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WETA’s integrated EFT Campaign encourages sustainers to “Make the Switch”
The goal was one hundred switches. Ultimately, 198 supporters switched to EFT. This included 44 gift upgrades and even 53 new pledges. Those numbers represented a 164% increase in switches over the same period in 2017. The integrated campaign was a success!
For at least the past year, a number of PBS Member Stations have experimented with sustainer messaging about the benefits of switching from credit card payments to Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). In many cases—as with Nine Network last year—Direct Mail Campaign Results in Sustainer EFT Conversions! – these have been limited, low-effort test campaigns designed to address the plague of expired credit cards.
WETA in Washington D.C. was one of those stations. In late 2017, it used email campaigns in a concerted effort to get sustainers to switch. “We were happy with the results, but we weren’t seeing the numbers and the response rate that we see in other efforts,” says Isabel Shea, WETA’s Associate Director of Online Fundraising. For instance, those two email campaigns only brought in 23 conversions each. “We’d seen a trickling of positive conversions but nothing we could report as a successful, cohesive campaign.”
Isabel Shea
An Integrated Campaign
With that in mind, WETA decided to go a step further this summer, anticipating that a concerted EFT effort could bring an increase in conversions. Prior to the August drive, the station launched a two-week, multi-channel EFT conversion campaign. “We wanted to get all our channels together and do an integrated campaign,” explains Bill Dion, WETA’s Fundraising Producer. “We were just looking to see if there was some way to make EFT conversion ‘a thing.’”
That meant an intentional approach to branding the EFT switch and education about why it was so important to the station. The resulting campaign had its own messaging, logo design, and a direct call to action. It also came with a deadline incentive in the form of a matching contribution. “Make the switch,” it asked. “Switch your monthly gift to an automatic deduction from your checking account before August 15 and your contribution will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100.
An initial email pitch to become an EFT sustainer was supported by two separate TV spots: a fun, clever one to build awareness and another that was more functional. WETA’s classical 90.9 FM radio station broadcast 20-second spots supporting the effort, and direct mail pieces included a buck slip promoting the switch. Finally, WETA.org placed a bold “Switch” ad on its homepage throughout the campaign. Link to Campaign Materials
“We were going to put it on a blimp, too, but the budget wouldn’t allow it,” Dion jokes. All campaign elements promoted a vanity URL directing donors to weta.org/switch.
Strategies for Success
Bill Dion
The integrated campaign was a success. The goal was one hundred switches. Ultimately, 198 supporters switched to EFT. This included 44 gift upgrades and even 53 new pledges. Those numbers represented a 164 percent increase in switches over the same period in 2017.
Shea and Dion believe the multi-channel approach and consistent call to action were keys to spreading the message. “I’m a firm believer in the surround-sound concept and offering enough impressions that you’re actually going to break through the clutter with a non-email ask,” says Dion. “It was two weeks of beating the drum. The on-air [messaging] and buck slips and real estate on the homepage really adds to that surround sound. It was a cumulated effort with a very simple ask—to people who already have an affinity for us.”
Shea agrees. “I think it’s the fact that people were hearing and seeing the specific call to action to make the switch both when they tuned in and when they read an email from us or visited our website,” she says. The immediacy of the matching gift also had an impact. “The match was an incentive to do it within the specified timeframe,” Shea says. “You can’t discount that from the reason why we acquired so many new EFT sustainers.
The messaging itself brought plenty of internal discussions, specifically about what would motivate people to switch. WETA didn’t come to a particular decision, which is why the on-air spots offer a broad spectrum of supporting arguments. “We weren’t quite convinced that one would be better over the other,” Shea says. “It’s better for us because we’d save on processing fees. And there’s the idea that EFT is more secure, but we didn’t want to deter people from giving [via credit cards]. Then there was the idea that it was easier for the donor because they wouldn’t have to update their credit card information with us if that ever changed. We tried to use all of those concepts.”
Dion still isn’t sure what message resonated most. “Is it the convenience for them or is it because it’s good for WETA?” he asks. “I don’t know that we can learn anything in particular.” He does believe that the simplicity of the ask and the message that switching was an easy, good thing to do resulted in more action.
In the future, the success of this campaign will reach into other efforts. “We plan to use this as a follow-up to any large campaign where we acquire a high number of one-time donors or new sustainers,” says Shea. We’re looking to implement this again in January after our year-end appeals.”
The bottom line? It wasn’t any one element that made WETA’s EFT campaign successful. Like any good marketing strategy, it depended upon all the pieces working in tandem. “The multi-channel effort, the match opportunity with a clear deadline, the consistent branding with the graphic and call to action—those are the components that collectively made it a success,” Shea says.
Questions? Tracy Ferrier I Director I PBS Development Services or Bill Dion I WETA Fundraising Producer or Isabel Shea I WETA Associate Director of Online Fundraising
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Grain transport act extension debate set for Wednesday
By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Jun 9, 2016 3:54pm
With seeding nearly complete across the country, the Liberals said Thursday politicians will debate whether to extend expiring grain transport legislation next week.
In the traditional Thursday question, which outlines the agenda for the upcoming week, Small Business and Tourism Minister Bardish Chagger said the debate on the grain extension is set for Wednesday, June 15.
The extension is included as part of report from the House Transport Committee, which was tabled in the House of Commons May 30. The report has yet to be adopted by the House — that debate is set for Wednesday. If passed the legislation would be extended.
The Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act is set to sunset August 1. The emergency legislation was brought in by the previous Conservatives at the height of the 2013-2014 grain crisis, which left millions of tonnes of prairie grain stranded across the country. The crisis is estimated to have cost the prairie economy $5 billion.
The legislation allows for additional grain monitoring and data collection and allows the Canadian Transportation Agency to compensate any person for expenses caused by a railway’s failure to fulfil its service obligations.
The federal cabinet can also order Canada’s two Class 1 railways to move a minimum tonnage of grain per week. Failure to comply risks fines of up to $100,000 per week.
The legislation also increased the interswitching radius in Western Canada from 30 kilometres to 160 – a move that was hotly contested by Canada’s two major railways. Interswitching lets farmers and shippers ask a railway, for a fee, to move their product to a junction with another railway, provided the junction falls within the prescribed radius.
Wednesday’s debate comes as grain farmers and shippers have been lobbying the government for months to extend the regulations while the federal government works towards finding long-term solutions to the country’s shipping woes.
Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Transport Minister Marc Garneau said April 22 the Liberals would extend the act by one year. Such an extension requires a motion be passed by both houses of parliament.
The year-long extension, Transport Canada and Garneau have said, will give the Liberals time to consult with stakeholders about long-term fixes proposed in the Emerson report on transportation. Roundtables with Garneau on the Emerson report are scheduled for this summer, with Garneau expected to present the House with his findings sometime in the fall.
The extension process around The Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act is also underway in the Senate.
On Tuesday, Liberal Senator Peter Harder, who serves as the government’s representative in the Senate, gave notice of a motion to extend the grain legislation.
The motion is identical to the recommendation put forward by the House Transport Committee.
As of Wednesday, a date had not been set for the Senate debate.
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Canada too taxed to take in large groups of Rohingya refugees: Tory MP
By Rachel Gilmore. Published on May 25, 2018 12:49pm
Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O'Toole.
Canada’s immigration system is too taxed to take in large numbers of Rohingya refugees, says Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O’Toole.
His comments come on the heels of a government announcement Wednesday that Canada is ready to welcome Rohingya refugees — as soon as the conditions in the region permit their resettlement.
For O’Toole, the non-committal announcement is a symptom of a bigger problem.
“I think that was a recognition that right now, due to really the inaction of the Liberal government, our system is stretched to the max,” O’Toole told iPolitics Thursday.
The number of new arrivals to Canada has increased in recent months. Many of the attempted asylum-seekers are from Nigeria and head across the northern border after a brief stay in the United States. 7,612 people crossed into Canada illegally in the first four months of this year.
Despite his concerns about the system being stressed, the Tory MP said that in acute cases Canada can look at bringing in Rohingya families who cannot otherwise be resettled.
“But to do a large pledge at a time that the government basically admits the system is stressed wouldn’t be fair for the refugees themselves,” he said.
The feds, however, denied O’Toole’s assertion that the influx of asylum seekers would impact Canada’s ability to help the Rohingya.
“The statement that Rohingya [refugees] are in some way related to irregular border crossings is patently false,” said Ahmed Hussen’s press secretary Mathieu Genest.
“Refugees that are resettled from other countries are [processed] by IRCC and asylum claims are [processed] at the IRB, so it’s two different systems altogether,” he said. “So it’s a myth that’s been perpetuated by the Conservatives that is not based in fact.”
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has also expressed concern about the hurdles Canada faces in its attempts to bring in refugees from the region.
“The refugees require an exit permit to leave Bangladesh, so it’s a complicated situation,” she told reporters in a May 23 press conference.
She did, however, acknowledge that some Rohingya refugees have a desire to come to Canada.
“I’ve heard from Rohingya Canadians who have family who are caught in this terrible situation, that they would like their relatives to be able to join them in Canada. That also is a very natural human desire, and that’s something that I think we as a country, we as a government need to listen to,” she said.
Freeland also pointed out that most of the Rohingya refugees would just like to go back home to Myanmar.
The Rohingya are an ethnic minority in Myanmar that have been facing ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Myanmar military. The government in Myanmar refuses to grant citizenship to the group, which it sees as illegal immigrants.
Roughly 700,000 Rohingya have fled the country and are living in refugee camps in Myanmar’s neighbouring country, Bangladesh.
The government’s special envoy to the region, Bob Rae, released his recommendations for how the feds should handle the crisis on April 3. He did not ask Canada to commit to bringing in a specific number of refugees, but rather called on the government to signal a willingness to welcome refugees from the Rohingya community.
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Cybersecurity and national resilience in Estonia
How do the Baltic States bolster their national resilience through cyber security?
Cameron Nicol
PhDr. Vít Střítecký, M.Phil., Ph.D.
JUDr. PhDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D.
Fakulta sociálních věd (FSV)
Katedra bezpečnostních studií (23-KBS)
Politologie (N6701)
Mezinárodní bezpečnostní studia (ISSA)
Mgr.
Výborně (B)
resilience, cyber security, Baltic states
ABSTRACT This thesis is an attempt to analyse the relationship between the increasingly popular concept of national resilience and cybersecurity. National resilience is a concept that has permeated the security and policy making realms in recent times. This relationship is examined by using the Baltic nation of Estonia as a model due to the nation being regarded as the ‘most digitally advanced in the world’. The main objective of the thesis is to investigate the relationship between cybersecurity and national resilience and discuss the implications of this relationship in the wider security context. The thesis begins by establishing if a nexus exists between the concept of national resilience and cybersecurity. In order to better understand the potential impact cyber security could have on a nation’s resilience, it is important to establish the relationship between the two concepts. After the nexus is successfully established, the thesis then charts the development of the concept of resilience within the Estonian national security documents. The aim of this exercise is to demonstrate how the concept of resilience has been transformed over the years within an Estonian context while comparing its trajectory to the wider global trend of the concept. The research technique of content analysis is utilised to systematically examine the national security documents of Estonia. After the concept of resilience is contextualised in case of Estonia, the thesis will endeavor to explore how cybersecurity and national resilience interact on a practical level. The protection of Critical Infrastructure is considered one of the fundamental components of maintaining the resiliency of a nation. In 2018, the fact that National Critical Infrastructure is increasingly reliant on digital systems for operability of its systems was recognised. Thus, cybersecurity plays a key role in protecting these systems from malicious actors in vital sectors such as the energy sector, state agencies, the transport system and the financial sector. This section of the thesis will utilise case studies in the form of the Estonian energy sector and its state agencies to demonstrate the importance of the cybersecurity, i.e. the national resilience nexus. The final chapter attempts to explain how a healthy civil society tradition can help improve the national resilience building capacities of a nation. This chapter will have a particular focus on the cybersecurity sector as Estonia appears unique in so far as the fact that it possesses volunteer organisations specifically dedicated to defending Estonian cyberspace. This chapter will draw on Estonia’s long history of inter-agency cooperation to demonstrate how civic responsibility can be utilised to bolster a nation’s resilience. The findings of this research project will be tied together in a concluding section which aims to explain the effect that cybersecurity has on national resilience and what the results from the Estonia case demonstrate in the wider context.
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Humanae Vitae Project
Four Prophecies of Paul VI
Pope Paul VI’s Prophecy 1 – Widespread infidelity
Pope Paul VI’s Prophecy 2 – Epidemic of abortion
Pope Paul VI’s Prophecy 3 – Men abuse women as “instruments of selfish enjoyment”
Pope Paul VI’s Prophecy 4 – Abusive governments force contraception
1. The birth of modern contraception.
2. Early contraception and its rejection of abortion
3. The medical profession and contraception: from contempt to acceptance
4. Catholic doctors and the AMA resolutions on contraception
5. Jurists approve abortive contraception
6. Changing words to change minds
7. The Medico-Biological Aspect of the Papal Commission for the Study of the Problems of the Family, Population, and Birth Rate
Contraceptive Issues
Health Costs
Global distribution and organizations involved
When Population Control Becomes Genocide
Burmese government seeks to drive down the Rohingya birth rate, as well as drive them out of the country
By Jonathan Abbamonte / March 28, 2018 May 12, 2018
Northern Myanmar—the country we used to call Burma—is the site of a brutal and ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. It is well known that the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority from the north-western Burmese state of Rakhine, are systematically persecuted and that large numbers are fleeing across the border to India.
What is less well known is that they are also being subjected to a rigorous population control program designed to reduce the birth rate among those who remain.
Local Buddhist monks and hardline Buddhist-nationalist politicians in the state of Rakhine see the Rohingya as a threat to their ethnic and religious identity. Even though Rakhine Buddhists outnumber Rohingya Muslims by approximately 2-to-1, there is concern among some Rakhines that the population increase of Rohingya threatens to displace them.
The findings of an investigative commission established in 2012 by Myanmar President Thein Sein makesthis clear:
One factor that has fuelled [sic] tensions between the Rakhine public and Bengali populations relates to the sense of insecurity among many Rakhines stemming from the rapid population growth of the Bengali, which they view as a serious threat.
“The population growth of Rohingya Muslims is 10 times higher than that of the Rakhine…Overpopulation is one of the causes of tension,” a spokesman for the Rakhine state government was reported to have said.
In response, local officials in Rakhine have implemented a variety measures to reduce the Rohingya population including a rigorous two-child policy and onerous marriage restrictions.
For over a decade, Rakhine townships have placed a strict two-child policy on Rohingya. While Rakhine is home to several ethnic groups, the policy only applies to Rohingyas. Couples who exceed their two-child limit can be punished with imprisonment for as long as 6 months for violating an order of a public servant under Section 188 of Myanmar’s penal code.
In order to have a marriage license approved, newlywed Rohingya couples are required to sign a document stating that they will not have more than two children. Previously, Rohingya couples were allowed up to three children, but in 2007, the limit was decreased to two.
Much like China’s two-child policy, over-quota children under the Rakhine policy are considered illegal and are ineligible for birth registration. Without registration and a government ID, these “illegal children” arenot able to attend school, own property, apply for travel permits, or to get married later in life.
Some Rohingya parents resort to paying off government officials with repeated bribes in order to evade penalties. Some women, to escape fees and penalties, flee to Bangladesh to give birth to an over-quota child and are subsequently forced to leave their children behind when they return.[1] Others opt to hide their children from the authorities or register them with another family that has not filled its quota. Still others feel forced to resort to abortion in order to escape penalties.
The government also makes it difficult for Rohingya to register births. Obtaining birth registration is a lengthy process and there are often unofficial fees or bribes necessary to have a child registered.[2] The result is that many children remain unregistered. The Burmese Government estimates there are 60,000 unregistered Rohingya children in Rakhine.
Much like China’s two-child policy, Rakhine policies also prohibit out of wedlock births, effectively enforcing a zero-child policy on single women and on married couples who have not had their marriages authorized by the state.
While some in Myanmar, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi have condemned Rakhine’s two-child policy as “against human rights,” the policy has received widespread acceptance, even among officials in the national government.
In a 2013 interview with Reuters, Burma’s Minister of Immigration and Population Khin Yi expressed hissupport for the two-child policy and saying, “The Bengali [i.e. Rohingya] women living in the Rakhine State have a lot of children. In some areas, one family has 10 or 12 children…It is not very easy to take care of the children.”
In 2015, President Sein signed into law the “Race and Religion Protection Laws” which allow local officials to impose mandatory 36-month birth spacing on the basis of areas where there are “a high number of migrants in the area, a high population growth rate and a high birth rate.” This was an unmistakable reference to Rohingya and other minorities.[3] Implementation of this restriction is at the discretion of local officials, a virtual carte blanche to Rakhine officials who already actively impose rigorous population control policies exclusively on Rohingya.
Most restrictions on Rohingya, including the two-child policy, are enforced by the Burmese border patrol, the Nay-Sat Kut-kwey Ye (NaSaKa), an agency consisting of police, military, and immigration officials. It is believed that township orders circulated among the NaSaKa provide some of the legal basis for the policy. For instance, in Maungdaw, a township with a large Rohingya population which borders Bangladesh, official government documents obtained by to the human rights organization Fortify Rights stipulate that “those who have permission to marry must limit the number of children, in order to control the birth rate so that there is enough food and shelter.”[4]
In addition to the two-child policy, local regulations in Rahkine also impose other population control measures including burdensome restrictions on Rohingyas’ right to marry. For decades, Rohingya, like all other ethnicities in Myanmar, were free to marry according to their own customs. But in the early 1990s, in the interest of limiting the Rohingya population, the NaSaKa began requiring Rohingya to obtain permission to marry from the government.[5]
In order to have a marriage approved, Rohingya couples must meet with government officials multiple times, and must be accompanied by their parents.[6] Couples must present a photo of themselves to officials and contrary to Muslim custom, men are often required to be pictured clean-shaven and women, without hijab.[7],[8] In many villages, only a few marriages are authorized each year and some couples wait years before obtaining approval from the Government.[9] Widows and widowers are required to wait at least a year after the death of their spouse before they can apply for a second marriage.[10]
In order to have a marriage application approved, Rohingya couples are required to pay exorbitant fees or bribes to officials typically equivalent to 3 to 10 months’ wages.[11],[12],[13] Due to discriminatory policies that severely limit Rohingyas’ mobility, education, and job opportunities, most Rohingya are poor and for many, the cost of marriage is prohibitively expensive. Some Rohingya couples have been forced to leave Myanmar in order to escape marriage penalties and fees.[14]
Couples who choose not to apply for government authorization for their marriage can face severe penalties. Men who are found living with a woman after having been married under Islamic Law but without government permission or who are found cohabiting are subject to both a fine and a prison sentence up to 10 years.[15] Sentences are sometimes reduced if they agree to pay exorbitant bribes to officials. In 2013, CNN reported that over 500 men were serving time in prison for unauthorized marriages in Buthidaung Township alone.
Local regulations in Rakhine also encourage Rohingya to use birth control. Maungdaw Township Regional Order 1/2005, obtained by Fortify Rights, outlines several “population control activities” for the NaSaKa to implement including “making people use” contraceptive pills, injections and condoms.[16] The regional order also calls for campaigns to “educate” women on birth control methods “for their participation in these matters.”[17]
Unlike Rakhine’s two-child policy and marriage restrictions, however, where enforcement is well documented, it appears that birth control requirements have not been implemented with the same fervor. Contraceptive prevalence in the state of Rakhine is below the international average and remains one the lowest in Myanmar.[18] However, Rohingya women have reportedly been forced to accept contraceptive pills and injections during hospital stays.[19]
International organizations over the years may have also unwittingly helped to provide some of the government’s desired outcome on birth control measures. It is known that international organizations including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Malteser International, and Aide Medicale International in the mid-2000s provided oral contraceptives and other forms of birth control in Rakhine, principally in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships,[20] even after Maungdaw Township Regional Order 1/2005 was in effect. It is estimated that Rohingya and other Muslims account for 95% of the population of Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships.
In 2012, Myanmar Union Minister for Home Affairs, Lieutenant-General Ko Ko while answering questions before Myanmar’s upper legislative house openly admitted that immigration officials are enforcing discriminatory restrictions on Rohingya, including birth and marriage restrictions, saying:
Border Regions Immigration Inspection Command Headquarters is tightening the regulations [of Rohingya] in order to handle travelling, birth, death, immigration, migration, marriage, construction of new religious buildings, repairing and land ownership and right to construct building [sic] of Bengalis under the law.[21]
According to Fortify Rights, “Such measures are viewed by the Rakhine State and central governments as “population control” measures.”
To ensure compliance with policy restrictions, NaSaKa conduct periodic random “spot checks” of private homes, checking households against official registration records to ensure there are no “illegal” persons living in the house.
Under the Maungdaw policy, all Rohingya households are required to have a family photo taken at a public location in the village.[22] Officials then conduct periodic “spot checks” to ensure that there are no extra or unaccounted for persons in the household and that they match registration records.[23] Children are “compared in age and appearance” against the official records and mothers are made to breastfeed infants in the presence of officials to ensure that no child has been registered with another family in an effort to evade the two-child policy.[24] Maungdaw regulations stipulate that “action must be taken” with any “illegal children,” “illegal immigrants,” or any other unaccounted-for persons found in the house including household guests that have not been reported to the authorities.[25]
“Population control programs are always a matter of a majority—be it ethnic, religious, or class-based—targeting a minority,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated than in northern Burma, where an ethnic and religious ethnic majority is targeting a depised ethnic and religious minority. The goal is clearly to eliminate the Rohingya from Burma by any means possible, including contracepting and sterilizing their children out of existence.”
[1] Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, Persecution of the Rohingya Muslims: Is Genocide Occurring in Myanmar’s Rakhine State?, A Legal Analysis 18 (Fortify Rights 2015).
[2] U.N. Comm. On the Rights of the Child, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 44, Concluding observations: Myanmar, January 16–February 3, 2012, U.N.Doc. CRC/C/MMR/CO/3-4; CRC, 59th Sess. (March 14, 2012).
[4] Matthew Smith et al., Policies of persecution: Ending Abusive State Policies against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar 67 (Fortify Rights, February 2014).
[5] Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas 126-127 (2010).
[8] Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas 127 (2010).
[10] Matthew Smith et al., Policies of persecution: Ending Abusive State Policies against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar 68 (Fortify Rights, February 2014).
[11] Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas 127-128 (2010).
[12] Matthew Smith et al., Policies of persecution: Ending Abusive State Policies against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar 30-31 (Fortify Rights, February 2014).
[13] Human Rights Watch, “All You Can Do Is Pray”: Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State 80-81 (2013).
[15] Ibid., 68.
[18] Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) & ICF, Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey 2015-16 99 (Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar: MoHS & Rockville, Maryland USA: ICF 2017).
[19] Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School, Persecution of the Rohingya Muslims: Is Genocide Occurring in Myanmar’s Rakhine State?, A Legal Analysis 51 (Fortify Rights 2015).
[20] World Health Organization Country Office for Myanmar, Reproductive Health Stakeholder Analysis in Myanmar 2006.
[21] Reforms must be undertaken for financial and legal institutional development during the drafting process of monetary and capital market law: MPs, The New Light of Myanmar, Vol. XX, No. 3, Aug. 1, 2012, at 9.
This article originally appeared on pop.org at: https://www.pop.org/when-population-control-becomes-genocide/
Read the full Humanae Vitae Encyclical here.
The Humanae Vitae Project, is sponsored by the Population Research Institute (pop.org). No Church document better explains and defends the Church’s timeless teaching about the family than Humanae Vitae. In this encyclical, promulgated on July 25, 1968, Pope Paul VI continues to send a saving message to a secular and suffering world. Blessed Paul VI explains how the spread of artificial contraception constitutes a poison that invites tyrants, both political and cultural, to attack and control the most intimate aspects of family life.
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Daredevils of Niagara Falls | Joseph Albert “Jean” Lussier
July 4, 2011 /0 Comments/ in Niagara Daredevil Stories /by niagarafalls
83 years ago today in Daredevil history….The odds were not good on the day Joseph Albert “Jean” Lussier climbed into a rubber ball and headed for the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.
Name: Joseph Albert “Jean” Lussier
Hometown: Concord, N.H.
Stunt: Rode a rubber ball over the Horseshoe Falls
Outcome: Survived
The first person to go over, Annie Taylor, escaped relatively unharmed. The second, Englishman Bobby Leach, was so battered that he spent 23 weeks in a hospital. The third person, Englishman Charles Stephens, was torn out of his barrel and killed, leaving only a single arm strapped inside.
But Lussier , a wiry 150-pound French-Canadian, was confident that his 1,026-pound rubber ball would protect him when he took the plunge on July 4, 1928.
Joseph Albert “Jean” Lussier coming out of barrel
Lussier was right. He not only survived the drop, he went on to live a long life in his adopted hometown of Niagara Falls, signing autographs and postcards, regaling tourists with his story, and even selling rubber scraps of the barrel. Rumor has it that when he ran out of cuttings from the original barrel, he used similar rubber scraps and promised that they were real.
Lussier’s inspiration for his falls stunt began, he told some interviewers, when he saw Bobby Leach make the plunge in 1911. But when Lussier was interviewed in 1968, he told Bob Curran of The Buffalo News that he had met Leach a year after Leach’s plunge and noted that he made a fair living by telling his story and selling souvenirs.
Whether he saw Leach’s drop or not, Lussier had big plans to make his stunt unique. A month or so before his drop on July 4, news dispatched from Springfield and from Akron, Ohio, where the rubber ball had been fabricated, indicated that Lussier’s ball would be carried over the river by an airplane and then cut loose to land in the rapids above the Horseshoe. After he entered the water in the conventional way – by being towed by rowboat into the channel – Lussier said that airport managers refused to allow a plane to take off towing his rubber ball.
Lussier designed the ball to be strong and resilient. It was 9 feet in diameter and made of nine layers of rubber and a lyer of canvas enclosing a steel frame. A series of air pockets between this outer layer and a second, inner ball made of rubber were designed to provide cushioning. Lussier sat on a rubber cushion with straps holding his head, waist and legs.
The ball carried 150 pounds of ballast in the bottom to keep the it upright and the space inside was filled with some 32 rubber inner tubes. He also designed a valve system that would allow him to release air from tanks inside the ball while keeping it watertight. The tanks provided some 40 hours of air.
Lussier, who had worked as a salesman and in a grocery store in Springfield, Mass., took his plans and his savings of $7,000 to the Akron [Ohio] Rubber Company to make the ball.
On the day of the plunge, helpers rowed a boat towing the brick-red ball out to the middle of the Niagara River about two miles upstream of the Horseshoe Falls. Lussier climbed in, wearing a blue and white bathing suit. Although Lussier and his helpers kept the time of his plunge a secret to avoid being stopped by police, it was estimated that 200,000 people lined the banks of the river and both sides of bridges to see him go over.
The ball was cut free at 3:20 p.m. and drifted towed the precipice, plunging over the edge some 25 minutes later. “It looked frail; spectators held their breath, expecting it to be torn to shreds in the terrific current,” reported The Buffalo Evening News.
The ballast installed at the bottom of the ball to keep him upright tore off when the ball struck the first rough water, Lussier said later, so the ball turned over again and again in the rapids. While the next day he said that the plunge was “just like making a sharp descent in an airplane,” the details provide a more harrowing tale. He told Curran that the ball kept grounding on rocks above the falls. Then, he said, “three [inner] tube explode. Now as ball start over precipice it overturns, and I plunge headlong – 170 feet I plunge headlong.
‘Now water pressure tear first cover off ball. Water begin to leak in. Now ball is washed behind cataract. Inside I know nothing of where I am. I am stunned.
“Then strong current catch ball and wash me out, I am rescued. And as I am taken from ball, I have only strength to say, ‘I am happy to be first man to carry Stars and Stripes over Niagara Falls.’”
Lussier was pulled from the barrel by William “Red” Hill Sr. and taken by Hill’s boat to the Canadian side, where he was cheered by the massive crowds. He was handed a bathrobe and bruised on his temple and forehead were bandaged.
A few days later, perhaps when public attention subsided, Lussier announced his plan to go over the falls again. “Daredevil to defy cataract a second time,” read a local headline. He set Labor Day of 1929 as the date for his stunt. It never happened, but Lussier, whom some sources say had a wife and four children to support, did tour the country speaking in movie theaters where film footage of him preparing for the stunt was shown.
In 1930, he told the Niagara Falls Gazette that three film companies had advanced $4,000 each into an escrow account to fund a plunge on Labor Day. Lussier said his price for doing the stunt was $30,000, but he intended to keep the $12,000. “It’s the first easy money I ever got and I’m going to hang on to it,” the newspaper quoted the “little Frenchman” as saying.
By 1930, Lussier had taken a job as a tourist guide, including work at the Falls View Observation Tower in Niagara Falls, Ont. He quit in 1942 to take a job in a local defense plant, where he worked until the end of the war. In 1946, he announced that he had designed a rubber ball 12 feet in diameter that “could withstand the fury of the atomic bomb” and sought an investor to provide $500 so he could make a prototype.
In 1947, Lussier announced plans to ride a rubber ball around the world, “starting with the trip through the lower Niagara rapids and the whirlpool.” The newspaper article said Lussier’s “latest grandiose scheme” planned to start the trip by having the ball dropped from a blimp into the lower river between the Rainbow Bridge and the Whirlpool Rapids. A small motor on the ball would propel it through the Great Laqkes, and it would be towed across the Atlantic by an ocean liner.
A year later, Lussier admitted that the chances of being able to complete the circumnavigation of the globe in a barrel seemed unlikely, since no “angel” had stepped forward to fund his trip.
Through the years, Lussier periodically announced plans to build another ball. In 1952, he shared detailed plans of building another, much larger rubber ball to go over the American Falls, which has never been done because of the huge pile of rocks at the bottom. That elaborate barrel would have included rollers to keep the passenger upright, air to last him many hours and a radio system. That ball was never built, and Lussier never performed another stunt.
In 1968, Bob Curran of the Buffalo News found Lussier, 76, living in a room in an “exhausted boarding house” on Third Street in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Curran wrote that the elderly man, laid up with a back problem, was “one of those rare men who can swagger while sitting.”
“You mention Niagara Falls to anyone,” said Lussier, “and you have tothink of two people – Blondin and Jean Lussier.” Eyes flashing, he added, “And I am the only one alive.”
Three years later the daredevil with the zest for life died of a heart attack while living in a senior citizen high-rise in the city. His obituary said that Lussier claimed that the stunt “gave him only a fair living.”
Testimonial: IMAX and Maid of the Mist Enjoyed Daredevils of Niagara Falls | George L. Stathakis
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Whitehouse on Foster, ‘African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church’
Published on March 13, 2019 April 13, 2019 by CIGH Exeter
Elizabeth A. Foster. African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. 369 pp. £32.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9780674987661.
Reviewed by David Whitehouse (University of Exeter)
On July 1, 1888, Charles Lavigerie, founder of the White Fathers Catholic missionary order, gave a speech to a packed Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris in which he denounced the evils of slavery in Africa. The event was a public relations triumph, with African children who had been repurchased from slavery being paraded by the Fathers, clad in white burnouses with red fezzes on their heads, on the church steps. In the late nineteenth century as in the 1950s, slavery was used by the Catholic Church to galvanize public opinion and to raise funds. Lavigerie was not an isolated forerunner of post-war Catholic radicalism. He trained a generation of missionaries to enter the field as convinced anti-slavery activists, as well as supporting a series of military operations against slavery in Africa, with varying degrees of success. And yet until now Catholic missionaries have usually been relegated by historians to the status of obedient cogs in colonial state machines. Elizabeth Foster’s new book offers a major challenge by showing how missionary leaders like Lavigerie and his successors had aims that were often in clear conflict with those of the colonial state – a conflict between French Catholic missionaries and the colonial powers that resurfaced in a big way after the Second World War.
An emphasis upon political transition from colonial regimes to independent states dominates the literature on African decolonization. But decolonization, defined by Foster as the “ending or limiting of European hegemony” that involved power systems that were clearly outside of state apparatus, was a much broader process (p. 11). The book effectively uncovers the conflict between colonial state and Catholic mission in Africa in the 1950s. Foster sees the emergence of a more robust Catholic Left in France against a backdrop of colonial crisis as a key development. Catholicism in France, Foster argues, had previously been the almost exclusive property of the conservative Right. The Catholic Church hierarchy therefore struggled in an “awkward dance” in the 1950s as it sought to reconcile conservatives with radical anti-colonialists (p. 14). To make its provocative case, the book draws on a rich supply of archival sources in France, Italy, and Senegal, as well as a wide range of periodicals.
Another main strength of the book lies in its illumination of the bifurcation between European and Christian identity that Catholic missionary work in Africa entailed. Catholic intellectuals such as Joseph Michel sought in the 1950s to “reclaim and reorient the church as a defender of the oppressed, colonized populations” of the French Empire (p. 100). As Foster argues, the Catholic church was considerably more successful in keeping its adherents in post-colonial Africa than in Europe. World War Two looms large as a turning point here, complementing other recent scholarship. According to Darcie Fontaine, for example, the war is similarly seen as the turning point in the development of French Catholic thinking about the colonies, as Christian theology was used in France as a basis for resistance to Nazism.[1] This can, however, lead to obscuring the continuity of missionary agendas and practice.
In Foster’s account, racial hierarchy keeps its orthodox place as a guiding paradigm of missionary thinking.[2] Foster argues that racist disdain for évolué Africans was common among missionaries and that blatant Catholic racism only became institutionally unacceptable in the 1950s. The new generation of post-war missionaries had more enlightened attitudes than the old guard they replaced. Missionary longevity in the field, the assumption appears to be, solidified racism. This begs the question of why Catholic missionaries would want to work among “unredeemable” and “inferior” peoples for so long.[3] For Lavigerie, setting Africans free from slavery and building the kingdom of Christ in Africa were intended as achievements that would fully match or surpass the establishment of Christianity in Europe. Why would these goals have resonated with peoples who were considered as inherently inferior? Foster’s book begins to provide answers.
Foster’s focus is on the period of decolonization, and the chronological gap between her discussion of Lavigerie and the 1950s paves the way for a new field of research. So, too, would the addition of Protestant missionary sources. After all, Foster makes quite clear the French hostility to American Protestant missionaries. Protestants usually answered back, and denominational rivalry was itself a potential driver of more polarised political stances taken by missionaries on the ground in Africa. Foster’s work thus raises big questions about how Catholic missionaries’ anti-slavery agenda shaped developments and denominational conflict in the first half of the twentieth century across the vast swathes of sub-Saharan Africa in which Christian missions operated. This important book starts the process of giving radical missionary currents their due place in models of colonialism and decolonization.
David Whitehouse is a freelance editor at the Africa Report published by Jeune Afrique in Paris and a PhD candidate at Exeter researching the impact of missionaries in Rwanda and Burundi 1900-1972.
[1] Darcie Fontaine, Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
[2] For example, Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
[3] Adas has even argued that that Europeans in the early centuries of expansion into Africa and Asia rarely used race to explain what they saw as their superiority, but rather Christianity and, much later, technological accomplishment. See Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2014).
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Building Trust in a Digital World
At a keynote speech to the Westminster Media Forum today, IMPRESS CEO Jonathan Heawood described how independent regulation can help sustain journalism in the twenty-first century.
In the speech, Jonathan Heawood said: ‘Only 22% of the British public say they tend to trust the press, the lowest rating in Europe. Why does this matter? Firstly, and most importantly, it matters because journalism exists to speak truth to power. Not to speak lies to power, rumours to power or half-baked conspiracy theories. But truth. And if British audiences simply don’t believe that journalists are telling them the truth, then journalism can’t do its job.’
‘Trust in journalism is linked to commercial sustainability – more so than ever in a digital economy, where publishers can’t rely on brand loyalty. In the digital space, publishers have to fight for attention.’
‘Publishers are joining IMPRESS because they see the reputational and commercial benefits that independent regulation can bring. They see that independent regulation drives accountability. That accountability drives trust. And that trust drives sustainability. They know that independent regulation alone can’t solve the digital news problem. But they agree with us that it is part of the solution.’
Read the full speech below:
Priorities for a sustainable, independent and responsible news sector
Thank you to the Westminster Media Forum for inviting me to speak today.
I want to talk about trust. In particular, how IMPRESS – the first truly independent press regulator in the UK – can help journalists and publishers who are looking to build trust as part of their strategy for developing a sustainable business model.
I should explain why I care about this so much.
Before launching IMPRESS, I worked for many years as a journalist and press freedom campaigner. For more than six years, I was Director of English PEN, which defends freedom of expression for authors all over the world. I campaigned against the chilling effect of libel laws and worked with reporters from countries where the press is censored, where journalists are in prison for doing their jobs, and where reporters and editors run the risk of violence and even death.
So I believe strongly in a free and vigorous press.
I also believe that, in order to survive in a hyper-competitive market, the press must be trusted by the public.
And in this country, trust is in very short supply.
According to Ipsos MORI, only 25% of the public trust journalists to tell the truth. You might think that’s okay, because estate agents and politicians are even less trusted. But bankers and lawyers are more trusted than journalists. Even pollsters are more trusted. And journalists can only dream of the trust enjoyed by doctors, teachers and judges, who all score 80% or above.
According to this year’s Reuters Digital News Report, trust is lower than average among the young, which suggests that the crisis may be growing worse. The press, in effect, is sitting on a trust time bomb.
The trust problem exists in other European countries, but not to the same extent that it does in the UK.
Research by the European Broadcasting Union shows that, across the EU, 43% of people tend to trust the press; but 50% of people tend not to trust it. So the press has an average net trust rating of minus seven.
Trust in the press is above average in countries such as Finland and the Netherlands; and well below average in countries such as Macedonia, Greece and Serbia – countries which are facing huge political and economic challenges.
But the country with the lowest trust rating of all? The United Kingdom, where net trust in the press is at a staggering minus 51.
Only 22% of the British public say they tend to trust the press, the lowest rating in Europe. 73%, nearly three quarters of the public, say they tend not to trust the press, the worst trust rating by a long way – beyond Greece on 65%, and Serbia on 63%.
Firstly, and most importantly, it matters because journalism exists to speak truth to power. Not to speak lies to power. Not to speak rumours to power, or half-baked conspiracy theories to power. But truth.
And if British audiences simply don’t believe that journalists are telling them the truth, then journalism can’t do its job. This is a real problem for a sector whose constitutional role is to hold power to account.
This is not just a high-minded problem for those of us who care about civic engagement or democracy.
Because trust in journalism is also linked to commercial sustainability – more so than ever in a digital economy, where publishers can’t rely on brand loyalty. In the digital space, publishers have to fight for attention.
The Edelman Trust Barometer shows that when people trust a company, they are more likely to buy its products. But as this year’s Reuters Report shows, the UK is the country in which audiences are least willing to pay for online news.
Edelman’s Chief Exec Ed Williams joined the dots on all this when he said: ‘surely it is not a coincidence that the country which is rock bottom in terms of trust in the press … is also least likely … to pay for … online news’.
If audiences don’t see why they should trust professional journalism, then why should they be expected to pay for it?
In other industries, people would take such a crisis of trust very seriously. In fact, people in other industries do take trust seriously – and they reap the benefits for doing so.
Look at broadcasting, for example.
In 2008, Ofcom fined ITV nearly £6m for cashing in on premium rate phone lines and unfair competitions, where viewers were charged even after lines had closed. The scandal led to an inevitable fall in trust for the broadcaster. But Ofcom’s intervention resulted in a complete overhaul of such competitions across all broadcasters. Whilst ITV took a short-term hit, both reputationally and financially, it quickly regained the trust of its audiences – and later on this was reflected in a stronger commercial performance.
Remember the Ipsos MORI survey? It showed that only a quarter of us trust journalists to tell the truth. But it also showed that two-thirds of us trust TV news readers to tell the truth.
What’s the difference between journalists and TV news readers?
Well, one difference is that news readers are regulated by Ofcom. And just as Ofcom’s regulation of phone competitions has, in the long term, helped ITV to rebuild trust, so its regulation of TV news has also helped broadcast journalists to retain far greater trust than their counterparts in the press.
Some investigative documentary makers like Ofcom so much that they describe the regulator as a ‘critical friend’. And no, they’re not suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. And yes, they do find Ofcom irritating and irksome at times. They are human beings. But the bottom line is that they believe regulation helps them produce better journalism.
One filmmaker told me how Ofcom helps her to dig out bigger and better stories, because it forces her to go through proper fact-checking processes.
And because they produce better journalism, broadcast journalists command more public trust.
It’s quite simple really. We place our trust in people and organisations who do a decent job. It’s not that we expect journalists to be angels, any more than we expect bankers and lawyers, or even teachers and doctors to be angels.
We don’t really think that TV news readers are more virtuous than journalists for the press. But we trust them more, because, as an institution, we trust broadcasters more than we trust the press. We believe that they are more likely to provide us with a decent service.
As the Reuters research has indicated, this crisis of trust isn’t the fault of individual journalists, the vast majority of whom work incredibly hard for very little reward. It’s the fault of an industry which has been too happy, for too long, to sacrifice trust in the pursuit of other short-term priorities.
So how can we turn this around?
Well, part of the answer comes from a surprising place: Silicon Valley, where the Trust Project is conducting research into what makes people trust some news sources more than others.
This research, at Santa Clara University, is supported by Google, presumably because Google’s success depends on the speed and reliability of its search results. If those results include unreliable sources of news and information, then Google’s own credibility is damaged.
And in a digital economy, with a thousand sources covering the same breaking story within minutes, Google needs to know which to bring to the top of its results, and which to leave to the bottom.
The research makes for fascinating reading.
When the team at Santa Clara University asked people what makes them trust a particular news provider, they said they were looking for sites that were, among other things:
Objective and unbiased and which disclose any conflicts of interest.
Independent of business or government pressure.
Consistent and reliable.
Now, given time, you might be able to work out whether a particular news site is objective, independent or reliable. But Google doesn’t have time. Its algorithm has to come to a decision about each site within nanoseconds.
So the Trust Project is looking for indicators of trust – elements which can be quantified and which can help the algorithm to identify more trustworthy news sources.
Proposed indicators include such things as:
Information about a company’s ownership and finances.
A mission statement.
Editorial guidelines.
An ethics policy.
A corrections policy.
And an ombudsperson.
In other words, when the public are deciding whether to trust a particular news provider, they’re looking for evidence of accountability. They want to see clear information about where that provider is coming from; what its editorial standards are; and a policy for dealing with things when it doesn’t meet those standards.
And on top of that, they’re looking for some kind of independent oversight – something like an ombudsperson.
Because the public don’t take your word for it when you tell them that you’re trustworthy. They want you to prove it. As far as trust is concerned, the more accountability, the better.
These findings echo our own research at IMPRESS.
In a survey run by Britain Thinks, we asked more than 2,000 people to tell us whether they preferred the press to be self-regulated by the industry or regulated by the government or an independent body.
Self-regulation was the least popular approach, with only 17% in favour. In fact, more people would rather see the press regulated by government. And a significant majority – 58% - would prefer independent regulation.
Once again: the public don’t take your word for it when you tell them that you’re trustworthy. They want you to prove it. And as far as regulation is concerned, the more independent, the better.
That’s why, at IMPRESS, we’re helping publishers to give the public what they want.
We offer a simple and straightforward complaints-handling system. We help publishers put together editorial policies for their sites and print editions. We ask them to be transparent about any conflicts of interest and to follow clear ethical guidelines.
In return, we allow them to display our Trust Mark.
More than 40 publications, with a combined readership of more than two million people, have already signed up to IMPRESS, with more joining all the time. We are funded for at least the next four years by a charity, the Independent Press Regulation Trust, which supports our aims but has no influence over the membership of our Board or our standards code or our adjudications or investigations – or in fact over any aspect of our operations or governance.
This start-up funding means that IMPRESS is independent and sustainable. As more publishers join, our income stream will become more diverse. But our constitution, and our oversight by the Press Recognition Panel, ensures that we will never be beholden to any funders or publishers.
These publishers are joining IMPRESS because they see the reputational and commercial benefits that independent regulation can bring. They see that our values match theirs, and that we can help them to survive and thrive in a competitive market.
They see that independent regulation drives accountability. That accountability drives trust. And that trust drives sustainability.
They know that independent regulation alone can’t solve the digital news problem. But they agree with us that it is part of the solution.
We’re delighted that the National Union of Journalists and Sir Harold Evans also support IMPRESS and our model of independent regulation. Like us, they believe that independent regulation can only strengthen a free and vibrant press.
So the question really isn’t whether independent regulation can help to sustain journalism in the twenty-first century – it’s how. And whether publishers can afford not to invest in the same degree of accountability that they – quite rightly – expect of all other sectors.
Jonathan Heawood
CEO, IMPRESS
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About India hicks
Who is India Hicks (the person)?
India was born in London, and comes from both British and design royalty. She, however, chose a slightly surprising path for herself, and now lives on a small island in the Bahamas, with her partner and their five children. Unencumbered by tradition, India has made bold life choices that inspire women to join her in the pursuit of an extraordinary life.
What is India Hicks (the brand)?
India Hicks is a lifestyle brand inspired by India’s design heritage, British roots and runaway island story. The exclusive collection of handbags, accessories, jewelry, beauty and fine fragrance are sold by a group of spirited entrepreneurs, known as Ambassadors, at in-home events, or Get Togethers, and online.
What kind of products do you sell?
Our exclusive collections of well-crafted gifts, beauty, bags and accessories are designed by India and made with world-class design partners. The collections are inspired by India's British heritage, island life, and madcap daydreams, and every piece has a story, so they're perfect for sharing. We release new products every couple of months, so there will always be something new to keep your customers interested.
What is the price range?
We call our collections "attainable luxury." Our prices range from $16-$500, and over half of the collection falls under $100. We are proud that we're able to offer these price points on beautifully crafted products.
Who are your Ambassadors?
Our Ambassadors have an adventurous spirit, they're ready to jump in feet first. They are also savvy, sophisticated women who have already done quite a bit - whether that means a career, family, charities, school, or all of the above. And whether they're 18 or 80, living in Alaska or Florida, they've come to IH to be part of something new.
What's with the bug?
That's our Good Luck Beetle. The beetle is a welcome visitor in India's Bahamian home, and he continues to bring our tribe much good luck.
Was India one of Princess Diana's bridesmaids?
Yes, as she likes to say, she was the one with the bad haircut.
What does it mean to be an India Hicks Ambassador?
An Ambassador is an entrepreneur. She is building her own lifestyle business, in her own time and on her own terms. We simply provide the brand, collection, tools and support.
What is a "Get Together"?
Get Togethers are events organized by our Ambassadors where they do just that: get together with friends old and new. They're not about pushing sales (though they do end up selling quite a bit), they are about sharing stories and having fun. They come in all shapes and sizes, from morning coffee run to poker night; and are typically hosted by friends (or friends-of-friends-of-friends) of an Ambassador.
Can people shop for India Hicks products in boutiques and stores?
NOPE. That's the beauty of our business... We are running it from the heart of the home.
How and where can I run my business?
Anytime, anywhere... on the road, on holiday, at home, over Skype - the sky's the limit. It's up to you, but you'll likely end up selling in a few different ways, which include (but aren't limited to)... hosted Get Togethers (where you're sharing the collection with several people at one event), personal shopping appointments and online (via your personal replicated IH website).
Can I be successful with just an online shop?
You'll certainly want to have an online presence and groove with social media to expand your network and promote your business. But you'll most likely find that Get Togethers are the best platforms for both generating sales and making connections for hosting, and/or joining your team. And they're super-efficient - it just makes sense to be in front of several people at a time.
As an Ambassador, do I get a discount on products?
Certainly. This is another great part of the business. Ambassadors get a 25% discount on all items they purchase for themselves (i.e. displays or personal use). PLUS, you have the opportunity to earn product credits based on your sales that you can use for samples.
Do I have to sell a certain amount every month?
You don't have to, but you're probably going to want to. There are no "quotas" to meet, and no pressure from us. However, we've found that our most successful Ambassadors are those who strive for consistent activity. And we are here to support you in reaching whatever goals you set for yourself.
Do I have to hold and ship inventory?
Absolutely not, now that would be asking too much. Rest assured that all products are direct-shipped from the company to your customer, so, with the exception of any samples you choose to buy, no inventory is necessary.
Do I need to go through training?
We encourage it, as it will play a big part in making your business a success. You wouldn’t jump into a pool without taking some lessons. We provide training in a few different forms...
Ongoing online training sessions.
Documents, videos, images and resources available 24/7 in your back office.
Connection with your Team Leader, as well as our entire Ambassador community.
A world-class Ambassador Support team.
In other words, we've got your back.
How many Ambassadors are already selling near me?
We're asked this question a lot, and the honest answer is... It really doesn't matter. You're going to know different people. You're going to run your businesses differently. And we're all in this together, so our Ambassadors all support one another, no matter where they are.
Will I have help with my first Get Together?
We'll be here to help every step of the way. You'll have the support of your Team Leader, and our online resources. Your leader will guide you through everything from the invitation process to setting up your display. Resources, our online Ambassador training, has quite a few modules that are dedicated to your first Get Togethers, such as Kick Start Your Business, Let's Get Together, and Pimp Your Collection. In any situation, we'll always make sure there's a life raft on hand.
LET'S TALK MONEY
How much does it cost to get started?
You'll want to invest in our Sample Collection to launch your business. This mini collection is priced at $549 (more than 60% below the retail value of $1,734) and contains a carefully curated selection of best sellers and forever favorites, as well as order forms and fabric swatches - everything you'll need to get your business buzzing.
Aside from the Sample Collection, are there any other fees?
The only required cost is a $24.95 monthly subscription. This provides you with your very own replicated website, and also gives you access to our online "Back Office" system, which includes training modules, imagery, and an entire library of resources. (Think about it... all that for $24.95? That's a lot of bang for your buck.)
How do I actually make money?
So happy you asked, because this is the good bit. You'll earn between 25% - 40% commission on every product you sell, depending on your monthly sales.
How long will it take to make back my initial investment?
Everything about your business is up to you - but typically, it's as long as it takes to hold your first few Get Togethers. You may decide to hold 2 or 3 Get Togethers in your first few days, or decide that a few over a couple of weeks may suit you better. The sooner you jump in, the sooner you'll begin building your business. Either way, you'll have plenty of support to help you succeed at your own pace. An average Get Together generates over $1,000 in sales.
How much can I really make?
It is entirely up to you. Whether you'd like to have "just a little something extra," or a "significant bump," you set the stage for your potential earnings.
Please note that potential earnings from India Hicks involvement, if any, are based on a variety of factors including the amount of time pursuing the opportunity, interpersonal skills, personal drive and market demand.
IS THIS OPPORTUNITY RIGHT FOR ME?
What if I’ve never done something like this before?
Don't worry. There's really no experience necessary. If you love getting together with friends and sharing your latest finds, you're a natural. In fact, most of our Ambassadors were new to this type of sales model when they joined, and now they're rocking it. We take great pride in providing you with all of the support and resources you'll need to build a business.
What kind of experience do I need?
No experience is necessary. In fact, most of our Ambassadors were new to this model when they joined, and now they're rocking it. We take great pride in providing you with all of the support and resources you'll need to build a business.
I don't know very many people... Who do I sell to?
Many Ambassadors felt like that to begin with. Trust us, you know more people than you realize. Think of someone who would love our exclusive collection and is comfortable with our price points - most of your friends, right? Well, they have friends, too. And so on… Since there are no territories (i.e. you have no geographic limits or restrictions), you can have customers anywhere in the U.S. So don't worry about who you don't know, focus on who you do know, and you'll start to see just how far this could take you.
I'm already so busy, how will I find the time?
As women, we tend to take everything on, so most of our Ambassadors started out wondering this exact thing. But what we hear most often after just a few weeks is that not only have they found the time, but that being an Ambassador allows them to focus and organize other aspects of their lives in a better way.
What happens if I decide this isn't for me?
Not a problem. Just tell us, and we'll cancel your account - no hard feelings. India Hicks also offers an inventory repurchase program, so if you decide to leave the company, we will buy back all marketable inventory, sales materials, kits and tools at not less than 90 percent of your original net cost for up to a year after you join. But you'll never know if you don't try...
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Coast Guard Academy Names Interim Head Coach for Cross Country
New London, CT – Long-time Assistant Coach Greg Ahnrud has been named interim head coach for both the men's and women's cross country team for the 2018 season.
Ahnrud takes over for Ethan Brown who will be out this season on paternity leave and will return for the indoor track & field season.
"When we brought Coach Ahnrud on board in 2012, he helped establish a sound training program that was mindful of the challenges our cadet-athletes encounter," commented Brown. "Having Greg take the lead this season and be elevated to full-time status is a tribute to all his hard work and dedication to the program, as well as his tremendous experience and proven success among our distance runners over the past few years. Since arriving on board here at the Academy, Coach Ahnrud established himself as one of the best young coaches in the region and across the country. Our program is lucky to have him and we are extremely grateful to Athletic Director Tim Fitzpatrick and the athletic administration for making Greg's' full-time status a reality."
Both the men's and women's cross country team has seen consistent success since Ahnrud has arrived on the staff with both teams finishing in the top-25 at the NCAA Division III New England Championship, highlighted by the women's team taking home their best finish at the regional championship in 13th.
"Coach Brown has been an invaluable help in my growth as a coach, and I'll be doing my best to repay him with a great season as Interim Head Coach during his leave," said Ahnrud. "Our entire roster has shown strong year-on-year and season-on-season growth, and I expect this season to be business as usual, with us improving both our NEWMAC and Regional standings."
The Bears are back in action on Saturday, September 22nd, when they travel to Williamstown, Massachusetts for the Purple Valley Invitational hosted by Williams.
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Athletics Division
Jennifer Meuse Director of Special Projects, USCGA Athletics
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Missouri State Regulations
Updated April 23, 2013 State Regulation of Private Schools (Revised July 2009) is the last full report.
Registration is limited to those nonpublic schools that participate in federal and state grant programs.
No requirements for Licensing.
Teacher certification is not required by Missouri state statute for teachers in nonpublic schools. Nonpublic school teachers that hold state certification are subject to discipline by the State Board of Education for misconduct under Mo. Rev. Stat. §168.071.
The State Board of Education may refuse to issue or revoke a nonpublic school teacher’s certificate upon conviction of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude. Mo. Rev. Stat. §168.071(2).
Students in Missouri have the opportunity to enroll at public, private, parochial, parish, and home schools or a combination of the above. State law requires compulsory school attendance between the ages of seven years and the compulsory attendance age for a given school district. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.
Missouri state law does not specify a required length of school year or days for private schools. For comparison, the public school minimum school day consists of three hours for schools with a five-day school week or four hours for schools with a four-day school week in which the students are under the guidance and direction of teachers. The first day of July through the thirtieth day of June of the following year defines the school year period. Mo. Rev. Stat. §160.041.1.
Private schools, except privately operated trade schools, must provide courses of instruction in the constitutions of the United States and of Missouri and in American history and institutions. Instruction must begin no later than the seventh grade and continue in high school to the extent determined by the commissioner of education. No pupil can receive a certificate of graduation from any private school, except private trade schools, without satisfactorily passing an examination on these subjects. The commissioner will prescribe a list of suitable texts. These provisions do not apply to foreign exchange students. Mo. Rev. Stat. §170.011.
There is no specific state policy regarding other course content at this time for private schools.
The chief school officer of a nonpublic school has a duty to provide students information on available financial assistance for postsecondary education. The commissioner of higher education will provide nonpublic schools and their pupils with relevant information. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.278.
Each school superintendent of a private, parochial, or parish school must prepare a record showing the immunization status of every child enrolled. The superintendent must report the name of any parent or guardian who neglects or refuses to permit a nonexempt child to be immunized. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.181(4).
Student immunization records may be disclosed without a parent’s or guardian’s written authorization to individuals with a need to know, as specified by statute, e.g. employees of public agencies and departments. Anyone releasing the information for any other purpose would be liable for damages. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.183.
Students attending private, parochial, or parish schools must comply with the Department of Health regulations governing the immunizations against poliomyelitis, rubella, rubeola, mumps, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. A student may not attend school unless he or she has been immunized, presents evidence of having begun the process, or is exempt. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.181.
Students are exempt from immunization if a parent or guardian presents to the school administrator a written objection based on religious beliefs or a written statement from a licensed physician that the immunizations are medically contraindicated. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.181.
Private elementary and secondary schools may obtain information from Missouri’s central registry of reports on child abuse and neglect pertaining to employees and volunteers or prospective employees and volunteers who provide services or care for children. Mo. Rev. Stat. §210.150(8).
Students, teachers, and visitors are required to wear industrial quality eye protective devices for courses involving exposure to certain hazardous materials. Mo. Rev. Stat. §170.005.
Private and parochial schools were required to examine their structures for friable asbestos and report the results to the Department of Health by March 1, 1987. Schools that have not completed their removal plan must reevaluate the material biennially and file a report with the department. Schools that identified nonfriable asbestos must reevaluate the material every three years, file a report with the department, and make their findings available to its employees and the public. Mo. Rev. Stat. §643.263.
Distribution of a controlled substance on or within 1,000 feet of a private elementary or secondary school in Missouri is a felony. Mo. Rev. Stat. §195.214.
“School-Based Nonviolent Conflict Resolution” materials developed by the Department of Health and State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education can be made available to all schools, including private and parochial schools, and the general public. Mo. Rev. Stat. §170.046.
Transportation is not provided for students attending private schools. The provision of transportation to parochial school students by public school bus that also transports public school children violates the Missouri Constitution. McVey v. Hawkins, 258 S.W.2d 927 (1953).
Materials, supplies, or equipment, paid for with public funds, may not be provided to nonpublic schools. The provision of textbooks to teachers in private schools violates the Missouri Constitution. Paster v. Tussey, 512 S.W. 2d.97 (Mo. 1974).
Missouri state law does not require general testing of nonpublic school students.
Any student (public, nonpublic, or homeschooled) enrolled in a Missouri Virtual Instructional Program (MoVIP) course must take part in the Missouri Assessment Program through MoVIP. Mo. Rev. Stat. §161.670.
The Missouri Department of Education may assign severely handicapped children to a private agency when it is in the best interests of the child. Mo. Rev. Stat. §162.735.
Special educational services may be offered during the regular school day to children who attend private, parochial, and parish schools. Mo. Rev. Stat. §162.996. LEAs must determine how and where services will be provided to children with disabilities attending private or parochial schools and could consider the provision of services at a neutral site. Missouri State Plan for Special Education – Part B (2012).
Nonpublic school students have access to state and county health services on the same basis as their public school counterparts.
Missouri provides special services to children enrolled in nonpublic schools identified as having a high risk of dropping out of school. Services may include skills assessment, tutoring, academic and personal counseling, family counseling, home visits, and staff development. Services must be provided at sites other than sectarian nonpublic schools. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.280.
Public, private, and homeschooled students are eligible to enroll in the Missouri Virtual Instruction Program (MoVIP), which offers online K–12 courses for students statewide. The Missouri Department of Education requests public or private schools, with any participating students in the MoVIP program, to provide a site liaison who will assist a student or virtual teacher if any challenges arise. Mo. Rev. Stat. §161.670.
Sales by or to public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools are exempt from local sales tax. Mo. Rev. Stat. §144.030.2 (19) and (22).
Constitutional Provisions: The Missouri Constitution provides “No person can be compelled to . . . support any . . . teacher of any sect.” Missouri Constitution, Art. I§6. The public school fund may not be used for any other purpose than establishing and maintaining free public schools. The constitution further prohibits public aid to any private school controlled by any religious creed, church, or sectarian denomination. Missouri Constitution, Art. IX §8.
Missouri’s Constitution notwithstanding, “educationally deprived children attending nonpublic schools” in Missouri “are entitled to receive allocation of federal funds for programs of special services comparable in quality, scope, and opportunity to children in public schools.” Barrera v. Wheeler, 475 F.2d 1388 (1973).
Programs for Financial Assistance for Attendance at Private Schools: There is no such program at this time.
A home school is not considered a private school though it is a school that “has as its primary purpose the provision of private or religious-based instruction.” Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.2(1)(a)-(c).
Instruction is given to children between the ages of seven and 17 years. Further state restrictions for children on either end of the age range are outlined in the law. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.1(3) and §167.031.2(3).
The parents may notify the superintendent of schools or the recorder of county deeds in the county where the parent resides of their intention to homeschool. This declaration of enrollment must be done before September 1 annually and within 30 days after establishing the home school. The law is permissive in the area of registering and does not mandate registration. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.042.
A parent who is homeschooling a child must maintain the following records: a plan book, diary, daily log, or other written record indicating the subjects taught and the activities engaged in with the student; a portfolio containing samples of the student’s academic work; and a record of evaluation of the student’s academic progress. These records do not need to be submitted. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.
Any parent may educate a child at home. The parent does not have to hold a teaching certificate or meet any education requirements. If a parent decides to homeschool, he or she must provide 1,000 hours of instruction during the school year, with at least 600 hours in the basics, such as reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science. At least 400 of the 600 hours must be taught in the home location. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.
Students may attend a combination of schools during the day ─ public or private school in the morning and home school in the afternoon ─ to satisfy the Missouri compulsory attendance law. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.
If families are educating students of high school age and elect to re-enroll in the public schools, they need to be aware of the local board of education policies on accepting credit for students from unaccredited educational programs. There is no recognized high school diploma for homeschooled students. Individuals who have been homeschooled may take the high school equivalency exam to obtain their GED.
Homeschooled students may be allowed to attend public school part-time under Missouri’s compulsory attendance statute. Mo. Rev. Stat. §167.031.1.
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE): State Statutes That Apply to Private Schools
Missouri DESE: Revised Statutes of Missouri Related to Home Schooling
Missouri DESE: Nonpublic Reports and Registration Information
Missouri Virtual Instruction Program (MoVIP)
Missouri Revised Statutes – Title XI Education and Libraries
Missouri General Assembly
Web-based Nonpublic Registration Form Login Screen
Contact Information – State and Federal Departments of Education Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480
Website: http://dese.mo.gov/
U.S. Department of Education: Missouri
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Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 36(12):2040-2045, DEC 2004
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000147587.81762.44
Delayed Onset of Transversus Abdominus in Long-Standing Groin Pain
SALLIE COWAN;ANTHONY SCHACHE;PETER BRUKNER;KIM BENNELL;PAUL HODGES;PAUL COBURN;KAY CROSSLEY;
1The Centre for Sports Medicine and Research and Education, School of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; 2Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA; 3Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, Queensland, AUSTRALIA; and 4Lifecare Physotherapy South Morang, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Long-standing groin pain is a persistent problem that is commonly difficult to rehabilitate. Theoretical rationale indicates a relationship between the motor control of the pelvis and long-standing groin pain; however, this link has not been investigated.Purpose:The current experiment aimed to evaluate motor control of the abdominal muscles in a group of Australian football players with and without long-standing groin pain.Methods:Ten participants with long-standing groin pain and 12 asymptomatic controls were recruited for the study. Participants were elite or subelite Australian football players. Fine-wire and surface electromyography electrodes were used to record the activity of the selected abdominal and leg muscles during a visual choice reaction-time task (active straight leg raising).Results:When the asymptomatic controls completed the active straight leg raise (ASLR) task, the transversus abdominus contracted in a feed-forward manner. However, when individuals with long-standing groin pain completed the ASLR task, the onset of transversus abdominus was delayed (P < 0.05) compared with the control group. There were no differences between groups for the onset of activity of internal oblique, external oblique, and rectus abdominus (all P > 0.05).Conclusions:The finding that the onset of transversus abdominus is delayed in individuals with long-standing groin pain is important, as it demonstrates an association between long-standing groin pain and transversus abdominus activation.
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The Surprising Benefits of Journaling One Sentence Every Day
by James Clear | Habits
From 1986 to 2011, Oprah Winfrey hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was the highest rated talk show of all-time and familiar to nearly anyone who owned a television set in North America at that time.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the “Queen of All Media” built a brand that stretched far beyond the television screen. She went on to become a billionaire, a well-regarded philanthropist, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And as she was busy working toward these otherworldly accomplishments, Oprah relied on a simple habit: journaling.
Journaling is simply the act of thinking about your life and writing it down. That’s it. Nothing more is needed. But despite its simplicity, the daily journal has played a key role in the careers of many prolific people.
As you might expect, journaling is a favorite habit of many writers. From Mark Twain to Virginia Woolf, Francis Bacon to Joan Didion, John Cheever to Vladimir Nabokov. 1 A journal was rarely far from any of these artists. Susan Sontag once claimed that her journal was where she “created herself.” 2
Journaling has been utilized by scores of brilliant thinkers and inventors. Charles Darwin. Marie Curie. Leonardo da Vinci. Thomas Edison. Albert Einstein. 3Similarly, leaders and politicians throughout history have kept journals in one form or another. People like George Washington, Winston Churchill, and Marcus Aurelius.4In the sporting world, athletes like Katie Ledecky, winner of multiple gold medals, and Eliud Kipchoge, the world record holder in the marathon, rely on journals to reflect on their daily workouts and improve their training.5
Why have so many of history's greatest thinkers spent time journaling? What are the benefits?
What Journaling Can Do for You
Nearly anyone can benefit from getting their thoughts out of their head and onto paper. There are more benefits to journaling than I have time to cover here, but allow me to point out a few of my favorites.
Journaling provides the opportunity to learn new lessons from old experiences. When looking back on her previous journal entries, Virginia Woolf remarked that she often “found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.”6
Reading your old journal entries is a bit like reading a great book for a second time. You pick up on new sentences and see the past in a different way. Only this time, you are re-reading the story of your life.
Journaling sharpens your memory. When Cheryl Strayed wrote her hit book, Wild, she relied heavily on her journal. She recalled, “My journal provided the who, what, how, when, and why with a specificity that memory might have blurred, but it also did something more: it offered me a frank and unvarnished portrait of myself at 26 that I couldn't have found anywhere else.” 7
Time will change your face without you noticing, but it will also change your thoughts without you realizing it. Our beliefs shift slowly as we gain experience and journal entries have the ability to freeze your thoughts in time. Seeing an old picture of yourself can be interesting because it reminds you of what you looked like, but reading an old journal entry can be even more surprising because it reminds you of how you thought.
Journaling motivates you to make the most of each day. There is something about knowing that your day will be recorded that makes you want to make at least one good choice before the sun sets. I will sometimes find myself thinking, “I want to have something good to write down tonight.”
Journaling provides proof of your progress. Writing down one sentence about what went well today gives you something powerful to look at when you're feeling down. When you have a bad day, it can be easy to forget how much progress you have made. But with a journal, it's easier to keep a sense of perspective. One glance at your previous entries and you have proof of how much you have grown over the months and years.
Of course, despite the numerous benefits of journaling, there is one problem.
Many people like the idea of journaling, but few people stick with the act of journaling. It sounds great in theory, but making it a habit is another matter.
This is where we return to Oprah's story.
The Challenge of Making Journaling a Habit
In November 2012, after wrapping up her 25-year television career, Oprah wrote, “For years I've been advocating the power and pleasure of being grateful. I kept a gratitude journal for a full decade without fail—and urged you all to do the same. Then life got busy. My schedule overwhelmed me. I still opened my journal some nights, but my ritual of writing down five things I was grateful for every day started slipping away.”8
She picked up one of her old journals.
“I wondered why I no longer felt the joy of simple moments,” Oprah said. “Since 1996 I had accumulated more wealth, more responsibility, more possessions; everything, it seemed, had grown exponentially—except my happiness. How had I, with all my options and opportunities, become one of those people who never have time to feel delight? I was stretched in so many directions, I wasn't feeling much of anything. Too busy doing.”
She admitted, “But the truth is, I was busy in 1996, too. I just made gratitude a daily priority. I went through the day looking for things to be grateful for, and something always showed up.”
Most people know that journaling is helpful, but they never get around to making it a priority. How can we make journaling frictionless? What is the simplest way that to get the benefits of journaling without it feeling like another obligation?
How to Make Journaling Easy
I've spent a fair bit of time thinking about how to make journaling easy over the past year. In fact, I thought so much about it that I partnered with the premium notebook maker Baron Fig to create the Clear Habit Journal—a combination dot grid notebook, daily journal, and habit tracker that not only makes it easier to journal, but also easier to build any habit.
But before I start hawking my wares, let's get something straight.
Here's the truth: There’s no one “right” way to journal. You can do it wherever you want and in whatever way you want. All you need is a piece of paper or a blank document. However, although there is no right way to journal, there is an easy way to journal…
Write one sentence per day.
The primary advantage of journaling one sentence each day is that it makes journaling fun. It's easy to do. It's easy to feel successful. And if you feel good each time you finish journaling, then you'll keep coming back to it.
A habit does not have to be impressive for it to be useful.
Journaling Prompts That Make Journaling Easy
Let's talk about the process I designed to make journaling a cinch.
Every Habit Journal is designed to make the process of keeping a daily journal as easy as possible. It starts with a section called One Line Per Day.
At the top of each One Line Per Day page is space for a journaling prompt. Here are a few examples of journaling prompts you could use:
What happened today? (Daily journal)9
What am I grateful for today? (Gratitude journal)
What is my most important task today? (Productivity journal)
How did I sleep last night? (Sleep journal)
How do I feel today? (Mood journal)
Underneath the prompt are 31 lines. One line for each day of the month. This is where you'll write your one sentence each day.
To start your journaling habit all you have to do is write your prompt for the month and jot down a few words each day. Once the month is complete, you can look back on 31 beautiful journal entries. The entire experience is designed to make journaling so easy that you can't help but do it each day.
That's it. You can see a picture of the One Line Per Day section on this page.
Where to Go From Here
When a habit feels like an annoyance, you’re unlikely to stick with it.
Journaling doesn’t need to be a big production. Just write one sentence about what happened during the day. Whether you use my habit journal or not is beside the point.
What matters is that you make it easy to show up. As Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, put it: “Just write a little bit every day.” 10
Sources: The Bancroft Library at the University of California has a website with digitized versions of many of Mark Twain's journals; A Writer's Diary is a collection of Virginia Woolf's journals; Some of Francis Bacon's journals are archived at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania; Joan Didion detailed her journaling habit in her essay “On Keeping a Notebook” in her anthology Slouching Towards Bethlehem; A selection of John Cheever's journals was published in The Journals of John Cheever; Insomniac Dreams is Vladimir Nabokov's dream diary.
Technically, Sontag's quote was, “In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.” The quotation is from a diary entry published in Sontag's book Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963.
Sources: Portions of Charles Darwin's Beagle voyage diary; Marie Curie kept lab notebooks (they are still radioactive, and will be for another 1500 years); Portions of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are held by the British Library and can be previewed online; Thomas Edison wrote more than five million pages of notes; Get a peek into Albert Einstein's Zurich notebook
Sources: George Washington's diaries on the Library of Congress website; Winston Churchill's personal notes are digitized in an online archive; Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a collection of his personal writings.
Sources: Interview with Katie Ledecky's coach; Eliud Kipchoge's full training log.
A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf.
A Long Level Gaze by Cheryl Strayed.
Quotes in this section are from What Oprah Knows for Sure About Gratitude by Oprah Winfrey.
I also like a slight variation on this, which I learned from Shawn Blanc who uses “Highlight of the Day” as his prompt.
Quotation from her biography, Madeleine L'Engle by Aaron Rosenberg.
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In Uncategorized on May 18, 2010 at 11:33 pm
This Saturday, I will officially make the transition from professional student to career professional. Okay, that’s not quite true. I actually plan to prolong my misery by spending one more year in Syracuse, New York, pursuing my master’s in television, radio and film.
As my short-lived career as a Joplin Globe blogger comes to an end, I’ve decided to reflect on the many things I have learned while floating about in the blogosphere:
First and foremost, check your facts, check your facts, and then check your facts. I should have learned this lesson a long time ago when I would argue with my father and his only rebuttal was to ask me to “cite my sources.”
It’s human nature to form an opinion, and then seek out facts/information in support of that opinion while ignoring contradictory evidence; “What’s that? I can’t hear you — la, la, la, la!”
Bloggers are arrogant.
Our opinion really doesn’t matter.
People like political identity — it makes them feel safe.
Mainstream media lies (OK, I already knew this one).
Generational discrimination, although subtle, is more rampant than gender discrimination.
And there you have it: My quarter-of-a-century years’ worth of wisdom.
Peace and Liberty.
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amended, Arizona immigration bill, due process, Gary Nodler, HB 1070, HB 2162, lawful contact, racial profiling
HB 1070: Profiling Implied
In Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 at 2:48 am
On Thursday, Republican Sen. Gary Nodler met with Missouri Southern students to talk politics. During the question and answer period, one woman asked Nodler his opinion on the Arizona immigration bill.
Twenty-three year old student Echo Essary brought up the issue of discrimination. However, Nodler dismissed the idea that the law advocates “racial profiling.”
But does Arizona HB 1070 indeed promote prejudice law enforcement?
Here are the more controversial exerts from the bill:
FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE, WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON.
A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES.
It should be noted that HB 1070 was amended on Friday in an attempt to make the bill constitutionally correct. The amending legislation, HB 2162, changed the phrase “lawful contact” to “lawful stop, detention or arrest.”
However, HB 2162 only clarifies what constitutes legal contact. A “stop” can be legal — all that is needed is probable cause. As every person residing legally in the United States knows, probable cause can be anything from mud on your license plate to jaywalking.
So the problem has not been put to rest. The real controversy is that surrounding the phrase “REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN.” Arizona lawmakers have yet to clearly define what exactly would make a person suspect of being an “alien.”
So a person is lawfully stopped with probable cause present. What then suggests to the officer(s) the person is undocumented?
What Nodler and others refuse to recognize is that the Arizona law makes racial profiling nearly unavoidable. Both the plight and reaction of Arizonans is understandable. But let us be honest about the consequences their new legislation.
censorship, Commission on Presidential Debates, control, exlcusive, League of Women Voters, not a debate, partisan, Ralph Nader, ran by Democrats Republicans, third parties
Picking presidents; debate commission controls candidates’ chances
From the time American children enter school they are told they can be anything they want to be — even president of the United States. After all, America is the land of opportunity where all you need is a big dream and a little hard work.
In reality, only those allowed to participate have a shot at the United States’ presidency.
I’m not talking about the vast amounts of wealth, Harvard degree or friends in high places one needs to be eligible. While a certain pedigree and small family fortune (or, at the very least, wealthy donors) are necessary steps toward the Oval Office, the most insurmountable obstacle is that posed by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
The commission was created in 1987 to “ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners,” according to its website. But civil rights activist and lawyer Connie Rice says the CPD is far from being a public service.
“The CPD is under the total control of the Republican and Democratic parties and by definition bipartisan, not non-partisan,” Rice said.
In Rice’s Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates, she contends that the CPD purposefully shuts out third-party candidates.
“This is what I call the Obstruction of Democratic Debate Rule, which sets an impossibly high threshold for third-party candidates… Where are we, Russia? Isn’t Vladimir Putin wiping out democracy in Russia by excluding all opposing candidates from the airwaves during his re-election campaigns? Most new ideas come from third parties — they should be in the debates.”
Rice is not alone in her harsh criticism of the CPD. The League of Women Voters, which used to run the debates, withdrew its support in October 1988 because of the “campaign-controlled environment.”
“The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter,” League President Nancy M. Neuman said in a press release. “The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.”
But hoodwinking is exactly what the CPD does.
According to the report, Deterring Democracy: How the Commission on Presidential Debates Undermines Democracy, the Democrat and Republican parties took over the presidential debates in 1986. The CPD was created by then chair of the Republican Party Frank Fahrenkopf and then chair of the Democratic Party Paul Kirk. Both Kirk and Fahrenkopf still reside as chairmen on the committee. The consequences of such partisan creation and control are devastating, according to the report:
“Candidates that voters want to see are often excluded, such as Ross Perot. Issues the American people want to hear about are often ignored, such as free trade and child poverty. And the debates have been reduced to a series of glorified bipartisan news conferences, in which the Republican and Democratic candidates exchange memorized sound bites.”
Even Walter Cronkite called CPD-sponsored debates an “unconscionable fraud.”
It’s disturbing that in a so-called democracy as America, such a dictatorial system exists. When it comes to selecting the most important person in the nation — and arguably the world — debates, and thus elections, are anything but democratic.
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OSU-Cascades Continues Enrollment Boom
BEND, OR -- Despite multiple delays on OSU-Cascades' path to a fully-functioning four-year campus, the college is still experiencing growth. Jane Reynolds says compared to last year, they're seeing a 5% increase in overall students, and a 9% jump in full-time enrollment. She says the college is also becoming more traditional. "Partly, I think, the recession is changing and the economy is getting better. We have actually more traditional age students going to school. we've had a 13% increase in students who are 18 to 24 this last year - That's a pretty good increase. We're seeing less students over 30."
The number of out-of-state students is also up. Reynolds says that's due to recent attention the Bend campus has received. Freshman applications have also increased, this fall. "We're up about 40% right now. We work with transfer students and they tend to come to us later in the year. But freshman applications are up a lot," said Reynolds. She notes there has been a shift toward technical degrees. The fastest growing departments are business and engineering.
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The Audubon-Exira-Hamlin Flood of 1958
Flash floods are some of the most devastating natural disasters in the world. They can come without warning, destroying everything in their path. Iowa is no stranger to them. Although there have been many throughout the years, one still stands out in the minds of Southwest Iowa residents.
Perpetual Rain
It began to rain on July 2nd, 1958. Thunderstorms blossomed across the landscape, violent and angry. Lightning flashed, and thunder boomed.
Several of these storms were very slow moving, and lingered in the area longer than usual. To make matters worse, strong winds kept them in place for even longer, allowing them to pour tremendous amounts of water down on western Iowa. Once the ground reached its saturation point, there was nowhere else for all that water to go.
Low spots in the ground quickly filled. Puddles became ponds, and ponds became lakes. Water seeks to naturally level itself out, and a large volume of water is very heavy. Depending on the landscape, that weight can cause the water to flow very quickly, giving the water powerful momentum.
In southwest Iowa, streams and creeks began to swell, reaching their crest as they began to enter the larger Nishnabotna River. The volume of water that already naturally found its way downstream multiplied, and the river soon reached its own crest and overflowed its banks. Soon, the water began to pick up speed, slamming across the landscape.
Word about the rising flood waters spread quickly. In Exira, a night watchman named Claude Greene began to sound the fire alarm in effort to warn residents. In the low-lying areas of the Nishnabotna, fireman ran from door to door, waking and warning as many residents as they could.
The flood was coming.
Trapped by the Water
Jerry Lauritsen was only eighteen years old in 1958. The 4th of July holiday was only two days away, and they could almost feel the excitement in the air. He and three of his friends had spent the day in Atlantic, Iowa, and were now travelling back home to Audubon, almost thirty miles to the north.
Night had fallen, and Jerry watched the slow ribbon of concrete stretch out before him in the soft glow of his headlights. As they approached Brayton, he knew they weren’t that far away from home. Rain began to fall then, heavy and hard. Jerry had driven through rain before, so he wasn’t concerned. He turned on the wipers, slowed his speed, and stared hard through the thick sheets of rain at the road.
Just on the other side of town, Jerry’s car cut out. He got the vehicle started again, and kept going. This process was repeated and again as the group of friends drove haltingly through the blinding rain toward Audubon.
As they approached an intersection a few miles south of Audubon, the car ahead of them stopped. Without warning, it was wrenched sideways across the road, blocking the way through. Deep water was rushing across the highway, deep enough to reach the floorboards of their car and soak their feet.
The car vibrated as something slammed against it outside. Scared now, the boys looked out the window just in time to see a large tree branch float away, borne by the rushing torrent of water. They were caught in the tide, and there was nowhere to go.
In Exira, Lee Thompson sat up in bed. Sound asleep, he had been awoken by the town fire alarm. Curious, he got up and looked out of his bedroom window. To his utter amazement, a bridge was floating across his driveway!
Without thinking, he woke up his wife, then grabbed his two children, one under each arm. They couldn’t stay in the house. They had to get out and away from the flood. He opened the front door and waded out into the water.
Elsewhere in Exira, Russell Smith was sitting at home when he heard a loud popping sound. To him, it sounded almost as if something had exploded. He got up from his chair and went to investigate. Suddenly, he began to shout to his wife Elsie and their 19-year-old son, Jim, that the house was filling with water.
Russell grabbed their little dog and they all went out into the front yard. The water was already rising higher. Russell and Elsie climbed onto one of the family cars, while Jim, a former high school athlete, ran to a neighbor’s tree and climbed as high and as fast as he could.
To their dismay, the car they were standing on began to sink. Unable to withstand the force of the water, the Smiths were knocked off the car and into the flood. For one split second, Elsie saw Jim staring in horror before she went under the water.
Washed Away
Back on the highway south of Audubon, Jerry and his friends watched the water streaming past the car. One of them, Darwin Kuntzweiler, was terrified. He couldn’t swim, and didn’t want to get swept away.
Ahead of them, two men got out of the car blocking the road. The boys recognized them as the Wiges brothers, Harry and Frank. They both lived locally, and the boys knew them. Frank was custodian of the city auditorium in Audubon, and Harry ran a grocery store.
As they watched, the men braced themselves against the racing water and began wading toward a gas station a few hundred yards away. Darwin got out of the car and waded through the water to walk with the brothers.
Jerry and his other two friends knew that they couldn’t wait in the car. Together, they exited the vehicle and prepared to follow their friends. They grabbed on tight to one another and began to move through the water toward the gas station.
Making headway was almost impossible. The flowing water kept trying to knock their feet out from underneath them, and they constantly fought to maintain their balance.
Suddenly, the water began to turn Jerry. As he tried to adjust, he felt his feet slip out from underneath him. Jerry instinctually tried to hold tighter to his friends, but it was too late. Almost before he knew what was happening, he was torn away from them and ripped downstream.
Outside of his home in Exira, Lee Thompson waded through chest high flood water with a child under each arm. His wife clung to him, trying her best to maintain her balance as the rushing water threatened to sweep her away.
The Thompsons lived next to a service station, and there was a large gravel truck parked outside. Lee tried to make his way toward that when he saw another semi closer to him. He could see the driver inside, and immediately took a gamble.
Summoning his strength, Lee moved to the semi and handed his children to the driver. Next, he helped his wife get in. The driver, who had pulled over for a nap and had been caught unaware by the flood, started his semi and used the large vehicle to power his way through the water and to higher ground. As he saw them leave, Lee hoped that the driver could get his wife and children out of the water and on to safety.
Satisfied that he had given his family at least a fighting chance, Lee now turned his attention to his own survival. He made his way to the gravel truck, where almost a dozen other people clung to the side, including several children.
In the water, Elsie Smith had been able to grab onto a tree branch. She was at the mercy of the flood, swept along by the rushing tide. Elsie struggled to get her head above the water. Finally, she did, sucking in great breaths of air.
When a larger branch came floating by, Elsie let go of the branch she had and grabbed on to it. Several more times, she was pushed under water and fought to rise above the surface. She clung to the log she was on with all her strength.
At one point, Elsie was snagged on a barbed wire fence. She struggled and eventually tear away, but not without a fight. Somehow, she had maintained her grip on her log. Free of the fence now, continued floating down the river, still clinging to her makeshift life raft.
Jerry Lauritsen was being pulled along with the powerful flood tide. Desperately, he tried his best to swim along with the current. Suddenly, he felt something bump against him. It was a log!
He climbed on top of it and rode it downstream for nearly a mile. It drifted into a group of trees that were tall enough to stand out of the water.
Sensing an opportunity, Jerry climbed one of the nearest trees as high as he could, far out of the flood water. Terrified, he clung fiercely to his perch and waited for his ordeal to come to an end.
Lee Thompson and several others held onto the side of a gravel truck parked at a local service station. The adults took the children in the group and held them up out of the water as high as they could. Deep water buffeted them, threatening to tear them from their refuge.
Over the next several hours, Thompson and the others used a rake to keep flood debris from collecting around the truck. They were afraid that if enough of it accumulated, then the gravel truck would be tipped over and throw them off into the water.
Finally, morning came. The angry waters began to recede, and rescuers could get to stranded victims.
Lee Thompson and his companions were among them. They had clung to the gravel truck for nearly six hours, with only the light of dim flashlights and flashes of lightning to see by. The entire time, Lee didn’t know if his family had survived or not. To his tremendous relief, they had. They were happily reunited later.
When dawn broke, Jerry Lauritsen began to call for help. To both his surprise and his relief, he heard two others answering from nearby, stranded in their own trees. Soon, they were all rescued by a group of volunteers and policeman in a boat who saw them while searching for survivors.
All three of Jerry’s friends, as well as the two Wiges brothers, had drowned in the flood. He was the only one of the small group stranded on the highway that night to survive.
Elsie Smith floated down the river on her log, praying. She was picked up by rescuers almost fifty miles downstream.
She was taken to a hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, where she was reunited with her son, Jim, who had also survived, safe in the neighbor’s tree. Unfortunately, her husband Russell, who had warned them of the rising water, had died.
Altogether, 19 people had met their end in the flooding around the Audubon-Exira-Hamlin area. Bridges had been washed away, as well as parts of roads. Thousands of various kinds of livestock had been killed.
Almost all the homes in Exira had been washed off their foundations, and crops throughout the region were ruined. Cars were strewn everywhere, water-logged and covered in debris.
The damage estimates quickly ran into the millions.
Over 12 inches of rain had fallen virtually overnight on southwest Iowa.
But, through it all, the towns and their people persevered. They buried their loved ones, mourned their losses, and began to clean up. Soon enough, homes were rebuilt and crops replanted. Livestock was replaced and roads repaired.
By the following year, life had mostly returned to its normal pace.
But the events of that night had left scars upon the land and its residents. When the lightning flashed and the rain began to fall, there were some who felt a twinge in the back of their minds, and they remembered the flood waters that had scoured the land and taken so many lives.
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“9 Dead, Several Missing in Flood.” Carroll Daily Times Herald, July 2, 1958.
Barton, Terry. “Iowa Flood Damage is ‘Fantastic.’” Daily Times, July 2, 1958.
“12-Inch Rain, 10 Iowans Die.” Daily Times, July 2, 1958.
Mills, George. “’Lord, Save Me,’ Prayed Mother in Raging River.” Des Moines Register, July 3, 1958.
Lamberto, Nick. “River Tears Land, Spills Death, Ruin.” Des Moines Register, July 3, 1958.
“How 3 Boys Met Death in Angry Water.” Des Moines Register, July 3, 1958.
Madson, John. “Homes Float Away, Hunt for Bodies.” Des Moines Register, July 3, 1958.
“A Night of Terror in Flood.” Des Moines Register, July 3, 1958.
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38 thoughts on “The Audubon-Exira-Hamlin Flood of 1958”
This probably won’t come as a surprise, but I like your death and disaster posts most of all! Judging by the pictures, it’s surprising that only 19 people were killed…it looks like it could have been a lot worse! Flash floods are scary stuff.
brassardjohn says:
I’m not surprised at all, Jessica. You and I seem to have similar interests in that regard. I’d never heard of this flood until one of my readers brought it to my attention. In my part of Iowa, floods usually just rise and soak a bunch of stuff. We have fast moving water that’s dangerous to wade into, but nothing like what happened in Exira! I’d never heard of a flood like this in Iowa. It was almost like one of those disaster films. I’m still in disbelief about it.
Linda Sorensen says:
Only by the Grace of God were my parents able to get us 6 kids to safety. We survived but lost our home on that terrible night.
And I’m very glad that you survived. That was a terrible night, and I can only imagine what it must have been like for your parents facing down those waters with six kids. Homes can be rebuilt, but children can never be replaced.
Monte Akers(Myron Akers son) says:
My dad Myron Akers was one in back of the gravel truck, he was terrified of water. He didn’t talk about it much.
I read about some of things that your father experienced that night, Monte. Honestly, I’d be terrified of water, too, after all that. He and the other adults on that truck worked a miracle keeping those kids alive, sir. He has my utmost respect.
I believe it is AUDUBON, IA
You’re quite correct, Mark. I realized that as I was writing it, and apparently never changed it! I’m going to go and rectify that right now.
Fascinating personal stories! Thank you for writing this. I grew up in Exira, and heard about “The Flood of ’58” all my life. (PS, the town you mentioned – Braydon – is spelled “Brayton”.
Thank you for reading, Cathy! I’ll get that typo changed.
Susan Osvald says:
Brayton, not Braydon.
I’m a lifelong Exiran, 9 at the time. The stories told by/about those clinging to the gravel truck would give you nightmares.
Nice job, brassardjohn, come to Exira to see the flood museum and to see the flood memorial park which stopped the devastating fire this July.
Thank you for reading, Susan. I’m going to get that typo changed in just a few minutes, ma’am. I am in the process of making plans to come out to Exira and visit sometime here soon.
Charles Gilbert says:
This was forwarded on to me by my friend Pete L in the Twin Cities. My dad grew up in Audubon, and I would have been 3 at the time of the flood. We used to visit my grandparents and they lived in a low area of town, but I don’t remember this . . too young. Thanks for your research and writing it up.
Thank you for reading, Charles!
Lana Kuball says:
I was 3 at the time of the flood and have heard my mom and dad, Berle and Bev Coffman, tell stories of the flood of ’58. I remember being taken to the neighbor’s house in the midle of the night in the terrible storm so that my parents could go help with sand bagging. Lana Coffman-Kuball
That’s an amazing memory to have, Lana. That storm must have been terrifying. It’s always been interesting to me what memories we have from those early childhood years. I’m glad that you and yours made it through safe.
Cindi LaFoy Olsen says:
I was 8 years old, even though you’d think I wouldn’t remember but I do very clearly. We lived in Hamlin next to the creek. It was already coming in our back door. We lost a dog, but my Uncle Emery Bertelsen drove across the bridge and took us to his home up high. My parents lost their business, Nutrena Feeds in Hamlin, Iowa. The flood pretty much took care of our very small town as far as business for some time. I remember the people that lost their lives, the mud inside our home, bugs, worms, and snakes. Something I will never forget.
Thank you for sharing your story, Cindi. I’m very sorry to hear about your families losses during the flood. I’m not at all surprised that you remember so much of what happened, ma’am. Something like that you’re probably never very likely to forget.
Stuart Bintner says:
Following are some of my recollections as a 16 year old kid:
*Seeing the whole river valley turned into a lake as we came into town that morning from the south on what was then County K road
*National Guard troops making sure that everyone entering had a purpose other than sight seeing
* A series of typhoid shots for all
*Shoveling muck and silt several inches thick that covered everything after the water subsided
*Salvation Army light trucks with members handing out coffee and snacks to clean-up workers
*Shoveling muck out of the house of a family that lost everything but their lives
*Seeing railroad tracks between Brayton and Exira twisted into the air like a giant corkscrew by the force of water (and knowing that the East Nishabotna River is normally no more than an oversize creek in the summer)
*Personally knowing, even at that relatively young age, the stories and people mentioned in the account and comments above
Thank you for sharing your experiences, Stuart. From what you’re saying, and from what some other people have also said, the aftermath and the clean-up of the flood damage was almost as bad or worse than the flood itself.
The body recovery and clean-up was grim, but the terror of the actual flood experience is something that I can only imagine,
Peggy Byriel Wierson says:
I remember my parents Harvey and Dolores Byriel talk about that flood of ’58. My Dad’s youngest brother Donald Byriel was one of the boys in the group of young men who was swept away in the waters . Only one of those boys made it . It was not Donald.I was just a baby at the time , but the tragedy of that flood hit the entire Byriel family . PBS did a story on that flood years back .At the end of the story they ran a list of those who perished in the floor . It was meaningful to me to see my uncle Donald Byriel’s and all the other victims name .
I’m very sorry for the loss of your family, Peggy. That was a horrible day in Iowa history. However, I’m glad to see that PBS honored your uncle in that way, so that people know that he lived and that he mattered. Thank you so much for sharing your story with me.
P. Porter Gaul says:
I remember my dad, Hubert Porter, launching his boat to rescue as many as they could. He launched his boat into the flood water at the intersection of Highway 6 and Walnut Street in downtown Atlantic and started north.
Your father did a great thing that day. It never ceases to amaze me at how extensive the flooding really was. Thank you for reading and for sharing your story!
Kay Wilkins jessen says:
My daughter was born that next nite. Our dr Called Her His “flood” Baby. Also, my grandparents were both lost in the flood. It was unbelievable to see.
Kay – that is a truly bitter sweet story. I’m both happy for the birth of your child and the tragic loss of your grandparents. Thank you for sharing that with me.
Rich Griffin says:
I too remember the Flood Of 1958. We {my bro. & parents } were living in a newly built basement house waiting for the top to be built in a few years. Grandparents {Griffins} came to visit that night, but was raining so hard could not see to drive to their home in south Aud. county. I remember that mother had some small ducks outside, she went and put them in a cardboard box and brought them inside. The next morning after all the rain we woke up ,the basement was full of water and the baby ducks were swimming around as the water soaked through the box. Kind of a funny side to the flood.
I’m glad that there were some happy memories from that flood, Rich. I really like that story. Thank you for sharing with me!
There were thirteen men on the gravel truck that night and were known by the lucky thirteen from then on . Lee Thompson was my dad. I know much more about this and it all isn’t good cause alot of people could of got out alot earlier.
Thank you for sharing your father’s story, Kim. An experience like those folks on the truck had that night is the stuff of nightmares. I can only imagine what it must have been like.
Rex Clemmensen says:
My father, Milo Clemmensen, was in the Audubon fire department. He spoke often of this flood. It had quite an effect on him. Firefighters and others were working to save people. Dad asked to have a rope tied around him so he could swim out to the people in trees. After Dad thrashed around for a while, the others pulled him back and said: “Why didn’t you tell us that you can’t swim?” Dad was gone all night helping to rescue people and nearly got swept away himself a few times. He had very vivid memories. Jerry Lauritsen was a lifelong friend of Dad’s. I was only 5 but I recall watching our washing machine bob up and down in the basement. We lived about a quarter mile from the Bluegrass but were high enough to be safe. As I got older, I wondered what Mom was thinking. She was home with us kids and Dad was gone all night. There were no cell phones in those days. Mom had to wait until the next day to find our her husband was OK. It was quite an experience for so many people.
Thank you for sharing your father’s story, Rex. I have nothing but the utmost respect for those who, like him, went out and braved those terrible flood waters to rescue the survivors. Honestly, I don’t know how an experience like that couldn’t have an effect on someone.
Beth Carrick-Dowd says:
We lost my brother and his wife, their friends Max Cornish and Camille Buckner in the flash flood as they we coming back from Missouri and encountered this storm. Literally swept away in a heart beat and left years of heart ache to many families. There has never been a July 4th holiday since that there wasn’t sadness. The loss that the family still has will never be forgotten for the duration. It took it’s toll on everyone and we have and will continue through the generations to remember this tragedy. In loving memory of Clyde and Martha Funderburk-Carrick, Max Cornish & Camille Buckner. To my parents, my you rest in peace, as it certainly took it’s toll. There isn’t anything worse than loosing a child, sibling, or dear friend, no matter the reason. We visit you twice s year and it is still hard to understand why . . 60 years later!
Kenn Shepherd says:
Thanks for this site. This is very real to me yet today. We also were on our way back from Missouri Beth and were the children that spent the night on the gravel truck at Bill Jacobson’s Gas Station. You have called us the Lucky 13. We see it as a miracle from God. If your evacuation team had finished up earlier I would not be writing this. Myself Kenn then 6 1/2 Keith 4 and Steve 2 1/2 and our sister will be at the Exira Library Dec. 8 2018 from 2-5 pm giving thanks and sharing stories of that night for any of you that can be there. Hope to see you there.
Thank you for sharing this, Kenn. It truly was a miracle from God, that’s for sure. I just received this a few hours ago, so I’m getting it out as fast as I can. According to the date, we’ve missed you by a little over a week. Is there another time that you folks will be out there so that we might be able and come and see you?
Hi, Please correct the date if it’s past as it is still coming this week. Tuesday, Dec 18 2018 from 2-5pm in the Exira Library . Connie Faga now of Audabon has set this up for us. Her dad Norman Baier is the hero that held this boy ALL night long.
Thank you for that update, Kenn. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend. However, I’m going to put this out on my Facebook page to let people know about this. Thank you for letting me know, and also for putting on the event so that we can hear your stories first hand.
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The Kitchen Table Historian Podcast: Episode 1: The Devil You Know
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first official podcast episode of the Kitchen Table Historian!
For this first episode, we’re travelling to Adams County, Iowa, in the southwest corner of the Hawkeye State.
On a cold January morning in 1919, fifteen-year-old Irene Hoskins came running and screaming to the front door of her neighbor, Allen Taylor. She was scared and wounded, bleeding from a wound on her head.
When they asked her what had happened, she gave them an almost unbelievable reply – her father, John Hoskins, had just tried to kill them all.
Come over to the table and learn why sometimes it’s the Devil you know that’s the most terrifying one of all.
There is a bit of a learning curve here, so any and all feedback, comments, and concerns that you can give me would be immensely appreciated. I’m interested in making this the best podcast that I can for all of you, because without you, none of this would be possible.
Below you will find not only the podcast episode (simply turn up your speaker and press the wedge-shaped ‘play’ button to listen), but also the show notes. These are going to amount to a blog written by your favorite Kitchen Table Historian, i.e. me, and include pictures and my usual source list.
Be forewarned, however! I will be including information in the podcast that won’t be found in the show notes, so for a complete experience I recommend reading the notes (or at least skimming them if you’ve already listened), and definitely listening.
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Breakfast was slightly awkward in the Hoskins household that cold January morning. John Hoskins and his wife, Hulda, had been arguing.
Hulda, as she usually did, had eventually stopped arguing with her husband, just letting him yell and scream on in his anger. They had only been married a few years, and the union definitely had its ups and downs.
Her first marriage hadn’t been this dramatic. Unfortunately, her Clem had died, leaving her a widow with Roy and Gladys to bring up. But, Hulda and her two children were well liked, and had plenty of friends. Her parents helped out, as did Clem’s. Roy and Gladys were very helpful and stayed out of trouble.
Hulda Hoskins, mother of Roy and Gladys Cambbell. Courtesy of Adams County Free Press
Hulda Cambbell had probably known John Hoskins for a while. John was from a well- respected family, and was also well-liked among the community. Like her, John was a widower with two children. He was a kind, thoughtful man who worked hard and went to church every week. It seemed like an ideal match and, for the most part, it was.
But John had a temper. Sometimes he would argue over things that didn’t really matter. He would rant and scream, and refused to see things from Hulda’s point of view. This was especially ironic from a man whose middle name was Reason.
The argument that morning had been no different.
John Reason Hoskins. Hoskins murdered his second wife and two step-children on January 11, 1919. Courtesy of Adams County Free Press
The family was going to take the car over to Greenfield, Iowa, that morning to visit John’s parents. They were happy to go, and all the plans for the trip had been made the night before. Unfortunately, things that morning had not gone according to John’s timeline.
Gladys and Irene had woken up late, not getting out of bed and downstairs until half past six. John was livid, yelling at Hulda for allowing it to happen. He had wanted to leave much earlier than that.
It was unbelievable how angry he got. He would not listen to Hulda at all. John had even said that he should kill them all and be done with it. Hulda just stopped talking. She didn’t want to waste her breath. He had threatened this before, but they were just words. Or at least she hoped they were.
John had been getting worse and worse. The children were afraid of him, and, to tell the truth, so was she a little.
Just that past year, John had completely snapped, striking Roy to the ground. He then jumped on top of his son and began choking him. When Irene and Hulda tried to interfere, he struck them, too. John had stopped, but things hadn’t been quite the same since.
But, that had been the worst of it. Hulda hoped that he would stop and go back to being the kind, thoughtful man that she thought she had married. The children adored one another, acting as if they had been brother and sister their entire lives instead of just for a part of it.
When John had finished his rant and sat down at the kitchen table for breakfast, Hulda took a can and went outside to get some lard from the separator house.
All four of the children – Roy, Merlin, Irene, and Gladys – could tell that John was still upset. He hadn’t even said grace before he sat down with them at the kitchen table, and he always asked the Lord’s Blessing.
He simply sat down and started passing the pancakes.
The children, like their mother, knew that once John’s anger had subsided, than everything would be alright. They continued to eat in silence.
John finished chewing a bite of pancake, set down his fork, and stood up. He opened the back door, leaning out to grab something from outside.Merlin noticed that John had taken the length of heavy wooden buggy axle that he used for stirring hog slop from where he kept it on the porch during the winter.
Calmly, he walked behind Gladys, raised the club, and swung it hard at the girl’s head. She went down hard, falling off her chair. John immediately swung again, this time striking Roy, sending him sprawling to the floor next to his sister.
Gladys Campbell. A pretty eighteen year old, she was engaged to be married later in 1919. Courtesy of Adams County Free Press
Roy Campbell. Roy, like his sister Gladys, was well-liked by the other boys in the area. He was friendly and worked hard, earning him many friends. Some of them would serve as pallbearers at his funeral. Courtesy of Adams County Free Press
Irene Campbell. Irene was only fifteen years old when she was struck down in her front yard and left for dead by her father. Courtesy of Adams County Free Press
As soon as she saw John strike Gladys, Irene got up and ran. She went through the door and into the yard, pausing for just a moment to look behind her. To her horror, she saw her father standing right behind her.
Irene pleaded with him to stop, that he had done enough. But her pleas fell might as well have fallen on stone ears. With a wild and savage look on his face, John struck her hard on the side of the head, and then walked back into the house, leaving his young daughter motionless on the front lawn.
Merlin, meanwhile, had run out of the house at almost the same time as Irene. As he was running, he heard his father call out to him. Merlin turned and saw John standing on the porch.
John told him to saddle his horse and ride to his Uncle Charlies’ farm. John wanted his son to tell Charlie what he had done. Merlin, terrified to disobey, went back into the house, got his coat, then went to the barn and and began to saddle his horse.
By now, Hulda had come back toward the house. She suspected nothing as she walked onto the porch and into the kitchen. Hulda saw her children lying on the floor, and felt a bitter cold worse than the January weather outside seep into her heart right before her husband stuck her across the face.
Surprised and stunned, Hulda stumbled onto the back porch and fell to the ground.
Leaving her there stunned on the grass, John returned to the kitchen once more and set about finishing his grisly task.
First, he began to strike Gladys in the head with his club, smashing in her skull. She never woke up. Roy, however, was not so lucky. He came to and tried to resist, but he was only twelve and was severely wounded on top of that. Savagely, John shrugged off the boys feeble attempts and hit Roy repeatedly in the head until he died.
In the front yard, Irene slowly stirred. The blow her father had dealt her was a severe one, but it hadn’t killed her. She tried to stand, but fell back down. Irene took a deep breath and tried again. Once more, she fell into the cold grass.
Irene knew that she couldn’t stay there, so she summoned all her strength and this time managed to rise to her feet. Irene took a few tentative steps forward, finding her footing through pain and dizziness. As she did, she saw her mother laying in the back yard.
As she made her way over to Hulda, she could tell that her mother was hurt, but discovered she was still able to speak. She told Irene to go and get help. The girl turned and ran toward the road.
The Hoskins Family home north of Prescott, Iowa. Irene made it about as far as the tree on the right before being struck down by her father. Her step-mother, Hulda, was beaten in the back yard to the left, then crawled onto the porch where she died. Courtesy of Adams County Free Press
Finished with his grisly work, John stepped out into the back yard and stood over his wife for a moment before raising the bloody club high over his head.
About then, Merlin started to ride out from the barn and across the yard. He must have felt helpless as he realized that there wasn’t anything that he could do. He kept riding out onto the road, and hurried to his uncle’s farm.
The Taylor’s could scarcely believe Irene’s story. Still, here she was, bloody and terrified. Both Mr. and Mrs. Taylor went to the telephone and began to call for help. While the authorities made their way to farm, the neighbors gathered and began to make their way to the Hoskins farm.
Chester Wood was the first to arrive. He could see Hoskins through the back door.
John was standing in the house, honing a straight razor. John told him that he had “…lived in hell long enough and was going to quit it.” As they talked, Wood noticed Hulda’s body lying dead in the grass not far from where he stood.
Cautiously, he once again mounted his horse and rode to other farms to gather more help.
A short while later, other neighbors began to arrive. When they approached the house, they were met with the sight of John lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen doorway. He had slit his own throat and cut one of his wrists. He did not move. Most thought that he was dead.
A doctor present at the scene even stated that John when past saving. When he did so, however, John’s hand and leg began twitching. The people gathered there knew then that he was still alive.
They carried him into the house, where the doctor began to treat his wounds.
In the kitchen, a gruesome sight met those present. The room was splattered with the blood of the poor, innocent people lying dead on the floor. Hulda was dead on the porch, only a few yards from her children. One man took a blanket and covered her corpse.
It was soon apparent that, despite first appearances, John’s wounds weren’t much more than superficial. He had cut his throat too high to do any significant damage. It was the same with his wrist. John would soon recover. Authorities, having no sympathy for him, got permission from the physician to move him to the jail in Corning. The man readily agreed.
A coroner’s inquest was held, where several neighbors, family, and friends were interviewed. It was revealed that while John Hoskins seemed fine to all of his neighbors and people in town, those who were closer to him saw a different side of him. All of the stories of his temper, his threats, and how he had attacked his family that past spring were brought into the light.
His mother and father were beside themselves with grief. They couldn’t understand how their beloved son had committed such a terrible crime.
John himself showed no remorse whatsoever. He readily confessed to his jail guards what he had done and why.
Hoskins was rapidly brought to trial. Initially, he entered a plea of Not Guilty. There was speculation that he would claim that he was insane. The prosecutors took their time, carefully building up their case against Hoskins.
There was some outcry that they were taking too long. People knew that John Hoskins had murdered his family in cold blood. They were restless as they awaited the outcome. Thankfully, they didn’t have to wait long.
Hoskins’s defense attorney paid him a visit one day at the jail. After a long talk with his client, a decision was made. John Hoskins pled Guilty to First Degree Murder. It was later thought that once Hoskins’s attorney had seen the strong case built up by the prosecution, he was able to convince John to change his plea.
John Hoskins was found guilty of first-degree murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was taken to Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa, to serve out his sentence.
Iowa State Penitentiary, where John R. Hoskins was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in 1919.
Hoskins was seemingly a loving and caring family man to many of those who knew him. He was hard working and successful, and he went to church often. His family was loved and respected throughout the region. John was seemingly a man who had it all.
But, to those closer to him, John had a dark side. He had a nasty temper, and he regularly threatened to kill his family. He resented and hated them, and, after one attempt in 1918, finally carried through with his threats almost a year later.
In his section of Adams County, John Reason Hoskins was known by many. He had grown up with them, played with them as children. As a man, John worked beside them and sat next to them in church. He was one of them.
Not knowing the identity of a murderer is bad enough. But when you know one, know what they did and the people that he did it to, it can be worse. It’s worse because you waved to him in the street and welcomed him into your home.
Sometimes the devil that you know is the worst one of all.
“Triple Murder Near Prescott.” Adams County Free Press, 1/15/1919
“Bad Murder at Prescott.” Adams County Free Press, 1/18/1919
”Hoskins is Indicted.” Adams County Free Press, 1/23/1919
“Jurors are Drawn.” Adams County Free Press, 2/12/1919
“His Attorney Here.” Adams County Free Press, 2/13/1919
“J.R. Hoskins Pleads Guilty.” Adams County Free Press, 2/22/1919
“Hoskins Pleads Guilty.” Adams County Free Press, 2/26/1919
“Hoskins Case Testimony.” Adams County Free Press, 3/1/1919
Iowa, Consecutive Registers of Convicts, 1867 – 1970
State of Iowa Marriage Records
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Are We Rome: Sport
“Rome, like the United States, overcame a monarchy to become a republic. Long after the fall of ancient Rome, its heroes and legends have continued to influence future generations. From the battlefields of the revolution to the chambers of Congress, Rome became a part of America’s foundation.” National Constitution Center
The amphitheater of Pompeii (Photo by Iconem)
“The amphitheatre at Pompeii is the earliest known permanent stone amphitheatre in Italy (and the rest of the Roman world). It was constructed after 70 BC, and belongs to the period of the Roman conquest and colonisation of the town.” (BBC History)
Yale Bowl in New Haven (Photo by Peter Sachs of dronetographer.com)
“The (Yale) Bowl was based on classical examples, most notably the Roman amphitheater at Pompeii. Designed by engineer Charles Ferry ’71S and architect Donn Barber ’93S, the concept was simple: dig a hole for the field, then use the dirt to shape the elliptical seating area around it (and build 30 concrete portals to get people in and out). The result is an unforgettable space, a kind of Platonic ideal of a football stadium.” (Mark Alden Branch, Yale Alumni Magazine, 2014)
The Arles Arena (Photo by J Malik/Wikimedia)
“It only remains to describe the arena, or central open space for the combatants, which derived its name from the sand with which it was covered, chiefly for the purpose of absorbing the blood. Such emperors as Caligula, Nero, and Carinus, showed their prodigality by using cinnabar and borax instead of the common sand.” (William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875)
Miami’s American Airlines Arena (Photo by David Alvarez/Miami HEAT)
The Latin word for sand, “harena”, is the origin of the term “arena” and the name of many contemporary structures. The Miami Heat plays in the America Airlines Arena…and the court look like sand.
The Flavian Amphitheater. (Photo by JW Bailly CC BY 4.0)
“Begun in AD 70 by Vespasian and completed up to the third storey before his death in AD 79, the top level was finished off by his son Titus and the whole building inaugurated in AD 80. It is by a considerable margin the largest amphitheatre in the Roman world, 189 m (640 RF) long, 156 m (528 RF) wide, and 48 m (163 RF) high. When intact the outer perimeter measured 545 m (1,835 RF), and is estimated to have required 100,000 cubic metres of travertine, with 300 tons of iron clamps holding the blocks together. Equally vast amounts of tufa and brick-faced concrete were employed in the radial ribs and vaults which supported the seating. Although never matched in scale nor in the refinements of its architectural style the basic design was emulated by many amphitheatre builders throughout the Empire.” Claridge, Amanda. Rome (Oxford Archaeological Guides) (p. 312). OUP Oxford. Kindle Edition.
Yankee Stadium in New York City (Photo by populous.com)
“In contrast to the circus, the amphitheatre, one of the most characteristic of all Roman buildings, was oval or round in plan and was completely enclosed on all sides. Intended for gladiatorial contests, in which the precise dimensions of the field were of slight importance, the amphitheatre was designed to afford maximum seating capacity and optimum visual facility for spectators. The giant amphitheatre built in Rome in the 1st century CE is known as the Colosseum. After the fall of Rome, amphitheatres survived for some time until the decline of the cities themselves terminated the spectacles that they had held. Nearly two millennia passed before the form was revived.” Lev Zetlin, Encyclopedia Britannica
“Vespasian knew how to please a crowd, and the Colosseum’s interior confirms his showmanship is still attracting visitors. Their presence underscores the magnitude of this building and explains its continued ability to impress with scale and with what happened there. The animals were caged in the substructures, recently made accessible to tourists, and elevated to the arena using ramps and pulleys. The floor would have been covered with sand and props, and preserved exterior brackets supported poles for the awning (velarium) that shielded some seats from the sun.” Kleiner, Diana E. E.. Roman Architecture: A Visual Guide (Kindle Locations 1632-1636). . Kindle Edition.
Buffalo Bills Stadium. (Photo by Idibri/Wikimedia Commons)
“Beneath the carnival atmosphere lies the fact these fans have gathered to watch young men hit and bruise one another—a violent spectacle that is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Given its nature and its prominent position in our culture, is football the Roman gladiator sport for modern Americans?”
“American football has many similarities with gladiator games, says Garrett Fagan, associate professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History at Penn State. Most obviously, both involve spectacular, violent displays before a massive, cheering audience. Fans choose sides and strongly identify with their team—just as Roman citizens cheered their favorite gladiators in combat. Do these superficial similarities suggest a deeper connection?” Jesse Hicks, Penn State News, 2009.
AUTHOR(S) AND LAST UPDATE
John William Bailly & Stephanie Sepulveda, 29 January 2018
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Lance Robertson
Title: Part-time Instructor
Email: lancer@uoregon.edu
Lance Robertson is a long-time journalist and public relations professional. An instructor in the School of Journalism and Communications since 2003, he has taught courses in both the public relations and journalism sequences.
Lance spent the first 25 years of his communications career as a reporter and editor for a handful of Oregon newspapers. He specialized in environmental coverage during a 17-year career at The Register-Guard, where he won numerous state and regional awards for his coverage of some of the most pressing natural resources issues of the last half-century. He also covered the wood-products industry from a business perspective.
In 2001, Lance left newspaper work to serve as the communications coordinator for the Eugene Water & Electric Board, Oregon’s largest citizen-owned public utility. He later served as Public Affairs Manager for EWEB, where he directed a nine-person staff responsible for the utility’s external and internal communications, including media relations, strategic communications, public involvement, the web site, graphic design, marketing and government affairs.
Lance retired from full-time work in 2016 and does strategic communications consulting, freelance writing and editing, in addition to his part-time teaching duties at the UO.
Lance has served on the national affiliate board of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2), which is dedicated to good public engagement in decision-making. He also has been a fellow of the University of Maryland’s Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, and is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum.
He lives in Eugene with his freelance-writer spouse, Sarah Robertson. They have two grown children – both of them Ducks.
BA, Communications and English, Linfield College
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LATAMilitary (https://latamilitary.com/2018/11/22/uss-ramage-on-backup-for-g20-summit-air-defense-role/)
USS Ramage on backup for G20 Summit air defense role
By LATAMilitary | November 22, 2018
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USS Ramage, an Arleigh Burke Flight I class destroyer is to be on alert during this G20 Summit. The Destroyer, recently refitted, is temporarily serving roles for U.S. Southern Command’s 4th Fleet. It has been recently spotted in the Brazilian port of Pernambuco, and the U.S. has scheduled a port visit to Montevideo on Dec 2nd, right after the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.
This Destroyer is one of the most recently deployed ships in the USN, as stated in official media, 45% of the time of these last three years, Ramage, was in ports other than his own. This Arleigh Burke Flight I is specialized in air defense, with its AN/SPY-3D long range radar and SM-2 missiles. Also carries RGM-84 Harpoon missiles to engage other surface ships and 2 MH-60R helicopters for anti-submarine warfare.
Ramage’s SPY-3D can cover much of the airspace of interest and engage targets much within safety distance from the summit if required, but all air defense responsibilities will rely upon Argentine Air Force aircraft. Three F/A-18 Super Hornets will be based in Uruguay, just 200 miles from Buenos Aires as the regular escort for POTUS Air Force One.
KAI’s FA-50 closes the deal in Argentina or not?
The argentine newspaper Ambito, expressed what was first published by LATAMilitary, regarding a possible agreement for the purchase of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 Lead In Fighter Trainers (LIFT) for the Argentine Air Force within the context of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. The Air Force and KAI are very committed toward signing the agreement but within the Ministry of Defense, some voices have expressed their caution and asked to hear an offer as well by the second-best candidate: Leonardo’s M-346 FA Fighter Attack.
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Entrance to Medical Clinic
Dental Lab
ICU Patient Bed
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Tropical Medical Center was built sometime in the latter part of the 1960s.
It was nice that they named it after the only U.S. president ever to visit American Samoa. President Johnson visited on October 18, 1966. You can learn more about his visit here.
The “Tropical Medical Center” part of the name seems to refer more to the type of construction than to imply that tropical medicine is actually practiced there. The original design was totally open, with almost no closing windows and no air conditioning, except in surgery, birthing and nursery areas.
The wards were two patients to a room and those rooms had large open windows stretching the full width of the room and about 5’ high. The windows had only screen wire to separate the patients from the outside.
Plumbing, electrical and mechanical conduits are suspended in the ceilings along the main hallways. There is always incessant dripping causing wet spots on the floors. Many people have slipped and fallen in these wet spots, but still the dripping continues.
There have been many improvements over the years, but only as conditions demanded. The entire facility is now enclosed and air conditioned. The old, leaky roofing was replaced by metal roofing, which seems to be holding up pretty well. Much needed parking was added. The waiting area for the Emergency Room was enlarged and chickens no longer hang out around the outside benches. The pharmacy was upgraded and wait times reduced.
Even with all the improvements, the facility remains filthy and woefully inadequate. The hospital was built to serve a population of about 25,000 people and now attempts to serve nearly 70,000. There are some dispensaries (clinics) where services are provided for minor ailments, dentistry and pre-natal care. Still, most people head for the main hospital whenever they need any kind of medical attention.
Some of the pictures on this site will show the deplorable conditions of the facility most people depend on for their healthcare services.
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Critical Lenses: In-Between the Text
Welcome to Critical Lenses: In-Between the Text. Created in the spring of 2016 for the UMass Dartmouth course Literary Studies and Theory, this site is intended as a space for archiving for our projects, sharing ideas about literary theory, and exploring methods of engaging with literature in secondary education.
Meet Our Class
Sample Syllabus and Calendar Assignment
Jane Eyre: Religion, Class, and Love
February 24, 2016 ~ ealves3896 ~ Leave a comment
Jane Eyre is a coming of age story about an orphan who, through her struggles, attempts to find her place in life despite the obstacles she encounters. Throughout the novel we are given insight to the development of her character as she balances her beliefs about religion, love, freedom, and her position in life. Charlotte Bronte’s Jayne Eyre addresses several important themes that high school students can relate to or may have experienced themselves. The novel incorporates themes of religion, class, and love that allow for a connection to real life situations, thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
Religion is a difficult subject that must be navigated carefully in a classroom setting. In the novel, Bronte incorporates religion as a theme, which aids in the development of Jane’s character but also, in my opinion, represents the choices we have as individuals. Her spiritual journey allows her to encounter several different types of religions and in the end allows her to develop her own beliefs and understanding of God. Bronte uses characters such as Mr. Brocklehurst, to represent Evangelicalism, and Helen, to represent Christianity, as symbols of religion that Jane encounters. Jane finds Mr. Brocklehurst hypocritical and Helen to passive and submissive and eventually finds her own spiritual balance and faith in God. Jane’s spiritual journey is one of choice and understanding that students can learn from.
Social class is also an important theme in Jane Eyre and Bronte sheds light on it through the ambiguous social class that she places on her protagonist. Jane is a governess and is educated, sophisticated, and cultured like her aristocrat counterparts, but is also an employee and looked upon as a servant. Jane’s relationship with Mr. Rochester displays the importance of social class at the time. Jane, in societies views, is capable of being Mr. Rochester’s intellectual equal but not his social equal due to her social class. Social class is an interesting theme that students can pull out of this book and question whether culture or wealth should define who we are as people.
The protagonist’s search for love and freedom in her life is a major reoccurring theme in the novel that many students can relate to. Throughout the novel Jane displays a strong desire to be loved and accepted, while at the same time displaying a longing for her freedom. Jane’s desire for belonging and love is a direct result of her childhood and the cruel treatment she suffered at the hands of her Aunt Reed and her cousins. Throughout her childhood she was alienated and exiled by her family, which left her lonely and created a desire for belonging and acceptance. Jane displays this feeling of wanting to be loved and accepted, at all cost, when she is sent to school at Lowood. She admits to her friend Helen that she would gladly accept physical pain if it came with acceptance and affection from her or Miss Temple. Jane also desires romantic love, but believes that acquiring it and getting married comes at the cost of sacrificing her freedom as an individual. Jane’s views of love are directly connected with her growth as a character and as she becomes self-sufficient she also learns to love and be loved without sacrifice.
Jane’s character develops and becomes more aware of thoughts, ideas, and feelings associated with the three themes of religion, class, and love. Jane learns who she is spiritually, understands her place in society through class, and learns to love and be loved without sacrificing herself. Life is a complicated thing for students to understand which includes these three themes of love, religion, and class. Understanding Jane’s struggle and growth with each theme, in my opinion, gives students not only an example of these three concepts but also explains how finding balance and understanding of love, religion, and class may help their own lives.
There are many ways to view Jane Eyre
February 22, 2016 ~ jjgallagher73 ~ Leave a comment
One of the first literary lenses that I would have my students view the novel Jane Eyre through would be that of Feminist Criticism. As a character, Jane interacts, and sometimes befriends, a great number of female characters and a few male characters as she lives her life. I would ask my students to keep track of each of the characters as they are introduced in the novel. I would ask my students to think about how each of these characters help or hinder Jane’s experiences and whether a particular character is a positive influence, a nuisance, or neutral.
For instance, Jane has a great relationship with Bessie, who is a positive person in her life, but she does not greatly affect Jane’s course in life. Then when you look at a character like Misses Reed, whom Jane despises, she is a character who sets Jane on a path to gain an education and then employment. I want my students to be able to see the way in which each character plays simple and sometimes significant roles in the journey that Jane is on throughout the novel.
As Jane goes on to the Lowood School, and then to the Thornfield Estate, she connects with other female characters, like Miss Temple, Helen, and Mrs. Fairfax. These characters symbolize strong and equal female companionship and support for Jane. Most of the males that Jane encounters, like Master John and Mr. Brocklehurst, are not very supportive of Jane. There is not a positive male character for Jane until she encounters and gets to know Mr. Rochester. Although he continues to be snooty as a person, he opens up to Jane and befriends her in the best way that he is able. Again, I would want my students to look closely at the way each of these characters affect the choices Jane makes and how she navigates through her life. I could even have my students try to match up and identify people in their lives that have similar personalities and traits as a number of the key characters in the novel.
One of the themes that I also feel is important in the novel is class. This could be examined through a Marxist lense. Jane is an orphan who is taken in by an Aunt and help of the house in which she lives. She is able to see how the well to do live, but does not experience it for herself. I would want my students to examine how Jane as a character with intelligence and determination, is able to remain strong and humble, even when placed in some very trying situations over long periods of time. I would want my students to consider Jane’s journey and imagine each of them going through similar experiences. I would ask them if they believed that they would be able to handle the various trials that Jane is faced with. I would also have my students connect the idea of classes to our society today and generate a discussion regarding our country and how these ideas are still alive.
Along these same lines is the theme of Existential thought. This philosophy and way of thinking and viewing the world runs through the novel. I would want my students to examine the journey that Jane goes on. Many times she is alone, left just to her thoughts. She encounters many challenges and many challenging people. I want my students to realize, in their own way, that Jane is a very resilient individual, who is able to overcome adverse circumstances and still carry on. I would ask my students to come up with reasons why Jane is able to do this.
Justin J. Gallagher February 2016
Relating Novels To Life
February 13, 2016 ~ roderickenglish ~ Leave a comment
When I start reading a new novel with my students, I always try to look for ways to relate the novel to my students’ lives. I find that a lot of my students don’t like to read because of a few things. The first is many don’t read outside of school. As a result, many of my students struggle with reading, which is the second reason they don’t like to read. That being said, something that makes it easier for them to get into a book in school is to make sure they can see something about the novel in their own lives. I usually explore this with my students through character analysis and theme analysis.
For character analysis, graphic organizers are my best friends. As students begin to read, I have them pick out the details about each major character and record their appearance, their actions, what they say about themselves, and what other characters say about them. The characters I would have them explore the most would be Jane Eyre (obviously), Mr. Rochester, Bessie, the Reed Cousins, Helen Burns, Bertha Mason, and have them pick a couple other characters they think are important to include. By completing this graphic organizer, we can see as a class who the characters are and infer why each character behaves the way he or she does. This will allow students to understand the motives behind each character so they can understand the plot better. It will also allow students to connect to certain characters, make opinions about characters they don’t like, and connect to life. I find myself mediating students frequently about when one student doesn’t like another student or another teacher. By analyzing character, we can relate to life that there will always be people we like and people we don’t like, as there are characters we like and don’t like.
The next aspect of the novel that I think would be important to address with students is the theme of Jane trying to find herself in her world and fit in. School at the secondary level is highly social for all students. They just want to find who they are and fit in with the people around them. To connect to their own lives, I would have students analyze this theme at each step in Jane’s journey from Gateshead Hall to Lowood to Thornfield Hall. Identify what happens to Jane at each juncture in her journey and how she grows from a young girl to a young woman basically all alone. What happens around her that gives her the will to keep going since she isn’t really surrounded by the happiest of people or lives.
Lastly, a couple activities that I like to employ with reading novel are journal/letter writing as characters or writing a piece of the novel from the perspective of a character who doesn’t provide the main narration. It allows students to really understand the novel from all aspects since it forces them to look at other characters more critically. They could explore the class issues of why John, Eliza, and Georgiana are so terrible to Jane. They could pretend to be more of the more eccentric characters of Mr. Rochester or Bertha Mason.
Jane Eyre and Katniss Everdeen: Two Girls on Fire
February 11, 2016 ~ amycrista ~ Leave a comment
While reading Jane Eyre I couldn’t help but immediately connect many of the themes to what I am currently reading with my students, The Hunger Games. I know it may seem that these two novels, published over 150 years apart couldn’t possibly have any similarities. However, many interesting parallels can be found and analyzed when looking into the powerful themes that cross all ages and genres.
The three themes most evident in the novels that I feel I could currently teach in my classroom are social class, gender inequality, and authority. In order to incorporate Jane Eyre into my lessons I would have to photocopy specific passages of the book that I felt connected to the correlating themes in The Hunger Games. Students would be asked to highlight any related themes (as well as motifs and symbols) and analyze within a group the connections as well as try to expand on it by giving a contemporary example. Students could also complete character analysis charts in class by finding similar characteristic traits in both Jane and Katniss. These activities would widen student understanding of how prominent these themes are and how novels published in 1847 and 2008 can have very similar characters and themes that we still see today. It would also be wonderful to at least expose eighth graders to a relatable character from gothic Victorian literature.
The theme of social class is the most prevalent in both novels. In Jane Eyre the reader sees the strict Victorian hierarchy beginning with Jane being treated unfairly by her aunt and cousins because she is an orphan, which is considered the lowest class in the social hierarchy. Jane does not have any money or family so she is sent to a boarding school that is described as an institution to educate orphans. At the school only very basic necessities are given and strict rules are enforced. Similarly, Katniss is also considered to be in the lowest class of her society. In The Hunger Games the country of Panem is divided into districts instead of states. Within this social hierarchy Katniss lives in what is considered the lowest ranking district of all. Katniss doesn’t only live in the lowest ranking district, but she also resides in the most poverty stricken part of the district. Katniss is also considered an orphan because her father has died and her mother is in a state of debilitating depression. Both protagonists live within a social hierarchy where they are considered to be at the very bottom, due to no fault of their own. These hierarchies are put into place with very strict authority to make it difficult for anyone to rise in social status. However, both characters prove that though difficult, it is not impossible.
Similar to the theme of social status is the use of authority and control used to retain it by the control of food. In both novels there are large connections between food social status. In Jane Eyre, Jane is given burnt porridge on her arrival to Lowood that is too disgusting for most to eat. However, it is necessary for her to consume it because she has gone too many days without nourishment. Thankfully kindness is shown by Miss Temple who gives the girls sandwiches after feeling guilty for the lackluster meal that was given. This shows the use of control by those in authority by giving the lower class inedible food, but also proving that there are still kindhearted people who see beyond social class that are willing to provide when necessary. There is a similar scene in The Hunger Games when Peeta gives the starving Katniss (a stranger) bread that was meant for the pigs to eat.
This can be taught in conjunction with The Hunger Games because control is used similarly in this way. Katniss and other citizens of District 12 are often on the brink of starvation and at times will also eat anything they are fortunate to be given. In District 12 food is scarce and controlled by the authorities in the form of tesserae, which are tokens worth a year’s supply of grain and oil for one person. Once a child turns 12 they can receive tesserae and place their name into the pool that the yearly Hunger Game tributes are drawn from. Of course this system isn’t fair because the poorest of the districts will have a much higher chance of being chosen for the Hunger Games because they are in need of food. The entries are also cumulative so the districts of higher social status that are not in need of food do not have their names in more than the required amount. This arrangement allows the authorities to keep control of the hierarchical system as well as foster the districts resentment of each other to further the separation of social classes.
Gender inequality is also seen in both novels and students could create character collages to visually provide what kinds of inequalities Jane faced in the 1800’s vs. Katniss in the dystopian twenty-second century and as an extension look at gender inequalities today. Although students may assume gender inequalities have changed immensely since the 1800’s they may think differently once they analyze the texts in class. In both novels Jane and Katniss are described as being part of a society that assumes woman should be domestic, motherly, passive, and should keep their station without question or forming any unique ideas. However, both break the mold and prove to be individuals who do question the society they live in as well as initiate change for equality between genders and social class. We later see both Jane and Katniss move higher in their own social classes once they have had the chance do discover their true selves. Katniss does not have equal power until she has to survive the games where boys and girls have equal opportunity for survival and she does survive earning a life of ease and comfort. Jane later learns that when her uncle died he left his fortune to her and only then is able to marry as an equal.
If I wanted to continue with this lesson there are many other themes that could also be explored; such as love, mothers/family, emotion vs. intellect, and independence. There are also similar symbols that can be discussed including fire (ashes) and birds, as well as motifs like morals, rebellion, and rebirth. I believe Jane Eyre could be a great companion novel to The Hunger Games and a very unexpected one. There is so much emphasis on high interest reading that many classics are not taught at the middle school level. I believe if it were worked into lessons in this way students would be more open to reading classics they may not necessarily have chosen on their own.
Power, Love, and Self in Jane Eyre: Examining Theme and Language
February 9, 2016 ~ kjanove ~ Leave a comment
ASSIGNMENT AND RATIONALE
As a student of literature, I have always been engaged by both the complex nature of theme and the emergence of theme through the author’s style–his or her imagery, diction, syntax, tone, and structural choices. Perhaps because of a poetic thread that runs through my family, I am the kind of reader who lingers on certain passages, phrases, and words. I say these things aloud, turn them over in my mind, look them up, bounce them off the people around me, and tuck them away for later resurfacing. In short, I read literature not only to learn lessons about the complexity of life–distilled into complex themes–but also to learn lessons about language and how language furthers theme.
Theme and language are indeed my two main interests as I continue reading Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre. Looking back on the first two volumes of Jane Eyre before I begin reading the third, the themes that have gripped me most so far are those of power, love, and self. Empathizing with our stalwart narrator, Jane, I have watched her transition from a child with little apparent power to an adult with–at the very least–the power of self-awareness. This development of self has also engaged me, as has the possibility for Jane to have her self affirmed by the love of others. Resonant to readers of any age, the themes of power, love, and self are, I believe, especially resonant to high school students, who are themselves gaining a greater understanding of these themes in their own lives. If I were to lead my students in an examination of the themes of power, love, and self in Jane Eyre, I would expand the following lesson elements.
SELECTED LESSON ELEMENTS
Essential Questions / Analysis Goals
How do themes of power, love, and self develop over the course of Jane Eyre? (RL.11-12.2)
How do the themes of power, love, and self interact and build on one another to ultimately complicate the universal truths argued by the text? (RL.11-12.2)
How do the figurative and connotative layers of Brontë’s language help to illuminate the themes of power, love, and self? (RL.11-12.4)
Formative Assessment: Students’ regular keeping of theme-focused annotations in the form of double-entry journals
Formative Assessment: Mid-novel and end-of-novel small group and class discussions, leading to the creation of a class study-guide which notes and analyzes thematic passages (example below)
Summative Assessment: Open-study guide and open-book timed writing which requires students to make an argument responding to two or more of the essential questions posited
Example Study Guide Organizer for Thematic Analysis
Textual Evidence Analysis of Thematic Complexity + Possible Complex Themes Analysis of Style’s
Relation to Theme
Quotes that intertwine the themes of power, love, and self How are the themes of power, love, and self interacting within this quote? What possible thematic statements could be supported at this moment? How do the figurative and connotative layers of Brontë’s language help to illuminate the themes of power, love, and self?
“I resisted all the way…The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment’s mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths…‘Master! How is he my master? Am I a servant?’ ‘No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness’” (Brontë 26).
Jane’s motives and actions are misunderstood by the figures of Bessie, Miss Abbot, and Mrs. Reed, who chastise, punish, and demean her for standing up for herself.
Despite thinking of herself as a rebellious slave–which implies some self-awareness and self-advocacy–Jane at this point seems still to value highly the opinions that others hold of her. This is echoed in later chapters when she is publicly shamed at school.
POSSIBLE COMPLEX THEME AT THIS MOMENT: When children are denied power and love by the adults in their lives, they must detach themselves from outward reality and look inward to give value to the self.
IMAGERY: symbolism of Jane as a rebellious slave + hostile, destructive mood
DICTION: “slave,” “master,” “servant” = connotations of oppression, subjugation, violence + powerlessness + self defined by work (no intrinsic value) + impossibility of being loved by others
DICTION (ctd.): “mutiny,” “rebel slave” = possibility for power? possibility for self in rebellion? possibility for heroic self-image?
ATTITUDE/TONE: sympathetic to Jane
Throughout Jane Eyre, there are many passages that lend themselves to the study of multiple themes at once. Perhaps these types of passages could also lend themselves to the use of multiple critical lenses at once.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847. Rpt. in Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: Jane Eyre.
2nd ed. Ed. Beth Newman. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015. Print. 21-437.
Newman, Beth, ed. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: Jane Eyre. 2nd. ed. Boston, MA:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015. Print.
Teaching Identity
Teaching Identity Politics: Guiding students to a genuine sense of awareness
Teaching Identity: Difficult But Worth It
Teaching Identity Through Literature
Identity Politics in the Classroom
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HomeMessage 598 – 18 May 2000
Message 598 – 18 May 2000
18 May 2000 — 12:04 31 May 2017 — 05:32 Message Group 500 to 599, MessagesAngels, Apocalypse, Catherine Emmerich, Holy Ghost, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Last Pope, Little Pebble, Maria Valtorta, New Holy Era, Order of Saint Charbel, Other Seer, Our Lady of Fatima, Peter II, Pope John Paul II, Prayer, Prophecy, Remnant Church, Rosary, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint Charbel, Saint Joseph, Saint Michael, Scapular, USA
Those who love and serve God have Eternal Life and will be privileged to come to the Garden of Paradise in a short time; the dawn of the ‘Golden Age of the Holy Ghost’ is here.
LITTLE PEBBLE: Saint Michael has been here during the latter part of the Rosary, standing inside the Chapel, to the right of the painting of Saint Sentimintarious, with his feet touching the bottom part of the Altar; his head is just a little under the ceiling. It is the first time I have seen Saint Michael this close for a long time. He has on the full armour as a soldier, but holding a sword in one hand and a scale and balance in his left. He places them on the Altar.
Seven small Angels kneel around the Altar – their heads almost level with the top of the Altar – and Saint Barachiel is here, as usual; he brings the Sign.
The Cross is very deep in the sky, it is a pinkish-white colour and pulsates a Light which emanates from it, Light which causes a type of shadow between the Cross and here. Upon the shadow are the petals from many roses – miles and miles of them – very beautiful in different colours that are sharply defined.
The Cross opens up at the centre of the crossed beams. A very strong beam of Light comes out and shoots towards the Tabernacle; an energy, or a force-field, is created around the Tabernacle and an extremely bright Light comes out of it.
The little Angels still kneeling, also bow down now. Saint Michael kneels too, on the first step near the Altar railing, in prayer. Many more Angels come out of the Cross and float down, very swiftly, towards us, causing the rose petals to move with the breeze which is caused through the fluttering of their wings. The petals float in the air – it looks like a storm. It is really nice.
There are many different types of Angels preceding Our Holy Mother, Who is in a small Ark, which is being carried by the Angels. It looks a bit like the Noah’s Ark that I have seen before, but a much smaller version. Our Lady floats on top of the Ark and although holding the Baby Jesus, She does not have the tiny Ark in Her right Hand. Behind Our Blessed Mother many more Angels can be seen. It is a really beautiful sight.
The Ark comes to a halt just outside the front of the building. Our Lady now glides on a little cloud of Light towards the Chapel, which opens up like a doorway, and the wall just disappears. Our Holy Mother stands, with the Baby Jesus, where the Crucifix normally is on the wall. She is ‘Our Lady of the Ark, Mary Our Mother, Help of Christians’. In Her right Hand there are twelve roses; in the Hand of the Baby Jesus there are twelve more. The Holy Infant is about two years old and wears a beautiful cream tunic today. On His Head is a very small Crown and I can see not only His Sacred Heart, but the Immaculate Heart of Our Holy Mother, Who has on the Fatima Crown – the more familiar Crown that we know.
Our Lady looks at Saint Michael with a beautiful smile – he bows his head towards the Altar, then raises it again and reaches out his two prayerfully placed together hands, towards Our Holy Mother, Who hands him the twelve roses. The Baby Jesus leaves Our Holy Mother’s Arm momentarily, to glide towards Saint Michael to kiss him on the head and give him His twelve roses, then He goes back to Our Holy Mother.
Our Lady nods to Saint Michael for some reason; he disappears with the flowers. Our Holy Mother kisses the Baby Jesus and makes the Sign of the Cross with Our Lord.
OUR LORD AND OUR LADY: “In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.”
OUR LADY: “I greet you, My beloved son – My little ‘White Rock’ – My Priest-sons, and all My sweet children! Today is a very important day for Holy Mother Church. The Title that I bear on this day is a Title of the Apocalypse, for I am the ‘Mother of the Church’ and the ‘Ark of the Covenant’, and within My Immaculate Heart resides the Ark of Salvation for Our children.”
“I will not speak long, other than to encourage My sweet children to continue to carry your crosses and bear each other’s burdens, in the joy of knowing that those who love and serve their God and My God – My Divine Son, Jesus – have Eternal Life, and will be privileged to come to the Garden of Paradise in a short time from now, for the dawn of the ‘Golden Age of the Holy Ghost’ is here, and in a short while My sweet children will understand its meaning, and rejoice.”
“Pray for Our Holy Vicar, whose birthday you celebrate today. I send My Maternal Blessings to him and to the future Vicar of My Divine Son, Jesus, Our little ‘White Rock’. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.”
“There are others who will hear My Voice and this will be recorded in due time. I will take your prayers to the Throne of My Divine Son, Jesus, for the benefit of Holy Mother Church. I Bless you all, My sweet children: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.”
LITTLE PEBBLE: Our Lady wishes the two Priests to Bless us.
TWO PRIESTS: “Benedicat vos, Omnipotens Deus: Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus. Amen.”
LITTLE PEBBLE: The Baby Jesus leaves Our Holy Mother, going swiftly throughout the Chapel to Bless each individual soul and place something in their heart – and not only those here, but all those who love Our Lord. We will continue now with the rest of the Rosary.
Dear friends, 16th May, 2000
Today is my 50th birthday! Much has transpired over these many years, especially since 1982 when I began to have many visions and locutions from Jesus and Mary. Over the years, as I became known throughout the Catholic world, many people would tell me of a Prophecy from some of the great Mystics of years gone by: e.g. the famous stigmatist Maria Julie Jahenny of Brittany, France, who prophesied the last Pope, Peter II, would be not older than 50 before he ascended the Throne of Peter.
Well this was my belief also, for Seer after Seer verified these Truths. I am now 50 years and still waiting, but not disturbed. Just prior to my birthday I asked this question to Our Lord regarding these Prophecies. Our Lord replied there is a mystery in this date and time, not as it seems by the counting of time for men, and it would become clearer later, but that the Prophecy of me becoming Pope very soon, as some say 2003, will come to pass. I was to continue to offer all for souls, and His Glory.
In the United States there lives a Religious Nun, Mother St. Charles. She is a Mother Superior and also a Mystic. She is 83 years old and has received visions since she entered the cloister 63 years ago. She continues to receive revelations, and last month Jesus spoke to her about this issue. Jesus simply said: “Can I not change the dates? Tell My son, the ‘Little Pebble’, he will be Pope much sooner than he believes; tell him My Holy Mother and I Love him very much!” These Words consoled me very much.
On my birthday, on the 16th May, 2000, at 3 minutes past midnight, Jesus, Mary, countless Angels, Saint Joseph, Saint Francis, Saint William, Saint Dominic, Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich, Saint Theresa the Little flower, Blessed Padre Pió, and many, many more Saints, entered my bedroom and Blessed me. The same day at Mass, Jesus came and Blessed me and after Mass Our Lady came under Her Title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, wearing Her large Brown Scapular, but this time on the Scapular was an Image of Her Assumption and on the back part, the Ascension of Jesus.
Note: The original Ascension of Jesus was on the 16th May – a Thursday – as per Maria Valtorta’s visions in the ‘Poem of the Man God’. Our Lady said this was a gift for Her faithful children. This was the Scapular to be made for the Remnant Church, as it is the Scapular of the New Era – the Scapular of Paradise. Those who wear this Scapular were promised to enter into the New Holy Era. Our Lady then took it off Her Shoulders and placed it over my shoulders. With Our Lady came Saint Simon Stock, who carried a crozier – it looked like a Bishop’s crozier, but instead of the curl, it ended like a question mark with a cross at the end of it. The top part of the crozier was covered with jewels, and Our Lady said this was for me when I become a Bishop. Our Lady and Saint Simon Stock Blessed me, and left.
Jesus also told me on my birthday, that the reason I was born on the 16th May at 12.03am, was because that was the hour that He was betrayed by Judas, and I was created and born in reparation for this act of betrayal. It is for this reason that I, too, have been, and am still betrayed by so many people, so often.
I wish to thank the many souls who sent cards and best wishes, and also for the many Masses and Rosaries – these are my strength.
Lastly, I wish to share a very important event: A few weeks ago Bishop Wilson, from the Wollongong Diocese, set in motion the Investigation process of the Commission, with four members on the panel, plus a Director of these proceedings – also an Advocate will be given to me soon.
One other very exciting point is that a Roman Catholic Bishop friend of mine, went to see Pope John Paul II on his birthday – 18th May, 2000. He said Mass with the Pope and had a private audience with him, to ask His Holiness for the Approval of the Order of Saint Charbel. We now await his report.
In the year 2001, I plan to make a world journey in May. I will advise you, with details, later this year. Please pray for its success.
May God Bless you and reward you all.
The Little Pebble
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NALSAR: How Hostels Used to be Segregated on the Basis of CLAT Scores – And Caste
Bendukuri Maurya Tej July 12, 2019
“Turn in any direction you like, Caste is a monster that crosses your path. You cannot have political reform; you cannot have economic reform, unless you kill this monster”
– Dr B.R. Ambedkar
Eight years ago, I was absolutely ecstatic to find out that I would be studying at one of India’s finest law schools – NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. I thought the experience would change me forever.
And it did.
It made me a much more learned person, socially aware and empathetic toward the oppressed and I remain ever grateful to the legal education I received there.
When I joined law school, I realised that people were allotted rooms based on the marks they got in the Common Law Admission test (CLAT).
Students belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/domicile category were given rooms on the upper floors of the hostel, while those belonging to the general category were given rooms on the ground floor for the first two years; the rationale being rooms allotted on the basis of marks.
However, it essentially also meant the ghettoisation of those who had gotten admission through reservation.
Due to this, many students from the upper floor could not mingle freely with people on the ground floors, nor could they build good friendships due to the segregation that was so visible for those on the upper floors and mostly invisible for those on the ground.
Over the next few months, the segregation developed into fragmentation within the batch – various groups were formed. There were casual statements passed from students on ground floor of the hostels, like: “Tum log padhte kyun nahi ho (Why don’t you people study)?”
They also made fun of others’ English without giving due recognition to the fact that the person might not have had access to a good education for various reasons – be it poverty, exclusion or the absence of privilege.
They made lists of people who would never date in college or are just incapable of dating anyone at all in the university. And, invariably, the list consisted of names exclusively belonging to students form the upper floors.
There was one incident in particular that shook me.
I was invited to a birthday party on the ground floor. We all ate our hearts out that day, but perhaps that did not go down well with the birthday boy, who casually said: “Khaao bhangi saalon”.
I didn’t know what the word “bhangi” meant at that point of time since I am not a native Hindi speaker. I went back to the hostel and asked my friend in the next room about what the word bhangi meant. He said that it was a pejorative term used for “bathroom cleaners”.
That seriously affected me and I didn’t know what to do.
I wanted to complain, but I was also fearful of any possible ostracisation within the hostel or students alleging that the incident never happened.
I was numb for a few days and didn’t know how to react to such a pejorative term bandied about so casually.
Moreover, there was an inherent classism which often coincided with casteism within students in hostels. Students on the upper floor were perceived as poor since they mostly come from families availing reservations. They were also perceived as those who may not speak English as well as others.
In the girl’s hostels, many from the reserved categories were ridiculed for their fashion sense or for pronouncing a few words in English incorrectly.
It was humiliating to endure all this, albeit these incidents did not happen on a daily basis. But they did occur quite often, affecting the psyche of the people enduring it. It would lead to people doubting themselves, their ability to compete with the rest and their ability to speak English as well just as others do.
Subsequently, two of my friends and I made a representation to the vice-chancellor of our university in January 2013, explaining our plight and the ghettoisation.
He was kind enough to understand our problems and was shocked that such a system existed in the first place. He promised us that the system of allotting rooms on the basis of marks would be done away with. Keeping his promise, the next batch (which joined in June 2013) were allotted rooms randomly.
Thankfully, we had an administration that acted immediately to end this ordeal. But many still do not have this privilege.
There are many institutions in our country that have a system where rooms or roll numbers are allotted on the basis of marks. And students casually pass casteist remarks and get away with it because the university administration doesn’t provide any support to those facing discrimination.
Today, when I talk about the casteism I had endured, some people show support and acknowledge their privilege. On the other hand, some continue to deny that the caste system exists in the first place and say that it is a thing of the past, justifying it with statements like, “Look, I am friends with you, I have been friends with you without knowing your caste, so there is no caste system, it’s a thing of the past!”
It is very similar to saying, “Since, I have not seen a single soul dying of hunger, there is no hunger in the world.”
Another obnoxious statement I have heard a lot of times is: “Your family owns a car, you are a middle-class person, you cannot face any casteism.”
But we must understand that caste and class are absolutely different things: caste is a social concept, while class is an economic concept.
Caste, as an institution, ensures its survival on notions of purity and exclusion, something that doesn’t go away even if someone attains an upper class status.
That taunt, “Tum log padhte kyun nahi ho?” stayed with me for a long time; it motivated me to study harder.
After graduating from the university, I bagged a well-paying corporate job in Hyderabad.
Soon enough, however, my caste identity came into focus.
When I started to look for houses to rent near my workplace, I found a colleague of mine, who was willing to reside with me.
We had a double disability while searching for houses because he was a Muslim and I was a Dalit. We were denied housing in the cosmopolitan city of Hyderabad by at least six to seven people who said things like, “We do not give our houses on rent to Dalits” or “we do not like to give our houses on rent to Muslims.”
It was absolutely humiliating to be denied lodging just because of our social identity. Clearly, our ability to pay rent on time did not matter. Finally, a kind Dalit allowed us to rent his house.
It is this continuous denial of the caste system and prejudices against lower castes that results in the continuance of oppression of many around us. Some of the oppressed willingly talk about it, while others remain absolutely reluctant to talk about it and the possible ramifications emanating from it. And others are scared to even reveal their identity as Dalits because openly calling yourself a Dalit also means possible stigmatisation and humiliation.
The caste system is a monster that enables oppression and we need to counter this by first acknowledging that it is very much alive and that it will thrive until we address the elephant in the room; until we stand up for the oppressed and until we don’t think about maintaining the purity of our families by marrying within the caste. The institution of endogamy, I believe, ensures the survival of caste system in a big way and that must be countered, too.
Irrespective of caste or religion, we are humans first.
Ideally, it should be humanity that must trump prejudices against lower caste communities or minorities.
Yet we revel in creating divisions and ensuring its continuance amongst us.
Bendukuri Maurya Tej is a lawyer who graduated from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and is currently based in Hyderabad.
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Why Movie Baddies All Have the Same Evil Laugh
David Robson December 20, 2018
Towards the end of the Disney film Aladdin (1992), our hero’s love rival, the evil Jafar, discovers Aladdin’s secret identity and steals his magic lamp. Jafar’s wish to become the world’s most powerful sorcerer is soon granted, and he then uses his powers to banish Aladdin to the ends of the Earth.
What follows next is a lingering close-up of Jafar’s body. He leans forward, fists clenched, with an almost constipated look on his face. He then explodes in uncontrollable cackles that echo across the landscape. It is an archetypical evil laugh.
Such overt displays of delight at others’ misfortune are found universally in kids’ films, and many adult thriller and horror films, too. Just think of the rapturous guffaws of the alien in the first Predator film (1987) as it is about to self-detonate, taking Arnold Schwarzenegger with it. Or Jack Nicholson’s chilling snicker in The Shining (1980). Or Wario’s manic crowing whenever Mario is defeated.
A recent essay by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen in The Journal of Popular Culture asks what the psychology behind this evil laugh might be. Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, a communication scholar at Aarhus University in Denmark, is well-placed to provide an answer having previously used evolutionary psychology to explain the behaviours of heroes and villains in fiction more generally.
In that work, he argued that one of the core traits a villain should show is a low ‘welfare tradeoff’ ratio: they are freeriders who cheat and steal, taking from their community while contributing nothing. Such behaviour is undesirable for societies today, but it would have been even more of a disaster in prehistory when the group’s very survival depended on everyone pulling their weight. As a result, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen argues, we are wired to be particularly disgusted by cheating freeriders – to the point that we can feel justified in removing them from the group, or even killing them.
However, there are degrees of villainy, and the most dangerous and despised people are those who are not only freeriders and cheats, but psychopathic sadists who perform callous acts for sheer pleasure. Sure enough, previous studies have shown that it is people matching this description whom we consider to be truly evil (since there is no other way to excuse or explain their immorality) and therefore deserving of the harshest punishments. Crucially, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen argues that a wicked laugh offers one of the clearest signs that a villain harbours such evil, gaining what Arthur Schopenhauer called ‘open and candid enjoyment’ from others’ suffering – moreover, fiction writers know this intuitively, time and again using the malevolent cackle to identify their darkest characters.
Part of the power of the evil laugh comes from its salience, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen says: it is both highly visual and vocal (as the close-up of Jafar beautifully demonstrates) and the staccato rhythm can be particularly piercing. What’s more, laughs are hard to fake: a genuine, involuntary laugh relies on the rapid oscillation of the ‘intrinsic laryngeal muscles’, movements that appear to be difficult to produce by our own volition without sounding artificial. As a result, it’s generally a reliable social signal of someone’s reaction to an event, meaning that we fully trust what we are hearing. Unlike dialogue – even the kind found in a children’s film – a sadistic or malevolent laugh leaves little room for ambiguity, so there can be little doubt about the villain’s true motives.
Such laughs are also particularly chilling because they run counter to the usual prosocial function of laughter – the way it arises spontaneously during friendly chats, for example, serving to cement social bonds.
There are practical reasons too for the ubiquity of the evil laugh in children’s animations and early video games, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen explains. The crude graphics of the first Super Mario or Kung Fu games for Nintendo, say, meant it was very hard to evoke an emotional response in the player – but equipping the villain with an evil laugh helped to create some kind of moral conflict between good and evil that motivated the player to don a cape and beat the bad guys. ‘This is the only communicative gesture afforded to these vaguely anthropomorphic, pixelated opponents, and it does the job,’ he notes.
There are limits to the utility of the evil laugh in storytelling, though. Kjeldgaard-Christiansen admits that its crude power would be destructive in more complex storytelling, since the display of pleasure at others’ expense would prevent viewers from looking for more subtle motivations or the role of context and circumstance in a character’s behaviour. But for stories dealing with black-and-white morality, such as those aimed at younger viewers who have not yet developed a nuanced understanding of the world, its potential to thrill is second to none.
Kjeldgaard-Christiansen’s article is certainly one of the most entertaining papers in a long time, and his psychological theories continue to be thought-provoking. It would be fun to see more experimental research on this subject – comparing the acoustic properties of laughs, for instance, to find out which sounds the most evil. But in my mind, it will always be Jafar’s.
This is an adaptation of an article originally published by The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest.
David Robson is a science journalist specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour. A feature writer for the BBC, his first book is The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Stupid Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (forthcoming, 2019). He lives in London.
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
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Guest Interview: Julian Winters Talks to Author Adib Khorram in Honor of the Release of Darius the Great is Not Okay!
August 28, 2018 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment
What happens when you get two delightful authors of queer YA coming together to discuss one’s new release, that just happens to be so beloved by me that it’s this month’s new release spotlight? This amazing interview, conducted by the absolutely wonderful Julian Winters, author of Running With Lions. I’m thrilled to have Julian and Adib on the site today discussing mental health rep, relationship dynamics, and more! Come check it out!
Hi Adib! Thank you so much for taking the time to answer some questions about your amazing debut YA novel, Darius the Great Is Not Okay. I don’t know if you’ve heard but… I’m a huge fan. The last book that drew me in and stayed with me like this one was Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. The friendships, the look at parent/child relationships, the journey and growth of the characters—everything a reader needs, especially a young adult reader, is in this book. Can you tell us a little bit about your book journey and what inspired you to write this one?
Thank you for having me! Aristotle and Dante is amazing company to be in. It’s one of my favorites, so I definitely hoped to hit some of the same notes.
I started writing Darius while I was visiting my dad’s side of the family (the Iranian side) in Vancouver for Nowruz. I had just finished a first draft of a book I thought was unique and different and was sure to be the kind of book that would get me an agent. It seemed fresh and fantastic.
The next day I saw a deal announcement from Publishers’ Weekly that sounded like…pretty much what I had just finished. So I flipped some tables and moped for a day or two and then I decided to write something only I could write: about being Iranian-American, torn between two cultures, growing up with depression. Things I knew intimately, that I still struggled with, and that I felt I needed to reconcile.
I wrote it, and revised it, and revised it, and revised it, and revised it some more, and started querying. I did an R&R at one point that made some hugely beneficial changes. And I eventually landed an agent, Molly O’Neill, who loved Darius and wanted to represent it. So we revised it more and then she started sending it out to editors, and we got acquired by Dana Chidiac at Dial. And then we edited it even more! But I’m so happy with how it came out.
Darius is such a soft boy. He cries, struggles with his emotions and appearance. He loves hard. It’s so heartfelt but also very real. He also has clinical depression and I loved the way mental health is treated in this book. It’s openly discussed and Darius—nor his immediate family—never once tries to ignore that it’s there. Can you talk about how important it was to show Darius’ depression? Also, his relationship with his father in regards to depression?
I’ve been heartened to see the increased representation of depression and mental illness in YA literature, but a lot of it didn’t speak to my experience, which was and has been, for the most part, one of low-level, persistent melancholy rather than suicidal ideation or other crisis. I wanted to write about people whose depression is manageable, whose lives are informed by it without being defined by it.
I think, because there’s a genetic component depression, and because my own family has a long history with depression, it was important to acknowledge that it can be a generational disease, and I think generational diseases can lead to complicated feelings for both the parent and the child.
I’m glad you mentioned how soft he is. I think it’s so easy to characterize people with depression as aloof or detached. But I often experienced it as too much feeling. And I also think it’s important to show boys that it’s okay to be soft. Unpacking and dismantling toxic masculinity is something I hope to grapple with in all my work.
The father/son dynamic is honest and incredibly-well done. Darius’ issues with his father ache somewhere deep. They don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but they have one common ground—Star Trek: The Next Generation. For me, that hit home because the only connection I have with my own father are through our shared love for sci-fi series or movies. What inspired this interesting look at father/son dynamics?
It came from a lot of places. Like I said, some of it came from my wanting to examine how generational disease can shape relationships. And part of that is that, as the child of diaspora, I and others like me often have a hard time dealing with parental expectations.
I also wanted to explore how we form our loves. I got some of mine from my parents, and some from my friends. I was introduced to Star Trek by my friend in second grade, but it was something that my grandma and I watched every Thursday (which is when new episodes aired on our local NBC affiliate). I think those special moments of shared experience can really come to define our relationships. And it sounds like you found that, too!
Darius has a lot of great relationships—his mom, grandparents, Sohrab—throughout the book. My favorite was the one with his younger sister, Lelah. It’s apparent how much he cares for her. But he’s also quietly frustrated with how easily she blends with his family in Yazd—something he’s struggling to do—because she speaks Farsi. And how their father welcomes her into the ST: TNG viewings when that’s the only thing Darius shares with him. Again, those moments were so easy to connect with. Was that an aspect of sibling relationships you set out to write? Was it something that developed as you wrote?
That’s something that developed in the edits. Originally Darius and Laleh’s relationship was maybe a little too saccharine; my genius editor pointed out that no matter how much Darius loves her, there would still be moments when he was sick of her. That’s just human nature. And I’m so glad she did point that out, because I think it makes their relationship read as so much more real.
Majority of the book takes place in Yazd, Iran. It’s rare but wonderful to see a YA contemporary novel take place in somewhere other than America. It was refreshing and insightful. Was it difficult to explore Darius’ journey while also taking readers on a journey through Yazd’s landscape, explaining cultural differences, food, Persian holidays, and Farsi?
Actually, I don’t think I could have told the story without having it take place in Yazd. To me, Darius’s internal journey was always mirrored by his external one. He couldn’t know who he was without knowing where he came from, and he couldn’t appreciate where he came from without understanding how that influenced who he was.
By the way, my life goal now is to have you introduce me to the wonders of faludeh!
I accept this challenge. It can be hard to find but it’s worth it.
There’s this beautifully understated romance in this book. But it’s not your paint-by-numbers romance. It’s not even a boy-meets-boy romance. It’s Darius falling in love with the city of Yazd. It’s the platonic romance of Darius and Sohrab. It’s Darius falling deeper in love with his grandparents and, by extension, himself. Were those your intentions—to show a main character experiencing a different type of love? Was there ever any push for you to have a romantic storyline in the novel?
All of my most important relationships in life have been non-romantic love, and that was even more true when I was a teenager. I think it’s important and true to show that the love between two friends, or the love between a son and his grandmother, can be as life-shattering as a romance.
There was never any push to add romance—indeed, one of the first things Molly said to me on “the call” is that she loved that Darius told “the love story of a friendship.”
Okay, we have to address the nerdiness of Darius. It’s perfect! His excitement/dedication to things like the Lord of the Rings and ST: TNG is as much hilarious as it is relatable. How much of that is you? And, for the record—besides Captain Picard, who is your favorite ST: TNG character?
I’m super nerdy, and I am beyond excited to see Captain Picard’s return! It’s like a dream come true! So I did borrow a lot of my own nerdiness to bring Darius to life, though I tried to channel the shape my nerdiness took when I was in high school rather than what it’s like today. I feel like I loved things in a really remarkable and passionate and consuming way when I was a teen, and I suspect I’m not alone in that.
Favorite character aside from Captain Picard? Hmm. Probably Guinan.
Can we talk about Sohrab for a second? I loved him. He’s an unexpected delight and a great best friend to Darius. He’s excited about anything that involves Darius and that was such a poignant part of Darius’ journey. To feel like someone understood him and loved everything about him. Someone who made Darius “belong.” SPOILER ALERT: When Sohrab gave Darius the Team Melli jersey? I experienced a major containment failure.
Sohrab isn’t without flaws. He makes mistakes. He also owns up to them. Did he represent anyone in your own life?
When I was Darius’s age, I already had a small but stable friend group of really close friends. Darius has never had that before, though, so I kind of borrowed bits of lots of my other friendships when trying to craft Sohrab.
I also tried to capture the feeling of meeting and instantly falling into friendship with someone, something I didn’t experience myself until I was much older and had a day job and found myself instantly friends with some of my colleagues.
Let’s talk writing methods: I read you don’t necessarily write to music playlists. Shocker! You did write Darius to Young the Giant—hello, I could write to Mind Over Matter for years, such a great album—but what helps you in your writing process? What inspires your writing moods?
Right? Home of the Strange came out while I was in revisions and it was even more perfect for Darius!
I can’t write without tea. I need the ritual to kind of get into my writing headspace. And I need to be in a place that’s “for work” and not for relaxation. If I’m writing at home, I’ll sit in a different place than I sit if I’m watching TV or playing a game. But I love writing at coffee shops even more.
The buzz leading into the release of this book has been phenomenal. Starred-reviews. Authors talking non-stop about it. Obviously, that’s exciting and always a positive, but has any of it been intimidating? Any advice for other debut authors about handling the pressures of a book release?
It has been super intimidating. I’ve always been the kind of person that’s waiting for the other shoe to drop. My good friend Lana Wood Johnson said during her agent search that she always took rejection as a sign she was working hard, and so hearing yes was a strange feeling, and I think she really hit the nail on the head. So some days, I still struggle with the feeling that everything will come crashing down around me. I try not to listen to that voice, though.
My advice is to have a good support network. Some need to be writers, and some need to not be writers, because you’re going to need to unburden different parts of the experience to different people.
I’m calling it—there’s going to be a lot of “book hangover” once people finish Darius. People are going to need something to tide them over until your next great novel arrives. What books are you enjoying, either in the same vein as Darius or beyond?
For other people wanting awesome Iranian characters, I’ve loved Arvin Ahmadi’s Down and Across and Sara Farizan’s Here to Stay. For people wanting stories about life-defining friendships, I’d point them to your debut, Running with Lions! I’m still reeling from my own book hangover from that.
For a self-deprecating narrator, this may be a surprising recommendation, but I’ve been obsessed with Martha Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries, a series of novellas about a rogue SecUnit (essentially a cyborg designed to provide security for humans) who can’t seem to stop caring about people, despite trying not to.
The book world is going to fall in love with you, which only means one thing: What’s next for you? Will we see further adventures of Darius and Sohrab?
Well, I’m working on another book, another stand-alone, but I can’t say too much about it right now. I will say that it’s another contemporary, it takes place mostly in a Kansas City high school, and the main character is a GSA President with some serious Leslie Knope-ish tendencies.
I really loved getting into Darius’s head, so I’d never say no to returning to him. I think I know what story I would want to tell. But ultimately that’ll be up to the book doing well enough to make a companion novel viable. Fingers crossed!
Thanks so much for agreeing to this interrogation Adib! And thank you Dahlia for this wonderful opportunity. Now, Adib, how many lights are there?
Thank you, Julian! And you, Dahlia! It’s been a blast.
And THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!
Amazon bestselling author Julian Winters is a former management trainer who lives in the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia and has been crafting fiction since he was a child, creating communities around his hand-drawn “paper people.” He began writing LGBTQ character-driven stories as a teen. When he isn’t writing or using his sense of humor to entertain his young nephews, Julian enjoys reading, experimental cooking in the kitchen, and watching the only sports he can keep up with: volleyball and soccer. Running with Lions is his debut novel.
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The Varying Levels of Vulnerability in the Face of Disaster
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byNicolette Louissaint, PhD.
By defining what it means to be a vulnerable population or individual, we can better assess their needs for support.
As we close out a year filled with media coverage of patients who were impacted by disasters such as the Camp Fire in California or recent hurricanes, there has been a push to focus on “vulnerable populations.” This is especially true in healthcare and public health, where health disparities can account for varying life expectancies and even survival rates after disasters. While this conversation is very important and should continue to shine a light on those who need support most, I fear that the use of the term “vulnerable populations” is far too broad. Without defining the term, we lose its true meaning as it currently encapsulates just about anyone in the face of a disaster.
First, what does it mean and who is most vulnerable?
To start, the chronically ill and disabled, low-income and/or homeless individuals, certain geographical communities, and the very young or very old are all disproportionately impacted by a disaster or disruptive event. It’s important to note that there are many other populations that would be included, but this is a start. Vulnerability can also include those who are considered medically fragile during certain disasters, such as those with severe chronic diseases or with challenges accessing healthcare.
Within the large swath of populations that are included in the term, not all populations are vulnerable to all threats. Being very clear about which populations would be left most exposed to a hazard enables communities to plan and identify those who should be supported. As an example, snowstorms will impact those with low mobility or transportation challenges, while a pandemic may challenge immune-compromised populations. With the recent hurricane season in mind, populations located in flood-prone areas are also particularly vulnerable to such threats.
The bottom line is that vulnerability does not have a specific face. It can be the person with hypertension and diabetes preparing to weather a hurricane, or an HIV-positive transgender individual concerned about avoiding exposure to the flu. It can be anyone, at any time.
Vulnerability exists across classifications. Many people/communities are vulnerable to several things.
Most individuals fit into multiple categories, so it is not enough to consider an individual or community vulnerable to one threat, without considering the intersections that exist with other threats. Depending on the nature of the community, this may be vital to building true resilience.
Vulnerability is normally determined by outcomes.
Sadly, the most common measures of vulnerability are illness and death before or following an event. While many are certainly working towards developing better outcomes, there is still more to do to pinpoint these communities earlier and support them ahead of disaster.
How should we approach supporting these populations?
There is certainly an opportunity to assess the populations at greatest risk in certain environments or communities. However, it must be done strategically to determine exactly who is vulnerable in various scenarios. It could be a single mother of three children with no car who needs to evacuate from a hurricane, or it could be an elderly person in need of vital medications who is unable to access them during a snowstorm.
Many communities need far more support than they currently receive to be resilient and thrive, or even withstand the threat of local or large-scale disasters. And unless we are intentional about determining how we protect those who need it most, when they need it most, we will continue to leave communities to fend for themselves in times of disaster.
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With these lessons in mind, I encourage all public health and emergency management officials at the state and local levels to determine the needs of the populations they serve, and ensure they are prepared to withstand times of disasters and support them in the aftermath. We have a great opportunity in the year ahead to ensure all Americans are resilient in the face of disaster.
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Canadian drug companies facing $1.1B lawsuit over opioid crisis
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Minister of Health Ginette Petipas-Taylor announced on Wednesday a set of three new federal measures to help tackle Canada's opioid crisis including access to drug replacement therapy, investing in harm reduction and stigma reduction programs, and funding initiatives to combat HIV/Hepatitis C of drug users.
Canadian drug makers enriched themselves at the expense of vulnerable patients by illegally and deceptively promoting highly addictive opioids that have killed thousands in recent years, a proposed class action filed Wednesday asserts.
The untested statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court seeks more than $1.1 billion in various damages from almost two dozen companies, including some of the biggest pharmaceutical names in the country such as Apotex, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson and Johnson and the Jean Coutu Group.
The suit, filed on behalf of patients who became addicted to prescribed opioids, also seeks a declaration that the companies were negligent in how they researched, developed and marketed opioids starting in the 1990s.
“The defendants knew that anyone who injected opioids would be at significant risk of becoming addicted,” the claim asserts. “As such, the defendants breached statutory and common law duties to the plaintiff and class who became addicted to opioids for which the defendants owe damages.”
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The proposed representative plaintiff is Darryl Gebien, of Toronto, a doctor prescribed the opioid Percocet for a ligament injury in his thumb. Gebien became addicted, the claim asserts.
“Dr. Gebien’s addiction had a significant and lasting impact on his life,” the claim states. “Dr. Gebien lost his licence to practise medicine. He lost his job. He was incarcerated. He lost custody of his children.”
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Opioids are a powerful narcotic that can induce an addictive, euphoric high that requires higher doses over time to maintain effectiveness and avoid symptoms of withdrawal. The drugs were not widely prescribed for pain treatment because they were considered too addictive but that approach changed in the mid-1990s.
“The defendants promoted opioids as safe, effective and appropriate for long-term use for routine pain conditions,” the claim states. “The aggressive marketing efforts of the defendants were incredibly successful.”
No statements of defence have been filed and there was no immediate comment from any of the drug companies. Purdue has previous said it marketed its products in accordance with the rules.
More than 10,000 Canadians died from opioid overdoses in less than 3 years
The abuse of opioids has become a widespread public health crisis, with fatal overdoses becoming epidemic across North America. They have killed more than 20,000 Canadians over the past 20 years and about 4,000 new deaths occur annually in Canada. In the United States, opioids kill more people than car crashes.
Lawyer Kirk Baert called the lawsuit “long overdue.”
“These companies need to be accountable for the harm they have caused to thousands of Canadians,” Baert said.
The named defendants make, market, distribute and sell opioids in Canada. Some of the drugs such as fentanyl, oxycodone, and tramadol have become household names in light of the ravages they have wrought.
Small communities grapple with ‘huge challenge’ of opioid crisis
The statement of claim alleges the companies indulged in a pattern of “false and deceptive” marketing by, among other things, telling patients that opioid use for pain relief would improve their quality of life without any adverse effects such as addiction or withdrawal issues.
“The defendants knew or ought to have known that their representations regarding the risks and benefits of opioids were not supported by, or were contrary to, scientific evidence,” the claim asserts. “(They) advised health-care professionals to ignore signs of addiction on the basis of an unfounded condition they called pseudoaddiction.”
Last year, the British Columbia government, which declared a public health emergency in 2016, also filed a proposed class action against pharmaceutical companies in an attempt to recoup the health-care costs associated with opioid addiction. That suit named 40 defendants. Other provinces have also considered taking such action.
Overdose deaths in B.C. declined in first 3 months of 2019, but carfentanil on the rise
This month, the maker of OxyContin in the United States was hit with another state lawsuit that alleges it kept pitching the painkiller to doctors even after its sales representatives raised concerns about inappropriate prescribing. The lawsuit against Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, which has said it may have to go bankrupt, made Pennsylvania at least the 39th state to sue the company.
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Here are links to different articles that we will be reading this year. I will indicate articles to be read outside of class in the TeacherEase assignments. The articles are listed in alphabetical order by author in APA format. Articles by the same author are listed alphabetically.
The Big Five Personality Test. (2014, January 1). International Personality Item Pool. Retrieved July 15, 2014, from http://personality-testing.info/print/big-five-personality-test.pdf
Association for Psychological Science (2012, December 27). Monkey see, monkey do: Visualfeedback is necessary for imitating facial expressions. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 3, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121227142959.htm
Association for Psychological Science. (2013, January 10). Which study strategies make the grade?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 15, 2014 from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130110111734.htm
Goel, V. (2014, June 29). Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry. The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2014, fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html?_r=0
McLeod, S. A. (2011). Bandura – Social Learning Theory. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/bandura.html
McLeod, S. A. (2011). Bobo Doll Experiment. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/bobo-doll.html
McLeod, S. A. (2008). Bruner. Retrieved fromhttp://www.simplypsychology.org/bruner.html
McLeod, S. A. (2007). Cognitive Psychology. Retrieved fromhttp://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive.html
McLeod, S. A. (2009). Jean Piaget. Retrieved fromhttp://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html
McLeod, S. A. (2007). Lev Vygotsky. Retrieved fromhttp://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html
McLeod, S. (2007). Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Simply Psychology. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
McLeod, S. A. (2007). Psychology Perspectives. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/perspective.html
McLeod, S. A. (2007). Social Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/social-psychology.html
Tel Aviv University (2008, April 14). Keep Boys And Girls Together In The Classroom To Optimize Learning,Research Suggests. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 2, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080411150856.htm
St. Joseph’s Hospital and MedicalCenter (2012, April 30). How illusions trick the brain: ‘Rotating Snakes’ appear to dance. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 17, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120501100037.htm
Wellcome Trust (2010, December 6). Brain’s architecture makes our view of the world unique. ScienceDaily.Retrieved January 17, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205202512.htm
Wolfe, J., Kluender, K., & Levi, D. (n.d.). Sensation & Perception. Sensation & Perception: Home. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from http://sites.sinauer.com/wolfe3e/home/startF.htm
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Bridgepointe demolition a key feature in flood mitigation plan
January 16 17:11 2019 by John Steinberger Print This Article
The former Bridgepointe townhouse community in the Shadowmoss subdivision will be demolished within 90 days. The land, now owned by City of Charleston as the result of a 2017 FEMA buyout, will soon be converted into a water storage area. Mayor John Tecklenburg, City Councilmen Kevin Shealy and Harry Griffin, Historic Charleston Foundation President Winslow Hastie, and representatives from the visiting Dutch Dialogues advisory team assembled at the site to kick off plans for flood mitigation in the community. The Dutch Dialogues Team has done flood mitigation planning in New Orleans, Hampton, VA, and other flood-prone communities.
Tecklenburg said, “We’re bringing in the world’s leading experts in water management to help us solve our (flooding) problem.” The advisory team has been surveying the Church Creek Drainage Basin in West Ashley and other flood-prone sites in Johns Island and the Charleston peninsula for the past seven months. The group expects to provide flood mitigation recommendations sometime during the summer of 2019.
The 32 housing units in the Bridgepointe community all sustained flooding damage during a 2008 rainstorm and flooded four more times from 2015 to 2017. City of Charleston provided a 25% match to FEMA’s $2.4 buyout agreement in 2017 with the commitment to not redevelop the land. The 2017 Church Creek Drainage Basin Study recommended that the land be converted to a water storage area. The demolition will be paid for by the FEMA grant.
Mayor Tecklenburg took questions after the presentation, and nearby resident Teresa Coats suggested that the site be converted into a bird sanctuary. The area already features many herons, egrets, ibises, woodstorks, and other waterfowl. Tecklenburg approached her afterward and said he would approach the local Audubon Society chapter and see if it would pursue a grant for that purpose.
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Formula One Winter Testing 2012
February 19, 2013 February 19, 2013 Mark
It’s January 2013, and although there is snow on the ground at home in the UK, it is almost time for an escape to the (hopeful) sunshine of Barcelona and Formula One Winter Testing. I wrote an article for Fan Formula after last year’s event, Formula One Winter Testing 2012.
This is what I said…
A Little Bit About Testing
Each year, Formula One teams have a series of test days where they can put their new cars through their paces in advance of the first Grand Prix of the season, and this year, the tests were in Spain, finishing with a four day test at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. These events are open to the public, but this does not appear to be widely known, and attendance is relatively small. This gives a great opportunity to get close to the action.
There is a real buzz of excitement as attendees get that feeling that they are getting a sneak preview not just of the new season, but also of the new cars. The teams are, of course, keen not to give away too many of their secrets in advance of the season, hence why Red Bull went to all this effort to keep the back of Sebastian Vettel’s car out of view this year. As you can tell by the video (below), as a fan with a general admission ticket, you can get some great views at testing that many people would not see at a Grand Prix.
Why Testing?
If you are like me, then the winter period with no Grands Prix to watch either live or on television is a fallow period in the sporting calendar, and come the beginning of each New Year, I am already excited about the impending new Formula One season. Teams soon launch their new cars, and I am eager to see them and what has changed since the previous year.
I already have tickets for the British Grand Prix this year, and was considering which other races, if any, to attend. This trip allowed me to get back into the excitement of the sport before the season even started. I went with a friend, and we enjoyed it so much that we are currently planning a trip to the European Grand Prix in addition to the forthcoming Silverstone race weekend!
Winter testing is a great opportunity to see the cars first hand, and witness the speed, sound and excitement of Formula One cars ahead of the start of the season. The sight and sound like that of Hamilton and Raikkonen racing down the main straight is something very special.
At most Grands Prix, the longest session that you will see cars continuously circulating around the track is the actual race, with a maximum time of two hours. At testing, there is a four hour morning session, a one hour break, and a three hour afternoon session. Seven hours of watching Formula One cars makes any day exciting! As already mentioned, attendance is relatively low at testing, and hence the session is normally open with access available to all of the grandstands, allowing you to get a good view of the action from various parts of the track.
The teams practiced pit stops, tried out various wings and other combinations, race simulations, and all sorts of other set ups throughout the weekend, which was exciting to watch, including cars with odd attachments like the famous Ferrari telescope that no doubt were being used for some type of investigation.
There were no television screens, and the commentary was limited and in Spanish,
punctuated by tinny europop blasting from the circuit speakers, so if you wanted to stay close to what was going on, the best option was via your mobile phone using 3G from, say, the BBC website who were covering the action live. This is another added cost for data roaming, and is far from
necessary to have an enjoyable visit.
Who Did We Meet?
We bumped into the HRT team back at our hotel, who unfortunately had not been able to test their car. It was still a nice surprise for us to come for breakfast each morning to be surrounded by those in full racing team outfits, even if they did look a little despondent each night in the bar!
The hotel was occupied by us, the HRT team, some Formula One journalists of varying nationalities, and bizarrely, a US girls’college soccer team on tour!
Although we did not end up meeting any of the drivers or designers, we did see Adrian Newey on a trip around the circuit, and we met other people who had a series of relatively close encounters with the stars of Formula One.
The HRT Team at Winter Testing
Wonderfully, access to Testing can be a relatively low cost affair. We paid about £100 each for flights from London to Barcelona, £42 per room per night for a four star hotel near the circuit, and €20 per day for tickets to Testing. The cost is for testing is only €15 per day on the less busy Thursday and Friday tests. Our biggest extravagance was the use of taxis. We took a cab from the airport to the hotel, and each day to the circuit and back. Even though we were only a few miles from the track, taxis cost between €30-€40 per journey. The very helpful staff at the track called us a cab to get us back to the hotel after testing; we were not sure what time we would want to leave so did not book a car in advance.
If cost is a limiting factor, then hiring a car would be a much more cost effective option, and if you do stay in a hotel nearby, then the relatively quiet and large roads around the circuit make it an easy drive. There is also ample parking at the circuit.
There are at least three other ways of getting to testing. Firstly, some tour companies offer complete packages. Of course, there is an uplift in cost for that, but it takes away any of the hassle of trying to organise the trip yourself. You can also buy hospitality packages with some of the teams, giving you access to the relevant team and the drivers there. Typically, this costs in the region of £500 for a day, which although it may sound expensive, is still significantly less than, say, a ticket for the Paddock Club at most Grands Prix.
Finally, this year, those with three day tickets to the Spanish Grand Prix at the same circuit later in the year get free access to the testing, including a pit lane tour and a loop of the circuit in a bus. We did meet one fellow Britain who ascertained that the cheapest Grand Prix ticket that would give her access for four days of testing was slightly less than the €70 for four days testing, and went for that option, hoping to make it back for the race!
We stayed until Monday evening, which gave us a free day to explore Barcelona. Although we were staying in the Barbera del Valles district between the city and the circuit, a €10 taxi took us to the station where a couple of euros took us to the centre of Barcelona for the day.
We had a wonderful time. I was re-enthused about Formula One racing, and even more excited about the new season. It was my first time to the Circuit de Catalunya, and I was very impressed at the track. It was reminiscent of Donington Park or Sepang, where there are large sections of the circuit from where you can see action right around the venue. The relatively low attendance – most of the grandstands had an occupancy of at best a handful of people, other than the main grandstand which was still very, very far from full – made it really easy to stand where you wanted and to get a really good view without other people being in the way or having taken all the best spots. Sunday was much busier than Saturday, as local hero Fernando Alonso was testing that day, but it was nowhere near as busy as even a Friday practice day at an actual Grand Prix.
Although the majority of the attendees there were Spanish, there was a significant and visible British minority, and it was a friendly event where it was easy to stop and talk to other Formula one fans. I would jump at the chance to go again next year, and am very hopeful for another European Winter test!
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Shkoder and Rozafa Castle, Albania
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MR sitting in for a lighting test Photo: Annie Leibowitz
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After travelling the world working in cane fields, mines, and on the road with the likes of Dylan and Bowie, Mark Rogers had learnt a few things about life. When he picked up a camera, he found himself a home. He assisted Annie Leibowitz on location in Barcelona and with his great love of people and stories now shoots assignments around the world.
Known for his innate ability to distill the essence of a story or character into a singular image, he has worked on sixty feature films and forty television dramas and documentaries. His clients include Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Millenium Pictures, Village Roadshow, Lionsgate, US Discovery, BBC Worldwide, Foxtel, National Geographic Channel, ABC, SBS, Showtime, See-Saw Films, Network Ten and Channel Nine.
Rogers' instinctive story-telling skills and engaging people photography also distinguish his advertising work. Commissioned by major companies around the world, his advertising clients include Panasonic, Toyota, Palmolive, Cadbury, Telstra, Jetstar, Sony Music USA, Cochlear, Paramount, David Jones, Save the Children and Mission Australia.
Alongside his film and television work, Rogers is regularly sought after for his portraiture. Defined by an ease and directness, his images balance intimacy with presence and feeling. He is able to elicit both disarming warmth and wry collusion from his subjects.
Rogers has photographed some of the world’s top actors, politicians, athletes, musicians and celebrities. These include Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Rupert Murdoch, Nicole Kidman, Dennis Hopper, Henry Rollins and Hugh Jackman. His editorial work has appeared in an array of local and international publications including Rolling Stone, Vogue, The London Times Magazine, Good Weekend, Inside Sport UK, Spanish Vogue and GQ Germany.
While his commercial photography involves the big screen and famous faces, Rogers’ personal photography explores more ordinary folk and community. The sensitivity which marks his work has made him a regular finalist in The National Portrait Prize, Head On, The Moran Photographic Prize, the Albury Art Prize and The Olive Cotton Award. His pictures have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia, The Art Gallery of NSW and The Australian Centre for Photography as well as exhibitions in Barcelona, Hamburg, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland and Singapore.
Mark Rogers has also taught photography at the Australian Centre for Photography and to indigenous teenagers in remote communities in Arnhem Land through the Northern Territory Open Education Centre. He has tutored at the Macleay College of Advertising and conducted Masterclasses at the Australian Film and Television and Radio School.
He lives in Sydney with his wife, film-maker Jen Peedom and their children, Tashi and Luca.
- Lisa Nicoll, author
ABC Television, BBC Worldwide, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Aussie Home Loans, Austar, Bankwest, Belvoir Street Theatre, Beyond Films, Biennale of Sydney, BMG, Cadbury, Channel Nine, CAAMA, Circulo Barcelona, Cochlear Conde Naste USA, David Jones, Dendy Films, Discovery Channel USA, Endemol, Energy Australia, Foxtel, FSM, Godfreys, Griffin Theatre Company, Harper Collins, Hunter Hall, ING,International Management Group, Jetstar, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Madman Entertainment, Mambo, MBF Health, Microsoft, Mission Australia, Monash University, Movie Network, MTV, Myer, National Geographic Channel News Ltd, Northcott Disability Services, Palmolive, Panasonic, Penguin US, Roadshow Films, QBE Insurance, Save the Children, SBS, Screen Australia, See-Saw Films, Showtime, Simon & Schuster, Southern Star Entertainment, Sydney Biennale, Sydney Maritime Museum, Sydney Theatre Company, Telefonica Spain, Telstra, Toyota, Twentieth Century Fox, UTS, Virgin, Warner Music Australia, Westpac, Yothu Yindi Foundation and Z Space.
EDITORIAL LIST
GQ Germany,Vogue Spain, Vogue Australia, Cosmopolitan Germany, Hong Kong Post Magazine, Australian Financial Review, Cream, Dumbo Feather, El Pais, Spain, Empire, Empty, Filmink, Good Weekend, Inside Film Magazine, Inside Sport UK, La Vanguardia, Spain, London Times Magazine, New Woman UK, Rolling Stone, Sunday Life Magazine, The Bulletin, The Monthly, and Who Weekly.
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IAN CALLUM
Director of Design, Jaguar
Ian Callum, RDI, Jaguar Director of Design, was born in Dumfries, Scotland. Ian attended a course in Industrial Design at Glasgow School of Art which was followed by a 2-year course in Automobile Design at the Royal College of Art.
Ian spent the first 12 years of his career working in Ford Design studios, where he contributed to the creation of the Escort RS Cosworth and the Ghia Via Concept. Later, as Chief Designer of TWR Design, he was responsible for the Aston Martin DB7 and Vanquish.
Ian joined Jaguar in 1999 but continued to manage Aston Martin Design, developing the DB9 as well as directing Jaguar Design where he and his team created, amongst others, the R-Coupe, RD-6, C-X75 and C-X17 concepts. Heralding an exciting new era for the brand, each of his cars takes the design theme further and continues to reinforce Jaguar as a creator of 'fast, beautiful cars.' The first of the new models was the current XK, followed by the XF and XJ. Representing the latest in Jaguar design is the exciting all-new 2-seater sports car, the Jaguar F-TYPE. September 2014 saw the launch of the Jaguar XE, a new car to the Jaguar family which Ian designed for a very competitive segment. A bold statement for the company using Ian's established design philosophy. In March 2015 Ian led his team to launch the second generation all-new XF, which is already winning design awards.
Ian continues to lead a team of highly talented designers at the Jaguar Design Studios in Coventry and has been acknowledged as one of the world's foremost design talents. Ian has received 5 honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
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Cardiac Ablation Catheters included on the March 2019 Prostheses List
by MedTechnique Consulting | Jul 1, 2019 | Health and Government |
The Prostheses List is a list of implantable medical devices for which Australian private health insurers must pay a specific benefit over and above any payment for the associated hospital admission. While the industry has always been supportive in general of the Prostheses List arrangements, it has always been a grievance to patient advocacy groups, hospitals and the medical device industry, that high value items offering significant clinical benefits have been excluded from the Prostheses list because they are not ‘implantable’ devices. As technology progresses, this has become an increasingly anachronistic definition and arguably has resulted in inferior access for private patients to a number of critical procedures.
The 2017 agreement between the Australian Government and the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) called for
‘reviewing, through the Prostheses List Advisory Committee, ways of listing new targeted medical devices on the Prostheses List that do not meet the current criteria for listing, but are safe, clinically and cost-effective to support private health insurance reimbursement for a wider range of medical devices taking into account overall costs associated with the listing. These include, but are not limited to, cardiac ablation catheters for atrial fibrillation’.
It seems, at least for the very immediate future that the change has been limited to cardiac ablation catheters with arrangement for other non-implantable technologies to be determined later. There has been some criticism about the process that was undertaken by the Office of Health Technology Assessment to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of cardiac ablation which was completed without significant consultation with the industry. Nevertheless, this is a long-awaited positive policy change which will improve access in private hospitals to cardiac ablation procedures that has been restricted for many years.
There are numerous non-implantable technologies that may be eligible for inclusion on the Prostheses List once the arrangements are in place. There is no published timeframe for this to occur, but an important precedent has been set with the inclusion of cardiac ablation catheters and it is a very positive development for the Australian medical device industry.
Author: Sarah Griffin, Principal at MedTechnique Consulting, Experts in medical device reimbursement and market access in Australia. Sarah is a health economist, reimbursement strategist, health care advocate and experienced speaker. email Sarah: info@medtechnique.com.au
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Archive for the ‘2015 Berlinale’ Category
H. Review
Posted: August 20, 2015 in 2015 Berlinale, 2015 Fantasy FilmFest, Drama, Reviews, Science Fiction
Tags: Daniel Garcia, Helen of Troy, Rania Attieh, Rebecca Dayan, Robin Bartlett
Film audiences in Berlin have enjoyed two opportunities to see the film H. this year, first at the Berlinale in February and then, more recently, at the Fantasy FilmFest in August. It is a movie that does well with a second viewing as the allusions to the Helen of Troy mythology from the Iliad and The Odyssey can be distracting rather than illuminating the first time around. As the events slowly unfold on screen, filmgoers can feel as if they have wandered into a graduate school literature class without reading the assignment or even having access to the CliffsNotes version. Letting go of these concerns during a subsequent viewing allows audiences to escape a sense of frustration and enjoy the pleasures of understated storytelling within a technically sound framework. Of course, you still need to devote more mental energy than in most films, but here, one feels as if it is worth the effort even if there are elements that must be pushed to the side.
Der letze Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich) Review
Posted: April 8, 2015 in 2015 Berlinale, Drama, Foreign, Reviews
Tags: Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Peter Kern, Shakespeare, Susanna Hohlrieder, Vienna, Winfried Glatzeder
Imagine that Shakespeare wrote one more play in the vein of Titus Andronicus, a story replete with palace intrigue, villainy and violence, and a bit of rough sex. Now, envisage a film based on that play with the screenwriter transposing the action from an incestuous royal court to a contemporary family-owned corporation. Dress the heir apparent in a sheer blouse, black bra, seamed stockings, and peep toe shoes rather than purple robes and a tiara. Substitute conniving bankers for devious cardinals. Keep the castle and the attendant nun, but swap out the throne for a real seat of power – the position of CEO. The end result of such a scenario might look strikingly similar to Der letze Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich), an over-the-top tale of under-the-sheet and behind-the-back maneuverings within the modern monarchy of a Vienna-based corporation. (more…)
Virgin Mountain (Fúsi) Review
Posted: March 29, 2015 in 2015 Berlinale, Comedy, Drama, Foreign, Reviews
Tags: Dagur Kári, Franziska Una Dagsdóttir, Gunnar Jónsson, Iceland, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Marty, Metalhead, Romance
Ironic as it might be, “slight” is the adjective that best describes Virgin Mountain, an Icelandic drama comedy that features an enormous manchild’s first tentative steps into adulthood at the tender age of 43. The 94-minute film, the fourth feature from Dagur Kári, is largely (no pun intended) an exercise (too little of that for the main character), in walking a narrow path between cliche and implausibility. While the sheer likeability of the two leads will have audiences rooting for their, and the film’s success, ultimately director Kári, working from his own screenplay, cannot overcome the limits he imposes on himself in attempting a retelling of a too-familiar tale. (more…)
Homesick Review
Posted: March 28, 2015 in 2015 Berlinale, Foreign, Horror, Reviews, Thriller
Tags: Adam Wingard, Cello, Esther Maria Pietsch, H.L. Mencken, Jakob Erwa, Matthias Lier, Music Competition, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Tatja Seibt
Too often it seems as if the programmers for the Berlinale Film Festival use the H.L. Mencken definition of puritanism as their maxim for selecting films. They display a haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy after seeing one of the movies they choose to showcase at the annual event. Working your way through the Competition or Panorama category can be an eat-your-vegetables exercise. Where then can the intrepid filmgoer go for a nice slice of genre pie after days and nights of sampling overdone highbrow fare? The task is not an easy one. Berlinale has yet to follow the lead offered by the world’s other premier film festivals like Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto, and London and added a Midnight section for horror, science fiction, fantasy, off-beat comedy, and other films that don’t so much push the envelope as rip it a new one. (more…)
Queen of the Desert Review
Posted: March 27, 2015 in 2015 Berlinale, Drama, Reviews
Tags: Damian Lewis, David Lean, Gertrude Bell, Holly Earl, James Franco, Lawrence of Arabia, Mark Lewis Jones, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, Werner Herzog
Remember the great disaster movies of the 1970’s, films like The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, and Earthquake? The formula was simple: put as many stars as you could find in the path of a natural disaster and let God and Irwin Allen sort out the winners and losers. Credit Werner Herzog with resurrecting the genre. For his latest film, Queen of the Desert, Herzog collected a handful of household names, put them in a rickety vehicle, and crashed them over and over again. (more…)
Diary of a Chambermaid (2015) Review
Tags: Benoît Jacquot, Jean Renoir, Léa Seydoux, Luis Buñuel, Octave Mirbeau
If there had been an award for Most Unnecessary Film in the Competition program at the 2015 Berlinale, Diary of a Chambermaid would undoubtedly have won by acclamation. The third time is most certainly not the charm for film adaptations of the 1900 naughty French novel Journal d’une femme de chamber by Octave Mirbeau, which saw prior incarnations in 1946 and in 1964, the former directed by Jean Renoir, the latter by Luis Buñuel. That pedigree is perhaps the only reasonable explanation for why director Benoît Jacquot dusted off a 100-year old novel that long ago lost its power to scandalize. Remaking the past movies of legends does not confer the same status onto those who purvey in the present, however. Jacquot’s effort pales in comparison to both previous efforts and looks even worse when measured by the standards of contemporary cinema. (more…)
Nobody Wants the Night Review
Tags: Gabriel Byrne, Isabel Coixet, Josephine Peary, Juliette Binoche, North Pole, Rinko Kikuchi, Robert Peary
One thing can be said for the selection of Nobody Wants the Night as the opening film for the 2015 Berlinale – it established a theme that recurred with regularity throughout the festival, most particularly in the Competition program. Unfortunately, that theme can most charitably be termed “unfulfilled expectations.” (A less diplomatic, but equally accurate description would be “bad movies from good directors.”) Five of the 19 films angling for the Golden Bear for Best Film fell under this description as audiences suffered through subpar products from Werner Herzog, Terrence Malick, Benoit Jacquot, and Peter Greenaway in addition to the disappointing film that kicked off the proceedings. Director Isabel Coixet’s contribution was not the worst (that distinction belongs to Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato), but it may well have been the most amateurish.
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Self-Publication
There has been an increase in the number of instances where employees have charged their former employers for defamation, alleging the publication of defamatory statements about their dismissal from the company. In these situations, the most common claim made by the employee is that the former employer published a statement negatively affecting their reputation and employment decisions to a third party, which is usually the prospective new employer. However, there are numerous states, including Florida, that have recognized the defense of self publication. Self publication occurs when the victim of a defamatory act by another goes out and re-states the publication to others by stating what has happened to them and repeating the defamatory acts of another.
Legal Background of Self-Publication Defamation
Looking at common law, a plaintiff registers a case of defamation by presenting the following:
Statement published to third party
Injury caused by the statement
The actual defamatory statement
Usually, the publication element is completed by the demonstration of conveying the defamatory statement to the third party by the defendant. However, there are some cases where the defamatory statement is published by the plaintiff themselves. This is an instance of self-publication and is not actionable under the law.
Lack of Consensus
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Is Phil Trenary the right person at the right time?
by Tom Jones
The relationship between the Greater Memphis Chamber and local government is akin to the reply from the elderly wife who was asked the secret to her long marriage: “Can’t live with him. Can’t live without him.” Over the past 30 years, the Chamber has often been a mere echo of the city and county mayors. Occasionally, it would vow to have more independence and step out front on a volatile issue, notably increases in taxes or creation of a new tax, but that was normally followed by cuts in public funding from piqued elected officials. Because of it, Chamber leaders learned to walk softly and carry a small stick.
It all began in the late 1970s when the Chamber went bankrupt and essentially vanished from the local scene. The lesson of depending on memberships to fund operations was clear, and government funding became a quick and dependable fix.
Little more than a year ago, the Chamber’s new Chairman’s Circle — a supercharged group of super funders — laid out an agenda of “moon missions,” but the biggest mission of all was cutting off funding from Memphis and Shelby County governments and plunging headlong into setting and influencing government priorities and challenging the public sector — and the private sector as well — to act more boldly, to refuse to accept “it’s good enough for Memphis” as an answer, and to force action, even if it could be embarrassing to politicians.
To punctuate the shift in direction and attitude, the Chamber even set out to create its own political action committee (PAC) to encourage people to run for office and to reward elected officials who support the Chamber’s agenda of change. As a result, it’s not possible to think of a time since Edmund Orgill was mayor of Memphis (1956-1959) when the Chamber flexed more muscle and influence than now.
In retrospect, some of the Chamber’s finest moments were when it was a counterbalance to prevailing political thinking, such as the 2001 Memphis Region Sourcebook that laid out priorities for “creating a strategic regional future,” but the fact remains that our region has languished at the bottom of the rankings for economic vitality for two decades. Programs to make Memphis more competitive have reliably been about tweaking and repackaging existing programs or building public support for about $1 billion in tax abatements for big business in the past decade.
What’s not been done is to attack Memphis’ deeply rooted structural problems, and that’s one of the major changes in today’s Chamber. Its new president Phil Trenary, who appears to be the right person at the right time, is talking about poverty, the importance of quality of place, the impact of stronger neighborhoods, and creation of a thicker middle class.
It’s an audacious conversation in the face of Memphis’ harsh realities. Low-wage jobs have dominated the last 15 years of the regional economy, and median household incomes peaked in 1999. Most disturbing of all, today’s median household income in Memphis is less than a living wage for one adult and one child, the bottom 20 percent of incomes is less than $13,522, and salaries went down by $1,231 in the most recent reporting period.
To complicate its work, the Chamber is getting more involved at a time when top-down solutions are treated with suspicion, when the talented workers that Memphis desperately needs often feel that economic development policies aren’t about them but blue-collar workers, and when overt business community leadership is often perceived negatively in political public circles.
Despite this, the Chairman’s Circle announced its moon missions: high school workers prepared to work in advanced manufacturing diesel mechanics, welding, or other high-demand trades; connecting Mid-South green spaces and retaining talent, adding 1,000 entrepreneurs in 10 years; high quality education for children from birth to pre-K; and a comprehensive growth plan for the region.
Progress is being made, but moon missions don’t happen overnight. By the time a U.S. moon mission was successful, there had already been a dozen failures. As the Chamber tackles its missions, there’s little question that there will be failures along the way. Serious problems like the region’s high rate of poverty, too many jobs that don’t pay a living wage, and too few young professionals with college degrees require nothing as much as time and patience.
Nashville has long been proof of the benefits that come from an active and engaged business community. As that city has shown, with it, the sky — if not the moon — is the limit.
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General Mills issues major recall after E. coli outbreak
E. coli sickens 38 people due to General Mills Flour
General Mills, owner of the venerable Gold Medal brand, has recalled over 10 million pounds of flour after 38 people in 20 states got sick from a potentially deadly strain of E. coli that may have originated in the company’s products.
The Golden Valley-based packaged food giant Tuesday announced the voluntary recall of some lots of Gold Medal — the nation’s bestselling retail flour — as well as flour sold under the Wondra and Signature Kitchens brands. Signature Kitchens is a store brand sold at several major U.S. grocery chains including Safeway, Albertsons, Jewel, Vons and Acme.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday there have been 10 hospitalizations associated with an outbreak linked to flour. No deaths have been reported.
The flour flap is the second significant recall for General Mills in less than a year.
The company in October recalled 1.8 million boxes of gluten-free Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios after discovering the cereal inadvertently contained gluten, a wheat protein that’s an allergen to some. In that case, oat flour was offloaded from a train car into a truck that had previously hauled wheat but had not been properly cleaned. The truck was owned by an independent contractor.
E. coli O121 — a less common strain of the E. coli bacteria — can cause bloody diarrhea, cramps and dehydration. Seniors, very young children and people with weak immune systems are the most susceptible to such an illness.
State and federal health authorities have been investigating a flour-related outbreak of E. coli O121 from Dec. 21 to May 3, General Mills said in a statement. The CDC has not released information on other states involved in the outbreak.
“It must have been substantial contamination for the outbreak to basically go nationwide,” said Bill Marler, a Seattle lawyer who specializes in food safety and suing food companies.
Marler noted that Mills made its recall even though the CDC has yet to detail the outbreak on its website. “I think what General Mills has done here is that they are getting ahead of an obvious problem, which is a positive thing.”
The CDC found that about half of the 38 sickened people reported making homemade food with flour before becoming ill, according to General Mills. Some reported using a General Mills brand of flour, and some also might have consumed raw dough or batter.
General Mills said it has not found E. coli O121 in any of its products or at its flour facilities, nor has it received any illness reports directly from consumers. The flour involved in the recall was mostly produced at General Mills’ plant in Kansas City, Mo.
E. coli outbreaks are most common in meat and produce, and they are ultimately traced back to bacteria in the guts of animals.
“E. coli is typically an indicator of fecal contamination,” said Mike Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety. Vegetables and fruit are often contaminated with E. coli, as well as salmonella, through tainted water. The same could happen to wheat — grist for flour — even though it’s processed.
E. coli outbreaks from flour-related products aren’t common, but a handful have occurred in recent years. The most well-known was a 2009 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 linked to Nestlé’s Toll House cookie dough. It sickened over 70 people in 30 states. Nestlé issued a big recall due to the outbreak.
The CDC reported that many victims ate raw Toll House cookie dough, a practice frowned upon by food safety experts.
Just as cooking meat properly kills E. coli bacteria, fully cooked baked goods should pose less of a threat.
Also, General Mills says that in order to kill bacteria such as E. coli, it heat-treats flour used in its Pillsbury refrigerated dough products. However, raw flour sold as an ingredient for baking is not heat-treated, because the process “would impact its performance such as rising properties,” the company said in a statement.
General Mills said it made the recall out of an “abundance of caution.”
Liz Nordlie, president of General Mills’ baking division, said in a statement: “As a leading provider of flour for 150 years, we felt it was important to not only recall the product and replace it for consumers if there was any doubt, but also to take this opportunity to remind our consumers how to safely handle flour.”
The company advises consumers never to eat raw dough or batter.
Specific product recall information can be found at generalmills.com/flour. Consumers with additional questions can contact the company at 1-800-230-8103.
-StarTribune
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Aldo Parisot leads the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos on April 13
Parisot conducting Yale Cellos
The Yale School of Music presents the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos in their popular annual concert on Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30 pm.
Aldo Parisot will lead the ensemble that he founded thirty-four years ago in a diverse program of music from the Baroque to present day, including the world premiere of “Parisot,” a three-movement work written for the Yale Cellos by Yale faculty composer Martin Bresnick. MORE
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Argus Quartet performs works by Yale faculty and alumni Feb. 2
Argus Quartet
The Yale School of Music presents a recital by the Argus Quartet, YSM’s fellowship quartet-in-residence on Tuesday, February 2 at 7:30 pm. The quartet will perform works which highlight the unique sounds that can be made by playing string instruments in unconventional ways. Among the composers featured will be YSM faculty member Christopher Theofanidis, and Andrew Norman ’09 AD.
The recital begins with Béla Bartók‘s String Quartet No. 4, which makes use of several extended techniques such as large glissandi, muted passages, and the famous “Bartok pizzicato,” in which the plucked string rebounds against the instrument’s fingerboard to create a loud slap.
Next, the quartet will continue with selections from Andrew Norman‘s Peculiar Strokes, which was premiered by the Argus Quartet in December 2015. Written to highlight and explore the unusual sounds that can be made with different types of bow strokes, the collection of miniature movements that make up Peculiar Strokes is an ongoing project to which Norman has been adding for several years. MORE
Vista concert Dec. 3 pairs chamber music and personal commentary
The Yale School of Music presents the next concert in its Vista series on Thursday, December 3 at 7:30 pm. The Vista series features student performances enhanced by commentary on the music.
This semester’s program features ensembles ranging from piano four-hands to wind quintet, with music by Schubert, Beethoven, Ligeti, and Mendelssohn. The concert is free and will also stream live online.
The concert will open with Schubert‘s Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 for piano four-hands, performed by Eylam Keshet and Thomas Hicks. The piece, written in the last year of Schubert’s life, was dedicated to his pupil, Karoline Esterházy, with whom he was in (unrequited) love. MORE
Yale Cellos perform 30th anniversary concert Apr. 10
The Yale School of Music celebrates the 30th anniversary of Yale Cellos in a concert on Wednesday, April 10. Founding director Aldo Parisot will lead the Grammy-nominated ensemble in music from the baroque to the present day, including pieces by Vivaldi, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Veracini, and others.
Four virtuoso soloists will open the program, beginning with special guest Patrick Jee, a YSM graduate who is now a member of the New York Philharmonic. Jee will perform the Fantasy by faculty composer Ezra Laderman, a piece that he has recorded for Albany Records. The other soloists are Jennifer Jinhee Park, Jurrian van der Zanden, and finally James Jeonghwan Kim, whose New York debut recital this February the New York Concert Review hailed as “absolute perfection.” MORE
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Posted on March 4, 2018 March 4, 2018 by MusicOfOurHeart
My favorite spiritual hymn is, “Let There Be Peace on Earth”, by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller.
Jill Jackson
Let there be peace on earth,
and let it begin with me;
the peace that was meant to be.
With God our creator,
family all are we.
Let us walk with each other
in perfect harmony.*
* © 1955 Jan-Lee Music, renewed 1983. Used by permission; all rights reserved.
“When I attempted suicide [in 1944] and I didn’t succeed,” Jill Jackson said, “I knew for the first time unconditional love—which God is. You are totally loved, totally accepted, just the way you are. At that moment I was not allowed to die, and something happened to me, which is very difficult to explain. I had an eternal moment of truth, in which I knew I was loved, and I knew I was here for a purpose.”
This realization was followed by years of exploring her spiritual nature and her relationship with God. Jackson discovered her love for writing and began writing songs with Sy Miller after they married in 1949.
In 1955, she wrote the lyrics for “Let There Be Peace on Earth” while her husband wrote the melody. The song was introduced at a California retreat to a group of young people who were from a wide variety of religious, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The young people had come together for a weeklong experience devoted to developing friendship and understanding through education, discussion and working together. The song’s focus on peace and God made it easy to cross many boundaries.
Sy Miller wrote about the effect of the song: “One summer evening in 1955, a group of 180 teenagers of all races and religions, meeting at a workshop high in the California mountains locked arms, formed a circle and sang a song of peace. They felt that singing the song, with its simple basic sentiment—‘Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me’—helped to create a climate for world peace and understanding.
“When they came down from the mountain, these inspired young people brought the song with them and started sharing it. And, as though on wings, ‘Let There Be Peace on Earth’ began an amazing journey around the globe. It traveled first, of course, with the young campers back to their homes and schools, churches and clubs.”
Miller noted that the song was then shared in all 50 states at school graduations, PTA meetings, holiday gatherings, celebrations of Brotherhood Week, Veterans Day, Human Rights Day and United Nations Day. Kiwanis clubs sang it, as well as 4-H clubs, United Auto Workers, the American Legion, the B’nai B’rith and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
The song was taped, copied, printed in songbooks and passed by word of mouth. Eventually, it spread overseas, sung by Maoris in New Zealand and Zulus in Africa.
In 2009 Random House published “Let There Be Peace on Earth” as a children’s book.
The above information is lovingly shared from History of Hymns, authored by Dr. C. Michael Hawn a professor of sacred music at Perkins School of Theology, SMU.
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A hurricane sends Kenny Chesney on a new musical mission
FILE - In this June 23, 2018 file photo, Kenny Chesney performs during the Trip Around the Sun Tour in Phoenix. After Hurricane Irma decimated the U.S. Virgin Islands last year, country superstar Kenny Chesney started writing songs and organizing relief efforts. Chesney is donating proceeds from the sale of his new album, "Songs for the Saints," to a foundation he set up to support recovery on the islands.Rick Scuteri / Rick Scuteri/Invision/AP
Kristin M. Hall
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NASHVILLE — At Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field this June, Kenny Chesney flew in a large group of VIP guests to visit with him before performing for some 55,000 fans. They weren’t music industry bigwigs.
They were school children and teachers from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Hurricane Irma made landfall last year and caused massive destruction. And they also happened to be his neighbours on the island of St. John.
“I’ve spent the majority of my adult life walking those beaches and hanging out in those bars and writing songs,” Chesney, 50, recalled later in his manager’s office in Nashville, Tennessee. “All of a sudden, it was a place that was very beautiful and that was very broken.”
St. John was among several Caribbean islands hit last September by the most powerful hurricane to develop over the open Atlantic. Throughout the Caribbean, the Category 5 storm knocked out power and cellphone towers for weeks or months, damaged roads, airports and hospitals and smashed up boats, businesses and homes.
Chesney was not on the island, but he opened his home there to friends and neighbours so they could ride out the storm. They survived, but his home was destroyed.
“I could hear the anxiety and the stress on everyone,” Chesney said. “The people that actually rode the storm out in the bottom of my home, I was able to get them off the island a couple of weeks after the storm. And you know when they got to my home, they were wearing the same clothes they had on that morning (of the storm).”
Immediately after the storm hit, he wrote the title track of his new album, “Songs for the Saints,” out Friday.
“I was writing the songs as a lot of the destruction and devastation was happening,” Chesney said. “I’ve never made a record like that in the middle of such anxiety.”
Although born in landlocked East Tennessee, Chesney has become an islander at heart. On St. John, he made friends and enjoyed the peace and isolation away from the demands of his superstar life. There were years where he’d step off a tour bus and head straight for a boat.
“The people that I met there didn’t care what I did,” Chesney said. “They had no idea. It was great.”
He turned that island lifestyle into his brand and the loyal No Shoes Nation that pack out stadiums. The island had fed his human spirit and his creative side as a songwriter, but now he had his chance to give back.
Within days, Chesney set up a foundation called Love for Love City, also the title of the second song he wrote after the storm. He helped bring in medical supplies and equipment, had crews clear out debris and rescue pets and bought new musical instruments for the St. John School of the Arts.
“Not many people know what Kenny has done and is still doing for the rebuilding efforts in the Virgin Islands,” said his friend and country star Eric Church. “It’s a place that is a part of his DNA, of his story. It tells you the kind of person he is and how big his heart is to see him helping in this way.”
Chesney was also in the midst of working on a new record deal with Warner Music Nashville, making his move from Sony after more than two decades. He called up John Esposito, the chairman of Warner Music Nashville, and told him he was ready to work with Warner, but he had a caveat.
“He says, ‘The first record I’m doing is a charity record,”‘ Esposito said.
Esposito absolutely agreed that proceeds of the record should go to the foundation, but beyond that Esposito said the record is just a great album.
“I’ve actually listened to this album 250 times and not only am I never bored with it, I hear something else unveiled with every listen,” Esposito said.
The album has already produced Chesney’s 30th No. 1 single, “Get Along,” making him the artist with the most songs to top Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, surpassing Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson and George Strait.
On the title track, Chesney’s vocals take centre stage at the beginning with an acoustic guitar and a single drum beat, as he sings that “God lifted these islands from the ocean.” On “Love for Love City,” Chesney adds delicate steel drums and Ziggy Marley to the loping, reggae-inspired song in which he promises to be a part of the island’s encore.
The songs aren’t sad odes to what was lost, but reflective of the grit and hope necessary to keep going. At the end of the album, Chesney covers a song called “Better Boat,” written by Travis Meadows and Liz Rose, which is a poignant description of the struggle of personal recovery.
Others like “Trying to Reason (With Hurricane Season),” a duet between Chesney and Jimmy Buffet, who wrote the song, are more lighthearted. Mac McAnally, an acclaimed guitarist and songwriter who worked on the record, said that Chesney kept the instrumentation to a minimum to keep the focus on the lyrics.
“That kind of framework lets you be a little more contemplative as you listen,” McAnally said. “A song that’s got some depth to it benefits from being listened to a little quieter.”
In February, Chesney visited students and their teachers at St. John School for the Arts after donating new instruments and he talked to them about life post-Irma.
“It was a really emotional day when we went there, just to see the look on their faces when you give them a guitar or a steel drum,” Chesney said. “You never know what one of those guitars will do. I know what one guitar did for me.”
There’s still a pressing need for help in the islands as hurricane season starts anew this year. Chesney, who says he is a firm believer in global warming, predicts that the catastrophic storms will continue to be a threat to the Caribbean as well as the United States. He’d like the foundation to help build up the infrastructure of the islands, possibly even opening a hospital on St. John and improving schools.
Chesney isn’t always comfortable talking about his philanthropy and he’s quick to point out that many people have been helping with hurricane recovery. But he does know how his music can affect people, which is why he considers this album among the best of his career.
“If you believe music heals and rebuilds the human spirit, this has the potential to be one of the most important albums I’ve made,” Chesney said.
Online: http://www.kennychesney.com
Follow Kristin M. Hall at Twitter.com/kmhall
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The Latest: Suspect pleads not guilty Arizona girls' deaths
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Latest on a man charged with killing two Arizona girls who disappeared years ago (all times local):
A convicted sex offender has pleaded not guilty to killing two Arizona girls who went missing years ago.
Christopher Matthew Clements entered the plea Monday afternoon during his first appearance in a Tucson courtroom following a 22-felony count indictment that includes charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual exploitation of a minor.
Authorities say the 36-year-old led them to the remains last year of 6-year-old Isabel Celis, who went missing in April 2012. They also say he is accused of killing 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, whose body was found in June 2014 three days she went missing.
Media outlets report family members of both victims were present in court.
Clements’ lawyer Nikolas Forner did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
Clements is currently jailed in Phoenix on burglary charges.
A convicted sex offender will appear in a Tucson court for the first time to face charges in the deaths of two girls.
Christopher Matthew Clements is scheduled for arraignment Monday afternoon in Pima County on multiple counts, including two of first-degree murder and kidnapping.
The 36-year-old, already serving time in Phoenix for burglary charges, was indicted earlier this month on 21 counts.
Tucson police have not said what led to them investigating Clements in the killings of 6-year-old Isabel Celis and 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez.
Celis went missing from her home in April 2012. Her body was discovered in March 2017 in a rural area.
Gonzalez’ body was discovered in June 2014.
Clements does not yet have an attorney but is expected to be assigned one at the arraignment.
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Please note that the Canadian Museum of Nature has received approval in principle from the National Capital Commission to proceed with the construction of a temporary surface parking lot on the west side of its property. This follows review of a proposed five-year concept for the area (4.2 Mb PDF) that also includes landscaping of greenspace.
The proposal was presented at a public information session on September 16, 2013. The overall plan will reduce the footprint of the currently available parking on the west side, and maximize the remaining area for public use.
The museum's goal is to complete the construction of the parking lot and its immediately adjacent green infrastructure before July 1, 2014. Construction will begin in spring 2014.
The concept plans also include the Regions of Canada Garden and an Arctic sculpture. These two elements are subject to a separate approval process.
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November 26, 2008 at 11:59 am (birds)
Tags: St. James Farm, turkey
My best Thanksgiving wishes for you and yours.
Turkey escaping St. James Farm grand opening commotion
Periodical Cicada Species and Regional Distribution
November 25, 2008 at 12:15 pm (singing insects)
Tags: Magicicada cassini, Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada septendecula, periodical cicada, periodical cicada distribution
In earlier posts I outlined the major results of my study of periodical cicadas in DuPage County, Illinois. Human history has played a huge role in determining both where the cicadas occur and where they are absent. In this installment (I anticipate one more for the future) I want to pass on my observations from the 2007 emergence in some areas outside the county, and to account for the three species of 17-year cicadas.
The periodical cicadas I had observed in the off-year emergence of 2003, and the few I found in 2006 (Oops! cicadas I call them), all belonged to one species, Cassin’s periodical cicada (Magicicada cassini). One other species had been observed abundantly in northeast Illinois according to published studies, so I expected to find Linnaeus’ periodical cicada (M. septendecim) in 2007. A third species, the little periodical cicada (M. septendecula), is regarded in the literature as a more southern species, but it is less known than the others and I hoped to find it locally, too.
M. septendecim left, cassini right. Can you find differences?
What I described in earlier posts applies mainly to the Cassin’s species. Linnaeus’ periodical cicadas occurred in all the areas of abundant emergence, but as a rule were less common than Cassin’s, and intriguingly their outermost song choruses consistently were about 100 meters back from the edge of the emergence area defined by Cassin’s.
I did not find the little periodical cicada at all. Not only was it absent from DuPage, but I failed to find it in what seemed like the most promising place in the state. The literature points to Livingston County as the one location from which the little periodical cicada is known in Illinois. That is mainly an agricultural county, but it does have a significant site, Humiston Woods Nature Center, which is forested and has a large area dominated by shagbark hickory, supposedly one of that cicada’s preferred nymphal food trees. On two trips to Humiston Woods I found Cassin’s and Linnaeus’, but no little periodical cicadas. Their songs are distinctive enough that I doubt I could have missed them if they were there.
Quiet feeding group
As for other counties, there were abundant reports of cicada concentrations in the portion of Cook County east of DuPage, as well as the Palos area to the southeast. I found only a very few scattered individuals in parts of Cook north of DuPage County. Along the Fox River to the west, in Kane County, I found none, but did hear a report of at least one location away from the river where they were observed. I drove south along the Fox River one Sunday morning, spot checking likely forested areas, but did not find periodical cicadas until I was within a couple miles of the Fox’s confluence with the Illinois River, near Starved Rock State Park. That was surprising. Also surprising was the limited distribution of cicadas in the parts of north Will County (south of DuPage) that I checked. I found plenty along the Des Plaines River just downstream from DuPage County, at Keepataw Forest Preserve, but none at Veterans Woods just a short distance farther, nor at Isle la Cache, nor at Hammel Woods on the DuPage River. They were at McKinley Woods on the Des Plaines, and at the southernmost part of the DuPage River. Though I did not investigate further, I suppose that agricultural history has played a role in this patchy distribution, as it did in my county.
In the final installment of this series I will touch on high points of the periodical cicadas’ behavior. They provided one more big surprise…
Trailing Strawberry Bush and Ermine Moth
November 24, 2008 at 12:27 pm (botany, plant-eating insects)
Tags: ermine moth, euonymus, Euonymus obovatus, herbivory, Meacham Grove, population dynamics, trailing strawberry bush, Yponomeuta multipunctella
Trailing strawberry bush is a beautiful, uncommon woody plant in DuPage County forests where there has been relative long term protection from fire. It is a native member of the genus Euonymus, E. obovatus to be exact, a close relative of the popular winged euonymus (problematic invader in native woodlands) and wahoo (a better choice, as it’s native) of landscape design. Despite its diminutive stature, E. obovatus is recognized as a euonymus by its green stems, opposite leaves and distinctive flowers and fruit. Healthy stems can stretch up to a foot above the ground, but it mainly grows horizontally in colonies that can spread over more than 50 square meters, though usually much less than that.
Caterpillars of the ermine moth Yponomeuta multipunctella are specialist consumers of euonymus leaves. They are small, the moths perhaps half an inch long, but the caterpillars live in colonies, collectively spinning webs among the foliage, and together can defoliate patches of the euonymus. I began studying the interaction between this moth and plant in 1983 at DuPage County’s Meacham Grove Forest Preserve.
When I first collected data in 1983, the ermine moth population was rapidly increasing in the many and often large Euonymus colonies. Defoliation in subsequent years, with a peak in 1985, resulted in decimation of the Euonymus and population collapse of Yponomeuta, which nearly were gone by 1987. After a hiatus I returned to the study in 1998, and found that a slow recovery by Euonymus had begun. In 2000, with Euonymus still well below its 1983 abundance, Yponomeuta reappeared in significant numbers, and sustained them in 2001, but not nearly at the levels I saw in the 1980s. In 2002 they were practically gone again. I have not seen them or signs of their presence since that year.
Nevertheless, Euonymus recovery has been slow at best, in part because it was decimated so drastically by the ermine moth caterpillars. The median product of patch length and width in 1983 was 9.5 square meters, in 2008 was only 1 square meter. In recent years there has been some browsing by whitetail deer and possibly eastern cottontails. A managed burn of the leaf litter in the understory of my study area last year appears to have had a mixed impact on the plants. Some trailing strawberry bush patches clearly were hurt, but others showed good growth this year, possibly because they were hurt less by the fire than were their competitors.
Euonymus obovatus has produced no fruit in study colonies since 2002, and there has been some attrition of the reduced patches in recent years. Larger patches continue to hold their own, though, with some continuing to show slow growth.
November 23, 2008 at 12:27 pm (dragonflies and damselflies, methods)
Tags: cyrano darner, dragonfly, fawn darner, Fullersburg, Odonata, prince baskettail, Songbird Slough
That is, unidentified flying Odonata. I have been studying dragonflies and damselflies for most of a decade, now, but this year I continued to find species I had not noticed before. One technique that helped was to take ridiculously distant telephotos, blow them up and look for clues that would help in identification. The results reminded me of the fuzzy photos of UFO’s that have circulated for decades. Heck, I remember reading a book on the subject when I was a kid, ogling the grainy pictures that looked suspiciously like pie plates and the like. But I so wanted to believe…
Getting back to today’s subject, I want to share photos of three species from this past season. The first is of a species I had noticed for two successive seasons patrolling a particular sunlit bend of Salt Creek at Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve (DuPage County, IL). It clearly was a darner of some sort, and not the common green darner, but I was determined this year to take the time to try to identify it. It never landed, but attempts to track it with binoculars eventually gave me enough details to identify it as a Cyrano darner. Later, I photographed another darner well downstream from that hairpin turn. The result is blurry, but even so you can clearly see the shelf-like schnozz that gives the species its name. That photo confirmed for me that there is a population of these guys at Fullersburg, with a minimum of 5 males eventually recognized.
Cyrano darner
The next photo, also from Fullersburg, was a desperate attempt to get any kind of image of a distant dragonfly that, like the Cyrano, appeared to be a darner. This one was foraging over a mudflat near a large pile of drift logs in a pool of Salt Creek. The photos gave impressions, but few details. Nevertheless I am fairly confident of the ID. Notice the unusual brown and tan color scheme of the body. Also, the leading edge of the wing seems to have pale spots that appear in a photo of the fawn darner in James R. Curry’s Dragonflies of Indiana.
Fawn Darner
Finally, I spent a lot of time watching a couple emeralds (emeralds are a group of dragonflies) at Songbird Slough Forest Preserve on August 30. They were dark, and were the size and had the behavior of prince baskettails, but they lacked the dark spots I am accustomed to seeing on the wings of that emerald species. After a lot of tries I eventually got a UFO-type photo of one. I looked at all the descriptions of dark emeralds in my references, but none really fit the physical features, habitat, range and behavior of the insects at Songbird Slough. I was forced to conclude that these were prince baskettails after all. Later, dragonfly monitor program coordinator Craig Stettner confirmed this identification in my mind when he said he has noted that the spots of prince baskettails often are small or even missing in late season individuals.
Prince Baskettail
Off-year Emergences
Tags: cicada, Illinois, periodical cicada, shadow brood
This is the third entry in a series describing the periodical cicada emergence of 2007 in northeast Illinois. In the introductory entry I referred to an off-year emergence in 1969, four years before the main 1973 arrival. Henry Dybas of the Field Museum compiled reports from DuPage and adjacent counties that indicated large numbers of the insects appeared in many communities in 1969. In general only a portion of the local cicada populations came out early, and he expected them to be consumed by predators before they could produce enough eggs to result in an ongoing off-year splinter population (or, to use a term coined by cicada specialist Gene Kritsky, “shadow brood”).
Newspaper accounts, and observations by Illinois entomologist Phil Nixon, demonstrate that good numbers of cicadas emerged in the subsequent off years of 1986 and 1973. There apparently is not enough documentation of reproduction to confirm that this is a continuing shadow brood rather than fresh subgroups of cicadas emerging 13 years after the main emergences each time. This is such a rare event across the range of periodical cicadas that it seems more likely that the original 1969 shadow brood has maintained itself, reverting to a 17-year spacing and reproducing enough to maintain itself, at least so far. But we cannot entirely rule out the possibility that there is something different about parts of the Chicago area, or about the cicadas that live here, that prompts unusual percentages of early emergences each generation.
We do not know what prompted the shortened lifespan of these insects. Underground competition is one possibility. Something strange about the rhythm of flow in the tree sap annual cycle between 1956 and 1969 might have thrown their count off. The mechanism is not entirely mysterious, however. Each northern species of 17-year periodical cicada has a counterpart 13-year species in the South. Researchers Jo Ann White and Monte Lloyd found that there is a simple developmental difference between the species in each pair. The northern ones go into a 4-year dormancy early in their development, then snap out of it and resume growth on the steady schedule. Something made some of our Chicago-area cicadas act like southerners, skipping the dormancy.
So far all of this is old news, and except for the fact that I observed some of the 1973 cicadas myself, what is my rationale for including it in my inquiry blog? The reason is a mysterious hole in the distribution of cicadas I observed in 2007. Two adjacent DuPage County communities, Wood Dale and Addison, had essentially no periodical cicadas last year. This was unexpected, as they were on Dybas’ list of communities with cicadas in 1969, and they are adjacent to cicada rich Bensenville. They should have contributed to the third lobe of the main cicada emergence along the northernmost of the three commuter railways mentioned in my introductory entry on this subject.
I have interviewed a number of people who live or work in that area, and looked at old newspapers. There were plenty of cicadas in both towns in 2003. I have come to the tentative conclusion that in their area it wasn’t just a portion of the local population that emerged in 1969 but rather the bulk of it. So few were left for the main emergence that Dybas’ prediction of predator elimination ironically may have come true, wiping out that correct-year emergence group, so that essentially only the shadow brood remains in Wood Dale and Addison two generations later.
If I am still around in 2020, I intend to repeat my mapping of periodical cicadas in the county, this time to document what appears to be an ongoing local shadow brood of the insects.
Tomorrow: UFO’s
Nagagamisis
November 21, 2008 at 12:46 pm (birds, botany, mammals)
Tags: common merganser, lynx, Nagagamisis, red fox, ruffed grouse, white spruce
The best place for wildlife on this year’s Canada trip proved to be the relatively remote Nagagamisis Provincial Park. Forests again were diverse, this photo highlighting a group of white spruce.
When I arrived I found the park quiet, and saw no one. I parked and was walking around looking for a campsite when I looked ahead and saw a coyote-sized gray animal leaving the road and going into the brush, but it had no tail and its hindquarters had a crouchy look: a lynx! I walked to where it had left the road and found it sitting there looking at me almost within arm’s reach. It was so surreal that I told it out loud to “wait here,” and went back to the car to get my camera. Looking back I saw that it had come back out on the road and was following behind me. It was shy when in the open on the road but calmed and sat as soon as it got off the road. Then it was gone.
Later I talked to the campground manager, who said there had been a number of reports about this animal over the summer though he hadn’t seen it himself (I suspect he only goes through the campground in his pickup). It, and the camp red fox, have not been problems for campers. He thinks the lynx may be attracted by the “partridge” (ruffed grouse).
I encountered the fox on my afternoon walk, sound asleep in an empty campsite.
In the middle of the afternoon I saw that the fox had shifted his snoozing location to the center of the sun-warmed campground entrance drive. Clearly a slow day at Nagagamisis.
In the evening I heard a commotion below my lakeside campsite. I crept through the trees and found a large flock of common mergansers. Their squabbling throaty vocalizations were reminiscent of the calls of ptarmigans from my Alaska days.
Tomorrow: A mystery in the wake of the 2007 periodical cicada emergence.
Biology Along the Way
November 20, 2008 at 12:30 pm (birds, botany, geology)
Tags: aster, beaver, black spruce, blueberry, bunchberry, club moss, honeysuckle, lichen, mastodon dig, paper birch, spider, spruce grouse
Though my trip to Canada had as its primary goal an exploration of the route of the Lake Michigan lobe of the Wisconsin glacier, an old wildlifer like me was not going to ignore the vegetative communities and wildlife along the way. I was especially interested in what I would find in the highway loop through Timmins and Hearst, Ontario, as I had never been in that area before. It’s far enough north that I passed a sign marking the watershed for rivers flowing north to the Arctic Ocean and those flowing south.
Potholes Provincial Park along Highway 101 had a little trail going to some beautiful places. The trees along the edge of this photo are black spruces, a tree of special interest because we found a couple cones of this species in the mastodon dig this summer (more on that in future posts). Black spruce was the dominant tree in many places this far north, though it no longer occurs closer to Illinois than central Wisconsin.
Kettle Lakes Provincial Park has a great trail system. Here are some photos showing a segment through paper birch,
another past savanna-spaced pines,
a closeup of lichens and a club moss.
There were edible blueberries,
beautiful bunchberries,
asters still flowering in September
but the changing colors of plants such as these honeysuckles revealing the season.
Signs of animal life included a beaver lodge in every little lake,
dew-highlighted spider webs,
and a spruce grouse.
Tomorrow I’ll conclude with wildlife at Nagagamisis Provincial Park.
November 19, 2008 at 12:14 pm (history (human))
Tags: Fullersburg, history, Mayslake
In early November I moved my office from Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve to Mayslake Forest Preserve. The distance of the move was only a couple of miles, but what a difference in ecosystems! Fullersburg is larger, almost entirely forested, with Salt Creek winding its way through the heart of the preserve. Mayslake is more of a mix, with savanna, brush land, prairie, meadows, two lakes, a tiny stream, and a couple small marshes. And then there are the buildings and their grounds.
My office now is in an honest-to-God mansion. The mansion was built by Francis Stuyvesant Peabody, the coal mining magnate whose enterprise was the target of the wrenchingly beautiful John Prine folk song, “Paradise.” Peabody was so concerned about possible reprisals by his foes that he built a secret escape passageway within the walls of his new home. He died shortly after the mansion was completed, victim of a heart attack while riding on a fox hunt on his property.
OK, so what does all of that have to do with nature inquiry? That’s my young inner voice asking. When I was a young scientist I was committed to field work and skeptical of the theoretical side of ecology. Nevertheless, I was thinking in abstract terms of Ecological Principles and pristine ecosystem function removed from the influence of human beings.
Over the years I have changed my focus radically. Now I think in terms of the particulars of organisms and of landscapes. I also see wild lands more completely. There are no pristine ecosystems free of human influence (in an earlier post I showed how periodical cicada distribution in DuPage County was influenced by railroad history, of all things). But rather than bemoan this acknowledgement, I choose to embrace it. That acceptance flows in both directions. On the one hand, the human history of an area is interesting, and needs to be known to understand its present day dynamics. At the same time, we are a part of the ecosystem, there is no “nature” over there apart from “us” over here.
I had a blast tracing the human history of Fullersburg, and I look forward to learning more about Mayslake’s past. I’ll be sharing discoveries from both places in future posts.
Glacial Drift Comparison
November 18, 2008 at 1:19 pm (geology)
Tags: Agawa, glacial drift, glacier, Illinois Beach State Park, Kettle Lakes, Nagagamisis, Whitefish Point
This is the third installment describing my 2008 vacation to look at the route followed by the Lake Michigan lobe of the latest (“Wisconsin”) glacier. I followed the highway northeast to Timmins, Ontario, and camped a couple nights at the nearby Kettle Lakes Provincial Park. This is an area where the bedrock is covered by glacial drift and outwash, as is the case in DuPage County. As I explored the park’s trails I was struck by how familiar the outwash looked. The colors and proportions of little stones seemed very similar to ours, except for the absence of the Devonian shale and the Niagara dolomite. Those would not be expected, because they are from the bottom of Lake Michigan and from its rim, well downstream from Ontario on the glacier’s route.
Outwash at Kettle Lakes
The story was different at Nagagamisis Provincial Park, which I reached after driving far enough northwest that I was northeast of Lake Superior. The drift stones at Nagagamisis had different colors in different proportions and did not look familiar. This is intuitive rather than a quantitative measurement, but I feel pretty confident about it. There were plenty of basalts, but a higher proportion of white granites, and few red granites and gneisses. The surprise was that there was a presence of Paleozoic sedimentary pieces, including fossils. When I examined the maps I found that the glacier indeed had passed over an area of Paleozoic bedrock that lies between Hudson Bay and Nagagamisis.
Outwash at Nagagamisis
Closeup of horn coral fossil
A couple days later I camped on the shore of Lake Superior at the Agawa campground of Superior Provincial Park. The stones on the beach there were dominated by reddish granites and black basalts or diabases. There were pale quartz pieces, but little or no sedimentary rock. The high proportion of red granites, a significant percentage of which were mixed with greenstone minerals, was surprisingly unlike what we see in DuPage County. I would have thought this spot was in the path of the Lake Michigan lobe, but that appears not to be the case.
Agawa beach stones
Agawa beach closeup
My next examination of drift was at Whitefish Point, near the tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the Lake Superior side. Here the rock mix was, to the eye, familiar and like that of NE Illinois. This spot seems unavoidably in the path of the Lake Michigan lobe.
Whitefish Point beach stones
A final stop, at Illinois Beach State Park, was similar except that the local Paleozoic stones were back in the mix.
Illinois Beach State Park stones
This all was satisfying, though my tentative conclusions don’t withstand close scrutiny. A quantitative and perhaps chemical examination of the rocks would be necessary to nail it down. However, my observations are consistent with mapped glacial scratches on bedrock. It appears to me that the Lake Michigan lobe passed through or near Timmins, on the one (S or SE) side, and Whitefish Point and Door County on the other (N or NW). One test of this idea I intend to make in a future inquiry will be to search for drift on the U.P. west of Whitefish Point. I would expect to find, somewhere, a match to Agawa Bay.
There will be one final entry in this series, focusing on the biology of the part of Canada I explored on this trip.
Where the Periodical Cicadas Weren’t
Tags: habitat bottlenecks, island biogeography, landscape history, periodical cicada
In my earlier description of the 17-year cicada emergence in northeast Illinois, I showed how the periodical cicadas appeared in large numbers in parts of eastern DuPage County that either (1) were well forested for a long period of time; or (2) were associated with the rail lines where communities of Chicago commuters built up early, establishing urban forests that allowed the spread of the insects from source forest areas. Below is a map of presettlement DuPage, and it shows that potential source forest areas were as much a presence in western DuPage as in the eastern half of the county.
(map prepared by Rachel Reklau)
So, why weren’t cicadas there as well in 2007? My inquiry into this question took me to three kinds of sources: old newspaper accounts, old county atlases and other historical books, and a series of aerial photos covering the entire county in 1939.
Here are some quotes from the Wheaton Illinoian newspaper. Bartlett, 1888: “The locusts are singing so loud we can’t hear the frogs.” Turner Junction (now West Chicago), 1888: “The locusts are in full battle array, and will soon get in their work.” Downers Grove, 1888 (eastern DuPage, but a worthy quote): “If it’s locusts you want you can have them by the scoop shovel full.” Wheaton, 1905: “There is no longer any doubt about this being the seventeen-year locust date. They are hatching out in countless numbers.” None of the west DuPage towns had cicadas emerging beyond a handful of scattered individuals in 2007. Clearly they once were there.
So, I followed the 18 significant forest areas of the original land survey, measuring how they changed from their 1840 size to their size in the 1874 county atlas to the 1939 aerial photos to their size today. The pattern was dramatic, and clear. All forests were cut back for agriculture and development, but the process was delayed and less dramatic in eastern DuPage County where there was an earlier transition from agriculture to a suburban landscape. Chicago and the railways made the difference. By the time the eastern forest blocks were significantly diminished, the urban forests had grown and the periodical cicadas had spread into them.
In western DuPage County, the forests were cut back severely before urban forests of any size could grow, and before lands were protected by forest preserves and parks. County wide, the median forest depletion was 33% by 1874, 70% by 1939, with the greatest impact in western DuPage. I looked at the bottlenecks, the smallest known sizes to which the forest areas were trimmed since 1840, and compared them for presence and absence of cicadas in 2007. Forests that always have remained above 62 hectares in size all had cicadas. Forests that at one time or another were reduced below 50 hectares all were lacking cicadas. Between those sizes, there were 3 forest areas. Two of them had cicadas, and were relatively close to other forest remnants that had cicadas in 2007. The third, which had only a handful of periodical cicadas, was an isolated 7.7 kilometers (nearly 5 miles) from the nearest forest with cicadas.
So, now we have an accounting for the distribution of periodical cicadas in the county. Understanding them required a study of presettlement conditions, railroad history, suburban history and agricultural history.
But that is not the whole story. There were more surprises in 2007, and I will get into them in future entries.
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Sunset Rising: Born a slave inside a government biodome, seventeen-year-old Sunny O’Donnell becomes a pawn in a political plot that sparks a rebellion. Accused of treason and facing execution, she escapes with a man she considers an enemy and discovers she not only has to work with him to survive, but also lead the revolution.
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Worlds Collide: Sunny and Jack must continue a life of subterfuge in order to stay alive and find a way to free the Pit. But in their attempt to save the urchins, they uncover the horrifying truth about President Holt and the evil he could unleash on the world.
New World Order: While Sunny and Jack struggle to find each other in the lawless post-apocalyptic world, tensions between the Pit and the Dome escalate. In the action-packed conclusion of the Sunset Rising Trilogy, friends will become enemies and enemies will become friends on a journey that will lead to a new world order.
Satellite Stories: For the first time in ebook format, the seven satellite stories are included with the trilogy. Find out what’s happening in the Pit between books one and two, and get a closer look at some of the other people in Sunny’s life.
#MorallyComplicatedYA: Wearing Pink Isn’t the Issue
If you’re an avid reader of young adult fiction, odds are you already know the origin of the currently trending #MorallyComplicatedYA, but for anyone who doesn’t know, here’s the low down: a debut author pens a young adult story starring a seventeen-year-old girl, which garners the attention of the publishing industry, including a movie deal, and when interviewed by Publishers Weekly about his recent success, he remarked, “…the morality of (my) book is more complicated than a lot of YA…”[1]
At first glance, the hypocrisy is obvious: by claiming his work is morally superior, he is behaving immorally. Dig a little deeper and we begin to understand the outrage over a supercilious thirty-something-white-male debut author strutting into the virtual YA Reading Room and declaring to the predominantly female community that his book is better. And there is evidence to suggest that this was his motivation to write a YA in the first place. In an author interview on the blog The Pen and Muse Book Reviews, the author answers the question, “Tell us about your book. How did it get started?”
“As the father of two daughters, I became pretty appalled at the image of women they received from the culture. It was all princess-this, Barbie-that. It was almost a satire of femininity. My wife—a very strong, highly-motivated attorney—was appalled too. What century were we living in if the feminine ideal little girls learned about was still a woman in a pink dress and a nineteen inch waist? I decided to create a female heroine who was the opposite of all that—a young, strong female who discovers real heroism within herself.”[2]
And in an excerpt from his book, as originally independently published, his heroine muses:
“I pull a book out of my backpack and lean against the door as the train shoots through the tunnel under the river for Queens. It’s a novel with a teenage heroine set in a dystopian future. Which novel in particular doesn’t matter because they’re all the same. Poor teenage heroine, having to go to war when all you really want is to write in your diary about how you’re in love with two different guys and can’t decide between them. These novels are cheesy, I know, and I suck them down as easily as milk.”
His heroine starts out as a slightly overweight 17-year-old girl who transforms into a “lean warrior” and dyes her hair fire-engine red before setting out to find her kidnapped father, and who “faces ‘all sorts of morally ambiguous choices,’ and often shoots first, asks questions later.”[3] The same PW article goes on to report that some publishers had concerns with the level of violence.
Although not a big fan of senseless violence, I love a story where the underdog prevails and the bad guy/girl gets what’s coming. It’s entertaining. But what complicated moral high ground are we to glean from a teenage heroine who has to change her physical appearance by shedding pounds and dying her hair fire engine red in order to transform into a young, strong female who discovers real heroism within herself, and whose penchant for cheesy, cookie-cutter, romance infused dystopian stories is her weakness? Because this is not the opposite image of a culture that pressures girls to be thin and pretty. And doesn’t the ebook industry owe a large amount of its success to female patrons trading in their paperbacks for the anonymity an ereader because they’re fed up with being judged by the books they read?
Creating an edgy female hero with the balls to shoot first and ask questions later is not new, nor is it morally superior. It’s the same old antiquated rhetoric of the might-is-right dogma deeply rooted in a male-dominated society that values physical strength as power and shames anything considered feminine as weak and inferior. Case in point: chick lit. Despite romance almost always topping the bestseller lists, romance books are popularly viewed as trashy and rarely recognized as “literature.” Love and romance are generally accepted as the frivolous pursuits of women, and the author’s quip in his novel, Poor teenage heroine, having to go to war when all you really want is to write in your diary about how you’re in love…, is a condescending put down of that pursuit. If the author’s idea of feminism is for “girly-girls” to shed their female tendencies and adopt the might-is-right approach, then he’s missing the point about equality.
Equality isn’t about being the same; it’s about dignity. Although gender issues differ from culture-to-culture and region-to-region, at the heart of the problem is this: girls should not be persecuted, subjugated, or in any way made to feel ashamed or inferior for being a girl. It’s become so ingrained in our culture to show disdain for “girly” things that childrearing isn’t even considered a valuable occupation, despite the crucial role it plays in the survival of our civilization. Seriously. It isn’t women who need to change. Wearing pink isn’t the issue; being judged for wearing pink is.
A more enlightened path to equality for all is the recognition of rankism within our culture and its destructive influence:
Rankism is what people who take themselves for “somebodies” do to those they mistake for “nobodies.” Whether directed at an individual or a group, rankism aims to put targets in their place and keep them weak so they will do as they’re told and submit to being taken advantage of.[4]
The higher the rank, the better the privileges, and the more motivation there is to protect rank status. Consider that in western society pay equity schemes were first introduced in the 1960s, yet in 2015 women are still paid on average $11,000-$12,000 less than their male counterparts with similar skills and qualifications.[5] Consider that in Canada the average wage for an early childhood educator with a university degree is on average $15 per hour, compared to a garbage man with a few days to a month’s worth of training at $19 per hour.[6] Putting the onus on women to become more like men is neither feasible nor beneficial to society as a whole.
A more equitable path to equality is dismantling rank and exposing sexism, racism, homophobia, and condescension and working to eradicate it from our culture. This is a concept I studied while earning my degree in International Development, part of my core course that placed emphasis on exploring my own tacit assumptions and how they influence my decision-making. Bias’s, prejudices and stereotypes exist within us all; recognizing them and how they influence our affect on society is the first step toward change and, ultimately, attaining equality. There should be dignity for all, always.
For anyone who has read the Sunset Rising Trilogy, you may recognize rankism as a central theme (hey, it’s a book blitz, I gotta work in some shameless self-promotion). My story labels groups—urchins, domers, heathens—which represent dysfunctional precincts within our own global society. The trilogy ends with a quote from “Pacem in Terris,” A human being has the right to respect and dignity of the human person,[7] as a literal departure from a dystopian society in pursuit of a utopian future, with the emphasis being placed on the need for society to change its core values.
Okay, shameless self-promotion over. Getting back on topic, this essay is about how a white-middle-aged-male author pissed off the predominantly female YA community by announcing he’s written a better, more morally complicated heroine. He wrote his debut novel in a genre he has shown nothing but disdain toward (there’s even evidence to suggest he doesn’t read YA), the plot of which perpetuates a might-is-right role model for young girls as a way to elevate their rank within a male dominated society that devalues anything considered feminine. To add insult to this injustice is another white-middle-aged male excited to make it into a movie. Damn straight women are outraged. It really is time for men to stop telling us how to be women.
It’s highly unlikely I’ll read the book in question or attend the movie because I’m not fan of intense violence. But hey, at least his protagonist is unique in that she has red hair, right? (You didn’t really think I was going to let that slip by did you? Sunset O’Donnell would be so disappointed in me. LOL!).
Cheers - Susan
PS – You may have noticed I didn’t mention the author by name or the title of his novel. That was deliberate non-promotion.
[1] Sue Corbett, Publishers Weekly, YA Debut Gets Six-Figure Deal, November 24, 2015,
[2] The Pen & the Muse
[3] Sue Corbett, Publishers Weekly, YA Debut Gets Six-Figure Deal, November 24, 2015.
[4] Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D., Psychology Today, Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism, August 20, 2009.
[5] Heidi Hartman, Fortune, America’s gender pay gap is at a record low, but hold the celebration, September 22, 2015,
[6] www.payscale.com
[7] Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris
About the author:S.M. McEachern (also known as Susan) comes from the rocky shores of Canada’s East Coast. As a resident of Halifax during her early adult years, she attended Dalhousie University and earned an Honors Degree in International Development Studies with a focus on ocean development. Throughout her academic studies and early career, Susan had the privilege to study and work with Elizabeth Mann Borgese (daughter of nobel prize winner, Thomas Mann). An author in her own right and a political activist for world peace, Mrs. Mann Borgese played a significant influence on Susan’s view of the political world stage.
Sunset Rising is Susan's debut novel, which was published in November 2012. The second novel of the series, Worlds Collide was released in March 2014 and she is currently working on the third book of the series titled, New World Order, due to be released January 2015. For writing inspiration, Susan likes to go on long walks with her iPod (Keane and Moby are among her favorites). A few fun facts about Susan: she loves lattes, red wine, snorkelling, hiking and talking about herself in the third person.
If you'd like to read some satellite stories on the Sunset Rising series, visit her
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Labels: Book Blitz, Dystopia, Giveaway, Young Adult
Jan Lee said...
I'll say Happy Holidays to all since this is international and there's many different countries that read this blog :)
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Merry Christmas to everyone.
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Merry Christmas to Everybody!
Cat Neko said...
I wish a very Merry and very Bookish Christmas to everyone! :)
It's a little late, but I hope everyone had a very happy Christmas! :)
Shannon O'Neill said...
I'm late but Merry late Christmas and Happy New Years.
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Category #Oceania
Last Words, Loud Words
November 5, 2015 November 5, 2015 n2pax Leave a comment
Pentecost #166
The Polynesian myths found homes in New Zealand and Hawaii but in different variations. Society on the Hawaiian Islands followed the typical Polynesian caste symptom. There were the top social classes comprised of tribal chiefs and royalty. Next came the priests, then the common folk. Slaves were at the bottom. One became a tribal chief by being relates to a “divine ancestor” which also included inheritance of lands.
Life on the Hawaiian Islands was fairly easy. Abundant seafood and lush vegetation gave the natives plenty of time for relaxation. Storytellers or bards were often valued members of the chief’s court. There were also those who performed for other aristocracy on what today we would call a concert tour.
Hawaiian mythology, though it had its origin in Polynesian culture, quickly developed its own identity. Polynesian myths encouraged the worship of nature gods who were chiefs living in faraway places or heaven. In the Hawaiian myths, their gods shared a history much like the tribal chiefs. The legends gave the gods divine power which was inherited and then passed on to their mortal relatives.
Regretfully, progress led to the loss of much of the mythologies of the Hawaiian Islands. History tells us that the area was discovered (and I use that term ironically since some portion of mankind had obviously located and settled the area prior) by British naval officer Captain James Cook in 1778. He found a thriving and beautiful culture. Christian missionaries arrived forty years later and met with astounding success. The tribal chiefs discarded their native religion and converted to Christianity. Their myths from antiquity disappeared from their culture. Those that remained were rewritten to agree with Biblical scripture.
How do you feel about missionaries? Many religions and denominations encourage sharing their faith. This is called evangelism and as recently as three days ago when the newly ordained Bishop Michael spoke for the first time as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and encouraged his flock to become part of the “Jesus Movement”, it has long been considered a major facet of faith and believing. The word evangelism comes from the Old English word “evangel” which means “good news” or “gospel”. While the word dates back to the 1720’s, the practice goes back to the twelve disciples of the man called Jesus of Nazareth.
The disciples, like more modern missionaries, often found themselves in danger, trying to reach as many as they could while avoiding the ruling authorities who were not big fans of their preaching. Somehow, though, in the telling of the “good news”, the present overwrote the past. In trying to present a new myth for the people to believe in, entire cultures were lost.
When we find something on sale, we share it so our friends can get the same good deal. In other words, we share our “good news”. The challenge is to share without insisting on complete assimilation. I am not against missionaries at all. It is how literacy has been introduced in many areas and poverty reduced or eliminated. Nonetheless, we must remember that there is no one perfect race just as there is no one perfect way for all to live their faith. Mankind is as diverse as the planet on which it lives.
We need to proclaim our good news while letting others speak it in their own way, in their own culture. The history of a culture is valuable because it is the story of a part of mankind, a part to value and respect.
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Three women honored at NCJW/Essex installation and awards evening
NCJW award recipients are, from left, Leslie Lavinthal, Marion Medow, and Elisa Madorsky.
Three local women were presented with awards for their leadership, service, and contributions at the NCJW/Essex Annual Installation and Awards Evening on June 11 at Cedar Hill Country Club in Livingston.
Leslie Lavinthal of Florham Park, a 45-year member of NCJW/Essex, was the recipient of the Service to Section Award, recognized as a member whose work as a volunteer has changed the lives of women, children, and families. Lavinthal, trained as a special education teacher, has held multiple leadership positions, including co-chair of the Back 2 School Store, vice president of the Center for Women, and currently assistant treasurer.
Elisa Madorsky of Livingston, the section’s vice president of advocacy, received the Henrietta Weiser Emerging Leader Award. She first became involved at the Back 2 School Store in 2014. She spearheaded a Lunch and Learn on gun violence prevention with Sandy Hook Promise and later joined the Anti-Human Trafficking Committee, working to bring art supplies to trafficking victims housed at Covenant House in Newark. She also chaired Mitzvah-in-a-Minute (MIM), which offers community service projects.
Marion Medow of Livingston, a past section president, received The Hannah G. Solomon Award, presented to an individual who has changed the lives of others through leadership efforts and service on a community level. She has been involved in her synagogue, Hadassah, the Livingston PTA, and Jewish Family Service of MetroWest, where she recently completed a two-year term as president. She has chaired fundraisers as well as community service initiatives.
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Senate Climate Debate To Heat Up In September
Expect a Senate climate bill to materialize in early September—after the six-week August recess. That's according to E&E News, which quotes Barbara Boxer saying she might even snag a Republican co-sponsor:
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) plans to unveil a major global warming bill immediately after Congress returns from the August recess, she said today.... Boxer predicted she would have at least one Republican co-sponsor on her bill, though she would not name names....
Six different Senate committees are writing pieces of the climate and energy bill, ultimately leaving it to Democratic leadership to resolve differences, Boxer said, noting that she expects panels to overlap in certain areas. “I think all the committees will put in their opinion on the areas where they think they have some jurisdiction, and then Senator [Harry] Reid will take what he feels are the best parts of the bill,” she said.
Other committees with a stake in the climate bill are Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resources, Finance, and Foreign Relations. The Agriculture and Foreign Relations panels have yet to signal for sure whether they will offer language through a formal markup. Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has already passed legislation that includes a nationwide renewable electricity standard and a raft of other energy incentives, including a provision that could bring oil and gas rigs closer to Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said last week that he plans to mark up sections of the bill dealing with emission allowances and international trade.
Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate’s majority leader, has set a Sept. 28 deadline for the committees to complete any legislation.
Further down in the report, Ben Nelson is hemming and hawing about the cap-and-trade portions: "They’re talking about the right thing when they recognize that anything that increases utility rates has to be looked at to see if there’s a way to avoid that result. I think that's the right subject. I don't know if they can accomplish their objective." Sounds iffy. Joe Romm notes that Nelson will likely vote against any big climate legislation, so his caviling doesn't matter much. I'm not sure about that. Nelson may be not vote for the final bill, but Democrats mainly need to worry about whether he'll help the Republicans filibuster or not. And that's still up in the air.
--Bradford Plumer
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President on Victory Day: Defense starts with everyone ({{commentsTotal}})
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President Kersti Kaljulaid. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
President Kersti Kaljulaid addressed Sunday's Victory Day parade, noting the scope everyone in Estonian society has in contributing to the country's sense of security.
"We are also preparing our defense forces and defense league for situations that are unlikely, but still possible," Kersti Kaljulaid said in her speech at the parade in Tartu, according to a press release from the president's office.
"Similarly, we might all be prepared for other difficult events which are unlikely, but can still happen," she continued.
This preparation consists of more than just measures dealing with classic, conventional conflicts, the president said, and has to include more run-of-the-mill natural or human disasters.
"We are more likely to see a major power outage, snowstorm, flood, or the derailing of dangerous cargo," she continued.
While such events might not be a threat to Estonia's independence, they could paralyze everyday life and compromise security. But with this ‒ every citizen's sense of security ‒ begins the security of our land," she continued.
The president also noted the importance of those serving behind the lines, in Estonia's original struggle for independence 100 years ago.
"The War of Independence was not only won by frontline soldiers, but also by the farmer who provided the army with a cart; the person who guarded the army's rear; a tailor sewing uniforms for the soldiers; a compassionate nurse who cared for the wounded," the president continued.
"Nowadays, we refer to this joint effort from the whole of society as a broad-based defense. This means the readiness in all areas of life for crises and the protection of the entire society," the president said.
"Simple things: each of us can afford to put together a small food store, or a radio with batteries," she said.
"Brush up on first aid measures. Download the mobile app from the Women's Home Defence (Naiskodukaitse), and retain the codes of conduct that the state sent out a few months ago," she said.
"Foreign crises also have an impact on the protection and sense of security of the Estonian people," the president continued.
"These are crises which we have our allies' help in solving. We can count on the help of our allies to protect Estonia," she added.
"These Allies were with us at the War of Independence and they are are with us today in Tartu. Losing always takes place alone. It is impossible to lose with the support of allies - there is always someone who the burden can be shared with, so that it does not get overwhelming. United, we are unbeatable," the president added.
Editor: Andrew Whyte
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Most in U.S. Have Enough to Get by, but Many Lack Cushion
Few Americans have more than enough to do what they want
by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- About seven in 10 Americans, including a majority of those making more than $24,000 a year, say they have enough money to do what they need to do. However, it is not until Americans reach $48,000 a year in annual income that a majority say they can handle a substantial purchase or unexpected major expense.
These results, from an analysis of several questions measuring attitudes toward finances and spending included in Gallup Daily tracking surveys in 2013, suggest that Americans reach various thresholds of financial security as their income increases. It seems most income groups are not suffering daily financial deprivations on a routine basis, the only exception being very low-income Americans. Less than half of Americans making less than $48,000 a year have enough of a financial cushion to handle an emergency.
Majority Who Make $60,000 a Year or More Feel Good About Their Spending
The threshold of financial security rises still higher when it comes to feeling good about the amount of money Americans have to spend. Overall, a majority of Americans do not report feeling "good these days" about the amount of money they have to spend until income levels reach the $60,000-a-year category. The overall range by income varies from 34% in the lowest income category to 62% in the highest.
The income threshold at which a majority of Americans say they have more than enough money to do what they want to do is very high -- those making $180,000 a year or more. And even among this high-income group, only a bare majority of 51% say they have more than enough money to do what they want to do.
Thus, it appears that relatively few Americans are so comfortable with their financial situation that they are willing to admit that they have more than enough money. And this, perhaps, is an indication that human beings manage to find ways of adjusting their spending upward to whatever their income level might be and imagine ways of spending more if they had it.
Most Americans Don't Worry About Spending on a Daily Basis
Despite the evidence that many Americans are not equipped for a financial emergency and do not feel good about their finances, relatively few report worrying about money or spending on a regular basis. Thirty-two percent say they worried they spent too much money "yesterday" -- that is, the day before they were interviewed. This reaches a high of 40% among the lowest income group, meaning that a significant majority of Americans in all income groups go through each day without worrying about what they spent. In fact, worry about spending is constant across income groups, with even more than a quarter of those making $180,000 a year or more saying that they worried yesterday about their spending.
Americans' attitudes toward money and their concern about spending are complex. Most Americans are getting by financially and do not worry about what they are spending on a daily basis, but a majority do not have much of a financial cushion for emergencies. Less than half feel "good" about the amount of money they have to spend, and relatively few can do what they would want to do financially.
As would be expected, Americans generally become more positive about their finances and spending as their income rises. A majority of those making $24,000 a year or more have enough money to buy needed things on a daily basis. But, more than half of those making less than $48,000 a year say they could not handle a financial emergency, and more than half of those making less than $60,000 a year say they do not feel good about the money they have to spend. A substantial majority of Americans in all but the highest income categories say they do not have more than enough money to do what they would want to do.
These results are based on telephone interviews conducted Jan. 2-June 27, 2013, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random samples of between 21,958 and 22,159 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage points.
The margin of sampling error for each income subgroup varies from ±4 percentage points to ±2 percentage points, depending on the subgroup's size.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by region. Landline and cell telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted to correct for unequal selection probability, nonresponse, and double coverage of landline and cell users in the two sampling frames. They are also weighted to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, population density, and phone status (cellphone only/landline only/both, and cellphone mostly). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2012 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.S. population. Phone status targets are based on the July-December 2011 National Health Interview Survey. Population density targets are based on the 2010 census. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit www.gallup.com.
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U.S. Consumer Spending Stagnant in June
Americans' self-reported daily spending averaged $90 in June, unchanged from May. Upper-income spending was $143 in June, not much different from the $150 in May or April's $140.
Older Baby Boomers More Positive About Their Finances
Older baby boomers feel better about their finances than do boomers who are younger. Generally, financial positivity ticks up with age -- suggesting no pending era of greater economic angst as boomers retire.
U.S. Economic Confidence Stabilizing
Gallup's Economic Confidence Index was -8 for the past week, essentially unchanged from the prior two weeks but down slightly from the late May/early June peak.
Despite U.S. Economic Success, Financial Anxiety Remains
by V. Lance Tarrance
With the U.S. economy less concerning to Americans under Trump, anxiety about pocketbook issues could be a bigger factor than usual in their vote.
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Amid Catholic Reckoning, UVA Religion Classes Offer Exploration, Discussion
Caroline Newman, cfn8m@virginia.edu
Pope Francis convenes the world’s bishops at the Vatican this week for an unprecedented meeting to discuss sexual abuse, turning a bright spotlight on the Catholic Church and on broader questions and complexities associated with organized religion.
University of Virginia students in courses like religious studies professor John Portmann’s “Cultural Catholicism” tackle these kinds of questions every day. For many, these courses not only help them understand faith from an academic standpoint, but also shape their personal explorations of faith and religion.
Portmann – who was recently interviewed by VICE about the church’s efforts to win over young people – is one of several UVA professors who research and teach on the history and culture of Catholicism. He has watched Catholic students learn more about the faith they were raised in, and nonreligious students encounter Catholicism for the first time. Some have found their faith strengthened; others have decided that the Catholic Church, or perhaps any church, is not for them. Still others have used the class as a springboard to study or even convert to other religious traditions, such as Judaism or Buddhism.
For each of them, UVA – and the transition to young adulthood it marks for many students – has offered space for transformation, critical thinking and deep, often very personal questions about what they believe and why, at a time when young people are leaving organized religion in record numbers.
“It is a tremendous privilege for me,” Portmann said. “UVA already attracts hardworking students, and in religion classes, they often have a very personal stake in what they are studying. It tends to be a personal journey.”
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Portmann said many of his students have questions or doubts about the Catholic Church, its history and religion in general. He emphasized that his role is not to answer all of those questions, but to facilitate discussion. Among other topics, students have spent a lot of time talking about the ongoing issue of sexual abuse in the church, including August’s allegations that Pennsylvania bishops covered up child sexual abuse by more than 300 priests.
“It would be very difficult to overstate the importance of the sex scandals,” said Portmann, who is Catholic and grew up in Pennsylvania. “It is devastating, excruciatingly painful for many Catholics, and profoundly shameful as well.”
Repeated terrible news, he said, has contributed to larger shifts away from religion, shown in studies like those from the nonprofit Pew Research Center tracking the growth of religiously unaffiliated Americans. In 2007, that group represented 16.1 percent of the U.S. population; in 2014, it had grown to 22.8 percent.
“I have seen America as a very religious place, but that is changing right now and it is not exactly clear what it is changing into,” Portmann said. “Some of that change could be beneficial, because a culture less focused on one denomination could help combat homophobia, racism or anti-Semitism.”
That trend has not held, Portmann notes, for certain traditions, including Islam and Mormonism, and for certain parts of the world.
“Young Muslims and young Mormons are showing a stronger commitment to marrying in the faith and raising children in the faith,” he said. “There is also a lot of growth in Africa and Asia, where Catholicism is really taking off. … The future of the Catholic Church will probably lie in those areas.”
Additionally, he said, the many faith-based student organizations at UVA, including Catholic Hoos, prove that not all young people are turning away from religion.
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“UVA has a very strong Catholic student association, as well as other faith groups, and I think it is wonderful for interested students to have those opportunities to bolster each other’s faith,” he said. “At a place like UVA, there are so many things that students have to do, and so many things that they want to do. If they don’t find satisfaction in religion, chances are they will move on to something else.”
He is interested to see what the growing number of Americans who disavow religion are turning to instead.
“I think people frequently overlook how much religion can do for you,” he said. “When times get tough, when you feel a lot of anxiety or lose people you love, it can be enormously consoling. A big question right now is what will replace that consolation.”
It’s a question a lot of Portmann’s current and former students are grappling with.
“In my generation, it seems that more Americans are spiritual, but not necessarily religious,” said alumnus Conor O’Boyle, who graduated in 2014 and took three courses with Portmann.
O’Boyle grew up in the Catholic Church and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Pope Francis’ popularity and political style. At the time, Francis was one year into his papacy and had just been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
Now, O’Boyle said, he views things a little differently and, like many of his peers, is questioning the church he grew up with.
“Since I wrote my thesis, the ongoing investigations of child sex abuse have greatly changed how Pope Francis is viewed,” he said. “It’s a really significant inflection point for American Catholics.”
Portmann’s courses, O’Boyle said, helped him learn how to take on such difficult topics and questions. One, “In Defense of Sin,” challenged students to think carefully about one of the most basic concepts of religion: sin, and what is defined as sin.
“It was one of my favorite classes,” O’Boyle said. “He challenged us to think through different approaches, articles and authors, and to develop academic arguments.”
Students also brought their own personal experiences and religious backgrounds into the classroom.
“We also weren’t afraid to share personal anecdotes or views on religion, if it had to do with what we were studying,” O’Boyle said. “It resulted in some really rich discussions.”
Caroline Newman
Associate Editor Office of University Communications
cfn8m@virginia.edu 434-924-6856
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Canadian intelligence received Khashoggi tape: Trudeau
by IANS Published on Monday 12th November 2018, 07:56 PM
Paris, Nov 12 (IANS) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has become the first Western leader to acknowledge that his country’s intelligence received an audio recording of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week that he gave recordings “to Saudi Arabia, to America, to the Germans, the French, to the British, to all of them”, but there was no independent confirmation from any country that they had received it.
Speaking at a press conference in Paris on Monday, where he attended a peace forum following the WWI Armistice centenary, Trudeau said Canadian intelligence had listened to the audio tape provided by Turkish intelligence, but he had not done so, according to a report in the Guardian.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a supporter-turned-critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 after he went there to get documents for his forthcoming marriage.
“Canada’s intelligence agencies have been working very closely on this issue with Turkish intelligence and Canada has been fully briefed on what Turkey had to share,” he said.
“I had a conversation with Erdogan a couple of weeks ago, and here in Paris we had brief exchanges and I thanked him for his strength in responding to the Khashoggi situation.”
On the other hand, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that recordings related to Khashoggi’s murder were not to his knowledge in his country’s possession, contradicting Erdogan.
Later, on being asked on France 2 television why the Turkish President had made the claim, Le Drian said: “It means he has a political game to play in these circumstances. If the Turkish President has information to give to us, he must give it to us.”
Asked about the existence of a tape, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said: ” I can tell you that there has been an exchange of intelligence service information on that.” He declined to give any further details.
According to the daily, the British sources previously said they had been briefed on the contents of an alleged tape, but due to the sensitivity of intelligence exchanges, they refused to elaborate.
Khashoggi’s body is yet to be found. It has been reported that he was strangled, dismembered and his body dissolved in chemicals.
After a weeks-long denial, Saudi Arabia admitted on October 25 that the journalist fell victim to a premeditated killing in the consulate and arrested 18 people. However, it denies the ruling royal family’s involvement in the killing.
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Navajo President: Medicare, Medicaid decision sets precedent for Indian Country
Photo courtesy: Navajo Nation - Office of the President and Vice President
Jan 22 -edited
Nez and Lizer applaud Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services exemption of Arizona tribes from work requirements
Navajo Nation - Office of the President and Vice President
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer applaud Friday’s announcement by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to approve the state of Arizona’s request to exempt Arizona tribes from work requirements on individuals that received Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System benefits under the Medicaid program.
“This is definitely a victory for all Arizona tribes, particularly for those who rely on these important benefits to support their families,” said President Nez. “The Navajo Nation played a major role in advocating for this decision, which sets a precedence for all of Indian Country.”
On April 13, 2018, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law H.B. 2228 sponsored by State Rep. David Cook (Dist. 8 – R), which changed Arizona statute to ensure that the work requirements imposed by the Trump administration would not apply to Arizona tribes based on the unique legal status of tribes and due to the federal trust responsibility to provide health care services to American Indians, as established per an amendment to the Social Security Act.
Officials with the Navajo Nation Department of Health and former chair of the Health, Education, and Human Services Committee, Jonathan Hale, were among others who provided testimony and support for the state bill.
“When tribes work together, we can overcome many obstacles and create positive change for our people,” said Vice President Lizer. “The work requirements would have been harmful for many Navajo families across the state.”
Arizona Rep. Cook said he is honored to be one of the voices for Native American tribes in Arizona and offered his continued support.
“I am proud and honored to have championed the tribal waiver bill that was truly needed for Native Americans in Arizona, who have unique challenges in and around their areas, especially in rural Arizona – the solutions are extremely different than what is needed in urban and metropolitan areas,” stated Rep. Cook.
The decision by CMS paves the way for all other tribes across the country and further protects and upholds tribal sovereignty, according to President Nez.
For the latest news from the Office of the President and Vice President, please visit www.nez-lizer.com or find us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Recycled Rides Plans Triple Giveaway
A new milestone will be reached by Washburn Tech’s Recycled Rides program when three vehicles are given away at one time at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 7, on the south apron of the Kansas Statehouse. In addition, State Farm Insurance will present another major donation to the program through the Washburn University Foundation. “State Farm is known for being a good neighbor, and that shows in their dedication to the community and Recycledmore...
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Learning about career opportunities is anything but work at Washburn Tech’s Summer Camp. Registration is now open for three sessions, scheduled in June, that are designed to excite and inspire young minds as they explore their interests and even consider future career choices. Campers choose a handful of career explorations in the areas of construction, health care, human services, technology and transportation. One day, campers mightmore...
New Recruits Commit to Washburn Tech
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More than 500 prospective students committed to attend Washburn Tech next fall as part of our own National Letter of Intent Signing Day. They signed their name and put on a Washburn Tech cap during a ceremony today in the school’s conference center. Governor Sam Brownback and business and industry leaders joined family and friends to congratulate the recruits on their decision to pursue a technical education. Washburn Tech’s event ismore...
Washburn Tech Inks New Recruits
Washburn Tech is holding its own Letter of Intent Signing Day from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on February 20, 2014. New students for the 2014-2015 school year will take part in a signing ceremony, similar to an athletic signing, in Washburn Tech’s Conference Center at 5724 S.W. Huntoon. Students also will be able to initiate their enrollment for next semester. Washburn Tech’s event mirrors the NCAA’s National Signing Day formore...
Washburn Tech Establishes M-Tech
Washburn Tech, in cooperation with area food manufacturing companies, is launching a new training initiative called Manufacturing Technology or M-Tech. The program, in partnership with GO Topeka, provides intensive technology training to workers and links them to good jobs in the food manufacturing field. The pilot project through the Kansas Department of Commerce connects economic and workforce development under the new “Workforce Aligned withmore...
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How Libby Became a Verb
By Maia Farish Nantucket History Topics: Ask Libby, Fun Facts, People
While not composed by Libby Oldham, this excerpt from “My Mother the Verb,” written by Libby’s daughter Maia Farish, explains one reason why Libby was such a significant member of the Nantucket community. Published in Sound-Magazine.com, Summer 2016.
In 1996, as the newly installed executive director of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, I was gearing up for the production of the annual guidebook. I had invited several local writers to submit articles inspired by Nantucket’s history, and I was meeting with the guidebook committee, chaired by Kate Stout, publisher of the erstwhile newspaper Nantucket Map & Legend, to review the articles. “Have these been Libbied?” asked a very serious Kate. I looked at her quizzically. She then broke into a broad smile and said, “Don’t you know that your mother has been turned into a verb?”
In my years off the island – during which, coincidentally, Libby retired as the executive director of the Chamber of Commerce — Libby had put her copywriting expertise into a professional practice on Nantucket and called it Wordworks.
(Libby tells me that when I was a toddler, when she made her living typing and proofreading scholarly manuscripts for the Bollingen Series, she would plop me in the playpen and dial up the weather lady on the telephone — a recorded message — with whom I prattled long enough for her to get a few pages typed.)
Over Libby’s time on the island, many Nantucket authors have counted on her — and still do — to polish their prose. She was copy editor of the original Nantucket Magazine, which ended its 18-year run in 2005, and has been copy editor for the Nantucket Preservation Trust for most of its existence.
I worked for a short time at the Nantucket Historical Association before transitioning to the Chamber of Commerce. At that time, the estimable Jean Weber was the NHA’s executive director, and she was desperate for someone to greet visitors and assist with archival research in the NHA Library which, at that time, was on the second floor of the NHA’s administration building on the corner of North Water and Broad streets. I asked Libby if she might be interested. She gamely accepted, volunteering for a spell, and then Jean hired her. Libby turned 89 this past March and she is still working at the NHA Library, long since settled into its beautiful space on Fair Street, greeting visitors and assisting with archival research. She serves as copy editor for the NHA’s always-fresh and content-rich magazine Historic Nantucket, and NHA exhibition labels are always Libbied.
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A Bit of Good News for Ontario’s Battered and Beleaguered Premier
Posted on February 18, 2018 by dougdraper | 1 Comment
Tory Outcast Patrick Brown Has Joined the Ontario PC Party’s Leadership Race
A Commentary by Niagara At Large reporter and publisher Doug Draper
Posted February 18th, 2018 on Niagara At Large
Just when it looked like Ontario’s Progressive Party was beginning to regroup and gain ground on filling its leadership role just four months away from a June 7th provincial election, guess who pops out of the jack-in-the-box?
Ex-Ontario PC Party leader Patrick Brown wants his job back
Why it’s Patrick Brown, who just resigned from the party’s leadership this January (although, now he is claiming he never told party executives he was stepping down) over allegations of sexual misconduct.
This past Friday, February 16th – two hours before the deadline closed for entering one’s name as a leadership candidate and only a few hours after he had been notified by party executives that he had been ejected from the PC Caucus, “effective immediately – Patrick Brown tossed his hat into the ring with four other leadership candidates.
Those leadership candidates for the party are former Tory MPP Christine Elliott, Caroline Mulroney (daughter of former Tory prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would be running for elected office for the first time), Toronto city councillor Doug Ford and citizen activist Tanya Granic Allen, who is running in opposition to the current Liberal government’s recently introduced sex education curriculum in public schools.
And now, just as those candidates are getting out around the province (Mulroney and Ford were in Niagara for meet-and-greet sessions just this past second week of February) doing a relatively respectable job of getting their messages out, back comes Patrick Brown, like a political version of an old Saturday Night Live skit featuring John Belushi as the house guest from hell, called ‘The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave.’
An big and unflattering depiction of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne a few years ago at a rally of more than 30.000 workers on the grounds of Queen’s Park. The sign pinned to the dress of the doll reads – “I value corporate tax cuts more than public healthcare.”
Not that I think there is much of a chance that anything between now and the June 7th vote will raise Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s personal approval ratings out of the tank, where they have settled like a sludge for the last couple of years. But she and her Liberal handlers must have at least popped a couple of corks this February 16th over the late-day news of Brown’s re-emergence.
Indeed, if I didn’t know better, I would almost wonder if people on the Liberal side didn’t encourage Brown to get in the Tory race so as to serve, wittingly or unwittingly, as a weapon of mass distraction.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath may be taking a little solace from the news too, although she and her party – for reasons I don’t understand given Horwath’s political smarts and experience, and a fairly detailed, progressive platform to offer Ontarians this time – does not appear to be taken anywhere near as seriously as the Liberals and Tories as a party that is ready and able to form a good and effective government.
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath. For some reason her party, despite rolling out a very detailed, progressive platform over the past year, is so far not getting much traction.
The lack of serious attention Horwath and her NDP have been getting to date is, at least for this reporter and veteran political junkie, somewhat of a head scratcher.
As for the Ontario PCs, I might take some solace from this character’s refusal to just leave too. I am not and never have been a member of any political party (to paraphrase the late great comic icon Groucho Marx, ‘I would never want to belong to any political party that would have someone like me as a member). I tend to vote for whoever I come to the conclusion is a dedicated, honourable and honest person who would do the best person to represent my community and riding.
Having said that, there is no way I would want to see the Tories form another government in Ontario for at least a few reasons –
First, I well remember the way that party, under the leadership of then premier Mike Harris, gutted social service and world class environmental rules and programs going back to the years of the former Tory government of Bill Davis in the 1970s and 80. Just as egregious was all of the defunding and chaos the Harris Tories (many of whom are still around and representing or working for the party, or linked to it in some way) rained down on our public education system while my daughter and her friends were attending elementary and secondary school.
Second, we already have enough problems in this Niagara region with all of the Tories we have now in municipal government, even with Liberals in power at the provincial level who should be doing more than they are to police what is going on at the regional level. Imagine how much more emboldened the characters here would feel to do whatever they want if the Tories were to win power at Queen’s Park too!
And third, with Trump across the border, slashing taxes for the upper two or three per cent, and gutting everything down to food stamp programs for people at the lower end, I would rather take my chances with the Liberals or NDP, and hope they at least serve as a bit of a buffer against that, than have the Tories come in and say we have to get out the meat axe and engage in the same race to the bottom in order for our businesses to compete. Our health care and environmental protection programs have already been compromised enough over the past two decades without voting in a party that would hitch what is left of our province’s health and social safety nets to the back of the Trump train.
But if I were a member of the Ontario PC Party, I would be livid over this potentially damaging, self-serving move Brown has pulled.
It is insulting enough that he has the nerve to suggest he never agreed to resign from the party’s leadership this past January when several others in the party, during a conference call with him, heard him do it. (By the way, that sounds a little familiar doesn’t it? We now have a Niagara regional councillor here in the name of Bob Gale who is saying he didn’t call on others to apologize over matters to do with regional police business, when many people heard him doing just that at an open meeting of council – which anyone can go back and watch on video – this past February 8th.
He was also quoted saying the following to reporters in Toronto this February 16th – “I think my name has been cleared and now it’s about getting Ontario back on track.”
Like most people in this province, I am not privy to any of the details of the sexual misconduct allegations, but senior members of his own party obviously felt they might create enough of a dark cloud that it would be in the best interests of the PCs and any chance they may have to win in June if he was out.
But Brown appears to be one of all too many politicians these days that places his own interests above those of his party and the larger community which, in this case, is the Province of Ontario,
It is as if he sees the leadership of the Ontario PC Party as a personal entitlement that was wrongly yanked away from his and regardless of the consequences (in this case, the distraction he becomes to party business because it is a fat chance he’ll win), he is going to grab it back.
The sexual misconduct allegations aside, Brown’s conduct this February 16 should say enough about his character to disqualify him as someone anyone would want serving as the premier of this province.
Here is a brief statement on this matter, released by the Ontario PC Party immediately after Brown entered his name as a candidate for the party’s leadership –
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 16, 2018
Statement from Ontario PC Party President Jag Badwal:
Damn the torpedoes. Patrick Brown is waging a comeback
“Mr. Patrick Brown has submitted his paperwork to run for the leadership of the Ontario PC Party.
“Earlier today I was informed by our Interim Leader Vic Fedeli that he has removed Mr. Brown as an Ontario PC Caucus member.”
“Mr. Brown’s application will follow the same due process in the same manner as the other four declared candidates.”
One response to “A Bit of Good News for Ontario’s Battered and Beleaguered Premier”
Bill Doyle | February 19, 2018 at 12:54 am | Reply
The Conservative Party back room boys created it’s problem. First they used the Conservative media link to discredit Brown whom they disliked. Second they overruled the caucus decision to enter the election under the leadership of a person they chose – I surmise the boys did not like him either – in favour of a leadership race to get their person chosen. Since the Harris days of the 1990’s the Conservatives have found ways to blow pre-election leads. Third the boys did not count on Brown entering the race. Hopefully the public media will begin giving the NDP coverage. Keep in mind the Wynne government plagerized a few of the NDP ideas to bolster its position with the voters.
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Israel considers 1,000 citizenship applications from US Christians seeking permission to settle in the West Bank
Friday, 15 April 2011 17:11| MEMO
Shem Tov has presented the American project to the so-called Shomron Regional Council and exerted efforts to push the idea.
The Israeli media has revealed that 1000 Christian Americans have submitted applications for Israeli citizenship and permission to settle in the occupied West Bank. In return, they have said that they will convert to Judaism and serve in Israel’s occupation army.
According to a report in the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, a group made up of hundreds of US citizens presented their request to the Israeli MP Lian Shem Tov.
During her meeting with the group’s representative, Baruch Abramovich, who is active in Judaizing Christians and taking them to Occupied Palestine, the MP pledged to assist the Americans and support their application to the Israeli government.
According to Abramovich, this group has “no political ambitions, but wants to be part of Israel”. He added that, “bringing these Americans would contribute to the development of the West Bank as part and parcel of the State of Israel, and to the development of the economy and even the Israeli army.”
The newspaper reported that Shem Tov has presented the American project to the so-called Shomron Regional Council and exerted efforts to push the idea. She has also organized a meeting between the Council and the group’s representatives to discuss the request in detail.
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No Rockets in the West Bank but: Israel destroys three more homes in Hebron – Photos & Video
19th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
Yesterday, the Israeli army demolished the homes of three Palestinian families in al-Khalil (Hebron).
At around 11pm on August 17th, a large Israeli military presence began to accumulate in the area of Daersat Alser where the homes of Abu Eisha and Marwan Qawasmeh’s families are located. Parts of both of these homes were demolished last month as part of the collective punishment that took place all over the West Bank after the deaths of three Israeli settler youths.
A group of Palestinians and internationals made several attempts to move closer to the home to document but soldiers began to target the group with the lasers of their guns to prevent them from moving closer. Immediately after the Israeli army had left the path to the home of Abu Eisha, it was possible to view the damage made. A side of the house on the top floor was blown out and damage to most of the walls and interior of the house was extensive.
Before dawn rounds of tear gas were fired from an Israeli jeep towards the home of Abu Eisha. Internationals also noticed a small white drone circling around the entire area.
Up until the early hours there was still a heavy military presence on the main road of the Daersat Alser area. 17 armoured military jeeps, eight cement trucks and around 80 Israeli soldiers and police were visible at the beginning of the path towards the home of Marwan Qawasmeh.
Preparation had begun to seal the home with cement in order to render it unusable.
Close to 5am, the Israeli army began making preparations to evacuate the area as a group of soldiers began to load several trailers with what appeared to be metal piping, electrical wires and tubing that had been confiscated from the home of Marwan Qawasmeh.
Meanwhile, a soldier that was standing near the Qawasmeh home began to aim the laser of his weapon at the heads of various international volunteers and members of the press, for no apparent reason.
The front yard and door of the Qawasmeh family were completely blocked by large piles of rubble. Piles of wet cement covered the path to the back of the home. The entire bottom floor of the home was filled with cement and there were notices on the sealed door in Arabic and Hebrew which stated:
“This building is being shut under the command of the Military Commander. Due to the shutdown of this building, no new buildings are allowed to be built on this land. Due to the shutdown of part of this building, this place is declared unsafe and no one is permitted to enter.”
Almost the entire façade of the home had been destroyed and remains unusable with most of the rooms burnt and now completely visible from the outside. In the home, there were no doors or windows and all sinks and toilets had been smashed.
Other international volunteers arrived in the area of Wad Abu Ktela at around 2am where Israeli forces had congregated to detonate the family home of Hussam Qawasmeh. Clashes between Israeli military forces and local Palestinian youths had broken out nearby.
In the meantime, soldiers shot several tear gas canisters inside another Palestinian home in Abu Ktela and eleven people suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation and had to be taken to the Alia Hospital.
Solders hid throughout the neighborhood and around 50 additional solders surrounded the targeted home of the Hussam Qawasmeh family. Solders aimed snipers at internationals walking in the area and prevented locals from walking or driving down surrounding roads.
From a rooftop of a neighbouring house, Palestinians and internationals saw solders placing explosives inside the home and heard drilling noises for several hours. At the start of the morning prayer, at around 4:30am, the Israeli military forces blew up the home of the Qawasmeh family.
The home was completely destroyed and only dust and ruins remain. When Palestinians, media and internationals rushed down the street in an attempt to get closer to the home the Israeli military fired several stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets in their direction. Around 150 Palestinians gathered at the home around 5am in solidarity with the family. Family members were crying and visibly distraught.
Shortly after 5 am, all the homes had been demolished and the military presence had been lifted. According to Israeli officials, the homes of Hussam Qawasmeh, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Eisha were destroyed as punishment for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli settler teens in June. As the forces left, a group of soldiers exchanged congratulatory hugs and took a celebratory picture together. (end)
MORE ABOUT ETHNIC CLEANSING & COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT
PressTV – Wed May 11, 2011 9:58AM
Interview with Ralph Schoenman, the author of The Hidden History of Zionism and a political commentator from Berkeley
The legacy and constant policy of Israel is the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land, a political analyst says.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has reprimanded the Palestinian unity agreement, saying Tel Aviv will not stop settlement constructions.
Press TV conducted an interview with Ralph Schoenman, the author of The Hidden History of Zionism and a political commentator in Berkeley, concerning Israel’s reaction towards the Palestinian unity deal.
Press TV: Israel keeps condemning the Palestinian unity deal. Will that, in fact, change anything on the ground?
Schoenman: Well, I think you have to bear in mind, you were quoting from Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Minister. On February 14 2009 Avigdor Lieberman called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Jewish state. He has been unabashed in making explicit with the basic content of Zionist occupation of Palestine in Catos, mainly removal of Palestinian people from their land and from history.
And this is a continuing process, but if I could just quote to you briefly from the chapter five of my book, The Seizure of the Land and The Hidden History of Zionism, this is Moshe Dayan, the former chief of staff and minister of defense chief, uninhibited in his summary of the nature of Zionistic occupation, when he addressed the Israel institute of technology, “We came here to a country populated by Arabs and we are building here an exclusive Hebrew Jewish state, instead of Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You do not even know the names of these villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist. Not only the books, the villages do not exist, Nahalal was established in place of Mahalul, Gevat in place of Jibta, Sarid in the place of Hanifas and Kafr Yehoushua in the place of Tel Shamam. There is not a single settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab village”.
That’s the legacy, that’s the history, that’s the constant policy. That’s the dynamic and nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine, the displacement of its people.
And when [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu declared in 2009 that his country will continue to expand its settlements, despite the calls by President Barack Obama or anyone else for this expansion to stop, that was the continuation of the constant policy articulated constantly by the Zionist spokesperson and enacted on the ground.
Press TV: Israel has threatened more settlements construction, specifically, in response to this Palestinian unity deal. Where does the international community, which has, as you mentioned, condemn Israeli settlement activity in the past, stand on this?
Schoenman: Well, I mean, as we have often we discussed on Press TV, the basic issue here, is that the Israeli state is an extension of US imperial power. It’s armed to the teeth by the United States. It’s been financed with over USD 100 billion in the past half century, and all the sub- imperial countries of NATO, and the country-selling regimes that, basically, populate the United Nations, whatever the rich service they give to self-determination, in practical terms, sustain the undertaking of the Israeli state and when the Israelis are condemned of the internal politics of the Palestinian movement, in relation to Hamas, the Palestinian Authority or what have you, all of that is just one more rhetorical flourish to maintain the policy of a constant removal, and the international community, as it’s called, does virtually nothing of any practical meaning.
After all, there was a formal condemnation of the Israeli settlements, and the US immediately vetoed that in the UN Security Council, this is the continuing policy that occurred in February of this year. What has happened on the part of other countries in the UN? Nothing, no condemnation of the UN veto, and no further action with respect to Israeli subjugation of the Palestinian population; he, on February 27, warns of Israelis’ plan to expel 600 Jerusalemites. It’s ethnic cleansing, that’s the permanent character of the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and their objective is very clear. They are going to impose a kind of Bantustan de facto continually removing Palestinian land, continually seizing their land, I’m sure there is no basis.
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The Gregories of Cwmffrwdoer
I’ve previously mentioned my aunt Phyllis who taught in Town School Infants. She married Percy Gregory and went to live in the house above the shop in Hanbury Road, Cwmffrwdoer. Years before, during the hard times of the depression, Uncle Percy’s father had built up a thriving business in the shoe trade by allowing people to have new shoes and to pay for them in instalments. Repairs were also carried out on the premises.
I always admired my Uncle Percy. He was the sort of person sometimes described as a “gentle giant”. He was full of energy and always willing to help anyone. He was a member of Pontypool Toc H for many years. At the front of the house above the shop was the store room which contained hundreds of boxes of shoes and nearby was a very steep flight of wooden steps which led down to a door into the fitting room. It was almost vertical and, whenever I went down it, I carefully hung onto the rail at the side and was terrified in case I should fall. Consequently I was filled with wonder whenever I saw Uncle Percy descend those steps. He would put one hand on the rail and then jump down four of five steps, then another few and leap down the rest. I was always amazed at this daring feat.
The three Gregory children, Michael, Anthony and Vera, were of course, our cousins and, although they were some years younger than my brothers and me, we always looked forward to visiting them. The whole family were very active in the local Pontnewynydd Methodist Church.
They were a very generous family and we always felt welcome when we visited the house. During the war years they invariably put on a party when either of my brothers were home on leave from the forces. Aunt Phyll, somehow or other, even managed to produce sausage rolls as part of the fare, a great luxury at that time. And then, at Christmas time, there was the round of parties at our various houses on three or four evenings. When my grandparents were alive, the Christmas Day party was always at Osborne Cottage.
It was in the greenhouse at the back of the Gregory’s house that I first came across yellow tomatoes. During the growing season, Aunt Phyll was always generous in providing us with a bagful to take home whenever we visited.
But the place which fascinated me most was the wooden workshop which was also in the back garden. As a young lad I always asked to go there to see Uncle Percy and also his father repairing shoes. I marvelled at their skill and speed. First of all they would use a short but deadly sharp knife to cut out the new sole from a large sheet of leather. Then they would take a small handful of black tacks and put them up to their mouth, almost as if to swallow them, but instead they merely held them between their lips. Then, using a long iron bar, which looked to me rather like a file, they would take a tack out of their mouth, place it in position on the sole of the shoe and with one hefty bang drive it in, then another and another in quick succession. I was always amazed at the skill, speed and precision with which they did this. Then they’d take another handful of tacks and continue right around the sole of the shoe until it was all firmly in place. Then they performed something else I loved to watch. They would take a special hot iron with a wooden handle and apply molten black wax all around the edge of the sole, making it look like new.
Michael Gregory lived at Osborne Cottage for some years and it was while he was there that he started teaching at West Mon School. I have had several emails from former pupils who remember him as a very popular teacher who treated then as grownups rather than boys. He later gave up teaching to become a Methodist minister with very successful ministries in both Abergavenny and Bristol. Sadly it was while he was ministering in Bristol that he died about nine years ago. His wife, Maureen, died shortly after him.
Anthony also became a Methodist minister and has been very successful, with his wife, Elma in ministering to the people of Tenby.
Vera is still living in Pontnewynydd not very far from the old shoe shop which, I understand, has now been converted into a house.
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9 Responses to “The Gregories of Cwmffrwdoer”
Michael Edwards Says:
Thank you for your interesting site. My grandmother’s address on her marriage cerificate from 1911 is: Freehold Land, Boot Stores, Pontnewynydd, Abersychan. Her name was May Griffith and her brothers’ names were Archer and Ted. I wonder if it is the same store that you mention. Were there a number of boot stores or just one? My grandfather (John Edwards) was lodging at Rock House, Manor Road, Abersychan and is recorded on the certificate as a boot and shoe maker. They were married in Noddfa Baptist Chapel, Abersychan. Thank you again for your article.
Mike Edwards, Llantrisant
Julia rees Says:
there was a shoe shop in Cwmffrwdoer which was still open around 1980. I used to buy my kids shoes there. I remember the Gregory family well. Did you know that there was a boot factory in Abersychan? It was situated on High Street, at the bottom of Factory Lane. I remember it as derelict in the early 1960’s. BTW, locals called Freehold Land ‘freeolan’. I was a member of Noddfa Baptist Church for many years. It started life as a Welsh Baptist, in opposition to High Street English Baptist just 100 yards down the road. By the time I was there from the ’60s the only remnants left of the language was the name plate – Y Noddfa – and some Welsh inscriptions on the tomb stones.
amos2008 Says:
I don’t think the shop you refer to is the same as the Gregory’s shop as that was in Hanbury Road which is about a mile away from Freehold Land. Both shops would have been there at the same time but there were a number of shoe shops in Pontypool and Pontnewynydd.
Clive Barnby Says:
Just some incidental remarks and reminiscences in response to Mike’s contribution. (Again incidentally, it’s interesting, Mike, you have “ended up” in Llantrisant, me not that far away in Pontypridd !! )
I didnt get up to Pontnewynydd a lot as a boy – mainly the Pavilion, and rarely much beyond even tho’ my grandfather (mother’s stepfather) Wiliam Mahoney, was from Abersychan – the British, I think. I believe his father had emigrated from Ireland (like many others) to seek work in the mines. His parents died before I was born & he may have had brothers & sisters (& other relatives) but I dont recall his ever having contact with, or even referring to, them.
While at West Mon there was a Lynn Targett, a clever rugby player, who later played fly-half for Pontypool one season – 66/67 I think, possibly after Phil Morgan, another Westmonian, left Pontypool to “go north”. Lynn lived in Freeholdland, and a Roger (Onk) Richards lived a few doors from him. “Onk” was originally from Abertillery or Ebbw Vale but his parents must have moved, & he then came to West Mon. While there he tended to play hooker for the school teams. His favoured position was scrum-half but there were a couple of good players like Ronny Davies & Peter Evans who “forced” him to play elsewhere.
I was in 6Arts with both Lynn & Roger. Lynn stayed on throughout the 7th form but Roger left after his year in the 6th. I dont think we saw him a lot in class as he played rugby for the school & Pontypool Youth. The next time I saw Roger was Easter 67 when he turned out for a few games at scrum-half for Pontypool partnering Lynn at fly-half. . . but the following season they then seemed to “disappear” from the scene.
Years later I “caught up” with Lynn. Apparently, he & Roger decided to pack in their jobs, the rugby, to tour Europe, paying their way by getting casual jobs. They got to France but, unfortunately, the 68 strikes, the student “troubles”, intervened & they had to return home. They both decided to go into teaching, & expected to go to Caerleon & get jobs locally. As it turned out, Lynn went to a college in Cumbria, & taught that way for a few years before moving to Hampshire. He retired some years ago to live in Dorset.
Roger went to a college in the Midlands & after a teaching career, like Lynn, he retired in his early 50s & went to live in France !!
Yes, John is my uncle – my mother’s step-brother. Because he was a lot younger than my mother, he was really like an older brother & we both lived with my grandparents in North Road. John went to Town School, won a scholarship to go to Monmouth School but decided he didnt want to go there, & went to West Mon. Was he there with you, David, or perhaps a year or two behind?
John was never that keen on school work at West Mon, & left at the age of 15 or it might even have been 14, to work in the offices at Panteg. After national service in the RAF, he got a job at “The Dump” (Glascoed). My grandparents werent that pleased because the steelworks had said they’d take him back & the job there was a “white-collar” one.
Nevertheless, he did quite well at Glascoed, became their labour officer at a relatively young age & a year or two later moved on to a post as industrial relations manager at another of the Royal Ordnance’s establishments in Renfrewshire, Scotland, where he still lives. Unfortunately, Shirley, his wife died a couple of years ago. He has a son, Paul, who returned to south Wales.
I hope you are “OK” with this kind of thing on your blog. Of course, my days in Pontypool were a little after yours but to some extent it’s about the “unsung” personalities & history of the town. And, you never know, some of these names, places, events, might mean something to someone browsing it.
I enjoyed reading about the Gregories. I have very fond memories of the shop and the owners. My parents always insisted on my three sisters and myself having good leather shoes on our feet. And the Gregories were invaluable to my parents to make sure we got the best. We lived in Edward Street Pontypool. I used to get so excited when I had new shoes (still do actually). I loved everything about getting them. The walk to the shop, the smell of new shoe as you walked through the door, the fuss I got from Mr and Mrs Gregory, looking at the little shoes in the glass cabinet in the front of the shop, the seats, stools with mirrors, and stacks of boxes of shoes in the fitting room, having my feet measured, choosing my shoes and last but not least watching Mr Gregory adeptly packing our shoes in brown paper tied with string …… Sometimes I would be allowed to wear my new shoes home, so Mr Gregory would put my old shoes in a the box and pack them in the same way. Years later when I had children of my own the tradition of going to Gregories for good leather shoes continued but for both my sons the memories are of the young Mr Gregory (Anthony) who taught my two sons to tie their shoes with the two loop bow method, which my youngest son (now 33) has continued to use. I am glad this site popped up whilst I was looking for information about Pontypool Japan Ware. Lovely memories!! Thank you
I remember the Gregory family from my schoolboy days. I lived in Walsall in the West Midlands as it is now known and for several years was fortunate to be able to spend most of my long summer holidays in Cwmffrwdoer with my favourite Aunty & Uncle who lived in Hanbury Road, just down from Gregory’s shop. Aunty Phyll worked in the shop for many years and I remember the kindnesses that were hallmarks of the Gregory family.
Phil Jones Says:
Wow how interesting! I just googled Florence Mabel Gregory and up popped this. Florence was my great grandmother who’s father was Joseph. He was down on Florence’s marriage cert as a collier but I was told he too was a publican later on. I believe the pub was in Bristol. Does anyone know if the Gregory’s were from gypsie origins . I am told by 2nd cousins that they were.
Denise Newlands Says:
I now live in what was the Gregory shoe shop in pontnewynydd. I am interested in getting more pictures of the house from years ago, I got some prints from Pontypool museum but there wasn’t many. The building has such character.
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FUNGUS EXPLAINS
“Yes,” said Bunny. “I’ve been thinking. We don’t really know a lot about the old abbey do we? It might help us if we knew a bit more.”
“Old Benny told us there was a ghost,” said Gogs referring to one of the local coastguard team who was an old friend of the boys.
“Yes, I know that,” returned Bunny. “But all that might be a lot of nonsense. As we have to go back to school the day after tomorrow, why don’t we ask old ‘Fungus’ about it in our history lesson? He seems to know a lot about Pontyrabad and he’s always willing to answer questions.” The others agreed that this was a good idea so Titch was appointed to ask ‘Fungus’ about the abbey during their history lesson.
Seeing his opportunity, Gogs quickly asked: “What’s in your book you want to tell us about Titch?”
“Well, there are a few ideas in this book about being prepared, especially in case of emergencies. For instance it says that when engaged in any activity it’s a good idea to have some useful equipment handy.”
“Equipment? What sort?” pursued Smudgie.
“There’s quite a long list here,” Titch continued. “But it suggests that, instead of carrying around a parcel of items, each member of the society keeps a few in his pocket. It says it’s better to keep a mobile phone in a separate pocket. It says a screwdriver often comes in useful and things like a penknife, a few paper clips, elastic bands, a pen or pencil and a couple of sheets of paper, a length of electric cable . . .”
“I’ve got a Swiss Army knife,” blurted out Bunny. “That’s got all sorts of things on it. I could keep that in my pocket.”
This idea led to all sorts of offers by all five to carry in their pockets an assortment of paper clips, wire ties, elastic bands, drawing pins, nails and many other items, some of which didn’t seem particularly useful.
“O.K! O.K!” said Titch, raising his hands eventually to quell the barrage of offers. We can all have a look around at home and write down a list of what we can carry in our pockets. Then at the next meeting we can decide who is going to carry what.” They all agreed that this was an excellent idea and would avoid everyone carrying around the same things.
After this decision, Titch declared the meeting closed.
For the first time since they’d been attending secondary school, Gogs and Miff were glad when the time came round for history. ‘Fungus’ entered the room carrying a large pile of exercise books under his arm and stroking his wide handlebar moustache with his free hand. He put the pile of exercise books down on his desk with a loud thump. This was a trick he often used to gain the instant attention of the class.
He spent the first quarter of an hour giving out the exercise books and criticising some of the essays on William the Conqueror. After this the exercise books were put away and ‘Fungus’ leaned forward on his desk, stroked his moustache in opposite directions with his forefinger and thumb, which always indicated that he was thinking, and then launched into his lesson.
“Now then, this morning we’re going to move on from the Battle of Hastings to see what was happening in England when everyone started to settle down more or less in peace. The Normans who came over here were fine builders and it was about this time that many beautiful buildings, churches and the like were put up.”
Titch saw his opportunity and, like a flash, his hand shot up.
At this point Titch saw his opportunity and, like a flash, his hand shot up. “Yes, Roger. What is it?” asked ‘Fungus’ slightly annoyed at being interrupted just as he started his story.
“Did they build abbeys too sir?” asked Titch innocently.
“Er . . . yes, as a matter of fact they did,” replied ‘Fungus’ seeming rather puzzled at the question. “Why do you ask?”
“Well, sir, I wondered whether it was the Normans who build Pontyrabad Abbey on the common.”
‘Fungus’ gave Titch a strange sort of look and then said, “Pontyrabad Abbey . . . mmm . . . well, I believe work was started on the Abbey somewhere about 1100 or so. As a matter of fact it’s quite an interesting ruin. There’s not much left of the church itself I know, but the bottom of the refectory walls are still in good condition. That was where the monks used to eat of course, and the warming room is still almost intact. That’s the place where the monks used to warm themselves on cold winter days. The rooms at the bottom of the steps near the cloisters are the cellars where the food was stored.”
Here, ‘Fungus’ paused for a moment as though in thought, and then asked, “Do any of you ever go near the abbey?”
Gogs, who was sitting next to Titch, put up his hand. “Yes sir, we were there on Friday evening.” ‘Fungus’ showed signs of interest.
“Oh yes, I remember seeing you having your picnic there. Er . . . I take it you had a look round the abbey later on. Did you see anything of . . . er . . . interest?”
Gogs, in his enthusiasm started to blurt out the whole story. “Yes sir, Roger knocked Bernard’s cricket ball for six right into the abbey ruins . . . oh!” A sharp kick on the shins from Titch stopped him short. Realising that he had almost given the game away he finished lamely. “and . . . and we never found it sir.”
‘Fungus’ smiled. “Well, I shouldn’t think that would have been very interesting my boy. Rather annoying I should say. What?”
Titch, wishing to divert attention away from Gogs put up his hand once more.
“Is it true that the abbey’s haunted sir?”
‘Fungus’ smiled broadly. “That’s rather a tricky question Roger, I must say. Er . . . what ghost stories have you heard about it?”
“Well sir, my sister told me that some people say that on moonlight nights they’ve seen ghostly shapes walking around the abbey grounds. And others say they’ve seen ghostly shapes sailing on the sea just a short way from the abbey cliff.”
“Ye.. .es,” said ‘Fungus’ slowly stroking his moustache and gazing intently at the whole class. “You see, it’s all based on an old story about the place. Can’t say whether or not it’s true, of course. Anyway the story is this: the abbot in charge of the abbey was an ambitious sort of chap in some ways – full of big ideas and so on – and apparently he borrowed rather a lot of money from a certain important and powerful man. We don’t know who he was, but the abbot wanted to carry out some new project or other that he was rather keen on.
Later on the lender wanted the money back in a hurry. Unfortunately the abbot couldn’t repay it at that time. In the year 1177 the man who loaned the money was himself having to borrow from friends. This, he thought, made him look rather foolish, so he threatened the abbot that if the money was not returned by the full moon in a certain month he would take drastic action.
“Well, as the poor old abbot had no money at the time he still was unable to repay the loan even after such a threat. And so the story goes that, one moonlight night, a party of armed men came silently sailing up the coast in a small boat. They landed on the sands, climbed the cliffs and made their way into the abbey. There they grabbed a monk and made the poor fellow take them to the abbot’s room. They burst in and confronted the startled man demanding repayment of the money on the spot, otherwise they said they would kill him. The abbot pleaded with them saying that, if given a little time, he would pay back all he had borrowed. But the men refused to give him any more time. They murdered both the abbot and the monk, and, quickly grabbing anything which they thought might be of value, they hurriedly left.
“As they were climbing the abbey wall near the coast another monk, who had been walking in the cloisters, saw them and raised the alarm. The dead bodies of the abbot and their fellow monk were discovered and the enraged monks rushed in pursuit of the murderers. But by that time they were safely in their boat, or so they thought, and once more sailing along the coast.
“The monks ran up to the top of the cliff where the coastguard station now is, and when the boat sailed along underneath they hurled down large rocks and boulders. The boat below was smashed to pieces, and all the occupants were drowned.
“And that is why, so we are told, ghostly figures of the abbot and the monk are seen on moonlit nights walking in the abbey grounds, and also why, sometimes, also on moonlit nights, ghostly shapes can be seen sailing on the water.
“And it was in memory of their abbot that the monks named the bridge at the end of the common ‘Pontyrabad’ which in English means ‘Abbot’s Bridge’. In those days of course it was just a wooden bridge. And when the town was established here it took on the name of Pontyrabad.”
The whole class had listened enthralled and in absolute silence as ‘Fungus’ had related his story. The silence was broken by Smudgie’s question: “Please sir, have you ever seen the ghosts?”
‘Fungus’ laughed aloud at this. “No Philip, I must confess I never have, but whenever I pass the ruins on a moonlit night I always keep a careful watch out for them.”
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Home > News > NO WORLD CUP TROPHY BUT A WIN FOR WOMEN'S SPORT
NO WORLD CUP TROPHY BUT A WIN FOR WOMEN'S SPORT
The Lionesses may not have come home with the trophy, but the FIFA Women’s World Cup has arguably been a huge win for women’s sport in general.
As the Lionesses poured their heart and soul onto the pitch for the Semi-Final against the USA, a record breaking 12 million peopled tuned in to the live coverage – surpassing audience figures for Britain’s Got Talent and Line of Duty finales and making the match the most viewed TV programme of 2019.
However, the very fact that the match was on BBC One is a huge achievement in itself. Just eight years ago as the Lionesses took on France in the 2011 Women’s World Cup Quarter Finals, fans had to seek out the game on the BBC Red button. Meanwhile BBC Two continued to air a repeat of classic comedy Porridge and antiques show Flog It! This year fans could easily tune into all the games of the Women’s World Cup with the opening games, semi finals and finals taking a prime time slot on BBC One.
Beyond the screen the support has been outstanding as tens of thousands of fans gathered in pubs and bars to roar for the Lionesses. Even Glastonbury didn’t get in the way as festival goers watched the action of the quarter final on the big stage screens.
Taking it even further, this year we have seen top brands that have been associated with the men’s game for many years get behind the women’s side. Top campaigns that have been seen by millions include:
· Budweiser ‘Heart and Stomach of a King’ TV ad which featured female stars from across sport and beyond including Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams, actor, model and entrepreneur and Suki Waterhouse as well as former Lioness legend Rachel Yankey
· Lucozade Sport ‘Three Lionesses’ campaign in which the brand rewrote the renowned Three Lions song in with a feminist twist
· Nike ‘Dream with Us’ campaign that not only calls for support of the Lionesses but also encourages a new generation to pick up a ball
Regardless of brand and tactic used it is great to see they all share a common theme – power, strength, pride. The women’s team have been positioned as strong fighters that have earned the right to be respected.
Here’s to hoping that this is just the start as a new generation of female athletes strive to take centre stage and represent the UK.
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607. The Four Tops: “It’s The Same Old Song”
Posted by The Nixon Administration in The Four Tops, Writing credit: Holland-Dozier-Holland
Motown M 1081 (A), July 1965
b/w Your Love Is Amazing
(Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland Jr.)
Tamla Motown TMG 528 (A), August 1965
(Released in the UK under license through EMI/Tamla Motown)
The more I see this song being referenced by lackwits who haven’t got the joke, the more I admire Holland-Dozier-Holland’s chutzpah in giving it such a confrontational, cheeky title.
Hastily-recorded (and, more unusually, just as hastily-written) as a follow-up to the chart-topping, million-selling I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch), there’s no denying It’s The Same Old Song bears more than a passing resemblance to its predecessor. But people who ought to know better have seen it as a rare unguarded admission on the part of Motown (or HDH) of self-plaigiarism, something to be quote-mined when denigrating Motown hits for all sounding the same as each other. Even THEY admitted it! Ha ha ha ha!
In fact, It’s The Same Old Song came about because Holland-Dozier-Holland were called upon to write a brand-new single to order, something – anything – for the Tops to have in the shops in order to combat their former label Columbia’s bandwagon-jumping ploy, a cleverly-marketed re-issue of a long-forgotten flop (1960’s spirited Ain’t That Love, now remixed and sped-up to sound more like the Motown Four Tops and less like the well-travelled but luckless doo-woppers of five years before). They wrote it on the hoof, in the studio, on the day it was recorded, mixed and sent to the pressing plant. Not that you’d really know it; It’s The Same Old Song is a little muffled in places, a little jumbled and breathless, but as far as I was concerned, it didn’t feel rushed or unfinished for me until I found out it really was.
I’d argue, strongly, that – stripping away the folklore – this is actually one of Motown’s less egregious examples of soundalike sequel syndrome. It’s impossible to deny the family resemblance, but this is harder-edged than Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, and noisier to boot: it’s taut and pacy, more in keeping with the Tops’ later banging mid-Sixties anthems like Shake Me, Wake Me… a very different feel to the rolling rhythms of I Can’t Help Myself.
Despite the various claims that the two songs are hung on the same musical skeleton (they aren’t – this one’s much further divorced from the Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go, the obvious-in-hindsight progenitor of I Can’t Help Myself, although it does add in a ripping instrumental sax break which calls to mind the Supremes hit), or that the repeated four-note riff in this one is simply the four-note riff from the last one played backwards (it isn’t – that comes from something Brian Holland said in an interview once, as an aside, some thirty years later), this is a new song in its own right and doesn’t deserve its status as poster child for a lack of Motown creativity. It doesn’t even really to be bracketed alongside the likes of, say, Quicksand or Two Lovers or A Love She Can Count On (all great singles in their own right, incidentally) in terms of, ahem, “drawing inspiration” from what came immediately before.
The title is an intentional joke, occasioned by the increasing perception that all Holland-Dozier-Holland’s songs sounded the same, together with the ludicrously unrealistic time frame imposed on this. It’s a cheeky wink, something that HDH might have done among themselves for a bet (in the face of an accusation that all their songs sounded the same, I can absolutely see them challenging each other to write a coherent and internally-consistent song around such a phrase), but it’s certainly not – as I’ve seen argued – compelling evidence Motown were laughing in their fans’ faces while selling them six copies of the same (old) song with three notes changed.
Ha ha ha ha, but it’s the same old song, they said so themselves! Ha ha ha ha! Yes, dear.
This went top five, while the Columbia record was snuffed out having barely skimmed the lowest depths of the Hot 100. Motown had grown big, but they hadn’t grown fat; their quick reactions and whip-smart handling of their production, distribution and PR contacts allowed the upstart black-owned indie label to squash direct competition from one of the biggest record companies in the world. Point, Gordy.
I hadn’t realised it until I came to write this, but it turns out I’m rather fond of this record, actually. I’d never fallen for the hype that called this the epitome of Motown repeatedly scrabbling down the back of the sofa for new ideas, but I’d not realised just how forceful and exciting it is. Lyrically, it’s impressive given the artificial surroundings of its birth: the narrator and his girlfriend have split up, and Levi Stubbs – in an echo of Martha Reeves’ wounded narrator in the Vandellas’ magnificent Come And Get These Memories – can’t bear to listen to their old favourite record any more. It was clever then, and it’s clever now. More so, given the context; part of me really hopes this was written for a bet.
It’s got a great chorus, perhaps even more whistleable than the gentler earworm of I Can’t Help Myself; that had worked its way in through a kind of repetitive, rolling, strolling grind, whereas this one’s got an actual hook, the sort of thing you can imagine going down splendidly on nightclub dancefloors in 1975 given a bit of a disco twist; a mental image of four guys in white suits, sequins, wide collars, flares, shades, Afros, all moving in perfect time. This is nowhere near smooth enough for any of that, and yet the song (if not the recording) sounds as though it might have fallen through a wormhole from a decade in the future. More than any Tops record we’ve covered so far, this one would be great for dancing.
As always, Levi Stubbs is the Tops’ greatest asset, the pain and pleading in this one very much grist to his mill; he handles an extraordinarily well-judged lead vocal in fluid fashion, the hurry and haste of the song’s construction perhaps leading him to adopt a slightly different approach, running lines and syllables together between the lengthy pauses built into the song. It’s yet another striking example of Levi’s mastery of his craft, not just in terms of his voice – although he sounds great – but in terms of having the intelligence to pick his way through the assault course of a hastily-assembled arrangement to splendid effect, roaming around free of the tune when there’s room for him to roam, sticking to the melody line when there isn’t.
It works really well; the same can’t really be said of the backing vocals, which are strangely – if entirely understandably – simple, even sparse, for a Four Tops record, It’s The Same Old Song actually making the least use of the female house singers, the immortal Andantes, of any Tops song we’ve covered so far. The harmonies are sketched in rather than carved in stone, and the hints of more complex ideas (the excellent bit late in the song, presaging Sly Stone, where Levi and the BVs trade lines call-and-response style with “We used to dance to the music!”, is particularly good) only serve to highlight the lack of arrangements earlier in the song. It doesn’t sound completely intentional, either – in an echo of the Originals’ forthcoming We’ve Got A Way Out Love, the backing Tops’ staccato interjections (Same! Old! Song!), bark-delivered without any sustain at all, feel like they were probably meant to have been augmented by overdubs that never got done amidst the chaos.
The best thing about this, though, is the Funk Brothers’ snappy backing track; the recording’s slightly fuzzy, blurry edges are a symptom of its having been cut at speed, but the trade-off is that we get to see what a tight band the Funks have become, especially when handed a prefab Holland-Dozier-Holland 4/4 stomp. The machine-gun drum fill that opens the song, ratatatatatat, gives way to a jam par excellence, the band riffing on all the musical tropes they’d learned from all those hits not just for the Tops, but the Supremes and anyone else who was using HDH’s template.
What it all adds up to, somewhat unexpectedly, is yet another excellent single. I say “unexpectedly” because I’d been waiting for a chance to ease up on the flow of constant praise that Motown Junkies has become as we make our way through the summer of 1965, and based solely on its reputation, this seemed like that chance – but no, this one’s absolutely fine by me.
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44 thoughts on “607. The Four Tops: “It’s The Same Old Song””
Edin Burak said:
This is easily my favorite Four Tops song because the chorus/hook is really catchy and all the Four Tops are giving it their all. I’d give it a 10 because it’s my personal favorite but otherwise I’d agree with an 8 rating. (This is my first comment on Motown Junkies, which is really weird since I’ve been here for a year and my favorite group/song is The Temptations/Since I Lost My Baby)
Welcome, Edin, and thank you – I hope you’re enjoying the site!
Rhine Ruder said:
a certain ten! in my book, it’s the tops first. it is a template for their hits with h/d/h to come, not those too, too sugary pop songs in their past. it is a long string of 10’s for the tops (including hunter & wonder’s “loving you is sweeter than ever” & the two covers done during the h/d/h strike slowdown.) the hits just keeping building on top of themselves like movements in a symphony. many cannot seem to see these as a cohesive group of songs, but they are, and should be listened to that way. once h/d/h leave it’s curtains for the tops (except for the surprise h/d/h out of order, but great “i’m in a different world”.) at least h/d/h didn’t fall out form as long as they wrote for the tops like they did with the supremes (“the happening” & “falling in and out of love”.) the great tops run begins right here!
Landini said:
Hi Rhine Ruder, I tried to respond to your post but somehow it would up below. Would love your feedback. Have a great day friend!
Dave L said:
I don’t think any record takes me back to the summer of ’65 as instantaneously as this one. We all had it, and we all had it fast. The face-slap attention grabber of those clean drums at the start, the ‘climbing’ instrumentation and Levi at the top.
Motown had to be on top of its game to compete in this summer: the Beatles had “Help!,” the Stones had “Satisfaction,” and the Beach Boys had “California Girls.” Only excellence was being allowed in the upper tier, and Motown was in the same big leagues now. I’m so glad I wasn’t born any later than 1954, or I might have missed it.
And as we’re now finding with single after single, this one had a terrific b-side too, drawn from the group’s first album, that we wore out just as well. It was a great year to be 11. 🙂
144man said:
The melody is stronger than “I Can’t Help Myself”, so I was surprised when it didn’t reach #1 in the US. I agree that the b-side is terrific, Dave L. It was a great year to be 17 as well.
Damecia said:
Agree that this is a stronger and better melody than “I Can’t Help Myself”
Nick in Pasadena said:
I actually prefer this to “I Can’t Help Myself” and would give it a 9 or 10. Its let’s-get-this-record-out-immediately urgency can be felt and heard in this disc; Levi might be lamenting the memories of his lost love but there’s also the underlying emotion of convincing record buyers to snap this one up. And the Funk Brothers have rarely sounded better–this just propels you along and never lets go! I agree with Dave; the competition was stiff in 1965 and that provided motivation for H-D-H that they might not have had in a lesser year.
There was another consequence of Columbia’s reissue of old 1960 Four Tops recordings besides the creation of this number. Prior to this single’s release, Columbia’s custom division was amongst the gallery of pressing plants that handled Motown and subsidiary product (others were RCA Custom, American Record Pressing of Owosso, MI, Southern Plastics of Nashville, TN, and Monarch Record Mfg. of Los Angeles, CA). One way to tell a Columbia-pressed Motown 45 was the omnipresent ZTSC matrix system (indicating the lacquers were cut by Columbia’s Chicago studios that were situated within the CBS-owned WBBM-TV/AM/FM complex at 630 North McClurg Court).
In the wake of this hubbub, Columbia’s custom pressing apparatus was frozen out of the Motown loop for the next several years in terms of regular stock LP and 45 pressings; well into the late 1960’s the only Columbia-pressed Motown product were LP’s pressed for members of the label’s lucrative mail-order record club business; and in 1966, a few 45’s, during a period when Columbia Record Club, for a brief period of time, even offered singles to members (I have two such record-club 45’s pressed by Columbia – the Four Tops’ “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)” and Stevie Wonder’s “A Place in the Sun” – all bought second-hand, of course). The Temptations’ “All I Need,” in 1967, was the first since 1965 singles to bear ZTSC numbers – and also its last; but not until late 1970 (with “The Tears of a Clown” single by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles) would Columbia again press any Motown product in significant quantities for stock (retail) as opposed to record club, but by then Columbia was no longer using its custom matrix numbering alongside Motown’s own matrix numbers for such releases.
Meanwhile, on RCA Custom’s own pressings of this hit, that “It’s The Same Old Song” was rushed, was reflected in the company’s own matrix number – S5KM-9600 (‘5’ indicated a custom job where the lacquer originated from an outside source and was furnished to RCA). The flip, “Your Love Is Amazing,” by contrast, was designated S4KM-4724.
This song sounds like Motown to me! “You’re sweet as a honey bee” classic line that I love to hear each time. I love the song because it’s universal. Everyone probably use to have a favorite song when they were with someone, but you broke up or whatever the case is and even though it’s the exact same song you use to love it now feels and maybe even sound different since that person is gone. Agree with you Steve D. about the backing track sounding sparse, but oddly enough it works here. And the Funk Brothers kill this track! With that said this should’ve gotten 1 point more 9/10.
Interesting you pick that line out, Damecia, as it kind of sums up the whole record, good and bad; from memory, Levi’s delivery is amazing, he does that vocal thing only he can do where he seems to be shouting from the next room while simultaneously sat two feet away.
Awesome, right? But what the hell is going on in the background (Sweeeeeeet!)? And the immediate follow-up after the pause, words piling up against each other – But like a honey bee sting you’ve gone and left my heart in pain now all that’s LEFT… – is one of the points where, having found out this was a rush job par excellence, I stroked my chin and nodded sagely, yes, of course, I see.
It’s exceptionally good, if undeniably rough around the edges. But then I don’t hand out 8s lightly, no matter what the impression given by recent weeks 🙂
LMAO! Yes the “sweeeeeet” was provided weakly by The Tops and the words do pile up after that line. This sounds like they recorded this while touring and they only had 2 hours max to the the vocals down and they did an excellent job on such a short notice.
Yes the impression I got from the last couple of weeks was that you were growing into a softie with the points lmao….just kidding.
John Plant said:
Lyrical carelessness does crop up sometimes even in the best HDH songs – a particularly instance (to my ears) occurs in ‘Love is Here and Now You’re Gone’ – …’but instead of tenderness I found heartache instead..’ I don’t think Smokey (or Mickey Stevenson, or Whitfield) would have let that pass…. I probably would only have gone to a seven with this one, because it’s just too bouncy for the pain in the lyrics to be credible – and because it is, to my ears, lightyears away from the masterpieces of the ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’ period – lovely to dance to, but expressively just a little unfocused. I admit that the authentic HDH energy is there in abundance!
A particularly painful instance, I meant!
“…this one’s much further divorced from the Supremes’ Where Did Our Love Go…”
It’s actually a bit *closer*, in a way. The chorus shares the Supremes’ song’s I-V-ii-V-IV chord progression, whereas “I Can’t Help Myself” goes I-V-ii-IV-V. The difference is that the chords go by twice as fast in “It’s the Same Old Song.”
There is also a “stings like a bee” reference in “Where Did Our Love Go” (LOL!)
Oh wow Rhine Ruder – “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever” is one of my favorites (both the 4 Tops & Marvin Gaye’s versions). Assuming the covers you are talking about are “Walk Away Renee” & “Carpenter”. Love em both! I actually think that the 4 Tops’ version of “Renee” is better than the original. Also I like “I’m In A Different World”. Jermaine Jackson did a decent remake of “Different World” on his first solo album. Cheers! By the way, I may possibly be the only person in the known universe who really likes “In & Out of Love”. Also, I have noticed that people who do not normally care for soul music/Motown tend to like “The Happening” Hmmm!
Oops Sorry Joe – Meant this for Rhine Ruder but you & everyone else are welcome to read as well!
Dear Friends, Sorry for the absence. Health is about the same. No worse-no better. Will continue with once a month chemos. Thank you for your concern & prayers.
Onto the song… This song has spawned some very interesting remakes…
1) There is the K C & the Sunshine Band disco remake which is pretty bad — but kind of in a “so bad it is good” way. Worth hearing at least once.
2) Folk singer, David Wilcox, did a mellow remake in the early 90’s & it actually works pretty well. I have actually spoken with Mr Wilcox on the phone. He had no idea that he & KC had done versions of the same song! He got a good chuckle out of that
3) Pop singer Bobby Vee did a “Can’t Help Myself/Same Old Song” medley in 1968 which isn’t bad in a pop/soul sort of way
4) Supremes version isn’t bad, the Four Tops still own this song!
Re. Four Tops version — Basically a fine song though I tend to prefer their more atypical stuff.
Welcome back Landini. I’d completely forgotten the KC version – and I own it. It’s in my record boxes with very little stylus wear since 1978. It actually managed to get to 35 Pop on Billboard.
Mark V said:
There is a “Can’t Help Myself” cycle that the Tops are traveling through right now. I’ll put in that this is the least compelling of the four. I love the burst of drums (there are a number of tunes around this time that begin with just that, and they all are slightly different). This is a dynamic opening.
It sounds almost like a live performance, and that adds to the excitement. But it doesn’t stand out among the other Tops records of this period — IMO. It’s got a lot of rough edges.
Martha & Vandellas 50th Anniversary Singles Collection includes a previously unreleased version of “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever”.
Totally off subject here, but I’ve just discovered Dusty Springfield’s “Have A Good Life Baby” and I can’t stop listening to it! lol. I love the song. Any thoughts anyone???
Hi! Yeah I have heard it. It is a bonus track on “Dusty in Memphis” CD. Good song, though I haven’t heard it in ages.
Another off topic subject – I have been listening a lot to Electric Light Orch’s “Out of the Blue” from 1977 album. I know it isn’t “Soul” but as a Motown/Soul fan I really like that album. I find that when the different tracks are mixed in with Motown/Soul music on a random playlist they really fit in. I think that Motown’s influence on music (production values, etc) goes a lot deeper than we might think.
Re. my health. Latest Cat Scan shows no big change – but not worse. Will continue to take monthly chemos for awhile. Thanks for asking about me! Blessings to you!
Soooo the only work I know by ELO is “Blinded by the Light” and the work they did on the Xanadu Soundtrack (which I love). I can believe that ELO mixes well with soul and motown and modern music of today because they had/have a futuristic sound that contains elements of the ol skool. I will have to search deeper into their cataloge.
Oops. “Blinded by the Light” is Manfred Manns Earth Band (written/originally recorded by Bruce Springstreen) & definitely a cool song. Reminds me of my Freshmen year in college! Manfred Mann is another very underrated band (especially their 70s stuff) who had a little bit of soul here & there.
Oh lol thanks for clearing that up lol didn’t ELO have a song called “Don’t Bring Me Down” or something like that?
They did indeed.
Confession time. When I was about 12, ELO – or the Electric Light Orchestra, to give them their Sunday name – were probably my favourite band in the whole world. I had a cassette copy of the aforementioned “Out of the Blue” album, which I literally played to death in my old Walkman – as in, I played it and played it and played it until the tape wore out and snapped.
Part of this adoration was because I hadn’t really listened to very much popular music before I got into ELO. Your narrator is a bit of an oddball in a number of ways, most notably in that I was 14 or 15 before I started listening to the radio or buying records when they were new, as opposed to just playing and playing old tapes and LPs from the likes of Kraftwerk and T.Rex. And ELO, obviously.
Nowadays, whenever I get the urge for a bit of “golden age” (mid/late-Seventies) ELO, as I sometimes do, three things always strike me:
a. They are heavily indebted to the Beatles, almost to the point of parody in places. Indeed, there was a mid-Seventies quote from one of the Fabs (Harrison, I think?) who opined that there was no need for the Beatles to reform because ELO were already essentially making a series of Beatles albums. I don’t know if he meant it as a compliment. Of course, 12-year-old me, having never listened to a Beatles record in my life, had no way of knowing this, which made ELO’s Jeff Lynne – an appropriator (not a thief, but perhaps “adaptor”) of other people’s hooks and melodies par excellence – seem like the greatest songwriter in human history.
b. They are chronically silly. Hairy open-shirted white-boys with flared pants and Afros is one thing, but because they were British (and not just British, but from Birmingham – for US readers, Birmingham is the second largest city in England (home to almost 3 million people) and the engine room of the Industrial Revolution, but has struggled to shake off its reputation as a cultural backwater, having produced relatively few great artists, musicians, sports heroes, intellectuals or prominent politicians in comparison with the historically smaller likes of Liverpool or Manchester, together with a strong (“Brummie”) accent which somehow doesn’t sound erudite even if you’re discussing practical epistemology), for me they’ve never had the alien allure and sex appeal of American disco acts, they’ve always just been a bit, well, cringeworthy.
c. Crucially – brilliantly – they are completely unashamed by both of these things. This is admirable, and it demands a similar adjustment in the listener; leave all self-consciousness at the door.
ELO are not cool. They are so very un-cool; in many ways, they are the anti-cool. They also made some amazing records.
Funny you should mention Harrison. I’ve been watching this awful Madonna movie called Shanghai Surprise. He does the score and title track which I like a lot lol.
Thanx Steve D. for the geography fact!
Even though ELO maybe uncool, this was a very cool confession/review/history lesson from you lol
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Now you know how much I love The Supremes….everybody who follows this blog and read the comments know how much I adore the girls too, but yes I would have to agree with you that you just maybe the only person out there who likes “In & Out of Love” lol.
Interesting observation you have found about “The Happening” too.
“In And Out Of Love” > “The Happening”
yes, nixon! but both weaker than all of the other h/d/h supreme hits!
Agree heartily. Especially when you measure the totality of Motown 1116 over the totality of Motown 1107. I’d rather be tested with a dozen consecutive listens of “I Guess I’ll Always Love You” over even three listens of “All I Know About You.” Yikes.
To my ears this is the Motown Sound. Attention getting opening. Exploding bass figure, 4 on the floor snare, a bass drum figure that works with and without the bass guitar. Swelling strings, a tambourine playing a different beat, a sax solo in the bridge, a great dancing record. A catchy haunting melody, and serviceable lyrics. Levi Stubbs on lead vocals, who would you want to tell your story? The Tops giving support, it is a song that had it been officially released during the Disco extended mix period, could fill a side of an LP and actually raise the roof.
I understand the need to get new product out there, but this is not as thrown together as one would believe based on what one reads. OK the title was an inside joke, wink, wink, but this was no shabby rush job. I Can’t Help Myself was pop perfection, I did not like the song that much, and it does not age well, but this is a very good song, 8/10 is on target.
The various covers that are out there, sadly are light years away from the Tops original version.
i think henry nails “same old song” on the head. the more well known, and constantly overplayed motown hits are too easy to like on their first listen … not much subtleness to them. the follow ups take longer to warm up to and better stand the test of time. i think nixon makes too much outta the fact that “same old song” was quickly written. i think many, if not most, of motown’s songs were quickly written. i continue to think nixon and i will clash on many record’s due almost exclusively on because of the fact that i bought the record the day it arrived in my local record store, and nixon is listening to many of these songs for the first time years after their release. this is no diss against nixon, but rather an interesting juxtaposition. i find nixon does make me think about the reason i love a certain song … but, i find that my assessment of the motown oeuvre has not appreciably changed over 50 years!
David L. said:
I agree that ITSOS was rushed written ,and rushed produced and rushed released. it’s also one of the better 4 tops songs. I can just imagine HDH saying – That bastard wants another just like it. (Also, by this time one had to make an appointment to see Mr. Gordy). Shout out to Damecia, I’m going to have your back with In and Out. HDH had already stopped writing and if they had continued in the vein of Reflections, IN and Out would probably have made another great B side, but still a great song. I just heard The Happening full blast at Lowes and I’ll be sticking my head out fot that too.
Interesting point Steve made about the tumbling of words in the beginning. I’ve seen the Tops perform countless times since that record was released and Levi never sings it like that. He phrases like the mike is picket-fencing. Kinda like: “You’re sweet/as a honey bee….honey bee sting…..left my heart in pain (out of meter pause)all you left….” You follow? Kinda like he’s conserving oxygen.
Lord Baltimore said:
H-D-H were definitely flexing their muscles around this time answering their critics (Including Phil Spector) “Yeah, Yeah, Whatever; Take This.” IMO, this is “I Can’t Help Myself” 2.0 and while the previous release may be overplayed or overexposed, this one still sounds fresh every time I hear it. Benny Benjamin is simply killing it on the drums, whipping that snare drum clear into 1966. For the Double Helping of this song, click here: http://youtu.be/Xf58XrKQNuk The Epitome of a Motown Hit. (“10”)
Kevin Moore said:
Great review. I actually like this one quite a bit more than Sugar Pie Honey. As you say, that one is indebted to Where Did Our Love Go. This one uses the same rhythm for its thematic bass riff as Sugar Pie Honey but the notes are different, and better, and after all, this whole idea of building songs on thematic bass riffs is a huge, huge deal. Finally, I like these lyrics best of the three.
“of course it isn’t [the same old song]! It is a spirited and driving number that is headed right for the very top and deservedly so. The Tops have seldom made a better side, and Levi Stubbs (who for my money has one of the best voices on record) leads with all he’s got, but still retains his cool. Vibes and the others give solid support to an outstanding production. 5/5
“Flip is familiar through their album and is a very worthwhile track that is both lyrical and smooth. 4/5”
[Dave Godin, Hitsville USA 8, 1965]
Must be a 10 for me, and the second best Tops song after “Baby I Need Your Loving.” “I Can’t Help Myself” might have been a 10 standing on its own, but since these songs are fairly similar and this one is better, I think it knocks “I Can’t Help Myself” down to a relative 9. Joke title or no, the lyrics of the chorus go right to the heartstrings. This is pretty much the archetypal upbeat Motown track honed to perfection.
RayRay said:
fckn songs were great. doesn’t matter how or why. they all give a feeling when you hear them that moves you. can’t be replaced.
I think the epitome of the motown sound was the way underrated song, “I’m in a Different World”. it hits at the core of the Motown feel with Jamison’s incredible bass sound and weaving – in and out between the guitar and drums. then there’s the lead guitar. placed with perfect timing and feeling, not too much leaving you wanting more and more.
you can’t help yourself but love it. the harmonies in, “Sugar Pie Honey Bun”, do the same thing as the lead guitar in Different World. you want more. they weren’t sparse. they were perfect and catchy. like, “Wow” what was that? hit replay….
“Build me Up Buttercup” is another example of Motown feel and harmonies placed just in the right spots and amounts. and that feel…. you wish somehow the entire song could be filled with these gems every line, but, its… perfect the way it is.
“Ball of Confusion”, the mix of motown and psychadelic. incredible. just like the Supremes “Reflections”. Just like, “Baby Love”, the song is just moseying along then that sax lead with that drive of the beat is perfect. orgasmic… timeless.
Stevie Wonder’s, “I Was Made to Love Her”. another feeling (bass line and almost gospel-like harmonies) that hits the core of Motown. Written to the heart! Incredible passion. His best song.
there’s so many more I can’t remember. I want to include them all. Marvalettes, Mary Wells, Miracles, I could go on. I never put Jackson Five in this category because they didn’t have that Ampeg, setup thru Vox sounfd that made Motown. anything without this is not “roots Motown” to me.
feel free to contact me to talk more. Motown will always hold a special place in my heart that inspired me at that time and age growing up and playing music myself.
also, motown had a huge influence on my drumming. the tambourine-like high-hat and snare with the ludwig trap set toms. pure!
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Posted on December 7, 2011 by Piano Buyer
Blake and I were talking over your note inviting us to write about an interesting piano sale. During its 106 years, Cooper Music has had thousands of customers, many of them famous — from John Phillip Sousa to Elton John. Blake and I agreed, however, that the most interesting story is about a customer we did not sell a piano to.
During one of the Great Depression years, Blake’s grandfather, John E. Cooper, was approached by a respected local music director, Frank Oliver, about an accordion student, a gifted teenager named Johnny Costa. Frank said that young Costa should be taking piano lessons, but in those years Costa’s family didn’t have the money for a teacher or a piano.
John Cooper took Oliver’s remarks seriously enough to arrange an audition with Martin Meisler, a master piano teacher in the area. Meisler, too, was impressed, and a scholarship was arranged for piano lessons for young Costa.
Cooper knew that, without a piano, the lessons were on hold for this great young performer. So a decision was made to forgo a sale and give a piano to Johnny Costa.
Costa’s career speaks well for the people who recognized his talent. Johnny was a unique lifetime professional performer, recording artist, and music director. It would be difficult to decide which he was most successful at. Most outstanding, perhaps, was his superb style. Art Tatum once remarked, on entering a Pittsburgh piano lounge, “Oh! They’re playing my record.” No. It was Johnny Costa, live.
After graduating from Carnegie Tech, Costa toured widely, appearing at venues such as the Embers Lounge, in New York. Johnny is still remembered locally for a hometown appearance with Dave Brubeck at an Allegheny Valley Concert Series event sponsored by Cooper Music.
After touring, Johnny went to work as Music Director of KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. This led to his assignment, for decades, as anchor on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS TV. This award-winning show remains an example of superior entertainment and TV musical excellence. Readers are invited to view a YouTube video of Johnny Costa during the Mister Rogers era at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpbNv0MSm_E.
The thousands of customers who have bought pianos from Cooper Music over the years are wonderful, but it’s with genuine pride that we think of the sale we did not make to Johnny Costa.
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Vern Buchanan & Josh Gottheimer
Compare the voting records of Vern Buchanan and Josh Gottheimer in 2017-18.
Vern Buchanan
Represented Florida's 16th Congressional District. This is his 6th term in the House.
Josh Gottheimer
Represented New Jersey's 5th Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
Vern Buchanan and Josh Gottheimer are from different parties and disagreed on 56 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always disagree. Out of 1097 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 488 votes, including 112 major votes.
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment to House Amendment
Dec. 20, 2018 — First Step Act of 2018
Sept. 27, 2018 — American Innovation Act of 2018
Sept. 27, 2018 — Family Savings Act of 2018
Sept. 7, 2018 — Community Safety and Security Act
Sept. 6, 2018 — Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act
Sept. 5, 2018 — Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act
July 25, 2018 — Restoring Access to Medication Act
July 25, 2018 — Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018
July 24, 2018 — Protect Medical Innovation Act
July 19, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
July 13, 2018 — Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act
July 12, 2018 — Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019
July 12, 2018 — Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act
June 28, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
June 27, 2018 — Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018
June 22, 2018 — Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act
June 20, 2018 — Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act
June 20, 2018 — Individuals in Medicaid Deserve Care that is Appropriate and Responsible in its Execution Act
June 15, 2018 — Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act
June 14, 2018 — THRIVE Act
June 14, 2018 — Securing the International Mail Against Opioids Act
June 8, 2018 — Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
June 7, 2018 — Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act
June 6, 2018 — Water Resources Development Act of 2018
May 24, 2018 — National Defense Authorization Act FY 2019
May 22, 2018 — Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
May 22, 2018 — FIRST STEP Act
May 22, 2018 — Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act
May 16, 2018 — Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act
May 16, 2018 — Protect and Serve Act of 2018
April 27, 2018 — FAA Reauthorization Act
April 18, 2018 — Taxpayer First Act
April 18, 2018 — 21st Century IRS Act
April 17, 2018 — Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act
April 11, 2018 — Stress Test Improvement Act
April 11, 2018 — Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act
March 21, 2018 — Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018
March 20, 2018 — Alleviating Stress Test Burdens to Help Investors Act
March 15, 2018 — Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act
March 15, 2018 — Regulation At Improvement Act of 2017
March 14, 2018 — Taking Account of Institutions with Low Operation Risk Act of 2017 or the TAILOR Act of 2017
March 8, 2018 — Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment (SENSE) Act
March 6, 2018 — Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act
Feb. 27, 2018 — To place requirements on operational risk capital requirements for banking organizations established by an appropriate Federal banking agency
Feb. 14, 2018 — Protecting Consumers’ Access to Credit Act of 2017
Feb. 14, 2018 — TRID Improvement Act
Feb. 8, 2018 — Small Bank Holding Company Relief Act of 2018
Feb. 8, 2018 — Mortgage Choice Act of 2017
Feb. 6, 2018 — Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018
Feb. 6, 2018 — Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2017
Jan. 17, 2018 — World Bank Accountability Act of 2017
Jan. 11, 2018 — Amash of Michigan Substitute Amendment No. 1
Dec. 21, 2017 — Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act of 2017
Dec. 20, 2017 — Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act
Dec. 19, 2017 — Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2017
Dec. 14, 2017 — Strengthening Oversight of Iran’s Access to Finance Act
Dec. 13, 2017 — Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act
Dec. 12, 2017 — Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2017
Dec. 7, 2017 — Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes
Dec. 1, 2017 — Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act
Nov. 2, 2017 — Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act
Oct. 24, 2017 — Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act
Sept. 14, 2017 — Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act
July 27, 2017 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes
July 20, 2017 — King Cove Road Land Exchange Act
July 19, 2017 — Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act
July 14, 2017 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
June 29, 2017 — Kate’s Law
June 23, 2017 — Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act
June 22, 2017 — Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act
June 21, 2017 — Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act
June 15, 2017 — Broader Options for Americans Act
June 7, 2017 — Anti-Border Corruption Reauthorization Act
May 19, 2017 — Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017
May 18, 2017 — Thin Blue Line Act
April 27, 2017 — Fannie and Freddie Open Records Act of 2017
April 26, 2017 — Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act
April 6, 2017 — Supporting America’s Innovators Act
April 5, 2017 — Self-Insurance Protection Act
April 4, 2017 — Encouraging Employee Ownership Act
March 22, 2017 — Small Business Health Fairness Act
March 22, 2017 — Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017
March 17, 2017 — To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire and retain physicians and other employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes
March 16, 2017 — VA Accountability First Act
March 2, 2017 — Regulatory Integrity Act
March 1, 2017 — OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act
March 1, 2017 — SCRUB Act
Feb. 14, 2017 — Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act
Jan. 12, 2017 — Commodity End-User Relief Act
Jan. 12, 2017 — SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Jan. 10, 2017 — Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act
Jan. 4, 2017 — Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2017
Dec. 21, 2018 — National Flood Insurance Program Extention Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Correct Enrollment to S. 3628
Dec. 21, 2018 — To redesignate Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge as the Nathaniel P. Reed Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment
Dec. 21, 2018 — 9/11 Memorial Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic and Empowerment Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Protecting Girls’ Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — 75th Anniversary of World War II Commemoration Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Space Frontier Act of 2019
Dec. 21, 2018 — Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make certain corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 4174
Dec. 21, 2018 — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — Federal Personal Property Management Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — GAO-IG Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 770 Ayrault Road in Fairport, New York, as the “Louise and Bob Slaughter Post Office”
Dec. 21, 2018 — Department of Transportation Reports Harmonization Act
Dec. 21, 2018 — To make technical corrections to provisions of law enacted by the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — To amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to provide flexibility with respect to the leaseback of certain Federal real property, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — To amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to ensure that the Public Buildings Reform Board has adequate time to carry out the responsibilities of the Board, and for other purposes
Dec. 21, 2018 — Designating room H-226 of the United States Capitol as the “Lincoln Room”
Dec. 20, 2018 — To reauthorize the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route, and for other purposes
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments
Dec. 20, 2018 — Stigler Act Amendments
Dec. 20, 2018 — Forever GI Bill Housing Payment Fulfillment Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the “Douglas Fournet Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic”
Dec. 20, 2018 — VA Website Accessibility Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Innovations in Mentoring, Training, and Apprenticeships
Dec. 20, 2018 — RBIC Advisers Relief Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Stephen Michael Gleason Congressional Gold Medal Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018
Dec. 20, 2018 — Taxpayer First Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Victims of Child Abuse Act Reauthorization Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Justice Against Corruption on K Street Act
Dec. 20, 2018 — Clean Up the Code Act of 2018
Dec. 20, 2018 — Ashanti Alert Act of 2018
Dec. 20, 2018 — Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2018
Dec. 20, 2018 — Waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
Nov. 27, 2018 — Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act of 2018
Nov. 27, 2018 — Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act of 2018
Nov. 13, 2018 — To rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman Lester Wolff National Wildlife Refuge
Sept. 28, 2018 — Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 6, with an amendment
Sept. 26, 2018 — Empowering Financial Institutions to Fight Human Trafficking Act
Sept. 26, 2018 — FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018
Sept. 26, 2018 — Recognizing that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of the United States citizens
On Agreeing to the Conference Report
Sept. 26, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes
Sept. 26, 2018 — FDR Historic Preservation Act
Sept. 26, 2018 — Providing for consideration for the conference report to accompany H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY ending September 30, 2019; and H.Res. 1071, recognizing allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of U.S. citizens
Sept. 25, 2018 — Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Business Act of 2018
Sept. 25, 2018 — Encouraging Small Business Innovators
Sept. 4, 2018 — Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program Authorization Act
July 26, 2018 — National Defense Authorization Act FY 2019
July 25, 2018 — VA Hospitals Establishing Leadership Performance Act
July 25, 2018 — The American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act
July 24, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 6199, the Restoring Access to Medication and Modernizing Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018; providing for proceedings during the period from July 27, 2018, through September 3, 2018
July 18, 2018 — Smith of Missouri Amendment No. 70
July 18, 2018 — Jody B. Hice of Georgia Amendment No. 69
July 18, 2018 — Gosar of Arizona Amendment No. 63
July 18, 2018 — Pearce of New Mexico Amendment No. 62
Failed by a margin of 3 votes.
July 18, 2018 — Lamborn of Colorado Amendment No. 49
July 18, 2018 — Grothman of Wisconsin Amendment No. 39, as Modified
July 18, 2018 — Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1
July 18, 2018 — To authorize the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes
July 18, 2018 — Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
On Motion to Instruct Conferees
July 18, 2018 — Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018
July 17, 2018 — Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act
July 17, 2018 — Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018
July 17, 2018 — JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018
July 16, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 511 East Walnut Street in Columbia, Missouri, as the “Spc. Sterling William Wyatt Post Office Building”.
July 16, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1075 North Tustin Street in Orange, California, as the “Specialist Trevor A. Win’E Post Office
July 12, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6237) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes
July 10, 2018 — Options Markets Stability Act
July 10, 2018 — Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act
June 27, 2018 — National Defense Authorization Act FY 2019
June 27, 2018 — Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 6157) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes, and providing for proceedings during the period from June 29, 2018, through July 9, 2018
June 26, 2018 — Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act
June 26, 2018 — Prevention of Private Information Dissemination Act of 2017
June 26, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; and the bill H.R. 2083, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act.
June 25, 2018 — Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2018
June 25, 2018 — Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act
June 20, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6) Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act;providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5797) IMD CARE Act;providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6082) Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act
June 15, 2018 — Thornberry of Texas Part A Amendment No. 4
June 13, 2018 — Improving the Federal Response to Families Impacted by Substance Use Disorder Act
June 13, 2018 — Assisting States’ Implementation of Plans of Safe Care Act
June 13, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2851) Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5735) THRIVE Act; and providing for consideration of (H.R. 5788) Securing the International Mail Against Opioids Act
June 12, 2018 — Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act
June 12, 2018 — Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Centers Act
June 8, 2018 — Takano of California Part B Amendment No. 16
June 7, 2018 — Lowenthal of California Part B Amendment No. 31
June 7, 2018 — Connolly of Virginia Part B Amendment No. 27
June 7, 2018 — Lee of California Part B Amendment No. 26
June 7, 2018 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part B Amendment No. 13
On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment
June 6, 2018 — Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018
June 5, 2018 — Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument Act
June 5, 2018 — Susquehanna National Heritage Area Act
June 5, 2018 — To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing the birthplace of James Weldon Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, as a unit of the National Park System
May 23, 2018 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 50
May 23, 2018 — Tenney of New York Amendment No. 19
May 23, 2018 — McKinley of West Virginia Amendment No. 13
May 23, 2018 — McGovern of Massachusetts Amendment No. 10
May 23, 2018 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 5
May 23, 2018 — Gabbard of Hawaii Amendment No. 3
May 23, 2018 — Nolan of Minnesota Amendment No. 2
May 23, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5515) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, and for providing for proceedings during the period from May 25, 2018, through June 4, 2018
May 22, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 5515, NDAA FY, 2019; providing for consideration of S. 204, Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017, and providing for consideration of S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
May 18, 2018 — Roskam of Illinois Amendment No. 28
May 18, 2018 — Russell of Oklahoma Amendment No. 17
May 17, 2018 — Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 16
May 17, 2018 — McClintock of California Amendment No. 8
May 16, 2018 — Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
May 15, 2018 — Expressing the sense of the United States House of Representatives that Congress and the President should empower the creation of police and community alliances designed to enhance and improve communication and collaboration between members of the law enforcment community and the public they serve
May 15, 2018 — To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide additional resources to State and local prosecutors, and for other purposes
May 15, 2018 — Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act
May 7, 2018 — Servicemember Family Burial Act
May 7, 2018 — Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act
April 26, 2018 — Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act
April 26, 2018 — Lipinski of Illinois Part A Amendment No. 78
April 26, 2018 — Rohrabacher of California Part A Amendment No. 60
April 25, 2018 — Music Modernization Act
April 24, 2018 — Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act of 2018
April 24, 2018 — Recognizing and supporting the efforts of the United Bid Committee to bring the 2026 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup competition to Canada, Mexico, and the United States
April 18, 2018 — Justice for Victims of IRS Scams and Identity Theft Act of 2018
April 18, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5444) Taxpayer First Act, and providing for consideration of the (H.R. 5445) 21st Century IRS Act
April 12, 2018 — Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States
April 10, 2018 — Combat Online Predators Act
April 10, 2018 — End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2018
March 22, 2018 — Strengthening Local Transportation Security Capabilities Act of 2018
March 22, 2018 — Strengthening Aviation Security Act of 2018
March 22, 2018 — Surface Transportation Security Improvement Act 2018
March 22, 2018 — Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018
March 19, 2018 — Kennedy--King National Commemorative Site Act
March 19, 2018 — To update the map of, and modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
March 15, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 4061, the Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2017; and providing for consideration of H.R. 4293, the Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017
March 14, 2018 — Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018
March 14, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 4545, the Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act; H.R. 1116, the TAILOR Act of 2017; and H.R. 4263, the Regulation At Improvement Act of 2017
March 13, 2018 — Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017
Feb. 27, 2018 — Mimi Walters of California Amendment No. 2
Feb. 27, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4296) to place requirements on operational risk capital requirements for banking organizations established by an appropriate Federal banking agency, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4607) the Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act
Feb. 6, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 1892) to amend title 4, United States Code, to provide for the flying of the flag at half-staff in the event of the death of a first responder in the line of duty
Feb. 6, 2018 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 772, the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2017; H.R. 1153, the Mortgage Choice Act of 2017; H.R. 4771, the Small Bank Holding Company Relief Act of 2018; and for other purposes
On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments with an Amendment
Jan. 30, 2018 — Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
Jan. 30, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to H.R. 695, the Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
Jan. 20, 2018 — Waiving a Requirement of Clause 6(A) of Rule XIII with Respect to Consideration of Certain Resolutions Reported from the Committee on Rules, and Providing for Consideration of Motions to Suspend the Rules
On Ordering a Call of the House
Dec. 13, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1638, the Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act; and providing for consideration of H.R. 4324, the Strengthening Oversight of Iran’s Access to Finance Act
Dec. 7, 2017 — Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act
Nov. 28, 2017 — Superior National Forest Land Exchange Act
Nov. 14, 2017 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
On Motion to Recommit with Instructions
Nov. 7, 2017 — Save Local Business Act
Nov. 2, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 849, Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act.
Oct. 24, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 4
Oct. 24, 2017 — Johnson of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 3
Oct. 5, 2017 — Yarmuth of Kentucky Substitute Amendment No. 4
Oct. 4, 2017 — Scott of Virginia Substitute Amendment No. 2
Oct. 4, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Substitute Amendment No. 1
Sept. 13, 2017 — Flores of Texas Amendment No. 124
Sept. 6, 2017 — Babin of Texas Part B Amendment No. 58
July 27, 2017 — Nadler of New York Part B Amendment No. 38
July 26, 2017 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 52
July 26, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3219) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes
July 20, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Part C Amendment No. 3
July 19, 2017 — Beyer of Virginia Part A Amendment No. 3
July 19, 2017 — Engel of New York Part B Amendment No. 1
July 18, 2017 — Tonko of New York Amendment No. 2
July 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to a enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail Satefy Commission
July 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Area Transit Regulation Compact
July 17, 2017 — Sergeant Joseph George Kusick VA Community Living Center
July 14, 2017 — Franks of Arizona Amendment No. 13
July 13, 2017 — Blumenauer of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 13
July 13, 2017 — Rogers of Alabama Part B Amendment No. 88
July 13, 2017 — Aguilar of California Part B Amendment No. 10
July 13, 2017 — Blumenauer of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 8
July 13, 2017 — Nadler of New York Part B Amendment No. 6
July 13, 2017 — Jayapal of Washington Part B Amendment No. 5
July 13, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Part B Amendment No. 4
June 23, 2017 — Davidson of Ohio Amendment No. 5
June 22, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2842) to provide for the conduct of demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of subsidized employment for TANF recipients, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules.
June 21, 2017 — Carbajal of California Part A Amendment No. 1
June 8, 2017 — Hollingsworth of Indiana Part B Amendment No. 2
June 7, 2017 — Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico Amendment No. 1
May 25, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 1
May 24, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1973, Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017; providing for consideration of HR 1761, Protecting Against Child Exploitation Act of 2017; providing for proceedings during the period from May 26, 2017, through June 5, 2017
May 19, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Amendment
May 18, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1039) to amend section 3606 of title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties.
May 3, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 244) to encourage effective, voluntary investments to recruit, employ, and retain men and women who have served in the United States military with annual Federal awards to employers recognizing such efforts, and for other purposes
May 2, 2017 — FEMA Accountability, Modernization and Transparency Act of 2017
May 1, 2017 — Follow the Rules Act
May 1, 2017 — Small Business Capital Formation Enhancement Act
May 1, 2017 — Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2017
April 27, 2017 — Johnson of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 2
April 27, 2017 — To repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled “Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform”
April 27, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1694, the Fannie and Freddie Open Records Act of 2017; providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules
April 26, 2017 — Deutch of Florida Amendment No. 1
April 26, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1695) to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide additional responsibilities for the Register of Copyrights, and for other purposes
April 25, 2017 — Aviation Employee Screening and Security Enhancement Act of 2017
April 25, 2017 — Relating to efforts to respond to the famine in South Sudan
April 5, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1219, Supporting America’s Innovators Act of 2017
April 4, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1343, the Encouraging Employee Ownership Act of 2017
April 4, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1304, the Self-Insurance Protection Act
April 3, 2017 — North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017
April 3, 2017 — Condemning North Korea’s development of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles, and for other purposes
March 22, 2017 — Securing our Agriculture and Food Act
March 21, 2017 — Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Technical Corrections Act of 2017
March 21, 2017 — Transparency in Technological Acquisitions Act of 2017
March 20, 2017 — DHS Acquisition Authorities Act of 2017
March 20, 2017 — DHS Multiyear Acquisition Strategy Act of 2017
March 20, 2017 — Reducing DHS Acquisition Cost Growth Act
March 17, 2017 — Hanabusa of Hawaii Part B Amendment No. 11
March 15, 2017 — To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to amend the Definite Plan Report for the Seedskadee Project to enable the use of the active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir
March 15, 2017 — Arbuckle Project Maintenance Complex and District Office Conveyance Act of 2017
March 8, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1301) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes
March 2, 2017 — Farenthold of Texas Part A Amendment No. 2
March 1, 2017 — Young of Iowa Part B Amendment No. 3
Feb. 28, 2017 — Plaskett of Virgin Islands Amendment No. 4
Jan. 30, 2017 — Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2017
Jan. 30, 2017 — To remove the sunset provision of section 203 of Public Law 105-384 and for other purposes
Jan. 13, 2017 — Yarmuth of Kentucky Amendment No. 1
Jan. 5, 2017 — Objecting to United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 as an obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peace, and for other purposes
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Lou Barletta & Billy Long
Compare the voting records of Lou Barletta and Billy Long in 2017-18.
Lou Barletta
Represented Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional District. This is his 4th term in the House.
Billy Long
Represented Missouri's 7th Congressional District. This is his 4th term in the House.
Lou Barletta and Billy Long are from the same party and agreed on 95 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 977 votes in the 115th Congress, they disagreed on 46 votes, including 5 major votes.
Feb. 15, 2018 — ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017
Sept. 8, 2017 — Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development Act
June 28, 2018 — Courtney of Connecticut Amendment No. 29
Sept. 13, 2017 — Lowey of New York Amendment No. 161
Sept. 13, 2017 — Clark of Massachusetts Amendment No. 154
Sept. 8, 2017 — Palmer of Alabama Amendment No. 56
Sept. 7, 2017 — Austin Scott of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 92
Sept. 7, 2017 — King of Iowa Part B Amendment No. 80, as modified
Sept. 6, 2017 — King of Iowa Part B Amendment No. 51
July 26, 2017 — King of Iowa Amendment No. 23
July 13, 2017 — Gosar of Arizona Amendment No. 5
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Don Bacon & Louise M. Slaughter
Compare the voting records of Don Bacon and Louise M. Slaughter in 2017-18.
Don Bacon
Represented Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
Louise M. Slaughter
Represented New York's 25th Congressional District. This is her 16th term in the House.
Don Bacon and Louise M. Slaughter are from different parties and disagreed on 76 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always disagree. Out of 707 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 167 votes, including 17 major votes.
Feb. 13, 2018 — To extend the Generalized System of Preferences and to make technical changes to the competitive need limitations provision of the program
Feb. 13, 2018 — Lexington VA Health Care System
Jan. 11, 2018 — Counter Terrorist Network Act
Dec. 21, 2017 — No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act
Dec. 20, 2017 — United States and Israel Space Cooperation Act
Dec. 11, 2017 — Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2017
Dec. 11, 2017 — Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2017
Dec. 5, 2017 — Stopping Abusive Female Exploitation Act of 2017
Nov. 30, 2017 — Hastings of Florida Amendment No. 1
Nov. 15, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 520 Carter Street in Fairview, Illinois, as the “Sgt. Douglas J. Riney Post Office”
Oct. 24, 2017 — Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act
Oct. 24, 2017 — International Narcotics Trafficking Emergency Response by Detecting Incoming Contraband with Technology Act
Oct. 23, 2017 — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards Act
Oct. 23, 2017 — C-TPAT Reauthorization Act
Oct. 2, 2017 — Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park Redesignation Act
Oct. 2, 2017 — Udall Park Land Exchange Completion Act
Sept. 12, 2017 — Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act
Sept. 7, 2017 — Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico Amendment No. 31
Sept. 6, 2017 — McClintock of California Part B Amendment No. 25
July 26, 2017 — Esty of Connecticut Amendment No. 44
July 13, 2017 — Conaway of Texas Part B Amendment No. 2
June 26, 2017 — Active Duty Voluntary Acquisition of Necessary Credentials for Employment (ADVANCE) Act
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June 6, 2017 — Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Manchester, United Kingdom, on May 22, 2017, expressing heartfelt condolences, and reaffirming unwavering support for the special relationship between our peoples and nations in the wake of these attacks
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May 22, 2017 — Strengthening Children’s Safety Act of 2017
May 22, 2017 — Global Child Protection Act of 2017
Feb. 13, 2017 — BRAVE Act
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Jan. 9, 2017 — Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017
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Shooting Times & Country Magazine
21st December 2016 : Page 1
In this issue of Shooting Times & Country Magazine : Since its launch in 1882, Shooting Times & Country Magazine has been at the forefront of the shooting scene. The magazine is the clear first choice for shooting sportsmen, with editorial covering all disciplines, including gameshooting, rough shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling and deer stalking. Additionally the magazine has a strong focus on the training and use of gundogs in the field and, because it is a weekly publication, the magazine keeps readers firmly up-to-date with the latest news in their world. Shooting Times & Country Magazine's involvement in its community includes attendance at many country fairs and acting as a voice within the countryside movement.
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Personal Branding, Social Media & Storytelling DIYDays NYC - April 3, 2010, The New School Michael Margolis - Founder, Get Storied (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 1 1
REAL YOU (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 2 2
Twitterati: @getstoried #diydays (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 3 3
AGENDA > purpose > point of view > wayfinding > empathy (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 4 4
I love questions. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 5 5
Halo, I’m Michael Margolis I advise biz, npos, and creatives on how to get others to believe in their story. ‣ Virtual CMO - re-branding/change ‣ Believe Me - Story Manifesto ‣ Story University - e-courses ‣ The New Storytellers - podcast ‣ GetStoried.com - blog/watering well (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 6 6
I’ve often felt misunderstood. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 7 7
My Dad Born/raised in bush of Zimbabwe. Trained as scientist engineer, inventor w/ 30+ patents. Painter at age 65 (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 8 8
My Mom Assemblage artist and painter Educator/Teacher Designed for children’s museums, toys, playgrounds (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 9 9
Ideas are the easy part. Getting others to believe in your ideas is a totally different story. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 10 10
Visionaries. Innovators. Entrepreneurs. ‣How do you translate something new and different into mainstream acceptance? ‣How do you get others to believe, see, and care about the same things you do? (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 11 11
PURPOSE (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 12 12
Everybody is a storyteller. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 13 13
(c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 14 14
how do you feel about social media? (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 15 15
newEGOmindset (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 17 17
We are taught the goal is domination “I’m going to rule this town” (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 18 18
You Can’t Own Your Market. But You Can Own Your Story. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 19 19
You better figure out who you are “I’ve got something special to share” (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 20 20
Believe in yourself. and stop trying to convince others. - de la vega (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 21 21
I am somebody. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 22 22
EXERCISE Find a partner and tell a story about your creative journey...That explains why...you do what you do. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 23 23
Everybody needs a backstory. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 24 24
Your Origins Define You Consider the circumstances for how you gained your powers. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 25 25
“I had to know and understand my own story before I could listen to and help other people with theirs.” - Barack Obama (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 27 27
POINT OF VIEW (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 28 28
who’s one of your favorite bloggers? why? (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 29 29
N (POV) narrative point of view (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 30 30
Scott Stratten, Un-Marketing (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 31 31
Gary Vaynerchuck, Wine Library (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 32 32
Julia Roy, TweetWeek (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 33 33
Narrative (Point of View) Character - something to remember Passion - focus on what u care about Opinion - say what you really think Authentic - let ur geek/freak out Familiar - talk to me like we’re BFFs (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 35 35
WAYFINDING (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 36 36
*$@#!? (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 37 37
Bad news? There is no map. Good news? You are the mapmaker. - Shoshana Zuboff (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 38 38
Choosing the road less travelled... (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 39 39
What do you see? (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 40 40
Map Your World: Social Media Social bookmarking - cool stuff Blogging - journaling ideas/concepts Life-streaming - what’s interesting Creating media - consumable Gathering your tribe - community (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 41 41
< HOW to tell the story > Having a story that’s WORTH telling (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 42 42
Information wants to be free. - Stewart Brand (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 43 43
Published Manifesto in 90 Days www.believemethebook.com reframed convo new language beacon 4 my tribe (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 44 44
EMPATHY (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 45 45
As a storyteller, you are forever at the mercy of your audience. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 46 46
How Does it Feel to be Them? Imagine you woke tomorrow as Tiger Woods or the CEO of Toyota. It’s easy to vilify or judge them for their missteps. We project all sorts of assumptions onto their story. We quickly forget they are human beings. Can you empathize with their situation? Imagine if your mistakes were being dissected and discussed by millions of people. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 48 48
What’s The Goal? Purpose/ Audience Motivations Interests Your Story = Their Story (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 49 49
Let people see or find themselves thru your story. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 50 50
Brand Story Engagement How Audiences Locate Themselves in Your Story 1 2 3 Emotional Meaningful Pride of capital experiences belonging MOTIVATION PLATFORM OWNERSHIP !!Mission !! Memorable acts !! Self-identification !! Needs/interests !! Symbolic celebration !! Co-creation !! Dreams/aspirations !! Social connection !! Status/recognition (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 51 51
The power of your story grows exponentially as more and more people accept your story as their truth. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 52 52
Possibility Status Quo (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 53 53
The bigger the story, the more room under the tent for people to locate themselves inside. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 54 54
Good stories socialize your truth into reality. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 55 55
RE-CAP > purpose > point of view > wayfinding > empathy (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 56 56
Next E-Course @Story U } Personal Branding Starts Social Media May 20 Storytelling 12 Week Virtual Bootcamp Interactive, Hands-on, Peer Support www.storyuniversity.net (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 57 57
Interview Dialogue Podcast Series Every Other Tues 1pm EST www.thenewstorytellers.com (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 58 58
Storytelling Manifesto 15 Storytelling Axioms Reframes Persuasion New Mindset/Language } Signed copies available for purchase Digital version as free download www.believemethebook.com (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 59 59
Friends, Interns, Collaborators: twitter - @getstoried michael@getstoried.com (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 60 60
EVALS love * > hate (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 61 61
Storytelling is like fortune-telling. The act of choosing a certain story determines probability of future outcomes. (c) 2009 Michael Margolis www.getstoried.com 62 62
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Craneware’s Executive Leadership
Keith Neilson
Chief Executive Officer and member of PLC Board
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Keith ensures Craneware’s values and strategic vision are applied consistently throughout the business to deliver superior performance.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Heriot-Watt University, Keith worked in international management, providing sales, marketing, and technical consulting services.
Since its launch in 1999, Craneware has been awarded numerous awards for international achievement, business growth strategy, and innovation under Keith’s leadership. In 2003, Keith was named “Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2003” and was a finalist in the 2004 “World Young Business Achiever Award”, winning the Award of Excellence in the Business Strategy category. He received the “U.K. Software & Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award” from Ernst & Young in 2008 and was the Insider Elite “Young Business Leader of the Year” in 2009.
Keith is an active member of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO), a syndicate member and Partner in Par Equity LLP, a board member of Code Clan, the Scottish Digital Skills Academy and the Scottish North American Business Council (SNABC). Keith is also proud Patron of the Princes Trust and a Trustee of the Polar Academy, both charitable organizations that work for the benefit of young people.
Chief Financial Officer and member of PLC Board
As Chief Financial Officer, Craig directs Craneware’s financial operations in both the United Kingdom and United States, drawing upon his significant experience in senior financial roles with private and public technology companies, including those with a multinational presence. His forward thinking and attention to compliance and financial analysis provide the foundation for sound strategic decisions.
Prior to Craneware, Craig was group director of finance and company secretary at Intec Telecom Systems plc. Earlier, he served as corporate development manager at London Bridge Software plc. During his time there, he also held the role of CFO for Phoenix International, a previously NASDAQ-traded software company, following its acquisition by London Bridge. Earlier in his career, Craig worked for Deloitte in both the United Kingdom and United States. Craig has a degree in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Sheffield. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Derek Paterson
As the Chief Information Officer, Derek links technology to Craneware strategy, developing new capabilities and services, which translate into success for Craneware and its customers.
Derek joined Craneware shortly after it was founded and built the main production system used by the company for orders, product delivery, and installation tracking, and created and managed its support department – consistently recognized by KLAS for excellence. Derek also authored the initial version of Craneware’s first Web-based reference tool, Online Reference Toolkit®, and led design of its Pharmacy ChargeLink® and Supplies ChargeLink® products.
Prior to joining Craneware, Derek worked in local government within the United Kingdom, including serving as development officer (IT) for the finance department of the City of Edinburgh Council. In this capacity, he developed early intranet applications as well as database applications and financial reporting systems that resulted in significant cost savings.
As Chief Technology Officer, Marty guides the development and delivery of Craneware’s strategic technology roadmap.
With 20 years of experience in product and application development, Marty maintains the health of Craneware’s product delivery culture. Marty’s focus is on building, managing, and leading teams defining and delivering enterprise and customer facing products using cutting-edge technologies.
Prior to joining Craneware, he served as VP of Research and Development at McKesson Health Solutions, where he was responsible for product development across multiple business units spanning a broad spectrum of healthcare payors and providers.
Mark Montgomery
As Chief Marketing Officer, Mark provides strategic and operational leadership for corporate development, data integrity and marketing that drive to Craneware’s long-term goals. A critical contributor to the mission, vision, and strategy of Craneware, helping the organization find and meet the needs of our customers.
Mark received a bachelor’s degree in broadcast communications from Tennessee Temple University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Georgia.
Prior to joining Craneware, Mark led several teams for Experian Healthcare’s client services organization, encompassing reimbursement, client support and central operations. Mark joined Experian in 2011 with the acquisition of Medical Present Value, Inc. (MPV). Additionally, Mark spent eight years with McKesson and 17 years with Lanier Healthcare in a variety of strategic sales, marketing and operations roles.
Seth Droe
Executive Vice President, Sales
As Executive Vice President Sales, Seth expertly leads the Sales team, bringing to market Craneware’s superior value cycle suite of solutions and services.
With more than 20 years of healthcare experience across North America serving in a variety of sales leadership roles with firms ranging from Fortune 15 companies to start up organizations, Seth brings in-depth skill in consultative, strategic, and complex sales processes with a history of attracting and retaining talent to develop highly effective selling teams.
Aiding and advising top healthcare organizations in improving their business performance for sustainable long-term success, Seth’s considered knowledge of healthcare business and information technology solutions is respected for providing valuable insights that help healthcare organizations to mitigate risk and improve profitability.
Karen Bowden
Executive Vice President, Customer Management
As an Executive Vice President with a true passion for, and commitment to, customer success, Karen leads the Customer Management organization to design, execute upon, and improve Craneware customer experience at all times.
During her 25 years of hospital administrative experience, Bowden managed fiscal and clinical operations in large academic teaching facilities. Prior to joining Craneware, Karen founded Revenue Enhancement Strategies, a consulting firm dedicated to finding untapped revenue in hospitals. Karen developed and implemented denial management systems to manage audits and appeals using her significant knowledge of payor systems, which resulted in decreased claim denials and increased net revenue.
Karen graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Health Records Administration and is an active member of the HFMA.
Issy Urquhart
As Craneware’s Chief People Officer, Issy drives sustainable growth and facilitates change through a focus on the people at Craneware, building a stronger, more resilient company. Issy is responsible for delivering the human resources and organization development strategies, as well as overseeing facilities management at Craneware.
Issy brings 25-plus years of strategic and operational global HR experience gained across a number of sectors including Technology, BPO, mature FMCG and Financial Services. Key strengths are her breadth and depth of global HR expertise across all facets of HR and OD, especially talent development and acquisition, M&A, change management and global reward strategies.
Most notably prior to joining Craneware Issy worked at CommScope Inc, Wolfson Microelectronics plc and Convergys Corporation in executive HR roles, where alongside delivering the HR agenda, she lead wide-scale change programs to deliver acquisitions, changes in business strategies, and operating models.
As business partner, counselor, and advisor, Eric plays a critical role in ensuring Craneware’s compliance and governance capabilities. In support of Craneware’s reputation as a trusted partner to hundreds of U.S. hospitals, Eric’s focus is emerging legal issues involving technology, the protection of patient rights, and regulatory compliance.
Eric joined as Craneware’s Chief Legal Officer in October 2017 after serving as the Company’s external general counsel for nine years. Eric’s 20-year legal career is notable for trial work as legal counsel and advisor to companies ranging in size from small technology start-ups to large, publicly-traded companies across numerous sectors, including energy, telecom, healthcare, insurance, and financial services. In support of Craneware’s reputation as a trusted partner to hundreds of U.S. hospitals, Eric’s focus is emerging legal issues involving technology, the protection of patient rights, and regulatory compliance.
Eric was a science major at Harvard before studying law at the University of Miami and the University of Missouri.
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Quiz: Can You Pass This Hard General Knowledge Quiz If We Give You Hints?
Can You Pass This Hard General Knowledge Quiz If We Give You Hints?
By: Bambi Turner
Image: Yuhan Liao/Moment/Getty Images
Did you ace the SATs without even studying? Have you given up watching "Jeopardy!" because the questions are too easy? Do your friends fight over who gets you on your team at trivia night? If so, you might have the knowledge and recall necessary to score high on this super tough trivia quiz.
In every group of friends, there's a fact collector ... someone who has a thirst for information and the astounding ability to store these facts until they're needed -- recalling them instantly when the occasion calls for it.
Sure, anyone can be an expert on a single subject. You likely know someone who knows everything about sports and can spout of stats about any player in any major league. Others may excel at something like math or science, multiplying three-digit numbers in their head, or reading scientific journals for fun.
But if you want to ace this quiz, you need more than expertise in a single subject; it takes a broad knowledge of things like history, science, geography, pop culture and some of the most famous and iconic figures of the past and present.
Are you confident you've got what it takes? Put on your thinking cap and take our quiz to find out!
You know George Washington was the first U.S. president, but can you name his VP?
This is a good article. Follow the link for more information.Gilbert Stuart/http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/pictures/JohnAdams.jpg via Wiki Commons
James Monroe
John Adams served as the vice president under Washington from 1789 to 1797. He then went on to serve two terms as president. Thomas Jefferson was Adams' VP, and later went on to become the Commander in Chief himself.
Which invention is Philo Farnsworth associated with?
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When he was just a teen in the 1920s, Philo Farnsworth invented the first electric television. Oddly enough, he only ever made one TV appearance himself -- on a 1957 episode of "I've Got a Secret."
"Who shot JR?" was a question everyone was asking in the '80s about this classic television series?
CBS via youtube
"Dallas"
"MASH"
"Gunsmoke"
"Miami Vice"
The third season finale of "Dallas" ended with J.R. being shot by a mysterious perpetrator. Viewers spent months waiting to find out who pulled the trigger. It was revealed in the season four premiere -- the most-watched TV show in history to that date -- that it was Kristin whodunit.
The Pythagorean Theorem is used with this shape.
AmericanXplorer13 (talk) via Wiki Commons
Though it probably dates back father than the work of Pythagoras, the Pythagorean Theorem forms the basis for modern geometry. It states that the hypotenuse squared of any right triangle is equal to the sum of the other two sides squared.
What is the first name of the mysterious title character in "The Great Gatsby?"
Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, A&E Television Networks via youtube
Often called the Great American Novel, Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" tells the story of a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby who can afford to buy anything he wants -- except for the love of Daisy. The story is a caution on living in excess, and a commentary to the culture of the Roaring Twenties.
First lady Melania Trump hails from this European nation.
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Mrs. Trump was born in Solvenia. The European country, whose capital is Ljubljana, is almost entirely landlocked, except for a tiny portion that borders the Adriatic Sea.
Everyone loves Lucy, but do you remember the name of her neighbor and BFF on the classic '50s show?
Lucille Ball may have had top billing on '50s classic "I Love Lucy," but the show wouldn't have been the same without her neighbor and best friend Ethel Mertz. Vivian Vance played Ethel, who often found herself in hot water thanks to Lucy's harebrained schemes.
What is the symbol for silver on the periodic table?
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Silver is represented by the symbol Ag on the periodic table. Its shiny cousin, gold, uses the symbol Au.
You know about Neil and Buzz, but who was the third man on the Apollo 11 mission?
Glenn Research Center via Wiki Commons
Alan Bean
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin get a lot of credit for being the first men to walk on the moon, but they didn't pull off that 1969 moon landing alone. Another astronaut, Michael Collins, was also part of that Apollo 11 mission.
Which of these planets is furthest from the sun?
NASA via Wiki Commons
You'll probably have to dig deep in your memory for this one, but many elementary school kids memorize the order of the planets like this -- My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos, or Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune -- with Neptune being the farthest from the sun.
How many ounces are in a pound?
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Coffee? Chocolate? Cheese? Being able to translate from ounces to pounds is helpful not only when shopping for food favs, but also for tracking calories and preparing recipes. No matter which units you're dealing with, as long as you remember that a pound is equal to 16 ounces, you'll be good to go.
Which of these men is not a Beatle?
Larry Rogers via Wiki Commons
John, Paul, George and Ringo took over the world as The Beatles in the early '60s. Mick Jagger made quite a splash of his own, as part of The Rolling Stones.
What should you do if you run into any dihydrogen monoxide?
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Call the police.
Launch a protest.
Put on a hazmat suit.
In the '90s, a student putting together a science fair project came up with the idea to warn people about dihydrogen monoxide. This compound of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom got people riled up -- and continues to do so in online memes -- but it's really something safe and familiar -- water.
Which war ended with the Treaty of Versailles?
Garitan via Wiki Commons
World War I saw millions of lives lost around the world between 1914 and 1918. The bloodshed officially ended in 1919, with the signing of The Treaty of Versailles.
What is the longest river in the world?
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At 4,365 miles long, the Amazon River in South America is the longest river in the world. It's followed by the Nile in Africa at 4,258. The mighty Mississippi in the U.S. doesn't even crack the top 3, at 3,902 miles.
Which of these bridges opened first?
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge was the earliest of these famous bridges, opening in 1883. The Tower Bridge was next in 1894, while the Golden Gate and Sydney Harbor bridges both opened in the 1930s.
Which novel allowed readers to follow along on the epic relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine?
ITV via youtube
"Wuthering Heights"
"The Grapes of Wrath"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Jane Eyre"
Emily Bronte completed just one book in her short life. The Gothic classic "Wuthering Heights," released in 1847, tells the story of the tortured Heathcliff and his love Catherine as they lived on the English moors.
What is the Enola Gay?
US Army via Wiki Commons
World War II saw the debut of horrific nuclear bombs, which the U.S. dropped on cities in Japan. The first of these was carried to Hiroshima in 1945 by pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets, aboard his plane the Enola Gay.
Which of these countries is NOT a part of Great Britain?
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Great Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales. The UK consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. the Republic of Ireland is not part of either one.
Where is Graceland located?
Bjoertvedt via Wiki Commons
Graceland is a mansion made famous by its hip-swiveling owner. Purchased by Elvis Presley in 1957, it's also where he died 20 years later.
What year was the Great Pyramid of Giza completed?
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2,560 BC
560 BC
The oldest known Egyptian pyramids are at Saqqara, and dated back to around 2,630 BC. The Great Pyramid of Giza is around 70 years younger, and was completed around 2,560 BC.
The biggest known animal on Earth is...
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Leatherback Turtle
The biggest animal on the planet is the blue whale. It can be as long as 105 feet and weigh 200 tons. Just the tongue on this creature weighs about as much as an elephant, while its heart weighs as much as a car.
What is Alexander Fleming's claim to fame?
Calibuon at English Wikibooks via Wiki Commons
Measles vaccine
Swimming the English Channel
A century ago, a simple infection could kill you because doctors had no effective way to treat it. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the power of penicillin, earning him the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Which state's official nickname is "The Last Frontier?"
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Alaska is often called "The Land of the Midnight Sun," though its official nickname is "The Last Frontier." The 49th state -- and the largest by total area -- joined the union in 1959.
Which of these elements is most common in the Earth's crust?
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The Earth's crust is made up of about 48 percent oxygen and 28 percent silicon. The rest is a mix of aluminum, iron, calcium, sodium and other elements.
Which team won the very first Super Bowl?
Gabriel Cervantes via Wiki Commons
Green Bay not only won the first Super Bowl in 1967 by defeating the Chiefs -- they also won the second the next year by beating the Oakland Raiders. Their streak ended the next year when the Jets played their way to victory against the Colts.
What percentage of the body's bones are in the hands and feet?
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About half
An adult human has 206 bones. Each foot includes 26 bones, while each hand includes 27. That means that around half of all of your bones are in your hands or feet!
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In the 18th century, American colonists engaged in a battle for independence with Great Britain. This American Revolution officially ended on September 3, 1783 with the Treaty of Paris.
If you define Australia as a continent, this becomes the largest island on Earth.
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While Australia is larger than Greenland, it's typically defined as a continent, making Greenland the world's largest island. It's followed by New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar and Canada's Baffin Island.
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He may have had a hit song called "Like a Rolling Stone," but Dylan was never part of The Rolling Stones. In the '10s, the band's touring members include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts.
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Andrew Jackson was the first Commander in Chief of those listed, serving from 1829 to 1837. Then came Lincoln, Roosevelt and Hoover.
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Which city is capital of the Bahamas?
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What are those figures on Easter Island called?
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Rapai
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Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in this state.
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The American Civil War pitted north against south in a bloody battle that lasted from 1861 to 1865. The horror ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Virginia's Appomattox Court House.
Which island nation is singer Rihanna from?
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Which of these states is NOT part of the Four Corners Monument?
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There is only one spot in the entire U.S. where four states share a border. This occurs where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet in the southwest at the Four Corners National Monument.
Which river carved out the Grand Canyon?
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Mehwish Hayat’s dance numbers have become very popular over the years not just because of her item number in Na Maloom Afraad but also because all the major award shows are incomplete without Mehwish Hayat’s dance performance. While talking about her passion for dance in the show “Tonite With HSY” Mehwish Hayat said that she did not get a formal dance training from anywhere because there aren’t any dance schools in Pakistan and for this reason she really wants to open a dance school one day.
“I want people to dance because dance is the best way of expressing your emotions. There are people who hold back and I want them to dance and experience this amazing feeling you feel when you dance,” said Mehwish Hayat while talking to HSY. Mehwish also said that she is always very confident before a dance performance. The applaud from the audience is the driving force during a dance performance for Mehwish.
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Floating p l in forex trading
We dont like to exaggerate. So you see, the forex market is definitely huge, but not as huge as the others would like you to believe. Aside from providing a venue for the buying, selling, exchanging and speculation of currencies, the forex market also enables currency conversion for international trade settlements and investments. It is, by far, the largest financial market in the world and is comprised of a global network of financial centers that transact 24 hours a day, closing only on the weekends. United Arab Emirates dirham.7898, sources: ABS; RBA While the AUD/USD and the Australian dollar TWI often move together, they have diverged at times (Graph 1). Subsequently, the collapse in international trade in late 2008 also saw turnover in the spot market fall sharply. Quite simply, its the global market that allows the exchange of one currency for another. The current composition of the TWI is shown in Table.
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This is often a better measure of general trends in the exchange rate than any one bilateral exchange rate, such as that against the US dollar, since the Australian dollar could be rising against the US dollar but falling against other currencies. When the Reserve Bank intervenes in the foreign exchange market, it creates demand or supply for the Australian dollar by buying or selling Australian dollars against another currency. Edwards K and M Plumb (2009 US Economic Data and the Australian Dollar, RBA Bulletin, July. When you do this, youve essentially participated in the forex market! This study supported the description of Reserve Bank intervention as leaning against the wind that is, acting to slow or correct excessive trends in the exchange rate. Variables other than the terms of trade have sometimes helped to explain movements in the Australian dollar exchange rate. It may not always be appropriate to measure the success or failure of interventions using a simple metric such as the daily exchange rate movement, nor may it be feasible to develop alternatives. Simon J (2001 The Decline in Australian Output Volatility RBA Research Discussion Paper RDP2001-01. Historically, the Reserve Bank has generally chosen to intervene by transacting in the foreign exchange market in its own name, in order to inform participants of its presence in the market. Notwithstanding the improved dataset, the results of this paper mainly demonstrated the difficulties in drawing strong conclusions about the effectiveness of interventions from time series analysis, owing to some inherent limitations in particular, problems (i) and (ii) above. This determines how much of country A's currency country B can buy, and vice versa. While the Reserve Bank could seek to offset these effects (through a process called sterilisation in practice, this was often difficult to achieve. It is inherently difficult to quantify the effect of intervention transactions on the exchange rate for at least three key reasons: Interventions usually take place when the exchange rate is moving in the opposite direction to the expected effect.
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If we used a monster to represent the nyse, it would look like this. The exchange rate is the price of one currency expressed in terms of another currency. While between 2009 and early 2011, foreign exchange turnover in the Australian market recovered in line with global markets, it dipped again in late 2011 amid heightened market uncertainty related to the European sovereign debt crisis. In summary, the floating exchange rate regime that has been in place since 1983 is widely accepted as having been beneficial for Australia. More generally, the exchange rate serves to buffer the economy from external shocks, such that monetary policy can be directed towards achieving domestic price stability and growth. Gruen D and G Stevens (2000 The Australian Economy in the 1990s, in D Gruen and S Shrestha (ed Australian Macroeconomic Performance and Policies in the 1990s, Proceedings of a Conference, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, pp 172. Accordingly, on each of these occasions, the Reserve Bank's interventions were designed to improve liquidity in the market and thereby limit disruptive price adjustments. D'Arcy P and E Poole (2010 Interpreting Market Responses to Economic Data, RBA Bulletin, September. Graph 2 Related Reading Becker C and M Davies (2002 Developments in the Trade-Weighted Index, RBA Bulletin October, pp 16. The extent of this influence has changed since the float, and since the introduction of inflation targeting. This weakening has implications for the robustness of models that seek to estimate a fair value for the Australian dollar (discussed below).
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The forex market is open 24 hours a day and 5 days a week, only closing down during the weekend. Free floating currencies are those whose relative value is determined by free market forces, such as supply / demand relationships. This was reflected in strong capital inflows to the Australian public sector in 20, which are likely to have provided some support to the Australian dollar (though these inflows were somewhat offset by outflows from the private sector over this period, Graph 7). Take for example, a sharp rise in the terms of trade (the ratio of export prices to import prices as experienced in Australia's recent mining boom. In these instances, a GDP-weighted index may be considered preferable. Newman V, C Potter and M Wright (2011 Foreign Exchange Market Intervention, RBA Bulletin, December. Under inflation targeting, monetary policy no longer targets any particular level of the exchange rate. However, compared with some other currencies, efforts to model the Australian dollar exchange rate in the post-float era have been relatively successful in explaining medium-term movements in the currency, reflecting its floating p l in forex trading strong correlation with the terms of trade. And I have ten dollars!
Since mid 2009, relatively floating p l in forex trading high real interest rates in Australia compared with the major economies are again likely to have influenced the Australian dollar, although that effect has waned in recent years. This was not sustainable and the government had the choice of either tightening capital controls or floating the exchange rate. However, the exchange rate has not served as a target or an instrument of monetary policy in Australia since the 1980s instead, it is best viewed as part of the transmission mechanism for monetary policy. Accordingly, the focus of intervention evolved towards responding to episodes where the exchange rate was judged to have overshot the level implied by economic fundamentals and/or when speculative forces appeared to have been dominating the market. Benefits of Using the Forex Market. Manalo J, D Perera and D Rees (2014 Exchange Rate Movements and the Australian Economy, RBA Research Discussion Paper RDP2014-11. The largest stock market in the world, the.
There are no clearing houses and no central bodies that oversee the forex market. How Does the Reserve Bank Intervene in the Foreign Exchange Market? So the nyse sounds big, its loud and likes to make a lot of noise. Related Reading Ballantyne A, J Hambur, I Roberts and M Wright (2014 Financial Reform in Australia and China, RBA Research Discussion Paper 2014-10. This increases the liquidity available in currency markets, which adds to its appeal as the largest asset class available to investors. The floating exchange rate has provided a buffer against external shocks particularly shifts in the terms of trade allowing the economy to absorb them without generating the large inflationary or deflationary pressures that tended to result under the previous fixed exchange rate regimes. The size of the market indicates that the exchange rate is being determined in a liquid, active and competitive marketplace. In the first 15 years of the floating exchange rate, the relationship was on average one-for-one, but it has since weakened. In particular, exchange rate pass-through has become more protracted in aggregate, but is faster and larger for manufactured goods, which are often imported. At times, real interest rate differentials have had an important role; at other times, the stock of foreign liabilities, the current account balance or economic growth differentials have been found to have an influence. Instead, under the floating exchange rate regime, movements in the exchange rate have a direct influence on inflation through changes in the price of tradable goods and services a process commonly referred to as exchange rate pass-through. Graph 10 Related Reading Garner M, A Nitschke and D Xu (2016 Developments in Foreign Exchange and OTC Derivatives Markets, RBA Bulletin, December. Foreign exchange markets are made up of banks, forex dealers, commercial companies, central banks, investment management firms, hedge funds, retail forex dealers and investors.
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Youve exchanged one currency for another. For example, a rise in the terms of trade as a result of an increase in the prices of commodities (which are an important component of Australia's exports) provides an expansionary impulse to the economy through an increase in income. In particular, while the terms of trade have displayed a strong correlation with the exchange rate in the post-float era, there is evidence to suggest that this relationship has weakened over the past 15 years (as discussed above). However, the strength of the relationship between the Australian dollar and the terms of trade has varied over time (Graph 6). South Korean won.3606, united Kingdom pound sterling.3203, new Zealand dollar.2085, indian rupee.0454, singapore dollar.8829, thai baht.4398, hong Kong dollar.084. Thats trillion with.
Related floating p l in forex trading Reading Andrew R, and J Broadbent (1994 Reserve Bank operations in the foreign exchange market: effectiveness and profitability, RBA Research Discussion Paper No 9406. That is, in the lead-up to the float, there were very large capital inflows coming into Australia from speculators betting on an appreciation of the Australian dollar. Changes in the size of the relative risk premium can influence the relative demand for Australian dollar assets and therefore also have a direct effect on the exchange rate. The second (Becker and Sinclair, 2004 and Andrew and Broadbent, 1994) used the profits test to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention, as advocated by Friedman (1953). Trading, forex Currencies, what is the Foreign Exchange Market? We just keepin it real.
As one major forex hub closes, another hub in a different part of the world remains open for business. Lets take a moment to put this into perspective using monsters. While discretionary changes were made to the value of the Australian dollar under previous floating p l in forex trading regimes in response to developing pressures, it was extremely difficult to calibrate the adjustments to provide an effective buffer against the shocks. Global trade in the Australian dollar averaged around US350 billion per day in April 2016 (the date of the most recent global survey making it the fifth most traded currency in the world, and the AUD/USD the fourth most traded currency pair (Graph 10). Has Intervention Been Effective? If the central bank is successful in buying low and selling high, its intervention should yield a profit.
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Importantly, it has also enabled the Reserve Bank to set monetary policy that is best suited to domestic conditions (rather than needing to meet a certain target level for the exchange rate). However, exchange rate flexibility, together with a number of other economic reforms including in product and labour markets as well as reforms to the policy frameworks for both fiscal and monetary policy has likely contributed to a decline in output volatility over this period. The combination of a flexible exchange rate and independent monetary policy led to a high exchange rate and high interest rates relative to the rest of the world during that period, both of which played an important role in preserving overall macroeconomic stability. This also greatly enhances liquidity in all other financial markets, which is key to overall stability. While cross-country productivity differentials may have explained part of Australia's real floating p l in forex trading exchange rate depreciation in the mid to late 1980s, they are less able to explain the appreciation of the Australian dollar over the past decade.
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Nightingale S, C Ossolinski and A Zurawski (2010 Activity in Global Foreign Exchange Markets, RBA Bulletin, December. (What a bunch of slackers!). Im going to be rich! The theory of purchasing power parity (PPP) suggests that the exchange rate between two countries will adjust to ensure that purchasing power is equalised in both countries. Graph 1 There are many alternative exchange rate indices, which may be relevant for different purposes. In terms of trading volume it is, by far, the largest financial market in the world. These difficulties have led to the development of a number of different methods of attempting to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention, three of which have been employed by Reserve Bank staff in recent years to evaluate the effectiveness of Reserve Bank intervention.
Becker C and M Sinclair (2004 Profitability of Reserve Bank Foreign Exchange Operations: Twenty Years After The Float, RBA Research Discussion Paper RDP2004-06. Graph 7 Empirical models of the exchange rate While it is widely accepted that attempts to forecast exchange rates are fraught with difficulty, even attempts to model historical movements in exchange rates have met with mixed success. While still subject to considerable fluctuations, movements in real exchange rates provide a better guide to changes in competitiveness than movements in nominal exchange rates. Stone A, T Wheatley and L Wilkinson (2005 A Small Model of the Australian Macroeconomy: An Update, RBA Research Discussion Paper RDP2005-11. Dollar, Japanese Yen and British Pound, while examples of fixed floating currencies include the Chinese Yuan and the Indian Rupee. Related Reading Battellino R (2010 Mining Booms and the Australian Economy, Address to The Sydney Institute, Sydney, 23 February. Graph 6 Factors that affect capital transactions are a third major influence on the exchange rate, although their importance has tended to vary over time. So unlike the stock or bond markets, the forex market does NOT close at the end of each floating p l in forex trading business day.
In the next section, well reveal what exactly is traded in the forex market. Between the mid 1970s and the end of the 1980s, when Australia's CPI was rising faster than that of its trading partners, the nominal TWI depreciated by about 50 per cent, whereas the real TWI depreciated by 30 per cent. Gruen D and J Wilkinson (1991 Australia's Real Exchange Rate Is it Explained by the Terms of Trade or by Real Interest Differentials?, RBA Research Discussion Paper RDP9108. Or in forex trading terms, assuming youre an American visiting Japan, youve sold dollars and bought yen. These benefits rely in part upon market participants and end-users being able to effectively manage their exchange rate risk, a floating p l in forex trading process requiring access to well-developed foreign exchange markets. In part, the changing influence of some of these variables reflects the varying focus of financial market participants.
The foreign exchange market also called forex, FX, or currency market was one of the original financial markets formed to bring structure to the burgeoning global economy. With this loan, investors are able to increase their trade size, which could translate to greater profitability. The shift to a floating exchange rate has therefore contributed to a reduction in output volatility over the past two decades. Generally speaking, transactions that are relatively large in size and signalled clearly are expected to have the largest effect on market conditions, with these effects further amplified if trading conditions are relatively illiquid. However, Australia did not follow suit, in part reflecting the fact that, at that time, Australia's financial sector was relatively underdeveloped. Gruen D (2001 Some Possible Long-term Trends in the Australian Dollar, RBA Bulletin December, pp 3041. You find Japanese yen and think to yourself, WOW! Intervention was found to have a significant effect on the exchange rate, particularly on the day of intervention. Its these changes in the exchanges rates that allow you to make money in the foreign exchange market. The Reserve Bank almost always conducts its intervention against the US dollar, owing to the fact that liquidity and turnover are greatest in the Australian dollar/US dollar currency pair. As at 1 December 2017, table 1: TWI Weights. When people talk about the market, they usually mean the stock market.
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The TWI is also subject to less pronounced swings in value compared with the bilateral exchange rate against the US dollar. Second, after banks have traded with the Reserve Bank, this can trigger additional price adjustments among market makers in the spot foreign exchange market. One important determinant of a country's trade-weighted exchange rate over the long run is whether it has a higher or lower inflation rate than its trading partners. But hold your horses, theres a catch! You go up to the counter and notice a screen displaying different exchange rates for different currencies. In particular, on certain days during August 2007 and October/November 2008, the Reserve Bank identified trading conditions that had become extremely disorderly, with liquidity deteriorating rapidly in the spot market even though there did not appear to be any new. Clifton K and M Plumb (2007 Intraday Currency Market Volatility and Turnover, RBA Bulletin, December. As market participants were not always well-equipped to cope with this volatility, the Bank sought to mitigate some of this volatility to lessen its effect on the economy. In other circumstances, trade weights which only include goods and services that are actually traded could be considered inadequate if they do not correspond to countries' shares of production that could be traded (even if it is not) and hence their influence on world prices. Why Does Australia have a Floating Exchange Rate? Lowe P (2012 The Changing Structure of the Australian Economy and Monetary Policy, Address to the Australian Industry Group 12th Annual Economic Forum, Sydney, 7 March. This period has previously been described as the testing and smoothing phase of intervention. By using its discretion in deciding when to transact, the size of the transaction and how the transaction will be conducted, the Reserve Bank is potentially able to elicit different responses from the foreign exchange market.
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Our God-Given Rights
by Stephanie Foley
Yesterday Americans commemorated the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document which tells us that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” And this is one of the most beautiful and powerful aspects of America’s government – that the Constitution acknowledges the rights that are given to us by God, rights that are unalienable to us because of our human dignity.
Recently on Go Ask Your Father™, in response to a call from a listener, Msgr. Stuart Swetland explained the ways in which the Constitution acknowledges our God-given rights, and why we need to keep vigilant to ensure those rights are respected.
He told the listener, “I agree with you that the Constitution is a great thing. Of course, the Constitution reflects God-given rights. The State is just recognizing rights that are inalienable to us.”
“Some of the rights in the Constitution are given to us by the State,” he said. “Our right to a lawyer to represent us, that’s just about judicial things. But many of the rights, like the rights enumerated in the First Amendment are God-given, and the State is recognizing the reality that there are God-given rights that transcend the State. That there are certain places the State cannot and should not go.”
And yet, throughout the history of America, there have been times when the State did not uphold the God-given rights enumerated in the Constitution. As a democratic republic, the American people must keep vigilant and work to ensure that the rights granted to us by God and acknowledged in the Constitution are respected and upheld.
Msgr. Swetland pointed out, “People in California are battling this as they’re trying to destroy the sanctity of the Confessional, among other things. So … we have to keep vigilant as we protect these precious freedoms. They are God-given and the Constitution reflects that fact. It’s a good republic, if we can keep it, as the Founding Fathers told us. And it takes virtuous men and women, moral men and women, to live a representative republic like we have.”
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Statement of the Executive Board
Energy in transition, Gasunie in transition
In 2016, like the previous year, we achieved a transport security through our networks in the Netherlands and Germany of almost 100%. For our customers, we transported over 5% more gas through our Dutch and German gas networks than in 2015. To offset the decline in production of Groningen gas, we converted significantly more high-calorific gas to make it suitable for use by domestic households and companies. The amount of converted gas increased by almost 40%. Our safety results improved slightly, as evidenced by, for instance, a reduction in the number of reportable incidents per million hours worked. The new method decision for GTS as of 2017 resulted in an impairment of € 450 million, which resulted in a significant decrease in our result after taxation. Our normalised financial results also showed a decline, mainly as a consequence of our lower revenues. Our normalised profit (i.e., excluding the impairment) decreased by € 53 million.
In 2016, our employees were again fully committed to ensuring a safe and reliable supply of energy for society. In addition, we paid particular attention to our strategy to offset and help enable the forecast reduction in the share of natural gas in the Dutch energy mix in the longer term.
Energy in transition, gas in transition
The Dutch energy policy, as is also evident from the Dutch government’s energy agenda, aims to achieve a CO2-neutral energy supply by 2050. Many parties are currently actively involved in this, including Gasunie. We aim to help accelerate the energy transition wherever we can and, through our infrastructure (both existing and new), our knowledge and our experience, we continue to provide added value to the energy supply of the future.
The gas market has undergone major changes, partly as a result of the sharp decline in the production of gas from the Groningen field due to earthquakes. Because gas comes from an increasing number of different sources, the composition of gas varies more than before. We solve this issue by mixing gas with nitrogen. Thanks to a properly functioning gas roundabout, the Netherlands is well connected to global gas resources, which safeguards the supply of natural gas
We aim to quickly achieve a CO2-neutral energy supply. For this purpose, fossil fuels will need to be replaced wherever possible by renewable forms of energy. This replacement should take place systematically and in the right order – the dirtiest fossil fuels should be the first to go. In addition, natural gas should only be deployed where currently no affordable, fully sustainable solutions are available as yet. In such cases, natural gas is the cleanest alternative. We call this the ‘Customised Gas’ approach. Especially in industrial high-temperature processes and heavy transport by road or by water, the use of natural gas reduces CO2 emissions significantly. In the built environment and in industry, natural gas will be replaced in the coming decades by sustainable alternatives, such as renewable gas. Gasunie also actively contributes to this development, among other things by taking part in various projects and pilots in the fields of green gas, hydrogen and heat. Good examples of these are the supercritical water gasification and hybrid heat pump projects.
A crucial part of a properly functioning gas roundabout is TTF, the Dutch virtual gas trading platform. TTF has again experienced significant growth (+29%) and is now Europe’s largest gas trading platform. Partly thanks to the size of the TTF, a sufficient amount of gas is available in Northwestern Europe at favourable rates. We also see growth in our LNG break-bulk activities. Now that the new infrastructure on the Maasvlakte has been taken into use, LNG can be transported in smaller quantities via trucks and vessels, to be used as a cleaner and affordable fuel for transport by road and water.
Energy crossing borders
The energy supply in the Netherlands is part of the European energy market. The integration of this market means that EU member states will increasingly be able to support each other in terms of energy supply. It also means that member states will become dependent on developments in each other’s markets, which is why we are committed to establishing cross-border policy and collaboration. A strong, international position of Gasunie not only benefits Europe and the Netherlands, but also provides development opportunities for our company.
In large parts of Europe, the position of natural gas is still developing. In these markets, natural gas is increasingly deployed to replace less clean energy sources, such as coal and oil. Our knowledge of and experience in the gas infrastructure enables us to advise these regions on the best approach. Together with partners, we are also investigating opportunities for participating (proportionally) in the gas infrastructure.
Uncertainties
In the future, the decreasing share of natural gas will probably lead to a reduced use of our gas transport network. Our existing transport infrastructure will continue to be important at peak times, as a back-up and for the storage of sustainable energy generated at a large scale (e.g., via power-to-gas). However, this will never fully replace our current transport activities. In addition, the regulatory authorities in the Netherlands and Germany are continuing to put extra pressure on our future regulated revenue through new method decisions.
In our non-regulated part of the business, some of the current capacity contracts are about to expire. This concerns EnergyStock (our gas storage) and BBL (the pipeline between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom). Additionally, this is a competitive market, resulting in downward pressure on tariffs.
Growth paths
In anticipation of these developments, we revised our strategy in 2016. In consultation with our shareholder and after approval by the Supervisory Board, we started implementing this strategy. We defined two growth paths for Gasunie. The first is internationalisation, by developing gas activities in collaboration with partners in growing European gas markets outside our core area of Northwestern Europe. The second growth path is the development of sustainable activities in our home markets of the Netherlands and Germany. In this way, we aim to accelerate the transition towards a CO2-neutral energy supply.
In order to respond decisively to the changes and to achieve our growth paths, we have drawn up our vision for the next seven years, Vision 2023, and shared it with our employees. In it, we focus on renewing and improving both our activities and our organisation. The emphasis is on optimising our existing assets, growth from new activities, and the sustainable employability of our employees. With respect to the latter, we developed a range of services last year, together with our employees.
In order to remain an efficient organisation, we developed a structural Operational Excellence programme. In it, we identify where there are opportunities for efficiency improvement and reconsider certain points of departure in our organisation. We decided, for instance, to change our multi-year replacement programme with regard to the preventive renovation of our gas receiving stations into a programme for corrective maintenance. Network optimisation and robotisation will become important benchmarks in achieving our Operational Excellence targets after 2019.
The aforementioned internal and external developments will result in a reduction in the number of FTEs. In the first few years, this reduction will be offset by making use of our flexible workforce as much as possible.
Expansion of the Executive Board
On 1 May 2016, Annie Krist, Director of GTS, and Ulco Vermeulen, Director of Participations, joined the Executive Board of Gasunie. As a result of these appointments, the two Dutch business units each have a direct representative on the Board. On 28 February 2017, it was announced that Annie Krist will become CEO of GasTerra as of 1 April. She therefore resigned as Director of GTS on 28 February, stepping down from the Executive Board. The Executive Board regrets her departure, but fully understands this next step in her career. We would like to thank Annie for her long and significant commitment to Gasunie and wish her every success in her new position.
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Economic, Social and Territorial Situation in Croatia
Published by kingaostanska on May 16, 2016
Original publication: May 2016
Author: Diána Haase, Research Administrator
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The Republic of Croatia: Key Facts and Figures
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The Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska) is located in South-eastern Europe, it is part of the Danube valley and to the east it is bordering the Adriatic Sea. Neighbouring countries are Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
The land area of Croatia is 56 594 km2, and the sea and interior sea waters are 31 479 km2. The coast line is 6 278 km long (mainland 1 880 km and islands 4 398 km). Croatia has more than a thousand islands, islets, rocks and reef, a fact that is of importance for the “geographical identity” of the country. Although the land area of Croatia is not very big (19th in size among Member States of the European Union), it has an extremely varied relief, with the three main types being: lowland Pannonian, mountainous Dinaric and coastal Adriatic. The highest point is Dinara peak – 1 831 m. About 62 % of the territory covered by the river network belongs to the Black Sea catchment basin, 38 % of the territory to the Adriatic catchment basin. Croatia is considered to be one of the classic karst countries in Europe, and it has large reserves of underground drinking water: in terms of the size of its per capita water reserves, Croatia is the third in Europe (behind Iceland and Norway). In addition, 47 % of its land and 39 % of its sea is designated as specially protected areas and areas of conservation: 19 National and Nature Parks, with some- designated as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage sites.
According to the 2011 Census (Croatian Bureau of Statistics), the population of Croatia is 4 284 889 people, of which 48.2 % are men and 51.8 % are women. The majority of the population are Croats (90.42 %). The biggest minority with 4.36 % of the population are the Serbs, but a wide range of other ethnicities are also present in the country, including Bosnians, Hungarians, Slovenes, Italians, Czechs, and Romas (each ethnicity being less than 1 % of the total population).
Eurostat data for 2015 reports the population (the number of persons having their usual residence in a country on 1 January of the respective year) to be 4 225 316 persons. The official language is Croatian, and the currency in use is kuna.
Political and governmental/administrative structures
Croatia became independent from the former Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991; it joined the UN on 22 May 1992 and NATO on 1 April 2009. Croatia became candidate country for EU membership in June 2004 and accession negotiations were opened on 3 October 2005. The European Union (EU) Accession Treaty was signed on 9 December 2011; and at the referendum at the beginning of 2012, 66.27 % of Croatian voters supported accession to the EU. The parliament unanimously ratified the Accession Treaty and Croatia became the 28th EU Member State as of 1 July 2013.
Croatia is a unitary state, with a unicameral parliamentary system (the parliament is called Sabor), and it has three levels of governance:
central (national) level,
“regional” level with the 20 Counties (županija) plus the City of Zagreb (The capital city of Zagreb has a special status, as it is both a Town and a County),
local level with the 428 Municipalities and 128 Towns.
Croatia underwent a decentralisation process that started in 2001 when certain functions and responsibilities were transferred from the national to the local level. A Commission for Decentralisation was created by the government in 2004 and overall, the reform of local self-government has long been present on the political agenda, strongly supported by international organisations and donors (e.g. EU CARDS and IPA, USAID). The category of large Towns (more than 35 000 citizens) was introduced in 2005, and these have broader self-government competences. The division of responsibilities, the territorial organization and budgetary issues of local units are regulated by several pieces of legislation; the financing system of local and regional units is mainly based on sharing of tax revenues (in particular the personal income tax) between the central government and the local and regional units (LRUs). As regards their competences, cities and municipalities carry out locally important operations that directly affect the needs of the citizens (tasks not assigned by constitution or law to state bodies). Obligatory tasks include among others housing and arrangement of settlements, zoning and town planning, pre-elementary and elementary schooling, protection and improvement of natural environment, etc. Counties on the other hand are in charge of operations of regional importance, in domains such as education; zoning and town planning; economic development; transports and transportation infrastructure.
The European Commission (EC), in its Croatia Country Report 2016, concludes that there is high level of territorial fragmentation of public administration that translates into a multiplication of functions and public bodies and weighs on efficiency. The decentralisation of functions to sub-national levels of government went beyond their fiscal capacity, resulting in strong reliance on central government transfers. Moreover, weaknesses in administrative capacities and procedures hamper (partially due to fragmentation of sub-national governance) management and absorption of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF/ESI Funds). Despite these weaknesses, reform of governance at local level is still not in sight.
Finally, Croatia is divided into two (earlier three) statistical (NUTS 2 level) regions: Jadranska Hrvatska and Kontinentalna Hrvatska. The City of Zagreb and Karlovac County are in Kontinentalna Hrvatska, and Karlovac County is situated in Jadranska Hrvatska.
The government in power is a coalition that involves representatives of the Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ), MOST nezavisnih lista as well as independent ministers (without affiliation to a political party).
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New Study Suggests Social Media Harms May Be Overstated
A study by researchers at the University of Oxford found that the amount of time young people spend on social media has little impact on their overall life satisfaction.
The researchers argue that society should instead focus less on screen time and more on whether particular aspects of online behavior or content are harmful.
Similar studies have been conducted in the past giving conflicting conclusions on social media’s impact, however, the research team says that this is partly because data is limited.
They are asking tech companies to collaborate with researchers to better explore social media’s effects on overall health and well being.
Study Finds “Trivial” Impact on Life Satisfaction
Time spent on social media has only a “trivial” impact on happiness among adolescents, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.
The research team conducted a study involving more than 12,000 UK adolescents between 2009 and 2017. Researchers asked the thousands of participants to share how much time they spent using social media on a normal school day. The participants were also asked to rate how satisfied they were with different aspects of life.
The study found that the amount of screentime only had a small negative impact on how happy the children felt about life. Instead family, friends, and school life all had a greater impact on well being.
“99.75% of a young person’s life satisfaction across a year has nothing to do with whether they are using more or less social media,” said Professor Andrew Przybylski, co-author of the research from Oxford University.
The team did say that the effects of time spent on social media had a wider impact on girls over boys, but even so, they said the effects remain very small.
“On an individual basis, time shouldn’t be the thing that parents are worrying about,” said Przybylski. “Thinking about social media like it’s a black box that has kind of a ticking clock on top of it – that way of thinking about screen time is almost certainly wrong.”
Talk to Your Children
Instead, Przybylski said that there are other avenues that researchers need to explore. “It is entirely possible that there are other, specific, aspects of social media that are really not good for kids … or that there are some young people who are more or less vulnerable because of some background factor,” he said.
The research team added that parents should worry less about how much time their children spend on social media sites and instead talk to them about their specific experiences.
“Just as things went awry offline, things will also go awry online, and it is really important for that communication channel to be open,” said Amy Orben, co-study author and psychology lecturer at the University of Oxford
Conflicting Data
The question of the potential impact social media has on young people is one that has been asked many times before, and has resulted in conflicting data. Some studies have suggested that social media could be hurting children’s mental health, while others have said it has positive effects on socialization.
However, Przybylski says that studies are often based on limited evidence and do not give the full picture. In fact, the research team suggested that other studies may have failed to account for the fact that some teens who were already more depressed to begin with may spend more of their time on social media.
“With most of the current debate based on lacklustre evidence, this study represents an important step towards mapping the effects of technology on wellbeing,” said Przybylski
But even this particular study had its limitations. It relies on self-based reported time on social media and does not include how exactly that time was spent or on what platforms.
The researchers at Oxford are urging tech companies to release data on how people use social media in order to help them understand more about the impact technology has on younger people’s lives.
“Access is key to understanding the many roles that social media plays in the lives of young people,” Orben said.
“What this shows us is we need to stop looking at social media as a whole and we need to start thinking about the nuances.”
Dr. Max Davie, officer for health improvement at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, told the Guardian that he also supported the call for companies to work with scientists, calling the study“the first small step.”
However, he said there were other issues that needed to be explored. For instance, he suggested more research should be done to analyze screen time’s interference with activities like sleep, exercise and time with family or friends.
Despite its limitations, Professor Liz Twigg from Portsmouth University, who is currently leading a large-scale study of the impact of social media on children, welcomed the study.
“As the authors themselves recognise, no study like this provides definitive evidence, but this one certainly provides compelling evidence,” she said.
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The World Health Organization declared the recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Since the outbreak began in August 2018, over 1,600 people have died.
WHO does not see Ebola as a current global threat, but wants to draw international attention to the outbreak to increase global engagement.
This is the worst outbreak of the disease since the one between 2014-2016, which killed over 11,000 people.
Emergency Declared
The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on Wednesday.
The outbreak began in August 2018 and has killed over 1,600 people, with over 2,500 confirmed cases. It is considered the worst outbreak since the one that began in 2014 and ended in 2016, which killed over 11,000 people.
On Monday, the outbreak escalated when the city of Goma, which sits on the border of Rwanda, saw its first confirmed case. Goma is home to nearly 2 million people and has an international airport. This put pressure on the WHO to evaluate the situation.
“It is time for the world to take notice and redouble our efforts,” WHO’s Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
“We need to work together in solidarity with the DRC to end this outbreak and build a better health system. Extraordinary work has been done for almost a year under the most difficult circumstances. We all owe it to these responders — coming from not just WHO but also government, partners and communities — to shoulder more of the burden.”
The declaration of the Public Health Emergency of Intl Concern is not a reflection on the performance of the #Ebola response team in #DRC. It is a measure that recognizes the possible increased natl & regional risks & the need for intensified & coordinated action to manage them.
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) July 17, 2019
By declaring it an emergency of international concern, the WHO is hoping to draw worldwide attention to the outbreak so that global efforts can help to stop it.
The WHO also released recommendations for the DRC to follow during this emergency. This includes strengthening at-risk populations, conducting cross-border screenings and screenings at main internal roads, and using optimal vaccine strategies, among other practices.
The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on #Ebola in #DRC provided the following public health advice for affected countries: pic.twitter.com/0b4lIfQ1di
They also listed recommendations for neighboring countries, which includes working urgently with partners to improve their preparedness, and mapping population movements and sociological patterns that can predict the risk of disease spread.
As of now, the WHO is not concerned about a global outbreak.
“Risk remains very high at national and regional levels but still low at global level,” their statement continued.
Because the risk is not yet global, the organization wants to emphasize that countries should not restrict trade and other business with the DRC. In fact, they believe that if countries do so, the outbreak would only worsen.
“No country should close its borders or place any restrictions on travel and trade,” their statement encourages. “Such measures are usually implemented out of fear and have no basis in science. They push the movement of people and goods to informal border crossings that are not monitored, thus increasing the chances of the spread of disease,” WHO’s statement reads.
Setbacks in Treatment
The DRC has faced many challenges while dealing with this outbreak. Earlier this week, Dr. Tedros spoke about how attacks on Ebola responders have made things difficult. Since January there have been almost 200 attacks resulting in seven deaths.
“We are dealing with one of the world’s most dangerous viruses in one of the world’s most dangerous areas,” he said in a statement. “Every attack sets us back. Every attack makes it more difficult to trace contacts, vaccinate and perform safe burials. Every attack gives Ebola an opportunity to spread.”
According to a New York Times report, some of this violence comes from mourners who are upset with responders after losing loved ones to the disease. One person who works in burials told the Times that mourners have threatened to throw workers into open graves. The report also said that in once instance, a mourner brandished a hand grenade, resulting in everyone scattering and a 3-year-old Ebola victim not being buried.
Mourners are not the only ones believed to be behind the violence, however, the DRC is still looking into who else is participating in attacks and why.
The WHO has also criticized for being slow to respond to the outbreak. This was their fourth meeting discussing whether or not to declare an international emergency of this kind. Many believe they should have declared it at one of their earlier meetings.
Still, progress has been made in treating the outbreak. Right now there is no complete cure for Ebola, however, research published earlier this month showed that two experimental treatments were found to be effective.
Vaccines have also been effective during this outbreak. According to the WHO, over 161,000 people in the DRC have been vaccinated and over 10,000 people in three surrounding countries have been vaccinated as well.
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Amnesty International Condemns LGBTI Discrimination in South Korea Military
A report by Amnesty International outlines the discrimination and abuse that gay men serving in South Korea’s military experience.
Article 92-6 in South Korea’s Military Criminal Act criminalizes sex between two men in the military.
Amnesty International says that this law opens the door for gay soldiers to be mistreated, which has included verbal taunting and sexual assault.
Soldiers who spoke to Amnesty International said their experiences have been humiliating, have taken a toll on their mental health, and have even led to some attempting suicide.
Amnesty International Releases Report
Amnesty International is calling on South Korea to appeal its law that bans same-sex relationships between men in the military after their report shows that soldiers experience abuse, assault, and humiliation as a result of it.
In a report published Thursday titled “Serving in Silence: LGBTI People in South Korea’s Military,” Amnesty International speaks to several soldiers from South Korea’s military who detail personal experiences with discrimination.
According to Article 92-6 of the South Korea Military Criminal Act, sexual relations between two men in the military, either on or off duty, fall under the “indecent acts” clause. This can be punishable by up to two years in prison.
While it is still illegal for same-sex couples to marry and adopt in South Korea, homosexuality is not criminalized for all citizens. This article only applies to those serving in the military.
Amnesty International says that by having this law, South Korea is opening the door to discrimination.
“Criminalization creates an environment where discrimination is tolerated, and even encouraged,” the report says.
“Homophobic and transphobic individuals can view this law as tacit permission to target LGBTI people inside and outside the military,” it continues.
The report also said that the first step to ending this discrimination is removing the article.
“Decriminalization does not solve the entire issue, but it is a crucial first step towards respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of LGBTI people,” the report states.
Charges Made Under Article 92-6
People have been charged under this article in the past. In 2017, authorities actively looked to identify soldiers who they believed were engaging in sexual acts with other men. They ended up charging over 20 soldiers as a result.
One man who was charged in this, who the report identifies as “Yeo-jun Kim” told Amnesty International that investigators asked him personal questions throughout the process.
“The investigators barraged me with outrageous questions, questions about what sex positions I used and where did I ejaculate,” he said.
He also said that they looked through his phone and asked him to identify other LGBTI people.
“The authorities came to me like peeping Toms,” he added. “They should have maintained confidentiality. I have lost faith and trust in people.”
Soldiers Face Abuse
In addition charges, gay soldiers are often subject to physical and verbal abuse.
The report outlines the story of one soldier they identify as “U” who served around a decade ago.
“One night, I saw a soldier being sexually abused,” U told Amnesty International. “When he got angry, the person abusing him who was his senior started to beat him fiercely and forced him to drink from the toilet bowl. A few days later, the abused soldier made up his mind to report the incident and approached me for my help.”
When the superior learned about the possible report, he threatened to beat U.
“I was then subjected to physical violence and humiliation for three hours,” U continued. “Which included being forced to have oral and anal sex with the original victim while the senior soldier made taunting remarks, such as: ‘Don’t you want to have sex with a woman-like man?’”
U added that this assault and humiliation drove him, and three others who experienced similar situations, to attempt suicide, which resulted in them being taken to a psychiatric hospital. Three of them were dishonorably discharged, while U was taken back to his squad and labeled as a “soldier of interest.”
Toll on Mental Health
Many soldiers say that the harassment and assault they are subject to takes a mental toll on them, resulting in many going to military health facilities. The report says that the facilities often have poor conditions, cramped spaces, and soldiers often question the qualifications of those working there.
One soldier, identified as “Jeram” was regularly groped and assaulted. He was labeled as a soldier of interest when his unit learned he was gay. He told Amnesty International that he ended up in one of these facilities.
The hospital deemed him “rebellious” after he did not comply with some of their requests, resulting in him losing the right to make phone calls or walk out in fresh air once a week.
“The hospital tried to diagnose me as ‘unfit for service’ with staff members even instructing me how to act mentally incompetent so that I could get discharged,” Jeram said. “I refused to be labelled in this way. I felt I had lived my life well prior to the military and knew that I was not the source of the problem. This whole experience led me to attempt suicide because I lost the will to live.”
He then said that one panelist, who he did not think was a licensed medical professional, told him during one of his reviews, “You are so disobedient. Even if I shoot you here, it will simply get covered up as a suspicious death and that will be it. Then, the compensation your family would receive will be even lower than for a military dog.”
Amnesty International’s report is the latest in international organizations fighting for rights for gay soldiers in South Korea. In March, Human Rights Watch submitted an amicus brief urging the country to repeal Article 92-6.
“Article 92-6 violates the rights of LGBT persons in two distinct ways,” the brief said. “First, it violates the substance of fundamental rights. Second, it discriminates against service members based on their sexual orientation. The criminalization per se of consensual adult same-sex conduct is a violation of the right to privacy under international law.”
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Sudan Military and Opposition Reach Power-Sharing Deal
Sudanese opposition and military leaders agreed Friday to set up a joint military-civilian council that will rotate power between the two groups until elections are held in three years.
The agreement comes after weeks of stalled negotiations between a coalition of opposition groups and the Transitional Military Council that came to power after President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown by a military coup in April.
Mediators stepped up negotiation efforts earlier this week after tens of thousands of demonstrators staged the largest protest since the violence on June 3.
Thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate the agreement as leaders on both sides expressed optimism, but others called for continued protests over concerns that the military will not hold up its end of the deal.
Agreement Reached
Sudan’s military and opposition leaders reached an agreement to share power until elections can be held, mediators announced Friday.
The deal comes after weeks of stalled negotiations between civilian opposition leaders and the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC), which took power after Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was ousted in a military coup in April.
Al-Bashir’s removal followed months of protests dating back to December 2018. Those protests continued after the TMC installed itself, with demonstrators demanding that the military rulers hand over power to a civilian-led government.
The new power-sharing deal will establish a joint military-civilian sovereign council that will govern Sudan until elections are held in three years.
Military and civilian leaders will rotate control of the council, with the military leading the council for the first 21 months, and the civilians leading the council for the remaining 18 months.
The council will be composed of five members of the military, five civilians, and an 11th seat that will be agreed on by both sides. The agreement also stipulates the appointment of a cabinet of ministers and the formation of a legislative council.
Leaders on both sides expressed optimism about the agreement.
“This agreement opens the way for the formation of the institutions of the transitional authority,” said Omar al-Degair, a leader of the opposition coalition who negotiated with the military. “And we hope that this is the beginning of a new era.”
“This agreement is comprehensive and does not exclude anyone,” said General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the TMC.
Opposition leaders and the TMC also agreed to launch an independent investigation into the violence that began in early June, after a military crackdown on protesters left mass casualties.
On June 3, paramilitary forces attacked a long-standing protest camp outside military headquarters that had been the site of ongoing demonstrations against military rule since al-Bashir was toppled.
Opposition medics said that more than 100 people were killed in the violence, while the government has said the death toll was 62.
General Dagalo, known as Hemeti, leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that protest leaders have accused of perpetrating the crackdown.
Following the attack, the TMC said they would no longer negotiate with the protestors, and called for snap elections. They later went back on that decision and said they wanted negotiations, but were rebuked by the protest leaders, who refused to negotiate with them after the attack.
They later went back on that decision and said they wanted negotiations, but were rebuked by the protest leaders, who refused to negotiate with them after the attack.
However, the African Union and leaders in neighboring Ethiopia stepped in to lead mediation between the two.
Those efforts ramped up earlier this week, after tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Sudanese cities, marking the biggest protests since the June 3 crackdown. Seven more were killed in Sunday’s protests, and more than 100 were injured.
Skeptical Hope for the Future
Thousands of people took to the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum to celebrate the agreement.
However, many protestors called for continued demonstrations to put pressure on the military to follow through with the deal.
“We would like to see many more guarantees from the TMC because they’ve made many promises on handing over power only to backtrack later on,” a protester named Mohamed Ismail told Al Jazeera.
Another protester named Lena al-Sheikh told BBC that the demonstrators “definitely wanted much more” from the deal, and added that many are a “little bit” skeptical regarding the details.
“The military council has shown that […] there was brutality against protesters,” she said. “People died, people were hurt and we were thinking maybe this is never going to happen, maybe we are never going to reach an agreement.”
Other experts say the deal falls short of opposition demands for a fully-civilian led council. Sudan-based journalist Yousra Elbagir pointed out in a tweet that many people in Sudan do not know the details of the deal, because of the ongoing internet blackout in the country.
Keep in mind that many of those out on the streets are only aware of what was announced in the presser (thanks to internet blackout) and not the composition of the presidential council or that TMC will choose their "President" first. https://t.co/EtW26Wk32b
— Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir) July 5, 2019
The internet has been shut off for a month now in Sudan, as military leaders have attempted to suppress communications and public gatherings.
Others, however, expressed excitement and optimism for the future.
“We have won a victory against injustice,” a protestor named Shihab Salah told Reuters. “Our goal is to achieve freedom and justice and to find jobs for young people. Civilian rule and democracy are the future of Sudan.”
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Impact of E-Commerce on Allocation of Tax Revenue between Developed and Developing Countries
Journal of Korean Law, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2004
32 Pages Posted: 1 Feb 2005
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Chang Hee Lee
Seoul National University - College of Law
The advent of digital technology increases productivity, and will as a whole, make the world better off. Nevertheless, advanced countries have suggested an increase of their share in inter-jurisdictional allocation of revenue, justifying their position with the rhetoric tax neutrality and residence jurisdiction. Indeed these suggestions can be hardly justified in that the economic and legal assumptions underpinning the existing norm of inter-jurisdictional revenue allocation are not valid in a digital era. Tax neutrality will rather justify a new order that would assign more revenue to the developing countries. Maintaining the existing international tax order and fixing it in a make-shift way will not lead to this new order of international taxation, however, because digital technology enables a taxpayer to circumvent attempts.
Creating an entirely new norm and imposing it on developed countries appears to be beyond the reach of developing countries, judging from the past experience of bargaining between developed and developing countries, which may have no other choice but to acquiesce to these changes. Despite this pessimism, the United Nations may consider revising the UN Model to the interest of developing countries, because the very role of the UN Model is to provide bargaining leverage for a developing country in negotiating a real world treaty. Proposed changes to the UN Model are as follows:
1. Add a paragraph to article 7 (business profits) that permits a host country to impose withholding tax to all payments to a non resident e-supplier in general, or upon the host country's election, to a payment to an e-supplier from a domestic business that can deduct the payment.
2. Change article 7(4) to permit o host country to adopt a formula apportionment if an e-supplier has a permanent establishment in the host country or if sales by a non-resident e-supplier exceeds a certain sum of money.
Keywords: E-Commerce, Tax
JEL Classification: K34
Lee, Chang Hee, Impact of E-Commerce on Allocation of Tax Revenue between Developed and Developing Countries. Journal of Korean Law, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2004. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=658103
Chang Hee Lee (Contact Author)
Seoul National University - College of Law ( email )
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David Tennant ' s Final Doctor Who Special On BBC America
[caption id="attachment_4657" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="David Tennant at the Doctor in The End of Time. Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] BBC America today announced the U.S. premiere of David Tennant's final special as the Tenth Doctor. Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two, premieres January 2nd, 2010, one week after Part One, on BBC America. The finale to the era of David Tennant is one of the most eagerly anticipated adventures in the history of Doctor Who. Guest-stars include John Simm (Life on Mars) as The Master, Timothy Dalton, Catherine Tate, Bernard Cribbins and June Whitfield. New synopsis for the final three specials airing on BBC America over the holiday season are as follows: Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars - Lindsay Duncan (Alice and Wonderland) joins the Doctor as his sharpest and most strong-minded companion yet for the second of four Doctor Who specials. The Waters of Mars is a dark, scary thriller that sees the Doctor land at a base in peril on the planet Mars. A creeping infection beneath the Martian surface threatens not only the human race, but also the Doctor's most fundamental beliefs. Together with Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan), the base's commander, the Doctor must defeat a seemingly unstoppable menace before it can reach Earth and wipe out mankind. The Doctor must fight not only the water, but destiny itself, whilst also confronting his own existence, when the prophecy about his future begins to resonate. Is his song about to come to an end? The Waters of Mars airs Saturday, December 19th @ 9:00 pm EST/PST on BBC America and was written by Russell T. Davies (Torchwood, Queer as Folk) and Phil Ford and directed by Graeme Harper. The executive producers are Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner (Torchwood, Life on Mars). Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One - It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey, but his psychotic nemesis, The Master, has been reborn on Christmas Eve. With both determined to cheat death, the battle ranges from the wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate. Meanwhile, the alien race, the Ood, warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire universe. The End of Time, Part One airs Saturday, December 26th @ 9:00 p.m. on BBC America and was written by Russell T. Davies and directed by Euros Lyn. The producer is Tracie Simpson. Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two - The Doctor faces the end of his life as The Master's plans hurtle out of control. With the sound of drums growing louder and an ancient trap closing around Earth, the Doctor and Wilf must fight alone. But sacrifices must be made, and the deadly prophecy warns, "He will knock four times." The End of Time, Part Two airs Saturday, January 2nd @ 8:00 p.m. on BBC America and was written by Russell T. Davies and directed by Euros Lyn. The producer is Tracie Simpson. Regarding the final specials, lead writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies told the Radio Times, "It's personal for the Doctor. The Master (John Simm) is his enemy, his opposite, and yet so tantalizingly close to being his soul mate. There's something epic about their sheer existence - the last two survivors of an ancient race [The Time Lords]. It's a clash of the titans, both of them heading for death, and yet both determined to survive - at any cost." Davies and Tennant are passing the baton to Steven Moffat and actor Matt Smith, who will play the Eleventh Doctor in a new season of the re-imagined series premiering in 2010 on BBC America. As noted above, photo copyright of the BBC, so please no unauthorized copying or duplicating of any kind. Thanks!
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David Tennant Says Goodbye To Doctor Who Next Month On BBC America
[caption id="attachment_4492" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="David Tennant as The Doctor in The Waters of Mars. Photo copyright of the BBC/BBC America"] [/caption] THE finale to the era of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor is one of the most eagerly anticipated adventures in the history of Doctor Who. As previously announced, the next special, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, premieres Saturday, December 19th @ 9 p.m. EST/PST on BBC America. The final two specials, Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One and Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two, will premiere over the holiday season starting December 26th on BBC America. Guest-stars John Simm, Timothy Dalton, Catherine Tate, Lindsay Duncan and Bernard Cribbins join Tennant on his final journey. Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One premieres Saturday, December 26th @ 9 p.m. EST/PST on BBC America, with the air date for part two to be announced shortly. http://bbcamerica.com/content/123/index.jsp has exclusive Doctor Who clips, including a sneak peek of The Waters of Mars, which The Times says is "a big-budget, knock-yer-socks-off blockbuster" and the Guardian exclaimed, "it's a belter, a watery nightmare - scary, moving, relevant, believable." [caption id="attachment_4493" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Doctor faces an uncertain future in The End of Time. Photo copyright of the BBC/BBC America"] [/caption] The site also has a new world premiere clip from The End of Time, Part One, with never-before seen footage that will keep fans all over the globe wondering what's in store for the Doctor. As noted above, all photos copyright of the BBC/BBC America, so please no unauthorized copying or duplicating of any kind. Thanks!
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Doctor Who Specials Are Landing On BBC America
[caption id="attachment_3953" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="David Tennant (The Doctor) and Lindsay Duncan (Adelaide) in Doctor Who: The Waters Of Mars. Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] THE BBC today announced the imminent arrival of the final Doctor Who episodes starring David Tennant as the Doctor. Television's longest running Science Fiction series, shot in HD, has just three episodes to go before a new Time Lord arrives onscreen in 2010. The next special, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, airs on BBC America, Saturday, December 19th @ 9 p.m. EST/PST. It stars Tennant and British stage and screen actress Lindsay Duncan (Rome, Langford) as Adelaide, his cleverest and most strong-minded companion. [caption id="attachment_3954" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Doctor and Adelaide are on the move! Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_3955" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="What is it that The Doctor and Adelaide are on the run from? Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_3956" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Could it be this gruesome-looking chap? Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] All will be revealed as the Doctor and his companion Adelaide face terror on the Red Planet in one of the show's scariest adventures yet. Peter O'Brien (Casualty, Neighbors) guest-stars as Ed, Adelaide's second-on-command on the base. The Waters of Mars is written by Russell T. Davies (Torchwood, Queer as Folk) and Phil Ford and directed by Graeme Harper. The executive producers are Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner (Torchwood, Life on Mars). [caption id="attachment_3957" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Proceed with extreme caution! Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_3958" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Adelaide and The Doctor see something strange in the shadows ahead of them. Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_3959" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The angry Red Planet takes on a whole new meaning in The Waters of Mars. Photo copyright of the BBC"] [/caption] The remaining episodes starring David Tennant will air over the holiday season as a two-part special. Airdates will be released in early December. The actor shot a total of four specials before exiting the role - Planet of the Dead was the first to air last July on BBC America. As noted above, all photos copyright of the BBC, so please no unauthorized copying or duplicating of any kind. Thanks!
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Geoff Collins Named Tight Ends Coach
ATLANTA – Geoff Collins, a graduate assistant coach on the Georgia Tech football staff the last two years, has been promoted to full-time status to coach the Yellow Jackets’ tight ends in a reorganization of the Tech staff prompted by the departure of defensive backs coach Paul Ferraro.
Ferraro, a member of the head coach George O’Leary’s staff for two years, has been named the defensive coordinator at Rutgers.
Lance Thompson, who returned to Tech last month after two seasons at Alabama, will now serve as defensive ends coach and recruiting coordinator. Danny Crossman, Tech’s defensive ends coach the last two years, will take over as defensive backs coach and will continue as special teams coach.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity for Paul Ferraro to move to a coordinator’s position,” said O’Leary, the Bobby Dodd Award winner as national coach of the year. “I always want to hire coaches who have aspirations to become coordinators and eventually head coaches. We lost one coach to a head coaching job and another to a coordinator’s job, so that’s a good sign.
“I’m very happy to be able to promote Geoff Collins. I believe in promoting from within whenever I can. Geoff had some experience as an assistant coach before he came to Tech, and he has done a very good job as a graduate assistant. He’s very familiar with our system, and I think he has a bright future as a coach.”
Collins has worked with Tech’s defensive staff the last two years. Before coming to Tech in 1999, he spent two years as defensive coordinator and linebackers and secondary coach at Albright College in Reading, Pa. In 1997, the NCAA Division III program ranked in the top 10 nationally in all defensive categories.
In 1996, Collins served as an assistant coach at Fordham, working with the outside linebackers while also serving as the junior varsity defensive coordinator. He also spent one season (1995) as an assistant coach at Franklin (N.C.) High School while teaching in the Macon County Public Schools.
Collins was a three-year starter and four-year letterman at Western Carolina from 1989-92, helping the Catamounts to a 7-4 record as a senior. He began his coaching career as a student assistant on the Western Carolina staff in 1993, when the Catamounts were the preseason No. 1 team in NCAA Division I-AA.
A native of Conyers, Ga., who attended Rockdale County High School, Collins earned two bachelor’s degrees from Western Carolina in Sport Management and Exercise Science in 1994 and Education in 1995. He added a master’s degree in Educational Psychology from Fordham in 1997.
“I’m very comfortable with the staff we now have in place, and we are eager to begin spring practice on March 16,” said O’Leary.
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“Am I therefore become your enemy,
because I tell you the truth?”
—Galatians 4:16, KJB
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
―Sophocles, Antigone
Just what is the Vatican to you?
A city? A corporation? A church? The adversary?
Whatever one’s opinion of this monstrous empire of all empires may be, one thing cannot be denied. It’s value in monetary consideration is virtually priceless, from its private vault collections to its billion plus tithing members pretending that money is a tribute of forgiveness for sin. But what can we possibly call this beast system that has no purchasable (conquerable) price upon its hydra-like head, a net worth without a net, and globally a partner with most (soon to be all) nations and religions?
What else can we call this universal incorporation but mammon incarnate?
Is this merely a passing metaphor, or can we begin to see evidence of such a adversarial nature?
Today I wish to share a few financial characteristics with my readers that, without a doubt in my own mind, shows that this Catholic (universal) church is nothing more than the protector of the faith, that faith being in the god of mammon. And just as the various denominations of global religions have apparently latched on to that papal teat, so too it appears has all denominations of currency have fallen under that global protectionism of the Holy See.
Perhaps unofficially it is and has always been this way?
Firstly, let us start with the source.
The Latin, Roman phrase Motu Propria carries the meaning of “on his own impulse,” and sometimes “of his own accord.” As a papally issued “law” it is a document issued by the Pope (or other sovereign “god”) which is considered to be only given on the personal initiative of that office of vicar, the acting christ-head of that corporation sole, which is the eternal (immortal) corporation passed on to each new man when appointed (anointed) to that office. This is not at all uncommon, as the Mormon “prophet” is also a corporation sole as “president” of that “corporation of the president.” The queen of England, bishops of several denominations, and other officers of government are also in the form of such immortal offices known as corporations sole. To be more accurate, any corporation is legally always an artificial person, and it must be said that the Bible is of course strictly against all forms of personhood and false, faltering titles. This is covered in triplicate in my upcoming volumes entitled Strawman: The Real Story Of Your Artificial Person. Please save this image and follow the link to the website where my book(s) will be downloadable for free soon.
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The Pope’s issue of a motu proprio has a LEGAL effect. But worst of all, due to the pretended infallibility of the office, any lie, falsehood, or fraud may be a protected and legally upheld reason and justification without invalidation for such an infallible papal law. To be valid, it just needs the Pope’s will or initiative, while the purpose and effect are secondary to that impulse. It’s an unholy power of an idolotrous god.
This popular form of Papal rescript was first issued by Pope Innocent VIII in the year 1484. The first motto proprio created by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484, and is often used as an establishment or amendment of law. In considering this ridiculous notion of infallibility and according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the canonists in their tradition referred to these motu proprio as “mother of repose,” for no corruption, fraud, or untruth is allowed to be sighted therein, the validity solely based on the word of the corporation sole (artificial person) that is the pope. It is he who makes “truth.” It is he who turns the darkness into a false light.
Link–> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10602a.htm
Though less formal than a constitution and absent the papal seal, the authority of this Motu Propria privilege may used to establish anything from instructional mandates, administrative statute, the creation of any commission (i.e. benefice), or to confer special favor, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
Link–> http://www.britannica.com/topic/motu-proprio
Examples of past willful initiatives, as documented and linked from wikipedia, include:
Tra le sollecitudini, issued 22 November 1903 by Pope Pius X, on the topic of music to be used during Mass.
Bonum sane, issued 25 July 1920 by Pope Benedict XV, on the topic of world politics.
Mysterii Paschalis, issued 14 February 1969 by Pope Paul VI, revising the Norms on the liturgical year and the General Roman Calendar.
Ad Tuendam Fidem, issued 15 July 1998 by Pope John Paul II, on topics in canon law.
Summorum Pontificum, issued 14 September 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, on the use of the Tridentine Mass and other liturgical topics.
Intima Ecclesiae natura, issued 11 November 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, on the service of charity (guidelines for Catholic charitable organizations)[7]
Ai nostri tempi, issued 11 July 2013 by Pope Francis, on topics in canon law[8] with changes in the Vatican City State Law No. IX, of 11 July 2013, containing Amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code[9] and Vatican City State Law No. VIII, of 11 July 2013, containing Supplementary Norms on Criminal Law Matters.[10]
One such recent document that was issued Motu Propria was this one, which is the main subject of this post:
APOSTOLIC LETTER
ISSUED MOTU PROPRIO
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
APPROVING THE NEW
STATUTES OF THE FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY
By means of the Motu Proprio “The Apostolic See” of 30 December 2010 on the prevention and countering of illegal activities in the area of monetary and financial dealings, my predecessor Benedict XVI established the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) and approved its first statutes.
Subsequently, with a view to strengthening further the measures already taken to prevent and counter potential illicit activities in the monetary and financial sectors, as well as countering the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, by means of the Motu Proprio “The promotion” of 8 August 2013, I accorded new functions to the Financial Intelligence Authority.
Bearing in mind also the advice of the Commission for Reference on the Institute for the Works of Religion, which I established by means of the Chirograph dated 24 June 2013, I have deemed it appropriate to reform the internal structure of the Authority so that it may fulfill even more adequately its institutional functions and therefore, with this Apostolic Letter, I approve the Statutes of the Financial Intelligence Authority hereby attached, which replace the previous ones.
I dispose that everything established in this Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio has full and permanent value, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, although it may merit special mention, and I decree that it be promulgated by its publication in L’Osservatore Romano, entering into force on 21 November 2013.
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 15 November of the year 2013, the first of the Pontificate.
Franciscus PP.
of the Financial Intelligence Authority
Nature and Functions
Article 1 – Nature and legal seat
1. The Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) is an institution connected to the Holy See in accordance with Articles 186 ff. of the Apostolic Constitution Pastor bonus.
2. The Authority is endowed with canonical PUBLIC LEGAL PERSONALITY and has its legal seat in the Vatican City State.
Article 2 – Functions
The Authority shall perform, in full autonomy and independence, the following functions:
a) prudential supervision and regulation of those entities that carry out professionally a financial activity;
b) supervision and regulation for the prevention and countering of money laundering and financing of terrorism;
c) financial intelligence…
Link–> http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/papa-francesco-motu-proprio_20131115_statuto-aif.html
Now, the typical faithful defender of this massive conglomerate “church” corporation will of course focus only on the apologetic notion that this legal intelligence agency is there to protect us and the legal “church-state” from those idiotic keywords of “money laundering” and “terrorism.” And indeed, these two terms are repeated over and over by this apologist pope in his forced declaration motu proprio. The god has spoken. It’s corporate will be done. But we forget that to protect money is to respect money, thus to protect mammon is to respect mammon. Notice that this will of the pope is not one that protects say children, but banks. It does not protect man or any aspect of God’s Nature, only the institutions of mammon.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one out here that can or is willing to cut through the Bull-shit of these false prophets and self-proclaimed vicars (replacements) of christ, revealing only that oh so hurtful Truth that offends so many worshipers of the lie. As I have revealed in my research, this term “legal” is another term for that which is antichrist, anti-God, or anti-Nature (Creation). These opposing forms of law that we still utilize today, the strict legal or civil law and the “unwritten” moral or spiritual Law of course have their origins in Rome. The Vatican even labels its own moral authority of its elected officer the pope as a “spiritual jurisdiction.”
But let us make no mistake, the Vatican bank and Bank of Rome are alive and well. They practice usury on a grand scale. And do not mistake the Bank of England for anything but the Bank of Rome! This chain of mammon was opened in Venice in 1587, the Wisselbank in Amsterdam in 1609, in Hamburg in 1619, Nuremberg in 1621, Rotterdam in 1635 and last but not least the Bank of England in 1694, being the first bank to actually be named after the country it is housed in. After the “Bank” of Rome it was officially to become the world’s first Central Bank.
In other words, these Romish banks were the ultimate weapon of usury in mammon around the world, destroying the welfare and prosperity of all nations it touched. But then something strange happened during the reign of King Edward VI (1547-1553).
“(Act relating to Usury.) Another bill was brought in against usury, which passed both houses, and was made a statute. By it, an act passed in the 37th of the late king (Henry VIII), that none might take above 20 per cent on money lent, was repealed; which they said was not intended for the allowing of Usury, but for preventing farther inconveniences. And since Usury was by the word of God forbidden, and set out in diverse places of Scripture as a most odious and detestable vice, which yet many continue to practice, for the filthy gain they make by it; therefore, from the 1st of May, all usury or gain from money lent was to cease; and whosoever continued to practise to the contrary, was to forfeit both principal and interest, to suffer imprisonment, and to be fined at the king’s pleasure.”
–Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, vol. I, p.596
Needless to say, his was a short reign, and his edict of anti-usury was of course repealed shortly thereafter in 1571.
Imagine a world without usury for a moment, without the need for new money. There would be no need for a central bank at all! Banking would become an unprofitable business, and bankers would be reduced to mere cashiers. And what possible power could the nations and the Vatican have without usury in mammon against the very scriptures it claims as its reason for being?
Eventually, with usury fully re-instituted by those Romish, Popish powers that be, the Bank of England was incorporated on July 27, 1694 as a private joint-stock association, founded by William Patterson (1658-1719). And the era of monopolistic corporate banking supported by the conspiring “church and state” and by making loans of money that could never apparently be repaid, including that whole starting capital of £1.2 million of the Bank of England being loaned to the English government, it was granted the exclusive right to issue notes and hold monopolistic oversight over the entirety of English corporate banking houses, with full support of the Parliament of course, which could end that central bank at any time but which also knows what happens to any entity or nation that defies the usurious Pope. Tied to that loaned principal was of course interest, compounded in a way that what lies in circulation is never enough to douse the flames of such usurious practices. More notes would always need to be issued as more and more compounded debt as usury was accumulated. And in this way, making all men and all nations as perpetual debtors, the debt itself became a performance debt, where the debt-slaves perform according to the will of their master lender. Of course the money is only a tool to cause performance, a win-win situation for the bankers, who would be paid in the money of its own creation or in the much more valuable collateral backing that loan. In order to preserve the collateral, the debtor must of course perform for the creditor.
England naturally expanded into the Americas via its corporations and through colonization, where the tables had turned, as the colonists this time attempted to oust the Romish central bankers of England in order to kill their outlaw usury.
The Parliament’s Stamp Act (called as the: Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; under George III) was used as a tool by these central bankers to quash any attempts by those colonists to outlaw their usurious practices. It was a simple plan; bond with usury a burden upon the American colonists with a tax that could only be paid in English specie (minted coins), of which were solely a proprietary production of the Bank of England. To pay the tax, the colonies would need to borrow their coinage from the central bank of their tyrannical, usurious master. Of course, compounded usury was attached to that borrowed coin, and through that compounded interest the common class of colonists were thrust into the very similar economic conditions we suffer today at the hands of these same international collective of central banks, which are today all reforming under the purview and best practices and statute (cannon) laws of the United Nations and the World Bank. This devious lending practice has continued unabated as nations and countries borrow from America or other usurious institutions and are forced to pay those loans of interest back with collateral, with such things as water and mineral rights which are handed over to the exploitive corporations controlled by the same governing Roman Law as its regulatory hand.
“That is simple. In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called ‘Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one.”
—Benjamin Franklin on Colonial Scrip
“The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament, which has caused in the Colonies hatred of England and the Revolutionary War.”
“9th. That the duties imposed by several late acts of Parliament, from the peculiar circumstances of these colonies, will be extremely burthensome and grievous, and, from the scarcity of specie (coins), the payment of them absolutely impracticable.”
—The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
Franklin was also quoted in his opinion that the so-called revolution was caused by nothing more than the Bank of England and its usurious practices; practices of which are the common and standard business practices for the central bank of the United States and other nations today, only worse. For the Bank is the King and the King is the Bank. The revolution though can only be called as a deceit, creating only a newer, more organized, and more powerful monster than before, controlled by the same bloodlines that pretended to twice defeat it. War is of course the most single greatest and most profitable act of commerce imaginable, and also the greatest creator of debt, as nations clamor to acquire loans to fund their theaters of war. The central bank of the United States was created just two year after the signing of its constitution (corporate charter). For what is never discussed in the patriot mythology of today is the very definition of this word constitution. Let’s break it down into its component parts:
CONSTITUTION – contracts – The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. (–Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1856, as commissioned and made law by congress, as “Adapted to the constitution and laws of the United States of America and of the several States of the American Union.”)
CON – …1. To know. 2. To make oneself master of; to fix in the mind or commit to memory… (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
STICK – noun – [G. This word is connected with the verb to stick with stock, stack, and other words having the like elements. The primary sense of the root is to thrust, to shoot, and to set.]… – verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive – stuck. [G., to sting or prick, to stick to adhere.] 1. To pierce; to stab; to cause to enter, as a pointed instrument; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast in slaughter. [A common use of the word.] 2. To thrust in; to fasten or cause to remain by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve… – verb intransitive – …2. To be united; to be inseparable; to cling fast to, as something reproachful… 4. To stop; to be impeded by adhesion or obstruction; as, the carriage sticks in the mire. 5. To stop; to be arrested in a course…11. To adhere closely in friendship and affection. There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24. To stick to, to adhere closely; to be constant; to be firm; to be persevering; as, to stick to a party or cause… To stick by, 1. To adhere closely; to be constant; to be firm in supporting. We are your only friends; stick by us, and we will stick by you. 2. To be troublesome by adhering… (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
TUTELAR, TUTELARY – adjective – [Latin tutelaris, supra.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as tutelary genii; tutelary goddesses. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
TUTELAGE – noun – [from Latin tutela, protection, from tueor, to defend.] 1. Guardianship; protection; applied to the person protecting; as, the king’s right of seignory and tutelage. 2. State of being under a guardian. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
TUTOR – noun – [Latin from tuero, to defend.] 1. In the civil law, a guardian; one who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate. 2. One who has the care of instructing another in various branches or in any branch of human learning… – verb transitive – To teach; to instruct. 1. To treat with authority or severity. 2. To correct. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
Whatever the reader may contemplate, in the legal realm Truth is much stranger than the fiction we are led to believe in by our chosen entertainment and the public tutelage by the legal public education system that is forced upon us by the state (nation) to create public-mindedness (idiocy).
Perhaps the most clever weapon created by these banks and their organizers and regulators (governments) was the creation of what we call modernly as the “personal loan.” Sold as commercial “product” made of thin air, this loan type is packaged in many ways and with many colors, from secured real estate loans to unsecured credit card debt charged with ridiculously high rates of usury. Whereas before the banks loaned only to governments, associations and corporations, and to men of high class and standing in their false nobility of blood, today any idiot can get a loan, and the most popular of these loans is the credit card.
But why was this such a brilliant move by the government’s banks in their pursuit of the usurious domination of all men?
To give every person a stake, a personal part of our own individual destruction in mammon, which is to say that every man has a choice to indenture himself to these moneychangers voluntarily and without force of government sanctions in taxation. These devils no longer need to steal our souls, for we contract and prostitute ourselves freely to that love of money in mammon via their constituted contracts. For it must be said that to love money is to believe in money and to believe in it is to respect its value. These terms are al equal in the legal setting, respect, belief, and love.
LIEVE – for lief, is vulgar. [See Lief.] (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
LIEF – adjective – [See Love.] Dear; beloved. [Obsolete.] – adverb [supra. This word coincides with love, Latin lubet, libet, and the primary sense is to be free, prompt, ready.] Gladly; willingly; freely; used in familiar speech, in the phrase, I had as lief go as not. It has been supposed that had in this phrase is a corruption of would. At any rate it is anomalous. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
SUPRA – A Latin preposition, signifying above, over or beyond. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
LOVE – verb transitive – luv. [Latin libeo, lubeo. See Lief. The sense is probably to be prompt, free, willing, from leaning, advancing, or drawing forward.] 1. In a general sense to be pleased with; to regard with affection, on account of some qualities which excite pleasing sensations or desire of gratification… The christian loves (believes in) his Bible. In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal or intellectual; and if our hearts are right, we love God above all things, as the sum of all excellence and all the attributes which can communicate happiness to intelligent beings… It is opposed to hatred. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828) (Emphasis mine)
Thus the Biblical meaning of the love of money being as the root of all evil is not a Natural Love, but actually the hatred of debt, the false belief (love) that such unfunded debt actually exists and is binding, and thus the respect for it and the authority of its artificial creators. It is this love (belief) of money that has destroyed each and every one of us, whether we care to admit it or not. The rich or wealthy man is too far gone to admit his lucre is tainted, valuing his wealth and money over knowledge, setting aside such knowledge as the true evil, for his wealth depends upon the harm of all others who have nothing. And it is our national citizenship, a performance debt place upon each rented persona (legal status), that requires such love and respect of mammon in the central bank of the nation. It causes us to compete with each other over the false dialectic (logic) that money is scarce, though unlimited amounts can easily be created with the press of a keyboard computer system entry.
My favorite verse in the Bible, one that Truly caused me to reconsider my own love (belief) in money, is this one:
“Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.”
–1 Corinthians 10:24, KJB
As I considered the consequences of such a suggestion, I realized this is the very opposite of this ancient system of Rome. We suffer at its hands and of its central banks and systems of internationally collaborative money and usury. This above all other verses changed my whole way of thinking. For it is the very revealing of a cure for all of this misery and suffering at the hands of tyrants and Pharisees in high places. This is the very definition of the Purest form of Charity, not some empty non-profit (non-prophet) donation to some false corporation calling itself by the empty name of a legal “501 charity,” but of a spiritual state of mind in all men that is the cure for all that causes dis-ease. It is the opposite of legalism, the opposite of mammon, the opposite of competition, and the opposite of modern corporate “religion.”
It is a vicious circle, for when both the government and the religions registered as “legal” corporations of and under government’s legal law are in league and support of mammon, of the justification of enslavement of all common men by usury, then no religion actually exists in Reality. Today’s churches are as fake and un-christ-like as any fiat currency out there. They support the legal fiction of the state and command against the scriptures to obey the “law of the land,” which in legal terms means only the “due process of law,” which in that fiction of law only means the “legal” opinion of the American and International Bar Associations (IBA).
As we will come to see, the Vatican is happily a partner with the IBA.
“The value of a thing is estimated according to its worth in money,
but the value of money is not estimated by reference to a thing.”
Res per pecuniam sestimatur, et non pecunia perrem. Maxim of Law.
“It’s impossible to have religious freedom in any nation where churches are licensed to the government.”
—Congressman George Hansen, quoted from “In Caesar’s Grip,” by Peter Kershaw
“Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it. So God Himself incapacitates many men, by color-blindness, to distinguish colors, and leads the masses away from the highest Truth, giving them the power to attain only so much of it as it is profitable to them to know. Every age has had a religion suited to its capacity.
“The Teachers, even of Christianity, are, in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar.
“So Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray…”
—Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, Pages 104-105
“The George Washington University was founded in 1821 as the Columbian College in the District of Columbia using funds set aside by George Washington to create “an institution in the nation’s capital dedicated to educating and preparing future leaders.” Today, there are over 20,000 students from every state and 130 countries. Located just four blocks from the White House, it is fitting that the 2009 Princeton Review ranks GWU as second in the nation for “Most Politically Active Students…”
“Aside from being named after America’s most famous Freemason, it’s notable that Freemasonry and the Scottish Rite have deep historical connections to the George Washington University. For example, Rice Hall which houses the University’s administrative offices, including the president’s office, is named for Luther Rice, a Mason and Baptist Minister who originally conceived the idea for the University. Three of the last five of the University’s presidents have been Masons, including President Emeritus and Colonial Lodge member Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, 33°, G.C. A gift of $1 million by the Scottish Rite in the 1928 created the University’s School of Government, and there have been Masonic cornerstone laying ceremonies for at least five University buildings, including in 2003 for the Elliott School of International Affairs. Masonry is also responsible for the Wolcott Foundation, created by the High Twelve International, for undergraduate and graduate scholarships to the University.”
—‘The University Lodge: A History and Case Study,’ excerpted from the Supreme Council of 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Masonry, Southern Jurisdiction, United States website, (scottishrite.org)
It’s always fun and horribly enlightening to put these pieces of the puzzle together. And it is not surprising that the secrets of the Bible are so well kept, even despite the fact that a Bible sits upon the shelves of every home and library and false church out there. For the best kept secrets are those hidden in plain sight. To hide the intent of any language, one only need create a language barrier. And so the Bible is hated and loved not because it is comprehended, but because it is compared to the church, though it is very much against such temples built by hands in masonry. We are taught that the church is a building instead of a spiritually driven, building-less People.
But what of this love (belief) of money? How does this love and respect of the nothingness that these gods (magistrates) of mammon represent as world fiat currencies destroy us all so easily? And what causes us to continue to respect and believe in (love) the fallacy that debt actually exists in Reality, as if it is an undeniable Creation of God?
The money has no value except that which we attach it to in our imaginations, in our love for it. The money is created by the govern-ment (mind control) of the idolatrous nations. All “Christian” religions are incorporated artificial persons licensed to practice legally (not spiritually) under (not over) the government, and so all “Christians” are encouraged to support, love (believe in), respect, and have faith in government, including its monopoly and “trust” on money creation. No one seems to ask what god is invoked when we pass these bills to and fro, as that incantation of “IN GOD WE TRUST” is never questioned. One thing is clear, this “god” certainly cannot be the God of Nature, the God of Reality, the God of “Creation.” Any fool can surely comprehend that much. But of course those in government and those who founded (constituted) it are, if not Masons, friendly to its universal (catholic) cause. And that cause is the protection of Rome, of the Caesar’s we call as those districted nations united under one governing religion of mammon.
CATHOLIC – adjective – 1. Universal or general; as the catholic church. Originally this epithet was given to the Christian church in general, but is now appropriated to the Romish church, and in strictness there is no catholic church, or universal Christian communion. The epithet is sometimes set in opposition to heretic, sectary or schismatic. 2. Liberal; not narrow minded, partial or bigoted; as a catholic man. 3. Liberal; as catholic principles. Catholic epistles, the epistles of the apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church. – noun – A papist. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
Of course the Catholic mind must be liberal. How else can one possibly accept the doctrines of the Catholic church and its corporate officer the Pope unless one ignores the scriptures? How else can “Christians” accept such blatantly false doctrines without having a liberal mind? And how else can all the nations of the world be formed unless the scriptures as the self0evident Law of Nature be purposefully ignored? This word liberal is yet another misunderstood term, and is a necessary state of mind for public-mindedness, so that multiculturalism and acceptance of all other forms of religious law, even that which is opposed to their very name-sake of christianity, are tolerated and integrated into society to the point that no religious way can possibly be found by the average plebe.
In the mythos of this nation as well, the “founding fathers” were certainly said to be known as “liberals,” and are most famous in their deism for ensuring the separation of the Highest moral Law of scripture from their own business ventures and slave-holding plantations in the enterprises of commerce and usury in mammon. For what man may hold slaves and charge usury if he follows the moral Law?
“Of fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, fifty-three were Master Masons… George Washington the founder of this country was the first Grand Master of Masons’ of this commonwealth compromising the thirteen original States of this Land of Liberty founded on the principles of Brotherly Love, Faith, Hope and Charity, the vital breath of which is “Individual Liberty” and an equal opportunity to all of its citizens. Of the twenty-nine Major Generals in Washington’s army twenty four were Master Masons, of the thirty seven Brigadiers, thirty seven were Master Masons, proving that this “Land of Liberty” was founded by Master Masons. Now as then, masonry’s challenge is the Holy Bible, its teachings from the center to circumference symbols of the everlasting. “The Washington Monument is built of stone contributed by all the nations of the earth to honor the founder of this republic. From Arlington it looks like a giant spike which God had driven, saying ‘Here I stake a claim for the home of Liberty’.”
—Holy Bible Red Letter Edition – Masonic Edition Cyclopedic Indexed King James Bible, published by the John A. Hertzel Co. Chicago (1942).
The first central bank of the United States was of course chartered shortly after the Masonic constitution of the United States was, in 1791, for a central bank is after all a necessary plank of what is modernly called as the Communist Manifesto, of which all ten planks are now law in the United States. Though its charter expired after 20 years, and the bank abolished, it was re-chartered just 5 years later, in 1816. Again its 20 year charter was ended and not renewed in 1836. Not to be outdone, the Banksters of the Crown corporation reestablished the central bank as the “Federal Reserve” we know it today. But in taking a cue from previous failures, the charter of the Federal Reserves was recreated into infinity, creating the central bank that can never die unless congress wills it. As it stands, there is no contractual end of the charter for the federal reserve.
In answer to the many fallacious claims by so many alternative news outlets that simply do not fact-check what they parrot, the Federal Reserve found it necessary to create a section reserved just for the idiocracy that is the so-called “truth” movement, which in this author’s opinion is a controlled opposition designed to deceive the seekers of actual Truth, just as Masonry decrees in its doctrines. In short, those who take the name of “truth” and wear it as a false badge of courage but only seek its origin from second and third-hand sources as those in the “truth” movement do, as Albert Pike stated above, deserve neither Truth nor the Natural liberty under God’s Law it reveals.
On its website the Federal Reserve puts to rest any notion of its own legal mortality:, one of many patriot mythologies stemming from false “truthers” that it laughably corrects:
“Is the Federal Reserve Act going to expire?
“No. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913—which established the Federal Reserve as the central bank of the United States—originally chartered the Federal Reserve Banks for 20 years. But in the McFadden Act of 1927, the Congress rechartered the Federal Reserve Banks INTO PERPETUITY, and so there is currently no “expiration date” or repeal date for the Federal Reserve.“
Link–> http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/is-the-federal-reserve-act-going-to-expire.htm
Such power does this “truth” movement have as its misinformation causes waves in that holy sea (See) of commerce that it causes such federal agencies to correct the idiocy promulgated by those false prophets. The agency is also forced to dispel all of the other “truths” told about its ownership, its supposed privacy, its apparent non-federal status, and its ability to make a profit.
“Who owns the Federal Reserve?
The Federal Reserve System fulfills its public mission as an independent entity within government. It is not “owned” by anyone and is not a private, profit-making institution.
As the nation’s central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority FROM THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. It is considered an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by the Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.
However, the Federal Reserve IS SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT BY THE CONGRESS, which often reviews the Federal Reserve’s activities and can alter its responsibilities BY STATUTE. Therefore, the Federal Reserve can be more accurately described as “independent WITHIN the government” rather than “independent of government.”
The 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by the Congress as the operating arms of the nation’s central banking system, are organized SIMILARLY to private corporations–possibly leading to some confusion about “ownership.” For example, the Reserve Banks issue shares of stock to member banks.
However, owning Reserve Bank stock is QUITE DIFFERENT from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, A CONDITION OF MEMBERSHIP in the System. The stock MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRADED, OR PLEDGED as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, paid to member banks at a maximum rate of 6 percent, determined in part by each member bank’s total assets.
Link–> http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
Through painstaking research and airtime I have tried desperately to wake the mass of misled “truthers” up from their own delusions, from their own internal and external “infowar,” seemingly to no avail. The lies continue, parroted as “truths.” And this grandest of all patriot mythologies, in this author’s humble opinion, is one perpetrated by the very entities that wish to create a decoy. Obviously the Central Bank cannot exist without the full support and statute of congress and the belief (love) and respect of all involved. And we must remember that even hatred of anything is still a form of belief and respect of that thing’s existence. They say that hate and love are synonymous, and perhaps now we may understand why that is. And so the real enemy has floated complete bullshit to the main outlets of false “truth”, imagining a strawman enemy and argument of its own creation, so that the public will actually think that the Federal Reserve is not bound by the hand that created and regulates it, that being the congress of the United States. Thus this word independence is used without condition by “truthers” who know not the legal meaning of that word. And just like their own franchise of “freedom” that they believe is True and Natural liberty instead of a state of servitude and voluntary slavery to the nation they are the goyim (multitude) of, so too have we been made to believe that the Federal Reserve is somehow Naturally independent and somehow separate (meaning private) from government. And soundbites from official sources further fool us into such beliefs (love) of these false “truths.” Even as ridiculous as this concept is, that congress (the legal gods) created some entity that they then cannot control and have no power to abolish, the creation being somehow more powerful than its creator, and despite every actual official and legitimate published source available, the lie still persists despite the actuality of the nature of this United States central bank. And most importantly to this great and powerful delusion, the congress pretends to be the helpless victim of its own creation, claiming their hands are tied and even passing laws that allow the chairman of the Fed to withhold information in any public forum or congressional inquiry, further leading the “truthers” to believe that the Fed is “private” and not bound by its creator congress. They never realize that when the chairman of the Fed sits so arrogantly across from that public inquiry of its creator congress (god), that the reason he in his official capacity and by law refuses to answer any questions is because the law prevents public disclosure of those facts addressed. In other words, the congress is asking questions of the Fed chairman that it knows its officer will not be able to answer under charges of perjury!!! And this is in turn used in media sound bites to prove the private authority of the Federal Reserve. It’s a very clever game. It is called govern-ment (mind control) for a reason, for even the most ardent seeker of the Truth is blinded by its power. And inversely, the universal church stands only to subvert men from discovering the very Real Truth presented in the Bible, a Truth that would utterly destroy all denominations (proper names) of “Christianity,” a false and flattering title of no substance created by the Roman Caesar. The word Christian was certainly not a creation of christ or of God, and christ never directed anyone to become a legal “Christian.” Quite the opposite. Again, this is covered in triplicate in my upcoming volumes of research.
My in depth research long ago uncovered this idiocy about the many false rumors surrounding the Federal Reserve system, and the actual, primarily sourced reality about this agency of government can be found here:
Link–> https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/the-incontrovertible-conundrum-of-dr-ron-paul/
Link–> https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/todays-creatures-from-jekyll-island/
Link–> https://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/stop-the-religion-of-the-fed/
Here are some prime examples of very bad research that leads so many astray and cause so much arrogance of ignorance. And yet I am somehow the enemy for routing out these vipers of disinformation that tell lies worse than any banker or agency of government by simply pointing to the actual, primary sources of information. The Truth, and only the Truth, will set you free. Applying the flattering, empty title of “truth” to anything or anyone does not necessarily, and very seldom in fact, make it so…
“Government Preparing for the End of the Federal Reserve Charter in 2013”
“The Federal Reserve Charter began on December 23, 1913. This charter was good for 100 years, ensuring the Federal Reserve’s control over the United States currency…”
—Susanne Posel, excerpt from: http://occupycorporatism.com/government-preparing-for-the-end-of-the-federal-reserve-charter-in-2013/
I can’t count how many times I’ve shown this particular disinformation agent to be false, though I am unaware as to her status of useful idiot or handled asset. Whatever the case, these conspiratorial liars cause most people to miss the actual conspiracy (which is government itself) and focus on these false realities. What is the actual source of this lie remains unclear, but Suzzane Posel’s post seems to be the most often parroted among “thruthers” and their unverified, un-vetted sources.
And then there’s this type of random “truth” rumor reporting. This guy has no clue, seeking no legitimate source except by other “truthers.” How embarrassing it must be to create and support a petition to “end the 100 year charter” of the Fed when the simplest of research will reveal that the original 20 year charter was abolished by congress and changed into an unconditional perpetuity that only congress can end. And was there an apology? A correction? Anything?
From the parroting of these myths comes other logical fallacies based on the truth of the original lies, generally in the form of pointless speculation on a fictitious event and date that in reality doesn’t exist. Like December 21, 2012 as the supposed end of the world as we know it, the proclaimed end-day of the Fed came and went without a whimper, while congress laughed at all this idiocracy over a beer with Ben Bernanke and “Sir” Alan Greenspan.
And of course we cannot forget the progenitor and loud speaker of this total spoof, G. Edward Griffen, who plagiarized much of his work from Eustace Mullins without credit. Note that he says he doesn’t want to talk about what is “unpopular” in this interview, as so many “authors” of “truths” wish not to disturb the putrid pools of pond scum they have recreated. Of course not, because the “truth” movement loves and subsists on its own created lies.
While this soft and well-spoken man, who relies on the grandfatherly appearance of his trustworthiness to overshadow his untrustworthy words, just as Alex Jones relies on quite the opposite approach to quash any notion he is full of his own shit, spouts his mythology in such professional fashion, a special thanks to the website “Exposing Faux Capitalism” for breaking down the bullshit that is professed here. For the best lies are those parroted amongst actual Truths. The best salesman always uses Reality to peddle his own brand of fictions.
“Some interesting points arose out of this November 24, 2013 interview on the Big Plantation with G. Edward Griffin:
16m – In clearing up misconception about a 100-year charter for the Federal Reserve, he says there originally was one, and it was later removed, when in reality it was a 20-year charter.
19m – No JFK speech at Columbia university about breaking up Fed, as he had never even been to that university.
28m – Admits govt can shut down gold and silver, too. (In other words, its speculative value in dollars is subject only to government’s valuation.)
28m – Said it’s a good idea to have your assets tied up in gold and silver (FC: It wasn’t a good idea in 1933 and 1934, when they were confiscated, respectively!). (Funny to consider gold and silver, which is called as “lawful money,” is somehow protected from confiscation. They can take anything they want, your home, your children, your pets, and your God damned gold. No really, gold is looked down upon in the Bible folks. Seek knowledge, not gold and jewels.)
34m – Laughably says it doesn’t mean they want to back a currency with it, because it puts limits on their ability to make more money off interest. (What about the U.S. backing up its money supply from 1914 to 1933 40% by gold? Were the people crying out for that, or was it the bankers? He’s either unaware of, or intentionally concealing the historical pattern of the bankers reverting to some gold standard in order to shore up confidence in the monetary system after they’ve collapsed the current one.) (Exactly… wash, rinse, and repeat. I like this guy.)”
Link–> https://fauxcapitalist.com/2013/12/25/g-edward-griffin-on-the-alleged-100-year-federal-reserve-charter-and-his-claim-that-bankers-dont-want-a-monetary-system-based-upon-gold/ (Emphasis mine)
Well, at least the real creature Griffen got one thing right! The former charter, though 20 years not 100 years, was indeed reworked into perpetuity by congress. But he still proclaims the Federal Reserve is somehow not “federal.” Does that mean congress is not “federal” either? Unfortunately these very well-placed mistakes, either conscious or not, drive the “truth” movement into the very bowels of the darkness of ignorance.
Kudos at least to Bill Still, author of the Money Masters, though still a trumpeter and repurposer of many false quotes and mythologies parroted by others before him over and over in that “movement” and in the “truth” in documentary form, for at least coming forward to correct this “truth” that he was before unaware of and thus for verifying a rumor to be false when asked his opinion about it by the great shit factory of media entertainment corporations that is the Alex Jones’ “Infowars” machine.
Let’s take a look at the repercussions of such irresponsible reporting, as it manifests in a trickle-down effect amongst so many sincere seekers of what is really happening in the world. That is, until it reaches my eyes and ears!
From the GodLikeProductions.com forum, one member speculates that the “Federal Reserve’s 100 Year Charter Ends the SAME DAY as the Mayan Calendar ENDS.” Another post seems to challenge other members and perhaps the “truth” movement altogether with the headline “Why No Mention That The Federal Reserve’s 100 Year Charter Expires Soon,” as if some faction or element of the “truth” movement is trying to hide that fact. So funny…
TheTruthNews.com carries the headline: “Charter of the Federal Reserve Act expires in 2013,” reposting and parroting the poo flung by the original sourced monkey Suzanne Posel.
The SaviorsOfTheEarth website and forum posted this: “The U.S. Federal Reserve’s 100 Year Charter Expires ON The Now Infamous Date of December 21, 2012! …The U.S. Federal Reserve’s 100 year charter expires on the now infamous date of December 21, 2012. Its all over the net…“
Therefore it must be the “truth!”
Even the ALIPAC website got in on the action, again flinging Posel’s shit, when it posted: “Big Brother America: Government Preparing for the End of the Federal Reserve Charter.”
RealistNews.net’s forum included this post: “So Did The FEDERAL RESERVE give themsleves another 100 year contract? …The 99 year contract Congress gave the Federal Reserve back in 1913 has run out… why does that not matter to the public?” It then referred to another source from RumerMillNews.com, a source that has been deleted from that site, here: (http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/arc…ead=151858)
Fortunately, as word got around that this was a hoax, the “truthers” started correcting themselves in their own forums, often sounding almost disappointed that the lie wasn’t real, complete with the facts that these facts were only presented on “conspiracy” fact websites. Sadly, these things give a very bad reputation to the actual legal word conspiracy, which are thus used against all of the real cries of these sheep that unwittingly follow wolves dressed up like them. But of course there is no conspiracy from government. There cannot be. For the very definition of the word conspiracy in law is CONFEDERATION!!! Amazingly, we never wake up to the fact that we are all part of the conspiracy of government, pledging our fealty and love to it, and accepting therefore all it does against us and others.
CONFEDERACY – Criminal law. An agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or an act, which though not unlawful in itself, becomes so by the confederacy. The technical term usually employed to signify this offense, is CONSPIRACY. (Bouv1856)
CONSPIRATORS – Persons guilty of a conspiracy. Those who bind themselves BY OATH, covenant, or other alliance that each of them shall aid the other falsely and maliciously to indict persons; or falsely to move and maintain pleas, etc. Besides these, there are conspirators in treasonable purposes; as for plotting against the government. (Black4)
CON – Preposition – With. A prefix meaning with, together. Webster. – Adjective – A slang or cant abbreviation for confidence, as a con man or a con game. (Black4)
CONSPIRACY – In criminal law. A combination or CONFEDERACY between two or more persons formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, some unlawful or criminal act, or some act which is innocent in itself, but becomes unlawful when done by the concerted action of the conspirators, or for the purpose of using criminal or unlawful means to the commission of an act not in itself unlawful. A combination, or an agreement between two or more persons, for accomplishing an unlawful end or a lawful end by unlawful means. A partnership in criminal purposes. The essence of “conspiracy” is an agreement, together with an overt act, to do an unlawful act, or do a lawful act in an unlawful manner. Mere knowledge, acquiescence, approval, or attempt on part of one to perpetuate illegal act is insufficient. A conspiracy may be a continuing one; actors may drop out, and others drop in; the details of operation may change from time to time; the members need not know each other or the part played by others; a member need not know all the details of the plan or the operations; he must, however, know the purpose of the conspiracy and agree to become a party to a plan to effectuate that purpose. A consultation or agreement between two or more persons. either falsely to accuse another of a crime punishable by law; or wrongfully to injure or prejudice a third person, or any body of men, in any manner; or to commit any offense punishable by law; or to do any act with intent to prevent (BAR) the course of justice; or to effect a legal purpose with a corrupt intent, or by improper means. (Black4) (EMPHASIS MINE)
Silly rabbits, government cannot conspire against itself. Its very creation was the original sin, the origin and encompassment of the entirety of a conspiracy, a confederated plan and covenant by oath to create a legal corporation (district) that would falsely impersonate and cause fictional, legal attainder (corruption of blood) to all who become voluntarily its legal persons (public citizen-ships) under oath to protect it even from ourselves (domestics).
In short, the government cannot commit conspiracy against itself or its public persons, which is to say that it cannot commit evils against any of its own public creations (citizenships).
EVIL – It is an “evil” within rule that either means or end of conspiracy must be evil, to frustrate or impede a government function, whether that function is performed under a constitutional or an unconstitutional law. (Black4)
UNCONSTITUTIONAL – That which is contrary to the constitution. The opposite of “constitutional.” The word DOES NOT necessarily mean that the act assailed is contrary to sound principles of legislation. (Black4)
What is evil to that which is evil is only that which is good. To evil, to a conspirator (confederate) in binding combination under a sacred oath with others, the only evil (conspiracy) is that which is opposed to the original evil (confederation/conspiracy/combination).
Perspective is everything…
And this is why the alternative media model, the “truth” and “patriot” movements, are miserable failures. Never are any of the “truths” or actual sourced research presented therein ever taken to court. It would be pointless endeavor, since all of the crimes of congress are legally licensed by their own statutes. Their own constitution even proclaims them to be immune from punishment while in their fictional seats of office and while on company (United States) business. No story is ever followed through. It’s just a vomitous spew of information, a convincing mix of lies with realities. And it’s worthless. It means nothing without the courts opinion of it. There is no conspiracy because the conspirators sit in judgement over their own conspiracy. It’s a closed loop system. Nothing Alex Jones and other information vomiters has ever gone past the microphones and the $19.99 DVD’s and books they prostitute. It’s just info, and the real war is to ensure disclosure without any effect or punishment. The war on our minds is to cause in us a collective stillness, so that as long as the so-called “truth” is being told, surely something will be done about it. But nothing ever happens.
This is the stagnant cesspool of these information pushers, a false dialectic that directs the mind into believing that merely speaking about and “exposing” the crimes is somehow akin to a public lynching. But the lynch-pin stays safely secured. The hangman retired long ago. And the only actual event taking place, the only real Truth, is that the bank accounts and egos of these disinformation agents are getting a whole lot fatter.
To be clear, what this commercial congress creates has nothing to do with the constitution. They wear two hats, de jure (of law) and de facto (illegitimate). Their public laws and statutes with regards to commerce are a separate aspect of government, a side business that has nothing to do with the constitution. Legislation by congress in commercial matters (in mammon) need not be at all constitutional, and its evils “within rule” cannot be questioned or challenged, lest the challenger be in conspiracy against government. We must understand that most of the functionality of congress is indeed unconstitutional, prima facie, and deals only with those of us in public citizenship to its district. Citizenships of the United States, as creations of the District of Columbia, are not protected in any way by the constitution. A federal (non-State) citizenship is purely commercial in its nature, having nothing to do with the negative constitutional protections that private citizens (landholders of the private/several States) enjoy.
If you can understand the following definitions, then you can understand why a United States citizen-ship stands only without unalienable rights in a commercial franchise of usury, of usufruct, of voluntary servitude, and is not a party to the constitution, which protects only the negative, reserved rights of private (not public) State citizens. The international law of nations under admiralty/maritime law is not the same as the private law of the several (private) States (the People).
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – A territory situated on the Potomac river, and being the seat of government of the United States. It was originally ten miles square, and was composed of portions of Maryland and Virginia ceded by those states to the United States; but in 1846 the tract coming from Virginia was retroceded. Legally it is neither a state nor a territory, but is made subject, by the constitution, to the exclusive jurisdiction of congress. (Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th edition)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – IS NEITHER A STATE NOR A TERRITORY. Congress is authorized “to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.” Maryland and Virginia ceded territory on the Potomac, which Congress, by act of July 16, 1790, accepted. In December, 1800, the seat of government was removed from Philadelphia. By the act of July 11,1846, Congress retroceded the county of Alexandria to Virginia. The District constitutes the county of Washington. A CITIZEN OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS NOT A CITIZEN OF A STATE. The laws in force December 1, 1873, were revised and republished, by direction of Congress, in a separate volume known as the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia. (W.C. Anderson’s Dictionary of Law, 1889)
For further clarification, let us view the history of this district as told in Federal case of DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation, Petitioner, v. OCEAN RISK RETENTION GROUP, INC:
Sections 1 and 18 of the act of congress of February 21, 1871, entitled ‘An act to provide a government for the District of Columbia‘ (16 St. 419), are as follows: ‘Section 1. That all that part of the territory of the United States included within the limits of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, created into a government by the name of the District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes, and may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have a seal, and exercise all other powers of a municipal corporation not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and the provisions of this act.’ ‘Sec. 18. That the legislative power of the District shall [129 U.S. 141, 144] extend to all rightful subjects of legislation within said District, consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act, subject, nevertheless, to all the restrictions and limitations imposed upon states by the tenth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States… These sections are carried forward into the act of congress of June 22, 1874, entitled ‘An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the United States, general and permanent in their nature, relating to the District of Columbia, in force on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,’ as sections 2, 49, 50…
And Whereas: The Constitution does provide that Congress has the power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district not exceeding ten miles square, as may, by session of particular states and the acceptance of Congress, BECOME THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
And Whereas: On February 21, 1871, the Forty First Congress passed an act entitled “An Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia,” legislating the organization of a municipal corporation to run the day to day affairs of the District of Columbia, the seat of government, which transferred the United States of America, the Republic, INTO “A CORPORATE ENTITY” entitled UNITED STATES, in capital letters, having “no” jurisdiction outside the District of Columbia.
And Whereas: Congress adopted the text of the federal constitution as the constitution or charter of this municipal corporation. This municipal corporation was granted the power TO CONTRACT to provide municipal services to the inhabitants of the District of Columbia and necessarily as an operation of the privileges and immunity clause of Article Four of the Constitution, any other person who chooses to contract for its services.
A difficult pill to swallow, we must realize that citizenship to the United States is a contractual relationship. But more to the point, we must take into consideration the maxims (principles) of law, which state that the contract makes the law. The laws of the federal government of the United States are public laws which do not effect or bind the private “People” of each State. But a contracted, public United States citizen-ship is a creation of the United States, and the maxim (principle) of law states that the creator controls. A man that stands privately (non-commercially) has no citizen-ship (vessel) of the United States, respecting that union only as a compact in conspiracy (confederation) that stands to protect his reserved rights of privacy. But a man acting in the agency of a public person (legal status) created by the United States under contract is the opposite of the private man acting as a State citizen, and retains nothing of his God-given or unalienable rights thereof, opting instead to a contractual state in subjection and voluntary servitude (under the doctrine of master and servant) to that district. A United States person only exists in the extended jurisdiction of the District of Columbia, also known as “the United States,”
“…This position is assented to by Chief Justice MARSHALL, speaking for this court, in the case of Hepburn v. Ellzey, 2 Cranch, 445, 452, where the question was whether a citizen of the District could sue in the circuit courts of the United States as a citizen of a state. The court did not deny that the District of Columbia is a state in the sense of being A DISTINCT POLITICAL COMMUNITY, but held that the word ‘state‘ in the constitution, where it extends the judicial power to CASES BETWEEN CITIZENS OF THE SEVERAL “STATES,“ REFERS TO THE STATES OF THE UNION…
“…it was held that parties residing in one county could not be said to be ‘beyond the seas,’ or in a different jurisdiction, in reference to the other county, though the two counties were subject to different laws. We are clearly of opinion that the plaintiff (as the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA) IS A MUNiCIPAL CORPORATION, having a right to sue and be sued, and subject to the ordinary rules that govern the law of procedure between private persons.
“Corporations are ‘PERSONS‘ IN THE LAW. There is no apparent reason why they should not be included in the statute. It is conceded that private corporations are included…
“It cannot apply to the sovereign power, of course. No restrictive laws apply to the sovereign unless so expressed. And especially no laws affecting a right on the ground of neglect or laches, because neglect and laches cannot be imputed to him. And it matters not whether the sovereign be an individual monarch, or a republic or state. The principle applies to all sovereigns. The reason usually assigned for this prerogative is that the sovereign is not answerable for the delinquencies of his agents. But, whatever the true reason may be, such is the general law,—such the universal law, except where it is expressly waived. The privilege, however, is a prerogative one, and cannot be challenged by any PERSON INFERIOR to the sovereign, whether that person be natural or corporate…
“The doctrine is well understood, that to the sovereign power the maxim ‘nullum tempus occurrit regi‘ applies, and that the United States and the several states are not, without express words, bound by statutes of limitation. Although municipal corporations are considered as public agencies, exercising, in behalf of the state, public duties, there are many cases which hold that such corporations are not exempt from the operation of limitation statutes, but that such statutes, at least as respects all real and personal actions, run in favor of and against these corporations in the same manner and to the same extent as against natural persons.’ In Evans v. Erie Co., 66 Pa. St. 222, 228, SHARSWOOD, J., says: ‘That the statute of limitations runs against a county or other municipal corporation, we think, cannot be doubted. The prerogative is that of the sovereign alone; nullum tempus occurrit reipublicae. Her grantees, THOUGH ARTIFICIAL BODIES CREATED BY HER, are in the same category with natural persons‘…“
—METROPOLITAN R. CO. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Decided: October 21, 1889 – 132 U.S. 1 (10 S.Ct. 19, 33 L. Ed. 231) Nathaniel Wilson and Walter D. Davidge, for plaintiff in error. A. G. Riddle and H. E. Davis, for defendant in error. BRADLEY, J.
To have public (federal) citizenship in the United States, which is seated in the municipal corporation of Washington D.C., is to no be a citizen privately of any State. We have all been duped by the birth certification process, which is the creation of a legal United States entity (legal person), to contract in that person as agents of the principality of the United States. We confirm and ratify our public person-hood with every signature, every benefit taken, every number assigned, and every expression of use of that commercial vessel (ship) until finally, at the age of consent or “adulthood,” we enter into legalized (licensed) adultery in that commercial jurisdiction of mammon. We are thus rendered unto Caesar (the district).
No legally created entity (admixed corporate name) of the commercial government of the United States has unalienable rights, for national citizenship is the opposite of being a private State citizen, being as one who reserves all non-franchised, natural law rights under God. The very notion of public or national citizenship is very much a lean on all such “God-given” rights, which are replaced by a commercial franchise under contractual relationship called as “freedom” within the jurisdiction of the United States. All the goyim born in the nations united around the world are under the contract of this synagogue of satan, causing us to act adversarial to our very nature and best interests, and placing us into a hopeless state of land-less commercial being in abandonment of our God. It matters not what your religion is, you have a god (magistrate). Your god is either Natural or unnatural, legal fictions or Reality. The choice to contract in the person (status) of another, of a municipal corporation subservient to congress, is the choice to accept the artificial state and its magistrates and administrative judges as your god, the creator of the legal status (person) you play the part of. The ship (person) of the United States citizen is under the control of these legal gods, while the Bible, as being part of the common law, is abandoned under said contract of U.S. citizenship. The common law does not apply to U.S. citizens, meaning that the state is free (separate) from the church, and more specifically that no moral, spiritual, or natural law of any kind applies to the contracted relationship. The U.S. citizenship, standing in total abandonment of all God-given rights, is purely a legal commercial entity.
For those who dismiss the Bible because they have dismissed the True Nature of what religion actually is, an act of sheer ignorance, let us examine this choice between being private and contracting in public. To act in religion against the legal law of man and to accept a false, flattering title of some corporation calling itself legally as a “religion” are two completely different things. Flattering titles do not make the man. And “Christian” is an empty word, as are all of its denominations (names) stemming from the “Catholic” universal legal church and state. And so, if the reader wishes to discover why he or she is a slave to this system of deceit and piracy, why his patriotic “truths” never seem to jive with the realities experienced under this legal police state, you better loose your ego and fully comprehend the following, and realize that the corporate, legal church and state, no matter what it calls itself, can only be antichrist in its artificial nature.
CHRISTIAN – One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being BORN of Christian parents or IN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. See NAME. (W.C. Anderson’s Dictionary of Law, 1889)
CHRISTIANITY – The religion established by Jesus Christ. 2. Christianity has been judicially declared to be a part of the common law of Pennsylvania… To write or speak contemptuously and maliciously against it, is an indictable offense. (Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1856)
CHRISTIANITY – The system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ; the religion founded by Christ. Christianity is said to be part of the common law. “Christianity is parcel of the laws of England; and, therefore, to reproach the Christian religion is to speak in subversion of the law.” “The essential principles of natural religion” and “of revealed religion, are a part of the common law, so that any person reviling or subverting or ridiculing them may be prosecuted at common law.” “The true sense of the maxim is that the law will not permit the essential principles of revealed religion to be ridiculed and reviled.” Christianity is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania in the qualified sense that its divine origin and truth are admitted, and therefore it is not to be maliciously and openly reviled and blasphemed against, to the annoyance of believers or the injury of the public. Not Christianity founded upon any particular religious tenets; but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men. The maxim does not mean that Christianity is an established religion; nor that its precepts, by force of their own authority, form part of our system of municipal law; nor that the courts may base their judgments upon the Bible; nor that religious duties may be penally enforced; nor that legal discrimination in favor of Christianity is allowed. The best features of the common law, especially those which regard the family and social relations, if not derived from, have at least been improved and strengthened by, the prevailing religion and the teachings of its sacred Book. But the law does not attempt to enforce the precepts of Christianity on the ground of their sacred character or divine origin. Some of those precepts, though we may admit their continual and universal obligation, we must nevertheless recognize as being incapable of enforcement by human laws. Those precepts, moreover, affect the heart, and address themselves to the conscience; while the laws of the state can regard the outward conduct only: FOR WHICH REASONS CHRISTIANITY IS NOT PART OF THE LAW OF THE LAND IN ANY SENSE WHICH ENTITLES THE COURTS TO TAKE NOTICE OF AND BASE THEIR JUDGEMENTS UPON IT, except so far they can find that its precepts and principles have been incorporated in and made a component part of the law of the State. The maxim can have NO REFERENCE TO THE LAW OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, since the sources of that law are the CONSTITUTION, TREATIES, AND ACTS OF CONGRESS. (W.C. Anderson’s Dictionary of Law, 1889)
The key to understanding here is the difference between who established the religion. The religion of christ is the Bible, as the law of God, christ being the example of how man is to act in accordance with that Highest spiritual Law of God and no other, despite all other temptations, and also known by such modern names as the Natural Law and equitableness (but not as “equality”). The Catholic religion was started by Caesar, a flattering legal title forced upon all his pagan citizenry, carried on by the immortal office of “Pope,” and guarded legally and violently throughout history by the vatican city-state. Thus our legal person of the state falls under the law of the establisher of the church, just as the constitution was militarily “established” and religiously “ordained” as one entity. Separation is not divorce, just a really bad relationship. The church and state, as we have just read and by whatever name we denominate it under, are both opposed to the Natural Law of God, and always stand in combination to enslave by deception. All persons, all corporations, are unnatural. There are no exceptions.
To remain as a private man, one must follow this unwritten law as part of the common law, which is to say the the common law may only be invoked by those who have not sold their soul in to the public, commercial citizen-ship of mammon. This is not to say that the common law is at all a good thing, only that the choice must be made to follow the scriptural law so that the common law recognizes our intent above whatever civil fiction and artificial rights of its legal franchise. As for the rest of the common law, which amounts mostly to the Roman law and to court decisions, presidents, and opinions of the Bar Associations both national and international, we must realize that the common law allows each man his own individual choice to either act religiously (spiritually and morally in privacy under God’s Law) or legally (artificially and in evil under the fictional persona of the state in public show). It’s all about choice. And in this completely corrupted society of nations united in evil under the one world government and “universal” religion, it has become custom to automatically accept this form of voluntary, indentured slavery from birth. The entirety of society, from education to entertainment, is an evil (conspiratorial) design to injure (bring into legal jurisdiction and law) all men. Choice has been turned into a causality, the acceptance of citizenship to the United States merely a causal effect of public education and thus public-mindedness passed on from generation to generation, until the once public knowledge has been turned into the jealously guarded secrets of the secretaries of the state. The greatest secret of the corporate church and state is their purposeful inducement of complete ignorance of both the scriptural and legal systems of law, to the point where today the only way we can identify with the Truth of Reality is to call ourselves by another flattering title with no substance, as “truthers” and “patriots.” But the real Truth is that we cannot take back our country because it was never ours to begin with. We are not its creators and so cannot be its sovereigns. The hardest Truth is that we can only take back our Self, our spiritual identities, by relinquishing our contractual relationship with the district that distrains and distresses us in seizure (Caesar). For the only country that we can ever take back is God’s Country. For to be a citizenship of the United States or of any other legal entity, nation, or State, is to take another god before the One True God of Nature, as is written in scripture (and thus unwritten in the common law). The creator controls. The Highest God wins. And the surname as a legal attachment defeats the authority of the christian name, for in the legal law all is backwards, unnatural, and so the last name is considered as the first name, as the last will and testament of the man acting in agency to a principal legal god of some nation.
“For all the gods of the nations are idols…”
—Psalms 96:5, KJB
To be more clear, and as is detailed beyond doubt in my forthcoming works, of which this blog post is merely a minute microcosm of that detailed, multi-volumed digest and encyclopedic reference guide of True knowledge and of self-evidence, a public citizenship is a foreigner in whatever private (several) State he resides in. The word several as legally defined and used in United States law means private or foreign. Thus the United States is a foreign “state” as compared to the several States (private, landholding People). The domicile and artificial existence of any United States person (a legal, public status) is only within the jurisdiction of the United States, and its residence is as a public easement or license to commercially partake in public things and trade. It cannot tread on the private lands of the private People of each private (several) State. For the United States citizen-ship (commercial vessel), all trade is thus interstate commerce, for a United States citizenship only ever exists in a temporary residence within any private State, its “home” and father (family) being only the federal District it is birthed and registered into. And as my works reveal, the climax of this stranger-than-fiction story is simply this: no United States citizen-ship may hold land in perfect or “alodial” title, which means that we are a fictional “people” that are always trespassing on the privately held land of one of the private People (as the privately constituted We, the People), having no land (castle/kingdom/sovereignty) of our own, existing only to serve those private masters through that municipal corporation in public, commercial, interstate franchise. The conspirators created the United States to protect their own private land holdings against us, against their goyim, and have slowly caused mass ignorance amongst the general (goyim) population so that they may, with each new “generation,” cheat (escheat) us all out of our rightful blood inheritance over the lands of our ancestors. Public citizenship under the United States is not the same as being a private State citizen over (as creator/god of) the United States. Public law effects only public persons, and the de facto congress in its commercial hat only creates public law.
This is the legal matrix we have slowly been deceived and tricked into accepting as our false reality, under a false id-entity, and the alternative “truth” and “patriot” movements are there to perpetuate the mythos that all citizens, public and private, national and State, are “equal.” Nothing could be farther from the Truth. For in true Orwellian style, only slaves can be made to be equal. Equality is not equitableness under the Natural Law of God. Equality is a forced “right” required to be respected by each citizen-ship. Equity is the law of persons, not men. The scriptural, moral law is that man must be equitable in his relations with all other men, never acknowledging his persons or flattering titles of that legal realm. This is True wisdom, the hidden mysteries never taught by the church and state, for the Bible is very much opposed to all things legally established, be they fictionally “commercial” or “religious” institutions. And so we may understand why the church is said to be false. The whore of Babylon to which so may prostitute themselves to. There is such a massive difference between “legal” equality (the voluntary slavery of public citizenship) and Natural equity (non-commercial privacy), which is a conformity with the Natural Law (God’s Law). To be public is to be aliened. It is to believe (love) fiction over reality (God’s “Creation”). It is to respect artifice, otherwise known as a license to live in sin through legalized adultery (adulthood). It is to be in the legal tender bosom of mammon.
The reader cannot get caught up in these terms, for this is not a debate over evolution and creationism. These are the conceits of fools, the vomit of ignorant men acting like dogs by doing their master’s bidding according to their public training. God simply means that which is self-evident. We need not personify this self-evident Reality of Nature into a white-bearded man sitting upon some cloud-strewn throne, though it is much easier to tell the story of the moral, scriptural law through such personification and anthropomorphizing of the allegorical parables of the Bible. These stories were told because most of the population was kept in illiteracy, so that the law could be comprehend vulgarly though never mastered. In today’s societies, the masses have been taught to read and write, but the language that is taught causes more confusion that that old system of purposeful illiteracy. And so the mongrel English language is known secretly as the language of illiteracy, also known as “dog-Latin.” For when we speak in this vulgar tongue of the commonalty in the legal jurisdiction, where most terms carry the opposite or opposing definitions to Reality and Nature, the gods of the courts hear only their Roman, Latin meaning, otherwise known as legalese. And so the professors of the English language are at best at the top of the illiteracy chain gang, and at worst are merely choking on their own conceit. To learn the legal language, as well as that language for which the Bible is written in, is not only to learn an entirely new language that appears exactly the same as the one we currently bark like dogs, but is also a completely figurative and metaphoric thought process that must be mastered. It is the fictional representation of reality. It is the matrix code of that which is adversarial (satanic) to God’s Nature and self-evidence, a system built completely upon the deceit of opposites, of false words describing fictional creations of legal gods. As I said before, our individual choices establish our god, and one way or another we all have a god. This is the True nature of choice, and these masters of delusion have managed to place us all into a causality loop where choice is made to appear as the actual illusion. And so we choose without comprehension of the available choice to contract with the fiction. After all, as the story is universally told, the devil may only steal our mind, body, and soul through our own voluntary contract and signature.
If I could impart one thing to the reader today so that this totality of opposition can be made clear between the organized corporations called as “religions” and what the Bible actually is, or rather what the word God (as “Jehovah”) actually means in the Bible, it would be simply this: the Truth is never that which is offensive, only defensive. Jehovah is defined as a verb, not merely an empty noun (name), whereas the word “god” is used in most instances throughout the Bible, thanks to the King James translators, as the words theos, elohim, archon, king, magistrate, prince, and other legal names and flattering titles of false gods. This word magistrate (god) is defined as kings, presidents, governors, mayors, judges, etc. And so the commonalty of goyim have been taught to despise the God of Nature by mistaken identity, as if the God of Nature is the same destructive and murdering force as the gods spoken of in the Bible. In a nutshell, the false doctrines of the corporate church teaches that God (Jehovah) is to be blamed for the actions of man (also named as “god” in the translated scriptures). And what would one expect from a false god than to translate the word king as god? And so in the simplest terms, the Bible can be summed up by merely stating that God represents Reality and Nature. That which is of God is opposed to and opposite of that which is a creation of man, as either physical or conceptual inventions, which includes the legal law of man that stands directly opposed to God, to Nature, and thus to Reality, all of which are merely words that mean the self-evident Truth. Jehovah (God) is defined simply as that which is self-existent, as that which is a self-evident Truth. And so what is of the Real is said to be of the realm of God, also known as “Creation.” All else is of the realm of fiction, also known as satan. The word satan means only that which is adversarial to God, and that which is of satan’s realm is called as art, technology, artifice, fiction, legalism, and any other term of art that represents what is Real, what is self-evident, as some legal fiction. Thus all names, flattering titles, numbers, letters patent, signs, marks, identities, reputations, and any other concept of man’s legal realm can be said to be satanic, as that which is adversarial and opposed to Reality. And so we say it is opposed to God. And so the only way to be free under God with those unalienable rights spoken about in the declaration of independence is to acknowledge the common law, which is to say we must embrace the Bible as our Highest Law – not what the corporate church doctrines state as false law, and not by joining any of man’s inventions of state licensed religions, all of which are false and opposed to the scriptural Law. We must either act the part of a man in and under the Natural Law of God, or we may choose to continue acting satanically (adversarially) to God’s Nature and Law by continuing to embrace that which is opposed to it, the surname, number, and marks of this legal beast system. In this way, that which is the self-evident Truth of Reality, of what exists despite man’s inventions, is the only defense that man has against that jurisdiction of legal fiction and false law of persons. Another way of stating this is simply that God (the self-evident Truth of Nature) and only God can set us free. Only the Highest, self-evident Truth will set you free.
But in the legal realm, all that is a confirmed and ratified lie is the established and ordained “truth,” ordained by the opinions and decisions of the gods of the courts. In the realm of the adversaries, God (self-evident Truth) and Nature are the enemy. God is offensive to the legal gods, which is why they separated their commercial state from their moral church. Only when man’s religious actions are placed Higher and supra to the pretended authority of the legally combined church and state state can man claim unalienable rights. This is the self-evident Truth that is also alluded to in the so-called declaration of independence. It is a Truth that only protects those private men who reserved all their rights in privacy from their own legal creation of that incorporation of the United States. All creations of the congress of those private gods of the several States united are placed into this holding corporation called as the district of Caesar (seizure). And so the moral of the story, the moral of the scriptures bears only one True and self-evident interpretation, which is that only that which is self-evident may set you free. Only God may set you free. Respect only of God’s Law of Nature and no other false doctrine or legal system may set you free. And our only defense as men of God is the self evidence not only of Nature, but of our True Selves. To exist without name, title, number, and mark, which is to say without any form of false legal identity, is our only defense. All other “truths” that are based on lies and legal fictions are offensive to our very Nature.
You know when the Truth presents Itself because It is undeniable no matter how hard we try, generally causing pain to our ego, as that which protects our id, the false legal id-entity that controls us mentally through the artifice of man’s law and fiction. The self-evidence of God’s Nature of Reality eats away at all fallacy and utterly destroys the ego and false-flattering titles of the ignorant fools posing as info-wariers and patriotic truthers! This is the beauty of that which is in self-evidence, the only Truth that actually exists in Nature. And it is the unveiling of this self-evidence that has become my life’s work, no matter how much it hurts.
If the reader chooses to learn these self-evident and sourced Truths as I have researched, fully sourced, and represented in this and other posts and in my upcoming works, then please do so in the Pure intent of Love and Charity for which they are offered. And please oh please dispute them with anything other than these false, second and third-hand, unenlightened, false prophets and liars. Only what is Source is self-evident. At the very least, seeing this utterly complete and reenforced lie played out by so many parrots should knock that flattering title of “truth” completely out of the minds of those who fall for this consensus-based news of the “truth” of protected lies. The substance of what is Truth is not a badge, not an empty name, it is a mentality, a verb of action as that which is in self-existence without any proof of concept or invention. Only artificial things need be named and proven to exist, for only the artifice is not self-evident. Life never needs proven. Nature never needs proven. Reality never needs proven. We either sacrifice ourselves to that which is self-evident (otherwise known as the Truth God’s Creation) or we submit ourselves to these false gods, the creators of mythology and darkness. Do your own research and stop listening to these delusional quacks. Only you can discover, recognize, and respect alone what is self-evident, and only through actual source-based research will you ever stop being a fool choking on your own conceit and love of what is the big lie, the grand delusion.
The Real, spiritual enlightenment is that the Truth will always lead one back to one’s True Self as we realize that our actual Selves have been metaphorically stolen and repurposed into fictional personas of the districted nations of Caesar. Our Inner Being is thus personified into the artifice, our false id-entity assigned at birth, and our ego formed and perfected by the time we start acting in adulthood as that artificial persona of the nation, justifying our false existence and patriotically guarding our perceived but empty stake (cross) in mammon. After all, who wants to take responsibility for their own actions nowadays? Nope, it has to be the bankers, the politicians, the priests, and the devil. We can just get insurance and kill by license.
Yet all of these are fictions…
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit…”
“The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool. As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools…”
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.”
—Proverbs 26: 4-5, 7-9, 11-12 KJB
To hear these shepherds of darkness herd their sheep even as they insult the “herd mentality” is the ultimate insult to anyone who sees through their proclaimed “truths.” To hear the slave-masters complain about their slaves even as they fill their heads with crap is the most pathetic part about this artifice, for then the sheep of these shepherds go out and complain about everyone else and never face their own self-evident responsibilities. Instead of the enlightenment of the individual through knowledge and understanding of their own place in God’s Nature and binding Law, the herd is driven further into the depths of patriotic fervor in respect and protectionism (zionism) for their pirate captors, convinced in fixing and taking back something that was never theirs in the first place and that doesn’t exist in Nature, seeking a status that is not of Reality and that can only be attained through submission to the idea that man and man alone is as god and sovereign. All legal (artificial) rights come from the king, from the private families and bloodline of “the People” who created this false system of mammon. And all nations are now being united into the “United Nations” just as all states were united into the “United States.” The parabolic warnings of the Bible are coming to fruition even as you read this.
And so let us return to the mythos surrounding the central banks of all nations, as they now stand under the World Bank of that United Nations. For the story of the Fed is only just beginning…
Edward Flaherty, an academic economist and Ph.D. in the Department of Economics at the College of Charleston, S.C., called out G. Edward Griffin’s description of the secret meeting on Jekyll Island as “conspiratorial”, “amateurish”, and “suspect”. I couldn’t agree more, and have certainly reported it as so. To cut through the rhetoric presented by Griffen in order to find the verifiable facts is difficult at best, and any work that cannot stand on its own legitimacy and source material should only be considered as what it is, Roman adversaria; the opposite of that which is self-evident.
Perhaps you should have a look.
Link–> http://publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/Federal_Reserve.html
As with all research, verify what this man has said as well. Never take myself or anyone else at their second-hand word. The difference between shock jocks and myself is that I genuinely mean it when I say do your own research and to get off of your ass and go to the correct and only Real sources, and stop listening to these conceited fools. And never take anyone’s word without so much inner consideration, for the only way to obtain True knowledge and understanding is through constant, continuous consideration, like tossing a salad of information in your mind until all the bullshit is filtered away and only Source remains, sense without nonsense, Truth without mystery. Mistakes are easy to make with friends and leaders like these. So many lies about the Fed are so prevalent and ingrained within the patriot mythos that some even worked their way into Flaherty’s own pontifications, just as they have in my own works over so many years. My early work was quite susceptible to this monkey dung flung so indiscriminately and without care or awareness of source.
Not ironically, my work is hardly ever reposted elsewhere. No one is offering me a writing job or new radio hosting gig because no one can sell the actual Truth. you can’t sell gold when I call bullshit on its valuation and link to mammon with its more unpopular nickname of “nation killer.” No one wants to hear the story of the golden calf of the scriptural parables, where slaves of the old system combined their gold so that they could purchase themselves into the new slave system, which is exactly the reason quoted by all gold salesmen to hoard gold. They simply can’t sell anything that depends on lies and obfuscations of the parabolic scriptural teachings for its promotion. It’s as if the former gold confiscation didn’t happen, as if somehow gold has some sex-magick appeal and mystical protection that somehow makes it anything more that a tool of mammon, a tool of enslavement, and a tool of depravity that causes men to value gold more than Life, God, and Nature itself. To the corrupted mind, everything in God’s Nature can be purchased (conquered) with money in whatever form it is respected. This is the epitome of the justification for slavery, for animal and child abuse, for pollution, and for genetically modified foods, and for so many other crimes against nature that are excused by license and by monetary compensation.
To be clear, I no longer hold any sympathy for the devil. By this I mean that, by exposing these liars and their lies as the devils they are, I seek only to break the hypnotic spell they have over their listeners and readers, and hopefully over their very own Selves, and in turn wish only to expose them to same pain and suffering caused by the destructive power of their own hypnotic but false suggestions. I seek not to make fools of anyone, for as christ said I am not here to judge anyone, but only to set them on the correct course so that their final judgement and place may be secured. We don’t realize that to be in legal citizenship is to be pre-judged (doomed) at birth. We never quite understand that before we set foot in any jurisdiction and court of the gods that created our strawman (legal person/status) we have already been pre-judged, and that a plea (prayer) to that judicial god of “innocent” is not an option. There is no innocence in the legal realm. Only a man responsible for his own actions can account himself as innocent, his only judge the self-evidence of God’s Law of Nature and duty to It. Heaven awaits us all, for heaven is merely that which is untouched by man’s fictions, the Nature of God’s Creation. Citizenship is scripturally and legally speaking a spiritual death, a mort-gage (dead pledge) in mort-main (dead hands), and the jurisdiction of the United States is nicknamed as hell. The district and jurisdiction of the United States is an open-air debtor’s prison, make no mistake about it. And only the scriptural path walked by christ and manifested through our own actions may take us out of that fictional, districted jurisdiction.
HELL – The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the king’s debtors were confined. (Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th edition)
Welcome to the new age, my friends. For the franchise of hell is going global. A world of debtors is being created. For we must remember that all debt in whatever form it presents itself is a legal obligation that must be performed in legal form, a legal person (status), and so all debt is a performance debt. All debtors of the nations united under one kingdom of hell on earth must act the parts assigned and respected by them, as the world citizenship (debt obligation) of this United Nations construct and legal matrix rears its ugly head.
And what about an apology, and admission of tomfoolery?
To not verify the existence of an ending 100-year charter is inexcusable, and to promote it knowingly without verification and without apology for so many past lies and predictions should cause his media empire to fall just as much as any mainstream outlet. No apology or corrections were publicly submitted by Susanne Posel, Alex Jones, James Corbett, G. Edward Griffen, or any other con artist or useful idiot out there to my knowledge at the time of this writing, even after so many outlets have reposted and supported their rhetoric and works.
I want to be clear here that no one in their right mind should for one second consider that these agents of the planned apocalypse like Alex Jones are not aware of these fictions they sell as reality. For again we are deceived into following these false prophets of artificial, non-self-evidnet information even in our understanding of what the word apocalypse actually means.
“The Masons hold their grand festival on the day of St. John, not knowing that therein they merely signify the fish-god Oannes, the first Hermes and the first founder of the Mysteries, the first messenger to whom the Apocalypse was given, and whom they ignorantly confound with the fabulous author of the common Apocalypse. The sun is then (midsummer day) in its greatest altitude. In this the Naros is commemorated.”
—Book of Enoch (vol. ii., p. 154)
“The miter is derived directly from the miters of the ancient pagan fish-god Dagon and the goddess Cybele. The papal miter represents the head of Dagon with an open mouth, which is the reason for the pointed shape and split top.”
—Ruben Joseph, excerpt from: ‘Why Are The Young People Leaving The Church ’
“In their veneration and worship of Dagon, the high priest of paganism would actually put on a garment that had been created from a huge fish… The head of the fish formed a mitre above that of the old man, while its scaly, fan-like tail fell as a cloak behind, leaving the human limbs and feet exposed.”
— Austen Henry Layard, excerpt from: ‘Nineveh and Babylon’
“The most prominent form of worship in Babylon was dedicated to Dagon, later known as Ichthys, or the fish. In Chaldean times, the head of the church was the representative of Dagon, he was considered to be infallible, and was addressed as ‘Your Holiness’. Nations subdued by Babylon had to kiss the ring and slipper of the Babylonian god-king. The same powers and the same titles are claimed to this day by the Dalai Lama of Buddhism, and the Pope. Moreover, the vestments of paganism, the fish mitre and robes of the priests of Dagon are worn by the Catholic bishops, cardinals and popes. Ea Enki, who is a God of Sumerian (Enki) and Babylonian (Ea) mythology… was a water god who was half man, half fish hybrid. In Greek mythology, Ea was known as Oannes… It is believed that, in the daytime, this deity would emerge from the water and was responsible for teaching art, science and writing to the human race.”
—Mary E. Walsh, excerpt from: ’Wine of Roman Babylon’
“At first they led a somewhat wretched existence and lived without rule after the manner of beasts. But, in the first year after the flood appeared an animal endowed with human reason, named Oannes, who rose from out of the Erythian Sea, at the point where it borders Babylonia. He had the whole body of a fish, but above his fish’s head he had another head which was that of a man, and human feet emerged from beneath his fish’s tail. He had a human voice, and an image of him is preserved unto this day. He passed the day in the midst of men without taking food; he taught them the use of letters, sciences and arts of all kinds. He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect the fruits; in short he instructed them in everything which could tend to soften human manners and humanize their laws. From that time nothing material has been added by way of improvement to his instructions. And when the sun set, this being Oannes, retired again into the sea, for he was amphibious.”
—Writings of Berossus, a 3rd century Babylonian priest
If hell is that which is adversarial to the Nature of Reality and self-evident Truth, then what in Heaven’s name can I possibly call this “truth” movement but one of the layers of that hell, existing somewhere between Fox News, Edward Bernays, Alex Jones, and the Pope?
We are taught that the apocalypse is a bad thing. But what does this word actually mean, and why would such a propagandist machine of the combined church and state be so hell-bent on obfuscating its True and self-evident meaning? Perhaps a better question is to ask what event can possibly destroy this empire built by the hands of men at the expense of all other men and through the legal fiction of false reality?
There is only one answer. It is the thing most feared by the keepers of the mysteries, of those who hide under the rose. And that is simply True knowledge.
APOCALYPSE – noun – apoc’alyps. [Gr. from to disclose; and to cover.] Revelation; discovery; disclosure. The name of a book of the New Testament, containing many discoveries or predictions respecting the future state of Christianity, written by St. John, in Patmos, near the close of the first century.(–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
REVELATION – noun – [Latin revelatus, revelo. See Reveal.] 1. The act of disclosing or discovering to others what was before unknown to them; appropriately, the disclosure or communication of truth to men by God himself, or by his authorized agents, the prophets and apostles. How that by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words. Ephesians 3:3. 2 Corinthians 12:1. 2. That which is revealed; appropriately, the sacred truths which God has communicated to man for his instruction and direction. The revelations of God are contained in the Old and New Testament. 3. The Apocalypse; the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John.(–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
OCCULT – adjective – [Latin occultus, occulo; ob and celo, to conceal.] – Hidden from the eye or understanding; invisible; secret; unknown; undiscovered; undetected; as the occult qualities of matter. The occult sciences are magic, necromancy, etc. Occult lines, in geometry, are such as are drawn with the compasses or a pencil, and are scarcely visible. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
OCCULTATION – noun – [Latin occultatio.] 1. A hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet. 2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
OCCULTNESS – noun – The state of being concealed from view; secretness. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
OCCULTED – adjective – Hid; secret… (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
HID, HIDAGE – noun – [from hide, a quantity of land.] An extraordinary TAX formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. (–Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language, 1828)
The whole plan, the entirety of design of these false gods of the church and state and United Nations is to cause in the minds of man a false revelation, a false apocalypse. By passing of fiction and lies as True knowledge, all of man can be manipulated and ushered into this new age system of mammon. For imagine the power of mammon when its main tool becomes cashless! This false sensationalism of unity of all nations and of all religions is ludicrous, just as the notion that the Jewish and christian Laws (the New and Old) can be practiced harmoniously together, that the Christian gentile and the Talmudic Jew can live together in equitableness when the very purpose of any nation is to create a multitude of goyim. That 1,000’s of world religions can be made into one authority under one false god and church over one false union of states by the power of legal status (world citizenship) is the final solution. For legal, religious freedom (franchise) has nothing to do with our individual actions according to our moral law, it only applies to what we think, not what we do. Expression of religion and moral law is literally illegal in a legal state.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION – Embraces the concept of freedom to believe and freedom to act, the first of which (belief) is absolute, but the second of which (action) remains SUBJECT TO REGULATION for protection of society. (Black4)
Freedom of moral thought, but not freedom to act upon that conscious moral thought… This is what legal freedom is when defined by a legal corporation called government. This is not Natural freedom under God. This is tyranny named (noun) as “freedom.” Legal freedom is only a franchise of fictional persons. Governments cannot control in totality your thought processes, only your actions (anti-pro-verb). Specifically, we must recognize absolutely that the purpose of the legal law is to prevent man from acting upon his moral thoughts.
“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
“No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.”
—Mark 3: 27, KJB
The strawman, as the legal, national citizen-ship is that bond. Our house is not our own. Our use of that artificial legal status ensures our legal performance against God, against the scriptural law as part of the common law. Our spiritual choice is nullified, though we can quit claiming to be that fictional person (i.e. adulterer/sinner) at any time we choose. The contractual relationship destroys all other considerations of Law. And the freedom of religion in legal terms is of course that which opposed to freedom of choice, for though we may not be punished for our thoughts (yet), we may and will be punished as conspirators against this legal system of government for acting upon our religious, moral thoughts, for our franchise (freedom) is false and only exists in the hell that is this open-air-prison and jurisdiction of the nations. Simply stated, the property of any United States public citizenship is not the property of the man acting in its agency. All property is registered in the strawman name, the legal fiction person, which is property of government. Thus no public man is strong. All men are in the bond of surety to their assigned legal entity of birth registration, and so all public men’s houses are despoiled by their very nature and tax (registration). This is the legal pirate cove that is the United States municipal corporation. Its sole purpose is to escheat (steal) all that is Real, from Land to personal property, away from the goyim born of the nations so that no matter where we go we are always in trespass upon the lands of the “sovereignty.” We know we are not sovereign in the view of the law because we must produce an artificial will so as to pass on out imperfect titles to property and pay a death or orphan tax on it. The law automatically recognizes the bloodline heirs of a private citizen of any State.
In the “truth” and “patriot” movements we have been trained to embrace this word “sovereignty” by name without realizing its dualistic nature. As perhaps the most misunderstood legal term out there, we mistake the Highest Law and authority of the Sovereignty of God with that of the kingdoms that claim legal, artificial “sovereignty” in name only over that of all other men. But we must understand that sovereignty cannot exist except under the doctrine of master and servant. Sovereignty is pointless without subjects or slaves beneath you. In other words, if all men were sovereign then no man would be, just as no man is free until all men are free. This totality of Natural Sovereignty under God’s Law is the only Real Sovereignty, and it signifies only that all men have abandoned all artifice and legal fiction so as to obey only the Nature and Duty of the negative, Natural Law. This state of being is heaven on earth. It is also paradox, for men will always seek to enslave or trick other men in order to cause themselves ease and vagrancy of that Highest Duty. The false artifice of sovereign nations, the gods of which are legally created titles as idols, created these nations not to free men but to publicly ensnare them in legal protectionism of their own private estates. And the United Nations and its peace-keeping force of mercenary goyim in uni-form are being assembled to protect this order of nations united to protect these private, legally sovereign bloodlines. It is not that their blood is at all special, only that it is legally recognized and not corrupted in attainder like the public masses of citizenships of the idolatrous nations. Blood and Land are intricately connected, and the absence of blood consideration is the highest goal of these pirates, so that they may overcome otherwise strong men and bind their lands into their own private estates while their tenants are none the wiser. They are simply cheaters, the root word of escheat. Their false systems of legal sovereignty are directly opposed to the scriptural Law. This sovereignty is false, a mere slave system of voluntary compliance by those in performance debt to these masters under the law of agency. It’s not Real. It’s not spiritual in any way. It is merely a modern caste system based on the old feudal state that has been renamed and reorganized, the only difference being that it is completely without honor and kept incredibly under the rose. The artificial sovereignty of the King has been replaced by the artificial sovereignty of the bloodline of the private “People.” And so we are caused to believe in the false truth that through legal means we may somehow figure out this legal system and become part of the sovereignty, which is to say become the slave-master instead of the slave. This is the strong delusion of the gods.
“We have stricken the (slave) shackles from four million human beings and brought all laborers to a common level not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by practically reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of SERFDOM. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that BY AN INEQUITOUS MONEY SYSTEM we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”
–Horace Greeley (1811-1872), founder of the ‘The New-Yorker’ and ‘New York Tribune’ newspapers, speaking on post-civil war or ‘14th amendment’ citizenship
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
–Horace Greeley (1811-1872), founder of ‘The New-Yorker’ and ‘New York Tribune’ newspapers,
Notice that these quotes are by the same elitist man, one of the few good ones perhaps.
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed… No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
–Preface, 1828 Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language
Of course public education is designed to cause public-mindedness, and only a private man may benefit from that scriptural knowledge. As the mass of illiterates that is the general goy population collectively cheer the efforts of their private masters to eradicate the Bible scriptures from public schools, they seal their own fate and that of their future heirs into a system of total corruption and spiritual death in mammon. By corrupting each denomination of corporate churches, all of which claim the Bible as their reason for their legal existence, the public is made to despise the Bible instead of recognizing that this system of universally “Christian” churches in name and flattering title only were never intended to teach or decipher what the Bible actually instructs. The private priest class alone may have revelation (knowledge) of scripture, never the commonalty of illiterate followers of false gods. The English language (as dog-Latin) ensures that even the very fact of our own collective illiteracy is hidden behind the very words of that common (public) language spoken. Like dog’s barking at their masters, the intent of our words is taken only in their dualistic, adversarial, Latinized (Romanized) versions so that everything we say carries the opposite meaning. Every respected legal name (noun) destroys the True Nature of the Reality that name represents as a legal fiction.
Just what is this protective agency of that fish-god Pope’s will as a motto proprio and what does it have to do with the other central banks of all the nations?
Let us examine, from the Vatican’s own website, just what is this Financial Intelligence Authority:
THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION AUTHORITY
The Financial Information Authority (Autorità di Informazione Finanaziaria – AIF), is the competent authority of the Holy See/Vatican City State for fighting money-laundering and financing of terrorism. In that capacity, the AIF carries out the tasks of financial intelligence unit and supervisor, both for prudential purposes, and the prevention and countering of money-laundering and financing of terrorism.
Established by Pope Benedict XVI with the Apostolic Letter in form of “Motu Proprio” of 30 December 2010, AIF’s institutional mandate has been consolidated by means of the Apostolic Letter in form of “Motu Proprio“ by Pope Francis on 8 August 2013, which assigns to the AIF the role of prudential supervision, and by means of the Apostolic Letter in form of “Motu Proprio” by Pope Francis on 15 November 2013, which approved the new Statutes. The AIF carries out its institutional activity according to the Vatican Law n. XVIII of 8 October 2013.
The AIF is a member of the Egmont Group, the GLOBAL NETWORK of financial intelligence units, and, so far, has stipulated Memoranda of Understanding with the financial intelligence units of various Countries for the purposes of COLLABORATION and exchange of information, like, inter alia, Albania, Australia, Argentine, Belgium, Cyprus, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Spain, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.
–Palazzo San Carlo, 00120 Città Del Vaticano – Link–> http://www.aif.va/ENG/Home.aspx
For the benefit of the reader that is seldom taught the legal meanings of words, this term of the legal art understanding does not simply mean comprehension. To understand anything in legal terms is to stand under the authority of that thing, artificial as it may be, and to be in harmonious agreement with another law just as any signature on any contract expresses an under-standing to both the words of that contract and to all laws and governmental statutes that protect and secure that contractual situation between “persons.” And so the reader, as a public “citizen-ship” of any nation, should know here that with every signature we individually make in legal persona we are agreeing to every single public law created by congress and by its “independent agencies” of government, including the Federal Reserve and other central banking institutions and non-governmental (NGO) associations and institutions hired and respected by congress. No man is bound by any legal authority or law without his voluntary use of its status in legal persona. Whatever I do as “Clint Richardson” is as an agent of its creator and principal, the United States district (Caesar). This is the opposite of that state of free liberty under the Natural (God’s) Law spoken of by those Masonic founders in their federalist papers and over-parroted quotes. A national citizen is not a citizen of any private State. Nothing public is private. A citizenship is very much like the Federal Reserve, having quite limited independence within the jurisdiction (open-air prison) of United States borders, but having no actual freedom but that which is granted to it in legal franchise. A public person is not a free man, for a person is never a man, only a recreated fiction of law. A form without substance. To act in person is to act as the property of another. And the persons (ships) of all nations, like the rental cars of some rental car agency, are all bound to this international, globalist law of mammon. Whether you believe in gods or not, he who creates controls as a god. The creator of “Clint Richardson” is certainly not God, it is the United States district (bank). What is unnatural can never invoke what is natural. What is a creation of man and his artful law cannot claim the law of God and of Nature. And what is written in the Declaration of Independence is for Real men of God, not artificial persons created by governments. Only those who reserve all rights from the nation privately stand in True Liberty and Natural Freedom. This confusion between what is Real and what is fiction is the essence of that system of slavery that holds us all in its legal matrix.
We mustn’t forget three things…
True “christianity” is part of the common law, unwritten and unenforceable, and has no place in the jurisdiction of the United States, only outside of it in private.
The Bible bestows upon every man a choice, to face Reality (God) or exist falsely in the artificial, flattering titles of legal fiction. Thus its purpose as part of the common law is self-evident, and is used by the most evil of men to kill our highest spiritual power and will through ignorance of it.
The word legal translates to that which is opposed to God, as the fictional art constituted over Nature.
If these three principals of law would be under-stood, then what man in legal citizenship under Caesar (district) would possibly continue in such a false existence? What man would continue to exist falsely in such a chimeric, false persona as this, knowing that this false existence is the realm and jurisdiction of a global system united in support and pursuit of the great delusions of mammon?
The answer, I’m afraid, is most men.
I am resigned to this notion. I accept it for what it is. And I am only writing here today that I might reach the remainder, the remnant, the seekers of self-evidence in all things as the Only Truth despite the pain of such self-evidence. You are who I seek. We must find each other, overcome, and remove ourselves from this fiction of religion, governments, and most of all money. This is my life’s goal and my works will be solely for its purpose and end.
This global system of mammon and these protection agencies that have been set up in all the key nations united in preserving this system of debt slavery is wholly supported by the Pope and thus by that Crown corporation of the Vatican. This false “Christ” (falsely anointed) head of the church and state of the world has decreed that in this den of thieves we call the banking system of the world, there must be a united effort to protect that system as the asset of the church and its city-State. This, of course, is self-evident. The actions and decrees of this and former Popes cannot be denied, and no apologist can possibly disconnect this intent from the love of money in mammon. No one can call this anything but what it self-evidently is, a protection racket against the public, legal realm instituted to ensure the debt of all nations to their central banks and of each individual “person” to the nations that created that status. To be in (under) citizen-ship is to be a debtor, to be contracted into a performance debt. A puppet on strings.
For those to whom this is a new concept, this separation of the self into a legal id-entity that removes us from Nature and causes us to act as some thing we are not, all you need to know is that whatever law you follow depends on the state of being of your Self. If you can be convinced, especially from birth and through public education and media entertainment, to act not as your True and responsible Self but as the fictional legal self of another’s persona (legal status), then nothing you possess or own is yours. Not your language, not your law, not your God, and not your stuff. All that is registered to that fictional self (citizen-ship) as a vessel of commerce of the Holy See is property of its creator (god). The creator controls, and whatever is conquered (purchased) with the patented creation of another, namely the money of each nation’s central bank, is thus the property of the creator of that money that its subjects (voluntary slaves) use in the agency of its franchise (person). This is legal, political freedom. Nothing natural about it. And this franchise of freedom and independence is what has so confounded us, causing us to believe ourselves to be as free as we believe the Federal Reserve to be. And just because there is no overlord (or congress Member) watching every move we make in our franchise of independent movement (legal freedom) throughout this commercial maze and open-air prison of jurisdiction while we act in its legal persona, we mistakenly call this as the Pure Freedom of privacy. The Fed is as private as any citizen-ship is, which is to say that only an idiot would believe, based on actual source and law, that either one of these is free of government (legal control).
I have yet to find a better definition and description of these facts than that of William C Anderson’s Dictionary of Law from 1889. Not only does he reveal the ultimate difference and more accurately the total opposition between the True and false corporate flattering title of the typical citizenship as a “Christian” in name only and without works, we also can see that when it comes to the judicial function of the administrative courts and justices (magistrate gods) we pray (plead) to for forgiveness and salvation, the Bible or for that matter any written or unwritten moral law or compass is totally absent in all decisions and opinions of these public courts. They are Godless, which means that no man may ever stand in self-evidence nor with unalienable rights under God (Natural Law). To be perfectly clear, these legal courts can only see legal things. Man must appear in the person of the state (district and circuit jurisdiction of Caesar) in order to be heard by that god of fiction. The court jurisdiction is for persons, not men. Only persons and their agents (attorneys) may be heard. A man of God is not welcome in these places, and are Barred from that system of pretended justice in commerce. Only things of mammon may apply and be artificially seen and remedied. And so all of you so-called “Christians” who follow in the footsteps of your legal person, your strawman, instead of following in the footsteps of christ, you will be judged by men as your gods because your person is pre-judged (doomed) at birth. You are acting and appearing as that which you are not, and you will be treated accordingly. You will be considered only as a legal entity that cannot be harmed, for fiction cannot be Naturally harmed.
This is not religion, damn it! This is reality. Organized religion is exclusively reserved for the weak-minded. Acting religiously is only for those of strong will and Pure character and intent, the remnant as it were, the true nonconformists. For the following of christ is not conformity to any thing, it is only the embracing of and acknowledgement of that which is self-evident Truth. To act religiously or spiritually is only the abandonment of all artifice and fiction. It is Life.
I want you to read this again:
CHRISTIANITY – The system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ; the religion founded by Christ. Christianity is said to be part of the common law. “Christianity is parcel of the laws of England; and, therefore, to reproach the Christian religion is to speak in subversion of the law.” “The essential principles of natural religion” and “of revealed religion, are a part of the common law, so that any person reviling or subverting or ridiculing them may be prosecuted at common law.” “The true sense of the maxim is that the law will not permit the essential principles of revealed religion to be ridiculed and reviled.” Christianity is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania in the qualified sense that its divine origin and truth are admitted, and therefore it is not to be maliciously and openly reviled and blasphemed against, to the annoyance of believers or the injury of the public. Not Christianity founded upon any particular religious tenets; but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men. The maxim does not mean that Christianity is an established religion; nor that its precepts, by force of their own authority, form part of our system of municipal law; nor that the courts may base their judgments upon the Bible; nor that religious duties may be penally enforced; nor that legal discrimination in favor of Christianity is allowed. The best features of the common law, especially those which regard the family and social relations, if not derived from, have at least been improved and strengthened by, the prevailing religion and the teachings of its sacred Book. But the law does not attempt to enforce the precepts of Christianity on the ground of their sacred character or divine origin. Some of those precepts, though we may admit their continual and universal obligation, we must nevertheless recognize as being incapable of enforcement by human laws. Those precepts, moreover, affect the heart, and address themselves to the conscience; while the laws of the state can regard the outward conduct only: for which reasons CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A PART OF THE LAW OF THE LAND IN ANY SENCE WHICH ENTITLES THE COURTS TO TAKE NOTICE OF AND BASE THEIR JUDGEMENTS UPON IT, except so far they can find that its precepts and principles have been incorporated in and made a component part of the law of the State. The maxim can have no reference to the law of the National government, SINCE THE SOURCES OF THAT LAW ARE THE CONSTITUTION, TREATIES, AND ACTS OF CONGRESS. (–William C. Anderson’s Dictionary of Law, 1889)
This single brilliant discourse utterly destroys the false “patriot” and “truther” movement in one fail swoop, for whenever the origin and foundation of any opinion is false, the resulting occurrence of opinionated rhetoric based on nothing but a false legal religion and dialectic (logic) is all that manifests. What you have just read is the very definition of the separation of church and state, which is to say the separation of men from their religion and into a purely legal society. As long as the choice is available in the common law, the slave-state (nation) may exist as a district (seizure, distress, distraint) upon those men. The law of man may rule over any man who abandons God and accepts the idolatrous nation as his magistracy (god). And so we may either act in the spirit of our religious Self or we may act in the false persona of some nation. Either way we will have a god. To be without a nation is to be under God (Jehovah) in the Reality of Nature. This is considered a self-evident Truth, and belief in God is certainly no requirement for a self-evident Truth to Exist. The word Jehovah is defined as self-existence, which is that which is self-evident or the Whole Oneness of Nature (Creation). Man is, whether he likes or admits it or not, part of that Oneness. But its Highest law and protections may only manifest through his or her individual actions or works. The second we take upon our True Selves the name, number, trade-mark, and flattering title of another, we loose our connection to Nature and Its Law and must accept the contracted dis-ease that is required by our respect of false legal authority. Whatever we do, there is some god above us. And even the false notion of sovereignty requires a Higher Law and also respect of the slave system of legal law in some nation. For no man may be sovereign without slaves beneath him. And no man may be free until all men are free. Sovereignty is nothing more and nothing less than a legal status, legal being opposed to God, as the flattering titles of pretenders. They are the creators of church and state. They are the controllers. The land lords. The gods.
Thanks to the organized musings and purposeful misdirection of Alex Jones and those who emulate his fear campaigns and corporate business model in the false and empty name of “truth,” we continue to live in the lie designed for us while patriotically supporting the very nation that designed it. We suffer from the worst kind of Stockholm Syndrome imaginable. And our denomination of legalized religion merely solidifies that false nature and causes us to respect the legal state, or that which is opposed to God as the self-evident Reality of Nature and Its undeniable Truth.
To be clear, no subject will ever change this government or its system. We are not its creator nor its controller. The Jones patriot model invites everything but the correct course of action, which as the Bible instructs is to simply and utterly “leave her,” to leave the fictional cities and jurisdictions by overcoming their fictions of law by following by christ’s example. While the church preaches the false prophesy of God or Christ returning from the dead, the reality of the Bible scripture is that christ can only manifest through the actions of man acting christ-like. The spirit of God’s Law is personified as christ, and the spirit of man may only be recognized and protected by his actions thereof. Again, this is not some membership to some corporation posing as a “religion,” this is a Real Life lived only in the True Nature of Reality.
The fool in his own conceit and flattering legal title of “Christian” may be equally offended by this scriptural Truth as he who purports to carry the false, flattering title of “atheist” or “anarchist.” Yet all of these men acting pretending such false identities carry their person in the form of a driver’s license, a passport, a credit or debit ATM card, and every other sign and trade-mark of the voluntary slavery of citizenship. Trade merely means commerce, and its mark is our use of its name and “consumer protections” in legal trade under a national system of debt money in mammon. Our signature on any contract is the highest legal sign of our individual spiritual death and civil, artificial life.
“An addition [to a name] proves or shows minority or inferiority.”
— Additio probat minoritatem. (Black4)
“When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.”
—Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on various subjects, moral & diverting
“The rights of the individuals are restricted only to the extent that they have been voluntarily surrendered by the citizenship to agencies of government.”
—City of Dallas v Mitchell, 245 S.W. 944
You see, the problem isn’t the vulgar belief in the doctrines of man’s religion, it is a lack of religious, moral action against evil and artifice by otherwise strong men who are confused and bound by legal fiction and disinformation. The moral Law is not some actor’s script that is practiced like an attorney practices law or a doctor practices medicine, for these are all false and flattering titles. The path of christ is the example never followed by the flatteringly entitled “Christians” because they are trained from birth to love and respect not God but the very “law of the land” that is opposed to God. The churches are legal corporations bound under the legal state and its fictional (antichrist, anti-God, anti-Nature) law, and are therefore forced to respect the legal law and its government for their very legal existence! To be a member of a religion is not to be or act religiously. For the “Christian” is as much an empty flattering title as the “atheist” the second we touch money and participate in the legal system of contract (devilry) and mammon. Only our actions, our works, define who and what our Self is and which god it subscribes to in surety and bond. A promise (vow) to God is opposed to an oath to government in abuse of God’s name. A pledge to fiction is a blasphemy to God, a rejection of Reality and embracing of the artifice of legal, adversarial (satanic) things. The bullshit spouted by the corporate church prevents us from contemplating this notions as anything other than religious gobbilygook, and yet these tenants are the very foundation of the law. The deception is respectably complete, for the actions of a religious man are mistaken for the false show of a scripturally ignorant member of a legally incorporated religion. Our law can never be both legal and spiritual, for these laws are purposefully opposed to one another, just as our actual Being in True religion can never be based on any of the false doctrines of corporations in name only. For as with any other source, the Bible is completely ignored in all legal settings, including so-called “Christian” churches. No man in his right mind and with due diligence of the scriptures would lay a hand on any form of money, would ever attend or claim membership to any state or religion by any name, and would never accept these magistrates (gods) and archons such as the pope, the kings and queens, and the presidents of municipal corporations such as Washington D.C. as their law-makers.
RELIGIOUS MEN – Such as entered into some monastery or convent. In old English deeds, the vendee was often restrained from aliening to “Jews or religious men” lest the lands should fall into mortmain (dead hands). Religious men were CIVILLY DEAD. (Black1)
RELIGIOUS USE – See CHARITABLE USES. (Black1)
What is the cure for money and debt to mammon? Pure and utter charity. The doing of all things without valuation, without credit or debt, and without expectation of anything in return for our actions. This is the opposing force, the absolute Love that must always be the goal of all our actions. This is the basis of the moral, scriptural law. This is the choice we must choose, for all other roads lead to Rome. This is the best example of self-evident Truth. It can only be denied if we respect and fear fiction over Reality.
And yet here we are, stuck in the middle of financial tyranny that can only exist if men have faith in the existence and valuation of money, the god of mammon. We have accepted the artifice as Real and denied the God of Nature. We have denied Reality and placed monetary value on everything Real, including our Selves. And this is the true definition of evil, its root being the false-valuation of Life itself as something that can be conquered (purchased) by money. For mammon is not money, money is only a tool thereof. The true evil is valuation, the estimation and consideration of all things not by their priceless Nature but by its price in fiat currency and debt (the lie that is “credit”). We no longer act as men but as false, legal personas. Slaves.
Though all things can be valued in money, money is valued in nothing at all. To call this as the greatest lie of that which is satanic (adversarial) to God and Nature is the understatement of the age. And the pope now wishes to protect that system of the adversarial from “laundering” and “terrorism.” In other words, the cheats that are the controllers of money, the pirates that use money as the tool for contractual enslavement of all peoples and nations, are protected by that highest fraud of organized (universal) “Christian” religion. For a world government must be based on a world currency, and a world government cannot exist unless it is married (justified) by a global church. They must be married, but the also must be separated. But separation is not annulment, but a legally binding contract of both parties. What is separate is still married. And the separation of church and state is only the separation of moral and civil (legal) law, so that the church has no power over the state, but still lies in marriage with its actions and in justification of its crimes against man, Nature, and God. Do not be fooled by this Masonic treatise of separation of church and state, for the slave-master cannot afford to be bound by the moral, scriptural law when acting commercially in his holding of slaves. His power relies upon the false doctrines of his created corporate religion, and his law over men depends solely on those men not under-standing the scriptural law of the Bible as the very foundation of the common law.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
—John Adams (The Works of John Adams, ed. C. F. Adams, Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1851, 4:31)
Most public-minded fools educated in public places and indoctrinated with the public law of the usurious gods of congress and their magistrates in judicial seats at Bar would view this quote by one of the corporate founders of the United States as purely religious drivel. And yet this is the very foundation of law. For the Bible is indeed the foundation of the moral law as part of the unwritten common law. We either follow it by following the teachings and footsteps of christ in action and in works or we follow that which is opposed to it, bearing the false symbol of a cross while worshiping only the legal system of the controllers of mammon. There is no other law, for all aspects of the law begin with this foundational choice. And so we have been convinced that what we see as the corporate religions of the state are the only choice we have if we wish to practice our religious works. We have been taught to associate the church with the Bible, which could not be any more opposite. For when the words of the scriptures are translated by the priest-class to justify the legal incorporation of that church and the legal, licensed, flattering title of the priest, in no way can the true intention of the scriptures be taught genuinely by the false prophet, for-profit “priest.” The intent of the professor of that corporate religion must support its doctrine over that of the actual scriptures, just as the state pretends to be a “Christian” nation, using that term as merely a flattering title among its own created wasteland of legalism.
As the scriptures state, the True church is not a building created by the hands of men, but is the men who together follow the religious practices of the moral law by the example of christ. This is True religion. All else is merely the work of Masonry, of buildings constructed by the hands of men and made to be more “sacred” than the scriptures and the men who would follow them. But that which is artificial and held sacred is actually the opposite. Sacred means cursed, for all fiction is a curse when held above Nature and without self-evidence. The True followers of christ were fed to the lions by Caesar, remember? For no law of man could control them. Their existence was of the Pure self-evidence of the Highest Law.
We, however, contently sit in the stands of the colosseum, modernly recreated into the cushy couch in front of our big-screen televisions connected in a grid of false information and artificial intelligence, watching with a feeling of exhilaration or pretended helplessness as Caesar’s pets.
So what is this modern Caesar’s goals with this global network of Financial Information Authorities?
For a fair notion of this, let us see just what this Egmont Group is.
About the Egmont Group
Recognizing the importance of international cooperation in the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism, a group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) met at the Egmont Arenberg Palace in Brussels, Belgium, and decided to establish an informal network of FIUs for the stimulation of international co-operation. Now known as the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, Egmont Group FIUs meet regularly to find ways to promote the development of FIUs and to cooperate, especially in the areas of information exchange, training and the sharing of expertise.
Link–> http://www.egmontgroup.org
The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units
The Egmont Group has evolved over the years and is currently (2015) comprised of 151 member FIUs. The 2012 FATF Recommendations expect that FIUs apply for membership with the Egmont Group, therefore, the Egmont network of FIUs is expected to grow even further in the coming years.
After over 15 successful years of the Egmont Group, and with the publication of the revised FATF 40 Recommendations in 2012, it was necessary to amend the governing documents of the organization. The Charter Review Project team has produced a complimentary set of documents, which are interlinked and reference relevant FATF Recommendations. The revised Egmont Charter (2013), Egmont Principles for Information Exchange and Operational Guidance for FIUs provide the foundation for the future work of the Egmont Group and contribute to greater international cooperation and information exchange between FIUs.
The goal of the Egmont Group is to provide a forum for FIUs around the world to improve cooperation in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism and to foster the implementation of domestic programs in this field. This support includes:
Expanding and systematizing international cooperation in the reciprocal exchange of information;
Increasing the effectiveness of FIUs by offering training and promoting personnel exchanges to improve the expertise and capabilities of personnel employed by FIUs;
Fostering better and secure communication among FIUs through the application of technology, such as the Egmont Secure Web (ESW);
Fostering increased coordination and support among the operational divisions of member FIUs;
Promoting the operational autonomy of FIUs; and
Promoting the establishment of FIUs in conjunction with jurisdictions with an AML/CFT program in place, or in areas with a program in the early stages of development.
Link–> http://www.egmontgroup.org/international-organizations
This is akin to the notion of United Nations “peacekeeping” forces, another way of saying a global army that beats down nations and people when they don’t wish to cooperate in this globalist banking cartel organized internationally under the Pope (universal church) and United Nations (universal state). While in a prima facie way (on the face of it without further evidence) this sounds like a good thing, we cannot forget that this is mammon. This is what enslaves us all, both individuals (in person) and through the particular nation and jurisdiction we in nativity (captivity) within. And so billions starve so that money can be hoarded and invested.
Globalism is not what we think it is, and will not be accomplished how we keep expecting it to. Our public-mindedness gets in the way of out discernment of evil, for we live in the midst of the designs of evil in artifice. Globalism is not government, but governance. The difference is that governments are separate, while governance is universal. At this point in time, while we still play the game of thrones of nations, pretending their borders tangibly exist in Nature and also that we are somehow a part of them, global governance is being more and more universally cast about each nation to create that one, united body politic. The standards and practices put forward by countless private associations such as the International Bar Association (to which all other national Bar associations are members), Codex Alimentarius Commission (a body that was established in early November 1961 by the Food and Drug Administration of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Government Accounting Standars Board (GASB) to which all government financial statements (audits) are slowly being made beholden to, we find that all individual governments of nations are being governed by these private, non-governmental agencies and associations, commonly called non-governmental organizations of NGO’s. And so while the nations will continue to appear to be sovereign in their legal capacity, and while the private landholders of each State of the nations and countries will certainly retain such sovereignty, the notions they created are all being happily made to conform to these outside influences, best practices, initiatives, declarations, and other forms of corporate governance that are essentially creating one giant corporation of ignorant plebes that love their enslavement.
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal… Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
―Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
The mass of illiterates will certainly adjust, for without such an adjustment, without taking the mark of this collective machine as its beast, they will not be able to participate in the cashless society being set up as we speak. Their phones will not work. Their connection to the A.I. will be shut off. Their property will be sexed by its rightful owner, the owner of their legal person (status). Their worthless lives will be more valuable than Life Itself. They will beg to be part of this global structure of the artifice of mammon.
A glanse at the listed partnerships of this Egmont Group tells a tale of its own, and let’s us know what the pope and vatican truly support.
The following organizations are linked to their perspective websites…
International Partner Orgs
Basel Institute on Governance – International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR)
Camden Asset Recovery Interagency Network (CARIN)
Comisión Interamericana para el Control del Abuso de Drogas (CICAD-OAS)
Commonwealth Secretariat
International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS)
International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)
International Criminal Court (ICC)
International Money Laundering Information Network (IMoLIN)
International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)
International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI)
UN 1267 Committee
United Nations International Drug Control Programme
United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
Wolfsberg Group
World Bank – AML/CFT
Guilt by association? Really think this is a fallacious comparison?
At this point, I am not sure I can provide anything more as to what is happening right now all around you. You either choose to see the self-evidence of what this is or you continue to suffer it. I hold little hope of any future but the more organized hell of nations united into a more fluid version of we have become accustomed to. I have little faith in the zombie public that they may ever wake themselves up by abandoning their false truths in acceptance of the pain and anguish that Reality will deal to their artificial lives and collections of insured stuff. But I look forward to some future day when those of us who can see and accept the harshest and most beautiful parts of Reality for what they Truly are, and live together in that remnant. And I look with sadness at what I know is to come, as this false enlightenment of false religion and law overcomes even the most ardent of strongholds as technology (artifice) causes the best of moral men to succumb to the temptations and inducements of mammon.
“There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
It is ironic that as I uncover and speak the Truth in its self-evidence evermore clearly that I am offered less and less airtime for interviews on the radio. It appears that the “truth” movement is quite unwilling to hear about its name-sake, and the imaginations of men have thrust us all into a hopeless delusion. And so I leave you with this, the parabolic predictions of the scriptures.
“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
—2 Timothy 2: 11-12, KJB
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark… And that no man might BUY OR SELL, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
—Revelation 13: 16-17, KJB
Now we might finally see what these two oft-quoted but totally misunderstood verses actually mean. For this word “his” as used in reference to the “number of HIS name” is actually the word autos, Strong’s #G846, which carries the meaning of a personal pronoun of the third person, of the false self, the legal strawman. All the names of Caesar’s realm are registered with numbers, and the number of the name referenced here is indeed the legal persona we pretend to be in agency. We are caused to be beasts of burden in lading, and very soon we will not be able to participate in this system of mammon without that social security number of our name, as managed by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) of the United Nations. This was not some monster or creature from any etherial real or island, this is our own agentic, fictional, legal persona. This is a parable about exactly what is happing today, the voluntary surrender of God’s authority and the unalienable rights so-called that exist only in that realm of Reality and Nature.
The less popular verse that the frar-mongorers seem to forget to share is this one, for there can be a happy ending for those who do not sit and wait for some supernatural (above Nature) false god to return and save them, for those who realize that the teachings of christ were a do-it-yourself instruction manual for the spiritual man.
“And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea off glass, having the harps of God.”
–Revelation 15:2, KJB
The word “harp,” as Strong’s #G2788 – kithara – has only the metaphorically meaning of “the music of the Bible, to which the praises of God are sung in heaven.” In other words, those following the Word (Law) of God, this word “Word” as capitalized meaning the “Son” of God as the only spiritual example, and who fear only what will happen if that Highest Law is not followed, these are the remainder; the remnant. The word harp is not a noun but a verb, an action, a song (hymn) not only sung but followed in action.
If you want to know more, if you truly seek the meanings of these things through the sourced and often ancient intention of the origin of the words used, please acquire my voluminous works to be posted soon for free at StrawmanStory.info. Though and original work, this has been but a small, general overview of that larger project, and whatever questions are left unanswered here are covered in triplicate in that work. I will announce on this blog when Volume One that work is complete and posted free for download only at the website listed above. And please know that this work is absolutely meant to be freely shared, not for-profit and gain, nor for usurious purposes, not to be employed in commerce, but to share this not-so-hidden knowledge that has been kept a mystery from us in plain sight throughout the ages. Play it forward…
My latest interview on the subject of the false perceptions of the federal reserve can be found here (caution – wordy dirds used):
Link–> https://corporationnationradioarchives.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/clint-patrick-join-the-shali-lama/
Please note that this post has been self-edited on the spot, and so any mistakes the reader may have found are certainly welcome to be shared. Please leave corrections in separate comments that can be deleted, and not mixed with normal comments. And dare I ask for sources by any contrarians? Thanks.
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jwlpeace
HI Mr. Richardson,
I deeply respect your work but i cannot comprehend how you can write in such depth about the Vatican and not mention even one word about their handlers, the Jesuits, who have ruled over all evil since recent times of 1814.
Obama’s chief of staff, communications director, press secretary, all Jesuits. Clinton, Trump, Jesuit schooled.
Obama’s Intelligence Staff. All Jesuits.
Most High U.S. Military brass, Jesuit trained at Georgetown U. (founded by John Carrol, who also donated land for Wash. D.C in 1871 when it was names “Rome, Mayland” with the new “birthing” of the Virgin, Virginia and the Mary of Maryland on each side!
Gov. of CA. Jesuit. DHS/UC President Napalitano, Jesuit schooled.
Most powerful man in the U.S. Archbishop Timothy Egan.. Jesuit.
https://tabublog.com/jesuits-rulers-of-evil/
This is a common theme. It’s the masons, its the Jesuits, its the _____, infinity… These are flattering titles.
This is no different that blaming “bankers” for the acts of congress when congress is the only actual bank/money-creator. Stop blaming the agents for the acts of the principal. You must understand that the actual power lies in the government, not in the shadows. Who or what “controls” the controllers does not matter, it’s only our respect of the control structure and our allowance of it to exist and have power that matters. Similarly, the respect of money is not the problem, respect of the money-makers and regulators is the problem, which in all cases is government. Not the shadow people.
For every criminal mind another 10 are waiting to take his or her place. But there is only one government for each nation.
Your respect of the power and authority of those “Jesuits” is the problem. “They” will always exist in some form and name or another. It is up to you and you alone to stop allowing them to control you with their schemes and religions.
And by the way… the Jesuit Order or Society of Jesus is part of the Catholic Curia, part of the church. It’s origin is in the church, not outside of it. Kinda like the Fed. Sounds a lot like an independent agency of the Vatican, like the Fed. Hmmm…
So when you say “they” control it, perhaps you might not realize they are a part of it?
natesse316
“Come out of her my people….” Thank you, as always, Clint, for speaking the truth. I have to read your papers multiple times, and study the links, and slowly let it all sink in. Always very meaty-no pablum here.
Reblogged this on deinvestiture.
Okay, Clint. I’ve read roughly two thirds of the way through this highly sensitive, heartfelt, wholly Life-Affirming partial diatribe (and I’ve already, yesterday, listened to your show with Shali and Patrick as the latest installment in your radio show archives, all of which are so graciously posted by Drew), but before I plow further ahead here I feel somewhat compelled or, more, stalled by an inadequate or unclear understanding of God as verb. Now, although I’ve heard some discussion of it by you on past shows, and I’ve considered the notion (or Truth) several times in the course of a Life independent of your careful delineation of it here and some expositions of it by you on your shows/interviews, I remain stuck. God as verb; the Self-Existing Self-Evident Whose Existence Evinces… Aw, the heck with it. I’ll get back to reading. I still can’t seem at all to get close to a place Whose Reality seems to elude me in my fiction. In my fiction… Yes. “Kill the Strawman”, eh? Like dreaming a dream knowing it to be a dream, I can’t, at the moment, seem to “believe” the Reality of the Dream Itself, attached as I am to the un-reality of my “belief” in the dreaming dreamer’s hull of heartless straw.
“To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.”
—Voltaire, Notebooks (c. 1735 – c. 1750)
Follow this string and you will understand two things: 1) what is the difference between fiction and self-evidence and self-existence, and 2) That the True “God” is never fiction, but all of Reality. To embrace God is to embrace only Nature, i.e. what is Real without fiction.
You either act in God (verb) in your actions and governing Law or you pretend in name (noun) only in fictional name and title. Your choice is only ever expressed through your actions. To speak and sign contracts is an action…
REALITY – noun – 1. Actual being or existence of any thing; truth; fact; in distinction from mere appearance. 2. Something intrinsically important, not merely matter of show. And to realities yield all her shows. 3. In the schools, that may exist of itself, or which has a full and absolute being of itself, and is not considered as a part of any thing else. 4. In law, immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of property; as chattels which savor of the reality [This word is so written in law, for reality]. (Webs1828)
LORD – Strong’s H3068 – Yĕhovah – A word meaning “The Existing One.” From H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:—Jehovah, the Lord. (From root) Strong’s H1961 – hayah – haw-yaw; a primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):—beacon, altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, use.
Yĕhovah (Strong’s #H3068) – יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw’; from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:—Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
Jehovah = “the existing One”
A. the proper name of the one true God.
1. unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of #0136.
“Jehovah, proper name of the supreme God amongst the Hebrews, (etc.) …allusion is made Exodus 3:14; “I (ever) shall be (the same) that I am (to-day);” the name being derived from the verb to be, was considered to signify God as eternal and immutable, who will never be other than the same. Allusion is made to the same etymology, Hosea 12:6, “Jehovah (i.e.) the eternal, the immutable is his name.” [We have thus the authority of God in His word, that this name is derived from the idea of being, existence, and not from any relics of Egyptian idolatry.] With this may be compared the inscription of the Saitic temple, Plut. de Iside et Osiride… [This shews (shows) how Pagans borrowed ideas from the true theology of God’s revelation, and not that the later borrowed any thing from the former.]…”
JEHOVAH – noun – The Scripture name of the Supreme Being. If, as is supposed, this name is from the Hebrew substantive verb, the word denotes the Permanent Being, as the primary sense of the substantive VERB in all languages, is to be fixed, to stand, to remain or abide. This is a name peculiarly appropriate to the eternal Spirit, the unchangeable God, who describes himself thus, I am that I am. Exodus 3:14. (Webs1828)
GOD – noun – 1. The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator, and the sovereign of the universe. GOD is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24… (Webs1828)
GOD – noun – …2. A false god; a heathen deity; an idol. Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges 6:10. 3. A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. Exodus 22:28. Psalms 97:7… 4. Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good. Whose god is their belly. Philippians 3:19. – verb transitive – To deify… (Webs1828)
CREATOR – noun – [Latin] 1. The being or person that creates. Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes 12:1. 2. The thing that creates, produces or causes. (Webs1828)
SOVEREIGN – adjective – suv’eran. [We retain this babarous orthography from the Norman sovereign. The true spelling would be suveran from the Latin supernes, superus.] 1. Supreme in power; possessing supreme dominion; as a sovereign ruler of the universe. 2. Supreme; superior to all others; chief. God is the sovereign good of all who love and obey him. 3. Supremely efficacious; superior to all others; predominant; effectual; as a sovereign remedy. 4. Supreme; pertaining to the first magistrate of a nation; as sovereign authority. – noun – suv’eran. 1. A supreme lord or ruler; one who possesses the highest authority without control. Some earthly princes, kings and emperors are sovereigns in their dominions. 2. A supreme magistrate; a king. 3. A gold coin of England, value (of) $4.44. (Webs1828)
MAGISTERIAL – adjective – [See Magistrate.] Pertaining to a master; such as suits a master; authoritative. 1. Proud; lofty; arrogant; imperious; domineering. Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. (Webs1828)
MAGISTRATE – noun – [Latin magistratus, from magister, master; magis, major, and ster, Teutonic steora, a director; steoran, to steer; the principal director.] A public civil officer, invested with the executive government or some branch of it. In this sense, a king is the highest or first magistrate as is the President of the United States. But the word is more particularly applied to subordinate officers, as governors, intendants, prefects, mayors, justices of the peace, and the like. The magistrate must have his reverence; the laws their authority. (Webs1828)
ALER A DIEU – Late French. In old practice. To be dismissed from court; to go quit. Literally, “to go to God.” (Black4)
MASTER – noun – [Latin magister, compounded of the root of magis, major, greater.] 1. A man who rules, governs or directs either men or business. A man who owns slaves is their master; he who has servants is their master; he who has apprentices is their master as he has the government and direction of them. The man who superintends and directs any business, is master or master workman… Nations that want protectors, will have masters. 2. A director, head, or chief manager; as the master of a feast. 3. The owner; proprietor; with the idea of governing. The master of a house may be the owner, or the occupant, who has a temporary right of governing it. It would be believed that he rather took the horse for his subject, than his master. 4. A lord; a ruler; one who has supreme dominion. Caesar, the world’s great master and his own. 5. A chief; a principal; as the master root of a plant. One master passion swallows up the rest. 6. One who has possession, and the power of controlling or using at pleasure. When I have made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas— 7. The commander of a merchant ship… 10. One uncontrolled. Let every man be master of his time. 11. An appellation of respect. Master doctor, you have brought those drugs… 13. A man eminently or perfectly skilled in any occupation, art or science. We say, a man is master of his business; a great master of music, of the flute or violin; a master of his subject, etc. 14. A title of dignity in colleges and universities; as master of Arts. 15. The chief of a society; as the Grand master of Malta, of free-masons, etc… To be master of one’s self, to have the command or control of one’s own passions. The word master has numerous applications, in all of which it has the sense of director, chief or superintendent. As a title of respect given to adult persons, it is pronounced mister; a pronunciation which seems to have been derived from some of the northern dialects. [supra.] – verb intransitive – To conquer; to overpower; to subdue; to bring under control… Evil customs must be mastered by degrees. 1. To execute with skill. I will not offer that which I cannot master. 2. To rule; to govern. –And rather father thee than master thee… (Webs1828)
LORD – A feudal superior or proprietor; one of whom a fee or estate is held. A title of honor or nobility belonging properly to the degree of baron, but applied also to the whole peerage, as in the expression “the house of lords.” A title of office, as lord mayor, lord commissioner, etc… (Black4)
LORD – noun – 1. A master; a person possessing supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor. Man over man he made not lord. But now I was the lord of this fair mansion. 2. A tyrant; an oppressive ruler. 3. A husband. I oft in bitterness of soul deplores my absent daughter, and my dearer lord. My lord also being old. Genesis 18:1. 4. A baron; the proprietor of a manor; as the lord of the manor. 5. A nobleman; a title of honor in Great Britain given to those who are noble by birth or creation; a peer of the realm, including dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons. Archbishops and bishops also, as members of the house of lords, are lords of parliament. Thus we say, lords temporal and spiritual. By courtesy also the title is given to the sons of dukes and marquises, and to the eldest sons of earls. 6. An honorary title bestowed on certain official characters; as lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. 7. In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah. When lord in the Old Testament, is printed in capitals, it is the translation of JEHOVAH, and so might, with more propriety, be rendered. The word is applied to Christ, Psalms 110:1. Colossians 3:16. and to the Holy Spirit, 2 Thessalonians 3:1. As a title of respect, it is applied to kings, Genesis 40:1. 2 Samuel 19:7. to princes and nobles, Gen 42. Daniel 4:19. to a husband, Genesis 18:1. to a prophet, 1 Kings 18:1. 2 Kings 2:1. and to a respectable person, Gen 24. Christ is called the lord of glory, 1 Corinthians 2:8. and lord of lords, Revelation 19:1. – verb transitive – To invest with the dignity and privileges of a lord – verb intransitive – To domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; sometimes followed by over, and sometimes by it, in the manner of a transitive verb. The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. I see them lording it in London streets. They lorded over them whom now they serve. (Webs1828)
Christ was the example of how to act God-like. To be unblemished, without fictions, walking only in Nature and respecting no artifice. Christ is not “coming back,” unless you manifest it in your actions (verb). God is a verb.
“A people that sells its own children is more condemnable than the buyer; this commerce demonstrates our superiority; he who gives himself a master was born to have one.”
—Voltaire, Essai sur les Moeurs et l’Espit des Nations (1753), ch. CXCVII: Résumé de toute cette histoire jusqu’au temps où commence le beau siècle de Louis XIV
There was a time once as a child when I understood this without trying to understand it. Then hell happened; furious, incessant, ubiquitous. Ego birth and formation was the most un-Natural, non-instinctive, yet seemingly only, response to the sole selected fiction. Ego birth is self-murder, its formation the stench of its own death decay. In fiction/hell ego/suicide offers the only chance to “survive and thrive” therein, and the more proficient I “become” at dotting my “i’s” and crossing my “t’s”, the more expertly I cast my “spells”, the better chance I have of attaining a greater portion of all those wholly unsought for spoils of “war”; unbecoming as becoming, being in non-being. At that ego birth, which seems inevitable, the spell of Controlled Dialectic is cast, and shedding it, it would seem, wholly an Act of God. An Act of God. God an Action. Acting in God, with God. An Action, Continuous. Thank you.
What you have described is the very essence of “living in sin” which merely means living in artifice. Nicely written.
astraeaisabella
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So, where do the remnant meet Clint? It certainly does feel like the timing is now right. This guy popped on my radar yesterday- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Dad1lc8tw He certainly does not have all the answers, or even a complete understanding of- come out of her my people- but, he has the right idea. For some reason, the Ozarks just feels right, maybe we should all meet at Joe’s place and discuss…
I’m not so sure anymore about place, since place is a name. Out of her “jurisdiction” makes more sense, since jurisdiction extends pretty much around the globe in consideration of the United States. To meet anywhere we must obtain in some way private land outside of the commercial United States (interstate commerce jurisdiction) while still surrounded by its imaginary force. This means no money, no benefits, no nothing of the U.S. can be utilized. That is the answer I’m trying to comprehend. Peaceful inhabitants, the inheritance of the meek.
Star Larvae
http://www.starlarvae.org/Space_Brains_Space_Migration.html
Scrounge around all you want on Earth, but the border is closed. Mother Earth has come to term. It’s time to be born. “The escape from empire has a name: Frontier”
I am sure you will not read this, but I would like to share some peace with you. I have read many of your articles and I know you are a true truth seeker and I agree with all you have posted. You are a true patriot trying to bring us back to what we once were. I am sorry to tell you this will not happen.
I do not want to tell anyone what they should do, but I believe you are a soul seeking peace. There is a way. It is older than the bible, older than the mountains. The truth is out there it is in every breath and every smell, every touch and every glance. It is the world around us. It can set you free. The truth is out there for us all. We only have to seek with our hearts. It is the loving touch of our family and friends. It is in the cool dew that rests on the flowers. It is everywhere. You only have to close your eyes and breath it in.
There are many places to start down this road and you are on the correct path, but there are many distractions in your way.
There is a website that I recommend that has helped some of the people I know to help with the distractions. The website is truthcontest.com
This book it is only the truth and nothing more. Maybe it can help with the distractions.
You deserve this and you have earned it. You have been seeking the truth long enough.
With warmest regards,
Thanks for that. I came to the same conclusion, essentially, and this is the central theme of my book.
Very nice comments regarding truth, ann. And very nice comments regarding Clint; thanks for having them in you, and thanks for communicating them to him.
bobbrown39
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Clint and Angelo,
As I think you know, we are all on a long and winding road, and along this road there are many entertainments and obstacles. The entertainments and obstacles are nothing more than distractions in this life. The entertainment is everything that most people plug into, you know what the entertainment is. It is almost everything around us. The obstacles are all the details in life that stress us out, the rent, the electricity, taxes, and the bills we pay for our entertainment.
Before you answer this, I want you to think about it. When was the last time you walked through a forest, park or even a garden. When you did, did you touch the trees, the plants? Did you smell the flowers and breath in the air? If you did, how did you feel?
As I said, there are many places to start down the roads of truth and peace. I do have a couple of books that are other great sources of information for your readers. They are Walden, and on the Duty to Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. There are, of course, many more out there, I just wanted to give you two of my favorites. Breath, listen, look, smell, feel and enjoy that is all there really is to life. Let everything else just go, it is only a distraction.
See also `A last minute guide to the Bible` http://www.lastminuebibleguide.capnix.com
Tertullian (160-220) said that the Catholic Faith and Jewish power are like the two pans of a pair of scales: as Catholic Faith goes up, so Jewish power goes down, and as Catholic Faith goes down, so Jewish power goes up. But the Faith overtops the power. That is why the primary problem is not the Jews, but the increase or decrease of the Faith amongst men. That is why conspiracies do exist, they have an important part to play and they are not to be merely scorned, but the central problem is men turning away from the true God in his one true Church. In brief — and here is the crucial point – the Gentiles have only themselves to blame if Jewish power is today so great.
THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE
2:9. I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
In Matthew 16:6, Jesus said, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees”.
Timothy 4:1 “They will be fooled by evil spirits and by teachings that come from demons”
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Psalm 83:1-18 A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant.
“Let God be true, but every man a liar” – Romans 3:4
http://www.subvertednation.net/jew-lists/jewish-billionaires/
Hegelian Dialectics and Conspiracy
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bb970219.htm
Mathew 7, 15-20 :- “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit: but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”
“The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.” (Roman Historian Tacitus).
“Ephesians 6:10-13 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
“Is it any wonder the Bible clearly gives us many details about who Satan is, what he does, how he evolved from Lucifer to Satan, and what his wicked agenda is? That being said, why is it so hard for people to see the reality of the spirit world, both good and bad, that surrounds us daily? Why do these things surprise, yet again and again, so many people, especially the ones who are supposed to know—the Body of Christ?
Do not doubt for even a moment that there is a much ‘higher’ agenda taking place than meets the eye…and what a profound, meticulous, and incredible way to get it done than to utilize man’s own government system and programs? After all, it is through the government that the Antichrist himself will manifest—through a global system that is being created right now—the New World Order.”
1 Timothy 4 ►
1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
6If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters,a you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 7Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 9This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance. 10That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.
What we are witnessing is the fulfillment of Revelation 17 and 18 in the Bible. That great prostitute that “rides the beast,” or rather controls the world governments, is being overthrown and these efforts by Mr. Keenan are part of that as the world realizes how it has been used and abuse for centuries:
“Then the angel said to me, ‘The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.’”
http://www.equip.org/bible_answers/who-or-what-is-the-great-prostitute-of-revelation-17/
“I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast
that was covered
with blasphemous names and had seven heads and
ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet,
and was glittering with gold, precious stones and
pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with
abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.
This title was written on her forehead:
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
http://biblehub.com/revelation/18-11.htm
“The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn and cry out:
” ‘Woe! Woe, O great city,
dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!
In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’
– Book of Revelation, 18
– The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-st-john-the-divine-cathedral/
“…for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder. For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works”
-(II Corinthians 11:13-15).
THE SLAVE TRADERS AND OWNERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JEWS
The Irish are the True Hebrews (priests and singers of the temple of the tribe of Levi)
“Hundreds of thousands of Irish were sold into slavery by the British and brought to North America and the Caribbean. The men were literally worked to death, and the women used to produce an army of half-breed slaves. The Irish were the first slaves brought to the New World (and CHILDREN) -not the Africans. But somehow, the Irish overcame this and thrived in America.” (Irish slaves were treated worse than Black slaves.)
Irish were the first slaves in the USA
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/overthrow/2015/05/04/history-today
The Irish Slave Trade
Irish slavery pt1 A lot of you Irish are Israelites the Gaelic language is a form of Hebrew!!!
IRISH WHITE SLAVERY, THE FIRST SLAVES, THE SLAVERY STORY THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW!
The Black Irish of Montserrat – Irish accents in the Caribbean
http://www.amazon.com/The-Jewish-Onslaught-Despatches-Battlefront/dp/0912469307 by black professor, Dr. Tony Martin, Ph.D.
http://www.africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=7914.0
http://globalfire.tv/nj/09en/jews/slave_trade.htm
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/toread/jew_slave_trade_videos.htm
GREGORY I (‘The Great’). Protested wholesale circumcision of Christian slaves by Jewish traders, who monopolized the slave trade in Europe and the Middle East and were widely suspected of supplying white girls to Oriental and African buyers.
http://rense.com/general69/invo.htm
Muslim Arabs (but looks like controlled by Jews)and Jews Ran the African Slave Trade. (Muslim Obama and his Muslim terrorist Brotherhood in cahoots with the J$ws afterall he did his training with
A Review of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Obama and Clintons)
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/03/4381/
Clinton killers (horrifying)
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/clintonbodycount.htm
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-atrocities-slaves.html
http://www.saveyourheritage.com/slavery.htm
(white) SLAVERY
World and American History
Jewish Revolutionary Spirit & Its Impact on World History
The Secret Behind Communism
“Everything is a rich man’s trick” – JFK (true Hebrew killed by fake Hebrews)
Dialectics – Materialism
Communist Instrument for World Conquest
http://www.alor.org/Library/Butler%20ED%20-%20Dialectics.htm
NY Times – 1914: Zionist Leader Called for World Conquest
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Explained
http://www.threeworldwars.com/protocols.htm
The Mossad
“Ha Mossad, le Modiyn ve le Tafkidim Mayuhadim” [the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations]
Its motto is: ‘By way of deception, thou shalt do war.
“When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about ‘our’ government, he means the government of Israel.”
– David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister
“Is not war already a revolutionary function? War? The Commune (1870). Since that time every war was a giant step towards Communism.”
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/2007/bezmenov.htm
“Everything is a rich man’s trick” – JFK
– “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin (this is happening in Western politics today – different wings of the same bird)
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Jewish_communism
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/10/liberal-bias-in-academia-will-being-self-conscious-about-it-help/
The Anti-Catholic, Nahum Goldmann
“I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.” -Nahum Goldmann, Ex-President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in his book “The Jewish Paradox”, athenäum, Frankfurt 1988, p. 77 – Nahum Goldmann
Title: Jewish Congress
Caption: “Let the Goyim believe that we can be Americans, Englishmen, Germans, or French. When our interests are at stake, we are always Jews, and nothing but.”
July 1934 (Issue #34)
“Our race is the Master Race. We Jews are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.”
— Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-1983
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/communist-defector-speaks-out-on-americas-marxist-future/
Ex KGB agent speaks about Commie brainwashing
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-magna-carta-a-powerful-symbol-of-justice-triumphing-over-tyranny/article22754478/
http://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/magna-carta.html
https://www.incollect.com/articles/magna-carta-and-massachusetts
“On June 15, 1215, in a meadow near London, England, known as Runnymede, a group of rebellious English barons forced King John to agree to a document that, eight hundred years later, remains one of the symbolic foundations of liberty, freedom from tyrannical rule, and the rule of law. Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”) protected the barons against the king’s violation of many of their traditional rights as Englishmen, privileges that they believed King John was trampling upon capriciously.”
http://politicalvelcraft.org/declaration-of-independence/
“We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own…”
– Maurice Samuels, You Gentiles. 1942.
The Jew: Commissary to the Gentiles
The First to See the Possibilities of War by Propaganda
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2. Sex with Children by Talmud Rules
We are told there is a movement afoot to make pederasty (child-adult sex) socially acceptable and legally permissible. Researching the issue, we find that many dominant voices on both sides of the controversy are Jewish.
How is this possible? Which voices speak for the core values of Judaism? Our questions are not prompted by idle curiosity, but by social concern. America is rapidly becoming Talmudized, and we should understand the direction in which our social policies are moving.
Let us start with an article in the Washington Times, a major newspaper that espouses conservative Christian values. The Times provides a useful starting point because they name names. Let us borrow the Times’ viewpoint
On left side of site in narrow columns, as follows and plenty more:
“Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin, author of America’s Real War and director of Toward Tradition, presents himself as a Jewish “good guy” to conservative Christian audiences. He is a favored speaker with Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Christian Coalition, and similar groups. Those groups condemn homosexuality and child-adult sex.
“For over three thousand years Jewish tradition and Jewish law have been unambiguous about homosexuality: it is a sin,” (9) states Rabbi Lapin. However, Rabbi Lapin fails to quote the Talmud law, which makes it clear that male homosexuality is not an offense if the adult man uses a boy below the age of nine years and a day. Homosexuality is only a capital offense when committed between consenting adult males. Talmud law also authorizes adult men to have sexual intercourse with girls three years old and younger.”
Some Question the Talmud
While many praise the Talmud, many have questions about it. The late American Protestant writer Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling, author of The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today, (31) is one of those. (Ellipsis indicates omitted text.)
The Babylonian Talmud is the law for so-called Judaism. However, its pornographic, anti-Gentile and anti-Christian doctrines have often caused hostility against it. …
The Bible under Talmudic Judaism is considered to be a collection of simple tales fit only for fools, women and children. The Talmud “sages” thus must find new meanings in it by letter and number tricks which reverse the plain meaning and create out of it the permission to do otherwise forbidden crimes and misdeeds. The words of the Bible are continually misused and misquoted for purposes of blasphemy and reversal.
Stealing for themselves the title of “Israelites,” the Talmud “sages” teach that “God made a covenant with Israel only for the sake of that which was transmitted orally.” (See Exhibit 60) And the Biblical “basis” of this is given as Exodus 34:27. But that verse states, instead: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel” — the opposite! (Talmud, Gittin 60b, See Exhibit 204) The Talmudic reversal of Moses’ written words are said to have been transmitted “orally,” and through Moses himself — believe it or not!
The Battle of Joshua with Amalekites by Poussin (17)
“The Torah commanded the total eradication — including woman and children — of certain nations (Amalek being a singular illustration) because of the continuing threat its members presented to the survival of Israel. When there is no other deterrent, self-defense entitles one to take measures that are ordinarily unacceptable.” — Washington lawyer Nathan Lewin (8). (Amalek means Gentile)
America Is Rapidly Becoming Talmudized
In 1991, the US Congress declared the Talmudic Noahide Laws to be the basis “upon which our great Nation was founded” (see America’s New Government Church). Under Noahide Law regulations, idolaters (which includes Christians by definition) are put to death.
In 1999, the Supreme Court agreed to consider an amicus brief based wholly on Talmudic law (see Sentence and Execution).
In November 2002, the American Orthodox Jewish community held a kosher dinner in the Supreme Court building to celebrate the establishment of the National Institute for Judaic Law. (22) The dinner was attended by 200 people, including three Supreme Court Justices. The purpose of the Institute is to introduce Talmudic laws into the US legal system and law schools.
It is thus the clear civic duty of every American to become intimately acquainted with the Talmud. Read articles at:
America’s New Government Church: http://www.come-and-
hear.com/editor/america_1.html
Death Penalty: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/capunish_1.html
Kosher Dinner: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/cp-jp-11-09-2002 and http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/cp-jw-01-08-03
“The Jews have the 613 commandments of the Torah to observe. Non-Jews have the Noahide commandments, included within which are prohibitions against idolatry, theft, murder, adultery and incest, cruelty to animals, blasphemy and the responsibility to establish and maintain courts of justice in a just society.”
Just a few revolting things from the Babylonian Talmud that’s nothing compared to some of the other stuff, and what they really thing of us so called Gentiles. I haven’t sited the paedophilia part – look for yourself.
Jewish Harems in Talmud Law — Though a medieval synod discouraged polygamy because it upset Christians, some still do it in Israel. The Word of God in the Talmud provides laws for handling a harem. Up to 48 wives are permitted, perhaps.
Appendix A: The Jewish Encyclopedia on Polygamy
Appendix B: Polygamy and the Slave Hagar
• Talmud Daughters Become Talmud Wives — Under Talmud law, the acquisition of a wife is much like the acquisition of any other property. Curiously, in 50 years of feminism, none of our Jewish feminists have made an issue of the sexual inequalities in the Talmud.
from The Plot Against Christianity
by Elizabeth Dilling
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In the Museum of the Revolution we were shown a huge world map. As our Guide turned a switch, lights came on indicating the places all over the world where Communist Party headquarters were then functioning. Proudly our Guide announced: “Our world revolution will start with China and end with the UNITED STATES”.
“America Under the Talmud: Will It Work for US?”
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In the Talmud:
Christians to be Harmed Indirectly
1. By not helping them 2. By interfering in their work 3. By deceit in legal matters 4. By harming them in things necessary for life
Art. 2. Christians to be Harmed Directly
1. Renegades to be killed 2. Apostates 3. Princes especially the Prince of Rome (the Pope) to be exterminated 4. All Christians to be killed 5. Killing a Christian is an acceptable sacrifice to God 6. Heaven promised to those who kill Christians 7. A Christian may be beheaded on the most solemn festivals 8. The Messiah expected will be revengeful 9. Jewish prayers against Christians 10. Christian prayers for the Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
Outraged by the carnage of World War I, Pound lost faith in England and blamed the war on usury and international capitalism. He moved to Italy in 1924, and throughout the 1930s and 1940s he embraced Benito Mussolini’s Italian Fascism, expressed support for Adolf Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by British fascist Oswald Mosley. During World War II he was paid by the Italian government to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Jews, as a result of which he was arrested by American forces in Italy in 1945 on charges of treason, after which he spent months in detention in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including three weeks in a six-by-six-foot outdoor steel cage that he said triggered a mental breakdown, “when the raft broke and the waters went over me”. Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years.[2]
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/wars/nameless/intro.shtml
THE NAMELESS WAR
This book, first published in 1952 is a small (5′ X 7′) format, of only 120 pages. One of the ‘little gems’ that has been suppressed and gives us a side of history that has NEVER been included in the history books for all to see. Captain Ramsay, WWI veteran, former member of His Majesty’s Scottish Guard, and finally a Member of Parliament, was arrested and imprisoned for nearly three years under an Orwellian law in England, without formal charges or a trial, because he had discovered and was attempting to expose the orchestrators of WWII.
In this book he gives us details of the British, French, Russian and foiled (thanks to Mussolini and Hitler) Spanish Revolutions, proving that the same ‘unseen hand’ was behind, under, over, and around all of the unrest and bloodshed throughout the centuries, in lockstep with their Plan for World Dominion. When he began naming the perpetrators, that was it: off to prison went this Member of Parliament who had evidently been held in high enough esteem to have been in H.M. Guard. When the war ended, he was released from Brixton Prison and allowed to return to his seat in Parliament as though nothing had happened.
Edward I banished the Jews from England for many grave offences endangering the welfare of his realm and lieges, which were to a great extent indicated in the Statutes of Jewry*, enacted by his Parliament in 1290, the Commons playing a prominent part.
* See Appendix 2 (Appendices follow the last chapter)
The King of France very shortly followed suit, as did other Rulers in Christian Europe. So grave did the situation for the Jews in Europe become, that an urgent appeal for help and advice was addressed by them to the Sanhedrin, then located at Constantinople.
This appeal was sent over the signature of Chemor, Rabbi of Arles in Provence, on the 13th January, 1489. The reply came in November, 1489, which was issued over the signature of V.S.S. V.F.F. Prince of the Jews.
It advised the Jews of Europe to adopt the tactics of the Trojan Horse; to make their sons Christian priests, lawyers, doctors, etc., and work to destroy the Christian structure from within.
“Captain Ramsay, a Christian gentleman of unflagging courage, believed that the war with Germany was not conceived in the interests of Britain and could lead only to the extension of Communist and Jewish power. Because he warned his fellow countrymen of the forces at work, he was put in prison without trial for four and a half years, for ‘reasons’ so preposterous that those who framed them dared not submit them to a court of law.” Truth
“For years Captain Ramsay had been a member of the British Parliament. His book is an analysis of the Jewish-Zionist war against Christian civilization.” The Cross and the Flag
I.C. Truth
Truth-Mobile at the Vatican:
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This Truth-Mobile has been touring Rome & The Vatican stopping of at various ‘sites’ for pictures…these are just two. (English on one side and Italian on the other side of the vehicle.)
Apparently inspired by the UK-Wide #truthbillboards which first appeared in Jan 2016 and are ongoing still. There is no website associated with these billboards though many are sharing the message and images on social media.
Here is one:
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2018 Melodrama »
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by Simon Stephens
directed by Patrick McDonald
July 19 – August 5
July 19–August 5, 2018
Based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Directed by Patrick Macdonald
Christopher must solve the mystery of the death of his neighbor’s dog’s—Wellington, speared to death with a garden fork. Exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life, 15-year-old Christopher is determined to solve the mystery; his detective work takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.
For the fifth production of its 2018 “Finding Our Way” season—a series of stories about finding our way through the noise of the modern world and moving toward a more actualized, honest self—The Santa Fe Playhouse presents The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-time, Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play.
Vaugh Irving, artistic director, says, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a hero’s journey. It is about overcoming adversity, shaking off the traumas of the past, and embracing the challenges of the future. Finding your way through the trials and tribulations of life is a universal experience, and that’s why it makes for great art. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will take you into a familiar world, but make you see it all in a new way, and hopefully help you see your own way through.”
Based on the novel by Mark Haddon. Adapted by Simon Stephens. Directed by Patrick MacDonald. Performed by Gabriel Multedo (Christopher); Mairi Chanel (Siobahn); Marty Madden (Ed); Karen Ryan (Judy); ensemble members: Terri Scullin, Michael Stanton, Nicholas Kohnen, Ken Bordner, Joey Beth Gilbert, and Glenna Hill.
Showtimes are Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm.
Tickets are $25 General Admission, $20 for Seniors, Teachers and Military, $15 for Students.
Special Events – Preview on Thursday, July 19th, $15 tickets for everyone; Opening Night on Saturday, July 21st, $30 tickets for everyone.
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Berlioz, by Alphonse Legros
Hector Berlioz (born La Côte-St-André, Isère, 11 December 1803; died Paris, 8 March 1869) was a French composer. He was one of the greatest composers of the 19th century. His music is typical of the Romantic period: full of passion and often based on ideas outside music. He was not particularly good at playing any instrument, but he was brilliant at writing for the orchestra. Some of his most famous works include several orchestral overtures, the Symphonie Fantastique, the opera Les Troyens (The Trojans), the requiem Grande messe des morts and the song cycle Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights). He was very original as a composer, and his music was not fully appreciated until many years after his death.
LifeEdit
Childhood and student daysEdit
Berlioz was the eldest of six children. One brother and one sister lived to be adults, and Berlioz was always very fond of them both. His father was a doctor. The family lived in the country, north west of Grenoble.
Berlioz only went to school for a short time, when he was ten years old. The rest of his education he had from his father. He liked French and Latin literature and travel books about faraway countries. He learned to play the flute, the flageolet and the guitar. He read a book by Rameau about harmony. He never had a piano. He just imagined the sounds of chords in his head. He was only 12 when he fell in love with a girl called Estelle who was 18. He was teased about it a lot. He started to compose some music.
When he was 17 his father said that he wanted him to be a doctor. Berlioz wanted to study music, but his father made him go to Paris to study medicine. Berlioz was to stay in Paris for the rest of his life. He studied medicine for two years, but he hated it. One day, in an anatomy lesson, he had had enough and jumped out of the window. He started to study music. His father was furious and stopped sending him money. Berlioz was very poor and started writing musical criticism for newspapers. This is how he earned most of his money for the rest of his life. He was also borrowing money from friends.
Berlioz started going to the Opéra. He particularly liked the music of Gluck and went to the library to study Gluck’s scores. At the end of 1822 he found a good teacher. His name was Le Sueur. He made Berlioz stop publishing his music until he had learned to compose properly. In 1826 he was officially a student at the Conservatoire. He continued to study with Le Sueur and with Reicha. He tried four times to win the important music prize called Prix de Rome. The first time he wrote a piece called La Mort d’Orphée (The Death of Orpheus). The judges said it was unplayable, but Berlioz got an orchestra to play it. The second time he wrote a piece called Herminie which had a tune he used later as the main tune for his Symphonie fantastique. The third time he wrote a cantata La mort de Cléopâtre which is a wonderful work but he still did not win the prize. The fourth time he wrote a cantata La mort de Sardanapale, and he won the prize. Nearly all the music for this work is now lost.
Berlioz did not understand any English, but he went to a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet given by an English theatre company. The actress taking the part of Ophelia was called Harriet Smithson. Berlioz fell passionately in love with her, although he did not know her, and started following her about everywhere. In the end he married her. The marriage was not a success. Berlioz was really in love with Ophelia, the character from Shakespeare’s play. He found it hard to love Harriet in real life.
Shakespeare’s plays, however, were to be a great inspiration for Berlioz. He wrote many works which are inspired by Shakespeare, including Roméo et Juliette, Béatrice et Bénédict, Roi Lear and several others. He was also inspired at this time by Goethe’s Faust as well as by many other writers including E.T.A. Hoffmann, Scott and Byron. He also discovered the music of Beethoven which helped him to learn how to give shape to large compositions.
Berlioz started to be very busy putting on concerts of his music in Paris. He was quickly becoming known as a very original young composer. Winning the Prix de Rome gave him a steady income for a time, but he was supposed to go to Rome. Berlioz did not want to go to Rome. He said that he had plenty of work in Paris. The real reason why did not want to go was probably because he was in love with a 19- year-old girl called Camille Moke. .
The 1830sEdit
Berlioz spent 15 months in Rome. On his way there he visited his parents who seemed to have forgiven him for not studying medicine. They could now be proud because their son was so successful. In Italy Berlioz did not write much music. He did not like Italian music or Italian art, but he was inspired by the countryside, the sun, the sea, the people he met: sailors, peasants, sculptors, travellers. He did not like the city of Rome, although he did like Florence. He hated the Villa Medici, the house where he had to stay. When he travelled about he wrote some music. When he heard the news that Camille now loved another man he became so furious that he left Rome in order to return to Paris to kill them both. However, when he got as far as Nice he calmed down and changed his mind. He returned to Rome.
At the end of his time in Italy he returned to Paris, visiting his parents on the way. He started organizing concerts of his music. This is when he got to know Harriet Smithson. They had a strange courtship and he married her in 1833. The next year they had a son. The marriage was never easy. Their personalities were different, they were poor, and they did not speak one another’s language. In 1842 they separated and Harriet died in great poverty in 1854.
Although a few people thought that Berlioz was an original composer, many others thought his music was very strange. He hardly earned any money from composing. Most of the money he earned came from musical journalism, which is something he hated. When his works were performed, he usually conducted them himself. He wrote a work for viola and orchestra called Harold en Italie. Paganini had asked him to write it for him to play, but when Paganini saw the music he did not like it because it was not “showy” enough for the viola. Some years later Paganini heard the work and decided he liked it, so he paid Berlioz 20.000 Francs. This was a lot of money, and it made it possible for Berlioz to spend time writing a big new work: Roméo et Juliette. When this was first performed some critics thought that Berlioz did not understand Shakespeare probably. However, Richard Wagner, who was in the audience at the first performance, was very impressed. Berlioz tried to be successful as an opera composer, but people did not understand his original music. He wrote a Grand symphonie funèbre et triomphale, originally written for a military band. Les nuits d'été is a very moving song-cycle.
Later lifeEdit
Berlioz in 1863
During the 1840s and 1850s Berlioz spent much of his time travelling abroad. He went to Germany, Austria, Russia and England. He was becoming more famous abroad than at home in France, although he still continued to go back to Paris. The Germans loved his music and were impressed by his conducting. He rarely conducted anything except his own music. In 1846 he composed one of his finest works: La Damnation de Faust which was performed in the Opéra-Comique. The opera house was half empty. It was a great disappointment to him. Berlioz continued to tour to other countries where people appreciated him. He had great success in St Petersburg, in Berlin where he performed to the King of Prussia, and in London, where he never got paid for the concerts that Jullien conducted because Jullien had no money left. However, he had other successes in London and the English liked him very much.
In 1854 Harriet Smithson died and seven months later Berlioz married Marie Recio, a singer he had known for 12 years. Her Spanish mother came to live with them, and she looked after Berlioz very kindly in his last years when he was ill. Berlioz’ son Louis had become a captain in the navy and travelled all over the world. This was something Berlioz had always dreamt of doing since his childhood when he used to read travel books. Berlioz was terribly sad in 1867 when he heard that Louis had died in Havana of yellow fever.
Berlioz had always had a passion for the Latin poet Virgil. In 1856 he spent a long time writing a long opera in five acts called Les Troyens (The Trojans). He knew it would be almost impossible to find anyone who would put on a performance. It only became possible in 1863 after he had divided the work into two parts. After that it was 30 years before the opera was performed again. It contains some of his best music. The storm scene is especially famous and often performed separately as an orchestral piece.
As he got older he became obsessed with death. He had lost two wives, and his two sisters had also died. He started to walk in cemeteries. He wrote his Memoires (autobiography). It has been translated into many languages including English.
In 1863 he wrote to Estelle, the girl he had loved when he was a child. She was now a widow of 67 and he was 60. He visited her in Lyons and loved her again. He wrote regularly to her for the rest of his life, and stayed with her three times in Grenoble where she lived with her son. She gradually understood him better, and she gave him much happiness during his last years.
A final journey to St Petersburg was too much for Berlioz. He became ill. He went to Nice on the way home, where he twice collapsed while walking by the sea. He went back to Paris where he was cared for by his mother-in-law. He died on 11 March 1869 and was buried in the Cimitière Montmartre.
Berlioz’s reputationEdit
Berlioz is a clear example of a “prophet who is without honour in his own country”: not many people in France realized he was a great composer, but in other countries he was welcomed as one of the great composers and conductors of his day. Many of his works are difficult to describe. His Symphonie fantastique is not quite a symphony, his Harold en Italie is not quite a concerto. His Requiem is not a normal, religious requiem, Roméo et Juliette is a mixture of all sorts of things. He wrote five operas, which are all very different in style. His songs are tender and lovely, influenced by the French romance. His overtures are very popular at orchestral concerts. His music is very original and, although he wrote a book on orchestration, the sounds he composed were so personal that no one could imitate him. He was not good at playing any instrument, but could imagine all the sounds in his head. Many of his melodies stretch themselves over an unusual number of bars. A lot of his orchestral music is programme music: it is often inspired by books or wild stories in his imagination.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
Berlioz Mémoires; edition Garnier-Flammarion, Paris 1969
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The Gaza-Jericho agreement of 1994 established an organisation to rule the Gaza Strip, and parts of the West Bank. This organization was called Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; Arabic: السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية as-Sulṭa al-Waṭanīya al-Filasṭīnīya).[1] This followed from the 1993 Oslo Accords.[2][3] After the elections in 2006 and the Gaza conflict between the Fatah and Hamas parties it only had control over the areas in the West Bank. Since January 2013, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority uses the name "State of Palestine" on official documents.[4][5][6]
↑ Palestinian Authority definition of Palestinian Authority in the Free Online Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com (2012-04-11). Retrieved on 2013-08-25.
↑ Rudoren, Jodi. "The Palestinian Authority". The New York Times.
↑ "The Palestinian government". CNN. 5 April 2001. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
↑ Palestine: What is in a name (change)? - Inside Story. Al Jazeera English. Retrieved on 2013-08-25.
↑ WAFA – Palestine News & Information Agency, Presidential Decree Orders Using ‘State of Palestine’ on all Documents Archived 15 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. 8 January 2013
↑ Associated Press (5 January 2013). "Palestinian Authority officially changes name to 'State of Palestine'". Haaretz Daily Newspaper.
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EKO ATLANTIC CITY: UNVEILING THE RISK FACTORS
EKO ATLANTIC CITY: UNVEILING THE…
By Professor Ako Amadi
This critique of the Eko Atlantic City environmental impact assessment, EIA has been the results of a week spent reading a library copy of the submission by the South Energyx Nigeria Limited, SENL to the Federal Ministry of Environment in Abuja. It is not aimed at arguing the credibility of scientific technicalities or at pursuing their verification as presented. The focus is rather on the project logic, the rationale, potential for impacts, the risk factor and the possibility as well as the capability to mitigate unavoidable consequences, but also to identify the necessity to situate a precautionary principle on what the project must not do. The analytical approach in this manuscript is however not devoid of scientific knowledge that complements information on governance and the socio-economic status of Nigeria.
· Thus, the analysis of the EIA is not so much over claims by the proponents to protect the shoreline from erosion and drive economic development in Lagos at the conclusion of their activities, but more about the eventual and longer term impacts of constructing a city on reclaimed land from coastal marine sediments.
The indirect effects of developments are often an order of magnitude higher than the direct effects assessed by environmental impact assessments. The construction of a new city on reclaimed and compacted marine sediments within a critical ecological system raises justifiable public concern over potential impacts, the clarity of the EIA process and the scientific credibility of its contents. It is for these reasons that the Eko Atlantic City project has generated current controversy and extensive debate.
· The EIA is honest when it states that ‘public opinion’ is a risk factor. That a proposed project is queried by a concerned community or by concerned individuals is nothing new all over the world. It is difficult not to believe that the attitude of SENL and the Lagos State Government in not engaging with community members over the contents of the Eko Atlantic City EIA has not been deliberate in order to avoid the ‘Niger delta syndrome’ of communities making incessant financial demands for hosting projects.
· Whichever way it is viewed, while it may be possible to hide the impact assessment of processes leading to the construction of a new city in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, the activities on the ground will be obvious as they progress. That is when community agitation could emerge and grow into militancy and armed conflict. The genesis of the conflict in the Niger delta goes back to an unchanging and undemocratic governance culture in Nigeria that is anxious to propel development on the direction of a few ‘Captains of Industry,’ less on the views of the majority in the surrounding community.
· For these and other reasons it is necessary for communities in Lagos that may feel impacted by the proposed project to avail themselves of legal advice on how to invoke the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) which affords unhindered access to information at the disposal of government and its agencies. It is impossible for millions of Nigerians, if they were interested to make their comments on a single EIA over 300 pages long, displayed in hard copy on a library table, without a website reference within a month. The EIA Unit of the Federal Ministry of Environment must find a better way of divulging information to the public or be constrained by law to do so.
· EIAs have often been criticized for having too narrow spatial and temporal scope. At present no procedure has been specified for determining a system boundary for the assessment. The system boundary refers to ‘the spatial and temporal boundary of the proposal’s effects’. This boundary is determined by the applicant and the lead assessor, but in practice, almost all EIAs address the direct, on-site effects alone.[4]The EIA of Eko Atlantic City is not an exception in many ways.
· Many of the environment impact properties cannot be measured on a scale e.g. landscape quality, lifestyle quality, social acceptance etc. and moreover these indicators are very subjective. EIAs began to be used in the 1960s as part of a rational decision making process. It involved a technical evaluation that would lead to objective decision making. EIA was made legislation in the US in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 1969. It has since evolved as it has been used increasingly in many countries around the world. As per Jay et al.(2006), EIA as it is practiced today, is being used as a decision aiding tool rather than decision making tool. There is growing dissent on the use of EIA as its influence on development decisions is limited and there is a view it is falling short of its full potential.
· The projected benefits of this project over which there has been much publicity, must be superimposed over the costs, risks and potential detrimental impacts around which there is silence. Perhaps it is traditional business practice to take risks. But where such risks are to human lives, extreme caution has to be exercised, and the people at risk, whether they be rich or poor, property owners or the homeless and landless must be allowed a voice in the decision-making process.
· The public will be advised to watch out for the subsequent impact assessments on further phases of the project, while demanding for intensified debate on what has been submitted to date. Ideally an EIA must be followed by an audit. These audits serve the purpose to compare actual impacts to those that were predicted. Audits are the responsibility of NESREA, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, a separate organization/parastatal within the Ministry of Environment. NESREA is hardly 4 years in existence and is overstretched in attempts to audit businesses nationwide.
· In all of this, a problem is that many communities in Nigeria and their members are unaware of the existence of an EIA process, and even if they did, often lack the literacy and numeracy to know what to do with it. They must be empowered through capacity education programmes to take their destiny in their own hands.
· It is important to find a solution to beach loss at the Lagos Bar beach and be prepared for sea level rise. The strategic option of sea defences is not new. Surprisingly the EIA does not cite ‘success stories’ and comparative case studies from countries around the globe that Lagosians could use as a reference base. People are anxious to know where a similar project in a developing tropical country has been successfully executed.
· The Government of Lagos is in a hurry and has instructed SENL to complete the EIA for Phase 2 as soon as possible. What needs to be done is to convene a workshop of the stakeholders and interested groups and experts to come up with a written reaction to the entire Eko Atlantic City project, based on expert advice from within the country, and possibly from overseas. Opinions may differ, but it is always beneficial to understand why people are motivated to make decisions in a particular direction.
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leenk technologies says:
I want to thank you for this Post. I am an MSc student of Development Planning and Research from the University of Reading, UK. I have been following this project for some time now, my interest was to know the level of community engagement and involvement in the entire project, i.e. from conception to implementation unfortunately non as in the case of Okum Afla community. I flew to Nigeria in July and went straight to Alfa Beach spent some day in the community, me had a focus group meeting with the chiefs and the traditional leader but to my amazement this community has been completely neglected. I carried out field research met with community members, and most of them are not even aware of such project but all they can say was how their shore has been depleted by the ocean surge which intensified about two years ago washing up even building and other social amenities. Why are Nigerian leaders so insensitive to the plight of local people, Gov. Fashola is a lawyer, he should know this things. My research is still on, My prayer is that the Niger Delta case will not repeat itself here
ernie says:
Hi Leenk technologies, my name is francis and I am a journalist working presently on the EAC Project and would like to ask you a few questions based on your research. If you can please reach me on [email protected]
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10 Reasons Shirley Temple Was a Badass
Alex Alvarez
Image by Gushi Soda/Flickr, Art by Alex Alvarez/Fusion
It's likely that you primarily remember Shirley Temple as a cherubic child star, dimpled face framed by her signature curls, imparting some sort of trite lesson about following dreams or reaching for the stars. And while she was certainly that, she was also a lot more. She was, indeed, a badass. A curly-haired, singing, dancing badass.
1. She didn't become a child star stereotype.
Many child actors fold under the pressure and scrutiny that comes from being placed in the public eye at a tender age by people who might not always care for or protect you, and that risk was very apparent to Shirley, who has called out her early studio shorts as "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence," that "occasionally were racist or sexist."
2. Her performances show that progress is sometimes not so much a straight line, but a loop.
Shirley made four movies with the superbly talented tap dance star Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and the two became Hollywood's first interracial dancing couple in The Little Colonel. While Bill Robinson's onscreen portrayals were steeped in racist conventions of the time, The Grio notes that this coupling was nonetheless enduring and poignant, and that Mr. Robinson was a force to be reckoned with both in terms of his performing talent onscreen and his fascinating life off-screen.
3. She helped little girls feel great about themselves.
Many of Shirley's films - despite their aforementioned issues — showed a tough little girl overcoming adversity with wit and smarts. (Just watch her version of The Little Princess and try not to be impressed by her character's inner reserve.) And that's not to mention how excited curly-haired little girls were to see someone rocking their hair style on the big screen.
4. She made Oscar history.
In 1935, Shirley Temple became the first child actor to win a Juvenile Oscar. To put that into perspective: At that age, most of us were definitely being sent to the school nurse to have crayons removed from our nasal cavities.
5. She intimidated grown men.
Her "Little Miss Marker" co-star Adolphe Menjou referred to Shirley as "an Ethel Barrymore at 6" and worried that the tiny actress was "making a stooge out of me."
6. She didn't fade away.
"Cuteness" has a short self life, and being marketed on looks poses a particularly grave risk to women in an industry and within a society that often values beauty and youth over talent and experience. As such, Shirley's films were fewer and further between as she reached her teen years. She eventually retired from film at the ripe old age of 22, and embarked on a new career as a diplomat, serving in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1969 to 1974, before being named an ambassador to Ghana from 1974 to 1976, and to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992.
7. She fought back against creeps.
In 1937, British film critic Graham Greene wrote what may be the creepiest thing penned about a 9-year-old child's body to appear in mainstream media:
"Her admirers—middle-aged men and clergymen—respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire."
Shirley and her studio bosses at Twentieth Century Fox sued for libel and won. The settlement money was placed in a trust and later used to build a youth center.
8. She's immortalized in a Dali painting as a monster.
9. She spoke openly and frankly about breast cancer.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1972, Shirley wrote about her experience and her relationship to her body in McCall's, declaring that "The doctor can make the incision; I'll make the decision." In doing so, she became one of the first celebrities to speak out about and demystify breast cancer and its treatment.
10. She got Cesar Chavez to deliver one of his most memorable speeches.
United Farmworkers Union leader Cesar Chavez's longtime press secretary recalls how Shirley had invited Chavez to a Commonwealth Club of California luncheon and persuaded him to address the crowd — even though he had qualms because she was a Republican:
Cesar and Mrs. Black had lunch together on the days before the speech and got along like old friends. They shared common interests in gardening and vegetarianism. Mrs. Black related how she had been a member of the Screen Actors Guild as a child actor and maintained her membership in the union over the years so as to support other young actors. Much later when she had to undergo breast cancer surgery, Mrs. Black was surprised to discover the costs were covered because of her SAG membership.
What has become known as Cesar’s Commonwealth Club address was one of the few occasions when he was very introspective, placing himself and his movement in an historical context. It has been widely quoted, from speech anthologies to director Diego Luna’s upcoming major motion picture, "Cesar Chavez," that releases in 100 markets across North America on March 28.
And there you have it: Shirley Temple Black was a child star, diplomat, cancer survivor, and all-around badass.
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Tengi announces revenue sharing messaging app
By Heather McLean on February 5, 2016 Developers & Apps, Smart News
Messaging app that rewards users with a weekly prize draw
New chat app, Tengi, has announced its full UK launch, following a successful regional beta. The newest messaging app player on the market gives 50% of all its revenue to its users.
Available on Android and iOS phones, Tengi is a messaging app that rewards users with a weekly prize draw; there is a small amount of advertising within the app, and Tengi gives 50% of this revenue away each week as prizes. As more people join Tengi, so the prizes will increase.
Users can currently win cash prizes of £1,000, £25 or £5, or as an alternative to the latter, choose an Amazon Gift Code for £5. Winners can also choose to donate their prize to Tengi’s charity partner, the Heart of England Forest.
The company has been trialling the beta in Yorkshire, where it is based. The successful adoption of the app and positive consumer response to it now means it is ready to be rolled out nationally. Tengi currently has 14,000 monthly active users who have sent 2.8 million messages with the app, and it has given away £100,000 in prize money since 2015.
By being completely transparent with its users, Tengi hopes to take on more established and better-known competitors. “We recognise that our users are central to our success and we wanted to share the value that they bring to our business,” commented Neil Laycock, Tengi CEO. “We felt it was time for an entirely new approach to the messaging industry. Tengi is about being free, fair and fun, with a strong focus on our consumers. Whilst other apps gain huge value from their users, we are sharing that value and not keeping it for ourselves. By rewarding our users for chatting on Tengi, we give something back.”
Robust, simple to install and easy to use, the app features text and multimedia sharing (including images, video and audio), easy access to contacts and group chat with up to 100 friends at once. The app is free to download and Tengi will never charge people for it. In addition, Tengi doesn’t sell users’ personal data nor does it give it way to advertisers.
User feedback has been very positive from the beta phase, with the app averaging five star reviews on the App Store and four star reviews on Google Play.
Added Jordon Handley, Tengi’s head of customer acquisition: “We have big plans for Tengi. We are taking on bigger and more established messenger players in the market because we feel it’s about time that consumers are rewarded for what they love to do on their phones: chat. Why shouldn’t they get a piece of the action?”
In order to be entered into the prize draw, all users have to do is use the app to get tickets for the draw. They can receive tickets in a variety of ways: they collect eight tickets for each contact in their phone that joins Tengi; two tickets every time a friend wins; one ticket for each day they use Tengi; one ticket for every 15 minutes they spend chatting on Tengi; and one ticket per week for keeping the app installed. In this way, it’s easy for users to acquire tickets for the regular Friday night draws (made at 7pm GMT every week).
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Kennerly, David Hume (American photographer, contemporary)
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The photographs in this collection are from Barack Obama: the Official Inaugural Book . It was created and produced by Matthew Naythons, Robert McNeely and David Hume Kennerly and contains photographs by Kennerly, McNeely, Peter Souza and a team of America’s leading photojournalists and amateur photographers.
From the guide to the Obama Inaugural Photograph Collection, 2009-197., 2009, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
David Hume Kennerly began his professional career in 1966 as a photographer for the Oregon Journal . After joining United Press International in 1967, Kennerly worked in Los Angeles (1967-1968), New York (1968-1969), and Washington, D.C. (1969-1970). In 1971, UPI sent Kennerly to South Vietnam, where in 1972 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his feature photography of the Vietnam War. Kennerly also received the Wilson Hicks Award for excellence in reporting with a camera, first prize in the World Press Photo Contest for his coverage of Cambodia, and the Overseas Press Club's Olivier Rebbot Award for his inside story of the Reagan/Gorbachev Summit in Geneva.
From 1972 until 1974, Kennerly worked as a contract photographer for Time magazine. In August 1974, President Gerald R. Ford invited Kennerly to serve as his personal photographer. As Family Week later reported, the Pulitzer Prize winner accepted the job only on the condition that he have "the freedom to walk in and out of the President's office at will to take whatever pictures he felt were part of history." As a result, Kennerly's pictures from his three years in the White House have an immediacy rarely matched by the work of previous official presidential photographers.
From the 1970s through the 1990s Kennerly worked as a photographer for Time (1973-1974, 1977-1990), Life (1972, 1993-1996), and George (1996-1999) magazines, and as a writer and television producer/director. Shooter, his autobiography, was published in 1979, followed by Photo Op: A Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer Covers Events that Shaped Our Times (1995) and Photo du Jour: A Picture-A-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium (2002). The Center for American History has presented photographic exhibitions based on the latter two publications. Kennerly's television productions include Shooter (1987) and The Taking of Flight 847 - The Uli Derickson Story (1988), the latter the recipient of an Emmy award nomination. He is currently a contributing editor to Newsweek magazine.
From the guide to the A Guide to the David Hume Kennerly Photographic Archive, 1966-, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
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BRACE FOR INFANTINO’S 40-NATION WORLD CUP
Filed under: Gianni Infantino, Uncategorized | Tags: 2018 World Cup, 2022 World Cup, Andorra, Arab Spring, Asian Football Confederation, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil '14, Brig, Cameroon, Dutch East Indies, European Championship, FIFA, FIFA Council, FIFA Executive Committee, France, France '98, Gianni Infantino, Honduras, Jerome Champagne, Joao Havelange, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Michel Platini, NCAA basketball tournament, Prince Ali, Qatar, Russia, San Marino, Sepp Blatter, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim, South Korea, UEFA, UEFA general secretary, Visp, World Cup, Zaire, Zurich
A dark horse candidate–Michel Platini’s lieutenant at the UEFA–emerged as the victor in a tense, six-hour FIFA presidential election in Zurich as member nations sought to put behind them years of scandal that cost Sepp Blatter his job as world soccer boss and led to the indictment of 41 soccer officials and marketing agencies.
Gianni Infantino, an Italian-Swiss attorney who grew up in the Alpine Village of Brig–just seven miles from Blatter’s hometown of Visp–surprisingly finished first in the initial balloting, attracting 88 votes to 85 for the favorite, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim of Bahrain, 27 for Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan and seven for Jerome Champagne of France. With no one having won a two-thirds majority, that set up a second ballot for the first time in 42 years, and with a simple majority of the 104 votes needed, Infantino out-polled Salman, 115 to 88. Ali received four votes and Champagne none.
Salman, the head of the Asian Football Confederation, was the front-runner during the four-month campaign, but he apparently was undone by concerns over his actions during the Arab Spring riots of 2011. Infantino only entered the race in October to hold a place for Platini, who was under investigation for financial wrongdoing and ultimately was banned from soccer activities by FIFA for six years.
Infantino, 45, will be president until May 2019, completing Blatter’s term. Blatter resigned under pressure last May, four days after winning a fifth four-year term as FIFA chief. He subsequently was banned for eight years–later reduced to six–for financial mismanagement related to his dealings with Platini.
Before the election the member federations approved a wide-ranging slate of reforms intended to increase transparency, foster greater inclusion and restore the confidence of sponsors. Among them, FIFA presidents will be limited to three four-year teams, and the FIFA Executive Committee will be expanded from 24 to 36 members (six of whom must be women) and renamed the FIFA Council. [February 26]
Comment: Best of luck to Infantino in righting the FIFA ship. But beware of another Swiss bearing gifts.
Just as Blatter before him and Brazilian Joao Havelange before him, Infantino assumes the world soccer throne having made offers to please the have-nots among the membership, including more funding steered in their direction from the $5 billion taken in by the 2014 World Cup. But for those who consider the World Cup the greatest of all sporting events, what’s troubling is Infantino’s stance that the tournament be expanded from 32 finalists to 40.
It doesn’t seem like much: eight extra nations, probably 10 groups of four teams instead of the eight groups of four at Brazil ’14 and every World Cup since France ’98. But does international soccer’s biggest stage really need an additional eight no-hopers, eight teams that under today’s format wouldn’t have even been strong enough to earn the opportunity to finish last in a World Cup first-round group?
World Cups have had contenders who hadn’t a prayer of even surviving the opening round of a 16-nation tournament, from Dutch East Indies in 1938 and South Korea (0 goals for, 16 against, in two matches) in 1954 to Zaire (a 9-0 loser to Yugoslavia) in 1974. But while the balance of power around the world has improved, FIFA has maintained the World Cup gap between the strongest nations and the rest by expanding the tournament, first to 24 nations in 1982, then the present 32 in ’98. As a result, the finals remains diluted, and we get performances like those of Cameroon, Australia and Honduras two years ago, which went a combined 0-9-0 with five goals scored and 26 conceded. That amounted to matches not worth watching on what is the sport’s grand stage.
The parameters for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and ’22 in Qatar have already been set, so the first time Infantino could spring a 40-nation tournament on the world wouldn’t be possible until 2026, whose host–the U.S., perhaps–has yet to be determined. But Americans already have seen how these things get out of control. The NCAA basketball tournament started modestly enough in 1939 as an eight-school affair. Within a dozen years it had been expanded to 16, then doubled again in 1975. Four years after that it was 40, and the year after that 48. It has since grown by degrees to 68 schools, and for the past five years there has been pressure to expand it to 128. And the driving force behind this amazing expansion has been–no surprise here–television money.
Infantino has to lead the reform of FIFA while his organization deals with a current deficit of $108 million. A tall order. Should he win a term in his own right, he’d have the opportunity to make a 40-nation World Cup a reality in 2026. And he would know how to get it done. In his previous post, as UEFA general secretary, Infantino oversaw the expansion of the European Championship from 16 teams to 24. If that seems bloated, it is: That’s nearly half the UEFA’s membership of 54 nations. Ridiculous, but countries like San Marino, Liechtenstein and Andorra can dream, now, can’t they? And soccer fans who want to watch a competition like the Euro Championship that offers the highest possible quality can hope that no-hopers like that continue to be able to do nothing more than dream.
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Home Futurology Technology China to construct a next-generation 100-km collider that will dwarf CERN’s Large...
China to construct a next-generation 100-km collider that will dwarf CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to study ‘God particle’, the Higgs boson
China aims to construct a next-generation 100-km proton-proton circular electron-positron collider that will dwarf the European facility. The giant underground collider is designed to fire protons at near light speed and smash them together to mass produce the transient Higgs bosons for intensive study. about to build a huge 100 km in diameter collider to study ‘God particle’.
The Large Hadron Collider verified the existence of the ‘God particle’ in 2012. Photo: CERN
The Higgs boson, aka “God particle”, is the ultimate frontier in particle physics. The significance of the elementary particle and its properties is that it is able to be examined using existing knowledge and experimental technology as a means to confirm and study the entire Higgs field theory.
In layman’s terms, different subatomic particles are responsible for giving matter different properties. One of the most mysterious and important properties is mass: some particles like protons and neutrons have mass, while others, like photons, do not. The Higgs boson is believed to be the particle which gives mass to matter, according to scientists.
The elusive “God particles” were first spotted in 2012 in subatomic crashes that took place inside the Large Hadron Collider, a multibillion-dollar particle accelerator in a 27-km circular tunnel 175 meters beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva. The collider, dubbed the largest machine in the world and operated by the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), verified the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, a landmark event in particle physics.
A bird’s eye view of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Photo: Handout
But now China aims to construct a next-generation 100-km proton-proton circular electron-positron collider that will dwarf the European facility. The giant underground collider is designed to fire protons at near light speed and smash them together to mass produce the transient Higgs bosons for intensive study.
A funding proposal was submitted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to the central government in November, after the academy’s Beijing Institute of High Energy Physics finalized a detailed concept design. The first component is expected to be installed from 2022.
Several sites have been suggested, including Qinhuangdao in Hebei province near Beijing, Yan’an in Shaanxi province and Shanwei in the southern Guangdong province, according to Chinese papers.
China is pouring in money and talent in a race against similar projects initiated by Japan and Europe to build a “God particle” factory, undaunted by prohibitive costs.
Japan has reportedly started designing its new collider after hearing about China’s plan, though the controversy is that the proposed site is in a seismically active zone, while the CERN has been working on plans for two new colliders, though it will have to break all the red tape to secure approval from all European Union member states to get the funding it needs.
Hopefully this race to disclose the invisible God particle doens’t mean the End of our World!
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Young Scientists,
Teen studies living flashlights of the deep
A teen’s videos help chronicle behavior of the giant flashlight fish
The bluish-black giant flashlight fish (shown here) gets its name from a bioluminescent patch located below each eye.
Caroline Edmonds
The deep sea is one of the most remote and mysterious places on Earth. Scientists rarely go there. Those few who do discover new species all of the time. Many denizens of the deepest parts of the ocean, where it’s forever dark, can light up. Now, a teen’s research has shone new light on how one of these swimming beacons behaves in captivity.
The giant flashlight fish (Anomalops katoptron) lives in the Indian Ocean as well as in tropical parts of the central and western Pacific. It roams at depths of up to 400 meters (about 1,300 feet). But not always. Sometimes it inhabits coral reefs in shallow waters. In those shallow waters, this blackish-blue fish comes out only at night. Reef-dwelling members of this species tend to be smaller than those living in deeper waters. Those biggies can grow to lengths of 35 centimeters (14 inches). That may not sound like a giant, but they are the largest of their type of fish.
The giant flashlight fish gets its name from a small glow-in-the-dark patch found in a pocket of tissue under each eye, explains Caroline Edmonds. She’s a 13-year old from Fountain Valley, Calif. There, she attends Talbert Middle School. The eye pockets in these fish contain light-producing — or bioluminescent (BY-oh-loom-in-ESS-ent) — bacteria.
As symbionts (SIM-bee-onts), these bacteria and their host fish have built a relationship that helps both. The fish use the bacteria as a way to communicate with creatures around them. The bacteria gain nutrients from the fish and a safe place to live.
When a fish wants to “flash” its light, it rotates the bacteria-filled pocket toward the outside of its body, Caroline explains. When a fish wants to hide its light, it swivels the pocket back toward the inside.
Researchers had never made any detailed measurements about when and why this fish uses its lime-green flashlights. So, Caroline asked to study the species at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif. She has worked there as an unpaid volunteer for the past three years.
For her study, Caroline made 94 videos of the fish. Her videos covered all times of the day, even the middle of the night. Each video lasted 5 minutes. To measure the behavior of the fish, she paused each video every 5 seconds to check and see if any of the fish in a school were exposing their glowing patches.
No one had been sure why the fish developed their glow-in-the-dark beacons. To attract a mate, to lure food or to confuse a predator are just a few possible examples. Caroline hoped to home in on the actual reason. Her data now show that the fish flashed most often when they were being fed. They flashed least often late at night, when they were resting. (Aquarium workers turn on the lights each morning at about 7:30 a.m. and turn them off at 9:00 p.m., Caroline notes. That simulates the night.)
This artificial day-and-night schedule doesn’t match the activity cycle this fish would experience in the wild. Still, Caroline says, it might provide interesting clues about the species’ behavior. For one thing, the fish lit up more when being fed small frozen crustaceans than they did when hunting live prey. Maybe the fish were trying to be sneaky when they were tracking prey that could escape, she says.
Caroline presented the results of her research to the public this week in Washington, D.C., at the finals of the fourth annual Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars) contest. It’s a national competition for middle school students. The program is run by Society for Science & the Public (SSP), publisher of Science News for Students. It is sponsored by Broadcom Foundation (a nonprofit public benefit corporation funded by Broadcom Corp.).
aquarium A tank with at least one transparent side where water-dwelling plants and animals can be kept and observed.
bioluminescence The light emitted by certain animals —such as fireflies, squid and deep-sea fishes — and by some shallow-water algae.
crustaceans Hard-shelled water-dwelling animals including lobsters, crabs and shrimp.
predator (adjective: predatory) A creature that preys on other animals for most or all of its food.
prey Animal species eaten by others.
symbiosis A relationship between two species that live in close contact.
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A place for discovery
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Scientists Say
Scientists Say: Quantum
This word refers to the smallest of them all
This illustration shows a single hydrogen interacting with a graphene base on a quantum level.
UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Quantum (noun, “KWAN-tum”. Plural: quanta)
This word refers to the very tiny behaviors and interactions between subatomic particles — things much smaller than atoms.
In a sentence
Scientists are coming up with new technologies by learning how materials act at the quantum scale.
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physics The scientific study of the nature and properties of matter and energy. Classical physics is an explanation of the nature and properties of matter and energy that relies on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion. It’s an alternative to quantum physics in explaining the motions and behavior of matter. A scientist who works in that field is known as a physicist.
quantum (pl. quanta) A term that refers to behaviors of and between tiny subatomic particles.
quantum entanglement A physical phenomenon that occurs when groups of particles (typically pairs) interact in ways such that all the particles have the same quantum state.
quantum physics A branch of physics that uses quantum theory to explain or predict how a physical system will operate on the scale of atoms or sub-atomic particles.
subatomic Anything smaller than an atom, which is the smallest bit of matter that has all the properties of whatever chemical element it is (like hydrogen, iron or calcium).
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A homework assignment for the “Night of Terror: A basic video to start
Posted on November 1, 2014 | 1 comment
The other day a friend of mine asked me for homework? “What do you mean?” I responded. I couldn’t help but consider the question a joke. Then the talk grew serious. She really wanted a video, a podcast, or a crash course on the suffrage movement, an exciting part of American history. Either she’d been absent at school when the “Night of Terror” had been taught, or the 1917 picketing of the White House by American suffrage activists simply wasn’t in any of her teachers’ lesson plans. Fortunately Suffrage Wagon is partnering with Turning Point Suffragist Memorial on the November 15th “Night of Terror” observance, or I wouldn’t have been able to respond so fast.
OK. Here it is. If you haven’t seen the Lady Gaga parody, watch it. The video always reveals surprises. And while you’re watching, imagine that the streets near the White House in 1917 as bedlam some days when the women lined up with their picket signs. By the time November 15th rolled around, things were hot and heavy at the Occoquan Workhouse, the scene of the “Night of Terror.” I always think of it personally, as when my grandmother Edna Kearns and my aunt, Serena Kearns, then 12 years old, joined hundreds of others from around the nation to stand vigil at the White House gates in the U.S. Capitol to press for change.
From November 1 through November 15, Suffrage Wagon News Channel is partnering with the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial to draw attention to the “Night of Terror” at the Occuquan Workhouse near Washington, DC. This means that Turning Point Suffragist Memorial will be Tweeting like mad, and you can touch in with my musings over the next two weeks. Tweets and Facebook deliver the updates. Or you can subscribe by email.
Watch the video. Take a careful look at this music video produced in 2012 by Soomo Publishing that took the nation by storm and won a raft of awards for excellent educational programming. The “Bad Romance” video highlights the picketing at the White House, as well as the process of ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A lot to cram into a video of about three minutes. But it’s worth the effort. It takes much more than three minutes to explain the suffrage movement that took 72 years. So consider yourself significantly up to speed. And pass this along this history to women voters headed for the polls on Tuesday. This video alone is reason enough to vote, but we’re building a foundation to celebrate suffrage centennials in the future, including the 2020 suffrage centennial.
The next two weeks constitutes a crash course on the suffrage movement, with the end point of the “Night of Terror” in mind on November 15th. In another segment of my “Musings,” I’ll review the content of the nine podcast series recently completed on Suffrage Wagon News Channel called “Playing POlitics with the President.” It gives the background as to why the suffragists of the National Woman’s Party picketed the White House in the first place. But I’ll get to that soon. Stay tuned!
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President Nixon Retreats to Sunnylands on Day of Pardon by President Ford, September 1974
Walter & Leonore Annenberg, Pat and Richard Nixon at San Clemente 1969
President Richard Nixon resigned from his presidency on August 9, 1974 under the pressures of the Watergate scandal. The former President and his wife, Patricia, left the White House to seclude themselves in their San Clemente home in California for time away and reflection.
“The way I tried to deal with Watergate was the wrong way,” Mr. Nixon was quoted as saying in a New York Times report. “I regret the pain and anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and Presidency.”
The Nixons stayed in San Clemente until September 8 when President Gerald Ford granted Nixon a “free, full, and absolute pardon.” The Nixons, his Secret Service detail and his military aide Lieutenant Colonel Jack Brennan traveled to Sunnylands where they stayed for five days.
“When you’re down you find out who your real friends are,” President Nixon wrote to Ambassador and Mrs. Annenberg in the Sunnylands guestbook. “We shall always be grateful for your kindness and your loyal friendship.”
During his time at Sunnylands in September 1974, President Nixon sought emergency medical assistance for a potentially life threatening condition. The episode is recounted in the memoir, Healing Richard Nixon: A Doctor’s Memoir by Dr. John C. Lungren. A few weeks later, he was hospitalized to treat chronic phlebitis, a condition which developed during one of his last international trips as President.
Walter Annenberg met Richard Nixon when he was Vice President at a dinner party hosted by Walter’s mother, Sadie. Mr. Annenberg and then-Vice President Nixon began a decades-long friendship that included frequent visits to Sunnylands.
As President-elect, Mr. Nixon visited the Annenbergs at Sunnylands in 1968 and returned to attend luncheons, formal events and dinners, and birthday parties. President Nixon also announced Walter Annenberg’s appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s in 1969 at Sunnylands.
Over the course of the years, Ambassador and Mrs. Annenberg often offered their home to friends as a private sanctuary. For President Nixon, Sunnylands provided an ideal place to rest and regroup after his resignation from the White House.
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Meet Chappall & Susan
Joe Beck
Joe Beck graduated from the Culinary Institute of America at the top of his class in 1998. Before that, he worked in his native Columbus, Ohio, as a cook at Handke’s Cuisine and Grand Vu, and as the sous chef of Tapatio. After his graduation from the C.I.A. and externship at Hamersley’s Bistro in Back Bay Boston, Joe worked at Kinkead’s. He got his first taste of catering while working for the American Medical Association, for which he catered staff briefings and political events. In 2000, Joe came on board at Susan Gage Caterers, working for two years as our sous chef before earning his current position as our executive chef, leading a team of more than 40 through roughly 3,500 annual event menus. Joe Beck lives in Silver Spring with his wife and two children.
Paco Cozar
A native of Madrid, Spain, Paco Cozar started cooking for his father’s restaurant when he was just 16 years old. Soon after, he cooked for three years at Jose Maria Ganzedo’s celebrated Lur Maitea, an experience he describes as “my cooking school.” While at Lur Maitea, Paco took first prize in the Culinary School of Madrid competition. An opportunity to work at Taberna del Alabardero first brought Paco to Washington, DC, where he cooked for two years under Chef Josu Zubicarai. After a brief return to Spain, Paco came back to Washington to work as chef of Le Mistral on Capitol Hill, then as chef at the restaurant Oberon on Lombard Street in San Francisco. While in California, he met renowned caterer Betty Zlatchin and discovered he liked the new challenges and opportunities that catering afforded. Paco's return to Washington, DC in 2001 allowed him to meet Susan Gage, for whom he has worked ever since. Paco lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two children.
Padua Player
Padua Player is the youngest of seven children and a native of Washington, DC. Padua enjoyed humble beginnings in the food industry. First working as a dishwasher at Chef Bob Kinkead’s famed 21 Federal while still in high school, he was quickly promoted to prep cook and garde manger. Padua's passion for pastry was born while working under 21 Federal’s pastry chef Susan McCreight Lindeborg, making her signature breads and desserts. Knowing pastry was to be his life’s work, Padua attended culinary school, then went to work at such notable restaurants as Kinkeads, Isabella, DC. Coast, Ceiba and Café Milano. Padua came to Susan Gage Caterers in 2005 and has turned out truly remarkable pastry ever since.
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Penny Dreadfuls – Only a Bit of Fun?
June 27, 2019 June 27, 2019 suzy39
Today I welcome fellow author, Pam Lecky, who’s here to tell us about her latest novel, No stone Unturned, book one in a new crime series.
If you enjoyed a good old execution in the 18th or early 19th century, it was possible to buy a crime broadside at the hanging which was produced by specialist printers. These would feature a crude picture of the crime and the culprit, a written account of the crime and trial proceedings and a doggerel, thrown in for good measure. Most of the poor could not read but they enjoyed the lurid pictures, and there was always someone on hand to read out the cautionary poem.
During the Victorian era, however, literacy rates increased. Combined with technological advances in printing and the advent of the railways making wide-spread distribution viable, the demand for cheap, entertaining reading matter increased rapidly. This led to the first penny serials (originally called penny bloods) being published in the 1830s, and by 1850, there were over 100 publishers of penny-fiction. The penny dreadfuls were printed on cheap wood pulp paper and were predominantly aimed at young working-class men and boys. They usually had eight pages with black and white illustrations on the top half of the front page. Working-class readers could afford these and they did a roaring trade. In contrast, serialised novels at the time, such as Dickens’ work, cost a shilling (12 pennies) per part and were out of the reach, therefore, of most working-class readers.
The subject matter of the penny horrible, penny awful or penny blood was always sensational, usually featuring detectives, criminals or supernatural entitles. Popular characters included Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber, first printed in 1846, who murdered his clients so his neighbour, Mrs Lovett, could cook them in her meat pies. Then there was the endless retelling of Dick Turpin’s exploits and his supposed 200-mile ride from London to York in one night! Supernatural characters, such as Varney the Vampire were extremely popular. But the most successful of all time was the Mysteries of London, first published in 1844. It ran for 12 years, 624 numbers (or issues) and nearly 4.5 million words.
Many famous authors began their writing careers writing penny dreadfuls including, GA Sala and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. She reputedly said “the amount of crime, treachery, murder and slow poisoning, and general infamy required by my readers is something terrible.” Many authors took the melodrama of the dreadful and infused it into their later very successful novels.
When highwaymen and evil aristocrats fell out of fashion, true crime, especially murder, was the most popular. These were then overtaken in the popularity stakes by detective stories with the focus on the police rather than the criminal. By the 1860s, the focus changed again and children became the main target audience.
It was easy for the middle and upper classes to look down on the penny dreadfuls as cheap, sensational nonsense. Some even went so far as to blame them for infamous crimes and suicide. But I suspect many read them surreptitiously ˗ for who doesn’t enjoy a good yarn now and then?
In No Stone Unturned, Lucy’s maid, Mary, is a huge fan of the penny dreadfuls and cheap sensational novels. Lucy, feeling obliged to look out for her maid’s moral welfare (so she claims!), often reads these books and thoroughly enjoys them, too. When the women’s lives are in danger, Mary comes to the fore with her penchant for intrigue and spying. Lucy suspects Mary’s favourite reading material may be at the root of it.
No Stone Unturned is the first book in the Lucy Lawrence Mystery Series.
A suspicious death, stolen gems and an unclaimed reward: who will be the victor in a deadly game of cat and mouse?
London October 1886: Trapped in a troubled marriage, Lucy Lawrence is ripe for an adventure. But when she meets the enigmatic Phineas Stone, over the body of her husband in the mortuary, her world begins to fall apart.
When her late husband’s secrets spill from the grave and her life is threatened by the leader of London’s most notorious gang, Lucy must find the strength to rise to the challenge. But who can she trust and how is she to stay out of the murderous clutches of London’s most dangerous criminal?
No Stone Unturned is currently on pre-order at the special price of 99p/99c
Amazon Pre-Order Buy Link
Pam is an Irish writer of historical fiction with a particular love of the late Victorian era and early 20th century. Her debut novel, The Bowes Inheritance, was awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion; was shortlisted for the Carousel Aware Prize 2016; made ‘Editor’s Choice’ by the Historical Novel Society; long-listed for the Historical Novel Society 2016 Indie Award; and chosen as a Discovered Diamond in February 2017.
Pam is represented by Therese Coen at the Hardman & Swainson Literary Agency, London.
In April 2018, she published a collection of all her short stories, entitled Past Imperfect. With settings as diverse as WW1 era Dublin and a lonely haunted lighthouse, romance, mystery and the supernatural await you.
June 2019, sees the release of No Stone Unturned, the first book in the Lucy Lawrence Mystery series, set in the late Victorian era. Pam is looking forward to sharing Lucy’s many adventures with her readers.
Discover more about Pam and her writing by following the links below:
www.pamlecky.com
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