored, we have an art gallery space for temporary exhibitions.”
It was here that, for the “15/15” event, photographer and artist Camille Zakharia showed his series of black-and-white images of Muharraq’s narrow streets, “Stories from the Alley,” which use photographs, collage and calligraphy. “I have recorded the rich, traditional Bahraini architecture,” Zakharia says. “I am hoping to encourage people to appreciate and preserve their architectural heritage, rather than just being part of this globalized world.”
Shaikha Mai, he says, has been “a force behind all these traditional houses here to ensure they remain standing, and you can see the quality of restoration that has taken place to regain their beauty.” The costs of the restorations have been borne by both public and private sectors through Shaikha Mai’s sponsorship initiative called “Investing in Culture,” which brings Bahrain’s cultural sector into partnership with its banking and financial institutions.
As more houses were restored, the Ministry of Culture took the project further, winning unesco approval for the 17 Muharraq buildings, three oyster beds that lie north of the island, part of the shoreline and Bu Maher Fort to all be placed on the World Heritage List. The agency’s report called the places “the last remaining complete example of the cultural tradition of pearling and the wealth it generated ... from the second century to the 1930s,” adding that collectively they represent an “outstanding example” of how human interaction with the environment shaped the economy and society. “We are proud that this final expression of the pearling industry has been recognized internationally,” Shaikha Mai says.
The listing has become the springboard for the restoration of the entire old city of Muharraq, which is now one of the best-preserved historic cities in the Gulf region, with another 600-odd buildings to be restored.
Al-Khalifiyah Library stands on the site of its namesake predecessor, its upper floors cantilevering out to make best use of the limited space. Along with a reading area, a research center and an Internet lab, it offers a cultural program for youth in the heart of Muharraq.
According to Noura Al-Sayegh, a Lebanese architect who works closely with Shaikha Mai on the renovations, the importance of the creation of the Pearling Path goes beyond rebuilding. “We hope to improve the economy by creating cultural tourism as well as making Muharraq a more pleasant place in which to live,” she says.
Already, passengers from cruise liners that dock in Bahrain are taken to the shoreline near Bu Maher Fort. At one of the stops on the Pearling Path, Kurar House, they visit a suite of rooms displaying traditional clothes sporting gold trimming still made there by a complex hand-weaving process. As she watches four women entwining the multiple threads, British tourist Anne Scott comments, “It looks a bit like the cat’s cradles we used to make as children, only far more complicated. The results are better too!”
The finished golden bands that emerge after the interchange of threads are put on sale as decorative edging for clothing. At around $25 a meter, it may be expensive, but Scott thinks it is a great value. “I have an evening dress that I can stitch this onto,” she says. “I think it will really add something exotic.”
As the group of visitors makes its way along one of the narrow lanes, members enter a small guesthouse that accommodates speakers, poets and singers who appear at the Shaikh Ebrahim Center. In its previous incarnation, the restored house was home for a merchant who traded in ropes and wood used to construct dhows, such as those that carried pearl divers, explains Delobette.
At Kurar House, embroiderers deftly entwine gold threads to make one of Muharraq's most famous crafts, the decorative fabric trim after which the house is named.
Next stop is Press House, the former dwelling of Abdullah Al Zayed, founder, in 1939, of the first weekly newspaper in Bahrain and the Gulf region. His 100-year-old home has been reborn as a place of both architectural and literary illumination dedicated to preserving Bahrain’s press heritage with displays and an archive of the country’s early journalism. Al Zayed’s typewriter, official letters written on it in English by the multilingual owner, his bed, photographs of the man himself, and back copies of the newspaper that ran until 1944, shortly before his death, all give texture and context to the restoration.
From one of its upstairs windows, a contemporary addition to the neighborhood is brightly visible: a wall filled with the colorful calligraffiti of French Tunisian artist eL Seed. It contrasts dramatically with its immediate neighbors, the understated Siyadi House, whose plain exterior belies an intricate interior, and the adjacent Siyadi Mosque, built by Ahmed bin Jasim Siyadi, a 19th-century pearl merchant, about the same time as the house. The mosque, too, has been restored for community use, and its 10-meter minaret will not be overshadowed anytime soon: Zoning laws now limit buildings in the historic area to two stories.
Bin Matar House, built in 1905 by pearling tycoon and philanthropist Salman bin Hussain bin Salman bin Matar, was saved from demolition and restored to house a pearling museum and art gallery.
The brilliant colors of a wall mural by eL Seed provides a modern complement to the traditionally whitewashed architecture of Siyadi House, a World Heritage Site that stands nearby. Built in the 19th century, its plain exterior belies an intricately crafted interior.
Not far away, Hamad Busaad, a young entrepreneur, runs his design business and Busaad Art Gallery in the house that belonged to his great-grandfather and where his father, now an artist, was born. “You need a good architect to retain the authenticity, the traditional look and feel, of an old house like this,” he says. “The restoration’s been quite a challenge. The building became a cold store, then a corner shop, after my family moved out. My father decided to get the house back after we had driven past one day. Seeing it made my dad decide to turn it into an art gallery.”
After all the quiet good taste of the earlier restorations, confidence has grown, and some of the most recent restorations and new buildings are near-riots of color and design innovation. Dar Muharraq, for example, has tangerine-colored walls and an outer “curtain” of metal chains that rises whenever dances are performed there and falls again afterward to close off the building. The new Al-Khalifiyah Library is entirely contemporary architecture: With a bronze sheen and gradually cantilevered upper floors, it’s like an inverted ziggurat—a design that takes creative advantage of a small plot of land.
One can only imagine the astonishment—and pride—that Muharraq’s divers and merchants might feel now if only they could see their old neighborhood again, a bit like old pearls, once forgotten but rediscovered, buffed and set on a string as a new national treasure.
September/October 2017View PDF
Richard Duebel
Richard Duebel is a filmmaker, photographer and art director who has been working in North Africa and the Middle East for more than 20 years. His interests lie in culture, the environment and the applied arts.
Sylvia Smith
Sylvia Smith makes radio and television programs from the Arab world as well as reports from Europe and elsewhere that explore connections with North Africa and the Middle East.
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Immigrant Detention: Can ICE Meet its Legal Imperatives and Case Management Responsibilities?
By MICHELLE ROBERTS
http://www.adn.com/nation/story/929056.html
/09/09/09
Better record-keeping could ensure U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement keeps dangerous immigrants in custody while operating its sprawling detention system safely and lawfully, according to a new report from a nonpartisan think tank.
The report, to be released Thursday by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, notes gaps in the information ICE uses to track the more than 33,000 people in its nationwide system of jails and detention centers that hold immigrants awaiting court hearings or deportation.
The gaps include whether a detainee is dangerous or might have a claim to U.S. citizenship, making it hard for the agency to ensure the system operates legally and efficiently, said Donald Kerwin, one of the report's authors.
"This analysis places these criticisms in a new light by asking whether ICE can fully comply with the law, effectively manage its sprawling detention system and create a system better suited to civil detainees," with its current record-keeping, the authors wrote.
MPI's report is based on data in records obtained by The Associated Press through Freedom of Information Act requests. The AP reported in March that more than half of jailed immigrants held by ICE on a single January night had not been convicted of a crime and nearly a third had been held longer than the 31-day average stay reported by the agency.
ICE director John Morton, who assumed the post in May, announced last month that the agency would re-evaluate the system. He said it would seek to treat nonviolent people who aren't a flight risk differently from those with felony convictions facing mandatory detention and deportation.
The agency's database does not currently list whether an immigrant must be detained, as is the case for felons who have served their sentences and been released to ICE custody, or whether the immigrant is believed to be dangerous. It also doesn't list whether an immigrant has a special medical condition or mental health issues.
The database also does not provide answers to some procedural questions that would help determine whether the federal government is complying with a Supreme Court ruling that immigrants can't be held indefinitely, Kerwin said.
"What it seemed to be missing was information that would allow them to make important decisions that they're required to make as part of their responsibility," he said.
ICE spokeswoman Gillian Brigham said the agency recognizes there's room for improvement, but officials are confident the plans announced by Morton "will go a long way in addressing many of the current concerns."
She noted the agency plans more oversight in addition to better medical care and fiscal prudence for the $1.72 billion detention system.
MPI has a fascinating website, addressing global migration, Here is Charles' Schumer's speech from their conference in June on what he plans to introduce for immigration reform when it's up.
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Pairing "Old School" Advising With "New School" Technology
by Sarah Schuetze
“I’m an old school advisor,” A&S Academic Advisor Joe Lewis said as he explained why his office door is always open. For Lewis “old school” means being a helpful resource for students, being familiar with their academic history, and helping them meet their graduation goals. The A&S Office of Advising has made being “old school” much more effective by introducing “new school” technology.
The office handles more than 7,000 student appointments in the academic year. During priority registration, they can have more than 100 students a day with up to 30 students at one time waiting to see one of the College’s ten advisors.
Communication between the front desk and advisors “became the classic Abbot and Costello ‘Who’s on first, what’s on second?’ situation,” as Travis McKenzie, director of the Project Management Office, put it. “Students come first and we strive to explore new strategies that will positively affect the student experience,” McKenzie said.
With the goal of improving customer service, McKenzie brainstormed options for implementing digital solutions to replace paper-based communication and record keeping to cut down wait times. But, as he explained, “We didn’t just build a new or fancy application. We focused on solving the underlying issues of student wait time and internal communication.”
With these guiding principles, McKenzie drew a model of what he imagined would help and brought it to programmers in the Hive, A&S’s Creative and Technical Services.
Hive students, which included senior computer science majors Timothy Parrott and Anton Vinogradov, and Aly Shehata, a junior in computer engineering, brainstormed the concept and developed a two-part web app: a touch-screen kiosk for students to sign in and a backend interface for communication and coordination with the advising staff.
The new system was implemented August 2014 and the benefits were immediately felt by students and staff alike.
“I can tell a noticeable difference in my advising experience this year as opposed to last year,” said Kendra Sanders, a senior English and topical studies: film, television & digital media major. “The use of iPads to check-in utilizes familiar technology to create a more efficient process, and therefore a less stressful process. It really is as simple as typing in your student ID. There are no discrepancies to worry about; all of the information is already in A&S’s database, so each student ID brings up that unique student’s information: advisor name, major, year, etc. It’s advising made simple.”
The implementation of the digital sign-in application has increased the College’s efficiency by reducing workflow in half which has resulted in shorter wait times for students, McKenzie said. “Our students’ are digital natives, so adopting a digital sign-in method was seamless and intuitive for them.”
The data collected through the digital sign-in allows for self-assessment and analysis. With this application, the Advising Office has determined which days and times are the most popular, why students are coming in, what the average wait time is, and more.
“Adding to our advising infrastructure is another way we are looking to improve student success in the College. We are making sure students have access to the tools they need to succeed,” said Mark Kornbluh, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Part of the process has been to digitize thousands of students’ files. Traditionally, these files have been paper-based and kept in physical folders in various offices. Tracking down those files could take days. Now, A&S is working to make all of the data available for advisors and staff at the click of a button.
Stephanie Morris, A&S project manager and student employee advocate, manages the staffing of the on-going digitization project. A&S student employees Carlos Guitierez, chemistry junior; Brooke Kuerzi, biology junior; and Kristina Moyers, chemical engineering junior; have been scanning the records to a secure share drive.
“Student workers play a significant role in the College of Arts and Sciences, which is shown through their involvement in the digitization project,” said Morris. “As we work to serve our students better, we are utilizing their expertise to build a solution which will benefit all A&S students.”
The College looks forward to a time when all resources on campus can be integrated with readily accessible student information as it continues to improve upon student success.
“Being a resource person does not mean that I have every answer to every question, but it does mean I know where to start. Having readily accessible digital information is an important part of the process,” Lewis said.
In many ways, providing customer service for students in the College of Arts & Sciences means pairing “old school” advising with “new school” technology.
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Lots of stocks were bargains back when this column was born
Julius WestheimerTHE BALTIMORE SUN
On MONDAY, Ticker will mark its 22nd birthday. When this column was born on Feb. 22, 1977, the Dow Jones industrial average stood at 939.26. This morning, the Dow is at 9,298.63 after a 22-year surge of 8,359.37 points, or 890 percent.
Adjusted for splits, here are the prices of some well-known stocks from when Ticker first ticked, followed (in parentheses) by yesterday's closing prices:
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. $8.125 ($26.75); Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. $4.50 ($125.125); Procter & Gamble Co. $5 ($91.625); Coca-Cola Co. $2.125 ($64.625); McDonald's Corp. $2.25 ($83); Merck & Co. $1 ($77.75); Rouse Co. $5.125 ($23.125).
Where will the stock market go now?
"Our current reading of advisers shows 60.7 percent 'bullish,' the highest optimistic reading since August 28, 1987," says Moneypaper.
"That was about a month and a half before the 508-point crash, the biggest one-day percentage decline in history. This certainly raises the caution flag."
BE CAREFUL: "Beware of 'one-year' mutual fund and money managers' performances," warns Hulbert Financial Digest. "Huge one-year returns turn out to be almost impossible to sustain. Often, last year's big winner turns out to be this year's big loser.
"When focusing on one-year returns, it's impossible to separate advisers whose returns reflected genuine ability from ones who were just lucky. Longer track records -- five or 10 years -- tell us much more about an adviser's abilities."
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Tenor John Twitchen is a first class BMus (Hons) Graduate from the University of Chichester who lives in St Leonards-on-Sea. His first experience with Barefoot Opera was a short course in the summer of 2012. In 2017 he sang in the chorus for Barefoot’s production of La Bohème and understudied the part of Rodolfo. This experience dispelled all doubts about committing himself to a profession as a full-time opera singer. This year he premieres as a solo singer with Barefoot in the role of El Remendado.
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News & More Newest Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Champion for Baystate Children's Hospital Announced
Newest Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Champion for Baystate Children's Hospital Announced
October 27, 2009, was an exciting day for Jessica and Guy Perry. They welcomed their son Shane into the world and in that moment, his journey toward becoming the 2019 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Champion began.
When Shane was born, he was ushered directly to the Davis Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) because he was having difficulty maintaining a stable oxygen level. It was in the NICU when Jessica and Guy heard the first mention of Down syndrome.
“The team was amazing and very supportive,” shared Jessica. “I had no idea until that moment how lucky we were to have Baystate Children’s Hospital in our own backyard.”
After 10 days in the NICU, Shane headed home with his parents, who were taught how to operate the at-home monitoring system and oxygen tanks thanks to the guidance of the NICU staff. Shane’s journey with Baystate Children’s Hospital didn’t stop there. At 3 months old, Shane contracted RSV and ended up in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for 14 days on a ventilator. After outpatient surgeries and a few observation stays, Shane was on the mend.
“Baystate Children’s Hospital saved by boy twice and I am forever grateful to them,” shared Jessica.
The Shane of today
At nine-years-old, Shane is doing well and has developed quite the personality. Jessica shares that he has an infectious smile, loves books, dancing, swimming, Ed Sheeran, and his tablet. And now, Shane will add another role to his life as the 2019 Children’s Miracle Network Hospital Champion, through which he’ll help to raise awareness and support for the patients at Baystate Children’s Hospital.
“He has such a fun loving personality and certainly is rocking his extra chromosome,” said Jessica.
A superhero in his own right, Shane even wears a cape that reads “Help me, Help you, Help kids” while collecting donations.
“He is our guiding light and has taught us all to take life a little slower and truly enjoy the journey,” said Jessica.
Learn more about how you can support kids like Shane through Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and Baystate Children's Hospital.
Annual 94.7 WMAS Radiothon Success Celebrated
The 18th annual 94.7 WMAS Radiothon for Baystate Children’s Hospital raised $263,965.57 to support pediatric patient care during its two-day run, March 5-6, 2019, surpassing last year’s total by more than $18,000.
A Run to Remember
It’s all about perseverance. For patients. For team members. For Will Bradley.
In the NICU, “Every baby represents a miracle"
Baystate Health Foundation, in partnership with Max Golf Classic, funds state-of-the-art imaging technology to detect retinopathy (damage to the retina of the eye) in premature babies
UMass Dance Marathon Participants Boogie to Beat Fundraising Goal
The University of Massachusetts Dance Marathon raised $212,134.97 for the Baystate Children’s Hospital, surpassing its $200,000 goal.
16-year-old Mia Gasperini's battle with Myasthenia Gravis Inspires Others To Give During 94.7 WMAS Radiothon
It wasn’t too long ago that Mia Gasperini of West Springfield found herself struggling to do what most typical 14-year-olds do every day.
Heartwarming Patient Stories To Be Aired during 94.7 WMAS Radiothon for Baystate Children’s Hospital, March 7 & 8
During a routine ultrasound, Brendan McDonald’s parents learned that their son was going to be born with a significant congenital heart defect.
Morgan “Momo” Morris named Children’s Miracle Network Champion for Massachusetts (Video)
7-year-old Southwick resident Morgan “Momo” Morris has been named the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Champion for 2016-2017.
'Tis the Season to support Baystate Children's Hospital by purchasing Season's Greetings Cards - including a design by a local youngster
If you’re looking for another way to give this holiday season, why not consider purchasing cards from the Baystate Health Foundation holiday collection, and spread cheer while making a difference for the patients and families at Baystate Children’s Hospital.
New outdoor play deck at Baystate Children's Hospital dedicated
After several months of construction and much anticipation, Baystate Children’s Hospital at the end of October proudly unveiled a brand new, one-of-a-kind exterior play deck to benefit the many children and families who visit the hospital on a daily basis.
Help Baystate Children's Hospital earn $30,000
Cast your vote today and every day for Baystate Children’s Hospital as part of White Cloud’s national Real Comfort, Real Kids video contest in conjunction with Children’s Miracle Network.
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Owning a dog comes with responsibilities
Your dog is certainly an excellent companion but also comes with great responsibilities. Guardians must not only take care of their pets’ daily needs, but also be good neighbours in their community and respect the rights of others.
When you walk your dog, keep it on a leash at all times and do not forget to pick up its droppings in a "poop and scoop' bag. Your neighbours will surely appreciate it!
Anyone who refuses to conform to By-law BEAC-099 will be fined a minimum of $100.
A license for your doggie – a must!
To identify the dogs living in Beaconsfield and to facilitate the return to the guardian in case of loss, dogs must wear a license tag, available at City Hall, at all times. This license is valid for two years, from July 1 to June 30, at a cost for $48. The guardian must provide a certificate attesting that the dog in question has been examined and is adequately immunized. With proof that your pet has been spayed or neutered, the fee is reduced to $24 for two years. There is a charge of $5 to replace a lost tag.
An unexpected departure
A reimbursement of 50% of the cost of the license can be given if a dog dies or if a guardian moves away from the City of Beaconsfield within the first twelve months of obtaining a license, upon presentation of a document attesting the death or a document providing the new address.
If you have questions about registering your dog or updating your file, write to monchien-mydog@beaconsfield.ca .
A 155,000 square foot fenced dog run
To allow your dog to get rid of some of his pent-up energy, the dog run includes a section for small dogs (height less than 35 cm) and one for large dogs where they can run freely and socialize with other pets. Note that the dog's guardian must be with their animal inside the park and never leave without him.
The rules and regulations that must be followed inside the park are posted at the entrance to the dog run. Among them, dogs need to be healthy and have been vaccinated against rabies. Dogs who frequent the site must wear a valid license, be obedient, sociable and not trained for attack and protection.
The Beaconsfield Dog Park Association: to help promote a friendly atmosphere
Dog park users are strongly encouraged to join the Association via the group’s Facebook page “Beaconsfield Dog Park Association”. This page helps users to stay connected with what’s happening in the park, special events, etc. The Association also has a committee which is made up of Beaconsfield residents and dog park members who help promote the park and organize dog-related events that complement the park’s mission.
The dog run is situated on Elm Street, just west of the Woodland exit. Opening hours are from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., 7 days a week.
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303 Beaconsfield Boulevard
Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada
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Western Scrubjay Aphelocoma californica
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 | South America
Physical characteristics: Western scrub-jays look somewhat like blue jays. Both species have dark blue heads, wings, and tails. The scrub-jays do not have feathered crests on their heads. Scrub-jays have white chests, and white coloring on the face that resembles an eyebrow. The throat is white with a blue necklace. There is a blue band on the chest, and the lower body coloring is white, tan, and gray.
The length of western scrub-jays ranges from 10.53 to 12.09 inches (27 to 31 centimeters). They weigh about 3 ounces (85 grams).
Geographic range: Western scrub-jays live in the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
Habitat: Western scrub-jays live in desert areas.
Diet: Western scrub-jays are omnivores. They eat acorns, pine seeds, invertebrates, animals without backbones, like insects, reptiles, eggs and nestlings, mammals, and amphibians, animals able to live on land and in the water.
Behavior and reproduction: Western scrub-jays are solitary breeders. The male and female are not helped by other birds. The female lays two to six eggs from March through May. Females incubate the eggs, which hatch after sixteen to nineteen days. Birds fledge, grow feathers, in approximately eighteen days.
Western scrub-jays and people: Seeds hidden by western scrub-jays grow into trees.
Conservation status: Western scrub-jays are not in danger of extinction. ■
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3 Ways to Prepare Your Business for Busier Times
Depending on your industry, there's usually a season that provides for a bit more down time... a relative breather. For us, that season is summer. Last week we talked about planning ahead for the holiday season to make sure everything was in order... The same approach can be taken for your business as a whole. When business is busy things change, stockpiles get depleted, and it can be tough to keep track of everything. Take…
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In the southern hemisphere, Christmas falls in the middle of summer. It can be tough to have a white Christmas in the sweltering heat, so in some countries it's not uncommon to experience some Christmas in July celebrations. Here in the northern hemisphere, Christmas in July provides a perfect excuse for a retail holiday. The two month period between July 4th and Labor day (the first Monday in September) is devoid of any holidays and…
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Last week we talked at great length about just what a custom landing page is, and the main reasons behind using one. As with any project it can be easy to look past the small–yet important–details and focus on the end goal. Doing so will leave you having wasted both money and time; there are certain things that you need to consider before starting a custom landing page project.
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9-Year Old Entrepreneur Opens Coffee Shop, Employing People With Special Needs
Camden Myers, a 9-year old entrepreneur from North Carolina, has recently opened his first coffee shop called Cam's Coffee Creations. Having personally experienced developmental challenges, he combined that and his knack in business to also open job and training opportunities for people with special needs in his coffee shop.
Myers suffered a traumatic brain injury at birth, and has struggled with his social and learning skills throughout his entire life. But that didn't stop him from succeeding in business even at such a young age. He initially put up an online store and a pop-up shop selling coffee. He most recently opened the coffee shop's first permanent location inside the Green Tree Community Center in his hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
"With the right support, kids and teens and individuals with special needs really can accomplish anything, and so today is basically our mission, our vision in action," said Latasha Lewis, Cam's mother at the grand opening ceremony.
Why his coffee shop is unique
What makes the coffee shop more special is the people behind the counter. Students who have disabilities from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools were trained and hired to serve the customers. Aside from world-class brewed coffees, the coffee shop also offers baked goods from BeSpoke Confections, a company whose employees all have autism.
After the success of his first grand opening, Myers looks forward to opening more locations and having a mobile coffee shop. Donations to support his mission in providing training and work experience for persons with special needs are very much welcome.
"I like helping people. I like working. I like making money and I like donating money. I like donating money to people who don't have houses or food," Myers said.
For more information about Cam's Coffee Creations or to donate, visit www.camscoffeecreations.com or follow him on Instagram @CamsCoffeeCo
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How to React When You’ve Been Blindsided by a Co-Worker
by Courtney Connley
While the news of Michael Strahan joining Good Morning America full time has been met with much excitement, Kelly Ripa’s unexpected absence from the set of Live With Kelly and Michael last Wednesday has led to many speculations about Strahan’s departure and how it will affect the show’s programming.
[Related: 5 Effective Ways to Deal With a Sabotaging Co-Worker]
Ripa, who serves as a co-host of the show alongside Strahan, said she felt “blindsided” by his departure after not learning of the deal until just before it was made public news.
“Nobody should ever be blindsided,” Oprah Winfrey tells Entertainment Tonight in regards to Ripa receiving last minute notice of Strahan’s move to GMA. “I don’t know who’s in charge, but somebody should’ve said, ‘This is gonna happen.’ You shouldn’t have to read it in the paper. Ever.”
While being blindsided by a co-worker is never ideal, it’s a situation that many of us have or will experience in the workplace. If you find yourself in a predicament with a co-worker that you feel is shady, use the below tips to sort through the situation.
1. Communicate: Getting last minute notice that a co-worker is leaving your team or dividing their time between your department and someone else’s department is never a good thing, but it’s a situation that any of us can easily find ourselves in the middle of. Rather than getting upset with your co-worker about their lack of communication, be the bigger person and ask them directly what’s happening. A simple conversation can help you clarify any fuzzy details and it will allow you to hear an explanation for why things may have unfolded the way they did.
2. Be honest: Being honest with a colleague isn’t always easy, but it’s the necessary thing to do if you really want them to understand how you feel. Opening up about why you felt a situation was wrong will not only help to prevent your co-worker from handling things the same way in the future, but it can also help them to reflect and re-think their approach to things and how it affects those around them.
3. Take time to assess the situation: Oftentimes, we jump to conclusions about a situation that we feel we were left out of the loop on. Who else knows besides me? Why was I the last person to find out? Before thinking too far into the situation, take time to really assess how things panned out. Ask yourself, “Is this a situation that involves my input? Do I only want to be in the loop for egotistical reasons? If the answer to these questions is yes, then you really need to reassess why you’re stressing about the situation.
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Top 10 Highest Paid Hollywood Actors in the World
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Hollywood is the home for some of the best and fantastic movies with top male actors. Initially, it started as a small community in late 1870, but later in 1910 it officially emerged as a film industry. Not only this, it gradually became the most popular and most recognizable film industry in the world. As you know that movies need the best actors and they are the one who makes it worth watching. These actors work hard day and night to increase the film’s value. But now the most important question is among these, Who is the highest paid actor in Hollywood?
You might have some suggestions for this, but there are some industries like Forbes who works and gives us these kinds of data. This list of Top 10 male actors of Hollywood who are the most paid actors and listed as highest paid actors of all time & is something most of the people love to read. So let’s get started!!
Top 10 Hollywood Actors Highest Paid All Time
Samuel L. Jackson ($30.5 Million)
Date of Birth: December 21, 1948
Payscale: $30.5 Million
Do you know Who is the highest paid black actor? He is Samuel L. Jackson and also he is one of the finest and mostly paid male actor this industry has ever seen. He achieved his critical acclaim in the 1990’s through films such as Jurassic Park (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), and much more. But he is well known for his character as Caption Nick Fury in the Marvel Comics films.
Initially, he started his acting career as a TV actor and later made his film Debut the Blaxploitation independent film Together for Days (1972). Later he worked in some more best movies and was loved for his physical fitness combined with his acting skills. Not only this Jackson also worked in a civil rights movement back in 1968 which took place after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Do you think this is it? Well, you are wrong. Samuel L. Jackson is a well-known producer as well and produced a lot many films and also in the list of male actors who are in most paid actors in Hollywood too. Who knew that a city boy raised by just his mother would earn in millions one day!!
Tom Hanks ($31 Million)
Date of Birth: July 9, 1956
Payscale: $31 Million
Ever heard of a person who is best in his comic roles and is also the one who is known for some serious characters. Yes, Tom Hanks is one of those Finest actors. He is mostly known for his lead role in the movie Forest Gump (1994) and also the actor with most movies. The movie reached a lot of places and was appreciated by mostly everyone. Not only this, Hanks also performed in some of the best movies like You’ve Got Mail (1998), Cast Away (2000), and many more.
Talking about his success, Hank’s movies grossed more than $4.5 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide. Eventually making him the third highest-grossing actor in North America. If we talk about his directorial career, he also worked side by side with Steven Spielberg on the films Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), and many more.
Tom Hanks is indeed a multitalented person!!
Chris Hemsworth ($31.5 Million)
Christopher Hemsworth is an amazing Australian Actor. You must have seen the Marvel’s Thor? Yes, the lead actor is right in front of you. Chris has played a lot of many roles and has given many Superhit films like the Marvel’s series, Rush (2013), Snow White and the Huntsmen (2012), and many more. This Charming actor has taken the whole world by his Sexy Bearded Looks and deep Blue Eyes.
Chris started his career as a TV series actor starred in two episodes of fantasy television series, Guinevere Jones as King Arthur. Later on, he made his Hollywood Debut in the opening scenes of J. J. Abrams’ film Star Trek. His acting skills were praised by most of the critics and this is how he ruled my hearts. You may have heard about the People Magazine? Yes, the one which gives the Title tags to the celebs. In an Annual Feature of this Magazine, Chris Hemsworth was named as the “Sexiest Men Alive”
He is indeed a heart throbbing person for most of the girls!!
Tom Cruise ($43 Million)
Do you know the real name of this legendary actor? Well, his real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. He is one of the most followed actors of all times. Talking about his career, he made his debut at the age of 19 back in 1981 in the film Endless Love. But he came to light by his 1996 action film playing an IMF undercover agent Ethan Hunt in the movie Mission Impossible. Since then Cruise is known as the most energetic actor of the Hollywood.
You might be thinking as to why he isn’t on the top of the list? Well, till 2012 Cruise was the highest paid actors as he was giving movies which earned more than $100 Million. Now, let’s talk about some of his achievements. Tom received a number of awards like- Golden Globe awards for Born on the fourth of July, Best actor for Jerry Maguire and many more. He has worked in many great films but just to name some Mission Impossible Series, The Last Samurai, Minority Report, and many more. The list is Indeed endless!!
Robert Downey, Jr. ($48 Million)
Date of Birth: April 4, 1965
Robert Downey, Jr. or the Iron Man of the Hollywood Industry. He is one of the wittiest and best movie actor this world has ever seen. Not only this, he is also the person who has shown the real meaning of the phrase “Life is what you make it”. Yes, you guessed it right, this is because of his Drug Abuse charges and 2 years of Jail time. But even after being in a rehabilitation centre, he is loved by everyone.
Do you know when did Jr. made his acting debut? The answer is, he worked at the age of 5 in his father’s movie Pound (1970). Since then, he had a great interest in acting which also helped him bagging a lot many awards (best male actor). Most of his films earned more than $200 Million and sometimes $500 Million got listed as the highest paid actor in Hollywood. Some of his Best Films includes Iron Man Series, Sherlock Holmes series Avengers, and many more.
If you are looking for a motivation to move forward and achieve your goals in life, no one can be a better mentor than Robert Downey, Jr.
Jackie Chan ($49 Million)
Date of Birth: 7 April 1954
Jackie Chan or Chan Kong-sang is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. He holds the Silver Bauhinia Star awarded to people who have taken a leading part in public affairs or voluntary work over a long period and Most Excellent Order of the British Empire award by the British Government.
You may have seen him in movies which includes a lot of Martial Arts. This is because he is perfectly trained in Kung-Fu and Hapkido. Not only this, he is also known for his comic timing in his movies. He is been working in the industry since 1960 and have appeared in more than 150 films till now. There is one more quality that this multi-talented star holds and many of us not even aware of it. This quality is of singing. Yes, he is a trained vocalist and also a master of Hong Kong-based music called Cantopop. He has also given a number of albums and has sung in many of his own movies.
Adam Sandler ($50.5 Million)
Date of Birth: September 9, 1966
Want to know the Hollywood comedy actors? Well Ladies and Gentlemen, here is Adam Sandler for you. He is one of the finest comic actor of Hollywood who is mostly known for his comedy roles. Apart from being an actor, he is a screenwriter, film producer, and a great musician. Is his career up till now, Sandler has released up to 5 comedy albums which reached the sky.
Sandler made is acting Debut in the movie Going Overboard (1989) and further to this gave some great comedy films. At first, he was discovered by a great comedian Dennis Miller who caught Sandler’s act in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live’s producers. He has appeared in a lot many Hollywood films namely- Jack and Jill, Grown Ups series, Funny People, and many others. Now, I think that you know as to why he is on number 4 with $50.5 Million paid amount.
Also, if you are wishing to watch any comedy movie this weekend, you must go for a Sandler movie!!
Vin Diesel ($54.5 Million)
Date of Birth: 18 July 1967
Mark Sinclair, most popularly known as Vin Diesel is one of those handsome Hunk of the Hollywood who not only acts in an action movie but also lives the same life and also the most expensive actor. Diesel is mostly known for his work in the XXX, Fast and the Furious and The Chronicles of Riddick series- Vin Diesel movies. Do you know all these movies have in common? Yes, you guessed it right, these all movies are based on action sequences and high-speed chasings.
Vin Diesel is not only an best Hollywood actor but also a producer and screenwriter and Vin Diesel net worth is in millions. He Produced the sequels of most of his movies and wrote many screenplays for his part of the scenes. It is also known that many of his stunts in the movies are done by himself. He also did some voice acting work for movies like- The Iron Giant (1999), Guardians of the Galaxy(2014) and its 2017 sequel.
Deisel is also the owner of a great deep voice. He says that his voice broke when he was 15 which made him sound mature enough for others to listen.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson ($65 Million)
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Date of Birth: May 2, 1972
Dwayne Johnson is best known by his Ring name “The Rock”. By profession, he is an International Wrestler and richest Hollywood actor. Taling about his early life, he was the college Football Player for the University of Miami. Later in 1995, he started working for the career in Professional Wrestling. You might be amazed to know that Dwayne is the third person consecutively in his family to join the Wrestling career. His father and Grandfather are the persons who used to do the same in their respective career stages.
Even in the ring, he did win a lot of titles and championships. Not only this, he is an eight-time WWE champion. After having his time in the Ring, he went on to work as an actor in the Hollywood industry. And to all of our surprise, from all Hollywood actors, he got a chance and was paid $5.5 Million for his first film Thre Scorpion King in 2002. Today he also holds a great part in the movie Fast and the Furious by playing the character of Agent Luke Hobbs and also got featured as the best action male actors list. If we talk about some of his personal life, he is a proud father of 2 children, a great social activist, and motivating Bodybuilder.
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Mark Wahlberg ($68 Million)
Date of Birth: June 5, 1971
Payscale: $68 Million (most paid actor in the list of the highest paid actor)
You might be wondering who is the top paid actors and best male movie stars in this big industry? Well, the wait is over. According to Forbes releases its annual lists of the highest-paid actors and actresses in Hollywood., the highest paid actor in 2017 is Mark Wahlberg with a pay scale of $68 Million. But you might not know what all this one man can do. Apart from Acting, he is a producer, businessman, former model, rapper, and songwriter. Can you believe how much a single person can do?
At first, he started his career by releasing the albums Music for the People and You Gotta Believe. Later, making his acting debut in the movie The Basketball Diaries back in 1995. Gradually he gained a lot of fame which helped him working bagging movies like The Departed, The Fighter, The Lone Savior and many more. He is loved by many people and his acting is always praised by the critics. Also, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 29, 2010.
Now I think you must have got it why he is the highest paid male actor in the whole Hollywood industry!!
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Mahindra & Mahindra keeps rivals at bay in India's pick-up market
by Kiran Bajad 12 May 2017
While Mahindra's warhorse Bolero remains a popular buy, the Tata Xenon Yodha is making new gains in the pick-up market.
In the light commercial vehicle (LCV) segment in India, the goods carrier sub-segment is the biggest in terms of volume. The two categories – 2T mini-truck and 2-3.5T pick-up – have seen some intense competition between two leading players, namely Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors. Ashok Leyland, with just a single product offering – the Dost – is also making a pitch in the segment.
In FY2017, despite growing competition, M&M retained its tight hold on the country’s pick-up segment with over 65 percent market share in the 2-3.5T pick-up segment with total sales of 136,574 units. However, despite selling nearly 10,000 more units, it lost 3 percent market share in the category as compared to FY2016 (126,824 units). This indicates that the pick-up segment has been growing significantly.
The change is attributed to the growing popularity of pick-ups as a preferred mode of transportation within cities as bigger trucks are not allowed within city limits, particularly during daytime. Also due to higher power and bigger loading capacities, pick-ups offer more operating profit to operators. This segment is largely operated by driver owners, whose profit is driven by higher volume and faster turnaround time resulting higher revenue per trip.
How the pick-up market numbers stack up since FY2015
A close look at the last three years’ sales volumes of the overall pick-up segment reveals the growing demand for such commercial vehicles. In FY2015, a total of 177,134 units were sold, rising 3.5 percent to 183,414 units in FY2016, and then recording 13 percent YoY growth to 207,610 units in FY2017.
M&M, riding on its popular Bolero pick-up range, sold a total of 393,148 units in a three-year period: 129,755 units in FY2015, 126,819 units in FY2016 and 136,574 units in FY2017. However, the three-year period has seen its market share decline from 73 percent to 69 percent and then to 65 percent.
Tata Motors, the second largest player in the segment, has in the past year been on an aggressive new product drive, mainly with a view to taken on the market leader. The company has an expansive product portfolio including the Super Ace, Tata 207 and the Xenon Pick-up. However, the Xenon has not really taken off in the market.
Earlier this year, in January, Tata Motors rolled out the new Xenon pick-up, rechristened as the Yodha, and offering a wide range of commercial applications with claimed USPs of high levels of performance and lowest operating cost. Squarely targeted at the Mahindra competition, the Yodha has a rated payload of up to 1250kg, is available in 4×4 and 4×2 options in single-cab and double-cab versions, and comes with a starting price of Rs 605,000. Between January and March 2017, the Yodha sold 39,055 units and had a market share of 18.8 percent, helping Tata increase its share in pick-up segment by 3 percent. It can be gleaned that Tata Motors has been consistently increasing its volumes and market share. In FY2015, FY2016 and FY2017, the company sold 21,231 units, 27,838 units and 39,055 units respectively for a market share of 11.9 percent, 15.1 percent and 18.8 percent.
Ashok Leyland, the No. 3 in the segment with its Dost, is close behind Tata Motors. The Chennai-based manufacturer aims to become a full range CV player with plans to introduce a new LCV every quarter this fiscal. In FY2017, the company sold 30,463 Dosts (+11.8%) for a markets share of 14.6 percent.
Declining 2T mini-truck segment
The 2T mini-truck segment, which Tata Motors drove single-handedly with its Ace range of small trucks introduced in 2005, has been recording declines as changing buyer preference for higher payload trucks and faster turnaround time has impacted sales adversely.
In FY2014, sales of the 2T mini-truck segment with sales of 166,974 units dropped by a massive 67 percent from 247,426 units in FY2013. Sales dropped further to 131,455 in FY2015, to 116,560 in FY2016 and saw flat growth in FY2017 with 116,890 units.
M&M, with a strong product like the Jeeto, has been able to grab considerable market share from Tata Motors. In FY2017, M&M sold 30,033 units in the segment and has doubled its market share to 25.6 percent in the last two years.
Ratings agency ICRA in its growth outlook for FY2018 estimates that the LCV truck segment is likely to grow by 6-8 percent on the back of replacement demand as well as an improvement in demand from consumption-driven sectors, rural markets, e-commerce and finance.
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Quick Comparison Between Tesla Model 3 and Model S
Earlier this year, Tesla has finally unraveled its new offspring ‘Tesla 3’. Many car lovers were caught in awe with the vehicle’s specs, especially that it is expected to feature a set of cutting edge technologies, it’s enough to mention that it recorded more than 150,000 sale orders since its appearance.
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Elon Musk, the mastermind creator of Tesla cars technology and the founder of the company, said that the car isn’t made to replace the S Model of Tesla, but to compete with it on catering better performance to customers.
The Tesla 3 is going to be more consumer-friendly and more sophisticated than the S. Moreover, it’s going to be available for lower price.
However, that’s not the whole of it, there are many other details and specs to talk about while addressing the differences between both cars.
Although the whole specs of Model 3 aren’t yet available, we thought about conducting a brief comparison between both cars to highlight the main specifics of each one.
Now, let’s start with the new one.
2017 Tesla Model 3
Price: The new vehicle is available for 35,000 dollars for the base price, it’s good to say that each copy will be subsidized by 7,500 to 13,000 dollars from US government.
Features: The Model 3 is loaded with top-notch features including the autopilot that comes standard in all cars.
Speed: Car experts hint that it will bolt from 0 to 100 km/h in less than six seconds only, however, there is no clue about its top speed.
Range: As per what was officially announced from the car makers during the car debut press conference, the car’s battery could last for 346 km per one charge.
Some rumors say that the car will be equipped with a new battery architecture that could make it last for nearly 586 km, which means five-hour continuous drive.
Safety: The car earned 5-star safety rating in all categories.
Appearance: The new model is 20 percent smaller than the Model S. It has a gorgeous look with absolutely fantastic details.
Interior: The car can take five adults, it has large legroom and headroom. It has a front and rear trunk and its cargo capacity has been increased. It can fit a seven-foot surfboard inside it, according to Elon Musk.
Now with the elder combatant.
Price: The car cost ranges 75,000 dollars to 133,000 dollars according to its version and features.
Features: It has a full-service autopilot that can drift off wrecks, change lanes, manage speed, control brakes, avoid drifting, and scan for parking.
Speed: It can do the 0 to 100 km task in less than 3 seconds with the P90D, 4.2 seconds with 90D, and 5.2 seconds with the 70D.
Range: Its range varies from 386 km to 434 km according to its version and battery type.
Safety: 5 stars in all categories
Appearance: The car dynamics and style give it very low resistance to air flow, it has an attractive look, and fancy details.
Interior: The car cabin features a 17-inch touchscreen, high-definition backup camera, WiFi and internet connections, 12 volt power charges, besides a large legroom and fancy seats.
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The World’s Most Expensive Car
A lot of car lovers wonder from time to time about the world’s most expensive vehicle. Well, we thought about unraveling the world’s most expensive car, at least for this period of time.
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Cars are a gigantic market that covers the whole world and records thousands of deals worth millions of dollars every day, prices are always rising, and updates never stop every minute, even every second.
Car deals prices aren’t static as they are subjected to the matter of supply, demand, and human preferences. However, the most expensive car deals, at least for the moment, is the 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO.
According to Bloomberg, the Ferrari was sold in October 2013 for 52 million dollars. It’s worth mentioning that the car buyer is still anonymous until the moment while the old owner was the famous car collector Paul Pappalardo.
What is so special about it
Well, it’s classic, and as we all know, classic cars are always precious and valuable. Moreover, it has something that no other car has.
This vehicle is like the Mona Lisa, it has something mystique about it that makes it stand out all other vehicles, according to Don Williams, the owner of Black-hawk Collection.
The Ferrari 250 GTO has only 39 other copies, however, this particular model has won the 1963 Tour de France driven by the renowned driver Jean Guichet.
Ferrari 250 GTO History
So that’s what it is all about, not only its classiness, fancy look, and uniqueness, but also history. This vehicle marks an extraordinary event of history.
It’s like owning the sword of a noble conqueror, the pistol of Montgomery, Pelle’s football, or the pen which William Shakespeare used to write his plays and novels.
Having such a car is like having a window to view a special part of the history, to sit where legends sat, to hear the same sound only a few people heard, and to own something that made history.
GTOs owners
The other models of Ferrari 250 GTO are also owned notable and renowned figures including Fashion designer Ralph Lauren, the chairman of Walmart chain S. Rob Walton, former Microsoft president Jon Shirley, Baron Laidlaw who is the 105th richest person in UK, and many other figures.
Ferrari GTO is considered one of the easiest means of investment since it is always sought-after by many wealthy individuals.
Ferrari 250 GTO Engine
This specimen from Ferrari was principally made to win races. It has a 3.0 liter engine of 12 valves that is capable of producing around 300 horse power. The vehicle can bolt from 0 to 100 kmph in 6.2 seconds and its top speed is 254 kms, great specs actually for an early sixties industry.
The GTO has an exotic outer design that is timeless and still esteemed until the moment.
The vehicle’s starting price is 6,000 sterling pounds, however, the price increased over the years since 1963 until the moment to reach around 15 million pounds. Great investment, isn’t it?
The New Cadillac CTS-V Sedan Checked Out
A new beast from Cadillac was unleashed this year. It’s the new version of its Cadillac CTS-V sedan launched to set a new standard for power, agility, and rigidness.
A lot more of aggressiveness, fanciness, and practicality have been added to the new version.
It’s designed to display power and enable drivers from being powerful while steering the wheel.
Car lovers and experts expect this generation of CTS-V from Cadillac to be the best compared to its predecessors.
Actually, as a viewer, I can testify that the car abilities, new technologies, and updated exterior design, are designed to show fury and raise fear in its counterparts on the road.
It’s truly a furious beast that offers its driver total control of its wide set of masterful capabilities.
Cadillac CTS-V 2016 Exterior
The car shape was basically styled to demonstrate aggressiveness, however, it’s still a slick and a dynamic one.
The new CTS-V inherited a lot of its body design from the previous models in addition to a number of newly-added features which make it look smoother and more stretched.
The new model has a remodeled set of headlights with a better cascading look and a smaller grille. It has a small vent centered in its hood, a spoiler, and a front splitter to direct air flow and improve the vehicle aerodynamic abilities.
The vehicle’s front look with its swept-back headlights, large hood, wide grille, and muscular appearance are designed to deliver a certain idea that CTS-V means business.
Cadillac CTS-V 2016 Exterior Front
Car cabin
Cadillac CTS-V 2016 Cabin
The car’s interior design has been refurbished to give its drivers and passengers a totally different revelation from its body style, a relaxing and cosy one.
It’s meant to look so professional from the inside which is evident from using leather-swathed seats and carbon fibers instead of wood.
The Cadillac has a set of top-notch technology features added to its cabin including a quality infotainment system that has a wide touch screen.
Drivers will certainly love using its central console and glancing at its picturesque dashboard, not to mention the additional features it has including cruise control, Bluetooth, and many other.
Cadillac CTS-V 2016 Engine
A true heart of a beast, the engine is an ambidextrous 6.2 liter supercharged one that contains 8 valves and offers 640 horsepower.
It has an eight-speed transmission system that successfully moderates this huge power. The CTS-V can bolt from 0 to 100 km/h in about 3.7 seconds and its top speed is 321 km/h.
The official release date of the vehicle is still ambiguous, however, it is expected to take place by the end of this year.
The price tag is only for strong-hearted ones, those who have deep pockets and high passion for such vehicles. It’s set at $92,040 for the base MSRP.
If you are up for the CTS-V from Cadillac, you ought to take a look at its counterparts such as Lexus GS F, Mercedes Benz AMG, and Maserati Ghibli. Do you dare to skip the Cadillac for its competitors? I don’t think so.
Best Economical Hatchback Cars For 2016
Still the fuel consumption will be one of the main issues to think about while looking for a new car especially these days given the rising oil prices and tight economic situation.
We all want a vehicle that has smart set of fuel pumps incorporated in its engine to stay soft on your money pockets.
The good thing about economic vehicles, beside its practicality when it comes to money, is that they are less harmful to the surrounding environment and they feature stronger prices in the resale market.
Based on that, we combined a set of the most economic vehicles that you should consider buying if you are thinking about practical, environment-friendly, and gentle car.
It’s a tricky task to do in fact since many fuel-efficient versions aren’t really cost-efficient, so we had to dig deeper looking for vehicles having both traits.
It’s worth mentioning that this article focuses on ordinary non-hybrid and non-electric cars. Now, let’s demonstrate our cars line-up.
Now lets check the full list for the best economical hatchback cars for 2016
Best Economic Hatchback Cars For 2016
The French car manufacturing company succeeded in crafting the world’s best economic vehicle, according to our studies, with their face-lifted Peugeot 208.
The car records over 40 kmpl and emits 79 g/km of CO2. So, it’s totally friendly to the environment and has gentle manners when it comes to fuel consumption.
This vehicle has the perfect mix as it mingles between cost efficiency and fun. The five-door supermini vehicle as it offers 36.39 kmpl and emits 87g/km of CO2.
The vehicle has brilliant driving dynamics and was ranked as one of the top selling cars in the world.
In respect of safety, Fiesta sets standards also for top safety specs as it contains seven air bags and scored five stars in Euro NCAP crash tests.
Another French offspring is included in our list, but this one is smartly manufactured by Renault. The vehicle has a three-cylinder engine that offers 26.7 kmpl.
The new Clio offers magnificent exterior and interior designs and a set of favorable features. It has a wide touchscreen display in the middle of its dashboard, large boot size, and convenient leg space.
The new Corsa is now getting in the race with the world’s top economic cars thanks to its refined specs and latest improvements. The car offers returns of 37.54 kmpl and CO2 emissions of 85 g/km.
The vehicle price starts from 13000 dollars which is 1500 dollars less than the Ford Fiesta. The top economic model of Corsa costs 21600 dollars.
Since its launch in 2011, KIA Rio succeeded in setting the benchmark for low fuel consumption. It consumes 37.5 kpl and emits only 85g/km.
The Rio has a spacious inner salon and large boot size, yet not as large as its counterparts of other top economic vehicles.
Rio has high driving and handling performance, actually it’s a very good ride to drive. It has a chic central console, convenient leg room, and a set of features including Bluetooth, cruise control, and many other stuff.
Range Rover Evoque Convertible; The 2016 Land Rover Range
The Range Rover Evoque Convertible mingles between two magnificent vehicular facets which are convertibility and being a Land Rover.
There have been regular SUVs, coupe SUVs, and performance SUVs. So, Land Rover Jaguar thought that, why not have a convertible SUV.
The Range Rover Evoque Convertible was first shown at LA Motor Show and it will be released by this summer.
Range Rover Evoque Convertible Price
The vehicle’s price tag will start from 47,500 sterling pounds for the diesel version. It’s worth mentioning that the hard-top model of Evoque is 5,200 pounds cheaper than the convertible, this could be attributed to using fabric roof top that folds in only 18 seconds.
However, the difference between the convertible model and the rooftop model could be is still quite large, especially when knowing that the difference between a convertible BMW 4 Series and the coupe is only 4,885 pounds.
Despite its price, the Evoque has been able to sell 450,000 so far which speaks a lot about its popularity and how customers perceive it.
Range Rover Evoque Convertible
The Evoque Convertible is 4,370 mm longer than the hard-top, and it’s wider too. The extra strengthening of the car’s under-body bracing made it bit heavier also as it gained 227 kg.
The Evoque Convertibles are available with two engines; a TD4 Ingenium engine that produces 178 horse power and a four-cylinder Si4 that offers 237 horse power.
The suspensions and anti-roll bars have been refined to sustain the extra weight in the convertible. The electric power steering has been improved too for better driving experience.
Interior cabin
The vehicle’s interior cabin has four seats of fancy leather lining. The leg space in the front seats and the back seats are wide enough.
Land Rover introduced new technologies in the car cabin such as a 10.2-inch touchscreen with 3G connectivity. It has also a navigation system and a perfect sound system the offers acoustic and clear sound. ‘
The super-wide touch screen features a set of favorable applications that work on smartphones. It offers also a WiFi hotspot and a remote tracking system.
The well-known British cars website autoexpress.com has gave the Evoque Convertible a test drive. They reported that what impressed them the most was the easiness of the drive and the lack of chassis wobble. The vehicle was calm and steady.
Having a convertible vehicle could be a real challenge for any car manufacturer as removing the hood has a noticeable effect on dynamics. However, the Evoque Convertible excelled, it showed how Land Rover manufacturer takes into consideration each and every detail to spawn a real model of incredible convertible SUV.
Land Rover done a perfect job in strengthening the car’s rigidity as it stayed totally silent with dips and slopes. This promises an ideal long-road and off-road performance, in addition to high safety measures.
The car can deal with water 500 mm deep and 45-degree gradients which could seem supplementary with other luxurious vehicles, but these qualifications are well integrated in the Evoque’s vehicular facets.
The Best Time to Buy a New Car, How To Decide Which Car To Buy
We could put another good title for this piece, when is it suitable to be a traitor and betray the first love? Here you can find some useful tips for how to decide which car to buy.
We all have this strong attachment that binds us with our car, especially if it’s our first one. Let’s admit it, we have something deep in our hearts towards the old Ford Crown Victoria or the classic Land Cruiser which helped us during our first few years of driving.
However, despite all that, there is a time when enough is enough. We thought about listing some of the main signs that mean that keeping your car is absolutely a loss and it’s time to replace it.
When the car isn’t safe anymore
When you feel shaky and not confident while driving your car, then it’s absolutely time to get rid of it and start looking for another one.
If you always expect the car to break down while driving it, then there must be something wrong, you either check it or buy it.
One day, it could break down on a highway and leave you stranded in the middle of the desert with no one to help. So, in order to be left in such a situation, act quickly and find a solution. Get yourself safer and more reliable tin can.
The repair costs of your car shouldn’t exceed by any mean half of its market value. At a certain time, your car won’t stop complaining, and every time you run a check, you will a find a new problem. If this happens, it’s time to consider buying a new vehicle.
Maintenance and repairs could be a constant drain of your saving accounts. Sometimes it’s better to pay a monthly car installment instead of paying the repair costs of the old ride.
Not suitable any more
We pass through a lot of turns and a lot of phases in our life. When your car isn’t suitable for you’re the new phase of your life, for example, the cabin can’t occupy your family any more, or the trunk can’t take your luggage, then it’s time to look for new vehicle.
If you keep jumping from one store to another looking for a new pair of headlights for your vehicle or brake pads, then there must be something wrong, may be you are the only one still driving your car.
Finding new spare parts should be an easy task, but when it’s not any more, get rid of your ride and search for another newer one that still has its spare parts on store shelves.
Before buying a new vehicle, you need to run a deep research and study the whole situation carefully in order to end up with a good and practical vehicle that could hold it together for long time, you don’t want to experience this pain again within 2 or 3 years.
Check car reviews websites and newspapers, ask your friends and acquaintances, and visit car agencies to find the most suitable vehicle to your needs.
View The Most Expensive Cars In The World
It’s good to know about the world’s most expensive cars, maybe one day you will have enough cash and enough courage to own one.
So, until this imagination comes to reality, we thought about letting you know more about the top seven most expensive cars in the world according to the latest update. Now, let’s start with demonstrating the cars.
Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita ($4.8 million)
Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita – The most expensive cars in the world
Maybe it is not that renowned, especially when compared with other top notch sports cars like Lamborghini, Aston Martin, and Ferrari, but it’s absolutely the world’s most precious vehicle.
Why? It’s not due to its huge engine power, magnificent curvy body design, or exquisite interior cabin, but because it’s covered with diamond.
Yes, the car literally has some diamonds on its body. Trevita, the car manufacturer, developed a new exterior finish which includes mingling carbon fibers with diamond dust.
The car features a 4.8 liter V8 engine that is able to produce 1,004 hp, which is absolutely incredible.
Lamborghini Veneno ($4.5 million)
Lamborghini Veneno – The most expensive cars in the world
Veneno means poison. That’s what Lamborghini has chosen to call their new modification of Aventador.
The car features a unique and picturesque exterior design that won’t stop amazing you in each and every angle.
This one can really be described as too fast. It can sprint from zero to 100 KMs in 2.9 seconds thanks to its 6.5 liter V12 motor which produces 740 hp.
Bugatti Veyron ($3.4 million)
Bugatti Veyron – The most expensive cars in the world
Can’t ever mention a list of the world’s fastest cars or the world’s most expensive cars without mentioning the mighty Bugatti Veyron.
The 1200-hp vehicle is adorned from outside with a carbon fiber body, LED lights, modified front grill, and fancy interior cabin. It’s worth mentioning that the vehicle’s top speed is 254 mph.
Pagani Huayra BC ($2.6 million)
Pagani Huayra BC – The most expensive cars in the world
As if the Pagani Huayra with all its extraordinary power and design wasn’t enough for Pagani to resonate with all cars followers and buyers as it debuted a new modification named Pagani Huayra BC which was first featured in 2016 Geneva Motor Show.
The Huayra BC comes with magnificent aerodynamics and extremely light weight of only 1,102 Ibs. Moreover, it features 789 horse power and magnificent exterior and interior design.
Huayra is named after the Incan god of wind. Its name reveals a lot of its specifications including its speed and weight that is compared to the wind.
Ferrari F60 America ($2.5 million)
Ferrari F60 America – The most expensive cars in the world
The model ‘America’ of the Ferrari F-60 was designed with some alterations and modifications to be more American such as its color scheme inspired from the American flag, its classic racing livery, and many other updates.
Its 6.2 liter V12 engine could churn out 740 horse power. It can launch from zero to 100 kms in 3.1 seconds.
Bugatti Chiron ($2.5 million)
Bugatti Chiron – The most expensive cars in the world
Bugatti thought about competing itself by launching a vehicle that could outperform their own offset Veyron, which is in fact a bit tricky task to do, so they designed their latest innovation in cars realm, the Bugatti Chiron.
It hits the 100 KMs in only 2.5 seconds, it has a 1,500 horse power, its top speed is 261 mph, and it’s glorious.
Lamborghini Centenario
Lamborghini Centenario – The most expensive cars in the world
Practicality at its best. The car manufactory family of Lamborghini meant to exploit each inch in Centenario’s exterior body in a way that could boost its performance.
It features hood vents, aerodynamic bumper fins, low and heavy rear haunches to maintain its stability, and wheel blades.
Centenario is known to carry the most powerful engine Lamborghini has ever built, it’s a 6.5 liter V12 one that is capable of producing 770 hp which is enough to make the vehicle dash from 0 to 100 in 2.8 seconds. It’s top speed is 220 mph.
Ferrari Design Concepts Of 2040
The Italian luxury cars manufacturer is thinking about how Ferrari cars will look like after 25 years, specifically in 2040.
Ferrari launched a design contest asking car designers to produce their design concepts of Ferrari cars in 2040. The company is trying to trace the future by digging into designers’ minds.
This is not the first time Ferrari sets a design contest. The cars company ran the first contest in 2005 and followed it up with another contest in 2012. So this is the first time.
During the first contest, 50 design schools took part by putting forward their visions of Ferrari’s future. Designs delivered then ranged between realistic concepts to wacky and queer ones.
Each school delivered three designs. Only four design schools between the 50 contestants are still remaining in the competition.
The four remaining design schools are: Hongik University in South Korea, Hochschule Pforzhheim in Germany, College for Creative Studies in Detroit, USA, and ISD-Rubika in France. They are all regarded as top design schools.
Ferrari mentioned that two prizes will be issued. The first winner will be chosen by public vote and the other winner will be picked by a professional panel that includes the racing driver Sebastian Vettel, the musician Jay Kay, and the car designer Paolo Pininfarina.
Some of the proposed car designs were available on Ferrari’s official Facebook page for internet users to see.
The contest winner
A students team from ISD-Rubika in Valenciennes, France won the panel’s nomination. The team included 3 French students and 3 Belgian students.
According to the panel, the design was chosen due to the completeness of the concept design and the coherence of car’s overall vision including the exterior design, the interior cabin, and the running gear.
The vehicle’s exterior design was recognizable despite that it included some Orthodox features that could be inspired from contemporary car designs.
The design team invented some new features and driving mechanisms in their car model ‘manifesto’.
The design panel picked a design that focused on the interior cabin only for the second place. The design was produced by Roman Egorov from Hochschule Pforzheim in Germany.
The third place went to a three-student team from the Korean Hongik University in Seoul. Their design concept was called ‘de esfera’.
Since its establishment, Ferrari always longs to take the next step in car industry and advance all its competitors. That’s why it launched the 2040 car design contest for instance.
The company was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1939 and made its first vehicle in 1940.
Ferrari is known for being a symbol of speed, luxury, and top craftsmanship. It is enough to say that the world’s most expensive car in history is a Ferrari one (Ferrari 250 GTO) which was sold for about 38 million dollars to an American businessman.
In racing arena, Ferrari won a considerable number of records and prizes. It holds the most constructors championships with 16 titles and has the highest number of winning drivers which is 15 drivers.
June 7, 2016 / by AUTO Z / in Cars news and reviews
The New Golf GTi MK8: Power Boost In 2019 Model
Volkswagen released a number of photos revealing 2019 model of Golf GTi. The images show a lot of changes on the car’s structure and design.
Since its launch, each model of VW Golf has been corresponded by a GTi version. The current model of GTi pumps out 286 horse power.
Modifications of 2019 model
The new GTi MK8 model will have a significant boost in engine power as the entry-level version will produce about 260 horse power, the middle version will offer 300 horse power, and the top-tier version will offer about 325 horse power which means a significant leap in engine qualities especially when compared with the contemporary version.
The new GTi kept some signature traits of Golf body design such as the trademark tartan seats and the sharp rectangular rear window that has a small wiper.
However, 2019 model will have beefed up front and rear bumpers, some red detailing like in the rear lights, and more aggressive looks.
The new GTi will have wide wheels, sharp and sculpted body, fancy chrome rims, exaggerated head size, and low side sills, even lower than the past models. The car design will have a red pinstripe underscoring the GTi and VW badge in the front grille along with the head lamps.
Both transmission systems, 6-speed manual transmission and auto-transmission, will be available with the new sports car. Gti’s new auto transmission gear box will be the world’s first 10-speed twin-clutch system.
Body structure
New body material will be used for the 2019 GTi model made from steel and polymer. The new material will cut the car’s weight by 30 percent. The steel-polymer mix is more practical than carbon fiber since it is cheaper and more rigid.
Golf GTi background
Volkswagen started the GTI series four decades ago. The GTIs have been remarkable in the hot hatch market since their release as they set the standards for other vehicles of the same genre.
We will try to take a quick glance over the past seven generations of the model in order to get more revelations about the new model to be released in 2019.
The first GTi MK1 hit the stores for the first time in 1977. It weighed more than 810 kg and had a 1.6 engine producing 110 horse power. The car sold only 34 models in UK as it wasn’t really common between car lovers.
It was really a success this one. It covered about 50% of Golf sales in 1989. The MK2 was first released in 1984 equipped with 1.8-litre engine pumping out 112 horse power.
First issued in 1992, this one had an 8V 112 horse power 2.0-litre engine.
The MK4 wasn’t really a success, especially from car professionals and critics’ point of view, as it had a dull style and stodgy handling.
MK5 had a 2.0-litre turbo engine capable of producing 197 horse power. It had a distinctive styling and refined suspension system.
Another hit in hot hatches realm. It wasn’t really powerful, but it had the good looks and the modified driving and handling experience.
The current model, first issued in 2013, is more opened to tech world as it has various electronic tweaks, not to mention, the sharp and aggressive look.
New plans for Land Rover Defender 2018
Rumors went ubiquitous about Land Rover Jaguar’s intentions to introduce a new larger Defender model by 2018 to be more fitting for family’s needs.
The designer director of Land Rover and its great designs inspires ‘Gerry McGovern’ mentioned that the new Defender will be inspired in its vehicular facets by the mighty Range Rover Sports SVR.
The new vehicle is expected to be developed in Land Rover’s new car manufacture division Special Vehicle Operations (SVO).
In a press interview with Auto Express, which is a specialized website, McGovern said that SVO allows the company to heighten the cars’ essence either they are Range Rover models, Discovery, or Defender.
Long living for the family
The new Defender model is expected to be unraveled by 2018. The vehicle will be produced in three different models.
The main concept behind the refined model of Defender is durability. The vehicle will be designed and crafted to offer more durability and long living for the family.
McGovern in his interview described it as an indestructible durable vehicle that will meet families’ needs by all means.
Not a lot of information was released about the new Defender. The vehicle is expected to be equipped with a powerful V6 engine, and possibly a four-cylinder turbo charged one that can be fueled with diesel and petrol.
Land Rover has a wide array of engines including supercharged 5.0 liter V8, 3.0 liter V6, and 2.0 liter V4. All these engines are well-crafted and quite able to earn drivers’ trust, moreover, carry Land Rover’s name and legacy.
The car body
Despite the new modifications, Land Rover Defender is still a true off-roader and a true beast that is capable of devouring desert dunes.
The new vehicle is expected to have an aluminum body which is supported with aluminum chassis. This will enable the vehicle to endure various ground conditions and atmosphere.
The new Defender is another venture from Land Rover to continue its trend upward in the world’s cars market. According to Land Rover’s design Guru ‘Gerry McGovern’, it can be elemental up to incredibly luxurious.
He added saying that when people see the new vehicle, they will know it is totally competent to carry Land Rover name and badge.
The new Defender is predicted to jostle many other vehicles of similar qualifications on the same market piece. Between these vehicles there is Jeep Wrangler, Mercedes Benz G-class, and Ford Broncos.
The long-awaited new model of Defender is expected to be officially released in 2017 with a price tag starting from 55,000 dollars.
The story of Land Rover
It’s a British four-wheel-drive vehicles manufacturer owned by Jaguar Land Rover Company which was purchased by Tata Motors in 2008.
The company was first launched in 1948. It develops a wide range of 4×4 models including Defender, Freelander, Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, and Range Rover Evoque.
The company has an assembly line in Halewood and another one in Solihull. Moreover, it has two research and development plants in Gaydon and Whitley.
May 31, 2016 / by AUTO Z / in Cars news and reviews
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A United States flag is provided, at no cost, to drape the casket or accompany the urn of a deceased veteran who served honorably in the U. S. Armed Forces. It is furnished to honor the memory of a veteran's military service to his or her country. VA will furnish a burial flag for memorialization for:
A veteran who served during wartime
A veteran who died on active duty after May 27, 1941
A veteran who served after January 31, 1955
A peacetime veteran who was discharged or released before June 27, 1950
Certain persons who served in the organized military forces of the Commonwealth of the Philippines while in service of the U.S. Armed Forces and who died on or after April 25, 1951
Certain former members of the Selected Reserves
Who Is Eligible to Receive the Burial Flag?
Generally, the flag is given to the next-of-kin, as a keepsake, after its use during the funeral service. When there is no next-of-kin, VA will furnish the flag to a friend making request for it. For those VA national cemeteries with an Avenue of Flags, families of veterans buried in these national cemeteries may donate the burial flags of their loved ones to be flown on patriotic holidays.
You may apply for the flag by completing VA Form 27-2008, Application for United States Flag for Burial Purposes. You may get a flag at any VA regional office or U.S. Post Office. Generally, the funeral director will help you obtain the flag.
Can a Burial Flag Be Replaced?
The law allows us to issue one flag for a veteran's funeral. We cannot replace it if it is lost, destroyed, or stolen. However, some veterans' organizations or other community groups may be able to help you get another flag.
How Should the Burial Flag Be Displayed?
The proper way to display the flag depends upon whether the casket is open or closed. VA Form 27-2008 provides the correct method for displaying and folding the flag. The burial flag is not suitable for outside display because of its size and fabric. It is made of cotton and can easily be damaged by weather.
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April 17, 2019 Music, Arts & Culture » Arts
Henry the Great
Free jazz titan Henry Kaiser in Mill Valley this week for Coltrane showdown
By James Keepnews
James Keepnews is a musician, writer and multimedia artist. Henry Kaiser and friends take a deep dive into Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' on Sunday, April 21, at Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. 5pm. $20. 415. 388.3850.
Photo courtesy Henry Kaiser
ICE PICKS AND GUITAR LICKS When he's not exploring the Antarctic, Henry Kaiser plays guitar; and sometimes, he does both simultaneously.
For most mortals, a single major accomplishment can be satisfying enough for one lifetime.
eing an Academy Award–nominated producer, say; or a director-composer and cinematographer for multiple television series; or a university professor for nearly two decades; or a research diver with one of the highest numbers of dives under Antarctic sea ice; or creating your own record label still going strong in its fifth decade; or collaborating with an unprecedented array of artists across numerous genres from many different cultures—or, say, being one of the most outstanding guitarists of your generation—would be a laurel quite large enough to rest on.
Not so for Henry Kaiser, whose Promethean achievements encompass all of these and much more.
But let's focus for the moment on Henry Kaiser, guitarist. Picking up the guitar at the comparatively late age of 20 and emerging as a cutting-edge improviser in the late seventies, Kaiser has continued to record an incomparably broad variety of music very much in keeping with his wide-ranging interests and influences. In a discography now north of 300 releases, one thing that becomes abundantly clear is how much this man loves to play, with an instantly recognizable, invigorating tone and sky (or is that sea?) diver's fearlessness, and one who equally esteems the process of collaboration with many different kinds of artists.
That love of playing will be on full display during the weekend of April 20 as Kaiser performs in tributes to two major inspirational figures for him. First, on the exalted stoner holiday itself, Kaiser will join longtime friends and collaborators Rova Saxophone Quartet among many others for "Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! A Tribute to Cecil Taylor" at CounterPulse in San Francisco. And the following day finds him once more joining drummer John Hanrahan's ongoing project, performing the classic suite by the late saxophone titan John Coltrane, A Love Supreme, at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley.
Reached at his home near the Santa Cruz mountains, Kaiser recalled the memorable first time he heard Coltrane.
"Some girl played A Love Supreme for me in her dorm room while we made out on her bed! So, it made a strong impression," he says.
Hanrahan has been leading the Coltrane project for several years with the work's original instrumentation and recently decided to take the work in an electric direction. One of the first people he contacted was Kaiser.
"I said, 'Let's get some more electric players with us—let's open it up and not do it all reverent,'" he recalls telling Hanrahan.
On April 21, Hanrahan and Kaiser will be joined at Sweetwater Music Hall by violinist Mads Tolling, keyboardist Scott Looney and bassist Murph Murphy. It's one of several electric incarnations for this project, which has included such musicians as guitarist Steve Kimock as well as the legendary bassist for the iconic West Coast punk band the Minutemen, Mike Watt.
"Watt's a super Coltrane freak and he was kinda terrified to do it," Kaiser says. "And the big surprise about A Love Supreme is that it's something that's open. It's a recipe and it makes different things every time. Like the Grateful Dead's 'Dark Star,' it has a strong identity of its own that takes over and you don't know what's going to happen."
That's a telling reference both from Kaiser's influences and his own discography, one that features several instances of him playing the Dead's psychedelic anthem "Dark Star," starting with a sidelong rendition on his 1988 album Those Who Know History Are Doomed To Repeat It, recorded for the Minutemen's label SST Records. Kaiser has been effusive in his praise of the Dead over the years, extolling their pioneering blending of styles and their range of expression from the most familiar to the most avant of gardes, strikingly similar to Kaiser's own musical journey.
His embrace of widely different musical approaches has resulted in a truly multicultural catalog, with Kaiser exploring music from Africa, India, Japan, Korea, Norway and elsewhere. Perhaps his most popular world music endeavor was his celebrated collaboration with fellow guitarist David Lindley and several musicians from Madagascar on the joyous two-volume A World Out Of Time.
"Lindley and I did not take any money for it," Kaiser recalls. "All the money went to the Malagasy people."
Alongside all this musical activity has been a parallel career as a research diver and educator. "I taught scientific diving at UC Berkeley since the mid-80s," says Kaiser. "When our program went away in 2001, I became a diver in the U.S. Antarctic program and I've had 13 deployments. And I have the seventh-most dives in the program."
This experience, in conjunction with his work in film and video, has served him well over the years, not least when he was nominated for an Academy Award as a producer while also serving as soundtrack artist and both land and underwater cinematographer for Encounters at the End of the World, one of several documentaries he has worked on for German director Werner Herzog.
Kaiser's accomplishments seemingly know no bounds in yet another ideal metaphor for his music. One irony, sharper as we approach April 20, is that this self-described "psychedelic" guitarist has famously never taken drugs. When asked what "psychedelic" means for him in this context, Kaiser replies, "It means what Salvador Dalí said: I don't need drugs, I am drugs!"
Kaiser expands on this thought in a follow-up email, writing, "I get the feeling that what my guitar has to say is psychedelic, rather than coming from psychedelics.
"When you were a preschool kid, did you–like me–lay in your dark bedroom at night and press on the lids of your eyes to generate phosphene patterns of internal light that danced in your head before going to sleep each night? Even though it may look like I'm smiling at the drummer or the audience, inside my mind, and without the addition of recreational chemicals, I'm drifting through glowing clouds of light; among coruscating fractal and geometric forms that shimmer in and out of existence. Rivers of light, like oceanic streams of phosphorescent plankton inflamed by the wakes of playful sea lions, dance in multi-colored time to the music before it happens; giving me my silent cues, like the clouds a glider pilot watches to catch updrafts."
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August 06, 2018 Music, Arts & Culture » Theater
Transcendence sings and dances a dozen Broadway tunes
'Shall We Dance' runs Friday–Sunday through Aug. 19. Jack London State Historic Park. 2400 London Ranch Road, Glen Ellen. Doors open for picnicking at 5pm; show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets $45–$150. 877.424.1414. transcendencetheatre.org.
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MOVE YOUR FEET Broadway Under the Stars' new show puts the spotlight on dancing.
Transcendence Theatre Company's seventh season of Broadway Under the Stars continues with a dance-centric production titled, appropriately enough, Shall We Dance. The show runs through Aug. 19 at Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen.
Transcendence imports Broadway and national touring professionals to populate its productions, so the caliber of performance is always quite high. Director Leslie McDonel and choreographer Marc Kimelman guide a cast of 17 talented artists through a program featuring songs from 18 Broadway shows like The King and I and Hamilton, as well as pop hits from artists like Madonna and Ed Sheeran.
The show opens, as is tradition, with a passage from Jack London as introduced by a coterie of tap dancers. The full company then welcomes the audience with an amusing adaptation of "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast that replaces banquet table staples with wine varietals, though I'm not quite sure what dancing strawberries are doing on the stage.
The (mostly) fast-paced, 40-minute first act includes numbers from In the Heights, West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Kiss Me, Kate. The highlight of the act is an energetic production of Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing" which incorporates a variety of dance styles that complement its swing roots. Things slow down with "Mama Who Bore Me" from Spring Awakening, which seems tonally out of step in a mostly joyous program, before concluding on a lighter note with the hilarious "A Musical" from Something Rotten.
Act two features dancing set to numbers from a diverse group of artists ranging from Janelle Monáe ("Tightrope") to Madonna ("Vogue"). The evening's most visually striking moment comes courtesy of a tango-infused production of the Police's "Roxanne" from Moulin Rouge with the winery ruins bathed in red.
The juxtaposition between the diversity in dance styles and music selection with the lack of diversity among the cast is noticeable. For a company that imports a great deal of its talent from New York, the relatively small number of artists of color in the cast is disappointing. Simply put, it's jarring to have Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" and Michael Jackson's "Bad" sung and danced by a bunch of white guys, talented as they may be.
It's time for Transcendence's cast to be as colorful as the costumes they wear.
Rating (out 5 five): ★★★★
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Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World (Paperback)
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“Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma -- an examination from source to table of our food -- is wonderfully written and gives a well-rounded view of being green.”
— Teri Den Herder, UCSD Bookstore, La Jolla, CA
Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet.
Michael Pollan is the author of five books: "Second Nature," "A Place of My Own," "The Botany of Desire," which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestellers, "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and "In Defense of Food."A longtime contributing writer to "The New York Times Magazine," Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.
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Take A Virtual Tour Of Mysterious Easter Island
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There aren’t many things on Easter Island off the coast of Chile, but the Moai statues are famed for their size.In fact, if you harm one of the statues, you can be sent to jail.
Some statues are 65 feet tall, and each of them weighs about 20 tons. There are just under 1,000 Moai statues on Easter Island.
Last week, an archaeological dig revealed that below the surface of Easter Island, the Moai heads actually have carved bodies, according to Fox News.
Our friends at Airpano shared some of their panoramas of the island with us.
The island was named by Jacob Roggeveen, a God-loving Dutch explorer, in 1722.
Easter Island has a native population of just 4,000 people.
Source: Easter Island Statue Project
Part of the mystery of the Moai are what the statues depict. Legend has it they could have been planted by aliens since the statues don't really resemble humans.
It is speculated that the first inhabitants came to the island around 4 A.D.
Source: Easter Island Tourism
The largest Moai on the island is 72 feet tall, according to PBS.
Source: PBS
The average Moai is 13 feet tall.
It's believed that the Moai were carved between A.D.1100 up until the 1800s.
Source: Fox News
Most of the Moai statues were never moved from Rano Raraku quarry. So you can see a lot of them still there in one spot.
This island itself has a triangular surface.
In addition to sightseeing, there's horseback riding and surfing on the island.
You can also visit the beaches or volcanoes.
Diving is also very popular. Expect diversity of marine life, warm clear waters, and uncrowded diving sites.
The view is pretty incredible.
Airpano put together a graphic showing how big the heads are in comparison with a human.
If you're planning on going, LAN is the only airline that offers flights there. Round trip tickets cost generally between $500 and $900.
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Prepare To See Some Serious Carnage In The Private Equity Industry
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As many of 708 private equity firms are facing a brutal deadline — attract investors over the next few years or face fee reductions, Bloomberg reports.From 2006 to 2008, PE attracted $702 billion in investment capital. However, since the financial crisis crushed their returns, investors have been moving their money elsewhere. Only the strongest funds will be able to fund raise adequately, and some estimate that 10-25% of PE shops will shut down.
Even the big boys are hurting here, (from Bloomberg):
Blackstone’s $21.7 billion fund from 2006 had a 2 per cent net annualized internal rate of return as of Dec. 31, according to a Blackstone regulatory filing. TPG’s boom-era funds — an $18.9 billion vehicle raised in 2008 and a $15.4 billion vehicle from 2006 — were generating returns of 2.5 per cent and a negative 4.9 per cent annually as of June 30, according to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a TPG investor. KKR’s annual return on its $17.6 billion fund from 2006 was 6.9 per cent as of Sept. 30.
That combination of underperformance and funding needs has set the stage for a purge as investors pull the plug on the weakest firms. Only the scope of a shake-out is a matter of debate.
“There will be some carnage,” said Jay Fewel, a senior investment officer for the $73.5 billion Oregon state pension fund in Salem, Oregon, which has been investing in private equity for more than 30 years. “A lot of folks raised money in the mid-2000s, when it was pretty easy. Now there are probably too many funds out there.”
Sounds like PE shops are suffering from the same problem people say the hedge fund industry is suffering from — over saturation.
Read the full piece over at Bloomberg>
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Who Is Lars Vilks? The Intended Target In The Copenhagen Shootings Has Faced Death Threats Before
By Lulu Chang
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As megaphones and mouthpieces for a number of causes, the life of a journalist is one that is fraught with both incredible danger and seemingly intangible reward. But lately, the former has been on the forefront of the international psyche, as terrorist groups like ISIS have continuously attacked reporters, photojournalists and journalists in their extreme acts of violence. Last month's attacks on Paris' Charlie Hebdo offices and Saturday's shootings in Copenhagen, which are thought to have targeted Lars Vilks, a famed and infamous cartoonist, have only served to emphasize the risks inherent to a journalist's career. But while journalists dedicate their lives to telling others' stories, it is infrequent that the spotlight is turned upon them — so who is Lars Vilks, the incendiary and controversial cartoonist who (once again) narrowly avoided death at the Krudttønden cafe on Saturday?
Born on June 20 in 1946 in Helsingborg, Sweden, Vilks is, first and foremost, an artist. In 1987, he graduated with a Ph.D. in art history from Lund University, and continued to the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where he worked until 1993. He also taught art theory at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts for a number of years, but until recently, was most famed for his creation of sculpture. In 1996, he determined that the site of his two wooden pieces, Nimis and Arx, was to be an independent country he called Ladonia.
But none of this attention compared to the public outrage he invited with the publication of one, very particular cartoon. For the last eight years, Vilks has been the center of considerable negative attention following the publication of his 2007 drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog in local Swedish newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda. The piece, which was declined for show by numerous art galleries who cited security concerns, was reminiscent of a similar series of cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten in 2005, which prompted a massive outcry throughout the Muslim world for its caricatures of the prophet. Vilks' cartoon was unilaterally condemned by much of the Middle East — at the time, the Egyptian ministry released a statement saying, "Such an irresponsible act is not conducive to friendly ties between the Islamic world and the West." Jordan government spokesman Nasser Jawdeh expressed similar sentiments, telling reporters, "The publication of this cartoon, which seeks to attack the character of the Prophet Muhammad, is unacceptable, rejected and condemned."
Vilks' work was similarly lambasted by the governments of Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, each of whom released strong statements of their own, in addition to a joint protest orchestrated by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group representing 57 nations. The hand-drawn sketch quickly became an international point of contention, and after the August publication of the cartoon, then-Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt met with the ambassadors of 22 different Muslim countries in attempts to ease tensions and diffuse the spark Vilks undeniably lit.
Reinfeldt told reporters, "We are eager to ensure that Sweden remains a country in which Muslims and Christians ... can live side by side in a spirit of mutual respect," but added that Sweden held freedom of expression in the highest esteem. Said Reinfeldt, "We are also eager to stand up for freedom of expression, which is enshrined in the constitution ... which ensures that we do not make political decisions about what gets published in newspapers."
Despite Sweden's attempts at appeasing offended parties, many fell upon deaf ears. Soon after Vilks emerged in an infamous spotlight, terrorist organization Al Qaeda issued a $100,000 bounty for the artist's murder. An additional $50,000, claimed the Internet broadcast, would be offered if the cartoonist were "slaughtered like a lamb."
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Al Qaeda was not the only organization invested in his demise, however. Vilks himself began to receive numerous death threats following the emergence of the cartoon, and became the victim of a number of assassination plots. In 2009, Colleen LaRose, a Pennsylvania native who took on the name "Jihad Jane," conspired with two other American citizens to murder the artist. LaRose managed to make her way to Sweden, but her plan was foiled soon thereafter, and in 2014, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in the scheme.
While the scheme proved unsuccessful, it clearly outlined the need for a more robust security detail. That same year, two brothers were arrested for arson after their personal effects were found near his house following a Molotov cocktail attack. Seven people were also arrested in Ireland for plotting Vilks' murder, and the artist was attacked while giving a speech at Sweden's Uppsala University. In 2011, another four men were arrested for attempted murder at an art fair in Gothenburg, but the charges were later dropped.
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Since 2010, Vilks has lived under constant surveillance and protection from the Swedish police. The failed 2010 terrorist plot in Stockholm, which ultimately injured two and killed the bomber, cited Vilks' drawing as motivation for the attack. In emails received just 10 minutes before the explosions, the sender declared in an audio message, "Our actions will speak for themselves. As long as you don't end your war against Islam and the humiliation against the prophet and with your stupid support to Lars Vilks the pig."
Vilks is no stranger to the infamy and its associated violence. As a close friend of fellow cartoonist (and apparent instigator) Kurt Westergaard, who received similar negative attention for his 2005 drawings of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, both men are only too familiar with the physical and verbal abuse such works incite. But this has only spurred their devotion to the craft. Two years ago, Helle Merete Brix founded the Lars Vilks Committee, dedicated to the freedom of expression and the press. In 2014, the freedom prize from the committee was awarded to Stéphane Charbonnier, the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, who was killed in January's attacks on the Paris office.
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Still, Vilks and artists and journalists like him will not put down their pens. Said Vilks, "The problem is that we already have a very high level of censorship when it comes to Islam and religion and things like that. There have been a few magazines that have tried to keep going as normal and Charlie Hebdo was one of the few." Following the January shootings, Vilks told The Wall Street Journal,
Almost the entire Muslim world is subject to a theological rule that has a strange outcome when it comes to human rights. You can’t ignore that. Then you’re talking tactics, how should one go about to change that. Some say, you should be very careful, but that’s just postponing the problem. Sooner or later you have to explain what you’re criticizing.
So Al Qaeda's most wanted or not, it seems as though Vilks will remain a prominent figure on the radical art scene for years to come.
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Japanese industrialist
Ōkura Kihachirō, (born Oct. 23, 1837, Shibata, Japan—died April 5, 1928, Tokyo), founder of one of the largest zaibatsu, or gigantic industrial-financial combines that dominated the Japanese economy throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Abandoning his traditional family business, Ōkura became a weapons dealer in the turbulent period preceding the Meiji Restoration, the 1868 coup d’etat that overthrew the feudal Tokugawa regime in Japan. He then formed the Ōkura Company, which became one of the first businesses to engage in foreign trade. Under Ōkura’s leadership the company later branched out into mining and industrial enterprises. In his later years Ōkura, who had extended his enterprises to the mainland, became a philanthropist and a promoter of Sino-Japanese friendship.
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Tokyo, city and capital of Tokyo to (metropolis) and of Japan. It is located at the head of Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu. It is the focus of the vast metropolitan area often called Greater Tokyo, the largest urban and industrial agglomeration in Japan. A brief treatment of Tokyo…
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Traditionally, the ruler and absolute monarch of Japan was the emperor or empress, even if that person did not have the actual power to govern, and the many de facto leaders of the country throughout history—notably shoguns—always ruled in the name of the monarch. After World War II, with the…
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Sheikh Saʿd al-ʿAbd Allāh al-Sālim al-Ṣabāḥ
Sheikh Saʿd al-ʿAbd Allāh al-Sālim al-Ṣabāḥ, (born 1930?, Kuwait—died May 13, 2008, Kuwait City), Kuwaiti royal and a member of the ruling Ṣabāḥ family who served in a variety of government posts throughout his career, including prime minister (1978–2003) and, briefly, emir (2006).
Sheikh Saʿd was the eldest son of Sheikh ʿAbd Allāh al-Sālim al-Ṣabāḥ, who ruled Kuwait from 1950 to 1965. Sheikh Saʿd trained at the Hendon Police College in London and served as Kuwait’s deputy director of police (1959–61) until he joined independent Kuwait’s first cabinet. In January 1978 he became prime minister, and the following month he was named crown prince.
In the course of his term as prime minister, Sheikh Saʿd headed a government-in-exile in Saudi Arabia during the 1990–91 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (see Persian Gulf War). When Emir Sheikh Jābir al-Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāḥ died on Jan. 15, 2006, Sheikh Saʿd immediately replaced him as emir in accordance with the constitution. A brief power struggle ensued between the two branches of the Ṣabāḥ family, however, and Sheikh Saʿd, then age 76 and in extremely poor health, abdicated after only nine days. (On January 29 his cousin, Prime Minister Sheikh Ṣabāḥ al-Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāḥ, was sworn in as emir.)
This article was most recently revised and updated by Laura Etheredge, Associate Editor.
Article Title: Sheikh Saʿd al-ʿAbd Allāh al-Sālim al-Ṣabāḥ
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Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer among nominees at 2019 MTV Movie And TV Awards
Jodie Comer
Fresh off her Bafta TV win, Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer is among the nominees at the 2019 MTV Movie And TV Awards.
The Liverpool-born actress has been recognised in the category of best villain for her acclaimed portrayal of Russian assassin Villanelle in BBC America’s drama series.
Elsewhere, Game Of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame lead the nominations at the annual awards show, which does not separate categories by gender.
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HBO’s lavishly-produced fantasy epic and Marvel’s superhero blockbuster are both up for four prizes, as is the documentary RBG, which centres on US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Game Of Thrones’ final season, which will come to an end on Sunday, is nominated for best show, best hero (Maisie Williams’ Arya Stark), best performance (Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen) and best fight, for Arya’s battle against the White Walkers.
Endgame, which has shattered a string of box-office records around the globe, is up for best movie, best fight, best hero for Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man and best villain, for Josh Brolin’s Thanos.
Josh Brolin has been nominated for best villain at the MTV Movie And TV Awards for his portrayal of Thanos (Ian West/PA Wire)
Oscar-nominated RBG is in the running for best documentary as well as in two new categories; most meme-able moment and real-life hero.
Justice Ginsburg, a revered figure among many in the US due to her work advocating women’s rights, makes history as the first public figure to be nominated in the best fight category.
Comer, who won best actress at Sunday’s Bafta TV Awards, will be up against Brolin, Joseph Fiennes, who plays Commander Fred Waterford in The Handmaid’s Tale, Lupita Nyong’o, who stars as Red in horror film Us, and Penn Badgley, who appears as Joe Goldberg in You.
Actor Zachary Levi, who earned nominations for best hero and best comedic performance for his role in Shazam!, will host.
The MTV Movie And TV Awards will air on Monday June 17 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.
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Africa in the news: Russia’s military foothold, Ethiopia’s first waste-to-energy plant, and protests in Kampala
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Mariama Sow Saturday, August 25, 2018
Ethiopia opens Africa’s first ever waste-to-energy plant
Last Sunday, Ethiopia inaugurated Africa’s first waste-to-energy facility. The Reppie waste-to-energy plant, located on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is built on the Koshe landfill site. The plant will absorbs 1,400 tons of waste daily—equivalent to 80 percent of Addis Ababa’s garbage— in order to supply 30 percent of the city’s electricity needs. The plant functions by incinerating waste, using the heat to boil water that then fuels an electricity-producing turbine engine. In order to limit emissions, the plant operates under strict regulations put in place by the European Union that prevent the release of dioxins generated through the combustion by using a flue gas treatment. The $120 million plant’s utility is twofold: It rids Addis of its waste problem—a landslide at the Koshe site in March 2017 killed nearly 144 people—and generates electricity for the growing city. The group behind the plant—which worked in collaboration with the Ethiopian Government— is made up of Cambridge Industries Limited (Singapore), China National Electric Engineering, and Ramboll, a Danish engineering firm. The group hopes that Reppie will be the first of many facilities of its kind implanted on the continent.
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In other news, this week Ethiopian airlines announced that they would increase their involvement with other countries’ air companies. Tuesday, Ethiopian Airlines landed a deal that allocated it a 49 percent stake in Guinea’s national airline. It also acquired a 45 percent stake in Zambia’s national airline and created a new airline in Mozambique that it fully owns. Last week, the company submitted a bid to manage Nigeria’s national carrier. The company’s CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, stated that the airline is looking to strengthen ties with the carriers in other African countries to assist the takeoff of regional integration.
Russia expands military foothold in Africa
On Tuesday, Russia and the Central African Republic signed an agreement to expand military cooperation between the two countries. Russia’s defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, states that the agreement will “strengthen ties in the defense sphere.” The collaboration between the two countries started last December when a team of Russian military advisers and 170 “civilian advisers” landed in Bangui to provide training to the army and presidential guard.
Russia is presently trying to “make up for lost time,” as stated by former Ambassador to Mali and Burkina Faso, Evgeny Korendyasov. While the country was engaged in Africa during the cold war, it has since retreated and today is trying to correct the lag in engagement with African nations. The Central African Republic is not the only African country Russia has been strengthening ties with: Last month, Russia signed an agreement with the Southern African Development Community to boost military cooperation.
Relatedly, last month, three Russian journalists were killed in a roadside robbery. The journalists were in the country to investigate Russia’s growing military involvement in the central African nations. The killings are still being investigated and clear details have yet to emerge. This week, Senators Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, and Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, have submitted a request to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, requesting that he order “a full and impartial investigation” into the murders.
Protests erupt in Uganda over arrest of members of Parliament
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This week, Kampala, the Uganda capital, was rocked with protests as crowds of unhappy people contested the arrest of Ugandan popstar and member of Parliament, Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, whose artist name is Bobi Wine. Protesters are also accusing authorities of mistreating Bobi Wine and other members of Parliament. The U.S. State Department has voiced concerns over the detention of Kyagulanyi, stating, “We have received multiple credible reports about his condition that are cause for concern.” The U.S. embassy in Kampala is urging authorities to allow access to doctors and lawyers to detainees.
Kyagulanyi was arrested last week over a scuffle that involved an attack on President Museveni’s motorcade when they were both in the Northern city of Arua, campaigning for opposing candidates. After the attack on the motorcade, police fired rounds at crowds, an attack that left Kyagulanyi’s driver dead and several others injured. The 36-year-old politician was arrested alongside 33 people. He was officially charged with the illegal possession of firearms and accused of stoning President Museveni’s motorcade. He has since been charged with treason.
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Yale Whiffenpoofs at Stratton Mountain School
Stratton Mountain School - Patti Kaltsas Center
Stratton Mountain, VT
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The Yale Whiffenpoofs come to the Patti Kaltsas Education, Arts and Student Center at Stratton Mountain School for an evening of a cappella music. Founded in 1909, the Whiffs began as a quartet of Yale seniors. Today, the group has become one of Yale's most celebrated traditions and is the world's oldest and best-known collegiate a cappella group.
The Patti Kaltsas Education, Arts & Student Center honors Patti Kaltsas, wife of Headmaster Kaltsas, for her longtime commitment to the students of SMS and to support the creative spirit embodied in each child. The 12,000-square-foot Patti Kaltsas Center opened in the fall of 2014 and features a 225-seat, state-of-the art auditorium plus classroom space, a yoga studio and an art gallery.
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Oscars 2019: Black Panther makes history and other surprises, snubs and seminal nominations this year
While the recent Golden Globes was a serious snoozefest, the more prestigious Oscars is shaping up to be worth a watch even without a host to commandeer the proceedings. Yes, that means there'll be no Ellen to order pizza or take another A-list group selfie. You can blame that on comedian Kevin Hart who was first hired by the Academy then put on the spot to apologise again for homophobic tweets in his past. He didn't, and he went as far as to say that being an ally to the LGBTQ community was "not my life dream". What a dumbass. This would be the second time the Oscars hasn't had a host since 1989, which opened with a campy musical number by actor Rob Lowe and Snow White. Add to that, the Academy announced that it'll be adding a Popular Film category, but later retracted the category after it faced heavy criticism for selling out for ratings. The show's ratings have indeed plummetted over the years partly due to its old-fashioned format, but if this year's surprise nods and seminal nominations are any indications, it's going to be one for the history books at least.
Seminal: Black Panther makes history as the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture.
The movie was critically lauded for its all-black cast and empowering representation of Afro-futurism. So obviously, there were some expectations for the movie to score a few nominations. Well, it has now racked up nominations in seven categories including its watershed Best Picture nod along with Original Score and Original Song for Kendrick Lamar's stellar work, Costume Design just for T'Challa's black Maharaja-inspired suit, Production Design for basically bringing Wakanda to life, and finally, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing because hearing T'Challa breathe literally gave everyone the feels. Whether it wins Best Picture or not, no one can deny Black Panther's blockbuster impact on the box office and culture at large. If we learnt anything in 2018, it was that there's plenty of money to be made in validating audiences — whether gay, black or female — on the silver screen.
Seminal: Director Alfonso Cuarón's Roma picks up nominations in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories, but more importantly, it is Netflix's first Best Picture nod.
Here we go again, another streaming platform vying for an Oscar win. By the looks of it, next year, Instagram will be up on the podium. Yet, this is the second time a Netflix production has garnered nominations though. In 2018, Mudbound received four nominations but didn't pick up a single win. Amazon tried and failed in 2017 with the eternally depressing Manchester by the Sea. There is some hope for Roma: Cuarón is no stranger to the Academy, having won Best Director for Gravity in 2014. The film also did pretty well at the Golden Globes. It's not going to be easy though as it's up against fan-favourites Black Panther and BlackKklansman to name a few. Add to that, no foreign-language film has ever clinched Best Picture. Tough luck, Netflix.
Surprise: Melissa McCarthy gets a Best Actress nomination.
This one is random AF. No one saw this coming. In Can You Ever Forgive Me, McCarthy plays Lee Israel, an awkward antisocial author who is best known for her infamous literary forgeries. Chances are you've probably not seen it because it enjoyed a rather limited release around the world without a single screening in Singapore. Nevertheless, McCarthy ditches her slapstick acting chops for a more serious turn that we are eager to see more of. McCarthy did receive a Best Supporting Actress nod for Bridesmaids, so she is certainly a dark horse in this category alongside The Favourite's Olivia Coleman and A Star Is Born's Lady Gaga.
Snub: A Star Is Born's Bradley Cooper is overlooked for the little-known Cold War's Pawel Pawlikowski.
A Star Is Born's nomination tally stands at eight, but after Bradley Cooper lost out at the Golden Globe for Best Director to Alfonso Cuarón with a meme-worthy reaction, the Academy could have at least thrown him a nomination. To add salt to his wound, he lost out to Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowsi. Pawlikowsi's previous work Ida was back in 2013, which won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Catch the trailer for Cold War above before adding it to your watch list.
The 2019 Academy Awards will take place on 24 February.
Award season 2019
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Report: Soldier Charged with DUI After Chase in Armored Military Vehicle
Richmond City Sheriff's Office via AP
Nate Church
Virginia National Guard Soldier Joshua Philip Yabut has been arrested following the alleged theft and subsequent chase of an armored vehicle into downtown Richmond, Virginia.
The 29-year-old Virginia National Guard Soldier allegedly stole an M577 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) from Fort Pickett on the evening of June 5 and led authorities on a 60-mile chase into downtown Richmond — while tweeting. Photos, videos, and odd unrelated messages peppered his timeline.
“Meeesa jar jar binks,” said one. Another was a location and the Wikipedia entry for a different APC. Then he tweeted, “permission to execute the 0day sir,” and things like “all i wanna do is get an anime wife.” He also said he was thirsty, asked about the location of a water buffalo, and posted two copies of a selfie.
Fortunately for all involved, no one but Yabut himself came to any harm. Virginia National Guard spokesperson Cotton Puryear said, “the unit was conducting routine training at Fort Pickett when [Yabut] drove away in the armored personnel carrier” but that “the vehicle was not equipped with any weapons.” And while “the Soldier did have his personal weapon with him,” he had no ammunition. In the end, Yabut was tased by police after refusing to follow orders but was otherwise taken safely into custody.
Adjutant General of Virginia, Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, said: “We are extremely grateful that there were no injuries as a result of this incident, and we appreciate the great work of the Virginia State Police, Richmond Police Department and other law enforcement and first responders who safely brought this situation to a close,” and, “we have initiated our own internal investigation, and we will determine appropriate actions once the investigation is complete.”
Before this incident, the first lieutenant assigned as the commander of the Petersburg-based Headquarters Company, 276th Engineer Battalion, served for 11 years. He was deployed to Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 with the Illinois National Guard. From 2014 to 2017, Yabut worked as a civil servant in NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. He will have his day in court on July 11.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump Running 'Concentration Camps' at Border
Joshua Caplan
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday evening ratcheted up her attacks on the Trump administration’s immigration policies, referring to President Donald Trump as a “fascist” operating “concentration camps” on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“That is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps,” Ocasio-Cortez said of migrant holding facilities during a Q&A live-streamed on Instagram. “The fact that concentrations camps are now an institutionalized practice in the Home of the Free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it.”
The self-avowed Democratic-socialist then voiced her eagerness to connect with others “who are concerned enough with humanity to say that ‘never again’ means something.”
The expression “never again” is strongly associated with Holocaust remembrance.
During another part of the live-stream, the 29-year-old freshman lawmaker warned her followers that “we are losing to an authoritarian and fascist presidency.”
“I don’t use those words lightly,” she continued. “I don’t use those words to just throw bombs. I use that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is. A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist, and it’s very difficult to say that.”
“The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing, and we need to do something about it,” she added.
In November, Ocasio-Cortez faced blowback after comparing asylum seekers to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during World War II, attempting to make the point that neither was a “crime.” “Asking to be considered a refugee and applying for status isn’t a crime,” the congresswoman wrote on Twitter. “It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany. It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria. And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks came as President Trump vowed to deport millions of illegal aliens in a series of tweets.
Ahead of launching his 2020 re-election campaign, the president stated that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will next week “begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States.”
“They will be removed as fast as they come in,” he added.
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What the Third Circuit Said in Hassan v. City of New York
The recent Third Circuit Court decision emphatically overturned a New Jersey district court, which had dismissed a challenge to the New York City Police Department’s Muslim surveillance program.
Faiza Patel
"What the Third Circuit Said in Hassan v. City of New York" by Faiza Patel, originally published on Just Security, on October 14, 2015.
In Hassan v. City of New York, the Third Circuit yesterday emphatically overturned a New Jersey district court, which had dismissed a challenge to the New York City Police Department’s Muslim surveillance program. The decision is important not only for the New Jersey plaintiffs who brought the case, but also for its analysis of several legal issues that have dogged efforts to obtain judicial review of surveillance programs. It is not clear whether the decision will have any impact on two other similar challenges currently pending in New York, which, according to court filings have been settled “in principle.” Some key points from the decision are summarized below, with the disclosure that the Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs.
The threshold issue in Hassan was whether the plaintiffs had alleged injury sufficient to establish standing to bring claims that the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities in New Jersey violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the free exercise and establishment clauses of the First Amendment. The Third Circuit ruled that the fundamental injury alleged by the plaintiffs — unequal treatment on the basis of religion — was sufficient to keep them in court. The court rejected as “too cramped,” the City’s contention that discrimination is only actionable when it results in deprivation of “a tangible benefit like college admission or Social Security.” Rather, the harm from discrimination was the stigmatization of the disfavored group. The Third Circuit’s decision included an important discussion of the Supreme Court’s 1972 decision Laird v. Tatum, which dismissed a First Amendment challenge to a surveillance program because plaintiffs in that case had alleged only that the existence of the program had a “chilling effect” on speech. The court yesterday noted that Laird was a “narrow” holding that precluded standing where no other injury at all was alleged. In Hassan, the court found that allegations regarding the program’s discriminatory focus on Muslims were sufficient to meet Article III standing requirements. Laird has been viewed by many law enforcement (and intelligence) agencies as establishing a very high bar for challenges to surveillance programs — an assumption that may require reconsideration in light of this decision.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the lower court’s dismissal of Hassan was its acceptance of the City’s argument that any injury to the plaintiffs was not fairly traceable to the police. Rather, defendants argued, it was the fault of the Associated Press, which published a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities in New York and New Jersey. The court described this position — variants of which have been articulated in the wake of Snowden’s disclosures as well — as “What you don’t know can’t hurt you. And, if you do know, don’t shoot us. Shoot the messenger.” The Third Circuit wasn’t buying it. The primary injury alleged was discrimination, which was caused by the City, not than the press.
Equal Protection Claims
Next up was the lower court’s dismissal of the case on the grounds that the plaintiffs had failed to state a claim. The plaintiffs had alleged that the NYPD’s surveillance program was facially discriminatory because it targeted Muslims. In response, the City had demanded information about “when, by whom, and how the policy was enacted and where it was written down.” But the court found the plaintiffs had met their burden, alleging specifics about the program “including when it was conceived (January 2002), where the City implemented it (in the New York Metropolitan area with a focus on New Jersey), and whyit has been employed because of the belief ‘that Muslim religious identity … is a permissible proxy for criminality.’” In other words, the plaintiffs had sufficiently alleged a facially discriminatory policy even when they couldn’t identify a piece of paper on which it was memorialized. For civil rights lawyers concerned that cases like Iqbal and Twombly are closing off avenues for civil rights litigation, the Third Circuit holding provides some comfort.
A key issue in the case was the NYPD’s intent in monitoring Muslims. The City had successfully argued below that it “could not have monitored New Jersey for Muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the Muslim community itself.” Its motive, the City argued, was counterterrorism, not treating Muslims differently. The problem with this argument, the Third Circuit explained, was that the City was mixing up “intent” and “motive.” The intent inquiry focuses on whether a person acts intentionally rather than accidentally, while the motive inquiry focuses on why a person acts. “[E]ven if NYPD officers were subjectively motivated by a legitimate law enforcement purpose … they’ve intentionally discriminated if they wouldn’t have surveilled Plaintiffs had they not been Muslim,” the court concluded.
The court then turned to whether, assuming differential treatment, the NYPD program was nevertheless justified on security or public safety grounds. It began its inquiry by examining the appropriate standard of review, concluding that it was appropriate to apply heightened scrutiny to religion-based classifications under the equal protection clause rather than simply to examine whether the City had a rational basis for its actions. Even though religious affiliation, unlike race, is capable of being changed, the Third Circuit agreed with many of its sister courts that it was of such fundamental importance that people should not be required to change their faith. The majority declined to decide whether intermediate or strict scrutiny was the correct test. However, in her concurrence, Judge Roth took the position that intermediate scrutiny was appropriate, stating that she could not “endorse a level of scrutiny in other types of discrimination cases that would be stricter than the level which would apply discrimination against me as a woman.”
New York City had argued that the surveillance program met the heightened scrutiny standard because it was necessary to meet the threat of terrorism. In support, the City put forward its oft-repeated argument that a “comprehensive understanding of the makeup of the community would help the NYPD figure out where to look — and where not to look — in the event it received information that an Islamist radicalized to violence may be secreting himself in New Jersey.” The court was not convinced that this was a sufficiently close fit with the goal, finding that the City failed to meet its burden of rebutting the presumption of unconstitutionality created by plausible allegation of discrimination. Harking back to the World War II internment of Japanese Americans (raised by the amicus brief filed by Just Security alum Stephen Schulhofer on behalf of Karen Korematsu and others), the Third Circuit cautioned:
No matter how tempting it might be to do otherwise, we must apply the same rigorous standards even where national security is at stake. We have learned from experience that it is often where the asserted interest appears most compelling that we must be most vigilant in protecting constitutional rights … Given that “unconditional deference to [the] government[’s] … invocation of ‘emergency’ … has a lamentable place in our history,” the past should not preface yet again bending our constitutional principles merely because an interest in national security is invoked.
First Amendment Claims
Lastly, the Third Circuit rejected as “threadbare” the City’s argument that plaintiffs First Amendment free exercise and establishment clause claims failed because they did not allege “overt hostility and prejudice.” As with the equal protection claims, it was not necessary for plaintiffs to demonstrate animus.
In conclusion, the court reminded us that the targeting of Muslims, which has been a leitmotif of US security policy, was not new.
We have been down similar roads before. Jewish-Americans during the Red Scare, African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, and Japanese-Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind. We are left to wonder why we cannot see with foresight what we see so clearly with hindsight — that “[l]oyalty is a matter of the heart and mind[,] not race, creed, or color.”
That’s a question I, too, often ask.
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New mayor marks their inauguration with a foodbank collection
Posted on: Friday 01 June 2018
The new Mayor of Bridgend County Borough marked the start of his year in office by asking his inauguration guests to bring along donations for Bridgend Foodbank.
Councillor John McCarthy, who represents the Hendre ward, will be supported during the coming year by his wife, Judy, while Councillor Stuart Baldwin will act as deputy mayor.
Bridgend Youth Council will announce their own youth mayor and deputy at a forthcoming date.
Mayor McCarthy has confirmed that he intends to spend his year supporting carers, community volunteers and some of the diverse cultures and ethnic groups that can be found within the area.
He will also support the charity work of Tenovus, the Bridgend Stroke Association and the Bridgend Parkinsons’ Association.
I am honoured and delighted to represent the people of Bridgend County Borough. I want to visit as many local community groups and organisations as possible, and support united services clubs and the Royal British Legion. I also want to encourage more young people to get involved in local events, and once the new youth mayor and deputy mayor have been announced, I intend to liaise with them closely so that we can work in partnership on this.
As Mayor, I believe I can help by recognising and encouraging new business, assisting in future development and offering support and advice in a positive way that will attract new ventures into the area. I’m keen to work alongside organisations such as the council’s Economic Development team to help generate jobs and prosperity in the area.
I’m particularly looking forward to welcoming people from all over the world as they become citizens of the United Kingdom, and residents who live and work in Bridgend County Borough.
Mayor of Bridgend County Borough, Councillor John McCarthy
If you would like to invite the new Mayor to any events or celebrations that you organising during the next year, please call the Mayor’s office at Bridgend County Borough Council on 01656 643250 or email mayor@bridgend.gov.uk
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Curricula - Centro Studi Subalpino in inglese
Dott. Emilio di Camillo
Graduated in 1963 in Economics from Ca' Foscari University in Venice, he has deepened his studies and experiences in Automotive Sales and Marketing graduating in Business Administration at Kettering University and working in the Sales Dept. of Buick Motor Division (Flint - Mich. USA)
In the 40 years spent in the automotive field he became an expert in many aspects of the business. He started his career in General Motors where, in 16 years of collaboration, he held a variety of positions, in both car and truck sectors, ranging from Opel Marketing manager up to Bedford Southern Europe Regional Manager.
Hired by Iveco as Marketing Manager for Italy, he was also Regional Manager in Verona, Firenze and Roma.
In 1989 he become General Director of Anfia, the Italian Association of Automotive Industries, including not only Vehicle Manufacturers, but car body builders, components industries , truck body and trailer Manufacturers, camping vehicles and Bus. He also held important international positions such as President of Oica (International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers), and Chairman of the Liaison Committee of Acea, (the European Association of Automobile manufactures).
He is presently Automotive Marketing Consultant and in this capacity he worked between 2004 and 2013 for a company of Fiera Milano Group organizing Transpotec-Logitec, the International Motor Show for Commercial Vehicles now held every two years in Verona Fair. In many occasions in the recent he was also Consultant to the Italian Automobile Club, organizing important meetings on sustainable mobility, and in various occasions of MTM-BRC (Fuel Systems Solutions), a company leader in gaseous fuels motorizations (CNG and LNG vehicles), preparing studies on the alternative fuels worldwide demand.
In March 2010 he founded Centro Studi Subalpino that, through its web site (www.centrostudisubalpino.it) offers a constantly updated panorama of data and trends of Italian and European Cars, Commercial Vehicles and Trucks markets. He regularly publishes Studies on Mobility and Environment, Logistics and Road Transport.
From June 2012 through February 2013 collaboration with ANFIA (the Italian Association of Automotive Industries) for the preparation of a White Book on Goods Transport in Italy and the World. A pdf copy of the publication is available on our site.
Presently collaborates with UNRAE for its monthly Trucks Newsletter.
In October 2014 prepared and delivered a comprehensive Presentation on “Trucks Market and Transport by road, yesterday, today and tomorrow” , for the General Assembly of AIRP (Italian Tyre Retreaders Association), organized by Promotec in Bologna. See copy in the Italian version of the site.
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Toyo Ito - Cersaie 2007
Grids have ruled space throughout the 20th century.
Cities all over the world have been covered by homogeneous grids.
I have a feeling that in this century, grids will melt, become distorted and transform like natural topographies. In other words, architecture is becoming closer to natural systems.
Toyo Ito was born in 1941. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1965, he worked for the Metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake until 1969. In 1971 he opened his own office, Urban Robot (URBOT), which was renamed Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in 1979.
An influential though far from prolific architect, Ito believed that architecture had become encumbered with irrelevant symbolism. In the ‘70s, he sought to erase conventional meaning from his works through minimalist tactics, which is represented in White U (1976) and Silver Hut (1984), inspired by early modernist movements such as Purism and the straightforward use of easily available industrial materials. He developed an aesthetic of lightweight, permeable membranes composed of fabrics, perforated aluminum panels and expanded metal sheets, which he believed was most suited to an increasingly mobile and informal urban lifestyle and designed the projects such as Tower of Winds (1986), Restaurant Nomad (1986) and Yatsushiro Municipal Museum (1991).
Toyo Ito’s main work includes both public and private works. Currently, he is working at various projects in Japan and overseas. Sendai Mediatheque built in 2001 in Sendai, Japan, Ito used a unique structure to compose fluid spaces with hardly any walls. It was received as a sensational project and gave great influence to young architects worldwide. Designing two temporary pavilions in 2002, the Brugge Pavilion in Belgium and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 in London, he met the challenge to unify surface and structure. In going beyond the purity of modernism, Toyo Ito is trying to find ways for an architecture of the 21st century: an architecture which reflects nature, emerging from autopoietic processes and organic geometries, creating joyful and pleasant spaces filled with life.
He is currently working on many projects throughout the world, including the Hôpital Cognacq-Jay in Paris, Relaxation Park in Torrevieja, Extension at the Fira de Barcelona, and Montjuic-2 in Barcelona.
In 2006, Ito was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Gold Medal.
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Frist Announces Leadership Transition At SCORE
From left, David Mansouri, Senator Bill Frist and Jamie Woodsen
Senator Bill Frist, chairman and founder of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education, announced Thursday a leadership transition at the nonprofit advocacy organization to ensure a decade of progress in Tennessee student achievement is supported and extended far into the future, said officials.
Beginning Jan. 1, Executive Chair and CEO Jamie Woodson, who has led the organization since 2011 and during the state’s historic gains in student achievement, will at her request move into a role as senior adviser to SCORE. Current SCORE President David Mansouri will succeed her as president and CEO.
“Since our founding, SCORE has always functioned as a highly collaborative team of committed leaders and educators who lean into the challenging but critical work of supporting the continued growth and achievement of all Tennessee students,” Senator Frist said. “For the past eight years, Jamie Woodson has been a remarkable and innovative leader, not only for our organization but for a broad network of stakeholders in helping create the environment for unprecedented student and school success all across our state.”
During Ms. Woodson’s leadership at SCORE, Tennessee became the fastest-improving state for student achievement, and the organization has been considered a national leader in student-focused policy and advocacy. SCORE increased its initiatives and projects, launching the SCORE Prize, which has celebrated and elevated high-performing schools and districts, creating the Tennessee Educator Fellowship, which has served more than 185 teacher-leaders, supporting the LIFT Education network of student-centered district leaders, and convening stakeholders to explore how to continue advancing student achievement, said officials.
“Throughout this period, David Mansouri has served as Jamie’s right hand and has led much of that work, so our board unanimously selected David to succeed Jamie,” Senator Frist said. “No one is better prepared than David to lead the organization going forward and to help accelerate the work in making Tennessee’s students the very best in the nation. And in the best of both worlds – we are blessed that Jamie will continue to support the organization as senior adviser.”
“In 2011, it was the right time for me to transition my public service responsibilities in the Tennessee State Senate and my role of Senate Speaker Pro Tempore to a new type of service at SCORE totally focused on advancing education and student success in our great state,” Ms. Woodson said. “And these past eight years have been such a pleasure and so rewarding. Now the timing is right for a new leader who will build on all we have worked so hard to create together and to continue to further SCORE’s mission. David Mansouri is the best possible choice as SCORE’s next leader.”
Mr. Mansouri first joined SCORE in 2010 and has since served in multiple roles leading advocacy, communications, and outreach efforts, as well as policy and research. Since 2014, he has served on SCORE’s executive team, where he led the implementation of SCORE’s strategic plan, directing all programs and initiatives, as well as overseeing the organization’s financial and operational efforts.
“I am so grateful to Senator Frist, Jamie Woodson, and our board of directors for this opportunity to continue to serve Tennessee’s students,” Mr. Mansouri said. “Jamie has been my mentor in this work for the last eight years, and I look forward to sustaining the tremendous impact she has led at SCORE. With the many changes in state leadership, this is a great time to take stock of how far we’ve come, how much work there is still left to do, and to assess how we can accelerate our momentum in education as a state. I am excited to work with our team, and thousands of educators and partners all across our state, in continuing to serve Tennessee’s students and families.”
Mr. Mansouri previously worked in political consulting and public relations, providing clients and candidates with public affairs consulting, issue advocacy support, and campaign and communications strategy. Earlier, he worked for the late U.S. Senator Fred Thompson. After attending public schools in Tennessee, Mr. Mansouri earned a BA from Rice University, and later received an MBA with honors from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He is a founding board member of Nashville Classical Charter School, was a member of the Class IV cohort of Leadership Tennessee, and is currently a Pahara-Aspen Fellow, a fellowship which seeks to strengthen and sustain diverse, high potential leaders who are reimagining public education.
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Democrats build case against tax bill, but don't call for repeal
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joins protesters outside the Capitol as Republicans in the Senate work to pass their sweeping tax bill onNov. 30, 2017. Sanders said on Dec. 24 that lawmakers should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was resolutely opposed to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. From his perch on the Senate Budget Committee, he weighed it down with rules challenges. At rallies across the Rust Belt, he warned it would speed up America's transformation into an oligarchy.
On CNN on Sunday, however, he said that parts of the bill were worth saving.
"According to the Tax Policy Center, next year, 91 percent of middle-income Americans will receive a tax cut," CNN's Jake Tapper asked Sanders. "Isn't that a good thing?"
"Yes, it is a very good thing," Sanders said. "And that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent. But what the Republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent, the tax breaks for the middle class temporary."
The first part of Sanders' answer went viral over the sleepy holiday weekend. It was, said Republicans, evidence that the tax cut bill — by some measures, the least popular piece of major legislation in this century — would become hard for Democrats to oppose once it was signed. Like the 2001/2003 Bush tax cuts, the temporary nature of the bill's income tax breaks was not just a budget gimmick, but a dare.
"When Bernie comes back to town, he should pledge to vote with Republicans in 10 years to make the tax cuts permanent for the middle class," said Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens in a Monday statement.
There is little chance of that, but the politics of the tax cut bill are likely to shift in 2018. Both liberal-leaning economists and Democratic politicians expect the tax bill to slightly boost the economy heading into the midterms. Both acknowledge that some voters who expected to face higher tax bills will see benefits. A CBS News video about the tax cuts, which showed three families surprised and happy to learn that they'd be getting money back, circulated widely as a preview of what to expect.
"In order to fit everything into the box, some things need to be temporary," Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist told The Washington Post before the bill passed. "But just as the Bush tax cut was temporary for 10 years, the goal is always to make things permanent. I've always thought that four or five years was fine. Why? Because it will be so politically popular that it's basically permanent. Even the Democrats won't run against the tax cut for individuals. Ask them!"
In some ways, Democrats' tax answers may resemble those they gave when George W. Bush was in the White House. In both the 2004 and 2008 campaigns, the Democrats' presidential nominees proposed benefits for the middle class that would be paid for, in large part, by ending most of the Bush tax cuts.
"To pay for these tax cuts, I'll stand up to special interest carve-outs, close corporate loopholes and offshore tax havens, and ask the wealthiest Americans to give back a portion of the Bush tax cuts," then-Sen. Barack Obama said in a typical 2008 stump speech. "It's time for folks like me who make over $250,000 to pay our fair share to keep the American promise alive for our children and grandchildren."
With relish, Republicans remember how the story ended — with Obama making all but the high-end Bush tax cuts permanent, and neither party absorbing much voter anger for the growing deficit. Since then, the Democratic Party's left wing has grown stronger. Sanders made a strong run for the 2016 presidential nomination on a campaign platform that included tax increases; Sanders has gotten most of the Democratic senators seen as potential 2020 candidates to sign onto a universal Medicare bill, a proposal that would be paid for by tax hikes.
But as Sanders and others have shown in the past week, Democrats are not promising to undo the entire Republican tax bill. While attacking corporate tax cuts, Democrats — including Obama — had been ready to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent had Republicans been willing to deal, or had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. In a rundown for the progressive Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker argued that the bill contained some benefits for poorer people, ones that future Congresses should continue.
"There are some items in this bill that can provide a basis for constructive reform in the future," Baker wrote. "These can be built upon at a time when we have a Congress interested in serious reform."
Few Democrats, so far, have been put on the spot about that. One who has, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., spent most of a 16-minute interview with radio host Hoppy Kercheval on Dec. 20 defending his vote against the bill.
"I was for lowering corporate taxes from 35 to 25," said Manchin, acknowledging what few Democrats will now say. Over the course of the interview, Manchin repeatedly said that there might be a "sugar high" from the bill, and that people might indeed like it.
"Why couldn't you support a bill that will benefit the vast majority of West Virginians?" asked Kercheval.
"The things that you have mentioned are correct," Manchin replied. "Initially, people will benefit."
Manchin's attempts to redirect the questions offered a preview of what other members of his party might say in 2018. Like Sanders, Manchin suggested that Congress "make permanent that anything we did for the working class" — but only as part of a responsible deal that did not blow up the deficit. Manchin also suggested that higher health-care premiums would, for many taxpayers, wipe out any gains from the tax cut, while the idle rich would benefit no matter what.
Later, Manchin found an opening by saying Republicans had failed on a high-profile tax cut promise.
"They talked about the postcard, the simplification? Hop, this is more complicated than what we had before," he said.
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What Does Brexit Mean For Data Protection in the UK?
If you thought Brexit meant you could avoid EU data protection rules, you’d be sadly mistaken, as the regulations will still apply to UK companies dealing with the EU regardless of the UK’s exit from the union. So with the biggest change to EU protection in 20 years on the horizon, UK data controllers are taking on the task of planning for implementation of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), with the added complication and uncertainty of Brexit and its possibly protracted negotiations.
A date has been set of Friday 25th May 2018 for the GDPR to come into force, although in a recent poll, 44% of IT professionals indicated they were unaware or only vaguely aware of the new rules.
Even though the UK has voted to leave the EU, UK organisations are likely to be heavily influenced by EU data protection and cyber security laws for a good while yet, with the GDPR’s go-live date set to pre-empt the UK’s departure from the EU. This means that UK companies need to prepare to meet the new regulations to avoid facing penalties.
When the current Data Protection Act was written into law in 1995, Google was 3 years away, and Mark Zuckerberg was just 11 years old. So with massive changes in the digital landscape since then, it’s clear that the DPA is long overdue an update.
“The referendum result has thrown our data protection plans into a state of flux. What hasn’t changed are the strong data protection rules the UK already has. We need those rules to ensure cross-border commerce, not to mention the privacy protections citizens and consumers expect.” Elizabeth Denham, UK Information Commissioner
Some of the key changes to be aware of include:
Security breaches: As soon as the data controller becomes aware that a personal data breach has happened, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) must be notified no more than 72 hours later, unless the controller can demonstrate that the breach is not likely to result in a risk for the individuals’ rights and freedoms.
Enhanced data subjects’ rights: The new ‘Right To Be Forgotten’, means that, with a few exceptions, data subjects will be able to insist that their personal data is erased by the data controller and not processed any longer.
Consent: GDPR will mean that data controllers will need to demonstrate a legitimate reason for processing personal data, that consent was freely given, informed and specific for each purpose that data is being processed. Silence or pre-ticked boxes will no longer cut it when it comes to consent.
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Tackling climate change requires radical changes to the way we live, which will mean transforming urban spaces to break free from fossil fuel dependency. Paul Chatterton looks at how cities are responding to this post-carbon challenge.
By 2050 an estimated three quarters of humanity will live in cities, accounting for 80 per cent of total energy demand and 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, so the need for cities to unlock themselves from fossil fuels is paramount.
As cities across the world begin to recognise the need to move beyond carbon, net zero emissions has become a rallying cry. The goal is for urban areas to produce as much energy from renewable sources as they consume. It’s a huge task, with end and start points constantly moving. Target setting can be hubris without clearly identified plans, strong leadership and partnership working. There is no single consensus on what needs to be done and groupings of cities are striking out on their own.
According to global engineering consultants Arup, 228 global cities, representing 436 million people, have already set greenhouse gas reduction goals and targets. Many have adopted net zero emissions targets by 2050 and 80 per cent reductions by 2030.
The UK is already legally bound by the Climate Change Act to reduce emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. More than 300 UK municipalities have signed the Nottingham Declaration, which pledges them to systematically address the causes of climate change and to prepare their community for its impacts.
The more ambitious task is to get to net zero emissions by 2050, in line with the evidence presented in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ‘Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C’ published in October 2018.
Cities such as Oslo, Antwerp, Melbourne and Copenhagen have risen to this bigger ambition and are pushing for 100 per cent greenhouse gas reductions by at least 2050. Moreover, according to C40’s Deadline 2020 research, cities should reduce emissions to almost 3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per person by 2030 in order to follow the path towards the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. This will require an overall investment of $1 trillion up to 2050. That’s a huge challenge.
Networks of cities such as the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) and the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) have emerged to share good practice and push city innovation. These networks have come together under the United Nations Cities and Climate Change programme to form the Compact of Mayors with the aim of creating a common platform to measure city emissions and report to the public. In 2016, the EU Covenant of Mayors came together with the Compact to create a Global Covenant which now includes over 7,000 cities and 600 million people. This shows the extent to which the energy behind creating a post-carbon society is now rooted at the city rather than national scale.
Clearly, there have been many stalled and misguided attempts along the zero carbon road such as the much lauded zero carbon Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates, the as yet unfulfilled promise of new eco cities across China, as well as promised whole new eco-towns in the UK.
But many cities are showing what is possible through coordinated planning. For example, Mexico City has launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan and the measures it contains has the potential to reduce emissions by 10 million tonnes of CO2 by 2020, representing a decrease of almost 30 per cent relative to the baseline. It was also the first city in Latin America to issue a Green Bond for $50 million. Meanwhile, in 2016, Sydney launched its ambitious Environmental Action Plan, which aims to cut emissions by 70 per cent by 2030 and be a net zero emission city by 2050.
Equally, Vancouver – as the first city in North America to develop a Renewable City Strategy to 2050 – is committing to get 100 per cent of its energy from renewable sources. To achieve this, the city is prioritising reducing emissions from its polluting sectors, buildings and transportation, and increasing the use and supply of renewables. In transport, this includes renewably powered car sharing fleets and standards to support renewably powered private vehicles. Interestingly, further scrutiny from Simon Fraser University suggested that this kind of decarbonisation plan may be unworkable without drastic measures including phasing out parking spaces for diesel and petrol vehicles from 2025.
The World Business Council on Sustainable Development has also launched the Zero Emissions Cities (ZEC) project and initiated three pilot cities in 2015: Amsterdam (Zuidoost) in the Netherlands, Birmingham (Smithfield market) in the UK and San Diego in the USA.
Cities are also taking radical action as they face the risks and impacts of inaction. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in New York in 2012, which left millions without power, there was a growing recognition that the city’s energy infrastructure needs rapid transitioning to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and build an energy system more resilient to extreme weather events. The Governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo, sought to rebuild, strengthen, and modernise New York’s energy system, while bringing economic growth to New York through a strategy called ‘Reforming the Energy Vision’ (REV). This strategy brought together city authorities to make a clean, resilient and more affordable energy system a reality.
Beyond high level city planning, much of this kind of thinking is rolling out at a very localised level where impacts can be gauged clearly. And given the growing sophistication and cost effectiveness of micro renewable technologies, the idea of every building acting as its own micro-power station comes ever closer.
Early pioneering examples include the Vauban district in Freiberg and B01 in Malmo’s waterfront in Sweden. The largest net-zero community in the USA is West Village, a mixed-use campus neighbourhood at UC Davis, designed to house 3,500 students, staff and families. Despite technological setbacks and high demand from residents in terms of electrical equipment, it is close to meeting its net-zero design target.
BedZed (Beddington Zero Energy Development) has been the UK’s pioneering attempt at creating a zero carbon neighbourhood. It was the creation of architect Bill Dunster. Completed in 2002 at a cost of £15 million, it includes 82 houses, 17 apartments and 1,405 square metres of workspace. The buildings use a passivhaus approach.
BedZed – the UK’s pioneering attempt at creating a zero carbon neighbourhood. (c)TomChance-Bioregional
Originally powered by its own wood-fuelled power station, problems with this led the community to switch to conventional condensing boilers and grid-provided electricity. It also switched from an on-site water treatment plant, which used reed beds to filter waste water, to a membrane bio-reactor filtration system and connection to the municipal sewer system. Locally-sourced construction materials, water-saving appliances, green roofs, solar panels and an on-site car-share scheme contribute to further carbon savings. Residents report a strong sense of community, comfortable homes and energy bills up to 80 per cent lower than conventional housing.
Project partners Bioregonal have gone on to develop the One Planet Living neighbourhood concept based on ten principles that, taken together, can create post-carbon communities of the future.
In my own project LILAC where I live, we have developed a prototype of low impact living drawing on a co-operative and cohousing model that reduces a community’s ecological footprint through the use of highly insulating and carbon sequestering natural build materials such as lime, timber and straw, as well as developing a sharing economy between neighbours.
The zero emissions city agenda touches on much more than infrastructure, buildings and transport. It focuses attention on the stubborn and wicked problems of our age, especially around changing the very fabric of our daily lives. What most cities are realising is that beyond the low hanging fruit of shifts in energy mixes and mobility options, uncomfortable work is required including changes in workplace and consumer behaviour and land zoning modifications.
We will simply have to learn to design and live in cities in a different way. We also need to rebalance the energy feast and famine – addressing where the urban energy system is bloated and over-used and where it is incredibly unequal and hindering human flourishing.
Demand reduction, curtailment and redistribution will remain political hot potatoes, but they are the invisible elements of any meaningful energy transition to post-carbon urban life.
Paul Chatterton is an academic, campaigner and writer. He is Professor of Urban Futures in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, and a visiting lecturer in CAT’s Graduate School of the Environment. He is co-author of Do It Yourself (2007) and author of Low Impact Living (2016).
Unlocking Sustainable Cities
This is an edited extract from Paul Chatterton’s latest book Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change, published by Pluto Press 2019. You can buy the book through CAT’s Eco Store at or by calling us on 01654 705959.
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(Greek: embolismos , from the verb, emballein , "to throw in")
Embolism is an insertion, addition, interpretation. The word has two specific uses in the language of the Church:
I. IN THE PRAYER
The prayer which, in the Mass, is inserted between the Our Father and the Fraction of the Bread: "Libera nos, quæsumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis", etc. It is an interpretation of the last petition. The embolism may date back to the first centuries, since, under various forms, it is found in all the Occidental and in a great many Oriental, particularly Syrian, Liturgies. The Greek Liturgies of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom, however, do not contain it. In the Mozarabic Rite this prayer is very beautiful and is recited not only in the Mass, but also after the Our Father at Lauds and Vespers. The Roman Church connects with it a petition for peace in which she inserts the names of the Mother of God, Sts. Peter and Paul, and St. Andrew. The name of St. Andrew is found in the Gelasian Sacramentary, so that its insertion in the Embolismus would seem to have been anterior to the time of St. Gregory . During the Middle Ages the provincial churches and religious orders added the names of other saints, their founders, patrons, etc., according to the discretion of the celebrant (see MICROLOGUS)
II. IN THE CALENDAR
In the calendar this term signifies the difference of days between the lunar year of only 354 days and the solar year of 365.2922 days. In the Alexandrian lunar cycle of 19 years, therefore, seven months were added, one each in the second, fifth, eighth, eleventh, thirteenth, sixteenth, and nineteenth (the embolistic) years. Each embolistic year had 13 lunar months, or 384 days. The lunar calendar was called Dionysian, because Dionysius Exiguus, in the sixth century, recommended the introduction of the Alexandrian Easter cycle of 19 years and computed it for 95 years in advance.
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Antiperspirant: Link to Breast Cancer?
March 1, 2006 / 5:10 PM / WebMD
Does regular use of antiperspirants increase a woman's risk for developing breast cancer? A researcher in the U.K. says the answer could very well be yes, but experts tell WebMD that there is still little evidence to back up the claim.
The antiperspirant-breast cancer claim has achieved something akin to urban legend status on the Internet and in the popular press, despite that fact that few clinical studies in humans have addressed the issue.
One of the strongest, published in 2002, found no link between antiperspirant or deodorant use and breast cancer risk. Researchers compared usage patterns among roughly 800 breast cancer patients and a similar number of women without the disease.
Easing Women's Fears
Biostatistician Dana Mirick, MS, who led the study, says the findings should ease women's fears.
"I think that the people who do this type of research consider the matter closed," she tells WebMD.
But cancer researcher Philippa Darbre, PhD, of the University of Reading in England, sees it differently. She says the evidence is mounting that the aluminum-based active ingredient in antiperspirants can mimic estrogen in the body.
"Lifetime exposure to estrogen is the risk factor which is tied most strongly to breast cancer," Darbre tells WebMD. "If the aluminum salts in antiperspirants enter the body and mimic estrogen it stands to reason that constant exposure over many years may pose a risk."
Risks Of Aluminum Exposure?
Aluminum salts are the active ingredient in the vast majority of antiperspirants, and antiperspirants are a major source of exposure to aluminum in humans.
Products labeled as deodorants alone may not have aluminum, but the vast majority of commercially available antiperspirants do contain aluminum salts. They make up as much as a quarter of the volume of some antiperspirants.
Darbre says her own cellular research shows that aluminum salt exposure can influence estrogen activity. Because antiperspirants are used so closely to the breast, and are often used by women directly after shaving — which might allow for easier absorption — she says it is reasonable to question whether antiperspirant exposure could influence breast cancer risk.
She adds that women should consider cutting down on their antiperspirant use or cutting them out entirely.
"If a product is labeled antiperspirant it probably contains aluminum salts," she says. "I stopped using these products eight years ago, and now I wonder why I ever bothered. Soap and water and maybe a little talcum powder seem to do the job nicely."
She acknowledges, however, that cellular studies fall far short of proving that regular use of antiperspirants poses any kind of cancer risk.
In earlier studies she found that preservatives commonly found in antiperspirants and other cosmetics, known as parabens, may also influence breast cancer risk by mimicking estrogen. Other studies show that the metal cadmium, found in the environment and a component of cigarette smoke, does the same thing.
"Each of these agents on their own may not have a powerful effect, but we need to see what happens when a number of them act together, she says. "It could be that this would have a significant effect on disease like breast cancer."
Cancer Groups Weigh In
In a report released in 2004, officials with the National Cancer Institute concluded that there was "no conclusive research" linking the use of underarm antiperspirants or deodorants to breast cancer.
Likewise, a recently released report from the American Cancer Society concluded that "there is no good scientific evidence to support the claim" that antiperspirants raise a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.
ACS spokeswoman Elizabeth Ward, PhD, tells WebMD that there is not much evidence that any environmental exposure has a big impact on breast cancer risk. She points out that studies examining pesticides known to mimic estrogen have failed to show a link between exposure and breast cancer.
"This is a topic that is still under study, and it is important to study it further," she says. "But no strong evidence has emerged of a relationship [between breast cancer risk] and exposure to environmental contaminants."
A major government study involving 50,000 sisters of women with breast cancer may provide some answers about environmental and genetic causes of the disease.
The 10-year Sister Study, begun in 2004, will be the most detailed study ever to address the question of how environmental exposures, including cosmetic exposures, influence breast cancer risk, she says.
SOURCES: Darbre, P.D. Journal of Applied Toxicology, Feb. 28, 2006, online edition. Philippa Darbre, PhD, senior lecturer in oncology, University of Reading, Reading, U.K. Dana K. Mirick, MS, biostatistician, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle. Elizabeth Ward, PhD, director of surveillance research, American Cancer Society.
By Salynn Boyles
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
© 2006, WebMD Inc. All rights reserved
First published on March 1, 2006 / 5:10 PM
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Online business and Australia: Do Australian Consumer Laws Apply?
Published on June 8, 2016 by Alex Collie and Julia HarrisonAlex Collie and Julia Harrison
The extent to which the Australian Consumer Laws affect online trade and commerce has been a particular area of uncertainty. The Federal Court of Australia’s recent ruling in Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Valve Corporation (No 3)[1] has provided some answers but also raised further questions for those running an online business with Australian customers.
The Valve Case
The case involved the video game distribution network ‘Steam’ run by Valve Corporation (‘Valve’) based in Washington State. Valve was accused by ‘consumer watchdog’ the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (‘ACCC’), for breaching the Australian Consumer Law (‘ACL’) in regards to refunds of its products. Specifically, the ACCC alleges that Valve contravened s 18(1), the provision against making representations that are misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive, by stating in its Steam policy that products were not refundable in whole or in part. As s 54 of the ACL provides consumers in Australia with a guarantee that products are of acceptable quality, it was submitted that Valve’s statements misrepresented the legal entitlements of Australian Consumers.
Valve argued that the s 54 guarantees did not apply as:
The law of Washington State was the appropriate law to apply;
Valve did not ‘supply goods’ within the meaning of the ACL; and
Valve did not carry on business in Australia.
The Federal Court of Australia rejected Valve’s arguments and found that a breach of the ACL had occurred.
Appropriate Law
Valve argued that the law with the closest and most real connection their agreements with customers was that of Washington State. Section 67 of the ACL provides that where the proper law of a contract of the supply of a good is the law of any part of Australia, the ACL cannot be contracted out through Conflict of Laws provisions. Valve argued that in their case, Australian law was not the proper law and thus s 67 should operate to limit the application of the ACL. The Federal Court rejected this argument, noting that s 67 does not operate to restrict the application of the ACL but rather its intention is to ensure that consumer guarantees cannot avoided by agreeing to the application of the law of another country.
The meaning of ‘supply goods’
Valve submitted that they did not engage in the ‘supply of goods’ as they provided a ‘service’ through a licence Agreement rather than ‘goods’. The ACL explicitly includes ‘computer software’ within its definition of goods, however expert evidence suggested that the definition of ‘software’ was executable data and non-executable data, such as music and html image, did not fit that definition. Nevertheless, it was accepted that at least some executable data (or software) was required for the non-executable data to operate. It was also noted that the agreements and policies from Valve refer to their products as ‘software’.
The Court rejected Valve’s argument that the software was not supplied but licenced, noting that the definition of ‘supply’ includes by way of sale, exchange, lease, hire or hire-purchase. While Valve’s products could not be accessed without verification with Valve’s servers in Washington State, the Court noted the ability for consumers to play games offline and that Valve’s ability to terminate a licence does not prevent a good being ‘supplied’. The Court interestingly did note that not everything supplied by Valve was a supply of a good, noting that the non-executable data referenced above did not fall within the ACL definition of a good.
Carrying on business in Australia
Valve submitted that it did not engage in conduct in Australia as it was a foreign corporation, with business premises and staff all located outside of Australia, its website is hosted outside of Australia and its payments are made in United States dollars that are processed in Washington State. The Court found that Valve did carry on a business in Australia for six reasons:
Valve had many Australian customers, with approximately 2.2 million Australian accounts;
Steam content was temporarily deposited on servers held within Australia;
Valve held significant personal property and servers in Australia with a retail value of approximately $1.2 million. These servers were operated by an employee who visited Australia. It also paid significant amounts to an Australian company (towards its Australian bank account) for server equipment;
Valve pays tens of thousands of dollars per month of expenses in Australia for rack space and power to its servers, again to an Australian company with an Australian bank account;
Valve has relationships with third party members of content delivery providers in Australia, such as Internet Service Providers, for proxy caching for Valve in Australia; and
Valve has contracted with Content Delivery Providers who have servers in Australia.
Considerations for Online Businesses
The provisions of the ACL are by no means particularly onerous, but may require specific attention where some consumer protections differ from the jurisdiction where a business is located. Given the broad definition of ‘supply’, online businesses should be cognisant of the factors that might indicate that they carrying on business in Australia, such as a large Australian customer base, property held within Australia and contracting with Australian businesses.
The digital gaming industry in Australia is currently worth over $1.5 billion and the interaction between the industry and Australian Consumer Law such as with the Valve case can be significant. The fact that non-executable data such as music and video was found not to be ‘goods’ under the ACL could turn out to be highly significant, given that this includes services from international giants such as Netflix and Spotify.
[1] [2016] FCA 196
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Patriotic Education Trips
Activities and Leadership
Leadership and Training
Memorials on Campus
Military/Veterans Scholarships and Benefits
Join us in June for our annual Independence Day Celebration, Honor America! Always free to the public, come out and enjoy local Branson entertainment and a spectacular fireworks show at dark! Bring your lawn chairs, quilts, and picnic baskets, or purchase food on the grounds. Uncle Sam is always on hand to visit and give away American flags. Our children’s area is a treat, with a face-painting provided by students, and a station where the kids can make thank-you cards for veterans! This year’s cards were distributed to veterans at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C. Come one, come all, and Honor America with College of the Ozarks!
September 11 Remembrance
September 11, 2001 was a dark day in American history. Terrorist attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 innocent citizens who simply awoke that morning to go about the business of their usual day. Hatred of our nation fueled the motive for the attacks. College of the Ozarks and the School of the Ozarks are committed to teaching students that the United States is an honorable nation built on the ideals of freedom. To honor emergency responders and those who lost their lives on 9-11, and to teach young people about that day and why our nation is worth fighting for, the College hosts an annual remembrance service. Families who lost loved ones that day joined the College this year for the dedication of the September 11 “Lest We Forget” Memorial, where the centerpiece is a steel column from the World Trade Center named “St. Michael’s 37.” For more information on this special memorial, click here.
The College is pleased to honor veterans year-round, and is careful to pay special attention to those who served and are still serving, our nation, during Veterans Week. On Veterans Day there is a memorial service on the chapel lawn, near the Alumni Veterans Memorial. At the Missouri Vietnam Veterans Memorial, students read the names on the wall to honor those who gave their lives during that conflict.
Railway to Heaven
Don't miss this dramatic depiction of the experiences of Pfc. Roy Hopper in the original play, “Railway to Heaven: A True Story of an Ozarks P.O.W.” The play is based on the book, Miracle in the Ozarks, by Jerry C. Davis, president of College of the Ozarks. Roy was a School of the Ozarks student who was drafted into the Army in 1943 to serve in WWII. He was involved in the invasion of Normandy in France, only to later be captured by the German Army. He endured torture, the death of his best friend, and witnessed unimaginable atrocities at the hands of the Nazis. This is the powerful and touching story of a true American hero. For more information about current showings, click here.
The Four Generals of Hard Work U
It is quite remarkable that a small college in the Ozarks has produced not one, but four, armed services generals. Dr. Jerry C. Davis writes about the influence of College of the Ozarks on the lives of young men from humble backgrounds who achieved success in service to our nation in his book The Four Generals of Hard Work U. Click here to visit our campus store and purchase a copy; all proceeds benefit the College's patriotic travel program.
Bobcat GOLD / Military Science
College of the Ozarks is proud of its contract with the Army National Guard through the College’s Bobcat GOLD program which will commission graduates as second lieutenants in the Missouri Army National Guard.
Young Americans for Freedom
The College is pleased to have an active and very engaged chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). A project of the Young America’s Foundation, YAF works hard to advance the ideals of “limited government, individual freedom, free enterprise, traditional values and a strong national defense,” (http://www.yaf.org/YoungAmericansForFreedom.aspx, 2015).
The C of O YAF chapter works hard on campus to promote conservative ideals and to celebrate freedom. Activities include creation of a large replica of the U.S.. Constitution for students to sign on Constitution Day, reading of the Names on the Wall at the Missouri Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, and the building of a replica of the Berlin Wall to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its fall, just to name a few.
YAF members attend conferences in Washington, D.C.., and at the Regan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo, in Santa Barbara, California, to interact with key players in the conservative movement. In recent years, two students secured valuable summer internships at YAF’s national headquarters in Reston, Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital.
Students at the College's classical laboratory school, School of the Ozarks (S of O), operate Pitch in for Patriots. These patriotic high school students raise funds to assist veterans with special needs. In 2013, S of O raised nearly $15,000 to purchase a specialty track-chair for a southwest Missouri veteran.
Military Academies
Each year the College of the Ozarks students are invited to leadership conferences at the military academies throughout the United States. Our students have had the privilege of visiting the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado; the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut; The United States Military Academy at West Point, and the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.
Patriotic Education General Education Course
The College is proud to have a general education course that focuses on American heritage, civic responsibilities, love of country, and willingness to defend it. For more information on this course, please click here.
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IMF expects 4.5% economic growth in Armenia in 2018
PanArmenian.Net
PanARMENIAN.Net - The International Monetary Fund expects Armenia's economic growth to slow to 4.5 percent this year from 5.2 percent in 2018, reflecting the weaker global environment and copper prices, the fund's representative said, according to Reuters.
The South Caucasus country of 3.2 million depends heavily on aid and investment from former imperial master Russia, whose economic downturn has hit Armenian exports as well as remittances from Armenians working there in recent years.
The government expects 4.9 percent growth in 2019.
Yulia Ustyugova said the fund projected smaller contribution to growth from final consumption amid weaker remittances this year, although it might be compensated by higher investment.
She said risks to the outlook were mainly external, including 'increased global trade tensions, turbulence in global financial markets or a pickup in regional geopolitical tensions'.
'The key challenge facing policymakers is to press ahead with the carefully-planned structural reforms with maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability,' Ustyugova said.
The IMF supports the 'ambitious' reform plan of the government led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power in a peaceful revolution last spring after weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism.
Pashinyan bolstered his authority in the former Soviet republic when his political bloc won an early parliamentary election in December.
The reform plan includes changes to tax and custom codes and are focused on fighting corruption and improving the business environment.
Ustyugova said the IMF expected the current account deficit to decline to 6-7 percent of gross domestic product in 2019, down from 8 percent last year.
The IMF said in February it had reached a staff-level agreement on a $250-million three-year precautionary stand-by agreement with Armenia 'to support the new government's reform plans and strengthen resilience against external shocks'.
The agreement is subject to approval by the fund's executive board.
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Security, Software
Chinese Internet Security Firm Shuffles Executives
ChinaTechNews.com Editor April 17, 2014, 9:49:28 am HKT April 17, 2014
Chinese Internet security company Qihoo 360 appointed Chen Jie as senior vice president, leading the PC browser, mobile application store and mobile game platform operations; and the company appointed Yu Guangdong as senior vice president, leading Internet product development and marketing.
In addition, the company expanded the duties of chief financial officer Yao Yu, which allows her to further participate in the strategic development of the company.
Chen joined Qihoo 360 in March 2006. Starting from 2010, she took the role of vice president and led several functional departments, including PC browser, mobile application store and mobile game platform businesses. Before joining Qihoo 360, Chen was deputy editor of China Yahoo between 2004 and 2006, leading website content creation and management. From 2002 to 2004, she served as editor at Sohu.com, leading the operation and management of the finance channel at Sohu.com. From 2000 to 2002, she was senior editor at Sina.com.
Yu joined Qihoo 360 in September 2006. In 2011, he was appointed vice president and was in charge of the development and commercialization of Internet products, including the home page and search. Before joining the company, Yu served as sales director at TOM.com between 2003 and 2006. From 2001 to 2003, he worked for the marketing department of LG.
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