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Transformations through Teatro : Culture Clash in a Chicana/o History Classroom
David G. García
Radical History Review (1 October 2008) 2008 (102): 111–130.
...David G. García This article describes the creation and implementation of a unique undergraduate history seminar dedicated to examining and engaging the work of the Chicano-Latino theater trio Culture Clash. My previous research identified similarities between Culture Clash's playwriting methods...
Leftist Transformations: A Clash Between the Feasible and the Desirable
Walter L. Adamson
Radical History Review (1 January 1987) 1987 (37): 94–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1987-37-94
...Walter L. Adamson Copyright © January 1987 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1987 European Communisms ’- ’- Leftist Transformations: A Clash Between the Feasible and the Desirable...
On the Threshold of the Political: The Sonic Performativity of Rooftop Chanting in Iran
Roshanak Kheshti
Radical History Review (1 January 2015) 2015 (121): 51–70.
...Roshanak Kheshti Protests erupted throughout Iran in 2009 after incumbent Mahmood Ahmadinejad was declared winner of a highly disputed presidential race. The so-called “Green Wave” of protest included violent clashes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the jailing of protesters and journalists...
Reflections on Teaching, Learning, and Performing Chicana/o History
Corina Benavides López
... curriculum marginalizes the histories of People of Color, David G. García’s University of California, Los Angeles, Chicana and Chicano stud- ies course Social History in Performance Art: A Seminar Featuring Culture Clash and discussed in his essay in this issue, pushed all boundaries. From the begin...
The Crowd in the Iranian Revolution
Ervand Abrahamian
Radical History Review (1 October 2009) 2009 (105): 13–38.
... Arya Mehr University, where five thousand people soon staged a sit-in demanding the prompt release of the arrested fifty indi- viduals. This sparked the first street clashes. On November 14, protesters marched from the two campuses to central Tehran via Eisenhower Avenue, chanting “Death to the...
Combating Amnesia: Counter-Obituaries for Richard Milhous Nixon
Andor Skotnes
Radical History Review (1 October 1994) 1994 (60): 133–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-60-133
... already well in progress against organized historical amnesia of the Nixon years. As the Clash sang in the late 1970s, "Nevermind the Stars and Stripes, let's play the Watergate tapesto3The struggle will continue. Andor Skotnes for the RHR Collective ...
Radical History Review (1 May 1992) 1992 (53): 157–158.
... Waters 7he purpose of this book is to examine this clash between of Victorian England socialist aspirationsand working-classrealties. Ins0 doing, ADVERTISING AND SPECTACLE, the book sheds light on the...
VI. Legacies and Meanings
Vivian Rothstein, Carlos Vasquez, Howard Zinn
... come from The New York Times (27 April 1994); Nixon quote from WBAI Morning Show, New York City. 27 April 1994. 2. Thanks to Glenn Dean, socioIogy department, State University of New York, Albany, for passing this exchange along to me. 3. The Clash, "I'm so Bored with the USA," The...
Rebellion and Culture
Steven Topik
... actors clashed, compromised, and constructed new syntheses. Da Costa recognizes the complex web of interests and cultures at play, but she does not reify them. Many years of laborious search has enabled her to turn up the voices of participants in missionary letters and reports, colonial and...
Powerlessness Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun
Radical History Review (1 January 2003) 2003 (85): 124–132.
...- achusetts, oblivious to the clash of fundamentalisms, to another episode of McJihad.1 But the contradictions intervened, and I sat down and wrote a brief piece called “Nothing Good Comes from Terror.” The short note, which went out on the Internet from ZNET...
Editors' Introduction
Allen Howard, Patrick Manning, Peter Weiler
Radical History Review (1 October 1987) 1987 (39): 3–10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1987-39-3
..., however, goes beyond the role of war and peace. Does the form of the modern world community result from the inexorable evolution and clash of structures of economic and social life-that is, from capitalism? Or was its form set through an accumulation of conscious choices made by individuals and...
“Kill the Americans!”: The U.S. Government, Citizens, and Companies in Latin America from the Panama Canal to Plan Colombia
John D. French
Radical History Review (1 January 2012) 2012 (112): 201–208.
... carousing in the Cocoa Grove red light district of Panama City, outside the U.Scontrolled Canal Zone. Swaggering and disorderly, the crowd clashed violently with the Panamanian police, resulting in one dead, twenty injured, and others arrested, all U.S. citizens. The U.S. State Department was quick...
Tough Jews and Bullies
Paul Buhle
Radical History Review (1 May 1992) 1992 (53): 96–99.
... as part of a West that glorified conquest and built ever-greater armies for future clashes. They grew up outside. Even when they happily immigrated to America, their view of Amer- ican culture remained that of the semi-outsider. They saw the good society as a democratic conglomerate of...
The Displacement of Tension to the Tension of Displacement
Prasenjit Duara
Radical History Review (1 October 1993) 1993 (57): 60–64.
... over nonnations. Many of these "traditional" modes of production and life articulated well with the needs of metropolitan capital in the nineteenth century (though perhaps less well than they do now), but state maintenance in the empire also had its own logic that clashed with the needs and...
“What's in a Name?” That Which We Call Brilliance by Any Other Name Would Read as Festus Claudius McKay
Laura A. Harris
... Romance of the Victorians. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Lloyd D. McCarthy, “In-dependence” from Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley; Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007. Gary Edward...
Pedagogy and Activism in Vieques, Puerto Rico: An Interview with Ismael Guadalupe
Edgar Iván Gutiérrez
..., called me in and told me: “You have to take that map down. You cannot present that map.” I answered that it was the map of what existed, and we clashed. They wanted to hide the truth. “This is the truth,” I responded to him. “You are the ones that are lying.” He responded that it was “politics...
Across the Pitch: Recent Writing on European Football
Daniel Widener
Radical History Review (1 May 2016) 2016 (125): 206–213.
... clashes that offer rich symbolism. The classic basketball contests between Magic Johnson’s “Showtime” Lakers and Larry Bird’s more workmanlike Celtics offered a combination of parity and virtuosity alongside contrasting styles. In American baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees...
Insurgent Media
Eric Hiltner
...-packed minutes of courage and rebellion from around the world form a collage of insurgencies that refuse to submit to corpo- rate and national domination. Clashes in The Fourth World War begin in Argentina in 1976, when the military dictatorship...
Good Gays and Bad: The Respectability Question in Gay and Lesbian History
Ellen Herman
... fashionable, if not with Pat Buchanan and the Re- publican Party, then at least in some of academia's more daring humanistic corners, and in those sectors of the gay and feminist movements that persist in defending sexual freedoms. In an intel- lectual climate enamored of multiplying, clashing...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2008-102-234
... utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to document the evolution of the Chicano-Latino performance trio Culture Clash and their politically inspired critical race the- ater. His research and teaching examine historical continuities of Chicana/o communities, analyzing film, identity, social movements...
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H. Craig Treiber
Craig Treiber says supporting SCO is in his DNA. That’s because the Treiber ties to the organization go back three generations.
Craig’s grandfather, John, was actively involved at Queens’ Ottilie Orphan Asylum, which would merge with the St. Christopher Home to become SCO. Craig’s father, Howard, was Board President. Craig’s mother, Hope, deepened the family’s tradition of philanthropy.
Craig joined the board in 1999. He’s not the type to talk about his generosity, but Craig’s quiet commitment is unshakeable. Each year, he and his wife Lora are among SCO’s top donors and volunteers.
“My family has been very blessed to have a successful business over a number of generations,” says Craig, “and giving back was essential in our upbringing. If you’re fortunate enough to have your health and acquire some financial means, it’s important to give back. There’s tremendous need, and my family is honored to support organizations that make a real difference.”
The Treibers’ support has long underwritten SCO’s efforts, but Craig commits his time too – overseeing Risk Management, serving as Vice Chair and Executive O_cer of the Board. “We have a family foundation, and our giving goes well beyond SCO, but there’s a difference. Writing a check is one thing. but to invest your energy, to have skin in the game is what is important. The diversity and impact of the services provided make me proud to support the organization.”
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A six-week Summer Day Camp for children ages 5-13 provides 3 days of onsite activities in visual and performing arts and literacy, as well as 2 days of educational, cultural, and recreational field trips. Special events include theme days and an all-camp final show for parents and the community.
Youth Leadership/Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program for youth ages 14 and older, offers volunteer work experiences, training, and academic and personal support, while providing a context in which teenagers and younger children can enjoy the mutual benefits of intergenerational relationships. Our Parent Involvement Program offers family nights, special events, a sewing group, cultural outings, and volunteer support.
Families with children seeking after school, school-age child care and summer day camps, service learning and youth leadership activities, job-readiness and youth employment, indoor/outdoor Neighborhood Centers, and parent, family and community special events, as well as in-school partnerships with teachers and students at Sunset Park High School and MS 136/MS 821
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Man saved by paramedics after 30ft fall
A man who shattered his bones after tumbling off a Scottish cliff was forced to crawl 70 meters from the rising sea tide to avoid drowning.
Ged Dunsmore was stranded for five hours after falling in a remote part of Iona and was only saved when a mystery dog-walker from America summoned the Scottish Ambulance Service.
“I fell 30ft and was in agony – on top of that I could see the sea was coming in so had no option but to crawl to safety. I thought I was going to die because of the remote location,” said the 52-year-old, from Helensburgh.
“The American guy, who I’ve never seen since, made an emergency call and within about half an hour, I was surrounded by various medics. I was lifted into a helicopter where I was taken to hospital.”
Ged’s frightening experience happened when he was out walking on the Isle of Iona in September 2014 but he was recently reunited with the Ambulance Service’s air crew, Julie Cathcart and Daniel Kerr. He’s also hoping to track down his mystery American saviour.
Speaking publicly about the incident for the first time, Ged said: “I was walking on the Isle of Iona. It was about lunchtime.
“I was walking on my own, and I knew I was elevated. I was walking along the shoreline and then I gradually got higher.
“At 1pm, I went to make a phone call to arrange something for the following week. I could not get a signal, so I decided to take a photograph. The time was 1.03pm. A few minutes after that, I fell off the cliff face.
“I fell about 20 feet to 30 feet; I landed on my left side and broke my pelvis, three ribs and my collarbone – my ribs had also punctured my lung.
With no one else in sight, Ged decided, with the possibility of the tide coming in, that it was best to move to a safer point.
Ged continued: “I could not stand up, and I was concerned about the water coming. There was no one else near. It was a corridor beach, with cliffs on either side. For whatever reason, I tried to make my way to the safe side of the beach.
“I did this on my knees – it was very painful. By the time I got to the other side, I was exhausted.”
He added: “I could not stand up and it had rained non-stop. I was pretty exhausted. I got to a point when I thought, ‘I’m done. I cannot do anymore.’ I had my peace with the world. I did not think I would make it; I was on the beach on my own and I accepted it.”
Ged said at about 6.30pm he saw a pair of legs at his side, asking if he needed help.
The American, who Ged has still never met to this day, rushed to make an emergency call.
Ged explained: “Within about half an hour, I was surrounded by various medics. I was lifted into a helicopter where I was taken to hospital.”
Ged was hospitalised for two weeks, the first of which he was in Intensive Care and he “can’t remember” much about the seven days.
He added: “When I was in hospital, my first thought was that I was going to miss a concert by Billy Connolly. That was my main incentive to recover.”
Since the incident, Ged, who is visually impaired, has begun walking independently again, adding: “I was off crutches by the end of 2014.
“I don’t think too much about my limitations – I never thought for a moment I would be in any danger. There’s not a day goes by where I don’t think, if not for their intervention, I would not be here today - they saved my life that day.”
Ged returned to the spot he fell a year after the incident, adding: “I had no idea how high it was, or how long I crawled until then.”
Scottish Ambulance Service Team Leader Daniel Kerr described Ged’s rescue as a “complex” incident from a clinical and aviation point of view, saying it was a difficult position to fly into.
“It was brilliant meeting up with Ged. What was miraculous about it was the fact someone else was walking their dog where no one else ever goes,” he said.
“Everything worked out well for him, but if not for the walker, he may not have survived. It was an absolute pleasure. That's why we do the job.
"But it's not just us. We can't do the job if it's not for every other person in the system doing their job well as well.”
Ged Dunsmore
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Ewan Jures: Is it time to get heated about heating new homes?
WSP associate Ewan Jures on the importance of district heating networks.
The new Glenrothes Energy Network
Scotland has been at the forefront of the climate change debate for many years and even more so in the last few months - having agreed to an ambitious target of net zero emission by 2045, five years ahead of the rest of the UK.
With heat still accounting for a large proportion of Scotland’s harmful emissions, it’s no surprise that the Scottish Government has set rigorous targets for the use of low-carbon heat sources.
In a recent study by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, it was also reported that Scotland faces ‘substantial obstacles’ in the drive to cut carbon while keeping energy supplies reliable and affordable. Tougher rules will need to be put in place making new housing and other buildings more energy efficient.
For Scotland’s housing sector, this means even more scrutiny. With the number of new build developments on the rise across Scotland, low carbon targets are especially prevalent as the UK Government’s aim of banning gas boilers in new homes comes into force by 2025.
The Scottish Government aims to have 11% of non-electrical heat demand met by renewable sources by 2020. By 2032, its target is to have 35% of heat for domestic buildings and 70% of heat and cooling for non-domestic buildings supplied using low carbon technologies, where technically feasible.
The demand for viable, environmentally conscious alternative heating options is heating up. With gas boilers on their way out, the main alternatives being proposed by the government are district heating, heat pumps and, for new build homes, improved insulation.
Alternative heating options are something that our Danish neighbours are no strangers to. 64% of all Danish homes have heat delivered by heat networks, developed after the 1970’s oil crises drove the country to invest heavily in energy efficiency, district heating and renewables.
Changing goal posts for heating homes present opportunities to retrofit district heat networks – particularly for areas of high-density housing. District heating delivers a better user experience than electric storage heating. Gas boilers are now clearly a short-term choice which incurs high maintenance and replacement costs as well as safety concerns in multi-storey buildings. District heating works with all types of buildings and provides a future-proofed low carbon heat solution.
Ewan Jures
District heat networks are beneficial because they can utilise a range of renewable energy sources and heat that would otherwise be wasted. Possibilities include industrial processes and renewable technologies such as heat pumps, biomass, solar thermal and anaerobic digestion. This heat is captured and fed into the network, eliminating waste, lowering carbon emissions, lowering fuel consumption and saving everybody money. It sounds like a no brainer.
The challenge to adoption, however, is in the nature of the networks themselves – they typically involve multiple parties and need a sponsor who can invest for the long-term. So, while they offer a great cost-effective way to decarbonise heat in towns and cities, making such projects a reality requires a champion to make it happen. In the UK heat networks initiatives are therefore often sponsored by local authorities, social housing providers or urban regeneration projects.
WSP was recently involved in helping deliver Scotland’s first 100% renewable, large-scale district heating network in Glenrothes in Fife. It came about on the back of a desire from Fife Council and RWE to protect an investment in a biomass combined heat and power (CHP) station that was built five years ago to power a paper mill, which had subsequently closed.
WSP’s feasibility study supported the business case for the new Glenrothes Energy Network to use surplus heat from the biomass CHP station for the benefit of the community. The project was able to secure a grant from the Scottish Government’s Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme to fund £8.6 million of the £24m project.
Council buildings are already connected to the network and it’s expected that once other businesses and homes are connected in the coming years, they will save at least 10% compared to the cost of heating with gas boilers. This is particularly relevant given that 30% of Glenrothes households live in fuel poverty (higher than the national figure for Scotland of 25%). In future, and if supported by additional infrastructure, this network has the potential to heat 3,500 homes - making it the largest renewable district heating schemes in Scotland.
This example is one of many innovative heat network projects that are underway across Scotland. However, such projects are still the exception rather than the norm - heat networks provide just 2% of the overall UK heat demand across the domestic, public, industrial and commercial sectors. There is clearly a fantastic opportunity to extend this. With the gas boiler ban for new homes on the horizon, district heating is definitely worth considering for both new build and existing homes. We are already seeing more forward-thinking housing providers and property developers looking into such solutions.
There will always be a demand for heat. We need to make sure that the demand is met with considerations for carbon efficiency as well as cost effectiveness for those creating new energy platforms and the customers paying for these. The foundations are in place to achieve net-zero goals, but we need to accelerate action through rolling-out proven solutions like heat networks to make it a reality.
Ewan Jures is an associate at engineering professional services consulting firm WSP
Tags: district heating, WSP, fuel poverty
Rapid Rehousing funding increased by £9m Professor Ken Gibb: Visions for Scottish housing in 2040 New homes mark first step in regeneration of Paisley’s West End
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Tim Burton's 'Frankenweenie' Gets A Voice Cast
by Sandy Schaefer
It is no secret that Tim Burton has a core group of individuals with whom he prefers to work. The announcement that the primary voice cast of Burton's upcoming flick, Frankenweenie, is composed entirely of familiar names in the Burtonverse comes as no surprise, then.
Burton first retold the classic story of Frankenstein back in 1984, with the short film Frankenweenie. 26 years and several blockbusters later, Burton is remaking that black & white, low-budget feature into a 3D, stop-motion animated feature, which is due on March of 2012.
The original Frankenweenie starred kid actor Barret Oliver - who appeared in popular 80s titles like The Neverending Story and Cocoon - as Victor Frankenstein, a young boy who resurrects his beloved dog after it is accidentally killed. Shelley Duvall (The Shining) and Daniel Stern (Home Alone) played the boy's parents, who are naturally a bit concerned about his violating the laws of nature.
Martin Short (Mars Attack!) will voice Victor's dad this time around, while Catherine O'Hara (Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas) will provide the vocals for his mom. The two have signed on to voice a total of ten characters in Frankenweenie, including that of - as identified in John August's screenplay for the film - Bob, Mr. Bergermeister, Weird Girl, and Gym Teacher.
Joining Short and O'Hara will be Winona Ryder (Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice) in the role of Elsa and Oscar-winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood) as Mr. Rzykruski. No word yet on whether Burton regulars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter will lend their voices to Frankenweenie, but will anyone be shocked if they do?
O'Hara has a fairly expressive (if shrill) voice, which she lent to the monster Judith in last year's Where the Wild Things Are. Short has arguably the most comically expressive vocal tones of the crew. Both are fitting choices to voice a slew of what will undoubtedly be eccentric characters - with Ryder and Landau (literally) providing some voices of reason.
Burton's last venture with stop-motion animation - the 2005 flick Corpse Bride - was not as inspired or creative as his previous efforts. It is still good to see him returning to the style of filmmaking that got his career going - hopefully, a return to his roots will help him recover some of his old creative spark as well.
Frankenweenie arrives in 2D and 3D theaters in the U.S. on March 9th, 2012.
Source: Deadline
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Meet Angelo State's New Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities
Dr. John E. Klingemann, chair of the Angelo State University Department of History, has been appointed the new dean of ASU’s College of Arts and Humanities, effective July 1. (Contributed/ASU)
By Joe Hyde | May. 9, 2019 2:38 pm
SAN ANGELO, TX — Dr. John E. Klingemann, chair of the Angelo State University Department of History, has been appointed the new dean of ASU’s College of Arts and Humanities, effective July 1.
An ASU faculty member since 2007, Klingemann is also an associate professor of history and previously served as interim chair of the Department of Communication and Mass Media. Prior to joining ASU, he worked as a history instructor for the BorderLinks nonprofit education agency in Tucson, Ariz., as curator of public programs and exhibits for the Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University, and as a researcher in the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross. He has also acted as an interpreter for the U.S. Federal Magistrate Court in Alpine.
As chair of the Department of History, Klingemann oversees 16 ASU faculty and staff, as well as the departmental budget, hiring of faculty, assessment implementation, the mentoring of junior faculty, course scheduling, and the preparation of faculty reviews and tenure and promotion dossiers. He also teaches a variety of history courses, from Signature Courses for incoming freshmen to online and in-class courses for graduate students.
Since taking over as department chair in 2014, Klingemann has led initiatives to implement a new plan for history students seeking teacher certification, construct online courses for high school dual-credit students, develop a long-term strategy for recruiting and retaining history majors, revise the curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate history courses, assist faculty in pursuing grant funding, and produce an annual authors lecture series with the Friends of the Porter Henderson Library and West Texas Collection.
Dr. Don Topliff, ASU provost and vice president for academic affairs, announced Klingemann’s appointment.
“Following a national search and on-campus interviews with three excellent candidates, Dr. Klingemann was selected as the new dean,” Topliff said. “He has proven his leadership and scholarship abilities as a department chair, a Fulbright scholar, and an active and dedicated member of the ASU Ram Family and the local community. I’m excited to see the direction he will take the College of Arts and Humanities. I’d also like to thank our outgoing dean, Dr. Carolyn Gascoigne, for her outstanding service to Angelo State.”
In addition to his teaching and administrative duties, Klingemann has published more than 20 book chapters, journal articles, short stories and translations, and he has made more than 80 presentations at professional conferences. He serves on numerous ASU campus committees, as well as being the faculty advisor for the Association of Mexican-American Students and the Ram Rugby Club. He is also the color commentator for radio broadcasts of ASU Rams football games. Off campus, he serves on the Board of Trustees for the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, the Editorial Council for the Center for Big Bend Studies, and the Board of Directors for the Community Reinvesting in Educational Opportunities initiative, among others.
Klingemann earned his bachelor’s degree in Spanish and his master’s degree in history at Sul Ross State University and his Ph.D. in Latin America studies at the University of Arizona.
As dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Klingemann will oversee all academic programs and services in the Departments of Communication and Mass Media, English and Modern Languages, History, Political Science and Philosophy, Security Studies and Criminal Justice, and Visual and Performing Arts.
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2014 WORLD CUP POSTMORTEM
Filed under: 2014 World Cup final, Uncategorized | Tags: 2014 World Cup, 2016 European Championship, Albiceleste, America, Andre Schuerrle, Angel Di Maria, Argentina, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Beto, Brad Friedel, Cafu, Chile, Clint Dempsey, David Luiz, Dunga, Edmundo, ESPN, Ezequiel Lavezzi, FIFA Confederations Cup, Germany, Gonzalo Higuain, James Rodriguez, Jo, Joachim Loew, Juergen Klinsmann, Kasey Keller, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Lukas Podolski, Manuel Neuer, Maracana Stadium, Maracanazo, Marcos Rojo, Mario Goetze, Miroslav Klose, Netherlands, Olympics, Pele, Per Mertesacker, Philipp Lahm, Portugal, Preki, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Rodrigo Palacio, Romario, Ronaldo, Russia '18, Sergio Aguero, Sergio Romero, Spain, Tim Howard, Toni Kroos
Germany defeated Argentina in overtime, 1-0, before a Maracana Stadium crowd of 74,738 to win the 2014 World Cup.
Substitute Mario Goetze, who had not started in Germany’s last two games, scored the game’s only goal in the 113th minute. Another sub, Andre Schuerrle, lofted a cross from the left wing that Goetze, on the run at the top of the penalty area, chested and volleyed inside the far post past Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero. [July 13]
Comment I: The best team won.
The overhaul begun by Juergen Klinsmann ahead of the 2006 World Cup and maintained by successor Joachim Loew in 2010 bore fruit in 2014. All-time World Cup scoring leader Miroslav Klose (36) rides off into the sunset, and captain Philipp “The Magic Dwarf” Lahm (30), has announced his international retirement. But Bastian Schweinsteiger, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski are all 29, and the rest of the nucleus, with some tweaking, figures to be around for the 2016 European Championship and beyond. Much can happen in four years, but for now, the first European team to win a World Cup in the Americas is well-positioned for Russia ’18.
Comment II: The not-best team did not win.
Years from now, the 20th World Cup may be remembered not for Germany’s triumph or Luis Suarez’s bite or James Rodriguez’s arrival but the incredible collapse by Brazil. The 7-1 loss to Germany in the semifinals and the 3-0 loss to the Netherlands in the third-place match were shocking on their own, but put them together and you have the most unbelievably pathetic 180 minutes in World Cup history.
If anything, it was all for the best. This was a not-so-great team that was riding a wave of emotion provided by its thousands of yellow-clad supporters and the inner pressure created by the need to wipe away the nightmare–the Maracanazo–of 1950. It needed penalty kicks to beat Chile in the second round and a fine free kick by David Luiz in the quarterfinals to keep up the facade. It was unconvincing in the group stage, leaving the suspicion that its triumph the previous year in the FIFA Confederations Cup, capped by a 3-0 romp over defending world and European champion Spain, was an anomaly. Not only could this team not be mentioned in the same breath with Pele’s 1970 champions, it was a far, far cry from another Brazilian also-ran, the 1998 array of stars headed by Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, Cafu, Beto and Dunga that bowed to host France. If that side needed a late jolt, it could look down the bench and call on Edmundo. This Brazil’s bench had … Jo. Had the current team pulled off two miracles and lifted the trophy at the Maracana on July 13, Brazilians would be the first to rank it behind its non-champions of 2006 and 1990 and 1986 and 1982 and 1978 and 1974 and 1966.
Comment III: The second-best team could’ve won.
A 4-1 pick to win it all, Argentina coulda, shoulda wrapped up a 1-0 or 2-0 victory over Germany in regulation. One goal could have come 21 minutes in, when Toni Kroos headed a ball back toward his goal only for it to be intercepted by Gonzalo Higuain. Perhaps seeing Manuel Neuer standing before him and believing the German goalkeeper immortal based on his earlier performances, Higuain skulled a hurried shot outside the left post. Eight minutes later Higuain had a goal disallowed for an offside call he easily could have avoided.
Either chance, if converted, would’ve thrown Argentina into defensive mode, and we saw what the Argentine defense (with the help of the midfield) was capable of against Germany for 113 minutes despite the Germans’ having greater possession. Ironically, it was the back line that was regarded as the weak link heading into this World Cup while the team’s strength was Lionel Messi and his supporting cast of Higuain, Angel Di Maria, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Rodrigo Palacio.
Adding to Argentina’s frustration was Palacio’s chance six minutes into overtime. Left back Marcos Rojo chipped a ball into the middle of the box to Palacio, alone with only Neuer to beat. But he tried to chip the ball into the net and sent it wide left. That was the Albiceleste’s last chance and only made Goetze’s goal seem inevitable.
Comment IV: The bottom line on the impact Brasil ’14 had on America:
The U.S. media finally stopped referring to soccer as “perhaps the world’s most popular sport” and the World Cup as “after the Olympics, the world’s biggest sporting event.” Instead, soccer and the World Cup became an unqualified “most” and “biggest.”
Comment V: Naturally, those Americans who don’t like soccer came out with their sharpened knives in June and July, and to soccer fans, their increasing desperation was another sign of progress.
Most of their criticisms–too low scoring, foreigners running around in shorts–have fallen by the wayside over the years, but they concentrated their efforts on two issues in particular this time.
The most curious one involved how time is kept during a soccer match. “The game ends, and then it keeps going–no one but the referee knows when it’s gonna end!” Of course the entire crowd and a worldwide television audience sees the fourth official hold up an electronic board indicating how much time has been added. Two minutes, four minutes, and so on. We all get the idea. And TV viewers see the clock continue ticking in the upper left corner: 91:05 … 93:41 …. with a +4 next to it, for example. However, “getting the idea” isn’t good enough in a country grounded in gridiron football countdown clocks and basketball games in which the final 30 seconds are massaged through 10 minutes of TV commercials. Maybe they were fired up by Portugal’s late equalizer against the U.S., when it was mystifying to some that the game seemingly went on and on, but soccer fans who saw the man with the electronic board knew that enough time remained for Ronaldo’s heroics, plus a subsequent kickoff and a few additional seconds of play. If anything, that game should have been a lesson to the uninitiated. Soccer is not a Hail Mary pass or buzzer-beater shot type of sport. There is no way to “stop” the clock, so there is no need for a clock that shows 0:013 remaining. And some people like being freed of that sort of nonsense.
The other complaint has merit. “They flop, they roll on the the ground and act as though they’re in their death throes.” From one ESPN radio talking head: “This country will never embrace a sport in which the players are encouraged to be pansies.”
Good point. We’ve seen all sorts of histrionics on the soccer field, and we all know it’s in an effort to draw a foul or induce a yellow card, not because the player has an incredibly low pain threshold. But all that rolling around runs contrary to American sensibilities. When Clint Dempsey is fouled hard he goes down like he was shot by a sniper. No movement, no drama. Stoic. It’s the American way. (Usually, Dempsey is either really hurt or trying to give his teammates a breather, or both. If he’s trying to get the call, it’s by making the referee feel guilty over this lifeless figure on the turf.)
FIFA hasn’t been able to come up with a better tiebreaker than what it refers to as “The Taking of Kicks from the Penalty Mark.” So it would do well to instead address its chronic play-acting problem–at least if it wants to win over America and its treasure trove of potential corporate sponsors. There is a form of soccer that is played with a minimum of dives, flops and various sundry simulation. It’s called women’s soccer, which is quite ironic. These were, after all, the people who were once deemed too delicate to play this sport. Instead, they cut each other down–hard–and the fouled party usually bounces to her feet and gets on with the game. And no one questions their macho.
Comment VI: And finally, while many Americans had finished applauding Tim Howard’s heroics in the USA’s 1-0 overtime loss to Belgium and had wandered away by the time Germany’s Manuel Neuer was awarded the Golden Glove as the World Cup’s best goalkeeper, it should be pointed out that Howard’s was not the greatest performance by an American ‘keeper in a meaningful match.
For those who saw it first hand, nothing will top Kasey Keller’s string of miracles to help the U.S. upset Brazil, 1-0, in the semifinals of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup in front of a sparse crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Keller made 13 saves that cool, damp night to Howard’s 16 against Belgium, but while Howard was masterful in handling several difficult shots, Keller made saves that left the Brazilians shaking their heads. Two rapid-fire reflex saves on Romario defied belief, and the Brazilian striker later said of Keller, “It was an honor to be on the field with him.”
It should be recalled that this was mostly an under-23 Brazilian side preparing for the Olympics; that it took a goal by Preki in the 65th minute against the run of play to win it; and that the U.S. would go on five days later to lose to Mexico by the same score back at the Coliseum before an overwhelmingly pro-Mexico throng of 100,000. But it also should be remembered that for one night, Keller, an outstanding goalkeeper very much the equal of Howard and Brad Friedel, was otherworldly.
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President Obama announces new efforts to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States
President Barack Obama today announced accelerated efforts to increase the availability of treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States in conjunction with World AIDS Day 2011. The president directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to invest approximately $50 million in new funding to support AIDS Drug Assistance Programs in states and increase access to HIV/AIDS care services.
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The president emphasized that critical HHS resources will help ensure that HIV-positive Americans get the best care and treatment possible. HHS will commit approximately $35 million in new funding and enhanced technical assistance through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs so that approximately 3,000 people living with HIV/AIDS will have access to life-saving medications. In addition, HHS will provide $15 million in new funding to support experienced community-based providers of care for individuals with HIV/AIDS.
As part of today’s announcement, HHS will sponsor new activities focused on improving adherence to medications and encouraging consistent access to HIV care. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 34 percent of HIV/AIDS patients do not receive consistent care and only 28 percent of HIV/AIDS patients have their HIV under control. Consequently, HHS will help providers improve quality of health care delivered and states monitor and improve the continuum of HIV care for patients.
Today’s announcement builds upon the Obama Administration’s new testing initiatives to help the estimated 240,000 Americans living with HIV who are not aware that they are infected. For example, CDC has launched a new campaign to encourage testing among one of the hardest hit populations in the United States, black men who have sex with men. Testing Makes Us Stronger is part of Act Against AIDS, CDC’s national campaign to bring attention to the importance of HIV prevention and testing. In 2012, CDC will also be working with partners to expand its successful campaign for African American women.
Recognizing that the federal government’s efforts are only part of the solution, President Obama also applauded commitments by other public and private sector partners to expand and improve HIV/AIDS care services. The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors announced a new agreement with Gilead Sciences to extend additional voluntary discounts and rebates for most Gilead medications purchased by state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, as well as a continued price freeze through 2013.
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The seventh season originally aired from September 17, 1995, to May 19, 1996.
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Highlights[edit]
Season 7 began on September 17, 1995 with the first episode, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and ended on May 19, 1996 with "Summer of 4 Ft. 2". The season premiere was the conclusion of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the only two-part episode of the series. The first part aired as the finale of Season 6.
There were two holdover episodes: "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and "Radioactive Man". The latter has the distinction of being the first episode to be digitally colored, a technique that would not be repeated until Season 12's "Tennis the Menace" and become a permanent feature starting with Season 14's "The Great Louse Detective". Season 7 also saw the first use of CGI in "Treehouse of Horror VI" as the third segment, "Homer3", had sequences where Homer and Bart were computer-animated.
The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Animated Program", and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program.
All 25 episodes of Season 7 including extras were released on DVD on December 13, 2005 in Region 1, January 30, 2006 in Region 2 and March 22, 2006 in Region 4. Like the previous season, two versions of the DVD boxset were produced, one being a regular rectangular boxset and the other shaped like the head of a Simpsons character—in this season, Marge.
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129 - 1 "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" Wes Archer Bill Oakley September 17, 1995 2F20
Continued from "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)", the finale episode of Season 6.
After being shot, Mr. Burns is in the hospital in a coma. A hung-over Smithers notices that his own gun has been recently fired, and has a hazy memory of having shot someone. Convinced that he shot Burns, Smithers goes to a downtown cathedral and confesses to the crime. In the other side of the confessional booth, however, is Chief Wiggum, who arrests Smithers and takes him to the police station for interrogation. Afterwards, Smithers is mobbed by reporters. Asked how he feels, Smithers replies, "As low as Madonna when she found out she missed Tailhook."
Sideshow Mel, watching the news, realizes that the Madonna quote was from a comedy show that was airing at the same time as Burns was shot; therefore, Smithers must have seen the show and couldn't have shot Burns. Mel goes to the police with the information, and when they re-interview Smithers, his memory is clearer and he remembers that he left the meeting early so he could see the show, and while he did shoot someone on his drunken way home, it wasn't Burns. Smithers is then cleared as a suspect and let go. (The man Smithers shot turns out to be Jasper Beardly, who was unharmed because Smithers hit him in his wooden leg.)
The police are temporarily stumped, but Lisa visits the station and gives them a list of suspects. Based on her information, the police investigate Tito Puente, Principal Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie and Moe Syszlak and clear all four of them. Again out of suspects, Wiggum drinks some warm cream and has a bizarre dream where Lisa appears to him and tells him to look at the suit Burns was wearing when he was shot. Wiggum does so and finds an eyelash, which DNA analysis reveals to have come from a member of the Simpson family. Burns, meanwhile, wakes from his coma and immediately says, "Homer Simpson!" The police then search the Simpson home, and in Homer's car they find Burns' gun with Homer's fingerprints on it. The police arrest Homer, but Homer escapes when Wiggum wrecks the paddy wagon.
At the hospital, Dr. Nick discovers that Burns can only say "Homer Simpson"; at the police station, Smithers announces a $50,000 reward for Homer's capture. Homer goes to Burns' hospital room to confront him; Lisa puts a couple of clues together and realizes who shot Burns. Everyone converges on the hospital room just as Homer starts strangling Burns. The rough treatment brings Burns fully back to himself, and he reveals who shot him: Maggie Simpson.
Burns recounts what happened: He saw Maggie in Homer's car and decided to steal her lollipop. In the struggle, his gun fell out of his chest holster, landed in Maggie's hands, and went off, shooting Burns. The gun and lollipop fell on the floor and ended up under the seat, and Homer's fingerprints got onto the gun while he was rummaging under the seat. Marge says that Maggie would apologize if she could talk, but Burns insists that the police arrest her. Wiggum refuses and Marge says Maggie didn't mean it, but the camera ominously zooms in on Maggie's pacifier as the scene fades out.
Special Guest Voices: Tito Puente and his Latin Jazz Ensemble as themselves.
130 - 2 "Radioactive Man" Susie Dietter John Swartzwelder September 24, 1995 2F17
A movie about comic book character Radioactive Man is being filmed in Springfield, and there's a casting call for the part of the hero's sidekick, Fallout Boy. Bart auditions and does very well, but is rejected for being too short. To Bart's chagrin, Milhouse wins the role and all the perks that go with it—including Lionel Hutz's services as his agent. Bart, focused on the glamour of being an actor, is jealous, but Milhouse becomes burned out with the drudgery and repetition of making a movie. Milhouse's dissatisfaction culminates in his running away from the set, resulting in an elaborate and expensive shot being ruined. Bart and former child star Mickey Rooney both find Milhouse and try to persuade him to return, but to no avail. The movie's production company leaves town, having been driven into bankruptcy by price gouging and unscrupulous taxes. Things in Springfield return to normal, and the production company returns to Hollywood, "where people treat each other right."
Special Guest Voices: Mickey Rooney as himself; Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz.
131 - 3 "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" Susie Dietter Jon Vitti October 1, 1995 3F01
Due to a series of misunderstandings, the Simpson children are removed from their home by the county child welfare agency and placed into foster care with the Flanders family. Marge and Homer go to court to try to get the kids back, but the judge tells them they must take a "Family Skills" class before the kids can come home. They comply, but they miss the kids. They aren't even able to call to check on them, as a telephone recording says they have been blocked from calling the Flanders house. Bart and Lisa, meanwhile, are bewildered by the Flanderses' household customs. During a game of "Bible Question Bombardment", in which Bart and Lisa do very poorly, it comes out that the Simpson children have never been baptized. Ned, aghast, decides to remedy the situation and takes the kids to the Springfield River to baptize them himself. Just then, Homer and Marge graduate from their class and go to the Flanders house to pick up the kids. When they see Ned's "Gone Baptizin'" sign, Homer figures out where they've gone, and they arrive at the river just in time to stop the baptism. Now reunited, the five Simpsons hug and go home.
Special Guest Voice: Joan Kenley as the telephone operator.
132 - 4 "Bart Sells His Soul" Wes Archer Greg Daniels October 8, 1995 3F02
Bart pulls a prank on the entire church, for which he and Milhouse are punished (Milhouse for snitching). Bart asks Milhouse why he snitched, and Milhouse says he was afraid for his soul. This prompts Bart to pooh-pooh the existence of souls, and he agrees to sell his soul (represented by a piece of paper) to Milhouse for five dollars. Bart at first thinks he's conned Milhouse, but comes to have doubts when he notices changes like the family pets not recognizing him and automatic doors not opening for him. Bart tries to buy his soul back, but Milhouse raises the price to $50, which Bart can't afford. Milhouse eventually trades the soul to Comic Book Guy for pogs. Comic Book Guy in turn sells it, and won't tell Bart to whom. Bart despairs for his soul, when the soul-paper lands in front of him: Lisa bought the soul to give it back to him. A grateful Bart devours the paper to keep from losing his soul again, and that night sleeps peacefully. Meanwhile, Moe attempts to expand his business by making over his bar into a family-friendly restaurant and his usual gruff attitude into that of nice guy "Uncle Moe". The venture fails when he proves unable to handle the stress of running a restaurant and his customary surly demeanor emerges, driving away all of his new customers.
133 - 5 "Lisa the Vegetarian" Mark Kirkland David S. Cohen October 15, 1995 3F03
After the Simpsons visit a petting zoo and meet some very cute lambs, Lisa finds herself unable to eat lamb or any sort of meat. Her new stance brings her ridicule and resentment, both at home and at school. The school even shows an "educational" Troy McClure film called Meat and You: Partners in Freedom, which is actually a blatantly propagandistic pro-meat/anti-vegetarian pitch. Homer, meanwhile, hosts a barbecue with a roasted pig as the pièce de résistance. Lisa bursts onto the scene and tells the guests they don't have to eat meat, as she has made enough gazpacho for everyone. The guests laugh at Lisa's announcement, and she goes to her bedroom to sulk. When a hamburger patty carelessly flipped by Homer hits her in the face, she gets angry and steals the pig. The theft provokes an angry confrontation between Lisa and Homer, which results in Lisa running away from home. She decides the pressure to conform is too great, goes to the Kwik-E-Mart and has a bite of a hot dog. Apu informs her it is actually a tofu dog and takes her to meet his friends and fellow vegetarians Paul and Linda McCartney, who are visiting Apu's rooftop garden. After receiving encouragement in her vegetarianism and a lesson in tolerance for other people's beliefs, Lisa apologizes to Homer for ruining the barbecue, and he forgives her and gives her a "veggieback ride".
Special Guest Voices: Phil Hartman as Troy McClure; Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney as themselves.
134 - 6 "Treehouse of Horror VI" Bob Anderson John Swartzwelder, Steve Tompkins & David S. Cohen October 29, 1995 3F04
Opening Sequence: Krusty is the Headless Horseman from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He rides down a road holding his laughing head, then hurls it at the camera, which makes the episode title appear on screen written in blood.
Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores: Disappointed with the size of the "Colossal Donut" at Lard Lad Donuts, Homer takes revenge by stealing the giant metal donut from the store's advertising mascot. Immediately after that, a freak lightning storm brings Lard Lad and all the other advertising mascots in Springfield to life. Lard Lad stops in the Simpsons' neighborhood to get his donut back, then joins the other mascots in a rampage all over town, killing people and destroying buildings. Lisa notices that the mascots came from an ad agency, and asks the agency's executive for help. The exec says that advertising goes away when people quit looking at it. What they need, he says, is a catchy jingle to distract people from the mascots/monsters, and Paul Anka is the best man to write one. Lisa and Anka write and perform a jingle, and it works: People quit looking at the monsters, and the monsters collapse and die. Homer, however, needs extra persuasion to make him stop looking at Lard Lad.
Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace: Bart has a nightmare where Groundskeeper Willie attacks him with a rake, then is shocked when he wakes up and finds scratches on his stomach. Bart asks around at school, and learns that many other students have had similar dreams. When Martin dies in class (after finishing a quiz early, taking a nap, waking up screaming, and collapsing), Bart and Lisa tell Marge about it. Marge reveals that Willie was burned to death in an accident caused by the students' parents' negligence, and before he died, vowed to take his revenge on the children in their dreams. Bart decides to go on the attack and fight Willie in a dream, and asks Lisa to wake him up if he seems to be in trouble. Bart finds Willie transformed into a tractor, fights him, and seems to have killed him, but Willie transforms into a giant bagpipe spider and grabs both Bart and Lisa (who had fallen asleep). Maggie appears and saves the day by blocking the bagpipe's vent with her pacifier, which makes Willie swell up and explode. The next day, everything seems normal, but Lisa wonders whether Willie could reappear. Willie does indeed show up (getting off of a bus), but as a seemingly harmless and bumbling version of his former self as he makes faces at the Simpson children and then asks them to wait because he left his gun on the bus.
Homer3: Patty and Selma come over for a visit. Homer, trying to avoid them and looking for a hiding place, goes through a mysterious doorway behind a bookshelf and finds himself in a world where everything is in three dimensions. Homer is bewildered by his new surroundings, but explores the place while he calls for help. Back in the house, Marge hears Homer and calls several family friends over to help get Homer back, but no one has any ideas, although Professor Frink correctly concludes that Homer is trapped in the third dimension. Homer, meanwhile, is stabbed in the butt by a bouncing cone and angrily hurls it away. The cone lands point-first, creating a hole in the ground which quickly turns into a wormhole large enough to swallow everything. Now desperate, Homer again cries for help and this time Bart responds, jumping into the third dimension with a rope tied around his waist. Bart is impressed with the 3-D world, but quickly gets back to business and tells Homer to jump across the wormhole so Bart can grab him and get him out. Homer makes the attempt, but comes up short and falls into the wormhole. Bart is pulled back into the house just as the 3-D world collapses. Homer, meanwhile, goes through the wormhole to someplace even scarier: the real world. Homer at first walks around whimpering as people stare at him, but quickly calms down when he sees a store selling erotic cakes and goes inside.
Special Guest Voice: Paul Anka as himself.
135 - 7 "King-Size Homer" Jim Reardon Dan Greaney November 5, 1995 3F05
Mr. Burns starts an exercise program at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, much to Homer's displeasure. Homer learns that being on disability would mean that he would work from home, thus getting him out of the exercise program. After a few attempts to injure himself, Homer learns that morbid obesity counts as a disability, so he sets out to gain enough weight to be considered disabled and succeeds with 15 pounds to spare. Homer is set up with a workstation at home and at first enjoys his new work status, but quickly finds it to be boring and repetetive. In addition, he finds that his new size makes him the target of ridicule and prejudice. Matters come to a head when Homer bungles his work and an explosion at the nuclear plant is imminent. He can't fix the problem from home and he can't call the plant to tell them of the danger (because, according to the telephone voice, his fingers are too fat). Homer goes to the plant and serendipitously saves the day, ironically due to his increased size allowing him to fall into a pipe and get stuck, thereby preventing the explosion. As a reward for bravery and quick thinking, Mr. Burns agrees to make Homer thin again. Burns tries putting Homer on the exercise program again, but when Homer can't do even one sit-up, Burns grudgingly consents to pay for liposuction.
136 - 8 "Mother Simpson" David Silverman Richard Appel November 19, 1995 3F06
To get out of a Springfield Nuclear Power Plant community service project, Homer fakes his own death. However, the ruse brings other consequences, such as the family's electricity being turned off, and Marge makes Homer go to the Hall of Records to straighten things out. In the process, Homer discovers that his mother Mona is alive: He had thought she was dead, but she actually had left when Homer was a small boy. Mona, meanwhile, returns to Springfield, drawn by the news of Homer's "death". She meets up with Homer, is reunited with him, and then meets the rest of the family. They enjoy Mona's company, but become suspicious when she displays odd behaviors such as hiding every time a police car drives by. They confront Mona, and she reveals that in the 1960s she was part of a radical group that sabotaged a germ warfare lab belonging to Mr. Burns. The group put an "antibiotic bomb" in the lab which destroyed all the germs in it (and serendipitously cured the asthma of a young Clancy Wiggum). As a result she had to flee Springfield, thus leaving Abe and Homer, and has been on the run from the law ever since. Soon after this revelation, Mr. Burns has a chance meeting with Mona, recognizes her and calls the FBI, who send agents Bill Gannon and Joe Friday (of Dragnet fame) to apprehend her. The agents raid the Simpson home, but Homer and Mona escape, thanks to a timely tip from a still-grateful Chief Wiggum. Homer and Mona exchange tearful goodbyes, and Mona goes back on the run.
Special Guest Voices: Glenn Close as Mona Simpson; Harry Morgan as Bill Gannon.
137 - 9 "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" Dominic Polcino Spike Feresten November 26, 1995 3F08
Sideshow Bob escapes from his prison guards and steals an atomic bomb at an airshow and threatens to detonate it unless Springfield gets rid of television. The city is forced to obey, but Bart and Lisa discover that Bob is hiding in the Duff blimp and confront him. Bob discovers that Krusty is still broadcasting his show, so he captures Bart and an airplane and goes on a Kamikaze mission to kill Krusty. However, he fails and is sent back to jail.
138 - 10 "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Pound Foolish
(David Silverman)
Penny Wise
(Jon Vitti)
December 3, 1995 3F31
Troy McClure hosts this behind the scenes style show. We start with a brief history, showing some classic Tracey Ullman clips, and then Troy goes on to answer viewers' questions about Smithers sexuality and Homer's stupidity. We then see never-before-seen deleted scenes from various episodes up to this point, and we are shown an alternate ending to 'Who Shot Mr Burns?' where Smithers actually is the culprit.
139 - 11 "Marge Be Not Proud" Steven Dean Moore Mike Scully December 17, 1995 3F07
Bart is caught attempting to shoplift a video game. He tries to keep his failed "four-finger discount" trip a secret from Homer and Marge, and initially succeeds. But unfortunately, Marge finds out when the family returns to the same store to have the family Christmas photo taken.
140 - 12 "Team Homer" Mark Kirkland Mike Scully January 7, 1996 3F10
Homer convinces a light-headed Mr. Burns to give him $500 to register his bowling team in a league, but when Mr. Burns finds out what he has done he demands a spot on the team. Meanwhile, Bart influences a riot at school and as a result, everyone is forced to wear uniforms.
141 - 13 "Two Bad Neighbors" Wes Archer Ken Keeler January 14, 1996 3F09
Former president George Bush moves to Springfield and Bart starts to annoy him. One day Bush loses control and spanks Bart. Homer, who had been jealous of the attention Bush had been receiving, is outraged and launches a prank war. Bush eventually decides to leave Springfield and is replaced with Gerald Ford.
142 - 14 "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" Susie Dietter Jennifer Crittenden February 4, 1996 3F11
Marge gets an expensive "new" dress at the outlet mall. While wearing it she meets a former schoolmate who invites her and the family to the country club. Marge becomes obsessed with trying to fit in. Homer takes up golf at the club and Mr. Burns challenges him to a game. After Homer catches him cheating, Mr. Burns agrees to help Homer's family become members of the country club if he doesn't tell anyone.
143 - 15 "Bart the Fink" Jim Reardon Bob Kushell & John Swartzwelder February 11, 1996 3F12
When Bart accidentally finks on him to the IRS, Krusty the Clown decides to go for that last plane ride.
144 - 16 "Lisa the Iconoclast" Mike B. Anderson Jonathan Collier February 18, 1996 3F13
As Springfield's bicentennial celebration approaches, Lisa discovers the real truth behind town founder, Jebediah Springfield and finds herself at odds with a protective museum curator who wants to keep Jebediah's unattractive past a secret. Meanwhile, Homer becomes obsessed with being the official town crier for the bicentennial celebration.
145 - 17 "Homer the Smithers" Steven Dean Moore John Swartzwelder February 25, 1996 3F14
Smithers takes a much needed vacation and to insure his position at the nuclear plant, he hires Homer as his temporally replacement.
146 - 18 "The Day the Violence Died" Wes Archer John Swartzwelder March 17, 1996 3F16
With the help of Lionel Hutz, Bart unwittingly bankrupts the studio that produces Itchy & Scratchy when he and Hutz successfully prove the idea for Itchy was stolen some 70–80 years ago.
147 - 19 "A Fish Called Selma" Mark Kirkland Jack Barth March 24, 1996 3F15
Troy McClure's sagging film career is given a boost when he is seen in public with a woman. And to stay in the public eye, Troy must do more than merely date this woman, who happens to be Selma.
148 - 20 "Bart on the Road" Swinton O. Scott III Richard Appel March 31, 1996 3F17
With fake drivers ID in hand, have Bart will travel. In this case, Nelson, Martin and Milhouse come along for the ride when Bart hits the wide open road. Meanwhile, Lisa spends some quality time with Homer at the power plant.
149 - 21 "22 Short Films About Springfield" Jim Reardon Richard Appel, David X. Cohen, Jennifer Crittenden
Jonathan Collier, Greg Daniels, Brent Forrester Rachel Pulido, Steve Tompkins, Josh Weinstein & Matt Groening
April 14, 1996 3F18
Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a chain of vignettes about the lives of Springfielders including Apu, Mr. Burns, Dr. Nick, Moe, Principal Skinner, Chief Wiggum, Bumblebee Man, Reverend Lovejoy, Cletus and Comic Book Guy.
150 - 22 "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" Jeffrey Lynch Jonathan Collier
Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia
Buried World War II treasure is the prize in a tontine, in which Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns are the last two surviving members. But Burns is determined that he'll be the one who collects the prize.
151 - 23 "Much Apu About Nothing" Susie Dietter David S. Cohen May 5, 1996 3F20
When a bear wanders down Evergreen Terrace, Quimby proposes tax rises to fund a new bear patrol. To distract people, he blames the taxes on illegal immigrants, and calls for the deportation of all illegal immigrants from Springfield. Apu realizes that he will have to be deported, as his visa is expired, and gets a fake ID off Fat Tony. Lisa realises that he can apply for amnesty, he takes a test and is allowed to stay in the country.
152 - 24 "Homerpalooza" Wes Archer Brent Forrester May 19, 1996 3F21
After Bart and Lisa inform Homer that his taste in music has become old, he decides to get into the current music scene and takes the kids to a music festival, Lalapalooza, where he accidentally discovers he has a talent for taking a canon ball to the gut. Soon Homer finds himself traveling with the festival and putting his health in danger as he continues performing his amazing feat for cheering crowds.
153 - 25 "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" Mark Kirkland Dan Greaney May 19, 1996 3F22
At the start of summer, Ned Flanders asks Homer to take care of his beach house in Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport. The family decide to go there and Lisa, realizing that she is not as cool as she thinks, uses the new locale as a chance to rid herself of her nerd image and becomes a surfer girl. She becomes best friends with a girl named Erin and a group of locals, but Bart becomes jealous and reveals to them that Lisa is in fact a teacher's pet. Lisa runs off crying, thinking that she has lost her new friends, but the next night they surprise her and say she was a good friend.
Season 7 episodes script covers[edit]
DVD Release[edit]
Season 7 was released on DVD in its entirety as the The Complete Seventh Season on December 13, 2005 in Region 1, January 30, 2006 in Region 2 and March 29, 2006 in Region by 20th Century Fox. While primarily containing the original 25 episodes, the boxset also consists on bonus features such as storyboards.
4-disc set
1.33:1 aspect ratio
English (Dolby Digital 5.1, with subtitles)
Spanish (Dolby Digital, with subtitles)
French (Dolby Digital)
Special Language Feature for "22 Short Films About Springfield" (Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, German)
Optional commentaries for all 25 episodes
Introduction from Matt Groening
Deleted/Extended Scenes with optional commentary
Special "3D Homer" featurette
Paul McCartney's Lentil Soup recipe
Animatic/StoryBoards for;
"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
Illustrated commentary for "The Day the Violence Died" and "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
December 13, 2005 January 30, 2006 March 29, 2006
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H.S. Freeman Research Group
Dye Photostability
Previous Members (M.S.)
Previous Members (Ph.D.)
Note: presentations listed in order of most to least recent.
Skip to International Presentations…
National Presentations
H.S. Freeman, J.P. Clemmons, L.D. Claxton, “Characterization of the mutagenicity of some phenylenediamine based bisazo dyes”, 20th Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference of the American Chemical Society, June 16, 2016, Portland, OR.
H.S. Freeman and B. Kim, “DSSC Performance Properties of New Sensitizers Based of Heteroary Spacers”, 64th Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, November 17, 2012, Raleigh, NC, SERM-1154.
H.S. Freeman, “Systematic Approaches to Environmentally Friendly Azo Dyes”, AATCC International Conference and Exhibition, March 24, 2011, Charleston, SC.
H.S. Freeman, “Reactive Dyes with Enhanced Cellulose Affinity”, Advances in Colorants, Chemicals, Finishes, and Fibrous Materials Symposium, June 3-4, 2008, Greenville, SC.
H.S. Freeman, “Reactive Dyes with Enhanced Cellulose Affinity”, Wilson College of Textiles Graduate Seminar Series, North Carolina State University, November, 2007.
H.S. Freeman, “Modern Approaches to the Design of Azo Dyes and Pigments”, Davidson College, Department of Chemistry, March 12, 2004.
H.S. Freeman, “Modern Molecular Modeling Methods: Utility in Color Chemistry”, Wilson College of Textiles Graduate Seminar Series, North Carolina State University, October 23, 2002.
H.S. Freeman, “Modern Molecular Modeling Methods: Utility in Color Chemistry”, Southern Textile Research Conference, May 19-21, 2002, Pawley’s Island, SC.
H.S. Freeman, “Approaches to the Design of Nongenotoxic Azo Dyes”, North Carolina Central University, Department of Chemistry, March 28, 2002.
H.S. Freeman, “Approaches to the Design of Nongenotoxic Azo Dyes”, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Department of Chemistry, November 8, 2001.
H.S. Freeman, “Approaches to the Design of Nongenotoxic Azo Dyes”, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Department of Chemistry, April 16, 2001.
A. Reife and H.S. Freeman, “Pollution Prevention in the Production of Dyes and Pigments” 1998 International Conference, September, 1998, Philadelphia, PA.
H.S. Freeman, “Synthetic Dyes Based on Toxicological Considerations”, Milliken Chemicals Company, June 5, 1997.
H.S. Freeman, A. Reife, L.C. Edwards, J. Sokolowska-Gajda, “Iron-Complexed Dyes In Pollution Prevention”, Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, June 23-25, 1997, Washington, DC.
H.S. Freeman, “Synthetic Dyes Based on Toxicological Considerations”, Johnson C. Smith University, Department of Chemistry, November 9, 1995.
H.S. Freeman, L.G. Cleveland, J. Sokolowska-Gajda, and A. Reife, “A New Look at Iron Complexed Dyes”, AATCC International Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, October 8-11, 1995.
D. Hinks, J. Lye, H.S. Freeman, “Computer-Aided Dyestuff Design”, AATCC International Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, October 8-11, 1995.
J. Lye, D. Hinks, H.S. Freeman, “Computer-Aided Molecular Modeling for the Design of Textile Dyes”, AATCC International Conference and Exhibition, Charlotte, NC, October 11-14, 1994.
H.S. Freeman, S.B. Nayar, J.W. Rucker, “Removal and Reuse of Dyes and Chemical Intermediates from Wastewater Effluents”, Hoechst Celanese Corporation, March 25, 1994, Coventry, RI.
H.S. Freeman, D. Hinks, D. Coston, L. Cleveland, J. Lye, J. Sokolowska-Gajda, J. Peterson, “Synthetic Dyes Based on Toxicological Considerations”, 2nd National Textile Center Forum, February 10-12, 1994, Spartanburg, SC.
R.D. Voyksner, J.T. Keever, R. Straub, H.S. Freeman, “Reduction of Azo Dyes to Aromatic Amines for Monitoring Dyes in Waste Streams”, 39th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, May 19-24, 1991, Nashville, TN.
M.E. Mason, J.C. Posey, Jr., H.S. Freeman, “Design and Synthesis of Lightfast Disperse Dyes”, Book of Papers, AATCC International Conference and Exhibition,October 8-11, 1991, Charlotte, NC, pp. 114-121.
H.S. Freeman, J.F. Esancy, L.D. Claxton, M.K. Esancy, “The Design of Non-Mutagenic Replacements for Some Mutagenic Dyes and Dye Intermediates, Book of Papers, AATCC International Conference and Exhibition, October 1-3, 1990, Boston, MA, pp. 180-188.
R.D. Voyksner, J.T. Keever, H.S. Freeman, W.N. Hsu, L.D. Betowski, “Reduction of Azo Dyes to Aromatic Amines for Environmental Monitoring: Evaluation of Reduction Processes”, 38th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Tucson, AZ, June 3-8, 1990.
C.A. Haney, D.J. Grindstaff, W.N. Hsu, and H.S. Freeman, “Determination of the Photo-degradation Products of Disperse Red 167 by GC/MS, Particle Beam HPLC/MS, and Thermospray MS, 38th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Tucson, AZ, June 3-8, 1990.
H.S. Freeman, R.B. VanBreemen, J.F. Esancy, D.O. Ukponmwan, Z. Hao, W.N. Hsu, “Fast Atom Bombardment and Desorption Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry in the Analysis of Involatile Textile Dyes”, Book of Papers, AATCC International Conference & Exhibition, October 3-6, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 221-220.
L.D. Claxton, D. Walsh, J.F. Esancy, H.S. Freeman, “Structure Activity Analysis of Azo Dye Mutagenicity”, 41st Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting, October 9-11, 1989, Winston Salem, NC.
S.A. McIntosh, H.S. Freeman, P. Singh, “The Photolytic Behavior and Structure of Disazo Disperse Dyes”, 41st Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting, October 9-11, 1989, Winston-Salem, NC.
J.C. Posey, Jr., H.S. Freeman, M.E. Mason, W.N. Hsu, “An Approach to the Design of Fade Resistant Disperse Dyes”, 41st Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting, October 9-11, 1989, Winston Salem, NC,.
M.K. Esancy and H.S. Freeman, “Azo Dyes Based on the Dihydrophenophosphazine Ring System”, 41st Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting, October 9-11, 1989, Winston-Salem, NC.
H.S. Freeman and J. Sokolowska-Gajda, “The Synthesis of Disperse Dyes and Cationic Dyes from Acid Dye Structures”, 41st Southeastern Regional ACS Meeting, October 9-11, 1989, Winston-Salem, NC.
H.S. Freeman “The Design and Synthesis of Nonmutagenic Azo Dyes”, FPS seminar series, Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Fall, 1988.
H.S. Freeman, “The Design and Synthesis of Lightfast Disperse Dyes”, FPS Seminar Series, Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Spring, 1988.
H.S. Freeman, “An Approach to the Design of Nonmutagenic Synthetic Dyes”, 1988 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA.
S‑D. Kim, H.S. Freeman, R.D. Gilbert, and R. McGregor, “The Design and Synthesis of Colored Spin Probes”, 1988 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA.
J.F. Esancy and H.S. Freeman, “An Approach to the Design and Synthesis of Nonmutagenic Azo Dyes”, 1988 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA.
J.C. Posey, Jr. and H.S. Freeman, “The Design and Synthesis of Lightfast Disperse Dyes”, 1988 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA.
M.K. Esancy and H.S. Freeman, “Azo Dyes Based on the Dihydrophenophosphazine Ring System”, 1988 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA.
S.A. McIntosh and H.S. Freeman, “Ortho‑Substituted Monoazo Dyes: Photoisomerism and Structure”, 1988 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, CA.
H.S. Freeman, “An Approach to the Design and Synthesis of Nonmutagenic Dyes”, Clemson University, School of Textiles, 1988.
H.S. Freeman, “Computer‑Assisted Design of Lightfast Disperse Dyes”, Sandoz Chemicals Corporation, Charlotte, NC, 1988.
H.S. Freeman, “An Approach to the Design and Synthesis of Lightfast and Nongenotoxic Dyes”, Southern Textile Research Conference, 1988, Pawley’s Island, SC.
H.S. Freeman, “An Approach to the Design and Synthesis of Nonmutagenic Azo Dyes”, American‑Hoechst Corporation, 1987, Coventry, R.I.
H.S. Freeman, “An Approach to the Elucidation of the Chemical Constitution of Sulfur Black 1”, Sandoz Chemicals Corporation, 1986, Charlotte, NC.
H.S. Freeman, “Potential Nontoxic Colorants for Cigarette Barrel Monograms”, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston‑Salem, NC, 1986.
H.S. Freeman, “The Contribution of Thermal and Photochemical Reactions to the Fading of Dyes”, presented at North Carolina Central University, Department of Chemistry, 1986.
H.S. Freeman, “The Chemistry of Cosmetic Dyes”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association, Washington, DC, 1985.
H.S. Freeman, “Molecular Engineering of Sustainable Synthetic Colorant”, AATCC IEC, April 3, 2014, Charlotte, NC.
H.S. Freeman, “Design of Lightfast Dyes for Automotive Utility”, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia, May 31, 2012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
H.S. Freeman, “Color Yes, Toxicity No: Systematic Approaches to Meeting this Challenge”, Kazan National Research Technological University, May 31, 2012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
H.S. Freeman, “Graduate Research Overview – Wilson College of Textiles”, Kazan National Research Technological University, May 28, 2012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
H.S. Freeman, “Studies Towards the Design of Lightfast Dyes for Polyester”, AATCC IEC, March 23, 2012, Charlotte, NC.
H.S. Freeman, “Systematic Approaches to Environmentally-friendly Azo Dyes”, AATCC IEC, March 24, 2011, Charleston, SC.
H.S. Freeman, “Color Yes, Toxicity No: Systematic Approaches to Meeting this Challenge”, 15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 23, 2011, Washington, DC.
H.S. Freeman, “Systematic Approaches to Eco-Friendly Textile Dyes”, 7th International Conference of the Textile Research Division National Research Centre, October 11, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
H.S. Freeman, “Molecular Engineering of Sustainable Synthetic Colorants”, International Conference of Future Textiles – 2010, Shinshu University, July 16, 2010, Ueda, Japan.
H.S. Freeman, “Systematic Approaches to Environmentally Friendly Azo Dyes”, III Workshop on Biodegradation and Biremediation, Campinas, December 4, 2009, São Paulo State, Brazil
H.S. Freeman, “Color Yes, Toxicity No: Systematic Approaches to Meeting this Challenge”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, December 3, 2009, Limeira – SP – Brasil.
H.S. Freeman, “Preparation of Papers for Publication – Key Considerations”, Dalian University of Technology, August 6, 2008, Dalian, China,.
H.S. Freeman, “Molecular Design of Synthetic Dyes – Environmental Considerations”, PCChEC – 2008, August 5, 2008, Dalian, China.
H.S. Freeman, J. Wang, L.D. Claxton, “Phenylene Homologs of Benzidine: Genotoxicity and Utility in Dye and Pigment Synthesis”, Book of Papers, AATCC International Conference & Exhibition, October 31-November 2, 2006, Atlanta, GA.
H.S. Freeman, “Color Yes, Toxicity No: Systematic Approaches to Meeting this Challenge”, AATCC International Conference & Exhibition, September 13-17 2004. Greenville, SC.
H.S. Freeman, S.D. Shaw, M.H. El-Zayatie, “Enzyme-Mediated Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Cationic Dyes”, AATCC International Conference & Exhibition, September 13-17 2004, Greenville, SC.
A. El-Shafei, D. Hinks, H.S. Freeman, “Characterization of Yellow Organic Pigments Using Experimental and MO Methods”, COLORCHEM Conference, May 23-27, 2004, Czech Republic, L3.
M. Szymczyk, A. El-Shafei, and H. Freeman, “Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of New Iron-Complexed Azo Dyes”, COLORCHEM Conference, May 23-27, 2004, Czech Republic, P43.
H.S. Freeman, S.D. Shaw, and M.H. El-Zayatie, Enzyme-Mediated Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Cationic Dyes, COLORCHEM Conference, May 23-27, 2004, Czech Republic, L10.
H.S. Freeman, J. Wang, and L.D Claxton, “Phenylene Homologs of Benzidine: Mutagenicity and Use in Dye/Pigment Synthesis”, COLORCHEM Conference, May 23-27, 2004, Czech Republic, L13.
H.S. Freeman, “Studies Towards the Design of Lightfast Dyes for Textile Fibers”, Dalian University of Technology, June 2002, Dalian, China
H.S. Freeman, “Approaches to Universal Dyes for Textile Fibers”, Dalian University of Technology, June 2002, Dalian, China.
H.S. Freeman, “Alternative Metal-Complexed Dyes: Azo and Formazan Structures”, AATCC International Dyeing Symposium, May 31, 2001, Greenville, SC.
D. Hinks, A. El-Shafei, H.S. Freeman, J. Sokolowska, “Pigments Derived from Twisted Nonmutagenic Benzidines: Molecular Modeling, Synthesis and Characterization”, Proceedings of the COLORCHEM Conference, May 14-18, 2000, Czech Republic.
H. S. Freeman, M. K. Esancy, L. D. Claxton “Approaches to the Design and Synthesis of Nongenotoxic Azo Dyes”, Proceedings of the COLORCHEM Conference, May 14-18, 2000, Czech Republic.
H.S. Freeman, L. C. Edwards, N. Berthelon, “Studies towards the Design of Lightfast Dyes for Synthetic Fibers”, 16th Symposium on Fiber and Textile Technology, May 13, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan.
H.S. Freeman, “Mutagenicity of Azo Dyes: Bases and Implications”, Shenyang Research Institute, Shenyang, China, 1998.
H.S. Freeman, “Mutagenicity of Azo Dyes: Bases and Implications”, Dalian Dyestuff Company, Dalian, China, 1998.
H.S. Freeman, “Modern Molecular Modeling Methods: Utility in Color Chemistry”, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 1998.
H.S. Freeman, “Iron Complexed Dyes: Environmental Properties”, Dalian University of Technology, 1998, Dalian, China.
H.S. Freeman, “Mutagenicity of Azo Dyes: Bases and Implications”, Dalian University of Technology, 1998, Dalian, China.
N. Berthelon and H.S. Freeman, “The Contribution of PET to the Photodegradation of Disperse Dyes”, Colour Science ’98 Conference, March 30-April 1, 1998, Harrogate, England.
H.S. Freeman and L.C. Edwards, “Design of Metal Complex Dyes”, Colour Science ’98 Conference, March 30-April 1, 1998, Harrogate, England.
J. Lye, H.S. Freeman, A.F. Schreiner, J. Sokolowska-Gajda, “Semi-empirical MO Methods in Dye Design: Transition Metal Complex Dyes”, Colour Science ’98 Conference, March 30-April 1, 1998, Harrogate, England.
J. Lye, D. Hinks, H.S. Freeman, “Computational Chemistry Applied to Synthetic Dyes”, 3rd Cray UNAM Supercomputing Conference, August 13-16, 1996, Mexico City, Mexico.
H.S. Freeman, “A New Look at Iron Complexed Dyes, Ciba-Geigy Corporation, 1995, Basel, Switzerland.
H.S. Freeman, “The Design and Synthesis of Nongenotoxic Azo Dyes”, Society of Chemical Industry Conference on Innovations in Modern Colour Chemistry, April 27, 1994, London, England.
H.S. Freeman, “New Organic Dyestuffs in the USA – Achievements in Research” COLOR CHEM ’94 International Conference, Spindleruv Mlyn, April 11-14, 1994, Czech Republic.
H.S. Freeman, J. Sokolowska-Gajda, A. Reife, “Premetallized Dyes Based on Environmental Considerations”, AATCC International Conference & Exhibition, October 3-6, 1993, Montreal, Canada.
H.S. Freeman, “Molecular Design of Non-toxic Dye Chromophores”, Symposium on Dye Materials for Electronics, August 31, 1992, Tokyo, Japan.
H.S. Freeman, M.K. Esancy, L.D. Claxton, “The Design of Nonmutagenic Azo Dyes”, 2nd International Symposium on Chemistry of Functional Dyes:, August 23-28, 1992, Kobe, Japan.
H.S. Freeman, “Synthetic Dyes Based on the Dihydrophenophosphazine Ring System”, Ciba-Geigy Corporation, 1990, Basel, Switzerland.
H.S. Freeman, “The Design and Synthesis of Lightfast Disperse Dyes”, Ciba-Geigy Corporation, 1990, Basel, Switzerland.
About the H.S. Freeman Research Group
Our 33 years of research has involved 3 principal types of studies: 1) the design of dyes having high photostability on hydrophobic fibers; 2) the environmental chemistry of synthetic dyes and pigments; and 3) the analytical chemistry of synthetic dyes. Most recently, we have conducted research pertaining to the characterization of dyes for use in Digital Printing and Hair Dyeing.
Congratulations Dr. Tova Williams! May 4, 2018
Congratulations Dr. Tuane Santos! April 13, 2018
Congratulations Dr. Xiuzhu Fei! December 12, 2017
Congratulations Tuane! July 21, 2017
Congratulations Tuane, now a Ph.D. Candidate! June 29, 2017
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Defining when the right to counsel must be made available in Rothgery v. Gillespie County
When during the course of a criminal case must the right to counsel be made available? In Powell v. Alabama, after all, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the Scottsboro Boys had been denied their right to a fair day in court, because “during perhaps the most critical period of the proceedings against these defendants, that is to say, from the time of their arraignment until the beginning of their trial, when consultation, thoroughgoing investigation and preparation were vitally important, the defendants did not have the aid of counsel in any real sense, although they were as much entitled to such aid during that period as at the trial itself.”
Now, hold on a second . . . The Supreme Court was saying that “the most critical period” of a criminal case is the period from arraignment until the beginning of trial? Could they really mean that the events leading up to the trial are, in many ways, more important than conducting the actual trial itself? Well . . . yeah. And here’s why.
Within the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights, there are 25 specific liberties and protections for individuals. Of those 25 protections, fifteen relate directly to the criminal process.[1] In other words, the Framers of our Constitution had concerned themselves, above all else, with ensuring that our criminal trials would be fair. But, of all of those rights, the Supreme Court famously noted that “the right to be represented by counsel is by far the most pervasive for it affects [an accused person’s] ability to assert any other rights he may have.”
The right to counsel & the “critical stages” of a case
Here’s what the Supreme Court was getting at: during criminal proceedings, there are certain points when a defendant has to make important choices. And those choices might result in the individual forfeiting one or even several of his constitutional rights. By pleading guilty to the charges against him, for example, the defendant automatically gives up the right to a jury trial or the right to cross-examine his accusers. The moments in which the defendant has to make these choices are called the “critical stages” in a case, and by their “critical” nature the Supreme Court has determined through dozens of cases heard over the past 50 or so years that, during those stages, access to legal advice is essential.
Now we’re not going to conduct an exhaustive study of Supreme Court case law in order to establish what is, and what is not, a “critical stage” of a case – whole semesters in law school are, after all, devoted to learning about the complexities of criminal procedure – but suffice to say the list includes line-ups, arraignments, preliminary hearings, the trial itself, and sentencing.
More importantly for our purposes is to understand the earliest point in which the right to counsel attaches. Or, in plain English, we want to know the earliest possible moment that a criminal defendant has a right to a court-appointed attorney. Why? Because our adversarial system of justice is premised on the notion that the government’s law enforcement officers are human and that they sometimes make mistakes.
Think about it. Without a doubt, the men and women responsible for keeping our communities safe do so with remarkable effectiveness day in and day out. But, if they were entirely infallible in their duties, then what would be the point of empanelling a jury of our peers to review the evidence in order to determine guilt and innocence? If errorless law enforcement existed, then every crime would be solved with no clue left uncovered, of all potential suspects only the right person would be arrested and charged with committing the crime, and we could skip the trial phase entirely and jump straight into sentencing knowing that the bad guy was caught and justice was served. But, of course, investigators might miss an important clue, an eyewitness might mistakenly identify the wrong perpetrator, or an analyst at the forensics lab might return faulty data. And so it is impossible for law enforcement to get it 100 percent right, 100 percent of the time.
This is why our adversarial system of justice exists in the first place, where the government presents the evidence it has collected and then the accused person is granted the opportunity both to challenge the validity of that evidence and also to present his own side of the story. And, in order to ensure the defendant’s opportunity to challenge the government’s case against him, the Supreme Court has made clear the opportunity must be something more meaningful than a mere formality. The defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to an attorney, therefore, commences the moment adversarial proceedings against him begin.
This starting point has been clarified time and again in case after case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 2008 the Court clarified once more that “attachment” of the right to counsel “occurs when the government has used the judicial machinery to signal a commitment to prosecute.” If that small dosage of legal jargon doesn’t do the least to clarify things for you, don’t worry. We’ll explain.
Early appointment of counsel: the Rothgery standard
The quote comes from Rothgery v. Gillespie County, and the Court was trying to use the broadest language possible to reaffirm a legal precedent that it believed it had affirmed several times before. The problem was that every state has its own legal codes and court procedures, and Texas’ statutes were particularly unique.
The Supreme Court didn’t care by what name each state called each little detail of their respective criminal procedures — the criminal process, by and large, is the same everywhere. After arresting an individual, the government will require that person to appear in court whereby he will be informed why the government arrested him in the first place. But then, during the next few weeks after this first appearance in court, the government will continue investigating and building their case against that individual until they believe they are ready to present formal charges.
So what about the defendant? What is he supposed to be doing during this time? Well, in some states, such as Texas, the answer was something along the lines of “it’s really not our problem.” To them, the right to counsel didn’t actually begin until formal charges were brought against the defendant, after the government had completed its investigation, weeks after the defendant was first arrested.
The problem facing a lawyerless defendant in an adversarial system was summed up in a report published in 1951, in the years just after the Court’s Betts decision when there was no right to court-appointed counsel.
There is no “equality before the law” in a criminal proceeding where an experienced and skillful prosecuting attorney, backed by the power of the state and having at his command the entire resources of the police for investigation, is matched against a poor and often friendless defendant, confined in jail, unable to understand even the simplest legal implications of the charges against him and powerless to marshal any facts to controvert them if he did.[2]
If Gideon was meant to infuse an element of fairness into the adversarial setting, what good would it be to withhold the right to counsel so that the defendant had insufficient time to pursue a counter-argument to the prosecution’s? Would the adversarial process be, in fact, fair?
To the Supreme Court, the government shouldn’t get that much of a head start. It wrote in Rothgery: “by the time a defendant is brought before a judicial officer, is informed of a formally lodged accusation, and has restrictions imposed on his liberty in aid of the prosecution, the State’s relationship with the defendant has become solidly adversarial.” After that first appearance in court, when he was first informed of the charges against him, his case “is headed for trial and [he] needs to get a lawyer working, whether to attempt to avoid that trial or to be ready with a defense when the trial date arrives.” And so, because of that, Rothgery re-established that “a criminal defendant’s initial appearance before a judicial officer, where he learns the charge against him and his liberty is subject to restriction, marks the start of adversary judicial proceedings that trigger attachment of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.”
From that point going forward, the defense lawyer appointed to represent the defendant is responsible for doing his utmost to subject the prosecution’s case to “the crucible of meaningful adversarial testing.”
(Image of courthouse in Gillespie County, Texas, via Wikipedia.)
[1] Fourth Amendment: “The right of the people to be secure . . . [1] against unreasonable searches and seizures, . . . [2] and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Fifth Amendment: “[3] No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury . . . ; [4] nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; [5] nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, [6] nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. . .” Sixth Amendment: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy [6] the right to a speedy and [7] public trial, [8] by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and [9] to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; [10] to be confronted with the witnesses against him; [11] to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and [12] to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.” Eighth Amendment: “[13] Excessive bail shall not be required, nor [14] excessive fines imposed, nor [15] cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
[2] Emery A. Brownell, Legal Aid in the United States: A Study for the Availability of Lawyers’ Services for Persons Unable to Pay Fees (1951, supplemental 1961), at 61-62.
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Artist: Leon K. Amyx
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A native Californian, he grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. For most of his life he lived, painted and taught in Salinas, California and in the surrounding areas of Monterey County. He was known for his Regionalist style of watercolor painting.
Mr. Amyx’s career in art began at San Jose State College where he completed his BA degree in 1931. He became the first art instructor at Hartnell College in Salinas in 1936. He earned his MA in painting with Millard Sheets at Claremont College. He taught full time there until his retirement in 1972, and continued to teach part time at Hartnell until 1976. His courses included oil painting, watercolor, drawing, design, art history, and ceramics.
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Posts Tagged ‘secrets’
Supreme Court Gitmo Verdict Shows Liberals, Obama Unfit for Power
Liberals have proven yet again that they are absolutely not to be trusted with power.
In a decision stunning for it’s breathtakingly counterproductive stupidity, liberal Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled last Thursday “that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.” Conservative Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito held the very different view that foreign enemies of the United States captured while trying to kill American soldiers on foreign soil should not have the right to access American courts.
“At its heart, the 70-page ruling says that the detainees have the same rights as anyone else in custody in the United States to contest their detention before a judge. [Justice Anthony] Kennedy also said the system the administration has put in place to classify detainees as enemy combatants and review those decisions is not an adequate substitute for the right to go before a civilian judge.”
Senator Linsey Grahem (R-SC), who helped Senator John McCain write the military commissions law, said, “What happened yesterday was unprecedented. Americans are going to be shocked to find that that mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now has the same legal standing as an American citizen.”
Solicitor General Paul Clement has pointed out that the process in place already provided “combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, [the opportunity to] enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy combatants in the history of warfare.” Congress had already given Guantanamo Bay prisoners more rights than any prisoners of war, in any war, ever. Congress provided enemy combatants the the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act (DTA); they provided a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT); and a bi-partisan Congress (by 65 to 34 in the Senate) had already previously mandated that the 270 Guantanamo detainees were not free to avoid these procedures by filing habeas petitions in whatever federal district court they choose.
But the detainees’ lawyers have contended that the current law fails to protect the constitutional rights their clients were entitled to receive. They have demanded full habeas corpus rights, a constitutional protection that forces the government to justify in an open courtroom legitimate reasons an individual needs to be behind bars.
And now they have those rights. Yeah for them.
The decision also reveals the enormous divide between the two presidential candidates:
John McCain said Friday that the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees is “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
“We are now going to have the courts flooded with so-called … habeas corpus suits against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. And we are going to be bollixed up in a way that is terribly unfortunate because we need to go ahead and adjudicate these cases,” he said.
“Barack Obama released a statement Thursday saying the Supreme Court decision “ensures that we can protect our nation and bring terrorists to justice while also protecting our core values.”
“The Court’s decision is a rejection of the Bush administration’s attempt to create a legal black hole at Guantanamo – yet another failed policy supported by John McCain,” he said. “This is an important step toward re-establishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus.”
Notwithstanding the most liberal member of the Senate’s incessant attempt to demonize President Bush, the real “black hole” is the sheer number of questions this decision necessarily creates that must yet be answered. As Solicitor General Paul Clement pointed out, no nation has ever before in history granted so many rights and protections to its enemies as the United States now has. Just how many unintended consequences will this decision cause?
In order to get us to this point, the Supreme Court first had to toss out the principle of stare decisis (the abbreviated form of “stare decisis et non quieta movere” which means “stand by decisions and do not move that which is still.” No Supreme Court had ever before allowed an alien who was captured fighting against the United States to use its own courts to challenge his detention. Not until now.
As University of California at Berkely law professor John Yoo points out, “In World War II, no civilian court reviewed the thousands of German prisoners housed in the U.S. Federal judges never heard cases from the Confederate prisoners of war held during the Civil War. In a trilogy of cases decided at the end of World War II, the Supreme Court agreed that the writ did not benefit enemy aliens held outside the U.S. In the months after the 9/11 attacks, we in the Justice Department relied on the Supreme Court’s word when we evaluated Guantanamo Bay as a place to hold al Qaeda terrorists.”
One of the Justices who participated in the World War II decisions was the late Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. His worldview was further shaped by his incredible experience as Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at Nuremburg. In the 1950 opinion that was tossed out into the dustbin of history last week, Jackson denied habeas to a Nazi prisoner because in all of history there had been “no instance where a court has issued habeas corpus to an alien enemy who…has never been within its territorial jurisdiction.”
Ponder for a moment Jackson’s admonition in a free speech case heard by his Court:
“If the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”
Today we have too many liberals and Democrats who would argue that the sacrifice of an American city of tens of millions is surely preferable to the water boarding of a single terrorist who knew of an impending attack but refused to communicate with US intelligence. Why? Because such a sacrifice of American blood would be preferable to the sacrifice of a single Constitutional principle (such as the penumbras and emanations that were used to justify abortion?) as liberals (mis)understand it. Realize that for all the pompous posturing and self-righteous indignation over water boarding, it was a non-fatal, non-harmful, and non-invasive interrogation technique that was used only two or three times at most when it was determined to be absolutely necessary by intelligence professionals.
The second thing tossed out was the Constitutional principle of the separation of powers, “which grants all war decisions to the president and Congress. In 2004 and 2006, the Supreme Court tried to extend its reach to al Qaeda terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay. It was overruled twice by Congress, which has the power to define the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Congress established its own procedures for the appeal of detentions.”
Joel J. Sprayregen, a former general counsel of the Illinois ACLU who finally saw the light of judicial sanity, put it this way in his article, ‘It Will Almost Certainly Cause More Americans to Be Killed‘ (available at):
The smallest of majorities is disregarding judicial history and pretending we live in a world where captured deadly enemies can be granted an advantage, without it affecting the likelihood of victory. I can’t say it better than Justice Scalia:
“America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole. On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon and 10 in Pennsylvania… It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane, to know the threat is serious… Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.”
In his blistering dissent, Justice Scalia said the decision “will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
There are a couple of points that simply must be considered.
First of all, the practical impossibility of releasing Guantanamo detainees:
LONDON — More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them, according to Bush administration officials and defense lawyers.
Since February, the Pentagon has notified about 85 inmates or their attorneys that they are eligible to leave after being cleared by military review panels. But only a handful have gone home, including a Moroccan and an Afghan who were released Tuesday. Eighty-two remain at Guantanamo and face indefinite waits as U.S. officials struggle to figure out when and where to deport them, and under what conditions.
The delays illustrate how much harder it will be to empty the prison at Guantanamo than it was to fill it after it opened in January 2002 to detain fighters captured in Afghanistan and terrorism suspects captured overseas.
In many cases, the prisoners’ countries do not want them back. Yemen, for instance, has balked at accepting some of the 106 Yemeni nationals at Guantanamo by challenging the legality of their citizenship.
Second (and related to the first), the sheer absurdity that results from granting our enemies captured on the battlefield our legal protections:
David Rivkin, a lawyer who worked in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush, concedes that some Guantanamo detainees may be innocent, but if the system for evaluating people seized as terrorists becomes any more stringent, he said, “we wouldn’t be able to hold most of these people, not because they’re innocent but because we don’t have enough information to establish that level of rigor because, in war, you rarely have this kind of information. So, we would be releasing all of them; the system would be broken from the other side.
Rivkin said he does not believe the U.S. government could justify detaining most of the Guantanamo detainees if it were put to the more rigorous test of a habeas corpus hearing in U.S. courts. Moreover, “I’ve been told, back when I was at Guantanamo, that Guantanamo itself has become a gigantic al-Qaida training cell — it’s like a graduate school, if you will, for these guys.”
And despite the best efforts of the U.S. government, in many cases, Rivkin said, countries don’t want to take back the detainees.
“Let’s assume quaintly that they’re not innocent shepherds. We cannot hold them, and we cannot send them to any other country. What are we supposed to do — give them political asylum here? Let them walk the streets?” Rivkin said.
At least six former detainees have been killed or captured after their release. As many as fifty have returned to fight against American forces. Considering that we’re talking about fewer than 400 detainees, that’s a large number. And it was military tribunals which released them; how many more murderous fighters will be released when civilian courts become involved?
We have moral idiots like Erick Goldstein, who wrote, “The United States can begin to regain its moral authority in combating terrorism when the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is closed. But that’s only if the government stops sending detainees back to places like Tunisia.”
The fact of the matter is that many of the countries that have been most vociferous in critizing Guantanamo have privately refused to accept their own citizens back. Most of these people are extremely dangerous.
When Guantanamo is closed because of liberal policies and strategies, mark my words, they will start ending up in places like Tunisia, and places much worse. The American soldiers’ only alternative would be to execute their enemies in the field. But the liberals who create this total disaster will certainly never admit their stupidity.
Third, how are we to legally proceed against enemies captured on the battlefield? Could we have possibly won World War II if our soldiers and Marines were ordered to collect forensic evidence of German and Japanese soldiers’ firing upon them to present in court? Could we have brought non-American witnesses to American court to testify? Could we have defeated our enemies when, following every battle, American servicemen had to return home to testify against the captured enemy?
How are our forces supposed to proceed when the liberals on the Supreme Court now implicitly order them to become Crime Scene Investigators gathering evidence instead of soldiers fighting a war?
And how do we keep the terrorists from using the discovery process that must necessarily result from granting them habeas corpus rights in U.S. courts against us?
Sprayregen writes:
Scalia detailed how prisoners released from Guantanamo — because they were not considered combatants — had returned to murder Americans and our allies. Scalia is foreseeably correct in concluding that the decision “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
The Court is basing its decision — disregarding two centuries of decisions holding that habeas is unavailable to aliens captured abroad — on the fact that Gitmo is “functionally” under U.S. control. But so are U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Terrorists captured there are now invited immediately to compel our military to reveal its basis for detentions; this is the meaning of habeas. It gets worse. Justice Kennedy explained in invalidating the DTA — which provides wider access to Government evidence than the Geneva Convention – that
“the detainee’s ability to rebut the Government’s evidence is limited by the circumstances of his confinement and his lack of counsel at this stage.”
If you do not comprehend that the ACLU and its fellow revelers are preparing petitions in blank to seek — on behalf of every terrorist captured overseas — to compel the Government immediately to disclose its evidence, then you understand nothing.
Chief Justice Roberts pointed out in his dissent what the Court is opening the door to:
“free access to classified information ignores the risk the prisoner may convey what he learns to parties hostile to this country, with deadly consequences for those who helped apprehend the detainee.”
Roberts noted that our troops are not equipped to handle subpoenas on the battlefield. Information given to defense lawyers in the first World Trade Towers trial on a restricted basis quickly appeared on al-Jazeera.
The alleged shoplifter at a suburban mall is entitled to see the prosecution’s file because she needs it to defend herself. The terrorist wants his file so he can arrange to slit the throats of intelligence operatives and informants. The Court’s decision undermines that result.
These are not theoretical dangers. In the United Kingdom, two dangerous terrorists are being released for lack of sufficient evidence to criminally prosecute them. An article titled “Abu Qatada: Terror chief next to be released on bail” by Security Correspondent Duncan Gardham illustrates what we have opened ourselves up to in this Supreme Court decision.
The release of terrorists known only as “U” and “Y” (in order to protect their oh-so-important privacy rights) due to lack of sufficient evidence reminds me of one of those cases of a terrified woman who is denied by the court of legal protection against a stalker due to lack of sufficient evidence until after he murders her.
President Abraham Lincoln famously suspended habeas corpus for two years during the Civil War.
In 1862, when copperhead democrats began criticizing Lincoln’s violation of the Constitution, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus throughout the nation and had many copperhead democrats arrested under military authority because he felt that the State Courts in the north west would not convict war protesters such as the copperheads. He proclaimed that all persons who discouraged enlistments or engaged in disloyal practices would come under Martial Law.
Among the 13,000 people arrested under martial law was a Maryland Secessionist, John Merryman. Immediately, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States issued a writ of habeas corpus commanding the military to bring Merryman before him. The military refused to follow the writ. Justice Taney, in Ex parte MERRYMAN, then ruled the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional because the writ could not be suspended without an Act of Congress. President Lincoln and the military ignored Justice Taney’s ruling.
This Abraham Lincoln – regarded by many liberals and conservatives alike as the greatest American president ever – is the same Lincoln who disregarded the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision. In issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing the slaves, Lincoln in effect said to the Supreme Court, “You are wrong.”
The Supreme Court has been terribly wrong before, and it is terribly wrong now. Alas, we don’t have a Lincoln who will stand up against the moral stupidity of the Court today.
Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
Which is a more legally-precise way of saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Liberals live in a world of theory, and whenever the facts conflict with their theory, they simply ignore the facts. It doesn’t matter how idiotic their ideas are; it doesn’t matter how disastrous are the consequences: it only matters that they have good intentions.
We have placed ourselves at a significant disadvantage voluntarily. For the last several years, Democrats repeatedly threatened to prosecute telecommunications companies that assisted the Bush Administration with information following 9/11. The Democrats recently caved in on the new FISA bill after a lengthy and determined campaign to hold telecommunications criminally responsible for their cooperation with their government. Don’t think for a second that these companies will ever be so willing to assist the United States again. We will be more blind in the future thanks to Democrats.
And now judicial liberals have issued this stunningly stupid and self-defeating ruling. And they’ve done this terrible thing with all the “beneficent purposes” that Justice Brandeis warned about. Our valuable and vital national security secrets will go to the terrorists who would kill us, even as we are forced to free more and more of them to fight again due to lack of sufficient evidence to stand up in a civilian court of law.
The fact that Barack Obama has cheered their verdict is another powerful proof that he should never be allowed to become our president. If elected, you can count on Barack Obama to appoint Justices and judges who will go even further in undermining our ability to defend and protect ourselves. A vote for Obama is a vote for baring the nation’s throat to those who would slash it in a nanosecond.
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Seraphic Fire to spread to New York, D.C. and Philly in 2015-16 season
Patrick Quigley will open Seraphic Fire’s 2015-16 season October 14 with Schubert’s Mass in G major.
Seraphic Fire is about to hit the road in a big way.
Beginning with the 2015-16 season, Miami’s chamber chorus will embark on three East Coast residencies in New York, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia.
In addition to their regular Miami subscription concerts, Artistic director Patrick Dupre Quigley will lead the chorus and The Sebastian in three different programs in each city.
“Our new Cleveland Orchestra-style residencies in New York, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia represent a bold step forward for Seraphic Fire,” said Quigley on Wednesday. “The residencies will bring three of our larger choral orchestral works into these east coast markets and thrust this organization, as well as the South Florida community, into the national spotlight.”
Quigley quietly moved from Miami to Washington D.C. last August, yet he and Rhett Del Campo, the choir’s managing director, firmly emphasize that South Florida will always remain the home base for Seraphic Fire.
“Seraphic Fire is, and will remain, a Miami-based organization,” said Del Campo. “We will be performing the same number of concerts in South Florida, more in fact, with our New World collaboration. Also Patrick still maintains a residence here in Miami, and spends the same amount of time here as before.”
In its 2015-16 season, the Miami-based choir will once again present eight programs across South Florida, drawing in many instances from some of its most successful repertory of recent years.
In addition to its regular Miami concerts, Seraphic Fire will join forces with the New World Symphony when Quigley lead a performance of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music April 16, 2016.
“Our 2015-2016 season is the most ambitious yet,” said Quigley, “ including the continued partnership with The Sebastians, repeat performances of Mozart’s Requiem and our Grammy-nominated Brahms’s German Requiem, a new collaboration with the New World Symphony, and a world premiere of a commissioned work by Jake Runestad.”
Quigley will open Seraphic’s 2015-16 season October 14-18 with a performance of Schubert’s Mass in G major along with a newly commissioned work by Runestad.
Handel will be in the spotlight in November with The Sebastians joining Quigley and the choir for two of the composer’s majestic Coronation Anthems as well as Charpentier’s Te Deum (November 6-8).
James K. Bass will once again lead the popular “Candlelight Christmas” programs (December 9-13) with Quigley directing the choir in Handel’s Messiah (December 18-20).
Seraphic Fire will open 2016 with another installment of their popular “American Spirituals” program (January 13-17). In February, they will reprise their 2013 performances of the Mozart Requiem with the commissioned “completion” by composer Gregory Spears (February 12-14).
The March 9-13 program will be led by guest conductor Julian Wachner. Director of Trinity Wall Street in New York, Just last week Wachner led rousing and well-received performances of two massive works by Charles Ives and Alberto Ginastera at Carnegie Hall. Wachner will lead a program of music of South American composers including works of Villa-Lobos and Ginastera.
In April, Quigley will revive lead Brahms’ German Requiem in the version for chorus and two pianos, the music that earned the choir 2012 Grammy nominations (April 8-10). And the season will end with a program English cathedral music, including William Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices (May 11-15).
Subscriptions for Seraphic Fire’s 2015-16 season go on sale April 15.
The choir’s next program presents music of Bach, Mozart and Palestrina March 11-15. seraphicfire.org; 305-285-9060.
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Frost Opera Theater showcases the opera music of Anthony Davis
Excerpts from works by Anthony Davis were performed by Frost Opera Theater Monday night at UM Gusman Concert Hall.
Alan Johnson, director of the University of Miami’s Frost Opera Theater, has mounted many adventurous productions over the past decade. On Monday night at UM Gusman Concert Hall, Johnson presented a concert of excerpts from the operatic works of composer Anthony Davis.
The program showcased four outstanding vocalists in arias and scenes from four of Davis scores, spanning more than three decades. If the music did not always live up to the dramatic subject matter of the texts, the event provided a fine showcase for the formidable talents of former Frost Opera faculty and students.
A graduate of Yale University, Davis is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He has also achieved considerable renown as a jazz pianist. Johnson first worked with the composer on the 1992 recording of X – The Life and Times of Malcolm X, Davis’ first foray into operatic composition. In many ways, Davis was in the vanguard of composers who eschewed stylistic definition in favor of a post modern mashup of jazz, atonality, minimalism and electronics.
Inevitably the absence of an orchestra in this type of program is a serious limitation. Piano accompaniment can only go so far in creating the aural undercurrents to the vocal lines, particularly in the work of contemporary composers. Despite Johnson’s best efforts and considerable pianistic prowess, the full impact of Davis’s work was shortchanged.
That was especially true in Act II, Scene I from X, which concluded the evening. In this pivotal excerpt, the imprisoned Malcolm Little is visited by his Islamic brother Reginald who sees religious conversion as Malcolm’s salvation. A resistant Malcolm eventually finds hope in Reginald’s vision of freedom and justice. The two men are then joined by Nation of Islam patriarch Elijah Mohammed in a declaration of faith. (Malcolm’s eventual break with Elijah Mohammed would lead to his assassination.)
The text for this segment by Thulani Davis is powerful and strongly characterized. Yet, shorn of instrumental and choral components, Davis’ setting emerged harsh and overemphatic, tending toward monotony. Bass Kevin Short as Malcolm and bass-baritone Carl Dupont as Reginald played off each other with theatrical punch and contrasting timbres. Dupont’s oaky tone and gentle determination contrasted with the fierceness of Short’s declamation and voluminous sound. The strength and pealing top notes of Andrés Lasaga’s tenor conquered Mohammed’s difficult high vocal line.
Short preceded that vignette with Malcolm’s Act I solo “You want the truth,” a stunning monologue, seething with anger, from the protagonist’s police interrogation sequence. Short’s deep low notes, clarity of diction and terrific declamation were heroic indeed.
The recitative “A black and tan fantasy” was a tease for The Central Park Five, Davis’ newest opera which will be premiered in June by Long Beach Opera. The Masque, a police officer, conveys his attraction to and hatred for Harlem to jazzy undertones. In pre-performance remarks, Davis noted that the instrumental writing tips a hat to Duke Ellington’s Harlem Suite.
Soprano Christine Jobson displayed her wide range in two pieces from Amistad (1997). In “I could tell by their looks, their touches,” Margru describes the horror of being captured by slave traders and separated from her baby. This is the stuff of potent music drama but Davis’ angular music falls short of capturing the heroine’s pathos. The moody introduction to “And one day they began to fall,” the Goddess of the Waters’ description of falling bodies during the Middle Passage, was promising but the scene goes on far too long and is unvaried in its agitation. Still Jobson’s exquisite top notes, substantial middle register and depth of dramatic projection proved riveting.
Four segments from Tania (1992), a satirical dark comedy about the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970′s, were the evening’s most appealing selections.
Johnson opened with an idiomatic keyboard itineration of the blues-tinged overture. The driving rhythm of “I’m the smoke in your jumbo jet” underscored the leader of the revolutionary group’s arc of rage. The duet “After the fire! And the funk goes that way,” underpinned by jazzy piano riffs, was almost like an Otello-Iago scena with one radical pushing another to take action in incisive tones. DuPont’s warm, light-textured bass-baritone contrasted well with Short’s fierce power in the scenes from both Tania and X. On his own DuPont spun a nice legato line as the character fantasized about Hearst as “Small white bird.”
During a postconcert question and answer session with the small but enthusiastic audience, Davis said he enjoys the collaborative nature of working with singers. He noted that he keeps voices in mind as he conceives new works. One can only hope that he and other composers will give these exceptionally gifted young artists, who worked hard to make his music come alive, the kind of vehicles that will be worthy of their talents.
The program will be repeated March 26 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and April 1 at the University of California, San Diego.
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Archive for True Events
Posted in Horror History, Horror Showcase, Updates with tags Amityville Horror, horror, Horror History, horror movie, horror movies, movie review, Real, splatterpictures, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Haunting In Connecticut, True Events, True Story on June 7, 2011 by splatterpictures
Every time we sit down to watch a horror movie it requires us to suspend our belief. I would hope any logical person could realize that humans don’t rise from the grave to enact revenge or that demons from hell don’t lie and trick their way into our world to murder and violate us. The problem with enjoying many movies; is a logical mind that knows that what we are watching is a work of fiction. Despite this, these movies (by definition) should instil horror in us. Writers and directors go to great lengths to try every trick in the book to accomplish this, so their techniques over the last hundred years of film have amassed into a giant book of clichés.
The one method that has always fascinated me the most is when you see these words flash before your eyes in a trailer or on a poster: Based on a True Story or Inspired by True Events. It’s a genius method really. What is more horrific than the truth? I am always giving me and my fellow horror-hounds the benefit of the doubt. While blood and guts may entertain us in film, true acts of violence are repulsive, shocking, and distributing.
Telling us that what we are watching was based on a true story conjures images of how horrible it must have been for the people we are watching. We are no longer looking at actors playing roles, rather we feel are witnessing history told to us through film. It allows us to logically fear the maniac killers or perhaps open our minds to the paranormal.
The one question I always have is… just how much of this is real? How much of what I am watching was supposed to have happened and how much of it was spiced up for film? Well, I’m going to put on my investigators hat and shed a little light on the truth behind these true stories in regards to three select films.
First up, let’s tackle the Amityville Horror. The film was released in 1979 and, while the forefront of the movie was never the advertising campaign that it was real, the novel that the film was based on basically depended on this gimmick.
The story surrounds the Lutz family who claims they had bought a house on 112 Oceans Ave in Amityville a year after a brutal mass murder had occurred. It isn’t long before the family begins to experience paranormal activity from some dark entities. It also carries with it the slow mental breakdown of James Bolin’s character as the dark presence of the house starts to creep into his psyche. It’s implied that this could have been the cause of the murders that happened a year earlier. There is also a famous role given to Rod Steiger as the priest who attempts to get the so-called demons out of the house. For his efforts, he suffers boils and a barrage of flies. The film itself is decent (I found it pretty slow in parts) and had a string of sequels. In 2005 it was even remade starring Ryan Reynolds. So after all of that (demons, poltergeists possession and the biblical plagues set forth on an unsuspecting couple), just how much of it was real?
Well first let’s discuss the mass murder that occurred in Amityville. These murders unfortunately are true. In the 1970’s the house at 112 Oceans Ave became the scene of a bloody and shocking murder. The Defero family were killed in their sleep by Ronald “Butch” Defero Jr, the eldest son. In the night around 2 AM, he systematically shot his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters. After cleaning himself up and getting rid of the evidence, he hatched a long plan about how he was going to pin the murders on the mafia and play the role of the lucky sole survivor. His plan might have worked had he not foolishly left the boxes for the guns he used to kill his family in his room.
A year later his case went to trial and he attempted to get off as legally insane and unfit to stand trial. That plan also thankfully failed and he is currently serving 25 years to life on six counts of second degree murder.
Now since the murders did occur, we can move on to the matter of the Lutz family and the supposed haunting of the house. Well it is true that the George and Kathy Lutz purchased the house and they did claim that there were demons there. It’s largely considered to be a hoax which I’ll explain.
It all started shortly after the Lutz family “fled” the house after only a month of living there. They claimed that the evil goings-on were just too much for them to handle. George Lutz made a call to Dr. Kaplan who was a well known and respected parapsychologist and claimed that demons had terrorized them until forcing them to leave although he couldn’t describe exactly what happened. He also claimed that he had only just started researching the paranormal but Dr. Kaplan quickly started poking holes in his stories that basically revealed that Lutz had been researching this long before he even moved into the house and had mixed and matched behaviours of demons, poltergeists and all sorts of things.
Dr. Kaplan determined that all of these symptoms of a haunting were far too vast and that logically one house couldn’t possible hold that many demons and spirits.
After the book was released and became a best seller, the rights to making the film were sold and then interest in that true story of the Amityville horror really started to take off. The more questions people asked, the more inconsistencies were found. For example, the role of the priest was only legitimate in a way. For what it’s worth, it is true that a priest whose name was Father Pecoraro did have contact with the family. That being said, he first claimed that he never even visited the house and only talked to the Lutz family by phone. Later on he said that he has gone there but nothing unusual happened. One of his last interviews he did revealed that he did at least bless the house and then left. No boils, no flies, nothing. So who knows really what happened there.
The final nail in the coffin was the new owners of the house Jim and Barbara Cromarty. The couple claimed that they had lived in the house with not a single suspicious thing happening. In an amusing turn of events, they sued the Lutz family because of the constant parade of tourists that would come to the house. The courts ruled in their favour and the judge had even stated that the Lutz family had concocted the whole story for the purpose of selling a novel.
Next up we’re going with a more recent film, The Haunting in Connecticut. The film was released in 2009 and was based upon the so-called true events of a family named the Campbells in the 1980’s. The events happen while they are living in an old funeral home that was refurbished into a house. The family moves out there because their eldest son is sick with cancer and the hospital to get his treatment done is simply closer to this house as oppose to their one in the city.
When they move into the house, subtle paranormal events start to take place. They mostly affect the eldest son, Matt, who opts to live in the basement which turns out was the mortuary. He has disturbing visions that become more and more frequent. Everyone, of course, believes he is being affected by his cancer treatment but with this help of Reverend Popescu, he uncovers that the funeral home was used to hold séances. A particularly powerful child medium named Jonah had his powers enhanced by the bodies of the recently dead, so bodies were stolen and mutilated by the man who ran the funeral home. In one instance, the spirits that enveloped the house killed Jonah and his mad doctor along with all of their guests. The movie ends with the discovery that the walls of the funeral home are filled with mummified bodies and Matt has to burn the place down to free them all. Doing this also miraculously cures Matt’s cancer.
But how much of this story is actually real?
The family in question wasn’t the Campbells, they were the Snedekers. They really did move to the house in 1986 to be closer to the UCONN hospital where their son’s special treatments were occurring. The house was, in fact, a funeral home before it was turned into a house. The funeral home in question was the Hallahan Funeral Home. It operated for decades in the area before it was bought in the 1980’s.
In the film, the family discovers numerous death photos that were taken along with the severed eyelids of many of the bodies but in real life there were only a few death photos that were found, no eyelids though. Apparently the mother also found numerous toe-tags and even a head-tag.
In the film there are numerous paranormal activaties that occur. According to the family, there actually was an incident where the mother was mopping the floor and the water turned blood red. Another incident that they claim was true were the dishes putting themselves away. The most fantastic of all was the shower scene. In the movie the niece, played by Amanda Crew, gets suffocated by a shower curtain. The family claims that this did happen although it happened to the mother and not the niece.
The biggest discrepancies are the existence of Jonah, the bodies in the walls, and the climax where Matt burns the house to the ground. None of these things occurred in real life. All were created to explain the haunting and to add more excitement to the film. The family does say, however, that Matt did become darker and more distant like the film portrays.
One of the happier portions that are true is that Matt’s cancer was cured although it probably had more to do with his treatment than spirits. Of course when I say these things are “true,” I mean to say that the family claims they are true. I would like to point out that they did publish a book titled “In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting.” So much like the Amityville horror, there is a lot of controversy surrounding this one but, unlike Amityville, this one isn’t totally debunked yet.
Lastly, we are going to go a little further back and hit up one of the stranger inclusions in the list of “true story” horror: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 1974 and is one of those heavy hitter films that horror fans love. It has had ridiculous sequels and terrible remakes, but it was one of the first slasher films. In fact, it just missed the number one spot by a few months (Black Christmas is the first true slasher film from a technical standpoint).
However, it did give us the iconic slasher character of Leatherface, the semi-retarded member of a psycho family of hillbillies that murder, torture and terrorize a group of teenagers. Honestly, there isn’t much I can say about this film that hasn’t been said a million times. I really am only including it because it fits the subject at hand.
It really is one of those films that I find hard to watch even as a fan of the genre. I’ve never been totally in to the kind of things that this movie has because it already seems possible enough to me. When I kept hearing that it was inspired by true events, I went nuts. I just had to know what part of this could be real.
Well, not much is real about it actually. The crazy family and all of the events in the film are works of fiction. So why do they say it’s a true story? Well that is the tricky part they don’t say true story they say the ugly step-son of true story; “Inspired by true events”.
For all intents and purposes, the character of Leatherface was based on the serial killer Ed Gein who had murdered and mutilated his victims not unlike Leatherface, skinning them and using their body parts to decorate his home. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre wouldn’t be the only film to use Ed Gein as a reference; Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs was based on him aswell as Norman Bates from Psycho.
So there you have it. Although there are usually some elements of truth behind these so called true stories, the most fantastic elements are fiction for the sake of the audience. Even things that do occur or claimed to be real are debatable.
Thanks for taking this little journey with me, see you next time!
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The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
SPME Members contribute to BDS book ``The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel``
SPME congratulates our colleagues Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm on the publication of “The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel” which several SPME members have contributed to.
Please find more information about the six SPME members that contributed to this book after the synopsis.
How should we understand the international debate about the future of Israel and the Palestinians? Can justice be achieved in the Middle East? Until now, there was no single place for people to go to find detailed scholarly essays analyzing proposals to boycott Israel and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement of which they are a part.
This book for the first time provides the historical background necessary for informed evaluation of one of the most controversial issues of our day- the struggle between two peoples living side-by-side but with conflicting views of history and conflicting national ambitions.
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SPME Contributors
Kenneth L. Marcus, JD
Kenneth L. Marcus is President and General Counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and author of the award-winning Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (New York: Cambridge University Press: 2010). Marcus founded the Brandeis Center in 2011 to combat the resurgence of anti-Semitism in American higher education.
In November 2012, Marcus was named to the Forward 50, the Jewish Daily Forward’s listing of the “American Jews who made the most significant impact on the news in the past year.” The Forward described its 50 honorees as “the new faces of Jewish power,” predicting that “if Marcus has any say in it, we may witness a new era of Jewish advocacy.” During his public service career, Marcus served as Staff Director at the United States Commission on Civil Rights and was delegated the authority of Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights and Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Shortly before his departure from the Civil Rights Commission, the Wall Street Journal observed that “the Commission has rarely been better managed,” and that it “deserves a medal for good governance.” For his work in government, Marcus was named the first recipient of the Justice and Ethics Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of Civil Rights.
Marcus also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism and Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Antisemitism. Marcus previously held the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at the City University of New York’s Bernard M. Baruch College School of Public Affairs (2008-2011) and was Chair of the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Legal Task Force. Before entering public service, Mr. Marcus was a litigation partner in two major law firms, where he conducted complex commercial and constitutional litigation.
He publishes frequently in academic journals as well as in more popular venues such as Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and The Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Marcus is a graduate of Williams College, magna cum laude, and the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
Richard A. Landes, PhD
Richard Allen Landes is an American historian and author, specializing in Millennialism. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University. Landes was the director of the now quiescent Center for Millennial Studies.
His work focuses on the role of religion in shaping and transforming the relationships between elites and commoners in various cultures. He has coined the expression “demotic religiosity,” an orientation that prizes 1) equality before the law, 2) dignity of manual labor, 3) access to sacred texts and divinity for all believers, and 4) a prizing of moral integrity over social honor. Trained as a medievalist, his early work focused on the period around 1000 CE, a moment, in his opinion, of both cultural mutation (origins of the modern West), and intense apocalyptic and millennial expectations.
From 1995-2004, he directed the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University which held annual conferences and published an online journal, Journal of Millennial Studies. This involvement refocused his work on millennialism the world over and in different time periods, and has resulted in the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, (Berkshire Reference Works; Routledge, NY, 2000); Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (Oxford U. Press, 2011), and The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (NYU Press, 2011).
In addition to his courses on medieval history, he offers courses on Europe and the Millennium, Communications Revolutions from Language to Cyberspace Honor-shame culture Middle Ages, Modern World Biblical origins of the Democracy.
In 2011, he is a fellow at the International Consortium on Research in the Humanities at Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany. There he is working on the study with which his medieval work first began, the history of the “sabbatical millennium” with its expectation of the messianic kingdom in the year 6000 from the creation of the world: While God Tarried: Demotic Millennialism from Jesus to the Peace of God, 33-1033.
In 2005 he launched a media-oversight project called The Second Draft in order to look at what the news media calls their “first draft of history.” Since January 2005 he has been blogging at The Augean Stables, a name chosen to describe the current condition of the Mainstream News Media (MSNM) in the West.
As a result of this work on the MSNM, he has come to understand the role of cognitive warfare in the campaign of apocalyptic Jihad against the West in the 21st century, and the abysmal record of the West in defending itself in this critical theater of War. He plans a book addressing these issues tentatively entitled “They’re so Smart ‘cause We’re so Stupid: A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century”.
Gabriel Noah Brahm, PhD
Gabriel Brahm received his PhD and MA degrees in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California—Santa Cruz, and his BA in English from UCLA. He has been a research fellow in Israel Studies at Brandeis University, and holds a teaching certificate in Composition and Rhetoric from San Francisco State University. Before joining the faculty at Northern, he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at UC Santa Cruz; Professor of Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey; and Visiting Professor of American Culture at University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia. His published work on literature and politics has appeared in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Democratiya, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetics Today, Rethinking History, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of the cultural studies anthology, Prosthetic Territories: Politics and Hypertechnologies (Westview Press), and serves as Associate Editor for the journal, Politics & Culture. His co-authored book (with Forrest Robinson and Catherine Carlstroem), The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud and Marx, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2011.
Donna Robinson Divine, PhD
Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor of Political Science at Smith College. She is the co-author, with Philip Carl Salzman of Postcolonial Theory and the Israeli Arab Conflict (2008 Hardback, 2009 Softcover). She serves on the SPME Board of Directors
Even after many years of teaching at Smith, the classroom still provides a magical experience for me and the map for my intellectual inquiries. My intellectual mission is engaged by the challenge to make connections: to show students how events which seem straight forward are often complicated by conflicting historical references and opposing collective memories and in particular, how even the often murky, seemingly irrational events in the Middle East can be made understandable with the right questions in mind or with appropriate conceptual tools in hand. Although my professional residence is in a department of government, I brew up my research projects in an interdisciplinary cauldron, consistent with my own formal education.
I began to undertake serious work on the Middle East as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, concentrating on the history of Islamic civilizations and on language study. My graduate training at Columbia University broadened and deepened my knowledge of the Middle East through courses on classical Muslim history and on the region’s economics and politics. Among students of the Middle East, my training in three of the region’s major languages is distinctive, enabling me to conduct original research in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish. I carried out the first in-depth study of the Israel civil service in the research I undertook for my dissertation and published an analysis of political patronage [‘protekzia’] in its senior ranks. I then shifted my focus to Egypt where I lived and conducted an examination of its chambers of commerce on the eve of the revolution which brought Gamal Abd al-Nasir to power in 1952.
My nearly eight years of residence, at various times, in the Middle East allow me to undertake empirical research on both Arab and Jewish cultures. Long before attention was directed to Palestinian elites and to the evolution of its civil culture, I gathered material on the membership of Fatah. Concentrating on the obituaries of Fatah members killed in missions against Israel, I examined their family backgrounds. The issues defined in that rather study spurred my interest in Palestinian Arab society and my determination to find ways to subject it to sustained scholarly analysis. Thus an essay on Fatah drew me to the topic of Palestinian Arab women and the challenge of incorporating gender into an investigation of power and politics. In the course of pursuing the study of Arab women in Palestine during the period of British rule, background eventually became foreground. The archival material I located was so rich and elaborate that I enlarged the scope of my inquiry into a book exploring how cultural values provide resources for political action. My recently published-Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine-has allowed me to return to the study of Israel’s history and is, in a sense, a book my education prepared me to write.
Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine,examines the immigration of Zionists to Palestine during the 1920s in years when their experiences were turned into myth and when their personal struggles to make the land of Israel their home were ignored. The Zionist project I survey in this book concentrates on the period when Jews believed that moving to Palestine lifted them up to a new kind of solidarity, moral development and social coherence. I have chosen the first decade of British rule [1919-1929] as the temporal borders for this study because it was a formative time for developing a Jewish national home and can hold up a mirror to Israel’s conventional nation-building narratives. Thus, I am able to show not only how Zionists settled into Palestine when resources were severely limited but also how much they relied on their visionary hopes and expectations when circumstances provided no cause for optimism. The 1920s-a coherent period from the point of view of British colonial policy and the development of Palestine’s Jewish community-affords an ideal opportunity to examine whether the encounter of Zionists with what they understood as the land of Israel lived up to their expectations and to reflect on both the accomplishments and shortcomings of the Zionist effort to mold a new national identity and to transform the Jewish people. A scholarly engagement with the desires, values, decisions, and reflections of the early generations who created the economic and political structures for the Jewish state means following the individual men and women who crossed continents and seas to make Palestine their home. Immigration was a decisive element in the national life of Palestine’s Jews even though its nature and significance continue to puzzle scholars who seek to know it well.
I found my way to SPME as I watched what was happening at Columbia because when I studied at the school, there was an environment that placed a high value on analysis and scholarly rigor and attached no importance or respect to arguments in the classroom based on personal political viewpoints. Moreover, Israel was fully integrated into the study of the Middle East with Israelis and Palestinians sitting around the same seminar table in discussions not accusations. My commitment to the work of SPME is a commitment to restore the study of the Middle East to the scholarly status it once possessed.
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, PhD
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is a Hebrew lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz and has written articles about academic anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and lectured widely on these developments and on the growing threat to the safety of Jewish students on college campuses. In 2009, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, alleging a hostile environment for Jewish students on her campus, and in March 2011 a federal investigation of her complaint was launched. In 2011 she co-founded the AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization devoted to investigating, documenting, educating about, and combating campus anti-Semitism in America.
Asaf Romirowsky, PhD
Dr. Asaf Romirowsky is SPME’s Executive Director. Formerly, he served as SPME’s Deputy Director and is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Forum and co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Dr. Romirowsky got his start in the policy world as a research fellow at the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank headed by scholar Daniel Pipes. Dr. Romirowsky is a former IDF (Israel Defense Forces) International Relations liaison officer in the West Bank and to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Dr. Romirowsky holds a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, masters degrees from Villanova University and West Chester University and a doctorate from Kings College London.
Dr. Romirowsky publishes widely in the national press as well as in scholarly journals and makes frequent appearances in the media. In addition, to lecturing and teaching to a wide range of audiences and programs around the world. He has traveled widely in Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories.
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A Q&A with Ryan Bilger, the EHS grad taking “Jeopardy!” by storm
July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019 Katie Taranto
Bilger and Trebek pose together at the “Jeopardy!” studio. Photo courtesy of Bilger.
What’s the difference between competing on a high school academic team, and on a nationally televised trivia show? According to Ryan Bilger, not much. While “Jeopardy!” is certainly a far cry from the Emmaus High School Academic Team, Bilger has found his new stride in the spotlight, channeling his trivial talents from previous competitions.
A 2015 EHS graduate, Bilger demonstrated a passion for trivia early on, participating in the Academic Team. Today, he can say that he has competed on the nationally renowned television show, “Jeopardy!”, meeting Alex Trebek and earning up to $63,849 in prize money as of July 5.
Bilger’s third round on “Jeopardy!” will air on July 8.
Stinger: What activities were you a part of when you attended EHS?
Bilger: I was in German Club, I was on the Academic Team for three years, I did Envirothon for a year my senior year. I mostly tried to stay focused on the stuff that I was into, though, so those are the ones I can remember off hand, as far as school activities go.
Stinger: Where do you go to college?
Bilger: I am currently between undergrad and grad school so I graduated from Gettysburg College in May and this coming fall, starting next month, I will be a master’s student at West Virginia University studying public history.
Stinger: Why did you want to compete on “Jeopardy!”?
Bilger: As I said, I was on the Academic Team and we were really good the years that I played; we won the PBS Scholastic Scrimmage my senior year, and I went to the state tournament three times, so I’ve always been super involved in trivia competitions and when I went to college, there wasn’t a team at Gettysburg so I started a team there and kept playing. It was always something where you’d watch with your family, and you’re sitting there answering all the questions and people ask you ‘well, why don’t you try out?’ And I’ve known some people through Quiz Bowl who have gone on the show, and they say the same thing: ‘you should try it, it’s a really good experience.’ So I said, ‘alright, what the hell?’
Stinger: Did you have to audition to make it on “Jeopardy!”? What was that process like?
Bilger: It’s a multi-step process to get on the show. First thing you do is, a couple times a year there is a 50-question online test that you sit at your computer and you take the test one night, and answer the questions… after you do that, when you register for the online test they give you a list of cities, to say, if I’m picked for an in-person audition, which is the number two [audition], what city would I want to go to, and I picked Philadelphia because that was easiest for me.
Stinger: Have you auditioned before?
Bilger: This was not my first time getting an in-person audition [for “Jeopardy!”]. I auditioned for the college tournament the previous year so I guess it was in fall of 2017 that I auditioned for the college tournament, and they can only take 15 people, that’s all that gets on the college tournament so I didn’t get on, so it goes. I thought I’d try again the next year…I felt I did really well on the test. It was early September when I had been invited and I went to Philadelphia to audition for the regular adult-version “Jeopardy!”.
Stinger: What was the in-person audition like?
Bilger: When you arrive, the first thing you do is take a second online test. Basically, they’re just making sure you didn’t cheat on the first one. So they take them back and they grade them, and during that time you get time to talk with the other try out trialists. Then they come back, and they break you up in groups of three to play a mini game. They have a board, you stand there with a buzzer that you hold in a regular game, and you play. They’re just trying to get an idea of like, are you comfortable up there? Are you poised? They’re just trying to get an idea of how you would be on the show.
Stinger: What happened next?
Bilger: After you play for a little bit, they stop and they do a mini-interview with the three people they’ve brought up… after that the audition ends and you just head off out into the world, and they say, ‘anytime in the next 18 months, we can call you and say, come to LA.’
Stinger: Who are your biggest supporters?
Bilger: My family. When you go on the show, you have to sign an agreement… that says ‘I will not spoil the show to the public before I go on.’ So not a ton of people, of course, knew what happened [on the show], but my dad knew because he was able to accompany me out to Los Angeles and he was able to be in the studio to watch, and we told my mom when we got back, and my girlfriend knew. But other than that, it was pretty quiet. We were keeping my extended family, like my cousins and my grandparents, in total suspense… they’ve been great. All of my friends from Emmaus and college have been awesome.
Stinger: How did your supporters react after your first appearance on “Jeopardy!” aired?
Bilger: One of the hardest things last night was after the episode aired, my phone exploded with messages from Twitter, Facebook, comments, Facebook messenger, [and] Snapchat. I did my darn best to try and respond to each and every one of them. I really really appreciate every bit of support that I’ve gotten. Not only my family, but my friends and members of the public have been fantastic to me.
Stinger: How did you prepare or practice for the show?
Bilger: In some senses, I’ve been preparing for 21 years. I’ve always been interested in facts and knowledge and just general, random stuff. I’ve played in Academic Team [and] Quiz Bowl competitions all the way through high school and college, so honestly I was confident in my grasp on the quote-on-quote academic subjects, like history, literature, geography, even science-y things. So my studying was me cramming on pop-culture; trying to look at old Oscar winners, popular actors and actresses, I tried to study broadway musicals… it was that and [practicing buzzing in with good timing]. If you don’t get that buzzer down, you’re dead in the water.
Stinger: Did you personally meet Alex Trebek? How would you describe him?
Bilger: Pretty much all the interactions you have with Alex Trebek as a player are what you see on screen. He does come over and talk to you after the game, and you don’t get the audio from that, but I wish I did because I forgot what he said that made me chuckle. But after he comes and talks, he goes back to his dressing room to change for the next show.
Stinger: What were your personal interactions like with Trebek?
Bilger: Alex gave me some crap, he gave me some schtick… but it was all in good jest, and it was during this time that Alex was really in a lot of pain from his chemo and his cancer treatments. So I said to myself, first off, I’m having fun and this is fine. And if Alex giving me some schtick can help him get through the day, that is a price I am absolutely fine with. Alex is very good, he is very professional, and he is a fun, nice guy.
Stinger: How does it feel to be answering questions with all the cameras on you?
Bilger: Once the first couple of minutes went by and I got into the swing of the game, it’s like yeah, there’s cameras, and yeah, there’s Alex Trebek, but I’ve been answering trivia questions that people have been throwing at me for years, and this is a bigger scale, but it’s just something that I’ve always done. So I was able to have that mindset adjustment and just say, ‘yeah, so what, it’s just Alex Trebek asking me the questions this time, okay, whatever!’ And that was very helpful… I was able to find that comfort zone very quickly.
Stinger: Do you have any advice for someone who would like to be on “Jeopardy!”?
Bilger: General thing, just be curious. Consume whatever you are interested in as much as you want. Never stop learning new things. I mean even just playing Quiz Bowl, before I even dreamed of going on “Jeopardy!”, it’s exposed me to a variety of new things… that’s my general advice.
Stinger: What do you hope to do with your prize money?
Bilger: Welp, there’s the very boring answer of what I’m probably actually going to do with it, and there’s the dreamy answer, so I will give you both of them. The boring answer is that my dad is an accountant, and I am already thinking about starting a retirement account. As a 22-year-old, people tell you to start stocking away money as early as you possibly can. But most people my age just do not have the capital to do that. As somebody who has now gotten it for standing in front of a podium and answering trivia questions, I intend to use that. [The dreamy answer is that] I’m a park ranger now and I love the [National] Parks, and I want to try to visit as many of them as I can. So if I can plan some sort of nice vacation, I’m a grad student so I don’t know how much time I have, but sometime down the road, [I would like to].
Stinger: Is there anything you would like to add that I did not ask?
Bilger: Just thank you so much to everybody for the support. I try to respond to every single thing that people send to me, and if I miss you, I’m sorry. I appreciate every bit of the support, everybody has been fantastic.
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Senior Stephen Leonard has posted back-to-back top-10 finishes for Stonehill at the NE-10 Championship and the East Region Championship.
Skyhawks coming off East Region and NE-10 titles
EASTON, Mass. (November 21, 2013) – The Stonehill College men's cross country team, ranked 20th in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II poll, and ranked first in the East Region, will compete in its 11th consecutive NCAA Division II National Championship this Saturday at the Plantes Ferry Athletic Complex in Spokane, Washington.
On November 10th, Stonehill collected its third East Region Championship in program history, and first since 2007, as the Skyhawks ran to a first place finish among 28 schools at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. Two weekends before that, Stonehill won its third consecutive Northeast-10 Championship with a 57-point effort in Manchester, N.H. on the campus of Saint Anselm College.
Stonehill has not relied on a clear-cut number one runner this season, but rather on its overall depth from top to bottom. At the East Region Championship, sophomore Robert Massey (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) spearheaded Stonehill's balanced attack with an eighth place finish, his first top-10 effort of the season. Massey finished 15th in the conference championship and 12th at the Shacklette Invitational on September 7th to open up his 2013 season.
Senior Stephen Leonard (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) has posted back to back top-10 finishes, as he was Stonehill's top finisher at the NE-10 Championship (seventh overall), and then followed that performance up with a ninth place finish at the Regional Championship. Leonard also finished 17th at the DII Challenge on September 14th.
Junior captain Bryan Wilcox (Plantsville, Conn./Southington) has registered consecutive impressive performances as well, as he ran to a 14th place finish at the NE-10's before placing 11th at the East Region meet. Classmate Daniel Zawalich (Paxton, N.J./St. John's) crossed the finish line 23rd in both the NE-10 Championship and the East Region Championship, and he was Stonehill's top finisher at the New England Championships on October 12th, as he placed 59th among a field of Division I, II, and III competitors.
Junior captain Bryan Wilcox was Stonehill's top finisher at the 2012 NCAA Championship.
Seniors Scott Waller (Andover, Mass./Andover), Nate Webber (Atkinson, N.H./Central Catholic), and Trent Fontanella (Pelham, N.H./Bishop Guertin) were Stonehill's final three finishers at the East Region Championship, as they placed 27th, 34th, and 36th, respectively. Fontanella posted his best finish of the season (8th place) at the NE-10 Championship, while Waller's best effort came at the Shacklette Invitational, where he placed fifth overall. Like Waller, Webber's best finish also came at the season-opening Shacklette Invitational, as he finished seventh overall and fourth among Skyhawks.
Leonard, Waller, Wilcox, and Massey garnered All-Conference accolades for their top-21 finishes at the NE-10 Championship, while Zawalich, Massey, Leonard and Wilcox earned All-Region honors for finishing in the top-25 at the East Region Championship. Head Coach Karen Boen was named the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year for the fifth time on the men's side, and she also collected her second men's East Region Coach of the Year recognition.
Several of Stonehill's current student-athletes have experience competing at the NCAA Championship in years past. Wilcox was the first Skyhawk to cross the finish line at last year's national meet, as he placed 131st overall in Joplin, Mo., on the campus of host school Missouri Southern State University. Zawalich and Leonard finished 203rd and 215th, respectively, to round out Stonehill's participants in 2012.
Two seasons ago, Waller and Fontanella finished back-to-back, 141st and 142nd, respectively, at the NCAA Championship held in Spokane at the same complex that will host this year's event. As a freshman in 2010, Waller placed 124th out of 182 total competitors at the Championship in Louisville, Ky., at Tom Sawyer State Park.
Stonehill, which will be competing at the NCAA Championship for the 11th straight year, posted its highest finish in program history in 2006, when the Skyhawks raced to a tenth place finish among 24 teams at the Escambia County Equestrian Center in Pensacola, Fla. Stonehill also registered 12th place team finishes in 2003 and 2005.
Individually, Stonehill's top performance at an NCAA Championship came in 2005, when sophomore David Metzger, '08, became the third All-American in program history with his 24th place finish in 32:31.9 at Prado Park in Pomona, Calif. Stonehill boasted an impressive streak of four consecutive seasons (2003-06) in which a Skyhawk earned All-American Honors.
Mario Fraioli, '04, a Stonehill Hall of Famer, started the run in 2003, followed by Sean Mckeon, '05, in 2004, Metzger in 2005, and junior Keith Gill, '08, capped off the streak in 2006 with his 27th place finish as part of Stonehill's 10th place team effort in Pensacola.
For the latest on Stonehill Athletics, follow the Skyhawks via social media on Twitter and Facebook. Fans can also download the Stonehill Skyhawks mobile app on iTunes and the Android Market.
June 25, 2014 Record Four Earn Track & Field/XC Capital One Academic All-America Honors
June 2, 2014 Stonehill Places Program Record Five On Capital One Academic All-District Men’s XC/Track & Field Team
April 4, 2014 Stonehill Holds Annual Academic Excellence Recognition Breakfast
February 20, 2014 Wilcox Earns NE-10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award
February 17, 2014 Stonehill Earns USTFCCCA All-Academic Team Award
January 31, 2014 Fontanella and Wilcox Among Nine on Fall NE-10 Academic All-Conference Teams
November 23, 2013 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: #20 Stonehill Finishes 28th Overall
November 21, 2013 #20 Stonehill Gearing Up For 11th Straight NCAA Championship Appearance
November 12, 2013 Boen Earns East Region Men’s, Women’s Coach of the Year Honors
November 10, 2013 #22 Stonehill Captures First East Region Title Since ‘07
November 8, 2013 #22 Stonehill Gearing Up For East Regionals
October 27, 2013 Three-Peat: Stonehill Collects Third Straight NE-10 Title
October 23, 2013 Stonehill Looking For Third Straight NE-10 Championship
October 12, 2013 #23 Stonehill Finishes 19th At New England Championships
October 1, 2013 Nolan Named NE-10 Cross Country Athlete, Rookie Of The Week
September 28, 2013 #23 Stonehill Finishes Second At Codfish Bowl
September 17, 2013 Nolan Earns NE-10 Rookie Of The Week Distinction
September 14, 2013 Stonehill Men Earn Fourth Place Finish At DII Challenge
September 7, 2013 Stonehill Captures Men’s Shacklette Invitational
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Is AI Really More Dangerous Than Nukes?
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The fictional Terminator universe, in which artificial intelligence (AI) and robots eventually usurp human beings as rulers of the planet, may not be stranger than truth, after all, at least not in the mind of tech entrepreneur and pro-Bitcoin advocate Elon Musk.
Musk has insisted, more than once, that AI is “far more dangerous” than nuclear weapons. He may have bought himself a lot of room for understanding, given his immense contributions in the field of technology, but it’s worth examining whether or not what he says has any merit.
The man has always been a detractor of AI in terms of its dangers, and he was known to have stated his preference for nukes at a Texas conference last year, after earlier saying AI was more dangerous than North Korea.
Others have criticized him for his outbursts and have called him a fear monger, with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg accusing him of being “pretty irresponsible” and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker not at all agreeing.
Musk does not hold back:
“The biggest issue I see with so-called AI experts is that they think they know more than they do, and they think they are smarter than they actually are.”
He believes that he knows enough about machine intelligence to repeat the foretelling of AI supremacy, just as Stephen Hawking, Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) and even the Terminator have.
And with more and more research, such as this recent paper released by Science Robotics, suggesting that the idea of a world controlled by robots and AI isn’t too far-fetched, one might do well to heed the warnings of our modern-day tech prophets.
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Eye on China: Trade Truce – Week of Xiplomacy – Osaka RIC – India’s 5G Decision – Li’s Reform Pitch
ByManoj Kewalramani
Eye on China is a weekly newsletter offering news and analysis related to the Middle Kingdom. This week we cover US-China trade war talks; India’s deliberations on Huawei and 5G; Xi’s meetings with world leaders; Li Keqiang’s pledge for reform and opening up and much more.
I. India-China Relations
RIC in Osaka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Osaka this week for the G20 meeting. At the sidelines of the summit, he held talks with a bunch of world leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi. Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale briefed the press after the RIC meeting. Discussions over the “international situation” dominated the meeting. Gokhale said all parties agreed to “strengthen the international system led by the United Nations…uphold international order based on accepted international norms and international law…and that we promote a multi-polar world, a world in which there are many centers of influence and stability and we also spoke about democracy for international relations.” WTO reform was also discussed, with all parties critiquing “the growth of unilateral action, protectionist tendencies.” Finally, India apparently wants a global international conference on terrorism, with Modi being sure that China and Russia would support this. The overarching theme about the international system, rules-based order and the role of the WTO were also discussed in the BRICS statement in Osaka.
The Xinhua readout of the RIC meeting echoes much of the above, but didn’t discuss talk of a terror-related conference. Interestingly, it also tells us that Xi wants the “three countries to build an open world economy that facilitates a better development of emerging-market countries and developing countries, expand cooperation in 5G network, high technology, connectivity, energy and other areas…” The 5G bit is rather fascinating, since it was also part of Modi’s talks with Trump.
The Huawei Committee: So what’s really happening with Huawei in India? We’ll ET Telecom reports that ahead of Mike Pompeo’s visit to India in June, the US Commerce Department had written to India’s Commerce Ministry “to look into security-related issues” with regard to allowing Huawei in the country’s 5G networks. TOI reports that Indian government’s Principal Scientific Adviser K Vijay Raghavan, who heads a 5G committee, wants 5G trials in the country to begin while excluding Chinese vendors. The committee that he heads comprises officials from the Intelligence Bureau, MEA, MHA, telecom and IT ministries and the department of science & technology. TOI’s report provides details of discussions during a June 13 meeting, during which each ministry shared rather differing views.
Meanwhile Telecom Minister RS Prasad’s statement in Parliament this week indicates that the committee is yet to give its report. He added: “So far six proposals have been received (on 5G trials) which include proposals from China’s ZTE and Huawei. Any field trial in respect of 5G is to be carried out only through licensed Telecom Service Providers in a restrictive, limited geographical area and for specific use case.” Prasad also said that the US decision to place Huawei on the Entity list will impact Indian firms supplying US-origin technology components to the Chinese firm. Huawei’s role in a future Indian 5G network was also the subject of discussion during a Chinese trade delegation’s visit to India this week. CPPCC’s Yang Yanyi, who led the delegation, wants India to adopt an “open and inclusive approach” and is confident that New Delhi will “make an independent decision for the best interest of India and also for the common interest of us all.”
Trade & Investment: Let’s now scan through the Sino-Indian economic relationship through the prism of the new Indian Economic Survey. Business Today reports that the document mentions China 136 times. China continues to be the largest source of imports into India accounting for 13.7 percent of the total imported value in 2018-19. However, India’s imports from China fell to $70.3 billion from $76.4 billion a year ago. The survey also discusses China’s growth and employment strategy, with investment being the key catalyst. One other point discussed is the potential for Indian firms to expand their roles in global supply chains amid Sino-US trade frictions. One way to do that is to attract global firms to Make in India. ET reports that India has opened conversations with over 250 American companies that are exploring a shift in manufacturing operations from China. The report says that there is an attempt to establish an inter-ministerial panel to look at ways to harness India’s potential to become a low-cost manufacturing hub for high-end IT products. There’s increasing interest from Taiwanese officials and firms to expand investment in India, shifting from the PRC. Bengaluru could be a major beneficiary of this, with a Taiwanese IT and electronics cluster in the works.
India’s Development Cooperation: Well this isn’t strictly a China-related report, but given the constant talk in India about BRI’s influence in South Asia, it is important to highlight. Also, that was the question, i.e., India’s counter to BRI, that the government was answering when it gave out this information. V Muraleedharan, MoS External Affairs, told Parliament this week that India’s development cooperation partnership based on concessional lines of credit is operational in 63 countries. Currently, there are currently 279 LOCs, worth $28 billion. Of this, 254 projects aggregating nearly $4.70 billion have been completed and 194 projects worth nearly $19 billion are under implementation. 94 of these projects are being carried out in 5 countries in India’s immediate neighbourhood. The LOC in this regard is worth nearly $6.6 billion.
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Couple arrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct premature baby
The couple are said to have visited Great Ormond Street Hospital
By Amy Southall
A couple have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct a premature baby.
A 31-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman are said to have visited Great Ormond Street Hospital on Monday afternoon (March 6).
The pair told staff at the hospital that they had a baby at 21 weeks at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel on March 1, according to The Telegraph.
Claiming they had come to collect their baby from the neo-natal unit, they showed staff a picture of a baby in an incubator, which is believed to have been printed from the internet.
No records were found for a premature baby born at the Whitechapel hospital on March 1 so hospital staff contacted police about the incident.
Inspector Paul Clarke from the Metropolitan Police said it "could have been a very frightening and harrowing incident" if the couple had managed to take a baby.
Both have been released on bail, but are not allowed to enter any hospital unless they have a medical emergency.
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Pro-Hadi forces retake Yemen biggest airbase in new blow to Huthi rebels
Significant new gain
ADEN (Yemen) - Pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition retook Yemen's biggest airbase from Iran-backed rebels on Tuesday in a significant new gain after recapturing second city Aden last month.
Their seizure of Al-Anad base in a 24-hour assault using heavy armour supplied by the coalition came after hundreds of Gulf Arab troops landed in Aden to bolster the loyalist fightback.
Hailing victory in the battle for Al-Anad, the defence ministry vowed no let-up in the war against the Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies until the authority of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi was restored over the whole country.
The airbase, 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Aden, is strategically located on the main road north towards both the battleground third city of Taez and rebel-held capital Sanaa.
The vast complex housed US troops overseeing a drone war against Al-Qaeda in Yemen until shortly before the rebels overran it in March.
Its loss is a major blow to the insurgents, whose leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi claimed just Sunday that their ouster from Aden after four months of ferocious fighting was merely a "short-term" setback that would be reversed.
The loyalists swiftly pushed on from Al-Anad on Tuesday, attacking the rebel-held Labouza army camp 10 kilometres further north, military sources said.
To the south, pro-government forces also advanced on Huta, the capital of Lahj province, and retook several public buildings and the marketplace, the sources added.
Pro-government sources said that the rebels lost 70 dead and 10 captured in the fighting for Al-Anad.
The loyalists suffered 24 dead and 23 wounded.
- Coalition troops on the ground -
Officers who took part in the assault said the rebels had put up "stiff resistance" but that Saudi-led air strikes had helped destroy their armour.
An AFP correspondent saw columns of coalition-supplied tanks and artillery pounding the base's defences.
They were accompanied by large numbers of southern militiamen who formed the core of the resistance to the rebels before the deployment of reinforcements trained and equipped in Saudi Arabia.
The recapture of Al-Anad is a major boost for the defence of Aden and paves the way for a possible return by the exiled government to the southern port which was its last refuge before it fled into exile in neighbouring Saudi Arabia in March.
On Sunday, hundreds of Gulf Arab troops from the coalition entered Aden with tanks and other armour "to help secure" it.
The Saudi-owned Al-Hayat newspaper said 1,500 troops, mostly from the United Arab Emirates, had deployed there.
Aden has been devastated by four months of coalition air strikes and fighting on the ground.
- Health services 'nearing collapse' -
Unexploded ordnance and booby-traps planted by the retreating rebels still pose a daily threat to civilians.
Medics said Tuesday that at least 18 had been killed and dozens wounded in the previous 24 hours alone.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that the country's health services were "nearing collapse", with acute shortages of food, medicine and health workers.
"The population is faced with food shortages, the health system is in a state of collapse. I have never seen such a level of violence," MSF's Aden coordinator Thierry Goffeau said in Paris.
The United Nations says the war has killed nearly 4,000 people, half of them civilians, while 80 percent of the 21-million population needs aid and protection.
Nearly 100,000 Yemenis have fled abroad since late March, the UN refugee agency says.
Despite losing Aden, the Huthis and their allies still control large swathes of Yemen, including Sanaa which they overran last September.
The United Nations has called repeatedly for a ceasefire and hosted peace talks in Geneva in June.
But the talks collapsed without the warring parties ever sitting down in the same room.
The exiled government said it would only discuss the rebels' withdrawal from all of the territory they have seized, in line with a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council in April.
The rebels said they could not pull out as that would create a security vacuum that would expose them to jihadist attack.
Sunni extremists of both Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have attacked the Shiite rebels and their supporters, whom they regard as apostates.
On Tuesday, the UN said the Arab League had indicated it would consider sending peace monitors to Yemen if a ceasefire was agreed.
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Iron Lady Rafidah Aziz Should Be Appointed As First Woman Higher Education Minister – Mazlee Malik is Incompetent & Indecisive
After history was made with the swearing in of Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail last year as the country’s first female deputy prime minister, more women have been entrusted and empowered with top positions never seen before. In May this year, Malaysia saw the appointment of Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat as the country’s first woman Chief Justice.
Last month, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad dropped a bombshell when he unilaterally appointed Latheefa Koya as the nation’s first woman chief of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). Women’s representation in the Cabinet of Mahathir administration has 9 women – 5 ministers and 4 deputy ministers – arguably the highest to date.
However, based on the horrible performance of some of the male ministers so far, it appears there are rooms for improvement. Famously known as the “Shoe Minister”, Education Minister Maszlee Malik is perhaps the single most unpopular minister that should be replaced. He dare not discuss about controversial matters such as the recognition of Unified Examination Certificate (UEC).
Maszlee was also involved in the controversial IIUM presidency crisis. The education minister had even tried to make Bersatu more Islamic than PAS Islamist party when he gave his green light for the establishment of Indonesia Muhammadiyah University Prof Dr Hamka (Uhamka) to set up its first overseas campus in Malaysia, only to be condemned by the Sultanate of Johor.
True, Dr Maszlee was inexperienced as the education minister. But it’s also true that he had no idea what to do to overhaul the sickening national education system. It would take the 93-year-old PM Mahathir to point out, upon studying the school timetable, that too much time is allocated for religious studies. And in spite of the excessive time given to religious studies, indiscipline and low ethics remain rampant.
So, upon his return from Japan (Nov 9, 2018), Mahathir summoned Dr Maszlee. During their one-hour meeting, the premier told him to “overhaul” the school curriculum to produce citizens with good values, including good work ethics and integrity. The PM told him that he has long advocated schools teach high values and ethics from his days as Education Minister between 1974 and 1977.
Thereafter, during a high tea session with Malaysians living in Singapore on Nov 12, 2018, the same event where Mahathir urged Malaysians staying abroad to return home, he said – “The current education system is bad. It needs to be revolutionised. What they learn (now) is not what they should learn. We need to change the curriculum and timetable and what they learn in school.”
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You might dislike Mahathir. But during his first stint as premier for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, the education system was revamped in 1996 to provide for the teaching of Science and Maths in English starting in 2003. It was a natural and simplest way of increasing English proficiency among students to make them more marketable, knowledgeable and employable.
Unfortunately, Mahathir’s current Home Minister – Muhyiddin Yassin – who was then education minister under Najib Razak administration, overturned the Mahathir’s decision. Schools were told to teach both subjects only in Malay language and vernacular languages, turning back the clock. Muhyiddin’s decision in 2009 for the implementation to take effect in 2012 was based on political reason.
In 2015, Mahathir raised his displeasure over Muhyiddin’s move in mixing education with politics. He said – “Other subjects can be taught in Bahasa Malaysia but Science and Maths are different subjects because the pace of change and new findings happen almost every day.” Mahathir also said he had received complaints that the quality of local graduates had fallen since the 2012’s reversal.
Fast forward to April this year, in an exclusive New Straits Times report, Mahathir Mohamad, who has since returned as the prime minister again, had said that the Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) has been reintroduced without announcing it. Last month, however, Education Minister Maszlee told the press that schools will not be returning to the PPSMI policy.
Exactly what the heck is happening in the Ministry of Education? Instead of worrying about the colour of students’ shoes, should not Education Minister Maszlee Malik focus on improving the education system, and that includes bringing back the PPSMI policy – arguably the most vital ingredient to upgrade skills, increase incomes and subsequently raise living standards?
Interestingly, the state of Sarawak has decided 2 months ago (May) to go ahead and introduce the teaching of Mathematics and Science in English to Year One pupils starting next year (2020). State Education, Science and Technological Research Minister Michael Manyin said the programme would involve 1,046 primary schools statewide, except for Chinese-medium schools.
As the first state in Malaysia to teach Mathematics and Science in English for primary one pupils next year, Michael Manyin said the programme was introduced so that children would be more competitive, and confident to speak up and express themselves in English. The Sarawak Education Minister said – “We are not going to make any U-turn.”
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It seems the incompetent and indecisive Dr Maszlee is worse than Michael Manyin, a minister in charge of education in the state of Sarawak. Earlier in May, the country’s education minister was condemned for linking matriculation intake quota with Mandarin language requirements for jobs. He took the easy way out by playing the racial card.
Perhaps Mahathir should think again about putting all eggs in a basket. The premier might think Dr Maszlee is the best brain his political party, PPBM (Bersatu), can offer. But it would definitely be a good idea to split the education portfolio into two ministries – creating a new Higher Education Ministry dedicated to overseeing tertiary education, as suggested by Rafidah Aziz recently.
Rafidah, formerly known as the “Iron Lady” under Mahathir administration, said the government should reconsider about having only one Education Ministry. She lectured about the big difference between the needs of primary and secondary education, as compared to tertiary education. The former Minister of International Trade and Industry also mocked the present Education Minister Maszlee.
Speaking at a forum titled “The Current State of Malaysia’s Education System and the Way Forward”, Rafidah mocked Dr Maszlee – “You cannot have the same emphasis on the policy of black shoes, in the same breath having a policy for interacting with ICT and upskilling. Just black shoes and ICT skills, two different things.”
“So why not have – as we did before – education at the lower end and tertiary education, so the focus can be equally strong and not just dissipated. To me, maybe this is what the government should try to do. So we will have professionals to deal with the minister in charge of higher education, whereas black shoes – anyone can do it. So you have two ministries,” – said Rafidah Aziz.
Obviously, Rafidah believes his former boss Mahathir needs “a professional” who is absolutely knowledgeable to run the serious business of education, especially the tertiary education. In the same breath, she also suggested that empty vessel like Maszlee can be allowed to play with black shoes just to fill his pastime.
More importantly, Rafidah said education should not be politicised or be viewed as a way to garner votes, as what Maszlee has been doing. She said Malaysia’s education policy should be sustainable where it meets the needs of the present generation without jeopardising the future generations. Unlike certain extremists and racists, the liberal Rafidah has a different view on vernacular schools.
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She said the government should allow vernacular schools where Chinese or Tamil language is used to teach to naturally take their course instead of demanding they be shut down. “They didn’t start a Tamil school just for fun or because they are the Indians. No, but they are so far from Kuala Kangsar town. But now there’s infrastructure, so no problem anymore,” – said Rafidah.
Of course, she was referring to how the ethnic Indian had to set up a vernacular school in estate because the national school was located too far away in Kuala Kangsar, her former constituency. As infrastructure improves, they slowly shifted to schools in towns instead of estate-based SJKT vernacular schools.
As a former Member of Parliament for the Kuala Kangsar constituency from 1982 to 2013, Rafidah suggested that people who whined, moaned and bitched about closing down Chinese vernacular schools should instead think about adopting the best aspects in other schools into national schools. She pointed out that even some Malay parents send their children to Chinese schools.
She lectured critics of Chinese vernacular schools – “Why not incorporate the best of what’s learnt in Chinese schools, the way they teach and take the best of everything and incorporate it so everybody says this national school is not bad. Even Malays nowadays are not sending their children to national schools.” More than 80,000 Malay students are studying in Chinese schools in the country.
“I got friends of friends whose children are in Chinese schools because they said too much religion, and ‘I want them to learn Maths’. It’s their choice, nobody can scold them. So if you don’t politicise it, people will see clearly and eventually there will be integration. No need to shut out loud ‘close vernacular schools’.” – argued Rafidah.
If the performance of Maszlee is any indicator, the current education system will only get worse. Rafidah might not have the experience as an education minister, but she had lectured in University Malaya in the past. She is perhaps one of the most capable ministers served under Mahathir who still talks sense. Mahathir should appoint her as the first woman Higher Education Minister, if not the Education Minister.
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Europe’s Tado raises another $23M to grow smart thermostat and AC control business
Steve O'Hear @sohear / 3 years
Munich-based Tado, maker of smart thermostat and AC control products, has raised another $23 million for further international expansion. The new investment is led by Inven Capital, the venture capital arm of the Čez Group, a multinational energy conglomerate based in the Czech Republic. It’s the startup’s third funding round and brings the total raised to $57 million since being founded in 2011.
Tado’s previous backers include the venture capital unit of Siemens AG, and Statkraft Venture Capital, the investment company of Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy. In addition, Target Partners, Shortcut Ventures and BayBG are also investors.
Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that, along with a number of traditional VCs, Tado’s investor list has a definite strategic bent to it, spanning the energy industry, including renewables, along with one of Germany’s largest engineering companies. That plays into the fact that the startup’s longer term mission is to not only make home climate control smarter for the benefit of each individual household but also the environment and national energy grid as whole.
The company’s two current products are a smart thermostat — resulting in Tado sometimes being called the Nest of Europe — and a smart AC controller. Both enable a home’s heating/cooling to be controlled via the Tado smartphone app, with a flagship geo-location feature that means Tado is able to know when you have left home or are returning and adjusts your heating or air conditioning accordingly.
This, co-founder and CEO Christian Deilmann argues, is better than a purely ‘self-learning’ approach, such as that utilised by Nest, or relying on schedules alone, however much easier they are to program using a modern smartphone app.
In a call yesterday, he said that Tado’s location-based automation is still the main feature that provides differentiation from competitors at the point of sale in retail stores, such as Dixons Group in the U.K., where the Tado will often be sitting alongside products from Google-owned Nest or British Gas’ Hive. He also says 87 per cent of all Tado users take advantage of the geo-fencing functionality to automatically control their home’s climate.
But actually Tado is a much deeper tech play than smartphone and location-based control of your home’s heating and cooling systems alone. The startup’s smart thermostat has been painstakingly engineered to be able to connect to a boiler’s digital serial interface, more typically found in heating systems in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and in newer systems in general, which enables the cloud service to be able to do all sorts of other clever things.
This includes the ability to modulate heating, rather than simple switching the boiler on or off, as well as monitor the health of a house’s heating system remotely, sending diagnostics to a maintenance company or engineer. The former offers much greater energy efficiency, says Deilmann, while the latter can help prevent a boiler from failing outright because problems can be more easily caught in time.
Tado currently offers its diagnostics portal to partner installers and services companies as a way to build long term value into those relationships. However, in future it could monetize that aspect of its offering via, for example, a marketplace for parts or by providing a library of technical information in the cloud.
Then there’s the way Tado is planning to make its service smarter for the benefit of energy management overall, including at the national grid level. In practice this means partnerships with local utilities companies — and is perhaps where the startup’s strategic investors come even more into focus — to enable Tado and its customers to opt into ‘demand response’ schemes so that a home’s heating and cooling systems are utilised where possible outside of known peak energy times.
This could be a simple as turning your heating down by a few points without it really being noticeable or heating your home up a little ahead of time. In aggregate, this can make a tangible difference to the national grid’s ability to stabilize energy consumption and production, and, says Deilmann, is where the bigger picture of smart home climate control really kicks in.
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Now is the time for EU-wide whistleblower protection
Yesterday, the European Commission published its revised proposal on the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which includes commitments to greater transparency, by giving public access to beneficial ownership information. However, public access to beneficial ownership information alone is not enough to prevent money laundering and the flow of illicit assets through complex financial structures. The Commission must also propose EU-wide laws on whistleblower protection.
Part of the package the Commission released yesterday also made reference to the vital role that whistleblowers play in bringing about transparency in the global financial system. The Panama Papers, which have shaken the global financial system and pushed the EU into action on money laundering and tax transparency, were revealed by a whistleblower. Whistleblowers need to be able to come forward to expose wrong-doing and the Commission recognised this yesterday in its communiqué.
The unnecessary sentencing of Antoine Deltour last week proves that in the current climate whistleblowers face punishment for doing the right thing. If the Commission is serious about protecting people who wish to expose wrong-doing then it cannot delay any longer proposing EU-wide whistleblower protection rules.
This is the first time the Commission has considered, in writing, the possibility of EU-wide whistleblower protection. At an event in May hosted by the Green Group, the European Commission’s Department for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) also mentioned the possibility of the Commission internally discussing a possible EU whistleblower directive, based on the Green’s draft directive.
As recently as six months ago this office was told by the Commission that there was “no chance” of the Commission proposing such legislation.
So what has changed? Last week’s guilty verdict for Antoine Deltour in Luxembourg has proved the risks that whistleblowers face when speaking up. The public outcry and campaigning from groups such as Transparency International has been huge. The European Parliament, national politicians and even Commissioners have lent Deltour and Rafeal Halet their support. Yet, the fact that they were sentenced only goes to show the inadequacies of a lack of Europe-wide whistleblower protection.
We at Transparency International EU have been actively campaigning to highlight the plight of whistleblowers and the lack of protection across Europe.
There are several on-going discussions in the European Parliament around whistleblower protection. The Budgetary Control Committee, as well as several other committees, are currently discussing the possibility of drafting their own reports.
Now the European Commission must move quickly. Given the wealth of international best practices and standards (Irish law, Council of Europe, Transparency International principles) available, the technical task of framing a new Directive should be fairly straightforward. It is time for whistleblower protection across Europe.
Whistleblowers like Antoine Deltour, Zuzana Hlávková and Andrea Franzoso have all faced great personal and professional ramifications by exposing corruption and wrong doing in the public interest. Whistleblower protection legislation remains...
Nicholas Aiossa
naiossa@transparency.org
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I only went to Berlin for one reason and one reason only…ART. Okay, now that I think about it. Two reasons, art and history. I’ve heard that Berlin has a huge hipster culture as well, so I was curious to find out. This was the most spontaneous trip I’ve ever taken. Usually, I have well-thought out itineraries but this time I just wanted to go with the flow. Ironically, I never did make it to an art museum or any formal museum in Berlin for that matter but my time there was still very rich. Street art covers the walls of Berlin, especially the most famous wall of all, The Berlin Wall. In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, making clear, that the Cold War and the divide between East and West Berlin, no longer had standing in the country. It was an amazing time in history and the Berlin Wall is a stark reminder of this. You can walk the Berlin Wall for miles and miles; every time you think you’ve reached the end, you realize you haven’t. The wall is filled with beautiful and colorful artwork promoting peace, unity and pride in Berlin.
In addition to the Berlin Wall, we visited Brandenburg Gate. There was a marathon going on at the time, which made the area around the gate impossible to get close to (another reason why the museum was off limits..we couldn’t get through the marathon), but it was still an experience nonetheless.
Our hotel was located in Alexanderplatz, so we frequented it’s large public square often. During our casual walks in the vicinity, we couldn’t help but to notice the Fernsehturm, which is a large television tower constructed between 1965 and 1969. Checkpoint Charlie Museum was filled with excitement for us. One of my friends actually kissed one of the soldiers there…AHHH! They were quite frisky if you ask me. Apparently, Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. River Spree, which flows through Berlin and as far as the Czech Republic, was the perfect time for reflection. Sometimes I need these moments of serenity to express gratitude for my travels. The only reason I am here is because of God and I give thanks to his power and plan over my life. Some of the people in Berlin are not very warm and fuzzy. It also didn’t help that we had no knowledge of the German language. However, using a map and our phones we were still able to maneuver our way around their train and bus systems. Like I mentioned before, I wanted to get a slight taste of hipster culture in Berlin. We tried to go to a reggae bar/beach club called Yaam but it was not a popping night…at all. Me and my girls got dressed up looking like some dance hall queens only to be greeted by Rastafarian men chilling, smoking and getting their drink on. It was weird and I could’ve sworn I saw a rodent crawling on the roof. That was enough for me to run for my life. All of the rastas were confused AF by my sudden exit. But I heard this place is pretty cool on a good day.
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I read a really good piece about Berlin on Travel Noire that inspired me to want to go. You can read it here. I don’t think I experienced the essence of this city which is unfortunate. If I was to ever go again, it would have to be with someone who knows the city like the back of their hand, because it’s expansive.
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Classic Sitcoms to Be Re-enacted by Today's Stars in Live ABC Special
By Matt Webb Mitovich / May 16 2017, 3:05 PM PDT
Imagine Kevin Hart asking, “Whatcha talkin’ bout Willis?”
That is the example ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey gave on Tuesday afternoon when announcing a new ABC special in which today’s stars will perform scripts from classic sitcoms of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s — live.
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel and actor/screenwriter Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) are teaming up to produce the special, to air debuting the 2017-18 TV season.
“I spent most of my childhood in front of a TV set, obsessively watching comedies from great producers like Norman Lear, Jim Burrows, James L. Brooks and Garry Marshall,” Kimmel said in a statement. “This is a way for a new generation of viewers to discover these classics and a new generation of actors to play characters they love, live in front of a studio audience.”
Kimmel, who was absent from this year’s ABC Upfront presentation (to spend time with his wife and their newborn son), also was announced on Tuesday to repeat as host of the Academy Awards, in early 2018.
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Blog Tour: The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas by David F. Ross
On Christmas Day, 1995, The Miraculous Vespas appeared on the live festive edition of Top of the Pops. After more than ten years in the musical wilderness, the band’s re-released, remixed debt single ‘It’s a Miracle (Thank You)’, was back in the UK Top Five……
Those of you who have read David Ross’s debut, The Last Days of Disco, will already be familiar with some of the characters in The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas. However, Vespas, as it is not a sequel to Disco, but rather a parallel story, can be read independently without prior knowledge of Disco being required.
The novel begins with an interview with the manager of the eponymous band, The Miraculous Vespas, the pretentiously named Max Mojo. Mojo is certainly the quirkiest character in the novel. As a result of an attack, he has developed a combination of what appears to be Tourettes and schizo-affective, and is pretty rigid when it comes to control of the band and its image. In terms of structure, the novel alternates between the band’s infancy in 1982 and the interview, which takes place in 2014.
Those of you who are unfamiliar either with Ross’s earlier work or Trainspotting, for instance, may struggle initially with the Scots dialogue, but do read on: there is both much humour to be found in the rise and fall of the band, and darkness in the shape of Alzheimer’s and gang warfare.
I enjoyed Vespas enormously; Ross expertly details the pitfalls of being in a band, namely playing grotty venues and being the support act to a nobody. He also doesn’t shy away from depicting the realities of teenage love, as proven in the love scenes between the band’s lovebirds, Maggie and Grant. Moreover, it was good to see the return of Disco’s lovable rogue, Fat Franny Duncan, battling to find who has stolen his money and unsuccessfully trying to get his girlfriend to move in with him.
Many thanks to Karen at Orenda Books for the review copy.
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Scripps Oceanography at UC San Diego creates center on climate change in wake of Sunnylands retreat
President Anote Tong of Kiribati, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and Margaret Leinen at the Sunnylands retreat held in October 2013.
August 24, 2015 – Less than a year after the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands partnered with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation to examine rising sea levels and ocean acidification, the University of California, San Diego, announced the creation Monday of the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.
The new center, to be housed at Scripps on the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, Calif., will provide science-based strategies for adapting to climate change. It is being launched with a $5 million donation from longtime UC San Diego supporters Carol and Richard Hertzberg.
“We owe it to future generations to better understand the impacts of climate change, as well as to develop and implement strategies for adaptation. Indeed, we believe this new center will have a powerful impact locally, regionally, nationally, and globally,” the Hertzbergs said in a joint statement announcing their gift.
In October 2014, Sunnylands hosted a three-day retreat in Rancho Mirage, Calif., to address two pressing climate-change issues: the need to devise adaptation strategies for rising sea levels and the increasing levels of ocean acidification. Attendees included Prince Albert II of Monaco; Anote Tong, president of Kiribati, a Pacific island nation threatened by rising seas; and top scholars and administrators of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Margaret Leinen, Carol Hertzberg, Geoffrey Cowan, Dr. Walter Munk, and Richard Hertzberg after the press announcement of the $5 million gift.
In its announcement Monday, UC San Diego said the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation will focus on research that considers how society can address consequences of climate change that are already unfolding or appear to be inevitable. These consequences range from the rise in sea levels to more extreme weather conditions that have the potential to disrupt commerce, agriculture, and the large-scale habitability of certain regions.
“Scripps is a natural place for a center like this because of our long history at looking at all aspects of climate change,” said Scripps Oceanography Director Margaret Leinen, a host of the Sunnylands retreat. “We’re engaged in atmospheric research and research on land, we look at the interaction between rivers and the ocean, and we certainly study the coastal zone. So this is an opportunity to have a platform for all that research and bring it into the realm of adaptation.”
Geoffrey Cowan, then-president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, lauded the formation of the new center at Scripps.
“Dr. Leinen and her colleagues at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography possess unparalleled experience and expertise to pursue solutions to the problems posed by sea level rise and other impacts of climate change,” said Cowan, who attended Monday’s announcement ceremony in La Jolla. “The Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation is a critical step forward in addressing these global challenges, especially in the Greater Pacific. We are pleased that the meetings convened with Sunnylands helped to launch and shape the work of this important new center.”
The Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation will join other centers at Scripps that aid policymakers and resource managers in the arena of climate change by providing access to and interpreting data and forecast information, UC San Diego said. These include the Coastal Data Information Program, the Center for Western Water and Weather Extremes, and the California-Nevada Applications Program. As the new center evolves, it is anticipated that its staff will collaborate with these other centers on a regular basis.
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The Return of Peter Parker!
By Matt Large · On January 22, 2014
Imagine my surprise last week when I spotted a “leaked” image of a brand new Amazing Spider-Man #1 cover while perusing my Facebook News Feed. The image of an unmasked, smiling Peter Parker swinging over New York was featured at a handful of prominent comic news websites. Abruptly, those very same images were taken down at the urging of Marvel Comics. Though, to me, this seemed likely to be a PR stunt; the consequential mystery and intrigue really piqued my interest. My head was spinning with questions. Is Peter Parker finally coming back? Does a new Amazing Spider-Man title mean that Superior Spider-Man is ending? Will this coincide with the release of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” film? We all assumed this crazy ride was going to end eventually, but for some reason, the impending event came as a surprise to me.
I have mixed feelings. Peter Parker, my imaginary friend and co-adventurer for over 30 years, is coming back! Stories of old Web-Head have been a staple for me for as long as I can remember. An ex-girlfriend once remarked in a snarky tone that I spoke of Peter Parker like he was a real guy. Though to me, he has always been real. His reported return is reason enough for me to celebrate, but there are far more layers to this onion to peel.
I find myself saddened that Doc Ock’s intense reign over New York is coming to an end. Much to the chagrin and vitriol of some, I’ve really enjoyed this story arc. Originally, I wasn’t happy with the way Peter was bested at the hands of his greatest enemy. A mind switch with Otto Octavius? Come on, give me a break! Is that even possible? But, I’ll be damned if Slott wasn’t able to make that outrageous premise entertaining. Peter Parker’s life as seen through the eyes of a redemptive, murderous super villain? In short, brilliant.
On the upside, Otto has forged a new life for himself while secretly flying under everyone’s radar. In his personal life, he’s managed to excel in his career, earn a doctorate, gain the respect of his peers and family and explore a new romance with Ms. Anna Maria Marconi. As the Superior Spider-Man, he’s managed to totally streamline the way Spider-Man monitored his domain and prioritized his responsibilities. Through brute force and the use of Otto’s superior intellect, he’s succeeded in squashing the majority of his greatest enemies. He’s also amassed an army of dedicated minions, succeeded in being completely bank rolled by the city and obtained a fortress island from which to rule it all. In many ways, his techniques really were superior to Peter’s.
Not a bad checklist for a year, but at what cost? Though well-intentioned, he’s tarnished his well-known “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” persona by publicly executing a murderer and created mass civilian paranoia by implementing nanny state, NSA-reminiscent spying techniques. He’s maimed harmless opponents and has made puppets of super villains that in his past life he once called his friends. Without permission from local government, he’s unilaterally leveled Shadowland and destroyed public property. He’s all but tossed aside his friendly relationships to affiliated superhero teams like the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. He’s also alienated Mary Jane Watson, abandoned friends and truly frightened his beloved Aunt May. To top it all off, he’s even blackmailed a public official. In general, Ock did all that and managed to come across as a real jerk to everyone within his wake.
Yes, Peter Parker is coming back… but what kind of life is he coming back to?
All images from Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #1: Dan Slott, Humberto Ramos, Edgar Delgado, Victor Olazaba, Jerome Opena
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Matt Large
After a lifetime of collecting comics, Matt has recently completed the most AMAZING, dare I say SPECTACULAR, comic runs of Spider-Man known to mankind. Entering his forties, Matt has made the difficult journey out of his parent’s basement to share with you the wealth of information he’s learned about his imaginary friend and lifelong companion, Peter Parker. Matt is the original “Kid Who Collects Spider-Man”, except he’s still alive.
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Australian minister attempts to repeal medevac law
International | Written by : IANS| Updated: Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 11:29 AM
Sydney, July 4 (IANS) The Home Affairs Minister of Australia presented a bill in Parliament on Thursday to repeal a law that allows refugees and asylum seekers detained on Manus Island and Nauru to be transfered to the country on medical grounds.
Peter Dutton's proposal seeks to do away with the so-called medevac (Medical Evacuation) law, which gives doctors more powers to decide on evacuations, and which was approved in February when the government was in the minority.
The medevac law was passed as a result of a campaign following reports of deteriorating mental health of the detainees, including minors.
"As a nation it is imperative we are able to determine who enters Australia and whether they should remain in our borders permanently," Dutton said in Parliament.
The Medevac provisions give the government powers to reject a transfer on security grounds but does not include "any mechanism of expulsion or return" of the refugees to Nauru and Manus.
The reform seeks "to allow for their removal from Australia or return to a regional processing country once they no longer need to be in Australia for the temporary purpose for which they were brought," according to the text of the draft.
Dutton claimed that the bill would fix a situation created by "a short-sighted political tactic" of the opposition Labor Party to appeal to voters of the Green Party ahead of May elections, in which the conservative coalition got another term and increased its majority.
The government has a sufficient majority to get the bill passed in the Lower House but would need to garner more support in the Senate.
According to a Home Affairs report presented before the Senate, around 900 asylum seekers have been transfered to Australia since 2013, when it opened offshore detention centers in the Pacific. Of these, 282 were returned to Nauru and Manus while the rest remained in centers in Australia.
So far, 31 medical evacuations have been approved under Medevac, while nine have been rejected, according to a report in The Guardian last month.
Since the Liberal-National coalition won the elections in May, reports have emerged of about 100 attempts of self harm and suicide among asylum seekers on Manus, which Dutton termed as attempts to use Medevac to enter the country.
Many of the refugees and asylum seekers that Australia intercepts at sea have fled conflict-ridden countries or regions such as Afghanistan, Darfur, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria, or have escaped conditions of discrimination or statelessness such as the minority Rohingyas in Myanmar or the Biduns in the Persian Gulf.
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Judge rules Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case can move forward
By Emily Birnbaum - 12/20/18 11:18 AM EST
The sexual assault case against media mogul Harvey Weinstein will continue after a judge on Thursday denied a bid from Weinstein's lawyers to throw the case out, according to multiple reports.
New York Judge James Burke, after a brief hearing, rejected arguments that the five outstanding charges against Weinstein should be dismissed, NPR reported.
Weinstein's lawyers had claimed that the case was "irreparably tainted" by allegations that a police detective acted improperly when interviewing women alleging sexual misconduct by Weinstein.
Assistant District Attorney Kevin Wilson said "there is no possibility" that the allegations against the police detective "in any way impaired the integrity of the grand jury or prejudiced the defendant," according to CBS.
The hearing is now set for March.
Weinstein is accused of raping a woman in March 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman in 2006. He has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
He is charged with two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree, and one count each of rape in the first and third degree, according to CBS.
Weinstein turned himself in to police in May and pleaded not guilty in June.
Manhattan prosecutors in October dropped one of the six initial charges after evidence surfaced that police detective Nicholas DiGaudio told a potential witness that "less is more" when she said Lucia Evans, one of the women accusing Weinstein of sexual misconduct, told her a different story at the time of the alleged assault.
Charges based on Evans's allegations were dropped a year after her account was first published in The New Yorker. She told the magazine that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex during a meeting in his office in 2004.
The New Yorker story included accounts from several other women who described allegations against Weinstein ranging from unwanted touching to rape.
The New York Times also detailed allegations from multiple women — including actresses Ashley Judd, Gwenyth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie — that Weinstein sexually harassed them.
The wave of allegations against Weinstein helped spark the broader "Me Too" movement. Women and men in the past year have accused figures including former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Louis CK, Kevin Spacey, and other high-profile men in the entertainment and media industries of sexual misconduct
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Bombshell! Trump DESTROYS the dishonest media
If President Donald Trump’s press conference Thursday was a boxing match, it would’ve been a brutal knockout.
Trump laid into the dishonest media with quick wit and quickly established this was different than anything the mainstream was used to.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. This was a no-holds-bar attack from Trump. The president slammed CNN and other mainstream networks for their shameful bias, destroyed liberal media reports that his campaign advisers had inappropriate contact with Russian officials, and vowed to crack down on the leaking of classified information.
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Nearly a month into his presidency, Trump also said in the White House news conference that his new administration had made “significant progress” and took credit for an optimistic business climate and a soaring stock market.
“This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine,” Trump declared. He said he would announce a “new and very comprehensive [executive] order to protect our people” that will replace the previous travel ban being tied up by liberal lawsuits.
Throughout the news conference in the East Room of the White House, the new president didn’t hold back. He delivered repeated criticism of the news media, accusing it of being “out of control” and promising to take his message “straight to the people.”
He dismissed recent reports in The New York Times and CNN that Trump campaign aides had been in contact with Russian officials before his election. Trump called Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who has ties to Ukraine and Russia, a “respected man.”
Trump called the reports a “ruse” and said he had “nothing to do with Russia.” Trump added, “Russia is fake news. This is fake news put out by the media.”
Amid reports of widespread leaks within his administration, Trump also warned that he would clamp down on the dissemination of sensitive information, saying he had asked the Justice Department to look into the leaks. “Those are criminal leaks,” adding, “The leaks are real. The news is fake.”
Trump, who was elected as an outsider intent on change, opened the hastily arranged news conference with a stinging rebuke of corporate media. He accused reporters of not telling the truth and only serving special interests.
“The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people,” Trump said.
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The president said his ousted national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was “just doing his job,” but said he was “not happy” with how information about Flynn’s phone call to a Russian diplomat was relayed to Vice President Mike Pence.
But Trump said what Flynn did “wasn’t wrong” and said he had identified a strong replacement for Flynn, which made the decision to let him go easier.
Trump is said to favor Vice Admiral Robert Harward, a former Navy SEAL, as his next national security adviser, according to a White House official. Harward met with top White House officials last week and has the backing of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. He is slated to meet with officials later Thursday.
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Earlier in the day, Trump had a breakfast meeting with some of his staunchest House supporters.
The White House has said Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation because he had misled Vice President Mike Pence over his dealings with Russia and whether he had discussed sanctions with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. Flynn previously had denied those conversations to Pence and other top officials.
On Thursday, he warned in a pair of tweets that “low-life leakers” of classified information will be caught. As journalists were being escorted out of the breakfast meeting, Trump responded to a reporter’s question on the subject by saying: “We’re going to find the leakers” and “they’re going to pay a big price.”
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Interview with Anisa Mehdi
Reflections on the journey and the road ahead
By Yollette Merritt
Anisa Mehdi, Keynote Speaker CSUMB International Week, Nov 13, 2018.
Anisa Mehdi – award-winning journalist, film producer, educator and international champion of civil rights – is the keynote speaker at California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) International Education Week on Nov. 13, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. in the Alumni & Visitors Center.
International by birth, educated at Wellesley College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism and a Fulbright Scholar, Emmy award-winning film reporter, producer and director for National Geographic, Public Broadcasting Corporation, ABC and CBS News, college professor, accomplished musician, multilingual speaker, and president and executive director of an international non-profit, Mehdi is the first American broadcaster to cover the Hajj pilgrimage from Mecca. As executive director of The Abraham Path Initiative – a cultural and educational organization born at Harvard University that promotes the success and viability of cultural heritage and unlikely encounters along Abraham’s ancient route through the modern Middle East – Mehdi is using her training and expertise to build bridges. “Anisa offers… a unique perspective from a lifetime championing conflict resolution and understanding in the Middle East,” said Stratfor Editor-in-Chief David Judson. “The scope of her work on both the region and Muslim cultures continues to build bridges and raise awareness of how those issues shape global politics.” Mehdi has a wealth of experience and insights to share, a small sampling reflected in the following Q & A in advance of her upcoming visit to CSUMB.
We will find that no matter what divides us, what we have in common, what unites us, is far greater.
The Lutrinae: What title do you give yourself or would like to have noted?
Mehdi: My title is President and Executive Director of Abraham Path Initiative.
The Abraham Path Initiative (API) promotes walking in the Middle East as a tool for deepening understanding, experiencing cultures, and fostering friendships across challenging divides. API shines a light on the tradition of hospitality in this region, emphasizing how people welcome strangers in honor of Abraham/Ibrahim, the spiritual ancestor of over half of humanity. For 10 years API seeded walking trails in the region; now we stimulate improvement and extension of locally owned national walking trails to encourage job growth and economic development in an expanding tourism sector. API is an international nonprofit that works with local partners to achieve shared goals; the organization is non-religious and non-political. We envision the simple act of walking as a way for people from around the world to connect, and as a creative space for stories that highlight the unique culture, heritage and hospitality of the region. The Abraham Path Initiative invests in projects that shed light on the kindness and hospitality of the people in the Middle East by supporting trail development, storytelling, job creation and experiential tourism.
Of all professional choices – why journalism, why film?
I want to convey important stories about people whose voices are not often heard. It’s terrific to share those stories with their faces and lives seen and heard first hand. Plus I love to travel and learn.
What are three products of your professional life you are most proud of?
National Geographic’s “Inside Mecca” that will be screened at CSUMB on Nov. 13, my columns on Stratfor.com and my collection of commentaries on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
Who are the most influential individuals who have impacted your professional work and career and what was the impact?
My father, the late Dr Mohammad T Mehdi, champion of Palestinian rights dating back to the 1960s. He was relentless and courageous as the first outspoken Arab American on this subject. Maurice Mirad, my mentor and the producer for whom I worked at CBS News. William Ury, founder of Abraham Path Initiative for his commitment to resolving conflict through listening and mediation.
Are you generally optimistic for the future? Of the U.S.? Of the Middle East?
I am optimistic. All conflicts end some day. Unfortunately, other conflicts always seem to emerge.
Are you still teaching at Seton Hall, a private Catholic University, and if so, what courses and why?
I taught documentary film genre studies for 10 years and loved the experience.
What call to action, what challenge would you give students at CSUMB interested in contributing to a change for the better in our local, national, and international communities?
I would start with the encouragement to say “hello” to the people encountered.
Looking ahead to your visit to the CSUMB campus, what would you like to have accomplished in speaking to the students, faculty, staff and guests?
In our current sociopolitical atmosphere, it seems to me that fear is being encouraged. I would like to discourage fear.
Again, by saying hello to the person sitting next to one, and discovering a person – someone who get hungry, likes to study and who wants to travel – maybe both like to watch Star Trek, or perhaps the movie Black Panther. We will find that no matter what divides us, what we have in common, what unites us, is far greater. I think we have lost some of the confidence we used to have about introducing ourselves to one another. As a professor when I was teaching, it was important that my students introduced themselves to one another and got to know one another and at times, did projects together, especially with those they didn’t already know. At the university, there are opportunities to get to know others by participating in clubs or playing in an orchestra or going to arts performances. Music and the arts have an important role in life as it helps to develops non-verbal communication skills. And it is good to slow down so we can connect with others. One thing I love about walking is that it slows you down, and it is easier to appreciate the surroundings and stop to smell the roses. It is important to challenge ourselves if we want to make a difference. Look at little children – they smile, they wave at everyone, they giggle, they make eye contact. As we grow older, we learn to change.
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Various Artists: The Great Tragedy: Winter Dance Party 1959 (Bear Family)
To honor the 60th anniversary of “The Day The Music Died,” German label Bear Family compiled a thorough and compelling scrapbook that encompasses and highlights of the talents lost that day, performers who appeared on the tour, musical tributes to the victims, and an in-depth booklet with super-rare photos and historical background of that fateful winter tour.
Bobby Bare: The Travelin’ Bare/Constant Sorrow/The Streets Of Baltimore (Morello Records)
Country singer Bobby Bare Will forever be known for his fine material from the 1970s, but his earlier material is no less grand, either; this two CD set collects three of his mid-1960s albums and is a delightful reevaluation of an often overlooked part of his career.
Song Of The Day: Waylon Jennings, “America”
Some thoughts in song about the state of the nation.
Some thoughts on Independence Day, and a moving song I love.
Old Dogs: Old Dogs, Volumes One & Two (Morello Records)
This one-off, one-night-only Outlaw Country supergroup was formed to poke fun and sing about the joys of old age, with all-original material provided by Shel Silverstein. It’s a fun collection of songs, and a fantastic last hurrah for the songwriter, who passed away less than a year later.
The Highwaymen: Live: American Outlaws (Sony Legacy)
A live performance from a country supergroup is good, but it’s not without its flaws…
Various Artists: Out Of Left Field: Where Soul Meets Country (Ace Records)
This superb Ace Records compilation offers up two dozen fine Country versions of songs that were also released by Soul artists. These crossovers aren’t nearly as shocking as you might assume.
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CIAA shows love, respect to its 2018 Hall of Fame class
Earl ‘the Pearl’ Monroe-led Winston-Salem State ’67 team among honorees
Up Next From HBCU
1967 Winston-Salem State College team (with representatives of those who have died) at induction into the CIAA hall of fame in 2018, along with CIAA commissioner (far left), Katrice A. Albert, NCAA executive vice president of inclusion and human resources (second from right)
By Mark W. Wright @Wright_One
Ernest Browne has been running from his past for over 50 years. He is a proud member of the 1967 Winston-Salem State men’s basketball team that holds acclaim as the first historically black college or university (HBCU) to capture an NCAA championship. Yet, with all that glory, he can still recall with painful specificity that practice where all he did was run for over two hours. By himself.
His legendary no-nonsense coach, Clarence “Big House” Gaines, was looking to make an example of Browne, who, along with teammate Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, had arrived late to a game after a longer-than-estimated road trip.
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“Coach was a piece of work,” recalled Browne, sitting across from longtime HBCU football commentator Charlie Neal. “If you played for Coach, you didn’t have a name — you were either ‘son’ or ‘boy,’ and it was his way or the highway. He’d beat you up but then take you to the side and talk to you, and afterwards you’d understand that he’s not so bad and that he’s more like your pop. That was ‘Big House’ Gaines.”
It was that kind of approach that led Winston-Salem State to the highest of heights, becoming the first black college team to ever win an NCAA national title when it defeated Missouri State 77-74 in the ’67 title game.
Browne and a few of his former teammates — including William English, David Green, Frank Hadley Jr., Vaughn Kimbrough, John Lathan, Allen McManus, Monroe, James Reid, Eugene Smiley, Steve Smith, Johnny Watkins and Donald Williams — were enshrined in the 2018 CIAA Hall of Fame class, as part of CIAA Tournament Week festivities, on their 50th anniversary.
“For us to be inducted in the Hall of Fame is something that is special, and we understand that,” added Browne, who later played for the Harlem Globetrotters. “We won but didn’t really understand what we’d done. We end up appreciating it years later. We know now that this is history.”
Other CIAA legends inducted included Kermit Blount, former head football coach and star quarterback of the Winston-Salem State University Rams; Ben Coates, former football standout at Livingstone College; Raymond McDougal, former head golf coach at Fayetteville State University; and Dorothy Cowser Yancy, former president of Shaw University and Johnson C. Smith University.
Each awardee, though with different experiences through the decades, shares an appreciation for history and for mentors who helped them along the way.
“I had four older brothers and five younger sisters,” said Blount, now the head football coach at Johnson C. Smith University, who guided Winston-Salem State to the 1977 and ’78 CIAA championships and was named a Black College All-American in ’78.
“All of them showed me the way. … Then as I got older, I had mentors like [longtime South Carolina State University coach] Willie Jeffries, who supported me and told me that I didn’t have to do it by myself. Just put your time in.”
Coates, the former three-year football letterman at Livingstone College, where he amassed 103 receptions for 1,268 yards and 18 touchdowns, understood that he carried the torch for his school wherever he went — and whether others knew of his school or not.
“Coming from a Division II school when I first got to [the NFL], most guys wanted to hang out, but I made sure I kept that playbook in front of me,” said Coates, who was drafted in the fifth round by the New England Patriots, with whom he spent nine seasons (1991-99) before finishing his professional career with the Baltimore Ravens (2000-01 season). “I wanted to put Livingstone and the CIAA on the map,” added Coates, who played 158 NFL games, amassing 499 receptions and 50 touchdowns, still ranking him second on the Patriots’ all-time career touchdowns list.
WE CAN’T LIVE ON HISTORY
When Dorothy Cowser Yancy stepped to the stage to accept her plaque, Neal noticed that she had notes with her. “You don’t need notes,” he joked. Yancy shot back, to the delight of the crowd: “I’m a professor. I don’t know a professor who doesn’t always have notes.”
Raised on a farm in Alabama, Yancy recalled she decided to attend Johnson C. Smith University in the second grade after she heard her teacher, Mrs. Simmons, playing the piano. When the young student asked her teacher where she learned to play the piano, the teacher told her Johnson C. Smith, and right then her decision was made.
“I grew up on a farm with parents with unbelievable work ethic,” said Yancy, who ultimately became the president at Johnson C. Smith University (1994-2008) and at Shaw University (2009-10; 2011-13).
“My dad worked the farm during the day and had a regular job as well; that’s what I saw, and that’s what made me,” continued the first female university president in the CIAA.
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No stranger to challenges that HBCU have faced and continue to face, Yancy challenged the room filled with alumni and presidents from other institutions to change the old paradigm.
“History is wonderful, but we can’t grow on history,” she said. “Our students today have choices, and they will go to places that give them the best opportunity to shine and to succeed. We need to offer something different to them. We can’t live off our legacy. You’ve got to have passion for the job and enthusiasm. Believe in your product, or nobody will give you money for it.”
Neal was like a point guard running the floor in his interviews of inductees. Neal tossed up questions, and Yancy and others would catch them one-handed and flush them home with stories, keeping a wanting audience in awe. When asked why Browne was the only one punished to run for the entire practice after their ill-fated trip home — and not Monroe, who drove — Browne said Gaines answered his query with a question of his own: “I thought you were smarter than that” — pointing to Monroe’s 41.5 points per game.
“That was Coach … always keeping you on your toes.”
Born in the UK and raised in Jamaica, Mark W. Wright is a writer and director of special projects at The Undefeated. A quick glance at his work and it’s safe to assume that soccer – and coverage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities – are among his passions.
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What you don’t know about Melania Trump?
May 20, 2017 | Politics
It seems you can turn nowhere nowadays without seeing or hearing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. But for as public as the New York billionaire is, his wife, Melania, is private.
For someone who could be the next first lady of the United States, much about her remains a mystery.
Below are a few things we know about the Slovenian-born beauty:
She was born in the former Yugoslavia to a father who ran a car dealership and a mother who was a clothing designer.
She is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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She is 45 years old – soon to be 46; her birthday is April 26.
She began modeling at age 16.
She studied design and architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Her eyes are blue.
Her net worth is estimated to be at $10 million.
She designs jewelry and timepieces.
She met Trump in November 1998 at a New York Fashion Week party. She was 28. He was 52.
She married Trump in 2005 — her first marriage, his third.
She and Trump have one child, a son, named Baron.
She is 7 years older than Trump’s oldest child.
She is 5’11” inches tall – Trump is 6’2’’.
Her face has been on the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, British GQ, Glamour and more. She has been featured in a photo layout in Sports Illustrated.
She wears a 25-carat diamond that was a gift from her husband for their 10th wedding anniversary.
If she does become first lady, she will be the first to have been born and raised in a communist country.
She would not be the first to have modeled professionally – Pat Nixon and Betty Ford both were models.
She speaks five languages — Slovenian, English, French, Serbian and German.
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February 13, 2019 / 6:48 PM / 5 months ago
U.S. senators to try again to pass Russia sanctions bill
Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would impose stiff new sanctions on Russia over its meddling in U.S. elections and aggression against Ukraine, the latest congressional effort to push President Donald Trump to ratchet up Washington’s response to Moscow.
FILE PHOTO: Russian marines march during the Navy Day parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, July 29, 2018. REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov
It was introduced by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, as well as other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It is a tougher version of legislation - dubbed the “sanctions bill from hell” by Graham - the two lawmakers backed last year but which failed to pass.
The new bill, which was first reported by Reuters, may have a better chance of passing Congress now, either as a whole or as amendments to other legislation, in the face of growing bipartisan anger over Russia’s interference in other countries’ affairs.
Trump, who has gone along with some previous congressional efforts to increase sanctions on Russia, though sometimes reluctantly, would have to sign the bill before it became law.
“President Trump’s wilful paralysis in the face of Kremlin aggression has reached a boiling point in Congress,” Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the bill.
Targets of the sanctions would include: Russian banks that support efforts to interfere in foreign elections; the country’s cyber sector; new sovereign debt; and individuals deemed to “facilitate illicit and corrupt activities, directly or indirectly, on behalf of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.”
The bill also would impose several strict measures on Russia’s oil and gas sector, which makes up about 40 percent of the Russian government’s revenues, including sanctioning people who provide goods, services or financing to support the development of crude oil in the country. Russian state-owned energy projects outside of Russia including investments in liquefied natural gas projects also would face sanctions.
Global energy companies including BP (BP.L), Shell (RDSa.L) and ENI (ENI.MI) are likely to oppose the bill as are U.S.-based companies including Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N). BP owns nearly 20 percent in Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer.
Brian O’Toole, who worked on sanctions at the U.S. Treasury under former President Barack Obama, said the bill is a salvo in Congress’ negotiations with the Trump administration over Russia, although some provisions, particularly on energy, must be watered down to get enough support to pass.
“But I think there is an appetite to be angry with Russia right now, not just from the Democratic side,” O’Toole said.
CONFRONTING TRUMP
Members of Congress, including many of Trump’s fellow Republicans, have pushed the president to act more forcefully against Moscow during his presidency, which has been shadowed by Russia-related probes.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and Moscow’s possible collusion with the Trump campaign. Russia has denied interfering in the election and Trump has called the probe a witch hunt.
The Senate, where Republicans have a slim majority, narrowly failed last month to pass a resolution disapproving of Trump’s easing of sanctions on Russian companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Supporters of the effort vowed to try again.
Menendez said Congress wanted action to respond to the humanitarian disaster in Syria, where Russia backs President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine, “and the steady erosion of international norms.”
“One thing is increasingly clear: Moscow will continue to push until it meets genuine resistance,” Menendez said.
Graham, a leading Republican congressional foreign policy voice and Trump ally, said he was determined to send a strong message to Moscow.
“Our goal is to change the status quo and impose meaningful sanctions and measures against Putin’s Russia,” Graham said in a statement. “He should cease and desist meddling in the U.S. electoral process, halt cyberattacks on American infrastructure, remove Russia from Ukraine, and stop efforts to create chaos in Syria.”
The bill, the “Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act,” known as DASKA, would create U.S. policy offices on cyber defences and sanctions coordination. It would also require a report on Putin’s net worth and assets.
It includes strong support for NATO, including requiring a two-thirds majority in the Senate in order for the United States to leave the alliance. It includes provisions to make it easier to transfer excess military equipment to NATO countries to reduce their dependences on Russian products.
The bill was also introduced by Republican Senator Cory Gardner and Democratic Senators Ben Cardin and Jeanne Shaheen.
Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Additional reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Paul Simao and Leslie Adler
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Shirin Neshat, Iranian Film Director
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Islamic women are powerful ladies drawing on powerful mythological sources. My favorite is Shirin Neshat (1957-), from Iran. I just watched a film directed by her, Women without Men, which is available through Netflix. The surrealistic film is based on a surrealistic novella by Shahrnush Parsipur (translation available from Syracuse University Press, 1998)
Neshat’s story is about four women living in 1953 when a coup ousted the President Mohammed Mosaddeq in favor of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. (In case you haven’t heard of Mosaddeq, and I had to look him up, he was an elected leader in Iran, who the CIA and the British intelligence deposed, putting in the Shah of Iran with his repressive reign. And that is only one of the reasons the people in the Middle East are angry at the U.S. and Britain.)
One woman is a communist; one is a prostitute; one an older women who had been a singer, but her husband didn’t allow her to sing; and the last is a woman who is concerned about the importance of virginity.
Farrok, the older woman, leaves her husband and buys a house with a garden. In Islam, heaven is perceived as a garden so in a sense she creates a heaven for women to which the other three women come. The surrealistic scenes of the garden are eerie and breathtaking. It is both a political film, representing anger against the U.S. and Britain, and a mythological film, delving into the depths of women’s souls as they attempt to actualize themselves withn this sacred space.
Shirin Neshat's art is disturbing as it focuses on conflicting issues in the reader's mind regarding politics and Islam." Shirin Neshat has been famous in the West for a number of years for her photography and art films. In her photographs she juxtaposes the words of the Qur'an with guns. One of my favorites, "Faceless", shows a young women with Qur'anic calligraphy painted on her face and arms, with a chador on, pointing a gun at the camera. One sees the woman’s gracious face, the malignant gun, the covering chador, then under the chador the words of the Qur'an which illuminate Islam. Is it positive or negative? One doesn’t know, but it is disturbing, both as a statement on violence and a statement on women’s rights.
Her first art film, Turbulent, also juxtaposes two images one on each side of the gallery. On one side, a male singer, singing a love song by Rumi to a large audience, is contrasted with, on the other side, a female singer, singing her own composition to an empty set of seats.
In all her work, she digs at the roots of cultural perceptions on women and women’s perceptions of themselves. Her work is as groundbreaking as that of Judy Chicago and Cindy Sherman, going beyond the symbols those artists played with, to the inner mythological working of women’s mind.
(Shirin Neshat. Carta: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Milan, 2002)
P. G. Misty Sheehan has been a UU for 35 years and has worked on Women and Religion since 1979. She teaches philosphy and religion at Northwestern Michigan College, including a course on Women's Spirituallity.
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What’s In A Number? — 2006 Edition
Recently, the British medical journal The Lancet published an study which updated their estimate of the number of Iraqis who've died since the U.S. invasion. With that in mind, we revisit a show we did in 2005 about the earlier study published in Lancet estimating the number of Iraqi deaths. That study was mostly ignored in the U.S. Alex Blumberg revisits the original study and looks at the new one.
The U.S. Army
Host Ira Glass talks to ordinary Iraqis about life in their country since the U.S. invasion. Every one of them has friends and relatives—civilians—who've been killed in the violence there. (4 minutes)
Truth, Damn Truth And Statistics
Two years ago, a Johns Hopkins University study published in The Lancet estimated the number of civilian casualties in Iraq. It came up with a number—100,000 dead—that was higher than any other estimate at the time and was mostly ignored. Producer Alex Blumberg tells the remarkable story of what it took to find that number, why we should find it credible and why almost no one believed it. (37 minutes).
Not Just A Number
Captain Ryan Gist was given a particularly tough assignment in Iraq: To build relationships with a town where U.S. bombs had killed twelve innocent people. But first he has to apologize to the families of those who were killed. We hear the apology, captured on tape by a journalist in Iraq, and talk to Captain Gist about his work there after this incident. (8 minutes)
The War This Time
The Lancet's new study of deaths in Iraq, by the same research team that did the earlier study, yielded an astounding number—650,000 civilian deaths. Producer Alex Blumberg talks to Ira about the debate over this new study. (6 minutes)
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Sissies
A family where the father was one kind of sissy and the son was another kind, and how the family was destroyed despite the fact that no one wanted it to be.
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One million students sit for national exams
Students register for the national high school exam in Ha Noi.— Photo Phuong Vy
HA NOI (VNS) — More than one million students completed registration for the national high school exam, which began today in 38 testing centres throughout the country. Students will not only battle their nerves but also the extreme hot weather blanketing northern and central regions, set to surpass 40 degrees Celsius in Ha Noi.
At the Ha Noi University of Science and Technology testing centre, candidate Nguyen Tuan Dat, of Ha Noi's Hai Ba Trung High School, said, "I'm still a little bit nervous even though I already know about all the exam procedures."
The Ministry of Education and Training organised a rollout of the exam over four days, from July 1 to 4, and instituted a massive change for the first time. This year, students will take only one national exam instead of separate high school graduation and university entrance exams.
Exam results will be a consideration in both high school graduation and university admissions.
Students will be tested in four subjects, three of which are compulsory subjects of mathematics, literature and a foreign language. The fourth is an optional subject- students can choose from physics, chemistry, biology, history and geography.
The students are allowed to take extra tests in other subjects for better chances of getting admission to the university or college of their choice.
Students have three hours to write well-composed answers in the mathematics, literature, history and geography tests. There will be 90-minute multiple-choice tests for physics, chemistry, biology and foreign languages.
Preparation in localities
The education ministry's inspection teams visited localities in the countryside to check preparations. The reports were positive, saying localities carefully prepared for the exam.
Inspectors said they actively arranged accommodation and means of transport as well as created favourable conditions for a smooth exam experience.
A huge force of university volunteers, estimated over 60,000, were present at testing centres, bus stations and in surrounding streets to help candidates get to their exam centres.
Ho Xuan Luong, of Ha Nam Province, brought his daughter to the Ha Noi University of Culture's testing centre for the exam. He said that he worried he would not know how to find the school, but university volunteers took him and his daughter to the school for free.
In HCM City, Nguyen Duc Thuan, head of a university volunteer team at Le Hong Phong High School's testing centre, said that the team had reserved 50 rooms at cheap prices near the testing centre for candidates.
Quach Dat Hai, director of HCM City's Student Assistance Centre, said that the centre arranged 10,000 rooms, 60,000 meals, 2,000 noodle packages and 200,000 city maps to give to candidates for free.
In Ha Giang Province, ethnic-minority candidates testing at Tan Trao University's centre each received financial support of VND1.1 million (US$50) for meals, accommodation and travel.
In Gia Lai Province, traffic police are present to ensure smooth traffic flows during the exam period.
Provincial authorities ordered owners of hostels, hotels, room rentals, restaurants and food courts to refrain from increasing prices during the exam.
Colonel Phan Thanh Tam, head of the Pleiku City's Police, said that 300 police would be on duty day and night until the exam ended to ensure security.
The latest update from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting warned that candidates in northern and central regions could suffer from extreme hot weather during the four days.
The highest temperatures forecast are 40 degrees Celsius at 1-3pm in Ha Noi, and 39 degrees Celsius in Da Nang.
The weather is expected to be more pleasant in central highlands and southern regions. The highest temperatures forecast is 33 in central highlands and 35 down south.
In HCM City, the daily temperature will likely range from 30 to 35 degrees Celsius with showers at night. — VNS
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When you get started, you’ll answer a series of online questions to address your current weight, health concerns and lifestyle (like whether you cook or dine out more, and whether you sit at a desk most of the day). From there, you’ll be assigned a coach and given eating recommendations, as well as have access to built-in tools to help you track your fitness, food, blood pressure and blood sugar. Much of the advice comes in the form of short tips and quizzes, which, according to reviews, can be both helpful and overwhelming. If you find the on-boarding process cumbersome, this may not be the program for you, since the rest of the content on the platform is set up in a similar fashion.
Why is the keto diet good for you? A keto diet is one that prioritizes fats and proteins over carbohydrates. It can help reduce body weight, acne, and the risk of cancer. Find out about the mechanisms through which it achieves these benefits and the research that supports it. This MNT Knowledge Center article also discusses the risks of the diet. Read now
CONTRAVE® (naltrexone HCI/bupropion HCl) is a prescription weight-loss medicine that may help adults with obesity (BMI greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2), or who are overweight (BMI greater than or equal to 27 kg/m2) with at least one weight-related medical condition, lose weight and keep the weight off. CONTRAVE should be used along with diet and exercise.
Bupropion/naltrexone is a combination drug used for weight loss in those that are either obese or overweight with some weight-related illnesses It combines low doses of bupropion and naltrexone. Both drugs have individually shown some evidence of effectiveness in weight loss, and the combination has been shown to have some synergistic effects on weight. In September 2014, a sustained release formulation of the drug was approved for marketing in the United States under the brand name Contrave. The combination was subsequently approved in the European Union in the spring of 2015, where it will be sold under the name Mysimba.
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Agreatdietplan, IOU812, or FarmerJames (the game you play all day rather than exercise), you have been banned from every other webpage. Why are you so desperate for attention? Too sick from eating all those bags of chips ma bought for you to get a job? No one is going to hire you because you are clearly mentally ill. You’re a great arguement for why abortion should stay legal. Too bad your mom didn’t have the money to prevent her last final disaster… YOU.
Meanwhile, phentermine had been FDA approved in 1959 and fenfluramine in 1973. The two were no more popular than other drugs until in 1992 a researcher reported that when combined the two caused a 10% weight loss which was maintained for more than two years.[20] Fen-phen was born and rapidly became the most commonly prescribed diet medication. Dexfenfluramine (Redux) was developed in the mid-1990s as an alternative to fenfluramine with fewer side-effects, and received regulatory approval in 1996. However, this coincided with mounting evidence that the combination could cause valvular heart disease in up to 30% of those who had taken it, leading to withdrawal of Fen-phen and dexfenfluramine from the market in September 1997.[16]
Therefore, when you’re following a ketogenic diet plan for beginners, your body is burning fat for energy rather than carbohydrates, so in the process most people lose weight and excess body fat rapidly, even when consuming lots of fat and adequate calories through their daily food intake. Another major benefit of the keto diet is that there’s no need to count calories, feel hungry or attempt to burn loads of calories through hours of intense exercise.
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When in the hospital, glucose levels are checked several times daily and the patient is monitored for signs of symptomatic ketosis (which can be treated with a small quantity of orange juice). Lack of energy and lethargy are common, but disappear within two weeks.[17] The parents attend classes over the first three full days, which cover nutrition, managing the diet, preparing meals, avoiding sugar, and handling illness.[19] The level of parental education and commitment required is higher than with medication.[44]
The duodenum, or the first portion of the small intestine, is divided just past the outlet of the stomach. A segment of the distal (last portion) small intestine is then brought up and connected to the outlet of the newly created stomach, so that when the patient eats, the food goes through a newly created tubular stomach pouch and empties directly into the last segment of the small intestine. Roughly three-fourths of the small intestine is bypassed by the food stream.
^ Freeman JM, Vining EP, Pillas DJ, Pyzik PL, Casey JC, Kelly LM. The efficacy of the ketogenic diet—1998: a prospective evaluation of intervention in 150 children. Pediatrics. 1998 Dec;102(6):1358–63. doi:10.1542/peds.102.6.1358. PMID 9832569. https://web.archive.org/web/20040629224858/http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1998/DECEMBER/981207.HTM Lay summary]—JHMI Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Updated 7 December 1998. Cited 6 March 2008.
It’s a cool option in situations when barcodes aren’t available, but the results and calorie estimates vary wildly. That’s true of Lose It in general, which sometimes differs from similar listings on MyFitnessPal by as much as 200 calories. That’s not entirely Lose It’s fault, though, as the majority of entries in both apps were submitted by users, which is obvious from the way typos and misspellings outnumber preservatives in a Twinkie. With so mistakes like that in the letters, some goofs are bound to pop up in the numbers as well.
Bariatric surgical procedures cause weight loss by restricting the amount of food the stomach can hold, causing malabsorption of nutrients, or by a combination of both gastric restriction and malabsorption. Bariatric procedures also often cause hormonal changes. Most weight loss surgeries today are performed using minimally invasive techniques (laparoscopic surgery).
Hi Mel, Assuming that your ranch dressing doesn’t have sugar added, you don’t need to worry too much about limiting it, but within reason. This is my homemade ranch dressing recipe, which has 0.9g net carbs per 2-tbsp serving. It would be hard to find a store bought one with much less than that, even though some round anything less than 1g down to 0g, which isn’t truly accurate. Also, keep in mind that if weight loss is your goal, some people find that too much dairy can cause a stall. Finally, make sure you aren’t using all your “available” carbs on ranch dressing – have it with some low carb veggies!
The only issue with keto, is really that I’m afraid that it might be hard to up my calories to a maintenance weight now that I’ve gotten a taste preference for the rich assortment of foods with no carbs in them. I’m satisfied with less calories than I will need after my excess fat is burned off… but , maybe I bet my body will send more hunger signs once there isn’t anymore body fat in the cupboard to use instead of what goes down my throat.
Theresa Soltesz graduated with her Bachelor’s Degree in Addiction Science and Addiction Counseling from Minnesota State University in 2010. Upon completion of her degree and clinical internship, Theresa began her career as an Addiction Counselor in 2010. Theresa is currently certified as a Certified Addiction Professional (CAP) by The Florida Certification Board, a Certified International Alcohol and Drug Counselor (ICADC) by The International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) since 2013. Theresa is also a Certified Professional Life Coach and is currently awaiting an additional certification as a Certified Behavioral Health Case Manager (CBHCM) by The Florida Certification Board.
There are a variety of games that get you off the couch and moving around. Some notable examples include Pokémon GO, The Walking Dead: Our World, Ingress, Ghostbusters World, and the popular Zombies, Run game. Most of them are AR video games where you go out into the real world, check-in at real world locations, and perform various types of activities. Zombies, Run is a running app that tells you a story that you unlock as you continue running. The AR games are generally freemium while Zombies, Run is a subscription service that starts at $2.99 per month. These are excellent games for losing weight if you want some extra motivation to get off of the couch and go running or walking around.
In 1921, Rollin Turner Woodyatt reviewed the research on diet and diabetes. He reported that three water-soluble compounds, β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate, and acetone (known collectively as ketone bodies), were produced by the liver in otherwise healthy people when they were starved or if they consumed a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.[10] Dr. Russell Morse Wilder, at the Mayo Clinic, built on this research and coined the term "ketogenic diet" to describe a diet that produced a high level of ketone bodies in the blood (ketonemia) through an excess of fat and lack of carbohydrate. Wilder hoped to obtain the benefits of fasting in a dietary therapy that could be maintained indefinitely. His trial on a few epilepsy patients in 1921 was the first use of the ketogenic diet as a treatment for epilepsy.[10]
Meat products make up a big part of the keto diet, but experts stress the importance of choosing quality. "Since the keto diet is based a lot on animal proteins, it's important to buy organic poultry and grass-fed, organic beef," says Aimee Aristotelous, RD. "Not only do organic selections help with limiting environmental toxins, but grass-fed options of red meats even change the composition of fats." The result, she explains, is that your body is able to better absorb those healthy fats.
Amphetamines (marketed as Benzedrine) became popular for weight loss during the late 1930s. They worked primarily by suppressing appetite, and had other beneficial effects such as increased alertness. Use of amphetamines increased over the subsequent decades, including Obetrol and culminating in the "rainbow diet pill" regime.[15] This was a combination of multiple pills, all thought to help with weight loss, taken throughout the day. Typical regimens included stimulants, such as amphetamines, as well as thyroid hormone, diuretics, digitalis, laxatives, and often a barbiturate to suppress the side effects of the stimulants.[15] In 1967/1968 a number of deaths attributed to diet pills triggered a Senate investigation and the gradual implementation of greater restrictions on the market.[16] While rainbow diet pills were banned in the US in the late 1960s, they reappeared in South America and Europe in the 1980s.[15] Eventually rainbow diet pills were re-introduced into the US by the 2000s and led to additional adverse health effects.[17][18][19]
Before a workout, turbocharge the fat-blasting effects by sipping a cup of green tea. In a recent 12-week study, participants who combined a daily habit of 4-5 cups of green tea each day with a 25-minute sweat session lost an average of two more pounds than the non tea-drinking exercisers. Thank the compounds in green tea called catechins, belly-fat crusaders that blast adipose tissue by triggering the release of fat from fat cells (particularly in the belly), and then speeding up the liver's capacity for turning that fat into energy.
To help curb over-prescribing, physicians in Ohio are now forbidden from giving out any weight loss drug in a manner contrary to the FDA label. Those who do risk losing their medical license and being charged with a felony. Tennessee does not allow doctors to prescribe phentermine (and other amphetamine-like substances) without prior approval from the State Board of Medical Examiners.
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I don’t like to knock any program or plan that makes people feel mentally and physically healthier. However, I will point out that there’s a huge difference in education and training between a health coach and an RD. If you have any food sensitivities, medical concerns, or other roadblocks to eating better (including lifestyle issues, like business travel or inexperience cooking), you’d be better off working one on one with someone who can help you discover what works best for your unique body and circumstances.
After initiation, the child regularly visits the hospital outpatient clinic where they are seen by the dietitian and neurologist, and various tests and examinations are performed. These are held every three months for the first year and then every six months thereafter. Infants under one year old are seen more frequently, with the initial visit held after just two to four weeks.[9] A period of minor adjustments is necessary to ensure consistent ketosis is maintained and to better adapt the meal plans to the patient. This fine-tuning is typically done over the telephone with the hospital dietitian[19] and includes changing the number of calories, altering the ketogenic ratio, or adding some MCT or coconut oils to a classic diet.[18] Urinary ketone levels are checked daily to detect whether ketosis has been achieved and to confirm that the patient is following the diet, though the level of ketones does not correlate with an anticonvulsant effect.[19] This is performed using ketone test strips containing nitroprusside, which change colour from buff-pink to maroon in the presence of acetoacetate (one of the three ketone bodies).[45]
We are brazilian, living in Brazil. My daughter, Isabel, 21y. o., born in 1996, has syndrome of deficiency of Glut1. She was diagnosed around her first year of life. At that time her baby bottle, her begining diet meal, was 50ml water plus 50ml oil plus vitamin. Since then, which means, for 20 years, she is under this diet. For almost 18 years under 4:1 proportion. At this right moment 3:1. The only problem she had since started the diet were kidney stones in 2002. Nothing else. Grateful to the diet she doesn’t take any kind of medicine to avoid seizures. Her health is perfect, no colesterol at all. We are at your will for any issues related to her health.
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6-year-old boy with autism vanishes from North Carolina park
Posted 8:01 AM, September 24, 2018, by CNN Wire
Authorities are searching for a 6-year-old boy with autism, who is described as nonverbal and has been missing since Saturday.
GASTONIA, N.C. — Authorities are searching for a 6-year-old boy with autism, who is described as nonverbal and has been missing since Saturday.
Maddox Scott Ritch was last seen at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia, North Carolina, according to city police. Gastonia is about 23 miles east of Charlotte.
Maddox was last seen with his father and another adult at the park around 1:30 p.m. Saturday, according to CNN affiliate WSOC-TV.
“They were walking around the lake,” Rachel Bagley, Gastonia spokeswoman, told WSOC. “They got around to the back side of the lake. He started running, according to the parents, and when they started running after him, they lost sight of him, and no one has seen him ever since.”
Since Maddox’s disappearance, about 100 to 125 people have searched the more than 1,400 acres in and around Rankin Lake Park, police said. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s helicopter joined the search Sunday evening. All activities at the park are canceled and it will remain closed to the public until further notice, police said.
More than 24 agencies have joined the search including the FBI which says it is looking at every possibility including abduction, according to CNN affiliate WBTV. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is also assisting in the search, WBTV said.
“If you were at Rankin Lake Park on Saturday and saw Maddox or took video or photos of their outing at the park, call us,” said Gastonia Police Chief Robert Helton during a Sunday afternoon press conference. “We know a lot of people were in the park and we have spoken to many of them, but we have not spoken to everyone. No piece of information is too small. Something you may think is insignificant could be helpful to our case.”
Police said Maddox is 4 feet tall and weighs 45 pounds. He has blond hair and blue eyes. Maddox was last seen wearing an orange T-shirt with the words “I am the man” and black shorts.
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More Mixed-Use Underway in Hollywood
New apartment building and parking garage rise near vacant office building.
One block south of the Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue, where the controversial Hollywood Target remains a half-finished husk, construction has quietly started on another mixed-use development.
Gemdale Corp., a large Chinese real estate firm, is partnering with Los Angeles-based LaTerra Development to construct a $125-million residential-retail complex on the former home of the defunt post-production firm Deluxe Laboratories. The project, located on a 3.5-acre site at 1350 N. Western Avenue, will be highlighted by a six-story building featuring 254 apartments - including 21 units of affordable housing - and approximately 4,000 square feet of ground-level commercial space.
Other components of the project include the refurbishment of an existing 68,000-square-foot office building, which has been fully leased to financial technology company ZestFinance. Gemdale intends to eventually sell the three-story structure.
The podium-style building is being designed by PSL Architects.
The first stage of the project, a standalone parking garage, is now rising at the northwest corner of the property. Construction was able to begin thanks to a $30-million bridge loan secured with the assistance of the real estate investment banking firm George Smith Partners.
Completion of the full development is expected in 2018.
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Mitsubishi Electric provides semiconductors/devices including power modules and driver ICs that handle the highly efficient control of power, optical devices that deliver the performance required in fibre-optic communication devices, high frequency devices that cover everything from radios and mobile phones to satellite communications, and the line of TFT-LCD modules that improve interfaces for information.
Mitsubishi Electric power modules are manufactured with state-of-the-art technologies that ensure the highest levels of performance and reliability while offering impressive energy savings for the products and systems they're used in. Our line-up of products is extensive, ranging from power modules developed to control high-voltage power generation, industrial manufacturing and railway systems to applications in home products, such as controlling the electricity used by air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators. To maintain our market-leading position, the company's R&D activities aiming to realize further reductions in power consumption and size are ongoing.
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Mitsubishi Electric's line-up of power semiconductors include HVICs (High-Voltage IC). An HVIC is a high-voltage IC with various built-in protection functions; it uses input signals from a microcomputer or other device to directly drive gates in power MOSFETs or IGBTs.
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Mitsubishi Electric's thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) modules are built for a wide variety of industrial uses, such as for measuring instruments, automatic teller machines (ATM), point of sale terminals (POS), factory automation equipment (FA) and more. Designed for high reliability, optimal visibility, and enhanced viewability, Mitsubishi Electric's leading-edge TFT-LCD modules ensure optimum performance and excellent color quality in a broad range of indoor and outdoor operating environments. The technologies behind them bring us one step closer to the realization of true images with realistic color and clear visibility in sunlight.
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Is the Ring of Fire more active with volcanoes, earthquakes than usual?
May 15, 2018, 8:21:58 AM EDT
Reports of earthquakes and volcano eruptions in regions along the Ring of Fire might lead some to believe that the level of activity in recent months is above average.
The approximately 25,000-mile-long, horseshoe-shaped Ring of Fire outlines the Pacific Ocean and is known for its chain of volcanoes and as the location for 90 percent of Earth’s earthquakes.
In February, Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano exploded, coating nearby villages in ash and shooting a massive ash cloud about 3 miles up into the air. Not long after the eruption, a deadly magnitude-7.5 earthquake shook Papua New Guinea with what was considered its worst quake in a century.
Experts say that these occurrences, along with a string of other recent earthquakes and volcanic activity, aren’t anything out of the ordinary for the notably active Ring of Fire.
Gases rise from lava fissure 17 after it erupted early Sunday, May 13, 2018 near Pahoa, Hawaii. The new fissure emitting steam and lava spatter spurred Hawaii officials to call for more evacuations on Sunday as residents braced for an expected eruption from the Kilauea volcano. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
“There are always one or a few volcanoes acting up somewhere along the Ring of Fire, and there are frequent earthquakes,” said Dr. Greg Valentine, geology professor and director of the University at Buffalo's Center for Geohazards Studies.
“The main thing that has changed recently is that we can measure these things all over the world and disseminate the information to the public quickly,” Valentine said. Previously, he noted, only big earthquakes and volcanic eruptions were noticed and made the news.
Dr. Stephen Malone, research professor emeritus at the University of Washington, conducted several different searches of earthquake activity, checking for the number of occurrences above a threshold magnitude of 4.5 both worldwide and in the Ring of Fire, also known as the circum-Pacific tectonic belt.
Malone found no unusual number of occurrences in the previous one or two months, he told AccuWeather. “In fact, the number of really large events [with a magnitude greater than 6.5] over the past two months is quite a bit below the average over the past several years,” he said.
In the case of volcanic activity, reviewing the Smithsonian/ USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report can be helpful, Malone recommended. A glance through this data set indicates a large variability by week and seems to show that that anywhere between 10 and 50 volcanoes are reported to be active in any given week, with anywhere between three and 11 volcanoes being newly active in that week.
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“Over the past couple of months, there have been between 15 and 22 total active and between three and eight new volcanoes,” Malone said. “In the cases of both earthquakes and volcanoes, most of them do occur in the Ring of Fire, as is usual."
The recent volcanic and earthquake activity occurring in Hawaii following the eruption of Kilauea have prompted fears of Ring of Fire activity along the western coast of the United States, according to a recent news report.
However, Hawaii is not part of the Ring of Fire, which occurs around the edges of the ocean crust plates, explained Valentine. “It is instead an isolated volcanic system in the middle of an ocean plate,” Valentine said. “It is caused by a hot spot, a place where hot material from the mantle is rising.”
The current activity in Hawaii is a continuation of an eruption that began in 1983, according to Valentine.
There may be geophysical reasons why more volcanic and earthquake activity may cluster in space and time, Malone said. “[However], with the natural variability in such activity, it is hard to be convinced that minor groupings here or there have any geophysical significance,” he added.
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Portugal – Ukraine Prediction & Picks (22.03.2019) by 007soccerpicks.com
Portugal – Ukraine Prediction & Picks (22.03.2019)
Portugal – Ukraine SOCCER PICKS
Portugal and Ukraine meet at Estádio do Sport Lisboa and Benfica (da Luz), in a match for this phase of the Qualification Round for the European Championship (Qualifying Round). There is no record of direct confrontations between these two teams in the last 3 years. The last match was played on 09-11-1996 and ended with the score: Portugal (1-0) Ukraine. In this match the home factor may be decisive, since Portugal presents considerable differences in their results at home and as a visitor.
The home team will make its debut in this edition of the competition, as it did not have to play any of the eliminatory games prior to this group stage. This is a team that, oddly enough, has had better results in away matches than at home, since in the last 30 matches they register 8 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses in away matches; against 7 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss at their stadium. In their last match, for the UEFA Nations League, they got a home tie against Poland at home (1-1). In the last 10 home matches Portugal has 4 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss. They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in 7 of the last 10 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 9 of the last 10 matches. In 15 games, he got the comeback in 2 of the 5 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 19 home matches for all competitions there is 1 period that stands out: they have scored 13 of their 37 goals between minutes (31′-45 ‘).
The selection of Portugal is the favorite to reach the first place of the group, so in the field of play will have to show good football, to get great results and confirm their favoritism. In this first round it will be essential to have control of the game, looking to have possession of the ball and create their attacking moves fairly quickly. In the last match, Portugal tied with Poland by the score of 1×1.The coach must present in the field a very competitive starting eleven.
Ukraine:
The visiting team will make its debut in this edition of the competition, as it did not have to play any of the eliminatory before this group stage. This is a team that usually maintains its competitive levels in home and away matches, since in the last 30 matches they register 6 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses in away matches, with 20 goals scored and 18 conceded; against 10 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses at their stadium, with 17 goals scored and 8 conceded. The team comes to this match after a draw away with Turkey by (0-0). In the last 10 away matches Ukraine has won 4, tied 4 and lost 2. Their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches. In 15 matches, they have conceded the first goal 6 times, but have won the first leg in 2. In the last 12 home matches for all competitions there is 1 period highlighted: they have scored 5 of their 14 goals between minutes (31′-45 ‘ ).
Ukraine is aware of the difficulties it will have in this first round, but wants to surprise its adversary. Playing as a visitor, it will be essential to have redoubled attention, knowing how to make a strong mark and not giving spaces for the owners of the house to dominate the game. In the last match Ukraine tied with Turkey for the score of 0x0. The technician must present in the field what is best available.
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FOUR visionaries hope to have us commuting via hydrail, pushing the boundaries of sound with electronic instruments, and delving deep to envision solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental problems.
Open your mind to a team’s push for clean transportation, Cyril Lance’s sonic engineering exploits at Moog Music, and David McConville’s big picture immersive technology.
Cosmic Vision
David McConville projects visuals from across the universe to explore the world and its complexities
David McConville could live pretty much anywhere around the globe, and in a way he already does. Any given week might find him in Aspen, San Francisco, or New York, or cities in England or Sweden, to name just a few of the places he’s shared his work in the past few months.
But this veteran global educator decided a while ago where he’d plant roots: in the laid-back, funky climes of West Asheville, where he and his wife, artist and editor Nicole McConville, live in a former bank building.
“I’ve been around here off and on since 1989, when I came to study with Bob Moog at UNCA,” McConville explains. Back then, he was a Georgia-born military brat and budding brainiac trying to figure out his future, and Moog, with his work pioneering electronic music, was McConville’s pied piper. Today, the 40-year-old is one of the world’s leading presenters of big data (we’re talking colossal amounts of information)—in particular, vast visualizations that offer new ways to see the earth and known universe, with a close eye on our planet’s environment.
For most of the past decade, he’s been anchored in Asheville. “I find it to be a very energizing home base,” he says. And though he thinks some folks come here to escape rather than engage, the place is ultimately suited to McConville’s style and worldview. “People try to practice that ‘think globally, act locally’ thing, but we also need to think locally and act globally, and a lot of people here obviously feel that—that we can use whatever experiments we have going on here that have shown success to engage with the global community.”
A perpetual experimenter, McConville juggles many roles. He is the co-founder of The Elumenati, an Asheville-based company that designs projection systems for major art and music festivals, libraries, museums, and science centers; creative director at the Worldviews Network, a data visualization project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that connects artists, scientists, and students across the country; and president of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which conducts an annual contest to promote the work of an individual seeking to prompt global changes, along the lines of those explored by Fuller, the late futurist and inventor.
He’s also a student. McConville is close to finishing his Ph.D. in a fittingly unconventional graduate program called the Planetary Collegium, which resides across the span of several universities. (His base in the program is Plymouth University in England.) It’s a transdisciplinary program that allows McConville to pursue art and science in equal measure. In his professional and scholarly work, he says, he’s trying to show “how we can use immersive visualization environments to help people understand the interconnections and interdependence across cosmic, global, and bioregional scales.”
If that sounds fantastical or out of reach, attend one of his virtual tours of the universe, which are modeled from data collected by worldwide authorities, such as NASA and the National Science Foundation, and staged in an inflatable dome. In them, he takes participants from the ground level of our planet to the furthest reaches of the known heavens. It’s an eye-opening experience that illustrates both the expanse of the universe and impact humans have on the earth, in a remarkably relatable way.
At the same time, a session can leave you feeling pretty small, and make you wonder if it’s too late to reverse the tide of climate change. That’s just the sort of complexity McConville wants people to acknowledge and wrestle with.
“Embrace the ambivalence,” he says. “We’re kind of torn between these extremes of love and hate, big and small, human and nature. If I have one big idea, it’s probably this: We try to force everything into a kind of binary logic, but reality doesn’t work like that. There are true contradictions, there are paradoxes—which you can see if you look at things from multiple scales and perceptions.”
Seeing things in new ways isn’t always a simple process, he admits, but he believes it’s a crucial step if humanity is going to achieve "social and ecological resilience."
“One of the most important things we can do right now is to recognize it’s totally within our capacity to think in complex ways,” McConville says. “We need to be thinking in much more complex ways, and we need good examples of what happens when people do that and recognize that we are part of the biosphere. That’s what I like about doing what I do: It brings this stuff up—something that’s not exactly easy to bring up in casual conversation.”
—Jon Elliston
ASU research analyst Jason Hoyle and visionary Stan Thompson push clean rail transport into the future
If and when the day comes that railcars deliver passengers and freight while giving off just water as an exhaust, a good bit of thanks should go to Jason Hoyle and Stan Thompson.
Thompson, a retired BellSouth engineer and futurist, and Hoyle, a research analyst at the Appalachian Energy Center at Appalachian State University, are the visionaries behind the annual International Hydrail Conference, that promotes the use of hydrail, or hydrogen fuel cell-driven railcars, as cleaner, quieter alternatives to the diesel trains in use today.
Fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to create electricity. Hydrogen, the most plentiful element in the universe, can store electricity generated from power sources that range from polluting (fossil fuels) to nonpolluting (renewable energy). For instance, solar, wind, or wave energy can be used to create hydrogen, which stores the energy. This gives us around-the-clock access to the power generated by these intermittent energy sources, even when the sun isn’t shining, wind isn’t blowing, or the seas are still.
At the Energy Center, Hoyle studies economics, finance, and policy issues related to energy, primarily in North Carolina but also across the globe. He has presented papers at several of the international conferences, including one held this summer at the Centre for Railway Research and Education at the University of Birmingham in England. Hoyle also maintains what may be the world’s most comprehensive website dedicated to hydrogen fuel cell technology as it applies to railway locomotion (www.hydrail.org).
He was organizing energy conferences for the state when he was contacted in 2005 by Thompson, who had been leading an effort to establish a 30-mile hydrail commuter line on existing tracks between Mooresville and Charlotte.
The Mooresville project began in 2003 to create a fast route to Charlotte and bring jobs to the surrounding area by attracting fuel cell manufacturers. The project could also help the Queen City meet its federal clean air standards. Thompson decided the rail system stood a better chance of securing funding if the technology advanced more quickly and gained wider awareness, developments he could foster by creating an annual conference for the exchange of information and ideas.
In 2005, Hoyle and Thompson presented the first International Hydrail Conference in Charlotte. The event attracted experts from government agencies, universities, and energy and industrial concerns who spoke about the possibilities, applications, and advantages of fuel cell technology. Since the first, six more conferences have been held around the world, welcoming presenters from 15 countries as well as the European Commission and the United Nations.
The connections made at the events have already advanced the movement. They led to the creation of a Ph.D. program in hydrail technology at the University of Pisa, Italy. The program’s first graduate works with Indian Railways. Collaboration among participants helped create a hydrail railcar in Spain that was successfully tested, but not launched because of the country’s fiscal crisis. Work on hydrail has gone on in Denmark, Russia, and Japan, all countries that have sent presenters to conferences.
Last month, Thompson traveled to Hannover, Germany, to promote the technology behind a narrow-gauge hydrail locomotive built by students at the University of Birmingham.
His German host, an entrepreneur, owns two diesel-powered railcars, known as trams in Europe, and plans to replace the engines with hydrogen fuel cells. That project, which would create a commuter line into Hannover, is remarkably similar to the Mooresville-Charlotte proposal yet to come to fruition, Thompson says. The track is about the same length and will serve about the same number of towns.
Hydrail advantages over diesel-powered trains go beyond decreasing pollution, explains Thompson, who coined the term hydrail that has become the industry catchphrase. The cells mean there is no need for expensive overhead electrical lines that power many railway systems and the access to power need not be interrupted. For instance, if India were using fuel cell-powered trains, the cars would have kept rolling in July when the country experienced massive electrical blackouts, Thompson notes. India and China, countries with very little access to oil, face enormous energy costs to supply power to the vast networks of railway lines, utility costs that might be mitigated by converting the systems to fuel cells.
In 2007, Thompson looked at one year’s diesel fuel consumption at Indian Railways, the biggest railway system in the world. Applying that figure to the 21 years it took the world to transition from steam-driven trains to diesel-powered ones, he concluded that beginning the transition to hydrail just one year sooner would prevent 214 million tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted into the air. More than three billion barrels of crude oil wouldn’t have to be extracted from the earth.
As for the Mooresville line, the project is still being championed by former Mooresville Mayor Bill Thunberg, one of the original visionaries on the project and now executive director of the Lake Norman Technology Transportation Commission.
And though much work and public education lie ahead before a line will connect the town and Charlotte, the project deserves its due for moving the global conversation forward.
Engineer and musician Cyril Lance is honoring the legacy of Bob Moog by advancing electronic innovation
Cyril Lance didn’t think of his first session with electronic instrument mastermind Bob Moog as a job interview. A mutual friend had simply suggested a meeting of two minds with common interests in music, electronics, and physics. Which meant Lance was duly surprised when he was recruited to join Asheville-based Moog Music, a transition that took him from designing equipment used to “listen” to the sonic signature of lightning to empowering the creativity of musicians.
Sadly, the invitation was prompted in part by Bob’s cancer diagnosis that led to his passing in 2005. “At first, I just thought I was helping out while Bob was going through treatment,” Lance recalls. “But suddenly I found myself immersed in this very dynamic company that represents a very inspiring history.”
It’s not hard to recognize the skills and expertise that intrigued Bob. Lance started out early as a musician, and is a highly regarded guitarist—well-schooled in blues and Americana—who’s fronted his own bands (Outskirts of Infinity) and toured with others (Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos and Hobex). However, his technical interests led him to work in recording studios during high school and then to a degree in engineering physics from Cornell in 1984—the same degree Bob received in 1965 from the university. Lance then went on to specialize in designing instruments used in the study of atmospheric physics, which took him on a year-long assignment in Antarctica. But a growing desire to determine how his technical skills could apply to music led to the serendipitous meeting with Bob, the man who invented the electronic synthesizer and offered musicians around the world an ever-expanding array of equipment.
Upon joining the company, Lance’s primary focus became continuing Bob’s vision within a corporate culture fueled by creativity. He’s part of a small team devoted to preserving the legacy of the company’s founder through ongoing development and craftsmanship. Reflecting a low-key personality, Lance acknowledges his formal title of senior engineer, though admits he prefers the irreverent one Bob favored: “Chief Technical Kahuna.”
“What continues to amaze me is that some of Bob’s original principles of instrument design are still very much the core of how we approach instruments,” Lance says. “Even after more than 50 years, there’s still so much room for innovation within the confines of his design philosophies.”
According to Lance, there’s never a shortage of potential projects, with generally four to five instruments in development at any time. The creation of new equipment is never a simple linear process, but involves intense brainstorming, design, and hands-on experimentation and testing by the Moog collective. What results often is very different from the original vision due to the artistic, technical, and business requirements, and even the mystery of the circuit board itself. “We can know in theory and design how a circuit works,” Lance says, “but until you play with it and listen to it, you can’t know if it’s got the magic.”
Inspiration and guidance come from three sources. There’s the cultural influence that suggests what instruments are developed based on demand from musicians. As an example, Lance points to the dramatic impact the sound-bending experimentation of the 1960s psychedelic era had on synthesizers.
The continuing evolution of technology also fuels new ways to do things. This approach is aptly demonstrated by Moog Music’s Animoog, a cutting-edge digital synthesizer application driven by the possibilities presented by the iPad. For Lance, that effort mirrored Bob’s belief in examining new technology and considering what innovative musical tool could be created. Lance also stresses the importance of actively collaborating with musicians to understand how they’re utilizing technology. He underscores the contribution of the Animoog to what he terms the ongoing democratization of music.
Finally, there are new visions based on constant examination of the trends in musical performance and production, even a musician’s stated desire to achieve a new sound. Such was the case with the Moog Guitar, which was launched in 2008. “Here’s an instrument that’s been around for 500 years, but the basics and physics of the instrument really haven’t changed,” Lance says. “The Moog Guitar’s inspiration was to view the guitar string as an oscillator, much like in one of our synthesizers, and then modulating that vibrating piece of metal.”
It was an opportunity to explore something completely new, and the Moog crew knows it’s virtually impossible to envision what musicians are going to create with it—but that’s part of the fun. The ultimate payoff, however, is always the same. “Our most gratifying moments come when we hear a musician create something beautiful and unexpected with our instruments,” Lance says. “That generates even more creative energy that then goes into our commitment to further empower individuals to make music.”
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100 ESSENTIAL BRAZILIAN SONGS YOU MUST HEAR Part 7: The 2000-2010s
Posted in Travel & Leisure by woman2womenblog
Contemporary music –in Brazil, France and elsewhere- has been greatly influenced by social media, video sharing and music streaming, all trademarks of the 2000s and beyond. Specifically for Brazilian music, this globalizing phenomena has had positive, as well as deleterious consequences: increased foreign songs topping the charts on one side, but also Brazilian mainstream music massively available to the rest of the world. The proof: songs like Mc Fioti’s “Bum Bum TamTam” with more than 1 billion! views on YouTube, and Michel Teló’s “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” with over 800 million views…
Despite globalization, Brazil internal music market has seen a meteoric increase in popularity of regional rhythms during this period, mainly sertanejo. Actually, sertanejo is Brazilian audiences‘ preferred music genre .
No one can deny that Brazil is a country with a powerful musical history. Going through all its music repertoire while preparing this series of articles, I can’t help but admire even more its distinct and perennial beauty. Are things changing though? Is Brazilian music going through a phase of decadence? This is an ongoing debate in the country nowadays… Many music critics are definite: today’s consumer society –they believe- leads to “consumable music”; moreover, they blame the universal predominance of sertanejo as responsible for the lack of musical diversification nowadays. “We always had good music and bad music in Brazil -says one critic- but there was a balance. At this time, at least 90% of what record companies release is totally disposable”. Some go even further and state that pagoda, sertanejo and electronic forró are “a tsunami of musical trash unprecedented in the history of Brazilian music”. Other critics are more optimistic. Véronique Mortaigne, writing an article in The Guardian, states that: “Brazil is surfing a musical new wave that is now reaching Europe”, making emphasis on the quality of certain musicians’ work “not afraid to mix the old and the new, irritating a few purists along the way”.
The debate could go on forever. What is certain is that there are still many bright examples of fine Brazilian music. Check out my list with some of the most remarkable songs of the 2000-2010s, go ahead and “Brazilify” your playlist!
87) Bebel Gilberto – “Samba da Bênção” (2000)
Bebel Gilberto is an extremely talented bossa nova singer, and it couldn’t be otherwise: she is the daughter of Joao Gilberto and Miucha, and the niece of Chico Buarque…
She became worldwide known after the release of her amazing album Tanto Tempo. This particular song was written by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell; it was featured in the movie Eat, Pray, Love. Read more here.
88) Pato Fu – “Ando meio desligado” (2001)
This psychedelic anthem was composed by the iconic band Os Mutantes in 1970; it was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as the 50th greatest Brazilian song.
Of the many re-recordings the song has had, I like this one, by the Belo Horizonte band Pato Fu.
89) Gabriel o Pensador – “Até Quando?” (2001)
Known for his intellectual and controversial lyrics, rapper Gabriel o Pensador (“Gabriel the Thinker”) stepped into the limelight with his provocative composition “Tô Feliz (Matei o Presidente)” [I’m Happy (I killed the President)]. He has had a highly successful career since then, topping often the charts with his gold or platinum-certified albums.
Até Quando? (“Until when?”) was released in the album Seja Você Mesmo (mas não Seja sempre o Mesmo) (“Be Yourself (but not always the same”). Its compelling lyrics address the issue of conformism. It was highly praised by most critics and received an award at Brazil’s MTV Video Music Awards.
90) Cássia Eller & Nando Reis – “Relicário” (2001)
Cássia Eller is one of the most successful pop singers/composers in Brazil. Owner of a distinctive contralto voice, she was rated as the 18th greatest vocalist by Rolling Stone Brasil.
This beautiful song was composed by Nando Reis and was included in the live album Acústico MTV, where she sings it together with Reis; it is Cássia’s final album before her death on December 29, 2001 at 39 years old.
91) Tribalistas – “Velha Infancia ” (2002)
Tribalistas is a Brazilian musical supergroup consisting of Arnaldo Antunes (ex-Titãs), Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown (Timbalada). Their debut collaboration resulted in the popular album Tribalistas, which attained considerable popularity in Brazil and Europe. The curious thing with this popular group is that, despite their great success, they have rarely performed together, deciding to go on a world tour just now in 2018.
Among their most popular songs are “Já Sei Namorar” (included on the video game FIFA Football 2004), “Passe em Casa“, “É Você” and “Velha Infância“, played on the Brazilian soap opera Mulheres Apaixonadas.
92) Paulinho da Viola & Marisa Monte – “Carinhoso” (2003)
Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Jr. was not yet Pixinguinha when he began to be called a prodigy, enchanting with his unusual musicality and facility for instruments and improvisations. Considered till nowadays a musical genius, Pixinguinha is regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre choro. “Carinhoso“, was recorded in 1928 and has remained as one of the most famous melodies of Brazilian popular music. Incredibly enough, he received heavy negative criticism at that time, with complaints that it was “too Americanized.”
From Marisa Monte to Elizeth Cardoso, from Paulinho da Viola to Francisco Alves, from Elis Regina to Marcelo Camelo, dozens of artists made their impassioned interpretations of “Carinhoso”; one of my favorites is this one, by Marisa Monte and Paulinho da Viola.
93) Zeca Pagodinho – “Deixa A Vida Me Levar” (2004)
Zeca Pagodinho is a singer and songwriter considered a great name of the genre samba and pagode. He has recorded more than 20 albums and has become immensely popular, not only due to his irreverence and jocosity, bur mostly due to his rare talent, praised by critics and consecrated artists.
This song gives name to his 2004 album Deixa A Vida Me Levar (“Let life take me”), it was extremely successful, becoming double-platinum certified.
94) Sergio Mendes feat. Stevie Wonder & Gracinha Leporace – “Berimbau / Consolação ” (2006)
The berimbau is a single-string percussion instrument. Originally from Africa, it was eventually incorporated into the practice of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. The instrument became worldwide known for being the subject matter of this song, which belongs to Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes.
Maybe one of the most famous versions of “Berimbau / Consolação ” is the one performed by Toquinho and Maria Creuza in 1970; nevertheless I love this version, featured in Sergio Mendes’ 2006 Album Timeless, with the participation of his wife, Gracinha Leporace and iconic American artist Stevie Wonder.
95) Vanessa Da Mata & Ben Harper – “Boa Sorte/Good Luck ” (2007)
Award-winning, chart-topping singer, composer, and novelist, Vanessa da Mata got her start writing songs for artists such as Maria Bethania and Daniela Mercury. Despite the strength of her voice, it took her several years until she finally decided to record her own material, releasing her self-titled debut in 2002. It was her next album, Essa Boneca Tem Manuel, however, that really pushed her into the limelight, aided by the strength of the single “Ai Ai Ai“. Three years later her third album, Sim, was released. Sim spawned the hit single “Boa Sorte/Good Luck“, a duet with Ben Harper, which peaked at number one in both Brazil and Portugal and was the most played song in Brazilian radio stations in 2008.
96) Criolo – “Subirusdoistiozin” (2011)
Criolo is a rapper and soul singer. With a career starting in 1989, he originally got a reputation as one of São Paulo most important rappers. After the release of his second album, “Nó na Orelha” (Knot in the ear), he saw his popularity grow beyond São Paulo to all Brazil and abroad, leading to a successful worldwide tour. He has been characterized as “ the most interesting and unruly representative of the Brazilian new wave”.
“Nó na Orelha” mixes rap, afrobeat, hip hop, reggae, samba and brega. It received positive reviews and was considered the best national album of 2011 by the magazine Rolling Stone. From this album, “Subirusdoistiozin” (Two-Old-Guys-Died) is the most popular track; it describes the general waywardness of favela street culture.
97) Marisa Monte – “Ainda Bem” (2011)
Multi-awarded singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer, Marisa Monte is considered one of Brazil’s greatest singers; in fact, Rolling Stone Brasil listed Monte as the second greatest singer of all time after Elis Regina. She also has two records (MM and Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor-de-Rosa e Carvão) among the 100 best albums of Brazilian music.
Ainda Bem (“Just as well”) belongs to her highly praised eighth record O Que Você Quer Saber de Verdade (“What do you really want to know”), was considered by Billboard Brasil the best album of 2011. Originally, “Ainda Bem” was composed by Marisa for Italian singer Mina, who included it in her 2011 album Piccolino.
98) Dominguinhos & Arthur Maia – “Lamento Sertanejo ” (2014)
An emblematic representative of the forro music genre, Dominguinhos has had success as a musician, both solo and as a sideman for consecrated artists like Luís Gonzaga, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia. But also as a composer, he has produced hits recorded for some of the most important Brazilian artists; he has also written cinema soundtracks and has won four Prêmio Sharp Awards.
This is one of his biggest hits, composed in 1941. Initially instrumental, it was later re-recorded by Gilberto Gil, who wrote its lyrics. The song has received countless recordings and has been included in the soundtrack of several films and soap operas. The original version is beautiful; this version though, by Dominguinhos himself together with the great Brazilian bassist Arthur Maia, it’s just beguiling.
99) Adriana Calcanhotto – “Felicidade” (2015)
Adriana Calcanhotto is an MPB (Brazil popular music) singer and composer revealed in 1990, who has had great success in Brazil and helped bring MPB back to the hit parade after the 1980s’ Brazilian rock period.
Felicidade (“Happiness”) was written in 1947 by the great samba-canção composer Lupicínio Rodrigues; it was re-presented to Brazil by Caetano Veloso in 1974 who made it widely popular. Calcanhotto included it in her fourth live album Loucura (“Madness”), which is a tribute to Lupicínio Rodrigues.
100) Tiago Iorc & Milton Nascimento – “Mais Bonito Não Há” (2017)
Tiago Iorc is one of Brazil’s new talents. Singer-songwriter and record producer, with his debut album Let Yourself In, he gained notoriety after several of Tiago’s songs were featured on major Brazilian primetime soap operas, TV ads and films. Let Yourself In was also released in Japan with great success and in South Korea, where the public granted Tiago a Best Foreign Artist Award.
In 2017, he partnered with the incomparable Milton Nascimento (who declared being Tiago’s fan) and recorded some songs for the purpose of a national tour. This exquisite song (“Nothing more beautiful”) is the result of this partnership.
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100 ESSENTIAL BRAZILIAN SONGS YOU MUST HEAR Part 6: The 1990s
If there is one word can define the 1990s, that is globalization. With Brazil’s growing openness to the globalized nineties’ culture, greatest influence of foreign musical trends was unavoidable. The youth of that period would increasingly enjoy dancing -in night clubs- to the new electronic rhythms, such as techno, trance and house.
On the other hand, Brazilians revalorized their own historical roots. The great originality and variety of the nation’s music is observed in the creative fusion of diverse influences such as samba, sertaneja, Brazilian rock, samba-reggae, baião, forró, lambada, axé, electronic music, among many others.
Globalization also made easy for Brazilian music to gain worldwide recognition. After pioneers like Carmen Miranda, many other names gave Brazilian popular music international publicity during that decade.
In the 90s, other styles like funk carioca and hip hop became popular among young people of the country’s Southeast, whereas the brega style “resisted” and was renewed, remaining popular especially in the North and Northeast regions.
These are the songs I chose from this period:
74) João Gilberto – “Eu Sambo Mesmo ” (1991)
One of bossa nova’s fathers, João Gilberto is a consummated artist since the fifties, with enormous international recognition since then.
His 1991 album João, with orchestrations by Clare Fischer, featured songs in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, plus old sambas and his version of Caetano Veloso’s “Sampa”. This song (“I Really Samba”) is the opening track of this wonderful album.
75) Sergio Mendes – “Magalenha” (1992)
Sergio Mendes doesn’t need much introduction. Superstar from the 60’s, with a prolific career and enormous international success, he is “indelibly identified with the pop side of the bossa nova boom”.
“Magalenha” was composed by musician Carlinhos Brown and is the second track of Sergio Mendes studio album Brasileiro. The energetic vocals by Carlinhos and the explosive rhythm of the Bahian percussionists are just electrifying … I dare you not to dance when you listen to it!
“Magalenha” appears in the soundtrack of the 1998 film Dance with Me .
76) Daniela Mercury – “O Canto da Cidade” (1992)
“The Queen of Axé” Daniela Mercury is well known for popularizing axé music, not only throughout Brazil, but also internationally. As a matter of fact, she enjoys a goddess-like worship in Salvador da Bahia.
Her second album, O Canto da Cidade (1993) was a national phenomenon, establishing her as the most popular Brazilian performer of the early ’90s. The title track of this album (“The tune of the city”), a celebration of her native Salvador, became a sensation and topped the charts. Not only was O Canto da Cidade the first Brazilian album to top a million in sales, but it remains her best-selling album to date, with millions of copies sold -and it continues to sell today.
77) Timbalada- “Beija Flor” (1993)
In the late 1980s the talented drummer Carlinhos Brown started to form percussion ensembles in his hometown Salvador; he simply gathered people in the streets and taught them basic percussion patterns. Eventually these gatherings grew into a band called Timbalada. Timbalada is credited with the revival of the timbal (a kind of drum used in candomblé), which had been nearly extinct before they began featuring it. Moreover, the band melted the rhythms of Bahia with those of Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean origin, such as samba reggae and axé and added some pop elements; the result is an interesting, extremely prototype sound. The band’s aesthetics also has a distinctive character: the vocalists make heavy use of body painting, which provides a tribal touch and adds to their originality. Timbalada is also well known for its regular participation in Salvador de Bahia’s Carnival.
Due to their innovative music and particular aesthetics, it didn’t take long until the band caught the attention of Brazilians -and the entire world, gaining deserved, huge popularity. Their first album, released in 1993, has one of their major hits, Beija-flor (“Hummingbird”).
78) Ivan Lins – “Madalena” (1993)
Songwriter, vocalist, and pianist, Ivan Lins came to fame in Brazil in 1970 when Elis Regina recorded his song “Madalena” and made it a hit. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz since then, with numerous of his compostions recorded by remarkable Brazilian and foreign and artists, such as George Benson, Michael Bublé, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan, Sting and Barbra Streisand.
He did release his own version of “Madalena” in his 1993 Minha História; in here though I include this marvellous, live version with Elis Regina, featured in the album Elis Regina e Ivan Lins – Juntos (Ao Vivo).
79) Chico Science & Nação Zumbi – “Da Lama Ao Caos” (1994)
From the mud flats of his natal Recife, Chico Science began to experiment with music, blending maracatu with reggae, funk, rap, and rock. The mixture of ancient folkloric Northeastern rhythms with world pop and electronic music would become referred as mangue beat (“mud beat”). Mangue beat eventually grew into a musical movement, one of the most characteristics of Brazil’s musical scene of the 90s.
After being recognized in his region, Chico Science joined Nação Zumbi; their first collaborative album, Da Lama Ao Caos, was released in 1994, from which the eponymous track was a major hit.
80) Mamonas Assassinas – “Pelados em Santos” (1995)
Characterized as a satirical rock band, Mamonas Assassinas‘s sound consisted of a mixture of pop rock with influences of popular genres such as sertanejo, brega, pagode, forró, and vira. The only studio album recorded by the band, Mamonas Assassinas, with the hits Pelados em Santos“, “Vira-Vira” and “Robocop Gay” had a meteoric success, rapidly becoming diamond-certified.
Unfortunately, their career was tragically interrupted in March 2, 1996, when the group was the victim of a plane crash which caused the death of all its members, and a great national commotion. In spite of their brief success, the band continues influencing the national musical scene and being celebrated even now, more than two decades after its end.
81) Carlinhos Brown – “A Namorada” (1996)
Not only a talented percussionist, Carlinhos Brown is also a greatly praised composer and vocalist. After his success with Timbalada (see above), he decided to display all his musical virtues in his solo album Alfagamabetizado. For the album’s release, Carlinhos Brown performed many shows throughout Brazil, The United Status, Japan and Europe. The track “A Namorada” was the biggest success, even being included on the soundtrack of the film Speed 2, where he also made a cameo appearance performing the song.
82) Skank- “Garota Nacional” (1996)
Belo Horizonte band Skank became one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the ’90s. Mixing influences of pop music, reggae, ska and rock & roll, Skank reached the market with their first eponymous album. Their 1996 album O Samba Poconé includes one of their greatest hits, Garota Nacional. Although “Garota Nacional” literally translates to “national girl”, the song is not about the women of Brazil, as usually believed: it refers to the “girls of Bar Nacional”, a bar and nightclub in Belo Horizonte famous in the early 1990s for its beautiful female patrons.
83) Simone and Martinho da Vila – “Ex-Amor” (1996)
One of the greatest Brazilian female artists of all time, Simone is a sensuous singer with a signature low, mellow voice. Although having a more activist repertory in her beginnings, she later abandoned it in favor of more mainstream, romantic songs, with which she has enjoyed international success.
In this song she unites her voice with that of another iconic MPB and samba singer/composer: Martinho da Vila.
84) Chitãozinho e Xororó – “Luar Do Sertão” (1996)
With a 30 year-career, 30 released albums and the impressive 30,000,000 sold copies, Chitãozinho e Xororó are a real phenomenon in Brazil. The two singers were the first artists to successfully promote the fusion of “redneck music” (caipira) with urban pop, opening the field for a millionaire craze which would become known as sertanejo romântico, a genre that ultimately took all regions of Brazil -and many other countries. Indeed, Chitãozinho e Xororó have performed with artists such as Billy Ray Cyrus, Reba McEntire and the Bee Gees.
This song, Luar do Sertão (Hinterlands Moonlight in English) is a popular, old Brazilian song, one of the most recorded Brazilian songs of all time. Its simple verses praise the life in sertão (English: hinterlands or countryside). It appears in their album Classicos Sertanejos and counts with the participation of Simone.
85) Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum – “A Felicidade” (1999)
A felicidade (“Happiness”) was composed in 1958 by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes for the film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). The theme of this mesmerizing bossa nova song is the fragility of happiness: “Tristeza não tem fim. Felicidade sim” (“Sadness has no ending. Happiness does”).
“A felicidade” has had many re-recordings throughout the years; I love this one by the Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum, which features Antonio Carlos Jobim’s son, guitarist/vocalist Paulo Jobim, and his grandson, pianist/vocalist Daniel Jobim, along with cellist Jacques Morelenbaum and his wife, vocalist Paula Morelenbaum. With the exception of Daniel, all of the group’s members were members of Jobim’s final band before his death in 1994.
86) Ney Matogrosso – “Poema” (1999)
Famous for his singular countertenor voice, but mostly for his provocative stage costumes, make-up and daring movements, Ney Matogrosso has always been regarded as a controversial character. What nobody can deny is that Ney is an extremely talented artist. In fact, he was ranked by Rolling Stone as the third greatest Brazilian singer of all time.
He is best known as a member of the glam rock group Secos & Molhados, a phenomenon band during the 1970s. After the band split up, Ney pursued a successful solo career in Brazil and abroad, obtaining several Gold and Platinum records.
This song (“Poem”) belongs was released in Olhos de Farol, an album that celebrated 25 years of Ney’s solo career.
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Brazil’s music transition into the 70s was marked by the consolidation of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira, Brazilian Popular Music) which now incorporates into its repertoire different rhythms, not only from Brazil’s different regions (such as the northeastern baião), but also from foreign countries (like Jamaican reggae). Standout artists of the 70s MPB are, among others, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa, Simone, Elis Regina, Rita Lee and Maria Bethânia.
The Jovem Guarda had already made its appearance in the 60s and was still very popular in the beginning of the 70s. Nevertheless, Brazil was under military dictatorship at that time, and the cultural elites accused these artists of being “alienated” from the country’s social and political problems; as a result, the movement soon lost its strength.
Without the presence of the nonchalant Jovem Guarda, a different genre of popular romantic music emerged, which would gain the pejorative epithet “cafona“, then replaced by “brega” (both words meaning “tacky”). Once the name got accepted by its fans, brega music became a trend and won a wide audience. Many artists belong to this genre, although its fame was consolidated by Waldick Soriano. Since the end of the Jovem Guarda, Roberto Carlos also approached a more romantic, brega style; nevertheless, he managed to establish his position as the country’s most popular singer.
The decade of the 70s, together with the 60s, gave some of the most beautiful and timeless songs of Brazil’s cultural legacy. I really had a hard time to choose just a few among the many great songs of this period. This is the list I finally put together:
32) Maria Creuza, Toquinho and Vinicius de Moraes – “Eu sei que vou te amar” (1970)
This incredibly beautiful song (English: “I know I will love you“) was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes. Although initially recorded by Maysa, it would become a classic when performed live in Buenos Aires by Vinícius de Moraes, together with two iconic artists of Brazil’s music stage of the 70s: Vinicius’s favourite vocalist Maria Creuza and his long-time partner, singer and guitarist Toquinho. He would later include it on his 1970 album En ‘la Fusa’ con Maria Creuza y Toquinho (also known as “Grabado en Buenos Aires con Maria Creuza y Toquinho”). The amazing melody by Tom Jobim, and Vinicius’ impassioned lyrics on the immortality of love would establish “Eu sei que vou te amar” as one of Brazil’s quintessential songs. Indeed, it was voted the best Brazilian song of all times in a survey organized by Revista Bula.
33) Wilson Simonal – “País Tropical” (1970)
“Tropical Country” was composed by Jorge Ben Jor, but it became a hit when singer Wilson Simonal released it on his 1970 Album, Simonal.
Over the years, the song would be increasingly credited to its author, overshadowing the success of the first version by Simonal. It has also been adapted by many composers and singers like Sergio Mendes, Ivete Sangalo, or even Shakira, but also by Jorge Ben Jor himelf, on his album Tropical in 1976.
34) Paulinho da Viola – “Foi um Rio que Passou em Minha Vida” (1970)
“It was a river that passed in my life” is the song that gives the name to the second album of carioca sambista (samba composer) Paulinho da Viola.
The song was a huge success, being sung by the masses during Rio’s carnival, and became Brazil’s biggest hit of the 1970, projecting Paulinho nationally.
35) Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho – “Tarde em Itapoã ” (1970)
This is another fruit of Toquinho’s long partnership with Vinicius de Moraes, which would last until Vinicius death in 1980. Composer and performer with 50 years of sucessful career, Toquinho has to date 84 records released, over 450 compositions and about 8,500 shows in Brazil and abroad.
This song (“Afternoon in Itapoã”) immortalizes Itapuã as a serene, romantic and exuberant place, located 20 km from the center of Salvador de Bahia. Unfortunately, spending an afternoon in Itapuã is no longer the quiet program Vinícius and Toquinho described: the neighborhood became Salvador’s noisiest and one of the most polluted.
36) Chico Buarque – “Construção” (1971)
Brazil in the early 1970s was a land of paradoxes: under military government, the so-called “Brazilian Miracle” promised record economic growth; as a result, construction was booming. Workers though, would spend endless hours at the constructions and earned very little.
This was also a period when censorship hampered artistic freedom of expression. Fearing persecution, Chico Buarque spent a brief period of exile in Italy; but longing his beloved Brazil, he returned determined to show his disagreement with the situation. And he managed to create a masterpiece.
“Construction” is the chronicle of the life and death of a construction worker. The character of the song leaves the house, kisses his wife and children and goes to work. There he works “as if he were a machine”. Finally, he falls from the scaffolding in the middle of the street “like a package, disrupting the traffic”.
The lyrics are truly brilliant, written in dodecasyllable verses with each sentence ending with a proparoxytone word (that is, stressed on the antepenultimate syllable). The stanzas are repeated three times, with some keywords being changed position; these changes make the understanding of the lyrics ambiguous as it is not clear whether the worker dies as a result of the bad working conditions or he commits suicide, desperate in the face of his scant life prospect.
“Construction” would not be so overwhelming without the symphonic, imposing arrangement conceived by Rogério Duprat, who uses the orchestra as a sinister component, emulating the chaotic noises of the metropolis, its horns and buildings under construction.
The song is a strong critic of workers’ alienation in a modern, urban capitalist society; it is still a reference song to understand a thorny period of Brazil’s history. Deservedly, “Construção” was selected by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest Brazilian song of all times.
37) Maria Creuza – “Você Abusou ” (1971)
The Baianos Antônio Carlos and Jocáfi composed and first sung this beautiful song (“You abused”), which was successful with the sultry voice of Maria Creuza -who later married Antônio Carlos.
It became an international hit, particularly in France, where it was later adapted by Michel Fugain with the name “Fais comme l’oiseau”; other famous versions are those by Celia Cruz and Stevie Wonder.
38) Nara Leão – “Insensatez” (1971)
“How foolish” is a bossa nova song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. The song resembles Chopin’s prelude in E minor.
It has been re-recorded many times by Brazilian and foreign artists such as Olivia Newton-John, Liberace, Iggy Pop, and Pat Metheny. Nevertheless, I love this version, performed by “the muse of bossa nova”, Nara Leão.
39) Roberto Carlos – “Detalhes” (1971)
Latin pop superstar Roberto Carlos is a major figure in Brazil – and worldwide: his popularity as romantic ballad singer is perhaps rivalled only by Julio Iglesias.
During the 60s he initiated a major revolution; in a period when the Beatles were taking over the world, Carlos became their Brazilian counterpart as the leader of the Jovem Guarda. Initially a TV show, this “Young Guard” soon became not only a musical style, but also a behavioral, fashion and language influence to an entire generation. With his light music and simple lyrics, he was a deep contrast to “serious”, “somber” MPB. Managing to pursue a successful career throughout the years, Roberto Carlos is arguably the most successful romantic artist in Brazil, gaining the title of “The King”.
Together with his longtime partner Erasmo Carlos, he composed this timeless ballad whose lyrics are, according to Rolling Stone Brazil: “…among the most beautiful in the history of music, in any of the five continents”.
40) Gal Costa – “Vapor Barato” (1971)
Arguably one of Brazil’s most amazing voices, a representative figure of the Tropicália movement, an indisputable timeless icon. Gal Costa is a star that keeps shining for over 5 decades.
Back in the 70s, things were not easy for Gal. While all her friends had gone away, exiled by the dictatorship, she decided to stay in Brazil, as part of the “resistance”. And she managed to become the muse of Tropicália with the show Gal a Todo Vapor. Directed by Wally Solomon, the show was recorded in her outstanding double album Fa-Tal.
“Vapor Barato”, included in Fa-Tal is about the disenchantment of the post-1968 years, of course expressed in a very poetical, metaphorical way so as to remain under the radar of censorship. Although now considered a timeless song, it had been almost forgotten until filmmaker Walter Salles “rescued” it by including it in the soundtrack of the film Terra Estrangeira (Foreign land).
41) Jorge Ben – “Filho Maravilha” (1972)
Brazilians’ passion for football (soccer) is not a secret; therefore, a song devoted to a football player comes to no surprise. “Filho Maravilha” is a song written by one of the most important Brazilian artists, singer and songwriter Jorge Ben (later renamed Jorge Ben Jor), and refers to Brazilian football player João Batista de Sales, better known as “Fio Maravilha”.
Always innovative and open-minded, Jorge Ben has been a member of most of the important movements of 20th Brazilian popular music. He is the author of two of the most legendary samba songs: “Mas Que Nada” and “País Tropical“.
42) Sérgio Sampaio – “Eu Quero é Botar Meu Bloco na Rua” (1972)
Sérgio Sampaio was not a mainstream artist. His elaborate lyrics, often with literary references (he was an admirer of Franz Kafka) did not enjoy much commercial success. Nevertheless, his enormous talent and his irreverent manners were invariably praised by critics and a selected public.
He did have one big hit, “Eu Quero é Botar Meu Bloco na Rua” (I want to throw my troops on the streets), a song that refers, as many songs of that period, to the military dictatorship and Sampaio’s wish that everybody goes out and express anything they had keep to themselves.
43) Milton Nascimento – “San Vicente” (1972)
Milton Nascimento is one of Brazil’s most talented and influential artists, with a sublime tenor voice “that often slips into an ethereal falsetto, (…) as that of an angel”, the New York Times once wrote.
San Vicente is one of his greatest classics; it has become an anthem, both in Brazil and other Latin America countries. Recorded in 1972 in the double collective album Clube da Esquina, it is, without any doubt, one of the most beautiful songs of the Brazilian popular songbook. Milton has interpreted it with many other artists, of which those with the remarkable Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and the Argentinian iconic singer Mercedes Sosa are just marvellous.
44) Airto Moreira – “Tombo In 7/4” (1973)
The most iconic percussionist of the 70s –and still one of the world’s greatest, Airto Moreira (or just Airto) helped make percussion an essential part of modern jazz; he has collaborated with the greatest names of jazz such as Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Chick Corea.
This song was part of his masterful 1973 album “Fingers”, and was composed together with Uruguayan artist Hugo Fattoruso. What Airto probably never imagined was that “Tombo In 7/4” would become a huge mainstream success, until German group Bellini sampled it in 1997 to create the super hit “Samba de Janeiro”.
45) Novos Baianos – “Samba da Minha Terra” (1973)
Os Novos Baianos is regarded as one of the most important and revolutionary groups in Brazilian music. They had a primordial role in the fusion of rock with Brazilian folklore rhythms, helping along the evolution of MPB. Formed in Salvador, Bahia in the late ’60s by Paulinho Boca de Cantor , Pepeu Gomes , Moraes Moreira, Baby Consuelo and Luiz Galvão.
This song belongs to their third record, Novos Baianos F. C.; it displays the enormous talent of the band, particularly through the voice and violão (acoustic guitar) of Moraes Moreira, and the electric guitar of virtuoso Pepeu Gomes.
46) Raul Seixas – “Metamorfose Ambulante” (1973)
Raul Seixas is without any doubt one of Brazil’s fundamental rock musicians. In spite of his premature death at 44 years old in 1989, “Raulzito” –his nickname- remains a strong influence to popular music and a timeless idol for Brazilian people.
His expressive and existentialist discography was heavily marked by his collaboration with the outstanding novelist Paulo Coelho. From his numerous hits I find this song (“Walking metamorphosis”) is one of the most beautiful; it was released in his acclaimed debut album Krig-ha, Bandolo!
47) Fagner – “Canteiros” (1973)
Raimundo Fagner (or just Fagner) is a singer, composer, musician, actor and music producer. He has managed to remain highly successful from the beginning of his career in the 70s till nowadays, not only in Brazil, but also abroad -particularly in Spanish-speaking countries.
During his long career he has recorded in several countries and collaborated with many international artists, leading to the release of -so far- 35 albums (the last one in 2014). This song belongs to his debut album, Manera Fru Fru, Manera.
48) Nelson Cavaquinho – “A Flor e o Espinho” (1973)
Nelson Cavaquinho is -together with Cartola- the most talented and prolific samba composer: he left 600 compositions that have been recorded by some of the greatest interpreters of Brazilian music.
Cavaquinho composed the tune for this beautiful samba and Guilherme de Brito wrote the lyrics, which are among the most heartbreaking of Brazilian music: “Get your smile out of the way, ‘cause I want to go by with my pain”. Its tone is typical of the pair, usually pessimistic about love and life.
49) Secos & Molhados – “Rosa de Hiroshima” (1973)
Formed in 1971 by Ney Matogrosso, Gerson Conrad and João Ricardo, Secos & Molhados is one of few bands who led Brazil from bossa nova through Tropicália and then to Brazilian rock. Much of the group’s success, apart from their masterful first eponymous album (one of the biggest selling phenomena of the 1970s), was their extravagant stage presence, with heavy use of makeup and dramatic elements, and of course Ney’s signature counter-tenor voice.
“Rosa de Hiroshima” was originally a poem by Vinicius de Moraes. Its very powerful lyrics are a criticism to war; the poetic tone managed to fool censorship and became a huge success during the seventies.
50) Os Originais do Samba – “Saudosa Maloca” (1973)
Appreciated for their particular blend of traditional samba and humor, Os Originais do Samba became a commercial success, achieving three gold records during their long-lasting career. Their fame in Brazil extended abroad: they were the first samba group to perform and record at the Olympia in Paris; they also performed in the USA.
This song (“Nostalgic Shed”) belongs to the great paulista composer Adoniran Barbosa; it has been performed by many artists including Adoniran himself, but this version by Os Originais do Samba is my favourite.
51) Benito De Paula – “Meu Amigo Charlie Brown” (1974)
With his fancy dressing and emotional interpretations, Benito di Paula became the father of a new samba style, which would be known as sambão-jóia, a romantic and commercial genre precursor of contemporary pagode romântico.
This was one of di Paula’s greatest hits; it was covered by artists like Two Man Sound and Sylvia Vrethammar.
52) Elis Regina and Tom Jobim – “Águas de Março” (1974)
“A a stick, a stone, it’s the end of the road”… “Águas de Março” describes the beginning of the rainy season in Brazil, the month of March, which also marks the end of the summer (in the Southern Hemisphere). The element of water is a metaphor for a rebirth, a promise of life. Both the lyrics and music have a constant downward progression much like the water torrent from the rain.
Tom Jobim wrote both the English and Portuguese lyrics. Although there were previous recordings, this is the version that many consider definitive; it was recorded by Elis Regina and Tom in the album Elis & Tom.
“Águas de Março” was named as the all-time best Brazilian song in a poll conducted by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, and the second greatest Brazilian song by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone .
53) Tim Maia – “Imunização Racional (Que Beleza)” (1975)
Musician and songwriter known for his humorous and ironic musical style, Tim Maia is regarded as one of the biggest icons of Brazilian music. Mostly acknowledged for introducing soul into Brazil’s musical scene; he also contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, such as funk, bossa nova, disco, romantic ballads, pop, rock, jazz, baião and MPB.
This song belongs to his fifth album, Tim Maia Racional Vol. 1. Although not well received by the critics at that time, it is now regarded as one of the best albums of all times, ranking 17 in Rolling Stone’s list.
54) Clara Nunes – “Juízio Final” (1975)
“Queen of Samba” Clara Nunes is considered one of the greatest of her generation. She was the first female singer in Brazil to sell over 100,000 copies of a record, and at the peak of her career she would sell more than a million copies of each album she released. Nunes was researcher of the rhythms and folklore of Brazil and the roots of black music, she even converted to Umbanda in her later life. She died in 1983 at the age of 40 years old; nevertheless, she remains one of the most popular singers in Brazil.
This song (the title means “Last Judgment”) was written by Nelson Cavaquinho, and belongs to her album Claridade.
55) Cartola – “Preciso me Encontrar” (1976)
Cartola is one of the most wronged cases of Brazilian music: he became known only at advanced age, although his songs had been often recorded by other singers. Nevertheless, he is considered one of Brazil’s quintessential artists.
This particular song, sophisticated and delicate as most of his songs, was released in his masterful second disc Cartola II. It was included in the soundtrack of the highly acclaimed film Cidade de Deus (City of God), and lately in the TV series 3%.
56) Milton Nascimento and Chico Buarque – “O que Será (A Flor da Pele)” (1976)
O Que Será (What may it be?) was composed by Chico Buarque for the film “Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos”, based on the book by Jorge Amado.There are three versions of this song: “O que será? (Abertura)“, performed by Simone; “O que será? (À flor da terra)“, sung by Chico Buarque; and the mesmerizing “O que será? (À flor da pele)“, in which Buarque is accompanied by the incomparable Milton Nascimento. The song has a deeply passionate tone, although there are many interpretations of its lyrics.
57) Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento – “Caxangá” (1977)
Elis Regina is certainly one of the most talented singers to emerge from Brazil, often deemed the greatest Brazilian singer of all times. With her explosive personality and her sublime voice, she gained the respect not only of the Brazilian people, but also of the nation’s leading songwriters, who would line up to have one of their songs recorded by her. Elis’ death at the age of 36 shocked the whole country; nevertheless, she remains as popular after death as she was in life.
This beautiful song is interpreted together with Milton Nascimento, and belongs to her album Elis.
58) Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa – “Sonho Meu” (1978)
Maria Bethânia is one of Brazil’s biggest voices, with a long and successful career: she is among the 10 best-selling music artists in Brazil, having sold more than 26 million records. Talent seems to run in her family’s veins: Bethânia is the sister of the singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso and of writer-songwriter Mabel Velloso, as well as being aunt of the singers Belô Velloso and Jota Velloso.
From her album Alibi comes Sonho meu (“My dream”), where her unique voice blends with another, incredible one: Gal Costa’s.
59) Caetano Veloso – “Sampa” (1978)
It is curious that in a city with great musical representatives like Os Mutantes and Demônios da Garoa, no one could decipher São Paulo better than the baiano Caetano Veloso. “Sampa” (short for São Paulo) is Caetano’s tribute to the city of São Paulo, known for its characteristic drizzle and the large number of migrants, especially from the Northeast region of the country (pejoratively called “baianos”).
Pollution, the reception to migrants, the multiple cultures and the dreams of their inhabitants are pictured in the elegant lyrics, so intense to make the song an all-time classic and transform the intersection of Ipiranga and São João Avenues in one of the most famous spots of the city. In the song, from the album Muito (1978), Caetano is accompanied by the group Outra Banda da Terra.
60) João Bosco – “O Bêbado e a Equilibrista” (1979)
A civil engineer-turned-singer/songwriter, João Bosco would become one of Brazil’s most formidable songwriters, with songs recorded by the country’s greatest artists. During his early career, he supplied Elis Regina with some of her best material; since Elis’ death he started to perform his own songs, becoming an emblematic figure in Brazil’s musical scene.
This is his most personal protest song (English “The Drunkard and the Tightrope Walker”), which was selected as the theme song of Amnesty International. I love this version, sung by Bosco himself, although “O Bêbado” was made famous mostly by Elis Regina. Written during the last years of a military dictatorship, it is a deeply metaphoric, poetic song, not easy to understand on a first read. The drunk represents the artists, poets and musicians who dared to raise their voices against the dictatorship, the Equilibrist is the hope for democracy, which at every “event” that disturbed the military (marches, etc), saw its existence threatened.
61) Gilberto Gil – “Toda Menina Baiana” (1979)
Already a star from the 60’s, Gilberto Gil is known not only for his innovative musical style, but also for political and environmental activism.
This song (“Every girl from Bahia”) is a tribute to women from Bahia, and was reportedly inspired by Gil’s teenager daughter; it appeared in his album Realce.
62) Beth Carvalho – “Coisinha do Pai” (1979)
Beth Carvalho’s name is synonymous with samba, particularly the Mangueira Scola do Samba. Singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer, she began recording in the mid ‘60s; her interpretation of “Andança” earned her the third place at the III Festival Internacional da Canção and became a classic of MPB, re-recorded by many great singers like Maria Bethânia, Elis Regina, and Nana Caymmi.
Her 1979 album No Pagode is considered a masterpiece, and featured this song, her biggest hit of all time. In the late ‘90s, the song was even sent to outer space in the space probe Pathfinder!
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As the bossa nova movement evolves in the early 1960s, Brazil’s original aestheticism gives way to the introduction of political themes. The politicization of popular music would take shape under Brazil’s military dictatorship of 1964 leading to the so-called “protest song“, of which one of the most emblematic is Caminhando (“Walking”) by Geraldo Vandré. It is the time of great musical festivals, when a “university” generation of composers and singers appeared. Artists such as Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo would be idolized by intellectuals and were instrumental in the creation of Música Popular Brasileira (Brazilian Popular Music) or MPB, a movement initially linked to political engagement against dictatorship.
The Tropicália movement was also a form of protest song that appeared during the same period; it was characterized by the eclectic blend of pop culture elements -such as rock- with the elite culture -the modernist and concretist schools of visual arts- having a more erudite and experimental character. The Bahians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were the main exponents of this movement.
The Iê-iê-iê style (Brazil’s rock’n’roll of the 60s, the equivalent of France’s yé-yé) was “softer” in Brazil than in the USA or UK, adopting a more romantic style. This movement came to be known as Jovem Guarda (Young Guard) and had huge commercial success. Its more representative artists were Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos, Tim Maia and Wanderléa, among others.
These are some of the greatest songs of this period:
11) João Gilberto – “Corcovado” (1960)
“Corcovado” was written by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960 and refers to Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Corcovado mountain. An English version was later released with the title “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars“.
This song was included in the album Brazil’s Brilliant João Gilberto, which was released in the United States in 1960. It was the record that introduced João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and bossa nova to the American audience, before Stan Getz scored a hit with “Desafinado”.
12) Carlos Lyra – “Minha Enamorada” (1960)
This song (“My beloved”) is the most successful fruit of Carlos Lyra’s partnership with “El poetinha” Vinicius de Moraes.
“Minha Namorada” was released during the bossa nova boom, but in terms of rhythm and melody it does not have much to do with it. It is a romantic, tender and sincere ballad; Lyra and Vinicius wrote other emblematic songs, but few were as perennial as this one.
13) Maysa – “O Barquinho” (1961)
One of Brazil’s most charismatic divas, known as “the Janis Joplin of Bossa Nova” due to her tumultuous personal life, Maysa would become influential for a whole generation of Brazilian artists.
This song (the title means “Little boat”) was reportedly composed by Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli while being with friends on a boat; suddenly the engine broke down, and the sound of the motor when they were trying to restart the boat made the tune for “O Barquinho”. It was re-recorded many times, but this is one of the most successful and beautiful versions.
14) João Gilberto and Stan Getz – “So Danço Samba” (1962)
“Só Danço Samba” was composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes; it was suggested that the song was part of a failed movement to invent a bossa nova dance.
Só Danço Samba became in instant classic with hundreds recordings over the decades. With English lyrics provided by Norman Gimbel, it gained immediate international popularity under the titles Jazz Samba, Jazz ‘n’ Samba or occasionally I Only Dance Samba (literal translation of the original Portuguese title).
15) Antônio Carlos Jobim – “Água De Beber” (1963)
“Drinking-Water” was composed by Brazil’s towering figure of bossa nova and one of the great songwriters of the century Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by another fundamental figure in Brazilian music, the co-father of bossa nova, Vinicius de Moraes.
This was reportedly the first song composed in the new Brazil capital, Brasilia, while it was still being constructed. It has had many re-recordings; some great versions are those by Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
16) Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz – “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
This is arguably Brazil’s most iconic song; the sound of an era in which bossa nova was the lingua franca of the country and this song its anthem.
Summer 1962, Rio de Janeiro. The story goes that Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes were sitting at a bar near Ipanema Beach in Rio, when they saw the most beautiful woman walking by, and they immediately wrote this song down on a bar napkin! (not quite exactly the truth, though, read more here). The original version, Garota de Ipanema was released in 1962. Nevertheless, while an Ipanema girl named Heloísa inspired the song, it was another Carioca who made it famous worldwide.
Astrud Gilberto was the wife of singing star João Gilberto, when she entered a New York studio in March 1963. João and Jobim were making a record of the song with tenor saxman Stan Getz. The idea of a verse in English came up, and Astrud was the only one of the Brazilians who spoke English. The song with the name “The Girl from Ipanema” was released and it rapidly became a huge worldwide hit. Indeed, it is the second most re-recorded song in history after The Beatles’ “Yesterday”.
17) Demônios da Garoa – “Trem das onze” (1964)
This song (English: “The 11 P.M. Train”) was composed by São Paulo singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa; it portrays, in a tragicomical way, the drama of a lover who lives in a distant suburb of São Paulo, and who cannot stay longer with his beloved woman because the last train will be departing soon, at 11 p.m, and his mother won’t sleep until he gets home. “Trem das Onze” is an example of both samba paulista (samba developed in São Paulo) and samba-de-breque (here).
It was released in 1964 and made famous that same year by the samba group Demônios da Garoa. It is one of the best known Brazilian popular songs and considered of the most representative cultural symbols of the city of São Paulo.
18) Moacir Santos – “Nanã – Coisa Número 5” (1965)
“Coisas” (“Things”) is the debut album by composer, maestro and multi-instrumentalist Moacir Santos. It was released in 1965; the ten tracks of the album were named as “Things” – numbered from 1 to 10. The LP was chosen by the Brazilian Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 100 best Brazilian records of all time.
19) Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 – “Mas que nada ” (1966)
If you want to hear good, uplifting samba, this is the song! Mas que nada (the English translation would be “come on” or “yeah! Right”) was the first hit of an artist who would became a real school within Brazil’s popular music, Jorge Ben (later, Jorge Ben Jor). It was an impressive hit in 1963, and the beginning of Jorge Ben’s career.
But I have to say I love this version by another great artist, Sergio Mendes. With this song he managed to go beyond Brazil’s borders in 1966, and then again in 2006 when he re-recorded with The Black Eyed Peas…
20) Walter Wanderley Trio – “Samba de Verão” (1966)
“Summer Samba” (also known as “So Nice”) was first popularized by Walter Wanderley Trio in 1966 — the album Rain Forest on which it was issued reached platinum status in 1970. The song became an instant success, with radio stations playing it constantly. Also in 1966 the trio accompanied Astrud Gilberto on her A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness album, which features a beautiful, sung version of this song.
Although immortalized as an “easy listening” or “lounge music” artist, Wanderley music was at that time innovative and revolutionary. The percussive rhythms reminiscent of a Brazilian black tradition were not dear to many Brazilians; in fact most of his successful career took place in the United States.
21) Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes – “Canto de Ossanha” (1967)
In candomblé (an Afro-American religious tradition), there is no ceremony without the presence of Ossanha, the entity that holds the magic force – the axé – necessary in every ritual. Perhaps this is the reason why “Canto de Ossanha” is the opening track of Os Afro-Sambas, the third album emerged from the partnership between the music of Baden Powell and the lyrics of Vinicius de Moraes.
This syncretism of Brazil with Africa via Bahia, now so natural, was not taken for granted in the 60s. “Canto de Ossanha” helped the sound of Afro-Brazilian religions, systematically persecuted until two decades before, become an inextricable part of Brazil’s music and culture.
A great cover of this song was released in 2006 by Jurassic 5.
22) Caetano Veloso – “Alegria, Alegria” (1967)
“Happiness, Happiness” is a song written and performed by Caetano Veloso. Often referred to as “the Brazilian anthem of 1967”, it later appeared on his influential eponymous 1968 album.
This was the song that introduced the Tropicália movement to Brazil. The ideal exposed by the song lyrics was first presented at a memorable live performance in 1967, reinforced by the Argentine group Beat Boys, who added visual aesthetics. It was a hit at the time, and was often sung during public manifestations in favor of impeachment.
23) Wilson Simonal – “Nem Vem Que Não Tem” (1967)
An emblematic figure of Brazil’s popular music, Wilson Simonal was a singer with great success in the 1960s and 1970s, although he was relatively unknown outside of South America.
This is his biggest international hit (the title would be translated as “Don’t even think about it!”); it was adapted and recorded by French singer Zanini, who made a hit with the song “Tu veux ou tu veux pas”.
24) Edú Lobo and Marília Medalha – “Ponteio” (1967)
A singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Edú Lobo is one of the driving forces behind the MPB movement. He has worked with the most important Brazilian artists and his songs were covered by big names of international music such as Sarah Vaughan and Earth, Wind & Fire.
This is one of his most famous songs, performed here with Marília Medalha; with this song they were the winners of the III Festival de Música Popular Brasileira/FMPB in 1967.
25) Chico Buarque and Mpb4- “Roda Viva” (1967)
Arguably one of Brazil’s most renowned songwriters and singers, Chico Buarque is an iconoclastic figure in post-bossa nova Brazilian music. With his distinctive voice, elegant phrasing, and considerable skill at lyric writing, Buarque became extremely popular in the 1960s –particularly among women, as he was very handsome. However, Buarque resented the role of pop star and chose to be seen as a serious artist.
Roda Viva (“The wheel of life”) is a song that Buarque wrote for the eponymous play; it was a criticism to the obsessive fan culture. During the play, the pop star protagonist was literally torn apart and his flesh consumed by his fans; the performers would also offer the audience pieces of the dead pop star’s flesh to eat (it was chicken meat). Needless to say, the military dictatorship in charge those years did not like the idea of the play and soldiers were sent out to disrupt the performances, destroy sets and assault performers; Chico Buarque himself was briefly jailed.
26) Os Mutantes – “Panis Et Circenses” (1968)
Os Mutantes (“The Mutants”) are one of the most talented and influential Brazilian psychedelic rock bands that were linked with the Tropicália movement. Their unique blend of psychedelic rock, bossa nova, tropicália and samba has inspired many contemporary American and European artists, who cite Os Mutantes as a major influence. With many changes from the original line-up featuring Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias, the band has been active since then, with their last album being released in 2013.
The title of this song means “Bread and Circuses”, and it is an allusion to the classical poet Juvenal, who scorned ancient Romans for their easy and predictable manipulation through bread and circus. The song, in turn, is a satire of bourgeois conventions. In the lyrics, a first-person poetic voice tries desperately to alarm the family, to snap them out of their mental and physical stagnation; the attempt is futile. During these early years of military rule in Brazil, when economic liberalization brought quick financial boons to the complaisant and complicit upper middle class, expressions of rejection of these mores were frequent in Brazilian music.
27) Caetano Veloso – “Tropicália” (1968)
The opening track of the first tropicalista album by Caetano Veloso, “Alegria, Alegria”. It was very popular upon its release in Brazil, and the Brazilian press used the song title “Tropicália” to christen the larger artistic movement it represented “Tropicalismo”, to the disdain of Caetano himself. Later it was re-recorded by Gal Costa and inspired a homonymous song, released by the American Beck, declared lover of the movement.
Although Caetano has expressed displeasure with the album, it often shows up on lists of greatest Brazilian albums, and was inducted into the Latin Grammy Award Hall of Fame in 2001.
28) Geraldo Vandré – “Pra não dizer que não falei das flores” (1968)
Also known as “Caminhando” (“Walking”; or “Not to say that I haven’t spoken about the flowers”), it was composed by Geraldo Vandré and was presented at the III International Festival of Song of TV Globo in 1968 where it ranked second (the winner was “Sabiá”). It caused a great controversy at that time because the public, mostly students thirsting for protest songs, booed the jury’s decision and made the explosive “Pra Não Dizer…” a sort of anthem of a generation.
The song was considered by the dictatorship a mockery of the armed forces; public playing of the song was forbidden, all the registers of Vandré’s presentation at the festival were deleted, and Vandré became one of the most hunted persons in the country, forced eventually to flee the country. The song was finally released 11 years later, with the end of dictatorship.
Walking is still used to remember the situation the country was going through at the time and to keep alive the memories of those who were victims of the hard times of dictatorship. It has been re-recorded many times, of which one of the most iconic is the one by Simone; the latter was lately sampled by Reboot and Federico Scavo.
29) Gilberto Gil – “Domingo No Parque” (1968)
With this song (“Sunday at the park”) Gilberto Gil got the second place at the 1967 III Festival of Popular Music, accompanied by Os Mutantes; it was later released in the album Gilberto Gil (1968). Gil, together with Caetano Veloso, became the leader of Brazil’s Tropicalia movement. His musical style provided a more universal sound to the music played at that time, mixing electric guitar with traditional Bahian elements, such as the sound of the berimbau. He is undoubtedly one of Brazil’s, and the world’s most celebrated singer/songwriters, with a musical career that has successfully spanned six decades and hits in each one.
30) Noriel Vilela – “Dezesseis Toneladas” (1969)
With his signature deep bass voice, Noriel Vilela made a career first as a member of the samba vocal group Cantores de Ebano. His 1969 solo album “Eis o Ôme” is a succession of sambalanço songs with strong afro influence. This was Vilela’s greatest hits, which is a Portuguese version of the American classic “Sixteen Tons” by Ernie Ford and Merle Travis.
The latest years Vilela enjoys a cult revival among fans of sambalanço. In 2014 “Dezesseis Toneladas” was used for a famous beer commercial, and since then it has been re-recorded several times.
31) Erasmo Carlos – “Sentado à Beira do Caminho” (1969)
“Sitting at the Edge of the Road” was composed by the legendary duo Roberto Carlos & Erasmo Carlos and released by Erasmo Carlos.
The song describes the despair and hopelessness of a lover waiting for his beloved; it became an instant hit and was adapted in many languages, the most famous version being the Italian by Ornella Vanoni with title “L’appuntamento”. Vanoni’s version was included in the musical score of the film Ocean’s Twelve.
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100 ESSENTIAL BRAZILIAN SONGS YOU MUST HEAR Part 1: Overview
Music is one of the most powerful cultural expressions of a nation, a sort of thermometer which reflects the history and mood of the people at a certain time, whether they feel happy, troubled, or oppressed.
And this is certainly true for Brazil: throughout the years music has been drawing the face of the country, mirroring Brazilians’ joy, uncertainties and longings…
Whoever has been in Brazil has most likely realized that music is deeply rooted into Brazilians’ DNA. Music is everywhere, accompanying every single mundane activity: Brazilians have fun with music, travel with music, prepare feijoada with music. And they dance… When I first visited Brazil I was amazed to see that just by hearing samba in the street, everybody -kids and grown-ups alike- would start dancing, as something natural, without inhibitions of any kind…
I love Brazil, its beautiful nature, its people, culture and music… Thus, I decided to pay a tribute to Brazil’s music by choosing 100 among the most representative songs of all times… I believe that after listening to all these songs you will realize -like I did- how timeless Brazil’s music is…
This introductory post will help you understand Brazilian music history and styles. More posts will follow presenting 100 iconic Brazilian songs in chronological order.
Música do Brasil – Overview
Brazilian music originated from the fusion of indigenous, European and African elements, the latter brought mainly by Portuguese colonizers and the African slaves.
Until the 19th century, Portugal (and Europe for that matter) is the main gateway to most rhythms that would built Brazilian music, both erudite and popular. With the passage of time, African melodic and rhythmic elements begin to exert increasing influence on popular music, which would thus acquire the characteristic Brazilian sound that consolidates in the twentieth century, mainly through the diffusion of the genres lundu, frevo, choro and samba (see below). The indigenous practically left no trace in mainstream music, except in some regional folkloric genres.
In the twentieth century there is an extraordinary flowering of Brazil’s music. It is the period when national music gains autonomy and identity, although it never ceases – rather increases – the blend with new foreign rhythms. The fundamental work of Heitor Villa Lobos is the first great landmark of erudite Brazilian music, later developed by many other composers. During the same period, popular music gains the respect of elites and consolidates genres that would become trademarks of Brazil, such as samba and bossa nova. Regional folk genres such as musica sertaneja, baião and forró also gain popularity and are heard throughout the entire country.
Brazilian music styles
We all know samba and bossa nova, but Brazilian music is extremely rich and diverse. This is a brief summary of Brazil’s most important music genres:
The First Music Styles
These were some of the first styles that appeared in Brazil:
Lundu: brought by African slaves, it is one of the genres that would later compose samba.
Frevo: included on UNESCO’s list of intangible heritage, it is the traditional music of Pernambuco’s Carnival. Its trademark is the colorful umbrellas, which would “hide” the forbidden at that time capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial art and dancing).
Choro: (means “cry”) a music gender originated in Rio de Janeiro. It is considered the first characteristic rhythm of Brazilian popular music, and is still very popular nowadays. In spite of its name, it usually has a fast, happy rhythm. Representative artists: Waldir Acevedo, Dominguinhos, Joaquim Callado, Pixinguinha and Luis Gonzaga (the later represents a regional form of choro called baiāo).
Maxixe: it is a mix of lundu with Argentinian tango, Cuban habanera and polca. It was considered so scandalous that caught international attention and travelled to Europe, together with tango. Maxixe contributed, together with lundu, to the origins of samba.
Contemporary Brazilian Music
These musical styles are Brazil’s trademark and are all listened nowadays.
A music style that originated in Brazil’s countryside in the 1920s. It is the most popular music genre in Brazil, particularly throughout the southern/ southeastern and center/ western countryside. Sertanejo has seen a revival in the 90’s, regularly topping Brazilian music charts and earning a specific category at the Latin Grammy Awards. Representative artists: Sergio Reis, Chitãozinho & Xororó and Michel Teló.
When in 1945 the northeast musician Luiz Gonzaga recorded Dança Mariquinha, the genre forró was launched – a rhythm and type of dance typical of the Northeast of Brazil. Given the vagueness of the term, there is no consensus on the definition of forró as a musical style, the name being usually used as a generalization of various musical rhythms of Northeast region. Famous artists include Luiz Gonzaga, Wesley Safadão, and Solange Almeida.
The year 1916 is considered the official birth of samba, a mix of maxixe with Bahia folklore rhythms. Samba rapidly spread throughout Brazil dominating not only its iconic carnival, but also the whole world. Samba is the most famous Brazilian musical style, and has many other sub genres:
Samba-canção: Appears in the 1920s, with slow rhythms and sentimental lyrics. Example: Ai Ioiô by Luís Peixoto.
Carnival Samba: composed by samba marches – known as marchinhas – and made to be danced and sung in carnival events. Examples: Abre alas, Cabeleira do Zezé, among others.
Samba-exaltação: With patriotic lyrics highlighting the wonders of Brazil, with orchestral accompaniment. Example: Aquarela do Brasil (see here).
Samba de breque: (literally brake samba) This style has moments of quick stops, where the singer includes comments, usually with critical or humorous tone. One of the masters of this style is Moreira da Silva.
Samba de gafieira: It was created in 1940 and has orchestral accompaniment. Fast and strong in the instrumental part, it is widely used in ballroom dancing. K-Ximbinho is a famous artist of this genre.
Sambalanço: Emerging in the 50s in nightclubs in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, it received a strong influence from jazz. One of the most significant representatives of Sambalanço is Jorge Ben Jor, which mixes elements of other genres too. This style would set the grounds for bossa nova.
Pagode: Born in Rio de Janeiro in the 70s, it has a repetitive rhythm and uses percussion instruments and electronic sounds. It spread rapidly throughout Brazil and conquered radios and dance floors in the next decade thanks to its simple and romantic lyrics. Representative artists are Fundo de Quintal, Negritude Jr., Só para contrariar, Raça Negra and Zeca Pagodinho.
Bossa nova is a Brazilian popular music movement of the late 50s initiated by João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and other young singers and/or songwriters from Rio de Janeiro. The style was derived from samba, with a strong jazz influence. Initially, the term bossa nova (“new wave”) was used only to describe a new way of singing and playing samba.
The ground zero of bossa nova is the song Chega de Saudade (see here). Bossa nova gave a more sophisticated touch to the samba genre; over the years, it would become one of the most influential movements in the history of Brazilian music, and the song Girl from Ipanema would be its anthem.
This style went through many transformations that resulted in a new generation of composers; new artists appeared in the music scenario who were collectively named Sons of bossa nova. Artists such as Geraldo Vandré and Chico Buarque are among the Sons of bossa nova, although their style has little or nothing to do with bossa nova (see MPB).
Originated by the end of the 60s after bossa nova, Tropicália was the next musical movement and came at a time when Brazil was undergoing political upheaval due to a strict military dictatorship. The rebellious lyrics of Tropicalia songs bothered the government, who decided to exile the most influential Tropicália artists, such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
Música Popular Brasileira (MPB)
Appreciated mainly by Brazil’s urban middle classes, Brazilian popular music – known as MPB – emerged in the 1960s with the Sons of Bossa Nova. MPB was the merge of two previously divergent musical movements: bossa nova (representing musical sophistication) and folk music (which defended Brazil’s music roots). As a result of the 1964 dictatorship, the two movements became a broad cultural front against the military regime; this new genre presented at first a distinct nationalistic profile, but with time it comprised more diverse trends of Brazilian music.
MPB also includes other mixtures of rhythms such as samba and rock – giving rise to a new style known as samba-rock – or pop and samba, with famous artists like Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque. By the end of the 1990s the mixture of Latin music together with reggae and samba gave space to a new genre known as samba-reggae.
Even though extensive, MPB should not be confused as comprising all music of Brazil; it is rather a specific music style.
Funk Carioca
Originated in the 80s in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the lyrics ususally describe favela life. In the 2000’s this genre would invade nightclubs, becoming a fashionable style across the country.
Although extremely successful, this genre is the target of strong criticism as performers use obscene and vulgar language, many times inciting to violence and drug consumption. See here for some of the most known funk artists.
Axé Music
Axé emerged in Bahia in the 80s during the Carnival of Salvador. It mixes frevo rhythms, reggae, merengue, forró, maracatu and other african-latino rhythms. The song Fricote by Luiz Caldas, is usually regarded as the starting point of this style.
The word “axé” is a religious greeting which means positive energy, used in Candomblé and Umbanda – religions with African origins which are commonly practiced in Bahia. It quickly spread throughout the country and still enjoyes great commercial success; its biggest names are Daniela Mercury, Ivete Sangalo, Claudia Leitte, Timbalada, among others.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Música_do_Brasil (in Portuguese)
https://web.archive.org/web/20091101115615/http://www.brazilcarnival.com.br/samba_schools/begining-of-samba-brazil-music-origins-of
http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/brazilian-music-styles
https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/brazil/articles/10-traditional-brazilian-music-genres-you-need-to-know-about/
http://www.greatbrazilianlmusic.com/genres.htm
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Record warmth in the eastern US
Autumn feels more like an extended summer in New York, with people seen wandering around the US city eating ice creams.
by Rob McElwee
Summer wear on 7th Avenue in November, New York City [AFP]
New York recorded its hottest November 6 in nearly 70 years on Friday, with a reading of 23C in Central Park in Manhattan.
The previous record for such a high temperature on this date was set in 1948, according to the National Weather Service. People were seen wandering around the US city eating ice cream, in November!
Skaters attempted to slide gracefully on the open-air ice rink in Bryant Park, which opened last Friday at the onset of the fall-winter season.
Unfortunately, the surface had turned to water, causing much slipping and falling.
At La Guardia Airport, one of the airports that serves New York, the mercury rose to 25C, thrashing the previous record of 21C, also set in 1948.
Much of the eastern side of the US has been bathed in unusual autumn warmth recently, with temperatures in the 20s and 30s Celsius from Texas to Michigan and east to New Hampshire.
All-time highs for November were noted on Wednesday in states that are far apart.
Flint, Michigan soared to 27C and Tampa in Florida to 33C. Traverse City, Michigan, has just registered its warmest November night on record.
Most of Florida has seen a solid week of record or near record heat.
In Tallahassee, the state capital, the first four days of November were a full two degrees warmer than any other four-day November stretch in the city's history.
At the tail end of the Florida Keys, in Key West, the 27C readings after dark on Sunday and Monday, were the warmest November nights ever observed. Record keeping in the Florida Keys began in 1872.
It is all about to come to an end as a front of colder air is on its way across all eastern states and will drop temperatures considerably. Florida, however, will probably stay in the warmth.
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Grenade attacks rock Rwanda capital
One killed and 18 wounded in three simultaneous attacks in Kigali.
20 Feb 2010 14:59 GMT
"We are continuing the investigation and questioning the two suspects," notably on whether any link exists between the blasts and the August presidential election, he said.
'Political harassment'
Rwanda is due to hold a presidential vote in August in which Paul Kagame, the country's president, is widely expected to seek and secure re-election.
Kagame, who heads a Tutsi-led government, has been in power since the end of the genocide in 1994.
Earlier this month, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the harassment of political opposition figures in Rwanda, saying they faced increasing "threats, attacks and harassment" ahead of the poll.
The group cited an incident in which Joseph Ntawangundi - a member of the FDU-Inkingi, a new opposition party critical of government policies - was attacked in front of a local government office.
"The attack appeared to have been well co-ordinated, suggesting it had been planned in advance," HRW said.
Ntawangundi has since been jailed after being sentenced in absentia in 2007 to 19 years by a court set up to try the perpetrators of the genocide.
Sarkozy visit
The attacks come just days before a visit by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, to Rwanda, aimed to cement newly renewed diplomatic ties between Paris and Kigali after years of mutual recriminations over the 1994 genocide.
Sarkozy's trip next week will be the first by a French president since the massacre by extremist Hutus of around 800,000 people in Rwanda, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A new French ambassador to Kigali was accredited in January.
The two countries announced in November the resumption of relations severed in 2006 after a French judge issued warrants against President Kagame's top aides on suspicion of being behind the death of a Rwandan ex-president.
For its part, Kigali alleged French forces had trained extremist Hutu militia which carried out the killings, a charge Paris has repeatedly denied.
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Fiji leader sacks council of chiefs
Coup leader says council is a threat to security and has "betrayed" Fijian's trust.
13 Apr 2007 06:56 GMT
Coup leader Bainimarama said the council
had become a "security threat" [AFP]
"They now constitute a security threat in our efforts to lead the country forward," he said in the capital, Suva.
The council, he said, had "betrayed its trust and its good standing in our nation".
The chiefs had refused to endorse the military commander's government and his nomination for vice-president following the country's fourth coup in 20 years last December.
Under the 1997 constitution, the council of chiefs which usually meets once a year, has the power to appoint the nation's president and vice-president.
Bainimarama toppled Laisenia Qarase, the prime minister, in a coup on December 5, claiming Qarase's largely indigenous government was corrupt and too soft on those responsible for a coup in 2000.
The military commander took over executive authority from Ratu Josefa Iloilo, the president, dissolved parliament and declared a state of emergency.
He later reinstated Iloilo as president, named himself interim prime minister, and appointed Ratu Epeli Nailatikau as interim foreign minister.
Dispute over candidate
Bainimarama overthrew the prime minister
in a December coup [Reuters]
ainimarama, who has said he would allow elections in 2010, had wanted Nailatikau to be the country's new vice-president, a crucial role given Iloilo is in his 80s and in poor health.
But the chiefs rejected the nomination because they said Nailatikau is associated with an illegal regime.
Bainimarama boycotted Thursday's council meeting before announcing the decision to suspend the council and scrap its funding. He said the chiefs had stopped being impartial.
"There are also strong indications that the council has now become a forum for serving political agendas," he said.
The chiefs have condemned the coup led by Bainimarama and he in return told them to have a picnic and drink under a mango tree and to take their grievances to Santa Claus.
Envoy snubbed
"I see little evidence that the military and interim government are prepared to release their grip on power"
Glyn Davis,
US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific
Bainimarama's December coup drew international condemnation, with Australia, New Zealand, Britain and the US imposing economic, diplomatic and defence sanctions.
A senior US envoy visited Suva this week to discuss returning democracy to Fiji, but the commander refused to meet him.
Glyn Davis, the deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific, said he was told Bainimarama was too busy.
"It had been my intention to meet with Commodore Bainimarama but he has not agreed to meet with me. His decision is unfortunate and represents a missed opportunity," Davis, the first senior US official to visit since the coup, said on Friday.
Instead, Davis held talks with Nailatikau and Mahendra Chaudhry, the interim finance minister.
Davis said he restated a Pacific Islands Forum plan that calls for the military to return to barracks, refrain from involvement in politics and for Bainimarama to relinquish power to a civilian.
"Unfortunately, based on my meetings with government officials, I see little evidence that the military and interim government are prepared to release their grip on power," he said.
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Clashes intensify at Lebanon camp
Lebanese army troops battle Fatah al-Islam, despite calls for a truce.
Lebanese troops maintained a strong presence on the perimeter of Nahr al-Bared camp on Monday [AFP]
"We have many reports that houses inside the camp have been totally destroyed."
He described the shelling as a massacre and appealed through Al Jazeera for international aid. He said bodies were lying uncollected under rubble.
Fighting back
"From outside it's very easy to condemn the Lebanese army and government for what they are doing against Fatah-al-Islam"
Rabih, Mansourieh El Metn, Lebanon
Witnesses said Fatah al-Islam fighters fired back on army positions.
The precise toll of Lebanese army forces, Fatah al-Islam fighters and Palestinian civilians is unclear, but the combined number is thought to be at least 55 since fighting broke out on Sunday.
The lack of access to the camp means that the toll inside its perimeter cannot be independently verified.
Ghassan bin Jiddo, Al Jazeera's Beirut bureau chief, said on Monday afternoon that a Palestinian delegation had contacted the Lebanese government to bring about a ceasefire.
Georges Kettaneh, head of rescue operations for the Lebanese Red Cross, told reporters that 17 Palestinians were evacuated from the camp on Monday afternoon.
"The Red Cross established, in co-ordination with the Lebanese army and the Palestinian Red Crescent, a safe evacuation corridor which helped us evacuate 17 cases from Nahr al-Bared," he said.
He said that some food and water supplies were taken in.
However, Zeina Khodr, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tripoli, reported late on Monday afternoon that Lebanese army shelling and gunfights around the camp had escalated.
Abu Salim, a spokesman for Fatah al-Islam, issued an ultimatum to the military on Monday, saying the group would take its battle "outside" the camp if the military did not back down.
There are reports that water tanks in the camp have been destroyed by Lebanese army shelling.
Abu Hisham Laila, an official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP], speaking to Al Jazeera from inside the camp, called the Lebanese bombing of the camp "indiscriminate".
"All residents have stayed at home, taking shelter in lower floors," he said.
"We want ambulances to be allowed into the camp to transfer the civilian casualties. We also want fire brigades to enter the camp and put off the fire in many buildings."
The continued fighting has led to fears that violence could flare in other Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Fighting broke out between the army and Fatah al-Islam on Sunday morning after security forces raided homes in Tripoli to arrest suspects of a bank robbery.
At least three members of Fatah al-Islam, which has been accused of having links to al-Qaeda and Syrian intelligence, were killed after the army stormed the building they were hiding in.
Fatah al-Islam
Fighting at the camp, where Fatah al-Islam has its headquarters, came in response to the raid in Tripoli by the Lebanese military.
A judicial source said on Monday that one of the fighters killed in Sunday's fighting was wanted by Lebanon for involvement in a plot to bomb two trains in Germany last year.
Saddam al-Hajj Deeb, a Lebanese citizen, was one of five men charged with attempted mass murder.
Deeb was on the run and being tried in absentia.
Fouad Siniora, Lebanon's prime minister, accused the group of trying to destabilise the country and called on the people of Lebanon to "join ranks behind the army and Lebanese security forces".
Fatah al-Islam's spokesman told Al Jazeera that the group was acting in self defence and had been made a "scapegoat".
The organisation has denied links to al-Qaeda and charges that it carried out bus bombings that left three people dead in a Christian area north of Beirut in February.
The group accused the government of trying to pave the way for an offensive against Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
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Recruiting report: Local doctor, UPMC differ on hospital priorities
Local doctor, UPMC differ on hospital priorities
Mirror photo by Gary M. Baranec Photo illustration by Nick Anna Dr. John Reinhardt examines Patricia Byrne of Altoona.
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series.
By William Kibler
rimary care can pull a lot of weight in the health care system, but big health care organizations, including UPMC, tend to regard it lightly, according to Dr. John Reinhardt, principal of Reinhardt Family Practice in Altoona.
“The proof is in the pudding,” Reinhardt said.
The “pudding” includes the local hospital’s tertiary trauma center, connected to a big emergency department, a cancer center whose name refers to UPMC’s renowned cancer complex in Pittsburgh, and a breast health center, along with telehealth connections and various other programs that show the local community how the hospital here reflects the brilliance of the Pittsburgh-based health care giant whose name is on the facade.
“Wonderful” things, according to Reinhardt. And yet, UPMC has somehow failed to solve what should be an eminently tractable problem — recruiting a sufficient number of family doctors to practice here, he said.
It’s not easy to attract doctors to this city — a rust belt town with long winters, Reinhardt concedes.
“But if they really wanted to, they could do it,” he said.
That would take money, however, he said.
Hospital: ‘Recruiting priority’
Primary care is simply not a priority for management in the way that a new cath lab would be, Reinhardt said.
The hospital regards family practice as a “loss leader,” like the inexpensive T-shirts at Walmart — designed to get you in so they can sell you the stuff that pays, he said.
Family doctors are regarded primarily as entry points for services like X-rays, Reinhardt said — or like the glitzy programs the hospital launches with news conferences.
“We’re not the prettiest girl in the dance,” he said. “Obviously, their thrust is the big white tower over there.”
Primary care access is a problem for health systems and consumers all over the country, wrote UPMC Altoona spokeswoman Danielle Sampsell in an email.
“This problem is not unique to the Blair County area,” she wrote.
UPMC has been trying to deal with it, having increased investment of time and resources in primary care recruitment after merging with the local hospital six years ago, Sampsell wrote.
“Primary care doctors remain at the top of the recruitment priority list for us,” Sampsell wrote. “Since the merger, MORE primary care doctors have joined UPMC in this region than there were previously … a clear demonstration of UPMC’s commitment to recruiting and retaining of primary care providers for our communities and our patients.”
According to Reinhardt, an indicator of the hospital’s indifference to the family doctor shortage is the presence of 25 hospitalists — primary care or internal medicine physicians who work regular shifts in the hospital making rounds that replace those formerly made by the patients’ family doctors.
“If there were 25 new family doctors in this area, how wonderful that would be?” Reinhardt said.
Health plan distinction
UPMC can be more than merely indifferent, according to Reinhardt.
“It can be openly hostile,” he said.
When the organization first took over the local hospital, it created a distinction between “preferred” and “in-network” providers for the cheapest option on its health plan, Reinhardt said.
His practice was in-network, but not preferred.
It fooled some of his patients, who saw his name on the in-network list, signed up, then were told they needed to pay specialist co-pays when they came to see him.
“Everybody was up in arms,” he said.
Reinhardt appealed to the insurance commissioner, who overturned the practice.
Still, given that a third of his patients have the UPMC health plan, “it was scary,” he said.
The trend at Altoona started 20 years ago with an ambition to become a tertiary trauma center, Reinhardt said.
That took major resources, time and energy, he said.
It signaled an approach that betrays management’s “very poor” understanding of community needs, Reinhardt said.
“The center of their world is the hospital,” Reinhardt said. “(And) to a great extent it’s about the bottom line.”
Thriving practice
Reinhardt was working as a hospitalist 10 years ago, and when he left to start his own primary practice, CEO Jerry Murray told him he was bucking the trend, as there wasn’t much of a requirement for what he planned.
Murray turned out to be wrong, according to Reinhardt.
“We have 16,000 patients, and we’re still hiring,” he said.
It takes 30 to 60 days for patients to work through his wait list, although if someone is ill, it can be quicker, Reinhardt said.
He hired two doctors two years ago.
There are five in the practice now, including himself, and a certified nurse practitioner.
“I could hire four more (physicians) tomorrow,” he said.
Family doctors, who come to know their patients individually, are the best way for people to access the health care system, but that access is limited when there’s a shortage, Reinhardt said.
People are going to find a way in, one way or another, he said.
Many who lack a family doctor try to make appointments with specialists directly, he said.
But an estimated 40 percent who do so turn out to be in the wrong place, he said.
“(Moreover), if you get your high blood pressure managed by a cardiologist, it costs more, (yet) your blood pressure isn’t under better control,” he said. “It’s not good for the cardiologist or anybody else.”
Others who don’t have a family doctor go to the emergency room, and emergency rooms also cost more, he said.
When he came to Altoona Hospital in 1992, there were 18 ER beds, Reinhardt said.
Now there are 52, and the department can expand further, he said.
Some patients lacking primary physicians go to urgent care, and that, too, is more expensive, Reinhardt said.
“The cheapest way is through the family doctor,” Reinhardt said.
And that’s as far as it needs to go in many cases, he said.
“I can handle the vast majority of things that come through the door,” he said.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.
TUESDAY: Local doctor founds first pure Direct Primary Care practice in area.
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Amherst Magazine
2013: Winter
Feature: Librarians Will Lead the Revolution
Amherst Creates
College Row
Digitizing Dickinson (and Shakespeare)
Feature: Meditations on War and Circumstance
Feature: Scar Tissue
Feature: The Great Growth Spurt
Point of View: The Reunion Crasher
Remember When: “The Descent to Hell is Easy”
Sports: Hello, Pratt Pool
Librarians Will Lead the Revolution
By Emily Gold Boutilier
In addition to being the college librarian at Amherst, Bryn Geffert is a scholar of Eastern and Russian Orthodox Christianity and the author of a recent book on the subject. Last year a graduate student in Siberia emailed Geffert to inquire about the book. The man’s library didn’t carry it. He couldn’t afford to buy it. But he really wanted to read it.
Geffert had access to a digital version, but sending it would have violated the copyright of his publisher, the University of Notre Dame Press. Making a scan was not an option either, for the same reason. So Geffert shelled out $60 of his own money to order a copy of his own book, which he then mailed to Siberia.
What’s wrong with this picture? In Geffert’s mind, practically everything.
Geffert is an amiable Midwesterner who is unsparing in his critique of modern scholarly publishing—an industry that, he says, does “far more to lock down information than to disseminate it to those who need it.” At the extreme is the journal Brain Research, which costs $24,038 a year. More common are four-figure journal subscriptions that deplete library budgets for books, which themselves are no great bargain. For its size, Amherst has a library budget that is much larger than the national average. “Yet we’re cancelling subscriptions left and right,” Geffert says.
As a result, academic librarianship threatens to become “a profession of malcontents,” Geffert says. “But malcontent doesn’t accomplish anything.” He began to wonder: “If libraries can’t afford to buy this stuff, why not think about producing it ourselves?”
So he convinced Amherst to just that. In late 2012, the college announced that it will launch a new Amherst College Press, which, operating under the auspices of the library, will publish scholarly books using the “open-access” model—online, with unrestricted access and at no cost to readers. In a video announcing the endeavor, Geffert pointed out that professors worldwide produce reams of scholarship each year: “We at Amherst and our peers at other institutions give that scholarship away, without compensation, to commercial presses. These commercial presses [usually] pay our authors nothing—not a cent—and they send Amherst College nothing in return. But here’s what’s particularly galling: When these commercial presses then publish that scholarship, they demand that Amherst College buy it back.”
He asked viewers to imagine a better way. What if Amherst launched an academic press whose books were electronic and available for free to anyone with an Internet connection? What if this venture aimed to rival top university presses in quality?
“Isn’t this endeavor wildly idealistic?” asks the final FAQ in the announcement of the press. The
one-word answer: “Yes.”
Idealistic may not be quite the right word. The new Amherst College Press is at once self-interested and altruistic, Geffert says. The self-interest is in helping libraries and authors—and, by extension, students. The altruism is in its potential reach, particularly to underserved students, faculty and institutions in the United States and abroad.
Most of the world’s population lacks access to scholarly publications. Over the past 30 years, academic presses have dramatically reduced the number of copies they print per title—typically from a few thousand to a few hundred.
Books by Amherst College Press will be available to read online and in formats suitable for download on most e-readers. At the outset, the press will publish solely in the liberal arts, with a special focus on the arts and humanities. These are the areas in which the college sees the most need, in part because the open-access movement has so far been centered on the sciences and also because the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has identified a number of humanities fields as underserved by quality presses. The press will also host an online, free version of The Common, a literary magazine based at the college and published in print twice yearly. The Common has expanded its website to publish original content four days each week.
Geffert is now seeking a director with expertise in academic publishing. This person will face the daunting task of “convincing authors that a new, untested venture is a worthy place for their manuscripts,” Geffert says. To that end, he hopes that several factors will work in Amherst’s favor. One is the college’s name. Another is its ability to promise something that traditional presses cannot: unlimited readership.
Editing will be another selling point. As university presses—“the last great bulwark against slipping standards,” Geffert argues—cut back on the number of items they produce, many scholars have turned to commercial presses that do little or no content or copy editing. In contrast, Amherst College Press will treat manuscripts as raw material, employing peer review and close editing. The new director will hire two editors.
With no need to pay costs related to printing, shipping, inventory and accounting, expenses will be comparatively low. The college is raising money to endow the directorship. Funding for the two editing positions will come from the library, through the repurposing of jobs that have opened up as a result of retirements. Operating expenses will come from the library’s existing endowments.
The library hopes to have a director in place by fall semester and to have that person start reaching out to authors shortly after being hired. Those authors—at least at first—will probably not include Amherst professors; this is out of caution, to avoid being perceived, even unfairly, as a vanity press.
Amherst is not the first school to experiment with open-access scholarly publishing. Rice University launched a similar press in 2006 only to shut it down in 2010. There are lessons to be learned from that failure: Unlike at Amherst, Rice relied in part on sales of print editions to fund operating expenses. “The advantage of our model,” Geffert says, “is that it is not dependent on revenue. We are not under pressure to turn a profit.”
Also, unlike at Rice, Amherst College Press has the strong backing of the administration. “There are not as many online venues for high-quality writing and scholarship in the humanities as there are in the sciences,” says President Biddy Martin. “Our open-access press will place Amherst at the forefront of a movement that we hope will be embraced by leading scholars in the humanities.”
Amherst takes inspiration from the University of Michigan, which in 2009 merged its press with its
library and increased its focus on free, digital publications available to all. “Michigan did this,” Geffert says, “without any promise of compensation from other institutions. That altruism inspired me.”
Michigan’s Shana Kimball, head of publishing services, outreach and strategic development, says digital publishing “democratizes the access to scholarship.” She describes the Amherst venture as bold. “We’re in a moment when we’re hearing more about presses closing than presses opening,” she says. “Scholarly publishing is in trouble, and Amherst is trying to help it in this really enlightened way.”
Geffert imagines a future in which many colleges and universities follow Michigan’s and Amherst’s lead. “We look forward to a tipping point,” he says—a time when libraries and the global reading public have access to a large body of information that they no longer have to buy. But until then, at least Geffert and Amherst can make a dent in the problem, providing free, high-quality, important scholarship to anyone who wants it, even in Siberia.
Emily Gold Boutilier is the editor of Amherst magazine.
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Action needed now to eliminate racism
Posted by · March 19, 2000 10:00 PM
EDMONTON - On the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, the president of Alberta's largest labour organization is calling on leaders from government, business and labour to join forces in the battle against intolerance.
"Racism and discrimination continue to be serious problems in Alberta and across the country," says AFL president Audrey Cormack. "Progress has been made - that's clear. But much more needs to be done in order to combat racism in the workplace and in the broader community."
The United Nations has chosen March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racism in memory of the infamous "Sharpeville Massacre." On this day in 1960, South African police fired into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in Sharpeville Township, killing sixty-nine people. Since then, March 21 has been set aside as a day to remember the suffering caused by racism and to celebrate successes in the battle for racial tolerance.
Cormack says that much has been accomplished since 1960. For example, the brutal system of Apartheid that caused the Sharpeville massacre has been overthrown. And many countries, including Canada, have introduced laws aimed at discouraging discrimination. But Cormack says the battle against racism is far from over.
"The brutal reality is that immigrants, first nations people and people of colour still face racism discrimination and intolerance on a daily basis. Systemic racism continues to exist in our schools, our courts, our communities, our workplaces and even in our unions. In fact a recent poll published in the Globe and Mail suggests that intolerance against immigrants is actually on the rise. This sends a clear message that more needs to be done in order to promote tolerance."
Cormack says that unions have a long, proud history of working to overturn racist and discriminatory policies in government and in the workplace. As part of the the AFL's on-going commitment to ending racism and discrimination, she says she and other Alberta labour leaders will continue to: 1) speak out against racism in Canada and throughout the world, and 2) support anti-racism programs and legislation aimed at breaking down systemic barriers in all institutions.
"We in the labour movement will continue to do all we can to make Canadian labour organizations more tolerant, more inclusive and more welcoming for people of colour. For example, we will be working with the Canadian Labour Congress to implement the recommendations of the CLC's recent Anti-Racism Task Force, which outlines an action plan for promoting tolerance in unions and the workplace," says Cormack.
"But we can't eradicate racism alone. That's why we are challenging other groups and individuals to play a part. We challenge individuals to actively join the fight against racism. We challenge businesses to adopt anti-discrimination policies and sponsor educational programs to combat racism in the workplace. And we challenge governments to make the fight against racism in Canada and around the world a much higher priority. By working together, I am convinced we can promote tolerance and stamp out the black cancer of racism that has been eating away at our community and our workplaces."
Audrey M. Cormack, President @ (780) 499-6530 (cell) /483-3021 (wk) 428-9367 (hm)
Tory marriage law sends "clear message of intolerance," says AFL
EDMONTON - The Alberta government's new marriage law sends a clear message of intolerance against gays and lesbians, says the president of Alberta's largest labour organization.
Audrey Cormack, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, says the Marriage Amendment Act violates the human rights of gay and lesbian couples by denying them equal treatment under the law. She also says the law promotes intolerance against gays and lesbians by suggesting that their relationships are somehow illegitimate and "unnatural."
"Other governments in this country are moving forward in terms of recognizing the rights of gay and lesbian Canadians," says Cormack. "But, once again, the Alberta government is taking us back to a darker, less tolerant time. It's shocking to see a government using its power to promote intolerance against an identifiable group - but that's exactly what's happening with this law."
The Marriage Amendment Act was debated and passed yesterday, despite strong objections from both opposition parties. The new law in effect bans gay and lesbian marriages and goes on to say that Alberta will make use of the constitution's notwithstanding clause if the federal government ever decides to allow such unions.
Cormack says she finds the law "deeply disturbing" because it shows the Alberta government is willing to trample on the human rights of some of its citizens in order to pander to a vocal minority of ultra-conservative Albertans who feel threatened by "non-traditional" relationships.
Cormack points out that the Alberta government's new marriage law flies in the face of recent Supreme Court decisions that guarantee protection under the law in cases involving discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. She also says the Alberta law runs counter to the spirit of a new law currently being considered by the federal government that will guarantee gay and lesbian couples access to the same kind of spousal benefits already available to heterosexual couples.
"The government knows that the rules regarding marriage are under federal jurisdiction - and they know that this law will probably be struck down by the courts as unconstitutional. But they've decided to go ahead with it anyway," says Cormack. "It's a cheap political stunt designed to pander to the lowest and most backward political instincts."
AFL President to meet with Alan Rock to urge Action on Bill 11
EDMONTON - Alberta Federation of Labour President Audrey Cormack will be taking the fight against the Klein government's Private Hospitals Bill to Ottawa on Tuesday, March 7th. Cormack has a meeting with federal Health Minister Alan Rock to discuss the implications of Bill 11, introduced last week.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 7 at the Minister's Office in Tunney's Pasture Complex at 2:00 pm EST (12:00 Noon Alberta time). The meeting will take between 30 and 60 minutes.
Cormack is available for media comment following the meeting. Ms. Cormack can be
reached by cellular phone at (780) 499-6530.
Audrey Cormack, President @ (780) 499-6530 (cell)
Jason Foster, AFL @ (780) 483-3021
Government Will Pay Price for Private Hospital Bill, Says AFL
The Klein government will pay a big price from Albertans if it continues with its private health care bill, introduced in the Legislature today, says Audrey Cormack, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour.
"The introduction of Bill 11 shows the Klein government is not listening to Albertans," says Cormack. "Albertans are worried - very worried - about their health care system. They want it protected and have told the government so."
"The government has responded by playing word games and weaving more lies about their real intentions," says Cormack. "Albertans don't want word games, they want Medicare protected from for-profit clinics."
"Bill 11 undermines the very principles of Medicare."
Cormack says that even the Tories know their bill is a bunch of pretend. "I don't care what you call it, a surgical facility or private clinic, this bill legalizes private, for-profit hospitals."
Cormack predicts that if the government insists on forcing this bill on Albertans that Albertans will make them pay a big price for it.
"Albertans won't put up with this bill. Any government that tries to undermine Medicare will hear loudly from Albertans. They will hear from us in the Legislature, on the streets and in the ballot box."
"If the government has any sense, they will let the bill die a quick death."
"It's not too late," concludes Cormack, "this bill can and will be stopped."
Audrey Cormack, President @ (780) 499-6530 cell/ 483-3021 (wk)/ 428-9367 (hm)
Federal government ignores promises on health care and children
Posted by · February 27, 2000 10:00 PM
EDMONTON - The federal government has squandered an historic opportunity to restore the health of Canada's Medicare system and build new programs to help Canadian families in the 21st century, says the president of the Alberta's largest labour organization.
AFL president Audrey Cormack says the federal Liberals had an opportunity to invest in people and build for the future - but instead they allowed themselves to be swayed by strident conservatives like Preston Manning and Conrad Black who advocate tax cuts at any cost.
"The Liberals told us that this budget would focus on health care and children," says Cormack.
"But instead of a national homecare program that could relieve pressure on our under-funded hospitals, we got a reduction to the high-income surtax. And instead of a national child care program, we got tax cuts for highly profitable high-tech corporations and tax breaks for people cashing in on stock options. These changes may be popular on Bay Street. But they are certainly not the kind of thing average Canadians have been asking for."
Cormack says the federal government did take a number of positive steps in its budget. For example, she says the decision to fully index tax brackets for inflation is "progressive and long overdue." She also applauded the decision to double the period in which workers can collect maternity and paternity benefits.
However, Cormack says the budget failed to deliver what Canadians have been asking most for: namely a long-term financial commitment to things like Medicare and a national day care program. It also failed to shore up Canada's UI system - which currently pays benefits to less than 1 in 3 unemployed Canadian workers (down from 80% a decade ago).
"The government is now predicting a $100 billion surplus over the next three years," says Cormack. "But nearly $60 billion of that is being handed out in tax cuts and only $2.5 billion of the total is going to health care through the Canada Health and Social Transfer. The Liberals want us to believe that they are taking a balanced approach to budgeting - but this is far from balanced. It's an approach that is tilted heavily towards tax cuts and away from investments in core public services."
To make matters worse, Cormack points out that the money earmarked for health care is being given to the provinces with virtually no strings attached. That means that provincial Premiers like Alberta's Ralph Klein can do almost anything they like with the money.
"There is absolutely no guarantee that this new federal money will actually be used to strengthen Medicare," says Cormack. "Given the Alberta government continued commitment to privatization, there is a good chance that at least some of this money will end up in the pockets of health care corporations and not in public hospitals. The federal government should be doing something to make sure that doesn't happen."
Now that the business community has been given what it wants in terms of lower taxes and continued restraint in terms of public spending on programs, Cormack says she and other observers will be watching for the results.
"For years now the business community has been saying that tax cuts will lead to increased investment and job creation," she says. "Now they've gotten what they asked for. So we'll be watching to see if these business people really do create jobs and increase wages for their workers. I'm not holding my breath."
Audrey Cormack, President @ (780) 428-9367 or (780) 499-6530
AFL president available for comment on Federal budget
EDMONTON - Audrey Cormack, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, will be available to answer questions from the media immediately following the release of the federal budget later today.
The budget speech is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Alberta time. Reporters interested in talking with Cormack after the speech can reach her on her cell phone or at her home number.
Audrey Cormack, President: (780) 499-6530 (cell) or (780) 428-9367 (home)
Provincial budget charts dangerous course for Alberta, says AFL
EDMONTON - Based on the plans outlined in yesterday's provincial budget, it's clear that the Klein government is charting a dangerous course for Alberta, says the president of Alberta's largest labour organization.
Audrey Cormack says the budget is built around two highly questionable ideas - namely the idea that flat taxes will promote fairness and the idea that private health care will save money and reduce waiting lists. The problem with this approach, she says, is that flat taxes are inherently unfair and private hospitals represent a serious threat to the future of Medicare.
"Albertans shouldn't be fooled into thinking that a flat tax will actually make the provincial tax system fairer," she says. "An 11 percent flat rate tax like the one being planned by the provincial government will provide a big break for the wealthiest Albertans - that's true. But middle-income earners are going to carry a disproportionate share of the tax burden in this province."
Cormack says that progressive tax brackets - which require people who earn more to pay more in tax as a percentage of their income - have always been the key to fair taxation. By introducing a flat tax, she says Alberta will be abandoning one of the central principles of fair taxation.
Cormack was also highly critical of the government's announcements on health care spending. In particular, she says the budget gives absolutely no details about how much the government plans to spend on private, for-profit hospitals and clinics.
"The Premier is promising to spend an extra one billion dollars on health care over the next three years," she says. "That's great. But how much of that money is actually going to be used for direct patient care in existing public facilities? And how much of it is going to end up in the pockets of for-profit health care entrepreneurs? Albertans want their tax dollars used to provide front-line services - not as a subsidy for private health care entrepreneurs."
In addition to criticizing the government plans for private health care and flat taxation, Cormack also condemned Provincial Treasurer Stockwell Day for using his budget speech as a platform to attack opponents of the government proposed private health care legislation.
"Mr. Day's attack on Medicare supporters was entirely inappropriate," she says. "Albertans have a right to question the government and criticize proposed legislation - that's what democracy is all about. Mr. Day's comments suggest that he is not willing to listen to the legitimate concerns of citizens. This kind of intolerance and arrogance is a sure sign of a government that has been in power too long."
Cormack concluded her remarks by questioning the government's claim that its budget is an example of bold and innovative thinking for the 21st century.
"The government talks about a New Century and a Bold Plan. I can agree that it's a new century. But it's an Old Plan, not a Bold one," she says. "We've heard all this stuff before. More privatization. More regressive tax changes. What's so new about that? What's so bold about it? There is no good news here for Albertans. In fact, by setting the stage for a weaker public health system and by adopting a tax system that is inherently unfair, the government is tearing away at the fabric of our province. In a sense they are creating an Alberta Disadvantage."
Audrey Cormack, President: (780) 499-6530 (cell) or (780) 483-0321 (w) or
(780) 428-9367 (h)
AFL president available for comment on provincial budget
EDMONTON - The fiscal plan that will be outlined in this afternoon's provincial government budget is based on two dangerous myths, says the president of Alberta's largest labour organization.
"Today's budget will be built around two dangerous ideas - namely the idea that flat taxes will promote fairness and the idea that private health care will save money and reduce waiting lists," says Audrey Cormack. "The problem is that flat taxes are inherently unfair and private hospitals represent a serious threat to the future of Medicare. As a result, this budget is a blueprint for disaster."
The provincial budget will be handed down today at 4 p.m. Cormack will be available to talk to reporters in the Legislature rotunda immediately following the provincial Treasurer's budget speech.
Audrey Cormack, President: (780) 499-6530 (cell)
How Many Worker Deaths Are Too Many?
The tragic wave of workers killed on the job in the past six days is a marker that the Alberta government is not doing enough to protect worker safety, says the Alberta Federation of Labour. In the wake of these avoidable tragedies, the AFL is calling for stronger health and safety legislation, including a ban on working alone.
The AFL's call comes after three deaths in less than a week, including the murder of a young woman working alone in a Calgary Subway store. One worker was killed on the Suncor site in Fort McMurray. A third worker was killed in Northeast Edmonton on Tuesday.
"How many worker deaths will it take for this government to act," asks AFL President Audrey Cormack. "Every one of those deaths was preventable. They shouldn't have happened. There are too many holes in Alberta's health and safety legislation," observes Cormack. "And what is worse is that the Conservative government refuses to enforce what rules that do exist."
"The tragedy of the young woman killed at the Subway store is made worse by the fact that if she wasn't working alone, the whole horrible incident could have been avoided."
Cormack is calling for toughened health and safety legislation, including renewing her call for a ban on working alone. The AFL will be writing the Premier and the Minister of Human Resources and Employment urging them to pass legislation during the spring sitting.
The AFL reminds Albertans that two years ago, an Edmonton custodial worker was sexually assaulting while working alone in a school at night. "Being by yourself leaves you far more vulnerable to attacks, and for that reason it should be banned," says Cormack.
"These deaths also show that the government's strategy of 'self-enforcement' is a failure," says Cormack. Self-enforcement is a policy where employers voluntarily enforce health and safety legislation themselves through their own associations.
"The fact is the past three years have been the most deadly in history," Cormack points out. In three years, 339 workers were killed on the job or due to occupational disease. This is the highest cumulative figure in Alberta history. In 1997, 120 workers were killed. In 1998, 105 were lost. The preliminary figures for 1999 are 114 deaths.
Something is going horribly wrong in this province, and I fear it is the result of bad government policy. The government's inaction proves they are putting profit margins ahead of human life, and I find that immoral," Cormack concludes.
Audrey Cormack, President: @ 483-3021(wk) 499-6530 (cell) 428-9367 (hm)
Government Plans Based on Two Dangerous Myths
EDMONTON - The Alberta government's plan for the coming year - as outlined in today's Throne Speech - is based on two dangerous myths, says the President of the Alberta Federation of Labour.
The first myth is that privatization in health care will lower costs and reduce waiting lists. The second myth is that flat taxes will enhance tax fairness and prompt economic growth.
"The government has decided to make private health care and flat taxes the dual centerpieces of their agenda for the year 2000," says AFL President Audrey Cormack, "but both of these policies are deeply flawed. Bother policies will weaken the social fabric of our province."
Cormack says the government's plan to spend tax dollars on private, for profit hospitals represents a serious threat to the future of medicare.
"The government says its privatization plan will protect medicare," says Cormack "but the truth is privatization will undermine the very foundations of our public health system. Wherever privatization in health care has been tried, it has failed. All we have to do is look at the experience in places like Britain, Australia and the United States. Wherever private health care has been allowed to spread costs have gone up and waiting lists have grown longer. Given this experience, why on earth would we want to go down this road?"
Cormack says the government's plan for a provincial flat tax is also ill conceived.
"Albertans shouldn't be fooled into thinking that a flat tax will actually make the provincial tax system fairer," says Cormack "this plan will provide a big break for the wealthiest Albertans but middle income earners are going to carry a disproportionate share of the burden. The flat tax will also rob the government of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue - revenue needed to pay for health care, education and other important programs and services."
If the government really wants to defend medicare and promote tax fairness, Cormack says they should shelve their plans for private health care and flat taxes."The answer to our problem in health care is adequate funding for our existing public system. And the answer to our concerns about fair taxation is a tax system that is more progressive, not less," says Cormack.
"By introducing a flat tax the Alberta government is abandoning one of the central principles of fair taxation. And by promoting privatization in health care they will be weakening Canada's most cherished social program. These are not bold plans for the future - they are dangerous ideas that will take us backwards not move us forward."
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Ethiopia's first female president: A glittering local, global career
The Ethiopian parliament is the final step for the country to officially welcome its first female president under the ruling Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF’s dispensation.
Undergoing a raft of reforms across the political, economic and security sectors, Ethiopia will have a strong and firm leader in Sahle-Work Zewde who has previously served her nation in high ambassadorial capacities.
Despite being a largely ceremonial leader with the Prime Minister – in this case Abiy Ahmed – being leader of government business, the role of president is a constitutional one that primarily says the occupant of the post is the Head of State.
Who is the newest woman in Abiy’s circle as he continues to soak praise of having presented a gender balanced cabinet about a week ago, another first in Ethiopia’s political history.
1 – Ms. Zewde is a natural sciences graduate of the University of Montpellier, France.
2 – The job she left to become president was United Nations Seceratary-General’s Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) at the level of Under-Secretary-General. Ms. Zewde was the first woman appointed to this position.
3 – Until few months back, she was Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON).
4 – Other international positions she has previously held include: – Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) – Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – At home, Director-General for African Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
5 – Ms. Zewde is also a one-time Ethiopian Ambassador to France – Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and accredited to Tunisia and Morocco (2002-2006).
6 – From 1993 to 2002, she served as Ambassador to Djibouti and Permanent Representative to the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD),
7 – Also as ambassador to Senegal, with accreditation to Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Guinea (1989-1993).
Article 71: Powers and Functions of the President
1. She shall open the joint session of the House of Peoples’ Representatives and the House of the Federation at the commencement of their annual sessions.
2. She shall proclaim in the Negarit Gazeta laws and international agreements approved by the House of Peoples’ Representatives in accordance with the Constitution.
3. She shall, upon recommendation by the Prime Minister, appoint ambassadors and other envoys to represent the country abroad.
4. She shall receive the credentials of foreign ambassadors and special envoys.
5. She shall award medals, prizes and gifts in accordance with conditions and procedures established by law.
6. She shall, upon recommendation by the Prime Minister and in accordance with law, grant high military titles.
7. She shall, in accordance with conditions and procedures established by law, grant pardon.
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Naseeb Abdul Juma (born 2 October 1989), popularly known by his stage name Diamond Platnumz (or simply Diamond), is a Bongo Flava recording artist and singer from Tanzania. He is best known for his hit song “Number One”. Diamond has won numerous awards at Channel O and the HiPipo Music Awards. He performed at the Big Brother Africa 7 eviction show in May 2012. Diamond is considered influential among his fans, and is said to be the most loved and decorated Tanzanian artist at the moment. He was believed to be the highest selling Tanzanian artist of ringtones by mobile phone companies in 2013, as well as being among the artists earning the highest income in the African Great Lakes region’s music industry.
On 3 May 2014, Diamond Platnumz set a new record at the Tanzania Music Awards by winning 7 awards, including Best Male Writer, Best Male Artist, Best Song Writer and Best Male Entertainer of the Year. The previous record was set by 20%, a recording artist who walked away with 5 awards at the 2011 Tanzania Music Awards where diamond left empty handed.Prior to accomplishments, Diamond held the record for winning 3 awards at the 2010 Tanzania music awards.
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Fascination with flight leads to an… ART ATTACK!
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What started as a child's fascination with birds and flight has become a major theme for 'Art of Flight' creator David Bent. He spoke to Chuck Grieve about the inspiration and perseverance behind his successful collections.
If he thought about it, David Bent could probably trace a personal flight path from birds through model planes and a friend named ‘Mad Kenny’ to where he is today – a popular success and best-seller in the fickle world of art.
But Bent is too busy to think about it. Of course he’s happy that his aviation-inspired art has captured imaginations and markets around the world, but that pleasure comes mainly from connecting with others. It’s a “happy alignment of interest, art and public appreciation”, he says – and it continues to surprise him because, frankly, aviation isn’t everything.
His home in Wiltshire, where he has his studio and gallery, is a monument to an eclectic mind, an open book of the travels and interests that make him “an artist with a strong niche interest in aviation, rather than an aviation artist” which he would find too limiting in every sense.
The same goes for technique and medium. Bent satisfies his artistic impulse with whatever he considers the most appropriate tool for the job, whether it’s responding to the stimulus of Dubai and the Middle East , celebrating the RAF’s 90th birthday, or indulging in his quirky humanoid Aerobots. The paintings, photographs and limited-edition collages that result, now comprise a substantial body of work and are held in private and corporate collections around the world.
A major breakthrough in his aviation work was being picked up by the Society of British Aerospace Companies – now Aerospace, Defence and Security (A|D|S) which wanted new art when it was moving into new offices in central London. The director general had seen something that resonated in an exhibition of his work at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT).
Said Bent: “The thing I ‘hit’ in the industry is that it’s cutting-edge technology – it couldn’t be more so. And it’s forward-looking, so it needs something contemporary and modern to reflect that.” Among his work now on display at the ADS is a massive 8m x 2.4m work entitled Flight of the Red Arrows along Sheikh Zayed Road in the boardroom, plus another 30 individual pieces.
Bent has always had an interest in aviation, thanks to his father, who he describes as “an aviation nut case… an anorak”, and an early love of observing and drawing birds. His father built and flew model aircraft, which he and his brother, Roger, chased through the fields of southern England : two-legged retrievers. Bent became an air cadet in school and logged 18 hours in a De Havilland Chipmunk – his sum flying experience. “I made corporal and caused a fair amount of chaos at various Royal Air Force (RAF) bases around the UK and Europe ,” he said. His brother made a career in the RAF, retiring with the rank of wing commander.
Perhaps surprisingly, his interest in aviation didn’t come out in his art until around 2000. He was too busy exploring his many other interests and commenting, through, art on the social issues of the day – something he continues to do, with current themes such as global warming, genetic engineering and the creep of the ‘big brother’ state.
“I’ve always been conscious of the role of aviation in the modern world,” he said. For the most part it is a benign influence but occasionally events such as Lockerbie, 9/11 and air-mounted military operations remind us of its other face. This drives Bent to his studio. “You can make a case that in such events, aviation plays a central role,” he mused.
“From an artistic point of view, I like the atmospherics you get when you leave the ground; the fact that aircraft operate in three-dimensional space where it doesn’t matter whether the horizon is horizontal or vertical.
“And I like the objects themselves – the shape and design of aircraft. They’re generally very appealing. Some, like Concorde, are inspirational: people just liked it.” What interests Bent sociologically is how an iconic leading-edge piece of kit became a popular cultural icon. He sees opening minds through art as part of his role.
“One thing I realised quickly, as my career in aviation art developed, was what a huge subject it is. I’ve just scratched the surface.”
That career started with a visit to RIAT in 1999 with ‘Mad Kenny’, an old friend. At the time, Bent was doing a lot of photo collage work with duplicate prints that he would double, turn and juxtapose for artistic effect. At RIAT, he walked along the static display line photographing aircraft nose-on with a telephoto lens. When he applied his technique of doubling and turning to the resulting prints and achieved “interesting” results. That was the start of his Aerobot collection and “the key that turned the tap on”. All his latent interest in aviation came rushing out.
The following year he exhibited his Aerobots at RIAT where “basically they went down a storm”, he recalled. The quirky anthropomorphic quality of the art – humanoid creatures made from aircraft – caught the imagination. “Part of their intrigue is figuring out what aircraft have been used.” Pilots liked them, took them home in their cockpits and instantly his work was all over the world.
In successive years, Bent’s exhibition at RIAT has become larger and his work more varied under his Art of Flight brand. He likes to explore themes and ideas, rather like a boxer circling and probing with his jab, and groups his work into collections. Art of Flight reflects the breadth of his fascination and has grown to 15 collections with themes now including Aerobots, Red Arrows, Tessellations, Stealth, Aerodynamics, Al Ain Aerobatica, Red Bull, Sky City Fusion and Mirror City Skyline. As well as original paintings, Bent creates art prints in his studio, using archival inks. Editions are limited to 50.
During one of his exhibitions at RIAT, members of the RAF Red Arrows saw his work in the VIP area and invited him to collaborate as the display team’s artist in residence. That exhibition also opened a door to the Middle East , when the organisers of the Al Ain aerobatics show invited him to exhibit in the royal tent.
For Bent it was a pivotal experience. Fascinated by the culture of the region, he immersed himself in Islamic design, immediately recognising common ground. “The basis of Islamic art is geometry, as with aircraft,” he saids. He applied his simple methodology of turning and overlaying aircraft shapes to form secondary and tertiary patterns reminiscent of the pierced stucco and carved wood seen in traditional mihrab and mousharabia screens, and named them Plane Tesselations. These works struck a chord with Gulf viewers at the next year’s Al Ain show.
Meanwhile, he had become fascinated with the growth of Dubai , in particular the architecture of Sheikh Zayed Road . In an example of ‘mad dogs and Englishmen’, he spent half a day in the midday sun photographing buildings north of Jumeirah Emirates Towers until dehydration and “nearly killing myself off crossing the road” forced a stop to his expedition.
But it was worth it. He made collages of architectural features from that shoot, merged them with aircraft and aircraft shapes, and his Sky City collection was off the ground.
“Things expanded from there,” said Bent. Invitations followed to exhibit at the Dubai and Farnborough airshows, the Red Arrows collaboration bore fruit, and his aviation work began finding a wider public.
Bent is selective in taking commissions. “I like to produce work from my own ideas and then take them to the marketplace and hope people will like them enough to want to own them,” he explained. Sometimes in the past they didn’t, as he knows from experience.
Bent has always practiced art, even when not earning a living from it. He did “hundreds” of jobs after taking a degree in art in 1972. He taught the subject for many years to youngsters in north London . He was an early adopter of computer graphics and started a graphic design company as a spin-off from teaching. But the necessities of running a business took him away from the creative side and, after six years, he closed the company and returned to his first love: art.
Bent calls it his second drop-out phase. Determined to do it his way, there were “a few tough years” as he tried to establish himself, but “from 1987 onwards, I have been able to pursue a career as an artist”.
Bent’s collections represent his exploration of a particular train of thought. There are many themes: landscape, travel, figure-based studies, big issues, photo collage and photography – even a collection inspired by interesting stones. Among his interests are travel and exploring. He has been particularly drawn to Asia . “I love its colours,” he revealed.
He admits to being better at starting projects than concluding them. In this light, his collections present the perfect compromise. “They’re works in progress. It’s a process, like life: if you don’t enjoy the process, what’s the point?”
As well as inspiration, Arabia has proven to be a new commercial marketplace. Bent is comfortable with his popularity because he feels it has been achieved on his own terms. “I’ve tried all my life as an artist to keep my integrity intact,” he said.
“No doubt, with aviation, the subject has been helpful commercially. There seems to be a need for somebody with my approach to the subject of aviation, which I classify simplistically as modern contemporary.
“A lady at RIAT once said to me, ‘David, you nailed the niche’. I’m happy with that.”
• David Bent’s art online is found at www.bentartgallery.co.uk
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Qatar Airways is to launch a new service to Gaborone, Botswana, starting 27 October 2019. The capital and largest city of Botswana will be the airline’s first destination in the African country.
Operating since 2018, Morocco’s Sarah Airways is concentrating on VIP transport and medical evacuations – both growing markets in Morocco.
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History of Arnold's Appliance
Arnold’s Appliance ‘history started back in summer 1956 when we celebrated the Grand Opening of Lakeshore Appliance in Redmond Washington. In June, 1974 John Arnold bought Georges Lakeshore Appliance and TV. The store was located on NE 8th in Bellevue. He renamed the store “Arnold's Lakeshore Appliance and TV”. At that time, the store had only a few major brands of free standing appliances and table top televisions.
In September 1983, after some years of hard work, Arnold had grown his business. He moved the store to the new Apple Green Center now called “The Design Market of Bellevue" across from Overlake Hospital on 116th in Bellevue Washington.
Before going on retirement, Arnold decided to bring his daughter, Joan and her husband, Rick Moline into the business in 1987. That same year, they decided to shift the core business from the television that encountered dramatic changes to appliances. From that time on, the business was essentially on built-in appliances. Arnold’s Appliance became the only name on the store sign and “Lakeshore” came down.
John retired officially in January 1988 and his children took over the business. In 1999, as the business was growing, a bigger building was needed. Arnold’s moved the showroom to a larger building next door. In August 2008, we moved again to a new showroom displaying whole kitchen settings at 1625 132nd AVE NE Bellevue. Arnold’s Appliance moved again after 8 years because of the Lite Rail that was settled in through Bellevue by Sound Transit. Today our showroom is located at 14404 NE 20th ST Suite 100 Bellevue, WA 98007.
At Arnolds’s Appliance, we offer high-end innovative products from over 45 manufacturers. We, the third generation of the Arnold’s family, are dedicated to bring the best quality, delivery and installation to our customers for years.
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Data Show How Inequities in Marijuana Enforcement Disproportionately Harm Black and Latino Communities
New York will use insight from the Data Collaborative for Justice’s new report to shape policy
By: Ashley Winstead
Below: (Mathew Sumner/Associated Press file)
The Data Collaborative for Justice (formerly Misdemeanor Justice Project), housed at John Jay College, is nationally recognized for its groundbreaking research on misdemeanor arrest trends in New York City and New York state. The group’s research has had a direct impact in shaping enforcement policy in the city and state, and has become an important resource for law enforcement and policymakers.
Its recent report, “Trends in Marijuana Enforcement in New York State, 1990-2017,” catalogues nearly three decades of marijuana-related arrests across New York, the first examination into marijuana enforcement trends in the state.
At a press conference to release “Trends in Marijuana Enforcement,” Alphonso David, Counsel to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, spoke about what the Governor’s office has learned from The Data Collaborative for Justice’s report and how they will use this data to shape policy.
Mr. David’s remarks are available in their entirety below.
Rethinking marijuana policy
Alphonso David, Counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo, talks about what the Governor’s office has learned from The Data Collaborative for Justice’s report on trends in marijuana enforcement and how they will use this data to shape policy.
First, I would like to acknowledge John Jay College for hosting this event, The Misdemeanor Justice Project for doing such fantastic work on the report, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures) for supporting this and so much other criminal justice work, Benjamin Tucker, of course, the first deputy commissioner at the NYPD and Jeremy Travis, executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures.
There are two people in the audience I need to recognize. The first is Axel Bernabe, who’s an assistant counsel who works in my office, who has been spending an extraordinary amount of time working on this issue. The second person is Jason Starr, who is an assistant counsel in my office as well, and he has been working on these issues day in and day out making sure that we have the most informed, comprehensive policy to advance.
As you heard a few minutes ago, despite a dramatic decline in the rate of marijuana misdemeanor arrests for the past decade, unfortunately there remains significant racial disparities in the rates of arrest. So in short, we may be arresting and charging less people with marijuana misdemeanor possession, but we are increasingly and disproportionately arresting and charging more minorities. Politically there is some consensus that our public policy on public safety should focus more on offenses that directly affect people, particularly violent crime. This consensus has driven significant reforms in law and policy at both the state and the federal levels. Marijuana decriminalization, the Rockefeller drug law reforms, the closure of many prisons here in New York state, the federal sentencing reform, and the list goes on and on.
However this shift in public attitudes and policies highlights some of the greatest areas of concern with regard to system inequities, and the data in this report illuminates one of those major areas of concern, marijuana enforcement.
Marijuana was decriminalized in NY state in 1977 when offenses related to marijuana was removed from the controlled substances provisions of the penal law, and it was placed in a different statutory scheme with what was intended to be less serious penalties.
However as this report unfortunately shows, in the period over the last 20 years there has been areas of significant inconsistency in enforcement among New York City, upstate cities, and the rest of the state and significant disparities in enforcement by age, by race, and by ethnicity. A few of the key findings with some historical backdrop provide some context and again highlight why it’s so important that our public policy be driven by data.
Arrest rate for marijuana possession for Black men and women in New York City compared with white men and women
Arrest rate for marijuana possession for Black men and women in upstate New York compared with white men and women
Arrest rate for marijuana possession for Black men and women ages 21-24 in upstate New York compared with white men and women
Since 1990 marijuana arrest rates have increased significantly across the state, as you heard. NYC has had the highest misdemeanor marijuana arrest rates for a majority of the time period compared to upstate cities and the rest of the state. And you can conclude, “Well, that makes sense because the majority of the people live in NYC.” A majority of the misdemeanor marijuana enforcement is related to marijuana possession, not to marijuana sale.
There is some geographic variation in enforcement in NYC, predominantly public view or public burn. In upstate cities, it is more evenly distributed across the three possession penal codes, and then the rest of the state is predominantly public view or public burn. But across all the geographic areas, Black men and women and Hispanic men and women are unfortunately being faced with higher rates of arrest for misdemeanor marijuana possession compared to their white counterparts. The difference in arrest rates for Blacks relative to whites was higher in upstate New York cities than in the rest of the state. In New York City, Black men and women were arrested for marijuana possession at a rate eight times that of white men and women and in upstate cities at a rate of 12 times that of white men and women. But even more significantly, Black men between ages 21 and 24 are arrested at a rate of more than 20 times that of white counterparts in upstate cities. These are the young people that we need to protect and in the most need of direction and support. These rates of arrests have been consistently increasing over the period of the study, despite an overall ultimate decline in the rate of misdemeanor arrest and a dramatic shift in the cultural attitudes regarding marijuana.
What does this tell us? What does all of this information tell us and how should we use it in developing, evaluating, and potentially advancing public policy? Regardless of which side of the aisle you’re sitting on, we should all be able to agree on one fundamental principle. Marijuana arrests and convictions have a significant direct and collateral impact on the lives of people that are affected. We should all be able to agree on that.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, with Counsel Alphonso David. Their Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act would be a first in the nation and involves an integrated regulatory approach to cannabis in three areas: medicinal, adult use, and industrial wellness. (Mike Groll/Associated Press file)
Further, low-level marijuana enforcement places significant strain on the criminal justice system with very little impact on public safety. There are also public policy costs, including significant impact on immigrant New Yorkers or labor market as well as public health. These realities and the reality that an increasing number of neighboring jurisdictions have legalized or are considering legislative proposals to legalize marijuana, the possession and/or the sale, led the governor to advance a proposal a few months ago. It seems like a few months ago, but actually it was a few weeks ago. That gives you a little insight into my brain. It was only a few weeks ago but it feels like months and months ago because we’ve been working on this for so long. But those realities actually led the governor to advance a proposal to comprehensively regulate cannabis, including the establishment of a regulated commercial market that permits the sale and the possession of cannabis for recreational and therapeutic use by adults.
In New York state, we previously legalized the use of medicinal cannabis through legislation that’s called the Compassionate Care Act. This year, our proposal, which is referred to the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act, it sets up the first in the nation, integrated regulatory approach to cannabis in three applications: one, medicinal; two, adult use; and three, industrial wellness.
It brings together existing law and policy governing medical cannabis and industrial hemp, which is existing law in New York. And then it sets forth an innovative model for developing and regulating the commercial market for adult-use recreational cannabis. The legislation also creates the Office of Cannabis Management to oversee the application and development of this new, integrated, regulatory framework.
As existing policies, opinions, methodologies, approaches are being challenged, we must first be sensitive to the concerns that are being raised in our communities, but we must be driven by the data.
Most significantly, our proposal attempts to address some of the disparate consequences demonstrated in the data in this report. In addition to reclassifying cannabis offenses in the penal law, to permit possession for personal use, it automatically seals prior marijuana offenses. It provides for re-sentencing for felony and misdemeanor possession and sale to align with these new classifications. And it creates robust opportunities for participation in the new market, for members of the communities who have been disproportionately harmed by the enforcement of marijuana prohibition. I’m speaking specifically about Black and Latino communities.
We are at yet another interesting crossroad as we further modify and reform our criminal justice laws and regulations, and the lives of real people are affected. That’s what I want us to think about as we talk about these issues. There are real men and women that are affected upstate, downstate, in every part of this state and in fact in every part of this country. I remember discussions when we embarked on the Rockefeller drug reforms. There was a lot of fear and anxiety to match the robust advocacy for change. And that discussion advanced, I would submit, primarily because of the data. People have to look at the facts. This is no different. As existing policies, opinions, methodologies, approaches are being challenged, we must first be sensitive to the concerns that are being raised in our communities, but we must be driven by the data.
Good public policy must be informed by good data, and today’s report confirms our approach regarding the regulation of cannabis. We believe that our integrative, fully regulated, culturally informed model is a strong path forward and a model for addressing what continues to be a key driver of disparity in our criminal justice system. The lives of real people are at risk. And we have to pay attention and we have to be driven by the data. Thank you.
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A major part of Port Melbourne’s industrial and military history is currently under threat.
The former Rootes building (19-25 Salmon Street, Port Melbourne) was constructed in 1941 and was the site for the design and development of prototypes of tanks. In 1943, the tank project was terminated and the building was used for the Maintenance section of the Department of Aircraft Production.
After WWII, it was acquired by Rootes Ltd, the British manufacturer of Hillman, Humber and Sunbeam cars. The factory was expanded in 1955 and was a major employer in the Port district. After a merger with Chrysler in 1965, the company rationalised its operations in Australia and the Port site closed in 1972.
In a major oversight by the City of Port Phillip, the building is NOT included in their Heritage Overlay Schedule, either as an individual heritage place or as part of a broader heritage precinct.
ADMS has joined forces with the National Trust and the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society to seek inclusion of the building on the Heritage Overlay and to work to a greater appreciation of the industrial heritage of Port Melbourne.
Update – 21 September 2015
The City of Port Phillip has proposed interim heritage controls over the Rootes buildings and a number of others in Fisherman’s Bend. Robin Grow, President ADMS, attended and spoke at the Port Phillip Council meeting tonight, along with representatives from the National Trust and the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society. Submission was well-received by councillors and motion passed. Lot of concern amongst councillors about the Rootes building, given that it is currently subject to a development proposal. Council can now introduce interim heritage controls, to be followed by a more formal public exhibition of proposed amendment to Planning Scheme and, hopefully, permanent heritage protection.
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meaning and origin of ‘to take the (King’s/Queen’s) shilling’
Pascal Trégueretymology, Ireland, literature, politics, United Kingdomdrinks, economics, Greek, Ireland, Italy, military, newspapers & magazines, Paris, phrases, politics, Scotland, United KingdomLeave a comment
George IV shilling – 1826
photograph: The Royal Mint Museum
The English art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) admired its design:
After getting that first shilling, of which I told you, I set my mind greatly upon getting a pile of new “lion shillings,” as I called them—the lion standing on the top of the crown; and my delight in the bloomy surface of their dead silver is quite a memorable joy to me.
from Pearls for Young Ladies (New York and Boston, 1878)
The phrase to take the shilling, or to take the King’s, or Queen’s, shilling, means to sign up as a soldier, from the former practice of giving a shilling to a recruit when he enlisted.
This phrase is first recorded in a note dated 27th March 1707, as published in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne¹ (Oxford Historical Society – Oxford, 1886):
It is true that, being unhappily engaged in mad company, he did take a shilling, but not with any intent of listing. Hopes to get out of the difficulty.
(¹ Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) was an English antiquary and diarist.)
The earliest instance of the King’s shilling that I have found is from The Dublin Evening Post (Dublin, Ireland) of 5th June 1828, which was quoting a “Galway paper”:
It appears that a military party had been beating up for recruits, during the day, in our streets. One of the Serjeants [sic], or a Corporal (we know not which) was seen about six o’clock in the evening, at the corner of Cross-street, having a young fellow from the country, whom he claimed as his Recruit. The poor fellow was unwilling to join his Majesty’s service, but the Serjeant or Corporal, assisted by two other Serjeants and a Drummer, were hurrying him on to the Mayor and Magistrates office, with their swords and bayonets drawn, when a mob of country people took part with the alledged [sic] recruit, when a “Slating” of no ordinary character ensued. Sticks and stones and green feathers flew aloft, and the heros [sic] of Waterloo and Badajos were obliged to resign their laurels to poor Patrick. The young man protested most strongly, that the King’s shilling was forced upon him—if so, we cannot sufficiently condemn the proceeding.
The earliest instance of the Queen’s shilling that I have found is from The Westmorland Gazette and Kendal Advertiser (Kendal, Westmorland) of 3rd February 1838:
KENDAL PETIT SESSIONS.
Last Week.
Military Deserter.—A person calling himself Alexander Brown, from Scotland, was this day brought up and examined. He arrived on Saturday in Kendal, and delivered himself up to one of our police officers as a deserter from two corps. It appears he had enlisted, first, in the 64th regiment, at Dundee, taken French leave, and marched as far as Carlisle. In this city Sawney² took the Queen’s shilling a second time, from a “dashing white sergeant” or corporal (no matter which) of the regiment, gave them the slip, and came to Kendal. He was committed to the House of Correction here until means be taken by the military depot at Leeds for his future disposal.
(² Sawney is a derisive nickname for a Scotchman, representing a Scottish local variant of Sandy, short for Alexander.)
The practice of giving new recruits a shilling ended in 1879; on 8th March, the Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press for Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, and Bedfordshire (Buckingham, Buckinghamshire) explained:
THE “QUEEN’S SHILLING.”
There have been from time to time rumours that the military authorities intended to abolish the ceremonial custom of presenting a man who enlists in the Army with the sum of twelvepence sterling, the receipt of the coin known as the Queen’s Shilling being held to bind the bargain between the person enlisting and the recruiting officer. It was not, however, until Thursday last that Colonel Stanley, in moving for leave to bring in the Army Discipline and Regulation Bill, definitely announced the intention of the framers of the measure to abrogate a curiously traditional practice. From time immemorial, the Secretary for War remarked, enlistment had been considered to be effected by the passage of pieces of money, usually a shilling, from the hand of the recruiter to that of the recruit, who, it was admitted, was very frequently, at the moment of his accepting the Royal bounty, not precisely either in a mental or physical condition to know what he was about. Benevolently bearing this contingency in mind, a clause in the Mutiny Act provided that a period of not less than twenty-four, but not more than ninety-six hours should be allowed for the recruit to think better of the bargain he had made. If he repented of it he might annul the compact he had entered into by paying to the recruiting officer the sum of twenty-one shillings as ‘smart money,’ together with the amount which had been laid out on his subsistence since the time of his enlisting; but if he was not provided with the necessary funds he was held to have duly enlisted, and was carried before a magistrate to be attested. If he refused—having received the enlisting money—to take the oath of allegiance and fidelity, he was liable to punishment. It is Colonel Stanley’s opinion that in these days, our recruits are, for the most part, ‘pretty wide awake’ and that, as the attestation made the real enlistment and definitely effected the contract for service, he saw no reason why the enlistment shilling should not be done away with. He thought that this proposal would, if adopted, have the effect of preventing much that was discreditable at the very outset of the soldier’s career, and which was the fault not so much of the men as of the system, which, as hitherto administered, left a recruit, after he had once taken the shilling, open to all kinds of degrading influences until the time arrived for him to be legally attested. As things stood at present, an attested recruit could only obtain release from his contract as an indulgence, and on payment to the Government of about twenty-one pounds; but the new Bill would give him the right, as distinguished from the privilege, to rescind his contract at any time within three months of his attestation on payment of about ten pounds, which, it was calculated, would practically cover the expense to which the country had been put on his account.
Lovers of old fashions may regret the proximate disappearance of the Queen’s Shilling, which is in substance only the old English ‘earnest,’ the French ‘arrhes,’ the Italian ‘buonamano,’ and the Greek ‘arrabon.’ The custom of binding a bargain by the payment of a small sum on account is as old as the hills. In Paris, on hiring an apartment, five francs is generally given to the concierge as the ‘denier à Dieu;’ servants receive ‘arrhes’ on their wages when they are engaged; but in Italy, when a contract is made for hiring a carriage by the day or the week, the employed instead of the employer pays earnest money. The vetturino hands to the traveller a small sum, usually five lire, as an earnest that he, the driver, will furnish a proper vehicle and horse, and in all respects perform his agreement faithfully. As for the traveller, it is politely considered that his word is his bond. Foreigners, however, are generally sober when they make bargains, and that the receipt of the enlisting shilling should not be regarded as definitively binding in the case of an ignorant young fellow, who had possibly had the fatal coin slipped into his hand when more than half tipsy by a very ‘wide-awake’ sergeant, was virtually recognised by the enactment of the 89th or ‘relief’ clause of the Mutiny Act. The final abolition of the Queen’s Shilling affords, on the other hand, a very gratifying proof that the Government desire to deal justly with the private soldier, and to ameliorate his condition. . . . Engagement to serve the Queen as a soldier will now become a thoroughly business transaction, into which the recruit will enter with his eyes open, and from which he can release himself within a reasonable lapse of time without a virtually ruinous penalty being exacted from him.
On 25th March of the same year, The Globe and Traveller (London) offered a historical viewpoint:
Among other reforms contemplated in the new Army Discipline and Regulation Bill is the abolition of that time-honoured institution, “the Queen’s Shilling.” This institution came into existence, according to a military contemporary, in the reign of Charles II., who enacted that “each man who enlisted for a Foote Souldier should have a shilling given to him a Corporall as ‘earnest’ money.” It was further directed that the recruit “should then be provided with a sword and a musquet, with a collar of bandaliers, the barrels of which musket to be four foote long, and to conteine a bullet, fourteen of which shall weigh a pound weighe.” The object would appear to have been of a two-fold nature, the recruit binding himself in a contract of service by accepting the money of the State while the enlisting sergeant or corporal was under compulsion to take a good look at his man before sealing the bargain. For if it subsequently proved, before attestation, that the recruit was physically or mentally unfit to serve as a soldier, the non-commissioned officer had to make good the shilling to the State. As a rule, the “handsel” was spent in drink on the spot, the company toasting the soldier at his own expense so far as the money would go. But when the coin chanced to be a “lion shilling,” the prescriptions of the service ordained that it was to be kept for luck, and Sergeant Kite³ accordingly had to go without the liquor for which he longed. Under the new system, that worthy will have to long in vain for those pleasant treats. Instead of a shilling, a recruit will receive a notice, directing him to appear before some named justice of the peace at a given time. If he does not choose to do so, there is an end of the matter; if he does, he will be asked whether he is still of a mind to serve in the army. Should he repent at the last moment, he may walk off without penalty or punishment; but if he answers in the affirmative, the magistrate will thereupon attest him in regular form, and the man becomes a member of her Majesty’s regular forces. Even then, however, there is a chance allowed to unstable minds, for any recruit may claim his discharge within three months after attestation on paying £10 or thereabouts. The precise sum is to be that which will cover all the expenses to which the State has been put in consequence of his vacillation, and this is estimated at £10 in the average of such cases. Except Sergeant Kite, few will regret the abolition of the “Queen’s Shilling” which had become an obsolete institution productive of no good and not a little harm.
(³ Sergeant Kite is a recruiter in The Recruiting Officer (London, 1706), a comedy by the Irish playwright George Farquhar (1677-1707).)
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Vaimalama Chaves : What Miss France demanded on Fort Boyard
Vaimalama Chaves (24 years old) is one of the contestants of the show Fort Boyard was broadcast on 13 July on France 2. Asked in The interview without filter, (Tele-Entertainment) Miss France in 2019, has revealed some details about his participation. The young woman entrusted from the outset to have had “fear” and even think that some of the challenges in the game are “dangerous“.
It was deadly
But Miss Tahiti 2018 is not the kind to let his tongue in his pocket and had prevented the production of phobias and trials that would be for it to be impossible to carry. His biggest fear ? Spiders. She said : “They had no choice. Because if they had put me with spiders I’ve killed spiders, I would have killed the production…” The father Fouras seems to have been lenient with the young woman since she escaped the ordeal. But if Miss France has not been faced with the spiders, but has been locked in with snakes in the test of the Cabin Abandoned. Vaimalama seems to have not necessarily enjoyed the shoot, as she explains : “It was deadly” before saying : “I cried out loud and perhaps you will learn words in tahitian”.
Accompanied by Sylvie Tellier , singer Francis Lalanne, Lenni-Kim, the collector Pierre-Jean Chalençon and comedian Nicole Ferroni, the team will attempt to collect funds for the association of The good fairies. This association has been created by sixteen, Miss France, to provide “a little magic wand to those who need it”.
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Write From Here
In search of the new normal after loss
Paying Homage: Who was he?
May 1, 2017 Suzanne2 Comments
I recently took part in a memoir writing course, hoping it would help me write the memoir I’ve been struggling with – about my life with Bob, my husband who died four years ago June 8th, and grief, and whatever else this book will be when I write it. But I just can’t seem to get the writing down in any way that isn’t jumbled.
I tried to write a submission for critique. The first one wasn’t good. The second attempt wasn’t much better. Overall, it was a painful struggle. When it came time for the critique of my piece – the last of all the submissions – the facilitator didn’t go through my story like she had for the others. She asked questions.
“What was Bob like? From what you’re saying, without saying it, I think we can tell he was intrigued by you when he met you. I think he was introverted, kind and shy.”
But these were conjecture based on what was in between the words. I hadn’t said who he was and in missing that I missed what made him important to me, and to others who knew him.
So I’m going to do my best to tackle this again, and maybe by sharing this I am revealing just a small part of who he was.
Bob fought for his life the entire time I knew him and without complaint. We had a good marriage. We weren’t best friends, we became kindred spirits. We rarely fought each other; we fought for his life together. He had Crohn’s Disease – an often debilitating illness causing so much pain it’s palpable, especially to those who love you the most. We fought the disease one operation after the other until his death. “For better or for worse, in sickness and in health.” And yet, during the 30 years I knew him he never once complained about his lot in life. He barely complained about the excruciating pain until it became unbearable and he would tell me it was time to go to the hospital.
Bob was the most honest person I ever met. Over the past four years I’ve encountered people who are bitter over broken relationships, divorce and deceit. I can tell you without any hesitation that Bob would never do that to me. We actually had this conversation and I remember saying that cheating on someone would be the worst pain you could inflict on them. “That one act can affect another human being’s self-esteem and makes them question their self-worth. It’s better to admit you harbored those feelings and walk away before you acted causing irreparable pain to another human being,” I said. He agreed. I trusted that Bob would never do that and I know he didn’t. He was, as we say in Yiddish, a mensch – a person of integrity and honor.
Bob was analytical and a mediator. He always said “There are three sides to every story, yours, mine and the truth.” He was soft spoken and rarely raised his voice in anger. When he did, people would stop whatever they were doing. They would listen to him as he analyzed the situation, having weighed all the pros and cons before speaking up. In one of his jobs he was asked to be a mediator and in another job he was approached to be a union representative because people knew he would be fair and honest. He proved himself to be fair in all instances and took his job mediating on behalf of others very seriously.
Bob was respected by everyone who knew him. During his last months, his co-workers and supervisors from the automotive parts plant, where Bob was a lead-hand electrician, came to the hospital to talk to him about his return to work. They had decided to put him in charge of their apprentice program because he was so patient and good at teaching those who were in trade training. He was humbled and elated at the opportunity to take on this role, which never happened because he didn’t make it back to work.
At his visitation services grown men came and cried on my shoulder saying how much they would miss him. The day of he was buried, the plant he worked at shut down production at 11:00 a.m. when the funeral began. There’s a sizable financial cost to involved with shutting down a plant, even for a short while and, believe me, this isn’t done for everyone.
Bob was a wonderful father and grandfather. We have a daughter and he had two children from a previous marriage. His daughter has a child, our granddaughter. Bob was an amazing father. His children looked up to him an d wanted to make him proud. It wasn’t hard to do that. He was prou d of each of them and always let them know this, not with constant praise but by being there to counsel them whenever they had problems. It was dad they often turned to when they were struggling. They knew he’d have the answer they needed to hear. His granddaughter was nine when he was in the hospital those last months. No matter how sick he was, when she came to visit he’d swing his feet over the side of the bed, sit next to her and whisper quietly having a special, private conversation only a grandfather and granddaughter can have. When he died his children were bereft and to this day they all miss him profoundly.
Is this what people need to know if I were to write a memoir? I’m still not sure. But I hope that by giving just a few small insights into who he was, I pay homage to a man who never looked for the limelight, but in his death I hope I honor him with my memories.
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Shutdown deadline looms as wall negotiations hit a snag
WASHINGTON (AP) — As negotiations over a border security hit a snag, the White House on Sunday would not rule out another federal government shutdown even as it signaled a willingness to obtain funding for President Donald Trump’s proposed wall by other means.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, in appearances on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Fox News Sunday,” said “you absolutely cannot” eliminate the possibility of another shutdown on Friday if a deal is not reached over the wall. The White House had asked for $5.7 billion, a figure rejected by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, and the mood among bargainers has soured, according to people familiar with the negotiations not authorized to speak publicly about private talks.
“You cannot take a shutdown off the table, and you cannot take $5.7 off the table,” Mulvaney told NBC, “but if you end up someplace in the middle, yeah, then what you probably see is the president say, `Yeah, OK, and I’ll go find the money someplace else.”‘
A congressional deal seemed to stall even after Mulvaney convened a bipartisan group of lawmakers at Camp David on Friday. White the two sides seemed close to clinching a deal late last week, significant gaps remained and momentum appears to have slowed.
The White House and many Republicans want to push the amount that would be spent for building physical barriers to $2 billion or higher. Democrats have said they will keep that figure below $2 billion, with some saying they support perhaps half that. In addition, Democrats are pushing to reduce the number of apprehended migrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency. Republicans are resisting.
“I think talks are stalled right now,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said Sunday on Fox. “I’m not confident we’re going to get there.”
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who appeared on the same program, agreed that “We are not to the point where we can announce a deal.”
But Mulvaney did signal that the White House would prefer not to have a repeat of the last shutdown, which stretched more than a month, left more than 800,000 government workers without paychecks, forced a postponement of the State of the Union address and sent Trump’s poll numbers tumbling.
As support in his own party began to splinter, Trump surrendered after the shutdown hit 35 days without getting money for the wall.
“The president is going to build the wall. That’s our attitude at this point,” Mulvaney told Fox. “We’ll take as much money as you can give us, and we’ll go find the money somewhere else, legally, and build that wall on the southern border, with or without Congress.”
The president’s supporters have suggested there are executive powers that Trump could use to divert money from the federal budget for wall construction, though it was unclear if they would face challenges in Congress or the courts. One provision of the law lets the Defense Department provide support for counterdrug activities.
But declaring a national emergency remained an option, Mulvaney said, even though many in the administration have cooled on the prospect. A number of powerful Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have also warned against the move, believing it usurps power from Congress and could set a precedent for a future Democratic president to declare an emergency for a liberal political cause.
“This is not the case of what the president not getting what he wants, so he goes off and declares a national emergency and gets the money he wants,” said Mulvaney, who defended Trump’s right to do so. “Face it, the president doesn’t really want to do it. He would prefer legislation, because it’s the right way to go.”
As most budget disputes go, differences over hundreds of millions of dollars are usually imperceptible and easily solved. But this battle more than most is driven by political symbolism — whether Trump will be able to claim he delivered on his long-running pledge to `’build the wall” or newly empowered congressional Democrats’ ability to thwart him.
Predictably each side blamed the other for the stall in negotiations.
“We were, you know, progressing well,” Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “I thought we were tracking pretty good over the last week. And it just seems over the last 24 hours or so the goalposts have been moving from the Democrats.”
House Budget Committee Chairman John Yamuth, D-Ky., countered by telling the same show, “the numbers are all over the place.”
“I think the big problem here is this has become pretty much an ego negotiation,” Yarmouth added. “And this really isn’t over substance.”
In a battle that’s also largely over semantics, Democrats have said they won’t pay for a `’wall.” But they are open to financing other types of barriers, such as vertical steel slats called bollards, barriers atop levies and vehicle barriers.
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Trump’s Year 3 aims for dramatic sequels to rival originals
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump prepares to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for a second time, he’s out to replicate the suspenseful buildup, make-or-break stakes and far-flung rendezvous of their first encounter. The reality star American president will soon learn if the sequel, on this matter and many others, can compete with the original.
In his third year in office, Trump is starting to air some reruns.
Trump is headed into fresh negotiations with North Korea, is still pushing for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall and is considering a new round of tax cuts. The focus on his greatest hits in part reflects Trump’s desire to fulfill campaign promises and energize voters for his 2020 re-election campaign. But it’s not without risks.
“The danger is the public starts recognizing this is Groundhog Day,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. “You keep thinking there is a win and there is no win. It’s not clear Trump is scoring durable history points.”
With his reality TV background and instinctive sense of how to control a news cycle, Trump has long micromanaged the staging of his image, eager to project power and drama.
Those instincts were on full display during the recent scrap over his second State of the Union address. Trump rejected his aides’ suggestions that he deliver the address from an alternate site after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., withdrew her invitation for him speak at the Capitol during the government shutdown. Trump opted to wait for the real deal.
“There is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber,” he tweeted.
In his dealings with North Korea, both past and future, Trump has been intent on ginning up excitement.
After months of trading escalating nuclear threats with the North, Trump memorably popped his head into the White House briefing room last March to hint at big news to come. Not long afterward, officials announced that a Trump-Kim meeting was in the offing.
From there, Trump teased dates and locations, threatened to cancel it — and did so at one point — before signing off on the plan for the historic meeting in Singapore last June.
Trump was delighted that the first summit received round-the-clock cable TV coverage for days, something he had hoped to repeat last summer when he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, according to two Republicans close to the White House not authorized to speak publicly about private matters. But Trump saw the Putin coverage take a negative turn after he refused to side with U.S. intelligence agencies over the Russian president in a post-summit news conference.
This time, Trump has again tried to draw out the suspense, teasing the possibility of another meeting with Kim for months and waxing poetic about his relationship with the authoritarian leader. But Trump has glossed over the fact that the first meeting produced little in the way of tangible results toward denuclearization, instead stressing that North Korea’s threats have fallen off and suggesting there is an opportunity for further progress.
Aides counseled the president that a second summit would probably not carry the same drama as the first, and needed more concrete results, but Trump urged them to push forward before deciding to announce it during this past week’s State of the Union address. He insisted to advisers that the Vietnam summit would still be must-see TV, and told one confidant that the idea of “good vs. evil” would be irresistible.
Brinkley noted there is precedent for requiring more than one summit to make a deal, citing the repeated arms control meetings between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But he argued that those were a better investment, given that “Russia is a great power” while “North Korea is a rogue actor.”
As for other White House sequels, Trump would be happy to produce Tax Cut 2.0. He oversaw a massive tax cut at the end of 2017 and teased the possibility of another in the runup to the 2018 midterm elections. Economic adviser Larry Kudlow pushed back on the suggestion that it was simply a pre-election ploy as he spoke to reporters at the White House this past week.
“We’re kicking it around,” said Kudlow. “We’re looking at a couple of very interesting things that may wind up surprising folks.”
You can also count on Trump to continue the tough immigration rhetoric that defined his campaign and became a central part of his midterm election push. He forced the government into a 35-day partial shutdown over his demand to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and views his immigration efforts as key to his re-election campaign.
Brinkley said of Trump’s repeat performances: “He’s a child of the 1970s with boxing matches. It’s like the rematch with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.”
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Full Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dan Calvert WALLEN, Defendant-Appellant
Country of Origin: United States Court Name: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Primary Citation: 874 F.3d 620 (9th Cir. 2017) Date of Decision: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Judge Name: FISHER, Circuit Judge Jurisdiction Level: Federal Alternate Citation: 85 ERC 1461, 17 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 10,343, 2017 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,241 (9th Cir. 2017) Judges: Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Raymond C. Fisher and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges Attorneys: John Rhodes (argued), Assistant Federal Defender; Anthony R. Gallagher, Federal Defender; Federal Defenders of Montana, Missoula, Montana; for Defendant-Appellant. Megan L. Dishong (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Missoula, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellee. Docket Num: No. 16-30033
Summary: Defendant appeals his conviction for unlawfully killing three grizzly bears in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The killing of the bears occurred on May 27, 2014 at defendant's residence in Ferndale, Montana ("bear country" as the court described). In the morning, defendant discovered bears had killed over half of his chickens maintained in a coop. Later that evening, the bears returned, heading toward the coop. Defendant's children, who were playing outside at the time, headed inside and defendant proceeded to scare the bears away with his truck. Later that night, the bears returned and were shot by defendant. According to testimony by enforcement officers, defendant gave two different accounts of what happened that night. Ultimately, defendant was charged for killing the bears in violation of the ESA and convicted by a magistrate judge after raising an unsuccessful self-defense argument. On appeal, defendant argued: (1) he should have been tried by a jury; (2) the magistrate judge did not correctly identify the elements of his offense, and that error was not harmless; and (3) the case should be remanded for a trial by jury in the interest of justice. With regard to (1), that he was entitled to a jury trial because the offense was serious, rather than petty, the appellate court rejected the argument. The possibility of a five-year probation term and $15,000 restitution did not transform the crime, which had a maximum 6-month imprisonment, into a serious offense. On the second and third arguments, the court agreed that magistrate erroneously relied on a self-defense provision from a federal assault case that required the "good faith belief" to be objectively reasonable. The court held that the "good faith" requirement for § 1540(b)(3) should be based on a defendant's subjective state of mind. Then, the ultimate question becomes whether that subjective good faith belief was reasonably held in good faith. Said the Court, "[u]nder the Endangered Species Act, the reasonableness of a belief that an endangered animal posed a threat is likewise strong evidence of whether the defendant actually held that belief in good faith." As a result, the appellate court found the error by the magistrate in rejecting defendant's self-defense claim was not harmless. As to whether defendant is entitled to a jury trial on remand, the court found that the outcome of the prior proceedings conducted by a magistrate do not constitute a showing of bias or partiality. Thus, he is not entitled to trial by jury. The conviction was vacated and proceedings remanded.
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
Dan Wallen appeals his conviction after a bench trial for killing three grizzly bears in violation of the Endangered Species Act. Although we reject Wallen's argument that he was entitled to a jury trial, we hold the magistrate judge, who served as the trier of fact at trial, misconceived the self-defense element of the offense, and that error was not harmless. We hold the “good faith belief” defense for a prosecution under 16 U.S.C. § 1540 is governed by a subjective, rather than an objective, standard, and is satisfied when a defendant actually, even if unreasonably, believes his actions are necessary to protect himself or others from perceived danger from a grizzly bear. Because the district court applied an objective standard, we vacate Wallen's conviction and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Wallen lives in Ferndale, Montana, a place aptly described as “bear country.” In the spring of 2014, local residents reported the presence of three grizzly bear cubs to Tim Manley, a grizzly bear management specialist with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP). These bears were “food conditioned” and “habituated,” meaning they wanted unnatural foods like chicken feed and were not afraid of approaching humans to get them. Residents observed the bears frolicking in backyards, eating grass and “just being bears.” Others reported the bears for ransacking chicken coops. None reported aggressive behavior toward humans.
On the morning of May 27, 2014, Wallen discovered a number of dead chickens in his yard. The culprits had rammed through the fence to his chicken coop and killed two-thirds of his chickens. One perpetrator left behind a paw print that Wallen concluded belonged to a bear.
Neither Wallen nor his wife, Alison, called Manley or any other authority after discovering the dead chickens and the paw print. Instead, they went to work and returned home that afternoon.
Later that evening, Wallen and Alison watched their two boys (ages 8 and 11), their 16-year-old daughter (A.B.) and A.B.'s boyfriend play outside. The three *624 bears then returned, heading for the chicken coop. The chickens scattered and the bears gave chase, running within 100 feet of where Wallen's daughter stood. A.B. screamed and ran into the house through a glass back door as Wallen got in his truck and chased the bears away. Meanwhile, Alison called Manley's cell phone and left a message telling him the grizzlies had come for their chickens twice and that her husband was trying to chase them away with the truck. She asked for advice as to what she and her husband could do about the bears.
The bears returned for a second time 10 to 15 minutes later. Again, the chickens ran, the bears gave chase and Wallen frightened them away with his truck.
After Wallen chased the bears, they entered the property of the Wallens' neighbor, Tom Clark. Clark videotaped them milling about and crossing a nearby highway. At no point did the bears behave aggressively toward him. He stopped recording at 9:14 p.m. Shortly thereafter, he heard shots fired, followed by a roar from the direction of Wallen's property. As later became clear, the sounds Clark heard were Wallen shooting and killing the three grizzlies.
Wallen has never denied shooting the three bears with an “old, rusty .22 caliber rifle” after they returned to his property for a third time that night. He has also never denied causing the bears' deaths. He has, however, offered different accounts of the circumstances surrounding the shootings.
He gave one story on the night of the shooting, when investigators discovered the remains of one of the bears. When FWP investigator Charles Bartos interviewed Wallen that evening, Wallen told Bartos he had found a single bear eating chickens in his coop and fired two shots to frighten it away. Wallen told Bartos the bear was walking away as he fired. He did not mention shooting the other two bears. Bartos later performed a necropsy on the bear and found two bullet holes “in the left hind quarter entering towards the stomach area,” consistent with the bear having been shot from behind.
The next day, after remains of a second bear were discovered, Wallen gave a different account, now admitting he had shot at all three bears. He told Bartos he had fired at the other bears as they passed through his property before shooting the last bear while it ate his chickens.
The following day, United States Fish & Wildlife Service Agent David Lakes interviewed Wallen at his home, and Wallen once again altered his story. He said he had been picking up dead chickens near his truck when two bears crossed the highway in a “mad dash” toward him, while his family was gathered around the basketball court outside. He said he grabbed his gun from inside the truck and fired at the bears. He could not recall where his family went immediately after he fired the shots. Within minutes, however, Wallen said a third bear came onto his property and started chasing the chickens. He told Lakes he shot at this bear twice, while his family was outside and “right behind [him].” Wallen also took Lakes outside and showed him where he was when he shot the bears. Lakes paced off the area and determined Wallen shot all three bears from a distance of approximately 40 yards.
Remains of the third bear were discovered around a week later.
Wallen was federally charged for killing all three bears in violation of the Endangered Species Act and was tried by a magistrate judge, over Wallen's objection and request for a jury trial.
At trial, Wallen asserted he shot the bears in self-defense, to protect himself *625 and his family. He said he was surrounded by live chickens when two bears approached from a distance of approximately 15 feet. He testified he was carrying his gun on his person. He said he fired two shots from his shoulder at the bears while backpedaling and remained outside to clean up dead chickens. Wallen said he was the only person outside when he shot the third bear. The bear ran toward him and was a mere 28 feet away when he fired a first shot at it. When the bear kept coming toward him, he fired a second time from a distance of 33 feet. He said he was frightened.
Wallen's daughter and wife also testified at trial. A.B. said she ran in the house when the first two bears were approximately 15 feet away from Wallen and did not hear a shot until a minute later. She watched from the house as a third bear came into the yard while her father was standing in the driveway. She said Wallen fired a first shot at the third bear when it was 30 to 40 feet away. The last bear “started running around all over the place” after the first shot and “jumped up” and ran away after the second shot. She said everyone except Wallen was inside the home when the third bear was shot. Alison testified she never saw the bears charge at Wallen or the children. She and the children had gone inside before the shooting began.
After the close of evidence, Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch, as factfinder, found the “discrepancies” in Wallen's testimony “compel[led]” the conclusion that Wallen's claim of self-defense was “simply not credible.” After concluding the government proved Wallen's belief that he acted in self-defense was objectively unreasonable, the magistrate judge found Wallen guilty.
The judge sentenced Wallen to three years' probation, the first 60 days of which were to be served at a pre-release center, and ordered Wallen to pay $15,000 in restitution. After the district court affirmed Wallen's conviction, Wallen appealed to this court. The magistrate judge stayed Wallen's sentence pending appeal.
Wallen makes three arguments on appeal: (1) he should have been tried by a jury; (2) the magistrate judge did not correctly identify the elements of his offense, and that error was not harmless; and (3) the case should be remanded for a trial by jury in the interest of justice. We address these issues in turn.
We begin by addressing Wallen's contention that his offense was serious, rather than petty, entitling him to a trial by jury.
“It is well established that the Sixth Amendment, like the common law, reserves th[e] jury trial right for prosecutions of serious offenses, and that ‘there is a category of petty crimes or offenses which is not subject to the Sixth Amendment jury trial provision.’ ” Lewis v. United States, 518 U.S. 322, 325, 116 S.Ct. 2163, 135 L.Ed.2d 590 (1996) (quoting Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, 159, 88 S.Ct. 1444, 20 L.Ed.2d 491 (1968)). “[T]o determine whether an offense is petty, we consider the maximum penalty attached to the offense.” Id. at 326, 116 S.Ct. 2163. “An offense carrying a maximum prison term of six months or less is presumed petty, unless the legislature has authorized additional statutory penalties so severe as to indicate that the legislature considered the offense serious.” Id.
Here, Wallen was convicted for “taking” three grizzly bears in violation of 16 U.S.C. §§ 1538(a)(1)(G) and 1540(b)(1) and *626 50 C.F.R. § 17.40(b)(1)(i)(A).1 This is a presumptively petty crime because the maximum possible length of incarceration is six months. See Lewis, 518 U.S. at 326–27, 116 S.Ct. 2163; 16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(1). This presumption can be overcome by showing the “additional statutory penalties” associated with taking a grizzly bear are “so severe as to indicate that the legislature considered the offense serious.” Lewis, 518 U.S. at 326, 116 S.Ct. 2163. In United States v. Clavette, 135 F.3d 1308, 1310 (9th Cir. 1998), we considered the additional statutory penalties authorized by § 1540 and concluded they did not transform taking a grizzly bear into a serious crime.
Wallen argues Clavette is “not dispositive” for three reasons: (A) the five-year term of probation authorized for a conviction under § 15402 is an “additional statutory penalt[y] so severe as to indicate that the legislature considered the offense serious”; (B) the $15,000 in restitution he was ordered to pay likewise amounts to a sufficiently “severe” “additional statutory penalt[y]”; and (C) his crime is “serious” because it does not fall within the class of “petty” offenses defined by 18 U.S.C. § 19. We reject these arguments because they are foreclosed by Clavette. See Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 899–900 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). But even if they were not foreclosed, we would reject them as unpersuasive.
First, Wallen's argument that his exposure to a five-year term of probation rendered his crime serious lacks merit even if Clavette were not controlling. Exposure to lengthy probation does not make a crime serious. Every federal misdemeanor offense carries a maximum five-year term of probation. See 18 U.S.C. § 3561(c)(2). If, as Wallen contends, exposure to lengthy probation made an offense serious, only crimes classified as infractions—which carry a maximum imprisonment term of five days—would be petty. See id. §§ 3559(a)(9), 3561(c)(3). Limiting “petty” offenses to infractions is foreclosed by precedent. See, e.g., Lewis, 518 U.S. at 324, 330, 116 S.Ct. 2163. Wallen's argument therefore fails.
Second, even if we were not bound by Clavette, we would reject Wallen's contention that the amount of restitution he was ordered to pay—$15,000 ($5,000 for each bear)—converts his offense into a serious one, entitling him to a jury trial. As we explained in United States v. Ballek, 170 F.3d 871, 876 (9th Cir. 1999), “the possibility that the district court will order restitution, in addition to a six-month maximum sentence, does not turn an otherwise petty offense into a serious one, no matter how large the sum involved.” Restitution “merely reinforces [a defendant's] existing moral and legal duty to pay a just debt.” Id. (rejecting the argument that an order to pay $56,916.71 in restitution made a crime serious). Clavette held a defendant was not entitled to a jury trial even though he was ordered to pay restitution of $6,250 for killing a single grizzly bear, in addition to a $2,000 fine. See Clavette, 135 F.3d at 1309–10. The same principle applies here.
Finally, Wallen's contention that 18 U.S.C. § 19 makes his crime serious, *627 entitling him to a jury trial, is equally unpersuasive. Although Wallen contends otherwise, there is no “Section 19 test” to determine whether a defendant is entitled to a jury trial. Section 19 says the term “petty offense” as used in title 18 includes Class B misdemeanors for which the maximum fine is no greater than $5,000. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 19, 3571(b)(6). Wallen's offense is a Class B misdemeanor, see 18 U.S.C. § 3559(a)(7), but the maximum possible fine is $25,000, see 16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(1). Accordingly, Wallen's offense is not a “petty offense” as defined by § 19. But this does not mean, as he contends, that he is entitled to a jury trial.
Wallen's reliance on § 19 is misplaced because the federal statutory definition of “petty offense” under § 19 holds no “talismanic significance” when determining a defendant's right to a jury trial. Muniz v. Hoffman, 422 U.S. 454, 477, 95 S.Ct. 2178, 45 L.Ed.2d 319 (1975) (considering an earlier version of § 19, previously codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1, which set the maximum fine for a “petty offense” at $500) (“It is one thing to hold that deprivation of an individual's liberty beyond a six-month term should not be imposed without the protections of a jury trial, but it is quite another to suggest that, regardless of the circumstances, a jury is required where any fine greater than $500 is contemplated.”).
This conclusion is evidenced, in part, by use of the term “petty offense,” as defined by § 19, in 18 U.S.C. § 3401, which outlines the jurisdiction of magistrate judges over criminal misdemeanor trials. Those charged with a misdemeanor “other than a petty offense” may elect to be tried before a district judge instead of a magistrate judge. See id. § 3401(b). Significantly, the magistrate judge must explain to a defendant charged with a non-petty misdemeanor “that he has a right to trial, judgment, and sentencing by a district judge and that he may have a right to trial by jury before a district judge or magistrate judge.” Id. (emphasis added). As evidenced by use of the word “may” in § 3401(b), Congress considered a circumstance in which a defendant is charged with a non-petty misdemeanor but not entitled to a jury trial. See id.
As we concluded in Clavette, “the addition of a $25,000 fine to a prison term of not more than six months does not reflect a clear Congressional determination that violation of an Interior Department regulation pertaining to endangered or threatened species is a serious offense” notwithstanding “the Congressional definition of ‘petty offenses.’ ” 135 F.3d at 1310. Wallen was not entitled to a jury trial.
We next address Wallen's argument that the district court misconceived the self-defense element of his offense. To convict a defendant for knowingly taking a grizzly bear, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that: (1) the defendant knowingly killed a bear; (2) the bear was a grizzly; (3) the defendant did not have permission to kill the bear; and (4) the defendant did not act in self-defense or in the defense of others. See Clavette, 135 F.3d at 1311. The last element, which is the only element at issue here, derives from a provision added to the Endangered Species Act in 1978. See Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1978, Pub. L. No. 95-632, § 8, 92 Stat. 3751, 3762 (1978). This provision states:
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, it shall be a defense to prosecution under this subsection if the defendant committed the offense based on a good faith belief that he was acting to protect himself or herself, a member *628 of his or her family, or any other individual, from bodily harm from any endangered or threatened species.
16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(3) (emphasis added); see also 16 U.S.C. § 1540(a)(3) (preventing the imposition of civil penalties for the same reason); 50 C.F.R. § 17.40(b)(1)(i)(B) (“Grizzly bears may be taken in self-defense or in defense of others....”). Here, the parties dispute whether the “good faith belief” standard requires an objectively reasonable belief, as the government argues, or requires only a subjective belief in the need to protect oneself or others, as Wallen maintains. The magistrate judge and district court applied an objective test. We conclude that was error.
Congress added the good faith belief defense in 1978, after an elderly couple was prosecuted for killing a grizzly bear that had threatened them. See 124 Cong. Rec. 21,584 (1978). But neither the statute nor the regulations say whether the requisite “good faith belief” must be objectively reasonable, see 16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(3); 50 C.F.R. § 17.40(b)(1)(i)(B), and we are unaware of any binding case law addressing that question. We now hold that a subjective good faith belief suffices to establish self-defense under this statute.
In adopting an objective reasonableness standard, the magistrate judge relied on United States v. Keiser, 57 F.3d 847, 851–52 (9th Cir. 1995), which applied the Ninth Circuit's model jury instruction for self-defense to a federal assault charge under 18 U.S.C. § 113 (1992). See United States v. Wallen, No. 14-45, 2015 WL 1467446, at *6 (D. Mont. Mar. 30, 2015).3 Because the self-defense provision in § 113 used different statutory language than the self-defense provision at issue here, we conclude the magistrate judge's reliance on Keiser was misplaced.
The self-defense provision in § 113 required the government to prove the offense was committed “without just cause or excuse.” 18 U.S.C. § 113(c) (1992). We upheld a jury instruction making the defense available if the defendant “reasonably believes that [the force] is necessary” to protect “against the immediate use of unlawful force.” Keiser, 57 F.3d at 851 (emphasis added).4
Were the language of the self-defense provision at issue here similar to ordinary self-defense provisions, we would agree with the magistrate judge that Keiser would stand as persuasive precedent. Keiser tracks the traditional understanding of self-defense against aggressors. See 2 Wayne R. LaFave, Substantive Criminal Law § 10.4 (2d ed. Oct. 2016) [hereinafter LaFave] (“One who is not the aggressor in an encounter is justified in using a reasonable amount of force against his adversary when he reasonably believes (a) that he is in immediate danger of unlawful bodily harm from his adversary and (b) that the use of such force is necessary to avoid this danger. It is never reasonable to use deadly force against his nondeadly attack.” (emphasis added)). Many modern criminal codes explicitly require a reasonable belief that physical force against another person *629 is necessary before its use may be considered justified. See id.5
But 16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(3) is not a standard self-defense provision, and it does not use standard self-defense language. In contrast to the former version of § 113 at issue in Keiser, § 1540(b)(3) provides a defense to those who have a “good faith belief” in the need to act. 16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(3).
Although “good faith” requirements may be construed in context as imposing objective standards, statutes referring to a “good faith belief” ordinarily are construed as calling for a subjective inquiry. Black's Law Dictionary defines “good faith” as a state of mind consisting in “honesty in belief or purpose” or “absence of intent to defraud or to seek unconscionable advantage.” Good Faith, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014). A good faith belief defense therefore ordinarily depends on a defendant's subjective state of mind, and the defense is not automatically precluded by evidence that the state of mind was objectively unreasonable. See, e.g., Laffey v. Nw. Airlines, Inc., 567 F.2d 429, 464 (D.C. Cir. 1976) (interpreting a “good faith” defense in 29 U.S.C. § 260 as “ ‘an honest intention to ascertain what the ... Act requires and to act in accordance with it.’ That necessitates a subjective inquiry.” (alteration in original) (footnote omitted) (quoting Addison v. Huron Stevedoring Corp., 204 F.2d 88, 93 (2d Cir. 1953))), overruled on other grounds by McLaughlin v. Richland Shoe Co., 486 U.S. 128, 134–35, 108 S.Ct. 1677, 100 L.Ed.2d 115 (1988); see also, e.g., Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192, 202–03, 111 S.Ct. 604, 112 L.Ed.2d 617 (1991) (holding a “good-faith belief” that a defendant was not violating the tax laws, regardless of whether the claimed belief or misunderstanding was objectively unreasonable, prevented conviction under a willfulness standard); Rossi v. Motion Picture Ass'n of Am., 391 F.3d 1000, 1005 (9th Cir. 2004) (“A copyright owner cannot be liable [under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(v), which enables copyright owners to act on a ‘good faith belief,’] simply because an unknowing mistake is made, even if the copyright owner acted unreasonably in making the mistake.”); United States v. Powell, 955 F.2d 1206, 1212 (9th Cir. 1991) (holding district court erred by instructing jury defendants must have held an objectively reasonable belief to have a good faith defense to the charge of willfully failing to file a federal tax return) (“The vice of the jury instruction given is that it did not make clear that the defendant must demonstrate only that a subjective good faith belief is held and not that the belief must *630 also be found to be objectively reasonable.”).
"It is a well-established rule of construction that ‘where Congress uses terms that have accumulated settled meaning under the common law, a court must infer, unless the statute otherwise dictates, that Congress means to incorporate the established meaning of these terms.’ ” Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 21, 119 S.Ct. 1827, 144 L.Ed.2d 35 (1999) (alterations omitted) (quoting Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Darden, 503 U.S. 318, 322, 112 S.Ct. 1344, 117 L.Ed.2d 581 (1992)). As we have said, “the objective reasonableness standard is distinct from the subjective good faith standard,” and “Congress understands this distinction.” Rossi, 391 F.3d at 1004 (holding that “courts interpreting ... federal statutes have traditionally interpreted ‘good faith’ to encompass a subjective standard”). Holding the government to “a lesser ‘objective reasonableness' standard would be inconsistent with Congress's apparent intent” to exempt from prosecution those defendants who harbor a subjective belief that force used against grizzly bears is necessary. See id. at 1005. Under Rossi, when Congress enacts a good faith requirement without expressly incorporating an objective standard of reasonableness, it “indicates an intent to adhere to the subjective standard traditionally associated with a good faith requirement.” Id. at 1004.
During oral argument, the government argued we should interpret “good faith belief” under § 1540(b)(3) as having an objective component, similar to the standards we adopted in Sams v. Yahoo! Inc., 713 F.3d 1175, 1180–81 (9th Cir. 2013) (applying a good faith reliance defense under the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2707(e)), and Jacobson v. Rose, 592 F.2d 515, 523 (9th Cir. 1978) (applying a good faith reliance defense under title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. § 2520(d), pertaining to the interception of electronic communications).6
We do not find the government's argument persuasive. Sams viewed the privacy protections established by the Stored Communications Act (SCA) through the lens of the Fourth Amendment. We noted that “[t]he SCA was enacted because the advent of the Internet presented a host of potential privacy breaches that the Fourth Amendment does not address.” Sams, 713 F.3d at 1179 (quoting Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co., 529 F.3d 892, 900 (9th Cir. 2008)). We also observed that, “[t]o address these potential privacy breaches, the SCA ‘creates a set of Fourth Amendment-like privacy protections by statute, regulating the relationship between government investigators and service providers in possession of users' private information.’ *631 ” Id. (quoting Orin S. Kerr, A User's Guide to the Stored Communications Act, and a Legislator's Guide to Amending It, 72 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1208, 1212 (2004)). And in applying § 2707(e), we expressly relied on Fourth Amendment case law, citing United States v. Crews, 502 F.3d 1130, 1136–38 (9th Cir. 2007), where we applied the Fourth Amendment's exception to the exclusionary rule for a search conducted in good faith reliance upon an objectively reasonable search warrant. See id. at 1181.
Given the SCA's relationship to the Fourth Amendment, it is unsurprising that Sams adopted an objective standard of good faith reliance. That standard comports with the Fourth Amendment generally. See United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 922, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984) (holding the exclusionary rule does not apply to evidence obtained in objectively reasonable reliance on a subsequently invalidated search warrant); Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968) (“If subjective good faith alone were the test, the protections of the Fourth Amendment would evaporate, and the people would be ‘secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects,’ only in the discretion of the police.” (quoting Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 97, 85 S.Ct. 223, 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964))); see also Riley v. California, ––– U.S. ––––, 134 S.Ct. 2473, 2482, 189 L.Ed.2d 430 (2014) (reiterating that “the ultimate touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is ‘reasonableness' ” (quoting Brigham City v. Stuart, 547 U.S. 398, 403, 126 S.Ct. 1943, 164 L.Ed.2d 650 (2006))). Just as Leon requires reasonable reliance on a warrant, the SCA requires reasonable reliance on a governmental order or request.
Similarly, Jacobson relied on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases when it interpreted the good faith reliance defense under § 2520(d). See Jacobson, 592 F.2d at 523. In § 1983 cases, a defendant could shield himself from liability if he “held a subjective belief which was objectively reasonable that he was acting legally.” Id. Jacobson analogized the good faith defense under § 1983 to the good faith defense under § 2520, and therefore applied the § 1983 “formula to the § 2520 context.” Id.7
By contrast, the good faith belief defense under § 1540(b)(3) is not a reliance defense, and it is not related to either the Fourth Amendment or § 1983. We therefore construe § 1540(b)(3) in accordance with the general principle that a good faith belief defense ordinarily depends on a defendant's subjective state of mind rather than the objective reasonableness of the defendant's belief, see Rossi, 391 F.3d at 1004, not on case law construing the SCA or title III. For this reason, the government's reliance on Sams and Jacobson is unpersuasive.8
*632 We emphasize that, although the ultimate question is whether a defendant held a subjective good faith belief, the objective reasonableness (or unreasonableness) of a claimed belief bears directly on whether that belief was held in good faith. We and the Supreme Court have already said as much. In Cheek, 498 U.S. at 203–04, 111 S.Ct. 604, when assessing the petitioner's claimed belief that he was in compliance with the tax code, the Supreme Court explained that “the more unreasonable the asserted beliefs or misunderstandings are, the more likely the jury will consider them to be nothing more than simple disagreement with known legal duties imposed by the tax laws.” Similarly, in Powell, 955 F.2d at 1212, we held the jury was “not precluded from considering the reasonableness of the interpretation of the law in weighing the credibility of the claim that the [defendants] subjectively believed that the law did not require that they file income tax returns.” We have also recognized this principle in maritime cases that turn on “whether the seaman[ ] in good faith believed himself fit for duty when he signed aboard for duty.” Burkert v. Weyerhaeuser S.S. Co., 350 F.2d 826, 831 (9th Cir. 1965). In Burkert, the “crucial fact issue before the court was whether or not there existed reasonable grounds to support [a seaman's] belief that he was fit for duty. The absence of such reasonable grounds would support a finding that [he] did not believe, in good faith, that he was fit for duty.” Id.
Under the Endangered Species Act, the reasonableness of a belief that an endangered animal posed a threat is likewise strong evidence of whether the defendant actually held that belief in good faith. Consider the example of a person who goes to the zoo, shoots all the endangered animals and then claims he believed the animals otherwise would have escaped and attacked him. The unreasonableness of the asserted belief should matter in a subsequent prosecution under the Endangered Species Act, as that unreasonableness casts significant doubt on the sincerity of the claimed belief.
In sum, we hold the “good faith belief” defense under § 1540(b)(3) is available to defendants who, in good faith, subjectively believe they or others are in danger. A factfinder “is not precluded from considering the reasonableness” of this belief “in weighing the credibility of the claim,” but that factfinder “may not substitute its own determination of objective reasonableness ... [for] what the defendant subjectively believed.” Powell, 955 F.2d at 1212. This means that traditional aspects of a self-defense claim—such as the immediacy of the threat, whether the defendant provoked the conflict or the amount of force used, see LaFave, supra, § 10:4(b), (d), (e)—may be considered for the purpose of determining whether a claimed belief was held in good faith. The standard is subjective, but the objective reasonableness of the defendant's claimed belief is relevant to the factfinder's assessment of the sincerity of that claim. Because the magistrate judge did not apply a subjective good faith standard, he misconceived an element of Wallen's offense. We turn to whether that error was harmless.
The “basic misconception of an essential element of the crime charged” generally “compels reversal of the conviction,” whether handed down by a judge or jury. Wilson v. United States, 250 F.2d 312, 324 (9th Cir. 1958). Nevertheless, this constitutional error is not “structural,” requiring automatic reversal, “but instead is subject to harmless error analysis.” United States v. Conti, 804 F.3d 977, 980 (9th Cir. 2015); see also *633 Neder, 527 U.S. at 15, 119 S.Ct. 1827. We will affirm a conviction when the error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. See Conti, 804 F.3d at 980; see also United States v. Argueta-Rosales, 819 F.3d 1149, 1156 (9th Cir. 2016) (“When a district court in a bench trial has made a legal error regarding the elements of an offense, the error is reviewed using the same harmless error standard that would apply to an erroneous jury instruction.”); United States v. Liu, 731 F.3d 982, 987, 992 (9th Cir. 2013) (“A district court's omission or misstatement of an element of an offense in the jury instructions is subject to harmless error review [and] ‘is harmless only if it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error.’ ” (quoting United States v. Munguia, 704 F.3d 596, 603–04 (9th Cir. 2012))).
Here, the magistrate judge rejected Wallen's claim of self-defense based on the objective unreasonableness of Wallen's purported fear for himself and his family:
The Court concludes the government satisfied this burden. As set forth above, Wallen gave materially conflicting versions of events and was not entirely forthcoming when he spoke [to] Bartos on the night in question. The Court concludes based on the record as a whole, and the substantial inconsistencies in Wallen's stories and lack of credibility, that the government met its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Wallen did not have an objectively reasonable good faith belief that he was acting to protect himself or his family from bodily injury when he shot at the three grizzly bears.
(Emphasis added.) The error therefore was not harmless.
In arguing otherwise, the government relies on United States v. Doe, 136 F.3d 631, 636–37 (9th Cir. 1998), but Doe is inapposite. There, the district court applied a higher standard of proof than was required. See id. Because the correct lower standard was “encompassed within the higher,” the error was harmless. Id. at 637. Here, by contrast, the magistrate judge held the government to a lower standard of proof than was required. Doe does not apply here.
Next, relying on our sufficiency of the evidence analysis in Clavette, the government argues the magistrate judge would have rejected Wallen's claim of self-defense even if the court had applied only a subjective good faith belief test because the court found Wallen not credible. See 135 F.3d at 1311–12. But the sufficiency of the evidence analysis asks whether “any reasonable person could have found each of the essential elements of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt.” Id. at 1311. Here, the question is the opposite, i.e., whether applying the correct standard, it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the factfinder would have come to the same conclusion. See United States v. Montoya-Gaxiola, 796 F.3d 1118, 1124–25 (9th Cir. 2015). The government's reliance on Clavette therefore fails as well.
Applying the correct standard, we conclude a reasonable factfinder could find the government failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Wallen lacked a subjective belief he was in danger. We acknowledge the discrepancies in the stories Wallen told in the aftermath of the killings. But regardless of whether the bears were eating chickens; whether they were 40 yards or just 15 feet away; whether Wallen grabbed his gun from the pickup truck or carried it on his person; whether his family was inside or outside; whether Wallen was surrounded by dead, live or no chickens at all; whether the last bear ran toward or away from him; or whether he immediately confessed to killing three bears as opposed to one, a reasonable factfinder *634 could find Wallen acted to protect himself from what he subjectively perceived as danger. To be sure, given Wallen's credibility issues, a factfinder might not believe he was actually fearful. But that question is for the factfinder to decide. Accordingly, we cannot say the magistrate judge's misconception of an element of the offense was harmless.
The final issue is whether Wallen is entitled to a jury trial on remand. Wallen argues that, even if the Constitution does not guarantee his right to a jury trial, he is entitled to one because, if he is again tried by a judge, that judge would have access to his record of conviction. He contends this information would bias the trier of fact, denying him a fair trial.
We disagree. An accused is not entitled to a trial by jury merely because a judge, sitting as a trier of fact, may have knowledge of the defendant's record of conviction. See Liteky v. United States, 510 U.S. 540, 555, 114 S.Ct. 1147, 127 L.Ed.2d 474 (1994) (“[O]pinions formed by the judge on the basis of facts introduced or events occurring in the course of the current proceedings, or of prior proceedings, do not constitute a basis for a bias or partiality motion unless they display a deep-seated favoritism or antagonism that would make fair judgment impossible.”).
We vacate Wallen's conviction and sentence and remand to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. On remand, the magistrate judge must decide whether Wallen held a subjective “good faith belief that he was acting to protect himself [or] a member of his ... family ... from bodily harm” from the grizzly bears. 16 U.S.C. § 1540(b)(3). In assessing the credibility of Wallen's claimed belief that shooting the bears was necessary, the magistrate judge may consider any evidence that it would have been unreasonable to believe the bears posed a danger to Wallen or his family.
VACATED AND REMANDED.
All Citations 874 F.3d 620, 17 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 10,343, 2017 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,241
1 “The term ‘take’ means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.” 16 U.S.C. § 1532(19).
2 See 18 U.S.C. § 3561(c)(2).
3 The magistrate judge, at the government's urging, may have relied on Clavette having cited Keiser. If so, that reliance was misplaced. Clavette noted the burden shifts to the government to disprove self-defense once a defendant introduces evidence supporting the defense, citing a footnote in Keiser. See Clavette, 135 F.3d at 1311 (citing Keiser, 57 F.3d at 851 n.4). Clavette did not address the objective reasonableness standard found in Keiser, however. See id. at 1311–12.
4 The instruction also said a defendant “must use no more force than appears reasonably necessary in the circumstances,” and it said deadly force could not be used unless deadly force was threatened. Keiser, 57 F.3d at 851.
5 See also, e.g., Ala. Code § 13A-3-23(a) (authorizing force against what a person “reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by that other person”); Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-404(A) (same); Ark. Code Ann. § 5-2-606(a)(1) (same); Colo. Rev. Stat. § 18-1-704(1) (same); Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-19(a) (same); Fla. Stat. § 776.012(1) (same); Ga. Code Ann. § 16-3-21(a) (same); 720 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/7-1(a) (same); Ind. Code § 35-41-3-2(c) (same); Iowa Code § 704.1(1) (same); Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-5222(a) (same); La. Stat. Ann. § 14:19(A)(1)(b)(i) (same); Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 17-A, § 108(1) (same); Minn. Stat. § 609.06(3) (same); Mo. Ann. Stat. § 563.031(1) (same); Mont. Code Ann. § 45-3-102 (same); N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 627:4 (same); N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:3-4 (same); N.Y. Penal Law § 35.15 (1) (same); Or. Rev. Stat. § 161.209 (same); S.D. Codified Laws § 22-16-35 (same); Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-611(b) (same); Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 9.31(a) (same); Utah Code Ann. § 76-2-402(1) (same); Wash. Rev. Code § 9A.16.050 (same); Wis. Stat. § 939.48 (1) (same). But see Model Penal Code § 3.04 (providing that the use of force is justified if the “actor believes that such force is immediately necessary for the purpose of protecting himself against the use of unlawful force by such other person on the present occasion”).
Section 2707(e) provides a good faith reliance defense to those who comply with requests from law enforcement for information stored electronically. Under § 2707(e):
A good faith reliance on—
(1) a court warrant or order, a grand jury subpoena, a legislative authorization, or a statutory authorization (including a request of a governmental entity under section 2703(f) of this title);
(2) a request of an investigative or law enforcement officer under section 2518(7) of this title; or
(3) a good faith determination that section 2511(3) of this title permitted the conduct complained of;
is a complete defense to any civil or criminal action brought under this chapter or any other law.
18 U.S.C. § 2707(e). Section 2520(d) uses similar language, and the current language is similar to that used by the statute at the time we decided Jacobson.
7 In Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982), the Supreme Court adopted a purely objective qualified immunity defense for public officials acting in their official capacities in § 1983 actions. Today, the good faith defense under § 1983 that we looked to in Jacobson is most often invoked in § 1983 actions involving private defendants who cannot avail themselves of the qualified immunity defense. See, e.g., Clement v. City of Glendale, 518 F.3d 1090, 1096–97 (9th Cir. 2008).
8 The government also relies on Shuler v. Babbitt, 49 F.Supp.2d 1165 (D. Mont. 1998). Interpreting § 1540(a)(3)—the civil defense for taking a grizzly bear—Shuler concluded “a person must be in imminent or immediate danger of bodily harm in order to avail himself of a claim of self-defense” and cannot benefit from the defense if he or she “provoked the conflict.” Id. at 1169. Shuler cited no authority for this conclusion other than the decision of the “Ad Hoc Board of Appeals, Department of the Interior” in Shuler's case. Id. at 1168.
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For Expatriates in China, Creative Lives of Plenty
24 February 2010 / Art Categories Member Articles, News / Art Tags artist, Beijing, China, Dan Levin, expatriates, fans, Helen Couchman, International Herald Tribune, January 2010, New York Times, photography / / / / /
by Dan Levin. NY Times arts page, Sunday, 10th January 2010
THERE was a chill in the morning air in 2005 when dozens of artists from China, Europe and North America emerged from their red-brick studios here to find the police blocking the gates to Suojiacun, their compound on the city’s outskirts. They were told that the village of about 100 illegally built structures was to be demolished, and were given two hours to pack.
By noon bulldozers were smashing the walls of several studios, revealing ripped-apart canvases and half-glazed clay vases lying in the rubble. But then the machines ceased their pulverizing, and the police dispersed, leaving most of the buildings unscathed. It was not the first time the authorities had threatened to evict these artists, nor would it be the last. But it was still frightening.
“I had invested everything in my studio,” said Alessandro Rolandi, a sculptor and performance artist originally from Italy who had removed his belongings before the destruction commenced. “I was really worried about my work being destroyed.”
He eventually left Suojiacun, but he has remained in China. Like the artists’ colony, the country offers challenges, but expatriates here say that the rewards outweigh the hardships. Mr. Rolandi is one of many artists (five are profiled here) who have left the United States and Europe for China, seeking respite from tiny apartments, an insular art world and nagging doubts about whether it’s best to forgo art for a reliable office job. They have discovered a land of vast creative possibility, where scale is virtually limitless and costs are comically low. They can rent airy studios, hire assistants, experiment in costly mediums like bronze and fiberglass.
“Today China has become one of the most important places to create and invent,” said Jérôme Sans, director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. “A lot of Western artists are coming here to live the dynamism and make especially crazy work they could never do anywhere else in the world.”
Helen Couchman
China popped onto Helen Couchman’s radar around 2000, when, she said, she “first saw gorgeous little tidbits of something far away”: glossy photos in British magazines of ice palaces in the northern city of Harbin and sweeping tales of the country’s frenetic experiment with modernization. In 2006 she stepped off the Trans-Siberian Railway and into the chaos of Beijing’s main train station, and after three days of wandering around she knew she wanted to live here.
As a photographer she found the manic pace of Olympic construction irresistible, along with the cost of living as compared with London, her home for 15 years. “A £4 tube ticket would buy my dinner here,” she said. Ms. Couchman, 36, who is British, moved to Beijing a year later, and though she sells most of her work in Europe, she said, the “shapes and designs here have completely saturated my work.”
In her most recent work, at right, she poses naked behind a large fan, a traditional Chinese accessory that serves as an emblem of the camera, behind which she is frequently shielded.
She is more than a documentarian. Her book “Workers” illustrates her personal engagement with China. In December 2007 she slipped behind the screens surrounding the construction of the Olympic park and shot portraits of 146 migrant laborers. She returned the next day with two sets of prints, giving each subject a copy to keep and having workers write their name and hometown on the other, which she compiled for the book. “Their families couldn’t afford to come to Beijing and see their role in history,” she said. “Now they have this document, like I would have a graduation or wedding photo…”
Artists also featured: Alessandro Rolandi (Italy), Alfredo Martinez (US), Rania Ho (US) and Joseph Ellis (US).
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TACITA DEAN FROM 29 JAN 2019 TO 05 MAY 2019 at Serralves Museum
29 Jan 2019 – 5 May 2019
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The renowned British European artist Tacita Dean has been part of the history of Serralves’s programming since her solo exhibition in 2002. Inspired by this museum, she went on to film her work Boots (2003) in the Casa de Serralves, which was then acquired for the Collection.
This exhibition is an exciting opportunity to show Boots alongside her new and ambitious film project Antigone (2018), which premiered last year in her simultaneous trilogy of exhibitions that took place in the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Antigone has been many years in the making and the central ideas have manifested in other works over the past three decades, most significantly in Boots. This double-screen 35mm one-hour film is an epic exploration of the artist’s sister’s name Antigone, which features poet and playwright Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane. The film diptych evokes the eponymous mythological figure and her blind and lame father, Oedipus and the idea of their journey into the wilderness between the two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus.
This important presentation has also brought together other earlier works that follow the trajectory of her thinking in relation to Antigone as early as 1991 and includes two of the artist’s most recent large-scale blackboard drawings as well as a multi-part photogravure from the Serralves Collection.
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The Slap on the Wrist at Bhopal
By: Our Correspondent
India's ruling United Progressive Alliance government is now embroiled in a controversy that shows every sign of snowballing into a crisis over its mishandling of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
The resulting uproar has once again brought the 25-year-old tragedy back to sow widespread public anger that appears likely to have an effect far beyond Bhopal, imperiling the government's attempts to pass a bill limiting liability over nuclear plants, which require extensive foreign participation, particularly by US companies. And, given India's long-standing ambivalence about foreign investors, it may well create an atmosphere in which the government, under public pressure, seeks to limit foreign direct investment of all kinds.
As has been widely reported, the leak of a deadly cocktail of methyl isocyanate and other lethal gases which spewed out of Union Carbide Corporation's now-defunct pesticide plant in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh killed over 5,000 people immediately, with as many as 15,000 having died since, and affected the health of as many as half a million.
Last week an Indian court awarded a meager two years' imprisonment for causing "death by negligence" to the convicted former Union Carbide India Limited Executive Chairman Keshub Mahindra and seven other senior Indian executives. Worse, in the public eye, all seven applied for — and were granted — bail immediately after their sentencing.
Apart from what is regarded by the public as grossly inadequate punishment, the case's prime accused — Warren Anderson, 91, the former Union Carbide chairman — is still at large. The former Union Carbide boss has never been arrested despite two warrants being issued against him, the last in July 2009.
However, what has turned the heat on the government is declassified 1984 CIA documents that say the Congress Party played an instrumental role in helping Anderson escape from India. The documents indicate that the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, ruling UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's husband, who headed the Congress government at the center at the time of the Bhopal gas leak, had aided Anderson's flight to the US.
According to the CIA, Anderson flew out of Bhopal on the official plane of Arjun Singh, then the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal is its capital) after being arrested on December 7, 1984, four days after the gas leak, and released on bail the same day.
With the lid blowing off the scandal, the UPA government is now finding it increasingly difficult to wash its hands of the twists in the gas leak case and the role played by the successive Congress regimes. Critics are convinced that Congress let Anderson off the hook in fear that his arrest would outrage the US and affect FDI flow. "It was a simple case of business overriding all humanitarian concerns," says a home ministry official.
"The Indian government probably thought that no matter what they do now, the dead of Bhopal can't be brought back, so why mess with lucrative foreign investments?" he said. "It feared a backlash from foreign investors who have become important players in the Indian economy following liberalization."
In a settlement brokered by the Indian Supreme Court in 1999, the company paid US$470 million as compensation to the Bhopal victims, just $550 for each victim, many of whom faced a lifetime of visits to hospitals. The compensation was calculated for roughly 180,000 victims, a figure quoted at that time by the government despite widespread protest against what was regarded as a substantial underestimate.
Despite the nationwide outrage against Union Carbide, now owned by Dow Chemical, the UPA government has still not put forth a strong case for Anderson's extradition from America. Activists say Dow Chemical, which bought United Carbide in February 2001, should now be now liable for Bhopal and should pay for a clean-up of the contaminated site.
"It's a shame that Indian ministers and officials as well as corporate chiefs are working overtime to get Dow off the hook and ease the way for its expanding investments in India. It wants to alleviate the concerns of American business regarding liability issues," a Delhi-based lawyer told Asia Sentinel on the condition of anonymity.
This attitude, analysts say, is sending the wrong signal to western corporations — that they can set up industrial plants in India and reap profits without worrying about serious liabilities. The US has already rejected the possibility of any future action against Dow Chemical.
The verdict has also brought back into sharp focus the controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, which has been making its torturous way through the legislature. Activists and opposition parties are demanding that the government re-examine the proposed legislation, which was tabled by the Indian Parliament last November. The bill envisages capping foreign companies' liability in the event of an accident at a nuclear power plant at US$10 million. It also proposes that in the event of an accident, the compensation amount to be the responsibility of the Indian state operator instead of the equipment supplier or the foreign company.
With India's civilian nuclear energy industry opening up to foreign corporations, and nuclear plants proliferating across the country, the nuclear bill's clauses have stoked fears of a disaster of the magnitude of the Bhopal tragedy.
"The proposed legislation seems aimed at protecting the foreign company, not the Indian public," a government minister was quoted as telling local media. "The draft nuclear liability bill would indemnify American companies so that they don't have to go through another Union Carbide in Bhopal."
The UPA government has now been forced not to table the nuclear liability bill in parliament in March this year and is reported to be reworking the legislation.
Meanwhile, to protect its business interests, the Obama Administration is hoping that the Bhopal gas leak verdict will not affect the contours of the bill.
"We hope that this verdict will bring some closure to the victims and their families and will not lead to opening of new inquiries into the role of Union Carbide in the disaster," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake was quoted as saying.
That has outraged the Indian public, which has pressured the UPA government to seek to bring Anderson back and not rule out 'new inquiries' against Union Carbide. The pressure has forced the Obama administration to give "fair consideration" to a fresh request from India for Anderson's extradition. "We have an extradition treaty with India. And if India makes an extradition request to us, we will give it fair consideration," said State Department spokesman P J Crowley last week.
While such initiatives may bring little succor to the victims and relatives of those affected disaster, they would at least send signals to global corporations that they will not be able to get away with murder in India.
Neeta Lal is a New Delhi-based journalist contactable at neetalal@hotmail.com
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Western Illinois University
$4 million has been spent on plans for a performing arts center at Western Illinois University, but the project now is on hold.
Funds no longer available for planned higher education projects in Illinois
State has spent more than $14 million on projects at 5 universities, but the projects never made it out of the planning phase.
Mike Kennedy | Sep 06, 2017
Eight years after Illinois approved a capital plan for universities in the state, half of the largest new projects at state schools never began construction and now have been canceled or indefinitely halted.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the state put more than $14 million toward five major higher education projects that were approved but never made it out of the planning phase.
Related: $400 million allocated for school facility improvements in Illinois
Those facilities — slated for Western Illinois University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago — were approved in 2009, but never received full funding to begin construction.
A spokesman for Gov. Bruce Rauner says the bond funds intended to pay for the projects have run out and that the legislature did not include those items among expenditures approved in the new budget.
Related: Northern Illinois University gets funding, but doesn't know when stalled construction project will resume
Even if more money became available, the initial designs and construction plans would have to be updated and project costs would be larger after such a long wait.
The projects were part of the 2009 Illinois Jobs Now! initiative. It included $1.6 billion in authorized spending for higher education, including community colleges and private institutions as well as state-owned schools.
This spring, the state legislature's bipartisan research office, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, reported that the capital program has run its course after selling only $12.7 billion of capital bonds.
Now, the only way the universities can get state capital funds for the five stalled projects is to compete for limited annual capital dollars — or hope the governor and legislature pass a new multi-year capital program with additional revenue to support it.
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Home > News & Blog > Nick Fish Named New President of American Atheists
Nick Fish Named New President of American Atheists
September 6, 2018 American Atheists Statements
Cranford, NJ—The Board of Directors of American Atheists today announced that Nick Fish, an activist with a decade of experience in non-profit organizing, advocacy, and coalition building, has been named the 55-year-old organization’s new president.
Fish has spent six years with American Atheists, serving as the organization’s director of development from 2012 to 2015, and national program director and spokesperson for the last three years. Before joining American Atheists, Fish worked with the Secular Coalition for America in Washington, DC, and in small-donor fundraising and marketing for a variety of national political and progressive advocacy groups.
“In today’s political and social climate, the work of American Atheists is more important than ever,” said Fish. “Religious equality and the separation of religion from government, which is the foundation of true religious freedom in our nation, is under constant attack at every level of government. American Atheists must be the leading voice in the fight to put a human face on the discrimination enabled by religious privilege and in ending the stigma associated with atheism in America.”
Neal Cary, chair of the American Atheists Board of Directors, praised Fish’s selection.
“In my time working with Nick, it’s become clear that he is a tireless advocate who is creative, passionate, and committed to creating a broad coalition in the fight to protect the rights of atheists and real religious freedom in America,” said Cary. “He knows the issues our community faces inside and out. I’ve been especially impressed by his commitment to building a team of activists who share his vision and dedication to the mission of American Atheists. I am confident Nick will be a great leader of this organization and a champion for our community’s values of equality, inclusion, and reason as we move forward.”
Fish is a native of Michigan and studied political science at Albion College. He worked as a canvass director during the 2008 election in North Carolina, where he built from scratch an office that registered more than 5,500 voters in a month and knocked on 30,000 doors to persuade voters to support candidates in the presidential, senate, and gubernatorial elections.
To learn more about Fish, read his interview with American Atheist magazine available here.
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New Projects: Carmichael Complex | The Shield at 1 Coyote Way | Walter Athletics Center
by Courtney Cameron
The City of Austin, Texas, has broken ground on a $35 million community recreation center. At 105,000 square feet, the center will include health and wellness features, such as a fitness studio and wellness floor, an indoor running track, fitness and recreational pools and a warm-water therapy pool. A community youth center is being built into the facility, complete with a tutoring center, a computer lab, a game area and an arts workshop. The rec center will also house youth gymnastics and child care, as well as a multipurpose family gym and an aquatics center with play features and a zero-depth entry. The facility, designed by BWBR of Madison, Wis., is expected to be complete late next year.
North Carolina State University has begun work on a renovation and expansion of the Carmichael Complex. Updates will bring the existing facility into compliance with ADA and safety codes, while adding new recreation spaces such as a climbing center, wellness space and a teaching kitchen. The $45 million project will also increase fitness space, including a new strength and conditioning area, a functional training space, several group exercise studios and multipurpose spaces. Planning for the renovations was provided by HOK’s Sports + Recreation + Entertainment practice. The center is expected to reopen in fall 2020.
Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., broke ground this summer on a new baseball stadium on the site of Old Olympic Field. The new two-story venue, designed by ArCon Group Inc. of Cleveland with Rardin & Carroll Architects of Chattanooga, will span 9,400 square feet, with chair-back seating for 356 fans. The facility will also feature an expanded concessions area, spacious restrooms, accessible seating areas, increased dugout space, larger locker rooms and coaches' offices. There will also be a new athletic training room, a press box and private locker rooms for umpires and the Ocoee Middle School baseball team. The project is expected to conclude in time for the spring 2019 season.
The University of California, Berkeley recently announced plans for a new sand volleyball facility on its Clark Kerr Campus. The facility is included in a shared facility-updates budget of $30 million and will feature four sand volleyball courts, permanent spectator seating, a scoreboard and updated restrooms. The review process begins this fall, with construction expected by summer of next year and an opening in spring 2021.
The community of Thousand Palms, Calif., is looking forward to developing a 12,000-seat indoor multipurpose stadium on a 125-acre parcel of land. Preliminary plans for The Shield at 1 Coyote Way include spaces for clinics, camps and tournaments, with the purpose of serving as the future home of the area's youth sports. The proposed project, which would be completed in three phases, is estimated to cost up to $300 million.
Rivier University in Nashua, N.H., gained approval this summer on a multistage athletics facility project that would include upgrades to existing facilities as well as the construction of a 6,217-square-foot Raiders Pavilion. The Pavilion would feature a press box, public restrooms, and team support spaces such as locker rooms, storage areas and laundry facilities. Other improvements include a new gymnasium and upgrades to the ballfield. The university hopes to break ground by the end of the year.
Northwestern University recently opened the doors of its new Walter Athletics Center. The center spans four stories of sports training, academic support, professional development and wellness space, with lower-level basketball courts, an indoor jogging track, a nutrition center and dining facility, two sports performance centers, a sports medicine and athletic training center, eight varsity locker rooms, team lounges, and coaching and administrative offices. Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins+Will collaborated on designs with HOK’s Sports + Recreation + Entertainment practice and SmithGroup of Detroit.
Orono (Minn.) High School will soon celebrate the grand opening of its new Activities Center. The 95,000-square-foot facility features five new multi-use sports courts, an indoor track, a weight room and fitness center, classrooms for group exercise and community events, concessions, and locker rooms for athletics and community use. The $27 million project also includes a renovation of the school's existing gym, with new 1,500-seat bleachers, as well as a new outdoor plaza and parking lot. Designs were provided by Wold Architects of St. Paul.
The University of Houston cut the ribbon on its new Clear Lake Recreation & Wellness Center just in time for the fall semester. The 80,000-square-foot facility by SmithGroup of Detroit will serve as a student recreation and wellness center, with fitness spaces such as an indoor track and sport courts. It will also house academic programs within the clinical, health and applied sciences departments, with a motor control lab, an exercise physiology lab and a biomechanics lab. The total project budget was set at $38.2 million.
This article originally appeared in the October 2018 issue of Athletic Business with the title "Forward Progress." Athletic Business is a free magazine for professionals in the athletic, fitness and recreation industry. Click here to subscribe.
Tags: City of Austin Community Recreation Center BWBR Lee University Old Olympic Field ArCon Group Inc. Rardin & Carroll Architects North Carolina State University Carmichael Complex HOK University of California Berkeley Clark Kerr Campus Sand Volleyball Facility Thousand Palms Multipurpose Stadium The Shield at 1 Coyote Way Rivier University Raiders Pavilion Northwestern University Walter Athletics Center Perkins+Will SmithGroup Orono High School Activities Center Wold Architects University of Houston Clear Lake Recreation & Wellness Center
Courtney Cameron is Editorial Assistant of Athletic Business.
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Facility Friday: St. Louis MLS Renderings, SJSU Rec Center and More
MLS recently announced plans to expand to 30 teams, and amid that news came renderings of a possible new stadium in a likely expansion city — St. Louis. The ownership group behind the effort to bring an MLS team to the city unveiled new renderings of an HOK and Snow Kreilich Architects-designed stadium that would have permanent seating for 22,500 fans and be able to expand to 25,500. The structure would include a translucent canopy to cover fans while allowing light onto the field, and each seat would be within 120 feet of the field. — St. Louis Magazine
LSU Indoor Track Accents UREC Exterior The north elevation of Louisiana State University's UREC is almost entirely glass, affording the type of transparency and visual communication of activity often desired in recreation center design. read more
New Projects: ADPRO Sports Training Center | Kansas State Athletics Facilities | HAPC The Mick and Susie McMurray High Altitude Performance Center (HAPC) at the University of Wyoming opened in time for the 2018 football season. The project includes a 47,000-square-foot renovation to the former Curtis and Marian Rochelle Athletics Center, as well as a 71,000-square-foot addition. read more
Facility Friday: Northwestern Basketball Arena, AB Show Tours Ahead of the college basketball season, Northwestern University unveiled the newly renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena. read more
New Projects: Butchertown Stadium | Appleton Arena | Legends Aquatic Center Construction began this summer on a $241 million expansion of Rupp Arena at the University of Kentucky. Designed to LEED specifications by architects NBBJ and EOP, the arena will feature an expanded concourse, new chair-back seating to replace upper-level bleachers, member clubs with court-level seating, an atrium entrance with 85-foot ceilings, a new metal-and-glass exterior shell, a climate-controlled bridge connecting the lobby and concourse, and a new public plaza. Improvements are expected to be complete by fall 2021. read more
Portland State Arena Features Wood Viking Ship Wall
One design improvement to Portland State University's varsity basketball and volleyball venue necessitated another. Before the renovated Viking Pavilion reopened in April, it stood as a 1960s brick-faced shoebox along a main campus boulevard known as The Park Blocks.
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Skipper has job for now
NEW YORK --- If Willie Randolph was worried about losing his job, he never showed it.
He walked confidently into a packed news conference Monday, still the New York Mets' manager after a much-anticipated meeting with team ownership that lasted about two hours.
The embattled skipper sat down with owner Fred Wilpon and general manager Omar Minaya to discuss two things in particular: the team's sluggish play, and Randolph's comments last week about his portrayal on Mets broadcasts in which he raised the issue of race.
The Mets were 23-25 entering Monday night's game. Randolph said he received no guarantees he'd finish out the season.
"No, they didn't say that," said Randolph, whose contract runs through the 2009 season.
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Own goal: Birmingham tops UK uninsured driving table
In footballing terms Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion are currently lying mid-table in the Barclays Premier League. But when it comes to uninsured driving, drivers from the city of Birmingham are topping the table.
New figures released by the MIB reveal that the overall level of uninsured driving in the UK has dropped by 25 per cent in the last five years. In the West Midlands and West Yorkshire the news is not so good. The number of drivers without insurance in these areas is up to eight times the national average.
Leading the League of Shame for 2010 is Birmingham B9 (up from second place last year). Then it's Birmingham B10 and B8, followed by various parts of Bradford. London can take some pride in the thought that none of its postcodes made the top (or should that be bottom) 20 this time.
MIB Chief Executive Ashton West spells it out: "We cannot stand by and let uninsured driving continue, otherwise the honest motorist will keep paying the bills for the injury and damage caused to people and property."
Other alarming findings include:
34 per cent of all uninsured drivers are under the age of 30
One in 10 of drivers in the 18-34 age group are are unaware that car insurance is a legal requirement
Honest motorists are subsidising uninsured driving to the tune of around £30 per insurance premium
These figures come from the Motor Insurance Database (that's MID for all you acronym lovers), which is managed by MIB. Since 2001 MID has been the sole central insurance record for the UK's 34 million vehicles.
In 2011 MID has an important role as part of the Continuous Insurance Enforcement scheme. Registered keepers of vehicles who don't appear to have insurance can expect a letter from MID reminding them of their legal obligations and of the penalties for non-compliance.
Drivers can avoid MID's Big Brother approach by following some of the advice in the famous Monty Python sketch. Prices, of course, are subject to change . . .
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Home / CityNews / Luxembourg / News / Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
According to The Guardian UK, Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free.
Fares on trains, trams, and buses will be lifted next summer under the plans of the re-elected coalition government led by Xavier Bettel, who was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on Wednesday.
It is home to about 110,000 people, but a further 400,000 commute into the city to work. A study suggested that drivers in the capital spent an average of 33 hours in traffic jams in 2016.
While the country as a whole has 600,000 inhabitants, nearly 200,000 people living in France, Belgium and Germany cross the border every day to work in Luxembourg.
Now, from the start of 2020, all tickets will be abolished, saving on the collection of fares and the policing of ticket purchases.
The policy is yet to be fully thought through, however. A decision has yet to be taken on what to do about first- and second-class compartments on trains.
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Salem Witch Trials Essay
Sabrina Armstrong
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G.L. Beck
Salem witch trials: a drug induced hysteria
What happened in Salem in 1692? The people involved in the Salem witch trials were more than just names, dates and places; they were people with lives and families as well. The Salem witch trials started with three girls falling ill with mysterious symptoms that the doctors could not explain by medical science during that point in history. Many people still wonder today why the hysteria took place.
Some people believe that, the hysteria was a product of children’s self-delusions. Other people believe that while, the hysteria fueled the Salem ...view middle of the document...
Caporael and Matossian both have studied the temperature, the rainfall; and the crops that grew in areas in, which people found ergotism and they both discovered that a large proportion of witchcraft trials occurred in these same areas during that point in history when the grain grew there (Stefko, 2010, para 1-3).
People found a 2000-year-old man in a bog; that for some reason time preserved him completely because of the soil the people found him. He seemed like he died very recently. The scientists examined the stomach, intestines, and had tests done on their contents, which the scientists discovered that the man's last meal had been a kind of homemade soup made from seeds and vegetables. Barley was one of the ingredients that he digested contained large amounts of ergot fungus, which found on rotted rye. This proves that ergot did in fact exist at that in point in history when the witchcraft hysteria took place (Tollund man, 1989, para 6).
Before the Salem witch trials, there was another outbreak of witch hysteria. On November in 1589, Jane Throckmorton, fell ill with strange symptoms that the doctors could not explain, Jane accused Alice Samuel of being a witch. The Throckmorton family accused Alice’s husband and daughter of witchcraft as well. The bishop tried Alice and her family in 1593 on April 5 for witchcraft; they found them guilty and hanged them (Coventry, 2010, p. 17). The afflicted in this specific case ate from the same bakery, ate the same tainted bread, which people believe had ergot in it. In addition, during the Salem witch trials as evidence, the courts would give dogs the bread that the girls ate to see if they would act out in the same manner, which of course, they would because the bread had ergot in it.
The children who had been afflicted ate food from the same bakery, which had ergot in it. Only the people who ate from that bakery showed signs of affliction. These symptoms are the same, which people in the sixties claimed which; they suffered from when they had been on an LSD acid trip. People did not identify at the time that the symptoms were because of food poisoning.
Some of the signs that people experience are having trouble controlling their bodily functions. Other symptoms were causing his or her body to move nonstop with convulsions, and their eyes rolled in the back of their heads sometimes, while they were often unable to speak as well. At other times, their symptoms described as dizziness and confusion as well. In some extreme cases the whole body shakes as if by an unseen force was pulling his or her body off the ground. People have described feelings of intense warmth, or frozen, including itchy, and scratchiness feelings too. People believed that they had burning sensations on their skin and a thousand hands were pinching him or her and touching their entire body. People would suffer from delusions, panic attacks, and intense dehydration as well (“Ergot...
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How My Sexual Assault Forever Changed the Way I Raise My Girls
Casey Mullins
When I was sexually assaulted almost two years ago, I never imagined it would change my life as much as it did. The effects on my marriage, my self-esteem, my career, my friendships, and even my interactions with strangers have ebbed and flowed, as I have struggled to navigate the sea of emotions that have resulted.
As the mom of two little girls, it’s vital to me that they understand what I didn’t until recently. I don’t want to raise them in a way that perpetuates rape culture or victim blaming, and the only way to do that is to lead by example and have conversations about consent and consent violations now, so they understand they hold the power within themselves going forward.
But to be honest, I didn’t realize how much work I had ahead of me. At least, not until my daughter came home from school in tears one day, because three boys on the bus kept repeating dirty jokes she didn’t want to hear.
I’ve never been one to get myself directly involved with issues at school, but after her requests to move seats fell on deaf ears and the boys continued to torment her daily with jokes, I stepped in.
“Oh, boys will be boys!” is what one school official told me.
“Maybe if she didn’t react to them or if she weren’t so sensitive, they would stop,” is what her bus driver told me.
It was at this point I told Addie that her “no” means everything, and if it wasn’t going to be respected, she had my full permission to punch these boys. My husband (understandably) wasn’t very happy with my decision; and thinking that perhaps I had overstepped my bounds a bit, I asked another mom with both a boy and a girl how she would handle a similar situation. In the end, her response was actually very similar to mine.
Addie never did have to punch anyone, though, because after I gave her my permission to stand up for herself in whatever way she felt necessary, she wasn’t afraid to get in trouble for causing a scene. (At least with me.) She knew I would stand up for her when no one else would, and her restored confidence seemed to cease their invasive behavior.
The ‘no’ of an 11-year-old is every bit as valid as the ‘no’ of an adult. It’s not as though the word suddenly starts to mean something the moment we turn 18 …
Move this scene from a school bus to a bar, where grown men corner a woman and berate her with lewd suggestions and tawdry jokes. She tells them to stop but they don’t. She is visibly upset. They move in closer, the jokes become harsher. Security is nowhere to be seen. Would you expect her to simply not react and tell her to “stop being so sensitive?” Or would you expect her to fight her way out, kicking and screaming the whole way, if necessary?
The “no” of an 11-year-old is every bit as valid as the “no” of an adult. It’s not as though the word suddenly starts to mean something the moment we turn 18. When my own kids tell me to stop something they feel uncomfortable with, you had better believe I listen. I don’t tell them “it’s no big deal” or to “stop being such a baby” as I continue to pester them. I stop when they say “stop,” and don’t push things when they say “no.”
Obviously, there are things that my kids aren’t allowed to say no to by virtue of being kids and living in my home — like doing chores or eating vegetables, for example. Those are non-negotiable. But if I come up behind one of them and start tickling them like crazy and they ask me to stop, I’m going to. They didn’t consent to being tickled, so if they don’t want to be, they shouldn’t have to be. The same rule applies to their sibling relationships — if one of them tells the other to stop, the other is expected to stop immediately.
The concept of consent wasn’t fully explained to me or understood until I was in my 30’s; and there’s no way I’m going to let my own girls grow up without understanding it.
If a no isn’t respected at home, by a child’s own parents and siblings, no less — how can a child expect their no to be taken seriously outside the home? We’re told that if we cause a scene — over anything, really — we’ll get in trouble. We’re told to ignore the things that bother us, even when we’re scared. We’re told that if there’s a snake in the grass we are to “Hold still, and hopefully it will just go away.” Never, in all of this, are we told we posses the power to take out the snake in a number of different ways.
The concept of consent — it’s real and true meaning — wasn’t fully explained to me or understood until I was in my 30’s; and there’s no way I’m going to let my own girls grow up without understanding it. No means no, yes means yes, and if you said no when you meant yes, or yes when you meant no, it is to be respected. Alternately, I expect that if my kids are told “no” by someone else, they are to stop doing whatever it is they are doing immediately. It doesn’t mean they get to demean or belittle the other for saying “no.”
Subconsciously, we tend to believe that if someone is laughing and smiling, they probably don’t mean it when they say no. But science has told us otherwise: Psychologists have actually proven that laughter is a very common reaction to feeling scared. We’ve all had someone jump out at us, and only moments after we startle, we begin to laugh, even when we don’t think being scared is funny.
But rather than continuing to chase the laughing girl (because clearly she looks happy about being chased), imagine if the boy stops chasing the girl and asks if she’s okay. The girl is given the chance to say “No, I’m not okay” if she’s feeling scared. The boy listens. The boy stops chasing. The boy never violates consent. The girl never becomes a victim.
I can’t turn back the clock on my own life; I can’t undo what has been done to me. But I can continue to teach my girls what it means to give their own consent — even when it comes to something as “small” as a playground taunt. At the very least, it’s an awfully easy way to start having a really tough conversation.
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Essays Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good For You
Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good For You
Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good For You is an argument in favor of the inclusion of video games, television shows and other forms of popular entertainment in education. According to Johnson, the negative preconception of the post-modern world has no basis as video games will soon be what he called the panacea of education. The modern world was putting efforts to make people believe that these forms of entertainments are detrimental to the Americans’ cognitive and moral development. He used his model of a sleeper curve to explain that the today’s entertainment increasingly demands the engagement of one’s cognitive work. Johnson noted that today’s’ television and video games are not just designed for a mere watching. But that they are more complex and demanding. That today’s video game players are involved in making long-term strategies that help them make decisions about their involvement in video games. This paper will, therefore, seek to defend the importance of video game in education.
Johnson’s personal arguments
In supporting his position, Johnson pointed out several contributions of video games, televisions films, and the internet to the field of education. He argued that these elements of popular culture are making students smarter through the engagement analytical thinking and problem-solving. To him, these processes are very basic for any learner to be able to correctly interpret video games. Students must strive to understand the complex plot structure of the modern television and film. Students must also commit themselves to understand the collaborative social and interactive world of internet. All these aspects of pop culture related to video games are intellectually demanding and enhance the student's cognitive faculties by posting cognitive challenges. In highlighting the intellectual benefits that come with video games, Johnson gave an example of the recent editions of his books which are presented using these technologies. The game, therefore, enables learners to access such like materials.
According to him, reading books chronically understimulates the sense while game playing engages the child in a vivid, three-dimensional world filled with moving images and musical soundscapes. To him, books are simply words presented on a paper. And that only a small portion of the brain is devoted to processing written language is activated during reading. In contrary, games engage the full range of the entire working of the brain. It is, therefore, true the video games contribute much in cognitive development as it seeks to develop the entire brain functioning system. Johnson noted that books are strategically isolating while games engage the young in complex social relationships with their peers enabling them to build and explore words together. While reading books the children must isolate themselves in a quite space and shut off from interaction with other children. Reading books as an approach to learning discourages the sharing of ideas among the peers and robe them the possibility of learning from one another. Johnson also noted that even though many children enjoy reading books, a good percentage of the school going children do not like reading of books. It is true that successful learning process requires an environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and ideas. Reading is, therefore, limited in this aspect because it is not an active participatory process but a submissive one. Johnson noted that the concern of today’s younger generation book readers is to learn how to follow the plot instead of learning to lead. This kills the creativity in the learners who are not exposed to other approaches to learning like the video game.
Greenfield’s contribution
Greenfield while contributing to the impact of video games on education noted that it has improved the learners’ visual skills. After studying more the 50 students, he concluded that exposing learners to such technology has made a great contribution to learning. He noted that no one medium can be good enough for learning and that to develop a variety of skills, one needs to be exposed to what he calls “a balanced media diet.” However, he also admitted that each of these mediums has costs and benefits in terms of the kind of skills they help develop. According to Gee, visual media is useful in testing students. Well designed approaches such as asking students to prepare and make a presentation on power point help in the development of their cognitive skills. He observed that most students spend time with visual media than they do with the print limiting the effectiveness of the print approach to learning. He also noted that using such methods involving media makes the process of evaluating student much reliable. Such methods are able to give a better picture of what the students actually know. He concluded that using vide games to supplement the learning methods will allow the students to learn how to better process their information.
However, Greenfield raised a concern that the visuals should not be allowed to totally replace their reading culture. This is because the reading of books is also necessary for the development of students’ imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking Reading also has an impact of enriching students’ vocabulary. According to Greenfield, reading for pleasure is the key to developing such skills. He sees the trend of the movement of students towards more of visual literacy and less to print literacy as detrimental to the students overall performance. According to the New Zealand Researcher Paul Kearney, students who play a realistic video game before engaging into a task shows a significant improvement in their ability to multitask compared to students who do not play the video games. Such students are therefore able to do a number of activities at the same time. This helps the students to utilize their time well.
Contributions by James Gee
James Gee wrote on active and critical learning within a semiotic domain in his book what Video Games have to teach us About Learning and literacy. According to him, any education system should seek to include more modalities including the use of images in gaming which he considers as one of the semiotic domains. Gee noted that games are heavily motivating, and teaches people to think about complex systems to enable them to solve the complex problems that today’s world present. Games help learners to know their identity at an early stage. They take another person’s identity and trying internalizing it. Most of the school going children today identifies their professional role models during playing games. They then commit themselves to attain the same achievements. Gee also noted that games enable children to learn on how to cope with the modern world through its interactive systems.
In summary, the cognitive benefits of games include pattern recognition and system thinking. Playing video games teaches one to have focus and patience. It trains the learners to develop the willingness and to best use their scarce resources like time. The games contain the core principle of learning that students prosper when the subject matter possesses challenge to their abilities. The students who play videos are therefore neither frustrated by difficult lessons nor bored by very easy lessons as often witnessed in the case of the use of print. Using video approaches help enrich the learning in any of the learning processes. However, some scholars have also noted some negative aspects of video games. That more than 85 percent of video games contain violence and such media games can produce many negative effects, including aggressive behavior and desensitization to real-life violence. Other scholars have also argued that if over emphasized video games have the potential of robbing the children the time to study. This will impact negatively on their performance.
In conclusion, there is still a much controversial debate going on the roles of video game and other media based learning methods. Globally, visual intelligence has been on the rise with some scholar predicting that video games and films may be the future prime approaches to education. The practice is more among those below the age of 26 years who are also the school going population. Even though Johnson’s work is generally accepted by most scholars, he is also accused of failing to effectively address the perceived negative issues related to games. The issues identified as triggered by the game include an increase in aggressiveness and antisocial behaviors among school gong children. He portrayed the video games and television shows and movies approach as very perfect. However, the technologies are used both in classrooms and by parents to accelerate the cognitive capabilities of the children. The today’s children are also more informed on the design and the working of the world.
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Essays The Pepsi Harrier-Jet Case
The Pepsi Harrier-Jet Case
A contract is a legal agreement between two parties with terms and conditions that express the agreement. For it to be valid and to be considered as legal, it requires four elements. The first element is the demonstration of two parties that they agree and understand what the contract entails and the essential elements in it. The second element is a consideration of the contract; this means that something of value has to be exchanged by each of the parties. This includes goods or services, money or a pledge to do an impressive thing that has value (Laurence, 2005).
The two parties have to sign the agreement signifying that they agree to its terms and condition and are ready to enter into the contract. This does not mean that oral contracts are not valid; they can become valid only under certain situations. The last element is a consideration of the legal competence of both parties. Minors are not allowed to enter into the contract but can do so in the consent of their parents. Also, persons of unsound mind and those who lack authority have limited chances of entering into the contract.
The use of contract law is based on the objectivity of the contract. The objective theory of a contract states that, if the jury supposes that the parties are determined to form a contract, then the contract should be formed (Laurence, 2005). In the case of the Pepsi Co. and Leonard, there was no contract formed because the jury could not find any intention of the two parties to enter into an agreement. It is true that Pepsi offered a harrier jet to anyone with a mere seven million Pepsi points but that was meant for entertainment. I think the judge did not find any valid agreement because, from the advertisement, it was clear that, it was almost impossible to collect seven million points of Pepsi considering the price of each. Also, a harrier jet goes for a price of about 23 million dollars and would it would be absurd to give it away at seven million.
General advertisements are not considered as offers because a contract requires an offeror to direct his/her offer to a particular offeree who can be one person or a group of persons. This case differs from a reward situation because there was no reward that was offered by Pepsi Co. at any given time. It was just a simple advertisement which can not be said to be a unilateral contract because reward (which was lacking) forms the basis of this kind of a contract.
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Shoshone Business Council nominates tribal liaison
By Katie Roenigk
Riverton Ranger
RIVERTON — The Eastern Shoshone Business Council has nominated a liaison to Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon's office: Lee D. Tendore.
The nomination is required under Wyoming statute. Last year, however, the tribe withdrew its nominations after the Wyoming Legislature cut funding for the job in half, allocating only $160,000 to the line item for the biennium: $40,000 per year for a liaison from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and $40,000 per year for a liaison from the Northern Arapaho Tribe.
In a January 2018 letter to then-Gov. Matt Mead, SBC chairman Clint Wagon said the withdrawal was "centered on the concern with the timeline and the practicality of a hire to be successful."
Wagon said it wasn't a good time for a new liaison to start work because annual reports would be due soon to the Joint Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on Tribal Relations and the new liaison would need to acquire a "vast amount of information and accompanying history on all the past and current issues that exist between the tribe and state" in a short amount of time.
"That is in addition to the overall issue on the stability of the program for the future," Wagon wrote.
Mead's policy adviser Colin McKee said the tribe was "concerned with the low level of funding, the part-time nature of the position, and the high expectations combined with the current funding running out in June."
This year the Wyoming Legislature allocated $280,000 to pay for two full-time tribal liaisons to the governor's office for two years.
The final budget bill indicates that $120,000 of the appropriation "shall not be included" in the governor's standard budget request for 2021-2022, and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from the appropriation will revert back to the general fund on June 30, 2020.
In a statement Wednesday, the SBC said it had reviewed six letters of from interested individuals before selecting Tendore for the liaison position, which is intended to "aid, assist and advise the governor on state-tribal relations including the coordination of programs and other activities between the state and tribal governments."
"SBC members firmly believed Mr. Tendore fit the description of someone who was willing to create a stronger relationship between the tribe and state," the press release states.
Tendore is described as an enrolled EST member who earned an associate's degree in American Indian studies from Central Wyoming College and undertook Native American and indigenous studies while earning his bachelor's degree at the University of Wyoming, where he was president for the Native American student group Keepers of the Fire and a mentee and peer mentor for the Multicultural Student Leadership Initiative for two years.
He has worked for the EST and also served in the United States Marine Corps, according to the press release.
"Pending final approval from Gov. Gordon, we look forward to working cooperatively with Mr. Tendore and the state of Wyoming," the statement reads.
Cy Lee was appointed to be the Northern Arapaho tribal liaison Nov. 1, 2017.
Easy rider . . .
Activists march to put ICE "on trial" at May Day rally
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Category Archives: Visa
Russia & India to mutually abolish visas for tourist groups & e-Visas to Russia from 2021
Russia has offered India to mutually abolish visas for tourist groups & E-visas to Russia slated to start in 2021. Tourism professionals of the two countries discussed the expansion of air connectivity between Russia and India, the mutual promotion of tourism between the two countries, as well as the facilitation of the visa regime between the countries, including preparations for the introduction of an electronic visa in Russia since 2021 and the possibility of introducing group visa-free travel between the countries.This proposal was made by the head of the Federal tourism Agency Zarina Doguzova during the Second Russian-Indian strategic economic dialogue in Delhi. The Indian side expressed interest in the joint development of a draft government agreement on visa-free group travel for up to 21 days. According to the press service of the Federal Tourism Agency, the Second Russian-Indian strategic economic dialogue is taking place in India, within the framework of which a round table “Tourism and inter-territorial communication” was held on July 10, 2019. The moderator of this event, dedicated to the development of tourism between Russia and India, was the head of the Federal Agency for tourism Zarina Doguzova. The round table was also attended by Maya Lomidze, Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). As a result of the round table, it was decided to establish a joint working group between representatives of the tourism authorities of the two countries, representatives of business and the expert community to develop a joint action plan to increase tourism exchanges. According to forecasts, in the future, mutual tourist flows may exceed 1 million people annually. Mutual steps to increase tourism exchanges between the countries Zarina Doguzova …
UK Visa applicants to complete application form before scheduling an appointment
All UK Visa applicants would now be required to complete the application form on the website www.gov.uk in order to schedule an appointment to visit the UK Visa Application Center. It will be mandatory for every applicant to fill the Visa Application Form, pay the visa fee and then book the appointment. All applicants who have initiated the request through VFS website prior to June 15 would be able to track their application by using the valid email id and application reference number. This has been done to simplify the customer journey while completing the online process.
India now extends e-visa facility to Saudi Arabian citizens
The Government of India has made e-visas available for Saudi nationals to make travel easier and boost the number of Saudi visitors to the country. Once the visa has been applied and payment has been made, the registration confirmation will be sent to the registered email within 24 hours. The applicant can just show print of this confirmation email and visa will be given by the emigration officials. Earlier, Saudi Arabian citizens had been giving their biometric details at the embassy and consulate. From now on, these details will be collected at airports in India.
Sri Lanka continues visa-on-arrival for Indian nationals
Chamari Rodrigo, Consul General of Sri Lanka in Mumbai, has said that the visa-on-arrival scheme for visitors of Indian nationality continues undisturbed. Sri Lanka had suspended its plans to grant visas on arrival for citizens of 39 countries after the devastating Easter suicide bombings. But it was unclear whether India was one of them. The country had started offering free visa on arrival to Indian travellers as part of the its efforts to promote tourism starting May 1, 2019 for six months in its initial run. This scheme was aimed at a total of 36 countries that include India as well as Pakistan. The Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Mumbai, India along with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) have started taking measures to ensure that tourists return to the island nation soon. They have already met two travel trade associations – Travel Agents Association Of India (TAAI) and Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) – and will soon be meeting the travel trade as well. Rodrigo said, “The country’s security situation now is normal, stability reigns across the country and children are back to school. However, it has had a direct impact to tourism and we have taken some measures to help revive the industry.” In 2017, Sri Lanka saw 3,83,000 Indian nations visiting the country. In 2018, this number jumped to 426,000 but still falling short of their targeted 450,000. Sri Lanka is looking to promote the destination for weddings and film shoots as well apart from FIT leisure.
Schengen Visa Fee to increase to 80 euros from January 2020
The European Union Council has announced that travellers in need of a Schengen Visa will need to pay a higher visa fee starting from January 2020. The changes come after the European Union Council gave the final nod to an updated Schengen Visa code on 6 June. The new EU Visa regulation will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Six months after, it will come into force and start applying to all third-country nationals that need a visa to the Schengen zone. Source: www.schengenvisainfo.com
Tourist arrivals in India through visa on arrival increases at 120.99%
The tourist arrivals through visa on arrival increased at a CAGR of 120.99 per cent during 2010-17 to reach 1,697,175 tourists in 2017, as per a Tourism and Hospitality report by IBEF. Indian government has also released a fresh category of visa – the medical visa or M visa, to encourage medical tourism in India. Foreign tourist arrivals for medical purpose increased from 427,014 in 2016 to 495,056 in 2017(P). In June 2016, the Indian government approved 150 countries under the visa on arrival scheme to attract additional foreign tourists.
UK scraps passenger landing cards
Starting from May 20, international passengers arriving at UK air and sea ports no longer need to fill out Home Office landing cards. Since 1971, landing cards have been required of all passengers arriving by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area. The card records the purpose of the traveler’s visit and the duration of their stay. It also records whether or not a traveler has brought items into the UK that warrant inspection by custom’s authorities. The decision to scrap landing cards comes after the government announced it was extending the use of e-gates at UK borders to citizens of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. Earlier, the gates, which scan e-passports, were reserved for European Economic Area citizens.
BLS International to accept Lebanon visa applications in India
BLS International has announced that it has been signed up by the Embassy of Lebanon to accept visa applications in India. It has also been authorised to handle the ‘Attestation and Legalisation Services’ for the Embassy. BLS will accept visa applications for travel to Lebanon at 16 centres including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Goa, Jalandhar, Kochi, Lucknow, Raipur, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Trivandrum. Commenting on the new contract Shikhar Agarwal, Jt. Managing Director said, “We are extremely pleased to partner with the Embassy of Lebanon, to provide smooth, efficient and convenient experience for the applicants. BLS as a preferred outsourced visa-processing provider will work together with the Embassy to create a distinguished experience for all its valuable applicants travelling to Lebanon. To ensure this, we are opening 16 centres across India, covering major hubs as well as growing regional cities. Our centres will also facilitate the attestation and legalisation services for the Embassy of Lebanon, exclusively.” BLS International will accept visa applications for travel to Lebanon at 16 centres including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Goa, Jalandhar, Kochi, Lucknow, Raipur, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chandigarh and Trivandrum.
Visa exemption for Indians travelling to Chile holding a valid US Visa or Resident Permit
The Consular Section of the Embassy of Chile in India states that henceforth all Indian travellers holding B1/B2 Visa or Residence Permit (Green Card) from USA, with current validity of six months, do not require a Chilean tourist visa (either Simple Tourism or Multiple Tourism or Multiple-Business). This is for the period of stay in Chile for tourists up to 90 days and is not applicable to USA Transit Visa.
India recorded 2.5 million tourist arrivals on e-Visa in 2018
The Bureau of Immigration, under the Home Ministry, India had issued over 2.5 million e-Visa last year, a five-fold jump from 2015, and reduced the main category visa from 26 to 21. Reportedly, the number of e-Visas issued by the Bureau of Immigration has risen from 5.29 lakh in 2015 to 25.15 lakh last year. On the other hand, the number of regular or paper visas issued by Indian missions abroad has come down from 45 lakh to around 35 lakh in the same period. Sub-categories of visa has been reduced from 104 to 65, thus rationalising and simplifying the visa regime and removing confusion. The e-Visa facility covers 166 countries and foreigners can obtain online visa within 72 hours for travel related to tourism, business, health, medical attendant and conference purposes.
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Did 'The Post' Get It Wrong?
In 'The Post', Daniel Ellsberg’s frustration with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s lies leads him to leak the Pentagon Papers. But the real story also involves the cover-up of a Green Beret murder that changed the course of the Vietnam War.
by Jeff Stein Feb 9, 2018 12 minutes
FE_Pentagon_01_120446370 Source: Don Carl STEFFEN/Gamma-Rapho/Getty
What motivated military analyst Daniel Ellsberg to risk a lifetime in prison by leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Defense Department history of U.S. deception in Vietnam? In the movie The Post, a contender for best picture at the Academy Awards, it was Ellsberg’s disenchantment with the war, which flared after a 1966 flight back from Vietnam with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. In quiet conversation with Ellsberg aboard the plane, McNamara had privately agreed that the war was a bloody stalemate, but he later told the press that the U.S. was making progress. However, another three years passed before Ellsberg made the momentous decision—and it was not McNamara’s lie that festered until it became intolerable. It was something else entirely. In 1969, a Green Beret unit came to suspect that one of its top Vietnamese agents, a man named Thai Khac Chuyen, was secretly working for the Communists as a double agent. After failed efforts to extract a confession from him, despite days of interrogation with “truth serum” drugs, three of the soldiers took him out on a boat, weighed him down with chains and a tire rim, shot him in the head and dumped him overboard. The “termination with extreme prejudice” eventually leaked after Chuyen’s wife began making inquiries at the U.S. Embassy about his whereabouts. Seven of the Green Berets, including their dashing commander, Colonel Robert Rheault, were arrested and charged with murder and a cover-up. It soon emerged that the defendants were going to present evidence that the CIA had approved the killing, and as the case headed to trial, the affair exploded into a national controversy. Then, suddenly, the Army dropped all charges.
The resolution of the case deeply disturbed Ellsberg, who saw it as a metaphor for all the lies and cover-ups of the Vietnam War.
The incident goes unmentioned in The Post, but in my 1992 book, A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story that Changed the Course of the Vietnam War, I described what finally triggered Ellsberg’s decision on September 30, 1969.
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Phil Evans, Evening Sun editor, dies
Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun
Phil Evans, city editor of the old Evening Sun during the 1960s, died of cancer May 8 at his Silver Spring home. He was 77 and had lived in Roland Park.
Born Philip Morgan Evans in New York City and raised on a Dorchester County farm, he graduated from the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J. He studied for a semester at Yale University.
He later drove a truck in Morocco in North Africa and served in the Army. He joined the Associated Press in Salisbury and worked in West Virginia before joining The Evening Sun as a reporter. He became the paper's city editor and was later an assistant managing editor.
"Phil did a fine job as city editor directing coverage for The Evening Sun during the chaotic Baltimore riots of April 1968," said a newsroom colleague, Ernest Imhoff. "It was a time of thousands of arrests, multiple fires, looting, six deaths, curfew for four nights and great uncertainty and fear.
"Phil did well with a firm control over things in the newsroom. He was a charismatic and popular guy with a good news sense, sharp skill working with people, imagination and sense of humor."
Mr. Evans was later an editor at the Annapolis Evening Capital, the Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Star and The Washington Times. From 1985 to 1993, he was owner and editor of Annapolitan Magazine.
He was later a consultant to an international crisis management firm and was communications director for "Fight Crime: Invest in Kids," a Washington, D.C., anti-crime initiative, and was a consultant to the National Institute for Early Education Research.
Mr. Evans enjoyed playing tennis.
A memorial reception will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Holeman Lounge of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W. in downtown Washington.
Survivors include his wife of 10 years, Dini Stewart; a daughter, Leslie Evans of Ocean Pines; and a grandson. His marriages to Shirley Ward and Carol Ness ended in divorce.
jacques.kelly@baltsun.com
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2016 Berry Bros. & Rudd Australian Shiraz by Elderton
Red | Ready, but will keep | Elderton | Code: 46391 | 2016 | Australia > South Australia > Barossa Valley | Syrah/Shiraz | Light-Medium Bodied, Dry | 14.5 % alcohol
The 2016 vintage was superb in the Barossa Valley, enabling Elderton to include 30 percent fruit from the family's prized Greenock vineyard in this special blend. The wine has an enticing nose of blackberries and warm plummy fruit, lifted by an appealing freshness. Soft, supple red and black fruit envelops the palate, while the tannins are smooth and fine.
Catriona Felstead MW, Wine Buyer
In Bond
Elderton was established in 1984 by Neil Ashmead - it is now run by Allister and Cameron Ashmead.
The winery is located on the banks of the Barossa Valley`s North Para River just outside the town of Nuriootpa. The fruit is drawn from 31 hectares of high-quality vineyards in the Barossa Valley. Aged between 40 and 102 years old, coupled with minimal irrigation, the vines produce rich, concentrated fruit showing off classic varietal flavours.
Its flagship wine is the Command Shiraz, which is made from small parcels of vines planted in 1939 and 1947. It is matured in American oak puncheons for 24 months and is one of the richest and concentrated examples of Barossa Shiraz to be found today.
Elderton released Tantalus to provide an easy drinking style of premium red at an every day drinking price. Tantalus was a figure from Greek Mythology who was punished for offending the Gods by being kept perpetually thirsty and hungry but tantalised by water and fruit he could see, but not quite reach.
A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.
It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.
South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.
Barossa Valley is the South Australia's wine industry's birthplace. Currently into its fifth generation, it dates back to 1839 when George Fife Angas’ South Australian Company purchased 28,000 acres at a £1 per acre and sold them onto landed gentry, mostly German Lutherans. The first vines were planted in 1843 in Bethany, and by the 1870s – with Europe ravaged by war and Phylloxera - Gladstone’s British government complemented its colonies with preferential duties.
Fortified wines, strong enough to survive the 20,000km journey, flooded the British market. Churchill followed, between the Wars, re-affirming Australia’s position as a leading supplier of ‘Empire wines’. After the Second World War, mass European immigration saw a move to lighter wines, as confirmed by Grange Hermitage’s creation during the 1950s. Stainless-steel vats and refrigeration improved the quality of the dry table wines on offer, with table wine consumption exceeding fortified for the first time in 1970.
Averaging 200 to 400 metres’ altitude, the region covers 6,500 hectares of mainly terra rossa loam over limestone, as well as some warmer, sandier sites – the Cambrian limestone being far more visible along the eastern boundary (the Barossa Ranges) with Eden Valley. Following a diagonal shape, Lyndoch at the southern end nearest Gulf St Vincent is the region’s coolest spot, benefiting from sea fogs, while Nuriootpa (further north) is warmer; hot northerlies can be offset by sea breezes. The region is also home to the country’s largest concentration of 100-year-old-vine Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvedre.
Barossa Valley Shiraz is one of the country’s most identifiable and famous red wine styles, produced to a high quality by the likes of Rockford, Elderton, Torbreck and Dean Hewitson. Grenache and Mourvèdre are two of the region’s hidden gems, often blended with Shiraz, yet occasionally released as single vineyard styles such as Hewitson’s ‘Old Garden’, whose vines date back to 1853. Cabernet Sauvignon is a less highly-regarded cultivar.
Wines are traditionally vinified in open concrete fermenters before being cleaned up and finished in American and French oak barrels or ‘puncheons’ of approximately 600 litres. Barossa Shiraz should be rich, spicy and suave, with hints of leather and pepper.
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Natasha Anderson doesn’t like to call herself a composer. She’s a musician first. After taking up music when she was young, Anderson found herself writing more and more pieces of music. “Around 2000 I started writing pieces for myself as a musician. I didn’t really start composing until about 2010 when I was doing bits with groups where we would compose for each other,” she said. “The word composer sounds a bit poncey. I’m a musician and all musicians are composers. It’s such a grey area because a jazz musician is a composer, it just depends on how you title yourself. Born and raised in Bendigo, Anderson has spent half of her time in Berlin since 2013. She will take part in the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music for the first time this year. “It’s a small world, the exploratory music world. When it was first set up I heard about it and I thought it was an incredible feat by David (Chisholm the artistic director),” she said. “Since it’s been up and running in Bendigo, it has been really successful. “I have performed here before because of a combination of me not being here and lots of people wanting a gig at it.” Two of Anderson’s compositions will be included in the program at the Bendigo Bank Theatre on Saturday. “The whole program is called The Target Has Disappeared,” she said. “One work is a piece my friend Lizzy Welch asked for. She is a violinist from Castlemaine. “The second is a piece I made for ABC radio by sampling instruments and things sitting around the shed. “It is quite lyrical, not just lots of plinks and plonks, and it is a very personal piece about Bendigo.” The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music is on from September 7 to 9 at various venues around the CBD. Natasha Anderson performs at the Bendigo Bank Theatre on Saturday, September 9, at 2.30pm. Tickets are $25. Log on to www.bifem.com.au to download the full program
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Bendigo composer ready to make exploratory music festival debut
Chris Pedler
CREATIVE: Musician and composer Natasha Anderson will debut at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music this Saturday. Picture: DARREN HOWE
Natasha Anderson doesn’t like to call herself a composer. She’s a musician first.
After taking up music when she was young, Anderson found herself writing more and more pieces of music.
“Around 2000 I started writing pieces for myself as a musician. I didn’t really start composing until about 2010 when I was doing bits with groups where we would compose for each other,” she said.
“The word composer sounds a bit poncey. I’m a musician and all musicians are composers. It’s such a grey area because a jazz musician is a composer, it just depends on how you title yourself.
Born and raised in Bendigo, Anderson has spent half of her time in Berlin since 2013.
She will take part in the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music for the first time this year.
“It’s a small world, the exploratory music world. When it was first set up I heard about it and I thought it was an incredible feat by David (Chisholm the artistic director),” she said.
It’s a small world, the exploratory music world. When it was first set up I heard about it and I thought it was an incredible feat.
Natasha Anderson
“Since it’s been up and running in Bendigo, it has been really successful.
“I have performed here before because of a combination of me not being here and lots of people wanting a gig at it.”
Two of Anderson’s compositions will be included in the program at the Bendigo Bank Theatre on Saturday.
“The whole program is called The Target Has Disappeared,” she said. “One work is a piece my friend Lizzy Welch asked for. She is a violinist from Castlemaine.
“The second is a piece I made for ABC radio by sampling instruments and things sitting around the shed.
“It is quite lyrical, not just lots of plinks and plonks, and it is a very personal piece about Bendigo.”
The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music is on from September 7 to 9 at various venues around the CBD.
Natasha Anderson performs at the Bendigo Bank Theatre on Saturday, September 9, at 2.30pm. Tickets are $25.
Log on to www.bifem.com.au to download the full program
FOUNDER: David Chisholm is BIFEM's artistic director. He began the festival in 2013. Picture: NONI HYETT
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Woodland recreation
Black Horse Pub
Binsted Church
Friends of Binsted Church
Farms and horticulture
Parish of Walberton Binsted & Fontwell
Tortington Village
People from the Past
Strawberry Fair 2019
The Charities
Arts Pages
Wishart family of artists
Writing about the Bypass
2019 Poetry Competition
2018 Festival Report
This website is a tribute to the people who live here, and to all our friends and neighbours. It does give some insights as to how we stay together as a village, and retain our identity. But writing too directly about the people who live here today would risk intruding on privacy or seeming to boast about our community. Instead we will on this page offer some points of contact with a variety of different people who have lived here in the past - in whose footsteps all, who live in or come to Binsted today, are walking.
... on whose shoulders we stand
Binsted's demographic, along with that of most rural communities, has changed over the last 50 or so years. In 1948, when Arthur Wickstead first lived at the Pub, ‘darts were all the go, and there were enough farm workers on Wishart’s farm to make two teams of eleven players’. Now far fewer of the village’s inhabitants work on the land, as the farm is mostly arable and highly mechanised. In addition to the farm there are smallholdings, sheep fields and horse paddocks. Also Binsted Nursery which produces herbs and other garden plants for sale to garden centres (and at the village's traditional Strawberry Fair ).
The advent of the car, the telephone and the computer brought professionals into what were once farm cottages or farm buildings: art, writing, architecture, music, photography, health, insurance, law, antiques, and house conversion are all fields in which recent inhabitants have laboured. Some people who work in the arts have turned to seasonal work on the nursery for supplementary income. In addition to work in farming and horticulture and smallholdings Binsted provides employment opportunities in rural businesses such as Bee Bee Kennels, the pub, the B&B, and farm vehicle hire.
Some houses in Binsted that were modest dwellings have been expanded or replaced by much larger ones, and some redundant farm barns have been turned into beautiful houses. Binsted is a desirable place to live and so house prices are high. But, thanks to the Wishart family's retention of Church Farm's farmworker cottages for letting, Binsted still has a proportion of more affordable rented dwellings, which enable our community to thrive with diversity.
A community exists in the here and now: it also exists over time. To live in or to explore Binsted, whose landscape features still reflect so much of the lives of those on whose shoulders we stand, is, consciously or unconsciously, to connect with Binsted's people from the past. The selections from 'Binsted and Beyond' below came out of the Binsted Book Group's exploration of those connections in 2000-2002.
People in the Past - from 'Binsted and Beyond'
'Binsted is on strike': 1937
The Wisharts, by Binsted farmer and landowner Luke Wishart
Isaac Rawlins: a sad tale, by John Heathcote, former Parish Clerk
The Staker family, by Binsted farmer Brendon Staker
People in the ‘Poor Books’
The Reads of Binsted House
The Lewises of the Rectory
Kents and Denyers
Harold Dean and the Great War, by Beryl House
‘Binsted is on strike’: 1937
A planning battle from the past, which gives us a rich description of Binsted in the 1930s and some of its personalities, is introduced with these words in the Southern Weekly News, Saturday, 22 May, 1937.
It has been waged for four years and it will go on to the bitter end…Binsted, quiet Sussex backwater, tiny village of twisting lanes, trim hedgerows, is on strike…Binsted people mean to fight to keep the name of Binsted alive, to continue their struggle now waged for four years against the West Sussex County Council.
It was in 1933 that the County Council issued the order that the parish of Binsted should be added to the parish of Tortington, a village three miles away. For four years Binsted has refused to ackowledge this change, has stuck more firmly to its own village life, ignored sleepyeyed Tortington even more than Tortington ignores Binsted.
Binsted people will not walk to Tortington for a Parish meeting. Tortington will not come to Binsted. Attempts made to hold a meeting on neutral ground has failed because both sides, by mutual consent, adjourn the meeting almost before it begins, make no decisions.
They call it a strike in Binsted, a strike that has been waged for years but today is reaching a climax. Both the Rector, the Rev. William Drury, and Mr S.H.Upton, genial farmer whose family has farmed on the land in Binsted since 1500, told me that it was a strike – and a strike to the bitter end.
The Rector was indignant. As he put it in the article:
‘Fancy asking our people to walk three miles to a parish meeting! ... It is a matter I am very hot about. The real union would be if Arundel took over Tortington and Binsted was joined to Walberton [as eventually happened in the 1980s] … We used to enjoy our parish meetings so much, too. We could all meet and see each other and talk over matters. Now all that is lost.’
Mr Upton is quoted as giving some good reasons why the two parishes do not blend.
‘Now, Binsted and Tortington have no common interests. Take the Coronation: Binsted had its own show, a great show. We collected £46, had fireworks and plenty of prizes. Because the weather spoilt part of the show on Wednesday we had another Coronation Day last Saturday – with another supper, more fireworks: the whole programme over again! We had a grand time. ... We in Binsted have our own farms and holdings and we are proud of our inheritance. We strongly object to being taken over like this; we refuse to be obliterated. So we are on strike and we refuse to do anything.’
An inset describes Henry Ellcombe, aged 84, of Binsted Park. He lives in ‘a thatched house with no name’ (the house in the Park known earlier as Kent’s cottage, now replaced with a modern house), and thatches it himself. ‘If you want to write to Harry you just put ‘Henry Ellcombe, Binsted Park’. “That’ll find me,” he said with a grin. “Everyone knows me around here.”’
The article returns to Mr Upton, to describe the contents of an old chest the reporter is shown. ‘Parish records of Binsted’ are described, possibly the ‘Poor Books’ now in the Record Office, which were donated by him. Also ‘Famous old documents of a greatgrandfather of Mr Upton, musty documents telling of voyages in old sailing ships – dim memories of the pioneer days of the East India Company. For that Mr Upton was skipper of the East India boat Glatton in years round about 1812 and here are his ship’s logs telling of adventurous days afloat, of smuggling and greater mysteries.’
Mr Upton shows off his racing donkeys, and the article concludes with an atmospheric description of Binsted as a rural backwater.
There is no way out of Binsted except by the way you come. Binsted is a cul-de-sac, and its seclusion breathes everywhere. Rich hedgerows and silent woods are around you. There are no shops…This tree-entwined village has peace with its isolation. Roads twist in too many S-bends for there to be any need for speed limits. And few cars ever come here to churn the dust of the ancient lanes. Most of the water is drawn from the wells, oil lamps are still used. Binsted could have both modern means, I suppose, without much ado, but they prefer the old ways to the new.
The church, with its oil lamps, must be one of the tiniest in Sussex. It has a quaint air as you see it from the roadway, the thick high grass flung forward like waves by the wind, a tin cowl at the west end merrily twirling around. We went in…on the harmonium we found a bunch of sweet peas dipped in what we believe was a pint tankard. It was all so pleasantly informal. Services are not held on Sunday evenings, except on the first Sunday. Evensong, instead, is held at three o’clock. ‘It is dark here in the winter,’ I was told, ‘and the people prefer the afternoon service. We have always had it and we see no need to change.’
Rambling roses grow round the church door. And here you will find a peace broken only by the wind which sweeps through the tall grass of the churchyard, rushes on down the slopes below. So it was we finally left Binsted with happy thoughts to take us on our way; feeling just a little queer at not being, as everyone else in Binsted is, on a cycle (we saw a road worker on a tricycle), but hoping that this little Sussex village will preserve its inheritance and with its staunch ‘do nothing’ strike hand Binsted down to the generations yet to follow.
In the middle 1920s my grandfather, Sir Sidney Wishart, who had been city-based and Sheriff of the City of London, decided he wanted to live in the country. My grandfather had been instrumental in the forming of what was then the insurance company General Accident, initially in Perth and then in London. He moved first from Cuckfield to Hove and then purchased Church Farm, Binsted, mainly as a country residence. He was interested in farming only as a hobby and entered animals, mainly sheep, in various local and county shows where many prizes were won. Some of these prizes still hang in the garage at Church Farm.
My grandfather was soon taken with country life and having been in the artillery naturally took up shooting on the farm. He appointed Mr Gatland as his keeper, who lived in a wooden bungalow in Wincher’s Copse deep in the woods, known as Scotland House. Mr Gatland had a son called Jim with whom I went to Walberton Primary School along with other local boys from Binsted and Walberton. During this period I spent many happy hours learning how to snare rabbit, learning how to shoot, using ferrets to catch rabbits and control vermin on the estate, as well as playing football in a team at Walberton. Summer holidays were spent building rafts on the rife and winter days toboganning down the slope next to Binsted church. After school Fred Hotston, who worked for my father at Marsh Farm, taught me how to drive a tractor, and later Reg Tutt taught me how to drive a combine.
All this was an essential introduction to my lifelong interest in and commitment to agriculture in all its forms. My grandfather died in 1938, but before this, in 1928, my father Ernest Wishart purchased Marsh Farm and moved into the house and lived there until his death in 1987. My father was a formally educated man (Rugby and Cambridge) who was expected to go into my grandfather’s insurance company. However, during his Cambridge days my father (like so many of his contemporaries) came under the influence of two causes which were to influence his whole life.
One was W.H.Hudson, the naturalist writer, who introduced him through his writing to the world of nature and especially birds. This became an enduring passion. He helped form the Sussex Wildlife Trust and purchased a farm at Sidlesham bordering Pagham Harbour in order to protect the wildlife on the Harbour. This farm was sold to West Sussex County Council on his death so that the area could be protected in perpetuity.
The second influence which affected my father at Cambridge was Communism, which he took up with enthusiasm and dedication. He saw it as a philosophy which was counter to capitalism but also as a necessary opposition to Fascism which at the time was gaining a huge following in Germany, Italy and Spain. As part of this interest he set up a company, Lawrence and Wishart, and published very left-wing books. During the Spanish Civil War he did all he could to support the anti-Fascist government and later to give aid and support to the many refugees resulting from the Franco fascist government. Later during the Second World War he gave over his London house for the Czech government in exile.
My father married my mother, Lorna, when she was 16 years old. She came from a large family (7 sisters and 2 brothers), one of whom was at Cambridge with my father and introduced them. After Cambridge my father decided on a country life and purchased Marsh Farm to be near his ageing father at Church Farm. He took up farming before the War, helped by his brother-in-law, Mavin, who had worked on a farm in Argentina. Mavin was also a Communist who had been involved in the Spanish civil war on the Republican side.
My mother, largely self-taught, developed a wide circle of artistic friends through contacts in the publishing business, but also the Bloomsbury set. One of her sisters, Kathleen, was the mistress and then wife of Epstein, the sculptor; another married Roy Campbell, the Catholic poet who fought for Franco in the Spanish civil war.
My mother became a Catholic in her 50s and like many converts took up the faith with tremendous zeal. It is her faith which initiated the statue next to the pond in Binsted Park. My mother had three children. Michael, the eldest, became a painter; he died in 1997 and was buried in Binsted churchyard. I was the second son and the third child was my sister Yasmin (really a half-sister, whose natural father was the poet Laurie Lee). Yasmin married a master at Dartington Hall School and lives in Devon on a farm near Totnes.
When my grandfather came to Binsted in the middle 1920s it was a rural backwater. It had no school, no shop, no mains water or drainage, no electricity. My grandfather installed a water main for the village which supplied any house wanting to be connected. This he did with the Portsmouth Water Company (still in business). There were two cars in Binsted – his own, and one other. There had been a Sunday school held in the barn next to Oakleys Cottages, but this failed to continue. My grandfather later purchased Walberton Farm and installed Bill Ingham as a tenant and manager.
During the 1960s my father, anxious to protect Binsted Woods as a whole, purchased the wood known as Binsted Wood together with land and Binsted House from Mrs Pethers (Bill’s mother). Binsted Woods remain the largest block of ancient Sussex woodland south of the Downs and need protecting. They are managed under a rather benign regime, ‘Do little, save most’!
As to the village now, the exorbitant house prices now prevailing are detrimental to the forming of family roots in the area and this does not help in producing village cohesion. However there are occasions like the A27 bypass campaign, the Strawberry Fair, and more lately the Millennium Book project which do a great deal to bring together all the village inhabitants. Perhaps this is enough for the inhabitants of Binsted who hold to an independent spirit. Long may it last.
This is the story of someone who lived in Binsted in the early nineteenth century – and was transported to Australia.
Isaac was convicted at Petworth Quarter Sessions on 18th November 1833 aged 48 yrs (a fairly advanced age at that time when his life expectancy would have been less than 50) of stealing ‘a piece of beech timber worth 9d’ from Ann, Dowager Countess of Newburgh and one foot of timber at 9d from John Gage and Philip Howard. The Countess is shown as being owner of at least part of Binsted Woods on 1825 maps, and the family’s arms still adorn the inn at Slindon, where she owned the estate, and had the building which is now the Folly in Eartham Wood built in 1814 as a summerhouse. The other victims of the theft were, from the name, probably connected to the Norfolk Estate.
Isaac was probably the only person from Binsted in that era whose description we have, viz: ‘5 ft 8 in tall, Stout build, Dark hair, Fresh complexion, Hazel eyes.’ He is clearly listed in both his court appearances as coming from Binsted but was almost certainly christened in Slindon, as were his four children.
He had a previous conviction (stealing 11 gallons of wheat) from 11 years before but the records do not show if this time he was starving or freezing. For that crime he had been given a seven-year transportation sentence. It was relatively unusual (and difficult) for convicts to return having completed their sentence, so he may not actually have gone for some reason. He was again sentenced to be transported to Australia for seven years, and would have been sent off to the prison hulks (probably in irons) in the Thames or Portsmouth Harbour before being taken to Van Diemen’s Land, where there were already 15,000 convicts including 1,800 women and their children.
Do you remember Magwitch in Great Expectations who had escaped from a hulk in the Thames and whose harsh sentence was transportation for life? The government policy had originally been, at the turn of the century, to empty the hulks and prisons and settle Australia before the French could do so. Captain Cook had charted the coast in 1770 and the first convict settlers and guards arrived, not knowing what to expect, in 1788 and had difficulty in staving off starvation. Because of the unpleasant history and probably the unfortunate pun in its name Van Diemen’s Land became Tasmania in its centenary year of 1856.
A four-month journey in the hold of a small wooden ship across the oceans, with minimal food and medicine, would have been sufficient punishment for Isaac’s crime in itself and worse than almost any sentence today. The contracting ship-owners were paid for the numbers of convicts leaving England rather than those landing in Australia. But as Brenda Dixon points out in her book on Walberton, the regulations protecting the voyaging convicts were stronger than those for the free emigrants. By 1833 only a small number of deaths occurred among the 300 or so prisoners on each ship as against 17% in one of the early fleets.
Living conditions in the countryside in Sussex at this time were bad following the introduction of machines. A threat to farm workers’ livelihoods (wages were 50-70p per week) was posed by the introduction of threshing machines. Riots, Luddite-style damage to machinery and rick burning were common throughout the south and south-east, inflamed by the mythical Captain Swing whose name appeared on threatening letters to unjust employers. The name ‘Swing’ came from part of the flail which was used to thresh the corn manually during winter when there was no work in the fields.
[Mike Tristram adds: There is some evidence that efforts were made to give alternative employment through job creation eg the building of the flint wall around Binsted churchyard at this time; but the wooden Mill Barn, just south of the present Binsted Nursery site, was burned down by ‘Swing’ arsonists in 1831. It was replaced on the same site, in 1834, by the flint and brick threshing barnyard, in which the Strawberry Fair is now held.]
A number of local men were transported, especially from the Westbourne-Fishbourne-Pagham area, which would have been a major corn-growing area. They were later pardoned but only about 10% returned – why should they, considering the conditions they had left?
Records of the convicts, their voyages, and what happened to them were remarkably well documented, given the conditions, the illiteracy of the prisoners and the level of penmanship of their captors, and many of them were released through a parole system and eventually freed to become successful citizens (like Magwitch).
Although Isaac Rawlins is not listed on the Tasmanian Archives web-site under the name of Isaac it must be more than coincidence that one ‘John’ Rawlins, born in the same year (1785), died without children or siblings in Tasmania in 1836 aged 51 which, given the kind of life he must have led, was a reasonable age for the time.
In years gone by, the Staker family was well-respected and well-known also for their generosity to the poor people of local villages. They were people of real estate, owning lands and houses in Binsted, Yapton, Climping, Ford, Tortington, Chichester, Westbourne, Aldingbourne, Southwater, Tillington and numerous other places. Two local farms still run today with the name Stakers Farm. One is in Yapton; owned by Benjamin Staker II (1785-1848), the farm was sold in 1837. The house opposite Stakers Farmhouse, now called Yew Tree Nursing Home, was built by Benjamin’s father. Both houses resemble the old Binsted House in style. The other farm is at Stakers Lane, Southwater, near Horsham. I would not be surprised if Stakers had been living in the Binsted area for a thousand years, but obviously there are no records to prove this.
Zaccheus Staker (1720-1795) married Mary Browning of Bosham in 1741, and the name Browning was then much used as a middle name for nearly 200 years. My uncle, who died in 1994, was named Lesley Browning Staker. Zaccheus’ son-in-law, William Laker, who married his daughter Anne in 1769, built Meadow Lodge Binsted, possibly for Zaccheus himself.
The Staker family tree, which can be found in 'Binsted and Beyond', was compiled by my great-aunt, Muriel Haynes, who was born in Walberton. According to the Stakers’ wills, Richard Staker of Yapton owned Binsted House in 1599. His eldest son Edward I (1563-1633) inherited it. It then passed to Henry I (1588-1667), then on to Edward II (1617-1673), then to Henry II (1640-1712), and on to Henry III (1675-1726). Henry III was the brother of John, my six-times-great-grandfather. From then on Binsted House was owned by distant cousins. Edward V (1718-1767) owned it, who was baptized at Binsted Church on 4 May 1718. The last male Staker to inherit Binsted House was Edward VI (1745-1825). Edward VI was a Justice of the Peace and did not marry. There were no sons to pass it on to, so it was passed on to his sister Ann (1757-1840), and the house was then inherited from her by the Read family.
The ‘Poor Books’, or account books of the Overseers of the Poor, give us many glimpses of individuals in 18th-century Binsted. The name of Edward Staker appears very often, both as a landowner and as an Overseer.
The two earliest books preserved in the West Sussex Records Office (Par 22/30/1 and 2) cover the years 1727 to 1831; from 1759 expenditure, as well as income, is shown. In a typical year, 1754, the main landowners were Richard Alcock (paid £7.17s.6d.), the Vicarage (paid £4.7s.6d.), William Float (paid £9.9s.0d.), and Edward Staker (paid £4.7s.6d.). ‘The Lord’s Mead’ produced £2.7s.1/2d.
But more immediately interesting are the payouts to the poor. Sometimes a name or person is only mentioned once: in 1772 ‘Mary Hornsby, in want, 1s.’; the same year, ‘paid 2 shillings for the travelling woman’s child; for digging the grave, 2s.’ In 1786, ‘a pair of crutches for Ferdinand’. Sometimes the entries tell a story; in 1783 ‘Eliz. Croucher at her child’s death for bread, 2s.; watching with Croucher’s child, 2s.6d.; laying forth, 1s.6d.; paid for digging grave, 2s.; parish coffin for Croucher’s child, 6s.6d.’ (Was the travelling woman’s child buried without a coffin?)
Names appear of families recorded later, or even today; Hutsons or Hotstons (probably variations of the same name) appear regularly. (See Charles Hotston, below, and Jean Hotston’s memories in Chapter 4; she said of her husband ‘Fred was Binsted, and Binsted was Fred.’) In 1785 ‘3 Quart faggots with carriage’ for William Hotstone cost 15s.; in 1790 ‘Hutson’s Boy was sick’; in 1795 the Ruffs’ and Hutsons’ house rent was £5.4s.0d. Denyers, a name known later at Meadow Lodge, were given wood and ‘necessarys’ in 1794, and in 1795 flour and money for rent.
The date of building the poorhouse, shown in the painting by Charlotte Read and demolished by 1910, is not recorded. But in 1777 there is an entry ‘to posts and nails for the poor house and carriage, 10s.6d.’ In 1778 ‘paid Mr Allcock for half a year’s interest for money the parishioners hired [this word is unclear] to build the poor house, £1.2s.6d.’ In 1779 ‘to the digging a well at the poor house, £2.2s.0d.’ Before the new poorhouse was built (perhaps about 1777), a poorhouse was rented, costing £2 or £3 a year. References to renting a poorhouse continue to 1787.
Other entries record work done; in 1759 ‘paid Caigers [still a name to conjure with in Yapton] for picking 41 L of stones, £1.0s.6d.’; ‘paid Richard Tupper for work done at the Common gate, 2s.6d.’ The many entries for pairs of pattens suggest the perennial muddiness of Binsted’s lanes – more extreme in those days, as witnessed by the entry in 1761, ‘to a tree to lay across the lane, 2s.’
Ann Staker died in 1840 without children, and left Binsted House together with much of Binsted (and Stakers Farm at Southwater, Horsham) to Harry Read, the son of her elder sister Frances Read. Harry farmed at West Dean and did not take up residence at Binsted. However he implemented protracted renovations to the property, starting in 1840. These were not completed until the year after his death in 1848. In 1849 (on completion of the renovations) his son William Henry Read (1822-1888), who was known as ‘the 8th Squire’, married Sarah Walburn (1823-1907) and moved into Binsted House.
Wednesday July 13th, 1898, at Binsted Rectory near Arundel, Sussex: wedding of Charles Read of Binsted House and Florence Lewis of the Rectory. Florence wrote the caption: ‘Left to right, standing: Mr. C. Green, Leslie Lewis, Helen Miller, Edwin Ellis, Kathleen Lewis, Minnie Read, Mansel Lewis, Judy Lewis, Edgar Lewis, Doug Read, Mrs. Graburn, Dr.Green, Mrs Izard, Mitchell Ellis, Rev Izard, Uncle Ned Miller, Mabel Lewis with Vivien Lewis (baby), George Tanner. Left to right, sitting: Mother, Annie Read, Edie Lewis, Norah Lewis, Bridegroom and Bride (CER and FMCR), Ted Read, Fan Read, Mrs Crowley, Miss Hollis, Father, Newton Lewis, Emily Lewis, William Read.’
Remarkably, some vivid personal memories of this family have survived to the present day.
The link was an interview in 1994 with Henry Pethers of Binsted (1914-1996). Henry Pethers had come to Binsted in 1928 when his family took over the Black Horse pub. They also ran a shop and bakery, and had run the London and County Stores in Walberton for four years. The family had moved from London in 1924, when Henry was ten, to help his mother get over the death of her daughter Doris.
In 1939 Mr Pethers married Margaret Ernestine Read, known as Kitty, born in 1899. She was the only child of the marriage in 1898 between Charles Ernest Read, youngest of eight children of the William and Sarah Read of Binsted House, and Florence Lewis, one of thirteen children of the Rector of Binsted, Henry Lewis (1830-1907). The wedding is captured in a splendid group photograph taken on the Rectory Lawn by the Rev. Lewis’s son Henry.
Mrs Pethers’ memory of her grandmother, Sarah Read, was that she ‘sailed like a barge’ in her vast bombazine dresses and ‘never did anything’. Sarah’s sister, Hannah, had lost all her money and came to live at Binsted House as a ‘lady’s companion’ and much-valued aunt. William and Sarah had four sons and four daughters. They were Charlotte or Lottie; Annie, Fanny and Minnie; Edward Staker, William or Wig, Harry or Doug, and Charles Ernest (Mrs Pethers’ father). The Staker name was customarily used by the eldest son in the family.
Edward Staker Read, Mrs Pethers’ ‘Uncle Ted’, was known as ‘the Squire’ or ‘the 9th Squire’, and lived at Binsted House after his father’s death in 1888. He was known as ‘Edward Staker’. Like his father, he was a JP. He used to say that his father, William Henry, once saw poachers, chased them with his gun, firing and reloading as he went, stopped them and caught them, took them to Arundel and charged them himself. His gun was a muzzleloader, made in Arundel. ‘You had to look out when ramming powder and shot down, as the muzzle would cut you. The muzzles were made out of horseshoe nails, often called ‘Damascus steel’. There was a walnut tree up at the house – all old houses had one; when your eldest son was born a sapling was planted, and when he was twenty-one a gun was made with walnut wood from the tree for the butt.’
‘Uncle Ted’ (1857-1924) lived the life of a squire and kept a hunter and groom. The groom’s name was Styles; he lived at Morley’s Croft and was paid a pension until he died. ‘Some of the housemaids that were venturesome used to get up at four in the morning and bribe the grooms to let them ride the hunters.’ The other boys were all apprenticed to someone; there was ‘string-pulling even in those days’. Doug went into the tea business in Mincing Lane. It was possible to commute to London – you walked through the woods to Ford Station. Wig disgraced himself (he had a drink problem) and was ‘rusticated down in the country. He spent most of his time in the harness room. It was a nice room and never leaked, and was well locked up.’ He helped run the farms on the estate.
A nice insight into Edward Staker Read and his knowledge of bees comes from the diary of Laurence Graburn, a local farmer, passed on via his daughter to Clifford Blakey of Havenwood Park. Mr Graburn wrote:
Mr E.S.Read of Binsted was a great bee-man and had as many as 110 stocks in the wood adjourning his house. As a young man he worked in the Bank of England, but when 21 was sent home in galloping consumption, this did not kill him, and though never robust he lived to 67. I met him on horseback once riding through Arundel to the Station, he told me I am going to do a thing I have never done before, viz: I am going to order a truck for a ton of honey. This sounds a lot but it was a honey year and would only be a portion of his takings that summer.
I saw Mr Read do the smartest thing I ever saw, he had imported some Italian Queens as an experiment and when I went there one day he showed me a very strong stock he expected to swarm, he had introduced an Italian Queen into it. After watching it for a while we went into lunch, leaving his man to keep an eye on them, we had not been there long when the man came to say they had swarmed and were going away, neither Mr Read nor his man were very agile so I ran out and was able to follow them for a while, but could not keep up. The last I saw of them they were flying towards Dick Denyer’s house [Meadow Lodge]. I searched this with no result when I met Mr Read just arriving, we then saw Denyer very excited, who told us a huge swarm had settled in a Plum tree in his garden. Mr Read assured him they were his bees, but Denyer would not part as he had kept bees before and his sisters wanted him to start again. We then watched Denyer take them, and as often happens a few returned to the bough, Mr Read looked at the little cluster and quickly picked one off and put it in a match box, he had the Italian Queen and in a few seconds the air was full of bees again, and Mr Read told Denyer he would have to take them again, but they would not stay as he had the Queen in his pocket. The bees not finding the Queen returned to their old hive, and Denyer very upset at losing them.
Charles Ernest Read (1862-1939) went into Denny’s bacon firm in London as a clerk in the office. During the First World War, women went into munitions and then into office jobs, and clerks were sacked, including him. ‘He was very much against women taking men’s jobs.’ He lived at Penge near Crystal Palace in London. Later, after his marriage to Florence Lewis, with her dowry they took a boarding house at Dalgeny Mount near Ventnor in the Isle of Wight. There was a constant stream of visitors coming for holidays, so well-known to the family that ‘to me they sounded more like relatives’.
Charles insisted on calling Mr Pethers Harry, not Henry. ‘He didn’t agree with Uncle Henry, so I was called Harry, like it or lump it. I remember him saying of someone that he was a very short man, but he himself was 18 inches shorter than me. He didn’t think he was short. No short man ever thinks he’s short; just other people are too bloody long!’
‘Miss Lottie’ and her sisters
Miss Lottie, or Charlotte Sarah Read (1850-1943), known by Mrs Pethers as ‘Aunt Tot’, was the oldest of the family and used to say she should have had the property. ‘If you see one of the servants running with her apron over her head, crying her eyes out, she’s just met Miss Lottie. They say she used to put on a man’s hat and do the flues.’ In old age she lost all her hair and was bed-ridden. ‘She used to sit up in bed and bang her stick and give orders. I never saw Miss Lottie and I don’t think I missed much.’ However, she did some notable paintings of Binsted, and ensured her place in local history by making a drawing of the interior of Binsted Church as it was before the ‘Restoration’ in 1868 – box pews, gallery, grinding organ and all. Her obituary gave a kinder picture of her.
‘Nothing made her more happy than to talk of the times she had enjoyed in the old house, with its beautiful park and woodlands, and of the walks and picnics with her brothers and sisters in the neighbouring district…Her love of animals remained with her, and a few hours before her death a black cat, which she called her ‘boon companion’, was to be seen on her bed. Miss Read remembered the times when labour was very cheap. Women would work for 6d. a day in the house and the average labourer’s wage was 12s. a week. Messages and carriage of parcels were paid for by drinks of good ale, then to be bought for 8d. a gallon…Although bedridden for over 12 years, she was always cheerful and patient…She much admired the writings of Dean Inge, and she would chat upon his teaching most readily…No terrors of modern warfare could frighten this fine old lady as she lay serenely in her quiet room. Those who knew her will long remember with affection her quick humour, kindly disposition, and sincerity’: another way of describing bluntness and a sharp tongue.
Annie, or Anna Maria Read, died in 1900 aged 46. She was a great gardener, and it was thought she got cancer from it. Miss Fanny ‘went a bit funny’ as a girl and spent some time in an asylum. She was deaf (apparently deafness ran in the family), and spoke in an odd way, but was musical and used to play the organ in Binsted Church. She used to bang on the door of the church, or on the Rectory door, and ask to speak to ‘William’ (Drury, the Rector). She was a problem to look after, always in trouble for breaking things. Her care was a big expense to the family, and ‘pulled them down’. ‘You’d lose sight of her and she’d be gone, out of the front door. You’d go after her and find one galosh in the lane.’ Her mental problems continued. ‘When Miss Fanny poked her umbrella through the window pane in her bedroom I got up a ladder and mended it. She poked the panes out on purpose; she thought I was Mr Upton (Sid Upton, who farmed at Marsh Farm) or his ghost. He had auburn hair, the same as mine was before it went grey. Though what Mr Upton was doing up a ladder mending a window I don’t know. As fast as I mended the pane she would poke her umbrella through another one.’
The eccentricities of the three old ladies, and perhaps the black cat, may have been the genesis of a Binsted myth. Paul Wyatt, whose family farmed in Walberton, remembers that in the 1930s his father rented land at Binsted Park as pasture for heifers and some sheep. ‘Behind the house was a stable yard with some loose boxes, which we used occasionally for sick heifers. The first time my brother and I went into this yard we saw three ‘witches’ brooms’ leaning against a wall. This made a good story to tell at the next mealtime. We rarely saw the sisters, but when we did they were always dressed in black, with little showing except their hands. After a few years one of them died and we noticed soon afterwards that one of the brooms had gone. That didn’t wait long for an opportunity at the meal-table.’ This must have been Miss Fanny, who died in 1936, aged 83. Minnie died in 1939, aged 75.
Binsted House
Binsted House has now been demolished. After the First World War, there was a decline in income from the land, so that the Read family had to sell off property in order to live. There was no money to repair the house, and Charles Read and his wife Florence built a new house, the Manor House, nearby in 1924. Ralph Ellis, a noted sign-painter, painted Binsted House in a ruinous state in the 1940s, overgrown with creepers and with glass missing from the windows. The handsome stables, and the ruins of the house, remained until about 2000. They have since been replaced by a large new house on the site.
As part of the planning permission, excavations were done in August 2000, which established ‘with some degree of certainty that the core of the house was an L-shaped building of late 17th or early 18th century date, added to in several stages in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a service range of c. 1800. The separate flint-built stables and coach house were…mid-19th-century in date, not 17th-century as suggested in 1998’ (letter from John Mills, County Archaeologist). They were made with re-used older bricks. Counting the rings of an oak which grew by the ha-ha, blown down in 1987, gave a date of 1760-1770 for the ha-ha, which divided the garden from the pasture or field and kept livestock out without spoiling the view.
According to an archaeological survey of the ruins in 1998, a map of 1778 (Yeakell and Gardner) shows the house enclosed in a large rectangle, surrounded to the north, south and west by woodland, with an east vista giving a clear view to the river Arun. A track which has now disappeared ran north-south through the woodland west of the house. By 1825 the woodland to the south had largely been cleared and the southern and western vistas of the Park opened up. Windows on the east side had been blocked, perhaps because of the window tax introduced in 1745, while those on the south side were left. This enabled enjoyment of a new view and gave full benefit of the sun.
Mrs Pethers remembered being told that the imposing ‘false front’ had been added to the house in the eighteenth century, giving it a carriage sweep and a porticoed doorway with windows on either side – actually French windows opening like doors, facing away from Binsted Lane and onto the Park. Mr Pethers remembered: ‘As you entered the hall you saw stairs rising in front of you then turning right at a landing. At the turn of the stairs was the only lavatory in the house. Over the hallway was a glass dome that let light into the hall.’ This may have been the feature behind stories of a ‘minstrel’s gallery’. ‘All work on the house was done by local tradesmen from Arundel, who came on penny-farthing bicycles, or estate workers. The work was crude and rough – there was no beautiful furniture. It was a well-known fact that horses were better looked after than human beings.’
The two main front rooms on either side of the hall were the drawing-room and the dining-room. Over each was a bedroom: one Miss Lottie’s and one Miss Fanny’s. ‘Old Miss Lottie didn’t like men. She wouldn’t have allowed me there in any case. So I didn’t go into the bedrooms.’ There was a still room under the stairs to the left of the hall, and opposite on the right was the nursery. In front of you was a door to the cellar. The nursery had its own door to the outside, to the nursery lawn on the right hand side of the house.
On the left, past the still room, was a huge scullery. It had a water pump and Mr Pethers used to pump up water for the old ladies. There were stone sinks and a back door to the dairy, a single-storey room with thick slate worktops where butter was made with milk from the cows. Opposite the dairy was the bakery, with an oven in the corner, and tacked on the end was a harness room.
Beyond the ‘nursery lawn’ was a glasshouse. There was a hatch into the coal cellar (which was above ground) from Binsted Lane, with a hook in the wall for the coalman’s horse to be attached to.
There were small upstairs rooms for servants at the back of the house, poky and oddshaped, with sloping ceilings. There were back stairs leading to a passageway – these stairs were not safe to walk up in Mrs Pethers’ time. Another small staircase led from one servant’s bedroom to an attic. ‘That’s where the scullery maid was pushed. She was the first to get up in the morning and give everybody tea.’
Outside there were granary stones, a cider press in the ‘hovels’ or open-fronted sheds in the courtyard, ‘pigsties’, and a garden off to the left. ‘They were going to wall it all the way round, but they ran out of money.’ There was a summerhouse, a beehouse on the lawn, a pond garden, and three ponds (the middle one still exists as the ‘Madonna pond’). The toilets and drains all drained into the ‘Pond garden’ under the road.
There were wells ‘all over the show’ (though only two were found in the excavations). Mr Pethers used to draw two buckets of water from the well at the side of the house for the two old ladies. At that time people often thought the water was bad; if two or three children died, they blamed the water. ‘Well’s bad. Just lost mother and granny don’t look so good. Need a new well.’ They would dig a new well, near the old one, and often did not bother to fill the old one in. One well at Binsted House had rusty water: it was so brown that when one of the boys was a baby people used to think he had ‘khaki napkins’. The northernmost of the three ponds always had rusty water and was known as ‘the iron-bound pond’.
Bill Pethers, the son of Henry Pethers and Margaret Read, added the following rider to this account of the Read family and his father’s memories: I think my father only saw my great-aunts in their final years and remembered them as old and lonely ladies. My late mother, being that much older (15 years) than my father, often related her fond memories of her aunts, who she said were both kind and caring people, who loved music, painting and the countryside. I remember from my childhood the drawing room at the front of the house had an upright piano in it and several violins and piles of music. I am sure that my mother inherited these attributes from the Read side of the family. My grandfather, Charles Read, whom I never met, was described as a kind and courteous gentleman, with a good sense of humour, who made welcome all who obeyed the rules of the countryside. If you worked for the Reads you were not well paid, but you were respected and cared for like one of the family.
If the Read family had a failing, it was their naivety in the fast and changing world around them, that was so different from the peace and isolation of Binsted Park. They were, after all, born in a different age, now almost forgotten.
Jane Caseley’s letters
Jane Caseley, born Laker, was for seven years housekeeper to her aunt Ann Staker at Binsted House, before she died in 1840. Jane left Binsted for the USA in 1844. In 1870 and 1888 she wrote to William Henry Read from Knightstown, Indiana. Her first letter thanks him for his kindness to her husband, Mr Caseley, who had been visiting Binsted, and continues: ‘He thought as almost everyone does that Binsted is one of the most delightful spots he ever saw. The holly he brought I planted in a box. I think it will grow. I hold it almost sacred. The leaves of the carnation I have pressed in a book to preserve them, the sight of which brings to my mind many recollections of past joys and sorrows. Binsted is the place where I spent the longest time of my life; although a disinterested person I cannot help feeling attached to it. The changes are great indeed, but not more so than I might expect. It is twenty-seven years since I left. But really which seems to surprise me the most is yourself having a family of eight children! It appears as almost yesterday when you was only a small boy, and used to run around fishing and other amusements, and sometimes you used to get hungry and ask me for something to eat when you did not want your Aunt Nancy to see you. The last
recollection is you were a young Gent just left school, and going on visits to Mr Palmer…did you ever get your silk cradle quilt Mrs Johnson of Yapton was to make for you? If so you have some pieces of my dress in it. I was truly happy to learn you enjoys Binsted so much, and I sincerely hope many blessings may attend you and yours.’
In 1888 she wrote again, to thank William Henry Read for sending a photograph of Binsted House – perhaps one of the ones we have, taken by Henry Lewis, son of the Rector. ‘On our return home, your kind remembrance of me and happy greeting in the sight of the dear old place Binsted House; I cannot express how grateful it is to my feelings to know you have not forgotten me. Please accept my best thanks. I could scarcely stop from viewing, it all looked so natural, the old cherry tree still there, and everything around appears so beautiful. I think I can recognise the old pigeon house peering through the evergreens, and harmless sheep grazing. But what a pleasing addition, I thought, had yourself and family been standing on the green, where the sheep looks so large that I could have had a look at you. However, the view as it is looks beautiful. Mr Caseley tells me he believes my eyesight is benefited by looking at it so much.’
Of his eight children, she writes: ‘But the little ones then I trust are all grown up, with the elder ones in love and a great comfort to their parents. Such is life and the changes which naturally takes place.’ In fact, none of the four girls married, and only two of the boys. The only child of the eight was Mrs Pethers, daughter of Charles Ernest. Jane Caseley continues: ‘I have to tell you of one of our American wonders. Have you heard of our finding natural gas, by going down into the bowels of the earth for it? This winter we have been supplied with natural gas for all cooking and heating purposes as well as the rooms lighted.’ She explains how it is found by boring eight or twelve hundred feet below ground: ‘As soon as they find it they ‘shoot the well’ as they call it with some combustibles, when up comes the gas in a full flame of light which can be seen many miles around, till it is confined and conducted into pipes to supply the town.’
A third letter from her which exists was addressed to Sarah Read, and was probably sent after the death of William Henry Read in 1888, as a result of Sarah asking for information about the Staker family. Jane Caseley comments on the lives and deaths of Ann Staker’s nine brothers and sisters and remembers the burial of ‘Aunt Nancy’ (Ann Staker) in the vault in the chancel of Binsted church in 1840. ‘I looked in the Sunday after her funeral and saw it was not very deep.’
The Lewis family at the Rectory had no money problems, even with thirteen children. Henry Lewis, the Rector, who built the Rectory in the 1860s, had in 1856 married an heiress, Edith Miller. He changed his name, Bones, to Lewis in 1869. Their daughters had a dowry of £7,000 each. Florence, their fourth child, Mrs Pethers’ mother, ‘always used to think she married beneath her in marrying the Squire’s son from Binsted House,’ remembered Mr Pethers. ‘She always used to ram in the Rectory – wonderful Rectory – wonderful Father and Mother.’ She wore her hair in the ‘Princess Alexandra style’, with extra hair she used to pad in. ‘Women are judged by their legs now; in those days it was by the amount of hair they had. There was yards and yards of horsehair in their buns.’ In many photos Florence is wearing beautiful lacy blouses, hats and jewellery.
There was intense competition within this large family. ‘The rows that went on! The hair that was pulled out!’ One area of competition was who had the best garden. Each year a big box of seeds was sent for, and vegetable seeds were handed out to the brothers-in-law to grow in their gardens. Among the sisters, ‘If X wrote to Y saying something unflattering about Z (such as “She’s put on a lot of weight lately”) Y might well write to Z and enclose the unflattering letter from X’. But one of the boys, known as ‘darling Leslie’, had an angelic face and curls. His space in the linen press with a named space for each child was named ‘Darling Leslie’.
Kents and Denyers
On 23 August 1908, a purse of money and a beautifully written citation were presented to Mr and Mrs Stephen Kent, of Kent’s cottage in Binsted Park, on their Golden Wedding day by the parishioners of Binsted. Seventy-six people are listed as having ‘much pleasure in presenting you with the accompanying Purse as a small token of our esteem and regard on the occasion of your Golden Wedding, and in appreciation of the excellent manner in which you (Mr Kent) have carried out your duties of Parish Clerk during a period of 39 years.’
Many Reads and Lewises are named, also Mr and Mrs Alfred Hotston, and Mr Alfred Hotston Junior. Another contributor was Mr Richard B. Denyer or Dickie Denyer of Meadow Lodge, mentioned above. He and his sister farmed at Meadow Lodge for over 60 years and were remembered fondly in the Women’s Institute scrapbook of 1947. J.Mansell wrote: ‘Their wisdom, their humour and the beauty of these wonderful old people cannot be described…I shall never forget seeing Miss Denyer coming home in deep snow one morning after an all-night vigil by an old lady’s beside. She was exhausted, and yet for a whole winter she repeated that labour of love, and I think very few people knew of it.’
Dickie Denyer is also remembered by Paul Wyatt of Walberton. ‘He was a tall, dignified old man who was always charming and polite to everyone, and that included his few cows which he used to watch over as they grazed beside the road. When his cows had had their fill of the grass beside the road, he escorted them back to his paddock or to the cow-house. He rarely let his cows graze near to the Park gate but if one of them ever did, it provoked Mr. Read to wrath and he was quickly on the warpath. Mr. Read took his dignified politeness for submission.’
In 1830 Charles Hotston (Charles I) was baptised in Binsted. He had eleven children; one of them, Emma (1866-1950), married Henry Dean, and their son Harold Dean (1894-1929) had a daughter, now Beryl House (b. 1923), who has written about her family and in particular her grandmother Emma.
According to church records, Charles I, Emma’s father, was born in 1830 at Binsted, the son of James Hudston and his wife Harriet. James Hudston was born in 1795 and the Binsted records name his father as being one William Hudson, born in 1753, who in turn possibly could have been the son of one Thomas Husher or Usher and his wife Mary; but the ancient records are hard to decipher and not very explicit. The gradual change in the surname was probably because the persons concerned could neither read nor write and the only clerk was probably the incumbent who wrote down the names phonetically in an effort to keep a record. If the subjects had thick country accents, not easily understood, these could have resulted in the gradual change of name.
Charles Hotston was landlord of the ‘Sir George Thomas’ Arms’ (or ‘the Spur’) at Slindon for 52 years. [The present landlords of Binsted’s Black Horse pub, Clive and Victoria Smith, formerly were landlords at the Spur – Ed.] Whilst also a wood merchant he no doubt used the abundant wood growing in the area as well as at nearby Binsted from where he had originated. Binsted Woods in my early days were let out by their owner(s) for rent to be coppiced and husbanded correctly. The tenant sold the woody produce of his hard labours as logs for fires cut from large branches, bean poles from long straight sticks and faggots made from brushwood tips. Nothing was wasted and after coppicing the resultant new growth could be used all over again and again in eleven year cycles. Faggots were in great demand for pea sticks as well as for kindling for fires and in bakers’ ovens. The faggots, or bundles, [called ‘bunts’ by Binsted resident John North who had worked at tying them in his childhood in Cheriton - ed], were burnt in the long ovens, which had a regulated draught and were vented at the far end to remove the smoke. Then the ashes were raked out forwards and the loaves inserted on a long spatula in their place. The resulting loaf was delicious as the crust had absorbed the taste of the burnt wood – something which has never been simulated by any other later method of baking.
After her marriage to Henry Dean on 1st February 1893, Emma continued her duties at the pub and they both lived there. Their first child, Harold, my father, was born in the third bedroom from the left on 19th September, 1894. He was apparently a very bright child and when he was only three years old he was sent to school in the village. On the first day he attended Emma walked with him across the fields from the pub. However, he refused to let her meet him afterwards and insisted on returning home by himself. Emma was worried so watched out for him from the pub and was greatly relieved to see him coming in the distance. She dared not let him see her but went forward to meet him at the very last moment. He was in great form and thrilled by his achievement.
Emma watched her children grow up to become responsible citizens. Harold worked hard to become a fully qualified electrical and mechanical engineer while Lena was apprenticed to millinery. Absorbed by all of the then modern techniques Harold installed a simple form of electricity in the family home. At that time Littlehampton was not served with electricity but there was coal gas which their house used for lighting and some of the cooking in an early black cast iron gas stove. During the colder months the kitchener stove took care of all cooking and heating of the kitchen. Harold’s electrical system provided light only and was run by a small petrol engine mounted on a huge stone block in the garden shed. The stone was large enough to allow a big fly-wheel, which was about the diameter of a large bicycle wheel and which projected out over the side of it, to revolve when the engine was going. It was run for a short time each day and the electricity produced was stored in a large accumulator in readiness for being drawn upon when the lights were used in the house.
It was on the 3rd August, 1914, and just before Harold’s 20th birthday, that disaster struck when England and Germany commenced hostilities. The Great War of 1914-1918 had begun. Along with most of his friends Harold joined up and went to war, leaving his mother in charge of the electrical arrangements. Daily she faithfully set it going and when he returned home for leave from France he saw that it was maintained until eventually it had to be given up and the house reverted back to the exclusive use of gas.
During his army service in France Harold was in the Royal Ordnance Corps and became an ‘artificer’, that is ‘a soldier mechanic’, attached to the ordnance, artillery and engineer service. He was skilled in sending and receiving messages in both semaphore and Morse codes. He rode a horse and with others was responsible for the movement of the big guns which in those days were horse-drawn on special carriages. Pitted by shell holes, the muddy terrain of Northern France during the terrible trench warfare was extremely treacherous, and Harold’s horse slipped, threw him and then rolled on him, breaking his leg. This accident brought about a spell in hospital back in England or ‘Blighty’ as it was known to the soldiers. While in hospital the walking patients wore bright blue uniforms which they also called ‘Blighty’. Wearing wet clothes and sleeping in damp blankets in France brought on an attack of pleurisy which meant another spell of ‘Blighty’. Eventually he recovered, but it left what was called a ‘spot’ on his lung.
After the Great War ended on 11th November, 1918, Harold was eventually demobilised from the army in 1919, but not before he had won a number of trophies for rifle shooting. These were two silver plated tankards, awarded to ‘Corporal Dean, Nov. 6 1918’, when after hospitalisation he was transferred to No. 1 Reserve Motor Transport Depot, Grove Park, and again to ‘Sergeant Dean, Feb. 1919’. He later won six silver teaspoons, singly, after joining the Miniature Rifle Club Society. He was disappointed that the pretty delicate design of the first two was changed so that all six were not alike. He had great accuracy, became a ‘crack shot’ and his exploits entitled him to shoot at Bisley.
Emma was very proud of him and was delighted when he married May Burch in 1920. She was devastated by his untimely death in 1929, from tuberculosis, when I was only just six years old. She took great comfort from the fact that his last resting place was in Littlehampton cemetery which she could easily visit.
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5 Myths About Owning a Franchise
by Tamara E. Holmes
Keith Haywood, Bojangles’ franchise owner
After 26 years of providing dining services to colleges, FDY Inc., a family-owned food service company, began to explore the world of franchising. In 2008, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based business purchased its first Bojangles’.
“We found the perfect opportunity to become a full-fledged franchisee with one of the fastest growing concepts in the business,†says Keith Haywood, vice president of sales and marketing for FDY. The company also provides staffing management services at Howard University and North Carolina A&T, and pursues other business ventures.
Led by Haywood’s father, Floyd D. Young, president and founder of FDY, the business spent about $500,000 to open the Bojangles’ venue at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. Haywood says his family members (his mother, Norma Young, is FDY’s vice president) ventured into franchising because they dealt with a lot of franchises in their work on university campuses.
“We saw that there was a demand for national, regional, and local quick-food concepts,†he says. They chose Bojangles’ because they liked the product and the level of support the franchisor offered. And since Bojangles’ headquarters is also in Charlotte, FDY spent three years studying the franchisor’s success, meeting with reps, and developing relationships.
Today, “We attract 1,500 customers per day and we are in the top percentile of all the food offerings in the airport in our food category,†Haywood says. The average Bojangles’ store does $1.7 million in sales a year, which is far ahead of fast-food brands “in our category,†notes Haywood. “Our Bojangles’ franchise at Charlotte-Douglas does almost twice that in sales volume.†FDY also opened a full-service Bojangles’ restaurant in Clemson, South Carolina, in 2008; and another Bojangles’ venue in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station last year.
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By Emilee Mae Struss for the Weekly Sun
“The teachers at Wood River High School really do their best to point you in the right direction,” said senior Disney McNulty. “And to them, I just want to say thank you.”
McNulty will graduate this year as a certified nursing assistant. She put in the hard work—mixed with the rare opportunity to graduate high school with her CNA certification—and is thankful to be a “step ahead” in the medical field.
McNulty is originally from Albuquerque, N.M., and moved to the Valley to be closer to the family ranch, the Flying W Ranch, in Bellevue.
She says the ranch currently has seven horses, which she admires from a distance; McNulty is highly allergic to horses. She keeps a safe distance away since discovering this about herself.
McNulty may not ever be able to be a horse whisperer, but she has a strong nurturing side, nonetheless. She has spent a lot of time caring for the residents at Bell Mountain Village & Care Center in Bellevue.
“It was pretty eye-opening to do that work,” McNulty said. “I did eight-hour patient care shifts with feeding, wiping, and cleaning.”
This experience helped her realize what she wants—to help others. She says her main priority while working at Bell Mountain Village was to make the residents’ stay a little bit better than before. She is staying in the Valley this summer and is currently working at the Coffee Corner in Bellevue.
Next fall McNulty will attend the College of Southern Idaho to take her pre-requirements for a medical program. Post-pre-recs, she is not sure in which direction she will go; maybe, she says, toward being a radiologist or surgical technician.
“I like living in the Valley because it’s quiet and it’s nice to have a community,” McNulty said. “In larger cities, most people probably won’t know who you are.”
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The Under-Appreciation
of Donald Sutherland
Posted on 07.17.14 by John Farr
Donald Sutherland has landed a pretty nice gig in the "Hunger Games" franchise. As the ruthless President Snow, with his lion's mane of white hair and fluffy beard, he's the sort of iconic villain that fans of the series love to hate.
It's not the sort of role I expected Sutherland to be playing as he hits 80, but at least it gets him away from the annoying label that has been stuck to him for the past 30 years. You know, the one about him being Kiefer's dad. For those of us familiar with Donald Sutherland’s career, there's a lot more to him than his famous young'un.
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on July 17, 1935, Sutherland was a sickly but brainy child. He studied engineering and drama at Victoria College, University of Toronto, with his interest in drama taking him briefly to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1957.
While in England, Sutherland found steady work in movies. He appeared in everything from horror films to kitschy (but cool) TV shows like "The Avengers." He usually played maniacs and killers, and was once told by a casting agent that he'd never get the "guy next door" roles because, "You don't look as if you've ever lived next door to anyone." Nice.
His first big break came in Robert Aldrich's "The Dirty Dozen" (1967). Sutherland often pointed to his 12th place billing and joked that he was the last to join. Still, critics and directors noted how Sutherland held his own in a large, colorful cast. He was on his way.
By the 1970s, Hollywood was favoring offbeat types, and Sutherland established himself as one of the top leading men of this quirky new era. Tall and rangy with a sleepy, masculine voice, Sutherland had the sort of instantly recognizable demeanor and charisma that spells "star." He was versatile enough to play a hippie or a stuffy intellectual. He could be reserved or goofy, menacing or maudlin. Whatever it was, you'd believe him.
Sutherland's work in this period included some of the most revered movies of the time. He began the decade as the original Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" (1970), and ended it in Robert Redford's Oscar winning family drama, "Ordinary People" (1980). In between were such titles as "Klute" (1971), in which he plays a determined detective on the trail of a killer, and "The Great Train Robbery" (1978), where he partners with Sean Connery on the crime of the (nineteenth) century.
Also, in 1975 he treated audiences to one of his most bizarre performances, that of the melancholy Homer Simpson in John Schlesinger’s "The Day of the Locust." I should warn you that Sutherland's Homer bears absolutely no resemblance to his namesake on the famous Fox cartoon. (I'm sure Sutherland appreciated the irony when he eventually played a character on a 1996 episode of "The Simpsons." I wonder if the original Homer talked acting technique with the animated Homer?)
Unconventional leading men become less fashionable during the blander ‘80s and '90s, but Sutherland kept working, He appeared in the woefully underrated Neil Simon comedy, "Max Dugan Returns" (1983), and elevated two other worthy but flawed films, "A Dry White Season" (1989) and "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993). At this point, he'd reverted to what he'd been at the beginning of his career: a character actor, and a damn good one.
Sutherland has shown no traces of slowing down. During the 2000s he was known to appear in five or six movies per year, a pace he still maintains. He's also added voice over work to his resume, lending his mellifluous voice to various animated features and video games. He has two more "Hunger Games" movies in the works, too, plus "Forsaken," an old-fashioned Western where he and Kiefer will appear together for the third time. And yes, they will finally play father and son (about time).
This consummate player has won his share of Golden Globes and Emmy awards for his TV work, and also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Yet, he has never won or even been nominated for an Oscar. This is an injustice, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's rectified someday soon with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy. With a career that spans a half century and over 170 credits, Sutherland has certainly earned this tribute.
I can hear the audience now: "Hey, look! Kiefer's Dad won an Oscar!"
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H.R. 6682 - Protection and Transparency for Adjacent Landowners Act
Sponsor: Scott R. Tipton (R)
Bill Status: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 826.
To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the transparency and oversight of land conveyances involving disposal or acquisition of National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management public lands, to provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying such public lands, and for other purposes.
Mr. Tipton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
This Act may be cited as the “Protection and Transparency for Adjacent Landowners Act”.
TITLE I—requirements for Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land acquisitions and conveyances
SEC. 101. Additional requirements for Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land acquisitions and conveyances.
(a) Notice to adjacent landowners.—
(1) LAND ACQUISITIONS.—Section 205 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1715) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(f) Notice to adjacent landowners.—As part of the acquisition of a parcel of non-Federal lands under this section, section 206, or other applicable law that will become public lands or National Forest System lands, the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, shall provide advance written notification to each owner of land that is adjacent to the parcel of land to be acquired. To assist in identifying adjacent landowners, the Secretary concerned should use the most recently available tax records.”.
(2) LAND CONVEYANCES.—Section 208 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1718) is amended—
(A) by inserting “(a) Issuance of patent and other conveyance documents.—” before the first sentence and “(b) Other terms and conditions.—” before the second sentence; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(c) Notice to adjacent landowners.—As part of the conveyance of a parcel of public lands or National Forest System lands by sale, exchange, or other disposal method under section 203 or 206 or other applicable law, the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, shall provide advance written notification to each owner of land that is adjacent to the parcel of land to be conveyed. To assist in identifying adjacent landowners, the Secretary concerned should use the most recently available tax records.”.
(b) Oversight of use of third-Party facilitators.—
(1) ACQUISITION.—Section 205 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1715) is amended by inserting after subsection (f), as added by subsection (a)(1), the following new subsection:
“(g) Oversight of use of third-Party facilitators.—(1) If the acquisition process for a parcel of non-Federal lands under this section, section 206, or other applicable law that will become public lands or National Forest System lands involves the use of a third-party facilitator, the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, shall require, as a condition of the approval of the acquisition—
“(A) submission of all purchase contracts and related agreements held by the third-party facilitator related to the parcel to be acquired; and
“(B) supervisor review of such purchase contracts and related agreements, the purpose of the acquisition, and other terms and conditions of the acquisition.
“(2) In this subsection, the term ‘third-party facilitator’ means any entity (other than an agent of the United States) whose role in a real estate transaction is to assist the buyer or seller, or both, in reaching agreement in the transaction.”.
(2) LAND CONVEYANCES.—Section 208 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1718) is amended by inserting after subsection (c), as added by subsection (a)(2), the following new subsection:
“(d) Oversight of use of third-Party facilitators.—(1) If the process by which a parcel of public lands or National Forest System lands will be conveyed by sale, exchange, or other disposal method under section 203 or 206 or other applicable law, involves the use of a third-party facilitator, the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, shall require, as a condition of the approval of the conveyance—
“(A) submission of all purchase contracts and related agreements held by the third-party facilitator related to the Federal land to be conveyed;
“(B) submission to appraisers of contact information for prospective end owners of the Federal land to be conveyed; and
“(C) supervisor review of such purchase contracts and related agreements, the purpose of the conveyance, and other terms and conditions of the conveyance.
TITLE II—Bureau of Land Management Resurvey Requirements
SEC. 201. Bureau Resurvey Transparency; Notice requirements.
(a) Notice.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days before the commencement of a resurvey of Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, the Secretary shall notify all property owners with land abutting or adjacent to the Federal land being resurveyed of the pending resurvey. If a resurvey extends the boundaries of Federal land, the Secretary shall notify affected landowners of the results of the resurvey not later than 30 days after the completion of the survey.
(2) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall use certified or registered mail to notify landowners under this subsection.
(3) IDENTIFICATION OF LANDOWNERS.—When identifying affected landowners for the purpose of notification under this subsection, the Secretary shall use the most recently available tax records.
(b) Public comment.—Not later than 30 days after completing a resurvey, the Secretary shall publish a notice in the Federal Register. Affected landowners may comment to the Secretary and by submitting formal comments to the Federal Register notice.
SEC. 202. Protection of persons.
If a resurvey results in land previously thought to be privately owned to be reclassified as Federal land, the persons thought to be a private owner of such land—
(1) shall—
(A) be given the right of first refusal to purchase the land for fair market value minus the value of any significant improvements made to such lands; or
(B) be reimbursed for the fair market value of any significant improvements made to such lands; and
(2) may not be charged with willful trespass onto such land unless the person used such lands with the knowledge that the lands should be classified as Federal land.
SEC. 203. Definitions.
For the purposes of this title:
(1) RESURVEY.—The term “resurvey” means an official rerunning and remarking intended to supersede the records of the original survey.
(2) SECRETARY.—The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
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Resolving East Sussex road issues ‘quicker’ after new contract
Reporting and fixing highways issues in East Sussex is supposedly easier and quicker as a new provider took over responsibility for the county’s roads on Sunday (May 1).
Costain CH2M, a joint venture consisting of construction specialist Costain and civil engineering and programme management company CH2M, was appointed by East Sussex County Council as its new highways service provider.
The new venture is responsible for highways services including maintaining roads, street lights and traffic signals, duties previously carried out by three separate contractors and the council.
The new contract sees the introduction of a new website and online system for people to report highways issues.
Meanwhile, the county’s existing highways stewards continue in their roles, and have increased powers to fix minor defects themselves, speeding up the time of repair.
County council lead member for transport and environment Carl Maynard said before the contract began: “The new contract will offer better value for money and an improved service to residents.
“Roads are an important issue for people in East Sussex and ensuring we have a well maintained highways network is vital for the prosperity of the county.”
The new online reporting system will allow people to log and monitor their enquiries through the new website and access much more information in real time about active and planned works.
A Costain CH2M spokesman said: “This is an exciting opportunity to deliver a first class, fully integrated service for the people of East Sussex.
“We’ve been working hard to ensure the switchover goes as smoothly as possible, and people should start to see some improvements, particularly in how they can report any problems on the roads and the speed with which we can repair them.”
The seven-year contract includes fixed costs for routine maintenance such as grass cutting, pothole repairs and winter gritting, providing more certainty over the cost of the service.
Meanwhile, a new incentives and penalties system will be introduced to ensure value for money is achieved while providing the best possible service to people in East Sussex.
To use the online reporting system, visit http://www.eastsussexhighways.com.
You can continue to report highways issues by calling the highways contact centre on 0345 6080193 or find regular highways updates on Twitter @esccroads.
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